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Today is New Year's Eve and it is snowing heavily. An Lingrong really likes the feeling of snowing, so she asks two maids and young eunuchs to play snowball fights together.

As everyone knew An Lingrong's character, she was not the kind of person who would beat or scold her servants casually, so she did not show mercy during the snowball fight just because An Lingrong was the master. Everyone fought so hard that they couldn't tell friend from foe. After playing, An Lingrong asked everyone to take a bath, drink a bowl of ginger soup, and then lock the door.

Everyone gathered in An Lingrong's room. An Ling looked at everyone wishing her a happy new year and said with a smile: This year is the first time we celebrate the New Year together, so I will reward you with a year's monthly salary. Let Yunxue get the silver notes, put them in the small purses that have been prepared, and give them to everyone.

Everyone thanked happily.

An Lingrong thought for a moment and said, "Let's have hotpot today. I'll prepare the ingredients." Then she smiled and ran to the small kitchen to start preparing.

Everyone didn’t know what hot pot was, so Yun Xue asked: “Your Majesty, what is hot pot?”

An Lingrong said: It’s the food in the hot pot restaurant in the capital. I’ll teach you later. When you want to eat it in the future, you can just make it yourself. Hot pot is very simple. It mainly consists of hot pot base and the rest are just vegetables.

After the base material is ready, we will make the dipping sauce. If you like any sauce, just come and get it. After everything is ready, put these raw vegetables here and cook them, then eat them with your favorite sauce. This is hot pot.

Everyone started eating after hearing this. It was delicious. Haha. Everyone laughed and said, "Your Majesty, this is delicious. Can you make more for us when we want to eat it?"

An Lingrong smiled and said: Of course, if you want to eat it, just make it yourself. Didn’t I teach you how to do it?

We have plenty of food in our small kitchen, you can make it yourself whenever you want.

From now on, I will only prepare four small dishes for the morning, and reduce the quantity by half. They can’t be finished anyway, so this way I can save some. You can make whatever dishes you like.

I am not picky about food, but if I am particularly craving for something sometimes, I will ask you to cook for me.

Everyone was so moved that they shed tears silently. They had been in the palace for more than a day or two. No other concubine in the palace was as easy-going as them. Moreover, after everyone finished their duties, they could play by themselves and there was no need to watch over them.

The same goes for Yunxue and Yunshuang. When the Queen goes to bed, she lets them sleep and the Queen does not get up at night.

It's really hard to dislike such a master.

Eat quickly. We will cut window flowers later and make a few big lanterns. Make a few more and everyone can hang them on the doorsteps of their own houses. This will also make it festive.

It is noon now. After everyone has finished their meal, they start cutting paper. There are red, pink, purple, and yellow papers. The big lanterns are so big that one person cannot hold them all. They even make many small lanterns. Red lanterns are hung in every room, and lanterns of various colors are hung on the lowest branches of the trees in the yard.

Lighting lanterns in this way will not catch fire. Of course, the styles of lanterns are different. An Lingrong's door has a lotus lantern, while others have rabbits, tigers, and monkeys. They are all kinds of strange. But everyone is happy, it's all for the sake of beauty.

Shunfeng Shunshui said: Your Majesty, shall we go see the plum blossoms?

It's just a little far from here, and since you insisted on confining yourself to your room, you can't go anywhere now.

An Lingrong said: There are only a few places in the palace and there is nothing interesting to see. If you like, go and see. I can watch it by myself in the room.

Yunxue smiled and said: Your Majesty, let us pick some for you and put them in the vase.

An Lingrong smiled and said: You guys go and pick some, and then bring them to your room to look at them. I don’t like plum blossoms.

Yunshuang asked curiously: Master, you don’t just like lotus, do you?

An Lingrong thought for a moment and nodded: Yes, I just like lotus. Maybe it’s because I like the scent of lotus.

Yunxue said speechlessly: Your Majesty, don’t you know that you have body odor?

An Lingrong was stunned when she heard this. She really had forgotten about it. She raised her arm and smelled it, then nodded and said: It seems that there is body odor. I had forgotten about it. Mainly, I don’t usually think about it.

Shunfeng was curious when he heard this and asked: Your Majesty, what is your body odor? Why can't we smell it?

An Lingrong smiled and said: "You wait!" Then she ran to the snow outside and started dancing. An Lingrong's dancing was like a fairy descending to earth. Everyone was stunned. This scene happened to be seen by the emperor. If An Lingrong knew, she would not know what to say. Why did she have to do it herself every time?

After An Lingrong finished dancing, she ran back into the house. When An Lingrong ran in, the people in the house smelled a floral scent. The scent was very special. It was not the scent of manufactured incense, but the scent of fresh flowers.

Shunshui also smelled it and shouted, "Wow, your majesty, you smell so good. Is it because you seldom move around? You sweat like this and you smell good. Should you be called the Fragrant Concubine now?"

An Lingrong giggled and said: What's so good about Xiang Fei? She will be known wherever she goes and she can't escape.

Shunfeng said: Your Majesty, where else do you want to go?

An Lingrong sat down and thought for a while, then said: There is no other way, we can't go anywhere now. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, just go and have fun, wear more clothes, don't catch a cold during the New Year.

Hearing this, several people smiled and responded: Don't worry, your queen, you can read a book in the room for a while, and we will go pick some plum blossoms.

An Lingrong smiled and said: You guys go ahead, and come back and put it in your room.

A few people left laughing and skipping, going out through the back door.

When the emperor heard that An Lingrong was thinking of leaving, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable. He was the one who pushed her further and further away.

Since An Lingrong stopped paying attention to the emperor, she has been wearing a veil again, and she never takes it off even in the house. Maybe she doesn't want others to see her appearance anymore. Before, the emperor only saw her slightly covered up. Now she is more beautiful than before, which makes people both gods and humans angry. Of course, her current appearance is just outdated to An Bihuai.

An Lingrong still looks like she is 16 years old. It has been almost a year, but she has not aged at all.

Yes, it is difficult for An Lingrong to age. After all, she is a god, even if this body is a mortal body. She first cleansed her tendons and marrow, and then took a beauty pill. It is unreasonable for her not to be beautiful.

It is not dark yet. The emperor came quietly and left quietly. If he called out, people would definitely ignore him. Alas, what should he do? Now he is getting further and further away.

After returning to the Qianqing Palace, I was thinking about how to prevent An Lingrong from getting further away.

The palace banquet was organized by Shen Meizhuang. Now she has no one to learn from, let alone the palace banquet, even the expenses of the harem and everything else are a mess. Even with the guidance of a nanny, she can't stand being used by Zhen Huan. Even the things distributed by the concubines are not as good as the ones she promised.

It was a bit too much to say that. Did Shen Meizhuang really not know or was she pretending not to know? The nanny who was guiding her didn't say anything now. This noble lady could do whatever she wanted. The matter had been reported to the emperor. Anyway, she couldn't do anything about it.

The harem is dominated by a minor noble lady, as if there are no high-ranking concubines in the harem.

The Queen Mother couldn't control it even if she wanted to. If she scolded An Lingrong now, she would be unable to speak or move for a month.

After a few meetings, I never dared to do it again. She is now a demon concubine, what can't she do?

Even though An Lingrong is now under house arrest, the Empress Dowager knows that it is just because she doesn't want to bother with those women and the Emperor.

Because of An Lingrong's appearance, Zhi will not agree. As for whether Ning Guiren and Ying Guiren will appear, it is still unknown.

Of course, the current emperor doesn't look like the one in Legend of Zhen Huan. The current emperor is still very masculine. As for what is written in history, it is different from here. After all, this is the real world.

Now he is 35 years old, still a middle-aged uncle with a height of about 1.8 meters and bronze skin. He is different from the ones in TV dramas and history. Although he has just ascended the throne not long ago, the emperor is not as incompetent as in TV dramas. Think about it, how can a brave and warlike person who can finally become an emperor be incompetent?

The emperor in the TV series gives people the impression that he doesn't know kung fu. Even when the emperor was the fourth prince, he was brave and good at fighting, with a strong physique. He couldn't be the type in TV series who doesn't look like he can fight. Although the current emperor is not handsome, he is a very masculine and manly man, not to mention that he is now in his prime.

Those on TV are too old.

The emperor thought about it again and again and finally decided to ask An Lingrong's mother to invite them, otherwise it would be impossible to invite them.

An Lingrong was reading in the room. Although she was under house arrest, no one dared to neglect her. After all, anyone who had neglected her before would either be beaten to death or taken to the Ministry of Punishment.

An's mother and aunt came over at this time. They couldn't bring their younger brother with them, so they could only sit in the main hall with An Bihuai.

When An's mother came, she found that there was no one in the room. An Lingrong was very happy when she found out that it was An's mother and aunt, and brought them in directly. The two of them wanted to bow, but An Lingrong exempted them from the formalities. She pulled them to sit down and poured them a cup of milk tea.

After sitting down, she asked: "How did mother and aunt come to the palace? Didn't my daughter say that she didn't need to come if she didn't like it?"

Aunt Xiao said with some distress: Rong'er. Oh, Madam, why are you alone in the hall?

An Lingrong looked at the distress in their eyes and smiled, "Isn't this New Year's Eve? They insisted on picking plum blossoms to make flower arrangements. Since they really wanted to go out and play, I let them go out and play. After all, no one comes to my palace."

I wouldn't let you in even if you came. They all went out to play today. Otherwise, you should have informed me before you came in.

Aunt Xiao was relieved after hearing this and said: That's good.

An's mother said: It was the emperor who insisted that we come, saying that Rong'er has been in the palace for almost a year, and her parents must miss her, so they asked us to come.

An Lingrong had no idea what he meant when she heard that, and could only say helplessly: I am confining myself to my home. You can go out anytime you want. I just don't want to scheme against those women for a man all day long, calculating this and that. I'm afraid they might kill me accidentally.

So out of sight, out of mind. The Emperor always asks me to go out, but I won’t see anyone. Well, if you hadn’t come, I really wouldn’t want to go to the palace banquet.