On the day Muyun Sangniang's family came to visit the palace, the weather was unusually warm, cloudless, and the sky was blue.
Aunt Yu and Aunt Gu had prepared cakes and tea early in the morning. Aunt Yu came back after helping the queen throughout the New Year. Mu Yunsang heard her intention and wanted to stay here until she gave birth.
The old Bodhisattva came to take charge again, and Mu Yunsang and Beichen Mofeng naturally abstained from sexual intercourse for many days.
However, Beichen Mofeng is very busy. He has about this time but doesn't have the energy.
Even when we met for a few hours, he always looked tired, which made Mu Yunsang feel very distressed.
Over the past month, he has become more and more busy, and it is difficult to even meet him.
He has been going to Jiangnan these days. This is something that a prince must do after the Lantern Festival every year. It is equivalent to a modern leadership inspection.
That's why Mu Yunsang's family chose this time to ask the queen for permission to come to the palace to visit her.
To avoid a lot of restraint and discomfort in the presence of the prince.
Beichen Mofeng's coldness was well-known both inside and outside the court. This kind of foreigner was most afraid of being exposed to Beichen Mofeng.
It didn't matter if this was the time to enter the palace. Beichen Mofeng was here, and Mu Yunsang didn't have time to accompany them yet.
People arrived in the morning, and the queen's arrangement was that the palace had invited a theater troupe from the Liyuan Theater to perform, so her family members would stay in the palace for three to five days, and go to see this year's new opera with the concubines.
So her brother would leave at night and come back the next day, and her mother, aunt, brother and sister-in-law would stay in the East Palace for a few days.
How could she refuse the Queen's kindness? In fact, she was unwilling to do so.
The last thing she can do is pretend to be close to these people, even though she doesn't know them at all.
This morning, the atmosphere was undoubtedly deserted.
Mu Yunsang was too lazy to talk to them, and they didn't dare to talk too much.
In the afternoon, the queen came.
It seems that the queen really values her family.
The group sat in the Jiaofang Hall. The room was lit with incense and the aroma was fragrant. The queen had a smile on her face, looking elegant and gentle at the same time.
"Brother Crown Princess is also twenty-six this year, right?"
"Reply to your Majesty!" Mu Jiaqing is a young man with a somewhat pale face. He speaks very little and is very thin. He occasionally coughs two or three times. He has a slight resemblance to the Taishi's wife, but his sickly face makes him look weak.
Vulnerable.
Now when he heard the question, he quickly stood up, bowed respectfully and replied: "It's the New Year, it's already twenty-seven."
"Haha, I forgot to celebrate the New Year, and I don't want to admit that I have aged another year. Sit down, don't be polite, the Grand Master's wife really looks good, what methods are used to maintain it, how can I live longer and look better?
Younger."
The Taishi's wife was flattered and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, you are ridiculous. I don't think I have any younger concubines. Your Majesty, you and I are sitting together. People who don't know must think that I am twenty or thirty years older than you."
My dear, you are really young."
This compliment made Mu Yunsang really want to shed goosebumps.
The queen's old age can be seen at a glance.
Her mother-in-law, the Queen, was probably worried too much and had many illnesses. Although her hair was combed with chrysanthemum oil and made smooth and shiny, it could not cover the pieces of silver, and the heavy makeup could not cover the corners of her eyes and cheeks.
fine lines.
The queen was only in her forties and not even fifty, and she could barely maintain her age look with makeup on, but Mu Yunsang imagined that she would look at least sixty years old after taking off her makeup.
In contrast, when the Queen praised the Grand Master's wife, the Grand Master's wife really deserved it.
A forty-five-year-old woman, wearing a generous and decent honey wax yellow embroidered blue satin collared palace dress, covered with a layer of purple flat embroidered plate flower Sihe Ruyi thin smoke gauze, the wide hem of the dress is rusty
She has a green background with patterns, and her glossy black hair is tied up in a dignified high bun. Her luxurious clothes make her skin more delicate and smooth. She wears light pink makeup, and you can't see any wrinkles on her face unless you look carefully.
Her skin is tight and she has a good figure. At most, she could look thirty-five years old.
Even sitting next to Mrs. Taishi, Mu Yunsang's biological mother Liang Shi was obviously eight years younger than Mrs. Xu, but she looked older than Mrs. Xu.
If you want to shoot flattery, you can't overexaggerate it, otherwise it will be too fake.
For example, when Mrs. Xu said this, although the queen was smiling, she could see that there was a bit of disdain in her eyes.
"Second Madam, you have been doing well recently. I heard a while ago that you were not feeling well, and I wanted to send someone to check on you. However, I was busy celebrating the New Year, so I forgot about it."
The queen looked at Mu Yunsang's biological mother. She was a woman who was a little exaggerated in her dress. She wore red and green clothes and was very vulgar. However, the queen looked at her with very kind eyes.
There is no preference for one over the other just because the other person was born as a maid.
Mrs. Liang was also flattered.
"Ms. Lao is worried. She just occasionally contracted typhoid fever. After taking a few doses of medicine, she will be fine."
"The body is of the utmost importance, but don't be like me, who is busy all day long taking care of the harem and gets sick all over."
"Your Majesty, you can ask the Crown Princess to share some of the burden, so it won't be so hard."
As soon as these words came out, everyone except Mu Yunsang showed a slightly shocked look in their eyes.
Mrs. Liang herself may have felt that she had said something wrong, so she explained in a hurry: "I just want the Crown Princess to share some trivial matters for you. Your Majesty, you don't have to do everything personally. This will tire you out, like a palace banquet."
As for the list of married women attending, you can ask the Crown Princess to write it, these are all trivial matters."
The more she talked, the more she acted recklessly. There was a look of gloating in Mrs. Xu's eyes. People who were born as maids were indeed ignorant. Did she think that drawing up a list of married women was a trivial matter?
The former dynasty and the harem are closely related, and one move affects the whole body.
Among the married women, many are the relatives and sisters of the ladies in the harem, that is, they are closely related to the harem.
The entire court, men, women, harem, front dynasty, outside the palace, everything related to people is a major event.