Su Mi got up early in the morning, today is the day when Zheng Guifei ordered to go to Juhe Palace to visit Concubine Yun, she finished serving Wei Qing'er, and came to the main hall of Caiwei Palace with a gift.

Wu Meiren and Hao Changzai have already arrived, and Zheng Guifei is still making up according to the product.

The personal girls beside Xiangluo, Wu and Hao were holding gifts and waiting in front of the door in a regular manner. Su Mi walked over and stood beside them, quietly waiting for the figure of the Lord of Caiwei Palace.

Zheng Guifei was selected in the last draft two years ago, in this "red face is not old and grace is broken" court, although she has just turned eighteen years old, although she has not withered, but it is already yesterday's yellow flower, and next year there will be a new official draft, when the newcomer comes in, she is even more old.

Sometimes she can't help but think, that favored Concubine Yun is obviously older than her? Why didn't the emperor want to look at her more? Because she's not beautiful enough? She sat in front of the bronze mirror, while letting her palace people fiddle with her, coiling up a high cloud bun for her, inserting bright pearls and emeralds, and wearing a trembling step, she couldn't help but think. Concubine Yun is certainly the best in the world, but she Zheng Peiyu is not much worse?

Until the palace people around him reminded softly, "Niangniang, it's already good." ”

Concubine Zheng came back to her senses and carefully looked at the bright and moving face in the mirror. "It's not bad, alas, think about it, this palace hasn't dressed up so carefully for a long time."

"Niangniang Qingshui out of hibiscus, even if there is no fat powder, it is far stronger than our vulgar powder." The clever Wu Meiren immediately said. Hao Changzai next to him also nodded hurriedly and said yes.

Zheng Guifei was in a much better mood, "The two younger sisters are too modest, and it's not too early, let's go." ”

The three masters rode in the chariot, and Su Mi followed behind with gifts, and soon arrived at the Juhe Palace where Concubine Yun lived.

Juhe Palace is located in the east of the harem, not far from the Qianqing Palace, close to the blue wave pool, the whole palace is built near the water, imitating the style of the waterfront in the south of the Yangtze River, extremely elegant and exquisite.

As soon as a group of several people arrived at the Juhe Palace, the powerful palace people around Concubine Yun had already greeted them.

At first, it was a girl in a new green palace skirt, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, handsome, clever manners, looking at the color of the hairpin ring, you knew that she was a high-grade palace person, followed by a few little girls. Lao Yuan saluted Zheng Guifei and said, "Your concubine and your masters are here, our master is looking forward to it early in the morning." The special slave Caixing is waiting here. While walking to the chariot, he reached out to help Zheng Guifei down.

Although Concubine Zheng's position is two levels worse than Concubine Yun, she is also the head of the first house, and seeing that she came to visit, Concubine Yun only sent a girl out, and her face was not very good-looking. With a shake of his hand, he didn't look at Cai Xing, and said in a manly voice: "Xiangluo ......"

Seeing this, Xiangluo handed over the gift in her hand to the people around her, and hurriedly stepped forward to support her master.

Cai Xing saw that her hand was empty, but there was no trace of annoyance on her face, and she followed behind Zheng Guifei and said: "Our master knew that Niangniang was coming over yesterday, and she was very happy, and often said that she was introverted, and she had been in the palace for a shallow time, and she had already had the intention to make friends with all the mothers, but I was afraid that you would not wait to see you......"

Zheng Guifei was very humble and respectful when she heard what she said, and her face slowly eased.

Entering the palace gate, several masters were naturally welcomed into the main hall, and Su Mi and a few of them were led to the treasury of the side courtyard by the palace maids who were in charge of the gifts. In a short time, the gift points will be registered and handed over to the treasury.

After unloading the messenger, Xianglin and their master were still in the palace, so naturally they couldn't leave, so the little girl led them into the side room to drink tea and wait. Su Mi was impatient to waste time like this, so she came out early under the pretext that Wei Qing'er still had to serve there.

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On a cold and windy winter day, even green leaves are very rare, but in the blue wave pool in front of you, there are undulating lotus leaves and thousands of flowers in full bloom. Because Concubine Yun loves lotus, the emperor in order to please the beauty, specially ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cultivate the cold and frost-resistant lotus varieties, and in the blue wave pond to build a lot of construction, more trees, more rockeries and strange stones, in order to block the cold wind, on which more charcoal pot stove is placed, this autumn from the underground from the palace hot spring - the water of the fire dragon spring into the pool, and finally in winter created in front of the eyes of the "lotus leaves infinitely green, the sun lotus flowers are different red" grand scene.

Su Mi looked at the beautiful scenery in front of her, and couldn't help but feel relaxed. In a moment's interest, I simply walked along the blue wave pond to the east, although it was a little farther to go back to the palace by this road, but there were not many opportunities to enjoy such a beautiful scenery along the way.

After walking for a while, it was already far away from the Lotus Palace, and the lotus flowers in the pond were not as neat as they had just seen, and the road was difficult to walk.

When she came to a corner of the pool, Su Mi wanted to rest her feet, so she simply went into the water to wash her face. As soon as he climbed over a rockery and came to the water's edge, Su Mi was stunned, there was someone in front of him, and he was actually taking a bath in the pool. It's a little girl who is only about thirteen or fourteen years old, and I don't know which house it is.

When did Concubine Yun become so tolerant?

The three pools in the harem, Taiye Pool, Bibo Pool, and Weiyang Pool, were originally used by the masters of each palace to enjoy and relax, but since the emperor renovated and rebuilt the Bibo Pool for Concubine Yun, the palace concubines have an indescribable mustard in their hearts. Even if it is close, there are few who come to relax, and would rather go to Taiye Pond and Weiyang Pond farther away. And Concubine Yun didn't like people to approach, and there were once palace maids who were beaten to death because they secretly broke the lotus flowers in the pool. As soon as this matter came out, no one came to touch this mold.

If it weren't for the justifiable name of giving gifts this time, Su Mi wouldn't have been able to watch here with confidence.

The little palace maid heard the sound behind her, turned around, and saw Su Mi at a glance, and immediately couldn't help screaming, and suddenly remembered something, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

"Who are you?" She looked at Su Mi vigilantly and asked. The palm-sized little face is white and red, pink and tender, with a white jade condensed nose, slightly upturned cherry-like little red lips, a good elf sweet little girl, when she sees her appearance clearly, Su Mi can't help but praise it.

"This is Concubine Yun's blue wave pool, and outsiders can't come in." Seeing that Su Mi was silent, she couldn't help but be a little anxious.

Su Mi glanced at the palace maid's clothes and ornaments on the rockery, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter who I am, I have picked up a great merit for nothing." ”

"What a great achievement? Don't talk nonsense, can you hurry up? I'm kind enough not to tell anyone. but to be seen is to be punished. As she spoke, her eyes lingered as she looked around, looking like a thief.

"Punished? It doesn't matter. As long as I tell the manager that someone dares to bathe in the pool and defile the pool, I will be able to offset the merits, and maybe there will be a reward? Su Mi said with a smile.

"Huh? Good sister, don't go, it's Qiyan's mistake and it can't be done. As soon as she heard the word "complaint", the little girl was anxious, and hurriedly turned to begging.

This girl will pick a place, Su Mi looked around, this corner is rockery on three sides, a grove, and more daffodils, vines and other near-water plants are planted on the rockery, the water is rippling, lotus leaves Tingting, fragrant, warm like spring. And if you don't climb over the rockery, you really can't find it.

Su Mi just saw that she was cute, and she became childlike for a while, and deliberately teased her. Seeing that she was really anxious, she turned her mouth and said, "I won't say it, you can rest assured, it's just that you are taking a bath here, it's too bold, right?" ”

"Sister, don't worry, it'll be fine." After Su Mi repeatedly promised that he would not say it, Qiyan put his mind at ease.

The two talked about it, and it turned out that this little girl's name was Liu Qiyan, and she had just entered the palace two months ago.

Daqi's harem, in addition to the triennial draft, also has an annual selection.

The draft is to select unmarried women with both talents and good looks from various official families to fill the harem, these women are all from official families, noble blood, they are either registered as concubines, serving the emperor, or acting as female officials, leading slaves, serving nobles.

The selection is to select unmarried women with beautiful and moving appearances and innocent family backgrounds across the country, these women are not from high backgrounds, and most of them are gentry and eunuch families. After being elected to the palace, most of them were ordinary palace maids, and only a few who were particularly outstanding were able to serve the emperor and become concubines. Concubine Yun was selected to enter the palace, she was originally the daughter of an ordinary Xiucai family in Qianzhou, she has been brilliant since she was a child, she has a captivating posture, her reputation has spread throughout the city, and the Internal Affairs Office went to it.

Liu Qiyan is the youngest daughter of Liu Quan, a famous wealthy businessman in the capital, and the Liu family is also innocent, but unfortunately it is a businessman's family, and her daughter can only be a slave when she enters the palace. Liu Quan didn't want his daughter to enter the palace, but his destiny was difficult to disobey, but fortunately, he was not short of money, and in order to love his daughter, he spent a lot of money to put the internal affairs office up and down properly, and only hoped that his daughter would be released from the palace safely ten years later.

After Liu Qiyan entered the palace, he was immediately assigned here to take care of this small lotus pond. It's a deserted place, and it's a very easy and unburdened job, and it can be regarded as a person from the Internal Affairs Office who didn't take her father's money in vain.

But she is only 14 years old this year, which is the age of activity and fun. I have nothing to do here every day, and I can't see a few people all day, so I simply go down to the pool to bathe and have fun. I've washed it several times, and I didn't bump into Su Mi until today.

After listening to Qiyan, Su Mi couldn't help but sigh that this girl was lucky enough.

"Sister, don't tell Manager Li, otherwise, Qiyan will definitely be scolded." Qiyan once again admonished uneasily. The chief eunuch of Juhe Palace, Li Zhe, received a lot of benefits from Liu Quan, and has always taken good care of Qiyan, and has repeatedly told her some taboos, if she knows that she does not comply, she will probably be scolded, she thought.

Scolded? If it was really just a scolding, or just a beating, she should have thanked God. This innocent girl was completely unaware of the cruelty of the court.

Su Mi was about to say something, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the distance. Su Mi was startled and hurriedly jumped down from the rockery, made a silent gesture towards Qiyan, and then squatted behind the rockery and looked out.

Through the gap in the rockery, I faintly saw two people coming from a distance.

When he got in, Su Mi couldn't help but be surprised. The first person wore a white jade crown and a bright yellow robe, and the Nine Dragons Tengyun on it was vividly embroidered. The slightly pale face is handsome and exquisite, it is the Great Qi Emperor who I saw in Caiwei Palace a few days ago, and he is the son of Qi Long today.

"Li Xingzhi also recommended Chen Shu yesterday, plus Wang Hao led a group of people to create a momentum for him a few days ago, he thought that he should be the commander of this newly built naval army, hmph, how can I let them get their wish?" Qi Long said slowly, for some reason, the cold voice revealed a kind of poison.

"The emperor doesn't have to be anxious," the man behind Qi Long also came into view. He wore a white jade crown belt on his head, obviously it was a cold winter, but he only wore a thin white light shirt, and wore a lotus-shaped purple jade pendant around his waist, and his eyebrows were five or six points similar to Qi Long, but he had more of an elegant and calm, handsome and steady bearing.

"How can you not be in a hurry?" Qi Long walked slowly, "Now that I have to pick a place for you to say something important, I don't know why I can let the queen mother give me a ...... even if I eat one chopstick less for dinner."

"Who?!" Before Qi Long finished speaking, the man in white behind him quickly grabbed him and shouted. Sharp eyes swept towards the lotus pond where Su Mi and the two were located.

"Ah, I'm the palace maid of Juhe Palace, who are you? This is the blue wave pool of Concubine Yun. Su Mi lowered her voice and said nonsense, Qiyan was already frightened.

Su Mi looked up at the two of them, his eyes just touched the man in white, and he couldn't help but shudder, he was obviously handsome and dusty, his bearing was elegant and gentle, but his eyes were extremely cold, making people feel like they were in the ice and snow at first sight, Su Mi strangely rose up a feeling of being completely seen through.

Suddenly, she didn't want to show weakness and meet his gaze. When I looked at her closely, I realized that his eyes were a faint amber color, reflecting the pale golden sunlight of winter, showing a strange almost warm coldness.

"Is it a palace maid?" Qi Long also stepped forward and looked at the rockery.

Far away and separated by a lot of flowers, trees, mountains and stones, Qi Long only faintly saw half of his face from the gap in the rockery, and only felt that his complexion was white and greasy, and his cheeks were as delicate as jade, and even the daffodils next to him had lost their color. The eyes are clear like a clear spring, the waves are flowing, and just one gaze makes people seem to be immersed in this blue wave pool, and they are about to sink in a trance.

Still holding the pipa and half-covering his face. He couldn't help but think of this poem. I couldn't help but walk forward.

"Ah, don't come here, I'...... I'm taking a bath......" Su Mi woke up like a dream, and hurriedly whispered.

Qi Long couldn't help but laugh, he hadn't encountered such an interesting thing in a long time.

The man in white withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes, since the opposite side was a palace person, it was not his identity that should be seen.

At this time, Su Mi felt that the corner of her clothes was being pulled, and when she looked back, it was Qiyan, she pointed to the corner of the rockery behind her, and gestured to Su Mi.

There is a secret passage?!

"You wait a while, I'll put on my clothes and you'll come back." While dealing with Qi Long, Su Mi signaled to Qiyan to get dressed quickly.

Qi Long stopped his steps outside, the man in white still lowered his head, but his ears moved imperceptibly, he had already heard that there were two breathing sounds inside, but he didn't say anything, a smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth, interesting.

Qiyan quickly pulled the skirt on the rockery and put it on her body. Then led Su Mi to the rockery pass, opened a flower bush, and sure enough, there was a stone cave.

The two of them came out and tiptoed on the shallow water for a long time, and finally they were far away.

Qiyan patted his chest, his little face flushed, "I don't dare to take a bath there in the future, I didn't have anyone before, but today I was surprising, I met so many people?" It's a pity that it's a good place, and if you want to take a bath in the future, you have to boil the water yourself,"

"Don't worry, if you want to take a bath in the future, there will naturally be a slave to help you burn." Su Mi said with a smile.

"What kind of slaves, we are slaves, can we still become masters?" Qiyan's eyes flashed wide, and he wondered.

Su Mi smiled but didn't answer, she couldn't see that this little girl was a creative person, but she didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse for her.

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A few days later, Xiao Luzi came to Su Mi to help and talked about something.

"My sister has been stuffed in the house all day and doesn't know the news outside, but it's going to be upside down."

"What's the matter, so uncontrollable." Su Mi asked as she sorted out her clothes.

"Speaking of which, this is a strange thing, the day before yesterday, His Royal Highness Prince Yu went to the palace to find the emperor to taste tea and enjoy the flowers, and the emperor went to Bibo Pool with him, but he didn't want to meet ......."

That man is Prince Yu! Brother of the emperor today! Su Mi said secretly.

Qi Hao, the prince of Yu, was originally the eldest son of the first emperor, but his biological mother was from a humble background, and it was difficult to inherit the unification. In the palace, he only made friends with the four princes at that time, that is, the current emperor Qi Long. Originally, the prince could be crowned the king and open the mansion at the age of sixteen, but when Qi Hao was sixteen years old, the first emperor just gave him a mansion and let him move out, but he did not give him any title, which can be seen in his indifference. It was not until the death of the first emperor that Qi Long ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne that he was named Prince Yu. Regarding Qi Hao's background, there is even a faint rumor in the palace that his biological mother is not only from a humble background, but actually an orchid!

"No wonder there are such rumors," Su Mi thought of those amber eyes, and was slightly distracted.

"Sister Su, Sister Su," Xiao Luzi was talking there, turning his head to see Su Mi but he was not reluctant.

"Huh? Where did you just go? Su Mi came back to his senses, "I'll listen." ”

"The emperor summoned this palace maid named Liu Qiyan that night, and the next day he sealed the change of clothes from the eighth grade, hey."

"This is also her blessing," Su Mi said, as expected.

"What kind of blessing is that? My sister didn't know it, and it turned into a disaster in the blink of an eye. After knowing it, Concubine Yun was so angry, in her palace, this kind of thing happened, she was also known as the sixth palace of the favored crown, no one can match it, and it was even more amazing that Ni Guifei of Xifu Palace immediately sent someone to send a congratulatory gift the next day, two copies, exactly the same, and said, "One is to congratulate Concubine Yun's sister on her birthday, and the other is for the new sister." Concubine Yun's face was not good-looking at the time, and after the people left, she immediately sent someone to take Liu Changyi down, saying that she would be cured of her unauthorized bathing in the pool and defiling the sin of Bibo Pool, but as a result, she was beaten with twenty boards, pitiful, how can a delicate and weak woman bear it, just became the master, and half her life was gone. ”

"Pathetic? I think it's lucky, she was worth the beating," Su Mi put down the clothes in her hand and said with a smile.

Qianqing Palace Nourishing Heart Palace.

Qi Long was reviewing the pieces that had just been sent from all over the country, and when he heard the news that Gao Shengnuo had just sent in, he was silent for a while, and said, "Go and take a bottle of Snow Jade Muscle Cream from the Western Regions from the previous one and send it to Liu Changyi," paused, and said, "Proposed edict, change clothes Liu, gentle and virtuous, supple and courteous, Jin Wei is the eighth grade of promise." ”

In the Lotus Palace, Concubine Yun leaned on the couch, looked at the few plum blossoms in the skein silver bottle in front of her in a daze, was stunned for a while, and asked, "Is the emperor still in the Palace of Cultivating the Heart?" Apart from the edict of promotion, is there any other will that has not been made? ”

The people of the left and right palaces said cautiously: "The emperor is still looking at the excerpts......"

With a "snap", plum blossoms splashed, and the silver bottle fell to the ground, Concubine Yun didn't feel relieved, and turned around to pick up the jade cup on the table and fell to the ground fiercely.

Today is her birthday, she sent someone to invite the emperor early in the morning, if it was in the past, the emperor would have already tasted tea and laughed with him here with her.

"It's all that little girl," Concubine Yun thought hatefully, "and Ni Yelin, a slut, she wouldn't have been so impulsive, anyway, people still live in her palace, and after a few days, the emperor's freshness will pass, and she won't be able to deal with it as she wants." ”

She took a long breath, tried to calm herself, turned her head and ordered: "Go and take out the bottle of the emperor's reward Tianshan Snow Lotus Ning Xianglu in the cabinet, as well as a pair of fat jade kui dragon carved vases sent by Jiangning Mansion a few days ago, and then go and get a pair of white jade rich and rich Ruyi and four horses with brocade, and take them together to reward Liu Xu." Just said the words of the palace, and told her to take care of her illness, and the palace punished her is also the palace rule, and she has no choice but to go over to see her when she is done. The voice was light and tired, and I couldn't hear joy or sorrow.

Cai Xing took the order and left.

When she came back to restore her life, Concubine Yun said to the eunuch Li Zhe, "Little ochre, you go to the Heart Cultivation Palace again and ask the emperor if he is free." ”