The warm sunshine in August slanted through the glass windows, through the curtains, and hit the mandarin duck quilt, making the purple smoke hot.
Ziyan's eyes opened a small gap, and she glanced to the side, Li Hai was no longer there, she had gone to court early, the surrounding was quiet, only the sound of birds was fragmentary.
Come to open the curtains, the sun shines on the glass windows.
The glass was brought as a tribute from a foreign country, and it was the first time for Zi Yan to see such a miraculous thing: transparent and smooth, like colored glaze, but better than colored glaze!
I thought in my heart: This foreigner is really a skilled craftsman, and he has made such a good thing that it can be used as a mirror! Another day, also ask Li Hai to give her a glass mirror.
Zi Yan took out the imperial decree that Li Hai wrote to her last night, opened it, spread it on the table and read it again, she was very happy.
"Rong Chang'an, Rong Chang'an, it seems that your position as queen will be lost!"
I found a solid wooden box in Li Hai's room, and put the imperial decree carefully, as if what she put was not a note, but a heart.
Zi Yan, who was in a good mood, put on her close-fitting clothes, and shouted emphatically like a queen: "Where did everyone die, I wonder if I woke up?"
The maid standing outside the door heard Zi Yan's voice, and hurried in, combed her black hair, made her hair in a bun, put in hairpins, applied a thin layer of powder and rouge, and drew a sparse eyebrow as light as a spring mountain.
Li Hai likes light eyebrows, but doesn't like Rong Changan's thick eyebrows. He thought that although Rong Chang'an had picturesque features, he was a bit masculine and not feminine enough. Still, Ziyan's eyebrows are beautiful and attractive, like a woman.
Since Li Hai praised her, she naturally had to take good care of her eyebrows. The maid was a little bit wrong, so she was scolded.
"Why are your hands like an old lady, clumsy, what do you think you painted my eyebrows? You have to wipe it lightly, don't press the brush hard, you know?"
"Yes, servant girl knows!" The maid hurriedly knelt on the ground and said.
Zi Yan said viciously: "You need to draw it thicker, I'll stick a needle in your face!"
After working for a long time, I got dressed up.
"What does the imperial concubine want to eat, I'll go to the imperial dining room and arrange for the cook to cook." The eunuch said.
Zi Yan thought about it, she ate too much food in the imperial dining room, and she was very tired, so it is better to have all kinds of snacks outside the palace, no matter how much she eats, she will never get tired.
"I don't want to eat big fish and meat anymore," Zi Yan thought about it, "Go to the imperial chef and make me sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water, and just bring it to me to drink."
The eunuch said: "Apart from sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water, are there any other snacks?"
Zi Yan shook her head lazily: "No, no, I ate too much outside the palace last night."
"Okay, my servant will go and prepare it for you!" The eunuch suddenly remembered what Li Hai said in the morning, "Concubine, the emperor said when he went to the court that he wanted you to wait for him to come back and have dinner together."
Zi Yan smiled and said: "That's just right, I only drink a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water, and save my stomach to eat with the emperor."
The eunuch hurriedly left Ziyan, rushed to the imperial dining room, and found the imperial chef in the kitchen.
"Cook, make some sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water for Concubine Ziyan right away, the concubine wants to drink it!"
The cook looked embarrassed: "Is the imperial concubine going to drink too?"
The eunuch listened to the meaning of the cook's words: "Who wants to drink sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water?"
The cook pointed to a maid who walked in and said, "Empress Rong wants to drink too."
The eunuch looked back, but it was Chuntao from Fengming Palace, jumping and jumping into the imperial dining room, the big lala asked the imperial cook: "Master Li, is this sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water ready?"
Master Li looked at the sweet-scented osmanthus water in the pot, and was very troubled: "We are about to put osmanthus, but the Ziyan imperial concubine also wants to drink it. The osmanthus is gone, what should I do..."
Chun Tao said: "What can I do? I came first, so of course I gave it to Empress Rong first!"
The eunuch was in a hurry, if he couldn't drink the sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water, Ziyan would be like a mouse that couldn't be trampled to death, screaming non-stop: "Chuntao, why does the empress want to drink sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water?"
Chuntao squinted at the eunuch: "Can you ask me! The queen can drink it if she wants, why don't you let her drink it? Master Li, don't hesitate, put the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers quickly, so I can serve it to the queen."
Master Li looked at the eunuch in embarrassment, and the eunuch said: "Chuntao, why don't you give this bowl of rock sugar water to Concubine Ziyan?"
Chun Tao stared at the eunuch strangely: "Don't be dreaming! What is first come, first served, you know? I came first, so the queen drinks."
Chuntao said to the cook, "Don't worry about him, hurry up, or the queen will blame you, and you won't be blamed!"
The eunuch didn't dare to be presumptuous to Chuntao, after all the imperial concubine and the empress were on the same level, but he accused Sang Huai and said to Master Li: "Cook, you also know that Ziyan imperial concubine is powerful, so don't tell me! If you dare to give the sweet-scented osmanthus to others , Concubine Ziyan blamed it, but don't blame me for not reminding you!"
Chun Tao was furious, put her hands on her hips, and said angrily, "What are you talking about? Who are you calling someone else? Is the queen someone else? The queen is the head of the six palaces, and everyone in the harem must obey her except the queen mother and the emperor." !"
The eunuch didn't say anything, but cursed in his heart: Empress Rong is the lord of the six palaces, but recently the emperor favors Concubine Ziyan, and there is an empress dowager on top of Concubine Ziyan, Empress Rong may not last long!
Chuntao ignored him, and poured all the sweet-scented osmanthus from an earthen pot on the rock sugar water, then poured the rock sugar water into a sea bowl, put it on a tray, and walked outside.
"Chuntao, you..." the eunuch stopped her.
Chuntao snorted: "You are very courageous, stop me for a while to have a look?"
The eunuch really didn't dare to stop, fearing that Rong Chang'an would blame him, so he had to let Chuntao go.
He sighed, also full of anger, hurriedly came to the bedroom to look for Ziyan, and knelt down on the ground.
"Concubine, you... someone robbed your sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water!"
Zi Yan was in a good mood, admiring the tweeds, when she heard these words, her complexion suddenly darkened.
"Who is so bold to snatch my sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar water?"
The eunuch cried in a crying voice: "It's Chuntao, the girl next to Empress Rong! She is so arrogant, she doesn't pay attention to Concubine Ziyan at all, let alone the incomplete people here!"
"It's you again, Rong Chang'an!" Zi Yan's upper and lower rows of teeth were chattering, her eyes were round and round, like two longan eyes, "Master doesn't give me a good face, even the servants look down on me like this Zi Yan Smoke! Today, I must give her some color!" Suddenly, he said to the eunuch, "Come on, let's go to Fengming Palace to collect debts!"
Ziyan brought the maid and the eunuch to Fengming Palace in a hurry.
When the gatekeeper saw Ziyan, he smiled and said, "Imperial Concubine Ziyan, this is to..."
Zi Yan didn't even look at the gatekeeper: "Go away! A good dog is not right!"
The eunuch beside Ziyan pushed the gatekeeper hard, and the gatekeeper fell to the ground.
"You guys... this is Fengming Palace, the queen's house!"