The hall door was pushed open shortly after it was closed, and wisps of sunlight penetrated through the crack of the door, casting a hazy halo on Changsun Qimu's Tsing Yi soft shirt.

Jing Ran looked at the shallow ripples in her beautiful phoenix eyes, and inexplicably felt that her eyes resembled Yun Ling.

The eldest grandson Qimu looked away from her with shallow eyebrows, bowed to the queen and said, "Mother's queen."

"Get up." The queen responded, glanced at Jing Ran, and said quietly: "I have sent people to look for you every time these days, but I can't find you. It's rare that you will come to me on your own initiative. It seems to be I have been honored by Jing Shizi today."

Jing Ran: "..."

The eldest grandson Qimu looked innocent: "Mother, you have wronged me. It's not like you don't know what I have done these days. Besides, this Fengxi Palace is the palace where I grew up. If the emperor allows , I wish I could move back in.”

"Just talk about it! Who insisted on arguing to live in a mansion outside the palace a few days ago?" The queen gave her an annoyed look, and sighed as if she was too lazy to argue with her: "Forget it, you now When you grow up, the queen mother knows that you are busy, and she is relieved to see you safe and happy."

The eldest grandson Qimu smiled lightly and said nothing, the queen turned to look at Jing Ran and said, "The weather is fine today, I just want to gossip when I announce you to enter the palace, it's really depressing to stay inside the house under heavy snow for several days. Why don't you go to the Huxin Pavilion." Then he turned to the eldest grandson Qimu, and said lightly: "Since you are here, let's go together, just a few days ago your uncle sent someone to send two altars of high-quality green osmanthus wine. You can cook plums with warm wine."

The eldest grandson Qimu nodded obediently, and looked at Jingran with clear eyes, as if waiting for her to reply.

Jing Ran raised his eyebrows, and returned her a subtle look, feeling that this man's temperament in front of the queen was much more lively.

The queen was the first to leave the palace gate, and the mother who led Jing Ran into the palace ordered: "Mother Du, go and bring the two altars of green osmanthus wine that you brought a few days ago to the Huxin Pavilion," and then turned her head. He said to another mother, "Mother Zhao, take someone to pick a basket of plum blossoms and bring them here."

Jing Ran paused in her footsteps, then turned her head to look at that Madam Du.

The eldest grandson Qimu suddenly turned his head to look at Jingran, and said to her secretly: "Nurse Du is a dowry maid brought from my mother's family by my mother, and she is indeed a member of the Du family from the eight great families."

Jing Ran's eyes flickered, and then he stepped up to catch up with the queen, and after a while, he also asked secretly through voice transmission: "Now the Feng family is the head of the eight great families?"

The queen's mother's surname is Feng, which is one of the eight noble families of the Qing Dynasty.The eight aristocratic families are rumored to be tribal families that have been multiplied since ancient times. Later, against the tide of history and the change of dynasties, they chose to join forces to hide from the world and support each other. Now that it has been thousands of years, there must be strong and weak in the development and replacement. It depends on which family is in today. Take the lead.

When Changsun Qimu saw Jing Ran's reply, he immediately pricked up his ears and listened attentively. Jing Ran slightly glanced to the side, and saw the corner of her mouth slightly curled up.

"No, the Yun family is respected by the eight great families now." The eldest grandson Qimu replied after listening.

The Yun family?The mother clan of her concubine?Jing Ran frowned and didn't speak.

Changsun Qimu waited and saw that she was silent, reached out to pick up the cloak that Jing Ran had just untied in the hand of the little maid beside her, raised her hand and put it on her body, and smoothed the hood very smoothly before her lips softened Said: "Although the weather is sunny today, it is still cold, be careful not to freeze."

The queen who was walking in front turned around and glanced at the two of them immediately upon hearing the sound, her eyes were subtle.

"..." Jing Ran hurriedly raised his hand to tie up the belt on his front, and Changsun Qimu looked at her knuckle-knuckle fingers without hesitation, with a look of pity.

Seeing that Jingran's long fingers were nimble and slender, and he tied them into an extremely beautiful and dazzling knot in two or three strokes, Changsun Qimu's beautiful phoenix eyes blinked immediately.

The queen continued to walk forward with an indescribable expression, and all the teams behind her followed. No one looked up, it seemed that the people around the queen were all very nice.

Jing Ran slightly tilted his head and glanced at the elder grandson Qimu, who was clearly interested but held back and didn't ask, and smiled subconsciously. It seemed that from the first time we met in the imperial study room of the palace to now, this person was like the world's population. The image of him is far from that of the other, these small appearances are obviously just a 15-year-old child.

The eldest grandson Qimu, however, had a very plain little face, but he was thinking messily in his heart, Jingran's knotting technique was skillful and peculiar, probably the same kind of knot was tied on the belt, but Guang It is so dazzling when you type it, if you want to untie it, it is also extremely complicated.

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It is rumored that Fengqi Palace was built by the founding emperor of Qingyue for Empress Rongzhen alone. It is extremely exquisite and perfect, and this palace alone occupies half of the harem.

Therefore, the few people detoured for a long time before arriving at the lake pavilion mentioned by the queen. At this moment, the lake has frozen, the huge lake is empty, and the surrounding area of ​​the ice lake is also desolate.The pavilion erected in the middle of the lake was open and unobstructed by curtains. You could see Madam Du and Madam Zhao standing quietly, one on the left and one on the right, with many things that had been prepared beside them.

The eldest grandson Qimu seemed to see Jingran's doubts, and said briefly through a voice transmission: "It is difficult to hide people around the Huxin Pavilion."

Jingran's curly eyelashes flickered suddenly.

After the three of them sat down, the Queen waved her hand and said, "Mother Zhao will take the people down, and Mother Du will stay and wait on you."

Mother Zhao answered "Yes" with a low eyebrow, and then led the group of people back out. Jing Ran looked at her back casually.Seeing that her arches were drawn and she landed lightly, she obviously possessed good martial arts but was deliberately restraining herself.

"This warm wine boiled plum is perfect in winter. Not to mention that Mu'er loves it so much, even Ben Gong misses having a drink or two from time to time. Have you tried it?" the queen asked slowly in a slightly soft voice.

Jing Ran withdrew her gaze and shook her head.Turning his eyes back to the table, he saw Changsun Qimu fiddled with the small stove in front of him calmly, skillfully but slowly picked up the wine pot to iron, and in the other hand was a small basket of plum blossoms.

Jing Ran stared at the plum blossoms for a moment, then stretched out her hand to pinch a petal closer and sniffed it lightly.

Changsun Qimu looked up at her movements, and the shallow smile that had never faded from the corner of his lips deepened a little, and he also reached out to take the plum petals in the basket and slowly added them to the jug.

The queen confirmed to her in good time: "You guessed right, this plum blossom is indeed Zhangtai ancient plum, and it is the same variety as the one you planted in Qingye Pavilion."

Jing Ran suppressed the subtle emotions in her heart and watched the Queen's eyes move.

"Zhangtai ancient plum is a rare and exotic species in ancient times. Today, only the ones in your yard are left. The two I have here were also begged from your mother and concubine back then." The queen smiled and brushed the thin fur on her body. , and then said: "And this way of drinking warm wine and boiled plums is also the way your mother concubine thought of back then, you must try it later."

The strange color in Jing Ran's eyes deepened, and his eyes glanced at Changsun Qimu's fingers moving back and forth, and nodded.

Changsun Qimu put the wine pot that had been mixed on the small stove, his face was quiet and arrogant.

"Do you know the relationship between me and your concubine mother?" The queen looked at her with a smile again.

Jing Ran's heart skipped a beat, and he raised his eyes to look into the queen's clear eyes, and saw that she was just smiling softly and showing no other emotions.

"Actually, strictly speaking, I'm just your mother's concubine's accompanying maid." The queen continued without waiting for her reply: "The eight great families have produced many capable people over the years, and the Yun family has become more and more powerful. Your mother's concubine is also a young Yun family." The best person in my generation, I can go to her as a companion because of my status as the first daughter of the Feng family, but your mother and concubine treat me very well, and we love each other like sisters."

Jing Ran nodded knowingly, no wonder the queen would attend the wedding of her mother and concubine as her natal family, and it turned out that she also brought this layer of childhood friendship.

"Then my mother broke up with the Yun family later, but in order to marry my father?" Jing Ran asked the queen after thinking about it.

The queen nodded: "That's right, Miss has been eccentric since she was a child, and she has a lot of ideas. The Yun family intends to train her as a successor, so they never restrained her with the etiquette of ordinary girls. Miss has her own opinions in everything. Until Miss is 15 years old. Nian went out to do errands and disappeared for three months. When everyone was in a hurry, she ran back unkempt and disheveled, and announced in a shocking way that she would marry the No. Son, your father and king."

Jing Ran raised her eyebrows in surprise, she always thought that her mother was a kind, gentle and intelligent woman, but she didn't expect to have such a flamboyant side.

Changsun Qimu lowered his eyes slightly, the jug was gradually whitening, and his long eyelashes were tightly curled. He quietly listened to the two people talking softly without interrupting.

"But this is just one of them, and there is the most important point." The queen sighed inaudibly, and said word by word: "When the eight great families were hidden from the world, there were ancestors' precepts. The first rule is that future generations should not enter the world. .Your father is the eldest son of Qingyue Deqin Palace, who is right at the center of court power."

Jing Ran nodded in amazement. There are only three generations of aristocratic families who have entered the court and entered the world. The eight great families can pass on for thousands of years. This ancestral precept is indisputable.

"Later you will be able to think of it. The young lady is resolute and determined. The Yun family will not give an inch, and the two sides will inevitably collapse. And the young lady has been extremely capable since she was a child, and she was trained as a successor to have a force loyal to herself, and she is afraid of morality. In Prince Qin's Mansion, the head of the Yun family at that time had no choice but to be so angry that he fell ill for three months, so he could only remove the name of the young lady from the genealogy." The queen narrowed her eyes and recalled, "But after the wedding between the young lady and the prince of Deqin, although they lived very happily. Okay, but after only half a year of peace and stability, Prince Deqin passed away. The young lady probably cared about you in her womb, and calmly raised her baby as if nothing had happened, and prepared the Qingye Pavilion for you. The Zhangtai Gumei in your courtyard is the last of the young lady. I brought it back when I went back to Yun's house."

It was plum blossoms again, Jing Ran frowned without any trace, and asked: "Why did you bring plum blossoms back, is there any special significance?"

The queen froze for a moment and shook her head, "I don't know about this either, but this ancient plum is extremely difficult to feed. It was almost extinct back then, and everyone was helpless. The young lady managed to save it, and it has been planted in the young lady's yard since then. It's a special feeling."

Jing Ran didn't say a word, her eyes swept across the remaining half basket of petals on the table.

Changsun Qimu caught her gaze and said softly, "It's almost over."

Jing Ran nodded, watching her slender jade fingers arrange the three white jade cups one by one, lift the jug and slowly pour the warm wine into the cups, drawing a long and thin line of water in the air, a series of movements Gentle and elegant, pleasing to the eye.

Speaking of Jin Yang, who always gives people a sense of undisciplined elegance, the elegance of the person in front of him seems to be infused with flesh and blood.

The clear wine reflects the texture of the white jade cup, and the garnet red color adds a little simplicity and heaviness to the clarity and brightness of the wine.The aroma of the wine is soft and fragrant, the wine is mellow in the mouth, full of fragrance, the warm liquid slides into the stomach, and the limbs and bones seem to warm up.

Jing Ran praised softly, drank the rest of the wine in the glass, turned his head to wink at the eldest grandson Qimu, and said lightly, "Can I ask for another glass?"

"Naturally." Seeing her appearance, Changsun Qimu responded softly, his eyes swept over her clear and red lips stained with wine, a place in his heart suddenly softened as if it was about to melt away, and for her Add a full glass.

The queen's eyes swept back and forth between the two of them deeply, and she also picked up the cup and drank it down. She narrowed her eyes and said, "It seems simple to cook plums with warm wine, but it is exquisite in every aspect. The green osmanthus wine alone, It is the secret recipe that the Feng family does not pass on to the outside world. The young lady joked back then that she would definitely marry me as a son and daughter. But in a blink of an eye, you are all so old."

Jing Ran's eyebrows twitched suddenly, and Changsun Qimu also raised his head suddenly, and the fingers holding the white jade cup twitched slightly, and the wine in the cup caused shallow ripples.

At this moment, Mother Zhao, who had just stepped back, suddenly walked over from a distance. The eldest grandson Qimu raised her eyes and glanced lightly, suppressing what she wanted to ask, and pursed her thin lips.

Zhao Momo came closer, bowed her head and reported in a slow voice: "Your Majesty, Princess Jin Yang of Wuli said that she went to the palace to meet the emperor today, so she came to Fengqi Palace to ask to see her."

Jing Ran's eyes flickered for a moment, then turned to look at Changsun Qimu, and saw that her face was still clear and indifferent, and nothing else could be seen.

The queen, on the other hand, looked slightly drunk, with a little mist in her eyes, and sighed with a smile: "It's not a coincidence, I am too weak to drink, and I am very weak at the moment, and it happens that Mu'er is here , please entertain Princess Jin Chang for me, you young people speak speculatively and informally when you gather together."

As he spoke, he stood up, stretched out his arms slightly and called out, "Nurse Du."

Grandma Du hurriedly stepped forward to support the queen, and the eldest grandson Qimu and Jing Ran also stood up. The eldest grandson Qimu was silent for a while before saying, "Mrs. Du, take good care of the queen mother."

Madam Du nodded yes, and helped the queen out of the Huxin Pavilion. Jing Ran stood there and watched the queen's figure leave thoughtfully, and then looked at the eldest grandson Qimu.

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