Chapter 132：

On the twenty-eighth first month, everything is fine.

On this day, the prince Pei Yan ascended the throne in the Golden Dragon Palace and changed his reign to Yongning, and "Twenty-fourth of Zhaokang" became "Yongning First Year".

Before Pei Yan was busy, Tao Ti in the harem was not idle either.

After the enthronement ceremony was Dafeng Harem. Although Donggong is currently a concubine like her, the necessary rituals are still very cumbersome.

In addition, she was busy moving, moving from the Yaoguang Hall of the East Palace to Weiyang Palace, which is very close to the Zichen Palace.

Pei Yan specially ordered people to decorate Weiyang Palace again, and the upper and lower parts were renewed. Even the plaque hanging in front of the main hall was his own royal book, "Weiyang Palace" with three characters, dragons flying and phoenix dancing.

Compared with the Yaoguang Temple where Tao Ti lived, the Weiyang Palace is extremely large and spacious, with a load-bearing eaves on the top of the palace and five floors of white marble stairs. There are also pepper walls on three sides of the bedroom. The bead curtains in the hall are all round and bright pearls of the South China Sea. On both sides of the entrance, there are five-foot red coral bonsai, not to mention other rare ornaments, calligraphy and paintings, flowers and plants. Tables and chairs, etc., should all be extremely gorgeous and exquisite good things.

"Ati, the picture on the wall is the "Lotus and Heron Picture" by the famous Wu Min! This is a treasure that is hard to buy with money."

"Wow, the tapestry sandalwood screen of this beautifully embroidered peony picture is also beautifully embroidered. Everyone said that one inch of tapestry and one inch of gold is really amazing."

"Hey, here, there are gold leaf flowers on this wall?! My god, the glittering gold is so beautiful. When I get rich in the future, I will do the same."

Xu Wenchan looked at the gorgeous Weiyang Palace steadily, and the exclamation did not stop.

After watching a circle, she smiled and said to Tao Ti, "Ati, your majesty treats you really gracefully! This is to move the entire treasure of the treasury to you, right?"

Tao Ti leaned lazily on the couch, holding a cup of longan and white fungus soup in his hand, and took a leisurely sip, "Although this palace is spacious and gorgeous, it will be a torment for me to move in these few days. I have to call it tomorrow. I built a new bread kiln. There are also those fruit trees planted at the back of my Yaoguang Hall. Alas, I could have eaten peaches this summer..."

"How difficult is that? You can find some more trees to plant. As for the fruit, you are now a queen empress, I'm afraid that there will be no fruit to eat."

Xu Wenchan sat down and ate a piece of butter, fluffy and crispy rolls, "Speaking of which, it will be the hall of the queen in a few days. Are you nervous?"

"It's not nervous, just thinking that it's a canonization and an ancestor worship, and I feel tired."

Xu Wenchan smiled, "How do you feel that you are getting lazier recently."

"Probably my body is still hibernating. I'll be fine after the beginning of spring." Tao Ti whispered and joked with Xu Wenchan again, "but your chin seems to be sharp. Is it because lovesickness makes people thin?"

Xu Wenchan's cheeks turned red all of a sudden, and he muttered shamefully, "What is lovesickness or lovesickness."

Tao Ti said, "It's been almost three days since the eldest princess's family has gone, I don't know where they are now."

Princess Jingyang's family originally planned to leave on the eighteenth of the first lunar month, but when Emperor Zhaokang gave way, they stayed for a few more days and did not leave Chang'an until the end of the enthronement ceremony.

"It should be out of the realm of Chang'an." Xu Wenchan answered, fearing that Tao Ti would tease her again, and hurriedly shifted the topic to opening a branch.

Zhang's branch in Luoyang has opened very well, so they decided to open another state capital to expand their business territory.

When it comes to making money, both of them are excited.

In this way, we talked until the evening, when the sky turned dark, the two of them were like chicken blood, full of confidence.

Before leaving, Xu Wenchan asked, "Aunt Zhang will rush back from Luoyang for such an important matter as your post-closing ceremony?"

Thinking of Zhang's letter two days ago, Tao Ti nodded and chuckled, "Well, it will be here in two days."

...

The post-closing ceremony was scheduled for the sixth day of February, and Zhang arrived in Chang'an two days earlier, along with Lu, who hadn't seen him for a long time.

When the two arrived at Weiyang Palace, they respectfully saluted Tao Ti, shouting the Queen Mother Jin An Wanfu.

Tao Ti hurriedly helped the two of them up and said happily, "Mother, Aunt Lu, both are from his own family, so don't be polite."

I haven't seen Zhang for a while. I saw her this time with a ruddy complexion and a relaxed eyebrow. The old dull color is no longer seen. It can be seen that leaving the dog man in time is an extremely wise decision.

As for Lu Shi, he hadn't seen him for half a year, and he was still so gentle and loving.

Seeing Tao Ti, she squinted and looked at it, boasting, "I haven't seen it in half a year, the empress empress has a more prosperous appearance, and her body is different from the past."

Too many people praise Tao Ti these days. Whether it is sincere or flattering, she is a little ecstatic by being praised every day.

After a greeting, Tao Ti asked the kitchen to prepare a mutton pot, and the three people ate and chatted around the stove.

The steaming copper pot is filled with white mist, and the delicious aroma of lamb fills the dining room. A small table on one side is filled with various colors, such as chopped peanuts, sesame sauce, chopped pepper, coriander, chopped green onion, minced garlic, oil and salt Sauce, vinegar, etc...

"It’s best to eat lamb hot pot in winter. It’s warm and nourishing." Tao Ti took a golden egg dumpling and put it in a bowl. The lamb soup was delicious. The outside is crispy, the water chestnut and celery meat filling inside is rich in taste, salty and juicy, the soup in the meat filling warmly flows on the tip of the tongue, and the delicious one can't wait to bite off the tongue.

"This lamb is good, it's not mutton at all, and it's extraordinarily tender."

"The stewed radish in it is also good, and the noodles are sweet."

Zhang's and Lu's didn't start to be so restrained either, and they feasted on their bowls.

After a meal of mutton, the three sat on the warm couch and chatted with contentment.

Lu's holding a tea cup, looking at this situation, suddenly a little stunned, and said lightly, "For a moment, I seem to be back many years ago..."

Zhang was slightly taken aback, the smile between his eyebrows and eyes condensed, and he chuckled softly, "Yes."

In the past, they used to sit around and chat with Yuanyuan like this.

Tao Ti was stunned, and immediately reacted. Did they think of Queen Gu?

Thinking of the things Pei Yan had said to her before, she felt some sympathy for Queen Gu in her heart.

In sympathy, she looked at Zhang and Lu on the opposite side, hesitated for a while, and cautiously said, "Mother, Aunt Lu, I always have a question in my heart..."

The two mature and elegant women looked at her, waiting for her to continue.

Tao Ti screened the palace man back, squeezed his fingers, and said sternly, "It's about the eldest prince..."

Zhang frowned, "What happened to the prince?"

Tao Ti bit her lip and asked in confusion, "Is the eldest prince really the child of the overlord?"

Zhang and Lu were startled, and looked at each other, frowning even more tightly.

Zhang Clan looked solemn and stared at Tao Ti closely, "Who said that the eldest prince is not the child of the grand prince? Where did you hear it."

Tao Ti told the story that Pei Yan told her. Seeing that the faces of Zhang and Lu gradually became ashen, Tao Ti had no bottom in her heart. Shouldn't she ask?

After she finished speaking, Zhang slapped the yellow rosewood small table fiercely. His hands were so strong and emotional that even the cups on the table trembled three times.

"Zhou Mingming that bitch!" Zhang Clan gritted his teeth. Zhou Clan is no longer a queen anyway, and she can openly curse.

Lu Shi has always been good-tempered and self-cultivating. At this moment, his lips were trembling, and he cursed, "Snake, venomous woman, shameless you!"

Zhang snorted, "I'll just say why Yuanyuan suddenly couldn't think about it and did such a decisive thing. It turned out that Zhou Mingyan was instigating the discord..."

There were tears in Lu's eyes, "Yuanyuan, why is she so confused, she believes Zhou Mingyan's words, and she doesn't know to ask the Supreme Emperor."

Zhang was also angry at this, but thinking of the increasingly cold relationship between Gu Yuan and Emperor Zhaokang back then, as well as her slumped mental state, he couldn't bear to blame, and only sighed deeply.

When she was young, she didn't understand why Yuanyuan had to quarrel with Emperor Zhaokang. Although Emperor Zhaokang's act of forcing her to enter the palace was disgraceful, but the children had all, and she became a queen again, and Emperor Zhaokang was tolerant and caring for her in every way.

Now, in the past few years, she has only understood how Yuanyuan felt at the beginning. Having lost freedom and nature, what is called a "good life" is just living.

Yuan Yuan looked at his gentleness and anger, but he had an idea in his heart.

Seeing the reaction of the two of them, Tao Ti burst into a bold conjecture, "Mother, Aunt Lu, the eldest prince... is he the child of the Supreme Emperor?"

Zhang and Lu said in unison, "Naturally yes!"

Tao Ti:! ! !

Hiss, what a misunderstanding!

She widened her eyes, like a yin who was choking after eating melons, "Why doesn't he know, the emperor?"

Hearing this, Zhang and Lu also slumped, and guessed in a low voice, "Didn't Yuanyuan tell him the truth?"

Tao Ti said angrily, "Looks like, it seems, I don't know."

The expressions of Zhang's and Lu's were a little hard to say: According to the tempers of Emperor Yuanyuan and Zhaokang, it was really possible to take a sigh of relief and didn't make the words clear.

One was proud and arrogant too lazy to explain, the other was manic and angry, but he could only recognize the green hat that didn't exist.

Two awkward people got together and tortured each other.

With tears in Lu's eyes, he sighed deeply, "The two of them, why bother!"

"What's the matter with the Emperor, how can a man be as confused as him. Does he have no idea about what he did?"

Zhang clenched his fist and said angrily, "No, I have to meet him, Yuanyuan has been so wronged! Why should he be a kind of affection!"

After that, she got up angrily.

Tao Ti and Lu Shi were taken aback, and rushed to persuade her to calm down.

Zhang snorted coldly, "No, this matter must be clarified. I want to teach him that Yuanyuan never apologizes to him at all, let alone owes him half a point! So that he thinks that he can recognize the prince, because he is open-minded. , How tolerant of Yuanyuan, how impressed I am."

Hearing this, Lu's lips pursed, but he didn't stop, instead he wanted to go with Zhang's.

Zhang patted her on the shoulder, "Your family is still in front of the court, if it is too unpleasant to provoke the emperor, it is not worth it. I will go alone, my daughter is the queen. The son-in-law is the emperor, so if he wants to anger, he has to weigh it."

Without waiting for Lu's reaction, Zhang went out in a hurry.

Tao Ti looked at Zhang's handsome and neat back, and moved her eyebrows slightly, turned her head and said to Lu, "Aunt Lu, I now believe what you said before. My mother is really hot and self-willed."

Lu Shi smiled helplessly and shook his head, "She, she's really getting better and better."

Tao Ti chuckled and helped Lu to sit down again.

——

Xingqing Palace.

Emperor Zhang's sudden request to see, made Emperor Zhaokang quite surprised.

He slowly put down the scroll in his hand and asked Li Gui to invite Zhang in.

An azurite figure walked in quickly, suppressing emotions and saluting.

Emperor Zhaokang said an exemption and asked Li Gui to move her a crescent stool.

Zhang glanced at the stool, but didn't sit on it, and just bowed his head and said, "The minister's wife is here today. There is an important matter to explain to the Supreme Emperor, and the Supreme Emperor also asks the Supreme Emperor to retire from the palace."

After a pause, she added, "It's about the first... Queen Mother."

Emperor Zhaokang's indifferent eyes narrowed, and he said to Li Gui in a deep voice, "Go down with you."

Li Gui screamed, and quickly retreated with a group of palace people.

The hall was quiet, and the dim light in the afternoon passed through the carved window and cast a spot of light on the smooth floor tiles.

Only then did Zhang slowly raise his head. When he saw the man sitting on the couch, his originally angry eyes lost consciousness for a moment.

Why is he so old?

She was astonished. Was the dull and haggard man in front of her still the indifferent, indifferent and majestic emperor before?

Emperor Zhaokang stared at her with deep black eyes, his tone indifferent, "Let's talk about it, what is it about Yuanyuan?"

Zhang Clan was able to return to his senses, his expression was solemn, not to mention those twists and turns, straight to the point, "The eldest prince is your son, do you know?"

Emperor Zhaokang frowned, thinking she was asking this question stupidly, "I know it naturally."

"I mean, he is the flesh and blood of you and Yuanyuan."

"..."

The hall suddenly fell silent, and only two lonely jackdaws were heard outside the room.

Emperor Zhaokang's facial muscles twitched, staring at Zhang closely, his voice tight, and he said solemnly, "You say it again."

Suddenly old, the strong momentum of the emperor's long-standing high position is still heart-shaking.

Zhang Shiqiang suppressed the fear in his heart, and said every word, "The prince, you and Yuanyuan's biological son."

Emperor Zhaokang's thin lips pressed tightly, his expression dull and difficult to distinguish.

Zhang said anxiously, "Have you forgotten that on the Mid-Autumn Festival of the eighteenth year of the Zhaozhao period, you dived to Gu's house in the middle of the night, you, you..."

She couldn't speak for the rest.

Gu Yuan only talked to her and Lu Shi about such secret and embarrassing things. After all, the foreigner sneaked into the boudoir in the middle of the night, and that unbearable thing happened. If it is passed on, you really don't want to be a man.

Emperor Zhaokang's pupils shrank sharply and his shoulders trembled violently.

Isn't everything that day a beautiful dream?

Seeing his reaction, Zhang became emotional and couldn't take care of that much. He sneered, "Do you think Yuan Yuan is the kind of temper that has been messed up with men before marriage? She and Wenming Yan Qing are innocent, and they have always been rules. Shouli, didn't go beyond a little bit. It's you, yourself...how can you let her accept what you did to Yuanyuan? She hates you so much, she can't escape!"

Emperor Zhaokang was shocked, and he only felt a roar in his head.

"Why, why didn't she tell me the truth..." His voice was hoarse and the corners of his eyes were red.

"Yuanyuan married you at the age of 16, and passed away at the age of 27. You have been married to her for ten years. What kind of temper is she, don't you know?" What Zhang actually wanted to say is that you did something to Yuanyuan. Do you think she would be willing to talk to you at that time? I don't have any points in my mind.

Emperor Zhaokang clenched his fists, a gloomy cold light condensed between his brows, and his chest was up and down due to strong emotions.

Seeing his desperate look, Zhang's mood is very complicated.

Yuanyuan has a bad temper, and Emperor Zhaokang didn't do any human affairs back then. The two people got together and really committed a sin!

But what can she say, her marriage in this life will not be a mess.

People are all fans of the authorities and clear bystanders.

After pondering for a while, she sighed, "Yuanyuan is a person who would rather bend than bend. Perhaps, if you were not so strong back then, you wouldn't have come this far..."

After saying this, she bowed to Emperor Zhaokang, "That's all the minister's wife wants to say, and we will leave first."

She left without a haste.

Li Gui and others stood by the door, and when they saw her coming out, they bent over to say goodbye.

Zhang's side just stepped out of the threshold of Xingqing Palace, and suddenly heard an exclamation from the hall——

"It's not good, the emperor is vomiting blood, please call an imperial doctor!"