At night, the Great Liao Palace.

In ancient times, when the royal palace was built, it was mainly based on a north-south central line, and then extended the rest of the palace area to the east and west.

At the same time, on the central meridian, in addition to the court hall where the king discussed politics, there is also the emperor's bedroom, and on the east and west sides of the emperor's bedroom, the palace area and the emperor's bedroom complement each other, and guard the emperor's bedroom like two armpits, so these two palace areas are collectively called the court, and usually live as concubines.

Xiao Yute is the third queen of Yelu Hongji, who is more than forty years old, but she is still graceful and luxurious, bright and moving.

Tomorrow, Yelu Hongji will hold a court meeting to give Yelu Qi a jin as the princess of Anguo, and Queen Xiao called her to the palace to talk.

The Khitan was destined to be the ghost sister of Yelu, although she had a grudge against the Khitans, but she was very close to this Queen Xiao, Queen Xiao had no children and no daughters, and she was once the wife of a criminal minister, and the ghost sister lost her mother when she was young, but they can complement each other emotionally.

The two were chatting about their daily routines, and Yelu Hongji walked into the dormitory.

The two of them hurriedly bowed, and Queen Xiao said, "Tomorrow's court, the concubine thinks that His Majesty will be busy until midnight." ”

Yelu Hongji smiled at her kindly, as if he was interested, and read a poem with his hands in his hands, "I was drunk all day long, and I suddenly heard that spring was strong and mountaineering." Because of the words of the monks in the bamboo courtyard, he stole half a day of leisure. ”

Sister Ghost knows that Yelu Hongji likes the culture of the Han people, and he also has a lot of research on the poetry of the Han people, but at this moment he sings this poem, it sounds like the focus is on the second half of the sentence, but the deep meaning in his heart is in the first half of the sentence.

She pretended to be very happy and praised, "The saint is a good poet." ”

Yelu Hongji seemed to have some worries, and smiled a little bitterly, "I'm afraid that as soon as spring passes, someone will forcibly climb the mountain, but I can only watch, but I can't do anything, and I can only be idle and drunk." ”

The ghost sister is smart, so she naturally heard Yelu Hongji's thoughts. Yelu Hongji has been strong for half his life, but when he is old, because his children and grandchildren are withering, he is worried about whether his grandson can inherit the throne smoothly.

There is only one throne, and naturally there are many people to fight for, if the people who come to fight are the heirs of Yelu Hongji, then forget it, at least the fertilizer water will not flow into the fields of outsiders.

It's a pity that in addition to the imperial grandson Yelu Yanxi, there are many outsiders, who have been fighting for many years, how can this make Yelu Hongji put his mind at ease?

In terms of seniority, Yelu Yanxi is still the cousin of Sister Ghost, but the situation of the Khitan people being inferior to men and women is more serious, and Sister Ghost naturally does not dare to call herself an imperial aunt, so she said, "Your Majesty is rare to steal a floating life, so I should really take a break from leisure." When the spirit is raised, whoever dares to cause trouble to His Royal Highness the Emperor will eradicate them. ”

Yelu Hongji smiled again, and said in his heart that women are women, and it is too simple to see the problem, even if it is an emperor, it is impossible to say what it is, and even to say that it is ugly, it is the support of those forces that you can sit comfortably on the dragon chair of the Liao State court.

If those forces oppose it, the emperor can only be tired of coping, and he can't tolerate these forces everywhere and try to balance the relationship between them, so how dare he say that they are eradicated?

I'm afraid that within three days of this decree, the Liao Kingdom will be in chaos.

Empress Xiao seemed to think that women should not interfere in the emperor's affairs, and should make judgments to influence the emperor's thoughts, so she quietly gave Sister Ghost a look with a little anger.

When the ghost sister noticed it, she hurriedly made a frightened gesture, and leaned down to ask for sin.

Yelu Hongji stopped her, "Yelu is still young, forget it, Tong Yan is unscrupulous." By the way, after tomorrow's court meeting, you will be the princess of Anguo in Daliao, and I will also marry you, I don't know if you are willing? ”

Sister Ghost said in her heart that I want to or not, and it's not up to me, why do you bother to ask? What you think in your heart, what you are doing these things for, everyone else knows, can I still object?

She owes her body, "Your Majesty has given the little girl the title of princess, the little girl can't help but be grateful, if you want to give the little girl a marriage, the little girl is too late to thank Your Majesty, where will she object?" ”

Yelu Hongji stroked his white beard, "That's good, that's good." You should have seen that Song envoy Yang Huairen, what do you think of this person? ”

Sister Ghost knew early on that Yelu Hongji wanted to win over Yang Huairen, but it was not easy to make a shrewd appearance, so she had to pretend to be shy and young, approached Queen Xiao's side, took her arm and lowered her head, "Little girl...... What can I say......"

Empress Xiao touched her head caressingly, "Qi Xue Jin will still be shy, hehe." ”

She raised her head and said to Yelu Hongji, "The concubine heard that this Yang Huairen of the Song Dynasty is a young talent, and he became a county prince at a young age, so he must be very capable." ”

Empress Xiao knew the intention of Yelu Hongji's move, but it was not good to say it in front of Yelu Hongji, so when she saw that she was shy, she just praised Yang Huairen for her talent, but the meaning of her words was for Yelu Hongji.

Yelu Hongji nodded, "This Yang Huairen is indeed a rare young talent, and it is not too condescending for our Khitan princess to marry him." ”

Speaking of this, Yelu Hongji suddenly changed his words, shook his head and said, "But then again, this Yang Huairen is also a little too arrogant, I heard that in the Song Dynasty, he relied on the protection of the Great Song Dynasty official family, and often did something out of the ordinary, in the Song Dynasty Tokyo City, from the princes to the people, they all knew that he was a big stunned."

Hehe, it's just that I guessed before that when he came to our Liao country, he should be restrained in temperament and be cautious in everything. But I never expected that a few days after coming to Zhongjing City, I was arrogant again. ”

Empress Xiao asked, "Your Majesty, he ...... What did you do out of the ordinary in Zhongjing? ”

Yelu Hongji smiled, "It's not just out of line, it's a bit of nonsense!" He was known as a new generation of kitchen gods in the Song Dynasty, and the chefs in Zhongjing City were naturally unhappy, so they made up some words to despise him.

According to our understanding of the Song people, they will generally endure it, and will not be familiar with such gossip, let alone take the initiative to provoke these locals.

But this Yang Huairen is different, he wants to do it as soon as he wants to, and he actually set up a ring at the gate of Wanguo Temple.

Nominally, he invited the Liao chefs in Zhongjing City to learn from him, but in fact, he was too conceited, knowing that those famous chefs in Zhongjing City were not as good as him, so he used this way to humiliate them in public. ”

Since Sister Ghost came to Zhongjing, she has entered the Great Liao Palace to prepare for her being given the title of princess, and she has no time at all, let alone a chance to care about what happened outside the palace, and she has been worried for a few days.

When he heard this from Yelu Hongji's mouth, his heart was inexplicably tight, and he was afraid that Yang Huairen would be too ostentatious and ruin their big things, so he was surprised, "There is such a thing?" ”