The East Palace is not as happy as it is in the horse farm.

Begonia is pregnant, so there is no need to welcome the newcomer. Zhengxu covered the door of the main hall, and played with Shuang'er and Liuying in the pearl powder. Last time, Ilan gave her a fine pearl, it was too angry to make jewelry, but it was just right to grind powder and apply it to her face.

"Niangniang, you can watch it carefully, and your hands are sore." Liuying snatched the bowl in Begonia's hand, handed it to Cai Qin, and asked Cai Qin to continue to eat. Cai Qin learned a lot of beauty recipes from the crown princess, what kind of poria powder, rose ointment, fragrant and effective. It's the first time I've made pearl powder, after all, pearls aren't that good.

"I seem to have heard that Concubine Su has entered the room just now, hasn't the prince come back yet?" Begonia patted the powder on her hand and asked. She didn't care much about this matter, she and Xie Ruijiao had a frank talk, and she no longer had a mustard in her heart. It's just that the East Palace still has the face of the East Palace, if you are too lazy, you will not be able to go in front of the mothers.

"Before the prince goes out, don't worry about it." Ji'er came in with a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and Cailian went over to close the door. She stuck out her tongue and smiled: "Which emperor is not from the Three Palaces and Six Courts?" is an ordinary person, and three wives and four concubines are also common. Our prince has to hide out with a side concubine, which is rare. ”

"It's over, it's over! Our prince is afraid of the truth, and finally can't hide it, and now the princess is going to be notorious. Frost covered her mouth and smiled.

Haitang ate a bite of bird's nest porridge and almost didn't squirt out, she smiled and said to Ji'er: "This reminds me." In order to cover up my image of a jealous woman, you go to the treasury and find a pair of gold and jade Ruyi to send her to press the room. Su Manzhen has been thinking about entering the East Palace for a long time, and this time it is as she wants. ”

This time Haitang was wrong, Su Manzhen wanted to enter the East Palace, but she didn't want to come in like this!

Then, Concubine Su summoned her into the palace and told her their plan.

It turned out that Cao Baoli saw that the prince had repeatedly sabotaged their arrangement, and now that Concubine Dao was pregnant, the emperor was addicted to pills and had to increase the dosage. They were afraid that things would gradually become uncontrollable, so they had to cut through the mess quickly and let King Kang hurry up to the throne. But the prince's side is like an iron bucket, and they need to put someone next to the prince.

Su Manzhen is this person.

"It's not fair! I am also a member of the Su family, why should I be sacrificed! Auntie, if you really love me, you should give me to Cousin Di, not the prince you want to get rid of! I marry him, what will I do when he dies? Su Manzhen cried.

Concubine Su saw her father make this decision at first, and she was also worthless for Su Manzhen, but this was also for her son, so she had to comfort her: "When the prince dies, my aunt will give you Zhang Luo another marriage, if you are willing, you will go to the Li'er Mansion to be a lady, if you are unwilling, you can also stay with your aunt, and the Su family will not treat you badly." Otherwise......"

Concubine Su straightened up, changed her face, picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Your father, brother, younger brother, and the entire Su family will never come out." Is this what you want to see? ”

Su Manzhen gradually stopped crying, she knew that Concubine Su had already made up her heart, and it was impossible for anything to change if she cried again. Thinking about the beginning when Ji Qinglan married King Xian, she secretly laughed at her with Su Manfei. I didn't expect that I was even more unbearable, and marrying someone was just a small work for the family...... She had no choice but to go to the East Palace first and then make plans.

Today, she entered the East Palace, but only two grandmothers came to greet her. The crown princess is pregnant, and the prince is not even in the palace! In the east hall, Su Manzhen tore off the red hijab and slammed it to the ground.

She was really unwilling, unwilling to be abandoned by the Su family, and even more unwilling to be snubbed by Xie Ruijiao. "There must be a turnaround...... If the crown prince can ascend to the throne, I will be a concubine! With a hint of luck, she made up her own mind: "When I become a concubine, I can support the Su family, why do I have to ask my cousin to be the emperor?" ”

Su Manzhen slowly stood up, walked over to pick up the red hijab on the ground, and sat back on the bed. Qiao'er said distressedly: "Girl, I have wronged you." It must be the crown princess who is domineering, so the prince does not dare to get close to you. ”

Yan'er poured a cup of tea for Su Manzhen: "Since you have already come in, the prince will always have one to enter our palace gate, anyway, the prince will have a concubine room for you, and the future will be long." Qiao'er and Yan'er didn't know Concubine Su's plan, but they were only thinking about planning for their own girl to be favored in the East Palace.

Su Manzhen made up her mind, so she put the red hijab back on her head, and said calmly: "Qiao'er is going to guard the palace gate, no matter how late it is, as long as the prince comes back, you can tell him that I am still waiting for him to remove the hijab." Qiao'er nodded and went out. Yes, it's the night of candles in the side concubine's cave room, it's impossible for the prince not to come, right?

Yan'er handed the tea to Su Manzhen, but she pushed it away and said with a smile: "If you are full of food and drink, how can you look haggard for Yiren?" You take all the refreshments from your room. If you can't light the dragon and phoenix candles, just light a pair of red candles for me, tonight is our wedding night. Su Manzhen lowered her eyes, this is the candle night in the cave room she is looking forward to?

The prince finally returned in front of the palace gate. He was holding a bamboo basket, and the attendant who opened the door came to help him take him, shouting: "Get out of the way!" "Everyone is wondering, Chang Le didn't help the prince get things, where did he go?

I saw Chang Le following behind, holding a larger flat frame, blocking the way and almost out of sight. A group of people came out to see the strangeness, and everyone lit the lamps and illuminated the porch as white as white. Qiao'er thought about waiting for him with the crown prince and Concubine Su several times, but those palace maids and eunuchs didn't want to see her, she couldn't even squeeze in.

Haitang heard the commotion outside the dormitory, and was about to go out to see what was going on, when he saw Xie Ruijiao striding in with a smile, putting the basket in his hand on the table, and said, "Come and see, what good things did Shen Congxi bring back to you from Guangdong?" ”

Haitang smiled when he saw it: "It's really embarrassing for Lord Shen, this must be caused by His Royal Highness King Cheng." ”

It turned out to be a basket of sprouted sweet potatoes, five or six of them. Each sweet potato has one or two buds, the buds are as long as a finger, and the three-pronged leaves have not yet grown, tender and cute.

"Can you plant like this?" Xie Ruijiao asked, fiddling with the buds that had grown.

"Why not? Tomorrow we will plant it. This sweet potato is not planted in large quantities in the court, how did Lord Shen find it? "Begonia thought it was incredible. She has been in Yueling for so many years, and she has only seen someone bring it back from overseas once.

"It's not easy to find sweet potatoes, but it's much easier to find people who come back from Nanyang Fanguo." Xie Ruijiao took Haitang's hand: "There is one more outside, it's really not easy!" ”

The two walked out of the hall holding hands, and everyone was looking at the basket of grass on the ground, which was shoveled up with the ground, and there was a thick layer of mud underneath. No one knows what kind of grass it is.

Haitang smiled at everyone: "No wonder you don't know each other." This is called fish fairy grass, which is a kind of herb only found in Jiangnan. I used to live in Lingnan, and the mountains were all over the country. In summer, the whole plant is dried in the shade, and mosquitoes can be smoked when burned. ”

"Only in Jiangnan? That's a real rarity. Can you plant it if you move it to the East Palace? Cai Lian asked.

"The fish fairy grass is an annual species, so we can always try to collect the seeds in the autumn and store them in the house, and then plant them in the next spring." Begonia smiled and nodded. Only then did she know that this was by no means King Cheng's trouble, King Cheng didn't know about the fish fairy grass, it must have been Xie Ruijiao who asked people to find it back for her.

Everyone looked around the sweet potatoes again. Ji'er came over and lifted the basket and said, "Take it away, don't disturb the rest of the prince and the princess." ”

Qiao'er saw that there was no more chance, so she hurriedly squeezed forward and saluted, and said loudly: "The slave Qiao'er has seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" Concubine Su is still waiting for you to take off your red hijab in the East Courtyard! ”

"Oh? It's so late, tell her to have a good rest. Let her not have to come over tomorrow morning to say goodbye, she is tired today, and she won't be early tomorrow. Then, he pulled the begonia into the inner hall without looking at Qiao'er.

When you look at it, you still don't understand? I've only seen the prince hurt the princess, when have you ever seen him take other women in his eyes? The highest heart is Silan, what about the side concubine? Still touch a nose of ash.

There are all the numbers in the East Palace, and this Concubine Su was cold as soon as she was brought in.