"Concubine Ning?"
Aunt Tongyun was a little surprised and said: "Why did your mother ask her?"
Nan Yan thought for a while, then smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just feel that she usually seems to be quiet, and in this harem, no one seems to have anything to do with her."
Aunt Tongyun smiled and said, "Your Majesty is really right."
"..."
"Slaves often say the same in private."
"..."
"I heard from the people who served at Yanxi Palace that although she lived with Empress Debi in Yanxi Palace, the two of them didn't speak a word for ten and a half months."
"..."
"Empress Debi is the most unassuming in this palace, and she is also generous to me."
"..."
"Even she and Concubine Ning have nothing to say."
Nan Yan let out a soft "Oh".
"Speaking of which," Aunt Tongyun continued, "Didn't the emperor bring her from Yanwang Palace in Beiping? She was already the side concubine of Yanwang before."
"oh… "
It was only then that Nanyan remembered.
Yes, Qin Ruolan was the side concubine of the King of Yan before, and she didn't enter the harem after Zhu Feng ascended the throne.
Aunt Tongyun said: "If your empress wants to know about her, I'm afraid you have to ask the old man of the Yan Palace. The servants have been serving in the Jinling Palace all the time, so they don't know her well."
"Um."
Nan Yan nodded.
This person seems to be interesting.
After she finished washing her face, she wiped her hands again, and handed the towel to Aunt Tongyun. Aunt Tongyun smiled and said, "By the way, why did your mother suddenly become interested in her?"
"Yeah, nothing."
Recalling the way she looked at Zhu Chengxuan in Chengqian Palace just now.
It seems that she is not a really indifferent person.
She murmured: "She is so beautiful, but so indifferent... Maybe there is something about the past that I can't bear to look back on."
Aunt Tongyun looked back at her.
After a while, he smiled and said, "Your Majesty is also very beautiful."
When Nan Yan heard this, she blushed a little: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
She still knows what she looks like, maybe not ugly, but compared to Qin Ruolan's peerless beauty, it's really far behind.
Aunt Tongyun smiled and said: "Really, your empress and Concubine Ning are quite similar in temperament."
"I'm not as indifferent as she is."
"It's not indifference, but that—that kind of heart."
Aunt Tongyun smiled and said: "In this palace, there are not many people with such spirit."
"..."
Nan Yan was in a daze for a while listening.
Angry
In fact, more than half of my spirit comes from the stubbornness I have learned from the hardships and predicaments since I was a child, and the other part, in fact, comes from Zhu Feng.
She could somewhat understand that Zhu Feng treated her differently.
Therefore, she dared to quarrel with him, quarrel with him, and even confront him face to face.
But what about Concubine Ning
Where did her indifferent but lonely spirit come from
Thinking about it, she walked slowly to the dressing table and sat down, staring blankly at herself in the bronze mirror for a long time.
Are you and her really alike
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Time flies quickly, in a blink of an eye, two days have passed.
Nan Yan held a silk handkerchief that she had embroidered, with a lifelike plum blossom on it, looked around, tied the last silk thread in satisfaction, and bit it off with her teeth.
Nian Qiu on the side watched and said softly: "Your Majesty is really amazing."
"..."
"It's so beautiful."
Nanyan himself was also very satisfied.
When she was a child in the Si family, she did a lot of this kind of work. She knew several embroidery methods, which were not inferior to those embroiderers in the embroidery room.
But this time, she didn't embroider anything too complicated.
It's just a piece of silk handkerchief, a branch of Samuume.
Although this silk handkerchief is simple, the snow-white handkerchief against the bright red plum blossoms gives people a very delicate and lonely feeling.
Just like that beauty.
Nianqiu said softly: "This, is the empress going to use it for the emperor?"
Nan Yan smiled and shook her head.
If it was for Zhu Feng, he wouldn't be embroidered with plum blossoms.
It should be embroidered with a tiger.
She couldn't help laughing, thinking of Zhu Feng wearing a handkerchief embroidered with tigers, it was inexplicably funny.
Nianqiu said softly again: "That lady, this is—"
Nan Yan unfolded the veil and said, "This is my birthday present to Concubine Ning."
"Huh? This one?"
"Um."
"This, will it be too—"
Shabby
It is indeed a bit shabby.
Gifts in the palace, not gold and jade utensils are too embarrassing to take out.
But Nan Yan felt that if she gave those things, she was afraid that she would be embarrassed to show them to Qin Ruolan.
She smiled: "The courtesy is light and the affection is heavy."
Nianqiu looked at the silk handkerchief, then at Nanyan, and said softly: "I feel that the empress seems to be very kind to Concubine Ning."
"ah?"
"Although it is Concubine Ning's birthday, I heard that there is no one in the palace to celebrate."
"..."
"No one gave gifts either."
"..."
"Only the empress still remembers her."
"..."
Nan Yan also smiled.
For some reason, when Zhu Feng's concubines and concubines came to Jinling, the first thing she saw was this Qin Ruolan.
She is also the one who is most interested.
He just smiled and said, "Everyone is serving the emperor in the palace, they are sisters. I treat her better, it's nothing."
After speaking, she got up, brushed off the thread that fell on her body, and said, "Nianqiu, you stay here and watch, I'll go out for a while."
"Your Majesty, don't you want servants to serve you?"
"No. I'll be back in a minute."
"oh."
Nian Qiu obeyed obediently.
Nanyan left Yikun Palace alone.
At this time, it was just three quarters before midnight, and the weather was a bit hot. She also sweated a lot after walking all the way.
Finally, they arrived outside the Palace of Yanxi Palace.
However, she stopped.
Because, she saw a somewhat familiar figure walking towards the gate of Yanxi Palace.
Mother Su!
Nan Yan opened her eyes wide in surprise.
How did she come here
Was he ordered to do something, or—
Just thinking about it, I saw someone coming out from the inside, it was none other than Concubine Ning and Qin Ruolan herself.
She dodged subconsciously and hid aside.
Seeing the two people meeting each other, they were no strangers at all, Madam Su bowed to Qin Ruolan: "Greetings, Concubine Ning."
"Mammy..."
Qin Ruolan's voice seemed to have a bit of warmth in addition to the rare coldness, and said: "There is no need to be too polite."
"..."
"Why is Mammy here today?"
"My servant still remembers that today is the empress's birthday, so I specially came here to give some things to my empress."
After speaking, it seemed that something was taken out.
After searching for a while.
Qin Ruolan's voice became undulating again, and she said softly, "These, these are—"
"These are the things of the imperial concubine."
"...!"
Nan Yan's heart skipped a beat.
The imperial concubine
Are you talking about yourself