"What?! The emperor took a concubine in Jinling?! "A woman in a pale yellow dress wrapped in a golden hairpin, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a dignified appearance, was shocked at this time and exclaimed.

"Yes, Concubine Xian. The Ministry of Rites and the Internal Supervision Department have just received the news: the palace has issued a decree and is preparing for the canonization ceremony. ”

"How can a folk woman become a concubine in one step? Does the Queen Mother know about this? ”

"I guess I know it now. But..... This time, the emperor accepted three women in the Jinling Palace. One was given the title of concubine; One has given 'beauty', and the other has no name and no share, and I don't know ........."

Just as the maidservant girl was answering, a guest came to the "Zhongcui Palace" and was spreading.

"Concubine Xian, Liu Zhaoyi is here and is waiting outside the palace."

"She's not slower than us at all, please come in."

A few people came in from outside the door, the woman in the front was nearly twenty years old, dressed in a pale pink gauze dress, embroidered white lace on the cuffs, two layers of milky white gauze collars on the front of the neck, complex and exquisite, a few clouds hooked out of the chest, and the skirt was covered with a layer of light mist-like gauze, and Hao wore a Hetian jade bracelet on her wrist, which was white and transparent, and she knew that it was worth a lot at a glance. There is a pair of amber earrings next to the ear, crystal clear. Wearing a tassel that drags straight to the ground, the green silk is slowly held together, wrapped into a circle, held with a silver hairpin, coiled into a delicate willow hairpin, which looks fresh and pretty.

"Meet Sister Xian, is my sister okay recently?"

"Thank you sister for your concern, I don't have to go to the Queen Mother's palace to say goodbye recently, but I haven't seen her for a few days, and my sister is becoming more and more symbolic."

"My sister has tormented my sister, I don't know if my sister has heard: The emperor accepted a concubine in Jinling Palace?"

"Huh? Seriously?! Which woman has this honor? ”

"I heard that it is the young daughter of the king of Sunan, and when I met His Majesty in the palace.........."

"Isn't the King of Sunan a from the Zhao family? His daughter is of the same ancestry as His Majesty, how can she ............?"

"Sister doesn't know, this king of southern Jiangsu is just a side branch of the Zhao family, and he can only be regarded as a distant relative of the royal family, but even if he is a powerful prince, his concubine is also a relative of the emperor, although my sister entered the palace two years earlier than her, but according to her status, I am afraid that in this palace, I will be compared to her.........." Liu Yan looked at the look of the virtuous concubine, and before she finished speaking, she stopped at the point.

Concubine Xian's expression darkened a little, but she squeezed out a little smile, and said helplessly: "Who does the emperor want to canonize, how can I and other concubines be able to influence." Since she is the princess's concubine, it is reasonable to be above me. ”

Liu Yan saw that she was not on the road, so she forced a smile, continued to take the medicine, and sighed: "This 'Jia Concubine' is still reasonable, after all, she is the daughter of the prince, but another woman who has been named 'Beauty' has heard that her appearance is peerless, and she is captivating the country and the city......... Your Majesty Longyan Dayue, at the moment broke the seal of 'beauty', you must know: I am the ancestor of the ancestors, folk women enter the palace, they have to boil from the palace maids, concubines, how can there be such a high position before entering the palace. ”

"What do you mean?" Concubine Xian was a little nervous.

"Sister, Sister Rong said something offensive: Although we entered the palace two years early, the emperor has been traveling among the people, observing the people's feelings, and has not pampered us........ If this is the newly sealed 'Jia Concubine' and 'Poppy Beauty', on the way back to the palace, accompanied by the emperor day and night, competing for favor and flattery, I'm afraid it will be ..........."

Concubine Xian's face was ugly, and of course she knew what the next words were.

"Now I hope that my sister will not dislike it, and work with my sister to defend our position in the palace. Whether it is the noble concubine Jia who is pregnant with a dragon descendant, or the stunning poppy who gives birth to a dragon heir, I am afraid that my sister and sister will not have a good time in the palace. ”

"What can we do? In terms of appearance, Li Meiren is above us, not to mention that there is a stunning beauty in the palace. Now that the back position is vacant, no matter how favored Concubine Jia and Yu Meiren are, they will never be the candidates for the back position. What I'm most afraid of: One day, the future queen will be both favored and honored, and she will give birth to a son-in-law, which is what I have worked hard to shake in the slightest. ”

"My sister's words are wrong. is to look at the current queen mother, my sister should not be so prestigious, destroy her own ambition. To say that back then, whether it was in terms of status or the emperor's favor, the first queen was far better than the queen mother. But in the end, it is not the queen mother who gave birth to the imperial heir, and the mother is expensive by virtue of her son. My sister and the queen mother of the year are both concubines, why don't you have a future for yourself? ”

This passage is about making people yearn for it and be passionate. Sure enough, Concubine Xian's face was moved, as if she had been moved, the two formed an alliance, and the greetings were half loud, and Liu Yan was reluctant to leave in love.

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The night is as cool as water, Jinling in early summer, the stars are shining, and the moon hanging in the starry sky is also the same as usual, a round of crescent moon, and a smiling face is crooked.

Ye Zhiqiu looked at the night sky above his head, like a washed blue-black coarse cloth, and the stars seemed to be shimmering broken gold sprinkled on this coarse cloth.

She had been in the palace for five days, and she hadn't seen him since Zhao Sizhuo left the next day.

Zhao Sizhuo gave her the palace dormitory to live in, I don't know if it was to let her recuperate with peace of mind, or to be under house arrest, only a maidservant was left to wait for her. Outside the temple gate separated by a wall, it was heavily guarded and unrelenting.

"Master, it's late at night, go in and rest. The doctor said that you have just seen that your body is well, and you should not blow the wind and get cold. "The maid's name is Lijuan, eighteen years old, born with a delicate personality, gentle personality, and steady behavior, after a few days of coexistence, Ye Zhiqiu has a good impression of her, and her temperament is compatible with her.

"Lijuan, I want to stay in the courtyard for a while, you see how beautiful this starry sky is."

"Master, you have to take care of your body, even if you are depressed in your heart, you have to take good care of your body, the emperor still thinks about you in his heart."

Ye Zhiqiu smiled bitterly, the emperor didn't care about her.

"I'm going to leave for Beijing tomorrow, my master is resting early today, and I'm going to be on the ship for the next few days, I'm afraid it will make you a little uncomfortable."

"Are you still following me?" Lijuan is not a maid in the palace, but a maidservant in the palace. It stands to reason that they won't go back to the palace with them.

"Your Majesty only said that the slaves and maids should serve the master closely, and nothing else was ordered. If the master is satisfied with the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid are willing to follow the master. ”

"Why? It may not be a good thing to follow me, you still stay in the palace, run errands, and find a good family in a few years. She has a deep blood feud, and every step in the future cannot be predicted by herself, and the people around her may be implicated by her.

"Slaves and maids like their masters. Since the death of the slave's mother, my father married someone else, and my mother thought I was a burden and sent me to the Taishou Mansion as a maid. In the past few years, the slave and maid really felt how the rest of the masters treated their subordinates, so they desperately tried to be assigned to the palace and wanted to have a quiet errand. But when I arrived at the palace, I found that the maid had no backing, and she was bullied everywhere, and the slave and maid were not good at flattery, and suffered a lot of losses. Xu saw that I was honest and duty-bound, and I was fortunate to be selected by the emperor to serve my master. You are the first master to be so kind to the slave and the slave, and the slave and the slave are willing to follow you. Rather than being sold as a concubine by his stepmother at will in a few years, it is better to find a way out by himself. ”

"Have you figured it out? If I don't have favor in the palace, I'm afraid your life won't be safe. ”

"Poof~" Lijuan seemed to be amused by her words, "Master, the night you had a high fever, the emperor watched over you all night." If you will be unfavored, the woman under the sky, I am afraid that no one can make the emperor favor. ”