Section XXVIII

On the second day after entering the palace, after Lu Qiao had breakfast, she and Yun'er were busy until almost noon. Yun'er was busy ushering in and receiving gifts from the concubines of the palace, and at the same time giving them gifts in return; Lu Qiao was busy smiling at the concubines of the palace, accepting their congratulations and saying a few polite words.

At the same time, Green Joe has been a little uneasy.

She was a little timid, both wanting to see the man coming, but also worried about the man coming.

"Zhaoyuan Zhaoyi, Shuyuan Shuyi, and beautiful ladies who are lower than you in this palace have all come to congratulate you, but you can't see your deceased lady. It seems that her shelf is really not small!" Yun'er spread the other palace maids on the ground and whined while beating herself and tired her legs.

"Actually, I was a little scared to see her. Green Joe's voice was very small when he said this, with a little tangled and a little sad and a little worried.

"What, you're still afraid of her?!"

"It's false to say that you're not afraid. "Green Joe is very calm.

"It's her who does the wrong thing, why are you cowardly. ”

"Your Majesty has arrived!" the master and servant were talking relaxedly, and the voice of the eunuch outside the door sounded high. So they quickly stood up, straightened their clothes, walked to the door, and knelt down to greet them. As soon as the emperor saw Lu Qiao's prostrate figure on the ground, he immediately helped her up and said, "Concubine Ai, get up quickly, and you will be exempted from these false courtesies in the future." The emperor took Lu Qiao and asked as he walked: "Concubine Ai is tired today, so I will come to see you as soon as I am busy with political affairs." ”

"No, after a busy morning, I am always worried that something is not done well and the sisters will laugh at it. I also asked the emperor to say good things for his concubines in front of the sisters. ”

"Hey, it doesn't matter what they think. You just have to serve me well. ”

Lu Qiaowan smiled and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." Then she asked in a low voice: "The concubine heard that there is still a lady in this palace, right?"

"Oh, yes. After the emperor finished answering Lu Qiao's question, he suddenly remembered, "Didn't she come to congratulate you today?"

Yun'er pinched the right time and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Concubine Shu sent her personal female history to say that her mother is not happy, so she can't come to our mother to say hello." ”

The emperor snorted, "I think she's upset." ”

"Since Sister Shufei is not in good health, the concubine wants to go and say goodbye to her sister. ”

Originally, the emperor didn't agree to go, because he was already familiar with the path of Concubine Shu, and whenever there was a newcomer in the palace, she always had to be careful. Later, she couldn't stand Lu Qiao's coquettish pleading, and finally agreed to let her go to Chengfu Palace to greet Concubine Shu, and the emperor personally accompanied her.

Sure enough, even though he had already deduced in his mind his performance when he met this Yimei's sister countless times, he still lost in reality - Lu Qiao was a little timid, if it wasn't for Yun'er quietly mentioning it, she wouldn't know how to salute. Fortunately, there was an emperor with him, so this lady's attention was not on Lu Qiao. She seized the opportunity to flatter the emperor and show disgust: "Your Majesty has not come to the palace of the concubines these days, and the concubines are so worried!"

The emperor was very fond of such a coquettish concubine, and he soon sat down with her until he flirted with her. Lu Qiao and Yun'er stood at the bottom of the hall, extremely embarrassed.

It took a long time for Concubine Shu to remember that Lu Qiao had glanced at her maliciously and deliberately said embarrassedly, "I'm really sorry, I forgot that sister, you are here." ”

Even though Lu Qiao was extremely displeased, he still had to force a smile and replied: "It's okay, as long as Your Majesty likes it." ”

"But my sister has been here, how can Your Majesty and I have fun, so please sister, go back to your Yunyun Palace. ”

"What do you say, Your Majesty?"

"Oh, yes. You go back first. The emperor, who was lying on the couch, replied vaguely.

Suffering from this humiliation, Yun'er couldn't help but take a step forward and wanted to reason with her, but was blocked back by Lu Qiao's eyes. Then Lu Qiao himself bent his knees slightly, "Then the concubine will retire first." ”

In this way, the first meeting between Green Qiao and Su Qi ended with Green Qiao's complete defeat.

Because of this, Lu Qiao understood that if he wanted to defeat Su Qi in the palace in the future, he still had a long and difficult way to go. She finally realized that if she wanted to have a greater weight in the emperor's heart, beauty alone was not enough, what she needed was charming, more powerful than Concubine Shu.

She wants to learn, even if she resists it so much in her heart.

"It's easy to learn other things, how can you learn this trick?, besides, who are you going to learn from!" Yun'er showed an incredible expression, she felt that the woman in front of her was already crazy. She was amazed as if she were watching a phoenix trying to make chickens.

Yun'er didn't know that Lu Qiao was ready to suffer humiliation in the coming days - she was ready to lower her price to serve Concubine Shu.

"What, you want to demote to Zhaoyi and move to the side palace of Chengfu Palace?!" the emperor was puzzled by Lu Qiao's request.

Lu Qiao knelt on the side of the bed and helped the emperor take off his dragon boots and said, "The concubine has just entered the palace and her position is too high, so it's not good......," she didn't finish speaking, and the emperor became vigilant, "Is there someone bullying the concubine?" Lu Qiao hurriedly explained: "No, the sisters are very good to me." It's just that I look at the lady concubine Niangniang so good at serving Your Majesty, I am ashamed in my heart and want to ask her for more advice!" The emperor was a little moved, pinched Lu Qiao's chin and said, "You are really lovely and careful! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The red candle beside the bed flickered, shining with pleasure but shedding bloody tears little by little.

Ever since Lu Qiao moved into the side palace of Chengfu Palace, Concubine Shu has really regarded it as a female history. She couldn't help but instruct Lu Qiao, who was a virtuous concubine, to run around for her, and even wantonly sent the palace maids around Lu Qiao to do coolies. What reward the emperor has for Concubine Xian, and Lu Qiao will also order Yun'er to send it to Concubine Shu as soon as possible. Concubine Shu is also very shrewd, every time the emperor comes to Chengfu Palace, she pretends to be humble and forbearant and gets along with Concubine Xian.

In this way, Yun'er and the palace maids around the other virtuous concubines were not without complaints, and Lu Qiao had to patiently teach them every time to "get a tiger without entering the tiger's den".