Chapter 237: The First Move
As soon as Su Lianrong returned to Linglian Garden, she saw Su Yunxi waiting for her inside.
Su Lianrong hurriedly sorted out the emotions just now, and did not let Su Yunxi find the clues.
"Your Majesty actually gave you such a big sleeping palace, it can be seen that I still attach great importance to you." Su Yunxi looked around at the Spirit Lotus Hall and sighed.
But Su Lianrong didn't think so, she was very sober; "The bedrooms of the other two concubines are the same as this one, what do you pay attention to or not." Not only did she not pay attention to it, but Su Lianrong actually felt that Xiao Shujun had not paid attention to this matter at all.
"Same? That's not going to work, sister! You've got to be the unique one in this harem, or you'll be 'eliminated'. "Su Yunxi is very anxious, in Su Lianrong's state, how can she help herself deal with Qin Kexin!
Su Lianrong can naturally understand the meaning of Su Yunxi's words, it is nothing more than competing for favor, but Su Lianrong doesn't have this mind, and now that the emperor has the queen by his side, he will definitely not look at the others.
Seeing that Su Lianrong was silent, Su Yunxi obviously didn't want to give up, "You must know that in this harem, having a son and a half daughter is the king's way to be invincible, so ......"
"Enough, don't talk about it again, if my sister comes to teach my sister how to compete for favor in this harem, you can go back first." Su Lianrong saw that she had just entered the palace and was not familiar with anything, and her sister actually began to teach herself to have children to compete for favor, which was outrageous, and after Su Lianrong saw Xiao Shuwei just now, she was in a bad mood, and she didn't want to hear what Su Yunxi said more.
Only then did Su Yunxi realize that he was too anxious to let Su Lianrong improve her strength to confront Qin Kexin, but it backfired, so she apologized to Su Lianrong: "Good sister, don't be angry, my sister is just worried that if you can't stand firm in the harem, you will be bullied, and my sister will not say anything in the future!" Then you rest first, and my sister will come to see you another day. Su Yunxi saw that today was definitely not effective, and even in recent days, Su Lianrong had not adapted to life in the palace, and before she understood the sinister nature of the deep palace, it was useless for her to say anything to Su Lianrong, so she was ready to go back first, and then think about it in the long run.
Su Lianrong also realized that she had a bad attitude just now, so she came back to her senses and sent Su Yunxi away with kind words.
After seven or eight days, the three concubines who had just been selected had already learned the basic palace etiquette, so the first one to be tested was Qin Kexin, who was the master of the harem, and the three concubines would come to Qin Kexin for the first time.
So Qin Kexin got up early today and waited for the three of them, thinking that the three of them would come one by one, but they didn't expect that the three of them would come together, Qin Kexin had to deal with three people at the same time, but it was really not easy.
"The concubine sees the queen's mother." The three of them came to the soft fragrance garden to greet Qin Kexin together.
"Get up." Qin Kexin asked them to sit down.
"How are the younger sisters living in the palace these days? Are you still used to it? Qin Kexin, who didn't know what to say, could only say some polite words, but fortunately, Qin Kexin had known Su Lianrong before, so Qin Kexin was a little more comfortable.
"Nature is habit." Several people also responded politely.
"The queen's bedroom is magnificent, I don't know how many times bigger than ours!" Suddenly, Wei Ruqian was embarrassed to break, and she looked like a lively girl.
"The emperor loves the queen so much, naturally everything is arranged for the queen mother." Su Lianrong responded that she knew much more about the relationship between Xiao Shujun and Qin Kexin than the other two.
Hearing this, the corners of Xu Qingran's mouth, who had never said anything, pulled at the corners of his mouth, as if he disdained everything Qin Kexin had now, these micro-expressions were captured by the careful Qin Kexin, and he knew that Xu Qingran looked very bland, but he was a very high-spirited person, but Qin Kexin didn't know what Xu Qingran wanted to get, Xiao Shujun's favor?
Thinking like this, Qin Kexin paid more attention to Xu Qingran.
A few people were talking to each other, but I didn't expect Xiao Shujun, who had already left the Soft Xiangyuan to go to the early dynasty, turned out to be the opposite, it turned out that Xiao Shujun was worried that Qin Kexin would not be able to cope with this scene, so he rushed back to take a look.
"Your Majesty is too underestimated to look down on the concubines," Qin Kexin saw through Xiao Shujun, but because of the large number of people, he couldn't say anything directly, so he could only think silently.
"See Your Majesty." When the three concubines saw Xiao Shujun coming here, they hurriedly saluted.
"Okay, this is the end of this invitation, you can go back, and the future invitation can be exempted." Xiao Shujun gave an order to evict guests, he still had to go back to the court, and he couldn't let Qin Kexin deal with this kind of scene alone, so he could only drive them away.
Qin Kexin thought to herself, this Xiao Shujun couldn't help but protect himself too well.
Su Lianrong and Wei Ruqian obediently left after receiving Xiao Shujun's will, but Xu Qingran was reluctant to leave.
"Is there anything else you can do?" Xiao Shujun asked.
I saw that the concubine took out two sachets from his arms and said: "The concubine saw that the emperor seemed to have traces of mosquito bites on his neck that day, so she gave this kind of insect repellent sachet to His Majesty, and learned that the emperor slept in the soft incense garden every night, so I thought that there must be mosquitoes in this soft incense garden, and I also made one for the queen's mother, and I hope that the queen will clean up the mosquitoes regularly in the future." ”
As soon as the words fell, Qin Kexin completely figured out who this person was, she thought she was so elegant before, it turned out that she was just a person who likes to play clever tricks, just now she said this, it seems that there is no problem, and she enthusiastically gave herself and Xiao Shujun sachets, but after a careful taste, she found that she was blaming the soft Xiangyuan for not doing well enough to repel mosquitoes, and it was in vain that the emperor had been living here.
However, Qin Kexin was originally an informal person, thinking that Xiao Shujun, a big man, would not be a big deal if he was bitten by a small mosquito.
Obviously, Xiao Shujun and Qin Kexin had the same idea, and Xiao Shujun directly rejected Xu Qingran's sachet: "Concubine Qing should take it back and use it herself, the mosquitoes in this soft incense garden are specially raised with my blood to make the queen happy." ”
Xiao Shujun's words are quite funny and outrageous, but they are also doting on Qin Kexin in and out of his words, which makes Qin Kexin giggle/
How could the delicate-minded Xu Qingran not hear it?
Qin Kexin heard that it was really a big piece of people's hearts, and thought to himself that Xiao Shujun was fortunately an understanding person, otherwise he would not have been angry to death.
Xu Qingran had only heard that the emperor favored the queen before, but he didn't know that he had been spoiled to such a point, so he thought that this time he was sloppy, and he would definitely not provoke the relationship between the two so recklessly in the future, and he must design it well and then step by step!
Although Xiao Shujun had already explained to several concubines that they didn't need to ask Qin Kexin for peace in the soft fragrance garden every day, Su Lianrong and Wei Ruqian did so, but Xu Qingran insisted on coming to Qin Kexin every day to ask for peace, saying that what can't be ruined, the concubine should ask the queen for peace, but Qin Kexin saw it clearly, this Xu Qingran just wanted to take advantage of the gap to ask for peace for himself, and saw Xiao Shujun's side.
Because every time Xu Qingran came to Soft Xiangyuan to ask for peace, it was when Xiao Shujun left Soft Xiangyuan to go to the early court.
Xiao Shujun said that he would not be fortunate to these concubines, so the time they could see Xiao Shujun was almost rare. Xu Qingran must be unwilling, so he will try his best to see Xiao Shujun's side.
However, Xiao Shujun has met her so many times in Soft Xiangyuan, and he has never seen her once.
"Your Majesty, don't you feel a little cruel to leave those young women in the cold palace?" Qin Kexin wanted to test Xiao Shujun's thoughts. Because she herself thinks that they are really pitiful, the years of flowers are about to pass away quietly in this deep palace, and no one appreciates them.
But Xiao Shujun didn't seem to have any mercy for this matter, "This is their own choice, they squeezed their heads and wanted to enter the palace, and they didn't think about the consequences at all." Now that they've got their wish, shouldn't they suffer the consequences? ”
Qin Kexin listened to what Xiao Shujun said, in fact, before every woman entered the harem of Heaven and Hell, she had fantasized and even believed that she could win the emperor's favor.
Even though Xiao Shujun's attitude was very cold, he still did not delay Xu Qingran from coming to Soft Xiangyuan to meet him by chance every day.
"The queen is really blessed to be so favored by the emperor." On this day, Xiao Shujun left from the soft incense garden to go to the morning court, and Xu Qingran, who came to ask for peace, felt at Qin Kexin.
Before, she thought that although Xiao Shujun favored Qin Kexin alone, as long as she appeared in front of Xiao Shujun a lot, he would definitely be attracted to herself, and she would definitely be lucky to her one day. Xu Qingran is so confident in his own attractiveness.
But after so many days of 'chance encounters', Xu Qingran gradually realized that perhaps he had underestimated Xiao Shujun's concentration and loyalty to Qin Kexin.
"There are blessings, but this palace can have today, I'm afraid it is not only by blessings." Qin Kexin reminded Xu Qingran that he could become the queen and be favored by Xiao Shujun, but it was not just luck that depended on luck.
Of course, Xu Qingran didn't know how much Qin Kexin had done for Xiao Shujun, so he only felt that Qin Kexin's words were made out of nothing and very arrogant. But she knew that she couldn't say what she thought in her heart, so she was duplicitous; "Everything about the queen mother is naturally incomparable to ordinary concubines like us."
Qin Kexin didn't want to talk to her anymore, so she said that she was tired and asked Xu Qingran to go out of the Soft Fragrance Garden first.
"Niangniang, it's not a way to go on like this, if you don't get Your Majesty's blessing now, and when there are new people in the harem, there will really be no chance." As soon as she came out of the Soft Fragrance Garden, Xu Qingran's maid Qing'er said worriedly.
Qing'er was brought to the palace by Xu Qingran from Xu's mansion, and she served Xu Qingran since she was a child, so naturally everything was for Xu Qingran's sake.
Qing'er said this, Xu Qingran didn't know. Turning his head to look at the three words 'Soft Xiangyuan' on the soft incense garden, he clenched his fists, "You go and help me secretly keep an eye on the movements of Your Majesty and the Empress." ”