Rebirth of the third flower queen

After the Koryo envoy retreated disheartened, the Yue envoy came forward with a smile on his face. He greeted Xiao Xieyi first, and then chattered a lot of opening remarks. Show the beauties from Vietnam.

Compared with Goryeo, which is located in the northeast and is cold and dry, Yue, which is located in the south and has a warm climate, is indeed a place rich in beauties. They paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty, and there has always been a tradition of offering beauties. Only when the princess got married did she stop shouting.

The Seventh Princess, titled Shuhe, was the first emperor's half-sister. Emperor Xuanzong had many concubines and more children. Except for the crown prince Siyi, everyone else was small and transparent. Although they were not harsh, they were all done step by step. It's over when people grow up.

Lu Zhaorong, the biological mother of Princess Shuhe, and the empress dowager, who was still Zhaoyuan at the time, both lived with Concubine Duan. Concubine Duan was the concubine who came in when Emperor Xuanzong was still in his residence. The candidate for the crown prince has been decided, but I still have hope in my heart.

Concubine Duan's image in front of outsiders is dignified and elegant, but in fact she is not, it is just an appearance, but in front of her own people, she is another kind of virtue.Both Lu Zhaorong and Gu Zhaoyuan came from small families, and there was no strong support in the family. Lu Zhaorong had no children and only had a daughter. Although Gu Zhaoyuan had a son, he was still young. Emperor Xuanzong was not a womanizer. It's all for the sake of the heirs, so Lu Zhaorong and Gu Zhaoyuan formed a special friendship during the days when they were bullied by concubines Duan.

The relationship between the first emperor and Shu and the eldest princess is better than that of other brothers and sisters. When Shu and the eldest princess married to Yue, the first emperor was only ten years old, and he cried after chasing her carriage. There are no siblings, Shu and the eldest princess, he sees him as his own sister.

Emperor Xuanzong passed away, and the first emperor ascended the throne. Gu Zhaoyuan's mother became the empress dowager because of her son. The other concubines of Emperor Xuanzong, according to the rules, were all promoted by one level. Only Lu Zhaorong, the first emperor gave her three consecutive promotions. When I arrived at Taiji, I just looked at the face of Shuhe and the eldest princess.

Not a few years after Shu and the eldest princess married to Yue, the king of Yue passed away. Her husband became the new king, and the eldest princess was in the middle. The relationship between the two countries is the best in history. After the death of the first emperor, For Seventh Aunt's sake, Xiao Xieyi is also very kind to the Yue Kingdom.

Ten years ago, Princess Dachang's husband also passed away. She had no son and only had three daughters. With the support of Xiao Xieyi, she appointed a bastard whose biological mother died young and was raised by her side as the new King of Yue. Even so, the exchanges between the two countries are still very harmonious, and nothing has gone wrong.

So this time, seeing such an inconspicuous gift from the envoys of the Yue Kingdom, Xiao Xieyi's first reaction was whether something happened to Shu and the eldest princess, but she has controlled the government of the Yue Kingdom for many years, and the current Yue King has no foundation , it is impossible to pull out any waves.

Seeing Xiao Xieyi staring at him for a long time without speaking, the envoy of Yue State thought that he was delusional when he saw beautiful women, so his heart couldn't help being elated.

Who would have thought that Xiao Xieyi glanced at him lightly, but asked, "Who arranged these gifts?" Princess Shu and the eldest princess knew well the personalities of him and the late emperor, and never made such unnecessary arrangements. Only people who are not familiar with him would think of using beauty to please him.

"Yes, it's my prince." The envoy of the Yue Kingdom stammered, not understanding why Xiao Xieyi suddenly turned his face.

"Who is your prince? What's his name?" For the sake of control, the eldest princess chose a little prince. He was only seven years old when he became the throne, and he is only seventeen now. The age of the language, it can't be them.

"Return to the emperor, the prince's name is Ruan Ying." The envoy finally realized, Xiao Xieyi saw that the birthday gift was not from the eldest princess.

"Okay, you go down first, and we'll talk about things later." Xiao Xieyi still remembered that this was a feast for the Longevity Festival, and no matter how he suspected that something happened to Shu and the eldest princess, he could only discuss it later. Anyway, far away water can't quench near thirst, so don't worry about it for a while.

Ruan Ying, the name Xiao Xieyi is a bit impressive, but he vaguely remembers that he should have died in the plague a few years ago, why is he still jumping now? Could it be that he was faster when saving people, which made him Picking up a life, but causing trouble to the eldest princess.

After the gift offering, the palace banquet officially began.Generally speaking, it is impossible to eat enough on such an occasion. It is one thing to maintain a demeanor. The weather in mid-October makes the dishes on the table cold quickly. Chopsticks, and then drinking.

However, there are exceptions. Feng Qi was afraid that the children would be hungry, so she opened a table for them alone. There was a small hot pot on the table, and the food was all hot. Everyone ate with gusto. There is almost nothing he can eat on the table, and he yelled anxiously.

"Second brother, I want to eat, I want to eat." The nanny originally wanted to hold Qiu Chen down to nurse him, but he refused to leave, standing at Qiu Ran's feet and hugging his thigh until he died. Too pious, Qiu Ran, who always had a good appetite, lost her appetite after eating.

"Chen Chen, don't cry, the second brother will look for you to see if there is anything you can eat, don't worry..." Qiu Ran glanced around the table, and finally picked up two pieces of stewed food. The rotten wax gourd was in the bowl, crushed with a spoon first, and then fed to Qiu Chen.

The winter melon was boiled with the meat, and a little salt was added. Compared with the salty and tasteless mush that Qiu Chen usually eats, it is naturally much more delicious. Qiu Ran finished feeding two pieces of winter melon without feeding a few mouthfuls. Qiu Chen ate it Not enough to eat, clamoring to eat more, Qiu Ran had to continue to feed.

Qiu Ran was afraid that Qiu Chen would get tired of eating only winter melon, so he fed him some tender tofu and a small bowl of egg drop soup, which made Qiu Chen feel satisfied.On the other hand, Qiuran herself had almost nothing to eat after a meal. Feng Qi quickly took Qiu Chen away when she saw her, and asked Qiuran to eat quickly.

"Daddy, I'm full. It's delicious." Qiu Chen went into Feng Qi's arms and patted his chubby belly.

Feng Qi nodded his little nose amusedly, and said with a smile: "Of course you are full, let the elder brother of the prince feed you in person, your treatment is not ordinary." Qiu Chen didn't know whether she understood or not, Blinking her big round eyes, she burst into a smile.

Xiao wrote the opinion letter and continued, "It's nothing to feed the prince. Qiu Chen is here. During dinner, I will feed you myself."

After the Longevity Festival, the envoys from various countries returned home one by one with mixed feelings.Xiao Xieyi wasn't so stingy that he couldn't get anything out of it. After all, people came so far away, and he still celebrated his birthday. He didn't have the nerve to send people away after taking things, and didn't give any gifts in return.

It's just that compared with the previous emperors and the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, his actions are not so generous. It is roughly that he adds [-]% to the value of the gift and then rewards it back, instead of dozens or hundreds of times according to the so-called practice. He is not so rich.

In this way, those who carefully prepare gifts are fine. They themselves give heavy gifts, and the equivalent reward plus [-]% is more attractive, but some come with the idea of ​​​​empty hands and white wolves, and they are destined to return disappointed. , They even paid the travel expenses backwards.

Of course, Xiao Xieyi also asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites to remind the envoys of various countries that the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty was not taken advantage of, and it was impossible to support them unconditionally. In normal trade exchanges, he raised his hand to welcome them, and he wanted to take advantage of them. Yes, don't come here again.

At the same time, Xiao Xieyi also sent people to follow the envoys of the Yue Kingdom back to the palace, and the reason was very good. At the end of the year, Princess Shuhe's [-]th birthday, as his nephew, he sent people to visit his aunt. It should be the best thing to give some birthday gifts.

How could the envoys of the Yue Kingdom have the guts to refuse, but they complained endlessly in their hearts. Why did the prince of his family bother to give gifts as usual? The emperor didn’t know anything about it. , This is good, it has aroused the emperor's idea.

Not long after the Longevity Festival, an imperial physician who has been serving illnesses all year round came to report that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill and might not be able to survive this winter.

Xiao Xieyi was not surprised when he heard this. In the past few years, he had served the Empress Dowager with food and drink, and even made her live a longer life than her previous life. However, the Empress Dowager was old. He is already in his early seventies and has no power for these years. I am afraid that he will not be comfortable. It is just an occasional cold, which is not a serious symptom. After taking two doses of medicine, he has not improved.

When Feng Qi heard the news, she asked Xiao Xieyi if they needed to come over to say hello, anyway, she was his grandmother.

Xiao Xiyi waved her hand and said no, and only asked Feng Qi to go down to prepare for the funeral of the Empress Dowager. Shen Junhe was the head of the Imperial Hospital. Although his character was not good, his medical skills were excellent, and he had served the Empress Dowager for many years. He said that the Empress Dowager Xiao Xieyi believed that the Queen Mother was dying.

National mourning is not a trivial matter, and the procedure is very complicated, especially when the empress dowager is still an elder. Compared with the time when the empress passed away more than three years ago, it will only be more cumbersome. If you can do it in advance, do it as much as possible in advance, so that it will be a little easier. Otherwise, it is really exhausting rhythm.

It was not Xiao Xieyi who put the Empress Dowager under house arrest at first, but Gu Wei.However, Gu Wei was also forced to the point of no choice. He never expected that the Empress Dowager would use all means to that extent in order to get rid of Feng Qi's child, and she didn't show any face at all.

Feng Qi gave birth prematurely, and Gu Wei was afraid that the empress dowager would show up again, so he took medicine to bring her down.After Xiao Xieyi returned to the palace, she was furious when she learned of what the Empress Dowager had done. Fortunately, Feng Qi and the twins were lucky enough to persevere, and he just put the Empress Dowager under house arrest.

Fast forward more than six years, except for the anniversary of the late emperor's death every year, Xiao Xieyi is the same as everyone in the harem. On the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, he kowtows at the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, and does not go in.So what if you go in, he and the empress dowager have nothing to say.

In these years, nothing that Xiao Xieyi did could make the Empress Dowager happy, and what made her unhappy was one after another.Gu Wei went into hiding, Gu Min got married, Feng Qi became queen, and Qiu Ran became the crown prince. Everything that was said made the empress dowager extremely heartbroken.

The empress dowager didn't believe that Gu Wei stayed in Jiangnan voluntarily. She insisted that it was Xiao Xieyi who killed Gu Wei so that Feng Qi could make room for the Queen's position. She said that she lived in Jiangnan in seclusion to fool her. , Xiao Xieyi didn't explain it, he didn't think it was necessary.

There is also Gu Minyuan marrying Rouran, she does not believe that it was the joint decision of the Gu family and Gu Min, the empress dowager firmly believed that Xiao Xieyi was taking revenge on the Gu family, so she tossed the only girl of the Gu family to death, otherwise the Xiao family clan With so many people, it's not easy for him to accept a righteous sister.

Because the Empress Dowager was about to die, Xiao Xieyi made an exception and visited her for the second time within a year, and told her by the way that Rainstorm had given birth to a son.Three years ago, there was a miscarriage due to a heavy rain, and the imperial doctor judged that there would be no further birth. The empress dowager was silent for a long time after hearing the news, and said nothing.

This time, for the sake of dying, Xiao Xinyi didn't provoke her too much.Otherwise, if he said that Rainstorm had betrothed Hong'er to Jun Li's son Jun Ruoyan, the Empress Dowager would probably be pissed off by him. Why did Hong'er marry out, shouldn't she marry in?

"Hong'er, that child's name is Hong'er, right?" The Empress Dowager murmured, repeating Hong'er's name over and over again.

"Yes, Hong'er." Xiao Xieyi nodded, the Empress Dowager was old, her hair was almost all white, and her eyes were cloudy.

"The Ai family wants to tell Huang'er that his Yaoyao is still alive and has a child. The child's name is Hong'er." The Empress Dowager opened her eyes wide and said this suddenly. Maybe she was rejoicing that there was no Kill the torrential rain, otherwise she would not dare to see the first emperor.

Xiao Xieyi responded silently, he didn't know what to say, if the people around him didn't put so much pressure on the late emperor when he was pregnant, he might not have died of dystocia.But in that case, he probably can only be an idle prince, and the position of the prince must be heavy rain.

If he can't be the emperor, he and Feng Qi won't have a future. Things like fate are really ingenious.

The Empress Dowager repeated it several times, and fell into a coma again. Xiao Xieyi glanced at her, turned and left the Compassionate Ning Palace.

Three days later, the Empress Dowager passed away, and after 49 days of funeral arrangements, everyone was exhausted from going to the harem.

Because of the death of the Empress Dowager, this new year is relatively deserted, and for the exhausted people, it is a good opportunity to recuperate.Feng Qi said that if the new year was like the previous years, he would not be able to hold on anymore, he was really tired, so tired that he would not be interested in doing anything.

Qiu Chen was born at an untimely time, his first birthday coincided with a national funeral, Xiao Xieyi's idea of ​​making a fuss was forced to give up.

But no matter how simple it is, there is still an essential procedure for the first-year banquet, and that is the Zhou Catch Ceremony.

At the beginning, under the hard training of Xiao Xiyi, Qiu Ran caught the Chuanguo Yuxi who was mixed in with the twins of the dragon and phoenix. Danyang caught the first-class wolf howling out of his heart. Compared with what others teach, it is more interesting.

When they arrived at Qiuchen, because there was no possibility of Yuxi getting in, Feng Qi wasn't worried, he caught something that shouldn't be caught.

Due to the limited scale, apart from the royal relatives, those who can participate in Qiu Chen's birthday banquet are Feng Qi's natal family.

Qiu Chen has already walked very steadily at this time, and he can run around without being led by others. Occasionally, he runs too fast and falls down. If no one sees him, he can get up by himself, and continue to run happily, but If Qiuran was present, it would be more troublesome. If he didn't get up, he wouldn't talk, and he wouldn't let others hug him. He had to wait for Qiuran.Rainstorm just accidentally hugged him once, he was sad for a long time, and finally fell again, so Qiuran picked him up, and that was all.

No, seeing Xiao Yurong enter the palace holding the dragon halberd, Qiu Chen threw off the nanny and ran over, because he ran too fast and fell halfway, fortunately it was the first month, and he was wearing thick clothes, so the nanny saw him He didn't fall, and didn't go forward, just waited for him to get up by himself, if he hugged wrongly, it would be another cry.Seeing his little cousin fell, Long Ji struggled to get off Xiao Yurong's arms, and ran to help him, but Qiu Chen didn't refuse, and remembered just holding his hand. People rolled into a ball.

The nannies didn't dare to look at them anymore, and hurried over to help, but Qiu Chen refused and insisted on getting up by himself, but he and Long Ji pulled me and I pulled you, neither of them got up, and the two rolled on the ground After a long time, it was Qiu Ran who made the move, and then pulled them up one by one.

"Second brother is so kind, Chen Chen likes second brother the most." Qiu Chen pulled Qiu Ran and bent over, kissing him on the face.

"I also like younger brother Chenchen, but younger brother Chenchen doesn't like me." Long Ji was under two years old, but his coaxing skills were full.

Qiu Chen was stunned for a moment, and kissed him on the face as well, actually it was just washing his face with saliva, Long Ji smiled with satisfaction, and kissed him back.

Qiu Ran almost couldn't breathe when she saw her laughing, Qiu Chen and Long Ji were both chubby in shape, the two dumplings kissed each other, how funny it was, it was even more fun to watch than they were rolling on the ground before , He hasn't seen such a happy thing for a long time, it's really interesting.

Based on the idea that being happy alone is worse than being happy with others, Qiu Ran brought the two regiments to Feng Qi and told him what happened just now.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared a lot of weekly supplies, and there was no room for them on the table. Feng Qi asked someone to spread a thick carpet on the floor to facilitate Qiu Chen's activities. Who knew that he was walking around wearing tiger-toed shoes, and he didn't have anything. Picking up, occasionally picking up one to have a look, and throwing it out quickly, everyone is very anxious to see, what does the third prince like, how to pick up one and throw it away, when he throws it like this, when will he catch it.

Qiu Ran also felt that it was a waste of time for Qiu Chen to do so, so she reminded: "Chen Chen, just take the one you like the most."

Favorite, what does this mean, Qiu Chen frowned, he is still too young to understand what liking is.

Danyang was also very anxious, so he tore it apart and explained to him: "It's like Guoguo, and Guagua..." Qiu Chen likes to eat apples and winter melons.

Qiu Chen seemed to understand this time, he ran to Qiu Ran's side slowly, and took his hand, Qiu Ran didn't know why, but let him hold it.

I saw Qiu Chen pulled Qiu Ran to Xiao Yurong, stretched out his other hand, and grabbed Long Ji's hand, pulling it tightly.

No one could understand what Qiu Chen meant. The Third Prince arrested His Highness the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master of the Long family. Can this count?