Saying that, he took Lin Yuan and the others out of Changxin Palace. Although he took a fast step, he was not so ruthless in his heart, he remembered that when he first married Xiao Yueyi at the age of seventeen, he still had two years of happy marriage. He still remembers that once his father punished him to kneel in Mingtai, and the dog days were unbearable, and Xiao, who was punished for kneeling with him, stole ice cubes from his sleeves and gave them to him without need.

Then that incident happened, and Xiao Yueyi couldn't have children...... Now that he is the emperor and she is the queen, the two of them have long been unrecognizable, but because of the beauty of the past, he treats Xiao differently from the woman next to him.

Xiao was the only woman in the palace who shared his hardships. Wang Shurong and them, although they also married early, as concubines, they are not a thorn in the side of his political enemies, and they have not suffered much. Only Xiao Yueyi is unique, and it is also the reason why he tolerates her again and again.

Thinking of these Tuoba Hong, he smiled secretly in his heart, this woman in the harem...... Xiao Yueyi is also the same, every time she is left out in the cold, she makes it look like she has a recurrence of the cold disease, and this time it is especially serious. Tuoba Hiroshi didn't know which time she was true or which time was false, but he didn't care. As long as he thinks of the hardships of the year, he will be tolerant of Xiao Yueyi, even if Xiao is pretending to be sick and petted, what happened at the beginning is real, just back then, he can't treat Xiao with the same way he treated Shen.

When I came to Changle Palace, the Queen Mother personally took a handful of Buddhist scriptures and dried them on the Shoushan stone in the front yard, and the palace maids next to her were standing. Tuoba Hong smiled and said: "The queen mother is so interested, do you want to learn Xuanzang's Buddhist scriptures?" ”

The queen mother glanced up at the emperor, called the palace maid to bring a basin to wash her hands, and said: "There is a miasma of smoke in this palace, where will the mourning family be interested." It's just that because those concubines were cut off from their heirs, the Great Qin royal family created such a big sin, and the mourning family felt ashamed, and sincerely begged the Buddha to protect my Tuoba family. ”

Talking about this, Tuoba Hong was also silent, and only helped the queen mother into the palace for a long time, and said ashamedly: "It's because the son is not good, he failed to control this harem well, so that the queen mother has to worry about her son when she is old." said and comforted: "The matter of the heir, don't be too sad about the queen mother." Ye's health has been getting better recently, and the imperial doctor said that the mother and son are healthy. And this Lin is also very good, can serve people, and knows the general situation. ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly lowered her head and said, "Don't dare to be a concubine." The Queen Mother turned her head to look at her, and said with a pleasant face: "You haven't come to the mourning house since you followed the emperor to Beisai, and I haven't seen you for a few months, and this Changle Palace is deserted." When your injuries are healed, you should come to Changle Palace to sit down more and accompany my old wife. ”

The queen mother has a cold personality, it is really harder to get a word of praise from her, Lin Yuan praised her today and blushed, and said repeatedly: "How can the concubine He De ......"

"Well, you should accompany the emperor more." The Queen Mother looked at her and smiled: "Although your body is weak, fortunately, there is no serious illness, and you can naturally get better when you are young." ”

Lin Yuan knew that what the Queen Mother said was an heir, and her face couldn't help but turn even redder, so she had to bow her head and say nothing.

Several people sat down in the inner room one after another.

There is a very hot earth dragon in the inner room of Changle Palace, and there is a brazier under the corner of the soft couch, which is because the Queen Mother is old and cold. Lin Yuan and Chu Huashang both took off their wide-sleeved robes, but Chu Huashang still felt very hot, and beads of sweat quickly formed on his forehead and the tip of his nose.

The palace people served refreshments and fruits, and the emperor and the queen mother sat and talked. Wang Shurong is not here today, but the jujube paste yam cake and rose honeydew she made yesterday were brought up by the palace maids and presented to the Queen Mother. Wang Shurong had a clear understanding of the Queen Mother's preferences, and the Queen Mother asked the emperor about Ye's fetus, and the other side pinched pastries to eat, which was obviously very appetizing.

Chu Huashang felt a little restless, and the sultry heating made her heart start to be irritable. She watched the Queen Mother take Lin Yuan's hand and ask her about her injury, gritted her teeth slightly, got up and brought a pot of Kuding tea to fill it for everyone, and respectfully said to the Queen Mother: "The weather is dry in winter, and the ancestors talk too much and drink some tea." ”

Seeing her so attentive, the Queen Mother smiled faintly and said, "Sit down." Today you just sealed the concubine, it is a good day for you, you don't have to work like this. He took a sip of tea and put it down, and said to the emperor: "It's still Wang's best at making tea, put some honeysuckle in the Kuding tea, the taste is unique, although the Chu family is also good at tea ceremony, the mind is a step behind." ”

Chu Huashang saw the Queen Mother's comment, and the tea was also put aside, so she had to say in a sneering manner: "What the Queen Mother said is that the concubine will go to Zhongcui Palace to ask Shurong Niangniang for advice when she has free time in the future." ”

And the queen mother no longer looked at her, turned around and ordered the palace people to reward Lin Yuan with the medicine to replenish her body.

Chu Huashang suddenly sulked on his chest. Once upon a time, she was like a fish in water in Changle Palace, and she could always coax the Queen Mother to laugh. However, now the Queen Mother only looks at the Lin family......

It's disgusting! In order to show her face in front of the Queen Mother, she first suppressed Concubine Wen and then squeezed out the Ye family, and the Lin family followed the emperor to Beisai, which would not be an eyesore. Can ...... now Concubine Wen recovered, Ye was pregnant, and Lin was wounded by an arrow and escaped death. I can't get along with her one by one!

Today, she was crowned a concubine, and the Lin family was crowned Jieyu, which was originally based on her. But seeing that the emperor and the queen mother liked the Lin family more than her, they snubbed her. The Queen Mother wanted to hold her grandson, looking at Lin Yuan was like looking at a pregnant woman, and she also rewarded her with precious medicinal materials such as snow lotus. And he - he is not qualified to give birth to an imperial heir.

is so young, but he can't have his own children, the prosperity of the family brings Chu Huashang not only power and glory, but also helpless sacrifice. 's father is also a military general, and in order to avoid the recurrence of the disaster of the Xiao family's Shangguan family, the emperor will give her a soup to avoid children every time she goes to bed. After Concubine Xiang was pregnant, she was favored the most, but it could never have a result.

She had no complaints about it. The women in the palace are already pitiful, she can become the emperor's pawn, and she is supported to fight against Concubine Xiang, even if she loses the qualification to have children? The price is worth it. But now......

She had a very bad premonition. Since Lin Yuan saved the emperor's heart, she began to be inferior to Lin Yuan in the emperor's favor. Even if Lin Yuan couldn't serve the emperor, she went to Jingyue Pavilion more times than she went to Xianfu Palace, and when she recovered from her injuries, the situation was simply unimaginable. She understands that the emperor's favor for her is not to like her, but to support her, but if the emperor loves Lin Yuan more, then who is this to support?

When she was canonized as Rong Hua as the lord of Xianfu Palace, the Queen Mother also hinted to her in private that as long as she did what the emperor ordered, it was not a luxury to be crowned a concubine.

On the night of Shen's death, she suddenly understood something very important - she began to understand what the emperor wanted her to do. The queen of the palace, the concubine Xiang, and the Shen family stood on three legs, but after the death of the Shen family, this balance was broken. She thought slowly, when the Shen family was demoted from Concubine Rou to Zhaoyuan, the emperor made her Ronghua; Emperor Beisai hunted, she stayed in the palace to serve the Queen Mother, and was awarded Jieyu by the Queen Mother's decree; After Shen's death, she officially performed the canonization ceremony and became a concubine.

Although she is not a man, she also knows how to analyze the situation, and without the Shen family in the harem, it is like a copper tripod with a missing horn, and it is always unstable. The emperor now needed a suitable person to take the role, and the queen mother told her that she could be granted the throne of concubine...... So, if there are no accidents, she's the right horn.

Lin Yuan is not afraid, her family background is too poor to become a climate. But if the emperor changes his mind - it is not impossible! Maybe in the emperor's opinion, the Lin family is more suitable! When she gave birth to a prince and was crowned with a high position, she was on a par with Empress Xiangfei, that situation was also a good prospect in the emperor's eyes! Besides, there is no threat if there is no family background, although it is difficult for the emperor to support her, the risk is small.

No, it doesn't work...... Her future has begun to blur, and the light is fading. The power she exchanged for her heirs was about to change hands, and all this became a bamboo basket for water...... She couldn't let this happen.

She thought she needed to get rid of the obstacles that stood in her way.

The Queen Mother stayed for lunch in Changle Palace, and Lin Yuan and Chu Huashang accompanied the Emperor and Queen Mother to eat together, and then returned to the palace separately.

Because it was the day of canonization, the emperor stayed in the Xianfu Palace of Tian Concubine this night. However, at the same time, the emperor also deliberately issued a holy decree to ask the Shang Palace Bureau to clean up Jingren Palace, one of the six eastern palaces, and five days later, Hui Jieyu moved the palace Jingren Palace and gave the lord.

When the news spread, the six palaces looked sideways.

Now there are only the east and west twelve palaces in the palace, and the rest, such as the Mirror Moon Pavilion and the like, are all Xiaoxuan small pavilions that are not as good as Liu, and the concubines who live in them cannot be called the main position. In other words, with the addition of the queen's main palace, Changxin Palace, there will only be a maximum of thirteen lords in the entire Great Qin harem - and there are more than fifty concubines in Tuoba Hong.

Competing for the throne is a situation where there are more monks and less porridge for the concubines. According to the ancestral system, only the noble concubines and above can hold the main position of a palace, but because there are not enough palaces, the two palaces of Jingren Palace and Yanxi Palace have been abandoned and uninhabited for many years, and Yongshou Palace has been sealed because of witches.

At present, Lin Yuan is just a fourth-grade Jieyu, and her background is still so low, so she can take the main position of Jingren Palace. Not to mention that these people are unhappy, the people next to them, such as Concubine Chen, who has fallen out of favor for a long time and lives in a remote place in the southeast corner of the palace, Concubine Jin who lives in the side hall of Lintoe Palace with Concubine Xiang, and Concubine Mao who originally lived in the side hall of Yongshou Palace and now moved to the side hall of another palace, also almost bit a mouthful of silver teeth. They are only one step away from the noble concubines, but according to the emperor's slight favor for them, even if they climb to the position of the noble concubines, they may not be able to get a place in the main position.