Imperial Palace, Xianyang Hall.

The Xianyang Hall was right in the middle of the hall, and it was bustling with people. Many people were sitting there.

Those who can be summoned by the Queen and meet the Queen in Xianyang Hall are naturally famous married women in Luoyang.

Of course, there are also those who are not destined wives.

Neither Princess Guangping nor Mrs. Zhang are destined wives.

However, Princess Guangping was an unmarried princess, and Mrs. Zhang was the mother of Guangyuan Hou, the favorite of the dynasty.

With the blessing of their status and the Queen's permission, they were able to come to Xianyang Hall.

But compared to other noble ladies, Princess Guangping is acceptable, but Zhang's style is of course much lower.

When inviting the noble ladies of Luoyang, Queen Wang Huifeng specially invited her contemporaries to come over.

If Princess Zhao or Princess Pingyuan were invited to come over, these are people who have been present for several generations. With such high seniority, even chatting would be a little scrupulous, and there would be etiquette and so on.

So annoying.

As a queen, Wang Huifeng has good skills, but the other princesses are not easy to deal with. It is best not to provoke them if they can.

But even so, people of the same generation are not so easy to get along with.

"I heard that he is the father of Marquis Guangyuan. He turned out to be a merchant. I wonder what he is?"

The one who spoke was Princess Rongyang.

Princess Rongyang was nearly thirty years old at this time. She was wearing a light pink brocade pleated skirt with a few delicate marigolds embroidered on the edges of the cuffs. The neckline was milky white and edged with pink thread. The hem was made of white.

A few magnolia flowers are outlined with silk thread, covered with a layer of white tulle.

Princess Rongyang is the eldest daughter of Emperor Wu, and she carries with her her own majesty.

The oldest person in the room was her, and the one with the highest seniority could also be said to be him.

The first reason why Wang Huifeng invited her to the scene was of course because of Hua Heng.

Hua Heng, Wang Sheng and others are considered contemporaries.

Of course, in reality, he can only be considered half of his peers.

The second reason is that among the married women in Luoyang, Princess Rongyang is the most well-connected.

Regardless of the first reason or the second reason, Wang Huifeng felt that she should be invited over.

After not wanting to invite these people over, it posed a problem for her.

Three women are a drama, not to mention that there are more than three women in Xianyang Palace at this time.

Wang Huifeng frowned slightly, feeling a little annoyed.

"Indeed...it's true."

Faced with such a big scene, Ms. Zhang still couldn't get used to it.

Originally, he was a village woman. Of course, ordinary village women were illiterate.

She is literate and has also learned women's rings.

But her temperament is naturally incomparable to people like Princess Rongyang.

This is the nobility that has been cultivated since birth.

"In the Xianyang Palace, we can just talk about the affairs of the red girl. There is no need to involve the men."

Wang Huifeng spoke, and Princess Rongyang quickly smiled at Wang Huifeng.

"Your Highness the Queen, I understand, I just won't say anything."

Mrs. Zhang lowered her head on one side, which made Princess Guangping, who was sitting next to the queen, frown slightly.

"I think Marquis Guangyuan's mother is not good at dealing with people here. Even if her parents are short-tempered, she has nothing to say. It's better to let her go home first."

Beside the eldest princess Rongyang, there was a woman in palace clothes approaching.

Princess Le was wearing an aqua blue palace dress. The skirt was embroidered with fine cherry blossom petals with pink silk thread, and was hooked with a layer of gold thread, as if the cherry blossoms were coated with a layer of gold. Among the people, her

She is as beautiful as Queen Wang Huifeng.

"This is inappropriate."

Princess Guangping stood up immediately.

"Since Guangyuan Hou's mother was invited here by the Queen, why would she go back?"

Princess Le is the Princess of Chengdu, the daughter of the great scholar Le Guang, and is somewhat famous in Luoyang.

Growing up in a home of poetry and calligraphy, Princess Le also had some literary talent in her heart.

"But I'm afraid she won't understand what we're discussing. If she doesn't understand, wouldn't it be a torture for Marquis Guangyuan's mother?"

"Sister Le, what you said is wrong."

Princess Xiangcheng spoke softly.

Her husband is Wang Dun, the Marquis of Xunyang. On the surface, Wang Dun and Wang Sheng have a good relationship.

In addition, from a certain aspect, the relationship between the Langya Wang family and Wang Sheng is good, and they still have common interests.

Since they have a good relationship, she naturally wants to speak for Wang Sheng.

In addition, she usually likes literary works the most, and Marquis Guangyuan is the most talented man in Luoyang, so she naturally admires him very much.

She has probably read all of Wang Yue's poems.

"You can learn things you don't know. Besides, you can teach a child as elegant as Marquis Guangyuan. Why is Sister Zhang such a vulgar person?"

"That's not necessarily the case."

Beside Princess Le, there was also a woman in palace clothes who said in a strange tone: "It may be that Marquis Guangyuan is the reincarnation of Wenquxing. Since he is Wenquxing, why should he be taught by others?"

The implication is that Mr. Zhang is nothing.

"There's no need for Princess Mao to be weird. It's just that Prince Mao's people didn't get the quota for the Western Expedition. Why is that?"

The news from the Tai Chi Hall just now has reached the ears of the fateful woman in the Xianyang Hall.

This is also the reason why Princess Le and Princess Mao targeted Zhang.

As for the eldest princess Rongyang, she felt that Wang Sheng's talents were more powerful than Hua Heng's, which prevented her husband from being reused by the emperor, so she also vented her resentment on the Zhang family.

In this era, women are the vassals of men. Even if Wang Huifeng asks them not to talk about men's affairs, men's affairs are their affairs. How can these married women stay out of it?

Seeing that the anger in Xianyang Hall was getting stronger and stronger, Wang Huifeng frowned slightly and could only say: "Since you don't want to talk about family affairs and female celebrities, why not just play chess."

The so-called Danqi is a chess game.

This game became popular in the late Western Han Dynasty, and was initially popular among the court and scholar-bureaucrats.

Danqi originated from the Han Dynasty.

When Tanqi was first created, it was only popular in the palace and was rarely seen in society.

At the end of Wang Mang's New Deal, there was a great famine in the south. Green Forest launched an uprising in the south, while Red Eyebrow rebelled in the east. The peasant uprising overthrew Wang Mang's regime. Then Liu Xiu took the opportunity to rise up, kill the Red Eyebrow Army, and establish the Eastern Han Dynasty regime.

In this year of great chaos, playing chess naturally flowed from the court to the people.

It was not until the time of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty that playing chess revived despite the palace ban.

Since then, more and more people are interested in playing chess, and they have written poems about it or written articles about it, making contributions to the popularization of chess.

Ge Hong, a native of Jin Dynasty, once described the creation of playing chess in his "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes".

The second volume of the book says: "The emperor likes to play Cuju, and his ministers use Cuju as a physical exertion, which is not suitable for the supreme emperor. The emperor said: If the skin is good, you can choose someone who is similar and does not work hard to play it."

The king of the family, Liu Xiang, played chess and presented it to the emperor. The emperor was greatly pleased and gave him a green lamb fur coat and purple silk shoes to serve him diligently. "

It can be seen that Tanqi was created by the scholar-bureaucrat class and was introduced into the palace ban to replace Cuju to solve the problem of "labor and physical fatigue".

At the same time, some modifications were made to its situation and rules with reference to Cuju.

Not long after, a palace maid brought up the chessboard for playing chess.

The chessboard is "a wonderful couplet of Jingshan Mountain. It is full of flora and fauna, its belly is bulging, its roots are slumped, it is as flat as ashes, and as smooth as soft grass."

That is to say, the chess game is made of gorgeous jade material. It is square in shape, with a high bulge in the center and a flat surface on all sides, making it shine brightly.

As for the chess pieces used, they are generally made of wood such as "Xuanmu Beigan" and "Xizhu Xizhi".

The way it is played is "a game between two people, with six black and white pieces each. The first chess pieces are equal, and the next call is to hit the top." That is to say, use your own chess pieces to bounce the opponent's chess pieces.

Among the 12 chess pieces on each side, there are 6 high and low chess pieces each.

When playing, you roughly use one side's chess pieces to hit the other side's chess pieces.

"The two inferior ones are the enemy of one, and there is no difference between them with Zhu and Mo... When there are two people playing against each other, the inferior one will be despised, and the noble one will be valued. If you want to make them strike, the inferior one must be the first.

, having no choice but to make the noble one ".

Among the 24 pieces, half are red, which are called "noble sons", and half are black, which are called "mean sons".

Players who play chess should use their cheap stones to hit the opponent's stones first, and only use their noble stones as a last resort.

The chessboard was put on, everyone held the chess pieces, and started to have fun.

However, although playing chess is a fun project, how could the princesses and princesses present become addicted to it?

They have seen things more interesting than this.

The competition in Xianyang Hall will not end just because of this chess game.

Among the people present, except for Princess Xiangcheng, Princess Guangping and the Queen, the others were basically targeting the Zhang family.

This made Wang Huifeng even more angry.

Originally, she invited everyone over just to connect with each other.

After all, all husbands work for the emperor.

pity...

Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

"That's all."

Wang Huifeng threw down the chess pieces in his hand.

"I'm tired, you can go back."

"Your Highness the Queen, have you been playing for only a quarter of an hour?"

Princess Rongyang's brows suddenly frowned.

"You don't look like you want to play chess."

Wang Huifeng put his left hand on his forehead, looking like he was very tired.

She was really fed up.

Originally, Princess Zhao and Princess Pingyuan were not invited because they wanted to keep things quiet.

How can there be peace in the Xianyang Hall now?

"Your Highness the Queen, the sisters have just come to Xianyang Palace not long ago."

"Just go back."

Princess Le wanted to say something more, but seeing Wang Huifeng's behavior, she couldn't say anything.

Princess Le, Princess Rongyang and others stood up one after another.

Naturally, Mrs. Zhang and Princess Guangping also got up.

"Marquis Guangyuan, please stay here first."

The Queen's sudden words made Mrs. Zhang stunned for a moment, while Princess Rongyang and others frowned slightly.

but...

It is normal for the queen to leave someone alone.

Even Princess Rongyang did not dare to say anything at this time.

Although her status is noble, the current emperor is no longer Emperor Wu of Jin.

Times have changed, and she has no chance to be willful.

The most powerful woman in the world now, besides the Queen Mother Xie in the Longevity Palace, is the queen in front of her.

As for the other Queen Mother, everyone in the world knows that she only has a name.

Everyone left one after another, and Mrs. Zhang stayed behind, but Princess Guangping began to refuse to leave.

"Princess Guangping, please leave too."

"Sister Queen, please let me stay. It's not a secret."

Princess Guangping immediately clung to Wang Huifeng and fell completely on top of the queen.

When the two of them are together, one is mature and charming, the other is fresh and cute, they really look like two sisters.

certainly...

If we are talking about seniority, Princess Guangping is the elder of the queen.

After all, Sima Yu is the son of Sima Zhong, and Sima Zhong is the son of Sima Yan.

Princess Quang Binh...

He and Sima Zhong are brother and sister.

Although the age difference between the two is quite big.

"That's fine."

What she wanted to say was not a secret in the first place. According to her observation, this girl Sima Xiang also cared about the mother of Marquis Guangyuan, so there would be nothing wrong if she was left alone.

"Zhang."

Wang Huifeng called softly.

"Her Royal Highness the Queen."

Mrs. Zhang quickly bowed to Wang Huifeng and lowered her head.

"You don't have to be so reserved. Marquis Guangyuan is now deeply trusted by His Majesty. As Marquis Guangyuan's mother, you are naturally more valuable than her son. Since Marquis Guangyuan has earned you the honor, you should not lose face to Marquis Guangyuan.

.”

Wang Huifeng clapped her hands, and the Youlan Palace Maid behind her held a red plate in her hands and slowly came to Zhang's side.

"You raised Marquis Guangyuan and raised a good minister for our Jin Dynasty. As I am the queen, I will naturally reward you on behalf of your majesty."

After saying this, Wang Huifeng signaled Palace Maid Youlan to lift up the red cloth on the red plate.

After opening it, I found that what was inside the red plate was a set of clothing and two tokens.

"Mother is as valuable as her son. Since you have given birth to Marquis Guangyuan, you naturally have the qualifications to be a married woman. This is the Marquise's married woman token and clothing. When you come to Xianyang Palace next time, you don't need to call yourself a village woman. You can call yourself

Me."

Zhang was stunned for a moment.

Destiny wife?

She has lived for more than 20 years, but she never thought that she could still get the title of destiny woman.

"This, what should I do?"

"Just accept it. Can you still take back what the Queen has given you as a reward?"

This title of destiny wife is rare.

For someone who is originally a princess, this title is naturally not worth mentioning.

But for those who are not from a very good background, like Ms. Zhang, the title of destiny wife is very important.

After all, if you travel with a lady, you won't feel inferior.

You don’t have to bow to others, you can be more dignified by calling yourself.

"This... the woman accepted it."

Hearing Zhang's promise, Wang Huifeng also had a smile on his face.

"Just accept it. Marquis Guangyuan is His Majesty's most trusted minister. You can come to the palace often. This other token allows you to pass through the palace at will."

Not only Mrs. Zhang, but also Princess Guangping also opened her mouth very wide.

This token of access to the imperial palace is priceless.

It’s also what Princess Guangping dreams of!

"this..."

"It doesn't matter, just take it."

"promise."

After chatting for a while in Xianyang Hall, the queen said she was tired again.

Mrs. Zhang already wanted to return to Jinguyuan.

As you wish, Mrs. Zhang naturally took her leave and left the palace.

Zhang came out of the palace and, under the guidance of the palace maid, headed out of the palace.

Unexpectedly, Princess Guangping chased her out.

.....

Chengdu Prince's Mansion.

In the main hall, Sima Ying was sitting on the throne. In front of him, there was a man in thick cotton clothes sitting on his knees.

He was covered in weather and looked like he had been traveling for a long time.

"This is a souvenir from my lord and king."

The King of Chengdu took the letter without changing his expression.

After opening the letter and only reading half of it, the King of Chengdu's eyes became uncertain.

"King Qi, what on earth is he going to do?"
Chapter completed!