A kitten dressed as an empress

The strong wind and heavy snow knocked down many branches of the bamboo forest outside the hall. Zhao Yao stared at this thin letter paper, her eyes revealed all kinds of tenderness, and she lightly brushed the hair beside her ear with one hand, and felt a little shy when she touched her hot earlobe.

"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner." The outer palace man asked softly without being called.

Zhao Yao was writing to reply to the letter, she paused to reply: "Is there dinner at the Jiaofang Palace?"

The palace man replied in a low voice: "Just now the palace man came to report that the Jiaofang Palace has eaten."

"Then prepare the dishes." Zhao Yao had something to say to her, but she didn't know how to put it down.

The dinner room is mostly arranged according to Zhao Yao's favorite, and the table is mostly filled with vegetarian dishes and clear soups. In the past, she always likes to pick up all kinds of meat to share with herself.

Now the hall is empty, even Zhao Yao's heart is also a little cold.

The Chaotian Palace was particularly festively decorated, even the palace road and the imperial garden had been hung with red lanterns, Zhao Yao couldn't help but sigh.

Why is there no Wen Ruyan in the seasoned prediction technique?

The more Zhao Yao thought about it, the more uneasy her heart became. She only ate half a bowl of hot soup, and didn't eat any more. She came out of the hall and walked towards the Jiaofang Hall.

The palace servants carried lanterns in their hands against the strong wind and kept silent. The snow fell heavily in winter, and the ground was covered with thick snow. Zhao Yao could see the closed door of Jiaofang Hall from a distance.

Before the palace servants knocked on the door, the old woman outside the Jiaofang hall said first, "Your Majesty, long live long live long live."

"Get up."

"It's only a few days away from Daxi, Your Majesty, why don't you wait a few more days?" This old lady is a female official who obeys the rules, and she is originally a branch of the Zhao royal family, so she has some prestige in the palace.

Zhao Yao raised her brows slightly and said in displeasure, "It's just a meeting, so I won't break the rules."

The old mother still refused to follow, and replied very calmly: "The emperor's etiquette must not be broken. If your majesty really thinks about the empress, then you can rest assured for a few more days, and there will be a hundred years of harmony in the future."

Having said that, it is impossible for Zhao Yao to forcibly break into the Jiaofang Palace to destroy the emperor's etiquette. After all, Wen Ruyan will be in charge of the harem in the future. If she breaks the etiquette system for her, she will even be imprisoned .

After thinking twice, Zhao Yao had no choice but to return to the Chaotian Palace, and thought for a whole night before replying to the letter.

Early in the morning, Wen Ruyan woke up naturally after falling asleep. The heavy snow outside the window rarely stopped, and there was even a sliver of scorching sun peeking out of the clouds.

It was a rare warm winter day, and Wen Ruyan was lying softly basking in the sun, opening the envelope in his hand, full of apprehension.

【Miss you. 】

This letter is so short.

Wen Ruyan looked left and right, but he didn't find any other mystery in the letter paper.

In the next few days, the letter kept saying this. In the past, there were some snowstorms and the like to cover up, but now I don't even have to be careful.

Could it be that he didn't see his little thoughts?

Oh, why are you a little disappointed?

Wen Ruyan wrote in a roundabout reply, but Zhao Yao didn't mention her own letter for several days after that.

After going around like this and turning to the big day, Wen Ruyan had to wash and dress up before dawn, and Wen Ruyan hadn't recovered her sanity yet.

The palace servants waited on her to wash and dress up, and she wore a phoenix coronet. Wen Ruyan didn't even have time to take a sip of hot tea, and her neck was extremely painful from the overly bulky phoenix crown.

But Wen Ruyan couldn't move around, otherwise he would have answered that old saying.

Don't look down, the crown will fall.

When the gate of the palace is wide open, the old lady leads the sedan chair into the sedan chair, passes through the three main palace gates and then enters the main hall.

Wen Ruyan was like a puppet, because he couldn't see, he could only nervously grab the red wedding stick in his hand, counting the steps in his heart.

If it fell, it would be a shame.

After entering the main hall, the officials worshiped and knelt on both sides, and the person at the other end of the red wedding note tugged lightly. Wen Ruyan thought it was the old lady, so she obediently followed her and moved closer.

Zhao Yao's eyes fell on the person approaching obediently with small steps, and she wanted to laugh inexplicably.

Since both of Zhao Yao's parents are no longer alive, there is no need to kneel frequently in this wedding. After all, this long wedding dress is quite complicated. Will it be regarded as a mentally retarded existence?

When turning around, Wen Ruyan's footsteps trembled, her figure tilted slightly, Zhao Yao protected her arms in time and said in a low voice: "Be careful."

Wen Ruyan was taken aback for a moment, it turned out that it was Zhao Yao who was pulling the red wedding note all along.

After going through the basic process, Wen Ruyan was finally able to sit down and take a breath.

His stomach was rumbling violently, Wen Ruyan sighed, because he couldn't see anything because of the red hijab, he thought that if he knew it earlier, he would ask Zhao Yao to secretly stuff him with some food.

Wen Ruyan, who was leaning against the bed rail and dozing off, really felt that getting married was a crime.

Zhao Yao only drank a few cups with Baiguan, then hurried back to Chaotian Palace.

The bride, who was tilting her head and hugging the bed rail, hadn't noticed anyone approaching at all.

"Are you so tired?" Zhao Yao reached out and hugged her gently.

Wen Ruyan, half asleep and half awake, rubbed his eyes and said, "If you don't take off the red hijab, I'll take it off myself."

Zhao Yao lightly lifted the red hijab that covered her face with her fingertips, her watery eyes were full of sleepiness, and there was a bit of embarrassment unique to her daughter's family in her expression. She had never seen her with such heavy makeup in the past. Can't help but feel very excited.

"The color of this rouge really suits you." Zhao Yao lightly touched her cheek with her fingertips and held her, bowed her head and pecked her several times.

Wen Ruyan only felt as if Zhao Yao had gnawed on her several mouthfuls, and she probably ate a lot of the rouge on her lips.

"How come I didn't know you liked rouge so much?" Wen Ruyan looked helplessly at the enthusiastic people.

Zhao Yao looked at Wen Ruyan's reaction with a smile, and with her fingertips, she pulled a few strands of thin hair from her cheeks behind her ears and replied, "I don't like other people's rouge, I just like the ones you put on with your little mouth." rouge."

The two bickered as usual, Wen Ruyan yawned sleepily, and said with misty eyes, "I won't joke with you anymore, I'm really sleepy."

Zhao Yao got up and picked up the jug to pour the wine, walked back to the bed with two wine glasses between her fingers and said: "You have a glass of wine, and I will remove the phoenix crown for you later so you can rest."

Wen Ruyan took the wine cup and looked at Zhao Yao who was approaching, feeling a little nervous for some reason, stretched his arms and said with dodge eyes, "I won't pour it after just one sip."

"Don't worry, it won't be so powerful." Zhao Yao smiled and leaned closer.

The taste of this wine was weaker than what Wen Ruyan had imagined. When the wine cup was taken away by Zhao Yao, Wen Ruyan asked aloud, "Why is this wine the same as water?"

Zhao Yao poked Wen Ruyan's cheek with her fingertips and said, "I was afraid that you would pour it in one gulp, so I sent someone to mix it with water."

amount……

When the phoenix crown was taken off, Wen Ruyan's whole head was liberated.

The two ate some food together, and Wen Ruyan dragged Zhao Yao to lie down early.

At first Zhao Yao thought it was Wen Ruyan who had awakened, but who would have thought that this person would fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

This sleep went straight to dawn the next day, and Wen Ruyan fell into a daze.

"Why don't you call me?" Wen Ruyan said while lying beside Zhao Yao.

The sky outside the window was not yet bright, but Zhao Yao's eyes had returned to clarity, she put her arms around Wen Ruyan and whispered in her ear: "I think you seem to be very tired, so I didn't call you."

If it was a normal day, then Wen Ruyan would be fine, but on the night of the wedding, she actually fell asleep.

It seems a little bad.

Wen Ruyan raised her hand and pinched Zhao Yao's earlobe in response: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, aren't you going to the Emperor's Temple for three days?"

"Hmm." Zhao Yao lightly pecked Wen Ruyan's side face with her thin lips, and sighed with some reluctance, "Thinking about it carefully, I should have woken you up last night. I never even made out with you."

The guilt that was ignited just now disappeared in an instant.

Wen Ruyan tilted his head to avoid Wen Ruyan's intimacy and smiled, "Can you wake up in the morning?"

Zhao Yao bit Wen Ruyan's cheek full of sorrow and said, "You really don't have the consciousness of being a queen at all."

"Isn't it enough for the queen to eat and drink every day?" Wen Ruyan wrapped herself in the bedding to avoid Zhao Yao's claws.

"Then you may be disappointed." Zhao Yao raised her hand and rubbed Wen Ruyan's cheek and said meaningfully.

The two dawdled for a while, but Zhao Yao insisted on pulling Wen Ruyan to eat together.

When the dawn was dim, Zhao Yao left Chaotian Hall, Wen Ruyan was wrapped in heavy winter clothes and planned to go back and lie down for a while.

But the old mother brought a group of palace officials to say hello, and it was only when Wen Ruyan saw the large stack of ledgers that she understood Zhao Yao's meaningful words.

"There are 36 rooms in the harem, twelve halls and one internal department. There are tens of thousands of people in the harem, including food, clothing, housing and transportation. Today is the first year, and it is the time for reward verification."

"If the Empress thinks that there is something wrong with the inner secretary, she can also make relevant adjustments and amendments to the palace rules revised by the inner secretary."

"In previous years, all the ministers ordered their wives and misses to visit the empress in the palace. If the empress is free, I can make arrangements in the post below at any time."

The old nanny was chattering away like a robot, Wen Ruyan never thought that the first day of married life would be so difficult.

No wonder Zhao Yao always talked about getting married, this is obviously a pit of fire.

Three days later, when Zhao Yao returned to the palace from the imperial temple, there were a group of imperial wives and young ladies chatting together in the Rejiaofang hall.

Wen Ruyan could only sit upright and smirk, probably because the Su family and the Song family were at odds in court, and even the wives of the two families in the harem were fighting openly and secretly.

The ladies of the aristocratic family are all beautiful, but they are not cheap, and even with the support of Concubine Song, they are mostly arrogant to the ladies of other aristocratic families.

Because of sitting for too long, Wen Ruyan proposed to hold a banquet in the plum forest to appreciate the plum blossoms, which can be regarded as exercise.

"Sister, you don't seem to be looking very well today." Concubine Song stepped closer, always teasing people with twists and turns in her words.

Wen Ruyan looked sideways at Song Zhen and thought that since we were two years old, Song Zhen should be older.

This is taking advantage of the aboveboard.

"I, Ben Gong is in good health." Wen Ruyan didn't change his name for a while, but felt very awkward.

Seeing this, Concubine Song held a handkerchief to cover her nose and sneered, thinking that only women from aristocratic families could sit firmly in the position of queen, otherwise it would be a shame to lose etiquette.

Wen Ruyan found that Song Zhen's smile was particularly ironic, which made people uncomfortable.

"I'm a little tired, sister, go and have a joke with the lady next to me." I didn't want to waste my saliva.

Concubine Song looked at the person who turned and left without looking back, instead of smiling, she turned angrily and whispered: "A sparrow becomes a phoenix and dares to command people, it really doesn't know what to do!"

Wen Ruyan looked at the wives of various families who were shuttled back and forth in the forest to pick plums, and saw Zhang Youmou's wife, Gu Lan, had returned to the pavilion early.

It was not the first time the two met. Although Gu Lan was surprised, she did not show any disrespect on her face and said: "Empress, but you can't see a suitable plum blossom?"

"It's very cold to pick plums in the twelfth lunar month of winter, so I'll come back when I feel the cold." Wen Ruyan originally just wanted to let these idle wives find something to do, so as to save them from intrigue.

Gu Lan was holding a few plum blossoms in her hands, and after arranging them a little, it became a picture and said: "It's better for the concubine to present these flowers to the empress."

Wen Ruyan held the teacup in his hand and replied, "Then I would like to thank Mrs. Zhang."

"The empress is polite. The ladies in this palace respect you. If you are too kind, you will be looked down upon." Gu Lan recalled that she had helped her at the banquet, so she reminded her a few words tactfully.

After all, I have dealt with this group of aristocratic wives for several years, so I can more or less figure out their vicious nature of bullying.

Wen Ruyan played with the plum blossoms, turned her head to look at Gu Lan and said, "Mrs. Zhang has a heart."

After the wives of each family selected plum blossoms from the plum grove and placed them in the inner pavilion, Song Guifei proudly displayed the plum blossoms in an extremely public manner.

Song Mo's wife wanted to flatter Concubine Song and sighed frequently: "The concubine's selection of plum blossoms is really good."

"Yeah, this light swing is extremely beautiful."

Wen Ruyan didn't need to look at anyone to know that the Song family were sycophants.

We are not a group of people, and we really have all kinds of thoughts.

The wives and ladies of the Su family and the Qin family naturally couldn't tolerate those members of the Song family looking around.

"The empress's plum blossoms are also very beautiful." Mrs. Su's wife replied first.

Miss Qin's family agreed: "That's right, the empress's pose is very good."

For a while, there was a bit of tension in the pavilion.

Perhaps it was because the empress hadn't spoken, so the ladies shut up wisely, and the pavilion was too quiet for a while.

Wen Ruyan picked up the teacup and sipped the tea, feeling that these ladies are really smart people.

"Your Majesty is here."

All the wives stood up to salute at once, and Concubine Song was particularly enthusiastic, she deliberately stepped forward, directly blocking Wen Ruyan.

"Long live, long live, Your Majesty."

Zhao Yao looked at Song Zhen with a slight frown, but because of the wives, she could only calm down and say, "Get flat."

The expression on Concubine Song's face did not change a little bit, and Wen Ruyan looked at it without blinking.

"Today, ladies and gentlemen, come to pick plum blossoms together. Which ones do your majesty think are the most outstanding among them?" Song Guifei decided to compare with the queen.

Zhao Yao's expression immediately became extremely serious when she heard this, she walked past Concubine Song to Wen Ruyan and said, "Admiring flowers is an elegant thing, if it's judged by winning or losing, it's vulgar."

"It's rare for an empress to host a banquet with a refined heart, so the noble concubine should not let her heart down." Zhao Yao took advantage of the situation and pulled Wen Ruyan to sit together.

How could the ladies not see this obvious favoritism, Concubine Song's face was ashen, but she didn't dare to make trouble in front of the Empress.

After the wives left the venue in the afternoon, the pavilion became much quieter. Wen Ruyan grabbed the salty pig's hand parked by his side and said, "If you tickle me again, I will bite you."

"I protect you like this, but you still bite me?" Zhao Yao raised her hand and pinched Wen Ruyan's nose and muttered, "It's really cruel."

Wen Ruyan stuffed the hand warmer in his hand to Zhao Yao, turned his head to avoid the protruding hand, and ordered the palace servants to hold a banquet.

After the cooking pot was placed in the pavilion, Wen Ruyan picked up a lot of dishes and put them on Zhao Yao's dishes, saying, "You only went to the temple for three days, why are you so thin?"

"Do you know that there is a poem saying that the belt is getting wider and you will never regret it, and you will be haggard because of Yixiao." Zhao Yao responded enthusiastically.

Wen Ruyan, who was holding meat in the stove, lost his hand in embarrassment, and was ashamed to listen to Zhao Yao's love words.

"If I had known earlier, it would be better to lock you up in the Emperor's Temple, so as to save you from being so greasy." Wen Ruyan replied in embarrassment.

Zhao Yao leaned over while eating the small meatballs and asked, "Could it be that what I eat is greasy?"

Wen Ruyan couldn't bear Zhao Yao's eager gaze and said against his will: "Grease is actually not a bad thing."

It took the two of them half an hour to finish most of the dishes, and Wen Ruyan still had a lot of affairs to deal with, so Zhao Yao could only watch on the sidelines.

In the Jiaofang Hall, Wen Ruyan was doing serious calculations, and it was rare for Zhao Yao to sit by and read a book.

After a while, no one made a sound in the hall, Zhao Yao shifted her gaze from the book to the person beside her, leaned over, lightly pecked the side of the face, and quickly hid back.

However, Wen Ruyan's attention was not aroused, Zhao Yao approached a little discouraged, looked at the densely packed paper and asked curiously: "Are you trying to settle accounts?"

Wen Ruyan bit her pen and replied, "Yes."

With so many departments in the palace, there are so many accounts that my head explodes.

"If you don't know how, I can help you deal with it." Zhao Yao stretched out her fingers to pinch the bitten pen, "Don't bite the pen."

Wen Ruyan grabbed Zhao Yao's hand and asked, "Why didn't you tell me that the queen will do so many things earlier?"

Zhao Yao was so at ease that she was held by hand, she tilted her head and responded with a smile in her eyes: "Didn't you do a good job?"

treacherous!

"I think it's easier to be a bachelor in front of the palace than to be a queen. The queen has to manage the affairs of the harem and has to deal with the wives and ladies of the aristocratic families. It's really tiring."

Zhao Yao hooked Wen Ruyan's fingertips with her fingertips and replied, "Then you have to think clearly, the queen's monthly salary is the ten-year salary of the former bachelor."

Wen Ruyan had to admit that she felt a little bit moved.

Wen Ruyan didn't stop writing until evening, Zhao Yao raised her hand to pinch her shoulders and pressed acupuncture points, the old mama went into the receipt book and was a little surprised to see this scene.

On the contrary, the palace people of Jiaofang Palace are no longer surprised.

Zhao Yao embraced Wen Ruyan with her eyes closed and meditated, and pecked her head lightly a few times in response: "You've only been a queen for three days and you're so tired, I think it's better to ask the head of internal affairs and the old mother of Jiaofang Palace to assist you , may lighten your burden."

Wen Ruyan raised his hand to cover Zhao Yao's lips and said, "I have already asked them to be responsible for part of each other's accounts, but I found that the harem has not been owned for many years, and some old accounts are full of loopholes. If it is damaged, sooner or later you will have to sit back and eat."

"When my aunt was in power, she was in charge of the military power, so she didn't pay much attention to finances. It was only when I succeeded to the throne that I found that the treasury was empty. So in the past few years, I have severely cracked down on corrupt officials, rebuilt taxation and political laws, and changed candidates for the position of secretary of the household department several times. In the past few years, the national treasury has not been in short supply." Zhao Yao took Wen Ruyan's hand and kissed it several times.

Wen Ruyan laughed out of tickle and withdrew his hands, and grabbed the thin quilt to cover himself and replied, "I won't kiss you."

Zhao Yao embraced Wen Ruyan with her arms through the quilt and said in a low voice, "If you don't give me a kiss, then I will guard you, and no one else can kiss you anyway."

Wen Ruyan poked his head out from the quilt and said, "You are such a villain. You first lied to me to do hard work for you as a queen, and now you want me to take advantage of you. I don't believe you."

"If you don't like to associate with wives, then in the coming year, they will be exempted from visiting the palace." Zhao Yao pinched the soft flesh of Wen Ruyan's side face with her fingertips to comfort her.

"Those wives can't make any troubles, it's the Song family's wives who like to make trouble the most."

Wen Ruyan puffed her cheeks cooperatively and let Zhao Yao pinch and play.

Seeing her cooperative appearance, Zhao Yao couldn't help laughing out loud, she leaned down and pecked her soft lips in response: "They rely on the prestige of the Song family for hundreds of years, and they don't know that the Song family is dying. The Song noble concubine in this palace If it falls, do you believe that they will be at peace right away?"

Wen Ruyan bit it lightly, Zhao Yao looked at it with a slight sigh and asked in puzzlement, "Why did you bite me?"

"It's okay if you don't say it. Whenever Song Zhen is mentioned, I want to bite you."

Zhao Yao looked at Wen Ruyan with a blank face, but she didn't feel relieved.

"Could it be that Song Zhen made you unhappy?" Zhao Yao leaned closer.

Wen Ruyan responded with a soft snort: "No."

"Since there isn't one, why did you bite me?" Zhao Yao asked while pulling Bo.

But in the end, the door was closed, and Wen Ruyan didn't want to complain to Zhao Yao.

Although the snow stopped during the holidays, the weather was still very cold. Zhao Yao failed for several nights, so at night she tried to coax Wen Ruyan with other methods.

At night, Wen Ruyan nestled on the bed, and didn't hear Zhao Yao's voice for a long time, feeling strangely tense in her heart.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yao took off her clothes directly, and Wen Ruyan looked at the person nestled in her arms, feeling a little hot.

"What are you doing?" Wen Ruyan didn't dare to glance casually, he just felt that there was a fire in his arms, and his heart also flustered.

Zhao Yao leaned over and approached, held Wen Ruyan's side face with her fingertips, and said seriously: "How can there be any reason why you can't have sex after being married for several days?"

Wen Ruyan looked at the hand being held down, and asked in disbelief, "Are you sure you want me to come first this time?"

"If you don't want to, I'm willing to help." Zhao Yao responded with thin lips.

With Nuanxiang in his arms, there is no reason not to do it, Wen Ruyan shifted his gaze and approached and said, "I won't show mercy."

Zhao Yao turned around and lay down on her back, looking at the person who was leaning over, with all kinds of amorous feelings in her eyebrows and eyes, she said with a smile: "Tonight, the lady has the final say."

"You're wrong." Wen Ruyan put his index finger against Zhao Yao's thin lips, and smiled mischievously, "It's your husband who decides tonight!"

Zhao Yao's eyes were full of tenderness, she slightly opened her lips and bit her index finger, and called out in cooperation: "Okay, you are my husband tonight."

Knowing that it was a beauty trick, but unfortunately Wen Ruyan couldn't help being seduced, it must be because Zhao Yao who took the initiative in her arms was too hot.

Otherwise, how could he have fallen into the pit without hesitation just because Zhao Yao lightly hooked his fingers.

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