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Shui Jing praised softly: "Yu'er, well said!"

After saying that, he turned to smile at the princess and said, "You are very good, you have not let down your father."

Shui Jing glanced at Fanghua and Tianxin who were kneeling on the ground, a gloomy look flashed in his eyes, and he smiled and said, "You two should get up too."

Shui Jing pulled Daiyu to sit beside her, and said with a comfortable smile: "Rong'er fought several beautiful battles at the border, and the rebels were already frightened by the news.

Daiyu blushed and said with an embarrassed smile: "It all depends on the emperor, who strategizes in the court and decides the outcome thousands of miles away."

Shui Jing laughed loudly and said, "Good! Good! Yu'er is not proud to take credit for it, she is indeed Rong'er's good helper!"

Saying that, Shui Jing rolled his eyes, looked at the queen, pointed at Fanghua Tianxin and said: "It seems that the queen likes these two people very much, so I will point them to Wang Yi, and that's all I want to make the queen perfect."

When the queen heard this, she immediately knelt down and cowardly replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Yi'er already has two side concubines."

"Oh, Prince Yi is the queen's own child, and these two are the queen's favorite people, there is no harm in having two more." Shui Jing's eyes were so dark that it was fleeting, and he said happily: "Just It's settled."

Fanghua Tianxin had no choice but to kneel down and thank her.

"Mother's queen! Mother's queen!" Princess Yi supported the maid and led Baochai, yelling.As if entering the land of no one, he broke in unscrupulously.

He looked up and saw Shui Jing here, his head was dazed, he was at a loss for a while, and stared at Shui Jing in a daze.

Baochai was also very surprised, seeing the emperor here was such a golden opportunity, how could she miss it?

I saw her walking in small steps, like willows swinging in the wind, she stepped forward and knelt down, her voice was like an oriole coming out of the valley, and she kowtowed: "Xue Baochai, a civilian woman, kowtowed to the emperor, and wish the emperor long live! Long live!"

Shui Jing snorted coldly, looked at the Queen, and then at Princess Yi.

Only now did Princess Yi come back to her senses, and hurried over to salute: "Father, the emperor is auspicious!"

With a sullen face, Shui Jing said impatiently: "Get up."

He thought for a moment, and said to Princess Yi: "You came just in time, these two women are the people your queen mother likes, so I will point them out to Prince Yi to be side concubines, and you can take them with you when you go back. "

The princess was startled when she heard the words, and secretly said: According to the ancestral system, the prince has only three wives and four concubines. In this way, Yi's wives obviously violated the system, surpassing the prince, and almost catching up with the emperor.

Concubine Yi heard that she had pointed out two side concubines to King Yi, who were still so powerful, she was full of displeasure, and dared not say more, so she had to agree aggrievedly.

Princess Yi didn't think so much like the princess, she only thought that two more women would share her husband with her.Full of anger, not daring to explode, she stared blankly at her aunt, the empress, and seeing the empress sitting in a precarious position, she had no choice but to bring Fanghua Tianxin to kowtow to the water mirror to express her gratitude.

Shui Jing frowned and asked, "What were you yelling just now?"

Concubine Yi was extremely wronged, and timidly replied: "The famous ladies in the capital have already arrived at the Imperial Garden, waiting for the Queen Mother to preside over the Qiqiao Festival ceremony, and the minister-in-law came here to report."

Shui Jing looked at the Queen playfully, and the Queen's back was in a cold sweat, not daring to raise her head to look at Shui Jing.

No one in the room dared to speak, and Daiyu also looked down at her toes.

After a long while, Shui Jing said coldly: "The empress is ill and needs a good rest. What kind of ceremony should be presided over by the crown princess and Yu'er."

"This……"

The queen's face became extremely ugly, and she stared at the water mirror with wide eyes in astonishment.

Shui Jing stared at her coldly, and said coldly: "Queen! I see that you are very sick. Baozhu, tell me that the queen is ill. From now on, she needs to take a good rest. Without my will, anyone People are not allowed to go to Kunning Palace to disturb the Queen."

After all, Shui Jing seemed to think of something, with a smile on his face, he said gently: "Queen, you just go back to Kunning Palace to cultivate well, and don't come out to worry about hard work. I am very worried about your health, don't be so sick I can't even recognize it."

The queen is a very smart woman, she understands the meaning and weight of Shui Jing's last words.

Her face was pale, and her body trembled like a leaf in late autumn. She was on the verge of falling and couldn't stand upright. The maid beside her immediately stepped forward to support her.

Shui Jing waved his hand to the queen as if to repel flies, and ordered with a smile: "Help the queen back to Kunning Palace to rest."

The queen's legs seemed to be filled with lead, so heavy that she couldn't lift them up.

Several maids and nuns carried the confused queen and walked out.

Princess Yi was stunned. She looked at the frighteningly pale queen and thought that the queen was really sick.

She walked a few steps behind the queen, feeling something was wrong, so she stopped quickly.

Looking back at Shui Jing, he saw that Shui Jing was as tender as water, looking at Daiyu kindly and benevolently, talking to Daiyu.

The Crown Princess smiled all over her face, standing beside Daiyu, interjecting from time to time.

Princess Yi could not help burning with jealousy, she kept asking in her heart: Why!Why!Brother Shui Rong Shui Che was born to the empress, and Prince Yi was also born to the empress. Why is it that one of them is the crown princess and the other is the assistant prince and concubine, while she is just an ordinary concubine.This is so unfair!

Although the anger in her chest was burning, her internal organs were burning to the point of exploding.

However, Princess Yi, who was born in aristocratic background, did not dare to break out after years of nurturing, she just stared blankly at Shuijing, Daiyu, and the princess.

Shui Jing talked for a while, stood up, and smiled softly: "I still have some things to deal with, you guys also go to be busy with some festivals, come and have lunch with me."

Daiyu and the Crown Princess wanted to salute, Shui Jing took Daiyu by the arm, looked at Daiyu tenderly, and said: "I have said long ago, you just don't listen to these vain rituals."

As Shui Jing said, he happily lifted his legs and left.

Shui Jing passed by Princess Yi Baochai and turned a blind eye to them, which made Princess Yi feel ashamed and very uncomfortable.

The Crown Princess held Daiyu's little hand and said with a smile, "Miss Lin, it's time for us to go to the Royal Garden."

Daiyu smiled and nodded, the two walked forward arm in arm, looking very close.

Princess Yi, Baochai and others followed Crown Princess Daiyu, and angrily did not greet Fanghua Tianxin, Fanghua Tianxin had to follow Princess Yi behind.

The Empress has only two main purposes for holding this Qiqiao Festival in the Imperial Garden, the most important of which is to ask Daiyu to accept Fanghua Tianxin as her water-soluble side concubine, and the other purpose is to win over other princes and choose some ingenuity for them, Beautiful ladies, enrich their backyard.

Unexpectedly, the first goal was easily and completely shattered by Shui Jing, and it was impossible for the second goal to succeed.

However, the Imperial Garden is still full of beautiful flowers and beautiful women like clouds.

The romantic and suave prince and prince have been paired for a long time, occupying the commanding heights of the imperial garden, each of them squinting their eyes and looking down, looking for beauty.

Baochai followed Princess Yi, and when she thought of Jia Baoyu, her bowels were about to regret.

She thought to herself: If she hadn't been married to Jia Baoyu, she would have closed her eyes here and just touched one of them, she would be a real royal child, and no one is more noble than Jia Baoyu.

The sweet dreams of girlhood disappeared like bubbles.

When I saw Lin Daiyu for a few days, she didn't look at her directly, and she didn't even say a word to her.

It is exactly: the road in front of you has no latitude and longitude, and the spring and autumn sky in Pili is black and yellow.

This is the first time that Baochai has seen Lin Daiyu since Jiamu's birthday.

Seeing Daiyu being so favored by the emperor, it was like a blunt knife sawing back and forth in her heart.

She thought about Daiyu silently, and felt that Daiyu saw her as a passerby, but she didn't show any anger.

Presumably, what happened on Jia Mu's birthday is not such a glorious thing to tell. If someone who cares about it knows it and adds jealousy to it, it will be her Lin Daiyu whose reputation will be affected. Maybe Daiyu is more taboo than herself.

Baochai thought her analysis was correct, so she couldn't help but relax, her beautiful almond eyes gleamed, and she looked around.

She found that there were pairs of peeping eyes on the high place of the imperial garden, and her smile was very bright.

Fanghua Tianxin, beside Baochai, was full of thoughts, with drooping eyelids, weak and lifeless, without any energy.

The two of them knew Prince Yi best. Although they were handsome in appearance, they had a very violent temper.

Princess Yi next to her was a simple-minded woman who said that the wind was the rain, and when she got well, there was no one better than her, but when she got annoyed, she was a woman who would kill people without paying for her life.

I was going to analyze her husband, how could she be nice to me?

I heard that the concubines of Prince Yi's mansion were terrified when they saw Prince Yi, and the two side concubines had already been made to look like human beings and ghosts by her.

I heard that Prince Yi was upset when he saw those two women who were made into human shapes, and he would not step into the rooms of those two side concubines for a whole month.

The two of them thought that although their status was noble, and the emperor personally ordered the marriage, the status of side concubine could not be compared with that of the main concubine.

A group of people came to the color platform in the imperial garden, the crown princess and Daiyu got off the sedan chair, and saw that the other princesses had already arrived, and some of them were a little impatient for waiting.

Seeing that the queen didn't come, only the princess and Daiyu, they felt a little puzzled, but their faces were all full of smiles, they came over to salute and say hello, and at the same time kept scanning their eyes at Daiyu.

The princess returned the gifts one by one, and introduced the princess who didn't know Daiyu.

Those princesses who saw Daiyu for the first time were all overwhelmed by Daiyu's bearing and appearance.

They knew that Daiyu was the concubine of the future auxiliary government palace, and they also saw that the crown princess cared for her meticulously.

So, they all stepped forward to express their admiration for Daiyu.

After exchanging pleasantries, the crown princess passed on the emperor's oral order, and all the princesses felt even more puzzled, thinking that the queen's sudden illness must be hidden.

I kept weighing it in my heart, and the smile on my face became wider.

The Crown Princess took Daiyu and sat side by side on the front seat, and Princess Yi sat on both sides with the other princesses.

The princess signaled to the nanny in charge that the activities of the Qiqiao Festival began.

The nanny in charge stood at the edge of the stage, opened her throat, and shouted loudly: "Ladies, please pay attention, the activity of Qiqiao Festival starts now!"

Under the color platform, the famous ladies in the capital gathered in twos and threes towards the color platform.

Then there was a series of clever game competitions, such as piercing nine-tailed needles with multicolored silk, throwing clever needles in a water bowl, offering clever fruits to Weaver Girl, praising Kuixing with poems, showing personal skill, etc., one by one.

Except for Crown Princess Daiyu, all other princesses have to go on inspections to ensure that the results of various activities are true and effective.

The list of the top three women in each event was selected by the princess in charge of the tour, and then reported to the crown prince and Daiyu by the maid.

Controversial issues will be discussed and decided by the princess in charge and Crown Princess Daiyu.

At noon, the activities of begging for cleverness only consisted of two items: piercing nine-tailed needles with multicolored silk and throwing clever needles in a water bowl.

The Crown Princess and Daiyu are going to the Palace of Qinzheng to have dinner with Shui Jing, so they have to announce that they will start other projects in the afternoon.

The nuns in the palace led the famous ladies from the capital to Chuxiu Palace for a meal and rest. Baochai saw the princess holding Daiyu on her arm, and Zijuan Xueyan followed behind with a smile on her face. The direct brother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the noble concubine, the grandson-daughter-in-law of the Duke's mansion, is even worse than Daiyu's girl.

The more Baochai thought about it, the more annoyed she became, and the more annoyed she became, the more she wanted revenge.

It's a pity that the disparity between her and Daiyu's status is too great now, she is like a dog biting a hedgehog, she can't find a place to start.

Wang Xifeng and Xichun found Baochai, and when they came in front of her, she withdrew her eyes from Daiyu who was in the distance, took Xichun's hand, and smiled flamboyantly at Wang Xifeng: "Come on, I have met Princess Yi."

At this moment, Princess Yi saw Crown Princess Daiyu's sedan chair walking towards the Palace of Qinzheng, and her jealousy far outstripped her envy.

Wang Xifeng and Xichun saluted and greeted her, but she just waved her hands casually and said absently, "Get up."

Princess Yi suddenly took a closer look at Xichun's appearance, felt her eyes light up, and said to Baochai with a smile: "Your sister-in-law is very handsome, how about I come as a matchmaker for her?"

Baochai pushed Xichun hurriedly, and said with a smile: "Princess Yi is so loving, why don't you thank Princess Yi quickly."

When Xichun heard the words, the shadow of water melting flashed in his mind, and immediately blushed, and smiled coyly: "Thanks to the love of the princess, it's just that Xichun lost her mother when she was young, and her father when she was young. Dare to deceive the princess."

Baochai glanced sideways at Xichun, and said, "This little girl is so muddy that she can't support the wall. She has lost such a good opportunity."

Now, all the princesses have gone to various palaces to meet their mother-in-law, and have meals and rest there by the way.

Concubine Yi stood there, thinking that the queen was forced to rest by the emperor, and if she couldn't go to Kunning Palace, where should she go?

"Princess, I have an idea." She opened her beautiful almond eyes and watched Princess Yi's expression carefully as she spoke. Seeing that Princess Yi was listening carefully, she continued, "You might as well take these two masters and go back first. Say good news to Lord Yi, and come back in the afternoon, it will be the same."

Princess Yi's eyes were wide open, and she asked puzzledly: "Happy news? What kind of happy news?"

Baochai brought her mouth to Princess Yi's ear and whispered: "Princess, please think about it carefully. How many of the princes have four side concubines? It seems that the crown prince only has two side concubines. The servants are thinking about the emperor's intentions." It's very deep."

Princess Yi suddenly realized that in the entire royal family, only the emperor had one empress and four noble concubines.Could it be...

She hurriedly covered her mouth in a panic, looked around, and smiled at Baochai with eyes full of joy: "It's just that you have a quick brain and think more than others."

After finishing speaking, Princess Yi swept away the dark clouds all over her face, and ordered with a happy smile, "Go back to the mansion."

In Prince Yi's Mansion, Prince Yi is talking with the Seventh Prince and the Fifth Prince in the study. Hearing that Princess Yi is back, he feels very strange. Why did he come back so early and why didn't he have dinner in the palace?

In the past, whenever Princess Yi entered the palace, she would accompany the queen to eat, and she would not return to the residence until it was getting late.

Besides, what activities are being held in the Royal Garden today? Why did Princess Yi, who loves to be lively, come back?

The harem is a barometer of government affairs, and all power-loving people in the country are all staring at this place.

The slightest disturbance in the harem could cause an uproar in the court.

Prince Yi is the biological son of the current empress, two years older than Shui Rong, and older than Prince Shui Che.

He is the eldest son of the emperor, and it is because his mother was not a queen when he was born that his status is so embarrassing.

Before the mother gave birth to him, her status was too low. Because of him, the mother was promoted to a concubine.

The crown prince first fell on Shui Rong, who disappeared when Shui Rong was three years old, and the position of prince was emptied for many years, and finally fell on Shui Rong's younger brother Shui Che.

Prince Yi feels that he is a genius, and often secretly hates his bad luck and empty ambitions of governing the country.

The first queen died, and his mother climbed to the queen's throne.

However, he has not risen with the tide, and is still a very ordinary prince.

He is like an ivy in the tropical rainforest, in order not to be blocked by other plants, in order to get more sunlight for himself, so that he can grow better, he desperately climbs everything that can be climbed, just to stand on top of all plants.

He has been more sensible than other princes since he was a child, he studied and studied desperately, whenever he had the slightest chance, he would try his best to stand out and show that he was smarter, more courageous and courageous than Shui Che, and more qualified to be a prince.

However, the emperor simply ignored his behavior and brought Shui Che with him personally, and he was in charge of Shui Che's daily life and education.

Everyone in the court could clearly see that the position of Shui Che's crown prince was as stable as Mount Tai.

Prince Yi thinks that he is also the queen's son, and his status is as noble as Shui Che's, and he thinks that his ability is not comparable to that of Shui Che.

Just because he is not a prince, not a future monarch, but just an ordinary prince, he has not been favored by the courtiers.

He secretly hated Shui Che, and even hated his father for ignoring his existence.

He already has two children, and the emperor not only forbade him to participate in politics and deal with state affairs, but also fortified him everywhere.

Up to now, he is just an idle prince, who can only live on the little court salary every year.

In order to maintain the dignity that the prince should have, he had to secretly support the queen mother.

The more Prince Yi thought about it, the more he felt that his life was useless.

Once, he read a poem by a woman: "Be a hero in life, and a hero in death."

He suddenly came to his senses, a weak woman could say such words, he is the eldest son of the emperor born to the empress, how could he sink down, he is not even as good as a woman?

From then on, he began to cheer up. On the surface, he was still singing about drinking, but in fact he began to secretly win over powerful ministers in the court.

Who knows that my fate is really bad!

Wang Ziteng, who was finally recruited with great difficulty, was about to be transferred back to the capital, and when he was about to take on a big job, he suffered from an emergency and died.

Today, in order to help him realize his lofty aspirations and ambitions as soon as possible, the Queen Mother held a begging festival in the Imperial Garden to secretly select beauties for the young emperor's uncles and brothers to enrich the backyards of each family, which is also to cultivate eyes and ears for herself.

How did Princess Yi go back to her palace so well?

Speaking of Princess Yi, don't look at her young age, she looks like a heartless, well-known wife Mo Ruofu.

Prince Yi knew the wife's means and intelligence through her handling of concubines in the mansion.

Princess Yi is as wise as a fool, a rare talent.

He was not angry at Princess Yi's cruelty to his concubine, because he believed that women were like clothes, the old ones did not go away, and the new ones did not come.

The old clothes are gone, and there are newer and more beautiful clothes waiting for him.

"Brother Huang, why is the sister-in-law back at this time? There is nothing wrong with it?" The seventh prince is the same age as Shui Che.

I saw him wrinkling his slender and thick black eyebrows, and a trace of uneasiness appeared on his delicate face.

"What could be the matter? Maybe it's a good thing." The fifth prince with thick eyebrows and big eyes muttered.

Don't look at the mighty features of the Fifth Prince, who looks very strong, in fact, he is very similar to his nanny who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, with a soft heart, even a little timid, not at all like his empress mother, and even less like his brother, Prince Yi.

The fifth prince only likes to talk and talk, and he seems to have a lot of insight into politics and military affairs, and he is heavily relied on by Prince Yi.

The three princes were guessing, Princess Yi came in with Fanghua Tianxin, walked up to Prince Yi with a smirk, bent down, blessed him, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, my father is afraid that the prince will be lonely , pointed out two side concubines to the prince to serve, and asked the concubines to bring them back to the prince."

As she said that, she turned around with a smile, and pushed Fanghua and Tianxin in front of Prince Yi.

Fanghua is Yi's cousin, she has known her since she was a child, and she is used to playing around.Tianxin is the grandniece of the empress dowager who just passed away. She is not very familiar with her, but she has met her before.

These two women are well-known beauties in the capital city, and they are the children of many wealthy and noble families, so it is impossible to ask for these two women.

Now all of a sudden, the emperor pointed out that Prince Yi should be his side concubine. Not only the beneficiary, Prince Yi, was suddenly surprised, but also the seventh and fifth princes who were onlookers were also stunned.

The three princes, who are familiar with the rules of their ancestors, looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with the cards played by their father, Huang Shuijing, which did not follow the rules.

Fanghua Tianxin felt aggrieved in her heart, and had no choice but to go forward and salute Prince Yi with a blushing face.

Prince Yi murmured: "I don't know about this either. Since it is a reward from the father, you should stay in the mansion first."

After all, he was neither happy nor angry, and very plainly ordered Princess Yi to take Fanghua Tianxin down to arrange a place to live.

The Seventh Prince came over with a smile, punched Lord Yi on the shoulder, and whispered with excitement in his eyes: "Brother Emperor, besides Father, who else can receive this kind of treatment?"

The fifth prince suddenly realized, patted his head, and laughed loudly: "Apart from father, there is only you, brother! Hee hee, even the crown prince doesn't have this kind of treatment."