Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 138 Willing to be tortured by you
Emperor Zhaoyuan's body was already in short supply, and after so many years of strong support, it had already come to an end.Now that he has abdicated, he wants to build a Heshun Garden in the inner courtyard of the imperial palace. When Wei Jichang gets married in the future and has a few white and fat little grandchildren, he can have grandchildren with Empress Liu and enjoy the rest of his life.

Su Xi heard it from Eunuch Chang who was in front of the emperor.Emperor Zhaoyuan was about to abdicate, and he was ordering people from the Ministry of Rites to write an imperial edict.

Wei Feng couldn't come back tonight, so he asked Eunuch Chang to come and ask him.After sending Eunuch Chang away, she stood on the porch for a while holding the stove.

In this life, Emperor Zhaoyuan abdicated a bit early.She remembered that in her previous life, when Wei Yan ascended the throne, it was the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and now his life is two or three months earlier.But after thinking about it, she lived a new life, and many things changed accordingly. Wei Yuan rebelled and Emperor Zhao Yuan was unable to do what he wanted, so this change seemed logical.

On the next day, the edict of Emperor Zhaoyuan's abdication was really drawn up.After making known to the world, it is necessary to prepare for the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

Wei Yan has not yet returned from the palace, Su Xi still has a sense of unreality.She ordered Tingyan to bring her green qin, sat on the couch by the window, thought for a while, and casually played a piece of "Honghuzhi" taught by Mr. Gu back then.Maybe it's because I haven't touched the piano for a long time, and my fingering is unfamiliar.If Mr. Gu heard about it, he would definitely say that she had lost face to her master.

On the other hand, the two little guys, Zhiyan and Zhiyu, were quite respectful. They sat obediently across from each other, with their round faces up, and looked at Su Xi happily with their fleshy palms, and said "babbling" to others I don't understand words.

Seeing that the two of them were happy, Su Xi played "Returning Back".At this time, I have regained some feeling, probably because the front part of this song is a little depressed, the two fans stopped laughing and making noise, and when they listened to it, water mist appeared in their big eyes.

Su Xi saw her brother Zhiyan's small mouth flattened, as if he was about to cry, so she quickly stopped, hugged his soft and fleshy body, and coaxed him, "Don't cry, don't cry, let's go outside and play, okay? Mother will take you and your brother to pick snow."

This year's rain and snow are exceptionally abundant, and it snowed again last night.

Su Xi likes to drink tea boiled with snow water. It is sweet and sweet, and has endless aftertaste. Every year at this time, she will pick a urn of snow and save it for future tea.

Zhiyan lay on Su Xi's shoulder, rubbing her pink and tender face against Su Xi's cheek, wondering if she understood her words, anyway, she stopped crying.

Su Xi packed up and took them to the backyard.Tingyan and Tinghe hugged them respectively and followed behind. Su Xi swept a little snow on the jade butterfly plum tree with her fingertips, turned around and tapped gently on the tip of Zhiyan's nose. Moaning and whimpering, the face shrank back into the swaddling clothes.Su Xi smiled lightly, and wiped off the snowflakes on the tip of his nose with her thumb, worrying that he and Zhiyu would freeze, and after a while, she asked Ting Yan and Ting He to carry them back to the house first.

Su Xi held the small urn with multicolored patterns and said, "I'll go back later."

After the maid and the sons left, Su Xi continued to sweep the top layer of snow from the plum tree branches on tiptoe.

Immediately, footsteps were heard behind.She thought Tingyan or Tinghe had come back, so she asked without turning her head, "Are Zhiyan and Zhiyu asleep? They saw the snow just now, so they covered them with an extra quilt. I heard from my mother... "It's the hardest thing for a little baby to get sick.That's why she took them very seriously.

It's just that before he finished speaking, a pair of arms wrapped around his waist from behind, and then a voice came from the top of his head, soft and sweet: "Why don't you care about me?"

Su Xi was taken aback, then turned around, and saw Wei Yan looking at him with downcast eyes, half a smile.She almost couldn't hold the colorful urn in her hand, and asked curiously, "When did Cousin Tingzhou come back?"

"Just came back." Wei Yan took the small urn in her hand. He didn't sleep last night, and there was a circle of light blue under his eyes. "I heard from the servant girl that you are here to pick snow, so I came here." He lifted the small Weng pot to the top of her head, and easily swept down the branch that she couldn't reach just now.

Su Xi looked up at him, a little hesitant to speak.He seemed to be okay, what happened last night, she actually wanted to hear him tell herself.

"I'm curious" was written brightly on the little girl's face, but Wei Yan couldn't see it.He held her hand, it was really cold, and coaxed: "It's too cold here, we'll talk about it later when we go back to the house."

Su Xi pursed her lips and nodded.Seeing that the snow in the urn was almost harvested, he didn't stay here for long. After sweeping the snow from the nearby jade butterfly plum trees, he followed Wei Feng back to the house.A warm earth dragon was burning in the room, and Zhiyan and Zhiyu fell asleep in the next room. Su Xi ordered the servant girl to bring tea utensils and sit behind a small table with red lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Looking at the opposite side with cheeks on, he said, "Did Cousin Tingzhou rest last night?"

Sure enough, Wei Yan shook his head.

Emperor Zhaoyuan stayed up all night last night in order to hand over the maintenance, so he naturally didn't close his eyes.After announcing the imperial edict this morning, he returned to Prince Jin's mansion, and has not rested for twenty hours.

Su Xi was a little distressed, thought for a moment and said: "You should go to sleep for a while, and I will call you in the evening."

"It's okay." Wei Yan said, scratching her nose across a low table, "Drink the tea you made before going to bed."

Su Xi can not only dance, play the piano and recite poems, but also has some knowledge in the tea ceremony.It's just that since I married Wei Feng, I haven't had a chance to make tea.

Since Wei Yan said so, she didn't insist on driving him to sleep. After the snow water boiled, she put in the silver needles and skimmed off the foam on top.After the tea boiled three times, put the purple sand pot on the white gauze and pour it into the cup.

Holding the teacup, Wei Yan didn't rush to drink, but asked slowly, "What name do you think of for the palace in the future?"

Su Xi blinked, unable to react.

Wei Yan smiled and explained: "The Empress is still alive, I don't think you will live in the Zhaoyang Palace, so I asked someone to rebuild a palace behind the Xuanshi Palace, and it will be completed in a few days. What do you think?" Think of a name."

The Xuanshi Hall is the sleeping hall of the emperor.The palace that Wei Yan ordered to rebuild was only separated from the Xuanshi Hall by a hallway.

Su Xi didn't expect him to move so fast, and hurriedly said, "I haven't thought it through yet."

There was a table between the two of them, and Wei Shizi was not used to such a long distance, so after drinking tea, he asked the servant girl to remove the table, and wrapped Su Xi's waist into her arms, only then did he feel at ease.He bowed his head and kissed her forehead, and said, "It's okay, think about it slowly."

Su Xi twisted her body, knelt and sat opposite Wei Feng, trying to keep her eye level with him, "Cousin Tingzhou, what did your Majesty say..."

Wei Yan wrapped her small hands in his big hands, and said slowly: "The officials and cabinet ministers support me to ascend the throne in ten days."

Ten days later, neither sooner nor later.Su Xi nodded, suddenly remembered a question, pursed her pink lips and remained silent.

Wei Yan raised her small chin and stared into her eyes: "What does the queen want to tell me?"

Su Xi slapped his hand away and said "not serious".After a while, I still couldn't help it, hooked his fingers, and asked softly: "After you ascend the throne, what will happen to the concubines of His Majesty's harem?"

According to Dayan's rules, after the new emperor ascended the throne, the concubines who had given birth to princes and daughters would remain in the palace and become concubines; those concubines who had been blessed by the emperor but had no children would be sent to the royal temple.Then... Those who have neither given birth to princes nor daughters, nor been blessed by the emperor, will be included in the harem or sent back to their hometowns according to the new emperor's wishes.

Su Xi fiddled with Wei Feng's fingers, a little sullen.

She could trust Wei Feng, but she couldn't trust those officials.

Wei Yan only had his own wife, and he didn't have a connecting room. After he ascended the throne, some ministers would definitely persuade him to accept the harem.He was in that position, and his foundation was not very stable at the beginning. After a long time, could he really beat those ministers?She thought about it carefully, and wanted to know how many concubines Wei Wei took after he ascended the throne in her previous life, but she had no memory at all.

In her previous life, she didn't like Wei Feng.But in this life, knowing his kindness and being pampered and loved by him, she selfishly doesn't want to share this feeling with others.

Seeing Su Xi's drooping head, Wei Yan felt a little funny, and twisted her face, "What do you think?"

"Hmm..." It hurts.Su Xi covered her cheeks and raised her head, rolled her black eyes, and said, "I'm dismissed."

Wei Yan spoke very well, and bent his lips: "Okay."

Su Xi pursed her lips and asked again: "Then what if the minister persuades you to accept a concubine?"

Wei Yan looked at her quietly, his thin lips slightly curved, neither answering nor expressing.Just when Su Xi was feeling cold, he reached out and tapped his side face, meaning - "Kiss me once and I'll tell you."

Su Xi had never seen someone who would take advantage of the opportunity like this, she pursed her pink lips, and reluctantly cupped his face and gave a "baji".

Wei Yan smiled lightly. "Youyou, you alone are enough to torture me. I'm afraid I won't be able to handle any more."

Su Xi pushed him away, this man was too dumb to speak.

Wei Yan smiled lowly, kissed her eyes, and added: "I am willing to be tortured by you."

Although Wei Yan has not ascended the throne, he has to deal with the government affairs every day.

Ten days later, it was the day of the enthronement ceremony.Su Xi and Zhiyan Zhiyu were taken to the palace the day before, and before leaving, she went to Ji'antang to bid farewell to Jin Wang Wei Liankun.

Wei Liankun was wearing a dark purple robe, no different from when Su Xi first married into the Jin Palace, except that there were a few more white hairs on his sideburns.He looked at the grandson in Su Xi's arms, with no emotion on his face, only showing a little emotion when Zhiyan stretched out his hand to be hugged by his grandfather.He looked away, and said: "If you want to leave, hurry up, so as not to delay the time to enter the palace."

Su Xi named his sleeping hall Wushuang Hall.The Wushuang hall has not been built yet, and the furnishings inside are not complete, so she can only live in Wei Feng's sleeping hall first.

Wei Yan went to the Hall of Central Harmony early in the morning to accept the worship of all the officials and hold the enthronement ceremony.

Passing on the jade seal, honoring the title, canonizing the queen, and worshiping the ancestral temple, once the work is over, it's time to hold the lamps.

Wei Yan returned to the sleeping hall from the front, and saw oil lamps burning in the hall from a distance, the light was dim, and a slender figure and the shadows of two little milk dolls were reflected in the window.

(End of this chapter)