"The emperor is not my emperor alone, the emperor wants to be a Ming monarch, and the concubines naturally have to take care of the harem for the emperor and be a virtuous queen." Zhou Ning was extremely sincere.

Song Qi was very satisfied when he heard this, and said: "Since this is the case, then I will live up to the queen's kindness." ”

Zhou Ning smiled.

Xiao Dezi brought someone over the tray again, and Song Qi chose one casually.

After he left, Zhou Ning gave the names of the palace people.

Among them, the cuckoo is the oldest, and she is the aunt of the housekeeper of Zhengyang Palace, and the identity of the magpie palace maid remains the same, except that there is an additional palace maid egret.

Egret has fists and feet and is more clever, making it more convenient for her to run errands than magpies.

Bai Ling was the martial maid sent to her by Song Qi, and now she is excluded from the second gate.

She is not surprised, the emperor and queen are not in harmony, and she is naturally difficult to do.

Tonight, Song Qi's flop girl is named Luo Shuyuan, she didn't even have an official name when she was at home before, and her family called her Luo Xiaoniang.

The officials of the draft named her Luo Shuyuan.

Luo Shuyuan was packed up and carried to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the other three people who were sent over together were named Bai Yupan, Liang Yurou, and Hua Jiaojiao.

Song Qi saw that Xiao Dezi's father-in-law brought four people with someone, and his brows furrowed tightly.

Xiao Dezi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Niangniang said that Zhou Tianzi was lucky to nine people overnight, and Niangniang was worried about the health of the dragon, so she deliberately shrank to four, and asked the emperor not to blame." ”

Song Qi's face changed back and forth, and in the past, she would never have made such an arrangement.

Even if he got closer to other women, she would be jealous.

Now that she was able to unceremoniously arrange four women, is this to create the crime of his faint king?

But will he be fooled?

He looked at Bai Yupan, Liang Yurou, and Hua Jiaojiao and asked, "What will you do?" ”

Hua Jiaojiao immediately whispered softly: "Concubine Hua Jiaojiao can sing the tune of her hometown." ”

"Oh, then you sing to me."

Hua Jiaojiao cleared her throat, Song Qi rewarded her with a cup of tea, she took a breath and began to sing.

The singing is melodious, it is a Jiangnan minor key, and it sounds very charming.

Song Qi followed her singing, her fingers tapped on the table, very satisfied.

When Hua Jiaojiao finished singing, Song Qi was still a little unfinished and said: "Jin flowers and girls are flower nobles." ”

"Concubine Xie Zhu Longen."

"Congratulations to the flower nobles, congratulations to the flower nobles." Several other people hurriedly said hello to Hua Jiaojiao.

Hua Jiaojiao was overjoyed, she really didn't expect that she was just singing a little song in front of the emperor, and she was promoted to the third level in a row.

Song Qi said: "I'm tired, you guys are waiting outside." ”

He got up and went to the inner room.

There was also a peeled lychee lying on the bed.

He walked to the dragon couch and saw Luo Shuyuan's shy and timid appearance, and his heart was a little more tender.

The inner chamberlain waited outside, and recorded the time when the emperor favored the four masters on the living note.

The next day, the four who were favored were all promoted, Luo Shuyuan, who was the first to be favored, was promoted to talent, and the others were nobles.

The four of them were favored for the first time, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they came early to kowtow to Zhou Ning and thank him.

Zhou Ning admired them with some jewelry and said: "You go back and rest, no matter your position, don't be jealous, serve the emperor well, and give birth to a dragon heir as soon as possible is the most important."

The dragon heir is the most important thing. ”

"The concubine understands." The four of them kowtowed to thank them, and then they left Zhengyang Palace.

Leaving Zhengyang Palace, Luo Cairen said: "The queen mother is not as terrible as the legend outside." ”

"What my sister said is that the queen mother is kind and broad-minded." Liang Yurou said.

The four of them walked farther and farther, and someone came back to report to Zhou Ning, but Zhou Ning did not speak.

In the evening, four more people were sent, and Song Qi was still pampered, and they were all promoted one after another.

After all ten people were favored, the net room was arranged one by one.

Song Qi knew Zhou Ning's intentions through the arrangement of the clean room.

As long as there are newcomers in the harem, he must be favored, and the more newcomers who come in, the harder he will be.

When Song Qi was a groom here every night, Zhou Ning saw Ling Yujin.

Ling Yujin told her about Qiao Zhu and the two of them, and Zhou Ning heard that the two had entered the East Factory and became factory guards.

Zhu Chenghuan has successfully entered the sight of Wan Right Helm, and is now in the inspection period of Wan Right Helm.

Zhou Ning nodded and said, "He was originally excellent. ”

Ling Yujin said: "How's the progress on your side?" ”

Zhou Ning sneered and said, "Don't you know? ”

Ling Yujin was noncommittal.

Song Qi is a groom every day, he naturally knows.

He just wanted to see Zhou Ning's reaction.

"There's something I want you to do." Zhou Ning said.

"What?"

Zhou Ning handed him a list and said, "All the shops above here are my dowries, and now they are in his hands, so it is better to destroy them." ”

Ling Yujin took it, looked at her with heavy eyes, and said, "You hate him." ”

"What?"

"He takes your dowry to raise other women, and you hate him."

"In fact, sometimes you don't have to tell the truth, everyone just understands it."

Ling Yujin was silent.

Zhou Ning looked up at him and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"You still have him in your heart!"

Zhou Ning: "! ”

Is this man's focus a little off-track?

"There is no hate without love."

"You should be careful, that man is not that easy to deal with." Zhou Ning reminded.

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Ling Yujin hid the list.

When he returned, he asked people to investigate these shops and Zhuangzi.

General Zhou's industry is quite rich, he has no children under his knees, and all the property is left to Zhou Ning.

Previously, Zhou Ning became an orphan girl in the General's Mansion and sold part of it.

After the Hugh incident, she devoted herself to taking care of the property of the General's Mansion.

Fortunately, she has a lot of ghost ideas, and she got some novel gadgets, which satiated the appetite of the powerful in Beijing.

Not to mention, the former Zhou family's teahouse was changed by her into Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and it became the premier green building in Beijing.

The rules of this Xiaoxiang Pavilion are different from those of the other places, only the literati and scholars and the powerful people in Beijing are received, and the poor people are excluded.

A bowl of tea here is worth a month of chewing for ordinary people, and ordinary people are not blessed.

It is not false to say that this is a consumer treasury.

The patterns in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion are also endless, the girls are all like flowers and jade, full of poetry and books, and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Even if it is an ordinary maid, at least she understands the tea ceremony, and her speech and demeanor are also generous.

At first, some people had bad intentions and wanted to forcibly occupy the girl in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but later they were beaten by Song Qi, and everyone stopped thinking about it.

Therefore, Xiaoxiang Pavilion has become an elegant place in Kyoto, where powerful guests love it, and literati and artists also like to talk about poetry here.

The Xiaoxiang Pavilion is most famous for its two major events, one is the annual debate competition.

The competition was led by the Ministry of Rites, with the South City Terracotta Division responsible for public security management, and the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Middle City Terracotta Divisions assisted.