This queen is not too curly

Wangshu Palace.

Ruan Zhu straightened Yan Yuan's clothes overnight.

She turned Yan Yuan's closet from inside to outside countless times, and finally picked out a few favorites from inside, and held them in front of Yan Yuan: "Young lady, try it out and see which one is suitable for bedtime tomorrow?"

Yan Yuan took a look, and found that those clothes seemed to have never been seen before: "Where did these clothes come from?"

Ruan Zhu said: "It was sent from my mother's house, did my mother forget?"

Yan Yuan suddenly said in embarrassment: "I didn't pay much attention."

The package sent by the Hou's Mansion was very rich, and all her attention was attracted by the crossbow inside the package at that time, and she didn't notice the clothes prepared by her mother at all.

Ruan Zhu unfolded the clothes and laid them flat on the bed.

Yan Yuan only felt that the clothes were more unfamiliar than the last, and asked Ruan Zhu curiously: "Did you pick out the ones from home?"

The Hou's Mansion is far in the northwest. Although the style of the clothes is exquisite and beautiful, they are different from the styles used by the weaving department in the palace.

Ruan Zhu grinned: "Your Majesty, don't worry, servants understand."

Yan Yuan was taken aback: "What do you know?"

Ruan Zhu said: "Your Majesty is worried that this dress looks a little weird, different from others, is it?"

Yan Yuan nodded.

Ruan Zhu said: "The things of the weaving department in the palace are all vulgar things that His Majesty has long been tired of looking at. What's so good about it?"

After she finished speaking, she held up those clothes to Yan Yuan's body for comparison, and then replaced one with another.

At the end of the comparison, she suddenly wrinkled her nose and sniffed, then wrinkled her nose and asked, "Madam, does the Hou Mansion have special spices? There is a... fragrance on these clothes?"

aroma?

Yan Yuan shook her head blankly.

Her mother was the daughter of the former Taifu, she was always dignified and didn't like spices, as for her father...he would sneeze even when he smelled the fragrance of flowers, let alone women who smoked incense.

What scent will it be?

Yan Yuan picked up the clothes and sniffed them, only to feel a cold and clear breath blowing towards her face, not like the fragrance of flowers and lotus, but the breath of the wilderness.

This is……

Yan Yuan was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to her senses.

This is a special kind of pine oil produced by frontier cedar.

Of course, pine oil is not used to make spices. It is generally used by soldiers to lubricate and prevent rust in weapons. I think it should be the smell of pine oil smeared on crossbows. During the long journey with the package, it soaked into the clothes caused by.

Yan Yuan hadn't smelled this smell for a long time, so she couldn't help but take an extra breath.

"Do you want to wash?" she asked Ruan Zhu.

"No need, just keep it. Whether it's the smell or the style, the more special the better."

While putting on Yan Yuan's clothes, she studied how to wear the clothes, and said in her mouth: "It's better to let your majesty want to take off the clothes but can't find a way, can't find the buttons, and can't untie the belt. It's better to be in a hurry."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Ruan Zhu tugged at the tie and tied a very strong knot: "Tomorrow, the slaves will ask the father-in-law to tie the knot for the mother. They are very strong, and this kind of knot will be more vigorous to untie. Keep the sky thunder to stir the fire. I am in a hurry. It can only be torn apart."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Ruan Zhu finally tied a satisfactory knot, walked around Yan Yuan, and said, "Well... the material of the clothes needs to be thinner, and it's not a solution if it can't be torn..."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Ruan Zhu's eyes flickered with light: "Your Majesty, it is unreasonable to ask the Holy Majesty not to do it at that time. Do you want to preview it first?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

No need!

Yan Yuan only felt that the goosebumps all over her body were like landslides.

Looking at Ruan Zhu again, her face was full of radiance, and it was written brightly on her face, "Wait for me to teach you all night." Yan Yuan hurriedly found an excuse and sent her away.

Then get ready for bed.

Yan Yuan naturally understood the style of this dress.

She slowly untied her clothes, and when she came across the tie on her chest, she felt a strong and astringent taste, and it took Yan Yuan a little effort to successfully pull the slipknot.

Sure enough, he almost tore the fabric on the thinnest part of his chest.

"It's not a way to tear it apart."

Ruan Zhu's instant voice flashed through her mind.

Yan Yuan: "..."

……

From the afternoon of the next day, the entire Wangshu Palace began to prepare.

Yan Yuan is like a log, from one process to another, bathing, changing clothes and burning incense, until dusk, she was already drowsy.

Ruan Zhu did exactly as she said, and found the father-in-law in the yard to tie the knots for Yan Yuan's clothes.

"It's all done, the custodian can't pull it for a while, the second time it becomes angry, and the third time it tears the skirt of the clothes, and the anger is disturbed."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Ruan Zhu and his father-in-law exchanged an excited look, and they retired.

Yan Yuan and Chen Niang were left looking at each other.

Silent.

awkward.

Yan Yuan coughed dryly, and asked in a low voice: "Chen Niang, is the medicine I need ready?"

Chen Niang's face was still flushed, and she whispered: "It's ready."

As she spoke, she took out a small paper bag from her sleeve, which contained a little white powder.

Yan Yuan was worried: "Is this medicine that can make people fall asleep?"

Chen Niang shook her head: "No."

Yan Yuan: "Then this medicine..."

Chen Niang lowered her voice and said: "Your Majesty said that the Holy One used to soothe the nerves, so ordinary drugs may not be useful to His Majesty, so what the slaves prepared is not the incense that makes life difficult."

People who are used to calming incense are mostly people with insomnia or restlessness, and the usual medicine and diet must be for regulating qi and nourishing essence.Since it is useless to soothe the nerves, there is only one way left, which is to disturb the mind.

Chen Niang put the medicine powder in Yan Yuan's palm, and worriedly told:

"This medicine is dangerous, so don't overuse it. Take a fingernail-sized dose every two hours, and put it in an incense burner or candlestick."

"The servant girl will prepare some refreshing medicinal powder for the empress, and hide it in the empress' earrings, so as to prevent the empress from being too deeply affected by it."

Yan Yuan took the powder and nodded.

Chen Niang's eyes were full of worry, she didn't know what Yan Yuan was thinking, but she also knew that she was definitely not just serving the bed.

It must be extremely dangerous to play tricks in the Qianzheng Palace.

"My lady, please be careful."

"it is good."

……

At that time, he was in the palace of Qianzheng.

Luo Ziqiu presented a pair of red candles to Chen Lingshen.

Last night, Chen Ling ordered him to prepare some potions, so he sent someone to make this special pair of red candles. There was potion hidden in the middle layer of the red candles. Just light it up and wait quietly, and it will automatically take effect when the time comes.

Luo Ziqiu smiled gracefully: "Light it up when it's dark, and the potion will take effect in about an hour."

Chen Ling's eyes fell on the red candle: "What medicine?"

Luo Ziqiu: "Something that confuses people's mind."

During the sacrificial ceremony in the imperial mausoleum, the empress's reaction to the tranquilizing incense seemed to be a bit strange. The Holy One was very opposed to using tranquilizing incense at night, so he thought of something else.

Luo Ziqiu said: "The dose of the medicine is not large. Your Majesty has heard the soothing incense for a long time, so he should have no reaction to these things."

Chen Ling said seriously, "What will happen to her?"

Luo Ziqiu thought for a while, then smiled softly, "Maybe I'm having a chaotic and intoxicated dream."

In fact, he didn't fully understand what the emperor was thinking.

Chen Lingchen actually didn't want to be with the queen, but he didn't seem to reject this night of bedtime.

He obviously gets very angry when he sees her, but he still likes to move closer to her, as if he is self-torturing.

It's like a child getting his beloved rabbit.

One moment you want to kiss, the next moment you want to strangle its neck.

Yan Yuan's Shen Ling was probably because he was so indecisive that he couldn't figure it out clearly, and was at a loss.

……

According to the old practice of the Yan Kingdom, the queen's bedtime is different from that of the concubines.

When the emperor wants to visit his concubines, he will be led by his father-in-law to their respective palaces in the middle of the month. After spending a good night with the concubines, he will return to the Qianzheng Palace before dawn, and get up in the morning to take a bath.

The queen is regarded as the emperor's first wife. Unlike concubines, the queen will be taken into the Qianzheng Hall by the emperor's usual car before sunset, spend the night with the emperor, and then rest in the Qianzheng Hall.

Therefore, at dusk, the chariots of the Qianzheng Palace landed at the gate of Wangshu Palace.

Yan Yuan smelled a little soothing incense on the chariot.

The smell is not strong, it should be caused by Chen Lingchen's long years of incense, even so, she is still a little sleepy.

She opened the curtain and asked the palace man: "Eunuch, how long is it?"

The eunuch smiled lightly outside the sedan chair: "Although it took me a long time to walk this road, my lady has great blessings, and I will eventually be able to walk it."

Yan Yuan said: "But I am in a hurry."

Since last night, she has been ordered to drink less water and eat less, so as to make her look better. Now she is already hungry, and she is waiting for dinner to continue her life.

The eunuch was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed with a drawn out voice: "Your Majesty is really a temperamental person."

As he spoke, he made the palace people carrying the sedan chairs speed up their pace, and it didn't take long to arrive at the Qianzheng Palace.

"My lady, please come inside."

The eunuch led Yan Yuan into the Qianzheng Hall.

Yan Yuan followed in his footsteps, secretly memorizing the positions of the dark and bright whistles everywhere as she walked, and was guided all the way into the emperor's bedroom.

A table and two chairs have already been placed in the outer room of the emperor's bedroom, and there are a pot and two cups on the table, as well as some meals.

Yan Yuan stopped in front of the table.

The chief eunuch bowed and urged: "Your Majesty, please take a seat."

Yan Yuan sat down expressionlessly.

She was finally sure now that there was nothing wrong with Chen Lingchen being the empress dowager's biological son. The mother and son had a different understanding of meals from others.

There are actually quite a few plates on the table, but most of them are fruit pastries.The remaining seven or eight dishes can be regarded as dishes. There are more vegetarian dishes and less meat dishes. Most of them are steamed or cold, and they are all cold dishes.

"..."

Yan Yuan looked at the meal in front of her, and suddenly found that she couldn't lift her chopsticks.

Let's look back at Shu Gong.

She thought numbly in her heart.

Look back at Shu Gong and come back after eating.

Just when she was in despair, there was a sudden sound of light footsteps behind her, followed by a cold snort: "Why, the queen is not satisfied with the meals in the lonely palace?"

Yan Yuan turned around and met Chen Ling's sarcastic eyes.

Did he do it on purpose?

Deliberately giving off power?
Such a thought flashed across Yan Yuan's mind.

But soon she vetoed her idea.

Because Chen Lingchen took his yin and yang expression all over his face, and sat down beside her, holding the chopsticks with his bony knuckles, picked up some unknown grass and chewed it in his mouth.

Yan Yuan: "?"

He had a calm face, and immediately picked up another piece of meat that had been cut in vain.

Yan Yuan: "???"

Maybe it was because her gaze was so disgusting that Chen Lingchen finally frowned.

He raised his eyes and said coldly, "Eat."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Maybe it's the royal chef in the palace who pursues the basics, ingenious and clumsy?It seems that these dishes are not amazing in appearance, but the taste is actually delicious?

Hope was ignited in Yan Yuan's heart again.

She raised her chopsticks, tentatively took a bite of the vegetable he had picked up just now, put it in her mouth and tried to chew it hesitantly, the next moment the green and bitter taste exploded in her mouth.

Her hands trembled and she almost spat out.

Chen Ling's eyes were dark, and there was a cold light in his eyes.

Yan Yuan had no choice but to forcibly swallow the lump of vegetables. Unexpectedly, the vegetables had a bitter taste in her mouth, but it seemed to be spicy after swallowing, and the indescribable burning sensation stretched all the way to her internal organs.

Yan Yuan almost cried out.

She raised her head with tears in her eyes, only to find that Chen Ling was smiling.

His smile was extremely shallow, like a fluorescent lamp lit in the dark night, with only a little bit of light, faintly visible, but extremely mocking.

"This is bitter grass."

Chen Ling's voice was slow.

He took another chopstick for himself and swallowed it in front of Yan Yuan.

"When the first emperor was on his own expedition, he found this dish from the water in the south. It tasted as bitter as medicine. The first emperor often introspected himself, and was often troubled and worried."

"..."

"Bitter is bitter, but the taste is also refreshing."

"...???"

Does your home Qinrun taste like this? ? ?

Yan Yuan looked at Chen Lingchen in shock.

He really chewed effortlessly, without any emotional fluctuations.

Could this really be his daily meal?

A majestic monarch, just eat this thing?
Yan Yuan didn't believe in evil, she held up her chopsticks, and slowly tried other dishes following Chen Lingchen's movements.Chen Ling took a bite, and she followed suit. By the end of the last table, she had tried seven or eight dishes, and she finally despaired.

The meat has no salt, the vegetables are cold and bitter, and the table is full of delicacies, but she prefers to eat the table.

Chen Lingshen seemed to have no sense of taste, and with lowered eyebrows, he finished his meal in a gentle manner.

Satisfied with wine and food, he put down the bowl and chopsticks, raised his head to meet Shang Yan Yuan's complicated eyes.

He said lightly, "What does the queen want to say?"

Yan Yuan hesitated and asked, "Does Your Majesty usually eat these?"

Chen Ling said in a deep voice, "Why, the queen can't get used to bland food?"

It's not a question of whether it's light or not, okay?

Yan Yuan roared in her heart.

It's not that she hasn't seen ingredients from all over the world. There are many delicious ingredients in this world, and some things are poisonous but delicious, such as fungi in the south and finless porpoise in the north. But she has never seen these non-toxic and difficult Food, if these things cannot be used as medicine, they are not even considered weeds.

Yan Yuan looked at Chen Lingchen with sympathy in her eyes.

Let's go out of the palace, let's go out of the house.

The emperor is meaningless in front of him.

The poor, unlucky thing.

Yan Yuan's eyes were full of pity, and there was a trace of doubt in it, as if she was standing at the other end of the world, looking at the quagmire here.

within walking distance.

The distance of the sky.

Chen Lingshen suddenly forgot to breathe.

The familiar restlessness welled up in his chest, like a knife cutting a new twig, and a wind blew in the wilderness.

"Since we don't agree with each other, why not do something serious."

A sneer twitched at the corner of Chen Lingshen's mouth, he grabbed Yan Yuan's wrist maliciously, and dragged her into the bedroom.

This time her eyes were finally no longer filled with pity, she widened her eyes, and there was a surprised light in her pupils.

Chen Ling looked into her eyes deeply, caught the flash of panic in her eyes, and suddenly that gloominess was tinged with pleasure.

After all, this mushroom is still scared.

This is good.

Better than before.