The weather is getting colder and colder, and even a place like Yiguo, which is in the south, has quietly fallen the first snow of the winter in the middle of the lunar month.

The snow is a bit big, although it is not as snowy as the Ning Palace in the north, but it has also fallen a thin layer on the ground, and a layer of dazzling white has been paved all over the Yiwang Palace.

Empress Dowager Jiang was kind-hearted and didn't want to embarrass the palace concubines, so she canceled the greetings every morning, and now, the palace concubines became more and more disliking to go out.

Yun Yao stood in the corridor at the door, wrapped in a thick cloak and looking at the falling snow outside, her heart was unprecedentedly peaceful. If it weren't for the fact that everything had not been done, she would almost want to sleep forever in such a peaceful life.

After a long time, Lu Yingquan walked out of the hall, stood beside Yun Yao, and asked, "You have been standing here for a while, how long are you going to stand?

While speaking, Lu Yingquan stuffed the soup woman in his hand into Yun Yao's hand, and suddenly, Yun Yao felt a trace of warm breath penetrate from his fingers to his heart.

"It's better for you to hold on, now your identity is much more expensive than my gold, if there is anything long and short, I'm afraid Your Highness won't be able to spare me. Yun Yao smiled, as if she was about to hand Tang Pozi back again, although she was reluctant to accept the warmth of her fingertips.

"No, I just came out of the house, and my hands are warm. Lu Yingquan refused, "I saw you standing here motionless, so I came out to take a look." ”

Yun Yao looked at the woman with a stunning face in front of her, watched her lips close one by one, and a white mist floated out from between her lips, which quickly spread between heaven and earth and disappeared.

"Yesterday, when I went to the Internal Affairs Office with Sisi to ask for silver silk charcoal, I met He Meiren. After Yun Yao looked at Lu Yingquan for a long time, she suddenly said such a sentence.

Her body leaned against the pillars of the corridor, her eyes moved away from Lu Yingquan, and she looked at the snow-white outside, with an indissoluble melancholy in her eyes.

"What did He Meiren say?" Lu Yingquan's intuition told her that something must have happened.

He Meiren wrote a letter to the Empress Dowager Qin about the events of some time ago, and yesterday she also received a reply from Ning Palace. Yun Yao said, "I'm afraid it is...... Empress Dowager Qin is already suspicious of you and me. ”

"Why? We shouldn't have shown any flaws. Lu Yingquan frowned and asked, "How can it arouse suspicion?"

"Because of Your Highness's attitude towards you. Yun Yao lowered her head and said, "Your Highness was so good to you that he even killed Mrs. Yao in front of so many people for you." If you were the Empress Dowager of Qin, and the fine work you sent out met someone who was better to her, good enough for her to have enough reason to betray you, would you doubt it?"

Lu Yingquan stopped talking, she lowered her head, and her mood was a little heavy. She didn't expect that Shen Che's unconscious love for her would actually become the fuse for her to reveal her flaws.

Yun Yao is right, Shen Che is too good to her, a little beyond the ordinary, not like a king to a favorite concubine, but like an ordinary man, to his most beloved woman.

If Shen Che can give her a way to live and give her a chance to choose again, then why should she continue to be a meticulous work with an uncertain future?

Since she can think so, then Empress Dowager Qin must be able to think so, with Empress Dowager Qin's suspicious character, she would rather kill by mistake than let go, maybe their peaceful days are really coming to an end.

"Then what should we do?" Lu Yingquan asked.

"Let's take one step at a time. Yun Yao shook her head, "If it was in Ning Palace, maybe we could still think of a way, but Empress Dowager Qin was too far away from us, and the whip could only be dismantled." ”

"That's right, but Yun Yao, we can think the other way around. This is Yiwang Palace, we can't reach the Empress Dowager Qin, and she can't control us either. Even if you have doubts about us in your heart, it will not be so easy to deal with us. Lu Yingquan's mentality was slightly better, so relieved.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and didn't say anything more, now at a time like this, there is no need to say anything, the best way is to block the soldiers.

After walking on the cloister for a while, Sisi came over and persuaded the two to go into the temple and not to freeze and catch cold outside. They didn't hold on any longer, and turned back into the temple.

As soon as they entered, a hot breath came to their faces, wrapping around the two of them, and their clothes that had been invaded by the cold wind and snow outside were warm.

"This doesn't seem to be charcoal, right? Although the silver silk charcoal has no smoke, it also has a little taste, why is there no smell in this hall today?" Lu Yingquan felt the warmth in the hall, and turned his head to ask Sisi.

"Beauty, this time it's a burning earth dragon. Sisi said, "The heat comes from the ground, so naturally there is no smell at all." It's much warmer than burning charcoal. ”

"Earth Dragon?" Lu Yingquan was puzzled, "Isn't that only available in the Hall of Light and Suochun Terrace?"

When he was in Ning Palace before, Lu Yingquan had also felt the earth dragon, but it was in Shen Ze's Changming Palace. In the entire Ning Palace, only Changming Palace, Jianzhang Palace and Hehuan Hall have earth dragons, and other concubines are not qualified to use them.

"Hui Meiren's words were specially ordered by His Royal Highness. Sisi said, "Originally, there was no earth dragon in Linglong Pavilion, and His Royal Highness instructed the craftsman to install the earth dragon step by step in the days when the lover left the palace, so it would be so warm in winter." ”

Lu Yingquan was a little silent when she heard this, she didn't expect Shen Che to be thinking about how to spend the winter in Linglong Pavilion so long ago.

It was only those few months, and every month she and Yun Yao would follow Shen Che to the barren mountain for a few days, and in these few days, Shen Che actually sent craftsmen to cultivate the earth dragon in Linglong Pavilion, and he didn't let her know, just to surprise her on this cold day.

Lu Yingquan chuckled, no wonder Yun Yao said that she had met someone who was good enough for her to betray the Empress Dowager Qin.

Shen Che was so sincere to her, what reason did she have to continue to do things for the Empress Dowager Qin?

"You both move the quilt to the main hall at night and sleep in it, it's warm here. Lu Yingquan said to Yun Yao and Sisi, "It's a waste for me to use this earth dragon alone." ”

"Thank you, beauty. Sisi listened to it and quickly thanked her happily.

Sisi felt more and more that it was a good decision for her to choose to be loyal to Lu Yingquan. Because Lu Yingquan never regarded her as a subordinate, as long as she was loyal, her life in Linglong Pavilion would be extremely comfortable.

The winter is bleak and cold, and Lu Yingquan and Yun Yao's days are relatively leisurely, of course, this is compared to Jiang Yi.

Since Jiang Yi received the Queen Mother's decree to organize the year-end palace banquet, she has done everything herself, shuttling back and forth between the palaces, for fear that something will be missed.

In fact, it can be imagined that Jiang Yi was afraid that the Queen Mother would blame her for what she did to Yun Yao. She knew that this matter could not be hidden from the Queen Mother, although she finally put the blame on Mrs. Yao, but the Queen Mother must also know it.

She didn't want the Queen Mother to be disappointed in her, so she could only do her best to do what the Queen Mother ordered, such as the year-end palace banquet.

Only by letting the Queen Mother know that she is not an incompetent person and that there is value in cultivation, will the Queen Mother not give up on her, and will not have a dislike with her because of the previous events.

In the Suochun Terrace, Jiang Yi was telling the Queen Mother about her idea of the palace banquet and asking for the Queen Mother's consent, but who knew that after the Queen Mother listened to her words, she did not give any evaluation, but said:

"Yi'er, the mourning family handed over this matter to you because they believe in you. Now that you are one of the highest-ranking people in the harem, Mrs. Han is pregnant and not suitable for work, so you can only do it. There are some things you don't have to ask the mourners, if you really can't make up your mind, you can find someone to help you. But the person who helps has to be carefully chosen. ”

Jiang Yi listened to the Queen Mother's meaningful words, and was stunned for a long time before she said, "Yi'er, thank the Queen Mother for mentioning something." ”

Walking out of Suochun Terrace, Jiang Yi thought carefully about the Queen Mother's words and quickly came to a conclusion. The queen mother meant to let her find helpers, that is, to allow her to cultivate her own power in the harem. These things that the Queen Mother did not allow her to do in the past can now start to do.

As for the selection of this helper, you need to be cautious.

Jiang Yi's faces appeared in Jiang Yi's mind, and then swiped them away one by one, thinking seriously. Now there are only five concubines left in the palace, including herself.

Mrs. Han has the highest status and is pregnant, so she can't work hard, and she is not a good partner for her to form an alliance; not to mention Lu Yingquan, she is her biggest rival in the fight for the rear position, and she is a sworn enemy; He Meiren's attitude has always been ambiguous, but she seems to be faintly close to Linglong Pavilion, so only ...... are left Yao Meiren, Yao Shuang.

Yao Shuang is Yao Meng's sister, Yao Meng was above Yao Shuang before, which had made Yao Shuang angry, and now that Yao Meng is dead, it is a good time for Yao Shuang to take the position. And Yao Shuang is also a person who has seen Lu Yingquan's methods, so he should cooperate with Jiang Yi.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yi took the finch and walked towards Yao Shuang's palace.

At this time, Yao Shuang happened to be holding Tang Pozi in the palace to roast the fire, she had just heard the news that Linglong Pavilion had burned the earth dragon, and she couldn't help but be angry, only to feel that Shen Che really loved Lu Yingquan too much.

"It's all the status of a beauty, why can she Lu Yingquan have such a good treatment?" Yao Shuang snorted coldly and said, "Mei Yun, you say, what is there about me that can't compare to Lu Yingquan?"

"Beauty, you are much stronger than Lu Meiren, it is because she is too bad-hearted and uses all means to compete for favor, so she ......" Mei Yun replied, but before she finished speaking, she heard someone outside tell her that Mrs. Jiang was here.

Yao Shuang was surprised in her heart, she didn't know what Jiang Yi was sitting on at this time, but no matter what, Jiang Yi was in a high position, she should get up to greet her.

As soon as he walked to the door, the curtain was lifted, and a cool breeze poured in, and then Jiang Yi also walked in, rubbed his hands that had been frozen, and walked to the charcoal brazier to roast it.

"Mrs. Jiang, I don't know why you came here today?" asked Yao Shuang.

"Yao Meiren, since you asked, then I won't hide it from you, I came today to ask you, would you like to help me organize the palace banquet together. Jiang Yi opened his mouth and said, "You also know that now the number of concubines in the palace is small, and there are very few who can be trusted, the Queen Mother ordered me to organize the palace banquet, I want to come and go, and only Sister Yao can help me." ”

Yao Shuang was a little stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect such a good thing to fall on her head.