"Mother, what do you want to see your son about?" Gao Xuance pushed the door open and walked straight in.

Concubine Hong said, "The mourning period has ended, and the inner and outer courts have asked the emperor to take the throne as the empress, just to make Lin the empress and let the eldest prince have a legitimate title. I think your majesty will obey sooner or later."

It seems that Concubine Hong also saw through the emperor. She knew very well that the emperor really wanted to be the empress, but he did not dare to risk the wrath of the world. No matter how he fought, she and her son would only become the target of public criticism.

Gao Xuance smiled and said, "Don't worry, mother. I will give Lin and her son a surprise today."

"Oh, give it to them?" Concubine Hong didn't understand.

"Yes, doesn't she like auspicious signs the most? Then I will give her another auspicious sign." Gao Xuance curled his lips and smiled.

Concubine Hong didn't understand: "Auspicious sign? Aren't you giving her auspicious sign? Wouldn't she be more popular then?"

Gao Xuan Ce said coldly: "If she called it auspicious once, no one would know if it was true, but it is auspicious every time, isn't it something she created herself?"

Concubine Hong was delighted when she heard this: "Can the staff be trusted?"

"It's reliable. I did it myself, so you can rest assured." Gao Xuance said.

…

We had lunch at Ci'en Temple, which is very famous for its vegetarian dishes. Many pilgrims come here just to taste them.

On the table were eight-treasure dishes, stewed lotus seeds, Luohan dishes, braised mushrooms, etc. Yao Niang was hungry after a long journey today, so she ate a bowl of rice cleanly.

Xiulin smiled and said, "Are you hungry, young lady? Just go back to the palace tonight. Although the food outside is good, it is just simple food after all."

"That's not necessary. I think the food here is pretty good. But I can't live without meat for a day." Yao Niang often has to take horse riding and archery lessons, and she often feels hungry. She finds that eating some beef and mutton is good for her health and won't make her fat.

On the contrary, if you don't eat rice and only eat vegetables, you will lose weight, but the weight will be ugly. Not only will you lose hair, but you will also look pale and thin.

The master and servants were talking when they saw Zhuang Lingyi come in. Yao Niang stood up and called out, "Sister Zhuang."

Zhuang Lingyi nodded casually. She didn't like Yao Niang's character and didn't want to associate with such a person. She actually came to see Princess Zhenyang, so she didn't want to talk nonsense and asked directly: "Do you know where Princess Zhenyang went?"

With such an impolite tone, she really regarded herself as her subordinate. Yao Niang was not a person without temper. She rolled her eyes and smiled: "I don't know."

Seeing that she clearly knew but deliberately kept silent, Zhuang Lingyi could not help but ask, "How could you not know? Didn't you accompany the princess out this morning?"

"What? Do I have to tell you the whereabouts of the princess? If you don't know, you will think you are the princess." Yao Niang said anxiously.

"you--"

Zhuang Lingyi knew that Luo Yaoniang had never had conflicts with her because of her family background, so she didn't take her seriously. She had no idea that she would be so angry today.

Yao Niang snorted coldly: "Miss Zhuang, I still need to rest for a while before I go to pay my respects to Concubine Hong. Please leave first."

Seeing Zhuang Lingyi leave angrily, Xiulin and Xiujuan worriedly said, "Miss, if she goes back and tells the Duke of Xian, and then he takes action against you, that won't be good."

"What are you afraid of? I've endured it for a few years. What's more, even Princess Zhenyang doesn't like her. Who does she really think she is? If anyone asks about this, you can occasionally tell the people around Concubine Hong."

If you don't take action now, when will you take action?

Zhuang Lingyi relies on her identity as the daughter of Duke Xian, but Concubine Hong would never choose such a daughter-in-law. She is in Cao's camp but her heart is with Han, and she still obeys orders. Humph, just wait and see.

Xiujuan helped Yao Niang to lie on the bed and couldn't help asking, "It's Mid-Autumn Festival next month, are you going home?"

"Well, I'll go back this Mid-Autumn Festival, and you two can follow me."

My sister is getting engaged this year, so of course I have to go back.

Furthermore, if she cannot settle down her marriage in the end, she will have to hire someone else.

But Zhuang Lingyi went out angrily, and as soon as she came out, she saw Princess Zhenyang. In front of Princess Zhenyang, Zhuang Lingyi did not act superior as before, but instead complained to Yao Niang: "I went to Miss Luo's place to look for you just now, but she never told me your whereabouts. Princess, you are a precious girl, you must take care of yourself."

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Princess Zhenyang had just gone to have dinner with Concubine Hong, so she was not here. She had originally wanted to ask Yao Niang about her interpretation of the divination, but she ran into Zhuang Lingyi on the way.

Zhuang Lingyi smiled and said, "Oh, that's right. I just saw a Persian cat with blue eyes and white fur behind the temple. I don't know who it belongs to. The nun said it was a stray cat that has been wandering here for a month and no one has adopted it. It is so hungry. So, I want to take it back to the palace. Please allow me, Princess."

Princess Zhenyang frowned and said, "Oh no, this cat is a stray cat. You can just leave the money. If you bring it back to the palace and hurt someone, it will be bad."

Zhuang Lingyi was about to explain, but Princess Zhenyang stopped him with her hand: "I said no, and it means no."

She left after she finished speaking, and Zhuang Lingyi immediately stopped talking. The maid beside her said, "Needless to say, it must be because of Miss Luo."

Unlike Yao Niang whose maids were assigned by Concubine Hong in the palace, Zhuang Lingyi's maids were brought from her home. This was her privilege, and she was also more considerate.

Zhuang Lingyi sneered continuously. They thought she didn't know that Princess Zhenyang had secretly brought Luo Yaoniang to see the Third Prince. She was bullying her because she thought she had a backer.

Fool, she really thought that participating in the succession to the throne was a good thing. She had just heard that an auspicious sign had occurred in Ci'en Temple and that Concubine Lin was destined by heaven.

Sure enough, Yao Niang also heard about this matter when she woke up from her nap. She said that someone was playing the flute outside, and the music was Buddhist music. Concubine Lin was doing the afternoon class when suddenly peacocks and cranes started dancing. Everyone thought it was a good omen, a sign that the phoenix was coming.

Phoenix Arrival?

The "Biographies of Immortals" does record that Xiao Shi played the flute. The sound of his flute could attract peacocks and white cranes to dance to the music in the courtyard. It was even recorded that Xiao Shi and Nong Yu both rode on phoenixes and became immortals a few years after their marriage.

In other words, Concubine Lin is a phoenix? Yao Niang couldn't help but laugh. What phoenix? She must be looking for death.

They actually dared to create these auspicious signs. These auspicious signs fooled the people into believing them, but the emperor was most afraid of them.

Could it be that because the empress had not been crowned for a long time, she got impatient and did this today? No wonder Lin Zhengfei was able to sit on the throne in her previous life, her family really had a lot of helpers.

But will the emperor believe it?