Master Shen's Journey Through Time

Talking and laughing along the way, it can be seen that Yuqing is the kind of person with a high emotional intelligence, and she arrived at the gate of the palace without knowing it. You can’t take a sedan chair when you enter the gate of the palace. This palace is not the same as the one I visited before. The same, not resplendent but blue bricks and green tiles.

After entering the gate, there was a narrow and lengthy corridor. After walking for about half an hour, I turned left and went through several small gates. At the second palace gate, there was already an eunuch waiting here.

"The old slave is always happy to have met the young master, the Yi Guogong, and the young master Shen. The old slave was ordered to lead the way for the young master Shen. I didn't expect that the young master Shen came with the Hou Ye and Yi Guogong. .Three masters, let's go with this old slave."

So our mighty group of people (Yuqing and I both had people with us) walked for an hour before arriving at a small banquet hall, and Yuqing frowned slightly.

After being led to sit down, he found that Xiao Yuxuan and Jianyan had already sat down, the two children were still the same as last time, Yuxuan chattered non-stop, and Jianyan kept smiling and "showing cuteness".

My seat was arranged next to Yuqing, so when Yuxuan saw us coming in, he immediately came over to talk to Yuqing. It was really chirping, and the position of the fan was under my hands. Jianyan simply nodded at us, Fan'er and I simply started chatting.

Through Fan'er's various venomous tongues, I learned that this banquet hall is called Yulinling, and it was built by His Majesty for the former Empress. , This is the first time to entertain guests here. Conventionally, banquets of our status should be arranged in the Hall of Peace or the Hall of Heqing. No wonder Yuqing frowned just now.

Fan'er's introduction made me take a closer look at the palace, and it really revealed that the flavor of romance is greater than that of governing the country and the world, especially the screen standing behind the Lord's seat, through the faintly visible veil, it seems There was a young woman sitting there, but she couldn't see clearly.

"The empress dowager is here, the empress is here."

Quickly got up and knelt down, and when he got up, the queen and queen mother had already sat down on both sides of the main seat, and returned to their seats with their heads down, listening to the greetings of the queen mother, Yuqing and Yuxuan.

"Oh, this is Shen Yunshu from Duke Ningguo's family." Suddenly hearing the queen mother call my name, I was so frightened that I hurriedly put down the tea in my hand and lowered my head.

"Look up and let Aijia see", according to the usual practice, this is the moment when the protagonist amazes the audience.

But before I raised my head, I heard "the emperor is here, Princess Anqing is here", and I got up and hurriedly bowed down. If I hadn't been born in the late Qing Dynasty, I would have been exhausted by these red tapes.

"Grandmother, the queen mother and you two came first."

"I have seen the queen mother."

"Your Majesty, you are being polite. Just now, Aijia bet with the queen that Yuci must be looking for you. Aijia guessed right."

"Haha, the empress dowager is wise, I have lost this round..."

After a while of pleasantries, I remembered that we children were still kneeling (mainly because the queen mother saw that Yuqing was still kneeling) and let us be flat.

The banquet began with another dance, and then some musicians came up to play music, the emperor's family began to greet each other, and Fan'er and I began to eat the food just served in silence...

"When will Yi Guogong leave this time?" the emperor suddenly asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I plan to go to Qingzhou in half a month, and the owner of Baimei Villa invites me to appreciate the plum blossoms." It turns out that Faner can also speak well.

"Why be so anxious, it's not too late to go after the new year," the queen mother said kindly.

"If you wait any longer, you won't be able to catch up with the plum blossom~", I thought the Queen Mother would be angry, but the Queen Mother didn't say anything.

It's just that the air suddenly became quiet. Fortunately, Yuqing came out to break the embarrassment, "Please don't blame the emperor. I originally planned to invite Yun Shu to the banquet alone, but I really don't feel relieved to let Yun Shu go to the banquet alone. After all, Yun Shu is still young. I have seen the big world, and just recovered from a serious illness, as my best friends, I invited Yi Guogong, Yuxuan, and Lord Jian to a banquet together." What kind of best friends, the whole world thinks I am your brain trust, okay?

"It's okay, I haven't sat with you juniors very soon."

Then he turned to me, "Shen Yunshu? Raise your head and let me see."

Helpless, he could only look up at the emperor, it was the first time he had seen a living emperor after living for so long.

So when he looked at me, I also took a closer look at him. He looks very handsome. After all, the ancients married early. I heard that the late eldest prince was born before the emperor's 16th birthday, so now the emperor He is about 40 years old, and he is well maintained, so it is the time when a man looks handsome.

The emperor was stunned at the first sight of me, and then narrowed his eyes thinking about something, if he wasn't handsome, his expression would easily look wretched...

When we both looked at each other, the queen mother suddenly laughed, "You are really a handsome child, look at the eyes and nose, very much like Ning Guogong back then, seeing you reminds the Ai family of the old emperor and you The days when my grandfather was on the battlefield together, come quickly and let the Ai family take a closer look."

I could only cautiously walk up to the Queen Mother, and after bowing, the Queen Mother came up and took my hand. The Queen Mother looked nothing like Mrs. Zhou. Although she was nearly sixty years old, she had black hair and faint fine lines on her face. She looked very kind, but those piercing eyes showed the extraordinary experience of this old lady's life.

Then the Queen Mother asked some of my parents, such as what books are you reading recently?How are your parents?Today's meal is delicious...

During the whole process, the emperor's eyes never left me. Of course, everyone was looking at me and the queen mother, but only the emperor and Yuqing looked at me intently. Yuqing was probably afraid that I would be nervous and worried about me, while the emperor I don't quite understand what it means, but that look doesn't look like a kind elder looking at a younger generation.

"Duke Ning is really blessed to have such a talented and good-looking young master." The queen who had been silent all this time also began to praise me.

"The empress is absurdly praised."

"Look, queen mother, it's really rare to be so humble at such a young age."

"Yeah, don't be modest, I've seen your painting too, it's really good, Your Majesty, don't you think so?"

When the queen mother suddenly named the emperor, I saw that the emperor was obviously taken aback, and then he pulled his eyes from me and looked at the queen mother, but he was still looking at me from the corner of his eye, "What the queen mother said is true, if Yuci said it was Yun Shu's paintings are so lifelike, I must have thought they were drawn by some old friend."

According to the emperor, does he know the woman in the painting?

"Your Majesty is admirable. The person in the painting was scribbled by a young minister (I am also considered a nobleman), and it is not an old friend."

"Oh~ that's because I was thinking too much, you go back and sit down."

After I sat down, the emperor called Fu Yan, the chief executive beside me, to take over my paintings and show them to everyone. In fact, everyone present had seen them at the plum appreciation banquet that day, so they just took a look .

"Actually, the purpose of this banquet is that I feel that it is a pity that there is no corresponding poem for such a good painting. You can be regarded as people who have read a few books. I will test everyone today, and each person corresponds to this painting. Write a poem, and I will reward the best one."

After the emperor finished speaking, some palace people moved away the small table in front of each of us, replaced it with a new table, and placed it on the four treasures of the study.

Everyone wrote with their own thoughts for a while. I think that the original painting hanging in my room was a poem by Tsangyang Gyatso written by my wife I. I suddenly miss the one who died decades earlier than me. Old guy, so I just wrote "The law of peace in the world, no failure to the Tathagata and no failure to Qing".

As a result, the emperor directly picked up my stolen poem without any concealment, and others didn't even look at it, and immediately shed tears. We were all stunned. Is this poem so touching!Your Majesty, so you are such a true-tempered Majesty! ! !

The Empress Dowager and the Empress looked at Her Majesty and then exchanged glances. The Empress also took a handkerchief to wipe her eyes, and the Empress Dowager announced to us that today's banquet is over.

So we went back to our respective homes, each looking for our respective mothers.