The Xihun Pavilion returned to silence. Emperor Qiyuan lay down again, put his right hand behind his head, and closed his eyes. It was quiet around him, and only a few slight explosions occasionally burst out from the charcoal basin.

A heavy exhalation came, and then a slight knock sounded rhythmically, tick! tick! Emperor Qiyuan's left hand was on one side of his body, his palm was facing down, his index finger slightly raised and fell down... It was obvious that he was not sleeping, but thinking about something. After a while, Emperor Qiyuan suddenly opened his eyes, listened to the movements outside, and then called out: "Come."

A voice outside responded gently: "Master, I am here."

"oh……"

Emperor Qiyuan sat up and opened the inner door. Qian Hai hurriedly walked up to serve Emperor Qiyuan and put on boots. At the same time, he took the silver sable cloak and was put on his body by Emperor Qiyuan. "Does the emperor want to enjoy the snow outside, or..."

"Well..." Emperor Qi Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "I was a little tired just now. I wanted to take a look for a while, but Du Ning came and broke up his sleepiness. Alas, seeing that the sky was leaning against the brazier, my body was a little stiff, so I came out to do it." Emperor Qi Yuan stopped slightly, as if he suddenly remembered it and asked Qian Hai: "Can Concubine Lin be in Kunning Palace?"

"Ah, back to the emperor, I don't know much. If the emperor is interested in Kunning Palace, I will prepare..."

"Well...well, I haven't seen her for two days, so it's okay to talk for a while."

Qian Hai hurriedly informed the eunuch to prepare for a warm sedan chair. In a short while, the chariot was carried over. Emperor Qiyuan held the stove and put it on the chariot. Qian Hai put the door outside. After a shout, the group came to Kunning Palace staggering towards Kunning Palace. As soon as he arrived at the gate of Kunning Palace, before the emperor got off the sedan chair, the palace maid and eunuch who were serving outside the palace had already knelt on the ground.

Qian Hai walked forward and was about to shout out loud to the imperial concubine to take the imperial guards, but suddenly felt something was wrong. Looking at the number of palace maids in front of him, Qian Hai frowned, hurriedly walked a few steps to the front, asked a few words to a palace maid, then trotted back to the side of the chariot, and whispered inside with a curtain: "Emperor, unfortunately... Empress Lin is not in Kunning Palace now. Just now, the old slave learned that before a stick of incense, the Empress, joined Empress Wu, and Empress Lin, went to Shoukang Palace together..."

"Oh?" Emperor Qi Yuan was stunned when he heard this. "I went to the Empress Dowager's place? Could it be that there is any happy event today? Well, since that's the case, let's go and see what's going on."

"Yes." Qian Hai waved his hand silently, and the chariot was lifted up again, and he went to Shoukang Palace slowly.

Shookang Palace.

The Queen Mother sat on the warm mat, holding a small white porcelain cup with her hands, her eyes closed slightly, and her lips pursed her lips to taste it. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and praised loudly: "No wonder you rushed over to offer treasures. Don't say that, this tea is really fragrant!"

Empress Jingshu knelt on the warm mat. When she heard the empress dowager's praise, she showed a smile on her face: "It's rare that the empress dowager likes it. This tea was presented by Concubine Lin. I dare not take credit. I just thought that the empress dowager has always had good tea, so she came with the two concubines." Concubine Lin and Concubine Wu also smiled and nodded.

Concubine Wu also stretched out her jade hands and held a small white porcelain cup. At this time, she said warmly: "The Queen Mother said it very well. The tea has no sourness and fragrance. It has been sweet for a long time. I have drunk many famous teas before I entered the palace. Now I think that there has never been such a tea."

After hearing the words of the two, the Empress Dowager pursed her lips and smiled a few times, glanced at them, then turned her eyes to Concubine Lin: "With these two of them, your tea has not been taken out in vain." The Empress Dowager took another sip, pursed her lips and savored it for a while, and said: "Well... it is indeed a good tea. If it is really compared, it seems that it is not much worse than the tribute tea sent to Jiangnan every year. But now it is the middle of winter, and this tea is obviously new tea, this..." The Empress Dowager tilted her head and looked at the tea juice in the small cup, and was a little confused for a moment.

The queen smiled beside her and said, "Empress Dowager, I thought so just now. After asking Concubine Lin, I realized that this tea is not ordinary. It is a rare winter tea in temples in Jiangnan."

"Oh..." The Queen Mother looked carefully and smiled, "No wonder I always feel it's a little different. It turns out to be winter tea. This is a rare thing!" The Queen Mother took a sip, suddenly remembered something, looked at the queen and said, "How much tea is left?" As she said, the Queen Mother smiled, "It's not that the Ai family is greedy, and she wants to fill it all up. The Ai family is afraid that you are thinking about the Ai family, and all the things are delivered here, but you don't leave anything, haha!"

The queen stood up and bowed: "Thank you, the queen mother, for her kindness, haha, although there is not much tea, Concubine Wu and I have also reserved some preparations. But at that time, I was just thinking about giving tea to the queen mother, but forgot to ask Concubine Lin how much tea there is... Since the queen mother likes it, if she can offer it all year round, it would be a good thing."

"Well..." The empress dowager's eyes flashed slightly, looked at the queen, and then turned to look at Concubine Lin. Concubine Lin knelt on the warm mat, and saw three pairs of eyes looking at him, so she hurriedly bowed to the empress dowager: "Qigong, this tea is only produced in Yunchan Temple in Jiangnan, and there is no other place. The monks in the temple call it "Bodhi tea". The winter tea produces very little, and this Bodhi tea is even worse. Because my brother is an official in Jiangnan and has a friendship with the abbot of Yunchan Temple, he accidentally got some. This time he returned to Beijing and sent it to the palace..."

Concubine Lin said, with a look of embarrassment on her face, and she was slightly hesitant. When the queen saw her, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Since they have all been sent to you, I guess there are still some?"

Seeing the queen asking, Concubine Lin lowered her head slightly and whispered: "Originally, this tea is half a pound. The day before yesterday, I sent half of it to the emperor, and evened four taels for the queen, two taels of Wu, and the remaining six taels..." Concubine Lin seemed to be buried lower: "The remaining six taels are all used for the queen..."

After Concubine Lin finished speaking, the Empress Dowager was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh, if you say so, don't you keep it at all?"

The Empress Dowager looked at the Queen and Concubine Wu. The Empress stopped at this time, and was shocked and panicked on her face. She smiled and said, "Hey, look, what is this. When I asked you before, you said you kept some. Oh, thanks to my question, otherwise everyone would be kept in the dark." Concubine Wu did not speak next to her, but her expression showed some emotion on her face.

The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Lin, sighed, and put the teacup in her hand on the plate. "Oh... you are filial, but sometimes you have to think about yourself. If you don't ask, what has happened to this matter?" The Empress Dowager frowned slightly at Concubine Lin, shook her head and sighed: "You, although this tea is delicious, how can you drink it?"
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