It wasn't until the beginning of the lanterns that Lu Rui finally returned to Fenghua Palace, and Ming Shiyun finally felt a little comforted, but what worried her was that the will of King Wei to come to Fenghua Palace to sleep never came.

"Don't worry, after all, the emperor has just returned from an expedition, maybe he is busy with government affairs for a while, and he has no time to take care of the harem, which is also right." Seeing that Ming Shiyun's expression changed from calm and calm to flustered little by little with the passage of time, Tang Wanyi hurriedly persuaded her to relax her heart, "Zuo is just a matter of these two days, since Your Majesty can't come today, Niangniang might as well take a good rest, it's a good thing to come after a tiring day like this today." ”

"Wanyi, you're always so understanding." Hearing this, Ming Shiyun finally barely hooked up a smile, turned her head to look at Tang Wanyi, and still couldn't hide the bitterness in her heart, "Although I am very tired, and I really don't want to serve Your Majesty in such a tired situation, but the things I have clearly said suddenly come to naught, how can I not be sad?" I'm really worried that when Your Majesty gets busy and forgets about me, he won't think about it again......"

"Mother." Tang Wanyi shook her head lightly, helped the person up and walked towards the apse dormitory, while continuing to comfort, "You are the first beauty in the Beiyue Continent, Jue Zhaorong, who was personally given the title by His Majesty, no matter who this kind of thing happens, it will not happen to Niangniang, you, just relax, after all, this Fenghua Palace has been lived, isn't it?" ”

Listening to the voices of the two people gradually moving away, Lu Rui curiously approached Ziling, who did not follow, which was a little strange.

"Sister Ziling, who is that? Why did the princess leave her alone? Won't you go along and serve? ”

"Green Rui, there is no princess anymore, you should call our master Niangniang." opened his mouth and first taught a light lesson, Ziling didn't even shift his gaze to the direction where Ming Shiyun left in the apse, and only concentrated on the embroidery in his hand, "That's the emperor's imperial Shangyi Tang Wanyi, and now he is temporarily sent to serve Niangniang." Q: I didn't follow along, don't you too? ”

"Why am I the same, wow, I'm now the consul lady of Fenghua Palace, this mess of roster documents and the like, I see that my head is big, and I'm going to give them a lecture tomorrow or something, and assign everyone's work...... Ahhhh ”

"Don't talk nonsense! You are hand-picked by the queen's mother, and you actually said such a thing, where are you going to put the queen? If someone catches the conversation, what a serious consequence it is, and then I feel that you are starting to be sensible, why are you fooling around like this again. Glaring at Lu Rui helplessly and lessons, Ziling put down the embroidery work in her hand and said to her seriously, "Don't complain now, the consul lady is a high-ranking aunt, since you are asked to do it, study hard, do it well, it is also a big help to Niangniang, don't you always want to help Niangniang live well in the harem?" ”

"Okay, I know, I'm just complaining casually, I'll definitely work hard to learn what I need to do." pursed her mouth and replied, Lu Rui was about to get used to Zi Ling's daily mention of her face, but it was one thing to humbly admit her mistakes, and whether she could change it or not, as a result, Lu Rui still couldn't help but continue to chase the starting topic, "Sister Zi Ling, you haven't answered me yet, that Yuqian Shangyi named Tang Wanyi, why does the mother trust her so much?" Don't you have to worry about her being alone? ”

"She is the emperor's person, of course it is better to trust her than to trust any person sent by the mother, and Tang Wanyi is familiar with the affairs of the harem, and has no direct stakes with the harem pattern, the emperor temporarily arranged her here, I think it is also so that the mother can quickly understand and adapt to the harem without bias, we can't help with these things, let the mother deal with it slowly." Ziling didn't want to answer, but when she thought about it, if she really didn't say it clearly, she was afraid that Lu Rui's little head wouldn't be able to think clearly at all, and it would be more troublesome, so she simply made it thorough.

"Ah...... It's good that it won't hurt the mother. Midori nodded incomprehensibly, ending the topic and continuing with the pile of work she was not good at at all.

On the other hand, Ming Shiyun, who retired from the palace maids and Tang Wanyi and stayed alone in the dormitory, is indeed as Ziling said, and is communicating with Tang Wanyi to discuss the current situation in the harem, in order to gain the initiative at the beginning.

“…… So the current situation, probably is that the queen and Concubine Liang Shu or Concubine Hua Guifei are in court, almost three-legged, the queen's biggest advantage is the position she sits in and the power she holds, and the third prince is the crown prince, so although she is not very favored by His Majesty, it is still impossible to shake her. ”

"Then Concubine Liang and Concubine Hua are completely relying on His Majesty's favor? It seems that they are also two rare beauties, and the political capital of the mother's family must be very strong. Ming Shiyun smiled slightly, after saying this for a long time, she has a basic understanding of the current harem situation, and now what she needs to do is to choose one of these three to take refuge in order to avoid being completely isolated and becoming the focus of the concubines' attacks.

"Yes, but Concubine Liang Shu is very different from Concubine Hua." Tang Wanyi paused for a moment, and after making sure that Ming Shiyun had digested all the previous ones and had preliminary thoughts, she continued to speak, "Hua Guifei also has a fifth prince, all of whom are capable and very good talents in terms of martial arts. In the battle of Xuanyi City, after His Majesty had some complaints about the crown prince, he valued the fifth prince the most. ”

"The battle for succession......" muttered in a low voice, Ming Shiyun felt that things were much more serious than she imagined, King Wei was not a young son of heaven, his sons were now grown up, their wings were hard, and many princes were even bigger than her, so the most important and cruel thing in the harem now was not an ordinary competition for favor, but a battle for succession.

"But Concubine Liang Shu has nothing to do with this, she now only has two daughters under her knees, and the reason why she is favored and favored by His Majesty is that in addition to being very beautiful, there is also a point that her perfumery can be said to be unparalleled in the world."

"Incense?" This was unexpected by Ming Shiyun, she thought that a person with a personality like King Wei would not like incense and the like, but she didn't expect that there would be a concubine who was favored for this reason, and couldn't help but chuckle and shook her head, "It seems that what you said is right, Your Majesty can't come to Fenghua Palace for a day or two, it's really a good thing for me, if he comes tonight, I won't be able to learn so many things, Wanyi, thank you so much." ”