After all, the Queen Mother is not young, in this ancient plane, living close to seventy years old is already considered a high life, old, the body is gradually decaying, there was an illness before the autumn, although it is not serious, but it is also lingering for nearly a month, so this trip to the Double Ninth Festival, the Queen Mother did not go.

After recovering from that illness, the Queen Mother was not energetic for a long time, and she only sat crooked on the couch all day long, and only cheered up and laughed for a while when Qian Qian and the other princes and princesses went to ask for peace.

It's about that people like children when they're old, and Qian Qian is the youngest of the children in front of the Queen Mother, so since the Queen Mother recovered from her illness, she has always asked her to accompany her in front of her.

Qian Qian is well-behaved, obedient, and cute, of course the Queen Mother likes it very much, always rewards her with some good things, and sometimes leaves her to eat in Ningshou Palace.

On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, the palace maids in the Empress Dowager's palace came early in the morning to spread the word and asked Qian Qian to go to Ningshou Palace earlier. Yueyang didn't dare to delay, so they quickly called Qian Qian, changed into festive clothes, and hurried all the way to Ningshou Palace.

On this day, the Queen Mother was in a very good mood, although she did not go to the other palace, but she also recruited all the children who stayed in the palace to take a look, but in fact, there were only three children left in the palace, and the fourth princess, Qian Qian and Mu Xijing, who were going to marry at the end of the year.

It's just that the Queen Mother seems to have forgotten Mu Xijing's child, and only the sixteen-year-old fourth princess is called in front of her, and the other is the three-and-a-half-year-old Qian Qian.

Although there were few people, the Queen Mother was still very interested in renovating a small banquet, letting Qian Qian and the four princesses stay here to eat, and also took out a few rare things she had saved over the years and distributed them to the two children.

Qian Qian got a pair of gold-inlaid tangrams, two small pieces of jewelry, and a very rare golden cage chirping bird.

The golden cage sound bird is a simple mechanical device, about the equivalent of the music box of later generations, it is also on the clockwork will sing, but it is not the same, the process is very exquisite, in the gold wire cage, a small white jade lark is placed in it, the leaves and plants in the cage are made of gold wire or precious stones, it is really gorgeous. When Qian Qian was the emperor before, she couldn't find such interesting things in the palace.

Qian Qian stayed in the Empress Dowager's palace until after lunch, and it was not until almost the beginning of the hour that the Empress Dowager let her out.

As soon as Qian Qian came out, he went directly to Mu Xijing. The Double Ninth Festival is a big festival, Hongwen Hall is on holiday, Mu Xijing must be bored to stay in his small palace, Qian Qian feels that this is a good opportunity to brush up on his sense of existence.

It's a smart choice! The emperor traveled and took away most of his concubines and children, and the entire palace was half empty, and Mu Xijing, who was left behind, was inevitably a little lost.

He is just a child, even if he intellectually knows that the emperor and the queen mother have never liked him, he will inevitably be disappointed and sad emotionally. Every year in Chongyang, Mu Xijing is the one who is left alone in the palace, and for so many years, he has gotten used to it, and he is used to it......

It's just that this year, it seems to be different, his Double Ninth Festival doesn't seem to be so lonely, the little girl who usually follows him and persistently calls him brother is here again. She also brought chrysanthemum cakes from the imperial grandmother and a very delicate golden cage chirping bird, which I heard was just given to her by the imperial grandmother.

Mu Xijing stared at the delicate golden cage chirping bird, and his heart was filled with sour jealousy. He had never seen anything so good. The imperial grandmother gave it to this little girl with a foreign surname.

"Brother, give." Qian Qian smiled and pushed the golden cage song bird into Mu Xijing's arms: "The Queen Mother rewarded it." ”

"You know the rules and regulations to call the imperial grandmother the queen mother," Mu Xijing couldn't help but complain: "Why don't you want to call me the sixteenth highness." ”

"You're the elder brother." Qian Qian replied with a grinning but stubborn smile. She had already planned to be 'sensible' after she turned four.

"I've never seen anything so stupid!" Mu Xijing looked disgusted, but in the end, he still did not refuse the beautiful golden cage singing bird, nor did he refuse the chrysanthemum cake brought by Qian Qian.

Qian Qian actually felt a little sympathy for this lonely child, she thought, Mu Xijing didn't refuse her chrysanthemum cake that day, maybe it was because it was a festival snack given by the Queen Mother to her children and grandchildren, right? He seems to have gotten used to being ignored by the queen mother and the emperor, but on this day, he got the chrysanthemum cake given by his grandmother through Qian Qian's hand, maybe it was also a comfort to him......

Anyway, from that day on, the relationship between Qian Qian and Mu Xijing finally began to improve, Mu Xijing is no longer as polite on the surface as before, and rejects people thousands of miles away, but is more and more accustomed to Qian Qian's company, and ...... It's getting more and more like a little brother.

Probably because of loneliness, after Mu Xijing no longer rejected Qian Qian, he was not as cold and polite as before, after seeing Qian Qian in the palace lane every day, he would play with her for a while, and sometimes he would take the initiative to go to the palace where Qian Qian lived to find her and have dinner with her.

Qian Qian felt that he had worked hard to coax the child to succeed, but in fact, Mu Xijing would stay with Qian Qian to eat because her food was obviously better.

The underage princesses and princes actually have similar daily routines, but Qian Qian got a small mining and title early, and his salary is actually higher than Mu Xijing. And although she is a princess with a foreign surname, the queen mother and the emperor are deliberately spoiled, and the internal supervisor in charge of daily affairs in the inner court is of course very clear, so Qian Qian's usual small life is actually much more nourishing than that of a serious princess and prince.

The money is good, and it's not just because of this. It was not long after she entered the palace, one day Zhang Guifei's small kitchen made osmanthus ice plum cake for summer, this thing is troublesome to do, and it is not easy to preserve, so the palace dining room is not always prepared, and the ladies in the palace often want to eat it are often homemade in the small kitchens of each palace.

It's just that although the osmanthus ice plum cake is delicious, eating too much hurts the spleen and stomach, so Zhang Guifei's small kitchen made a lot of it, she just tasted it, left some for the emperor, and gave it to her own daughter, the fourth princess who is preparing to marry, and the rest is so wasted.

Although things are expensive, the queen mother will not eat osmanthus ice plum cake, and give it to the queen, other concubines or princesses and princesses, Zhang Guifei is unwilling, and finally somehow remembered that Qian Qian, who had entered the palace for two days, came, and immediately sent someone to Qian Qian.

In the evening, the emperor went to Zhang Guifei's palace to spend the night, and Zhang Guifei told the emperor about the iced plum cake given to Qian Qian as gossip. Of course, the concubine Niangniang, who has been in the palace for many years, is very good at talking, and such a trivial matter is told by her, it seems that she is completely solving problems for the emperor, taking care of the daughter of the hero, and the emperor is extremely ironed in his heart, and praises her as an interpreter flower, and she has stayed in the palace of the concubine for several days.