Li Meiren lowered her head quietly, and peeked at Ma Xiuying, she didn't know if Ma Xiuying deliberately gave her a horse, closed her eyes and didn't speak for a long time, she didn't dare to urge, she only stood respectfully, but her heart was up and down.

"You go down, and serve the emperor well in the future." Ma Xiuying finally spoke, she looked at Li Meiren carefully, and secretly paid attention to Li Meiren, if this woman is honest, forget it, if she dares to collude with Li Shanchang behind Zhu Yuanzhang's back and leak the affairs of the palace, she will inevitably make this woman the second Yu Suxue.

"The concubine retired." Gazed at by Ma Xiuying's sharp eyes, Li Meiren was like a man's back, she felt as if she had nothing to hide, her tactful voice was out of tune, and Lianbu was twisted a few times. She hurriedly left Kunning Palace, and her panicked heart gradually calmed down, and after standing quietly for a while, she resolutely walked towards Jingyang Palace. There is no turning back from the bow, and since this road has been taken, it must be continued!

Guo Huike didn't have Ma Xiuying's good temper, and when he saw Li Meiren, he scolded: "Everyone else has already come to see the palace, why have you been grinding for so long, and the rest time of the palace has been delayed by you." ”

"The queen's concubine said a conversation." Li Meiren lowered her head, secretly despised Guo Hui in her heart, no wonder she couldn't compete with Ma Xiuying, she didn't have the bearing of an imperial concubine at all.

Guo Hui sat up straight and asked nervously, "What did she ask you?" ”

Li Meiren replied meaningfully: "The queen asked the concubine if she was the niece of the Korean duke, and asked the concubine to serve the emperor well in the future." The concubine is naturally the daughter of the Li family, which the Li family tree can testify. ”

"Hmph, this palace doesn't care about your bullshit, as long as you are loyal to this palace." Guo Hui stared at Li Meiren coldly, and her jealous face was undisguised. I don't know where Li Shanchang found a woman with a charming look in her bones, looking at her graceful water snake waist, and then looking at her round bucket waist, Guo Hui became angry.

Li Meiren couldn't hear Guo Hui's jealous tone, and replied more carefully: "What Niangniang said is remembered by the concubine, and everything must be done with Niangniang first." ”

"Does the Korean public have something to tell you?"

"The Korean princess wants the mother to be calm and not impatient, and wait and see what happens."

"It's perfunctory like this every time, you'd better not treat this palace as a fool, otherwise this palace won't be able to spare you." Guo Hui snorted and waved away Li Meiren like a fly.

"Niangniang is pregnant, her temper is a little short-tempered, don't take the beauty to heart." Guo Xia led Li Meiren to the side hall, worried that Li Meiren would be dissatisfied with Guo Hui. After all, Li Meiren is a person sent by Li Shanchang, and if she doesn't look at the face of the Buddha and the face of the monk, it is a little inappropriate for Guo Hui to treat her as a slave in her palace.

"Xia Nu's official words are serious, Niangniang is a deep responsibility of love, and I will rely on Niangniang to take care of it in the future." Li Meiren smiled softly, she didn't see her angry appearance at all, and without a trace, she took out a silver ticket from her sleeve and stuffed it into Guo Xia's hand.

Guo Xia looked at the denomination of the silver ticket, smiled with satisfaction, pointed to the side hall closest to the main hall and said: "In the future, the beauty will live here, this place is close to the palace gate, and the emperor can welcome the beauty in time." ”

Li Meiren thanked and sent Guo Xia away, only to hide the door and sneer. It is better to be close to the palace gate than to the main hall, and the emperor is only afraid that the first to see is Concubine Hui, and then she is her. No wonder Li Shanchang warned himself that he would temporarily attach himself to Concubine Hui and try to replace her if he could, such a small-minded and simple-minded woman would not be willing to deal with Li Shanchang more.

But there is a higher status than the imperial concubine, think about the ordinary-looking hostess of Kunning Palace. Li Meiren smiled confidently, she was younger and more beautiful than her, as long as she was favored by the emperor, maybe she could compete for the position of queen!

The draft gradually came to an end, and life did not change much for Zhu Yuanzhang, going to court during the day and resting in various dormitories at night.

However, the lives of the harem concubines have undergone earth-shaking changes, Zhu Yuanzhang pampered the new show girl, and forgot many old people, originally some concubines could occasionally see Zhu Yuanzhang before, but now they can only wait indefinitely, these women who are like sitting in the cold palace can smoke the palace upside down.

For what happened to these women, Ma Xiuying couldn't help. Although she has the right to arrange for concubines to sleep, there are so many women in the harem, and she can't take care of everyone. And she is not Zhu Yuanzhang, she can't make decisions for Zhu Yuanzhang, even if she arranges the concubine who sleeps that night, Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't want to play the cards according to the rules. She gathered the concubines together and asked them to start embroidering and weaving like they had done last year, so that they would not be bored to find something to do for these women.

In June, Guo Ninglian gave birth to the tenth prince Zhu Tan, and the ministers were congratulating Zhu Yuanzhang on the addition of the prince, when suddenly there was bad news.

In mid-July, the post station was 800 miles faster, and a news came that shook the imperial court: the Duke of Eguo often returned from Beiping to the south in spring, and died of a violent illness when he traveled to Liuhechuan on July 7.

"How so, how so?" Rao Ma Xiuying was not surprised, but she was so shocked by the news that she dropped the tea cup in her hand. She said it several times in a row, and then she remembered that the saddest thing at this moment was that Chang Yuchun's family was Zhu Yuanzhang, and hurriedly instructed Xun Ying, "You should go to the Eguo Mansion on behalf of the palace to comfort Mrs. Lan and Miss Chang, and send two more imperial doctors to wait in the mansion, so that the people in the mansion can't make any mistakes." If Mrs. Lan and Miss Chang have any requests, just report them. He asked Fushun again, "Where is the emperor?" In the Golden Luang Hall or the Imperial Study? Take the palace to see the emperor quickly. ”

"I heard that the Duke of Eguo suffered from the 'armor removal wind' and died violently." Fushun wiped his sweat and hurriedly led the way, "The emperor was shocked on the dragon chair when he heard the news, and he was extremely sad about the death of the Duke of Eguo, and directly dismissed the court meeting, and now he should be in the imperial study." ”

As the name suggests, the general returned to the tent after the battle, because his body was too hot and sweating a lot, and he immediately took off his armor and was greedy for cold and wind, which caused a stroke. In addition, the temperature difference between day and night in the Liuhechuan area is extremely large, and there is no good doctor to treat him in time after suffering from the unloading of armor, so he died.

Ma Xiuying is helpless and sad, a generation of famous generals Chang Yuchun was not defeated by the enemy, but fell because of illness. When also? Fate?

When he arrived at the imperial study, Zhu Biao was pacing back and forth at the door, and when he saw Ma Xiuying, he hurriedly greeted him, with an anxious face, "Mother, father, he is alone inside." ”

Ma Xiuying stopped, "Don't worry, your father has seen all the winds and waves, and it will be fine." After speaking, she asked Zhao Cheng, who was standing at the door with his hands tied, "Can I enter the palace?" ”

"The slave sees the queen mother," Zhao Cheng bent over and lowered his eyes, "The emperor said that no one is allowed to enter." ”

"You go and tell the emperor, if the emperor doesn't want to see the palace, the palace will retire."

Zhao Cheng entered the imperial study with a thousand punches, and came out after a while and said, "The emperor invites the queen mother in." ”10