When the Tibetan army swept through Hexi and Longyou with a devastating momentum, and approached Jingzhou, the western gate of Chang'an, step by step, Chang'an City was still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of victory in counterinsurgency due to the concealment of military information by Shang Jing, the provincial superintendent.

However, as a concubine and pregnant Dugu Wanrong, she has been quite unhappy in recent days.

The emperor practiced feudalism and made almost all the princes kings, and rewarded the fiefs from far or near, but left behind the young son Jixiang who was born to him. Although Wanrong begged for her son in front of the emperor, the emperor still did not change his original intention and insisted on rewarding him with auspiciousness in a few years. That's not enough, after all, Jixiang is not yet three years old, if he really becomes a king and leaves his side, Furong will inevitably be reluctant. However, on the third day after the good news of the capture of Puzhou by the official army reached Chang'an, the emperor made an exception to make Jing Xuan's daughter Xueqing a princess. This time, Wanrong didn't agree.

With the mysterious killing of Li Jinzhong, the emperor regained power in the court, and the power structure in the palace also changed imperceptibly: the two noble concubines were in charge of the harem together, and after a long time, the palace people, eunuchs, and even courtiers could not help but have their own small plans and deliberately approached one of them, thus gradually forming two factions.

Because Jing Xuan has never cared about fame and fortune, and has given way everywhere in the process of getting along with Wanrong, and does not want to have disputes with her, therefore, on the surface, although all kinds of people in the palace, and even some ministers in the court have been invisibly divided into two factions, they treat each other politely, and there is no fierce battle like when Empress Zhang was in charge of the harem in the previous dynasty.

But the more indifferent Jing Xuan became, the more Wanrong felt that she was inferior to Jing Xuan, and she secretly held back the fire in her belly and had no way to vent.

After Li Jinzhong's death, the emperor appointed Shang Jing as the provincial supervisor of the inner chamberlain, and at the same time, he intended to reuse Lu Guangting to check and balance Shang Jing, and Lu Guangting secretly turned to Wanrong long before Li Jinzhong was killed. When Shang Jing realized that something was wrong, he tried to lure Jing Xuan as the backer of the harem, so as to suppress the expansion momentum of Lu Guangting, and as a result, the mutual tilting between the two provincial officials also brought some signs of struggle between the two concubines.

In addition to this, there are two other things that make Wanrong sullen.

This first thing is about her and Jing Xuan's brother. In order to cultivate new forces in the court, the emperor appointed Wanrong's elder brother Duguhun and Jing Xuan's younger brother Jing Zhao as generals of the forbidden army to assist Wu Bi in taking charge of Jingzhao Mansion and maintaining law and order in the capital. But after the two arrived, their performances were very different: in just a few days, Jing Zhao solved major cases and achieved great political achievements, and was praised by the government and the opposition as the uncle of the detective; And his brother did nothing, and only knew that he went to the east and west cities to ask for some property from the rich merchants, and took them home to spend his life. It doesn't matter if Wanrong falls into Jingxuan's disadvantage, but the difference between the two brothers is so big that Wanrong feels ashamed to see people.

The other thing is even more annoying. Since she has a body, it is inconvenient to sleep, in order to consolidate her favor and avoid the emperor's empathy, she does not hesitate to sacrifice her maid Sakura to the emperor, so that he can stay in Yaohua Palace for a long time. But who knows, this past look at the docile and weak Sakura fox is not inferior to others. Since the emperor spoiled her, he would find an excuse to go to Yaohua Palace for one night every once in a while, nominally to visit her and the two babies, but every less than two watches, he was anxious to call Ying'er to come to sleep. A few days ago, Wanrong was also relieved that Ying'er was willing to give up the name of talent given by the emperor and stay by her side, but as Ying'er's grace grew, Wanrong saw that she was putting a low-eyebrow and pleasing appearance in front of her all day long, but she felt disgusted.

On the fifth day when Gu Xichao came to Yaohua Palace on an errand, that is, the day after Wanrong learned from her mother's family that he had sent a whole boatload of gold and silver goods to her mother's family, Wanrong finally couldn't hold back the boredom in her heart, and when Ying'er served her to freshen up, she accidentally shook and broke a hairpin given by the emperor, and suddenly attacked her.

"This palace originally looked at you as a subordinate, but your usual speech and demeanor have a bit of everyone's beautiful demeanor, so I promoted you to serve the emperor. I didn't think about it, but you became more and more arrogant. This hairpin flower is still specially rewarded by the emperor when he canonized the palace as a concubine, and it is destroyed in your hands today, if the emperor asks, isn't it a sin of the palace? Wanrong looked at Sakura, who was so frightened that her face was pale, and knelt down in front of her, the more she talked, the more angry she became, and she reached out and twisted Sakura's face fiercely.

"Niangniang's life, it's all the maid's fault, you have to beat and punish, but it depends on your mother." Ying'er couldn't bear the pain, choked up and begged for mercy, "But beg the maid not to spoil the maid's face, lest the emperor find out tonight and ask, the maid is not easy to reply." ”

Wanrong heard that she actually dared to move out of the emperor to suppress herself, it was like adding fuel to the fire, turning from annoyance to hatred, she slapped Ying'er with a loud slap on her face, raised her voice and scolded: "I will treat you shameless prodigal, you are very well-behaved in what you say, and if you dare to love this palace, you can't beat you now!" If you have the ability, you go and ask the emperor to make you a concubine, and then come to talk to the palace like this! ”

Sakura seemed to have been greatly wronged, knelt in front of Wanrong and whimpered and cried, crying and sobbing and pleading: "Niangniang is angry, the maid is bent on planning for Niangniang, but she is clumsy, her words are not thoughtful, and she asks Niangniang to forgive her sins." Sakura served by Niangniang's side when she was in the East Palace, and she had already regarded Niangniang as her own relatives, where did she dare to offend Niangniang, let alone have a half-star thought. ”

Wanrong saw her crying pitifully, thinking that she was the most considerate palace person around her after all, her heart softened, but she still asked with a tense face: "Single-mindedly planning for this palace?" I want to hear about it, how did you plan for this palace? Why does this palace need you to plan for this palace? ”

Sakura raised her head, wiped the tears on her face, and replied timidly: "The maid **** stays by the side of the mother, and she will not be able to see that the mother has a lot of worries these days, so she wants to pull, and wants the emperor to take care of our Yaohua Palace, so that the mother can have more opportunities to talk to the emperor to relieve her boredom."

Wanrong heard her far-fetched, and couldn't help sneering: "You are pulling the emperor to relieve the boredom of the palace?" I'm afraid that a little bit of caution in your heart can't hide the eyes of this palace, presumably it is because you yourself see that everything in this palace is lagging behind, and you have a disgusted heart, and regret that you shouldn't be your talent, right? (To be continued.) )