The more people lack something, the more they want to get closer.

Since Xuanyuan Zheng passed away, the Empress Dowager felt that she was old.

She began to like to gather young people around her, watching them talking and laughing, and making fun, as if she was younger as well.

On a winter afternoon at Ci'an Palace, it is quiet and solemn.

The Empress Dowager wanted to have a lunch break, and all the palace maids and the yellow gate walked quietly, and they didn't even dare to breathe.

Xuanyuan Xiang, who was waiting in the side hall, sipped tea one by one, and looked towards the inner hall from time to time.

Today she came to ask the Empress Dowager, her adoptive mother, for an oral order, and let Ran Shaoxuan come out openly and attend the evening banquet.

She received news early in the morning that today's Little New Year banquet, Ci'an Palace invited all the men and women of the relatives and nobles of Kyoto, saying that they were joining for the fun of Little New Year, but in fact they were choosing a concubine for the Regent.

Today, Gao Xi, the people with high rank and powerful rank are the regents.

The prime minister is already a bad old man, and her Xuan'er can't marry her. But the regent is different. He is young and strong, and the young emperor's imperial edict is not necessarily more useful than his look.

To get married, you have to marry someone with power.

This is the experience she has summarized from her marriage.

For the so-called love, I insisted on marrying Ran Wen.

Although she finally got what she wanted, she had only a status and could not get the other party's sincerity. She was alone in the empty room every night, which was better than the maid who was a concubine.

Since you can't get love, you need power.

So, when she learned that her daughter fell in love with Shen Weiyong, she strongly opposed it. Compared with the Regent, the Shen family is nothing.

The coughing sound of the Empress Dowager from the inner room interrupted Xuanyuan Xiang's contemplation. The maids came in with tea, vegetarians, pastries, etc., and served the Empress Dowager.

Xuanyuan Xiang pursed her hair and tried to make her smile like a filial and good daughter. She wanted to find the Queen Mother's words.

There is nothing good about the Royal Garden.

The garden in deep winter is covered with gray. Even a few evergreen trees are still listless and shrinking in the cold wind.

Ran Shaotang listened to several luxuriously dressed young men walking through the bluestone palace road and coming to the flower room next to the Ci'an Palace.

The flower room is located east of the Imperial Garden, separated by a wall from the Ci'an Palace.

From the outside, the flower house is made of rectangular red bricks, and the high exterior walls and roof are made of glazed, making it particularly dazzling in the sun.

After entering, the heat immediately swells, and the fragrance of flowers pours into the spleen, as if entering early summer. All the eyes are the strange flowers and plants that can only be seen in spring and summer. The trees grow lushly and the flowers are colorful and colorful, as if they are in a sea of ​​flowers, which makes people feel refreshed.

Not far away, a red peony blooms beautifully, and the sun shines on the leaves, as if it has quenched gold.

Ran Shaotang looked up and realized that not only some of the walls were made of glazed, but even the roof was full of glazed. No wonder the flowers and plants grew so well.

How much does it cost to maintain it?

She felt distressed when she thought of the waste of money like flowing water.

The little yellow door that led them in walked to a partition, stopped, pointed to the table among the flowers and plants, and said, "You guys, nobles, sit down and drink tea and eat some pastries first. The dinner will take a while. The Empress Dowager said, if you are bored, you can have fun by yourself, play chess, poems, and riddles. But don't go to the partition."

After thinking about it, Xiaohuangmen immediately said, "The girls from all families are resting there."

After saying that, he stepped aside.

Ran Shaotang looked at the partition, found a quiet place to sit down, and poured himself a cup of tea.

She was not familiar with the people here, except for Ran Shaozu who had been following her.

Ran Shaozu wanted to sit over, but Shaotang glanced at him and forced Ran Shaozu to find another place to sit down.

She hummed with satisfaction and raised her head to pour the tea into her mouth.

Someone suddenly ran over, patted her shoulder and shouted, "Shaotang, Shaotang, we finally meet." After that, he stretched out his arms and carried her into his arms.
Chapter completed!