dream through ancient and modern

In the imperial garden, there was a dragon chair and a phoenix chair. Empress Shangguan Wanjing sat on the phoenix chair, looking at the rookie girl below, feeling unspeakable bitterness in her heart.Although the emperor visited her palace the most in the past two years, she never felt any affection from him.She met Li Zheng, who was the grandson of the emperor at the time, when she was nine years old. Since then, whenever he appeared in front of her, she was extremely happy, and begged her father who was the grand teacher to take her to the East Palace every day, even if it was just far away. to meet him. When she was 17 years old, her father told her that she was going to be his wife. She was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep all night, and her mind was full of his shadow.On the wedding night, after he picked off her phoenix handkerchief, he disappeared without a trace, and he never even drank the wedding wine.She thought that he would never appear in her palace again, but a few days later, he came to her palace drunk, rudely pressed her on the bed and kissed her, breaking her body unprepared.Although it was painful, she was full of heart.When she woke up the next day, seeing the guilt in his eyes, she thought it was an apology to her, and she was very happy.After that night, he also often came to sit in her palace, sometimes just to talk, sometimes he stayed overnight when he was annoyed by the courtiers, but he never touched her again.

Li Zheng didn't sit still, and walked slowly to the imperial garden. It was almost noon, and the empress and fifty selected ladies were waiting for him in the garden.All the show girls are unmarried girls over the age of 12 and under [-] from the official residences of various places.Since Si Tianjian announced that the Tianen Festival was approaching, officials from all over the country came from all over the country with their daughters without sleep, and it was very lively inside and outside the capital.These beautiful women were selected outside the palace by the nurturing nuns of the Chuxiu Palace, with beautiful looks, correct facial features, and a thousand flawless ones.Then I received three hundred people who had no body odor and no skin injuries selected by the nuns in the respect room in the forbidden palace.Afterwards, the inner eunuch selected one hundred people with excellent voice, appearance and talent.Finally, it was sent to the queen, and the queen selected [-] people, waiting for the emperor to personally choose.When the emperor chooses by himself, they are generally arranged according to the family status of the family.The first row is for the daughters of dukes, the second row is for the daughters of officials of the third rank and above, the third row is for the daughters of officials of the fourth rank to the sixth rank, the fourth row is for the daughters of officials of the seventh rank and eighth rank, and the last row is for some unscrupulous officials. An in-stream lady.Although there are very few women in the second row who are selected, but they can enter the forbidden palace and return to the place where their father works, and the matchmaker can also step on the threshold.

"The emperor is here!~" A little eunuch beside the queen shouted when he saw Emperor Ming approaching from a distance.

"Long live, long live, my emperor."

"Stay flat." Li Zheng walked to the dragon chair, bent down and took the queen's hand. "It's cold on the ground, get up!"

"Thank you, Lord Long En~" Troublesome etiquette.The queen was sitting in the phoenix and said some scenes to the emperor. Li Zheng waved her hand and told her not to stop, and whispered to the queen's ear.

"I'm going to your palace tonight." Compared to dealing with a strange woman, it's better to sleep with the empress who has already been married all night.

"Yes." The queen lowered her head and replied to Minghuang in a very calm voice, but the blush at the tip of her ear betrayed her.

"Bring me the brochure of the rookie girl and show me." Emperor Ming shook the queen's hand, and the queen hurriedly presented the brochure of the rookie girl's name and family.

Li Zheng took the booklet in his hand and flipped through it. Most of them were female relatives of various noble families. Occasionally, a few born in poor families could only be placed in the last two rows.Turning to a beautiful girl named Xu Xueer, Li Zheng stopped.Xu Xueer, Xu Xueer, what similar names, even if the names were just a little bit similar, it still touched his heart.

"Xu Xueer, the daughter of Lord Xu, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, move forward."

"Ms. Xu Xueer, please see my emperor long live." Xu Xueer stepped forward, kneeling in front of Emperor Ming's dragon chair, with her head bowed.

"look up."

"Abiding by the order." Xu Xue'er raised her head and looked down. The nunnery in Chuxiu Palace said that even if she raised her head, she couldn't look directly at the emperor's face, otherwise her eyes would be gouged out.

Li Zheng looked at this kind of Xu Xue'er who had no similar appearance to Xu Xue, and couldn't help laughing in his heart that the little expectation in his heart was also because he was stupid, how could it be possible, her Xue was still lying on the hospital bed.Xu Xueer is not like Xu Xue, who looks amazing at first glance, but she is also a rare attractive type.The face is delicate and elegant, with peach cheeks and sandalwood mouth, a little baby fat and childish.She was dressed in a white skirt, with several small braids woven on top of her head, and a lively bun with a butterfly-shaped jade hairpin on it. She looked like she was 15 years old.

"Give two liang of gold cakes." Gold cakes actually means Fengcairen.According to the palace regulations of the Forbidden Palace of the Later Chu Kingdom, there can be one empress, two noble concubines, five concubines and twelve concubines in the palace. The number of concubines is noble, often present, promised, talented, and the number of beauties is variable.During the talent show, if you give gold cakes one or two, you will be a beauty, two or two will be a talented person, three or two will be a promise, four or two will be permanent, and five or two will be a nobleman.The number of concubines is twelve, and concubines and concubines need to be selected by Si Tianjian to officially seal them.

"Thank you, Lord Long En." Xu Xueer stood behind the queen's phoenix chair with a golden cake after saluting.

"Chang Shuyi, the daughter of Master Zhan Shichang in Zhan Shifu, forward."

"My daughter, Chang Shuyi, long live my emperor."

"Raise your head." Li Zheng looked at this woman, who really looked like her father, with a white face like snow, a high nose bridge, deeper eye sockets than those of the people in the later Chu Kingdom, colorful and thick lips, and a chin that was cut like a knife.He remembered that Mr. Chang's mother was from Fengguo in the far north, and Mr. Chang's main wife was also from Fengguo. No wonder Chang Shuyi looked like a modern half-breed.Although Zhan Shifu is now a very idle job and has no real power, the background of Mr. Zhan Shichang in Zhan Shifu is very deep. Not only is he the favorite student of Prime Minister Li Jin, but his younger brother is also a military commander. The general is also a character that cannot be provoked temporarily.

"Give four taels of gold cake."

"Thank you Lord Long En!"

"Then, five taels of gold cakes will be given to the first row, and three taels of gold cakes will be given to the second row. The rest will each be rewarded with 1000 taels and sent out of the palace."

"Thank you Lord Longen!" Thank you for your kindness. Some people are happy and some are sad. The happy people are naturally happy to enter the emperor's house, and the sad ones are missing out on the most respected person in the world, but there are also those who are worried about spending their entire lives in this deep palace. are very few.

After listening to them thanking them, Li Zheng stood up. He wanted to hear about the queen's arrangement of the palace for these newly-appointed ladies, but the moment he stood up, he suddenly felt inexplicably flustered, and suddenly lost his mood. After seeing them off, they hurried out of the imperial garden.After walking out of the imperial garden, he summoned Xingye and asked her to take him to the Star Observation Tower.

The Star Observation Terrace has been tidied up, and the flagon Li Zheng dropped, the dust accumulated over time, and the broken gauze have also been replaced with new ones.As soon as Li Zheng sat on the table, her Shadow Starry Night handed over a jug of wine and took a sip. It was fruit wine with a very light taste.He glanced at Xingye and saw that her expression was normal, and he didn't want to worry about it anymore.

After Xu Xue's accident, Li Zheng spent most of his time drinking and blowing wind on the Observation Terrace, except for going up to court to listen to the memorials and going down to review the memorials.I don't have Xu Xue's grief when she just got into a car accident, but I still want to find a quiet place to recall the little things between Xu Xue and Yi Ran.

As the sky gradually darkened, Wang Fu invited Emperor Ming back to the palace for a meal under the star-gazing platform.Li Zheng shook the jug he had drunk, and stood up unsteadily.Seeing this, Xingye even supported him and went down the stage.

"Show the Ci'an Palace."

In Ci'an Palace, the empress had already prepared the meals that Emperor Ming liked to eat on weekdays, waiting for him.Hearing from the little eunuch in his own palace that the emperor had come this way, he was overjoyed, and he knelt down in the courtyard to greet him after he straightened the phoenix.

"It's cold on the ground, get up." This is the second time he said this to himself today.

"Thank you Your Majesty" got up. "Your Majesty, my concubine has prepared some mildly spicy dishes that you like to eat on weekdays, do you want to eat now?"

"Yeah!" But after eating two or three meals together, she already knew that he likes spicy food, and it was from his heart.

After dinner, Emperor Ming stood in the courtyard, admiring the impatiens in the empress's palace. He remembered Xu Xue said that the impatiens were also called henna. In ancient times, women often used it to dye their nails, and they looked beautiful.

"Can the empress use this impatiens flower to dye her nails?" The empress stood on top of him, a little dazed by Emperor Ming's words.

"Concubine, I don't know it has this effect, so I have never dyed it."

Li Zheng pinched off a pink petal, walked up to the queen, took her hand, pinched her fingers lightly, squeezed out some flower juice, and carefully applied it on her index finger without a glove.The flower juice is only a little pink, and there is not much color on the nails.

Li Zheng threw down the broken petals, put one arm around the queen's waist and asked her, "Does it look good?"

The queen nodded, "Looks good." Leaning on Emperor Ming's chest, feeling his warmth at the moment.

Li Zheng thought that the palpitation that started in the imperial garden today came from his queen, so he found a boring excuse and got close to her, but he soon discovered that the palpitation did not come from her.He loosened the hand around her, walked into the hall, took some cold tea, and was in a daze.