Ah Ji was barefoot and knelt on the edge of the couch. The emperor's bedroom was originally a gold brick floor, the floor tiles were as oily as jade, bright as a mirror, dense in texture, brittle as gold and stone, although a thick brocade blanket was laid on it, but she was draped in a thin blanket, and she still couldn't help the cold and hardness forced on her knees, and touched her nerves little by little.

The emperor looked at her idly and said casually: "I have always kept you by my side, and giving you such a high rank of honor and favor is to keep you." But don't lose your sense of proportion, you will always be Concubine Xian's slave and my slave. You have to distinguish between people before and after you. ”

At first, such words also made Ah Zhen feel ashamed to death, and then over the years, she gradually got used to it, but said numbly: "The slave knows." ”

The emperor was about to turn around, when he suddenly noticed the redness and swelling on her face, and asked, "Who did you beat?" ”

Ah Zhen was stunned and said: "The emperor loves the slave maid, and the concubine is not angry, and she beat the slave maid." ”

The emperor yawned: "If you beat it, you will beat it, how can you be a slave and a maid who will not be beaten by the master." If you want these favors willingly, you have to be willing to suffer these sins. ”

In the curtain of the emperor's bed tent, three or five gold-coated silver lavender balls were hung sparsely. The lavender ball is carved with beautiful patterns, finely carved, and the twig pattern is clearly recognizable. The ball is filled with benzoin, and the slightest lingering fragrance is fragrant and spit out musk, faintly hidden above the splendid painting beam, as if her future is also silently diffused. Ah Zhen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly had a faint smile, and finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, please give the slave and maid an understanding." Since you have spoiled the slave and the slave, and you have also given the slave and the slave the grace that outsiders envy, why do you turn your back and treat the slave and the maid like this? Are you a cat, and a slave and a slave are a lowly mouse to tease and play? Emperor! ”

The Emperor turned, reached out and hooked her chin, and sneered, "I have fulfilled you, what more do you want?" Do you remember what the title I gave you? Prudence means that you should be cautious. You've been sleeping like this for so many years, why can't you hold your breath today? ”

Ah Zhen was draped in a thin blanket, trembling all over, a sad glimmer flashed in his eyes, and he kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, please give the slave and maid an understanding." If you don't like slaves, why do you treat them like this? ”

The emperor smiled coldly: "If I don't treat you like this, who knows what you're going to do?" You also read me, okay, if I didn't spoil you like this, I don't know who you would have broken into. ”

Ah Zhen gritted his teeth and said with a pale face: "Is it because of the matter of Concubine Xian, the emperor thinks that the slave maid wronged her?" So you want to torture the slave maid so much to get angry for her? ”

The emperor's voice gradually became lazy: "Out of breath? Whoever wants to get angry and go out by himself, I don't bother to pay attention. He rolled over: "Alright." I'm tired, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it later. ”

Ah Zhen knelt there, watching the emperor fall into a deep sleep, and let out an even breathing sound. The sound of bangs outside came from far and near, and she collapsed to the ground, crying silently.

When I knelt like this, it was the middle of the night. The eunuch who took her back arrived at the second watch, and according to the rules, he clapped his hands three times outside the emperor's dormitory, and shouted in a low voice, "The time has come", and Li Yu led someone to wrap her up again, sent her to the enclosure behind the Yangxin Palace, dressed neatly, and carried back to her own palace in a small sedan chair.

Ah Ji suffered a night of tossing, and when he returned to his palace, he was completely sleepy. Xinyan came up with a bowl of soothing tea and said, "The little master is sleeping, and I'm tired in the middle of the night, so let's drink the soothing tea and sleep." ”

Ah Zhen sneered with tears in his eyes: "Waiter? I'm really tired. She turned her head to look at the furnishings in the palace, and suddenly said angrily: "This palace is already a concubine sealed by the emperor himself, why is the furnishings in this palace still according to the position of nobles?" Why is the Ministry of Internal Affairs so lazy and ignorant of what to do? ”

Xin Yan was embarrassed: "The people from the Internal Affairs Office have already come, saying that the emperor and the queen are trying to be frugal, and the little lords have not yet carried out the canonization ceremony, so the things that should be used for the concubine are not put on the table." ”

"Canonization?" Ah Zhen smiled poisonously and said, "When did the emperor say that he would give me a canonization gift?" It turned out that it was just a false name for me. After she said that, Huo Di got up, took the glass flower bottle on the Bogu shelf and smashed it down, and after smashing it, he smashed all the bottles and cans that could be seen on the table. Xin Yan's frightening was not trivial, and he hurriedly stopped and said, "Little master, little master, what's wrong with you?" Today is a big day when you just became a concubine, how can you be angry? If this spreads, people don't know what to say about you? ”

Ah Zhen smashed things like crazy, tears flowing: "What am I afraid of? What am I afraid of? Isn't it okay to be trampled on like this, and smash a few things? I'm a concubine, I'm a concubine, can't you afford these things? What can anyone do with me if they smash it? With that, she lifted a green jade Buddha platform and was about to smash it down.

Xin Yan was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped and said, "Little master, little master, don't be confused." This Buddha platform can't be smashed, it was rewarded by the emperor when you were a nobleman. Little master, if you want to be angry, hit the slave and maid a few times, but don't smash this, let alone hurt your body. ”

Ah Zhen's face was full of tears, and he fell on the bed and cried: "Your Majesty? Is there still me in the emperor's eyes? I'm just a thing, and if I smash it, I will smash it, and I'm just at the mercy of others. ”

Ah Zhen cried sadly, crying for a long time, and was tired, and fell asleep. Xinyan looked at the mess all over the place, sighed, and tiptoed to clean up.

Taking advantage of the fact that Ah Ji was tired and didn't wake up, Xinyan went to Concubine Hui's palace early in the morning. Concubine Hui was dressing up, dipped in osmanthus water by the palace maid, grate her hair little by little, and after listening to Xinyan's words, she was a little puzzled: "She just sealed the concubine position last night, and she was called lucky, it was the time to be proud, what is there to be unbearable, and she wants to come back like this to make trouble?" ”

Xin Yan didn't know anything, so she had to shake her head and said: "The slave maid doesn't know, but after serving Shen Concubine for a few years, I only feel that her temper is getting more and more irritable, and she used to beat and scold her subordinates at every turn, and sometimes she also asked the slave maid, does the emperor really love her?" ”

"Does the emperor really love her?" Concubine Hui turned her head suspiciously, "Since Concubine Xian entered the cold palace, her grace is also a lot. Now even if Concubine Xian comes out, her grace will not fade, what else do you want? ”

Mo Xin pulled her hair in a bun for Concubine Hui, and said: "Although the emperor favors her, he also looks down on her in the end. also said that Concubine Xian was wronged in the matter back then......" She suddenly flashed her comb, pulled Hui Guifei's hair, and was so frightened that she knelt down.

Concubine Hui turned around, glanced at Mo Xin unhappily, and said angrily: "What are you doing?" Are your claws less and less erranded? ”

Mo Xin was so frightened that she shuddered: "The little master forgives the sins, the little master forgives the sins." The slave just thought that the emperor said that Concubine Xian was wronged, would he look into the affairs of the year and implicate us. ”

Concubine Hui pursed her lips and motioned for her to get up and continue to comb her hair in a bun, Fang lazily said: "Now that Concubine Xian has been released, the emperor naturally has to find an excuse to say that she has been wronged, otherwise how can people be convinced." Besides, we really have to investigate it carefully, anyway, the person who insisted that Concubine Xian poisoned that day was not us. ”

Mo Xin was still a little scared: "The little master is right, but won't the concubines bite us out?" ”

Concubine Hui looked at her golden phoenix hairpin in the mirror, the cloud was half off, Cui Tian was evacuated, took a openwork double phoenix pattern jade comb and inserted it obliquely on the green silk behind her head, looked at it and was satisfied, and then said: "What is she Ama doing on an errand under her father in this palace, how dare she affect her family?" Besides, she can even turn her back on her master, and An Zhi doesn't dare to wronged us. Okay, Xinyan, you can go back and wait for it, if there is any movement of Concubine Shen, remember to report at any time. ”

Xinyan agreed and stepped back. Concubine Hui glanced at Mo Xin, put on a pair of emerald green drop earrings, and said lightly: "Do you have something to say?" ”

Mo Xin said: "The slave maid is just not used to seeing the concubine, she is so favored for a while, even the little master has crossed over, and she is so angry for a while, and she doesn't know what to check." ”

Concubine Hui pursed her lips contemptuously: "No wonder she, Concubine Xian came out, she was naturally afraid." ”

Mo Xin said: "Actually, the slave has never been at ease. At the beginning, the little master punished her for kneeling in the rain, how could she be used by us later? And over the years, even the queen has promoted her so much. ”

Concubine Hui smiled and was charming: "At the beginning, the queen mother personally went to envelop her, and transferred her Ama to the command of her father in the palace to be coerced, so that she could be loyal for so many years." But from the beginning, Changchun Palace and we both mean the same. Ah Ji is just a pawn that can be discarded at any time. Because she can be discarded at any time, she doesn't care how she is favored. ”

Mo Xin said with a smile on his face: "The little master has a vision, and the slave and maid are really inferior." ”

A smug smile rose at the corner of Concubine Hui's lips, and she quickly retracted it again, and sighed: "All the foresight is the vision of the queen mother. What is this palace, even if the emperor raises the flag and relies on his father, but the origin of this palace is there, and it will never be washed away. Concubine Hui said gloomily: "And this palace has been favored for many years, you smell it, the smell of fetal medicine in the palace is so strong that it can't be dispersed, but this palace still can't conceive a son and a half daughter." ”

"But the second elder brother born to the queen mother also died, not much better than the little master."

"The second elder brother died, and he was also posthumously named the crown prince. The queen mother has given birth anyway, and there are three princesses. It's like this palace, the belly of this palace is empty, and the child has not been here for a day. ”

The more Hui Guifei spoke, the more anxious she became, and she didn't feel it, Mo Xin was most afraid that she would think of the child, and she would be sad for a long time when she thought of it, so she hurriedly persuaded: "The little master is too anxious, so he has not been able to conceive a child." As long as the little lord relaxes and the emperor comes often, as soon as the luck comes, he will naturally think about something. Little master, it's not too early, it's time for us to go and say hello to the queen. Hasn't the little master always been the most diligent and punctual when he goes to Changchun Palace? ”

Concubine Hui looked at the sky and said, "It's time to go." No matter how gentle and humble the queen is, in the end, she is also full of noble background, even if the palace is high, she can't help but rely on her, so that she can stand more firmly in the palace and go further. ”