Chapter 48: Seduction
Zhao Jingjing fell silent after suffering a few losses from Xiang Xiaoqin. She went to Qifeng Hall on time every day to greet the queen, and she no longer tried to please other concubines. The queen originally didn't like her, but when she saw her clever convergence, she gave her the opportunity to get close to herself. The queen often summons Zhao Jingjing to Qifeng Hall to speak, Zhao Jingjing is a very straightforward person, and the queen in the old palace also likes such a character, and the two quickly became acquainted. With the support of the queen, Zhao Jingjing had a good life in the palace, and no one dared to embarrass her.
On the contrary, although Xiang Xiaoqin is constantly in favor, her life is quite bad. First of all, she lives in the Splendid Palace, so she is under the control of Wang Guifei, who is the head of the first palace. Wang Guifei tried her best to torture her all day long, today let her help show off her bedclothes, Ming'er asked her to help play the piano for fun, and later Gui'er Guifei wanted to eat pine nut corn, so let her help break the corn kernels...... This kind of thing happens endlessly, and it's different every time.
Moreover, because Xiang Xiaoqin is favored, the concubines in the palace are very jealous, she is flamboyant and intolerable, and she is used to pretending to be weak in front of the emperor, which offends some people very much. She was angry everywhere in the palace, but because of the emperor's favor, no one dared to offend her in the open.
On this day, Xiang Xiaoqin looked at the information about Lin Ruhai that Xiuyun gave her, and the more she looked at her, the more remorseful she became. If she could see Lin Ruhai before entering the palace and marry Lin Ruhai, presumably Master Zhen would agree to let her marry into the Lin Mansion. After all, Lin Ruhai has a lot of weight in front of the emperor, and many officials in the court are students of Lord Lin, in fact, even the emperor is also a student of Lord Lin. Although Master Lin has passed away first, Lin Ruhai's future is immeasurable, and no one will be stupid enough to fight him. If she can hold Lin Ruhai's heart, whether it is Master Zhen or her father, or even herself, she can get great benefits.
Now that her identity has been decided, it is almost impossible to make Lin Ruhai happy with her, but she wants to try. She wants to snatch this happiness from Jia Min, and wants to prove that she Xiang Xiaoqin is stronger than Jia Min.
"Xiuyun, you go to find a chance for me to meet Lin Ruhai by chance, and it's best to create some accidents."
"Your honor, this is not easy. Lin Ruhai won't come to the harem at all, and we don't have any manpower in the front hall. ”
"I will find an opportunity to send tonic soup to the emperor again, you let people stare at it to see when Lin Ruhai is there for the emperor."
"It's easy to spot."
"It's okay, I have my own way, didn't I say I want to create some accidents!" Xiang Xiaoqin smiled confidently, Jia Min, you wait, I want to make you feel painful and want to trample you under your feet.
On this day, the weather suddenly became cold, and Lin Ruhai felt cold in his hands and feet in the room, and his writing was not so smooth. He was about to go and ask someone to prepare a charcoal basin, and Xiao Wenzi came upside down, "Lord Lin, the emperor asked you to go, saying that you are probably too cold, the imperial study is warm, you used to be warm, so you don't have to freeze your body." "Lin Ruhai's office room, behind the imperial study, is very cold because there is no sunlight all year round, it is okay in summer, but it is difficult in autumn and winter.
Lin Ruhai entered the imperial study, and the emperor asked, "How is it, it's not frozen, right?" ”
"Thank you for the emperor's concern, Weichen is fine, and he is preparing to ask the little eunuch to prepare a charcoal basin."
"Shi Youfu, what's going on?" The emperor was obviously a little angry. The teacher is such an heir, and if he can't take care of himself, what kind of face do he have to see the teacher. Besides, Lin Ruhai is a talent he cultivated with his heart, how can he let his body be damaged?
Shi Gonggong knelt down and admitted his mistake, "The emperor spared his life, it was a dereliction of duty by the slaves, and he did not take care of Lord Lin." Father-in-law Shi was also very remorseful, the weather changed suddenly this afternoon, he was only busy with the emperor's warmth, and forgot to let people send warm clothes and a charcoal basin for Lin Ruhai to keep warm, he also thought of the late Lin Lao, and silently swore in his heart that he would never do it again in the future, otherwise he would really let Lin Ruhai have a good time, he would really be so sorry for Lin Laohai.
"Your Majesty, this can't be all blamed on Gonggong Shi, after all, the weather is changing too fast today, Gonggong Shi must first take care of the emperor's dragon health, although Weichen is cold, but there is no big problem, a bowl of ginger soup will be fine." Lin Ruhai also knelt down to intercede for Gonggong Shi.
"Ruhai, you get up, he did make a mistake today, since Ruhai is generous to intercede for you, I will punish you with a year's silver, don't hurry up and make arrangements for Ruhai!"
"Slave Emperor Xie, Lord Xie Lin!" Gonggong Shi kowtowed and thanked him, and hurriedly went to arrange Lin Ruhai's warmth.
Lin Ruhai drank two bowls of ginger soup brought by Xiao Wenzi, and felt much warmer on his body, and at this time, Father-in-law Shi also prepared a thick official robe for Lin Ruhai, and Lin Ruhai was ready to go back and change into it.
On the way, I saw Xiang Xiaoqin coming towards her, carrying a food box in her hand, trembling because of her thin clothes, and her little face was red from the cold wind, which was very pitiful, but Lin Ruhai was indifferent.
Lin Ruhai's instinctive retreat allowed him to avoid the next accident. I saw that Xiang Xiaoqin suddenly rushed forward as soon as her legs and feet were weak, if Lin Ruhai didn't retreat, then Xiang Xiaoqin would already be in Lin Ruhai's arms now. However, Lin Ruhai is a righteous gentleman and a loyal servant of the emperor, and when he sees the emperor's woman, he wants to retreat, so he retreats to avoid Xiang Xiaoqin.
Xiang Xiaoqin fell straight to the ground, the food box overturned, due to too much force, her nose hit the ground, and blood flowed immediately, such a situation was unexpected. She did a lot of calculations, but she didn't expect that Lin Ruhai would retreat as soon as she saw her. Her appearance should be the most able to arouse a man's pity, but Lin Ruhai was indifferent, why?
Lin Ruhai left wordlessly, without giving Xiang Xiaoqin a single look, nor a word of concern and comfort. Xiang Xiaoqin's heart seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar, she was lifted up by Xiuyun blankly, and then returned to her small courtyard.
Xiuyun saw her lost soul, and she couldn't bear it, so she said: "You die!" No one can calculate Lin Ruhai. He adhered to the etiquette of a gentleman, and he was very fond of his wife......"
"Shut up! I don't believe it, I don't believe it! No one can fail to be attracted to me! You see that even the emperor is fascinated by me, haven't you listened to them? The emperor never let the women in the harem get close to the imperial study before, but I can, I can! Xiang Xiaoqin retorted loudly. After she calmed down for a while, she said: "Today is an accident, I didn't estimate the distance, next time ......"
"There will be no next time! The emperor will not allow you to go to the front hall again! Xiuyun interrupted her sharply, and also shattered Xiang Xiaoqin's dream.