There was nothing to do today. Shen Huan had been to Shou'an Palace in the morning, but the Queen Mother still refused to see her. She had to give a grand ceremony outside the palace gate before leaving.
When they returned to Fengchen Palace, a group of palace attendants walked in slowly holding trays lined with yellow silk. The leader said: "The emperor said that the furnishings in Fengchen Palace are old, so he specially sent ninety-nine items." "What, for the Queen to choose from?" He said while presenting the gift list, and said: "The Emperor also said that if the Queen doesn't like these, there are still more in the warehouse."
Fengchen Palace is the most luxurious palace in the entire palace except Shangyang Palace. Although the furnishings inside are old, they are still gorgeous. However, these furnishings are no longer the ones when my sister was here. They have all been replaced. There is a hint that my sister was once a queen. It must have been replaced when my sister was deposed?
Shen Huan waved his hand and said: "I don't have any special preference for these things. Cui Shanggong, your vision is elegant and noble, you can choose."
Cui Chengqin took the order and looked at them one by one. Finally, based on the palace furniture and Shen Huan's preferences, he selected a dozen exquisite and gorgeous ones, as well as a dozen simple and simple ones.
Shen Huan looked over, nodded slightly, and suddenly asked: "I remember that there was an enamel screen here, why is it missing?"
The leading eunuch replied: "The empress sent it to her for cleaning when she got married. I will order someone to bring it back to the empress."
Shen Huan knew that it was not such a coincidence that they were used for cleaning, but that they were taken back to the warehouse, but she did not point out that they were all smart people. Naturally, she knew that she wanted to find some traces of her sister. Her sister liked that screen very much.
After a while, the palace maids put everything they had chosen, and the palace servants presented a list of names, asking the queen if she wanted to change the candidates for Fengchen Palace.
Shen Huan looked through it and didn't see anything special, and she didn't know who her sister trusted in the past. In short, the one she trusted now was Cui Chengqin, who was the most noble palace in Fengchen Palace, and the other two They are Xiang Ming, a female official, and Chun'er, a personal palace maid. Chun'er is still young and can't act as a female official yet. These are the only three people who can get close to her. Currently, she doesn't know the character of the others, so she doesn't dare to take advantage of them.
In this way, we still follow the original arrangement without any changes.
After sorting out everything in his palace, Cui Shanggong handed over another list, which was the list of concubines promoted by the queen.
Shen Huan smiled and said, "You want me to win people's hearts, right?"
Cui Shanggong smiled and said nothing. Shen Huan took it, picked up the ink pen, and without thinking, he drew the names of Cao Jieyu and Li Wanyi. Cui Shanggong was stunned and asked: "Isn't the empress afraid that others will know about these two things?" People are the empress's subordinates, do you think the empress is nepotistic?"
Shen Huan said nonchalantly: "After the previous events, I am afraid that the people in the harem have already known that they are my subordinates, so why hide it? Besides, we are promoting a group of people anyway, why not promote our own people? ?Could it be that if I promote others, they will be grateful to me?"
Cui Shanggong was silent. Shen Huan ticked off Concubine Fu's name again, but when she saw Pang Gui and Yang Changzai, she was slightly startled.
She sighed and said faintly: "I still don't know who the secret agent next to Sister Xianya is, but it must be one of the two, Sister Xianya, who protected them during her lifetime, but she didn't want to die at the hands of one of them! "
Cui Shanggong advised: "The empress does not need to advance to their position for the time being."
Shen Huan shook his head: "No, I want to be promoted, and we will be promoted together!" After that, he checked both of their names.
After working for a long time, it was time for lunch, but someone from the palace came to report that the eldest son of the emperor refused to eat, even knocked over all the food, and still clamored to go back to Ruizhu Palace.
Shen Wen elegantly picked up a chopstick and put the dish in his mouth and chewed it slowly. After eating the food in his mouth, he gently wiped his mouth with a white towel and said with a smile: "Since he doesn't want to eat, he just wrote it off." Stay, before dinner, he is not allowed to touch any food in my Fengchen Palace, and eat on time, this is the rule."
The palace man wiped his sweat and stepped back.
Shen Huan continued to eat elegantly. Cui Shanggong opened his mouth, but still did not speak.
After the meal was removed and Shen Huan sat down with some tea, Cui Shanggong asked: "Your Majesty treated the Emperor's eldest son like this. If the Emperor knew about it, I'm afraid he would blame the Emperor for pampering Your Majesty again. But the Emperor's eldest son is the Emperor's son after all." "
Shen Huan still smiled lightly and asked: "Then what does Cui Shanggong think I should do? Ask him in person and ask him to eat? That doesn't work. Teacher, you teach children in the countryside. They respect you so they listen to you. But This child, he hates me, so I don’t need to lower my status to beg him for food, and there is no need to appear too affectionate, which will make me uncomfortable and others will only make assumptions.”
Cui Shanggong asked: "So the empress has not seen the eldest son of the emperor since he came?"
Shen Huan said: "This child is spoiled, and I hate children who are spoiled and arrogant! The emperor understands my temper, so I just have to do what I want to do."
Cui Shanggong nodded and said: "It seems that the empress did the right thing. It is better to be willful now than later."
Shen Huan smiled and said: "Others may think that I am willful, but this is the best way to treat the eldest son of the emperor."
In the afternoon, several concubines came over to sit around. Jin Feng's decree had not yet been conveyed. They probably came to show their courtesy and hope that the queen would treat them well in person.
Shen Huan responded to them calmly, accepted their gifts, and ordered someone to prepare a return gift.
The etiquette learned in those more than a month was not in vain. Shen Huan always dealt with these things with a graceful and calm smile, a calm expression, a gentle yet majestic tone, and a royal nobility in every gesture.
The people below all held their breath and concentrated, not daring to slack off at all.
In addition to the grounded Concubine Pei, Concubine Qing and Guiren Xia, who knew that no matter what they did, they would never forgive her, and a few concubines who had fallen out of favor for a long time and did not want to fight for their favor anymore. The rest of the people came. I am familiar with people like Cao Jieyu, Fang Jieyu, Li Wanyi, Fu Bi, etc. There are also a few who were concubines in the previous palace, and I have almost forgotten about them.
Pang Gui and Yang Changzai were also there. Shen Huan was moved and asked Cui Shanggong with a smile: "Have you planted all the flowers and plants in Fengchen Palace in spring and harvested in autumn?"
Cui Shanggong calmly replied: "Go back to your Majesty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has come to inquire. I remember your Majesty's past preferences and have already given the order."
Shen Huan nodded and asked, "Have you planted hollyhocks?"
Cui Shanggong was stunned, shook his head and said: "I don't know that the empress likes hollyhocks, so she didn't plant them."
Shen Huan's eyes turned red, she raised her sleeves to cover her face, but her eyes glanced back and forth between Pang Gui and Yang Changzai, and choked up: "I remember that in the past, Sister Xianya loved Hollyhock the most. I don't know what the two sisters Huazhi and Xueling are. still remember?"
Xueling was stunned and looked at Shen Huan blankly and said: "I only remember that sister Xianya loves hibiscus, but I don't know that she also likes hollyhocks!"
Hua Zhi said: "I think I have remembered it wrongly. Sister Xianya was allergic to hollyhocks during her lifetime, and hollyhocks were never planted in Jingyi Palace."
Shen Wen smiled awkwardly and said: "I think I really remembered it wrong. Cui Shanggong, there is no need to plant those. If Sister Xianya comes back to visit me because she misses me, I'm afraid she won't want to come in if she smells the smell."
Cui Shanggong agreed. Shen Huan looked at the expressions of the two of them. One was sad, and the other was a little unnatural.