"My daughter-in-law understands." Chu Jinyao responded with a well-behaved look, but only said that she understood, but did not say how she understood it. After Xiao Qi had no choice, he could only say more clearly: "Since the Crown Princess is a virtuous and generous person, how should you arrange the sleeping quarters in the East Palace? The Crown Prince is the Crown Prince, and it is the most important thing to leave an heir as soon as possible. The Crown Princess should understand that Bar?"
After speaking, Xiao Qi looked at Chu Jinyao as if he was watching a play. The words of sages always teach women to be virtuous and magnanimous. Anyone can recite the women's scriptures and women's rings, but it doesn't hurt if the knife is not cut on their own body. No matter how many big truths are said, when the main room is really asking the husband to take a concubine, which one Can you be willing
Moreover, Chu Jinyao's husband is not an ordinary person, he is the crown prince above ten thousand people. The crown prince stayed in his house for a month in a row, sleeping in the same bed, and any little girl could be stunned by vanity and greed. After Xiao Qi didn't believe it, Chu Jinyao, a bride who had not received a good education of noble girls and had not been taught by her mother the way of husband and wife, could really bear to give up the prince.
As soon as the Queen's words came out, the voices in the palace fell suddenly. Today, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, the palace will order Lantern Festival lanterns, and the Aoshan Lighthouse will also be lit today. The concubines of the harem all come to the Kunning Palace to wait for the lanterns.
The two most honorable women in the world are fighting each other, what else could be better than this one between the queen and the crown princess
Zhao Lanhui is also in Kunning Palace. She has already learned about her future destiny, and she was sent in by Princess Rong An today to manage the relationship between her husband's family. The focus of Zhao Lanhui's attention was naturally the queen and several princesses. She and the princesses sat in the warm pavilion and heard the conversation between the queen and Chu Jinyao outside, and Zhao Lanhui also quieted down.
In the future, she will also become a member of that position, the queen will become her mother-in-law, and the princess will become her concubine. Zhao Lanhui is now listening to the queen persuade Chu Jinyao to take a concubine. She has some similarities with others, and she feels that if she is in that position, she will definitely do better than Chu Jinyao.
The human heart is always endless and greedy. Zhao Lanhui narrowed her eyes and saw the arrogant and arrogant second princess rolled her eyes in disdain. She smiled lightly, but she thought in her heart that she took advantage of her status, and the second princess was obviously closer to herself. Zhao Lanhui is confident that he, the second prince concubine, will be more capable and popular than the crown prince.
Outside, Xiao Qihou also stared at Chu Jinyao step by step. In Xiao Qi's expectation, no matter how tolerant Chu Jinyao is, when she hears such words, she will always show a reluctant expression. Next, Xiao Qi will use the female ring as a weapon, which can be easily controlled. Living in Chu Jinyao, if Chu Jinyao didn't show the slightest reluctance... Oh, then her stepson and daughter-in-law would be amazing, it would be hard to hide her all the way.
In the silence of the whole hall, Chu Jinyao nodded lightly to Xiao Qi and smiled. The harem is all beautiful, but Chu Jinyao's beauty style is very obvious. It is a kind of beauty with blooming flowers and splendid flowers, like a begonia in the deep spring, and a peony after the rain.
Usually people don't realize it, but at this moment, the whole house is watching Chu Jinyao quietly, and they are more and more aware of Chu Jinyao's appearance. Chu Jinyao nodded and smiled just now. Many people, including the queen, felt slightly ashamed. This world is really like a beautiful family, women see it as a treasure in the world, let alone men
Before everyone could react, Chu Jinyao replied clearly, "Okay."
Others were stunned by this answer, what did she say? Without waiting for these people to respond, Chu Jinyao waved behind him, motioning Er Xue and Er Hua to come forward and kowtow to Xiao Qihou: "I have been taking them by my side for the past few days, and today I found an opportunity for them to kowtow to the goddess. ."
After Xiao Qi was caught off guard by this direction, she frowned: "What are you doing?"
"Niangniang forgot, this is the maid you gave me, everyone is beautiful." Chu Jinyao smiled, "Daughter-in-law always remember the mother's teachings, with the mother's arrangement, I saved the effort of finding someone. . Niangniang thinks about the East Palace like this, she is really careful and meticulous."
Xiao Qi wanted to say that Concubine Zheng should not be jealous, but being interrupted by Chu Jinyao like this, she really couldn't bring it up. After all, Queen Qi is not her own mother-in-law. She has already stuffed four maids into the East Palace. Chu Jinyao is now bringing people to the stage. If Queen Qi continues to interfere, it will be like deliberately interfering in the affairs of her stepson's room. This Reputation sucks.
Xiao Qi was blocked for a while, and then he said more vaguely: "It's good if you have a heart. You are the crown princess and the future mother of the country. You should be virtuous and generous, and you can't do things like competing for favor. You can understand. ?"
"Thank you for the guidance of the Empress." Chu Jinyao agreed smoothly, but felt ridiculous in her heart. The main palace can't compete for favor, oh, I can say it after losing Xiao Qi. Chu Jinyao pretended not to know, and said with a deliberate smile, "What the Queen said is. After all, I'm young and I don't care about many things in the East Palace. If the Queen thinks I'm doing something wrong, she can point it out."
Chu Jinyao has said so, what else can Xiao Qi do, she can only say: "It's okay, who will never come to the meeting, you have done a good job, and you can learn it slowly in the future."
"Thank you for being sympathetic." Chu Jinyao squatted down and thanked her with "truth and sincerity."
Having said that, this topic can no longer be continued, and Xiao Qi has to start another conversation. At the beginning of the queen, the other concubines joined in on the fun, and just revealed the matter just now.
The Kunning Palace became lively again, Chu Jinyao sat back in his seat, and seemed to be listening carefully to what other people were saying, but there was a hint of sadness in his demeanor. Xiao Qi only did it without realizing it, and the other concubines felt relieved when they saw it.
Everyone in the palace is like this, how can anyone be an exception? There were only two maids, and Chu Jinyao had at least ten days left, so he should be content.
Everyone talked eagerly, but they didn't realize that although Chu Jinyao said a lot, and even called Er Xue and Er Hua up to kowtow to the queen, but why kowtow? According to everyone's understanding, kowtow to the mistress is not the meaning of being small. The concubines thought according to their usual thinking, and they didn't think it was wrong. In fact, Chu Jinyao never said that he would give these two palace maids names from beginning to end.
She just asked two palace maids to come up and kowtow to the queen, thanking the queen for giving her. Afterwards, Chu Jinyao promised "the mother is right", but did not say that she would do it.
For the first time, Chu Jinyao thanked Qi Gongli for her half-guessing problem, and this time she helped her a lot.
However, the strange thing is that Chu Jinyao obviously relied on the text lawsuit to get through this difficulty, but she is not happy.
She can reject Xiao Qi by small tricks, but can she reject Qin Yi
Because of this incident, even though Chu Jinyao saw the magnificent Aoshan Lighthouse and many exquisite palace lanterns, she could never get back the feeling of watching fireworks on New Year's Eve.
Chu Jinyao's emotions quickly infected the maids beside her. Linglong looked at Chu Jinyao worriedly, Erxue was silent, and Erhua thought that she had seen the queen, and her identity was different from that of ordinary palace maids. Erhua was excited, but in front of Chu Jinyao, she did not dare to show it.
Erhua was very thoughtful, looking at Er Xue's eyes hurriedly provocative and defensive. Er Xue sneered and said to herself, "Idiot."
At the same time, Erxue also knew that she had no way back now. Erhua was brought out because she was reckless and mindless, and Erxue was outside, so this was Chu Jinyao's silent threat. Either become a knife in the hands of the Crown Princess, like Mammy Hong, or be torn to shreds by those women in the East Palace who try to climb the bed.
Er Xue is most famous for her awareness of current affairs. Since the princess looks down on it, Er Xue is also willing to choose a good tree to live in. The crown princess is a noble person, how can she care about the mere palace maids, so the only one who came forward to suppress the maids with ulterior motives in the Ciqing Palace can only be another maid, Er Xue, who was also born at the bottom, with a ruthless heart.
After returning to the Ciqing Palace, Mama Gong was happy to welcome her out, but when she saw Chu Jinyao's face, Mama Gong was stunned. She quietly asked Linglong when no one was there: "What's wrong with the Crown Princess?"
Linglong shook her head, tapped with her fingers, and pointed to the northwest direction quickly. Mama Gong probably guessed what happened tonight, and I'm afraid that Kunning Palace's maids are talking about these beautiful maids again.
After entering the room, Mistress Gong sent all the outsiders out, and asked softly, "Prince Concubine, this old slave will serve you to distribute?"
"Um."
The gorgeous pearls and flowers were placed on the table one after another, and Mistress Gong looked at Chu Jinyao's face in the mirror and said cautiously, "Prince Concubine, you are the mistress of the Eastern Palace, the one who has been with His Highness for a long time, the Crown Prince. Concubine, the grievances you suffer are all for your Highness, don't take it to heart."
"I know."
Chu Jinyao was also embarrassed by the queen before, but she wasn't so listless. The Gongma vaguely felt the crux: "Prince Concubine, could it be that you are worrying about petty things?"
Chu Jinyao didn't speak, but Gongmao couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief: "Prince Concubine, who are you, how can you care about them? Your Highness understands the truth and is willing to listen to you, this is already better than how many main rooms! Women are just playthings, if they act like demons, can they pass you?"
Linglong hurriedly pushed Mama Gong away, and then asked Mama Gong to persuade her to continue, and her heart became more and more persuaded. After waiting for no one, Linglong squatted down, leaned on Chu Jinyao's leg, raised her head and looked at Chu Jinyao earnestly: "Prince Concubine."
Linglong is worthy of her name. After all these years, Chu Jinyao and Linglong have been called master and servant, but she already treats Linglong as half a sister in her heart. Linglong looked at her with confidence, and Chu Jinyao also let go of her guard, and asked her heart a little blankly: "Linglong, do you also think I should take the initiative to take a concubine to His Highness?"
Linglong didn't answer right away, she thought for a while, then reached out to hold Chu Jinyao's hand, her palm warm and strong: "Prince Concubine, this is a matter for you and His Royal Highness. It's useless for others to say anything, you have to ask yourself. And Your Highness. The servants have watched on the sidelines these days and found that His Highness is very attentive to you. If you find another woman for His Highness without saying a word, I am afraid His Highness will be angry."
Chu Jinyao didn't even think about it. She found that her current state of mind was very dangerous. She clearly warned herself to do her duty, not to be fascinated by prosperity and vanity, and finally become disgusting because of jealousy. She didn't want to be jealous of her concubine all her life like Zhao's, and she didn't want to have her own life at all, and she didn't want to be sad and complaining like other women, waiting for her husband's short-lived "decency" and gentleness all her life. She originally wanted to be a dashing and beautiful princess.
It was all right when they first got married, but after so long, Chu Jinyao realized that she couldn't do it.
She didn't want to watch Qin Yi go to other women, smile at them, write with them, and do that with them at night.
Tears filled Chu Jinyao's eyes before she knew it. Linglong looked at these amazingly beautiful eyes filled with tears. As a woman, her heart ached. Linglong slapped her forehead like this, and came up with a brilliant idea: "Prince Concubine, when you came back today, you were not choked by the cold wind, did you cough a little when you first entered the door, or you pretended to be sick and said you had the cold. When the prince comes back, you just pretend to be sick, and the slaves come to tell the prince that the queen forced you to take a concubine. At that time, the prince will definitely not have the heart to accept others out of pity. "
When Chu Jinyao heard it, it made sense. She just happened to be able to use her illness to inquire about Qin Yi's tone. The two discussed it and immediately started to pack up.
When Qin Yi came back from the dinner, it was already dark. The emperor didn't care about government affairs, and there were a lot of famous banquets. In addition, the emperor's middle-aged son was indeed something to be proud of at his age, so the monarch and ministers were happy, and the banquet has been going on for a long time today.
On such occasions, it was inevitable for Qin Yi to drink and toast. Qin Yi could not escape until the emperor enjoyed the banquet. Immediately after he was free, he went to Ciqing Palace. Obviously, he had never had this problem before, but now there is another person living in the palace, and he always felt uneasy when he returned late.
However, today, Qin Yi found something wrong when he entered the house. He naturally recognized the few maids beside Chu Jinyao, among them Linglong, who often followed Chu Jinyao's side, had a dull expression and hesitated to speak.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yi asked.
After all, Linglong underestimated the pressure of facing Qin Yi. She couldn't help but lower her voice, as thin as a mosquito: "The princess seems to be ill."
Qin Yi's face changed immediately, he didn't care to change his court clothes, he waved the eunuch beside him and strode inside. Linglong followed in fright. She stood at the door of the dormitory, listening to what was going on inside with one ear, while driving everyone around her away with the other.
Qin Yi didn't see Chu Jinyao's figure when he entered the room. Through the bed curtain, he could vaguely see Chu Jinyao lying on his back and facing inward. Qin Yi didn't notice that his eyes became sharper, but the sound of footsteps softened.
"Jinyao, what's wrong?" Qin Yi sat gently on the edge of the bed, his hand had already stretched out, but stopped when he touched Chu Jinyao's shoulder. He was afraid of being too powerful.
Chu Jinyao turned around slowly, her cheeks flushed: "Your Highness."
"Why did you suddenly get sick? Why did you call an imperial doctor?"
"No, don't bother."
Qin Yi looked at Chu Jinyao's face, his brows were wrinkled, and he was about to get up: "How can this be done, I will let them take Imperial Doctor Gao into the palace."
Upon hearing this, Chu Jinyao quickly reached out and grabbed Qin Yi's cuff: "Your Highness, it's already locked, don't bother."
"If you have any trouble, just lie down and relax."
"Your Highness." Chu Jinyao had no choice but to half raise his body and hug Qin Yi's arm, forcibly holding Qin Yi who was about to go out, "It's not a serious illness, I'll just cover it up for a night. Really, no need. Looking for too many people to come here, it’s good for you to talk to me, Your Highness.”
Qin Yi stopped in front of the bed, stared at Chu Jinyao for a while, and really sat back: "Okay."
"His Royal Highness, I went to see the Empress today." Chu Jinyao tried to pretend to cut to the point casually. She saw that on Qin Yi's shoulders there were small bits of red paper, which seemed to have fallen from the lantern. Chu Jinyao Couldn't help but reach for it. However, before she could touch the other's shoulder, Qin Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed Chu Jinyao's wrist. He looked at it carefully for a while, but there was still no expression on his face, but he leaned over and put his palm on Chu Jinyao's forehead.
Qin Yi's palm was a little cold, Chu Jinyao blinked, and suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Qin Yi probed for a while, then sat back slowly. There was still no clue on his face, Chu Jinyao sank into the soft red pillow, opened his eyes wide to look at Qin Yi, and suddenly forgot what he was going to say. Qin Yi and Chu Jinyao looked at each other for a while, then suddenly smiled softly: "You have nothing to tell me?"
"I… "
The smile on Qin Yi's lips was the same as usual, but the light in his eyes made Chu Jinyao instinctively feel dangerous. Chu Jinyao stammered a little, and before she could say why, Qin Yi took her words without hesitation: "You are so bold, you dare to pretend to be sick with me."
Chu Jinyao was immediately sure that Qin Yi was angry. Chu Jinyao thought that she was able to make Qin Yi angry, which could be written into the book of merit, but she did not dare to be careless now, and carefully pulled Qin Yi's sleeve: "Your Highness?"
Qin Yi didn't speak, but his eyes could just chop people to death. If a courtier who had dealt with Qin Yi saw it, he would be on his knees in horror now and would not dare to speak, but Chu Jinyao was not his courtier, so seeing this situation, not only was Chu Jinyao not afraid, but he dared to continue to use it. A woman's innate ultimate move, acting like a spoiled child.
"Your Highness, are you mad at me?"
Qin Yi was really angry. When he first heard the news, he was shocked, as if a chill ran from head to toe. He almost ordered someone to take his waist badge to open the palace gate and fish out Imperial Physician Gao from the house. Violating palace rules, who cares about it. However, Chu Jinyao frightened him for a long time, but it turned out to be fake.
Qin Yi had a cold face and made a gesture to get up and go out. Chu Jinyao saw that something was wrong. It would be troublesome to let Qin Yi really leave at such a time. She immediately threw her arms around Qin Yi's waist regardless of her figure. Qin Yi seemed to freeze for a moment, and then she wanted to pull her down. Chu Jinyao didn't want to let go, and still hugged him regardless, with a cry in her tone: "Your Highness, are you leaving?"