The deposed imperial concubine (23)
"He said that he went back to Zhou's mansion to move the rescue soldiers." Ah Ji gently rubbed her shoulders, in the first three months of pregnancy, Empress Dowager Lu's face was not good-looking, because she was still 'recuperating' recently, she did not apply rouge gouache, and now in the Fengming Palace, except for her own trusted henchmen, the rest are the people who Emperor Yongming got for her, guarding the Fengming Hall like an iron chair, and never letting the news of her pregnancy be revealed.
Hearing that Lily had found poetry and returned to the Zhou Mansion to move the rescuers, Empress Dowager Lu coldly hooked the corners of her mouth and laughed: "Let her be, if something like this happens, don't say that the Zhou family can't save her, I'm afraid it's the Zhou family, and it's difficult to protect herself!" When she said later, there was a cold light in her eyes, and her expression was a little hideous and distorted for a moment, Ah Ji was startled, and when she turned around to look again, Empress Dowager Lu had already yawned, stretched out her slender jade fingers and covered her mouth: "Tired, mourning family will lie down again." β
This year's draft should be drafted, but for some reason, Emperor Yongming, who has always known how not to treat himself badly in women, rejected this year's draft for the first time, saying that it was not long before the first emperor, and this year's draft was temporarily put on hold. The emperor could think like this, and everyone in the harem was both surprised and happy. Empress Dowager Lu's birthday is in early April, and as soon as February passes, the palace will handle the birthday of Empress Dowager Lu.
Although Empress Dowager Lu has only been widowed for a year, it stands to reason that even if she is eighteen years old, she can't do it big. But after all, the identity of the Empress Dowager Lu is different, so the specifications are placed there, even if you are thrifty, it is impossible to be simple, in addition to the women who want to enter the palace to meet on the same day, everyone in the palace has to kowtow and give gifts.
Concubine Xian came to Xianfu Palace for this matter, and was a little sad: "According to what my sister said." What gift should the Queen Mother give for her birthday? β
Some of the expensive things that should be there are naturally indispensable concubines, but there are a few things that are missing for the occasion, and concubines want to please Empress Dowager Lu and stand out from it, so she is a little sad and comes to Lily to get ideas.
Recently, Concubine Xian has not been much favored, although she is beautiful, but firstly, she has no heirs, and secondly, the emperor has recently entered the harem, and occasionally rests in her Pujia Palace. It doesn't have to be London's business. She already has a faint feeling of falling out of favor, but she is very unwilling. Concubine Xian is only eighteen this year, which is the age of flowers, but she is already an old man in the palace. Although Emperor Yongming did not have a draft this year. But if she is still not pregnant before next year. Seeing that the years are getting old year by year, when the newcomers enter the palace again, there are many people competing for favor. Her chances of being favored are getting less and less.
Although Empress Dowager Lu is not Emperor Yongming's biological mother, Emperor Yongming still respects her, every morning and dusk, she always has to go to Fengming Palace, the palace people respect the emperor for the queen mother, and Concubine Xian can't help but want to borrow the east wind of Empress Dowager Lu to make Emperor Yongming notice herself, so she sat for a while, poured a belly of tea, hesitated for a moment, and still said what was in her heart.
"Speaking of which, this palace really has an idea in mind." Lily listened to her question, and unhurriedly took the lid of the teacup to skim the remaining tea foam, and Concubine Xian's eyes were involuntarily attracted by her hand.
Lily's hand is well-proportioned, the fingers are slightly upturned into an orchid shape, the finger tube is white and tender like a green onion, plump but not greasy, thin but no bones, tender as if you can see the blood vessels under the fingers, and the complexion is crystal clear. The fingers are slender, the nails are oval and pointed, the head is painted with dancΓ΄me, and the tail finger is cut off with a hollow armor cover inlaid with precious stones, which is obviously gorgeous and tacky, but it looks somehow, but it makes the virtuous concubine a little jealous.
"Oh?" Concubine Xian asked, and when she saw that Lily didn't speak, her expression was slight: "Sister, are you afraid that your sister will steal the limelight from your sister?" β
After all, such an opportunity to please the Empress Dowager Lu, Concubine Xian wants, but it is also possible that Lily also wants, although Lily has called her twice before, but it is not necessarily that the two of them are close sisters, and where is there any real sisterhood in this palace, Concubine Xian's heart was cold, the smile on her face also retracted a little, sat up straight, and was about to speak, but Lily shook her head:
"I won't tell you anything, the emperor's thoughts, this palace is clear, and this palace also rests that heart." After she finished speaking, she saw that Concubine Xian was smiling and not speaking, obviously not believing what Lily said, Lily pursed the corners of her mouth: "You don't believe it?" The palace was favored by the first emperor and the first queen mother, and gave marriage to the emperor who was still the prince at the time, but after the marriage, he did not please the emperor. Speaking of this, Concubine Xian couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic in her heart, obviously Zhou Baihe should be crowned queen by reason, but she only got the name of an imperial concubine, after Liang Mubei's accident, the emperor took the opportunity to even take her position as an imperial concubine.
There are not many princes in the palace who can live and be born, Emperor Yongming grew up in this deep palace since he was a child, and he should be deeply touched by this, sometimes even if he sees it firmly, how can he resist those who have the intention to harm people? Although it is indispensable to guard against people, but if people have the intention to harm people, they can always find a prescription, and Lily was originally a victim of this matter, but Yongming blamed her, if it was before, Concubine Xian would probably be gloating, but now she is a little sympathetic.
Listening to Lily say that she rested on the heart of competing for favor, Concubine Xian somehow remembered that she had been with Emperor Yongming for the past two years, and her heart was all on him, but in the end, he didn't care about his own decency, fortunately An Xue, that slut, now he can't go to his palace twice a month, and he doesn't have to be lucky for her every time, so Concubine Xian was silent.
"If this palace instructs you, it will be done, but you have to promise a condition to this palace, if you don't want to, just treat this palace as if you haven't mentioned it, and my sister just drinks tea and eats some pastries." As soon as Lily said this, Concubine Xian hesitated, obviously worried that her conditions would be difficult to achieve. Lily smiled: "This condition of this palace is not difficult, but my sister did it easily." β
Since she said so, Concubine Xian's heart finally had the upper hand in her heart to please Empress Dowager Lu, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Sister, please speak." β
"Empress Dowager Lu likes the fragrance of plum blossoms, if you have the heart to please, it is better to send two boxes of balm made of plum blossom fragrance, it will definitely be in the limelight. As for the conditions of the palace, you have to give a copy of this ointment. Concubine Xian had thought that what Lily wanted her to do must be extremely difficult, but she didn't expect it to be just such a simple and trivial matter, she was stunned for a while, and it took a while before she came back to her senses, and said with a smile: "Thank you sister for your advice, please rest assured!" β
Although Concubine Xian didn't know where the rumor that Lily said that Empress Dowager Lu liked the fragrance of plum blossoms came from, she could send two boxes of balm made of plum blossom fragrance even if it didn't stand out, but it would never go wrong, plus it didn't take much effort, that is, Empress Dowager Lu didn't like it, at most she would confess two more words, not to mention that Lily was making an idea for herself, and it wasn't that she wanted to help herself make balm for others, and she wasn't afraid that she would use this thing to frame herself. became able to get the Empress Dowager Lu to look at her differently, and if she failed, it was a big deal, and that was the case.
As a concubine, Lily has mentioned her An Xue before, so she owes her a favor, and according to her identity, she doesn't need to use such false news to blame herself, which is not beneficial to her.
Thinking of this, Concubine Xian smiled: "It's just that I still ask my sister to keep it secret, but my sister wants to surprise the Queen Mother." β
She was afraid that if Lily told the news again, the credit would not be hers, so Lily listened to her request and nodded.
At the end of March, Concubine Xian quietly ordered a servant beside her to bring a jar of plum blossom-scented balm, and when Lily got it, she hid it in the Xianfu Palace.
The third day of the first month of April is the birthday of the Empress Dowager Lu, the day before the palace has invited the singing troupe of the Yangchun Society to come to the palace, early in the morning the court has a rank and a seal of the women will enter the palace to meet, because the day is special, although the lily is in the grounding, the emperor sent Shang Xi to come over to pass the decree, make an exception to allow her to go out once today.
Everyone sent the gifts in turn, the gifts given by the lily were decent, neither mistakes, but also could not pick out the bright spots, in addition to the gold, silver, jewelry, pearl jewelry, a pair of huge night pearls are said to be when General Gao went out on the expedition, a tribal leader gave him, but it attracted the Empress Dowager Lu to look at it several times. Among the things sent by Concubine Xian, there were indeed two jars of plum blossom balm, and Empress Dowager Lu accepted it with some surprise.
The palace is very lively for a day, and the palace has set up a stage in the evening, and the first play sung by the people of Yangchun Club today was ordered by the Empress Dowager Lu herself, and the name of the play is the Peony Pavilion.
Hua Dan, who sings the role of Gui Liniang in the play, is slender and soft, and her appearance is also superior, the key is that her voice is also good, she cries tactfully, and she sings so much that Empress Dowager Lu is fascinated.
When Lily turned her head to look at her, she squinted her eyes slightly, slightly applied fine powder rouge on her face, and today she wore a purple old palace dress, wearing beaded hairpin jewelry on her head, Empress Dowager Lu was already a lot plump, and her hands were crossed in front of her lower abdomen, and the heavy palace clothes blocked her gradually fat figure, and she couldn't see if her belly looked like anything else. The emperor sat beside the Queen Mother, and looked at Hua Dan twice, obviously singing the role of Du Liniang, who was very beautiful, which attracted his attention.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one saw herself, Lily glanced at Poetry, who lowered her head and quietly left.
After singing a song from the Peony Pavilion, everyone was still unsatisfied, and Empress Dowager Lu's eyes were a little moist, as if she had a feeling:
"A good love doesn't know what to do, go deep, the living can die, and the dead can live. Those who are born and cannot be resurrected, and those who die and cannot be resurrected are not lovely. Her voice was a little low, and Emperor Yongming turned his head: "Don't think about it, Niangniang, the reincarnation of ghosts is always fake." (To be continued......)
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