During the Qiqiao Festival, according to the custom of the palace, a banquet will be held every year.

On this day, the queen will specially order the concubines above the position of concubines to invite one or three female relatives from their parents to the palace to reunite.

This is a kind of grace to the disguised harem.

However, since various folk celebrations and programs on the Qiqiao Festival are usually set between the evening and midnight, the palace usually has lunch on this day.

Qi Huan is just a new arrival and knows nothing about it, so he is inevitably nervous.

However, Yang had heard of it and began to make up for common sense while she was dressing up: "This is a custom in the palace. In previous years, it was just a sympathetic empress, and specially arranged an opportunity for high-ranking concubines to visit her relatives. The harem banquet was just a formality. However, in recent years, as the princes gradually reached the age of discussing marriage, some noble girls from famous families would be invited to attend this day, and the harem would be given a long eye and pick a few more."

Qi Huan sat upright in front of the dressing table, allowing Mrs. Yun to take Xingluo to comb her hair personally.

Upon hearing this, she chuckled and said, "It's a pity that the two high men who are waiting to discuss their marriage have their own ideas, so they don't plan to select the princess from such serious channels."

However, Empress Gu's arrangements are mostly arranged, and it is probably mostly the case.

after all--

She is a legitimate mother, and she has no idea that she does not care about the marriage of the concubine princes. This is unreasonable, but if she intervenes too much, it will be thankless to be grateful.

So, just do superficial skills.

Yang was not very satisfied with the purse that Yun Xi picked out, so he picked it up in the box and changed it again, put it together with his clothes.

She gradually saw a little sadness on her face: "But this year, I heard about the movement outside recently, and I haven't heard of the post in the palace that invited girls to the palace."

She looked at Qi Huan.

Qi Huan knew this in his mind.

Yun Heng was suspected of treason and fled out of the capital, and his whereabouts were unknown;

Yun Zheng caused trouble again, was confined to the emperor to reflect on him, and was locked up in the royal palace;

Prince Yun Zhan is not in a hurry at the age of the year, and secondly, he has also gone out of Beijing to work, and there is another thing-

Empress Gu is his biological mother. If you want to choose a concubine for him, there is no need to do these exaggerated superficial skills. If you like a girl, you will directly ask for a personal appointment.

Qi Huan said: "This year's situation is not suitable for celebrating the Qaeda Festival. I believe the Empress had to do it just to follow the old rules, just to give an explanation to the harem."

It would be fine if you didn't say this, but the worry on Yang's face became even heavier.

She stared at her daughter's face in the mirror: "If you just deal with the harem, then she told you to go..."

"It must be because of Gu Zhan." Qi Huan didn't care. "After we got engaged, we had never officially entered the palace to pay homage to the Queen. And..."

She turned her head to look at Yang, but smiled: "I just offended King Ning, and the Empress asked me to come over today. It should be of a different meaning, right?"

Yang was stunned for a moment, and then his heart suddenly became clear.

Because I was going to attend a lunch and Qi Huan was just an official, he naturally didn't dare to delay time.

She packed up as quickly as possible and rushed out.

that's all--

It was also asked Eunuch Jia to wait in the front hall for more than half an hour.

However, the father-in-law looked at a cold face, very unkind, and had a good temper, and did not show any impatience.

The car driver was sent directly from the palace, so Qi Huan only brought two girls Xingluo and Yunxi and left the house.

Qi Huann didn't think much about it, but just focused on the etiquette she had learned, thinking about how to deal with it after seeing Queen Gu.

It was not until the carriage was about to reach the palace gate that she remembered that it was inappropriate.

However, the call was obviously unrealistic to stop at this time, so she could only hold back.

The carriage stopped outside the palace gate. When the team led the team, Eunuch Jia, contacted the guards, she then leaned out and shouted to the other party: "Eunuch Jia..."

Eunuch Jia immediately came back from a horse.

Qi Huan apologized and said, "I was not thinking carefully for a while. I, two maids, shouldn't be able to bring them into the palace? Let's put them down here."

The restrictions on entering and exiting the harem are far more stringent than the palace gates of the previous dynasty.

Xingluo and Yun Xi recalled looking at each other, and they realized it later and couldn't help but become nervous.

Eunuch Jia glanced at the two of them, but said without changing his expression: "It's okay, let's find a place for them to stay, just don't run around."

Qi Huan doesn't want to be special, nor does he want to cause trouble for Queen Gu when he meets for the first time.

But this Eunuch Jia was decisive and did not give her any chance to refuse. She had already beaten back to the front of the team again.

Qi Huan was inconvenient to make noise at the palace gate, so he had to give up. He could only turn his head and instruct the two girls: "Today, you must be careful in your words and actions, don't walk around casually. Try to say less if you can say less."

The two girls obviously had deep awe of the environment inside the palace wall, and Xingluo was still a little scared: "But let's go in together... Is this okay?"

Qi Huan could have put them off from here, but they were not familiar with the place nearby. Whether they were asking them to find a way to go back first or wait in the sun for a few hours, Qi Huan was not relieved.

"It's okay, just act cautiously." Qi Huan touched the heads of the two of them one by one, and comforted her.

Eunuch Jia seemed to have a license, and the Imperial Guard guarding the palace gate did not ask for a car door to check, and he even rode a horse and entered the palace gate directly.

After walking through the long door hole, he got off the horse after entering, and asked Qi Huan and his servant to get off the car.

At that time, there were already prepared sedans waiting there.

In Fengming Palace, Queen Gu only called Qi Huan, an outsider, to come here today.

But in addition to Fengming Palace, there are also people waiting here in other concubines' palaces.

Some people brought sedan chairs, some prepared carriages, and some had insufficient status, so they only arranged for palace servants to wait for guidance.

None of these people knew each other. Qi Huan got into the sedan chair as if no one was around and accepted his fate and was carried away by someone.

Eunuch Jia personally led the way, and finally the sedan chair stopped outside Fengming Palace.

The little eunuch standing at the door saw it from afar and ran in to report the news.

So when Qi Huan got off the sedan chair at the door, one of the great palace maids beside Queen Gu had already rushed out.

Qi Huan didn't know her name, but she had seen her before with Queen Gu and clearly remembered her face.

The palace maid smiled and went up to see her: "I have met a girl, thank you for your hard work on the road."

"No." Qi Huan replied with a smile, "Empress has arranged everything for me. If you want to say it's hard, it's hard for Eunuch Jia to go on this trip."

The palace maid smiled again, not too humble.

Then, her eyes moved to Xingluo and the others who followed her.

Just as Qi Huan was about to speak, Eunuch Jia was already cold and said: "It's Miss Qi's two maids, please arrange a place for them to stay."

Qi Huan then discovered-

This person's temper may be really bad.

The palace maid responded, still laughing, and politely attracted Qi Huan and his servants to come in.

This time I walked through the front yard and went directly to the main hall.

In front of the main hall gate, she handed Qi Huan over to another great palace maid guarding there, and led Xingluo and the others to find a place to settle it first.

This palace maid didn't talk much, but she had an amazing attitude. She took Qi Huan in as soon as she saw the gift.

But I walked through the main hall and went directly to the back.

Instead of entering the queen's front hall, she was led to the study room in the same yard first.

She opened the door at the door, but she didn't go in, so she only invited Qi Huan in and explained: "The Empress is still dressing up, please wait here for a while."

Maybe because she was afraid that she would be uncomfortable, she added: "The Empress said, please don't be restrained, just be at will."

After saying that, she retired with great luck.

Qi Huan stood in the magnificent but overly huge study room, looked around quickly, and then found a chair near the door and sat down properly.

As soon as she sat down, the palace maid who had just left came over to bring her another little palace maid to tea.

Afterwards, the two of them quit.

The little palace maid left with a tray, and the big palace maid stood upright at the door.

Qi Huan took two sips of tea with the mentality of being at peace since he was here.

Queen Gu didn't ask her to wait too long. She had just drunk half of the tea when the other party came.

She was wearing a relatively gorgeous phoenix robe.

The purple and gold color turned out to be a relatively old-fashioned color, but when worn on her, it only held an unsightly momentum, but it did not look old.

Qi Huan quickly put down the teacup and stood up to greet her: "My daughter, Qi Huan, the Queen's Mansion of Changning, has seen the Queen."

Because it was the first time that he had a formal visit in private, and the other party was decorated so grandly, Qi Huan originally wanted to kneel down.

In no mood--

Queen Gu stopped in front of her, but seemed to have predicted her movements and reached out to stop her: "No need, I see you privately, not as a monarch and minister, and you don't have to be polite."

Qi Huan hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind and followed the flow of good deeds and straightened his knees again.

But she was also somewhat convinced that Empress Gu would call her over at this time, and carefully said with a careful word: "It's a rude minister. It was supposed to follow the prince to come to the palace to pay homage to the empress earlier, but..."
To be continued...