Manluo walked up to Aunt Fei and knelt down, "Aunt, the queen wants to summon a girl to accompany her for dinner. Please be flexible."
"Which girl does Her Majesty want to summon?" Aunt Fei asked with a smile.
High-ranking concubines can summon concubines, but the queen has not summoned any concubine yet, but Lu Zhaoyi took the lead in summoning one. What is she doing
"Miss Fang Li'er."
Aunt Fei looked at the other girls and said, "Miss Fang Li'er, please come in."
She really didn't expect Fang Li'er to be related to Lu Zhaoyi, but even if there was no such relationship, with Fang Li'er's beauty, she would not be buried.
Fang Li'er and Zhuang Qingchan lived in the same room. After dinner, Jiang Changning met with the three sisters of the Zhuang family. Zhuang Qingchan told them, "Fang Li'er's biological mother is Lu Zhaoyi's aunt."
This kind of relationship is not considered close, and the fact that Lu Zhaoyi summoned Fang Li'er over is worth pondering.
The next day, a piece of news came that shocked all the concubines.
Fang Li'er served the emperor in bed last night, and the emperor promoted her to the rank of seventh-rank concubine.
In Qiyuan Palace, the queen put the cup in her hand down heavily on the table, "Lu Yawen, you are really becoming more and more unruly."
Arranging concubines to serve in bed is the queen's duty.
"Your Majesty, would you like to summon a beautiful girl to have dinner with you?" a palace maid beside her asked cautiously.
The Queen leaned on the brocade cushion and remained silent for a long time. She had been married to the Emperor for five years and was only twenty-one years old now, but...
The beauty is still here, but the love is gone. She sits leaning against the incense burner until dawn.
After a long while, the Queen said, "Go and bring Fei Zhen over."
Fei Zhen was Aunt Fei who was in charge of disciplining the concubines. After a while, she entered the Qiyuan Palace and said, "This servant pays respects to the queen. May the queen live a thousand years."
"No need to be so polite, just sit down and talk." The queen said lightly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Fei Zhen sat half of her buttocks on the round stool.
"Why didn't Consort Lu come to inform me yesterday when she summoned the concubines?"
"To reply to your Majesty, Concubine Fang is the cousin of Concubine Zhaoyi. I thought it was just a casual chat between sisters." Fei Zhen found out about the relationship between the two only after Fang Li'er was canonized, but she would not tell the empress.
The Queen summoned Fei Zhen not to question her, nor did she say anything more about Fang Li'er. "Among the concubines, is there any one who is outstanding enough to accompany me for dinner?"
"In terms of appearance, the most outstanding one is Jiang Changning, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family in Hangzhou," said Fei Zhen.
"Jiang Changning? The name sounds familiar, let her come." The queen agreed.
"Your Majesty, no." The palace maid spoke out to stop her.
The queen looked at her unhappily, "Why?" Her eyes were sharp. Could it be that this little bitch had cheated on her
"Your Majesty, this legitimate daughter of the Jiang family is the savior of the Empress Dowager." said the palace maid.
"Fei Zhen, you are so bold!" the queen was angry.
"Your Majesty, I have no knowledge of this matter." Fei Zhen knelt down.
"I don't know." The Queen snorted. "Even Fang Li'er is Lu Yawen's cousin, you know that. How could you not know that Jiang Changning is the Queen Mother's man? Fei Zhen, you deliberately recommended Jiang Changning to me, what do you want to do?"
The queen thought a lot in an instant. She had not given birth yet, and the empress dowager was already dissatisfied with her. If she disrupted the empress dowager's arrangements again, the empress dowager might ask the emperor to depose her.
Even if the court officials opposed and the emperor failed to depose her, a queen who was imprisoned and out of favor would not live long.
The six palaces are without a master, who will the emperor appoint as the empress
Concubine Song!
The queen suddenly stood up and kicked Fei Zhen.
"Slave..." Fei Zhen was kicked down before she could finish her defense.
"What benefits did Song Zerou give you to make you harm me like this?" the queen asked sternly.
Fei Zhen's eyes flashed with panic, "I didn't mean to harm the queen. Although I'm stupid, I know that the queen is the master of the harem and holds the Phoenix Seal. Even if you give me the courage of heaven, I dare not harm the queen. Please understand."
The queen sneered, "You are indeed shallow."
If the Queen Mother wants a daughter of the Jiang family to serve the Emperor, is it necessary to go through the selection process
Concubine Liang and Concubine Wu were given directly to the Emperor by the Empress Dowager, and Concubine Liang gave birth to three princesses for the Emperor.
"I admit my guilt." Fei Zhen kowtowed a few more times.
The queen sat back on the couch and asked, "Among the concubines, who else are good?"
Fei Zhen thought for a moment and said, "There are two beautiful girls, both of whom are pretty good. One is Shen Huamei, the daughter of the commander of the Beijing Guards."
The commander of the Beijing Guards is a fifth-rank official and is not easy to control.
Seeing that the queen remained silent, Fei Zhen continued, "The other one is Su Wanyang, the daughter of the magistrate of Huayin County."
Huayin County!
The queen smiled slightly, "After ten days of learning the rules, it's time to let the concubines relax and have some fun in the imperial garden, and find some flowers to put in."
"Yes, your majesty." Fei Zhen replied.
"The title is 'White egrets fly over the vast paddy fields, and yellow orioles sing in the shady summer trees. '" The queen gritted her teeth when she said the word "oriole".
Fei Zhen knew that the Queen was holding a grudge against Fang Li'er, who had just been appointed as a concubine.
Fang Li'er was sent to the emperor by Lu Zhaoyi and has already joined Lu Zhaoyi's faction.
But she had just been almost questioned, so it was not easy to show off now.
Fei Zhen returned to Jingyi Palace with the Queen's oral instructions.
As soon as she left, the queen ordered her trusted maid, "Check Su Wanyang and make sure she has no connection with anyone else in the palace. I don't want to train another ungrateful person."
"Yes, your majesty." The maid took the order and left.
Jiang Changning felt annoyed when he knew that he didn't have to learn any rules tomorrow and had to go to the Imperial Garden to pick and arrange flowers.
She can arrange flowers, but she doesn't want to do it.
Asking the concubines to pick flowers in the imperial garden was nothing more than asking them to wait to be picked by the emperor.
The next day, all the concubines dressed up.
Jiang Changning was no exception. Everyone else was dressed up, but if she had a plain face, she would be more eye-catching.
Youth is the most invincible. Simple and plain-colored showgirl costumes still make young showgirls look graceful, charming and beautiful.
The sun in mid-June is scorching hot. Even in the morning, if you walk in the sun for a while, you will sweat.
The beauties were not afraid of the heat. They walked back and forth in the garden, chasing butterflies and picking flowers, as cheerful as birds on the branches.
Jiang Changning was not in as good a mood as them. He picked a bunch of white flowers, a yellow flower and a few leaves, and returned to Jingyi Palace.
The emperor's carriage appeared in front of the concubines, making most of them happy, "His Majesty is coming, His Majesty is coming."
The ladies were wiping their sweat, or tying their hair.
Holding a round fan, half covering her face, her eyes were secretly linked and her glances were full of amorous feelings.
The queen who loves to imagine.
(End of this chapter)