Today, Yu Miaoying mustered up the courage and asked the queen to join the academy. The queen also promised to give her a chance to take the entrance exam. However, Empress Dowager Yu resolutely asked her to dispel this idea, seeing that her long-term expectations for many days were about to come to naught, Yu Miaoying knelt on the ground, and her heart was tormented.

At this moment, Yu Miaohan, who had been standing quietly next to her, suddenly said: "Queen Mother, since entering the palace, the courtiers have been hearing people in the palace talk that His Majesty the Emperor is diligent and loves the people, does not like to drink wine and feast, does not like to hunt and swim, and when he is free, he likes to watch the craftsmen make things." And many of the things made by the craftsmen come from the ingenuity of the palace maids of the painting academy. Therefore, those female officials with outstanding skills in the academy have many more opportunities to see the face of heaven than people in other places......."

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Yu's frosty face began to show signs of loosening. She thought for a moment and said, "That's it, so you can try it!" ”

Yu Miaoying was overjoyed, but she still suppressed her joy and tried her best to keep her voice steady: "Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother!" ”

"But remember what you were going for! Don't get discouraged and forget about business! Empress Dowager Yu advised.

"Courtiers keep it in mind!" Yu Miaoying responded respectfully.

"Let's go down!" Empress Dowager Yu was tired and authentic.

"Yes!" Yu Miaoying and Yu Miaohan retreated.

As soon as the two of them walked outside the hall, Yu Miaoying couldn't help but whisper: "Thank you Sister Han for helping me!" ”

Yu Miaohan turned around and smiled slightly, and also said in a low voice: "I hope my sister can finally get her wish!" ”

Yu Miaoying really got her wish. She has outstanding painting skills, basic arithmetic skills, clear brains, and a strong desire to win, so she successfully passed the entrance examination of the art academy.

When you join the academy, you have to move to live with your colleagues. Yu Miaoying moved out of Empress Dowager Yu's Changtai Palace under the pretext that she would have more chances to see Tianyan.

After Yu Miaoying moved out, a few days later, Yu Miaohan began to get sick, and her parents said that they were afraid that she would disturb the Queen Mother, so they took her home to recuperate, saying that they would send her over when they were ready. But after more than a month, he always found all kinds of excuses to shirk and no longer entered the palace.

Empress Dowager Yu sat in the Changtai Palace by herself, watching the mottled shadows of the trees outside the door constantly changing shape in the wind, and she already knew in her heart that her people were no longer willing to support her plan.

Twenty-seven years ago, Chen Huaishen was seriously ill and knew that his days were numbered, so he began to speed up the selection of the future queen for Chen Jianjun. There are three women who have fallen into Chen Huaishen's blue eyes, including the abolished Empress Cui and Empress Dowager Yu.

Cui's is more bright and refreshing, but Yu's is elegant and quiet. Chen Huaishen felt that a person like Cui's could be in charge of Chen Jianjun's harem and be able to suppress a favorite concubine like Jin Ling'er. So, after Chen Huaishen died, Chen Jianjun succeeded to the throne, and after the filial piety period, he got married, and named Cui's as the queen. But only a month after the wedding, the Cui family was deposed because of the rod to blame Jin Ling'er, and the Cui family collapsed.

Yu became the new queen. She knew that Chen Jianjun didn't like her, and she also knew that Jin Ling'er was eyeing her and wanted to destroy her too. She was doubly respectful and silent, no matter how much humiliation she could swallow, just to survive in this treacherous court, and to let her family survive.

She is extremely disgusted with Jin Ling'er, but at the same time, she has irrepressible jealousy and envy for Jin Ling'er. She bears the title of an empress, but she is not favored by the emperor, and this false name only means emptiness and hopelessness for her. She was unwilling, but she also knew that she had no chance in this life. So she pinned her hopes on the younger generations, and she expected them to be able to shame her for her! I hope they can bring status and glory to the Yu family!

However, none of these juniors can bear her trust! Yu Miaoqing was submissive, but he couldn't compare to Zhang Weizhao's vigor and sharpness, and he was defeated in the battle for the back position. Now that she is married, she still has the frame of a talented woman, mourning her relatives, frowning, and not being favored by her husband, and her life is not good.

Yu Miaoying and Yu Miaohan are young and beautiful, like spring flowers and autumn moons, each with their own strengths, and they still have the capital to occupy a place in Chen Youcong's harem. But these two people did not obey the discipline, one ran to draw some drawings, and the other simply said that he was sick and hid home. And their parents actually let them go.

Empress Dowager Yu was angry. Who is she all this for? Why is it that no one understands her hard work? When he wanted an official position and a title, he blushed his face and begged her in a low voice. When you want to take responsibility, you hide far away. But I don't know, if there is no one in the palace who can be used, only she is an empty queen mother, where will those official positions and titles come from?

She was about to get Yu Miaoying and Yu Miaohan back, but she felt disheartened, and she didn't bother to say or do anything.

The only thing that can comfort herself now is that the power of palace affairs is still in her hands, so those powerful eunuchs and female officials have to be respectful when they see her, otherwise, who will remember her? I'm afraid that she, the queen mother, will only be reduced to an embellishment that will be brought out to show her face as an annual celebration.

But the power of this palace affairs was something that Zhang Weizhao didn't want at all, so it fell into her hands. What others don't want, she has to grasp it in the palm of her hand like a life-saving straw, and Empress Dowager Yu only feels full of sadness.

In recent days, she only feels that she has more and more gray hair. She has never lived well, and she is going to grow old.

Yu Miaoying has been enjoying herself in the art academy recently, and when she came back to greet her, her face was crystal ruddy and her speech was full of anger. She really can't figure out what the reason is that she doesn't do it while she puts her concubine alone, but she wants to be a craftsman, and she does it happily? It's as if she has never figured out why Zhang Weizhao, a savage-like woman, can be so favored by Chen Youcong, and even far surpass Chen Jianjun's love for Jin Ling'er back then?

She is really getting old, and there are more and more things that she can't figure out. Then just don't think about it, just live in a daze.

Contrary to the depressed mood of the Empress Dowager Yu, the Empress Dowager has been quite energetic and refreshed recently.

The reason why the Empress Dowager is happy is because the Emperor and Empress have recently come up with a lot of new gadgets, which are fun and easy to use, adding a lot of fun to life.

In September, Dayan opened a government-run shipyard in Mingzhou, which was running smoothly, saying that he wanted to build a unique ship in the world to prepare for Dayan's voyage again. The Empress Dowager is a temperament who likes to be fresh and lively, and when she heard that Da Yan's fleet would go farther than the Three Treasures eunuch this time, she was deeply overjoyed and determined to live a long time, and live to see the day when Da Yan's ocean-going fleet returned smoothly, and see what kind of novelties and strange experiences the fleet would bring back.

But the joy brought to the Empress Dowager by all these things was not as good as the news that Zhang Weizhao personally told the Empress Dowager the day before yesterday: she was pregnant. The due date should be June next year.

Hearing the news, the Empress Dowager was even happier than when she learned that she was pregnant. She first immediately went to burn incense and worship the gods, praying that the gods would bless Zhang Weizhao to give birth to a child smoothly, and then she wanted to find a careful and steady elderly palace person to serve Zhang Weizhao.

Zhang Weizhao told the Empress Dowager that she had enough manpower, and it was inconvenient for someone she was not familiar with, so the Empress Dowager gave up. It stands to reason that the elders don't dare to resign, but the Empress Dowager has always been very convinced by Zhang Weizhao's words, so she didn't worry about extra care, just waiting to hold her grandson or great-granddaughter.

In the harem of previous generations of emperors, once a concubine was pregnant, often the people in the first palace immediately became nervous, just afraid that the concubine would bump into it, or eat the wrong thing. What's even more frightening is that someone is jealous and deliberately kills the fetus. You must know that this fetus is not only related to the future of the concubine, but also to the future of the slave of the first palace. Therefore, not only is the pregnant woman nervous, afraid to walk around, afraid to eat at will, but the people around her will also remind her of various taboos from time to time.

Although there are the best doctors and tocolytic drugs in the palace, the proportion of pregnant women who have aborted babies is still more than that outside the uterus, and everyone knows the truth.

But Zhang Weizhao is not at all in such a state of facing a great enemy. She is the only queen in the entire harem, she can do whatever she wants, eat whatever she wants, and go wherever she wants, without any additional worries at all.

Although the concubines of the first emperor are still in the palace, they do not go out easily in Changxiang Palace, let alone go to the places where the emperor and empress often walk, and Zhang Weizhao are people who live in two worlds and will not interfere with each other.

Empress Dowager Yu, as the nominal mother of the emperor, also symbolically told the queen to take good care, not to work excessively, and pay attention to diet, but that was just a scene, and naturally it would not affect Zhang Weizhao's arrangement of his own work and rest.

Therefore, although the queen is pregnant, she still walks on foot in the harem, teaches courses in art academies and hospitals as usual, and is said to do five bird plays in her palace every day, riding bicycles, no different from usual. And her outrageous behavior, the emperor and the empress dowager knew about it, but they didn't say anything, they simply connived to the edge of the sky.

Empress Dowager Yu watched coldly, and turned countless ideas in her heart. For example, the bluestone road that Zhang Weizhao often walks on was slippery, making her fall coldly; Another example is to get her something coldest to eat; Or, under the pretext that she couldn't sleep, she arranged a few bewitching women for the emperor, and she was so angry that she had a miscarriage.

But she just thought about it in her heart, and in the end she did nothing. She knew she didn't really have the opportunity to do it. Besides, even if there is a chance, what is she doing with this? There was no one or nothing that pushed her to take the risk.

This is Chen Youcong and Zhang Weizhao's harem, not Chen Jianjun and her harem. Chen Jianjun has only been dead for a few years, and the laws of the harem are completely different from when he was alive.