"Come, you sit down first." Concubine Chen held Xiao Lu's hand and ordered someone to bring out the medicinal food in the food box. "I see that your complexion is a little better, but it is still very pale. When the concubine comes to see you every day, she will prepare this medicinal food for you. ”

Xiao Lu didn't speak, but obediently let Concubine Chen lead her to the table and sit down.

"Thank you, Concubine." Now Xiao Lu was docile, obediently took the medicinal food handed over by Concubine Chen, and drank it one by one.

Concubine Chen just sat on the side, looking at her quietly.

Xiao Lu finished eating the medicinal food, and the palace maid on the side immediately stepped forward to clean up the empty bowl. Xiao Lu looked up at Concubine Chen, there seemed to be something unspeakable in her eyes, but she wanted to say it again and again.

"Lu'er, but what do you have to say to me?" Concubine Chen looked at Xiao Lu and didn't want to make a mistake for a while, she noticed Xiao Lu's small actions as soon as she could, and hurriedly asked.

"Mother, don't go and ask your father to let me out. Anyway, even if my father doesn't let me out, I can still go out when my wedding date arrives next spring. Xiao Lu looked at Concubine Chen in embarrassment and whispered. When I was in the palace, I made a mistake and made my father angry. Fortunately, my father relented to me after all, and did not send me to Famen Temple, but only temporarily imprisoned me until I got married. In the end, it has saved my reputation, and my mother should not displease my father at this juncture. ”

Concubine Chen raised her hand and slapped Xiao Lu on the shoulder and back a few times.

"Now that I know that I was wrong that day, I don't want to do such a foolish thing or say such a foolish thing next time." Concubine Chen said helplessly. "You yourself said that your father is still soft-hearted towards you. You are the eldest princess, and now that you have set a concubine and a wedding date, it will not be good if you don't appear in front of people all the time, and it will only attract random speculation from others. ”

"Mother, it's okay to gossip a few words from others. The face of my eldest princess is still there, and no one will say those words in front of me. Xiao Lu was in a flat mood at the moment, looked at Concubine Chen and shook her head with a slight smile and said. After I got married, I finally lived in my own princess's mansion, but my mother still had to stay in the palace. My father punished me at that time, and it was also for Xiao Xuan and Emperor Liu's concubine to vent his anger. It didn't take long for the current matter to happen, and my mother rashly went to my father to intercede for me, wouldn't it offend Emperor Liu's concubine. ”

Concubine Chen obviously promised Xiao Lu to ask Emperor Chu to let her out in advance, but she didn't think of Emperor Liu's stubble, so after listening to Xiao Lu's words, Concubine Chen's face really became a little ugly.

"What is the situation in the palace, the mother concubine is in it, I think it is better than the daughter." Concubine Chen's momentary words were expected in Xiao Lu's eyes. "The queen is frail, and all the affairs of the harem have been controlled by Emperor Liu's concubine and Concubine De for so many years, and Concubine De and Concubine Liuhuang have a very close relationship in private. I got married and left, but if my mother really offended Emperor Liu for me, how would I live in the future? ”

Concubine Chen listened to the care in Xiao Lu's words, and couldn't hold back her tears, and smiled with relief.

"It's okay, you are the child of the concubine, and it is natural for the concubine to act for you. As long as you are doing well outside, no matter how bad I am in the palace, I will have a better hope. Concubine Chen said. Besides, don't worry too much about me, I have a concubine in my body, and I just think it's okay to make some ordinary troubles. And the temperament of Emperor Liu's concubine and Concubine De, I have also seen it in my eyes for decades, and they will not do things that are too much. ”

Concubine Chen sat with Xiao Lu for a while, and after the female flag guard urged her several times, she had to get up and leave.

Xiao Lu reluctantly sent Concubine Chen to the outside of the palace gate, and the female flag guard guarding the palace gate reached out to stop Xiao Lu after Concubine Chen came out.

"Eldest princess, you can send Concubine Chen here." The female flag guard looked at Xiao Lu and said in a respectful tone. "Please go back to Celestia Celestia."

"Okay, I got it." Xiao Lu reluctantly took a few steps back, looked at Concubine Chen and said. "Mother, then I'll send you here."

"Well, you go back and have a good rest, you must sleep well, eat well, and take care of your body is the right way." Concubine Chen hurriedly said. "The concubine will come to see you again tomorrow."

Xiao Lu nodded, the female flag guard closed the palace door, Concubine Chen said that she was leaving, but she kept standing in place and watched the palace door slowly close, watching Xiao Lu's emaciated figure gradually disappear from her sight.

That night, Concubine Chen had trouble sleeping, lying on her bed tossing and turning.

The palace maid who was in charge of keeping vigil tonight heard the movement in the bed, so she came over with a palace lamp and asked Concubine Chen if she was unwell.

"I'm fine," Concubine Chen stopped, lay flat on the bed and looked at the top of the bed, and instructed the palace maid outside. "It's just a little insomnia, remember to serve me early tomorrow and get up, I want to go to Lingyun Hall before Your Majesty goes to the morning court."

"Yes, slave and maid obey."

Early the next morning, the palace maids called her up early in accordance with Concubine Chen's instructions before going to bed, and served her to wash and change clothes.

Concubine Chen didn't actually have much rest last night, and she got up extra early today, and she was very tired. It was only when she stood in front of the dressing table and was served by the palace maids to change her clothes that she remembered her goal of going to see Emperor Chu in the morning, so she cheered up.

After changing into a dress, the palace maid asked Concubine Chen what hair ornament she wanted to comb, and Concubine Chen looked at herself in the mirror.

"Just pull your hair in a bun, and don't bring hairpin rings or jewelry." Originally, he was pleading for mercy today, and besides, no matter how much Rao is dressed up in front of Emperor Chu, it is useless, and he still needs to take off his hairpin and apologize.

Waiting to clean up, Concubine Chen didn't let too many palace maids accompany her, and only brought two palace maids out of the gate of Yuxiu Palace.

It was not yet dawn, and the sky was still dark.

If it weren't for the two palace maids carrying lamps in their hands, Concubine Chen would almost not be able to see the road five steps in front of her.

"Niangniang, it's not dawn now, the slave and maid go back and call the sedan chair for the mother." One of the palace maids said. "I can't see this road clearly, so beware of her feet."

"No need, just follow me." Concubine Chen raised her feet and said. "Since it's still dark, come closer to me."

Concubine Chen did get up early today, and when she walked all the way to the outside of Lingyun Palace, there were only sporadic candles lit in Lingyun Palace.

In the Lingyun Palace, Wu Chuan was originally serving Emperor Chu, who had just gotten up and had not worked hard for a while, when his little chamberlain came over and whispered something to him in his ear.

"What's wrong?" Emperor Chu had just stirred his face with cold water, and the person had already sobered up a lot, and when he saw this, he took the initiative to ask Wu Chuan. "What did he say to you when he came in?"

Wu Chuan looked at Emperor Chu with some embarrassment, but he didn't speak, and Emperor Chu said impatiently.

"I'll tell you what to say." Emperor Chu frowned. "What are you doing?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Concubine Chen is kneeling outside the Lingyun Hall and begging to see Your Majesty." Wu Chuan had no choice but to say. "The people under the slave have persuaded and persuaded, and Concubine Chen has just knelt outside the hall, just asking His Majesty to see her. They didn't have a way to come in and talk back to me. ”

"I know what she's here for." So early in the morning, Concubine Chen's behavior made Emperor Chu unhappy in his heart. "It's nothing more than a request for her daughter, and my forgiveness makes her feel that she has an opportunity, and she must have come to ask me to lift the ban for her daughter in advance."

"Maybe Concubine Chen is just here to confess." Wu Chuan saw that Emperor Chu's face was pale, and hurriedly persuaded.

"Accuse, accuse, over the years, I haven't seen her raise her daughter well, but she has practiced the ability to confess. No matter how big or small it was, it was she who came to me and knelt in front of my Lingyun Palace. Emperor Chu glanced at Wu Chuan and said. Today, I was really impatient to see her, and I didn't bother to count her anything, so she just listened and didn't change. You go out and send a message to her on my behalf, saying that I am impatient to see her, and she wants to kneel and confess, so let her go back to her Yuxiu Palace and kneel to confess. Don't block my way outside my Lingyun Palace. ”

"But in case Concubine Chen insists on not getting up and leaving, what should the slave do?" Wu Chuan asked tentatively. "After all, Concubine Chen is the master of the palace, and she is still a concubine, so it's not good for a slave to pull her."

"Don't be a good person, you can't pull it, just send the female flag guard over and ask her to leave." Emperor Chu waved his hand and said. "In short, when I went out to go to court, I didn't want to see her kneeling outside the Lingyun Palace. If she doesn't leave, I'll order someone to beat you on the board. ”

"Yes, yes, the slave knows." Wu Chuan nodded hurriedly, and instructed his apprentice Song Cheng to stay behind to serve Emperor Chu, and he hurriedly went out to send Concubine Chen for Emperor Chu.

Concubine Chen knelt on the cold ground, looked up and finally saw Wu Chuan coming out of the hall in a hurry, thinking that Emperor Chu had a soft heart and ordered Wu Chuan to summon him.

"Concubine Chen, please leave first today." Wu Chuan squatted down, looked at Concubine Chen and said, "Your Majesty has ordered, I don't want to see Concubine Chen appear outside the Lingyun Hall recently." The slave also advised Niangniang, if it is really for the good of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, don't really anger Your Majesty. ”

"Chamberlain Wu Nei." Concubine Chen didn't expect that she knelt for almost half an hour, but she got such news, she hurriedly pulled Wu Chuan's sleeve and begged. "I know that you are somewhat decent in front of Your Majesty, please ask the Wu Nei attendant to help me talk to Your Majesty again, I just want to see Your Majesty, just say a few words, and ask Wu Nei to fulfill me once. If it happens, I will thank the Chamberlain Wu in the future. ”