Chapter Twenty-Three: Greetings
Compared with the dishes they ate in Chuxiu Palace, today's dishes are all colorful, fragrant, and even the plating is very exquisite, which shows that the chef in the dining room has worked hard, and the fruits are also fresh fruits in season, sweet and delicious.
I just don't know if she can keep eating such exquisite dishes?
Today's show girls have just been canonized, and those in the dining room are not sure who will be favored and who will not, so everyone's meals are carefully prepared.
But after a while, maybe it won't take a while, and tomorrow the meals of their show girls may be different.
When the new show girl enters the palace, it stands to reason that the emperor should choose a newcomer to sleep tonight, and the first person to sleep must be the most valued by the emperor.
In this way, the meal prepared for this person tomorrow will definitely be more elaborate than the others.
And those who have not been favored by the emperor for a long time will definitely be much scorned in the dining room.
Regarding the candidates for sleeping at night, Lu Yuning also has a lot of confidence in her heart, either Weng Qian or Cui Ru, how to say that the two of them are also the highest grade among the show girls this time, since the emperor gave them a high grade, it means that no matter what aspect they are, they always have something that the emperor values, or family background, or appearance.
After finishing the meal, Qingzhi Qingdai had already taken the time to clean up everything in the house when Lu Yuning was taking a nap.
After Lu Yuning woke up, the two of them circled around Lu Yuning and persuaded Lu Yuning to dress up first.
Lu Yuning saw the thoughts of the two girls, shook his head, and said to the two: "Don't waste your work in vain, the emperor can't come to us tonight." ”
"What if?" Qingzhi said: "In case the emperor comes, it will be too late for the young lady to dress up more carefully." ”
"No in case." Lu Yuning shook his head and said: "If the emperor enters the palace tonight, he will probably be Weng Jieyu's Zhilan Palace, or Cui Jieyu's Agarwood Pavilion, even if the emperor doesn't go to the two of them, there are Zheng Meiren, Qu Cairen, etc., how can it not be my turn." ”
"The slaves don't understand." Qingzhi and Qingdai said, since it is possible for the emperor to go to Zheng Meiren and Qu Cairen, why is it impossible to come to Linglong Pavilion?
Lu Yuning didn't explain to the two of them in detail, but said, "You will slowly understand in the future." ”
If she is a show girl with an ordinary background, maybe the emperor may come to their Linglong Pavilion tonight, but she is a girl from the Zhongyong Marquis's Mansion, and the emperor will let her enter the palace, but he will definitely not be too fond of her, because the emperor will not allow two favorite concubines from the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion to appear in the palace at the same time.
If she wants to win the emperor's favor, she has to work hard to make it possible, otherwise she can only wait until Lu Yunyun falls out of favor.
Qingzhi and Qingdai didn't know why Lu Yuning swore like this, saying that the emperor would definitely not come to Linglong Pavilion, but with their trust in Lu Yuning, the two of them didn't urge Lu Yuning to dress up well.
The people in the palace who are concerned about the selection of the bedchamber tonight are not one or two, and almost the entire harem is waiting to see who the emperor will choose to sleep at night.
Cui Jieyu, who was newly promoted, dressed up early, and quietly waited for the emperor to come tonight at the Agarwood Pavilion.
She is particularly confident that the first person to sleep in this batch of show girls will definitely be her, without him, although Weng Jieyu and she have been named Jieyu, but the emperor has always valued their Cui family, Weng Jieyu is just the daughter of a bachelor of Hanlin, what to fight with her?
Who would have thought, everyone waited and waited that night, but in the end they waited for the news that there was something in the previous dynasty, and the emperor had to deal with political affairs tonight, and he did not plan to enter the harem.
Lu Yuning was applying his face with his specially prepared incense powder at this time, and when he heard Zhou Man say that the emperor would not enter the harem tonight, he only said lightly: "Got it." ”
Zhou Man looked at Lu Yuning's attitude, a little confused, and felt that the master was too indifferent to this matter, who didn't want to be the first to get favor among the new concubines who entered the palace? But the master didn't seem to be disappointed at all when he heard the news.
What does this master think? Zhou Man figured out the idea of landing Lu Yuning and retreated.
Lu Yuning finished dressing her face, asked Qingzhi to run her hair, and saw that the time was not early, so she went to bed to rest, and she had to go to the queen early tomorrow morning to say goodbye, she couldn't be late.
Lu Yuning had a good night's sleep, got up early the next day, and after washing, Qingdai helped her comb her hair bun and put on the clothes she had picked last night.
Today, she is wearing an apricot yellow cross-collared right short Ru, and the lower body is wearing a bean-green six-piece Hunan skirt, with a shawl of the same color between her arms, and a lightly scented sachet tied around her waist.
After packing up, she took Qingzhi to Fengyi Palace.
When Lu Yuning went, there were just a few low-ranking and not very favored concubines in Fengyi Palace, these people's seats were all in the corner, Lu Yuning's seats were not much different from these people, she was led by the palace maid to sit down in her seat, and she didn't look up to look around when she noticed the gaze that fell on her.
Not long after Lu Yuning arrived, the other concubines also came one after another, only the seat of the top queen mother, and the first seat on the left were still empty.
After another moment, Lin Ruoxue, the queen mother, walked out with the palace maid's hand and sat down at the top.
All the concubines hurriedly knelt down to say goodbye.
"I've seen the queen mother, the queen mother Jin An."
The queen swept over a few new faces kneeling underneath and said lightly, "Get up." ”
"Thank you, Queen Mother." After thanking them, they got up and sat down in their seats.
After Lu Yuning sat down, he glanced at the vacant seat again, that position should be the position of the noble concubine Lu Yunyun, and the noble concubine did not come to greet the queen.
Lu Yuning didn't know if the concubine didn't come to greet the queen on weekdays, or only didn't come today, seeing that the queen and all the concubines didn't show surprise and surprise, maybe the concubine didn't come to greet the queen in the past.
Lu Yuning was thinking about it when she heard someone speak, "I thought I could see Sister Guifei today, but I didn't expect Sister Guifei to be able to bear not coming today, saying that Sister Guifei hasn't come to say goodbye to the queen for a while, right?" ”
Lu Yuning raised her eyes slightly and looked at the person who spoke, who was sitting first on the right, wearing a purple dress, wearing a gilded emerald five-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head, the tails of her eyes were raised, her red lips were plump, and there was a faint mockery in her voice.
This should be Concubine Jing He Tongwen, right?
Concubine Jing is the daughter of the Dragon and Tiger General, and entered the palace during the election in the second year of Mingde, and has also been favored by the emperor in recent years, and has a princess.
Hearing this, the queen picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea before she spoke: "The concubine has not been in good health since she gave birth, and the emperor personally excused her from asking for peace every day. ”