Although the Yongning Marquis Mansion was just a marquis, he was a friend of the old Yongning Marquis when the emperor was still in the secret residence. The emperor raised an army, and the old Yongning Marquis also rose up with him. Both sons and son-in-law were killed in battle. The old Yongning Marquis could not see the emperor ascend the throne at the death.

Therefore, after the emperor ascended the throne, he took good care of the Yongning Marquis' Mansion. When Mrs. Lin's 70th birthday was on the crown prince's side, the crown princess personally came to celebrate. During the holidays, the wife of the palace was ordered to enter the palace, and Mrs. Lin was ranked first.

But this time, with Mrs. Lin, there was a wife named Li, Duke Dingguo.

The Duke Dingguo Mansion was a first-class title personally granted by Taizu and was inherited from generation to generation. The Duke Dingguo's stepdaughter was accused of marrying the seventh prince. The Duke Dingguo's wife Li was ranked first in the first group summoned by the queen. This is understandable.

"This Mrs. Li is also a blessing. Not only did her daughter point her daughter to the seventh prince, but she heard that her nephew also became the companion of the crown prince."

"So what if you are blessed, you are just a second wife."

"That's true, unless she can give birth to a son and half of her daughter for the Duke of the State, otherwise..."

"She is not young anymore, so she can't give birth just by wanting to."

The two women whispered, and then smiled with a veil to cover their mouths and smiled.

The middle-aged woman frowned and whispered: "This is the palace, don't talk nonsense."

The two destiny women were scolded and blushed with their faces and lowered their heads and dared not say much.

The closest to them are the eldest wife of the Lu family, Fu and the second wife of Yu, as well as the wife of Lu Jinchao, Quan and Miss Lu Si.

Miss Lu Si had a sharp ear and listened to the three of them in a low voice.

Miss Lu Si frowned and said to Quan, "Sister-in-law, that lady is from the Wu family, right? What about the other two, too?"

Quan nodded and whispered: "The older one is Mrs. Wu, and the other two are her two daughters-in-law."

The Wu family mentioned by Miss Lu Si refers to the Wu family in Jing'an Bo Mansion. The Wu family has only three generations of titles, and Mrs. Wu's father-in-law is the third generation. Now the old man is over 60 years old and has been slumped in bed for several years. He is still living strong for his children and grandchildren. But even so, the Wu family is already on the verge of the noble circle. There is no way, the title will be gone, but the children and grandchildren are not particularly outstanding. What the Wu family wants to count on is that the emperor will extend the title for another generation in view of the achievements of the Wu family's ancestors.

Miss Lu Si has a good impression of Yan Xuehuai, and she also has a good impression of Li Qiniang. In addition, the relationship between the Seventh Prince and the Lu family, so Miss Lu Si naturally attributed Li Qiniang to her own people and disagrees with what the two daughters-in-laws of the Wu family said.

When Quan saw her staring at the Wu family, he whispered: "Our family and the Wu family don't have any contacts, so don't be serious with their people."

Miss Lu Si pouted: "Who is serious about them, I don't know them."

Fu noticed that his sister-in-law and sister-in-law were muttering in a low voice and coughed dryly. Quan and Miss Lu Si quickly stood up straight, looking at their noses and their hearts, waiting for the palace servants to summon them.

Inside the hall.

Li Qiniang hasn't entered the palace for some days. The queen has become more plump and looks younger. She looks very beautiful.

Seeing Li Qiniang helping Mrs. Lin come in together, the smile on the queen's face became more friendly. After asking Mrs. Lin's body, she said to Li Qiniang: "You must be very tired when you are busy with your daughter's marriage these days. Let's watch the show today, and it will be easy and relaxing."

The queen said intimately again: "You all came out before dawn. Mrs. Li, please accompany Mrs. Lin to use some snacks. Mrs. Lin is old, but she can't stand the hard work."

Mrs. Lin and Li Qiniang thanked each other, and the two palace maids took them out.

A palace maid said, "The two ladies will be singing in Yunyin Pavilion later, which is very close to the Imperial Garden. Today, the queen asked the flower viewing workshop in the Imperial Garden for the ladies to sit for a while. Let's accompany the two ladies to the flower viewing workshop."

Although this is not the first time Li Qiniang has entered the palace, she has never wandered around the palace, nor has she been to the Imperial Garden, nor do she know what this flower viewing workshop looks like.

But she remembered what her daughter told her, so she asked, "Is the flower shop on the lake?"

The palace maid smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Li, although Guanhuafang is not far from the lake, it is not on the lake. It is not wet and cold. It burns the ground dragon and is very warm."

Li Qiniang was a little relieved. As long as she was not close to the lake, she could sit in the flower viewing workshop and could not go out.

Besides, there is also a respected Mrs. Lin.

Mrs. Lin’s eldest daughter-in-law is Mrs. Yongning Marquis. Mrs. Yongning Marquis gave birth to another child at the age of 40 and is still in confinement. Mrs. Lin’s other two daughters-in-law and one daughter are all widowed and their only granddaughter is married far away from another place. Therefore, Mrs. Lin entered the palace alone.

Li Qiniang heard Qi Wei talk about the Yongning Marquis Mansion. Although the old lady Lin lived and sneaked out and did not enter the palace often, she was respected by the queen. Therefore, as long as she followed Mrs. Lin today, others would not be able to plot against her.

Li Qiniang looked at Mrs. Lin, and Mrs. Lin nodded and said, "Then I'll bother the two girls to lead the way."

Two palace maids bowed their knees and led the way in front. Li Qiniang helped Mrs. Lin follow behind.

Mrs. Lin smiled and said to Li Qiniang: "Thanks to you today, my old bones are not that hard, just to make you suffer."

Li Qiniang hurriedly said, "Old Madam, don't be polite. You are an elder, and I should support you."

Mrs. Lin patted her hand and said, "I don't like social engagements and rarely come out on weekdays. My family also has a garden. Although it is not as full of strange flowers and flowers as the imperial garden, there are also a few famous species. If you are free, come to my house to sit down. When my eldest daughter-in-law is out of confinement, she will accompany you to enjoy the flowers."

"Okay, I will visit you someday, visit the old lady, and enjoy the flowers." Li Qiniang said with a smile.

At this moment, other female relatives were still waiting for summoning, so along the way, except for the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, they did not meet other female relatives. One old and one young followed the two palace maids, and soon arrived at the Imperial Garden.

The imperial garden of the Great Wei Palace is in the style of Jiangnan gardens, with three steps, one scenery, five steps, one painting, pavilions, towers, small bridges and flowing water. Although it is winter, there are still scenery everywhere.

Li Qiniang's eyes were attracted by the rockery in front of her.

That's right, the rockery in the Imperial Garden is not one, but one. The main peak is about four meters high. Although it covers a small area, it has stone beams, cliffs, and secluded paths in the cave, which is breathtaking.

But Li Qiniang stopped. She stopped, and of course Mrs. Lin stopped too.

Li Qiniang pointed to the rockery in front and asked the palace maid who led the way: "We want to pass through the rockery?"

The palace maid smiled and explained: "There is a valley in the belly of this rockery, with a unique cave in it. It is full of strange flowers and plants. The scenery is pleasant, like a fairyland, and you can directly access the flower viewing workshop."

Li Qiniang asked, "Is there no other way to visit the flower shop from here?"

The palace maid was about to say something, but Li Qiniang was sharp-eyed and saw several eunuchs walking on the fork road not far away, holding a lot of things in her hands. Today is the Winter Solstice, and the biggest thing in the harem is palace drama. These eunuchs thought they came from Yunyin Pavilion, and the flower viewing workshop was next to Yunyin Pavilion.

Li Qiniang said, "That road leads to Yunyin Pavilion, I think I can go to the Huaguanfang."

I don’t know if it was Li Qiniang’s illusion, but she felt that the palace maid she spoke before had a slightly unnatural expression, while another palace maid said: “Mrs. Li is right. You can also go to the Huashang on that road, just to go far. Mrs. Lin is getting older and it will take a harder time to walk over.”

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lin looked at Li Qiniang: "Do you want to see the scenery in the valley?"

Li Qiniang didn’t want to go, but her daughter said, “Go away from the rockery and stay away!

But since the palace maid said that, if she insisted on taking another path, she would go around without regard to Mrs. Lin's body. If Mrs. Lin was tired, this would be her fault.

But the more this happens, the more Li Qiniang feels that the road in the rockery cannot be taken.

She shook her head and said to Mrs. Lin: "I'm not hiding it from the old lady, I'm afraid of the cold. I think the mountain stream will be colder than outside. If the old lady also wants to see the scenery in the valley, I will accompany you. For a while, it doesn't matter."

Mrs. Lin laughed: "It's cold now, how good can the scenery in the valley be? If you really want to see it, just wait until the spring is warm and the flowers bloom. There will be a chance to enter the palace. Let's go, support me and let's go around the long way. How far can it be in the imperial garden?"

Li Qiniang breathed a sigh of relief and helped Mrs. Lin walk on the fork in the road. They walked a few steps, but they didn't see the two palace maids following. Li Qiniang turned around and looked at them. The two palace maids were stunned. When they saw her coming, they suddenly realized and quickly walked to the front to lead the way.

At this moment, even Mrs. Lin noticed something was wrong. She pointed to the flower pavilion on the side of the road and said to Li Qiniang: "Let's take a break there. I'm not hungry yet, and I'm not in a hurry to use snacks. Are you hungry?"

Li Qiniang was eager to go there first. These two palace maids were a bit strange. Who knew what else would be the last one?

The two palace maids obviously did not expect that Mrs. Lin would not want to walk forward. They had no choice but to watch Mrs. Lin and Li Qiniang walk into the flower pavilion.

It was already the twelfth lunar month, and the flower pavilion was airing everywhere, it was really cold.

The beauty leaned on the brocade mat, and Li Qiniang helped Mrs. Lin to sit down when she saw several people walking over from afar.

Li Qiniang breathed a sigh of relief, the princess was coming.

The princess also saw them and sent an eunuch to ask. When she heard that Mrs. Lin could not walk anymore, the princess said a few words to the eunuch beside her, and the eunuch turned around and left.

The princess walked into the flower pavilion and greeted Mrs. Lin and Li Qiniang. After a while, the previous eunuch came back, followed by two eunuchs holding their carriages.

The princess asked Mrs. Lin to sit on the carriage. Mrs. Lin hurriedly said that she could not do anything. The princess smiled and said, "Since the eunuchs can carry the carriage over, it must be that the mother's mother has already been approved. Mrs. Lin should not refuse. This is also the mother's care for you."

Mrs. Lin hurriedly bowed to thank her: "My wife thanked the Queen and the Princess for the grace."

Mrs. Lin sat on her shoulder carriage, while Li Qiniang accompanied the princess, enjoying the scenery and walking towards the flower shop.

The princess didn't even look at the road leading into the rockery mountain, so she walked up the fork.

The princess was very talkative and intended to get along with Li Qiniang. Therefore, she smiled and had no princess' airs at all. Li Qiniang was a little tight at first, but after a while she relaxed, followed the princess, enjoying the scenery all the way, and then went to the flower viewing workshop.

The next time it went smoothly. The female relatives went to the Huaguanfang one after another. Although the Huaguanfang was spacious, they could not sit in so many female relatives. So some were inside and some were outside until the eunuch came in and said that the queen and the crown princess had already arrived at Yunyin Pavilion, so the female relatives followed the eunuch to Yunyin Pavilion to watch the show.

This year's winter solstice, the palace opera performed "Yingzhou Legend", "Colorful Lines" and "The Jade Girl Offering the Basin". Mrs. Lin told Li Qiniang: "The palace operas of the winter solstice are different every year. Last year, they performed "Jinwu Kan Arrow" and "Yasui Yingxiang". By the way, do you like watching opera?"

Li Qiniang smiled and said, "I like it, I have loved it since I was a child."

Mrs. Lin nodded: "I also liked watching operas when I was young. In the past two years, I can only watch it when I entered the palace."

Li Qiniang immediately understood that the old Yongning Marquis and his two sons were all killed in battle. Now, except for the wife of Yongning Marquis, the Lin family is widowed. Not only is it inconvenient to go out for social events, but it is not convenient to invite the opera troupe to the house to sing opera. Mrs. Lin can only watch the palace opera when she enters the palace.

This palace drama is different from the outside drama.

The scenes in the palace are only performed in auspicious way, and they are naturally not as good as those outside, and new dramas come out every season.

Li Qiniang didn't know how to comfort Mrs. Lin, so she had to say, "When I finish the marriage for my daughter, I will make time to pick you up to our house to watch the show. I will pick you up in person, you must come."

"You don't have to pick me up in person. Just send an old lady to call me. I'll be in love with you. Just don't bother me to nag."

Mrs. Lin didn't tell the truth. She couldn't get along with others casually. She did think that Li Qiniang was good, but there was another more important reason. She was one of the few who knew that Zhou Dada and Li Qiniang were from the Anyuan Marquis' Mansion.

How did she know? It was because she had met Zhou Dadang's family. At that time, she felt that Zhou Dadang's family looked like an old friend of her, and that old friend was the wife of Anyuan Houzi back then.

Because I felt that the eldest master Zhou was surnamed Zhou, although Mrs. Lin did not ask someone to investigate, she thought that the eldest master must have something to do with Anyuan Hou’s Mansion.

Later I heard that the new wife married by Duke Ding was the elder sister of Zhou Da family. In addition, the younger sister's surname was Li, it is said that she was adopted by someone with the surname Li. Mrs. Lin calculated her age, right? At that time, Mrs. Anyuan Hou had one son and two daughters, and the eldest daughter was about the same age as the elder father of Zhou Da family. If the second daughter was still alive, she would be the age of Duke Ding's wife Li.

Mrs. Lin knew about the case of the Zhou family of Anyuan. Today, when the son not only allowed Duke Ding to marry Li, he also pointed out Li's daughter to the Seventh Prince as the official concubine. I think he had already investigated Li's family background.

Since the emperor did not disclose Li's true identity, Mrs. Lin kept silent, and even her daughter-in-law and daughter did not tell her.

The two were talking in a low voice when they saw an eunuch coming over and whispering something to a palace maid. The palace maid walked to the crown princess and whispered in a low voice.

The Crown Princess' brows moved, and she gave a few instructions to the palace maid, and the palace maid stepped out.

Although they were watching the show, the women were paying attention to the every move of the queen and the crown princess. When the palace maid quit, everyone's thoughts were no longer on the stage.
Chapter completed!