Wen Xiangyanyu

Chapter 5 Wine in the Palace

Ling Qiyan has been in the palace for a few days. He left the palace to open the mansion when he was 12 years old. The bedroom in the palace was gone long ago. When he returned to the palace during festivals, he always stayed in the empress dowager's Ningshou Palace.

Early in the morning on the day of the Duanyang Festival, Empress Shen brought a group of concubines to Ningshou Palace to pay her respects. With the prince and princess, all are here.

Except for the eldest son Ling Qiyan, the other princes and princesses all live in this palace, and they are all still young.

The prince was not there, and he and the emperor were still summoning officials from the previous court.

Ling Qiyan slept lazily until the hour of the hour was past, and appeared in the main hall of Ningshou Palace yawning, absently greeting his mother, Empress Shen, and several other high-ranking concubines.

Shen Shi was very displeased with his lazy appearance, and immediately frowned and taught him: "What do you look like, what time is it and you just got up? Your second brother followed your father an hour earlier. Going to court, can you learn from him? Make a little progress?"

"I'll learn what he does. He's the prince but I'm not, and I don't need to go to court." Ling Qiyan curled her lips and muttered softly.

"Just like you, your father dares to take you to court? Do you still want to lose face in front of the civil and military court?"

"...Anyway, whatever I do, you feel ashamed."

Shen was moved when she heard the words, and wanted to teach him a lesson, but was stopped by the queen mother: "Yan'er, come to grandma."

Ling Qiyan changed his smiling face, and leaned over to the side of the queen mother, coaxing her old man to smile.

Shen's words of admonishment came to her lips, she swallowed them back, twisted the handkerchief in her hand, closed her eyes, lowered her eyes and said nothing.

Others look at the nose with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, as if they didn't see it.

Everyone knows that the Empress and His Royal Highness Yu Wang's mother and son were out of harmony. The Empress gave birth to three sons. She had Ling Qiyan when she was still in the residence, but she suffered some crimes when she gave birth to Ling Qiyan. Ling Qiyan had just turned [-]. One day, she was raised by the queen mother and grew up beside the queen mother. Because of some things, Shen felt that Ling Qiyan restrained her, and she was not born with Ling Qiyan as a mother and child, so she disliked him very much.

Later, when she had the second prince and the sixth prince, her mind was completely biased. She loved her two young sons like jewels, especially the second prince Ling Qiyu, who was only two years younger than Ling Qiyan, unlike Ling Qiyan. Since he was a child, he was ignorant and unable to study. This second prince was talented, smart and obedient. Not only did Shen like him, but the emperor even favored him, so he has been dragging his way to not being a prince.

When Ling Qiyan was 12 years old, he had a serious illness and almost died. When he was the most seriously ill, Mrs. Shen didn't come to see him. He asked someone to bring him to Ningshou Palace, watched all the imperial doctors give him needles and medicine, and then snatched him back from the gate of hell.

After that, he was made a prince and moved out of the palace. If the empress dowager was not reluctant, the emperor and empress would directly give him a piece of land and drive him out of Beijing.

Shen Shi didn't like Ling Qiyan, and Ling Qiyan naturally didn't like her either. He only treated her as a stranger to this mother who had never given him any care.

Sitting down beside the queen mother, Ling Qiyan peeled pine nuts and peanuts for her. The queen mother was overjoyed and praised him repeatedly for his filial piety.

When the emperor and the crown prince came in, Ling Qiyan was coquettishly begging the queen mother for a complete piece of silver fox fur that had just been tributed from Mobei. The emperor frowned and reprimanded him: "How old are you? Are you so extravagant? Do you want to take all good things from yourself?"

Ling Qiyan didn't take it seriously: "Didn't the queen mother give the crown prince the one? If the crown prince can have it, why can't I have it?"

That silver fox fur is very rare, not only the shape is complete, but also the fur is bright and smooth, it is the best product, there are only two pieces in total, the emperor gave it to the empress dowager and empress Shen, and Shen gave the one to Ling Qiyu .

Shen was holding back her anger before, and now she heard Ling Qiyan say this, and she was even more unhappy: "Why, do you want to compare yourself to the prince in everything? Don't you see how you can compare to him. "

Ling Qiyan turned his eyes away, ignored her at all, and only ignored her words. Seeing that Shen Shi was about to get angry, Ling Qiyu hurriedly smiled and smoothed things over: "It's just a piece of skin. If elder brother likes it, I will give it to you as a gift." Just give it to big brother."

As he spoke, he was about to order someone to go to the East Palace to fetch it, but was interrupted by the Queen Mother, who also turned cold: "Okay, Yan'er just wants a piece of skin, and it's not a big deal, just give it to him if he likes it." , Cui Liu, you go to the warehouse, take out my card, tidy it up, and bring it to Yan'er when he returns home."

The palace lady who was named responded, and went to get things now. The emperor disapproved and reminded the queen mother: "Queen mother, don't spoil him too much. He wants to see everything. He has to change it. How can he change it? He does."

"How can there be fathers and queens like you, all of you don't love Yan'er, can't I, an old woman, love my grandson?"

The empress dowager has already said this very bluntly, Shen's complexion is very ugly, and in front of all the concubines, the emperor's face is also a little uncomfortable: "What are you talking about, empress mother, how can we not love the banquet? Son……"

"You know if it hurts or not," the queen mother said angrily, "The banquet is already sixteen, so we can't keep doing nothing all day long, don't be too partial as a father, at least arrange an errand for him Bar."

Ling Qiyan was a little embarrassed, he didn't want to do business at all...

"He doesn't know anything, what can he do?" The emperor wondered.

"If you don't teach him or give him a chance, of course he won't. Do you want him to be like this all his life?"

Being speechless by the empress dowager, the emperor had no choice but to agree, saying that he would consider it when he went back.

At the family banquet afterwards, Shen kept a straight face, while Ling Qiyan was very happy, and ate and drank on his own. During the period, the eight-year-old sixth prince Ling Qining hopped over to his side and stuffed a bunch of colorful The zongzi was in his hands, and he smiled and blinked: "I made it myself and gave it to my elder brother."

This sixth prince is also Ling Qiyan's direct younger brother and the third son of Shen's. This little kid has a good relationship with Ling Qiyan. Children also love to play. After many times, I am still willing to play with Ling Qiyan.

Ling Qiyan held the thing in his hands and shook it. Colorful rice dumplings are a kind of decoration that children like to wear during the Duanyang Festival. Small rice dumplings made of hard paper are tied into a string of colorful silk threads and worn around the waist. Dangyouyou is very beautiful.

Naturally, Ling Qiyan didn't like this kind of gadget, so he took it casually and didn't care.

The foolish Ling Qining didn't notice Ling Qiyan's disgust at all, and returned to his seat after giving the things.

Before the application time, a family banquet was over, and the emperor left with the prince, and they had a state banquet to entertain the officials in the evening.

The queen mother felt a little unwell, so everyone dispersed.

On the way back to the dormitory, Mrs. Shen reprimanded Ling Qining angrily: "How many times have I told you to stay away from your elder brother, do you think he cares about you?"

Ling Qining muttered unconvinced: "Big brother is my big brother, why can't I play with him."

Shen Shi was furious, and Liu Shi, the nanny beside her, advised her: "Your Majesty, after all, His Highness is also your direct son. Even if you don't like him, don't make it too obvious, otherwise people will see him." It's a joke, and the empress dowager won't be able to please her."

When mentioning the Empress Dowager, Shen Shi became more and more angry: "If she hadn't snatched that boy away, how could our mother and son have become like this? It's because I gave birth to him after a narrow escape. Is the queen mother of the palace in your eyes? He has been in the palace for so many days, and he has not come to this palace to pay his respects once!"

Liu Shi didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only persuade her repeatedly.

Ling Qiyan stayed in the palace for another two days, but couldn't sit still, so he greeted the queen mother, took a bunch of good things he begged from Ningshou Palace, and left the palace.

Passing by the East Palace when leaving the palace, some palace servants from the East Palace came out, stopped his chariot, and said politely: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the Crown Prince, please enter the East Palace for a talk."

"No," Ling Qiyan didn't show any face, "I have something to ask him to come out and tell me that I don't want to go in."

The only one who dared to talk to the crown prince like this, apart from the emperor, empress and queen dowager, was Ling Qiyan.

The people from the East Palace went back and forth, holding the silver fox fur given to Ling Qiyu by the Shen family: "His Royal Highness said, since His Highness likes it, I will give this silver fox skin to His Highness, please accept it with a smile. "

Ling Qiyan was too lazy to think about what his second brother was thinking, and asked people to accept the things directly. Such a good leather, don't want it for nothing.

The palace man said again: "His Royal Highness also said, please don't be so stubborn, Your Highness, after entering the palace, at least go to see the empress."

Ling Qiyan smiled: "It's enough for the empress to have him as a filial son. I need this king to see what she is doing. You go and tell the prince. I appreciate his 'good intentions', let's make way."

The carriage rushed out of the palace gate before the palace key was dropped, and returned to Prince Yu's mansion, it was already dark.

The door of the mansion was wide open, and a group of servants came out to welcome Ling Qiyan back to the mansion. Ling Qiyan directly ordered someone to pass on the meal. As soon as he sat down, he remembered Wen Ying, who he had deliberately left for a long time, and asked him to welcome them in that day. The eunuch of the government came to question.

"That Mr. Wen Lang hides in his room every day except for leaving early and going back to the Imperial College to study at night. He is always reading. He doesn't even use his meals. He forgets to eat and sleep."

It seems that the day of Qiu Wei is coming soon, and the boy is hanging his head on the beam and piercing his buttocks. Ling Qiyan thought for a while and ordered: "Go and call him, what can I do without food, does he still want to be a fairy?"

After the messenger left, Ling Qiyan signaled Jiang Lin again: "Take out the wine given by the palace."

Every year on the Duanyang Festival, besides the zongzi, there will be calamus wine and realgar wine in the palace. This calamus wine is said to have the effect of aphrodisiac. Although Ling Qiyan has never felt anything after drinking it, I don't know what that kid Wen Ying will do after drinking it.

Just thinking about that kid's drunken eyes and peachy face makes Ling Qiyan's heart itch and agitated, it is more effective than drinking a large jar of calamus wine... He must get that kid drunk today.

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