After the civil and military officials passed by, Han Xianzong and Xie Ziyue returned to the harem. At this time, the concubines of the palace had been waiting in Weiyang Palace for a long time.
During this period, Gu Xuan was pulled up from the bed by Grandma Sun and put on the uniform of the princess.
She already has fair skin, but wearing a bright yellow color that complements her skin color makes her look more like a snow dumpling.
Grandma Sun carefully tied her into a flower bun and circled her with snow-white plush.
Nanny Li put on a pure gold ruby necklace for her, and she also put on gold jewelry on each hand. In the cold winter months, these jewelry were also very tight. Gu Xuan felt the temperature on them, and was shrinking by the cold hands. Shrunk.
"Princess, be patient," Grandma Sun felt very distressed when she saw her sleepy eyes and shivering from the ice. However, thinking that today was a special day, she still advised softly:
"Today is my queen's big day. Princess, please be patient and wear this thing for a while."
Gu Xuan yawned, feeling sober thanks to the cold touch of these ornaments: "Where is the Queen? Why didn't the Queen come to call me?"
"Your Majesty, I got up before dawn today to dress up." Grandma Sun quickly dressed up Gu Xuan while replying:
"Princess was still asleep at that time. My Majesty feels sorry for you and told me not to wake you up." Grandma Sun paused at this point and continued to explain:
"However, after handing over the treasures in front of the civil and military officials, the empress will have to return to the palace to be greeted by the concubines. At that time, she will also go to Guo'an Temple to pray. After that, princess, you must be there, so I called you up."
The first empress had no heirs, so Gu Xuan was the only direct descendant in the palace and Xie Ziyue's only daughter.
Guoan Temple is a popular place to pray, and you must go there once a year. Since this year is at the end of the year, Emperor Xianzong of the Han Dynasty had previously issued an order for all the concubines to follow him.
Not to mention Gu Xuan, all the older princesses are going, especially the only prince Gu Ji.
Grandma Sun and others were old people who were used to being around Gu Xuan, and they were also very interested in Gu Xuan. They almost kept calling Gu Xuan, wanting her to stay under the quilt for a while.
"When will the queen come back?" Gu Xuan looked outside. It was a rare good weather today. The sun was bright outside. Although it was still cold, it didn't snow every day like the previous few days.
Qin Tianjian calculated that the day was not bad. After all, this was the second day in the imperial city where the sun had risen since the beginning of winter.
"I'm afraid it's going to be soon." Grandma Sun had gone out to take a look before: "All the concubines are waiting in the outer hall."
Hearing this, Gu Xuan didn't dare to delay. She quickly rubbed her eyes and woke up completely.
Today is the queen's big day, and she must not delay her mother's affairs at this time.
Fortunately, when she was half asleep, Grandma Sun and Grandma Li had already dressed her. Now that she woke up, she turned around and followed the grandmothers out of the side hall.
It was a coincidence that as soon as she came out of the side hall, she heard movement outside the gate of Weiyang Palace.
Grandma Sun looked happy and said, "I'm afraid the empress is back."
As soon as these words came out, Gu Xuan looked towards the door in surprise and saw her mother and her father crossing the palace gate.
All the concubines in the courtyard turned around at this moment and saluted: "Greetings to the Emperor, and hello to the Queen."
"No courtesy." Han Xianzong still needed to check the preparations for going to Guoan Temple. This time he made a special trip to Weiyang Palace just to express his respect for the queen.
After letting the concubines stand up, he said a few personal words to Xie Ziyue before turning around and leaving, leaving everything here to Xie Ziyue.
The concubines lowered their eyebrows and no one dared to make a mistake at this time. Xie Ziyue walked towards the inner hall with Taoxiang's support. When she was about to go up the stairs, she saw her daughter standing aside.
"Axuan, you go to the side hall and wait first." Xie Ziyue wanted to set rules for the concubines, so it was not good for Gu Xuan to stay inside.
Seeing that Gu Xuan's face was flushed, as if she had just gotten up, she couldn't help but glance at Nanny Sun: "Go to the kitchen to get some food for the princess."
"Yes." Grandma Sun sighed in her heart that the princess was attentive. She came back just as the princess got up. The servants like them had not thought of this yet, but the mother was still thinking that the princess had not eaten.
Aunt Sun was worried that Gu Xuan would influence Xie Ziyue here, so she coaxed Gu Xuan to go to the side hall and brought her breakfast.
Gu Xuan was indeed hungry. Today, the small kitchen prepared a chestnut stewed chicken. The sweetness of the chestnuts and the deliciousness of the chicken were mixed together. She enjoyed eating in the side hall.
At the end, he sighed and regretted:
"It would be nice to have roasted sweet potatoes."
Calculating carefully, she had not eaten roasted sweet potatoes for as long as she had been here.
The taste of chestnuts is similar to sweet potatoes to a certain extent, otherwise it wouldn't suddenly arouse Gu Xuan's greed.
"Princess, you want to eat roasted sweet potatoes?" Grandma Sun was stunned, and she looked at each other and said, "If you want to eat it, let the people in the kitchen cook it next time."
Isn’t it easy to eat what you want? Even the delicacies of the mountains and seas are eaten by my princess, not to mention the little sweet potato?
"Sweet potatoes have to be roasted by yourself to be interesting." Gu Xuan sighed, quite old-fashioned.
Aunt Li and Aunt Sun laughed secretly, knowing that this was unlikely, so they wisely shut their mouths and stopped talking.
On the other side, Xie Ziyue briefly talked to the concubines for a while, then led everyone out and sent Tao Xiang to the side hall to bring her daughter.
The ceremony for leaving the palace had been prepared long ago. The emperor and empress sat together in the middle carriage, and the other concubines sat in the carriage behind them according to their positions.
According to the rules, Gu Xuan was supposed to sit with other princesses and princes, but when she went to Guoan Temple to pray, no ministers followed her, they were all from the palace.
Han Xianzong and Xie Ziyue wanted their daughter to sit with them, so they naturally scooped Gu Xuan into the carriage they were sitting in.
The other concubines had long been accustomed to it. They just glanced at it and looked away. They were helped by the personal palace maid to get into their own carriage.
Han Xianzong and Xie Ziyue were busy all morning, especially Xie Ziyue, who got up early in the morning to put on makeup and didn't even bother to ask about her daughter. She only said a hasty sentence just now.
Now she asked her warmly: "What did you have for breakfast? Are you full?"
"I'm full. Let's eat chestnut stewed chicken." Gu Xuan stared at the queen mother without blinking, and shyly put her head into her arms for a while.
Xie Ziyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What are you doing? Don't you recognize your mother?"
"Mother looks so beautiful today," Gu Xuan hugged her and said, "I'm embarrassed to look directly at her."
"You are a little kid but a big kid." Han Xianzong deliberately tickled her, making Gu Xuan laugh.
Although this carriage was luxurious, the space was still very limited. Gu Xuan could not avoid Han Xianzong's claws even if she dodged left and right.
It was Xie Ziyue who felt sorry for her daughter and said something to stop her: "Okay, Your Majesty, she just had breakfast not long ago, the carriage was already bumpy, and she vomited in a moment."
Only then did Gu Xuan escape from the clutches of Han Xianzong.
Gu Xuan was not angry, but instead asked with great interest: "Father, will we return to the palace tonight?"
Han Xianzong didn't understand why he asked so, but he still shook his head: "It's too late, I won't reply."
"Then can I roast the sweet potatoes and eat them myself?" Gu Xuan's eyes lit up.
