Harem Seizure

Chapter 40

Shao Yunyan woke up early in order to collect the dew-covered snow before the snow was trampled on.The ancients often said that stepping on the snow to find plum blossoms is an elegant and unique thing.However, it is still very cold to collect snow on the plum blossoms in this cold winter.Shao Yunyan is also the lord of the first palace, and she also has animal skin gloves on her hands.But even so, I still understand that my fingers are numb.Not to mention Mi'er and the others who pick plums with bare hands.

Shao Yunyan looked at the little faces that were flushed from the cold, she just smiled embarrassedly, and said with a little apology: "I want you to accompany me to go out and mess around with me, it's really bad, if you are too If it gets colder, stop picking. Go to the warm pavilion to warm up."

"Your Majesty, don't be joking. The maidservant and others are serving the maidens, where can I go to rest first? The maidservants should go to rest, and the servants come to pick snow. The hometown of the servants is Longquan Mansion, and that place is It's much colder than our country in Li country, and the maidservant thinks it's seldom warm here..." Sishui smiled slightly at Shao Yunyan, with strong tenderness in his eyes.

"So Sishui is from Longquan Mansion? You must be very cold-tolerant? Our place is cold in winter and hot in summer, but Sishui feels a little uncomfortable?" Shao Yunyan immediately blinked and smiled when she heard that Rushui was from Longquan Mansion asked.

Sishui smiled lightly, picked plum petals from the plum branches little by little, and said to Shao Yunyan with a smile: "It's not bad in winter, I think the climate in our capital is quite suitable, but in summer, it's a bit hot. Fortunately, I was able to follow the empress, but it was not possible to serve the empress in close quarters. In summer, there is no need to sweep outside."

"Longquan Mansion, there should be a lot of snow there, very thick." Shao Yunyan blinked her eyes, imagining the appearance of snow flying all over the sky with a longing look.

Seeing Shao Yunyan like this, Sishui couldn't help but covered her mouth with a laugh and said, "Your Majesty, don't look forward to it. The place in Longquan Mansion is dry and cold, and there are not so many things. Perennial vegetables and the like are all It’s rare to see it. When it snows, the snow is thick enough to bury half of your legs. And if you go out, you can’t stay without running. But the houses there are still very good, with stoves and fire beds .When the fire is burning, it is very warm.”

"Hearing what you said, I think it's a bit boring. If it snowed for two days in Longquan Mansion, I still haven't buried my palace." Shao Yunyan smiled lightly, blinking her eyes, crisply The voice echoed for quite a while in the silent imperial garden.

"Ha ha……."

Li Huang stayed at Anping Palace last night, but the location of Anping Palace is relatively remote, if you take the main road, it will be far away.They could only pass through the imperial garden, and Li Huang's guard of honor could not be held in the imperial garden, so Li Huang took Wen Shunxi alone and walked quickly through the imperial garden.

But when passing by Mei Lin, Li Huang was stopped by the clear and familiar voice.Unexpectedly, he was attracted by that voice, looked carefully, and saw that it was Shao Yunyan.

This is the first moment of Maoshi, and it is still early.There was still some time before Mao Shi, Li Huang couldn't help but looked at the people frolicking in the plum grove, and smiled slightly.

Seeing Li Huang's chuckle, Wen Shunxi couldn't help reminding softly: "Your Majesty, let's go. Don't miss the morning court."

After listening to Wen Shunxi's words, Li Huang was slightly taken aback, then smiled and walked quickly.The corners of his mouth could not help but rise slowly, he suddenly stopped, turned around and said to Wen Shunxi: "Wen Shunxi, listen, choose a few young and strong servants, break some branches from the plum garden and send them to Yuxiu Palace, Dress it up."

"Your servant complies with the order." Wen Shunxi cupped his hands at Emperor Li and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, don't worry, this servant will definitely fulfill your orders."

Li Huang smiled softly, and suddenly laughed when he saw Shao Yunyan's beautiful figure. "Let's go, let's go to court first."

When Shao Yunyan returned to the palace, she ordered the servants to put the collected snow together with the petals into the teapot and boil it little by little.Although how to cook now, the plum fragrance in the water will not be too strong, but there is time to stay there for such a long time.

"Your Majesty, this servant has found a jar. Do you want to put Luomeixue in the jar to suffocate? In this way, the fragrance of snow and plum will be integrated into one. When making tea next summer, you can drink Xuemei tea." Yin Xiang hugged a The big pot came in and said with a smile.

Shao Yunyan looked at the jar, smiled slightly and said, "You really thought well, so that's it. You put half of the uncooked plum blossoms into that jar, and then go to collect some snow from the plum blossoms. Tightly seal the mouth, next summer, I will bring you to drink together."

After hearing Shao Yunyan's words, Yinxiang raised the corner of her mouth slightly, with a big smile on her face.Shao Yunyan looked at the back of Yinxiang going away, and the corners of her mouth slowly curled up.This plum blossom tea is Li Huang's favorite.Although she didn't think it was good to do so, she didn't want others to take advantage of her.

"Mi'er, the waiter is resting for a while. Then, Meihua, you can prepare some snacks." Shao Yunyan was supported by Mi'er and returned to the bed to catch up on sleep.

When Shao Yunyan woke up, she was awakened by the noise in the courtyard.Shao Yunyan frowned and shouted to the outside: "Come here... hurry up, Mi'er."

"Miss...your name is Mi'er..." Mi'er walked in and asked with a smile when she saw that Shao Yunyan had woken up.

"Why is the yard so noisy?" Shao Yunyan looked at the sunlight shining into the room, and knew that it was getting late.

Mi'er smiled proudly and said: "The Emperor asked Eunuch Wen to send us plum branches, saying that the Empress loves plum trees, although there is no way to transplant the plum trees now, but I can ask the Empress to have ready-made plum branches that can be picked now. From now on, Empress doesn’t need to go out of the palace to pick plum blossoms, and someone will bring them to us after the snow falls.”

"That's it. What time is Mi'er now? I'm already hungry." Shao Yunyan just smiled, not so happy.Mei Zhi, this Shao Yunyan couldn't help but feel embarrassed, after all Li Huang's... If others know, she, Shao Yunyan, will be ashamed.

Mi'er stepped forward to help Shao Yunyan up, waited for her to get dressed, and said with a smile on her face: "You tell the servants to make some snacks with snow plum blossoms. Nanny Fang really made it, And the nanny also made plum blossom sugar balls for the empress. The nanny said, Miss, you have something to worry about. Eating some plum blossom balls can calm your mind and mind. "

"Then after you take care of me to wash up, I'll try the new cakes made by Nanny Fang." Shao Yunyan smiled and watched Mi'er help her change her clothes.

"Ma'am, do you want someone to come in and comb your hair?"

"No need, just give me a simple bun. After the meal, I'm going to visit the empress." Shao Yunyan frowned slightly, she had better go to visit the queen first.

Mi'er tied a very simple Lingxu bun for Shao Yunyan, and a gold-plated emerald tassel hairpin on the hairpin.There is a light yellow three-flower forehead decoration.

After lunch, Shao Yunyan took Tingyu and Sishui to Fengyang Palace to meet Empress Yao.

When Empress Yao heard that Shao Yunyan was coming to see her, she just smiled lightly, waved her hands to Shao Yunyan and said, "Sister Yifei is here, it's cold and the wind is blowing to come here. Emerald will set up a seat for Concubine Yi, Pearl makes tea for Concubine Yi."

"Look at what the queen sister said, it's my sister's duty to come to visit the queen's sister. Don't say it's a cold day, even if it's snowing, my sister will still come." Shao Yunyan looked at Queen Yao with a smile , fixedly looked at Empress Yao's face.

"My sister's words are wrong. We are all sisters in the same palace, so what should we say or should not say? My sister and I serve the emperor together, so naturally we should live in harmony." Empress Yao said gently , with a deep tenderness on his face.

Shao Yunyan smiled softly, and said to the queen: "Sister Queen, the people in my sister's palace have prepared some fresh snacks. I heard that sister Queen has been pregnant recently, so she can't eat anything. My sister specially sent some food, Let's see if I can appetize my sister."

"I don't know what delicious food my sister brought?" Empress Yao looked at Shao Yunyan, stared blankly and said with a smile.

"It's winter plum porridge. This winter plum porridge is best for invigorating the spleen and appetizing. My sister's appetite is low now. It would be great to eat more of these things." Shao Yunyan respectfully handed over the food box.

Empress Yao glanced at Fei Cui, and said with a soft smile, "Sister is really caring. I made trouble because of this child. I couldn't sleep well, and I couldn't eat well. Seeing that my sister treats me like this, I really want my sister to treat me like this." Very pleased."

"As long as the queen sister doesn't dislike her."

"Is my sister all recovering? I heard that my sister suffered from a cold and had a high fever for a few days. I am very worried." Empress Yao looked at the slightly thin Shao Yunyan with a very worried look.

Shao Yunyan nodded, and smiled at the empress, "It's all over. But I'm still a little afraid of the cold. If I didn't want to come and see my sister, I really couldn't bear to leave Yuxiu Palace."

"My sister heard about it. The emperor favored Xue Xiuyi the night that sister fell ill." Empress Yao looked at Shao Yunyan with a half-smile, and said casually.

"My younger sister naturally knows about it. Hearing that younger sister Xue Xiuyi ran into the emperor in the imperial garden, the emperor went to her palace."

Empress Yao squinted her eyes at Shao Yunyan, she looked like she had nothing to do with herself, and Empress Yao didn't know what to say next.Instead, it was hard to speak.But at this time, there was singing outside the door, "Concubine Qi pays homage to Empress Empress."

This is Concubine Qi coming.

When Shao Yunyan heard that Concubine Qi was coming, her eyes flashed, then she laughed, stood up slightly and watched Concubine Qi step into the main hall, and saluted the queen.Shao Yunyan bowed to Concubine Qi and said with a smile, "Sister Qi Concubine is here too, sister is really right to come today."

"It turns out that Concubine Yi's sister is here too. It seems that I have come to eat." Concubine Qi smiled and sat on the other side of the Queen's hand, and said to the Queen with a smile: "Sister Queen, the concubine wants to be in the palace. For those of you, I boiled some sour plum water. It saves my mother the hard work of the pregnancy."

Empress Yao burst into smiles when she heard this, and said to Shao Yunyan and Concubine Qi with a bright smile, "I am so blessed. Not only Concubine Yi's younger sister brought winter plum porridge, but your Concubine Qi also brought sour plum water. This Palace is really pleased."

"Look at what the queen sister said, don't say that, you will kill the sisters." Shao Yunyan smiled at Queen Yao and said gently.

Empress Yao nodded, looked at Concubine Qi and said, "You are lazy, you don't usually go out of the palace in winter. Why did you think of coming to Fengyang Palace in this palace today?"

"Sister, won't you come to visit the queen's sister?" Concubine Qi said with a smile, with a gentle smile in her eyes.

Empress Yao glanced at Concubine Qi, and said to Shao Yunyan: "She must have something to say, what do you want to say? I won't ask her, just see Concubine Qi say what she wants to say."

"Oh, sister empress. It's just what my sister said." Concubine Qi covered her mouth and smiled lightly, looked at Empress Yao and Shao Yunyan with a mysterious smile and said, "Sister and sister know how Concubine Lian got her position as a concubine. of?"

Shao Yunyan suddenly smiled when she heard Concubine Qi's words.This concubine Qi is really a good person, so she won't have to mention this.But if Concubine Qi, you can say it in front of all the concubines, it would be an interesting thing.

(End of this chapter)