"You two haven't eaten yet, have you?" Zhu Yuwei Fang thought of this and hurriedly ordered, "It's useless to set the meal." The king is in front of you to dine with the princes and generals, and the king has no time to see you these days, and I will take you to the king to say goodbye another day. ”

At this time, Shangjing City was occupied by the Xiao family for only ten years. In these ten years, the men of the Xiao family focused on fighting wars, and the women focused on having children. When the old king was alive, the most concubines in the harem were five, and everyone sat on an equal footing and lived in harmony. Now that Xiao Dingquan has succeeded to the throne, there is some distance between wives and concubines in the harem, only Zhu Yuwei is a concubine, and there is a second concubine and a side concubine in the east and west palaces.

In other words, there are a total of five concubines.

Even the concubines are not too clear, and the rules in the palace are just like that. Compared with Zhu Yuyan's previous life, the world is settled, although she can't interfere and is unwilling to meddle in the affairs of the previous dynasty, but the harem is well organized by her, the concubines are different, the young and the old are orderly, the rules and regulations are clear, and even eating, dressing and walking have rules to follow.

After Zhu Yuwei passed the meal, the three sisters simply ate in the second room of the main hall, and because of the mourning, they ate vegetarian. Fortunately, Zhu Yuyan is not too picky about eating, and she is full after using some of it. Just looking at Yuyi's appearance, it is obvious that she is not very satisfied with such a simple food, but there is an advantage, when her temper does not rise, she will see the wind and rudder, if it is not someone who is very familiar with her, it is difficult to see the disgust in her eyes.

Because of the fear of mourning ahead, the people in the harem have not yet gone. When Zhu Yuwei was eating, she arranged for people to go to the palaces to urge. When the Zhu Yuyan sisters put on their mourning clothes and were about to go out of the palace with Zhu Yuwei, there were people on the lanes on the left and right.

Several women in palace costumes, each leading the palace attendants over, Zhu Yuyan only raised his eyes and knocked out, who are these women?

The one who came over on the left and walked in the forefront was the aunt and grandmother of the Zhong family in Yizhou, Zhong Qianna's aunt Zhong, and Zhu Yuyan remembered that she was the second concubine of the West Palace who was sealed by Xiao Dingquan in her previous life. The person on the right, after so many years, Zhu Yuyan still recognized it at a glance, it was Xiao Dingquan's widow Xue Shi, the widow of the Gunzhou Jiedu Envoy in his previous life, and in his previous life, he was the concubine of the East Palace.

When the old king was alive, Xiao Dingquan led the troops to attack Gunzhou, and an arrow shot the Gunzhou Jiedu envoy, who would have thought that the widow of the dead Jiedu envoy recommended a pillow to Xiao Dingquan that night, first in Xiao Dingquan's house as a concubine, after he set the throne, she was named the side concubine of the East Palace, and the third among the five concubines.

In her previous life, Zhu Yuyan was at the bottom of the five concubines in Xiao Dingquan's harem, and the reason given by Xiao Dingquan was that her eldest sister was already a concubine. But later, the second concubine of the East Palace, who ranked second, still gave her the younger sister of the Zhu family, who was a widow like the Xue family, and even ......, and she, at the age of sixteen, was accepted as a concubine by Xiao Dingquan, married to him who was almost forty years old, and could only be the last of the five concubines.

At that time, she had no intention of thinking about this, she was like a sacrifice to the gods, and she had long since lost her soul. In order to relieve that pain, she single-mindedly planned for the Zhu family, and wanted to mediate with Xiao Dingquan to protect the person she wanted to protect.

When acquaintances met again, Zhu Yuyan was already a bystander.

Zhong and Xue came over, Zhu Yuyan and the two sisters hurriedly saluted the two, and before they could go down, Zhong had already grasped Zhu Yuyan's hand, and Xue also helped Yuyi, and the two praised Zhu Yuwei one after the other, "No wonder I keep saying that I want to come, but I never come, if I have such a delicate sister, who is more beautiful than flowers, I am reluctant to take it out!" ”

In terms of dealing with people, the Xue family is a step higher than the Zhong family, she immediately took off two white jade bracelets from her wrist and put them on Yuyan and Yuyi respectively, "Although you are not allowed to wear jewelry, this is a plain white color, and it does not violate the rules." If the king blames me, then look at it, and tell the maids to put it away. It's a bad day, and it's too unreasonable to wait until this mourning period to give you two a gift. ”

Zhong was very uncomfortable, she glanced at Xue, they were all blame, it was obvious that the two of them did not discuss this gift. It was supposed to be sent as soon as it was sent, and it was not sent at all, but Xue sent it alone, and he didn't even inform her, putting her in an embarrassing position, what is it?

Zhu Yuwei has never been an accountant compared to others, and she doesn't take this kind of thing to heart at all, but in the eyes of the people in the palace, people still look down on the Zhong family.

Zhu Yuyan understands this kind of gap very well, Zhong is Xiao Dingquan's cousin, who entered the door two years later than Zhu Yuwei, and gave birth to a son for Xiao Dingquan as soon as he entered the door. Her mother's family is the Yizhou Jiedu Embassy, she doesn't need to fight for anything at all, as long as she doesn't be a demon, in her life, Xiao Dingquan will protect her well, and she will be a second concubine in the West Palace, ranking fourth in Xiao Dingquan's harem, proper.

And the Xue family is different, she took her two sons to remarry Xiao Dingquan, and the dowry she brought over could not be rich, and the military, political and civil rights of the original Gunzhou were handed over to Xiao Dingquan by her. If she hadn't surrendered back then, Xiao Dingquan wouldn't have been sure how long he would have to fight the siege battle in Gunzhou.

But even so, Xue's honor and disgrace are still tied to Xiao Dingquan, Xiao Dingquan's words, she can go to heaven or hell.

It was only three years later that the Xue family gave birth to a son to Xiao Dingquan, and the situation changed. But, that's all for later.

Zhu Yuyan is not soft-hearted, she can't see Zhong's embarrassment, she is now a bystander, and she can't offend Xiao Dingquan's wives and concubines, so she took Zhong's hand, "I passed by Yizhou before I came, and I went to meet Aunt Pei, before leaving, Aunt Pei gave us a lot of gifts, and gave Niangniang a meeting gift, Niangniang don't say what to give us, we don't have the face to receive double copies." ”

Zhong was not prepared, and it would be even more unreasonable to ask someone to go back to get it at this time, she racked her brains to break the situation but couldn't. Zhu Yuyan's thoughtfulness really relieved her.

"How can that count as a double portion?"

"Why doesn't it count? In short, don't embarrass us. ”

Zhong hurriedly got off the donkey, "Then later, I'll give you two sisters the wind!" ”

"Then Yuyan is welcome!"

From beginning to end, Zhu Yuyi didn't say a word, and she didn't even look at Zhong's side. Zhong also looked at it in his eyes, and said to Zhu Yuwei with a smile, "If I have a sister like the eldest concubine, I really have to wake up laughing in my dreams, and it's no wonder that the eldest concubine is always thinking about it!" ”

Zhu Yuwei was holding Zhu Yuyi's hand and said with a smile, "My two younger sisters are good!" ”