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In the palace.

Shi Qingran was a little tired today, but Cheng Jiaojiao still came early in the morning today, and first went to the imperial garden to pick some fresh dew, and then came to Shi Qingran's dormitory with dew and flowers.

Shi Qingran slept until the end of the day, and when she got up, she asked Cheng Jiaojiao about it, and Lang'er said that Cheng Jiaojiao had been here for an hour, thinking that she was afraid of disturbing the queen's sleep, so she stood outside for an hour.

Shi Qingran was a little upset, so he asked Lang'er to freshen himself up early and go out. Sure enough, as soon as he opened the door, Shi Qingran saw Cheng Jiaojiao standing by the door as usual.

Cheng Jiaojiao saw Shi Qingran coming over to open the door, so she bowed deeply towards Shi Qingran: "The folk girl has seen the queen's mother." ”

"You're still so early today." Shi Qingran asked Cheng Jiaojiao with a smile, and asked her to get up again. Today she overslept, and she felt a little guilty for a while.

"I'm bored at home, but it's good for the Queen Mother to play, so I want to come and see the Queen Mother. It doesn't matter if you stand for a while. Cheng Jiaojiao said.

"Then you'll have breakfast with me?" Shi Qingran asked.

Cheng Jiaojiao was a little surprised and flattered. In the past, before she came to the palace, she always had to pad her stomach outside, and when she picked the dew, Qingran was in the palace, and Shi Qingran was almost out of breakfast.

Shi Qingran hadn't had breakfast yet, but she had already eaten.

"Queen Mother," Cheng Jiaojiao chuckled: "The folk girl has already had breakfast, can she use it again?" ”

"Yes." Shi Qingran said, and asked Lang'er to go down and let them prepare a little more hearty breakfast.

After a while, breakfast arrived, Shi Qingran and Cheng Jiaojiao ate breakfast, Cheng Jiaojiao was a little happy: "Queen Mother, the folk girl has never eaten such a delicious breakfast at home." ”

"Really?" Shi Qingran smiled: "I've heard this before. ”

"Who?"

"One...... A chivalrous girl. Shi Qingran thought of Nalan Xue, and couldn't help laughing. I don't know where Nalan Xue is wandering with You Jingyi now.

"At that time, it was in Shijia Villa." Shi Qingran looked at Cheng Jiaojiao's suspicious eyes and explained: "When she first came to my house, she ate at least three bowls of rice. ”

"Huh? So is she poor in the family and can't eat good things? Or is it just like Cheng Jiaojiao, just greedy? ”

"Her family is also a famous businessman in Qishan, how can she not afford to eat?" When Shi Qingran thought of Nalan Xue, he smiled happily, took out a shrimp from the plate in front of him, peeled it and gently put it in the bowl in front of Cheng Jiaojiao: "She's just greedy." I'm tired of eating my own food, and I always think that other people's food is better. ”

"Later, I went to her house for dinner, and found that her cooks were much better than ours." Shi Qingran herself also peeled a shrimp and stuffed it into her mouth: "She said that domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers, and after eating them for more than ten years, they have long tasted the same as chewing wax, and they are not as fresh as small snacks outside." ”

"Haha," Cheng Jiaojiao also smiled: "This woman is very straightforward." However, men in the world can't help but be like this, most men get carried away when they see it, and some don't. ”

"For example, the emperor, the emperor only has the queen mother in his heart, which is also very good."

In fact, not only the emperor, but also You Jingyi, when Qingran saw You Jingyi for the first time, he felt that he should be the kind of person who loves single-mindedness, and later You Jingyi and Nalan Xue were together, Nalan Xue was willing to give up the glory and wealth she already had, and follow You Jingyi to wander the world, and she was sincerely happy for the two of them.

But Cheng Jiaojiao ......

Shi Qingran suddenly fell silent and looked at the girl in front of him. She suddenly felt that it was very selfish and cruel to let Cheng Jiaojiao enter the palace and serve her with a husband.

Cheng Jiaojiao said at the beginning that she would rather be a poor wife than a rich concubine. But now......

"Sister Queen?" When no one is around, Cheng Jiaojiao always likes to call Shi Qingran like this, and Shi Qingran also likes Cheng Jiaojiao to call her like this.

"Huh?" Shi Qingran came back to his senses, looked at Cheng Jiaojiao blankly and asked.

"I see you're distracted, like you're thinking about something." Cheng Jiaojiao pursed her lips: "Maybe the queen may think that I said something wrong, but in my eyes, the emperor has always only doted on the queen mother." ”

"Even if he dotes on me, I can't help but think about him." The smile on Shi Qingran's face calmed down again, and after a while, she looked at Cheng Jiaojiao again and asked, "Do you know that there are more and more people in the court who are admonishing the emperor to accept concubines." ”

"In the past, after I gave birth to a miscarriage, my body was not as good as day by day, and now I can't give birth to a child, and I don't want Song Yuchen to bear so much pressure."

Shi Qingran looked at Cheng Jiaojiao and asked very seriously: "Jiaojiao, do you have any plans for the future?" ”

Cheng Jiaojiao lowered her eyelids and thought very seriously for a while: "Queen Mother, at present, I don't have any." ”

"Although I am a concubine, according to my family's background and my father's expectations of me, he must not want me to marry a poor man. He told me about it before. ”

"Maybe your father is right, because your family background is here, if you marry the wrong person, your life will be ruined. You see, those poor people, some are forced by fate, but as long as they are diligent and kind, they will one day get ahead; But some poor people have an inferior nature in their bones, they are naturally lazy, if you marry the wrong person, your whole life will be ruined, and it will be too late to regret it when the time comes. ”

Cheng Jiaojiao nodded: "Yes, and I don't necessarily have that kind of vision to find someone who really likes me." ”

"However, if I marry the right person, according to my status as a concubine, I must not be able to become a housewife, and when the time comes, my children will still be concubines."

"What's more, today's men, as long as they have a little money and a little status, which one is not three wives and four concubines." Shi Qingran added,

"That's why the queen mother, I envy you even more." Cheng Jiaojiao said sincerely.

"Then do you want to enter the palace as a concubine and be a companion with me?" Shi Qingran asked with a smile again.

"Huh?" Cheng Jiaojiao didn't react, and opened her mouth wide in surprise.

"But, but ......"

"No, but," Shi Qingran was also the first time to persuade others like this, and he had no experience, so he just stiffened his head and said: "If you enter the palace, I will let Song ...... Let the emperor spoil you as much as possible. ”

"You see those concubines who marry into high-ranking families, if they are lucky enough to please their husbands, they will be able to live a good life; If he is unlucky, he will be alone at home, bullied by other aunts, and bullied by the eldest lady, but the husband can't say a word. ”