"I don't know how many women have told the emperor that they like you and love you. The emperor must not lack true love. Wen Qingwu looked at Emperor Zhende, she stood upright, crossed her hands in front of her abdomen, and her posture was dignified: "But there is really no me in these loves." ”

Guo Zhi had already entered his side hall, and when he heard the movement, he leaned on the window, stretched open the crack of the window and looked at the movement outside. Hearing Wen Qingwu's words, he was startled, and hurriedly leaned on the window to listen more seriously.

Is there anyone in the harem who dares to be so open-mouthed in front of the emperor?

Emperor Joan of Arc looked at Wen Qingwu and raised his eyes, his eyes were gloomy and he couldn't see joy or anger.

"Yes, I don't love you. I haven't loved it all the time. I didn't love it before, and I won't love it in the future. Wen Qingwu said, in the increasingly gloomy face of Emperor Joan of Arc, continued: "I admire Your Majesty's ability to govern the country as a king, and I also admire Your Majesty's ability to select talents and promote ability. The Shengming monarch who has been passed down through the ages. No matter how reverent, the concubine has no woman's admiration. ”

Emperor Joan of Arc's face softened, looking at Wen Qingwu, and he didn't know whether to be angry or happy. Is this a disparagement of his lack of charm or a compliment to his good governance?

"Since Your Majesty is here today, the concubines will simply make it clear." Wen Qingwu lowered his head, stepped out of the threshold, and stood under the shaking lantern, his eyebrows like a fairy tainted with fireworks in the lamplight.

"I'm self-recommended to enter the palace, yes. But entering the palace was originally for a better life. After my father, Wen Shihuaxian, the governor of Lizhou and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, wen, Huaxian left, my mother and I were oppressed by my brother and sister-in-law in the family. thought that it was better to enter the palace and be happy, and because she was in the palace, she could ensure the health of the sisters and mothers outside the palace. Wen Qingwu said: "And I want to be Your Majesty's palace maid, but also for a better life."

Because after I entered the palace, I found out that I was so happy that it was better to be bullied by my brother and sister-in-law in the family. At least I live freely, and if someone oppresses me, I can directly repay my grievances. Entering the palace is different. ”

Wen Qingwu said, his voice fell, and he looked at Emperor Zhende's expression was still flat, but with sincerity and respect that he didn't have before: "But if you can become the palace maid by Your Majesty's side, it will be different with Your Majesty's protection." One is that there is no high score and favor that makes other mothers jealous, and the other is not to be snubbed and suppressed because they are not favored. ”

Emperor Joan of Arc looked at Wen Qingwu. Clam up.

"The concubine confessed all her careful thoughts in front of the emperor today, if the emperor also treats the concubine as countless palace concubines who are trying to get close to the emperor to please him, then the concubine has never said the above." Wen Qingwu said: "If the emperor understands it, he can treat me as a palace person." A real little palace man. I will also try my best to do my duty as a slave and maid who serves the king, not exceeding the rules, not being rude, not competing for favor, not winning love, and not even serving the king. ”

Joan of Arc stood there for a moment, then turned away in silence.

Wen Qingwu bent over and bent his legs at the back of Emperor Zhende: "The concubine sends the emperor." ”

One night the wind blows into a dream. After Emperor Joan of Arc left, the lights in the east and west side halls were lit for a long time, but in the main hall, the lights were soon turned off and quiet.

In the early morning of the next day, not long after Wen Qingwu got up, Guo Zhi left the palace with Gong Yi'an and went out.

Wen Qingwu watched in the hall as Liuji danced his sword.

Halfway through the dance, it stopped. After a while, I heard a voice outside the screen: "Wen Cairen is there?" ”

Liu Ye walked out of the hall with Wen Qingwu in his arms, and saw a person dressed in the inner room standing at the gate of the courtyard: "But Wen Cairen?" ”

"What's the matter with my father-in-law?" Wen Qingwu asked.

"It was His Majesty who sent a slave maid to inform Wen Cairen that from Ming'er onwards, you will be the palace maid in front of the palace." The chamberlain stood in place and did not salute Wen Qingwu.

"Yes." Wen Qingwu responded respectfully.

Seeing this, the chamberlain paused for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty entrusted me to pass on a message to the talented people, and I hope that the talented people will listen carefully." ”

"Yes." When Wen Qingwu heard the mention of Emperor Joan of Arc, he bent his legs and bowed his ears to listen.

"Your Majesty, from now on, although you are a talented person and enjoy the wealth of a talented person, there is no longer an arrangement for a talented person to take charge of Sige, and there is no longer a talented person's honorable position. As a holy slave, there is only the duty of a slave. Can you get it? ”

That is to say, from today onwards, although she still has the status and fortune of a talented person, she no longer enjoys the respect that talented people will have. If the palace people are lower than the palace maids, they will do the salutes according to the etiquette of the palace maids, and if they are high, such as Li Jianzhi Kong Shanggong and so on, she will do the salute as a slave. only has the duties of a slave, so she will not have to sleep in the future, and she will not be favored by the emperor.

The emperor is telling her that from today on, she is really just a little slave by his side, and she must not exceed the rules. Just like she said last night.

Wen Qingwu couldn't ask for it, she suppressed the pleasure in her heart and lowered her body: "The concubine understands." ”

The waiter looked at Wen Qingwu's expression, and he didn't react as Gonggong Li said before. After thinking about it, he waved his hand and asked a small attendant with a wooden plate behind him to step forward.

"This is the clothes that Wen Cairen will wear in the future." The chamberlain said.

Liu Ye stepped forward, took the plate and retreated. Wen Qingwu didn't look at it much, and only responded deciously: "Yes." ”

After the waiter left, Liu Ye picked up the clothes on the plate and looked at them, and when he saw them, he frowned and said, "Isn't this the clothes worn by the maidservants in the palace?" ”

"When you become a slave in the future, you naturally have to wear the clothes of a slave and a maid." Wen Qingwu glanced at the clothes, and then walked into the hall: "Serve me to change clothes." ”

Liu Ye followed Wen Qingwu into the hall, and couldn't help muttering: "Although it is said to be a slave, isn't the division still there, why do you even have to change your clothes, it's true." ”

And Guo Zhi and Gong Yi'an, who lived in the Nanxun Hall together, left their side hall early in the morning, and when the messenger entered the Nanxun Palace, they also stepped into the Yiluan Palace.

Concubine Mei Shufei wanted to sleep lightly, and with the incident of last night, she couldn't sleep well, so she got up early in the morning.

At this time, he was drinking the hot goat's milk in the imperial dining room in the palace, and his heart was still thinking about last night's events. The emperor actually went to the Nanxun Hall on the night of the fifteenth. On the fifteenth day, the emperor never went anywhere other than the Middle Palace. Although in the end, he still left the Nanxun Temple. But to be able to go last night is displeased.

Drinking goat's milk also suppressed the restlessness in his heart, this is the little waiter who listened to the good and walked in and said: "Niangniang, Guo Cai and Gong Yi from the east and west side halls of Nanxun are here." ”

Concubine Mei Shufei put down the goat milk bowl: "Why did you come here early this morning?" As he spoke, he said "annoying" in a low voice and asked the little chamberlain to invite him in.