When Yinzhen favored new people, he also did not forget to comfort the old ones.

Hua Fei was the most favored one, not only because of Nian Gengyao, but also because of Yinzhen's feelings for her.

Although Lu Yingfeng was also favored over the years, after she had children, she paid more attention to the children. She was not as devoted to Yinzhen as Concubine Hua. Naturally, Yinzhen liked Concubine Hua a little more.

However, he also often comes to Lu Yingfeng's place. After all, Lu Yingfeng and he are the most compatible in that aspect, and there is also the affection for the children.

Because the Sixth Prince Hongyang had reached old age, he moved to the Princes' Residence not long after moving into the palace. He could only come here during the day when he had no classes and was usually not there at night.

Now there are only two-year-old Hongming and Hongqing in Chuxiu Palace.

The two little guys knew that the emperor was coming, so they waited outside the main hall early. After seeing Yinzhen, the two little guys ran towards him quickly.

"Huang Ama!"

"Huang Ama!"

Yinzhen is still quite strong now. He squatted down and held the two little princes on his left and right.

Under Lu Yingfeng's intentional or unintentional influence, he had already forgotten the Manchu custom of holding grandchildren but not sons.

"Father, Hongming misses you."

"Hongqing misses Father Huang too. Father Huang, let's go play with building blocks."

When Lu Yingfeng gave birth to Hongyang, he asked a carpenter to make building blocks similar to modern Lego. Hongyang and his two friends loved them so much that they would fall asleep while playing with them.

Lv Yingfeng smiled and bowed to Yinzhen, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Your Majesty, please put them down quickly. They are both very fat now. Don't tire your arms."

Before Yinzhen could say anything, the two little guys both said in defense: "We are not fat, we are not fat!"

Yinzhen looked at their double chins and small bellies and felt that all the tiredness from a busy day had disappeared. He couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Hongming and Hongqing are right. You are not fat. You need to eat more to grow stronger and become the Baturu of our Qing Dynasty in the future."

With the support of their royal father, Lu Yingfeng stopped saying anything to them. The family of four did not follow any rules and sat on the carpet as usual, playing with building blocks together, talking and laughing, having a great time.

Only after the two little guys yawned did Lu Yingfeng ask the maids to take them down.

Then she helped Yinzhen up and massaged his shoulders and neck attentively, "Your Majesty has been tired all day and played with them for so long, you must be exhausted."

Yinzhen closed his eyes and enjoyed Lu Yingfeng's massage, "I guess Feng'er is usually very tired, the two of them are too lively."

"Yes, Your Majesty, you don't know that when Hongyang went to the prince's residence, I was reluctant to let him go. Now I wish these two little ones would grow up quickly and move to the prince's residence as soon as possible so that I can have some peace and quiet."

"You, when they go to the prince's residence, you will definitely feel it is too lonely again."

The two of them chatted about their children and family matters like an old couple. After washing up, they made love and fell asleep in each other's arms.

Time is as quiet as flowing water.

Before we knew it, it was New Year’s Eve.

At Lu Yingfeng's reminder, Concubine Hua did not place red plum blossoms at the banquet.

But something went wrong with the Queen. The Queen knew that she had lost the Queen's favor, so Yinzhen had not stayed overnight in Jingren Palace for nearly a year. He even refused to go there on the first and fifteenth days set by the ancestors.

She wanted to use Chunyuan to remind Yinzhen that Chunyuan had entrusted herself to him before her death, and hoped that he would treat her only sister well.

So the Nanfu dancers rehearsed a Red Plum Dance. It was not a direct reminder like the Jinghong Dance, but it used Chunyuan's favorite red plum to hint at it.

Sure enough, the dance was over.

Yinzhen asked the queen: "Have the plum blossoms in the palace bloomed yet?"

Queen: "It blooms in the frost."

Yinzhen: "I want to go and see."

The Queen originally wanted to use Chun Yuan as an excuse after the banquet to have a good talk with Yin Zhen and lead him to Jingren Palace.

Unexpectedly, Yinzhen actually said he wanted to go out. The queen tried to dissuade him a few times, saying it was freezing cold outside, but Yinzhen insisted on going out and did not allow anyone to follow him, saying he wanted to take a walk alone.

Yinzhen had already left, so the empress could not leave. It would not be good for both masters to leave in front of the clan members at the palace banquet, so the empress had to stay. However, she was still worried about Yinzhen's comfort, so she asked the Seventeenth Master, Prince Guo, to follow quietly from behind.

What happened next was the first meeting between Zhen Huan, Yinzhen and Prince Guo in Yimeyuan. Yu Ying'er was standing in the corner and saw the whole thing.

Speaking of Yu Ying'er, she actually had a personal grudge against the original owner. In the play, Yu Ying'er was on her way to the emperor's bedchamber when the original owner's lantern accidentally caught fire, startling the horse of Fengluan Chun'en's carriage and shaking Yu Ying'er. Yu Ying'er then cursed at the original owner, and during the argument between the two, Yu Ying'er actually had someone lock her up in the Shenxing Division.

Lu Yingfeng felt that if she had not died early, she would have been on the original owner's wish list.

The next day, when Lu Yingfeng learned that Yinzhen had appointed a new official girl, she didn't want to spoil her at all, so she asked someone to spread the news.

"The Yuguan girl used Meiyuan as an impersonator to steal the favor of a new lady."

It happened to be broad daylight, and Yinzhen had not yet favored Yu Ying'er. Upon hearing the news, he immediately sent Su Peisheng to investigate.

There were only a few ladies in the palace, and only one did not attend the palace banquet last night, so Su Peisheng quickly identified this person.

Zhen Huan was out of favor, so the news in Sui Yuxuan was kept secret and no one had heard the news yet.

Su Peisheng did not go to see Zhen Huan directly, but asked someone to call Cui Jinxi out to inquire about Zhen Huan's whereabouts last night.

Cui Jinxi and Su Peisheng were from the same hometown, and they trusted him very much, so they did not hide anything from him. "Last night, the young lady cut paper-cuts with us, and Xiao Yunzi cut a small portrait based on the young lady's face. I just remembered a custom in the palace, which said that on New Year's Eve, you can hang your beloved things on tree branches to pray for blessings. However, there are only dead branches in Suiyuxuan, and the flowers in Yimei Garden are in full bloom. The young lady did not ask us to follow her, and went to Yimei Garden to pray for blessings by herself. But I don't know what wish the young lady made."

After hearing what Cui Jinxi said, Su Peisheng actually believed most of it. Because Yu Ying'er's words were really vulgar, and she didn't seem like someone who could say "If you understand the meaning of the adverse wind, don't destroy it easily."

However, this Concubine Wan was quite knowledgeable about poetry and could use poetry to talk to the Emperor during the palace selection.

Cui Jinxi thought about the dragon pattern on her clothes that Wan Changzai had asked her about yesterday, and she was afraid that she had met someone with this pattern on his clothes. Apart from the emperor, only the brothers he favored could use this pattern.

The person who came to question today was Su Peisheng. I guess the person that Wan Changzai met last night was the emperor.

Such an accidental encounter makes the emperor think of her, so Concubine Wan’s chance is probably coming.

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