Chapter Seventy-Five: Premeditation
"Your Majesty, even if you don't want to, but what those ministers said is right, it's time for the emperor to take a few concubines to fill the harem." Qing Yunwu clenched Han Moyuan's hand and persuaded him earnestly.
Han Moyuan was a little surprised when he heard this: "Wu'er didn't persuade me today, I don't want any concubines at all, I only want you."
Qing Yunwu opened her apricot eyes and looked back at Han Moyuan with an expression: "The concubines know that the emperor only has the concubines in his heart, but as long as the concubines know in their hearts, it is enough, and the ministers are doing this for the emperor's good, and the concubines don't want to be called jealous."
"But I really don't want to take a concubine, besides, there are already a few concubines in this palace."
Qing Yunwu smiled: "Those sisters are all old people in the palace, how can they compare with the new ones who have entered the palace, the emperor, you will listen to the concubines." After speaking, she tightly grabbed Han Moyuan's palm, showing her determination.
"Okay, okay, I can't help you, then you will preside over this matter, and I won't be involved much." Finally, Han Moyuan agreed to Qing Yunwu's request, and Qing Yunwu also hugged her tighter.
But who knows, from an angle that Han Moyuan can't see, Qing Yunwuzheng is secretly sad by herself.
What woman in the world can hope that her beloved man will find another woman to spend the Spring Festival with, and that woman can give up her beloved?
But she knew that this would happen sooner or later, and instead of letting him propose to choose a concubine later, it would be better to propose it now, so that she could keep a good one.
"It's not early, it's snowy and frosty tonight, let's go back to the palace early." Qing Yunwu held Han Moyuan's somewhat cold hand and said.
"Okay." After speaking, Han Moyuan took Qing Yunwu back to the palace.
This night, Han Moyuan rested in Keyanxi Palace again, but it was another sleepless night for those concubines who did not have the emperor's favor.
In the blink of an eye, the next day
Early in the morning of this day, the entire palace already knew the news that the emperor was going to choose a concubine, but this news was undoubtedly worse for those concubines who were not favored on weekdays.
Early on, there were concubines who couldn't sit still and went to Yanxi Palace.
And Qing Yunwu, who originally wanted to sleep lazily, also had no choice but to get up and face these concubines.
When Qing Yunwu arrived at the main hall, the hall was already full of concubines, and these concubines were the side concubines and concubines that Han Moyuan had accepted when he was the prince.
Qing Yunwu didn't have much energy to face these chattering concubines, and after they sat for a while, Qing Yunwu dismissed them on the grounds that they were unwell.
Although these concubines were dissatisfied, they did not dare to show it on the surface.
And among these concubines, the most incompatible with Qing Yunwu is the noble Ping, she is not used to Qing Yunwu everywhere, and she is against her everywhere, now Qing Yunwu has become the queen, and she is just a small nobleman, how can she not be annoyed by the current situation.
When he returned to the palace, the nobleman began to be furious and smashed all the porcelain vases in the palace.
"Where am I inferior to her, where do you say I am inferior to her." Ping Guiren looked at the personal palace maid Cui'er with annoyance.
"Mother, there's nothing wrong with you." Cui'er looked at her master with a distressed face.
She has served the nobles since she was a child, she was the personal maid of the nobles at home, she was the maid of the nobles when she married to the palace, and now in the palace, she is the personal palace maid, and she has seen all the neglects of the nobles for so many years.
"It was like this in the palace at the beginning, why is it the same in this palace? Why did she become the queen and I was just a little nobleman, why was she able to fascinate the emperor, why could she be favored by the emperor, why could she let the emperor personally choose the pearl hairpin for her, why is this? Why is this..."Ping Guiren sat on the ground lonely, and all the palace maids around her were dismissed by Cui'er, and now only the maid Cui'er was with her.
Cui'er held the steaming lotus seed soup in her hand and said softly: "Niangniang, don't be discouraged, this is the newly sent lotus seed soup from the imperial dining room, you have suffered from the wind and cold these days, pay attention to your body."
The noble man knocked over the lotus seed soup in Cui'er's hand, and the jade bowl was instantly torn apart: "Without the emperor's favor, what porridge will I drink, and what song will I sing?"
"I remember that the emperor loves to listen to me sing Kunqu opera, when I was at the flower viewing party, the Kunqu opera I sang was praised by the emperor, and when I returned home, I begged my father to go to the palace to say goodbye, and then I finally got my wish, married to the prince I thought of. Cui'er... Cui'er... You don't know how happy I was back then... Whining. ”
After saying that, Ping Guiren cried and almost fell to the ground, but Cui'er quickly helped her up.
"But I was wrong, I was wrong when I entered the palace, the emperor loved not only me at all, but the woman Qingyunwu, no matter how badly she hurt the emperor, the emperor always had her alone in his heart, and there was no shadow of me at all, even if it was a little."
"Don't talk about it... Don't talk about it. Cui'er covered her mouth distressedly, these things were all things she experienced with Ping Guiren.
"You let me say... You let me say it. I'm going to go crazy if I don't say it. She almost screamed at that.
"I tried my best to please the emperor, I sang outside the study, but in the end, all I got was the emperor's cold eyes and endless loneliness. I hate... I hate that woman for taking all the emperor's thoughts, and I stand with her in that highest position. I swore an oath, I swore that I would trample Qingyunwu under my feet, but now I lost, completely lost. After Ping Guiren said all this with a pale face, the whole person was as if he was deflated.
"Niangniang, Niangniang, you have to cheer up, have you forgotten that you are going to accept a concubine in a few days? As the saying goes, old love is not worth new love, if there is a new concubine in the palace, is the queen still arrogant? Cui'er said hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, old love is not worth new love. In the future, there will be a new concubine, and this palace will see if you are still smiling. After saying that, she stood up on the table next to her, walked to the bookcase in the distance, picked up the pen, and wrote a few lines on the paper.
"Give a letter to Daddy, make sure he sees it with his own eyes, and he will give you an answer after reading it." Pingguiren handed the written letter to Cui'er.
"Yes, slave and maid will go." After saying that, Cui'er got up and left.
In a letter, she persuaded her father to send a younger sister into the palace, since she was choosing a concubine, why not send her own sister in, so that she could be like a tiger in the palace.
"Come on, take all of these away, and let the imperial dining room send another bowl of lotus seed porridge." After collecting his emotions, the noble man shouted outside the door.