Chapter 111: Pampering
On the main hall of Changchun Palace, there are spices burning in the cloisonné enamel incense burner of dragon ear copper tire, and the fragrance of flickering far and near is spreading, and there is a feeling that the fragrance is far away and clear.
Kang Ling smelled the fragrance that seemed to be nothing, lightly tapped his nose with a handkerchief, and then said, "What kind of incense is this burning of the queen mother?" It smelled so good, and the concubines also asked the Internal Affairs Office for some. ”
Her words made some other low-ranking concubines very envious, after all, they didn't dare to open their mouths and shut their mouths, so they said that if they asked the Internal Affairs Office for something.
This incense is called "Silence" and is not distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Yi Xiangxiang replied with a shallow smile.
Kang Ling, who was at the bottom of the line, knew that the Yi family had a spice shop, and she guessed that this was the incense that Yi Xiangxiang brought in by herself before asking, and she thought that Yi Xiangxiang could take the initiative to give her some after saying this, but she didn't expect the other party's reply to be so unpopular.
She felt more and more that Yi Xiangxiang was not an opponent.
Of course, Kang Ling is not really rare that spice, but just uses this to pull in a relationship with Yi Xiangxiang on the surface. Although she felt that this ordinary woman could not take away her cousin's heart, the position of the queen could help her suppress the hostile Lin Zhimeng.
She didn't think that Yi Xiangxiang was her enemy, she felt that her fierce enemy was Lin Zhimeng.
"Oh? That must have been brought by the mother from the Yi Mansion? The concubine is asking for a reward! Kang Ling opened her mouth delicately.
If the mountain doesn't come, I'll go to the mountain.
Kang Ling's appearance at this time, that is, how naïve and naïve he is.
"yes, okay. However, there is not much stock here in this spice palace, so go back to the palace and let them hand some in. Yi Xiangxiang was still smiling.
She didn't plan to give Kang Ling spices, in case she said that there was a problem with her spices, then she would not be able to wash them even if she jumped into the Yellow River, so she would take the word "drag".
Kangling naturally weighed.
In fact, Yi Xiangxiang saw that Kang Ling, who originally liked to laugh at her the most, was unusually well-behaved today, and there was really a little surprise. You must know that this niece of the Empress Dowager Xiao'an, who jumped out and bit her at the flower viewing banquet in Youhu and King An's Mansion, is so calm at this time, which is really different from her previous appearance.
But how many high-ranking palace concubines in this palace are really stupid? Not to mention the niece of the Queen Mother.
Yi Xiangxiang thought of the draft a few years ago, and it was originally rumored that Kang Ling was also on the list of show girls, but later it was rumored that Zhao Ziqian had a favorite woman, and she did not participate in that year's draft. And it wasn't until Zhao Ziqian became the crown prince that she almost became the crown princess, so that many people thought that Kang Ling, a childhood sweetheart, was Zhao Ziqian's true love.
Actually, this is the master.
She couldn't deny it.
Yi Xiangxiang saw that there was no drama to watch, so she decided to let the palace concubines go back to their palaces for the third time. Most of them also found it boring, so they said they quit.
However, the concubine Lin Zhimeng stayed.
"I didn't expect to meet the queen again in this scene!" It was naturally Lin Zhimeng who said this.
"Actually, I have seen it at the palace banquet, but the posture of the willows in this palace must have not entered the eyes of the concubine." Yi Xiangxiang was very helpless, looked at Lin Zhimeng and said.
Indeed, not to mention that she was originally low-key, but when Kang Ling deliberately looked for her before, Yi Xiangxiang found that Lin Zhimeng didn't care about her existence.
That's really a complete overlook.
She and Lin Zhimeng have met since the Seven Princes' Mansion, and they have seen each other since then, such as the most obvious is the flower viewing banquet in King An's Mansion. It's just that Lin Zhimeng is all focused on Zhao Ziqian, and Yi Xiangxiang's sense of presence in major occasions is extremely weak, so Lin Zhimeng really didn't recognize Yi Xiangxiang as one of the female guests of the Seven Princes' Mansion back then.
However, it is not that Lin Zhimeng is too distracted, but that she and Yi Xiangxiang first met in the garden of the Prince's Mansion, and the latter did not report his name. And that day was at night, Lin Zhimeng only paid attention to the other two beautiful women, and she really glanced at Yi Xiangxiang.
In this way, it is also true that Yi Xiangxiang said that the posture of Puliu is not in sight.
"It's because I'm clumsy, I didn't expect Miss Yi to appear in the Prince's Mansion, but I really haven't recognized it, and I'm ashamed." Lin Zhimeng was indeed a little shy when she said this.
Since she became Zhao Ziqian's side concubine, she really doesn't care much about the people around her.
She didn't feel much change in herself before, but since she entered the palace, she found that she even raised her heart wall to Xiangqiao, who had nothing to say before.
The life in the palace made her feel more and more like walking on thin ice, and she longed for Zhao Ziqian's love more and more.
Only when Zhao Ziqian loves her, she feels that all this is worth it.
So she had an accident, jealousy, and sourness about Yi Xiangxiang becoming the queen.
Yi Xiangxiang got up from the phoenix seat and stretched her waist, and slowly walked in front of Lin Zhimeng: "Don't be ashamed, in fact, it doesn't matter if you can recognize it." ”
Originally, he was not too relevant, but for Yi Xiangxiang, Lin Zhimeng was a useless social.
"Why did you become a queen?" Lin Zhimeng was blunt.
"You'll have to ask who you want to do about this, but I have to make it clear that I don't want to be your enemy, because if you really like him, you should use your strength against him, after all, I have a relationship with him, and you and him are two sets of relationships."
The reason why Yi Xiangxiang said this is because she feels that the threat in a relationship is never a rival.
If you like a person, what you should win is the person's like, and it has nothing to do with outsiders.
How to explain it in detail?
Let's talk about Yi Xiangxiang's previous life, she was good-looking at that time, and occasionally some boys who obviously had girlfriends came to talk to her, causing her to be warned by the other party's real girlfriend not to seduce her boyfriend. Yi Xiangxiang can't understand this logic, obviously your boyfriend's character is not good, or you can't keep your boyfriend, and you have a woolen relationship with me?
In Yi Xiangxiang's opinion, this harem is the same, the palace concubines should strive for Zhao Ziqian's joy, instead of killing the so-called rivals in love.
She admires Lin Zhimeng very much, because she doesn't want Lin Zhimeng to make mistakes.
Not to mention that she and Zhao Ziqian have no relationship, even if there is, Lin Zhimeng is looking for Zhao Ziqian, not her.
Well? What does it mean to have it? Yi Xiangxiang hurriedly smashed her own nonsense.
Lin Zhimeng listened a little carelessly: "I have no malicious intent, I'm just a little curious, why did you appear in the Prince's Mansion that year?" ”
She really has no malice, she is just a little jealous, she is worried that Yi Xiangxiang is Zhao Ziqian's favorite person.
Yi Xiangxiang was also very helpless about Lin Zhimeng, she knew that the other party didn't pay too much attention to what she said. But despite this, she still patiently answered Lin Zhimeng's question.
"I was harassing in the Prince's Mansion that year, and I really had something to do. The other three people you saw that night, one of them was the Dragon Girl, that is, the current Lord of Minghui, you should know this. The other two are the Guardian Fox Fairy and the Yaksha of the Joy Pavilion, and the Yi family has some friendship with them. ”
Her words can easily be understood as that she went to the Prince's Mansion that year to help Zhao Ziqian, but although in fact she passively became a helper, the final result was that the Yi family and Huanxi Pavilion both helped Zhao Ziqian.
After all, now that the overall situation has been decided, she can't say that the Yi family originally didn't plan to share a boat with Zhao Ziqian.
Yi Xiangxiang beckoned Lin Zhimeng to follow as she spoke. She was going to change her clothes, and the phoenix crown palace clothes were too heavy.
She didn't tell Lin Zhimeng that she was called in by Zhao Ziqian to dominate the position of the middle palace, and Zhao Ziqian's rhetoric was to balance the Kanglin family. Because she felt that if she told Lin Zhimeng, the latter would definitely feel sad.
After all, Lin Zhimeng is a member of the Lin family.
Huanxi Pavilion later participated in the rescue, which Lin Zhimeng knew, but she didn't expect that the other two people present that day were also from Huanxi Pavilion. After thinking about it like this, she also understood that Yi Xiangxiang was really serious in the Seven Princes' Mansion before.
She followed Yi Xiangxiang through the main hall to the queen's living room.
In fact, having said this, Lin Zhimeng didn't know what to say. If she is allowed to be close to Yi Xiangxiang, she really can't do it, after all, this person is the wife of the person she admires.
To say not to be sad, that is false.
Lin Zhimeng didn't stay long before she retired, and Yi Xiangxiang naturally wouldn't stop her. Because Yi Xiangxiang also knows that she and Lin Zhimeng really can't be friends.
Yi Xiangxiang asked Lin Zhimeng to exert force towards Zhao Ziqian, and also hoped that the other party would not disturb his purity. The Lin family wants to be in the back position, Lin Zhimeng also wants to become the main palace, Yi Xiangxiang is really a stumbling block in a sense.
She hoped that Lin Zhimeng would ask Zhao Ziqian for the qualification certificate first, so that she didn't have to move, and the stumbling blocks would be removed. After all, her stumbling block was moved by Zhao Ziqian personally.
However, not everyone can see the essence through the phenomenon, she thinks that she is now the enemy of the entire harem concubines, and she is really a little panicked.
Yi Xiangxiang was changing her clothes and hairy at the same time.
......
But the days of being a queen, except for being boring, are still good.
Zhao Ziqian was exempt from the court for three days, because on the fourth day of the wedding, Yi Xiangxiang was originally going to get up and wait for him to change his clothes and go to the court, but I didn't want Zhao Ziqian to say that he would be exempted and let her sleep more. So Yi Xiangxiang can sleep until more than half of the hour every day, and then get up and go to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces to order a prayer.
In the past half a month, Zhao Ziqian has stayed in Changchun Palace. It wasn't until it was rumored in the palace that the queen's pepper room was the only favorite, and Yi Xiangxiang knew that what Zhao Ziqian said about the rules of the fifteenth day was a lie. So on the sixteenth day, Yi Xiangxiang shouted Xiaodan early to turn off the lights, and did not leave the door for Zhao Ziqian.
Yi Xiangxiang's purpose in doing this was naturally because she was afraid that if Zhao Ziqian continued to live in Changchun Palace, she would be cursed to death by that group of concubines. She didn't have an actual relationship with Zhao Ziqian, so she didn't have this hatred!
Of course, Zhao Ziqian didn't know that Yi Xiangxiang was worried that he would be attacked by a group, he only regarded this as a refusal. So in a fit of anger, he spoiled several show girls who entered the palace in the spring, and raised their positions.
At first, some people in Changchun Palace were panicked, thinking that their queen master's wedding had fallen out of favor after only half a month, and they were really afraid that the master would be mad and make trouble for them. But it didn't take long for them to find out that Aunt Qingxuan, who was the maid of the palace, was not worried at all, and she accompanied the queen every day to enjoy the flowers here and the scenery there, and had a lot of fun. And the queen didn't lose her temper at all for falling out of favor, so they were relieved.
With the deepening of time, the people in Changchun Palace also knew that they had met a kind and good master, and they were not so restrained in speaking and doing things.
"I heard that yesterday, Concubine Lin went to the imperial study to send ginseng soup! Niangniang, why don't you let the slave and maid stew a portion in the small kitchen, and you will send it to the saint when you turn around? ”
Jimei, one of the palace ladies of Changchun Palace, sat on the red sandalwood round bench next to Yi Xiangxiang's beauty and said.
Yi Xiangxiang squinted her eyes and took a nap, and when she heard the words, she asked excitedly, "Why do you want me to slip away?" I'm too lazy, the weather is getting colder, and it's still comfortable in the house! ”
Jimei hates iron and does not become steel!
"Then when the soup is ready, the slave will send someone to send it in the name of Niangniang?" Jimei continued to ask.
If the master doesn't care about pleasing the saint, she naturally has to remind her.
"Don't bother, he wants to drink more soup." Yi Xiangxiang yawned, and then said, "It's not ......."
Jimei's eyes, which had been darkened because of the first half of the sentence, immediately ignited a spark when she heard this "but": "But what? ”
"However, we can drink it in a pot of soup ourselves. Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and stew radish mutton soup to drink. Yi Xiangxiang commanded lazily.
Jimei said, but the interest was still not high. This made Qing Xuan and Xiao Dan on the other side, as well as Ying Dong, who was tidying up the table, secretly cover their mouths and laugh.
The queen mother, she is really not in a hurry with the emperor!
But the queen is not in a hurry, someone is in a hurry.
Yi Xiangxiang's happiest thing in the past two days is to see how the palace maid who was pampered on the first day was complacent in front of everyone in her Changchun Palace the next day.
Some walked pretending to have trembling legs, some deliberately held their waists, and some even said that they couldn't get up......
And those concubines who are not favored are naturally fighting in the ring with those concubines who are happy. The skill of bickering is like opening a complaining conference, and the one where you come and go is called a lively.
After a few days, Yi Xiangxiang watched enough, and also found that the faces of Kang Guifei and Lin Guifei were getting darker and darker.
"Li Meiren has worked hard, she should be rewarded!" Yi Xiangxiang sat on the phoenix seat in the main hall of Changchun Palace and rewarded Li Meiren who was happy last night.
This Li Meiren's original position was a talented person, and because she served the saint yesterday, she was added to one level. Yi Xiangxiang, as the mother of the main palace, should also be rewarded to her.
She appreciated it very generously, and the hairpin ring jewelry was jade, and there was no softness in the half-hair. Anyway, these things are all Zhao Ziqian's, and she is not distressed at all. And she would be happy to be able to use these things to gain a reputation as a queen.
"Concubine Xie for the queen's reward." Li Meiren hurriedly kowtowed and thanked her.
Yi Xiangxiang waved her hand and said, "It's okay, these are what you deserve." Giving birth to an heir to the royal family to continue the royal bloodline, you have also worked hard! ”
She was serious about this, because she dared to guarantee that Zhao Ziqian's purpose in sleeping with these women was not because of love, but just to vent her desires and spread out. To a certain extent, Yi Xiangxiang still sympathizes with these palace concubines.
Half of them are for power, and half of them are for the love of the emperor.
But for the emperor, they represent a certain family to be wooed, and a tool to continue the incense.
Li Meiren paused when she heard Yi Xiangxiang's words, and then resumed her smile as if nothing happened.
The saint sent someone to send the soup after the incident, and he didn't give her a chance to leave an heir at all. But Li Meiren didn't dare to say this, because the old mother who fed the soup told her not to spread it. And she herself didn't know if she was the only one who drank the decoction, so she didn't have the face to say it.
Yi Xiangxiang didn't notice Li Meiren's stiff smile, but Lin Zhimeng noticed her pause, so she also guessed a thing or two.
It seems that the Holy One served Shunzi soup to everyone?
Lin Zhi dreamed that she had also drunk that bowl of black soup, and she felt a little lonely.
What is the reason for this move?
Lin Zhimeng guessed that he hoped that his eldest son would have a concubine.
So Loneliness added another three points.
However, she soon looked at Yi Xiangxiang's phoenix seat with burning eyes, and there was an indescribable meaning in her eyes.
Yes, Zhao Ziqian's purpose in doing this is indeed Lin Zhi's dream of hoping that the eldest son will be from the Middle Palace.
But what is more thorough than this is that he hopes that it is from Yi Xiangxiang.
He even felt that only Yi Xiangxiang was worthy of giving birth to children for him.
This man gave all his warmth to Yi Xiangxiang, and this so-called position in the middle palace is just the icing on the cake.
His cruelty to the other women in the harem and his connivance with Yi Xiangxiang are completely two extremes.
After a long time, Yi Xiangxiang knew about this, and in addition to a sigh, she also sent a scumbag.
Of course, at this time, Yi Xiangxiang was rewarding the scumbag's palace concubine, and she didn't know about it at this time.
Li Meiren is very happy, no matter what, she has also served the saint, and she has been rewarded for her position, so she is a little proud.
But this kind of pride is very unpleasant in the eyes of others, such as Kangling.
Although Zhao Ziqian is her cousin, the number of times she has served the king is only a handful, and now looking at Li Meiren's appearance, she naturally hates it.
But Li Meiren's rank of her shot seemed to be down, so she signaled to Zheng Lier, a concubine who had already surrendered to her, to provoke trouble.
"The queen is well rewarded, this Li Meiren is a blessed person. Yesterday, a concubine heard that it was Hu Jieyu's brand that was originally turned over by the saint, and after dinner, she took a walk in the imperial garden and saw Li Meiren holding a lamp and painting in the pavilion, so she lit Li Meiren. If you want the concubine to say, isn't this the right time, the right place! ”
Zheng Lier's words were suppressed and frustrated, although she said it to Yi Xiangxiang, but it made Hu Jieyu clench her veil with hatred.
Yesterday, it was indeed her brand that was originally flipped over, but it was cut off halfway, and she was naturally angry and half dead.
Yi Xiangxiang held a set of red carp cups, took a sip of tea, put it down and said, "What Concubine Li said is true." ”
Oh, just provoke Hu Jieyu to deal with Li Meiren, do you still want to arouse my jealousy? Yi Xiangxiang thinks that this Zheng Lier is not simple.
The little concubines who were pampered two days ago were more arrogant than Li Meiren, but there were also some low-ranking palace concubines who went to choke. Today, even Concubine Li has begun to take eye medicine, which shows that everyone's jealousy is getting stronger and stronger.
Yi Xiangxiang had a relationship with Concubine Li before, at the birthday banquet of Mr. Yu in Tongzhou, when Zheng Biao, the governor of Jizhou, came to congratulate him with his family.
Although she is not familiar with Zheng Lier, when she listens to her words today, she has to praise that there is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in this palace. Eh, like the daughter of a petty official like Hu Jieyu and Li Meiren who has no background, her IQ is limited to playing smart, so it's hard to spell out!
It's good to be able to save your life!
Yi Xiangxiang felt that Zhao Ziqian was not a thing at this time.
Zheng Lier saw that Yi Xiangxiang didn't accept the offer, so she didn't say anything, anyway, she knew that Hu Jieyu must have entered the pit.
Sure enough, in the evening of the same day, Hu Jieyu bit Li Meiren, who was painting in the Imperial Garden, and slapped her two mouths on the grounds that Li Meiren was disrespectful to her.
Li Meiren was not convinced, so it was convenient for Hu Jieyu to start. It is said that when the palace people pulled the two apart, their faces were colored.
When Yi Xiangxiang received the news, she sent Zhao Ziqian to his four grandmothers to deal with the aftermath and gave Hu Jieyu and Li Meiren a punishment. But around this, Yi Xiangxiang was still criticized by the Empress Dowager Xiao'an for poor discipline and did not restrain the palace concubine.
She didn't carry it and gladly accepted criticism. This made the Empress Dowager Xiao'an feel that a stick had hit the cotton, and she felt tasteless.
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