Three months ago.

Shin Hasu Kingdom Palace, Imperial Garden.

Late afternoon.

Although it is after noon, the sun is shining, but because there is a thin cloud floating in the sky from time to time, just right to slightly block the sun, plus there will be occasional cool breeze blowing, so it does not look like a blazing sun, and it is also the best time to go out for a walk in the afternoon to enjoy the flowers.

No, Concubine Qi of Zhongcui Palace is holding a lazy Persian cat in her arms, and she is strolling among the flowers with great interest with her personal palace maid Qiaohui, and Qiaohui is also carrying a lotus lamp in her hand, and there are more than a dozen colorful butterflies flying around them, which looks extremely eye-catching.

In this huge imperial garden, all the other concubines and palace maids who saw this scene, even if they were far away from Concubine Qi, could imagine that today's Concubine Qi must have sprayed a special incense powder with a difference.

Because among the twelve concubines, this Qi concubine is the best at mixing unparalleled best incense powder, while the other concubines can only rely on the emperor's special reward, or the monthly routine distribution in the palace.

It's just that the emperor is not in the harem, and he thinks that the first emperor has been filial piety for three years as an excuse, so he rarely comes to the harem to walk around, so that the concubines rarely see the emperor and the emperor, so naturally they don't want to get any rewards.

The production process of incense powder is complex, the site and environment required are harsh, and a lot of manpower and material resources must be used to make it, so the palace does not have the conditions for making incense powder, so it can only be purchased by a special person outside the palace on a regular basis.

Therefore, the incense powder usually used by the concubines is distributed with the silver every month, and the variety, quality and quantity of the incense powder that can be distributed are also very different depending on the level of the concubines.

It stands to reason that Concubine Qi Niangniang is just a concubine, and compared with the current most noble imperial concubine, the quantity, quality and variety of incense powder she can get are much inferior.

However, what all the other concubines didn't expect was that this Qi Concubine Niangniang actually knew how to remix incense powder!

Although the incense powder distributed to her every month is not as good as the concubine above the concubine in terms of variety, quality and quantity, the incense powder that has been skillfully blended by her hands even eclipses the best incense powder in the hands of the imperial concubine.

This also made the concubines who were higher than her secretly jealous, but they also knew that this belonged to Concubine Qi's exclusive craft after all, and they would definitely not be willing to share it with other concubines, so they were very interested in not having the cheekiness to ask Concubine Qi for the exclusive secret recipe of this secondary blending.

The reason why everyone is extremely envious of the special incense powder sprayed on Concubine Qi's body is because once the emperor did not meet during dinner with all the concubines, because he accidentally smelled the fragrance of Concubine Qi's body, he lost his mind for about half an hour, and then specially invited Concubine Qi to sit next to him and dine together.

Even after the three rounds of wine and the five flavors of the dishes, the emperor did not meet in front of the other concubines, with a drunken mood, and said a lot of past things to Concubine Qi in a good mood, and always inadvertently revealed a trace of special affection in his words, as if he was talking to the confidant he cared about the most.

Such a situation is also quite rare.

Because since the emperor did not meet these twelve show girls into the harem and canonized the position, it was the first time that he showed a special preference for a certain concubine.

Even the current highest-ranking imperial concubine Niangniang has never had such treatment.

How can the concubines who have been in the harem for more than half a year and have not had the opportunity to attract the attention of the emperor not be jealous?

In addition, the emperor rarely holds such a harem family banquet, so if he misses such a rare opportunity, the next time I am afraid it will be far away.

So when the concubines saw that the emperor didn't meet and ignored them, and only cared about the endless talk with Concubine Qi, they also hated why they didn't mix the incense powder twice.

In fact, these concubines also privately asked their family members outside the palace to help them seek the secret recipe of this kind of secondary blending, claiming that as long as someone knew, the bounty would be at their expense, but they still returned in vain and had to give up.

Concubine Qi Niangniang was naturally aware of all this, but she was not worried that other concubines would be able to get this so-called secret recipe for secondary blending.

Because only she knew that this re-allocation was just a means she used to cover up the truth, and the real reason was that on the first night of her stay in the palace when she was canonized as Concubine Qi and moved to Zhongcui Palace, she accidentally fished out a frog that seemed to be dormant and looked very strange from a lotus pond passing by when she was walking in the imperial garden at midnight.

This frog is all black, with a faint golden crown pattern on its head, and the four claws are also golden, its appearance is completely different from other frogs in the world, it looks particularly noble, and has a sense of domineering, as if it is the innate king of frogs.

For Qi Concubine Niangniang, who is just a mortal, she naturally doesn't know this kind of top-level divine frog that is actually from the Lotus Immortal Kingdom.

But if Yanyu saw this god frog at that time, he would definitely recognize it at a glance, and he would cry with joy and excitement.

Because this dormant god frog is actually a person from the golden-crowned black-tailed frog kingdom like Yanyu, and this person is none other than Princess Yuanfeng, who has been separated from Yanyu for many years, that is, Yanyu's sister of Gong Feng, for Yanyu, she has to be called aunt.

When this princess Yuanfeng came to the palace a year to look for the generals Yuan Feng and Yanyu, she happened to encounter a tragedy in the Taihe Palace, and desperately wanted to rush into the Taihe Palace to rescue them, but she was noticed by the mysterious woman from the Lotus Immortal Kingdom, and she was killed in a lotus pond in the imperial garden with a little trick.

If it weren't for the fact that Princess Yuanfeng's body sank to the bottom of the lotus pond and coincidentally encountered a divine turtle from the Lotus Immortal Kingdom, then Yuanfeng would never have been resurrected.

In fact, that turtle has lived in seclusion at the bottom of this lotus pond for millions of years, and has not asked about the world for many years, so it stands to reason that it will not be easy to meddle in things.

Fortunately, through the blood flowing out of Yuan Feng's body, he recognized Yuan Feng at a glance as the royal blood of the golden-crowned black-tailed frog clan of the Liansheng Immortal Kingdom, and many years ago, when this turtle was still in the Liansheng Immortal Kingdom, he had received the favor of the golden-crowned black-tailed frog royal family, so in line with the principle of repaying kindness, he made an exception to rescue him and fed the divine pill that he had treasured for many years to Yuanfeng.

When Yuan Feng, whose body was no longer alive, had this divine pill in his mouth, the divine pill turned into a cultivation method and entered Princess Yuanfeng's mind, and then, in Princess Yuanfeng's mind, which originally had no life characteristics, there were faint life fluctuations again.

And this faint life fluctuation also instinctively began to try to comprehend that ancient and obscure mental method, and then began to cultivate independently, and as time passed, Princess Yuanfeng's originally stiff and cold corpse began to revive and gradually warmed up.

It's just that this recovery process is extremely slow, so Princess Yuanfeng has fallen into a deep dormant state.

In this dormant state, Princess Yuanfeng was also unconscious, belonging to a deep sleep state, and she didn't know that she had actually been resurrected, and she didn't know that she was still cultivating a certain mental method.

Under the guidance of that ancient mystical mental method, she would sink to the bottom of the lotus pond every day during the day to cultivate, and at midnight she would float from the bottom of the lotus pond to the surface of the water, in addition to breathing fresh air and absorbing the fragrant aroma of the nearby lotus flowers, she also absorbed the special aura from the moon to repair her body.

If anyone is close to the location of Princess Yuanfeng at this moment, they will smell a special fragrance, and this fragrance is very special, and people can't help but immerse themselves in some special good memories.

And this process happened to be seen by the concubine Qi Niangniang who was passing by the pool, including the intoxicating fragrance she also smelled, and she was bold and careful, although she didn't know the golden-crowned black-tailed frog, but she was still keenly aware that there might be an opportunity for herself, and hurriedly instructed Qiaohui, the personal palace maid beside her, to pick a lotus leaf, and fished out the unknown origin of the god frog, and brought it back to Zhong Cui Palace unconsciously.

In order to avoid being known by others that she has this magical fragrance of the divine frog, she also threatened and promised a lot of money, bribing the Qiaohui palace maid around her, as long as she does not reveal this secret and ensures that she has a worry-free life for the rest of her life, otherwise she will become a lonely ghost in a remote corner of this imperial garden.

And Qiaohui, who is timid and afraid of death by nature, naturally swears to the sky and guarantees that she will never divulge half a word.

After that, after carefully studying this divine frog, the naturally intelligent Qi Concubine Niangniang deliberately spent a lot of money under the eaves of her Zhongcui Palace to carefully make a row of exquisite lotus lanterns, and then quietly hid the divine frog in one of the lotus lanterns and hung it under the eaves all day long, so as to hide people's eyes and ears.

It was also to prevent other concubines from discovering that she had obtained a divine frog that emitted a strange fragrance, and she actually relied on regularly collecting the body fluids secreted by this divine frog and remixing ordinary incense powder to create an amazing magical incense powder.

It is also relying on the fragrance powder of the secondary blending of the body fluids of this god frog that makes her stand out in front of the concubines, not only for the first time so that the emperor, who has always been lukewarm to them, will not be treated differently, but also invites her to accompany her to drink wine and talk about life.

So for Concubine Qi Niangniang, this divine frog is her sacred object for favor, and no one wants to take it away.

Of course, in order to allow the divine frog to secrete strange body fluids more stably, Qi Concubine Niangniang will also regularly take the lotus lantern containing the divine frog to the imperial garden for a walk, and every time she stays from the afternoon until dark before returning to Zhongcui Palace.

The purpose is to allow the frog to absorb the scent of flowers in this royal garden, so as to produce a more fragrant and rich fragrance.

And the other concubines didn't feel strange when they saw Qi Concubine's personal palace maid Qiaohui carrying a lotus lantern in broad daylight, they just thought that Qi Concubine was just used to return to Zhong Cui Palace after dark, so they never suspected that there was a secret hidden in this lotus lantern.

Since Concubine Qi got this god frog, she has been safe, and everything is under her control.

It's a pity that one afternoon just three months ago, when Concubine Qi took Qiaohui and walked in the imperial garden with a lotus lantern, so that the frog hidden in the lotus lantern absorbed the fragrance of flowers, she inadvertently happened to come to a corner of the garden separated from the wall of Chuxiu Palace.

As a result, in the Chuxiu Palace across the wall at that time, Yanyu happened to be idle there to play the piano to pass the time, but her piano sound inadvertently woke up the divine frog in the lotus lamp, that is, Princess Yuanfeng, who had been dormant.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, before Concubine Qi and Qiaohui could react, the divine frog had already jumped out of the lotus lantern and quickly followed a small hole in the corner of the wall into the courtyard of Chuxiu Palace next door.

At that moment, Concubine Qi was also crazy, because this Chuxiu Palace was a cold palace, and she had no right to break in casually, so if she wanted to get her god frog back, I am afraid there was little hope.

There is a more difficult problem, that is, she can't go in and search for the frog in the open, after all, once the secret of the frog is exposed, she will become a joke in the eyes of the concubines.

Since then, she has inexplicably developed a deep hostility towards Yanyu, the show girl in Chuxiu Palace, and is always looking for every opportunity to eradicate Yanyu, and then become the new owner of Chuxiu Palace, and finally find the god frog that originally belonged to her......