Before the harem year, the concubines have a time to move around.

Concubine Zhen specially made some food, and also prepared handmade sachets, etc., which are not valuable objects, but they are quite fine, showing her sincerity.

didn't go rashly, first let the palace go to the Xuan Hall to communicate with the letter, and got Zhuang Siyan's consent, so he brought something over.

Zhuang Siyan was not polite, and generously accepted her gifts, and also forwarded some to show that they were in exchange with each other.

said a few kind words: "I was supposed to go to see you, but I've been really busy lately, and I can't leave, and I hope Concubine Zhen can move around more in the future." ”

The words are good, and Concubine Zhen is also listening.

She can't forget what kind of place this is, not to mention that the emperor has already ordered that the harem concubines are not allowed to trespass, even if she is allowed to come in, she doesn't dare to, after all, there have been several incidents here, and they are all noble people, in case something happens again, then she can't bear the consequences.

Her caution and politeness, Zhuang Siyan also saw it in his eyes.

It's not that she's stingy, just like Concubine Zhen, she really wants to send her out of the palace too.

What good is it for a woman to spend her whole life in this deep palace compound?

Without a man who loves herself, and without a child, the future is like a black hole, there is no hope, I really don't know what the point of her staying up here is.

She had been thinking about this in her heart for a long time, but she never said it.

It just so happened that Concubine Zhen herself came to the door today, so she thought about it for a while and asked her, "Is it okay for Concubine Zhen to live in the palace?" ”

Concubine Zhen hurriedly looked up at her, a little unsure of what she meant here?

Zhuang Siyan's eyes were flat, there was no special expression, and it seemed like he was just asking at random.

She was somewhat relaxed and replied: "It's okay, it's much better than the previous two years, and I have to thank the queen mother." ”

Zhuang Siyan laughed: "Thank you for what I did?" I'm just like you, just begging for food in this harem, and I haven't done anything, but my reputation is worse than yours. ”

Concubine Zhen: "That's because outsiders don't know what the mother has done, so it's spread randomly, I'm here every day, watching the queen take care of the harem, with good intentions." ”

"Are you talking about those who drive people out, those who are killed? Hahaha, I'm really well-intentioned. ”

It was originally self-deprecating, but in the ears of Concubine Zhen, she was really worried.

Although she and Zhuang Siyan have been together for several years, and the two have fought before, she doesn't know anything about this person.

This is probably the reason why she can't win.

Now that this woman said a word, she speculated for a long time, thinking about whether she meant to beat herself, whether she had done something wrong?

is really tired, not only is she tired, but Zhuang Siyan is also tired when she looks at it.

She put away the joke and asked very seriously, "Have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?" ”

These words directly made Concubine Zhen ask and kneel.

I saw her body slip and fall from the edge of the chair where she was already sitting sideways, and as soon as her knees became weak, she knelt in front of Zhuang Siyan, and even her lips turned white.

On the contrary, Zhuang Siyan was taken aback, and she couldn't understand what was wrong with her.

Concubine Zhen said: "Please spare your life......"

Zhuang Siyan: "...... What, you get up first......"

Where did Concubine Zhen dare to get up, she knelt there and her shoulders were shaking.

At this time, she was already like two people who were in the snow and commanded her palace people to fight with Zhuang Siyan.

Life always teaches people something, some people are getting stronger, and some people are getting more and more compromised.

Concubine Zhen is undoubtedly the latter.

She has seen too many people fighting with Zhuang Siyan, and she has also seen the results of too many people, so she has long lost the heart to fight with her, she just wants to live here honestly and peacefully.

There is a gap in the hearts of the two, and it is difficult to talk together.

For Zhuang Siyan, she knew that Ling Tiancheng would never be able to like Concubine Zhen, and she was just wasting her years staying here.

She was kind and wanted to find her a home, but she would scare her like this.

Of course, she sometimes forgets that she has a bad reputation.

Zhuang Siyan didn't even say anything, so she scared Concubine Zhen into kneeling and kowtowing, and she pressed her thoughts first.

Let's wait until after the Chinese New Year, anyway, she will be unable to bear it after a long time, and it may be easier to say it when the time comes.

Thinking so, he also let Concubine Zhen out.

After Concubine Zhen left, Ping'er came over and asked her, "What was Niangniang going to do just now?" ”

Zhuang Siyan looked up at her and said, "I want to arrange a place for her, but looking at Concubine Zhen's appearance, it seems that she doesn't want to go out at all." ”

Ping'er was not surprised at all, but nodded in agreement: "She naturally doesn't want to go out, Concubine Zhen's mother's family has long been defeated, and now she has no power in the local area, not even ordinary landlords can compare, she lives on Concubine Zhen's face."

Although she is useless in the palace, she can play a lot of role in the face of her mother's family.

If she goes out now, the whole family will be bullied locally.

She knows the stakes better than us, so she will settle down in the past few years! ”

Zhuang Siyan glanced at Ping'er twice: "You are quite clear about her affairs, what's wrong?" Did you inquire about it yourself, or did you hear from someone else? ”

Ping'er hurriedly lowered her head: "I heard them say it before." ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't care about her expression, and then asked, "They don't say anything?" ”

Ping'er peeked at her first, and then said softly: "Also, it's nothing, it's just idle and talking nonsense."

Niangniang, you know that Concubine Zhen was the emperor when he was in the palace, so she followed him.

In the early years in the palace, she was very powerful, and ordinary people didn't dare to mess with her......"

She almost brought out all the things that Concubine Zhen had beaten her that year, but she couldn't stop talking and said: "But in the past two years, it has been really low-key, the last time Concubine Dong's matter, she didn't care about her business, and she came to apologize to Niangniang again and again." ”

Zhuang Siyan looked at her from the corner of his eyes: "Why don't you care about her, obviously the clothes were sent by her, even if someone does something in the middle, doesn't she have a crime of unfavorable supervision?"

Besides, in the harem, even if it is low-key, it doesn't mean that others won't harm you, you still need means to survive, she should know this very well! ”

When she said this, Ping'er was speechless.

It's very reasonable, it's never so easy to survive in the harem, Concubine Zhen is an old man, she should know this more.

Could it be that she was also involved, but Niangniang didn't want to fix her at the time, so she waited until now?

Before he could figure it out, he saw Zhuang Siyan waving his hand and said, "But you're right, Concubine Zhen is really incomparable to the past now, and this matter has nothing to do with her, I just said it casually." ”

This matter is really just a matter of talking, and after that, Zhuang Siyan did not mention it again, and Concubine Zhen did not come again.

The New Year's rituals began accordingly.

Every day before dawn, Zhuang Siyan was forcibly called up, changed into the prepared clothes, took Ling Tiantian with him, followed Ling Tiancheng, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Behind him, he took hundreds of officials and a few concubines in the harem to the Taimiao Temple and other places.

At noon, this matter is over, but then it is not a time to rest, but to deal with the banquet in the palace and the bowing of the families of hundreds of officials.

After all the ancestors have been sacrificed, the official's wife and miss will also take the opportunity to send some gifts to the palace and take the opportunity to meet Zhuang Siyan.

In fact, it is to contact the relationship in private, and if she really finds this queen of the dominant family at a critical time, she can look at the face of a little thin face, or the gift she gave, and leave a little way for herself.

Or just come to find a relationship, such as Jia Mingyuan's mother.

This old lady Zhuang Siyan had never seen her, and when she was dealing with the Shenjing murder incident before, she wanted to go over to meet her, but then Jia Mingyuan took all the responsibility, and she forgot it.

The deep lady is no better than the woman in the harem.

Besides, the Jia family and the dealer were not in agreement before, and she had that kind of relationship with Jia Mingyuan, and the most important thing was that she had a lot of things to be busy with, so she was really not interested in meeting people like this.

So the palace maid outside said that when the wife of Jia Youshan, the head of the household department, came to visit, Zhuang Siyan was stunned for a long time before he remembered: "The mother of Jia Mingyuan, the secretary of Dali Temple?" ”

Ping'er nodded: "It's her, does Niangniang want to see her?" ”

"See, let's go to Anchang Hall as well."

The Xuan Hall is Ling Tiancheng's dormitory, and it usually does not accept outsiders, and even the concubines of the harem cannot enter with him, let alone the minister's family members.

Therefore, whenever someone came to see him, Zhuang Siyan asked them to go to the Anchang Hall adjacent to the Zichen Palace.

After doing this, I can also go to see Ling Tiancheng by the way.

Mrs. Jia is not young, and she may have been well maintained before, but I don't know what happened recently, and it can be clearly seen that she has suddenly lost weight, because the wrinkles on her face and the degree of drooping down are different from normal people who have lost weight.

When she saw Zhuang Siyan, she naturally wanted to salute.

brought a maid servant, who looked bigger than Zhuang Siyan's pomp, knelt down with a "bang", and shouted "The queen is auspicious".

Zhuang Siyan followed the example of others and waved them up.

Mrs. Jia first gave the gift she brought.

A pair of purple bead earrings, a jade jade bracelet, a golden phoenix hairpin, a set of gold children's collars, and a pair of strings.

It is also common for ministers to give gifts to the palace, especially like Zhuang Siyan, who almost controls the emperor's thoughts and practices, as long as there is a chance, who doesn't want to slap her?

But Zhuang Siyan is different from others, she also depends on people when she receives things, and whoever eats accurately will accept whom.

Eating accurately is not to say that it is easy to bully, but the hands are not clean, and the money is not right, she herself wants to take this person under the knife, so she will accept whatever he gives.

First, it will be used as a dirty certificate in the future, and secondly, it will ease your own urgency.

But those officials who are relatively incorruptible, under normal circumstances, she is not very good at touching other people's money.

Jia Youshan has Jia Youshan and Jia Mingyuan in the Jia family, both of which are not bad, and they are also relatively capable talents in Ling Tiancheng's hands, at least they are more loyal.

Even if they didn't give gifts, Zhuang Siyan wouldn't easily trouble them, so she didn't know what Mrs. Jia meant by taking so many gifts.