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After leaving the study, Shen Wei returned to the bedroom and prepared to continue exercising.
After three years of careful nursing, her body, which had been damaged by childbirth, has recovered.
With the right methods of beauty and skin care, the skin condition will be restored. Sure enough, if a woman does not take care of children or work overtime, eats well, sleeps well and has fun every day, her physical condition will not be too bad.
The condition is very good and you can go back to the palace.
The court was stable, and Li Yuanjing did not take any more concubines into the palace. Today, the Qing Kingdom's harem is peaceful and Lu Xuan is still favored, but not as popular as in previous years. The other concubines did not receive much favor, and the harem of Qing Kingdom felt rather lifeless.
The Queen and Lu Xuan were evenly matched in power and managed the harem together. There were open and covert struggles, but overall it was not as intense as in the past two years.
It's a bit like the lifeless Prince Yan's Palace back then.
Shen Wei felt that Li Yuanjing should take her back to the palace soon, but he just needed a suitable reason.
The fifth day of May is the Queen Mother’s birthday and also the birthday of her two sons. Li Yuanjing might use this as an excuse to take Shen Wei back.
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Shen Wei guessed correctly.
Li Yuanjing was thinking about issuing an edict, intending to bring the empress dowager and Shen Wei back to the palace from their recuperation outside on the pretext of "inviting the empress dowager to return to the palace to celebrate her birthday."
Now that the internal and external troubles of Daqing Kingdom have been resolved, the ninth prince of Yue Kingdom, Tuoba Hongchuan, has ascended the throne and sent envoys to Yanjing to prepare to sign a peace agreement to cease fire between the two countries. The envoys from the State of Yue were personally escorted back to the capital by General Shen Mieyue.
"Vivi." Li Yuanjing stood by the window of Chang'an Palace, looking at the prosperous spring scenery outside the window.
Clusters of roses bloomed luxuriantly, swaying and unwinding in the spring breeze.
Three years have passed, and the flowers have bloomed and fallen for three years.
During these three years, the harem was filled with beauties, and every woman competed for favor and love. Li Yuanjing always saw ambitious souls through their dirty eyes.
Although the beauty is beautiful, her eyes are full of the filth of the world. Every beautiful girl eventually becomes dull and becomes an ordinary, colorless concubine in the harem.
If we talk about concubines who are somewhat interesting, Lu Xuan is one of them. When she first entered the palace, her eyes were full of innocence, a bit like Chen Wei. But ever since Lu Xuan gave birth to the prince, even though she concealed it very well, Li Yuanjing was still able to discover her ambitions and calculations, and found out that Lu Xuan was secretly selling official positions and titles for members of the Lu family.
When these women entered the palace, each of them had family interests to bear, and each of them wanted to take advantage of the emperor to gain benefits.
Only Shen Wei is different. Over the past three years, every letter Shen Wei sent home was filled with care and love.
Shen Wei never mentioned her brother who was an official, nor did she ask the emperor to promote her brother. Her world only consisted of Li Yuanjing and her children.
Eunuch Deshun came to report respectfully: "Your Majesty, General Shen sent a message that the Yue Kingdom delegation he escorted is about to arrive in Jiangnan. It is expected to arrive in Yanjing in half a month."
Li Yuanjing thought for a moment and ordered: "Let Shen Xiuming, the magistrate of Jiangnan, receive the delegation."
Shen Xiuming is Shen Wei's biological brother. He was demoted to the south to guard the granary three years ago. Due to his outstanding political achievements, he was promoted to the sixth-rank judge of Jiangnan last year.
Let Shen Xiuming receive the delegation and count him as having "merit in receiving envoys". With this merit, Shen Xiuming was allowed to return to Yanjing to serve as an official.
Chen Wei is sensible and never uses the emperor's favor to help her brother gain an official career. Li Yuanjing plans to help her secretly.
"I'll do it right away." Deshun lowered his head respectfully and went to announce the emperor's decree.
After Deshun left, Li Yuanjing looked at the lush blooming roses for a while, then returned to Chang'an Palace to continue reviewing memorials.
Fragrant and elegant incense was burning in the gilded copper furnace in the hall. This spice was secretly sent by Shen Wei. It has a refreshing fragrance and can relieve fatigue.
It has been three years, even though the two have not met, but traces of Shen Wei are everywhere.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Shu is here." The eunuch lowered his head and went into the palace to report.
Li Yuanjing frowned, a trace of displeasure flashed across his eyes: "Pass it on."
After a while, the graceful Lu Xuan walked into Chang'an Palace. She had dressed up carefully today, with a beautiful Lingxu bun and a light green cloud shirt and palace skirt, looking outstanding.
She knelt down to greet him, and said with a smile, "As spring is getting warmer, I personally cooked some Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup and brought it to Your Majesty."
Li Yuanjing raised his hand and asked the eunuch beside him to bring the wine to the table, but he did not drink it immediately, nor did he say anything more to Lu Xuan.
A trace of disappointment and sadness flashed across Lu Xuan's eyes. She knelt and bowed again: "I'll take my leave."
When Lu Xuan first entered the palace, she was burdened with the expectations of her family. When she met the emperor, Lu Xuan was inevitably moved. The emperor was handsome, dignified, diligent and loved his people. He was a rare wise ruler and a rare husband.
Lu Xuan was full of confidence, she felt that she would definitely win the emperor's love.
She is beautiful and talented, and she is better than all the women in the harem. Li Yuanjing will definitely fall at her feet.
In fact, in the first year after entering the palace, Lu Xuan did receive the most favor from the emperor. During the time when their love was the strongest, Lu Xuan served the emperor by grinding ink and burning incense for him, and appreciating the moon and reciting poems with him.
That year was beautiful like a dream. The two of them were like a loving couple, and Lu Xuan gradually became addicted to it.
But two years later, even the strongest feelings gradually faded.
Lu Xuan clearly felt that the emperor's love for her was diminishing little by little.
Lu Xuan really couldn't understand. Isn’t she beautiful? Isn't she gentle? She possessed all the good qualities of a woman: dignified, virtuous, talented and beautiful, but the emperor's affection for her was still fading.
Even if she tried her best to make amends, she could only watch the emperor's heart drift away.
Walking in the Imperial Garden, looking at the roses blooming by the wall, Lu Xuan sighed: "The Emperor is really heartless..."
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