Let me eat a soft meal

Under the majestic palace wall, the two vermilion gates are closed tightly, and when Ye Xuan looks up, he can see three lacquered gold characters written on the nine-dragon gold plaque made of heavy wood: "Fengyi Palace".

This is the bedroom of the current Empress Li.

At this time before Maoshi, the sky was still slightly cool, Ye Xuan followed all the princes to kneel in front of the palace gate and waited for greetings.

Ye Xuan was seven, wearing a blue brocade that was washed white and worn out, with a gauze dress of the same color outside. Although he was young, his figure was thin, his face was pale, but his appearance and stature were outstanding. Eyes were fixed on him.

Ye Xuan knelt upright, just to wait for this moment, he frowned pretending to be uncomfortable, and swayed unsteadily.

Tai'an immediately moved forward to support his hand with winking eyes, his face was full of anxiety and concern, he seemed to be suppressing his throat, but in fact his voice was not low, he could hear what he needed to hear.

"Your Highness!"

Ye Xuan supported Tai'an's arm and leaned back his body, drawing his internal force to his limbs, but he broke out in sweat after a while.

"Seventh brother!" The eighth prince beside him was startled, and quickly grabbed Ye Xuan's arm, feeling the burning heat in his hand, and his expression was startled.

"What's the matter? Why is it so hot?" Shocked, his little voice tended to break.

Ye Xuan withdrew his hand, pressed his forehead with a weak look, lowered his eyes and shook his head, but his voice was hoarse when he spoke, "Maybe it's because I caught the cold yesterday, so it doesn't matter."

"It doesn't matter. You have always been in poor health. Every time you get sick, it's like going to hell. If—"

"Tai'an." Ye Xuan glared at the little eunuch, pretending to be sullen, and said coldly, "Speak too much."

Such a movement has already attracted everyone's attention.

"If Lao Qi is not feeling well, go to the side to rest for a while, the left and right are just saying hello, the empress will never punish you for this."

The female voice is crisp and clear, it is Ye Ying, the third princess born of Concubine Xian. She is dressed in emerald green palace attire, her face makeup is very light, and her calm and gentle eyes look very much like her mother and concubine. However, in fact, this is a martial arts since childhood. A woman with superb horseback riding and archery skills.

Last year in Chunwei, if it wasn't for the women who didn't count the rankings, Xie Sanlang, who was only fifteen years old, wouldn't be number one.

Ye Xuan's little tricks couldn't fool her, but she didn't expose it.

As soon as the third princess opened her mouth, the fifth prince who was born of the concubine Xian immediately joined her sister.

Concubine Xian is the head of the four concubines, she is also the princess of the royal family of Bohai Sea, and she is also a sister of the late empress. Now the most favored concubine in the palace is second only to Concubine Yue, and the fifth prince can talk in front of His Majesty.

As soon as the two opened their mouths, the others naturally followed suit.

Ye Xuan nodded in satisfaction, and took advantage of the situation to prepare to leave, but there was a soft knock at the palace gate, and Zhong Mingyu, the chief eunuch of Fengyi Palace, came out to sing the salute ahead of time.

"This..." Tai'an was a little dumbfounded, dumbfounded.

Ye Xuan gave him a comforting look, lowered her eyes obediently and knelt down peacefully, but she was deep in thought.

Zhong Mingyu still only ordered the second and eighth princes to enter.

No one is surprised.

Today, there are many concubines and many children, but this Empress Suxian has only one sixth princess under her knees, and she is not favored. Seeing that the princes are all about to grow up, the calls for a neutral prince are getting louder and louder. The empress is anxious and wants to It is understandable to win over a prince as a backer.

The mother concubine of the second prince Ye Entropy was originally a lowly servant girl who washed clothes for the former queen. It's called Shang.

Those who die, are also dead, and are mostly used for people who die young when they are underage.If the Empress Dowager hadn't strongly opposed it, the second prince's name would have been decided like this.This also shows how much Emperor Wu hated his mother and concubine.

And the eighth prince Ye Zhu's mother and concubine have a low status, and she is still a dancer from Dongying, and she is cautious and honest.

Apart from Ye Xuan, these two are the best choices for the queen now.

"Your Highnesses, go back quickly, our family has to go in and serve tea to the empress." Zhong Mingyu smiled all over his face, and he raised the dust of the Buddha, speaking modestly, but the expression on his face was not half flattering.

On the contrary, the princes were very kind and talkative to him.

That's right, even if Empress Li is not favored, she is still an empress, the lord of the central palace, who holds the Phoenix seal, not to mention that behind her is the Li family of Minister of the Household Department and the Xie family represented by the current Prime Minister Xie Ling.

Ye Xuan lowered his eyes and thought of one thing, and with an idea in his mind, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He casually stretched out his hand, and Tai'an, who got the hint behind him, quickly knelt and moved forward, as if he wanted to help him up, and Zhong Mingyu, who had been paying attention to this side, immediately said, "Your Highness, please stop."

Look, it's coming, and it's coming to avenge the public again.

Logically speaking, if the queen wants to support a prince, neither the second prince nor the eighth prince is actually a good choice.

The former is affected by his biological mother and is not taken seriously. He is weak and sick, and he has no one to talk about relatives when he is about to reach the crown. The presence of a dignified prince seems to be transparent; Only promises, the possibility of inheriting the great rule is low.

Ye Xuan, on the other hand, has a clean family background, his mother and concubine have been favored tirelessly, his blood is pure and he has no influence from his relatives, so it is best to win over and train him.

However, Empress Li would not choose Ye Xuan because of the jealousy of women.

Ye Xuan's biological mother and concubine Luo Wanqing was originally only the cousin of the Shen family, a salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River.

12 years ago, on a southern tour today, I met Luo Wanqing who routinely went up the mountain to pray and light a lamp for her elder brother at Nanhua Temple.

Today, the admiral brought her back to the palace, revised the shilling for her that cheap business girls could not enter the palace, and made an exception as one of the four concubines; for her to be an ordinary couple who lived together forever, he built the Luohua Palace, and since then he has been the only favorite More than four years.

In the past four years, only one child, Ye Xuan, was born in the palace, which is an honor that even the noble concubine Yue who is now the most favored in the harem does not have.

However, the emperor's favor never lasts long.

His mother and concubine did not have a natal background, and they have been favored by many people for many years, and even if they are no longer alone, their love for Liang Concubine is still overwhelming. Not only the harem has some criticisms about this, but also Even in the previous dynasty, there were officials who spoke fiercely and compared Luo Wanqing by praising Si Daji.

Even if she didn't do anything, even if she could only sing poems sickly in front of the mirror, the corners of her eyes and brows were full of sadness and sorrow.

Concubine Liang, who could only rely on men's love and charity, naturally lost very badly. She would not fight or grab, and shedding tears was only useful to men, and the more useful, the more red-eyed she was.

She expects an emperor to just take a scoop for her to drink, and what she gets is naturally only disappointment.

The things could not be protected, and they were treated harshly. They didn't know how to fight, but only knew how to shed tears. After crying too much and talking too much, the emperor was tired of watching and listening, so he didn't want to stop and take another look.

The Luohua Palace is gradually deserted, and the harem is deep. It has always only heard the smiles of newcomers.

Only his half-blind mother and concubine are still obsessed with her husband, immersed in past love, unwilling to face reality.

Stupid.

Years of struggling for survival have allowed Ye Xuan to think and analyze everything calmly.

"His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, wait a minute. Your Majesty said that she has something to say to you later." Zhong Mingyu said.

Ten years of stinginess.

Ye Xuan sneered in his heart, and knelt back again under the pity eyes of all the princes.

The women in this palace all pretend to be magnanimous, but in reality each one is smaller than the other, where are they saints?

In the same way, he is not a saint if he has no one to rely on and has survived intact in the place where he cannibalized until now.

Ye Xuan thought, his eyes flickered.

Today is the 26th, during the mid-autumn banquet in the [-]th Mid-Autumn Festival, the juniors of the Xie family and the Li family were all out of Beijing, and they visited the palace one after another in the past few days, only the three juniors of the Xie family did not visit.

The eldest son Xie is the young minister of Dali Temple, and Princess Baiyang is just pregnant, so naturally he has no time to walk around the palace; the second son Xie works in the Ministry of Rites, and he is so busy preparing for the queen mother's birthday banquet that he has no time to come.

Then the only one who came here to pay a routine greeting was San Gongzi Xie.

He just needs to wait.

Ye Xuan lowered his brows and continued to kneel down obediently, with a pitiful look on his face, but he secretly activated his inner strength, and within a moment, cold sweat dripped down his slightly pointed chin onto the bluestone board like water.

He counted the time in his mind, and when the time came, he saw a piece of blue clothes coming towards the willows, the ring around his waist jingled, and there was a piece of red and blue agate the size of a thumb in the middle, with The thin gold body is engraved with the word "Qinghe".

It was a character bestowed by the emperor himself, and it was a symbol of the third son Xie.

Xie Yushu, courtesy name Qinghe, the third son of Xie Xiang, Empress Li's cousin, only turned fifteen in the beginning of spring, but he already has a reputation as the number one scholar.

Xie Xiang's family has strict education, and he is the upstart who was handpicked by His Majesty to suppress the nobles of the family. Therefore, even when facing the queen and the Li family, the Xie family will never be partial.

Ye Xuan sighed, in fact, he wanted to come here with other members of the Xie family, rather than the third young master.

The world said that Xie Sanlang was amazingly talented and famous all over the capital, but after all, he was too young, he was only fifteen years old, and he was a son of an aristocratic family who had never seen any shady methods, so he was always easily deceived by appearances.

12-year-old Ye Xuan thought so.

It's a pity that except for the third son, the rest of the Xie family are all ready to become officials, not to mention whether they have time, even if there is an order, they will try their best to avoid entering the palace.

Empress Li pretends to be pitiful or weak, she has tried all kinds of tricks, at most she can invite Princess Baiyang, but Princess Baiyang does not deal with her, and every time they meet, they are unhappy, Queen Li's choice is rejected Due to limitations, Ye Xuan can only adjust the plan accordingly.

Ye Xuan gave a "tsk" in his heart, and the corner of his blue robe was getting closer and closer. In the signal of "Your Highness" from Tai'an, he closed his eyes, fell back with a pale face, and fell into a Cool embrace.

There is also a hint of sandalwood.

Ye Xuan pretended to be flustered and grabbed his sleeve, and first swept across the boy's wrist. A string of red sandalwood beads was tied on the protruding wrist bone, which complemented his fair skin, slender and well-articulated fingers, and rounded nails. nice.

He looked up again, but was stunned for a moment.

The young man has long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a straight nose bridge, light lips, long hair tied behind his back with a red string, spreading to his chest during his movements, long eyelashes drooping slightly trembling because of being frightened, a small red mole at the end of his eye seems to be dotted The cinnabar in my heart.

There are always many beauties in the palace, even the little eunuchs are all handsome, this is the first time Ye Xuan saw a man lost his mind.

As soon as the young man raised his eyebrows, Ye Xuan saw the surprise in his eyes, as well as the reflection of himself in the clear eyes.

His face was pale and he looked embarrassed.

Ye Xuan clenched his hands subconsciously.

stab-

The sleeve in Ye Xuan's hand was torn.

Ye Xuan: "..."

Xie Yushu: "..."

The author has something to say: Xie Yushu: People look sick, but they are quite energetic.

Ye Xuan: ...

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Black Heart Lotus Ye Xuan Gong x Beauty Xie Yushu Shou.

next year.