"Don't let the emperor see it? Why?"
Rong Chang'an: "Don't ask why? Some people don't know what to do because they asked one more question. You just need to follow what I said."
It's so listening that the head can be retracted into the neck. Hurry up and pick off the leaves that were bitten by insects.
Not long after, Yan Li was covered by a yellow cover and came to the flower pond in the back mountain.
Yan Li naturally remembered the agreement with Rong Changan, Longmu swept the peony bushes, smiling:
"Queen, your peonies are really growing well, and the leaves are so green. I wonder if there is one missing from the twenty peonies?"
Rong Changan walked to the chaifei in the flower pond in person, and said a deep blessing: "Long live the emperor! Come in and have a look, if there is one plant missing, I, Rong Changan, will no longer be the empress of the sixth palace."
Rong Changan was so confident, Yan Li felt a little guilty. For any other conditions, Yan Li can agree to Rong Changan, but the only thing that Yan Li needs to accept Zixuan as the imperial concubine and let Zixuan continue the imperial line is difficult for Yan Li to do.
He went into the flower pond and carefully inspected the peonies and camellias, thinking that he could find a piece or two of dead leaves, but he didn't think that the peonies and camellias were all in good condition and there was no illness at all, as long as it took a couple of days In a month, it is estimated that it will bloom.
But the melancholy climbed onto Yan Li's eyebrows.
Rong Chang'an naturally knew what he was worried about: "Your Majesty, I said that if you want twenty peonies to live, they must live. How dare they not listen to me!"
Chuntao smiled at the side: "Queen, do you think this is your army? What do you say, Peony will do what you want, and if you disobey, you will be served by military law?"
Rong Changan didn't take Chuntao's words seriously: "Chuntao, do you think flowers are lifeless? In fact, flowers are connected with people. If you treat them well, they will treat you well. As long as you do your best to raise them, they don't Those who don’t listen to you. The same goes for managing the army. You treat the soldiers well, and the soldiers are willing to obey your orders and shed their blood for you for the country. The reason is the same.”
Blinking his eyes, he looked at Yan Li, "Your Majesty, what do you think of what I said?"
Yan Li stroked the three strands of his beautiful beard, expressionless: "What the queen said is true."
Rong Changan pointed to twenty peonies: "Have any of my peonies died?"
Yan Li was silent for a while, before he said, "No."
Rong Changan showed a bright smile: "With the emperor's words, there are countless concubines. The sun is shining directly here, why don't we go and sit in the pavilion by the flower pond?"
Yan Li said: "Just listen to the queen."
When the two came to the pavilion, the mountain breeze was blowing, and the lake was full of scales.
The maid put two cups of herbal tea on the table in the center of the pavilion, one for Rong Changan and one for Yan Li. Drinking herbal tea and enjoying the mountain breeze, Yan Li almost forgot about the peony. However, Rong Changan did not forget.
"Your Majesty, do you remember our agreement in the flower pond?"
Yan Li was stunned for a moment: "I remember."
Rong Changan smiled and said, "What did we agree on?"
Yan Li looked sad, and looked outside the pavilion, there was a teal on the lake, poking its head into the water to eat small fish.
"I... I forgot what I said specifically."
Rong Changan knew that Yan Li clearly remembered but deliberately said he didn't remember.
"Your Majesty, do you want me to remind you?"
Yan Li: "The queen will talk and listen."
Rong Chang'an said: "Your majesty is such a noble man who forgets things!" With some teasing in his words, he said to Chun Tao and the other servants and eunuchs next to him, "Go out of the pavilion, I have something to tell the emperor."
Chuntao walked out of the pavilion with the maidservant and the eunuch, and waited outside the pavilion.
Rong Changan stood beside Yan Li: "The emperor once promised that if all twenty of my peonies survived, the emperor promised me to accept Princess Zixuan as his concubine. Do you still remember?"
After a long time, Yan Li finally replied: "I did say that."
Rong Changan: "It's good that the emperor can remember it! Just now you saw that all my peonies survived, so should the emperor fulfill your promise?"
Yan Li felt panicked, and choked up his voice: "Queen, do you have to push me to Zixuan?"
A willow tree had its branches and leaves stretched out into the pavilion. Rong Changan broke off a section of willow branches and threw them into the lake one by one.
"It's not that I want to push the emperor on Zixuan, it's the actual situation. For the future of Dajing Kingdom, for the royal family of the Yan family, the emperor has no choice but to do so."
After a pause, Rong Changan glanced at Yan Li from the corner of his eye: "Even if I don't ask the emperor to accept Zixuan as a concubine, the emperor seems to have to do so."
Yan Li: "Why do I have to do this?"
Rong Chang'an's words contained deep meaning: "Your Majesty, if you don't give Zixuan a title, don't you mean that you have failed her infatuation? Will the vows of the mountain alliance last night be blown away by the wind and disappear?"
Yan Li trembled slightly, and turned to look at Rong Changan, with doubt and guilt in his eyes.
"Queen, what was the pledge of eternal love last night? I... I don't understand."
Rong Changan looked at the lake from a distance: "It's good that the emperor knows it well, there is no need to let the concubine speak clearly. I don't mean to blame the emperor when I say this. Now the emperor and Zixuan are husband and wife. , why not accept her as a concubine?"
It turned out that Rong Changan already knew that Yan Li had spent the night with Zixuan.
"Chang'an, I... I drank too much last night, that's why I..."
Rong Changan showed a tolerant smile, so bright and relieved.
"Your Majesty, as I said just now, I didn't mean to blame you. But you have to take responsibility, otherwise, if I were Zixuan, I would be sad and hopeless."
Yan Li sat down with a troubled face: "I can agree to give Zixuan the status she deserves in the palace, but I have no intention of accepting Zixuan as the imperial concubine."
"Why?" Rong Changan was eager to know Yan Li's thoughts.
Yan Li looked at Rong Changan with soft and affectionate eyes.
"Because of you! I absolutely can't let other women challenge your position again. On Ziyan, I have already missed it once, and I can't make it a second time."
"Your Majesty!" Rong Changan said in an almost pleading tone, "You are not pampering me, but harming me, making me scolded by future generations."
Yan Li established authority for Rong Changan, how could he harm her
"Queen, I don't quite understand what you mean."
Rong Chang'an said earnestly: "Why doesn't the emperor understand? You have read many history books. In history, there are few examples of female lords coming to court and their relatives in power? Do you know how later generations talk about Zhao Feiyan?"
Yan Li said silently: "..."
Rong Chang'an said: "Emperor Cheng of Han dotes on Zhao Feiyan, and sister Zhao Feiyan is jealous of other concubines. Whenever other concubines are pregnant, they plan to poison the concubine's child to death. As a result, Emperor Han Cheng has no heir, and Han Zuo almost dies."
"Zhao Feiyan and sisters are jealous and vicious, how can they be compared with the queen." Yan Li retorted.
Rong Chang'an said: "Even though there is no comparison between Zhao Feiyan and I, if the emperor doesn't listen to me and refuses to accept concubines, he will only favor me alone, and I have little hope of conceiving a child. After the emperor has been in power for a hundred years, who will inherit the imperial lineage? If a person inherits the imperial lineage, the imperial power will fall to his surname."