stayed up all night, and went to the queen's palace early to say goodbye, An Lingrong and Zhen Huan's faces were not very good.

An Lingrong is pretending, and Zhen Huan is scared.

"Broken Yuxuan is close to the imperial garden, last night the nobles of Fucha fainted, I heard that the nobles of Guan and Rong Chang were sending someone to send her back, those minions only cared about their own lives, and even the master was left behind, and the palace will punish them severely." The queen had a straight face, since Concubine Hua's assistant to the power of the six palaces was withdrawn, her body has been getting better day by day, "You two go back and rest, you don't have to ask for peace these days, it's important to take care of your body." ”

Zhen Huan and An Lingrong should get up.

Concubine Hua was also there today, and sneered: "There are no ghosts and gods in this world, it's just a strange force and chaos, and the nobles and Rong Changzai are too timid." ”

Zhen Huan raised her eyes and glanced at Concubine Hua shallowly, and did not sit down like An Lingrong, but leaned over and saluted, and said meaningfully: "If you want to talk about ghosts, it is naturally the unjust ghosts who will have nostalgia for the world. The concubine was afraid because the Yu family wanted to kill the concubine before her death, but the Yu family was instructed by Concubine Li, and she died unjustly, and nine out of ten people wanted to settle accounts with Concubine Li. ”

"You're on the point." Xin Chang picked up Zhen Huan's words, "It's just that the Yu family deserves to die, how can it be regarded as a ghost who died unjustly?" ”

Concubine Qi quenched: "What do you know!" Isn't the Yu family dying in vain? I heard that she refused to die that day, smashed the poisoned wine and tore the white silk, and Father-in-law Su couldn't make a difference, so he asked her to strangle her to death with a bowstring......" said, she also glanced at Concubine Hua.

Concubine Hua's face was ugly: "Concubine Qi, where did you hear this rumor, you are in the concubine position, don't disturb the peace of the harem with false rumors!" ”

Concubine Qi was a little embarrassed, but then reacted and sneered again and again: "Concubine Hua, you don't have the right to assist the six palaces now, in front of the queen, you and I are the same, why do you still speak in this tone, do you want to disobey the emperor's will?" She has been suppressed by Concubine Hua for many years, and today she said a happy word, so that Concubine Hua didn't say anything for a long time.

Or Cao Guiren solved the siege: "Even if Concubine Hua Niangniang does not have the right to assist the six palaces, but she is also a concubine, so taking care of the overall situation and stabilizing the six palaces is the temperament that the head of the concubine should have, Concubine Qi Niangniang does not help the queen to calm down the harem turmoil together, how can she still fan the flames?" ”

Concubine Hua breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Cao Guiren with satisfaction, and stabbed Concubine Qi a few more times before she stopped talking.

Only then did the queen speak: "Okay, look at you, the more you talk, the more unorthodox it becomes, Chun Chang is here today, she is young, she can't listen to these things, she doesn't have to frighten her, you are still open-mouthed one by one." She breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "This Forbidden City has been around for hundreds of years, what fox ghost rumors are there?" If you really want to think about it, it's time to do it. ”

"As soon as this ritual is done, won't the harem believe in ghosts and monsters even more?" Concubine Hua immediately refuted the queen's words, but at the eyes of the noble Cao nobles, she pouted and changed her words, "However, since the queen has spoken, let's do a magic thing, so as to calm the hearts of all the sisters." Let Master Baohuadian open day and night and do a great ritual on land and water. ”

None of the people present answered.

The queen hooked the corners of her mouth: "Okay, let's do a water and land ritual." The rest is just that, it's just that the cold palace is heavy, and it is necessary to let the mage overtake the souls in the cold palace. ”

Everyone stood up and saluted: "Follow the Queen's will." ”

Concubine Hua's face suddenly turned dark, and when she raised her eyes, she saw An Lingrong who was slowly smiling at her, and immediately clenched her back molars in annoyance.

Cao Guiren looked at Concubine Hua and then at An Lingrong, and felt more and more in his heart that he couldn't underestimate her.

This little girl is really powerful, if she hadn't paid attention in advance, I'm afraid she wouldn't have guessed that An Lingrong was leading in this matter, but why did she expose herself? made Concubine Hua hold a grudge against her. Cao Guiren only felt a headache when she thought about it, and Concubine Hua said "get rid of An Lingrong", she didn't know how much effort it would take.

She couldn't see through An Lingrong at all.

The other two may be easier to deal with than An Lingrong.

Cao Guiren looked at Zhen Huan again, thinking about the emperor's favor to her, shook his head in his heart, and finally fell on Shen Meizhuang's body.

These three people are together, they always have to tear a hole, last time Shen Guiren fell into the water and failed to clean her up, this time I have to think of a perfect way.

After the haunted event was over, the palace settled down for a while.

But Yu's death and Concubine Li's madness left a hurdle in Zhen Huan's heart, she couldn't sleep well for a few days, or An Lingrong copied Buddhist scriptures for her deceased mother, pulled her to copy them together, and then let Dill and Huanbi take them to Baohua Hall to burn them, so that they could feel at ease.

Time passed slowly.

Shen Meizhuang helped the queen take care of the harem, and became more and more presentable, and the servants slept only occasionally.

Zhen Huan was busy accompanying the emperor, either playing chess with the emperor's lamp, or accompanying the servants in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, and the emperor became more and more affectionate.

An Lingrong attaches great importance to his own body maintenance, in addition to occasionally serving the edict and going to the queen to ask for peace, he ponders and eats in the small kitchen of Broken Yuxuan all day long, and also takes the time to repair the bracelet in Xiadongchun and send it back.

Life is easy and happy.

Just when they thought that life could go on comfortably, something happened again.

"Little master, the slave saw it last night, Huanbi and Cao Guiren met in private." An Lingrong was pondering how many spoonfuls of salt to add to the perch soup, and Cardamom leaned closer to her ear and said, "Cao Guiren is very affectionate to her, and gave her a lot of good things, the slave maid only glanced at it, and actually saw a large silver ticket with a denomination." ”

An Lingrong was slightly stunned: "Where did you see it?" ”

"Under the promenade near the Yanqing Palace." Cardamom replied, "The slave maid asked Concubine Duan Niangniang to come out with a needle, and as soon as I looked up, I saw Huanbi sneakily walking over, and when I saw Cao Guiren at first glance, I was so scared that the slave and maid thought that the matter of going to Yanqing Hall had been discovered." ”

An Lingrong added half a spoonful of salt with his own feelings, and thought while drinking the soup: "Miss Huanbi is a person who can achieve great things, you don't care about her, just be careful when you go to Yanqing Hall in the future." ”

Huanbi in the previous life did not become the emperor's woman, I think Zhen Huan has been pressing her, and then somehow, she stopped thinking and served Zhen Huan wholeheartedly, An Lingrong still doesn't deal with her in this life, thinking about fulfilling her, but she hasn't thought about it yet, and wait.

It's just that there are always things in the world that are unpredictable.

I don't know if it's because An Lingrong stimulated Concubine Hua too much, or Zhen Huan's recent favor made her have a huge sense of crisis, or maybe Shen Meizhuang grew up too fast and made her feel hopeless to regain the power of the assistant six palaces, in this life, Concubine Hua acted quickly and ruthlessly.

In the past few days, An Lingrong has seen Huanbi's maintenance more and more outstanding, although she is still dressed like a palace maid, her complexion is like a blooming flower, slowly blooming beautifully, and her eyes are becoming more and more watery. People in the past often joked that Huanbi has become beautiful, Zhen Huan didn't realize it, and rewarded her with a lot of clothes and jewelry.

An Lingrong vaguely reminded Zhen Huan to beware of Huanbi, but Zhen Huan said firmly: "Huanbi will not betray me." ”

An Lingrong didn't know why Zhen Huan was so determined, but her intuition told her that Zhen Huan might suffer a big loss because of this determination.

On this day, Zhen Huan and Shen Meizhuang went to the queen's palace to reply, saying that the heat has been rising in the past few days, and the cost of the harem has become more and more expensive. Shen Meizhuang counted the account books one by one and said: "The mage of Baohua Hall has done four rituals, and the total amount of incense money spent is 1,800 taels. The weather was hot, and the palace maids and eunuchs in various palaces added a mung bean soup at noon to relieve the heat, and the daily silver money was thirty-two taels. ”

At this point, the queen raised her hand to interrupt her: "A day's mung bean soup is thirty-two taels, what about a month?" ”

"One month ......" Shen Meizhuang twisted his fingers and counted, "Nine hundred and sixty taels." ”

The queen sighed and looked at the emperor worriedly: "Wealth comes from simplicity, although it is a bowl of mung bean soup, but after many years, it is also a large amount." Instead, he glanced at Shen Meizhuang, who was thinking a little, and the corners of his mouth pressed the arc that he couldn't wait to raise, and his face was still dignified.

Thinking of the emptiness of the treasury now, the emperor nodded with a deep sigh: "The queen is right. It's just that this expenditure has been in the hands of the first emperor, and if it is suddenly broken, I am afraid that the people below will complain. ”

"The emperor is right." Shen Meizhuang said, "The lord is gracious, and the minions do their best to do their best, and this expense cannot be saved." The concubine thought, in fact, the daily portions in the palace are inexhaustible, for example, the nobles, one liter of japonica rice every day, six catties of pork, six catties of fresh vegetables, two catties of white flour, and eight taels of tofu, even if you can't eat them, not to mention the palace rules of concubines and concubines. It's better to discount these into cash silver and distribute them to each palace, and the examples of mung beans and rock candy are also discounted into cash and distributed to the minions of each palace. First, it saves expenses, and secondly, everyone has a share, so that everyone can eat mine, and I eat others, there are always complaints. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhen Huan smiled and cheered: "My sister is exquisite, if she is a concubine, she can't count these things." ”

The queen also laughed and said that she had a headache when she heard it, and even praised Shen Meizhuang for her ability.

But Shen Meizhuang didn't know that it was this proposal to cut the part and convert it into cash that caused her to be killed.

This method really does not take into account the reality of the harem worshipping high and low, most of the concubines who have no grace only rely on these routines to survive, if they fold the cash, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach them a cent. Shen Meizhuang's position is now only in the nobles, although he was ordered to study the assistant six palaces, but after all, he has no real power in his hands, such a big move, not to mention the concubines in the palace, but also made Concubine Hua and the queen jealous of her - dare to do this without real power, and when you really have power, don't you want to go to heaven?

In the final analysis, it is the reason for the Shen family's family style.

Shen Meizhuang was rushing to be a virtuous concubine from the beginning, and before the draft went out, Mrs. Shen, that is, Shen Meizhuang's mother, also specially told her that she must get ahead after entering the palace, so as to live up to her cultivation since childhood. Therefore, Shen Meizhuang does not understand the suffering of the world, and the housekeeper is mostly naïve and idealistic.

"You're still young, you should have more experience." The emperor opened his mouth and said, although he felt that Shen Meizhuang's method was a little inappropriate, but thinking about the previous dynasty and the front line, he still agreed in the end, "It's just that this experience also has to have a natural temperament." ”

"That means that the concubine is born stupid." Zhen Huan said pretendedly, causing the emperor to laugh.

"Look at her mouth, and she says that she is stupid, so how can others count?"

Zhen Huan smiled and handed the teacup in her hand to Huanbi behind her, and was about to speak, but she heard Huanbi exclaim, followed by the sound of the teacup falling to the ground and shattering.

Huanbi hurriedly knelt down: "The slave and maid missed, disturbing the emperor and the two little masters, and asking the emperor to forgive him." She knelt at a good angle, raised her eyes to look at the emperor's gaze, and hurriedly opened her eyes, her cheeks flushed with shame.

"I remember you, is your name Huanbi?" The emperor's heart was rippling for a while, not to mention blame, and even his voice was a little gentler, "It's just a tea cup, it's not worth asking for sin, get up." ”

"Your Majesty." Huanbi thanked her and slowly stood up.

The emperor's gaze slowly moved up as she got up: "Very good, people are as their name suggests, and the blue clothes are very flattering to your complexion." It's worthy of the people around you, and the appearance is really outstanding. The emperor looked at Zhen Huan, as if he could cover up his fancy for Huanbi by explaining it like this.

Huanbi stood in place with her eyes down shyly.

Zhen Huan looked at her, and then looked at the emperor, only to feel that her body was cold inch by inch, and she opened her mouth to speak, but she didn't know what to say, so she looked at Shen Meizhuang helplessly.

Shen Meizhuang grimaced and shook his head at Zhen Huan without a trace.

The queen saw the emperor's thoughts, and said with a smile: "If the emperor likes it, why don't you ask the nobles of Dongguan and wait by your side?" She has always understood the emperor's intentions, but she has to take care of Zhen Huan's face at this time, so she asked in vain, "Guan nobleman, what do you say?" ”

Zhen Huan looked at the emperor with a white face, a little trembling, and wanted to struggle again: "Your Majesty, Huanbi is the concubine's dowry......"