There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 75 is just the beginning

After the empress returned home, Tang Wanning and Xia Houjue also left separately.

The New Year's Eve banquet was coming to an end, Emperor Jingyuan had already left the banquet, and the rest of the people were also preparing to leave in twos and threes.

Xia Houjue took Tang Wanning back to Yuqing Palace directly, and he cheekily followed Tang Wanning to Chaoluan Palace, where he ate some dumplings.

After a while, the two sat on the roof and watched the fireworks for a while, and it was already ugly time when they got down.

In the inner room, they are still in the same bed, still far apart.

What is rare is that the two have completely lost the sense of alienation they used to have.

Xia Houjue wrapped her silky and soft hair around her fingers and asked with great interest.

"How do you know that the Queen has bad intentions tonight?"

"Not only do I know that the queen has bad intentions, but I also know that the Meng family is an accomplice!" Tang Wanning said lazily.

During this period of time, the queen was jumping up and down just to get a concubine for the prince, and Miss Yun didn't know which family it was from. In short, the queen would not be so good at letting go.

What she could think of, Xia Houjue naturally thought of it too, and didn't ask any more questions, so the soldiers could only cover it up with water and earth.

After putting all these unhappiness aside, Xia Houjue suddenly thickened his lips.

"Since you are so smart, why did you enter the palace in the first place!"

If she doesn't want to come, there may be no way, he believes that this woman can do anything.

Tang Wan stared at her blankly: "You speak lightly!"

"Of course I won't come if I'm the only one, but I still have a big family. If I don't come, what will my parents and brothers do?"

Xia Houjue laughed again.

"Then you should understand that you entered the palace...things haven't improved, and even...this is just the beginning!"

"I thought it was too simple! I thought I could just enter the palace!"

She lowered her eyes, looking gloomy.

"A glass of wine releases the military power! I never thought that this day would come so soon!"

"You guessed it?" Xia Houjue was surprised.

Tang Wanning remained silent, as long as the military power was in father's hands for a day, the emperor would be suspicious and jealous for a day, how could he not understand such a simple question!

"Forget it, don't think about it!" She smiled wryly, something shiny flashed in her eyes.

"Take one step at a time!"

The imperial power is greater than the sky, and the king's prestige crushes people to death.

She didn't know what else to do other than living in this deep palace and carefully maintaining it.

Quite passive, but the reality is so cruel.

"I hope you will ascend to the throne soon, our Tang family has come a long way! You won't clean up our house as soon as you come up!" Tang Wanning looked at him, with a rare seriousness in her teasing tone.

"I did think about it before!"

"What about now?" Tang Wanning was a little nervous, her lips tightly pressed together.

"Now... too!" Xia Houjue smiled maliciously.

Tang Wanning's face turned colorful in an instant: "Hey! You have to be ashamed!"

Xia Houjue pushed her raised head down and ordered: "Sleep!"

Tang Wanning stood up and stared at him again: "Despicable!"

Xia Houjue raised the corners of her lips, and kissed her hard on the cheek involuntarily.

"If you dare to talk nonsense again, you will not be polite!"

Tang Wanning was a little dazed.

After a year, her complexion has become much fairer, rosy in white, translucent and smooth.

She rubbed her cheeks, turned over and buried her face in the quilt, and stopped moving.

Xia Houjue smiled, turned over, grabbed her waist forcibly, and covered her with the quilt.

"Thank you for today's work!"

……

The next day is the first day of the new year.

The emperor and empress will hold a grand ceremony to worship their ancestors in Fengxian Hall.

Not only high-ranking concubines in the harem will be present, but all princes and concubines in the clan will be present.

Just after Yin time, many people have already come outside Fengxian Hall one after another.

Everyone stood quietly in their positions, holding their breath and waiting for the arrival of the empress.

As the clan wife, Tang Wanning stood together with Princess Heping, with the concubines in the harem in front, and the princes, concubines and concubines outside the palace behind.

The princes and lords stood together. As the prince of the East Palace, Xia Houjue was second only to the emperor, and the remaining princes were neatly arranged according to the rank of the descendants.

Standing in front of the princes, Xia Houyan looked at the aloof Xia Houjue with viciousness and longing in his eyes.

This position is obviously his own, it should be his own, and it should belong to him, so why should he be taken away?
The queen mother asked him to wait, but he has been waiting for so many years, how long will he have to wait?

In order to let the eldest grandson of the emperor be born under her knees, the queen mother arranged people in all the mansions.

King Ning has them, King Ping has them, and the prince... and soon there will be ones too. Those people will try their best to make the little prince die after he is born.

He doesn't have to worry about anything, all the roads are paved, but why is he getting impatient?

"The emperor is here! The empress is here!"

Li Baoyuan's familiar voice sounded, and everyone knelt down to pay their respects.

"Exemption, flat body!" Emperor Jingyuan laughed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After everyone got up, they separated into two sides in front of the Fengxian Hall, and watched the emperor take the prince into the inner hall of the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestors. The rest of the people could only worship outside the hall.

The Fengxian Hall enshrines every emperor of the ancestors of the Great Xia Dynasty. Those who are eligible to enter the Fengxian Hall to pay homage to their ancestors, except the emperor, are the princes.

Therefore, Xia Houyan could only watch helplessly as Xia Houjue entered behind his father.

Emperor Jingyuan was over fifty years old, his body was fat and his face was old, and in a few years, his memory would even decline.

Xia Houyan clenched his fists tightly, anxious in his heart, he couldn't wait any longer, just these few years, he had to take back what belonged to him.

He's had enough of looking at others like this, he's had enough!
……

The ceremony of worshiping the ancestors is complicated.

It was almost noon when it was all over, the prince and lord were still fine here, but the women's side was so cold that they could hardly stand still.

When Xia Houjue came out after Emperor Jingyuan, he saw Tang Wanning's little face flushed from the cold at a glance.

Indeed, standing here before dawn, it is almost noon now, and the north wind blows snowflakes in the middle of the day, Tang Wanning, who is hungry, has already started to stare at the stars.

I don't know when will it end? !

Not to mention anything else, she couldn't bear this 'hungry' alone.

When has she ever been hungry in more than ten years?But why come to the palace to be hungry on the first day of the new year, how can this be justified?
When Tang Wanning's eyes were faltering with golden stars, suddenly a warm fox fur cloak wrapped around her body.

She who was about to freeze was finally relieved, and she had a glimmer of life.

"Let's go! Go back!"

Xia Houjue tugged at her hand.

Tang Wanning felt a little warmth in her frozen paws, she opened her eyes with difficulty, and looked at him against the wind and snow.

"ended?"

"Ok!"

He is thinly dressed, but his back is firm.

Tang Wanning didn't ask any more questions, and let him walk back while holding hands.

After leaving Fengxian Hall, Tang Waning fell in the snow.

"what!"

There was a tearing sensation in her ankle, and the pain made her cry.

　Tang: I knew it was a conspiracy, but I still came here

　　Xia: Conspiracies never stop, you are here, but it’s just the beginning
　　
　
(End of this chapter)