When the eunuch entered Jingyang Palace to report, Huanan Xin was sitting at the square table of three curved legs in lobular sandalwood, focusing on stringing watermelon green-carved beads on a rope.
On the table, three wisps of green smoke were ethereal from the hollowed-out golden-wire burner. The aroma was burning and the room was filled with warm fog.
On one side was a white glaze bottle with tangled branches and two light pink lilies were obliquely inserted into the bottleneck.
The flowers had six petals in pink and purple, which were rather enchanting. The yellow pistil was crystal clear and beautiful.
"Your Majesty, the honor guards of the Fourth Princess will enter the Nine Gate tomorrow."
"OK, I see..."
Huanan Xin did not move his eyes at all. He just answered languidly.
He straightened the eight-treasure bracelet with his hands and looked at it carefully. The arrangement of several
On the fifth day of May, Huanan Jiyan, who was Princess Huaishu and the fourth half-sister of the Emperor Huanan Xin, and her husband led a team to the capital to pay a visit.The team marched across the road. It stretched to the horizon.There were 100 servants, 1,000 guards, and 50 carts of silk, treasures, various cattle, sheep and livestock and gifts. This was extremely luxurious. It could be said that it had given Huanan Jiyan enough face and made her have supreme glory in front of her mother's family.They rested in the hotel for a day. The next day, Huanan Jiyan and her husband went to the palace to meet the Emperor.Emperor Huanan Xin knew the original intention of her and Lu Qiange's arrival. Taking into account the royal etiquette, he led the ministers and concubines in front of the Imperial Hall to meet them.At nine o'clock in the morning, the golden topped sandalwood rose car stopped slowly outside the Mer
The fight stopped suddenly."Yunxi?"Huanan Xin was stunned and seemed to be unbelievable until the door of the hall opened. Gu Yunxi entered lightly in a lake blue skirt embroidered with three treasures, lotus leaves, and tassels. Then his eyes were as bright as snow, with unspeakable surprises.The young emperor stretched out his hand and trembled with excitement."Come on, let her in!"It was time to meet Gu Yunxi. Huanan Jiyan was so nervous.After calming her mind, she looked at Lu Qiange silently."Yunxi?"Huanan Xin was so excited that when the graceful figure crossed the threshold, he strode forward."How did you get out of Jingyang Palace? It's almost noon. Is it hot outside? Do you feel better?"There were a series of warm greetings. He was meticulous, and there was a keen affection in his eyes.Gu Yunxi was wearing a bright lake bl
The sun was shining high, and there were all kinds of carriages in the empty field in front of the door outside Miaoyin Hall.The imperial concubines followed Noble Concubine Hui into the hall. They sat on the armchairs one by one with dry mouths, humming."Oh, what's the matter? I got up at four o'clock in the morning to dress up. I haven't eaten yet."Jieyu Jiang held a honey-colored handkerchief with her thin white fingers, pressed it on her chest, bowed her head, and retched twice.Concubine Liang sitting opposite her saw the scene, raised her eyebrows wisely, pretended to make a fuss, covered her mouth and nose, and exclaimed, "Oh, sister, what's the matter? Are you pregnant?"Jieyu Jiang's face turned red and her anger was unbearable."You can really tease me. His Majesty hasn't been to my Feihong Hall for half a year. How can I be pregnant?""I'm just kidding. You can't tell?"
In the palace, Gu Yunxi wrapped a boiled egg with the clean handkerchief, carefully rolling it on Zhiqi's face.Previously, Zhiqi had served Concubine Yu, Gu Yunyao in Jingyang Palace. When Gu Yunxi's face was changed into the original appearance, she often went into the Palace and visited Gu Yunyao. Hence, Gu Yunxi once saw Zhiqi several times.Zhiqi sat on a chair, seeing every decoration and furniture in the Palace with sad eyes. She described the past things in a crying voice."As soon as I come back to here, I am always reminded of the day when I served Her Grace, Concubine Yu. In that year, she went to the Jiangnan Feudatory together with the Seventh Prince. But she could only take Lord Zhao and Song Qin away, so that we were sent to other palaces and took tasks there. Today I fortunately come across you. If I meet others, I must have been beat to death."Hearing that, Gu Yunxi was sympathetic in mind. She took the saf
"Who are you talking about?"Instantly, Gu Yunxi astonishedly stood up from the chair. In her eyes, the clear waves spread, making the eyes darker and deeper.Her numb heart which had been frozen long suddenly convulsed. When her whole body seemed to be struck by thunder, she was stunned.Huanan He...She was so familiar with the name which hadn't been heard long. It was just like the shackle of fate, twisting around her heart so that they couldn't be apart."Huanan He... Huanan He!"Gu Yunxi muttered in a sad voice, as tears were going to flood from her swollen eyes. But she tried to refrain so that she wouldn't easily shed tears."Is the man you have talked about... Huanan He?"Zhiqi was astonished, subconsciously nodding and lowering her eyebrows. She didn't know which word she said was wrong and made Gu Yunxi sad."Your Grace, the Ninth Prince's name is Hua
Having walked out of the bedroom, Gu Yunxi saw five women in the hall. Two were sitting and three were standing, talking about something in a low voice.On hearing gentle footsteps approaching, they all looked in the direction of the sounds and saw Gu Yunxi.Suddenly, it was silent in the hall.In front of them, it was the Emperor's favorite concubine who was only about eighteen or nineteen years old. She had fair skin and a lovely face, looking as beautiful as a lotus in snow.There wasn't much makeup on her small face. She was poised and was as charming as a woman who had just been in the Emperor's favor.Her pretty eyes were shiny and bright, looking like a pool of spring water, shining with knowledge.She had a delicate nose, pink lips, a slender neck, and a trim waist.She had changed into a bright silk royal outfit with less obvious patterns. On top of that, she wore a white tunic with l
Gu Yunxi's words immediately surprised the five women. They looked at each other. Then Concubine Liang stood up with a smile, putting her delicate hand on Gu Yunxi's shoulder."Yunxi, you should not listen to Jieyu Jiang. She is young and rude. Please sit down, and let's just chat."Jieyu Jiang pursed her red lips, moving restlessly and complaining."Sister Concubine Liang, you are being hypocritical. It is you who are curious about Jingyang Palace and want to know more about it, so you asked us all to come together. Yunxi is a sincere person, so why can't you tell her the truth? I helped you today, but you blame me for it.""Er, this… This..."She couldn't pretend anymore.Concubine Liang's face made as smooth as boiled egg white by the rose makeup, suddenly became red and flushed. Dodging eye contact, she turned to look at Gu Yunxi.The two of them grinned in unison and laughed strangely for
Lady Wan's proposal stunned Gu Yunxi.Seeing her well-behaved standing opposite the table and holding the gold box firmly with a naive appearance, Gu Yunxi was really upset.The remaining four women were all quiet. Some looked at Lady Wan, while others peeked at Gu Yunxi, wondering what would happen to them.Concubine Liang smiled faintly with darkness in her eyes. She was silently concerned about the beautiful Gu Yunxi.She was smart. So she knew that Gu Yunxi was putting on air by the power of the emperor.Seeing Gu Yunxi did not immediately reply to Lady Wan, Concubine Liang on the side added very timely, "Oops, Sister Wan, the mermaid bead is the bauble given to Yunxi by His Majesty. How can you also be childish and compete for it with Yunxi?"These harmless words seemed to complain that Lady Wan was not sensible. In fact, she forced Gu Yunxi.Didn't she boast that this box of mermaid bead
Terra Nova's ninth year of the Daedalic Years, early spring.Kamakawa Yusui is shocked and annoyed when he receives news of a coup at the Imperial Palace and the imminent ascension of Prince Fuchi Yasutaka to the throne as the next Emperor.Since the Kunhuang Island and Huananhe lost a battle, Kamachi sailors suffered a heavy blow, Kamakawa was forced to take the remaining troops retreated to the south of Kunhuang Island, Tsuneoshima stationed.Unexpectedly, just when he was trying to avoid the previous shame and had been intensifying the study of the new combat program, the country had a great turnaround.Can't think too much, Kamakawa by water immediately point all 10,000 Ying army, lead five Anzai ship and a number of ships, with enough artillery Furlong machine fire speed back to Ying, swore to fight with and Shigeru cuts a high and low winners and losers.One night, as Kamakawa's fleet secretly approached Mizumura Harbor in Kyoto, a thick fog sudde
In the banquet hall of the palace, the fire and candles were bright, four dancing girls lined up, green silk buns, colorful makeup, silk sleeves fluttering and swaying, dancing in a slow and rhythmic dance.Two or three male musicians are not far from them, playing strings, flute, drums, each person's face is calm and solemn, but in the eyes of God duh, seems to have the essence of the aura of a hidden flash.The dinner was organized to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of Emperor Fuchi Masaharu, but due to the defeat of the Terra Nova army in Weihai, many of the entertainments were temporarily canceled, and only the traditional Yehime songs and dances were retained.Profound Ya Qing was the main character of tonight's banquet, at this time he was wearing brand new scarlet damask silk clothes kneeling above the chief belonging to him, looking quiet and enjoying the songs and dances.On the seats to his left were the former Emperor's side consort, Daiji, with h
Terra Nova, Kyoto.As night falls, in a short house in the civilian area, the blind man is anxiously waiting for his mother-in-law to return home from work.She hadn't been back for a day and a night, and that definitely hadn't happened in the past.Could it be that the Ninth Princess has encountered something on her end?Rustling footsteps stopped unexpectedly at the door.The blind man's sense of hearing is much more sensitive than normal people, his eyebrows slightly gathered, and without moving, he got up and lightly rubbed his steps to the wooden cabinet, and touched a sharp dagger from the top of the cabinet and quietly hid it in the sleeve of his coat.The door of the room opened, and by the sound of the footsteps coming in there should be two of them."You're Suigo Show's man, aren't you?"The one who asked the question in Terra Nova was a young man.The blind man turned his head sideways, carefully recognizing the source
A cold wind cut through the long, narrow corridor, and the lights flickered dimly.The man's ragged gasps continued to spill out of the closed wooden lattice barricade door, accompanied by the occasional few hushed cries of pain from the woman."Haru, come on, I'll accompany you to your room."Looking at Yuan Ya Qing's stagnant and godless clear face, Yun Shi's heart seized more than just pain as she tugged on one of his arms.The commotion in the room was in no way suitable for a teenager to be listening in.The teenager's eyes were lax as he took two steps with her, speaking quietly in Chinese: ."...Master, you have to trust me as well...it wasn't Mother and I's idea to march into Da Yi."Yun Shi suddenly became miserable inside, opened and closed his nose and said."I believed you, never had a doubt, and it was for that reason that I traveled across the river and across the sea to meet you in person in Terra Nova."The two co
"Yue Xilou, you traitor shall not die!"Qi and blood surged, and a strong hatred that had never been felt before invaded Yun Shi's consciousness.She jumped up with her eyes heavy with red and lunged at her enemy with all her might, reaching for his neck.Yue Xilou laughed scornfully and kicked her backwards with a flying leg.Yun Shi fell out onto the hard floor a few feet away, choking on blood and letting out a pained _groan_.Wamochi stretched his neck to look at it, grinning imploringly.Tsukishiro looks at the samurai on either side :)"Don't just stand there, take her down and keep her under good guard, she'll be of great use in the future.""Slow down ......"Yun Shi forced to endure the pain of bones about to break trembling climbed up, far away from looking at the abyss Ya Qing, the expression of desolate:"Your Majesty, I have something to say to you, please send the counselor."Empress Yuanya immediately s
The fact that the mute applicant, Yun, who was originally scrubbed out of the test, has been recognized by the Emperor as the Imperial Chef, shocks the entire Grand Cookhouse early the next morning.The cooks and handymen who had looked down on her earlier were now gathered in front of the stove in the cooking room, watching intently as she operated it herself.Even in the past days always rigid board a big white face of apricot leaf female master, this time all people before and after chasing after Yun Shi everywhere running, flattery, mouth like a river, all do their best to please. At sunrise, Yunshi was wearing a green coat and pants, put on a large apron to the stove to do the work.With white flour rolled out and crabmeat and shrimp mince and red fish roe in the filling, the meat buns are pinched out with absolutely thirty-three folds.Chicken breast, corn and green beans are sauteed in oil, thickened with soy sauce and pan-fried wine, and wrapped in so
He is, after all, the Emperor!Following the direction of Master Apricot Leaf's kneeling, Yun Shi looked at the teenager, his eyes filled with astonishment.The standing tasseled crown and the yellow coat are indeed the symbols of the imperial nobility of Terra Nova.But, this young man, he is actually the Emperor."Mute, why don't you kneel down!"The apricot leaf matron raised her eyes to the unresponsive Gu Yunshi and chided."Eh, forget it, forget it ...... Master Chief, you get up too."Meeting Yun Shi's eyes, the teenager's face flushed red and blushed as he explained: ."Granny, I don't mean to deceive you ...... I, I didn't eat well in the evening meal, and I was really hungry just now."Yun Shi's complexion returned to normal, pursed her lips and waved her hand, indicating that she didn't mind.Heh, how could she mind?She was begging for it!The hostess rises obsequiously and comes up to nod at the tee
The night fell slowly, blotting out the last rays of red light in the sky.The entire Western Garden was silent.Cloudseeker stood in the tiny compound under the endless sky, raising his head to look up at the dark inky colors of the night sky.In the field of vision, that heavy darkness seems to carry some kind of adsorption magic, only teaching people to look at a glance, want to look through.She failed the test to become a chef and lost her chance to enter the palace and meet the Emperor.Such a result directly disrupted all her latter plans.After losing her temper for a while, she thought of Hua Nanhe, who is still fighting in the battlefield, Yingyu, who is trapped in the palace of Dayi, and brother Mu Xiu, who is waiting for them to return home.Yun Shi's eyes burned as she quickly regained her fighting spirit.Now is not the time to be discouraged, since one way does not work, then find another way.The hour was already
Terra Nova, outside the Abyssinian Palace, West Court.The large cooking room was busy with players in white shirts and blue pants around wooden cases and stoves.In five days, Emperor Fuchiya's fifteenth birthday will be celebrated, and not only will there be a large-scale celebration dinner at the palace, but an all-day parade and festival will be organized throughout Kyoto."Faster, faster, the hour for the king to pass the meal is almost here, and later on your handmade delicacies will be the basis for whether or not you can stay as a loose cook."The woman in charge, Apricot Leaf, is in her thirties, with a purple shirt and pants, wandering around every corner of the cooking room with a stern look, urging the contestants with her mouth, and repeatedly scrutinizing their cooking techniques with her cold and warm gaze.The twenty casual chef applicants came from Terra Nova folk, both men and women, and most of their referrals were cooks and assistant