This queen is not too curly

Chapter 8
Half an hour later, Yan Yuan rode a chariot and was taken by the palace staff to the Cide Palace where the Empress Dowager lived.

There were not many passers-by along the way, and the vermilion palace wall beside the road was covered with yellow glazed tiles, layer upon layer, solemn and solemn. She walked among them for a while, and suddenly saw a different kind of color in the red wall in front of her. color.

It was a blue-gray wall topped with black glazed tiles, which seemed out of place among the red walls and yellow tiles.

Yan Yuan asked curiously, "Where is that place?"

Although there are many pigments in the world today, blue is not so easy to get.Most of the common blues need to be extracted from the mined ore to be ground into powder and then ground out. Most of the literati used these colors when they painted. This house is actually used to paint the walls?

Gong Ren said: "Go back to Madam, that's Bixi Palace where Concubine Xu lives."

Yan Yuan was dumbfounded.

She originally thought that such a handwriting was at least a sacrificial hall for ancestors, but she didn't expect it to be the courtyard where the concubine lived.Then this kind of favor is far more powerful than those folk rumors about the exclusive favor of the Jiuchiroulin harem.

"After all, Your Majesty has the grace to save your life, Concubine Xu." The palace attendant accompanied Yan Yuan, smiling decently, "Your Majesty treats people with deep affection, and it is also a blessing to the empress."

Yan Yuan was startled, then laughed: "My father-in-law is right."

The people in this palace are indeed eloquent.

The walking chariot went all the way east, and after an unknown amount of time, it finally slowly stopped in front of a remote palace gate.

Yan Yuan got off the chariot with doubts.

The palace people knew her expression well, and explained with a smile: "The queen mother has always liked flowers, birds, insects and fish. She also said that the imperial garden hides the wind and gathers energy. The treasure land should be reserved for young people, so that the emperor's heirs can accumulate the fortune of the country. It doesn't matter if she is old. So live far away."

Yan Yuan nodded, and let the palace staff guide her into the Palace of Kindness.

The Palace of Compassion and Virtue is indeed as the palace people said, the inner courtyard is picturesque, with luxuriant vegetation, Yan Yuan walked through it all the way, and finally arrived at the front hall.

On the main seat of the main hall, the Empress Dowager sat upright.

The palace man led Yan Yuan to her, and said softly: "Report to the Queen Mother, the empress has brought it."

Yan Yuan followed suit and bowed: "Yan Yuan, daughter of the Yan family, has seen the empress dowager for a thousand years."

The hall was empty and quiet, and the queen mother did not make a sound for a long time.

Naturally, Yan Yuan didn't dare to get up, she knelt on the ground, watching her own shadow reflected on the smooth floor tiles.

After a while, a gentle and kind voice sounded: "Queen, please get up and sit beside Aijia."

Yan Yuan got up slowly, she didn't quite understand whether the etiquette in the palace required a few excuses, she hesitated for a moment, and then walked to the chair beside the queen mother and sat down.

Until now, she finally saw the Queen Mother's face clearly.

She was a woman in her fifties, with a dignified and demure face, and the lines around her eyes added a bit of kindness to her.

At this moment, the Queen Mother was looking at Yan Yuan with a smile, her eyes were warm: "Did Yuan'er sleep well last night? Is there anything missing in the palace?"

Yan Yuan nodded: "...everything is fine."

It wasn't her truth, of course, but it wasn't a lie either.

The Empress Dowager stared into her eyes, turned her eyes around her body several times, and suddenly reached out to touch her shoulder, and a gentle smile appeared on her face the next moment: "I'm stronger than when I was a child."

Yan Yuan raised her head suspiciously.

The queen mother smiled and said: "Don't you remember? Before you were three years old, Yanhou often took you into the palace. Every evening, you hugged Aijia's legs and refused to leave, clamoring to stay in the palace as a princess. "

Now Yan Yuan was really stunned.

She only remembered that her father and the empress dowager had always had few friends. A regent empress dowager and a fierce general occupying the frontier, would they have such a time?

The Queen Mother naturally took Yan Yuan's hand, and smiled more and more kindly: "Nowadays, the Ai family is fortunate that the late emperor did not agree to accept you as a righteous daughter."

Yan Yuan looked at the queen mother's smiling eyes, and it took her a long time to understand the meaning of her words: If the first emperor recognized her as a righteous daughter and made her a princess, then she would not be able to be the queen today.

The Empress Dowager did not hesitate to speak and love her, and chatted with her about family affairs, just like a real loving mother looking at her beloved daughter, with tenderness in the corners of her eyes and brows.

If she hadn't known about her deal with her father a long time ago, she would have almost believed it.

Just a little bit.

"Yuan'er, you are a good boy." After the long warm-hearted foreshadowing, the queen mother stared at Yan Yuan and said, "The marriage between you and the emperor was decided after discussion between the Ai family and your father, and you have not been consulted before."

Yan Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then slowly raised her head.

"In recent years, the people have criticized Shen'er a lot, and people's words are terrifying." The Queen Mother looked into Yan Yuan's eyes, as if to see through her soul, "Aijia wants to know, is it because of this marriage that you... Father Yan Zhou, do you have resentment towards Aijia?"

The Empress Dowager's voice is gentle and old, like the evening wind before the night.

This is obviously a sending proposition.

If you say you haven't heard the criticisms about the stupid and tyrant, then you are lying in front of the Queen Mother; if you say you don't feel resentment, it is obviously a crime of deception; if you are willing, what is the purpose?
Whether she answered yes or no, it was wrong.

Seeing Yan Yuan's silence, the corner of the Queen Mother's mouth curled into a thoughtful smile, and she asked, "Why, Yuan'er doesn't want to answer?"

"No." Yan Yuan thought for a while before answering, "Actually... Yuan'er met the Holy Majesty when she was young."

"Ok?"

"Yuan'er was ignorant when she was young, Zeng Nv disguised herself as a man and secretly followed her father to go hunting in autumn. She saw the Holy Majesty bending his bow and shooting arrows, riding a horse and raising his whip."

Yan Yuan blinked and lowered her eyes, "The Holy Majesty was chasing a deer at that time, and he chased it into the forest, but found that it was a doe feeding a fawn. The Holy Majesty shot down the arrow and let the doe and the fawn return. Mountain forest."

Yan Yuan spoke eloquently, very slowly.Of course she didn't see that scene with her own eyes, but she had heard her father mention this incident back then, and now she pretended to be there and told it, lest the details would not sound real enough.

At the end, she paused for a moment before whispering: "No matter what the outsiders say about the Holy Majesty, the Holy Majesty I have seen is a very soft-hearted person."

After Yan Yuan finished speaking, she lowered her head slightly and looked at the hem of her skirt.

The queen mother did not speak for a long time.

After a long time, Yan Yuan heard the Queen Mother's sigh from above her head: "Yes, Shen'er is a very affectionate person."

The Empress Dowager's words changed, and there was a bit of sarcasm in her voice: "So Yuan'er fell in love with Shen'er because of this?"

Yan Yuan shook her head and said, "No."

The queen mother was stunned: "Oh?"

Under her surprised gaze, Yan Yuan lowered her eyelashes, and whispered: "There are many soft-hearted people in the world. Your Majesty, he is especially good-looking."

It's not enough to be convincing just because you are soft-hearted.

She also needs the simplest reason.

It has nothing to do with fame and wealth, and it doesn't need to be listed in the history books. It's just a simple woman's initial excitement for a man, with a truth that doesn't need to be whitewashed.

It is most appropriate to be inspired by color.

(End of this chapter)