Lin Yuan stepped forward to greet the queen and the concubines, and explained apologetically: "The concubines are lazy, they sleep until three o'clock in the morning, and they ask the queen for forgiveness when they are late for the queen's tea party." ”

The queen was in a very good mood at this time. Although that key chess piece made the Lin family in front of her take advantage of it, she would not get along with the Lin family - after all, the emperor not only mentioned the Bai family as Rong Ji and also called the six palaces to say that the queen's advice was meritorious, giving her great face, this time the reward is already very rich, it is best not to expect that terrible and ruthless emperor will give her more. As for Lin's ...... She will be staring at it in the future, but it is not necessary to be right, and she is not sure when it will be useful to her.

Then the queen didn't make things difficult for Lin Yuan, but said with a smile: "Where can I blame you, this palace wanted everyone to have a good time on a whim, but I forgot that young girls like you are a little sleepy." It's nothing, just go to bed a little earlier in the evening and take a nap at noon. Then he ordered someone to sit down.

After Lin Yuan thanked him, he was led by the palace people to sit down. A concubine on the side covered her mouth and sneered, and said in a clear voice: "Hui Guiji serves the emperor day and night, and her hard work is not comparable to those of us, so what is it about getting up late." Hui Guiji, do you say yes? ”

After that, someone snorted heavily, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little cold for a moment.

The people who can drive in the palace are all concubines who are favored in the palace, and everyone has a certain status, and they are even more unkind when they speak. The concubine who spoke first was Feng Zhuangji, who lived in the same palace as Concubine Xiang, and her appearance and family background were not outstanding, but she fell in love with Concubine Xiang, and she dared to say a sentence in the queen's palace.

Lin Yuan didn't take her seriously at all, and didn't want to have any response to what she said, she only picked up a cup of Lu'an melon slices in front of her and Liu Jieyu next to her and said with a smile: "There are really some good things in the queen's palace, even the bowl used to pour tea is a bamboo root bowl carved with nine songs, ten rings, one hundred and twenty sections, and I look much more elegant than those gold and jade." Lin Yuan remembered that she had seen Miaoyu tasting tea in the Dream of Red Mansions, and said that the tea cup that Miaoyu used for Baoyu was bamboo root, and she felt that this kind of thing was an elegant aristocratic fan, which was completely different from the nouveau riche who used a gold cup. Thinking that the queen was born in the Xiao family, her knowledge and learning since childhood are top-notch, and a tea party is admired everywhere.

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he took another sip of tea, his face was relaxed, and he looked like he was enjoying it. Feng Zhuangji didn't get an answer from beginning to end after saying the first sentence, the feeling of being treated as air was really humiliating, she looked at Lin Yuan's appearance of closing her eyes and tasting tea, and opened her mouth and said, "You ......"

Fortunately, she realized in time that Lin Yuan had sealed Guiji at the beginning, and her position was worthy of being above herself, so she blushed again and endured it.

Feng Zhuangji's inappropriate words and deeds did not arouse the ridicule of others, and everyone's eyes were still fixed on Lin Yuan. These days, everyone has seen that the only favor of the Chu family sisters is outdated, and now Hui Guiji is unstoppable.

At this time, Yun Xiurong's fingers pinching the green jade bucket were already slightly white, and Tian Shuji lowered her head to taste tea. Several concubines directly opposite the two were glancing at their sisters and whispering, and Lin Yuan, who was far away, could faintly hear the mockery. Lin Yuan sneered slightly, now the sisters of the Chu family are quite anxious, although the concubines are jealous of themselves, they are even more ridiculed by their sisters in every way, in order to avenge their domination at the beginning.

Originally, Chu Huaxin had a great future, but now he was only sealed for his father's merits...... Lin Yuan smacked this position, thinking that Tuoba Hong was really a stingy person, because he was annoyed by Chu Huaxin, even if she had to be promoted, she was only willing to give her the last position of the second grade. This beauty lady may not be clear about herself, but Lin Yuan thinks very clearly for her - if she wants to be promoted to the title in the future, it will really be difficult to climb to the sky.

In the final analysis, it's all about competing for favor.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan secretly thought that if he would be lucky tonight, he would definitely have to resign, and this kind of thing was really not easy to do. In fact, Tuoba Hong didn't have the intention of favoring one person, but Chu Huaxin was full of strength to dominate him, for fear that the emperor would be robbed and he would suffer. If Chu Huaxin can be a little far-sighted and formulate a detailed and appropriate plan to "get ahead", then she may really be able to make a concubine by taking the opportunity of being promoted by the emperor.

It's okay to be petted, but it's a bit too much to not give others a way to live for a month. Well, you say Concubine Xiang? Remember, she's an outlier.

Everyone was holding a tea bowl and tasting tea, but the expressions on their faces were not simple, some people didn't want to let go of Yun Xiu, and some people wanted to take advantage of Lin Yuan's low position to suppress her early. Liu Jieyu, who was accosted by Lin Yuan, knew that Feng Zhuangji was Concubine Xiang's power, and she didn't dare to come forward, but politely replied to Lin Yuan, "Hui Guiji is reasonable."

However, Lin Yuan is not worried that Liu Jieyu will be held by everyone if she doesn't help her, but there is a super peacemaker present today.

Sure enough, Concubine Rou at the table smiled gently and spoke: "Hui Guiji was stunned just by looking at the cup, you can't boast to the sky if you drink this tea again." Lu'an tea is the most picky season, too much rain will be fragrant tea, and if the rain is insufficient, the taste will be spicy, but the queen mother's palace is just right. Turning the conversation to tea.

The queen listened and answered: "Sister Shen's tongue spirit. It is said that it is the season when Lu'an tea is picked, but the average person drinks it is about the same, and the bitterness is second to the bitterness, and the glycol next to it is covered and difficult to taste. Said and laughed: "Which of you likes what tea to order by yourself, the taste of Lu'an tea is so good that many people can't drink it, and those flower teas are sweet and delicious." This palace has prepared thirty-six types of famous teas today, waiting for you to choose. ”

Saying this, outsiders will feel that the queen and Concubine Rou are on good terms, as if the ice cube thing in the previous child was not done by Concubine Rou.

The queen smiled when she spoke, some thanked the queen, and some said: "Niangniang is really extraordinary here, we have a good mouth today", and some such as Bai Rongji and the queen smiled and said: "Later, we will ask Niangniang for a drawer of tea to take back!" "The queen came to play the round in person, and everyone didn't dare to entangle with Lin Yuan and Yun Xiurong.

Concubine Rou was smiling with a smile on her face, but she was panicked in her heart, especially when she looked at the queen's comfortable and happy face, she felt that she was going to be angry to death, but she still had to maintain her usual gentle image. At the beginning, she made a lot of efforts for those dozens of truckloads of ice, how could royal things be so easy to steal, and she tried her best to arrange someone to pretend to be the internal supervisor of the Shanggong Bureau to pick up the ice, and ran twenty miles to the Huai River. She understood the emperor's jealousy and dislike for the empress, and as long as this dislike was gradually expanded, the empress would be abandoned sooner or later. But someone provoked the matter of the Chu family sisters......

The domination of the Chu family sisters caused resentment in the palace, and Shen Yunrong understood that this was someone who couldn't tolerate their sisters, and wanted to take the opportunity to find fault. If both parties understand this kind of thing, it is very tacit, and Shen Yunrong immediately instructed a few concubines to add fuel to the fire, pressing the queen step by step. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yuezhao actually proposed a way to promote the throne to the emperor, and solved the matter of the Chu sisters smoothly and neatly, and called the emperor to praise him. Seeing Bai Liangdi turn into Bai Rongji, although it was not as dazzling as Hui Guiji, Shen Yunrong understood that this was the emperor giving the queen a face.

Shen Yunrong rushed up in anger when she thought of this, she even suspected that the news that the Chu sisters took more ice cubes was deliberately released by the queen, just to lure herself into the bait and then save the day!

Xiao Yuezhao only lost a million taels of silver in the end, but she also spent a lot of money to steal the ice cubes, which is simply ...... Shen Yunrong could barely suppress the fire, so he had to drink the Lu'an tea in his hand to calm his breath, and finally drank until the root of his tongue was numb, and the queen smiled generously at her: "Concubine Rou likes Lu'an tea so much, you must bring two or three catties when you go back later, the tea garden in Lingnan has a bumper harvest, and there is no shortage of good Lu'an tea......

Shen Yunrong almost choked to death after taking a sip of tea, pinched his neck and swallowed it, only then did he squeeze out a smile with difficulty: "Concubine, thank you to the queen mother......"

At this moment, Concubine Xiang, who had been concentrating on tea from beginning to end and had never said a word, spoke slowly: "Let's not mention that the Lin family is late, don't you see that there are still two vacancies in this seat." ”

Everyone was stunned, and then they realized that there was indeed no one in the hall. Today, all the concubines in the palace came to taste tea, there were many people, and everyone had their own concerns, so they didn't notice the two people who were not eye-catching. The queen said lightly: "I don't know what Concubine Mao and Su Guiren did, the palace has already sent someone to urge, and it will probably ......be there in a while."

As soon as the queen finished speaking, a small inner eunuch trotted in from outside the hall and said, "Queen Niangniang, Concubine Mao and Su Guiren fell into the water at the lotus pond of Bibo Pond!" ”

The queen hurriedly asked, "Then how are they now?" Is it a big deal? Has the Imperial Doctor passed it on? "The eyes are full of eager concern.

The palace people who passed the message replied one by one: "Su Guiren is fine, but the water where the concubine fell was deep, and she choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and she had already fainted when she was rescued." However, after the imperial doctor's diagnosis and treatment, he said that it was not very serious, and the concubine woke up again, and it seemed to be fine. ”

"That's good, that's good." The queen said again and again. The concubines on the side looked concerned, but their hearts were full of disdain - Concubine Mao and Su Guiren fell into the lotus pond early in the morning, what else could this be. I didn't get any benefit from learning to be petted, and I fell into the water in embarrassment.

The queen naturally knew what was going on, and she didn't say anything. Concubine Rou, who used to like to care about people the most, was a little trembling at this time, and she didn't talk much. The queen said to her: "Concubine Mao and Su Guiren are both in your palace, and you will take good care of them after you go back." ”

Concubine Rou hurriedly said yes, got up and straightened her clothes and said, "The concubines can't rest assured that they can't rest assured, so they should leave first." ”

"That's fine." The queen nodded and said, "Fortunately, both of them are fine, don't forget to tell them to be careful when walking in the future, and don't go to the lotus pond again." ”

"Yes." Concubine Rou lowered her head and retreated, and when she walked out of the palace door, her legs and feet stumbled, as if she had tripped over the threshold. When she left the main hall, she raised her head, and her face was already full of hatred.