When the scorching sun is in the sky, inside the elegant palace.

After sitting quietly in the palace for a long time, Shang Kelan felt the cool breeze in the dormitory and the cicadas in the shade of the trees outside, and only felt that the summer atmosphere was strong and quiet.

Dressed in a white tulle dress, she lay gracefully on the beauty couch, holding a grape with a tempting water glow in her hand and putting it in her mouth.

After a while, Shang Kelan squinted her eyes with enjoyment and said, "Well, it is worthy of being a grape presented by a small country in the Western Regions, and it tastes so sweet!" ”

The food is mouth-watering, sweet and sour, and very greasy.

Gardenia came in with a basin of cold water, took off the handkerchief on the wooden shelf and said, "Niangniang, come and wash up, the slave maid will take you to the main hall to meet those grandmothers or something." ”

Shang Kelan was unmoved, and continued to eat the grapes in her hand and said: "Although the Queen Mother sent someone to inform the palace and let the palace take over the palace power in the hands of Concubine Ning, but the palace is the mother of the middle palace, and Concubine Ning is in charge of the affairs of the East Palace, and the palace is not interested in taking over." ”

"Wow"

Gardenia wrung out the water in the handkerchief, walked over and wiped the sweat on Shang Kelan's forehead, looked at her helplessly and said: "Niangniang, if the eldest prince hears your words, I am afraid that I will hate you again, this harem power, how many concubines and concubines compete to get it, and now it is sent to you, but you avoid it like a snake and scorpion, it is really hard for the slave to speak!" ”

Although she spoke, Gardenia's movements were extremely neat, and she quickly re-combed Shang Kelan's hair in a bun, and took a light red brocade coat embroidered with the moon season, which was covered by Shang Kelan's white dress, and then she took out a shoulder-length silver step from the makeup box and put it on Shang Kelan.

If it weren't for Shang Kelan to stop her, Gardenia would still want to put rings, necklaces, bracelets and everything else on her!

After the dress was completed, Gardenia nodded with satisfaction, put down the grapes in her hand, and said to Shang Kelan: "Niangniang, although it is a little more pure like this, but it is enough to see those grandmothers in charge or something, in short, you can't lose your prestige in front of these subordinates, otherwise you will really take care of things in the future, and no one will obey you, but you will be uncomfortable!" ”

Shang Kelan reluctantly glanced at the grape, and scratched the nose of the gardenia: "Okay, okay, the palace knows, and help the palace out!" ”

Xianya Palace, inside the main hall.

A group of grandmothers and stewards stood in the main hall wearing pale green or sky blue palace clothes, they lowered their eyebrows and lowered their heads, very respectful, and looked closely, there were more than 40 people in total.

There are a total of forty-eight palaces in the East Palace, each palace has a chief steward and a maid in charge of the palace, if it is about handover, you only need to send the chief eunuch and female official of the East Palace, why do you need to come so many people to the Xianya Palace?

As soon as she came to the main hall from the dormitory, Shang Kelan saw all the situation in the main hall.

But her expression remained unchanged, as if she hadn't thought about anything.

The grandmothers and stewards in the hall also bowed their heads respectfully and saluted: "Slaves, slaves and maids see Concubine Chen!" ”

With that, they knelt down in unison, and the courtesy was also very thoughtful.

Shang Kelan sat on the main seat, the silver step shook without a trace of shaking, and the corners of her mouth stared at everyone with a light smile: "Everyone, please get up, this summer, I bother you to come from the East Palace to this elegant palace, gardenia, give a seat, and send someone to serve a bowl of herbal tea to the grandmother and the chief steward to relieve the heat, this outside is very hot, and it is not good to be sick." ”

Her voice is neither light nor heavy, but it can make people hear a trace of care from that quiet and gentle voice.

These grandmothers in the East Palace are used to seeing Concubine Ning's inconsistent faces on weekdays, how can they be treated by other mothers like this?

For a while, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and guessed in their hearts: Could it be that this Concubine Chen is also a master with different hearts?

But soon, they reacted and thanked each other: "Thank you for your kindness!" ”

After a short time, Gardenia sent someone to bring more than 40 small stools to them, and Wenchun, Zhiqiu, Late Winter and Xiaoxia handed them herbal tea in ceramic bowls.

A bowl of herbal tea in the stomach really faded away the pressing heat in the bodies of these people.

However, these grandmothers were very obedient and did not make a sound after drinking, but only lowered their eyebrows and lowered their heads one by one, looking very deferential.

But if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that these people have a more or less relaxed look on their faces.

On the main seat, Shang Kelan slowly walked in front of them, and stood in front of the leading grandmother and said, "Dare to ask if this grandmother is the female official in charge of the East Palace?" ”

A tranquil and pleasant fragrance came from Shang Kelan's body, and the grandmother's eyes tightened, but she bowed her head and said respectfully: "Back to Niangniang, the palace maid in charge of the East Palace is Lady Yuan, and now Lady Yuan has gone out of the palace to visit relatives, and she can't come for the time being." ”

"It turns out that Lady Yuan went to visit relatives."

Shang Kelan nodded clearly, then looked at the chief steward beside the grandmother, and said with a light smile: "Then this father-in-law is the chief steward of the East Palace?" ”

The father-in-law was also nervous, and hurriedly said: "The slave is the head of Qinglanxuan in the East Palace, and his name is Tian Youfu." ”

Shang Kelan nodded suddenly and said, "It turned out to be the head of Tian, so is the head of the East Palace here?" ”

When everyone heard this, they were immediately silent, and only Tian Youfu stiffened his head and said: "Back to my mother's words, Gonggong Chen, the head of the East Palace, accidentally suffered a heat stroke a few days ago, and now he is in his room and is raised, and he can't get ......out of bed for the time being."

Shang Kelan hooked her lips and smiled, and then walked back to the main seat and sat down, everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look at her slender figure, for fear of being temporarily attacked by Shang Kelan.

But no one expected that Shang Kelan was not only not angry, but also said to them calmly: "If there is anyone who hasn't come, let's talk to this palace, so that this palace can have a number in his heart." ”

These people, you look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks.

It was clear that they were deliberately embarrassed by Concubine Ning at the behest of Concubine Ning.

However, Tian Youfu of Qinglanxuan took a step forward and said respectfully: "Back to Niangniang, there are still princesses and princesses in the palace who are still in the Hua Palace. ”

"Okay, since that's the case, then the palace won't wait for them, you will hand over the affairs of the East Palace with the palace first!"

Shang Kelan said with a smile, her tone was very relaxed, so that these grandmothers couldn't see her thoughts clearly.

Some people even fooled Shang Kelan as a good-tempered fool, and when Gardenia followed Shang Kelan with a pen and paper and recorded the reports of these grandmothers and the manager one by one, those people deliberately said a bunch of messy accounts to sway Shang Kelan's sight.

Later, when it was time to collect the account book and the East Palace to take charge of the palace card, these people unanimously praised: The palace power token of the East Palace is in the hands of Yuan Nuguan, although Yuan Nuguan was ordered by Concubine Ning, but she did not hand over the token to Concubine Ning when she left the palace this time, but put the token in her room, and she had to send someone to find some time before it could be delivered to Shang Kelan.

After some exchanges, these grandmothers and the managers pestered Shang Kelan to talk for various reasons, but Shang Kelan said to them with a smile: "It's almost noon, you can't be missing from the East Palace, please go back, all the chief managers!" ”