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Chapter 160: Deliberately Aiming for Beauty

"Jingchen greets the Empress Dowager." Song Ruoxi did not kneel down and performed a great gift. He chanted the Buddha's name with his hands together, performed Buddhist rituals, and claimed that he also used a Dharma name. He told the Empress Dowager that if she could not marry into Dengying City as Princess Yuxian, she would be willing to become a monk as Jingchen, and she would not enter the palace anyway.

The empress dowager's eyes flashed slightly and said, "Yuxian doesn't have to be too polite, come and sit next to Ai's house."

Song Ruoxi heard the Queen Mother call her a ban, and his mind changed rapidly. What does this mean? She was called into the palace to attend the flower viewing luncheon, but she was nervous and had no other intentions? She said calmly: "Jingchen thanked the Queen Mother for giving her a seat."

Thank you, Song Ruoxi walked to the Madonna Fuhou Chair beside the Empress Dowager, sat down, lowered her eyebrows and eyes, a faint smile on her lips, and folded her hands together, like Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting on the lotus platform.

The Empress Dowager looked at Song Ruoxi with her eyes down and her eyes were complicated. If she looked charming, dressed up, and was misbehaved, she could also find excuses to get angry. But seeing her elegant and elegant appearance, she couldn't really get angry. She sighed and said, "Yuxian, recite the Heart Sutra to the Ai family."

Song Ruoxi obediently recited the sutra, "When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty and he could overcome all sufferings. Sariva! The form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, form is emptiness, emptiness is form. The feeling, thinking, action and consciousness are also like this... Jie Di Jie Di Jie Di Jie Di Jie Di Jie Di Bodhisattva Sarvaha."

"The great compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva overcomes all sufferings." The empress dowager clasped her hands together and chanted the Buddha's name. "Everyone knows that Guanyin Bodhisattva will respond to any request. If believers pray sincerely in front of the Bodhisattva, will the Bodhisattva agree?"

Song Ruoxi's long eyelashes trembled slightly and said, "The Empress Dowager, the Bodhisattva is compassionate and has a wise eye to see the world. The believers respond to what they ask for, and if they do not respond, they do not respond."

"What is the right to respond? What is the wrong to respond?"

"What believers ask for is beneficial to the country, the people, and the country, and Bodhisattvas should respond." Song Ruoxi only said that he should respond, but not said that he should respond, so that the Empress Dowager would like to go by himself.

The empress dowager pursed her lips and said nothing, her face slightly gloomy.

Song Ruoxi's expression was calm and peaceful, as if he was sitting in a Buddhist temple, but he was sneering in his heart. No matter what the marriage of a bad person is, he can't be related to the benefit of the country, the people and the country. She went to pray to the Bodhisattva, but she thought the Bodhisattva was as confused as her? The old lady was stupid in reciting scriptures and had problems with her brain.

Neither of them spoke, and the side hall was silent.

At this time, a female official came in and saluted and said, "Empress Dowager, all the ladies in the palace and the girls invited by the empress dowager have arrived at Furong Pavilion."

The empress dowager showed a smile on her face and said, "Yuxian, go with Ai's family to enjoy the flowers."

"Yes, the Queen Mother." Song Ruoxi stood up and held the Queen Mother's hand stretched out.

The hibiscus pavilion is built by the pond, and there are hibiscus planted along the pond. It is the flowering period, it is bright and brilliant, as bright as the beauty, and prosperous. In the pavilion several meters long, there are a bunch of red and green bells and swallows. The most eye-catching Concubine Li is wearing a red begonia dress and a dragon, phoenix, pearl and jade crown.

"The Empress Dowager is here!" Accompanied by the feminine voice of the eunuch, everyone in the pavilion stood up to salute, with the jade pendant jingling and the golden hairpin shaking.

"No need to be polite, get up!" The empress dowager smiled lovingly and raised her right hand.

Song Ruoxi noticed that when the Empress Dowager saw Concubine Li, a cold light flashed in her eyes. Although there was no queen in the palace, Concubine Li was the most elegant concubine, but she was just a concubine after all, and could not be red. Although the crabapple red was not red, the color was almost the same. Only the queen could wear the dragon, phoenix pearl and jade crown on her head. This Concubine was too ostentatious.

"Mother Queen." Kuang walked out of the crowd, his loose dress slightly raised, showing the fact that she was pregnant with Liujia. She walked to the right side of the empress dowager, reached out to hold the empress dowager, and nodded with a smile to Song Ruoxi, who was holding the empress dowager on the left.

The Empress Dowager asked her to support her and said as she walked, "Your heart has been accepted. The Ai family knows that you are a filial child. But now you are pregnant, don't work like this. If you give birth to a dragon for the emperor, the Ai family will be happier than anything else."

"The empress dowager likes it, so I am happy and I am not working hard. The imperial physician also said, let me walk more." Kuo smiled so much that his eyes were crescent-shaped.

The Empress Dowager led the two of them through the crowd and walked to the couch in the pavilion to sit down, "You two will sit with the Ai family!"

Song Ruoxi and Tuo Feng bowed and said, "Empress Dowager Xie (Mrs. Queen)."

After falling down, Song Ruoxi received two resentful gazes, one belonging to Concubine Li and the other belonging to Ye Dongyuan. He didn't care about this, and his eyes froze. Seeing Zhou Siyi sitting next to Concubine Hui, looking at her with a worried look, and smiling indifferently.

The Empress Dowager invited everyone to attend the flower viewing lunch. Except for Song Ruoxi, there were no flowers to appreciate. The other girls had already enjoyed it once, so naturally they should make some poems to praise the blooming wood lotus.

One or two were as tall as a dou, and the stack of flower papers with lotus on the table were full of words. Kuo smiled and said, "My mother, do you know that I am not good at poetry, so don't do it, okay?"

The Empress Dowager shook her head, "The Imperial Concubine, Hui Concubine and the others have written it. If you don't write it, it will seem unfair to the Ai family, no."

Tuo turned his eyes and said, "Then I will just tamper with my teeth and make a random song. If it is wrong, don't laugh at me."

The Queen Mother glanced at her and said, "If you want to be wrong, not only the Ai family will laugh at you, but everyone will laugh at you. Think about it carefully before writing."

Tuo Xun sighed pretendingly, "Okay, I'll think about it." He looked at Song Ruoxi, "Jingchen, think about it quickly! Don't be unable to write it out for a while, and it's embarrassing again."

"Empress Dowager, if you ask Yu Xian to write the scriptures in silence, Yu Xian will not refuse. But Yu Xian is really powerless in this poem. I would like to ask the Empress Dowager to write the Heart Sutra instead?" Song Ruoxi asked sincerely with shame on his face.

Tuo sighed, "Jingchen, if you didn't have this black hair, you would be like Shenni and Master Jingyu. You only have Buddhas and scriptures in your heart, and you don't worry about worldly affairs."

The queen mother looked at Tuo Chui, then looked at Song Ruoxi, and laughed and scolded: "Two bad girls, don't make excuses. If you two don't know how to write, don't write them, look at what they wrote!"

"Empress Dowager Xie (Mrs.)" The two looked at each other.

"Yuxian, you shouldn't be called the Empress Dowager of Ai's family, you should be called the Auntie of Ai's family." The Empress Dowager patted her hands, "Call the Auntie of Ai's family quickly."

"Auntie." Song Ruoxi called obediently, but was very surprised. Could it be that she was really nervous? The Queen Mother didn't mean that?

"I will fall in love with Shuhua in the future." The Empress Dowager smiled.

"Yes." Song Ruoxi lowered his head and pretended to be shy.

"Mother, we are still waiting for you to evaluate the poems!" Huifei smiled.

After the assessment, Ye Dongyuan got the first place.

"The red shadows in the pond dipped in autumn light, and I felt that the beauty was planted beside me. There was a beautiful woman who often drank and gave her a makeup for red powder." The queen mother took the flower paper and chanted out, and rewarded her with a golden hairpin of red gold sapphire embedded in sapphire.

After such a struggle, it was noon, and there was no change of place. Just in this long pavilion, looking at the wood lotus, smelling the fragrance of flowers, and enjoying delicious food.

"Yuxian is going to set off to Dengying City in two days. Ai's family wishes you a good journey." The Empress Dowager raised her glass and said.

"Empress Dowager Xie." Song Ruoxi raised his glass to drink, but found that it was not wine, but water. His eyes turned slightly and he looked at the palace maid who helped her pour wine.

The green palace maid poured another cup for her with a smile on her face.

The empress dowager started and everyone else came forward to toast. It was Ye Dongyuan's turn to toast. After saying polite words, she did not retreat and lowered her voice: "I heard that Song Min has exchanged Geng Tie, and his hands and feet are so fast."

"You should ask for a good friend, and don't miss a good relationship. Time should not be wasted. I heard that the Ye family is also looking for someone for Miss Ye. We will get married for a while. Congratulations to Miss Ye." Song Ruoxi smiled and said softly.

Ye Dongyuan snorted coldly: "Don't be too proud."

"Don't be too arrogant." Song Ruoxi replied to her.

Ye Dongyuan glared at her and stepped back with the empty cup.

The water is not intoxicating, but if you drink too much, you will be anxious.

Song Ruoxi stood up and left the table, and the green-clothed palace maid led her to the clean room.

Some distance from the pavilion, Song Ruoxi asked, "Who asked you to help me change the wine for water?"

"Prince, the princess is intoxicated and her eyes are also fascinated." The green-clothed palace maid answered the question.

"No matter who asked you to do this, thank her for me." Song Ruoxi did not ask again.

The green palace maid smiled and led the way in silently. After three turns, she led Song Ruoxi into a small door. Turn left and saw three houses. She walked around the house for about thirty steps. She saw several clusters of bamboo, turned right, then left, passed the crescent door, and stopped in front of two wing rooms. "Princess, this is the clean room."

"I'll wait here for a while." Song Ruoxi held it in for a long time, and couldn't hold it in anymore. He said a polite word and quickly walked into the room.

When Song Ruoxi came out of the clean room with ease, the green palace maid stood there and breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid that she would not see the palace maid from the clean room. Now the palace maid has not left. It seems that she was too suspicious today and smiled with relief.

The green palace maid led the way in front of the house, walked to the front of the house, stopped, and the closed door opened, and a man in the eunuch uniform walked out and said, "Miss Song, please come in."

Miss Song!

It’s not Princess Yuxian, but Miss Song!

Song Ruoxi's heart sank into the bottom of the valley, and his hands hanging in his sleeves shook. As expected, she was still plotting against her. She thought she was suspected of being a dark ghost. She glanced at the palace maid in green clothes, and layed so much preparations just to get her here. Should she say that the Queen Mother and the Emperor took too much effort?

"Miss Song, don't let your master wait for a long time." The eunuch urged in a low voice.

Song Ruoxi knew that she had no way to retreat, so she could only move forward with a stern look. As soon as she entered the door, the eunuch pulled the door up from behind, and the ambergris was everywhere in the room. The man in bright yellow dress sat upright on the throne. The sun shone in through the open wooden window and hit him. His appearance was not real, but his eyes made her frightened.

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