Zhuang Luoyan looked at Tingzhu, who was kneeling in front of him, drinking the tea ceremony that the emperor had just given him: "I will punish you for kneeling for a stick of incense, and you will get up after one stick of incense, and you can do whatever you want, but clear."
"My servant, thank you for your kindness." Ting Zhu kowtowed three times and felt grateful. There was an ice basin in this room, and the heat was not too hot. The master asked her to kneel here. How could she not know that the master was compassionate. If other masters knew about these things, how could she keep her, she only deserves such a punishment, which is already a great grace.
In fact, Zhuang Luoyan herself doesn't believe in those things at all, but this matter was exposed by Yangui. She is a smart girl who understands current affairs, she can't bear to give up.
Just when the concubines and concubines thought that the emperor would still not flip the brand, the emperor rested in the queen's Jingyang Palace for two consecutive nights. The queen is the emperor's direct wife, and other concubines have no reason to be jealous.
On the third night, the emperor went to Concubine Shu, and the next morning he gave many things to Concubine Shu.
After Concubine Shu Gui, Xu Zhaorong, Concubine Ning, and Concubine Xian each had one night each, which made the concubines think that the emperor had changed his temperament that he didn't like to flip brands in summer.
After all these women went there once, the emperor did not turn over the brand for two days again, which left the concubines and concubines at a loss.
"Your Majesty, the servants of the inner guard are here to greet you." Gao Dezhong said this, and Feng Jin knew that he was asking him if he wanted to flip the brand.
"Let him come in." Feng Jin stopped his movements, Gao Dezhong hurriedly stepped forward to take the pen in his hand, and saw a big empty character written on the paper.
When the eunuch who waited for the eunuch knelt in front of Feng Jin, he glanced at the tooth cards of the concubines in the tray, and suddenly said, "Are the peaches outside the Taoyu Pavilion about to ripen?"
Gao Dezhong was stunned when he heard the words, and then replied, "I'm afraid I can eat it, but I think it's not cooked yet."
"Unripe has the advantage of being underripe," Feng Jin picked up a sign, "I haven't seen Zhao Chongyi for a while, so I'll go to Taoyu Pavilion tonight."
Knowing that the emperor was going to prostitute tonight, Zhuang Luoyan ate peaches picked from outside, squinted at the sunlight outside the house, took a sip, and went for a small half of the peaches.
After Feng Jin finished processing the memorial, it was still early. Seeing Gao Dezhong hurried in from outside, he asked, "What's the matter?"
"The queen mother killed a maid in the womb of Lord Rou."
"Why?" Feng Jin's tone remained unchanged.
Gao Dezhong didn't even dare to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and continued, "The servant heard that this palace maid bumped into the Queen Mother Feng Jia."
"How could Concubine Rou's maid collide with the Queen Mother Feng Jia?" Feng Jin sneered.
"The servant heard that the queen mother wanted to visit Taoyuan, but when she encountered the maid in the palace of the concubine Rou who picked peaches and ran out in a panic, she bumped into the queen mother, and the queen mother was frightened, so she was given a cane to kill."
"What's so good about a few underripe peaches at this time of year?" Feng Jin sarcastically said, "I'm also going to accompany my mother to see Taoyuan."
When Zhuang Luoyan heard that the Queen Mother was coming to Taoyuan, she went out and waited. She didn't expect that there would be a palace maid who came to steal the peaches and ran into the Queen Mother, causing even Concubine Rou to be reprimanded.
Seeing that Concubine Rou, who has always been a proud person in the harem, knelt on the ground with a pale face, Zhuang Luoyan stepped forward and said, "Please ask the Empress Dowager to atone for her sins. Sister Rou Fei didn't know that the palace people would be so bold."
"If you can't even manage your own people, what else can you do?" The Queen Mother gave Zhuang Luoyan a cold look, "I won't allow you to intervene in the matter of the family!"
"Concubine is guilty," Zhuang Luoyan knelt down, pretending to be frightened, and knelt down on the ground honestly.
"The queen mother always pays homage to Buddha, don't hurt your compassion because of a servant with dirty hands and feet," Feng Jin said from a few steps away, "The two beloved concubines know nothing about this matter, the queen mother should let them get up. "
The queen mother glanced at the two kneeling on the ground, and said slowly, "Since the emperor has spoken, you two should get up."
"Empress Dowager Xie, Emperor Xie." Zhuang Luoyan got up and stepped aside, looking down at a pearl on his embroidered shoes, the corner of his mouth raised without a trace.
"Your Majesty, it's not that Aijia is trying to make things difficult." The queen mother glanced at the pale Concubine Rou, "As the head of the first palace, even the people in the palace are incompetent, which really disappoints the Aijia."
Feng Jin said indifferently: "The mother doesn't need to be angry, she is just a servant. Since she has been killed, don't hurt yourself because of the servant's anger."
When the queen mother heard Feng Jin say this, she knew that he didn't want to punish Concubine Rou, so she gave Concubine Rou a dissatisfied look, and left in a chariot.
"Your Majesty..." Concubine Rou looked at Feng Jin timidly, her face pale.
"Let's step back first," Feng Jin's tone was still flat, "clean up the affairs of the palace."
"Concubine, retire." Concubine Rou bit her lip and stepped back to leave. After walking a distance, she couldn't help but look back, only to see that the emperor was holding Zhao Chongyi's hand, and at this moment Zhao Chongyi raised her head with a smile. , the two of them glanced at each other and separated as if nothing had happened.
"Your Majesty, your concubine is sweating..." Zhuang Luoyan gently pushed away the emperor who wanted to be intimate with her, her eyes shy and timid.
"I haven't taken a bath either, Concubine Ai has to serve me well." Feng Jin kissed Zhuang Luo's lips and instructed the servants waiting outside to prepare bathing and other things.
The minions below understood it, and naturally prepared a large bathtub with dragon patterns. When Zhuang Luoyan was carried into the bathtub by Feng Jin, there was only one emotion. This bathtub was much larger than the one he used on weekdays.
Two naked/naked normal men and women do nothing in the bathtub, it is not common sense, so when Zhuang Luoyan moaned/groaned while hugging the emperor's neck in the bathtub, he had to believe in the mandarin duck bath, indeed Very exciting.
After spending more than half an hour taking a shower, Zhuang Luo let the emperor tie her skirt softly, hugging his arm with one hand and smiling: "Your Majesty, you are so slow."
"Why, do you think I'm not doing well?" Feng Jin stretched out his hand and pressed the beauty's waist, "Why don't Ai Concubine change my clothes."
"Isn't the emperor bullying people?" Zhuang Luoyan lowered her voice with a reddish face, "Is your waist sore?"
Feng Jin laughed softly when he heard the words, straightened Zhuang Luoyan's clothes, bent over and carried the beauty from the couch into his arms, and said to the outside, "come here."
The palace maid and eunuch who was waiting outside came in with her head buried and did not dare to lift her head. After quickly tidying up the house, she carried the tub and went out. No one knew what had just happened in the house.
Stroking Zhuang Luoyan's still-dry hair, Feng Jin said, "What does Concubine Ai love to do on weekdays?"
"Reading books, practicing calligraphy, embroidering purses, growing flowers, and practicing the piano are just not very good," Zhuang Luoyan rubbed his head in someone's throat a few times, conveying an uneasy feeling, "but the concubine thought Well, practice slowly and there will always be progress.”
"These things are all foreign objects. It is enough to treat them as hobbies, and you don't have to be too obsessive." Feng Jin patted her back and said in a gentle tone, "Concubine Ai is fine now."
"Really?" The originally depressed mood seemed to come alive again because of such a simple sentence, Feng Jin nodded as he looked at the shining eyes of the person in his arms looking up at him.
The hands that hugged his neck seemed to tighten a little. When Feng Jin looked down again, the beauty had already put her head on his neck. In addition to her joy, she seemed to have some attachment.
Feng Jin moved and walked to the bed with someone in his arms.
In the morning, it was just dawn, and Gao Dezhong and Ting Zhuyi's servants waited outside waiting for the master's summons. There was a lot of noise in the house last night, and it seemed that they would not get up so early.
Gao Dezhong glanced at Zhao Chongyi's two close-fitting palace maids, who seemed very well behaved, and never tried to inquire about anything from him. Instead, they were more pleasing than those palace maids who thought they were smart.
After another half an hour, there was a sound inside. Gao Dezhong brought a few servants into the door. If it was like moving forward, Zhao Chongyi was still lying on the bed, and the emperor got up by himself.
In terms of favor, Zhao Chongyi was not the most favored, but she was definitely the only one who got up and went to bed when the emperor got up. Even if she was Concubine Shu, she had to wait on the emperor to change clothes in the early morning of the second day. But looking at the emperor's light-handed movements, he also understood that the master on the bed was probably still dreaming at the moment.
The room smells like after love. Gao Dezhong has served the emperor for many years, and naturally his eyes will not be strayed. After serving the emperor to change his clothes, he sees the emperor walking to the bed and kissing Zhao Chongyi's forehead again, busy and buried his head again.
Concubine Rou's maid was killed by the Queen Mother because her hands and feet were not clean, and even Concubine Rou was reprimanded by the Queen Mother overnight. She knew better than all the masters in the palace.
"This palace maid's brain is really not good enough. Although the Taoyuan is not big, it can still be hidden by throwing a peach. Why panic and rush into Feng Jia with a peach, I really don't know if she has no brain or no eyes," Su Xiuyi Disdainfully, "It's also unfortunate that Concubine Rou has such a servant."
"Yeah, it's really unfortunate, otherwise why would you go out to the Taoyu Pavilion to steal a few peaches and even run into the Queen Mother?" Concubine Shu Gui twiddled a grape on her fingertips with a half-smile, and trimmed her nails beautifully and cleanly. Scratch the skin of the grapes, revealing the tender flesh.
"Women in the harem, there is nothing simple." Concubine Shu Gui rubbed her hands with a handkerchief and glanced at Su Xiu Yi, throwing the grapes into the green jade plate with ruffles on one side, "I can say these words here. , go out, keep your mouth shut for me, okay?"
"Yes," Su Xiuyi nodded shyly, but she didn't know why she couldn't say what everyone knew.