Lily Princess

It was early spring, and although the sun was warm during the day, there was still a chill in the breeze before dawn.

At this time, it was still early to greet the queen, but the noble concubine Xin Yi asked her personal maid Qingci to dress her up early, and was about to go to the queen's Jiaofang Palace.After tidying up, she told another personal maid, Ditang, to take her adopted daughter to read and practice calligraphy after she woke up, and then went out on the shoulders.

When we arrived in the hall, the seats were empty as usual—Xin Yi was always the first one to pay his respects. The two maids standing at the door hurriedly saluted Xin Yi, and then one came over to serve tea, and the other entered the hall. The inner hall reported.

Xin Yi sat down and took a sip of tea when she saw Empress Yan Li coming out of the inner hall and looking at her with a smile.Xin Yi couldn't help laughing too, put down his tea, got up and saluted, and sat down again after getting a response.

The day before yesterday Xin Yi was ill in bed and was unable to come to pay her respects. Yan Li wanted to visit her, but it was a pity that the palace's internal affairs were complicated and he couldn't get away, so he had to give up.The two hadn't seen each other for a few days, but they looked at each other for a while as if they hadn't seen each other for a while before starting to chat.

Xin Yi picked up some interesting stories from the book to tell Yan Li. She is very good at telling stories, making people feel as if they are happening right in front of their eyes. Smiling, sometimes frowning.

After a period of time like this, the other concubines also came, and after paying their respects, they asked about Xin Yi's physical condition before joining the chat.

After a while, it was almost time to retreat back to their respective palaces, and the rest of the concubines had left. Yan Li wanted to stay with Xin Yi for lunch before leaving, but the palace staff reminded that the emperor will go to the queen's palace for lunch today. So he gave up the idea.Although Yan Li was reluctant to part with Xin Yi, he just stared at her and said a few words of his own.Xin Yi saw her reluctance, smiled, took a step forward and took her hand, and patted her lightly twice.After Xin Yi let go, Yan Li smiled and tightly clenched the hand she had clapped, and asked a palace man to bring Xin Yi's favorite cakes back to the palace with her before letting Xin Yi leave.

Unlike the eagerness when she came to pay her respects early in the morning, Xin Yi, who was sitting on her shoulders and returning to the palace, was very calm at this moment. She looked around the scenery on the road, and when she passed the Chungui Palace where the Xue sisters lived, she called Gong He stopped, and got off his shoulders to visit one of the masters of Chungui Palace——Xue Zhuohua.

The Xue sisters are a pair of twins. The elder sister is Xue Zhuohua and Feng Zhaoyi; the younger sister is Xue Shujie and Feng Zhaorong.Although the two are twin sisters, their appearances are not the same, Zhuohua is as charming and charming as a peach blossom, while Shujie is as tall and straight as a green bamboo.The Xue sisters are very favored in the palace. The sage often visits them and gives them many precious items. They live together in Chungui Palace, Xue Zhuohua lives in Fangfei Palace, and Xue Shujie lives in Fuyun The two halls are connected by a stone road paved with marble. The main hall named Yulu is only used when the saint is lucky, and no one lives in it at ordinary times.A peach tree was planted in front of Fangfei Hall, and a stone table and several stone benches were placed in it. It is the most suitable place to enjoy the scenery when the peach blossoms are in bloom. Small pavilion, it is very comfortable to enjoy the shade in summer.

Now is the time when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, so Xin Yi went to Fangfei Hall to find Xue Zhuohua to enjoy the flowers together.After asking the palace servants sent by Yan Li to put the cakes on the stone table, Xin Yi sent her back. Qing Ci entered the hall to invite Xue Zhuohua, and Xin Yi sat down on the stone bench, eating the cakes slowly while Looking at the peach blossoms that bloom like clouds.Not long after, Xue Zhuohua came out from Fangfei Hall, and the maids behind her were holding pastries, tea and pens and inks in their hands.

"I have been looking forward to the imperial concubine's coming here since the first peach blossom bloomed. I am so happy that you are here today." Xue Zhuohua sat next to Xin Yi and asked with some worry in his eyes, " The concubine heard that... my mother was ill a few days ago, I don't know how she is now? If you are not feeling well, you might as well enter the hall to enjoy the flowers, so as not to catch the cold again."

"It's not a problem, it's not a serious illness at all, and it will recover quickly." Xin Yi lowered his head and used the lid to skim the tea foam, and took a sip, "Your peach blossom is the first in the palace, but it's not the case when you enter the palace to enjoy the flowers You can see it clearly everywhere, and it’s a bit disappointing for the beauty.”

"It's good that your mother is fine." Hearing Xin Yi's words, Xue Zhuohua put away his worried expression and laughed, "You like my peach blossoms, so when you leave, take one back and put it in a vase to decorate the house."

"Okay." Xin Yi also smiled, and she glanced at the peach blossoms, then pointed to a branch that was in full bloom, half-bloom and budding, and said, "Then I'll take this one."

Xue Zhuohua was about to send his maid to break, but Xin Yi waved her to stop.She put down the teacup and said to Xue Zhuohua: "Since I got a peach blossom from you, I want to give you another one." After finishing speaking, she pinched the sleeve with one hand and raised it with the other, and the clear words behind her immediately came from the palace maid of Fangfei Palace. He took the pen in his hand and handed it up, and took the paint and put it aside.

Xin Yi only stared at the peach blossom for a moment, then drew on it with a brush, and a peach blossom appeared on the paper after a while.After finishing the painting, she pondered for a while, and wrote another poem about peach blossoms, then she put the pen on the pen stand, turned her head and said to Xue Zhuohua, "I will give you this painting as a reward for that branch of peach blossoms."

"The concubine thanked the empress." Xue Zhuohua bowed, holding the painting and looking at it happily, her brows and eyes were crooked with a smile, and her face was more radiant than usual.

"I should go, I'll lose my temper if I don't go back to Jiaqi." Xin Yi straightened his hair and said with a smile.

"The concubine sent off my mother respectfully." Although Xue Zhuohua was reluctant in his heart, he also knew that she would not be able to keep Xin Yi, so he had to watch Xin Yi get on the shoulders and go to her Wangchun Palace.

After returning to the Wangchun Palace, Xin Yi went to see Jiaqi in Rumeng Palace where she lived.Jiaqi was studying with Ditang, shaking his head and reciting poems. Xin Yi smiled kindly when he saw it, walked over and sat with Jiaqi on his lap.

Xin Yi first asked Ditang about Jiaqi's study progress, and then began to teach Jiaqi how to write while reading poems.After a warm and peaceful study time, he heard that Xue Zhaorong was visiting, so Xin Yi asked Di Tang, who was accompanying him, to take care of Jiaqi, while he went out to see Xue Shujie.

Xue Shujie, who was drinking tea outside, saw Xin Yi coming out, and quickly saluted her. Xin Yi only waved her to sit down, and sat down himself.

"You came to me today, what's the matter?" Xin Yi looked at her with his chin in his hands, "You look like you have something to say to me."

"I'm dissatisfied with the empress, actually..." Xue Shujie lowered his head a little embarrassedly, "My sister got a painting of peach blossoms from the empress today, she was so happy, and even ran to my concubine to show off, I really can't stand it Let her say it over and over again, so I want to talk to the empress."

"I'm afraid you not only want to talk, but you also want to get some rewards from me, so that you can go to your sister to show off." Xin Yi laughed, circling the tip of her hair with her fingertips, "Alright, I Since I gave your sister a painting, I will also give you a painting. Qing Ci—”

"Yes, ma'am." Qing Ci immediately asked the other maids to fetch pens and ink, and put them on the table one by one.

Xin Yi thought for a while, then drew the green bamboo forest in front of Fuyun Hall on paper, and wrote a poem on it.After finishing the painting, Qing Ci held it in front of Xue Shujie.Holding the painting, Xue Shujie was overjoyed, and her demeanor, which was as solemn and refined as a celestial maiden, softened.

Xue Shujie collected the painting, and then began to talk to Xin Yi about some interesting things in recent days.In the middle, Xin Yi seemed to have inadvertently sipped his tea and said, "Today's weather is good, and it should be very good to watch the moon at night."

"I think so too." Xue Shujie understood Xin Yi's plan, and after making a gesture, he agreed.The two talked for a while before Xue Shujie left.

Time passed slowly, until the moon was in the middle of the sky, Xin Yi changed into the clothes of a court lady, left Wangchun Temple and rushed to Jiaofang Hall along the usual path.Yan Li's personal maid who was waiting outside the door greeted Xin Yi and saluted her, leading her in.

Yan Li was unloading the hairpin facing the bronze mirror in the inner hall, when he heard Xin Yi's footsteps, he turned around with a smile: "You are too late, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

"I rushed this way when I was free, and I didn't dare to take a step on the way." Xin Yi hugged Yan Li from behind, and whispered in her ear, "I didn't expect that the empress not only didn't reward me, but complained about me... "

"It's my fault, don't be angry." Yan Li smiled and patted Xin Yi's hand on her shoulder, and led her to the bed, "It's rare to see each other tonight, so we don't want to be here You're wasting time, can you talk more?"

"Do you just want to talk?" Xin Yi fell down on the bed, pulled Yan Li over with a little force, and said at a distance that was almost close to each other, his legs also lifted up and wrapped around Yan Li's waist, "Don't want to do something else?"

"Of course we have to do more than just talk..." Yan Li smiled, stroking Xin Yi's ankle with one hand all the way to the root of her thigh, and the other hand poking in through the gap in her neckline.

Next, we went to Wushan together as usual, but when Yan Li stroked Xin Yi's waist and abdomen, she saw Xin Yi frowned slightly subconsciously.

"It hurts here?" Yan Li tapped lightly with his fingertips, his eyes full of worry.

"It doesn't hurt, let's continue." Xin Yi smiled.

"Don't lie to me. Just tell me, a few days ago..." Yan Li paused, "It's not because you were sick, but because you were hurt by Qin Zhang, right?"

"..." Xin Yi closed his eyes and sighed, and smiled wryly, "I really can't hide it from you.... A few days ago, it was the anniversary of Ling Bo's death."

Ling Bo is the small character of Xin Yi's younger sister, Xin Jinnian. Xin Jinnian and Xin Yi are siblings, they grew up together and have a strong relationship.Xin Jinnian was already married to the son of a high-ranking official. The husband and wife respect each other as guests and their relationship is quite harmonious, but because of visiting Xin Yi in the palace, he was favored by Qin Zhang. Anxiety, grief and dystocia died.

"A few days ago, I saw Qin Zhang's forehead wrapped in gauze... I think no one dared to do anything to him except you. It's just that you didn't come to invite Ann after that. I wonder if Qin Zhang did something..." Yan Li lowered his eyes and said in a gloomy tone, "I didn't expect him to really..."

"It's been so many years, and I'm used to it. I haven't been injured since his lucky encounter?" Xin Yi sneered, "That old man Qin Zhang thought he hid it well, but in fact he had the idea in his heart. Who would have thought? He likes my face, which is the same as that of Goddess Wangchun. The more awe-inspiring I am, the closer I am to Goddess Wangchun in his heart. It won't hurt his interest in me, or even make him have the illusion of defiled Goddess."

"I will find a way to make the Xue sisters entangle Qin Zhang and not go to you." Yan Li lowered his head and kissed Xin Yi, "Now, it's our time... don't mention others."

"Please be merciful." Xin Yi smiled and hugged Yan Li's neck, exhaling like blue.