Early the next morning, Tang Zhuozhao opened his eyes before An Xia came in.
She sat up, opened the thin bed curtain, and saw that the sky was still dark and blue, exhaled lightly, tapped the vase placed on the window frame with her finger, the cold touch made her warm finger I retracted a bit.
Originally, the empress dowager's birthday was supposed to be after March, but Emperor Qiongyuan listened to Qin Tianjian's words and set it to be today.
So today, it is doomed that there should be a dark wave surging.
Four years later, Tang Zhuozhuo put on the imperial concubine's court dress again, and his mood was a little delicate for a while, but it was only for a moment, and the strangeness in his eyes was suppressed.
Huo Qiu has arrived.
The man walked swiftly, Li Desheng lifted the pearly white curtain for him, and ordered someone to pass the meal.
Tang Zhuozhuo pursed his lips, knowing that he came here before breakfast.
"Your Highness came down so early?" She raised her eyebrows slightly, her apricot eyes looked like mist accumulated all night, and also seemed to hide stars from the sky, her smile was as bright as the first plum blossoms drawn out in the cold winter months.
It's so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.
Huo Qiu paused for a moment, closed his eyes calmly, and covered up the deep and unpredictable emotions in his eyes, "Well, I'm afraid you won't be able to get up."
Tang Zhuozhuo stood up straight and let An Xia play with him, but he muttered in a low voice with dissatisfaction on his face: "Why am I getting up late?"
As soon as these words came out, An Xia's complexion became unnatural.
The fact that the Crown Princess got up late was not a secret in the East Palace, just because of this, His Highness specially ordered the concubine Liang Di who is below him not to get up early to pay her respects if she has nothing to do.
Tang Zhuozhao's gaze paused on the set of ruby heads that An Xia took out from the vault, and after a while, he reached out to pick up a sheep fat jade in the dowry box, frowning slightly in embarrassment.
Huo Qiu was sitting on a thick yellow pear wooden chair, seeing her not moving for a long time, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Tang Zhuozhuo turned around, the large peonies embroidered with gold thread on the cuffs set off her jade white wrist, and even the tear mole on her face became more and more charming.
Not to mention that she bit her lower lip and said: "Your Highness, help me to look at this hairpin."
Huo Qiu's eyes paused for a moment among the various hairpins in her dowry box, and he frowned indistinctly.
He never knew much about the things in these daughters' homes.
Even so, he definitely couldn't refuse those eyes filled with stars.
Huo Qiu got up, and the bright yellow prince's dress shone brightly under the candlelight, which made the man's figure as slender as bamboo and as bright as a breeze.
He walked up to Tang Zhuozhuo, looked at the hairpins on the table, and said for a moment, "Which one are you looking at?"
Tang Zhuozhuo pointed to the ruby head mask that An Xia was holding in his hand and said: "Imperial Grandmother's birthday, this day should be more festive and grand, but this head mask is a bit old-fashioned."
Huo Qiu's gaze turned to the hairpin she was holding on to in her white hand, and after pondering for a moment, he said, "It's not old-fashioned, you're wearing a solitary favorite."
Tang Zhuozhuo raised his eyes to look at him, and just happened to look into a deep and waveless well, swallowed the question that twisted and twisted in his throat, and smiled kindly: "Okay, the concubine listens to Your Highness."
Huo Qiu saw her wearing this head mask before
But even if she didn't ask, how could Huo Qiu fail to guess her question
On the day they got married, she was charming and charming under the bright red hijab, and she was wearing this set of head coverings on her head.
It's a pity that these memories that were cherished in his heart seemed to have nothing to do with her, and she completely rejected them even with himself.
After breakfast, Huo Qiu and Tang Zhuozhuo took each other to the Palace of Compassion and Peace.
Huo Qiu didn't say much along the way, his face was as cold as a snowman built in winter night.
Tang Zhuozhuo didn't dare to be presumptuous, he didn't dare to make a sound by looking around for fear of offending him.
It's just that there were occasional jolts in the sedan chair, she felt a little drowsy, and finally fell asleep on Huo Qiu's shoulder in a daze.
Huo Qiu frowned and put down the flipped scroll in his hand, looked at the white and rosy person who was resting on his shoulder, touched her face like a ghost, and finally rolled his fingertips onto her bright red lips, he suddenly I returned to God.
Fortunately, he moved lightly and didn't disturb her.
Huo Qiu rubbed the aching eyebrows, trying to suppress the thoughts in his heart.
But when he opened his eyes and closed his eyes, it was the sound of her coquettish voice, His Majesty, he wanted to rub her into his flesh and blood unscrupulously, and his heart hurt so much that he didn't dare to move.
It was hard for them to get along with each other in harmony today, and he couldn't break it with his own hands.
Tang Zhuozhuo had already woken up when he stroked her cheek, and because her eyes were closed, his gentle touch was even more gentle. She felt itchy, and quickly twitched her eyelashes to hold back.
This is the first time in two lifetimes that she has been treated like this by Huo Qiu.
In the past, he either kept an indifferent face, or sneered and beat warnings, as cold as a banished fairy in the sky.
There are three thousand women in the harem, all fat, swallows and thin, none of them can catch his eyes.
When they reached the gate of the Compassionate Ning Palace, Huo Qiu stroked her soft hair, his voice was still cold: "Get up, we're here."
Only then did Tang Zhuozhuo Shi Shiran open his eyes, and smiled softly at Huo Qiu.
Huo Qiu didn't even look at her, and walked ahead on his own.
Tang Zhuozhuo felt a little funny in his heart.
This man is really out of touch.
Tang Zhuozhuo came to the Empress Dowager's Compassionate Ning Palace more than once, but she was still a little nervous when she came a few times.
Huo Qiu saw her nervousness, and opened her thin lips lightly: "You will talk to the emperor's grandmother later, but you have to go to Chengqian Palace."
"The princes and concubines should have arrived. There will be a palace banquet tonight. Don't run around and wait for Gu."
Tang Zhuozhuo nodded lightly, and Huo Qiu calmed down a little.
Sure enough, when they got to the palace, the other princes and concubines all arrived.
The old man sitting at the top looked kindly, but his eyes showed wisdom and vicissitudes. Tang Zhuozhuo's heart shuddered, and he followed Huo Qiu to salute.
"Grandmother, please be safe."
"Get up."
The empress dowager chanted Buddha all the year round, and even the hall was filled with a strong scent of sandalwood, and even her voice was laughing, she looked no different from ordinary old people.
But Tang Zhuozhuo knew that the Empress Dowager Qiu was the most vicious person in the entire harem, and the blood and blood on her hands would not be less.
"The crown princess is here. The imperial grandmother was still reading it just now, and the concubine only said that she might have overslept again." The person who spoke was Liu Shi, the sixth prince and concubine, with a smile on her face, and she couldn't fault it. , but that tone made people very uncomfortable.
Huo Qiu frowned deeply, a deep chill swept over his body, and even the voice he spoke seemed to be mixed with ice slag: "The grandson stained a piece of clothes before leaving and wasted some time. I hope the emperor's grandmother will forgive me."
Mrs. Liu was a little embarrassed for a while, but didn't make any more noise.
Tang Zhuozhuo scoffed inwardly, in this previous life, Mrs. Liu had been looking for her to be unhappy everywhere, because she would just sit there coldly and say nothing, Mrs. Liu thought she was afraid of her, and pushed her nose and face even more.
She was just too lazy to argue with such a jumping clown.
Speaking of the defeat of the sixth prince Huo Qi in the previous life in the battle for the throne, partly because of Liu's stupidity.
Liu Hanjiang cherished his wife and daughter. For unknown reasons in his previous life, his wife suddenly passed away, leaving only a three or four-year-old beloved daughter, who was pampered and loved in every possible way, for fear of wronging the young girl.
The sixth prince attached great importance to him, and even brought his daughter into the sixth prince's mansion, where he ate and lived with the daughter of the Liu family.
Although Huo Qi repeatedly urged and emphasized, but Liu's brain can't turn around, what is the identity of her daughter, and what is the identity of Liu Hanjiang's daughter
It's just a country girl, and she doesn't have a mother to discipline her, so what if her daughter is taught badly
At first, she just complained a few words in her heart, but after a long time, the girl got more rewards than her own daughter. Liu felt all kinds of bad feelings, and let her spoiled daughter bully and run on the little girl. Finally lead to tragedy.
Liu Hanjiang's daughter was pushed down the lotus pond in the mansion in front of several people, and the body was fished out in the middle of the night.
The sixth prince Huo Qi was furious and apologized to Liu Hanjiang himself, but he never heard a word from Liu Hanjiang again.
Without Liu Hanjiang's support to make plans, how can there be any advisers under his command who can compete with Han Suanzi? The so-called defeat of the army was precisely on his head.
A trace of sympathy flashed in Tang Zhuozhuo's bright eyes. The sixth prince probably died of anger in the end, right
The empress dowager above laughed a few times and waved her hands: "What are you talking about? I told you to come back later, but you have to come so early to accompany me, the old woman."
In addition to the sixth concubine, there were also the third concubine and the tenth concubine sitting in the hall. Seeing her, they were all slightly blessed and smiled kindly.
After Huo Qiu left for a while, the Empress Dowager twirled the prayer beads in her hand and asked, "From the fourth family, I heard from the Ai family that you were ill a few days ago, how are you recovering?"
Tang Zhuozhao's eyelids drooped slightly, and he replied with some embarrassment: "Grandmother Lao is worried, and my concubine is fine."
The empress dowager nodded lightly, but looked at Tang Zhuozhuo a few more times.
Among these grandchildren, she prefers Huo Qiu from the bottom of her heart, and even looks forward to Tang Zhuozhuo, the crown princess.
But this child was spoiled by the Tang family after all, she is not expected to be a princess, let alone the future mother of a country.
After thinking about it, I feel relieved. The Tang family is full of males, and there is only such a daughter, so why should they be pampered since childhood? Besides, she didn't expect that Huo Qiu would go to Emperor Qiong Yuan to beg for such a crown princess.
But seeing Huo Qiu's joyful expression, she didn't bother to say anything.
Feelings are like a person who knows how warm and cold drinking water is. She, an old woman, doesn't have to be an eyesore, and half of her body is about to sink into the ground.
But when I saw her today, I felt that the girl of the Tang family had changed completely. Even her eyes became brighter, and she finally looked like a princess.
Such a change is what she likes to see.
The empress dowager came up lightly and said: "You all go to the garden to enjoy the flowers and drink tea. Ai's family is a little tired, and there is still time to suffer at night."
I said I was tired, but I actually thought they were annoying. Sitting so cramped with so many big living people, they didn't even dare to say a few words, and no one would feel comfortable watching them.
Tang Zhuozhuo's heart moved, he saluted with blessings, and went to the imperial garden with several princes and concubines.
Before he arrived, he saw the noble concubine approaching from a distance, and then looked at the smile on Liu's face, and couldn't help but turn cold.
They came out of the Compassionate Ning Palace with their front feet, and bumped into Concubine Yan Gui with their back feet, who would believe it if they said it wasn't accurate