Since entering the palace, Meng Si has been concentrating on embroidery in the room, and rarely walks outside when he has nothing to do. On this day, Li Min called her as usual and asked about the progress of the dress production. She took out the embroidered part and said, "The Empress Dowager, the dragon robe is ready, and the phoenix robe is almost the same. Please take a look first. If there is anything you don't like, the people will change it immediately."
Li Min held the golden phoenix robe and sighed: "It really is a masterpiece! Xiu Dian is right, when it comes to embroidery skills, you are much better than these embroiderers in the palace!"
Her grand palace maid agreed: "Suhang area is the hometown of silkworms, where the best embroidery women in the world gather. Although the embroidery women in the palace are not bad, but to find real masters, you have to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou area. Take a look."
Meng Si waved his hands to show his humility: "My mother and my aunt praised it. When it comes to embroidery skills, Su embroidery, Shu embroidery, Hunan embroidery, and Cantonese embroidery all have their own strengths, and there is no distinction between high and low. It takes practice.”
"It's already like this, do you still need to practice again? You really live to learn when you are old." Li Min was very satisfied with the embroidery of the dragon and phoenix robes, and naturally felt that Meng Si was pleasing to the eye. She pursed her lips and said softly, "I heard that Du Fange's phoenix robe is not bright yellow, and she also found Xiu Niang from outside?"
The maid of the palace nodded and said, "Yes, madam, the palace servants of Qiwu Hall went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pick up a few pieces of red cloth, saying that they were going to make phoenix robes. The embroidered maid on their side was Du Rusong, the nephew of the Empress Dowager East, from Lin'an Mansion. The surname is Lin, and the family owns an embroidery shop, but he is a descendant of horse thieves. He started learning embroidery at the age of fifteen, and he has only learned it for more than two years, and he has no idea how embroidery skills are."
The news that the maid inquired about was naturally covered up by the Empress Dowager Du. When Li Min was still fighting with other concubines or princes for the crown prince's position, the Empress Dowager Du had already penetrated her power into every corner of the palace, and even the entire imperial city. Before she was abolished, she was the one who was in charge of the Sixth Palace and covered the sky with one hand, not to mention now? If she doesn't want people to know something, even if that person has good ears and clairvoyance, she doesn't want to find out.
Li Min shook his head with a very contemptuous smile: "Bengong wears bright yellow, so Du Fange will never be the same as Bengong; she will never use the embroidered lady invited by Bengong. She is the most aloof and the most noble person. Stupid." When the words fell, his expression changed, and Sen said coldly, "I don't know who it is, who actually stabbed the scar on her forehead into a flower, making her already damaged appearance more prosperous than before. If not, where would the late emperor be? I will bring her back. When Ben Gong finds that person, he will be smashed to pieces!"
"My lord, calm down, everything will be checked after the enthronement ceremony." The palace maid hurriedly advised. Up to now, they have not realized that as long as they stay in the palace, they are like birds in a cage and turtles in a urn, only to be rounded and flattened by Empress Dowager Du.
"You're right, the most important thing now is my son's enthronement ceremony, and everything else will come later. My son should be out of school, you should go outside and have a look." Li Min waved.
After the big palace maid went out, she carried the five-year-old little emperor in and put it into Li Min's arms. The mother and son have a very deep relationship, hugging each other and talking affectionately, completely ignoring Meng Si's frightened and frightened expression and slightly trembling hands. She never expected that Lin Dan would be able to enter the palace. Yes, Lin Dan and Du Ruyan are close friends, and with Du Ruyan pulling the strings, it is very likely that Empress Dowager Du will choose her to embroider the phoenix robe.
Thinking of Lin Dan's amazing embroidery skills and vivid painting skills, Meng Si felt an unspeakable fear in his heart. She folded her two dresses with shaking hands, and then silently backed away.
Li Min didn't even look at her, just waved her hand and let her go. She walked out of the palace, and when the sun shone outside, she had the idea that "it's good to turn into blue smoke and dissipate". After many fights, she was completely afraid of Lin Dan. If the dress she embroidered couldn't beat Lin Dan, and Li Min and the little emperor couldn't overshadow Empress Dowager Du's limelight, she didn't know what was waiting for her.
Originally thought it was a good job with both fame and fortune, but it turned into an unpredictable trap because of Lin Dan's intervention. Now Meng Si is very flustered and helpless, staggered a few times when going down the stairs, and almost fell. Several palace maids who followed her hurriedly went to retrieve the package in her hand, but they didn't care about her life or death at all. It could be seen that the dress was the most important thing, and she was just a tool.
Gong Ren's attitude has already foreshadowed her fate of losing to Lin Dan again.
After Meng Si returned to the embroidery workshop, he hurriedly sent a message to his brother and Li Xiudian, asking them to think of a solution. Li Xiudian bribed the palace staff to destroy Lin Dan's hands, but the Queen Mother Du renovated the Qiwu Palace like an iron barrel, so that not even a fly could fly in, let alone the nails sent by the other palace? Li Xiudian could never find a chance to start, and time passed day by day.
A month later, the enthronement ceremony was held as scheduled, and a red carpet extended from the Temple of Heaven to the Golden Palace. After the little emperor and the two empress dowagers finished offering sacrifices to heaven, they would slowly walk along this red carpet, pass the civil and military officials, climb the high steps, and step into the pinnacle of power.
Civil and military officials stood on both sides of the steps and waited patiently. Li Min took the little emperor's hand and slowly walked out of the Fengzao Palace, while the Queen Mother Du had to set out from the Qiwu Palace and walked alone.
This is the difference between the biological mother and the first mother. Although the first mother is noble, it is always inferior to the biological mother's blood ties. In the heart of the little emperor, the only person he is closest to and most dependent on is his biological mother. Thinking of this, the smile on Li Min's face became more sincere, and after a while he lowered his head slightly to hide his resentment. After staying for a few years, the Li family has attracted enough courtiers and mastered enough power, and she will definitely let Du Fange die without a burial!
In the wild thoughts, the Golden Throne Hall was already in sight, and a golden red figure appeared at the other end of the corridor. When the distance between the two was getting closer, Li Min's smug expression was replaced by shock and embarrassment. She stared at the phoenix robe on Empress Dowager Du's body with wide eyes, her pupils were burning with flaming flames, as if she wanted to burn the other party through two big holes, just because the phoenix robe on Empress Dowager Du's body was too beautiful, beyond her beauty. imagine.
Two phoenixes were embroidered with deep and shallow golden threads on the fiery red silk cloth, one hovered on the shoulders of Empress Dowager Du, holding her head high and chirping; The hem of his clothes was dragged on the ground for a long time. Empress Dowager Du walked slowly across the red carpet, and the radiant tail feathers lightly swept across the ground and caught the eyes of all the ministers.
They looked at these extremely gorgeous and lifelike tail feathers in astonishment, almost thinking that the person walking in front of them was not an extraordinary person, but a goddess transformed by a phoenix. They raised their heads and caught a glimpse of the beautiful and cold face of Empress Dowager Du, as well as the Manzhu Shahua slightly decorated with gold powder, and suddenly felt that their souls were strongly impacted.
What kind of beauty is this? No one can tell clearly, only that the place where Empress Dowager Du walked seems to have been burned by the scorching sun. The temperature suddenly increased, making people sweaty, and the air was suddenly pulled away, making people almost suffocating. The flamboyant phoenix robe on her body was transformed into a real phoenix feather, revealing a kind of extreme grace and luxury.
Li Min thought that the bright yellow phoenix robe on her body was enough to attract attention, but now, she can't wait to take it off immediately and throw it into the brazier to burn it to ashes! This robe is also embroidered with a phoenix, but because Meng Si is not good at painting, the pattern is very rigid. The tail feathers of the phoenix are dyed and embroidered with real peacock feathers. Hard, so it loses some luster. The hem only covers the feet, and it is neither too long nor too short. However, compared with the hem of the Empress Dowager Du's 10-foot-long hem embroidered with phoenix tail feathers, it can only be described by the word "mediocre".
Where the Empress Du passed, everyone knelt down one after another, but the courtiers standing on both sides of Li Min didn't even react at all. This shows that she has lost, completely lost!
It is said that people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. The Empress Dowager Du was already very imposing, but against the background of this ingenious phoenix robe, she became more and more like a phoenix bathing in flames, almost wanting to fly high and roam the sky. Without her, Li Min's dress would be considered noble, but now, slowly merging and standing with Empress Dowager Du, she is like a phoenix with hairy, dwarfed by comparison.
The little emperor's dragon robe is also the most common style, completely incomparable with the golden red phoenix robe. But on such a solemn occasion, Empress Dowager Du, as the first-mother and the Empress Dowager East who was in charge of the government, did not wear a bright yellow dress, but took a step back and chose the red color, so no one could say that she was overbearing and deliberately suppressed. Empress Dowager West.
Li Min's hands were shaking with anger, but he still had a peaceful expression on his face. After this incident, her image in the hearts of courtiers has been fixed. As long as they think of today, they will feel that Empress Dowager Du is more majestic and imposing than her, and she is the most honorable woman in this imperial city. And she is only suitable for staying in the deep palace to manage the diet and daily life of the little emperor, and don't care about the big things next to her, and she can't manage it well. There is still a difference between a real phoenix and a fake phoenix.
Li Min simply didn't know how he survived the enthronement ceremony. Today was supposed to be her proudest and most glorious moment, but it was ruined because of an inferior phoenix robe. She raised the vase and slammed it on the wall, and shouted angrily: "Bring Li Ran and Li Xiudian, and I want to ask them how they do things! What I want is the best embroidery maid in the world, And what did they bring to this palace?!"
She threw the phoenix robe that made her face disgraceful to the ground, and said in a resentful tone: "Bengong's good days are ruined by them! Where is Meng Xiuniang? Call her to Bengong, since I can't do it. Good job, she doesn't need her hands!"