Zhang Yuan has a scheming.

He is different from Liu Jin because he is relatively young and his status in the palace is not as good as that of those old eunuchs. Even if Zhu Houzhao appreciates him, he is often excluded by those old eunuchs who are self-reliant.

Zhang Yuan was familiar with Zhu Houzhao's personality and knew that he would never be aimless when encountering major events. He made the following trade-offs in his mind: If he was punished for calling Zhu Houzhao, even if he was beaten, he could not only show his merits to Empress Dowager Zhang, but also "collection" with Gao Feng and Dai Yi, and he would not lose money no matter how he calculated it.

So, Zhang Yuan decided to wake up Zhu Houzhao in person.

Gao Feng and Dai Yi followed Zhang Yuan, and stopped a while before the door of the bedroom, for fear that Zhu Houzhao would fight with them when she woke up.

"coward!"

Zhang Yuan looked back at Gao Feng and Dai Yi who were stopping and beating, cursed, then went forward and pushed open the palace door and walked in, but saw Zhu Houzhao lying on the dragon bed, holding a soft pillow in her arms, and a beautiful palace maid next to her was serving her tremblingly.

Zhang Yuan waved his hand: "Get back!"

This palace maid stayed here for Zhu Houzhao to order.

Every time he wakes up, Zhu Houzhao needs others to serve him tea, water, or a chamber pot. It is almost impossible for Zhu Houzhao to find tea himself or go to the thatched cottage.

When the palace maid left with relief, Zhang Yuan tiptoed to the dragon couch, looked around, gently pushed Zhu Houzhao's body, then retracted his hand, stood straight, pretending that nothing had happened.

Zhang Yuan didn't want Zhu Houzhao to think that he was disturbing people's dreams. It would be better for the emperor to think that he was awake naturally, and that his temper would be much smaller.

But Zhu Houzhao just turned over and continued to sleep soundly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand again, his strength was a little bit stronger, and pushed Zhu Houzhao again.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao finally reacted and turned out. Zhang Yuan took a light step back and took a few steps. Then he stopped and pretended to have just walked in from outside the hall.

"What are you doing?!"

Zhu Houzhao opened her eyes in a daze and saw Zhang Yuan standing not far away. She suddenly became angry and shouted loudly.

Zhang Yuan walked back to the dragon couch and knelt down to salute: "Your Majesty, the Queen has arrived at Jiaotai Hall, waiting for you to go and worship Heyuan!"

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "Whatever you want to pay, what's the matter! I'm sleeping, and everything has to be put aside... Things that are not strong enough, get out!"

Zhang Yuan thought he was smart in doing things, but he didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao still spat on his face. He felt very helpless, but he still bit the bullet and whispered:

"Your Majesty, it's really... you have to get up. The Queen Mother is already urging you. You just need to go over and have a drink and give a gift to make a living with the Queen!"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly got up from the dragon couch, glared at Zhang Yuan, and asked, "Why, what I said is not useful? You don't want to leave, just make trouble with me, right?"

Zhang Yuan knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, even if I die, I cannot let you continue to sleep, and I will ignore the queen!"

If you have an understanding of Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Yuan, as the regular attendant of the Eastern Palace, is no worse than Liu Jin.

Zhang Yuan knew very well that Zhu Houzhao was often hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and was a paper tiger. She was shouting and beating and killing on the surface, but in fact she still had a bottom line in her actions.

If you just surrender, Zhu Houzhao will only make him think that he is right and will increase the punishment. On the contrary, if you show a tough and loyal ministerial attitude, Zhu Houzhao's tone will soften.

Of course, this has to be based on Zhu Houzhao's not being so angry about something.

If he was awakened by someone simply sleeping, Zhu Houzhao would never kill anyone in anger.

Zhu Houzhao pouted and put the blanket aside, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and said angrily: "Have the queen arrived? Well, I'll go over and see you, and by the way... prepare some food for me, I'm hungry!"

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Zhu Houzhao's wedding seemed to be going well, but in fact, the bumps and confusions were that as the groom, he himself was not concerned about the marriage at all.

Zhu Houzhao regarded marrying the queen as a rare and ordinary thing, and did not pay too much attention to it. He even did perfunctory things after the initial election. Looking back on Empress Xia, he actually didn't have much impression in his mind.

Because Zhu Houzhao's preference is not a young girl, but a mature, strong and charming woman.

Although Zhu Houzhao left the bedroom and went to Jiaotai Hall to complete the cup ceremony with Empress Xia, she was just perfunctory. The two should have completed the marriage in Jiaotai Hall, but Zhu Houzhao was too tired. When he entered the door, he came directly to the couch, fell down and slept soundly, which made Empress Xia very embarrassed.

If it were an ordinary woman, even if she didn't have much knowledge, she would be very worried when she saw her husband just slept on the wedding day and would try every means to wake her husband up and complete some wedding counts.

But Empress Xia herself is also a girl who "will be naturally alone if she stays in the house for a long time, and is naturally cute when she stays deep in the world", and her experience in dealing with the world has basically zero.

Zhu Houzhao was sleeping in darkness, and Empress Xia sat there wearing a phoenix crown and robe, looking at her husband, blinking her big and lively eyes, and became more and more curious as she looked... She had never tried to live with a man, and even at home, she was only active in her boudoir. She was not considered a daughter of a wealthy family. She was not a daughter of a wealthy family. She was not a book like "The Women's Commandments", "Inner Training", "The Book of Filial Piety" and so on, she learned to be a female lover and had little contact with the outside world.

Zhu Houzhao is about sixteen this year, and she is still in a void year.

Empress Xia is only fifteen years old, and the two are completely children, especially Empress Xia, who is not mentally prepared to be a wife. When she entered the palace gate, she didn't know what she would face in the future. Even if someone explained to her for a while, she couldn't remember it.

Queen Xia looked at Zhu Houzhao for a long time, and her stomach was "gurgling" at some point. She blinked and couldn't help but turn her head to see the delicious food on the table in the middle of the room.

There were four dishes on the table, namely duck, braised pig's trotter, roasted lamb and pork ear crispy, all of which were cold dishes. They were carefully prepared by Zhang Yuan as Zhu Houzhao's instructions, but because Zhu Houzhao was asleep when he was delivered, he kept putting them there.

Queen Xia touched her flat belly, not knowing who these good things were prepared for. After sitting for a while, she couldn't stand the hunger. She looked at Zhu Houzhao who was sleeping soundly, then got up and walked to the table to sit down, picked up the bowls and chopsticks, and started to eat in small bites.

The food carefully prepared by the Royal Kitchen is delicious, at least Queen Xia thinks so... An ordinary girl didn't have the chance to come into contact with too many delicious foods, while Zhu Houzhao's mouth was very picky, and he almost got angry if the taste was a little bit. Every dish was carefully made by the Royal Kitchen.

Perhaps it was too hungry, or it was too delicious, and the four dishes were finally wiped out by Queen Xia. Finally, she touched her stomach and poured a cup of tea from the teapot on the table.

After drinking the warm tea, the little girl burped comfortably.

She thought with her head on her back, as if there was nothing else to do, so she got up and returned to the couch, continued to sit on the edge of the bed, supported her head and stared at Zhu Houzhao with her eyes.

For her, it seems to be a very interesting thing to see a man, especially this man is likely to accompany her for the rest of her life. She enjoys the comfortable and peaceful life in front of her very much.

She was wearing beautiful clothes and had a good meal. Before she knew it, she felt a little sleepy. She leaned against the edge of the bed and slept for a while, then suddenly woke up again.

After that, there was still nothing to do because Zhu Houzhao was still sleeping.

She could only continue to observe the same childish man in front of her, pursing her lips, but she was already thinking about what to eat tonight.

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This posture lasted for more than two hours, and almost at dusk, Zhu Houzhao finally woke up.

Before Zhu Houzhao opened her eyes, she was already yelling in her mouth: "I am thirsty, bring water!"

The shout made Queen Xia feel very surprised. She thought for a while, walked to the table and poured a cup of tea. Unfortunately, the tea was cold. However, Zhu Houzhao was anxious. She didn't care about the people next to her and helped her husband take the tea to the bed. She was about to hand it over, but Zhu Houzhao closed her eyes and reached out and accidentally touched the tea cup.

"Bang……"

The teacup fell on the couch and sprinkled Zhu Houzhao all over.

Zhu Houzhao jumped up immediately and cursed endlessly: "Who doesn't open his eyes? He can't even do such a small thing well. Do you want to be chopped off your head?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that the person who handed him tea was not the eunuchs and palace maids in front of him, but a woman who was relatively unfamiliar to him. At this time, the woman was staring at him with wide eyes and surprised. The two of them looked at each other, and the scene was very awkward.

"No...sorry!"

Queen Xia said stutteringly, not knowing how to say hello to her husband.

She didn't expect that she was so embarrassed when she first talked with the emperor. She wanted to explain it to herself, but while she was hesitating, Zhu Houzhao got off the couch and cursed.

"...I'm really evil. Those who don't know would think they met a female ghost, dressed like an actor who was singing a Southern opera, and their face was like a monkey's butt..."

Empress Xia was a little surprised when she heard this. She spread her hands to observe her clothes, then walked to the bronze mirror and looked at herself in the mirror. She supported her head and thought about it, as if she thought what Zhu Houzhao said had some truth.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao walked to the table. She was about to eat something casually, but she immediately left the palace and hid far away. Who knew that the dishes on the table were empty at this time.

Zhu Houzhao turned her head and stared at Queen Xia and said, "Who did the good thing?"

Empress Xia's eyes showed a look of "Did I do something wrong?" and hesitated: "I...I didn't eat much when I woke up in the morning...I was so hungry, so...just..."

Zhu Houzhao yelled angrily: "What? You dare to eat my imperial meal when you are hungry? Do you dare to sleep with my dragon couch when you are sleepy..."

This was said with great pleasure, but when I thought about it, it was not. The person in front of me could indeed compete for bed with him. Zhu Houzhao felt even more and more upset and said angrily, "Who gives you the power? Tell you that everything here is mys. Everything you do, even if it is just a small thing, must ask me for instructions first. Do you know?"

"I……"

Queen Xia didn't know how to communicate with her husband at all.

Zhu Houzhao walked around angrily, as if she wanted to go up and teach this ignorant woman a lesson... In his heart, there was no idea that girls could not bully them. He bullied more women, and even had people beaten the palace maids who offended him since he was a child, and regarded these things as commonplace.

Zhu Houzhao said sternly: "Did you hear me talking to you?"

Queen Xia nodded in fear.

Zhu Hou took care of Empress Xia's surprise appearance and felt bored from the bottom of her heart, saying disdainfully: "Who chose this woman? She still wants to be the queen in this way? She is stupid and stupid, just like she is not enlightened. I don't care about giving such a yellow-haired girl to me!"

After saying that, Zhu Houzhao didn't want to stay in the wedding room. She opened the door and no matter the eunuchs and palace maids outside, she went straight to the Ganqing Palace in front of her with surprise.

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Zhu Houzhao left the palace that night.

When he arrived at the leopard room, Zhu Houzhao lived and died of drunkenness and left the newly married Queen Xia alone in Jiaotai Hall.

Queen Mother Zhang didn't know what her son did. After she moved to Cining Palace, she thought that her son and daughter-in-law were in harmony in Jiaotai Hall. She was happy and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Empress Dowager Zhang thought of her husband, Emperor Hongzhi, the affection and affection with her husband when she was newly married, and the thought of her husband's death young, she felt even more disappointed, and her attachment to her son increased a little.

After dawn, Empress Dowager Zhang could no longer bear it and immediately went to the Ganqing Palace to visit her son and daughter-in-law.

After all, as the queen mother, she could not enter Jiaotai Hall to avoid embarrassment from her son and daughter-in-law. So she waited in the back of the Ganqing Palace, where there was only one lintel and a short aisle across Jiaotai Hall.

But Empress Dowager Zhang waited for more than half an hour and did not see anyone coming out of Jiaotai Hall. Instead, the eunuchs and palace maids who passed by the gate of the hall came and went in a hurry, and everyone seemed to be trying their best to avoid something.

"What's wrong?"

Empress Dowager Zhang thought to herself, "It's not the first time that the emperor is so old that she is here for a woman. Why haven't she come out for so long? Is it too loving and lingering?"
To be continued...