Zhou Jing felt that His Majesty was in a very good mood today.
First, when I came out of Weiyang Palace after breakfast, it seemed that I was walking with wind, and then the corners of my lips kept rising, but never fell.
When it was early in the court, seeing a group of ministers below arguing with each other over a trivial matter, his majesty didn't even get angry, and he sat on top and watched with a smile on his lips.
In the end, even the courtiers could see that he was unusual today. So arguing and arguing, all the courtiers died down.
Because arguing is meaningless. Didn't you see that the person sitting above was not thinking about the matter they were arguing about at all.
There was a sudden silence in the hall, and Li Chengxuan slowly returned to his senses.
"What, the result of the quarrel?"
When he asked with a smile, the corners of the mouths of all the courtiers twitched, but they were speechless.
Li Chengxuan did not embarrass them on this trivial matter, but instead ordered Zhou Jing: "It's cold today, ask the imperial dining room to serve you a bowl of soup to keep out the cold."
All the ministers knelt down to thank you. Li Chengxuan got up and stood up, looking at the heavy snow falling outside the hall, he said with a smile: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year. My dear friends, please stay here and drink the stomach-warming soup before going back."
He himself didn't stay, turned around and left.
Hmph, how can the soup made by the Imperial Dining Room compare with that made by the small kitchen of Weiyang Palace
And as the saying goes, not seeing each other every day is like three autumns. After all, he hasn't seen Song Jinning all morning, so it must be two autumns
So braved the heavy snow and went to Weiyang Palace.
Song Jinning was sitting on the couch by the window preparing to have lunch, when she suddenly saw Li Chengxuan walking in, she was quite surprised.
Didn't you just leave this morning? Why are you here now
"Your Majesty, have you reviewed all the memorials?"
Unlike in the past, asking this question is a tactful way of chasing customers, this time she is asking sincerely.
"No."
Li Chengxuan sat down on the couch with a big horse, and replied frankly, "I just went to court. I was thinking of you, so I came here immediately."
Song Jinning: ...
Didn't you save face very much before? How come this kind of words can be said so naturally and smoothly now
I always feel that after what happened last night, this master seems to have untied a certain seal.
Li Chengxuan, who didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, asked Gu Yu to bring him another set of bowls and chopsticks as soon as he sat down.
He also pointed to the steaming hot pot on the kang table and asked, "What is this?"
"hot pot."
Song Jinning put thin slices of mutton into the pot, "It's very good to eat hot pot on a snowy day."
It's really a good match.
Snowflakes are still falling outside the window, and inside the window is a red peat stove, on which is a small copper pot that is steaming. The bowls and dishes placed on the table contain various ingredients that have been processed. If you want to eat something, put some into the pot and rinse it, and then eat it hot, not to mention how warm it is.
If you are tired from eating, you can put down the bowls and chopsticks and turn your head to enjoy the snow.
Wouldn't it be nice to have such a day
Li Chengxuan obviously also likes this kind of life. While eating hot pot, chatting with Song Jinning, turning her head from time to time to glance at the glazed world outside the window.
After lunch, Li Chengxuan ordered Zhou Jing to bring today's memorials to the warm pavilion of Weiyang Palace for his review. As for Song Jinning, she was leaning on the backrest with a blanket on her lap, reading a script.
Even though it was snowing heavily outside the window, there were two big braziers inside the hall, so it didn't feel cold at all.
Last night Song Jinning was so tormented that she didn't sleep well, but now she couldn't help feeling sleepy. After Li Chengxuan finished reviewing the two memorials, when he looked up, he saw that Song Jinning's words had already fallen on the couch, and she herself was leaning on the backrest with her eyes closed.
Can't help laughing. Then he put down the pen in his hand, walked over to support her head and laid her flat on the couch to sleep.
He stretched out his hand to pin a strand of hair on her cheek behind her ear, looked at her sleeping face again, and then turned around and continued to read the memorial.
The snow fell silently, and the world seemed to be completely silent. Obviously it will make people feel lonely and lonely, but Li Chengxuan feels happy and satisfied in his heart.
He thought, it was because Song Jinning was by his side.
Although he is an emperor, he always felt that the heights were too cold, and he also felt that something was missing in his heart. But from now on, there will be such a person who will always stand side by side with him.
So even though the world is silent, he still has peace and stability in his heart.
Time flies, and it is almost New Years in a blink of an eye.
A lot has happened in the past two months.
First of all, the marriage between Li Xiyan and Li Jianan has been settled.
The wedding date was originally planned to be in the spring of the next year, but the Empress Dowager Song was very reluctant and wanted Li Xiyan to spend more time with her, so the wedding date was postponed to August, when the osmanthus flowers are fragrant.
The second is that the Empress Dowager Song once mentioned the draft to Li Chengxuan, but was rejected by Li Chengxuan.
The Empress Dowager Song wished that he and Song Jinning would have a good relationship, but the fact that the two of them got married and still had no children was really worrying.
In the past, Li Chengxuan was always silent when it came to heirs, but this time when the Empress Dowager Song mentioned it euphemistically, Li Chengxuan vowed that there would be one soon.
Song Jinning who happened to be at the scene: ...
Lord, do you think the matter of having a child is to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, it's as simple as that? Are you overconfident in me, or in yourself
Facts have proved that Li Chengxuan's self-confidence is on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is also well versed in the truth of being proficient in business and industrious in leisure. So after a period of time, Song Jinning felt that she didn't sleep well at night.
Although some time ago she hardly slept well at night...
It can only be said that young people are really strong, and their physical strength is not ordinary.
And under Li Chengxuan's tireless 'cultivation', Song Jinning did get good news soon.
It's just that the timing of this good news was really not very good.
It was the New Year's Eve, when the ancestors were worshiped in the palace, and all relatives of the emperor entered the palace on that day.
After worshiping the ancestors, the custom is to share the sacrificial meat.
To be honest, this sacrificial meat is very unpalatable.
Boiled in plain water, just leave out any condiments. The key point is that the ancestors of the Li family who won this world felt that they had suffered a lot in their military life and could not let their descendants enjoy peace and happiness, so the sacrificial meat was only rolled twice in boiling water, and it was not cooked through at all.
So much so that when Song Jinning brought the sacrificial meat to Song Jinning, she could see the red blood on it.
Song Jinning: I just can't figure out what that old ancestor was thinking. Those descendants of him have become emperors and kings, seeing Tian'er's rich clothes and fine food, but if they eat these slices of raw meat on New Year's Eve, can they really not forget the true nature of suffering
Anyway, Song Jinning felt that she definitely couldn't. Not only could she not, she couldn't help but feel her stomach churning when she saw the red blood on the piece of meat.
I picked it up twice with chopsticks. Before the sliced meat reached his mouth, he already felt a fishy smell, and he almost vomited it out without holding back.
He put down his chopsticks and looked around at the others.
They are all descendants of the Li family, so Li Chengxuan can't eat this raw meat alone, and other royal relatives have to come and eat together.
Similarly, the empress Song Jinning can't eat alone, and the female family members of other imperial relatives and relatives have to come and eat together.
The difference is that the men eat in the main hall, and the female relatives eat in the side room beside it.
So Song Jinning met Jiang Wanqiu who was still not a concubine at this time again.
The last time I saw Jiang Wanqiu was at the Empress Dowager Song's birthday banquet, and it has been four or five months since then, so Song Jinning was still a little dazed when I saw Jiang Wanqiu suddenly today.
But different from the last time, this time Jiang Wanqiu wore the clothes of a concubine according to the rules, without going beyond the rules in the slightest.
Think about it too. Royal rules are the most important. Last time at the Empress Dowager Song's birthday banquet, Jiang Wanqiu was ingenious and didn't follow the princess's system to wear the clothes and jewelry of the princess.
Everyone in the capital knew about this incident. Concubine Wei and Prince Fu felt ashamed and blamed Jiang Wanqiu.
Even Concubine Wei urged Fu Wangxiu to abandon Jiang Wanqiu several times and make her another concubine.
After all, King Fu still thought that he hadn't done this in terms of the relationship between husband and wife in the past few years, but he became more and more indifferent to Jiang Wanqiu. Not only did he deprive her of the right to be in charge of Fu Wang's palace, but handed it over to his new concubine, he also grounded her, and she was not allowed to leave her small courtyard unless there was something important to do.
Today, if the son worships the ancestors, if the concubine does not have to be present, King Fu would not bring her here.
Jiang Wanqiu was originally a person whose skin was made of flowers for the stomach and snow, and she would be sad and cry at the flowers for everything, how could she resist such stern pressure from the wind, knife, frost and sword? So in the past four or five months, she has been lazy in eating and drinking, has trouble sleeping at night, and she is so thin that she almost loses her appearance.
So just now Song Jinning was very surprised when he saw her for the first time. Because he almost failed to recognize her.
Even if Song Jinning's eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of Jiang Wanqiu at this moment, she still couldn't help being surprised.
Unlike Song Jinning's self-willedness as a queen, this group of noble ladies who never tire of fine dining and fine food in daily life also found this sacrificial meat extremely difficult to swallow, but they all swallowed it with difficulty.
After all, it only happens once a year, and what's more, the queen is still sitting and watching, so no matter how unpalatable it is, you have to endure it.
Only Jiang Wanqiu. Perhaps the spleen and stomach are indeed too weak, but Song Jinning doubts whether she has suffered from anorexia recently, otherwise she would not be as thin as she is now. In short, the chopsticks caught a small piece of meat, before reaching his mouth, he raised his hand to cover his mouth and retched uncontrollably.
As the saying goes, good deeds do not go out and evil deeds travel thousands of miles. Jiang Wanqiu's story at the Empress Dowager Song's birthday banquet has long been known to all the female family members of the capital's noble families, so seeing her suddenly behave like this, all the noble ladies in the palace were surprised. , Some were watching the show, and some felt that Jiang Wanqiu did it on purpose.
After all, it's just to show how weak and pitiful he is.
Song Jinning was also taken aback by Jiang Wanqiu, the first thought that came to her mind was, is she pregnant
It's no wonder she thinks so, it's not often done like this in TV dramas. In short, if the heroine suddenly vomits or faints suddenly, she is probably pregnant.
Don't they know that as long as there is a relationship between husband and wife, and the menstruation does not come on the due day, it may be pregnant
Thinking of this, Song Jinning was suddenly taken aback.
Because she suddenly remembered that she hadn't had her period for more than a month...
Could it be that she has this too? After all, when she smelled the sacrificial meat just now, she did feel a little nauseous.
My heart couldn't stop beating violently, and my palms were wet with sweat.
If it is true, then this matter is too horrifying. Because she was not ready to be a mother at all.
My heart is in a mess. So for the two princesses in the palace who stood up and told her that Jiang Wanqiu made such a gesture before eating the sacrificial meat, it was clearly disrespectful to the ancestors. He didn't discriminate against his ancestors, Song Jinning only felt noisy.
It was really loud enough to give her a headache, and it also made her upset.
He raised his hand to signal them to be quiet. The two concubines were fine, they stopped making noise after being accused, but Jiang Wanqiu was still crying.
It would be fine if it was in the past, Song Jinning wouldn't say anything at all. But now she herself is in a restless mood, and she really can't hear someone crying in her ear.
He yelled abruptly, "Don't cry."
Although Song Jinning is a queen, first of all, she is younger than the family members of all the royal relatives present here, and second, she has a beautiful appearance, and she is always smiling when talking with people. She looks very friendly, so the ladies are not afraid of her.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly shouted angrily now, and she was still very majestic.
Not to mention that all the family members bowed their heads in fright, even Jiang Wanqiu stopped crying.
Song Jinning slowed down a bit, raised her hand and gently pinched her brows a few times.
Then she called a palace attendant to come over and tell him to go to the imperial hospital and call an imperial doctor to show Princess Fu a look.
The palace attendant promised to turn around and was about to go, but saw that the quilted noren curtain on the door was lifted. Then Li Chengxuan lifted his foot and walked in.
All of a sudden, people in the hall knelt down to greet Sheng An.
Song Jinning did not kneel. However, in front of people, I still wanted to give Li Chengxuan some face, so I stood up from the chair and saluted Li Chengxuan.
Then he asked, "Why are you here?"
According to the rules of the ancestors, shouldn't she lead the family members to eat sacrificial meat in this side hall, and Li Chengxuan lead the royal relatives in the main hall
"I'll come over and have a look."
Helping Song Jinning to sit down in the chair, his eyes glanced at the plate of sacrificial meat in front of her, and sure enough, none of them moved.
It's hard for him to swallow these sacrificial meats, let alone Song Jinning. But according to the rules set by the ancestors, the sacrificial meat must be eaten up.
He took the ivory chopsticks in his hand, and ate all the sacrificial meat on the plate in one go.
Facing Song Jinning's surprised expression, he smiled slightly: "I'm a little hungry."
After speaking, he put down the ivory chopsticks in his hand, said a few words to her, then turned around and went to the main hall again.
During the whole process, he didn't even glance at the other people in the hall.
Song Jinning is not an idiot, how can he fail to see that he clearly knows that she doesn't like these sacrificial meats, so he came here to eat for her.
But he was too stubborn to admit it.
This person is really, really serious.
Song Jinning felt both funny and moved.
No matter what, Li Chengxuan always used his own appearance to treat her well.
As for Jiang Wanqiu...
Song Jinning looked at the beautiful woman who was sitting in the chair and weeping silently, thinking silently, although Jiang Wanqiu is Li Chengxuan's true love according to the original plot, but as the so-called butterfly effect, what things in the world are constant
Since she is the one Li Chengxuan likes now, and he has no intention of liking Jiang Wanqiu at all, then why is she obsessed with the original plot
Just according to my own mind, just stay with Li Chengxuan for the time being. As for whether Li Chengxuan will empathize with others in the future, that is a matter for the future, and it will not be too late for her to make another plan when it really happens.
After all, she is not the kind of person who would give up her current happiness for the sake of something that might happen in the future.
Once she made up her mind, she didn't have any feelings for Jiang Wanqiu.
Just sit and gossip with these family members.
When the imperial doctor invited by the palace attendant came, Song Jinning ordered him to see Jiang Wanqiu.
She wasn't pregnant, but it was because she was eating less and her spleen and stomach were unhealthy during this period of time.
Song Jinning asked the imperial doctor to open a pharmacy for Jiang Wanqiu.
The imperial doctor knelt down to receive the order, but Jiang Wanqiu was still sitting, not expressing anything.
In fact, Song Jinning didn't want her to express anything.
Although she is a queen, she actually doesn't like others to kneel down casually.
It's just that you didn't express it. What do you mean by looking at me with that resentful look
But Song Jinning soon understood.
According to her previous deduction, although Li Chengxuan had no intention of having any intentions towards Jiang Wanqiu, Jiang Wanqiu still fell in love with Li Chengxuan according to the setting of the original book.
Then you can't treat her as a rival in love.
It's all about understanding, but now Song Jinning is definitely unwilling to give in.
But she didn't want to argue with Jiang Wanqiu, so she just ignored her bright and resentful eyes.
It was getting late, a palace attendant came in and said that the princes and lords outside were going out of the palace, so all the family members in the side hall also stood up one after another to say goodbye to Song Jinning.
The imperial doctor also wanted to make a speech, but Song Jinning stayed behind.
Although her menstruation has always been inaccurate, and she never took it seriously in the past, it's not that Li Chengxuan has been working too hard recently, so it's better to let the imperial doctor give her a pulse.
But she didn't want to make this known to everyone now, so she asked the imperial doctor to come up to her to feel her pulse after all the family members in the palace had left.
After about a stick of incense, Song Jinning walked out of the side hall with a grim expression.
Then I saw that there were only a few palace attendants on duty in the main hall.
So Song Jinning's complexion became even worse.
"Where's Your Majesty?" She asked a palace attendant standing at the entrance of the hall.
I heard from the palace attendant that just now the Queen Mother sent an order to summon her, and her Majesty went to Shoukang Palace.
Song Jinning was a little surprised.
Empress Dowager Song is smart. She would never come on an occasion like today. Who would like to eat the sacrificial meat that was not cooked at all, talking nonsense with all the family members. So she had already excused herself that the lord of the harem is now the empress, and the excuse that she, the empress dowager, was taking care of her life was gone, but why did she specially send someone to call Li Chengxuan over
Could it be that something extraordinary happened
After thinking for a while, he raised his foot and went straight to Shoukang Palace.
Gu Yu was so anxious that she called her from behind: "The ground is slippery, Niang, please walk slowly."
Song Jinning turned a deaf ear and walked quickly.
Just walking to a corner, I suddenly heard someone talking in front of me.
The voice sounded quite familiar.
Song Jinning stopped, and Gu Yu and Bai Lu who were following behind her also hurriedly stopped.
The three walked forward lightly, and when they got closer, their voices became clearer.
Then Song Jinning felt a little dumbfounded.
It turned out that Jiang Wanqiu always believed that Li Chengxuan should be infatuated with her. I don't want Li Chengxuan to fall in love with her at the Empress Dowager Song's birthday banquet last time, as predicted in her dream, and still ignore her.
On the contrary, after the birthday banquet, she was repeatedly reprimanded by the Empress Dowager Song and Li Chengxuan, and became the laughing stock of the rich and powerful in the capital for a while.
Concubine Wei valued face the most. When she found out about this, she was furious, and specially called King Fu to the capital to force her with filial piety. She must marry a virtuous and virtuous woman to be his concubine.
Although Fu Wang withstood the pressure from Concubine Wei for the time being, he also criticized her a lot. Not only did he create a new side concubine, but he also took away her right to give birth in the palm of her hand and grounded her.
Jiang Wanqiu knew very well that Concubine Wei had long been dissatisfied with her, and now that something like this happened, how could she tolerate her? He will definitely not let it go.
King Fu is also a filial person, sooner or later he will listen to Dowager Wei and abandon her.
Her parents have passed away, and there is only her brother and sister-in-law in the family. Once she is divorced, her natal family will definitely not have a place for her.
When she came here, the best ending for her would be to find a nunnery with green lanterns and ancient Buddhas for her whole life.
How could Jiang Wanqiu be reconciled to this? She always believed in her heart that she should be a queen.
So just seeing Li Chengxuan in the side hall, she decided to put all her eggs in one basket and fight for herself.
After leaving the palace, he found an excuse to leave King Fu for the time being, and then ordered his maid to pretend to be a maid in Shoukang Palace, saying that the Empress Dowager Song had something to discuss with His Majesty.
There are more than a few dozen maids in Shoukang Palace, and Li Chengxuan is busy with all kinds of affairs, so it is naturally impossible to recognize all of them.
At the moment, he didn't have any doubts, he just thought that the Empress Dowager Song really told him to go there to do something, so he turned and headed towards Shoukang Palace.
Jiang Wanqiu had long been waiting on the way he must pass, and as soon as Li Chengxuan came over, she immediately rushed out to block her way.
Li Chengxuan had a very bad impression of her, seeing her blocking the way, he immediately told her to get out of the way.
But Jiang Wanqiu knew this was her last chance, how could she let her go
She simply knelt down in front of Li Chengxuan, stretched out her hand and grabbed the corner of the dragon robe, and cried to Li Chengxuan about the dream she had that night.
She would not say that this was just a dream she had suddenly, she just pretended that she knelt down in front of the Buddha for one night, and when she fell asleep at night, the Bodhisattva came to her dream, saying that she was pity for her piousness, and specially came to tell her what would happen in the future thing.
"Your Majesty, this concubine and you are a match made in heaven, a marriage that even Bodhisattvas recognize."
In the end, Jiang Wanqiu concluded with these words while crying.
Li Chengxuan laughed angrily.
But he felt that he was able to stand in the cold wind and insist on listening to Jiang Wanqiu's crazy words, and he really admired himself.
"So this maid is not a servant of Shoukang Palace, but your maid?"
This is the first sentence Li Chengxuan asked.
The servant girl had already knelt down, but now she was kneeling on the ground and shivering.
She also didn't want to listen to Jiang Wanqiu's words. But as a maid, if she doesn't listen to her master, what will happen to her when she goes back
"Your Majesty, I can't help it either. If I don't do this, I won't have a chance..."
Li Chengxuan didn't listen to her explanation at all this time, he turned his head and said to Zhou Jing: "Falsely pass on the Queen Mother Yizhi, you know what to do."
As for other crimes such as shamelessness, Li Chengxuan no longer wanted to give Jiang Wanqiu peace.
She is shameless, but the royal family still has shame. Besides, this false transmission of the Queen Mother's edict was enough for her.
Zhou Jing hurriedly bowed and replied: "Yes, the servant knows."
Li Chengxuan turned around and was about to leave, Jiang Wanqiu naturally grabbed the hem of his robe and didn't let go.
Because he used too much force, he heard the sound of the cloth tearing apart, and the corner of the robe was actually torn open by Jiang Wanqiu.
Li Chengxuan's face darkened in an instant.
"Zhou Jing!"
Disdainful to talk to Jiang Wanqiu again, he called Zhou Jing directly.
Zhou Jing understood, and hurriedly called the two servants who followed him to pull Jiang Wanqiu away.
In order to prevent Jiang Wanqiu from yelling at Li Chengxuan again, a servant quickly rolled up a handkerchief he was wearing and stuffed it into her mouth.
Li Chengxuan didn't look back at these, just turned around and left.
Then when he turned around the corner in front, he saw Song Jinning leaning on the palace wall and looking at him with a half-smile.