Chapter 60: Watching the Drama in Secret
After listening to General Liu's words, if it was according to the thoughts of the aunt in charge before, she must have told General Liu what Queen Liu thought, after all, she has some insight into how the other party dislikes the harem concubines, and if the Liu daughter is elected into the harem this time, it is inevitable that there will be some disagreements between the father and daughter, how is something wrong.
It's just that she was just beaten by the other party for admonishing Queen Liu, although the aunt in charge didn't show it on her face, she still had some resentment in her heart, so she just bowed her head, and then said:
"In that case, the slave and maid will go down and arrange it first, and then come back to the general if there is anything to do."
And at this time, in the Yufu Palace, Qi Min'er just returned to the palace, she couldn't help the excitement in her heart, her trick was good to kill two birds with one stone, and now Liu Yunu has been abolished into the cold palace, and although Zhou Yunu was named Baolin, but she can no longer be favored in the future, this is the price of their wronged Mingyuan Marquis Mansion, and then she has to provoke it again.
When she thought of this, Qi Min'er pondered slightly for a while, and commanded Aunt Zhao:
"I know that you have some connections in the Shang Palace Bureau, so you can go down and check it out, and see if the Liu family has sent other Liu women into the palace after sending them to the palace, and then see if they are out of the palace now? Or serve elsewhere in the palace."
Qi Min'er had been raised in the palace for many years before, so she naturally knew the conditions for choosing a concubine to enter the palace, if a family wanted to send a female family member into the palace, it was necessary to choose several women with good backgrounds and appearances, and then choose one or two to enter the palace as concubines.
It stands to reason that since Liu Yunu was selected into the palace, there must be other Liu women in the palace, but they were not directly canonized as concubines like Liu Yunu, so they may have left the palace, or they may have entered the palace as palace maids, waiting to be selected again.
For Qi Min'er, in addition to caring about His Majesty, Queen Liu only cares about the Liu family.
In this case, she wants to let the Liu family fall into infighting, so what is more interesting than the Liu family and the Liu family fighting each other? When she thought of this, Qi Min'er's face couldn't help but show a little smile again.
Aunt Zhao was busy arranging it when she heard this, but she secretly glanced at Qi Min'er, but she was a little scared in her heart, she only felt that the other party was very different from the second miss of the Qi family that everyone once knew, and it was also different from the little palace maid who was relegated to the Huanyi Bureau and was bullied, and now she has an indescribable madness.
Qi Min'er was raised in the palace since she was a child, and everyone in the palace knew that she was born beautiful, and her heart was quite soft-hearted, and she always couldn't help but say when she saw the palace people being beaten, so many people in the palace missed her, and Aunt Zhao naturally knew Qi Min'er's reputation.
Later, because of the exile of the Marquis of Mingyuan's mansion, Qi Min'er first heard that she was placed in the palace by His Majesty, but she did not have a title and canonization, and then she didn't know why she was sent to the Huanyi Bureau as a palace maid.
At that time, Qi Min'er could only passively bear it, not resist, she was silent all day long, and then blindly forbearance, and even cried in secret.
At that time, in Aunt Zhao's heart, the other party was weak and even needed care.
But since Qi Min'er re-planned to win favor, Aunt Zhao only felt that her whole temperament had changed, and she couldn't say anything specific.
On the bright face, Qi Min'er still smiled very gently, and most of the palace people whispered softly, and even many rewards.
But Aunt Zhao didn't know why, when she looked at Concubine Qi Xian like this, she couldn't help but be a little scared in her heart, so she took advantage of the effort to inquire about the Shanggong Bureau, and she went to meet Li Shanggong in person.
Concubine Qi Xian knew that she was the one arranged by Li Shanggong, after all, the other party would come out of the Huanyi Bureau and be favored, and Li Shanggong's promotion was indispensable. It's just that the other party trusts her, and doesn't even ask too much about the relationship between the two.
When Aunt Zhao came to visit Li Shanggong, she saw that the other party was practicing calligraphy at the window, and her expression was very calm.
Before Aunt Zhao saluted, she saw Li Shanggong put down the pen in her hand, raised her head and looked at her and said:
"Why are you here? But if there is anything to ask the virtuous concubine, you might as well tell it and listen to it."
"I'm bothering my lord, Concubine Xian doesn't have anything to tell my lord, it's just that I have some doubts in my heart, I really can't figure it out, I want to ask my lord what you mean."
After that, Aunt Zhao organized the language again, and told Li Shanggong that she noticed that Qi Min'er was different from before, and at the same time she looked at Li Shanggong with a sincere face, in Aunt Zhao's opinion, Li Shanggong is a very capable person, who can climb from a small third-class palace maid to the head of the current Shanggong Bureau, even ordinary concubines have to respect her a few points, Aunt Zhao believes that Li Shanggong will definitely answer her doubt.
Unexpectedly, after she asked like this, Li Shanggong, who had always been at ease, was rarely stunned, and she faintly recited a sentence of Qi family in her mouth.
At this time, Li Shanggong did recall a little bit of the past, maybe others still don't understand why she helped Concubine Qi Xian, after all, she is a member of the Shanggong Bureau, and it stands to reason that the fight between the concubines has nothing to do with it, but he helped the other party this time, and even did not hesitate to offend the Liu family, just for an old person in the past.
Li Shanggong's background was very low at the beginning, she was just an ordinary peasant girl, and she was bought into the palace to earn a little food because of the drought in her hometown.
When she first entered the palace, she was very cramped, and she was also stupid, she didn't know how to please the palace maids, and she was even embarrassed and ridiculed by the palace maids who were in the same place for being a dirt bun.
Until one time when she was punished by her aunt in charge of kneeling in the snow, she met Master Qi.
At that time, Master Qi was still a teenager, and because he was born in a lord's family, he received an errand as a royal guard.
He is handsome and tall, and sometimes those palace maids will always discuss him in twos and threes, but Li Shanggong has never participated at that time, after all, she is just a little palace maid with no rank, and the other party is too far away for her.
Until that day, Master Qi happened to meet Li Shanggong, who was punished for kneeling in the snow and was still a little palace maid at the time, probably because of mercy, he was not good at interfering too much in the affairs of the palace as a foreign minister, so he invited his sister who was the princess at that time to protect her, and even invited a royal doctor for her, and transferred her to the Shanggong Bureau to do things.
At that moment, Li Shanggong still remembered the other party's warm face and warm hands, even until now, Li Shanggong can still recall the encounter between the two very clearly.
It wasn't until that day that Li Shanggong knew that it was useless to blindly forbear and compromise, and the other party would only trample on more and more because of your cowardice, so she chose to climb up, from a small palace maid to the first-class palace maid in charge of the dressing room, and then passed the female officer promotion exam and became the female official of the dressing room.
At that time, she was finally not a lowly little palace maid, she became a female official, and she could be called an adult by the maids in the palace.
And at that time, she would occasionally secretly go to see the master, in fact, although she was a female official, the distance between her and the other party's identity was still too big, and she was not willing to be a concubine.
What's more, she knew that Master Qi might not have this intention, the other party just helped her out of pity, not to mention that even if she was intentional, Li Shanggong didn't want to live dependent on others, rather than being attached to others like a silk grass, looking forward to the care of others, she would rather grow into a big tree by herself, and she could be alone in the wind and rain and be tenacious. Z.br>
It's just that she wants to climb higher and be able to stand farther so that the right side can see her.
Later, she was promoted to the title of the eighth grade of the palm design, and then entered the seal of the seventh grade of the canon, but when she was competing with another female official for the sixth grade of the division, she was calculated by the other party and was almost exposed to foreign men.
You must know that these female officials of the Shanggong Bureau can't have any scandals with foreign men, but that person has sinister intentions and deliberately uses some means to plot against her, Li Shanggong was very panicked at that time, but he didn't know how to deal with it, fortunately, he was rescued by the patrolling Master Qi again, and the other party covered her to leave.
It was also after that time that Li Shanggong only felt that he seemed to be more pleased with him, but the more he was happy
The more he felt inferior, the more he didn't dare to disturb, and at that time, Master Qi also married a noble girl from a family.
So she could only silently hide this matter quietly and no longer disturb his life, until many years later, the Mingyuan Marquis Mansion was raided, and she accidentally got the news and passed it to the Mingyuan Marquis Mansion.
Later, when the other party wrote a letter, she saw the other party's vigorous handwriting, and couldn't help but go to trace the words written by the other party every day.
At the same time, she also tried her best to help Qi Min'er, not hesitating to offend anyone, she was just for Master Qi.
At this moment, Li Shanggong knew that she had never let go of it all these years.
Seeing that Li Shanggong was standing alone by the railing, quietly looking at the scenery outside the window, he didn't seem to know what to think.
Aunt Zhao hurriedly lowered her head and didn't dare to disturb, but saw Li Shanggong turn around and gradually approach her, and said to her:
"You remember, no matter what Concubine Qi Xian asks, you will try your best to help her complete it, if you can't do it, come to me and say, I will do my best to help her, but you don't have to tell her about this reason, let alone let her know."
"The slave knows!" Aunt Zhao only felt that it seemed that Li Shanggong also had something on her mind, but she didn't dare to ask, she just responded respectfully, and then turned around.
After waiting down, Aunt Zhao immediately began to inquire about the things entrusted by Concubine Qi Xian, and it didn't take long for her to find out all the things she had done, and she hurriedly went back to report to Concubine Qi Xian.
"Oh? Are you saying that at that time, the Liu family sent three women into the palace, and in addition to this Liu imperial maid, there were two other women who were sent out of the palace and one who served in this library pavilion?"
When listening to Aunt Zhao's report, Qi Min'er asked again with great interest, only to hear the other party's words:
"Hui Niangniang's words, it is true, that is still serving in the library pavilion is the concubine of Liu Imperial Girl, originally according to her identity is not qualified to be selected into the palace, but she was born really beautiful, so because of her beauty, she was also elected to the palace, but at that time, His Majesty did not have the heart to see these beauties who were sent to the palace.
just ordered people to choose one from each of their families according to their background to stay in the harem to serve, and it is precisely because of this that she was not seen by His Majesty.
Originally, the concubine of the Imperial Lady Liu was to be sent out of the palace according to the rules, but I heard that the Imperial Lady Liu was very embarrassed at home after being canonized as a concubine, and said that she would be married to a concubine from a high gate or the like, and I heard that the concubine was very reluctant and secretly used some means, so she did not leave the palace, but served in the library pavilion."
Aunt Zhao hurriedly gave all the news she heard to Qi Min'er, she thought about it for a while, and at the same time said:
"The slave maid specially asked her about the relationship with Liu Yunu, and I heard that the relationship between the two is very unharmonious, although Liu Yunu's mother is a wife, but she is not valued by that Lord Liu, and this Miss Liu Jiashu's mother is a very favored concubine.
The two had some discord outside the palace, and later after entering the palace, Liu Yunu went to the library many times as a concubine to embarrass each other, but in the end, they were all daughters of the Liu family, and she didn't dare to behave too much, but the young lady from the Liu family was indeed very troubled by her."
Hearing Aunt Zhao's words, Qi Min'er seemed to have heard some funny joke, she couldn't help but get up and clapped her hands with a smile and said:
"This is interesting, they are all women of the Liu family, but they fight so hard, you say that if Imperial Daughter Liu is deposed into the cold palace, and this concubine, who has always been regarded as a stinging in her eyes, has become a concubine, what will be the relationship between the two? What will happen to the relationship between the Liu family? Isn't that funny, you say?"
"What do you mean?" Aunt Zhao hesitated for a moment when she heard this, and then hurriedly asked.
"Don't worry, you go to the library with the palace to take a look at this young lady of the Liu family, if this concubine of the Liu family is really towards the Liu family, the palace naturally can't raise her to add one more help to the Liu family, but I expect that she is also the daughter of the Liu family, one can be noble as a concubine, and she can only be a slave.
Even she is often ridiculed, thinking that she must be very resentful in her heart, this palace wants to take a look at her appearance and attitude, to see what she thinks,
And then make plans."