Yun Zhiyan has been having some unsure ideas lately and wants to go find the Queen Mother.
People only know that he is filial, but they don’t know that he usually doesn’t talk to the empress dowager for long before he says goodbye and leaves, and goes to the side hall to help Yu Huan with his homework.
Although Shen Jinzhi was also puzzled as to why the emperor always asked her about unimportant little things, she just thought that he was trying to establish a reputation for filial piety and did not think much about it.
The Empress Dowager's birthday is approaching, so the palace naturally has to celebrate it well, and everyone from top to bottom is busy.
Yu Huan was also thinking about what gift to give.
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Here, Yun Zhiyan's good mood, which had lasted for a long time, was finally ruined by someone.
Several officials advised him in the court to put the country and the royal heir first, saying that the continuation of the royal heir was the foundation of the ancestral temple... In the final analysis, they just wanted him to select a concubine.
How could they really force him?
Yun Zhiyan has never been a talkative person. He was annoyed by their noise, and when he heard them say this, it was as if something was blocked in his chest.
However, after he refused, when they asked him why he didn't want to choose, he couldn't give a clear answer.
"If you don't want to vote, then you don't want to vote. Could it be that the world is now ruled by you, my dear ministers?" He asked with a sullen face, and no one dared to disobey him again.
But after leaving court, he was still unhappy.
Yun Zhiyan thought, he didn't need a woman. Perhaps his mother's experience had cast too much shadow on his childhood, and even now, he still had no desire for love.
He lives a good life now, with a younger sister and a queen mother.
Although he had some grudges with the Queen Mother, they were united on major issues. The Queen Mother had watched him grow up, so he could also feel some affection for her.
As for my sister, there is no need to say more.
Thinking of this, he breathed a sigh of relief and was no longer upset.
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The Empress Dowager's birthday banquet was presided over by You Yun, and it was held in the palace. This time, some prominent figures in and outside the palace came to pay their respects, bringing gifts. The birthday congratulations were all lavish, and the gifts were so dazzling that people were overwhelmed.
When most of the gifts had been received, Yu Huan told her aunt that she also had a gift to give.
"You little rascal, I thought you only knew how to eat and drink." Shen Jinzhi laughed at her.
Yu Huan was not convinced, so he kept the secret and asked his aunt to wait.
When she appeared again, she was wearing a smoky green dance costume and was surrounded by a group of dancers.
She took off the gold and jade ornaments on her body, leaving only her black hair tied up. She had a kind of pure and natural beauty, which reminded people of the mist between the misty mountains and rivers.
The sound of stringed instruments rose, and the dancers set off her like flowers and leaves.
This was the birthday dance she learned from the dancers in the palace. She practiced it for a long time before showing her best performance to her aunt.
She fluttered her wide sleeves, drawing a half silver rainbow. Just when people were attracted by her movements, she turned her head back, as if she was looking into the person looking at her, her eyes flickering.
Yun Zhiyan raised his glass and was about to drink it, but he was frozen by that look and was unable to move for a long time.
Yu Huan's practice was not in vain. After one dance, he performed it with great skill and won the applause of the whole audience.
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Yun Zhiyan had originally planned to go back to handle government affairs after the banquet was halfway through, but for some reason, his soul seemed to have drifted away, making him unable to move no matter what.
Shen Jinzhi hadn't expected him to be so filial.
It was not until the banquet was over and it was already late that Yun Zhiyan got up.
However, even after returning home, he couldn't withdraw his thoughts. He forced himself to concentrate on reading the newly presented memorial, but he only glanced at it and forgot it in the blink of an eye.
Even if I stare at the words, I don't understand their meaning and I really can't calm down.
After holding on for another half an hour, he finally couldn't hold on any longer and went to rest early.
But that night, he had a dream.
He dreamed that he was attending a morning court session and several officials were pressing him hard, forcing him to participate in a selection.
In the dream, he was not as speechless as he had been in the previous days. He glanced at the group of officials, sneered, and said that he already had a queen.
Not only were the officials in the dream shocked, but he himself also began to wonder, what queen? How come he didn't know her?
Just as he was thinking about it, he reached out his hand in the dream and pulled out a woman in a green dress from behind the throne.
The group of officials had no way to force him, so they left on their own.
He held the woman's soft, slender white arm, his body tense, and he suddenly realized that she seemed to be his queen and the person closest to him.
However, he couldn't quite remember how he found the queen.
He was about to look up at her face when the woman in green held his shoulders and whispered in his ear, "Brother, you're hurting me."
Yun Zhiyan's heart was shocked.
However, before going to bed, he was afraid that he would not be able to fall asleep, so he asked the palace servants to add a lot of calming and sleep-inducing incense into the incense burner, and the incense worked.
He frowned, struggled for a few times, and then slowly fell into a dream.
In his dream, he and Yu Huan returned to his bedroom. He remembered that this was indeed his bedroom, but his sister insisted that it was their bedroom.
He didn't want to make his sister angry, so he didn't refute her.
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