In the early spring, the snow on the roof of the Chengqian Palace has not yet melted, and a few branches of plum blossoms are blooming, sparsely and shallowly poking out from the palace wall.

The attendant who came quickly stopped at a distance from Cao Yu, and hesitated: "Cao Changgong... The concubine is in poor health, I won't see you today, please come back another day. ”

Cao Alcohol stared at his hand and raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? If you are sick, can you ask the imperial doctor to see it? ”

"It's... I was about to send someone to please..."

"Since I haven't been invited yet, I should go and visit." Cao Yu withdrew his hand into his sleeve, and he walked straight around the chamber and strode in.

The frightened little chamberlain turned pale, and followed him anxiously, but he didn't dare to insist on blocking it, he couldn't afford to provoke the concubine Niangniang and the Cao Governor.

Jiang Banxia, who was following behind Cao Alcohol, looked at her nose and nose, and looked at her heart, but she was also silent, she strictly followed Cao Alcohol's teachings, and said less and did more.

Chengqian Palace is the place where the noble concubines of the past dynasties lived, and the construction of the whole palace alone revealed extraordinary luxury, but today's Chengqian Palace is a little too quiet.

The palace maids all held their breath and retreated from both sides, each shrinking their sense of existence, for fear of touching the concubine's brow.

Cao Yu walked down through the corridor to the front of the hall, his hands hanging at his side, and he greeted him respectfully.

After greeting him, Cao Yu kept bending over, but he didn't see any sound from the hall.

After a while, the palace maid came out of the hall and made a gesture of invitation to him, inviting him in.

As Cao Yu's follower, Jiang Banxia also followed, but her eyes stayed on the cloth towel on the palace maid's head, and along the way, all the palace maids she had seen were wearing beaded flowers on their heads and combing their hairstyles in a unified manner, how could the palace maids in the palace be different from other places?

The palace maid took them to the side hall, lowered her eyebrows and said, "Please ask Cao Changgong to change his clothes." ”

Cao Yu took the clothes handed by the palace maid and changed them as a matter of course, Jiang Banxia also did the same, but she became more and more confused in her heart, she had never heard of the rules that the concubine still needed to change clothes?

Could it be that there are more rules here for the concubine?

When the change of clothes was complete, the maid led them to the main hall.

It was the fur of the snow fox that was used as the carpet on the floor of the main hall!

Jiang Banxia couldn't help but be stunned, a snow fox skin costs 100 gold, enough for ordinary people to eat and drink for more than ten years, the value of the snow fox skin in this hall is unimaginable!

The layers of snow fox fur are like snow waves, and at the end of the snow waves is the white veil of the moon in front of the chaise longue, Cao Ol knelt down in front of the veil, and a cold sneer came from inside: "The courage is getting bigger and bigger, even my Chengqian Palace dares to break through?" ”

"The mother is angry, it's not worth it to break her body because of her anger." Cao Yu lowered his eyes, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "The minister also heard that Niangniang's body is sick... In a moment of anxiety, he ignored the dissuasion... Broke in. ”

"You have honey in your mouth, and you can deceive others with clever words, do you think I will believe it?!" A soft pillow was thrown out of the veil, and the concubine raised her voice and scolded: "Don't roll in yet!" ”

The soft pillow smashed on Cao Alcohol without pain, he quietly hooked the corners of his mouth, got up and lifted the veil and walked in.

Jiang Banxia took advantage of the moment when the veil was lifted, looked inside, and saw six palace maids standing in front of the chaise concubine's couch, holding fruits, trays, hand towels and other things.

Suddenly, Jiang Banxia's pupils shrank, and the six palace maids actually had no hair!

It's just that the veil fell in an instant, and she heard the cold voice of the concubine from inside: "You dog slave has stiff wings, and you don't see filial piety to your former master, but you recognize other irrelevant people, ugly words are in front, if you come to intercede for Banzai, get out." ”

Cao Ol bent over and said with a smile: "Niangniang's jade body is sick, and the minister came to visit Niangniang, what does it have to do with long live." ”

The concubine stepped down from the couch, she walked barefoot on the ground, the white fur of the snow fox did not cover her instep, and the round toes were pink and tender, and she was very cute.

The concubine who favors the harem is actually Tianzu!

People outside the palace rumored that the concubine was favored because of her flower and moon appearance, only Cao Yu knew that this woman was favored because of her pair of heavenly feet, and the snow fox skin in Chengqian Palace was only because Emperor Qingwen was afraid that Jiang Guifei would wear shoes and feet.

The women of the Da Ming Dynasty go up to eighty to eight years old, whether rich or poor, they all take foot binding as the beauty, and the folk will hold a foot drying meeting in order to praise the little feet.

When Emperor Qingwen was young as a prince, he had peeked at the appearance of a woman with small feet after removing the footcloth, and he was greatly frightened.

Until Jiang Guifei, who was born as a boat lady, broke into his sight.

"Concubine Cao Hui has been favored recently." The concubine's tone was slow: "She has a good father." ”

Jiang Guifei has always had a pimple in her heart, that is, her birth, the other concubines in the palace have the support of prominent families behind her, but she was born humbly and has no one to support her.

"Why should Niangniang care, when the North Barbarians are stable, Cao Bingye's achievements are high, long live will not keep him in the eyes." Cao Yu hurriedly knelt in front of the couch: "At that time, Cao Huifei will not let the mother rub the round and flattened. ”

"You're calculating." Jiang Guifei kicked Cao Alcohol over with her foot: "However, I just can't be angry with that slut." ”

"Niangniang is really angry, but the minister has a slap to do." Cao Yu said with a smile on his face: "Cao Qingye has a son who is still in Beijing, inheriting his father's shadow, and now Jinyiwei is serving as a small banner, people will always make mistakes..."

The concubine sneered: "You will find a way, what are you waiting for, that slut makes me uncomfortable, and I will embarrass her!" ”

Jiang Guifei's temperament is different from that of ordinary women in the palace, it may be related to her birth, enthusiastic and spicy, when you are happy, you are her heart, and when you are angry, you can look at you without a glance, but she ate Emperor Qingwen to death.

Even the way she rolled her eyes and spoke coldly and mockingly, Emperor Qingwen couldn't love it.

For her, Emperor Qingwen has always turned a blind eye, and even listened to the celebrity in front of Jiang Guifei - Cao Alcohol.

But...

Cao Yu's nails pinched into the palm of his hand, His Majesty is still old, he is over thirty years old but only has three sons, and the heirs are not abundant.

So Cao Qingye's daughter Cao Huifei broke into his sight, this girl who has lived in the border since she was a child, lively and cute, younger than the concubine, and her pungent and coquettish appearance made Emperor Qingwen think that he was young again.

Even, Emperor Qingwen used it as a reason to set up the West Factory to restrain the already powerful East Factory and Jinyiwei.

The sense of crisis was not only enveloped in Jiang Guifei's body, but also in Cao Alcohol's body, and he couldn't sit still.

Cao Yu said some good things again, which eased the mood of the concubine, and he lost no time in mentioning the raccoon slaves paid tribute by Fanbang.

"But he asked you to send it to please me?" The concubine said disdainfully: "It seems that he didn't take me to heart at all, I have always disliked the raccoon slave, a thing that clings to people and lives." ”

"After all, it's a piece of heart ...... long live"

"For your filial sake." Jiang Guifei said casually: "I'll reward you." ”

Cao Yu bowed shortly: "Thank you for the reward." ”