The psychic Xi ​​Lan

Chapter 68

The breakfast was gone, and it was still dark.

Sitting in the chariot to enter the palace, Li Huai did not come up after a long time, Long Xi came to lift the curtain of the carriage, and saw Li Huai standing inside the gate, explaining something to Chen Niang.

She calmly lowered the curtain, besides the one in the green bamboo room, who else is there to explain?
After a while, Li Huai came up.

She pretended not to know anything and sat beside her.

When the chariot moved, Li Huai asked her, "Jin Hua, why did you ask about the sweet-scented osmanthus cake when we had breakfast?"

The clever Prince Xu really didn't let go of any small details.

But Long Xilan was not very sure at the moment, so she said: "I just want to learn how to do it myself, so I asked!"

Li Huai didn't ask any more questions.

The carriage traveled for a while amid the bumps, and entered from the south gate of the palace.

This is the second time for Long Xilan to enter the palace. The difference from the last time is that the chariot can go all the way along the long straight alley at the south gate to the Twelve Palaces of Wandering Phoenix.

There is the harem of the Wen Kingdom Palace.

The Twelve Palaces of the Wandering Phoenix are more than twelve palaces. The Eighteen Palaces headed by the Chunyang Palace, and the nine-fold attic with the Luxi Pavilion as the most beautiful, are the core seats of the harem of this imperial city.When they entered the palace today, they would first go to Qiankun Palace to pay respects to the emperor and empress, then to Xianghe Palace to pay respects to the Empress Dowager, and finally Luxi Pavilion to pay respects to Concubine Yu Gui.

There are three places to go before and after, and each place has a certain distance, so there is no delay.

The chariot is outside the twelfth palace, so you can't come in. The two of them got down, changed chairs and went in.

Knowing that they would come to pay their respects early in the morning, the queen had already made preparations in Qiankun Hall.

When they got outside the gate of the palace, Li Huai stretched out his hand, took her wrist lightly, and said, "You don't have to be nervous. It's your first time entering the palace today, and the queen shouldn't make things difficult for you."

The empress is the birth mother of Prince Li Quan, and Li Huai is the one she fears the most in this life, so of course it is impossible to treat her.

Long Xilan silently responded, even if the queen wanted to make things difficult, she was not afraid, soldiers came to cover up the water and earth, after going through so many things, she really disdains the intrigue in the harem.

The two entered the hall hand in hand like this, and the two nobles sat inside.

The emperor had a benevolent smile on his face. As rumored, he was a refined and well-mannered person. From his outline, he could be seen as handsome as when he was young. However, Li Huai was not like this emperor, but with many sons, he was like Mother, Xi Lan thought, Li Huai should look like Concubine Yu, right?

Empress Nalan is also over half a hundred years old. Although she is well maintained, she is thin and her facial features look a little old. Only her piercing eyes show that she is a scheming person.

Being able to sit firmly in the Emeritus of the West Palace for many years, even if he couldn't follow it, he wouldn't waver. It's so powerful, you don't need to think about it.

"I send my respects to my father, queen and mother. I wish my father and queen a healthy body and a long life, and my mother's phoenix body is healthy and blessed like the East China Sea."

The two knelt down together and saluted.

The emperor himself got down from the dragon chair and helped his beloved son up. He was happy at the first sight, and smiled happily. After waiting for so many years, he could finally wait for the seventh marriage. It was a marriage that he was most satisfied with. On Li Huai's shoulder, he reminded without hesitation: "When will Lao Qi let me be the emperor's grandfather?"

Long Xilan lowered her head slightly to hear this, her ears suddenly felt hot.

At this time, the queen slowly came down from the top, and reminded with a decent smile: "Hasn't the emperor already become the emperor's grandfather?"

That's right, Prince Li Quan has two sons and three daughters, the eldest son is 12 years old, King Wen also has a son and a daughter, and even King Zhu has two princesses, not to mention the adult princess. After getting married, only Changle was left unmarried.

So Li Huai is over 27 years old and has nowhere to live, how can he be worried?
Nalan walked up to Long Xilan with lotus steps, and after carefully looking at this face, a smile gradually appeared.

"She's a good girl, Lao Qi has vision!"

Li Huai responded respectfully: "The queen mother is overwhelmed!"

Nalan nodded, hiding all his thoughts in a smile, and only said: "Go to the palace more in the future, I like these young girls, they are full of vigor."

She bowed slightly, and answered gracefully: "Yes."

Then the queen summoned her maid, untied the silver tray that had been prepared earlier and covered it with golden velvet cloth, took out an empty box with exquisite workmanship, opened it, and inside was a pair of sapphire bracelets, which were given to Princess Xu Greeting ceremony.

Looking at the pair of jade bracelets, Long Xilan hesitated for a moment, and did not take them immediately.

"Why, the princess dislikes this pair of jade bracelets from this palace?"

The other two pairs of eyes are still staring at her face, how dare she say 'yes'?Quickly took it over, and said casually: "Jin Hua was only temporarily infected by the jade aura of this bracelet, such a good thing, the queen mother actually gave Jin Hua..."

It's the most poisonous woman's heart, and I will give a big one as soon as I come.

That sapphire is indeed the best sapphire from the Western Regions, but this piece of jade is an old piece of jade with a famous hall inside.

Empress Nalan smiled with satisfaction: "If you like it, wear it as much as you like, and jade will support you!"

How cruel, do you want her to wear more?However, she dared not refuse, presumably in order to let her wear more of this jade in the future, she would inevitably be sent to the palace every three days.

"Yes!"

Later, without saying anything else, the two of them headed towards the Harmony Palace with their entourage.

On the way, Li Huai began to tell her about the emperor's grandmother's likes and dislikes. The emperor's grandmother had an aloof personality, and ordinary people would not get her attention. How many people deliberately tried to please her made her feel ashamed.

"So you don't have to make the imperial grandmother like you, as long as you don't let her hate you, don't talk!" Li Huai was deeply loved by the emperor, but he was not favored in front of the imperial grandmother. The imperial grandmother was not favored, because the imperial grandmother's favorite was her white cat named Bell.

"Jin Hua knows!" She didn't intend to please anyone, she just wanted to be clean.

Li Huai walked parallel to her, thinking of her hesitation in Qiankun Palace just now, which was not like her style, so he asked: "What happened just now?"

She turned her head to look, Li Huai's side face was illuminated by the morning light, and the light fluff on her skin could almost be seen.

"Jinhua?"

"My lord is so pretty!" she blurted out without blushing.

Li Huai was still waiting for her answer, and it felt a little unnatural to hear her boasting so much.

She hesitated for a while before replying with an excuse: "Jin Hua just thinks that the bracelet given by the queen is a bit strange."

Hearing this, Li Huai raised his eyebrows slightly, "How strange?"

Long Xilan shook her head, "I can't tell. It would be great if that Taoist Zi was here, maybe he would know."

Soon, the two arrived at the Harmony Palace.

In the main hall of the palace, one of the Empress Dowager's two old servants was serving the Empress Dowager to drink soup, and the other was helping the cat named Bell to groom.

Seeing them walking in, the palace servant hurriedly carried the cat to the side of the queen mother.

The queen mother took it and stroked the bell's white hair gently with her hand. "Did he not eat this morning? Did the recent food not suit his taste?"

"The emperor's grandson / emperor's grandson's daughter-in-law pays respects to the emperor's grandmother, and wishes the emperor's grandmother a long life every year, and the longevity is better than Nanshan!"

"Forget it!" The empress dowager waved her hand, looked at her cat, but said in her mouth: "Lao Qi, this time your father is finally relieved, right?"

Li Huai replied: "The grandson has made the emperor and the emperor's grandmother worry!"

The empress dowager has silver hair and a spirited complexion. Looking at her face, Long Xilan is actually not as easy to get along with as rumored. It's just that she has lived a lifetime and has seen everything. When she gets old, she just wants to be self-willed for a while!
At this time, the queen mother gave her a sideways look, seeing that she was also looking at her cleverly, so she smiled.

"Girl, let Ai's family take a look at you as you get closer!"

"Yes!" Long Xilan nodded and readily agreed.

Li Huai followed her to the Empress Dowager, somewhat surprised, this woman is really not afraid at all.

The queen mother held the cat in her arms, looked at her face carefully, and smiled again. "The girl has such a good face!"

This time it was Long Xilan who was surprised, this old ancestor would still meet?Could it be that he met a senior?

She immediately replied with an expression of admiration and admiration: "The emperor's grandmother is also a good face!"

When the people around heard it, they would only think that she was neither big nor small, and she was even compared with the Empress Dowager.

But the empress dowager didn't seem to mind, she laughed happily for a long time, until everyone in the hall was afraid that she would laugh away in one breath.

Finally, the laughter stopped!

The empress dowager's expression gradually drifted away, as if she was recalling something that had passed for a long time.

She said: "The last time I heard this sentence, before I entered the palace, the fairy who met me was invited by my father Wanshuiqianshan, but when that person entered the palace, he just said this and left!"

Speaking of the past, the appearance of this silver-haired old man is no longer the graceful and majestic queen mother, but has become the girl before entering the palace.

Long Xilan seemed to be able to see the scene at that time from her expression.

The person who met the Empress Dowager, although he didn't say much, broke the secret with one word.

She is indeed born with a good face, one can tell at a glance that she is a phoenix among people, and her fortune is already destined.

So Long Xilan's "good face" is not just a flattery, but mostly a sigh from the heart!

After the queen mother said this, she was disappointed for a long time, and then she remembered that the two of them came to pay their respects, and they had to go to other places next time. The slave presented the meeting gift that he had memorized earlier, but the queen mother changed her mind and asked the father-in-law to take the things back.

Everyone didn't know what other gifts she was going to give, but the queen mother said: "Those vulgar things are meaningless, girl, you will go to the palace to help Ai's family copy scriptures every three days from now on!"

This is a reward or a punishment, because it is difficult to figure out the Queen Mother's mind, and it is not very clear.

Coming out of the Xianghe Palace, Li Huai saw that Xi Lan's complexion was rosy, and he was not worried about the empress dowager punishing her to go back to the palace to copy scriptures.Just ask: "Shouldn't you be downcast at this time?"

"Why?" She didn't think so.

"The emperor's grandmother didn't even give you a meeting gift. There are so many people in this palace, and it will soon be spread like a hype." Li Huai is right. If it is as expected, it will soon spread The Zodiac Palace of the Wandering Phoenix makes those who don't want to see her laugh out loud.

But what's the matter, she doesn't care how others laugh at her, she's just afraid that Li Huai will lose face.

"Jin Hua thinks that the imperial grandmother likes me very much!" She said sincerely as she walked.

Li Huai was not surprised at all, he still had that signature smile. "Oh?"

She asked him, "Isn't the prince thinking the same way?"

Others couldn't tell for a while, that the clever Prince Xu also likes to play dumb?

"Copying scriptures in the palace may seem boring, but it exercises patience. The emperor's grandmother said that she didn't reward you directly, but you have more time to see the emperor's grandmother than other people."

If the empress dowager didn't want to see her, why did she pull her to be an eyesore? On the contrary, the empress dowager liked to hug this girl, so she couldn't wait to call her into the palace to relieve her boredom.

Although the Empress Dowager is old, she only cares about political affairs, but the old man has a lot of cronies in the court. If there are any changes in the future, everything will be justified with the approval of the Empress Dowager.

Therefore, for Long Xilan, this is not a good thing, but for Li Huai, it couldn't be better!
The two of them were talking, and they arrived at Luxi Pavilion. Concubine Yu Guifei, who knew her son was going to enter the palace to pay her respects, had already paid her respects in the living room and almost waited. She was in a very good mood today, and her charm was also rosy and radiant.

After saluting and asking Ann, Xi Lan looked at the well-maintained beautiful woman, and then at Li Huai.

I thought that Li Huai would look more like his concubine mother, but he didn't have a trace of charm.

This imperial concubine Yu was beautiful, she was a well-known talent and beauty in the capital when she was young, so she was always favored in the palace, otherwise, how could the emperor love Li Huai so much?
The daughter-in-law came to pay her respects, so naturally she also wanted to give some greetings. Concubine Yu called the maidservant, took out the gift box she had prepared, and personally took the box to Xi Lan and said, "I heard that brocade paintings are good at dancing. It is the thousand-bead dance dress given by Your Majesty when I first entered the palace and presented dances to His Majesty."

Concubine Yu lifted the lid of the box with a smile, and when she was about to reach for the dance clothes, she looked shocked, and immediately threw a tantrum: "What's going on?"

(End of this chapter)