Mu Chengci didn't buy it, he still didn't give up, glanced at Xin Congying, who was timid and silent, and said lightly: "Since the king and queen are so affectionate, why haven't they entered the harem palace for several days." Chen Chu's goodness, how could he be ruined because of his wife's willfulness. ”

Xin Hui couldn't help frowning when he heard her words, although Mu Nu was the daughter of King Chen, this was very excessive in today's Chu Palace.

She used her eyes to hint at the beautiful teeth, just waiting for her to speak with sharp teeth like just now: Chen Chuzhi is good, and it is not Chen Guo who is alone with my young lady, that is the responsibility of Chen Guozong's daughter, you can do it, don't be crooked.

But I don't want to beautify my teeth, but I feel a little stunned as if I was being told the central thing, and I become clumsy again for a while.

Xin Hui was surprised, and looked sideways at her sluggish gaze, behind the palace curtain, a rickety figure stood faintly, and she suddenly understood that those words just now were taught to Meiya by Mama Liu, who was still sick.

Xin Hui couldn't help but feel a warm heart.

She looked at the delicate and graceful beauties below who were dressed in flowers, and thought to herself that if she didn't give them some color today, she would inevitably be so noisy and annoying every day in the future.

Seeing that the time had come to eat, she turned her mind, her eyes bent, pressed the trembling fingers of Meiya, and reproached Meiya: "Yo, my maid has been spoiled by me since she was a child, and she doesn't talk big or small. Oh, beautiful teeth, why don't you quickly make amends to a few young concubines...... Everyone is for Chen Chu's friendship, and they all care about the king...... You have always been a large number of adults, and you will not compete with a little maid - just talking, it's time to eat, hehe, since you're here, let's eat in my palace today, I specially ordered the small kitchen - today specially prepared a few rare delicacies on weekdays. ”

Meiya heard the young lady's "hehe" smile, and her scalp suddenly went numb.

The meal came up quickly, sweet and sour elbows, roast pig's trotters, beef pot, venison roast, and even snake broth, there was not a single vegetarian dish, and the eyes of the women were straight.

Xin Hui slowly raised his lips, a warm smile bloomed on his face, wiped his sleeves and picked up chopsticks, and began to prepare the dishes himself.

"Oh, Ji, this elbow is made for you, make up for that...... Very," she blinked, looking meaningfully at Mu Chengci's chest.

Mu Chengci immediately refused: "Mrs. Xie is kind...... "The concubine body is not needed......

She just opened her mouth—

"It's all your own family, what's polite?" A whole piece of crystal clear fat skin and big elbow was stuffed into Mu Chengci's mouth by Xinghui.!! Mu Chengci's eyes widened, the smooth and fat white flesh melted in her mouth, filling her mouth, her whole body stiffened, and she almost wanted to gag, Xin Hui saw this and slapped her the back, "Don't worry, eat slowly." ”

Mu Chengci: "T^&$U**%#@!! ”

Xin Hui looked at Mu Chengci with a smile and swallowed the elbow, and looked at her with a smile: "How is it?" It's delicious! It's all wild animals sent from the paddock, and even the fat meat is fat but not greasy......"

Mu Cheng couldn't speak, and nodded stiffly.

Seeing this, Xin Hui was a little proud and said: "This is a delicacy that you can't usually eat in the Chu Palace, and it's all thanks to the chef girl I brought from Chen Guo, how about it!" Do you smell a little bit of home......" She stretched out her nose and sniffed carefully, picking up the chopsticks of the cloth vegetables, "The fragrance of meat...... Come on, come on, everyone, you're welcome......"

The women have not been exposed to meat for a long time, and they are full of henchmen when they eat it, but since Mrs. Jun personally clothed the vegetables, they had to eat it, which was like torture, and they had to force their faces to smile and thank each other. All of them were colorless and miserable, and they all took their eyes to look at Mu Chengci and Mu Lianying, who were the leaders.

But the small bowl in front of the two of them had been piled up high with meat like Xin Hui, and she was already too busy to take care of herself.

"Eat, eat, eat......" Xin Hui greeted with a smile.

"This soup is not bad, it is deliberately not oiled, and it tastes like slippery plum juice......" Xin Hui picked up the spoon again.

When the girls left, Xin Hui was still standing at the door and reluctantly: "Everyone will come to accompany me more in the future, it's too lonely to eat alone." ”

Mu Chengci and Mu Lianying immediately quickened their pace.

Xinhui warmly and sincerely added: "Welcome to come every day." "There is fat to share, and there is meat to eat.

The women fled in a hurry.

When the news reached Shouning Palace, the King of Chu was waiting outside, a cup of curling tea was fragrant, lingering on the tip of his nose, the Empress Dowager Bao had not recovered from typhoid fever, sleeping behind layers of tulle curtains, and could only hear a gentle cough.

The imperial physician who asked for the pulse knelt on the ground and replied slowly, and in the huge palace, only far-reaching footsteps could be heard, like a huge tomb.

Looking out of the huge nanmu windows of the dormitory, in the early summer season, the quaint stone slabs in the courtyard are densely covered with velvet grass, and the afternoon sun shines on the ground, casting the dark shadow of the soot eaves, and the wind blows in from the window, stirring the gentle tulle, but the hall is so quiet, as if only the sound of the wind surging and scattering.

The Fufeng Hall of Shouning Palace is the residence of the former queen mother. After the king of Chu returned to the palace, he gave it to his nursing mother.

"The nurse is not in good health, so she has a good rest, why bother with these little things." The king of Chu looked at a palace lady who was kneeling on the ground and replying, with a plain face, fair and delicate, which was offered by Yan Yin to the lower-level military generals when he sent Chen Guo as the "King of Chu".

Because it was the Chu general who rescued from the hands of the Qi people on the battlefield of the county, he took the name Yuan Qi, and after returning to Chu, it was dedicated to the king of Chu, Yan Yin left her in the palace, and then was called by the Empress Dowager Bao, who was very smart and lovely.

Behind Yuan Qi knelt a beautiful woman with a pointed chin, her head lowered.

"Your queen, you don't care, the old body has to spend more energy, you are a guest from afar, how can you let the guests be left out in the cold." The voice behind the curtain sounded gentle, but there was a coldness of its own.

"Oh?"

"Ahem...... Yuan Qi, tell the king what you heard. ”

Yuan Qi touched the ground with his forehead, his slender neck was white and smooth, like a small piece of white jade, and he bowed his head deeply and replied: "The king doesn't know that the concubines of Chen Guo this time are ten of the Mu family's clan, Xin family's concubine, and Hou Guo with the same surname, of which seven of them were originally in Chen Guo's secret discord with Mrs. Jun, and the remaining Xin family's concubine is cowardly and embarrassed...... Originally, the young concubines who were canonized by the king in the Chu palace when he succeeded to the throne were because of ...... The king was busy with political affairs and had never been close to him—now that he heard that the king and his wife were in harmony, they were secretly walking around with a few new young concubines......"

The king of Chu thought of the grand lunch in Xinhui today, and felt a little funny in his heart: "How is the nurse going to help her?" ”

"When my wife married from Qi Guoyuan, it was also like this." Empress Dowager Bao's voice was faint, and it didn't seem to fluctuate, "And the scene back then, because of the abundant grace of the previous king, is ten times even worse today, and the status of the lady is won by herself bit by bit." The Xin family is naïve, but the affairs of the harem have always been like this, if you can't even cope with a few concubines, how can you be qualified to be the king's wife? How to protect your children and give birth to the heirs of Da Chu. ”

King Chu's face was like a piece of ice, and he snorted coldly: "Give birth to an heir? So what?"

He was silent for a moment, as if he was a little tired: "Since the nurse has already taken care of it, there is no need to talk about these things with the widow in the future." ”

Empress Dowager Bao sighed: "The king has been crowned for a long time, and he should have had his own concubine, and before that, the nurse will still take care of her for a while." ”

The empty footsteps slowly walked outside, Yuan Qi's forehead was slightly off the ground, and she suddenly heard the footsteps, her body stiffened, and she heard the empty voice of the king of Chu: "Her affairs, the widow has his own plans, and the nurse doesn't have to worry about it anymore." ”

The king of Chu has already walked far away, and the layers of light yarn flowed, first one hand lifted the tulle, Yuan Qi and Gong E, who was leaning over the ground, hurriedly stepped forward to help each other, but the people inside walked out slowly, and there was not a trace of wrinkles on the well-maintained face.

"Really, let's go." She turned her face to look at the bowl of porridge, but she didn't move. The white porridge next to the clear tea has been boiled for several hours, with pig paste and fried fine salt, the first melting spring water in early spring is wrapped in the fragrance of fresh rice, the original and pure fragrance.

In the silence, another woman in the curtain came out and interrupted the Empress Dowager Bao's gaze with a coquettish voice: "Auntie, when will Cui'er be able to enter the palace to accompany you?" ”

"Didn't you say that? I have to wait until Mrs. Jun gives birth to a son-in-law......"

"What if, what if she doesn't have a long time? What if her husband is a jun? The woman shook the sleeve of the Empress Dowager, and the kitten was generally just right, "Cui'er has become an old woman - at that time, I was afraid that the king would not bother to look at me." ”

Empress Dowager Bao brushed her hand away and looked at Ling Ling: "You know the rules of the Chu Palace." ”

"However, I am my aunt's niece, naturally, it is different." The woman had a hint of luck.

"It's no different." Empress Dowager Bao shook her head slowly.