Chapter Eighty-Seven: For the Concubine
Since I learned about the martial arts of the Li Gong Guild, I don't make a fuss anymore, and I only stay quietly in the secret room every day to read and write.
Maybe it was the last suicide that woke up Gonggong Li, and when I woke up that day, I found that there was an extra maid in the secret room, after all, Gonggong Li was a eunuch, and it was impossible to follow me all the time, but this maid was different, she could follow me all the time, and she didn't even take a bath.
Father-in-law Li said that as long as there are a little more scars on my body, then this maid's life will not need to be kept.
"Are you threatening me?"
"The minions don't dare."
"Does this girl have a name?"
"I just found it from outside the palace, and I'm still waiting for my wife to give me a name."
"In this case, let's call it Qiu Xiang from now on."
"Autumn fragrance, autumn fragrance, autumn fragrance is good!"
"Yes, Qiu Xiang is good."
The days went by day by day, I still didn't see Zhao Guangyi, and Gonggong Li always asked me to wait, saying that the emperor would naturally come to see me when the time came, but this wait was more than a month.
Gonggong Li is the emperor's person, Qiu Xiang is a mute, I ask something on weekdays, Gonggong Li replies that the time has not come, as for Qiu Xiang, he can only smile back at me, I can't get any news about the inside of the secret room from the mouths of the two of them.
I know that this is Zhao Guangyi's intention, but this is the palace, his Zhao Guangyi's world, I have nothing to do.
I don't know what happened to Li Yu over there, is he holding a so-called funeral for me in the Longxi County Mansion, if that's the case, how sad Xiaoxiao should be.
As time went by, my anxiety deepened day by day, but on the contrary, Grandpa Li's mood improved day by day, and he began to hum a little song.
"Grandpa Li is in a good mood!"
"Mrs. Lao is concerned."
"What's the good thing to say?"
"When the time comes, Madame will know."
"Stingy."
"Madame, don't worry, the life of the slave will be tied to Madame in the future, and the minions are happy, and they are all happy for the master."
"Can you tell me what you're happy about?"
"When the time comes, Madame will naturally know."
Again, I gave Gonggong Li a roll of his eyes, and I didn't continue to ask, he is an old man in the palace, if the time comes, I don't need to ask him to say it himself. It's not that I'm deliberately angry with me like this now, it's probably Zhao Guangyi's order.
Sure enough, I soon knew why Gonggong Li was talking about the happy event.
In mid-October, there was suddenly one more concubine in the palace, who was deeply favored by the emperor, and rewarded the nearest Shuiyue Palace when she first entered the palace.
It's just that this woman has a withdrawn personality, except for Qiu Xiang, the personal maid who served in the room, and Grandpa Li, no one has seen what Concubine Niangniang looks like. The emperor even issued an order to exempt the concubine from the routine greeting, although the queen was dissatisfied, she did not dare to oppose it openly.
Gonggong Li said that this treatment was the first time in the palace, and the lady next to him didn't even dare to think about it.
"Concubine?" I looked at the roster handed over by Grandpa Li.
Counting, this Zhao Guangyi changed his name to Zhao Jiong after succeeding to the throne, representing the scorching sun with the meaning of raging flames, and now I am given the name, and it represents the soft water like the moon, which is the opposite of the fire word he implied.
Since ancient times, water and fire have been incompatible, and I don't know if the emperor is really stupid or fake."
"Niangniang, don't dare to say this, being heard is a capital crime of killing your head." As soon as the words fell, I saw Gonggong Li kneeling on the ground.
"I know, I know, there's no next time." I waved my hand and watched Grandpa Li wipe his sweat and leave.
On the other hand, although I am out of the secret room now, I still haven't been able to see Zhao Guangyi, and I don't even have a chance to question and resist.
Gonggong Li said, from now on, my identity has been decided, as long as I stay in this palace obediently, the emperor will give me all the glory and wealth I want.
Is it really glory and wealth? I looked at the empty and quiet courtyard around me, and what he gave me was such a glory and wealth that I couldn't even see......
Zhao Guangyi once ordered that no idle person in the palace should approach the Water Moon Palace at will, and the offender would be killed, so even if I entered the Water Moon Palace, there were still only Gonggong Li and Qiu Xiang around me, and I didn't even have a chance to look at others.
It's a cage, just like the original chamber.
But Gonggong Li doesn't think so, in his eyes, the purity of Shuiyue Palace is now something that many people can't ask for.
"Long time no see."
The night before New Year's Day, Zhao Guangyi, who had disappeared for several months, suddenly appeared in my room.
"It turns out that the emperor still remembers that there is such a person as a courtier!"
"In the future, the concubine should call herself a concubine."
"The emperor laughed, I'm not your concubine."
"No matter what you say, now that you are a concubine, you just need to stay here in peace."
"Do you want to stay here and be a bird in the emperor's cage?"
"You know I didn't mean that, I just want you to stay with me."
"But I don't want to, when the emperor and the queen and Concubine Li Defei calculate together, the only remaining affection between you and me will be gone."
"If I say that I don't know about the queen, do you believe it? Although I hate the queen for almost hurting you, I am even more grateful to her for giving me the opportunity to keep you in this palace......"
"But the emperor has asked his courtiers if they are willing from me."
"I am the emperor."
Yes, he is the emperor, and he never needs to ask others whether they want to make decisions.
"Your Majesty, do you remember that you owe me a life? Three years ago, you said that you owed me that. ”
"I'll pay you back."
"What the courtier asked the emperor today is her own life, and she begged the emperor to let the courtiers out of the palace."
"Out of the palace? Go back to the Longxi County Mansion and continue to be the eldest lady of that act? ”
"Hmm."
"Must go?"
"Definitely."
In the end, Zhao Guangyi didn't agree, but he didn't refuse either, he said to give him a day and wait for Ming'er to arrive.
"You'll have the answer tomorrow?"
"Well, there will be it tomorrow."
As soon as Zhao Guangyi left, Gonggong Li came in with dried melon seeds and fruits, he said that he had been waiting for me outside the door for a long time, and he asked me if I would be interested in listening to him read a book.
"I'm tired of hearing all the things you say."
From the moment Gonggong Li came to my side, what he said was nothing more than that the emperor treated me very well, the emperor doted on me, and I should not live up to the emperor's wishes...... Other than that, he never asked Madame if she liked it.
"The guarantee that the slave said this time is something that the mother has never heard."
"I don't want to hear the emperor anymore."
"Well, without the word emperor, the old slave promises that if Niangniang still wants to leave the palace after listening to it, then the old slave will stand on Niangniang's side from now on, and he will help Niangniang get out of the palace smoothly even if he fights for his life."
"Are you sure?"
"The old slave doesn't dare to deceive the mother."
"Then Grandpa Li will start."
"Yes."
Gonggong Li put the dried melon seeds and fruits in front of me, and slowly told the secrets that were enough to change my life.