After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 23
Coming out of Ye Ting Palace, before Li Lingyue's driver reached the gate of Fengyang Pavilion, he saw Grand Duke Yang Yi beside Empress Wu standing outside the gate pacing back and forth from afar.

When the latter saw Li Lingyue, he hurried forward to salute:

"The servant has seen the princess!"

"Eunuch Yang, what brought you here?" Li Lingyue, who was sitting on the driver's seat, asked jokingly.

"The princess was joking, this servant is under the order of the empress, please move to Shanggong Bureau!"

Li Lingyue frowned. The Shanggong Bureau is in charge of the department and is mainly responsible for sewing and weaving. Every time she is asked by the Empress Wu to learn embroidery or work as a female worker, she has to report to the Shanggong Bureau, even though she has not been there for a long time. Yes, but when she mentions that place, she feels a shock in her heart.

"It shouldn't be. My mother has been busy forming cliques recently. How could she be so leisurely to go to the meritorious service? Do you want to teach me needlework again?"

As soon as I thought about it, I asked tentatively: "Eunuch Yang, why did my mother appear in the Shanggong Bureau?"

Yang Yi shook the floating dust, and replied prevaricately: "This... I don't know about this servant girl, the empress only said that the princess must rush over as soon as possible!"

Having said all this, Li Lingyue felt a chill in her heart, knowing that this hurdle would be impossible to pass.

As the only daughter who has been with Empress Wu for many years, she knows her old lady's temper very well.If the father-in-law around me can invite her personally, something must happen, and I can't disobey her anyway.

With an uneasy mood, Li Lingyue drove straight to Shanggong Bureau.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he found that the palace people were very busy going in and out.

The lobby of Shanggong Bureau is full of female workers at the moment. They have a clear division of labor, including cutting, sewing, ironing, embroidery, and flower weaving... Looking around, it is estimated that there are no. 30 people .

Accompanied by Cui Daizhao and Sun Gongzheng, Empress Wu sat in the tea room in the lobby, separated only by a bead curtain.

Li Lingyue stepped forward quickly, stopped two steps away from the curtain, bent her waist, and greeted Empress Wu honestly:
"Daughter has seen Auntie!"

"Come on!" Empress Wu just replied lazily. From the tone of her voice, it seemed that there was no sign of getting angry. Li Lingyue couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and then asked:

"I don't know why my mother called my daughter here?"

Empress Wu didn't answer right away, but waved her hand, and Sun Gong of Shang Gong Bureau hurried forward and knelt down, waiting for instructions.

"Sun Gongzheng, you will personally supervise her to embroider, and you must make one today!"

"Yes, madam!"

Sun Gongzheng kowtowed and got up, took a few steps back, turned around and opened the curtain, walked up to Li Lingyue, bowed slightly and said:

"Princess, please!"

'It's over, it's over, this BT mother really wants to teach me embroidery, this is because she is determined to train me to be a perfect little expert, what should I do? '

She knew Li Lingyue's sad face and Empress Wu's stubborn temper, as long as she decided on something, no one could persuade her.

Helpless, he had no choice but to stomp his feet, mentally cursed "Old Antique", and followed Sun Gongzheng obediently.

Sun Gong was leading Li Lingyue and found her an embroidery station. The arrangement of the station was very simple, a square wooden frame with a red Shu brocade stretched in the middle, and a basket in front of the futon where she was sitting. There are silk threads of various colors, as well as scissors and embroidery needles.

"Princess, please embroider a mandarin duck brocade handkerchief here!" Sun Gong expressed no expression on the front, and made a "please" gesture to Li Lingyue.

Li Lingyue sat down bravely, twisted a thin embroidery needle, turned her head and asked in a discussion tone:

"Old Sun... No! Sun Gongzheng, can I embroider only one? Two are too many!"

After saying that, Sun Gongzheng rolled her eyes and said calmly: "That won't work, mandarin ducks form a pair, how can there be any reason to embroider only one!"

"Do you have to embroider mandarin ducks? You can't embroider dogs or cats!" Li Lingyue argued.

"Princess, please don't talk nonsense, these are the gifts prepared for the crown princess, and there is no room for mistakes!"

"What! Brother Prince is getting married?" Li Lingyue was taken aback.

"Princess, don't make any noise!" Sun Gongzheng frowned and hurriedly reminded.

Li Lingyue suddenly understood that her old mother came to Shang Gong Ju to prepare the wedding ceremony for the prince, no wonder the whole Shang Gong Ju was so busy.

Weddings in the Tang Dynasty also followed the "six ceremonies" of the Zhou Dynasty. The general process is: Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, asking for a date, and welcoming.

Now we have reached the step of "acceptance", that is, the man needs to prepare a dowry gift and send it to the woman's house. From the process point of view, the candidate for the crown princess has been determined, and the next step is to wait for a date to marry.

As a queen, Wu Zetian is in charge of the harem, and is also the biological mother of the prince. Naturally, she needs to take care of the son's marriage process. .

Although Li Lingyue has not met her future "sister-in-law", as the princess's sister-in-law, it is reasonable to buy a wedding gift for her future sister-in-law.

After thinking through this verse, Li Lingyue suddenly felt powerless, because she really didn't know how to do needlework. She was twisting the embroidery needle in her hand and gesturing for a long time. She didn't know where to start, so she had the cheek to ask Sun Gongzheng for advice. The appearance of an old monk entering meditation is none of his business.

After spending about an incense stick of time, Li Lingyue was really not used to having people standing behind her, so she simply went to ask Wu Zetian again, and after a lot of hard work, she finally dismissed Sun Gongzheng, the "humanoid monitor".

Without restraint, she was finally able to let herself go. After a long time of fiddling at the work station, she finally completed her first embroidery work in her life.

Although she has been pricked with countless needles, Li Lingyue is still very satisfied with her work, and she can't help saying:

"Xiu'er! Is that you!"

When she confidently took the brocade handkerchief to Empress Wu's place for inspection, when she lifted the beaded curtain, Wu Zetian inside was like a frightened bird, fluttering her long sleeves, and hurriedly hid a thing on the case under her skirt.

She hid it well, but Cui Daizhao, who was kneeling next to her, twisted a ball of thread in her hand, and she froze on the spot.

"Eh? Mother, what are you doing?" Li Lingyue asked subconsciously.

Unexpectedly, Empress Wu's cheeks flushed, and she yelled at Li Lingyue angrily:

"Who let you in! Go back!"

Empress Wu let out a roar that frightened Li Lingyue into a fright, but then her brows were filled with joy, as if she had received an amnesty, she turned around and ran out!

"Get out of here!"

Empress Wu's expression quickly returned to normal. Seeing that her daughter wanted to take the opportunity to escape, it would give her a chance to go out with a loud voice, and called Li Lingyue back.

Seeing that there was no hope of escape, Li Lingyue had no choice but to return and wait for training.

Mother and daughter faced each other, Wu Hou took the tea on the case, took a sip lightly, concealed a little embarrassment, and asked:
"Have you finished embroidering everything you embroidered?"

"Aniang, the embroidery is finished!" Li Lingyue waved the work in her hand and replied confidently.

Empress Wu nodded in satisfaction, and raised her hand: "Show me!"

Li Lingyue handed over the brocade handkerchief respectfully, Empress Wu took it and opened it slowly...

In the next moment, she saw a rich emotional change in Empress Wu's expression.

First came anticipation, then doubt, and finally gradually turned into anger.

'Isn't my mother a chameleon? '

Li Lingyue was complaining on one side, but Empress Wu on the other side stood up, and with a snap, threw the brocade handkerchief towards her.

"Look at what you embroidered, why did I, Wu Meiniang, give birth to you, a useless thing!"

Hey, two days ago you praised me for being awesome, but today you turn your back on me and don't recognize anyone!

Li Lingyue, who was criticized, picked up the brocade handkerchief on the ground dejectedly, and just wanted to refute a few words, but saw that the things that Empress Wu had hidden under her body rolled out because of her getting up.

"Hey, mother, what are you embroidering?"

(End of this chapter)