The Supreme Emperor glanced at Dan Xu's hidden hand, ignored it, turned around and walked out of Fengxian Hall.
Empress Dowager Qian and the empress led the royal family members to wait in the side hall. When they heard that the incense burning in the main hall was completed, they hurriedly came out to pay their respects to the Supreme Emperor.
The Emperor was too lazy to talk to people he didn't like, so he raised his hands casually and got on the carriage.
Eunuch Hai calmed down, and then hurriedly told Mingruo that the Emperor had sent Prince Yun and Princess Yun to the Kuntai Hall to talk.
"Yes." Ming Ruo nodded slightly, showing off her graceful demeanor as a princess.
"Princess, please follow me." Eunuch Hai bowed and led the way.
Mingruo turned a corner and saw Si Haochen standing under the verandah. The wind blew off the snow on the eaves and fell on his black cloak.
"Didn't you say you can come back before noon? Why is it so late?" Mingruo raised his hand to brush away the snowflakes falling on Si Haochen's shoulders.
"On the way back, we met a few thieves, which delayed us for a while." Si Haochen held Mingruo's hand and held it in his palm.
"Ah!" Mingruo naturally didn't believe that the little thief dared to attack the royal guard of honor, and looked at her husband carefully, "Are you not hurt?"
"My beloved concubine sent top-notch bodyguards here, how could my husband be injured?" Si Haochen helped his daughter-in-law get on the carriage.
"Aren't we going to Kuntai Palace?" Although Mingruo is not familiar with the palace, he still knows the direction of Kuntai Palace.
"Aren't you afraid that my husband will sell you out?" Si Haochen wrapped Mingruo in his cloak.
"Okay, I'll help you count the silver." Mingruo looked like he was lying down.
"You, you..." Si Haochen had nothing to do with his weird wife, "Today your senior brother is treating us to a treat, and the Supreme Emperor will accompany her."
"The standards of this luncheon are very high." Mingruo looked up at the magnificent building in front of him.
"Isn't it true? It's my first time coming to Lanyue Tower for dinner, and it's thanks to the girl's blessing." The Supreme Emperor easily jumped off the shoulder carriage, and Eunuch Hai moved his feet messily in the wind.
Mingruo and the three giants of Donghuan happily ate hot pot at Lanyue Tower. Emperor Danxu held a family banquet in Panlong Palace, where he ate at the same table with the queen and three adult princes.
Concubine Li specially changed into a gorgeous outfit and waited for the emperor to announce that she would go to Panlong Palace for dinner. In the past, when Concubine Qian was favored, she had a place at the annual New Year's Eve family banquet. Now she is also favored.
Concubine Li held up the hairpin ring on her headrest and turned her head to see the maid holding a food box: "Your Majesty, today the royal kitchen has made your favorite chicken rolls and sugar-steamed cheese cheese."
"Did the meal arrive at Panlong Palace?" Concubine Li raised her eyes slightly.
"Already...already...the banquet has started..." the maid whispered.
Li Bin waved the food on the table to the ground, and her brand-new clothes were soaked in the soup and stained with mottled oil stains...
"Your Majesty, you have carefully burned your hands." The four maids knelt on the ground, their heads lowered and they did not dare to say anything.
"Get out of here!" Concubine Li kicked away the stool at the table.
The maidservant shivered with fright and crawled out of the room. Concubine Li looked at the mess on the floor, her mood became even worse, and her face became gloomy.
"The imperial edict has arrived, Concubine Li will take it." Zhang Jinliang's high-pitched voice sounded.
Concubine Li quickly called back the maid who had just been kicked out and helped her change her clothes.
The personal maid stuffed a purse containing a gold lock into Zhang Jinliang's hand and said with a flattering look on her face: "I wonder what kind of message Eunuch Zhang is here to convey?"
Zhang Jinliang put his heavy purse into his sleeve pocket and said seriously: "Let Empress Libin accept the order quickly, that's a good thing!"
"Okay, thank you for your advice, father-in-law." The maid smiled so hard that she couldn't even see her eyes. She ordered the palace maid to serve tea while she went to tell Concubine Li.
When Concubine Li heard that it was a 'good thing', she specially changed into brightly colored clothes and put two slanted phoenix hairpins on her bun. Then she helped the maid out and knelt down in front of the arranged incense table.
Zhang Jinliang unfolded the imperial edict and said in a cadence: "By God's blessing, the emperor's edict says: Li Concubine Liu is rich in rain, Shushen and dignified, diligent and submissive, quiet and graceful, beautiful and gentle, which deeply comforts my heart. She was canonized as Concubine Li and awarded a gold medal.
This is the treasure seal of the book."
"I am not very happy that I am traveling to Tianze. Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness." Concubine Li was completely dizzy. She was promoted to concubine before she even gave birth to a prince or a princess. It was such a great thing.
Zhang Jinliang placed the imperial edict on the tray containing the gold volume and seal, handed it to Li Bin, and then called the little eunuch who was accompanying him to leave.
Li Bin took it with both hands and turned around to give it to her grandma for safekeeping: "Eunuch Zhang, have some snacks before you go."
"Thank you very much for your kindness, Concubine Li. Our family has to go out of the palace to run errands." Zhang Jinliang refused politely.
Concubine Li rewarded her again and then said: "I am going to Panlong to express my gratitude. Do you think it is appropriate, Eunuch Zhang?"
"The emperor is talking to all the princes. Your Majesty, it is better to go in the afternoon." Zhang Jinliang got a lot of benefits from Concubine Li, and I need to mention a few things.
"Thank you so much, Eunuch Zhang." Concubine Li smiled and nodded.
After lunch, the Supreme Emperor was going back to Kuntai Hall: "Girl, let's go fishing with Gu."
"But I don't know how to fish, so why don't we play checkers?" Mingruo suggested.
"What kind of game is checkers?" The Emperor had never heard of this kind of game.
Mingruo winked at Si Haochen, and His Royal Highness Prince Yun took out a pair of checkers from the Qiankun Box.
This chess piece is colorful and somewhat interesting. The Supreme Emperor picked up a chess piece polished from amethyst and played with it in his hands - this brat is such a spendthrift!
Si Haochen talked about the rules, and Jun Che thought it was quite interesting, so he sat across from the Supreme Emperor, and the two novices hurt each other.
The Supreme Emperor felt that checkers was simpler and more interesting to play than Go, but it was easier to master than Go: "Xiao Haizi, you can learn from the sidelines."
"Okay." Eunuch Hai quickly agreed.
The four of them were having a great time, when the Emperor's secret guard came to report: "To report to the Emperor, Your Majesty... has granted two new concubines today..."
The Supreme Emperor glanced at the secret guard with a look that looked like a fool, and the meaning was obvious - this is nothing important, what is there to report!
"That..." the secret guard took a deep breath, fearing that the Emperor would be angry after hearing this, "The Emperor promoted Concubine Li to Concubine Li, and also brought the second daughter of the Shen family into the palace and named her Concubine Hui..."
Si Haochen heard the secret: "Which Shen family?"
"It's... His Highness's maternal ancestral home..." The secret guard's voice became smaller and smaller.
"The Shen family only has one legitimate daughter, Shen Bichi. Where did the second daughter come from?" Si Haochen looked at the Supreme Emperor with some amusement - your unfilial son really knows how to play!
"The emperor fabricated the identity of a legitimate second daughter for Shen Bichi just because she was pregnant with a dragon heir and wanted to take her into the palace." The secret guard secretly glanced at the Supreme Emperor and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no anger on the Supreme Emperor's face.
"Uh..." Mingruo was stunned by Emperor Danxu's actions.
