Lian'er nodded, and asked again: "It's just that this promotion was mentioned by Zheng Zhaoyi, is it okay?" Ah Xiu replied with a smile: "If Your Majesty had stopped at Zheng's place last night, maybe I would have thought about it carefully, but Your Majesty passed on the message and went to Yizhen's place, but it is okay to know that Your Majesty has already given birth to a mustard." ”

"I should have talked about the promotion, but now that the Zheng family has taken the lead, it is also a good thing. , since you said that she became a concubine, you are not jealous, but I want to say that if I have another chance, I plan to promote her position again and become a concubine. Ah Xiu smiled meaningfully.

"Among the show girls, Yingxue is good at pipa, and there is another one who is good at whirling dance, do you remember?" "But the daughter of a cloth merchant from the Western Regions?" Lian'er's eyes lit up.

Ah Xiu nodded: "Pass the decree and summon Xu Cairen from Shouchang Palace to see me." Lian'er smiled knowingly: "Whether it's a koi fish or a shrimp crab, you'll know if you try it." ”

Half a cup of tea, Xu Cairen came according to the order, a lake blue embroidered gardenia gown, a light ink-colored silver thread beaded pleated skirt, a silver tassel on the head of the spirit of the bun swaying, the action is like a weak willow to help the wind, Shi Shiran bowed, and his voice was clear: "The show girl Xu Miaoyi knocked on the queen's mother, and the mother was blessed with Jin'an." Knock to see Concubine Ning. ”

Ah Xiu nodded: "No courtesy, sit down." Miao Yi sat down shallowly. Ah Xiu asked her, "You and Zheng Zhaoyi seem to be the same year?" Miaoyi nodded: "The queen mother remembers correctly, I am two months longer than Xu Zhaoyi." ”

"This is Concubine Ning's newly made pattern, you will send it to Your Majesty for us to ask Your Majesty to take a look." Ah Xiu motioned for Bi Jin to hand over the pattern. Miao Yi was so smart that she knew that this was to get close to Your Majesty, so she respectfully accepted: "Miao Yi will definitely send the pattern properly to Your Majesty." ”

Seeing her go, Lian'er smiled: "First a pipa fairy, and now a Hu dance fairy, there are two flowers, which one is more lovable, we can wait and see." Ah Xiu nodded: "From ancient times to the present, the women in this palace are like flowers blooming, stubble after stubble, flowers blooming, frustrated, but in a moment. Serving people in Israel is inferior after all. When they make trouble, Yizhen's concubine position can be decided. ”

"Why does my sister want to give the art concubine?" Lian'er couldn't help but ask after all. "Huilan will not be closed to the palace all the time, when she comes out, it is the most appropriate to have Yizhen occupy this position, if you are a concubine, she will still be angry, and it is easy to be bullied by her openly and secretly, but Yizhen is much more convenient."

Lian'er frowned slightly: "What does my sister mean, Huilan will return to favor?" Ah Xiu shook his head: "Your Majesty is disgusted with her, and it stands to reason that she will not be favored again, but it is inconvenient to be grounded all the time: her father is a founding nobleman with outstanding military achievements, and whether his daughter is favored or not, it is inconvenient to be grounded for a long time." ”

After a pause, he turned to Su Xin and said, "Did you send a girl to serve this Xu Cairen?" "Back to Niangniang's words, since you have sealed the talent, there were two big girls waiting for you at the beginning, named Green Yi Honglian."

Ah Xiu smiled: "The two around Zheng Zhaoyi are called scarlet sleeves and blue clothes? It's all red and green, and you'll have a name! What about the domestic slaves they brought with them? Su Xin smiled: "When I went to pick them up, I didn't allow them to bring a wedding girl, only a nurse!" ”

Lian'er smiled and praised: "This is the most reliable place for Su Xin, and she can share her sister's worries in everything." Ah Xiu also agreed: "If you don't bring a dowry girl, your behavior and actions will not be too secretive, easy to grasp, and it is not easy to cause chaos." ”

Before lunch, Miaoyi met Zhu Yuanzhang for the first time. The little daughter's emotional Miaoyi only needs her voice and figure to attract Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. After lunch, in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was fortunate to Xu Miaoyi. Different from Zheng Yingxue's successive promotions, Xu Miaoyi was named Zhaoyi when she first accepted her favor and lived in the east chamber of the Taiji Palace. Later, throughout the afternoon, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Miaoyi to serve the pen and ink, and sent the eunuch Qingtong to send the pattern back to Axiu Palace.

Ah Xiu listened to Qingtong's reply, rewarded him with twenty taels of silver to buy wine, and smiled to Lian'er: "Oh! This one's limelight is a little more powerful than Yingxue. "There are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, Zheng Zhaoyi said something that should not be said, and it is good to use Xu Zhaoyi to press it."

"The east and west compartments of the Taiji Hall now have their own masters, but the main hall is empty, so that the two of them will not fight openly and secretly, we can just watch from the wall." Ah Xiu lowered her head and continued to practice calligraphy, while Lian'er drew on the other end, each leisurely.

After dinner, Zhu Yuanzhang took Miaoyi back to the Taiji Palace, Zheng Yingxue saw people moving things back and forth in the afternoon, and inquired that Xu's sealed Zhaoyi into the East Chamber, and she was already unhappy, but now she looked at Zhu Yuanzhang through the window and hugged Miaoyi into the room, and her heart was even more unpleasant, so she angrily dropped the handkerchief twisted in her hand: "Scarlet sleeves, go get the pipa!" ”

Impetuous and impetuous, the song will be stagnant, and it will be transmitted to the East Chamber, and Miaoyi, who is cooking tea for Zhu Yuanzhang, sneered: "Your Majesty, listen, Sister Zheng seems to be jealous, and this song is no better than in the past." Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and instructed the eunuch: "You go, tell her not to play." ”

Yingxue played depressedly, and when she heard the eunuch coming to pass the word, she stopped, and when the eunuch left, she simply threw away the pipa, and said: "If you don't play, you won't play." He turned around and walked to the bed, and fell face inside on the bed.

Three days later, Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed the folds in the Qianqing Palace, and the palace people on duty in the Taiji Hall came to report that the Zheng family smashed something in Xu's house, and Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard it: "How did the Xu family respond?" The palace man replied: "Xu's good words, Zheng's anger left, she just ordered someone to collect things, and never fought back." “

Zhu Yuanzhang twisted his beard: "Spread the decree, Jin Xu Zhaoyi is a concubine, and she is in the right position in the Taiji Palace." The eunuch Qingtong nodded and went to announce the decree, and Zhu Yuanzhang instructed Zhao Cheng again: "Someone will go and present this matter to the queen's mother, and she will help Concubine Wan buy furnishings." ”

After listening to this, Ah Xiu sent the eunuch away, looked at the big characters on the desk for a while and smiled silently, Su Xin saw that Ah Xiu wrote "humble and respectful" and said with a smile: "This Xu Zhaoyi, who took retreat as advance, took the lead instead, was promoted to the concubine position, and gave the word 'Wan', which shows the high and low." “

A Xiu's head: "Gentle and beautiful for Wan, the left cross said, 'Women listen to Wan', and Shunqian let Wan, she can also afford this word, she is the same year, Wan Concubine is only two months older than Zheng Zhaoyi, Zheng has a slight upper hand in appearance, but the character of the city is too much higher than Xu's. ”

"Our majesty, I don't like women to be jealous and intrigued, Zheng Zhaoyi's preconceived self-esteem is too high, thinking that if she enters the Taiji Hall first, she will become the master sooner or later, but unexpectedly, the Xu family later came to the top and entered the East Chamber, she behaved inappropriately, but gave this concubine to the Xu family in vain." Su Xin sighed aside. (To be continued.) )