According to the rules in the palace, after the concubines are favored by the emperor, they need to greet the queen the next morning. Naturally, there are also emperors who feel sorry for the beauty, so they don't need to ask An Li.
Zhuang Luoyan was in a daze last night. Although he heard Emperor Chengxuan said that she was exempted from the greeting ceremony in the morning, she is not the original Zhuang Luoyan. She knows that being arrogant and arrogant in this harem will not be good in the end. end. Without Daji's ability, it's better not to get Daji's disease, not to mention that the generation of demon concubine Daji didn't end up with anything good in the end.
Dress up according to Wanyi's grade, but it's not too gorgeous, and you can't have a simple and elegant low-key. Too low-key in this harem is a deliberate high-profile, but it is in the eyes of some people.
The queen lived in Jingyang Palace, which was also the residence of the queen since the founding of the dynasty. The queen was one year older than the emperor and was not favored by the emperor, but the emperor still respected the queen, so the queen's position in the harem was still stable, but it was a pity that the queen only gave birth to a daughter, and she died young at the age of two, so that she Several favored concubines in the harem shared some of the limelight.
It is easier to fall out of favor in the harem than to regain favor, so when the concubines watched Zhuang Wanyi come to greet the queen, they felt a little uncomfortable. She was obviously just a woman with a bit of beauty, so how could she return to favor.
"The concubine meets the queen, the queen Wan'an," Zhuang Wanyi's arrival time was neither too early nor too late, which was considered a rule. After the big ceremony, the maid next to the queen stepped forward to help her, completely forgetting that she had been treated coldly not long ago.
"Just now, the little eunuch next to the emperor came to tell this palace to spare you today's greetings, but you are here. Hurry up and sit down." Although the queen's appearance was not the best among all the concubines, she was very good at it. The atmosphere of the body is enough to show the majesty of the emperor, and when he smiles, he is also virtuous.
"It's the concubine's luck that the emperor and the queen are sympathetic. It's just that the concubine didn't say goodbye to the queen for a few days. I feel guilty for disturbing you today. I also ask the empress not to dislike it," Zhuang Luoyan sneered inwardly, why not Please pay my respects to myself, why didn't I say these words before I gave a big ceremony, I just earned a reputation for being virtuous and magnanimous, and this queen is really boring in front of her.
"If you can do this, Ben Gong is very sympathetic," he said, and asked someone to give Zhuang Luoyan something as a reward, which made some low-ranking concubines envy and jealous.
After the women in the house talked for a while, they heard the eunuch's announcement: "Concubine Shu is here, and Su Xiuyi is here."
Zhuang Luoyan stood up and watched two beautiful women walk in gracefully. Walking in front was a stunning woman in a pink palace dress. She looked only about twenty years old, although she was like a willow, but You can still see the arrogance and extravagance between her brows and eyes, and it is not difficult to see that she is a very favored concubine.
The woman who was one step behind her also looked very good, but her bearing was slightly lacking. The eyebrows and eyes of the two were somewhat similar, and it seemed that this person was somewhat in awe of the woman walking in front of her.
"My concubine has seen the queen," Concubine Shu Gui Yingying bowed, but such an action was done so elegantly that Zhuang Luoyan sighed inwardly. No wonder she was so favored. This kind of stunner is a little bit more pet.
After asking An to bow again, the eunuch came to report that the concubine Yangui had arrived.
From Zhaoyi and below, almost all concubines have no titles, but they are called by their surnames. Only this noble concubine, Xue Zhenyao, has the word "Yan" as a title. It is said that when she first met the emperor in Meilin, the emperor was amazed by her smile. , and soon after, she was promoted from a little beauty to Rong Hua, and finally Rong Hua was directly canonized as a concubine of Yangui, which shows the emperor's love for her.
The woman who entered the door was two points more gorgeous than Concubine Shu, and her gestures showed a softness everywhere. She first glanced at the concubines and concubines in the room before she stepped forward to greet the queen.
The Queen's attitude towards her was the same as that of Concubine Shu, but Zhuang Luoyan couldn't see what the Queen thought about these two favorite concubines, but she was thinking, if it wasn't for Yan Gui's concubine's background, I'm afraid I'd be right now. Not just a third-grade noble concubine.
"The Empress is very lively here today, isn't this Sister Zhuang who I haven't seen for a long time?" Yan Guibi's eyes were very beautiful. When her eyes fell on Zhuang Luoyan, her smile was extraordinarily soft, but it made Zhuang Luoyan feel a little cool.
"Sister Hui, it's the concubine." Zhuang Luoyan got up and made a curtsy, a smile on her face.
"I heard that you were ill before, and I never had time to see you, but now it's fine," Yan Guifei smiled and looked at Concubine Shu Gui, "Sister Gui Fei looked at Sister Wanyi's little face, and it was I lost a lot of weight."
"Sister Wanyi has lost a bit of weight. Although she is already in peace, she should take good care of her." Concubine Shu Gui looked at Zhuang Luoyan with a gentle smile, and her voice was as soft as a spring breeze. If anything, go to the queen or our sisters and say it, don't blame yourself."
"The concubine has thanked the sisters, and I didn't lack anything, but it made the sisters worried." Zhuang Luoyan sat back in the chair and thought, if these women really think they are sisters, why bother calling "Wan Wan" "Sister Yi", just to remind myself that I have a low rank, and don't be mad just because of the second favor.
"You can rest assured that you are in harmony with this palace. Earlier, the Kang'an Palace had passed the decree, and today's greetings were avoided. If you sisters are all right, then go back." The queen looked at the room of all kinds of bright and charming women. , waved his hand.
Since the queen said so, naturally the concubines and concubines would not stay shamelessly, and only after Qi Qi left Jingyang Palace, did they reveal half of their true temperament.
After the honest and hopeless concubines left Jingyang Palace, they left quietly, leaving behind women with their own thoughts.
"Zhuang Wanyi is back in favor, I am most happy to want to come to Zhuang Jieyu, am I right?" Ma Jieyu's voice was neither loud nor low, but it was enough for several people present to hear it clearly. Everyone knew that Zhuang Jieyu entered the palace two years earlier than Zhuang Wanyi, and Zhuang Wanyi was the direct daughter of the Zhuang family, and Zhuang Jieyu was just the daughter of a concubine. Since Zhuang Wanyi entered the palace, she has been disrespectful to this sister. Now Ma Jieyu deliberately said such words, but it only made the two sisters unhappy.
Zhuang Jieyu didn't think that her sister would have to get up one day. Although she wished that her sister would never be able to get up once she was beaten into the quagmire, but this is a matter between their sisters, and there is no need for this father to be a small magistrate. Ma Jieyu came to instigate her, she heard the words and looked at Ma Jieyu with a sneer, "Isn't Ma Jieyu happy that my sister can serve the emperor?"
Ma Jieyu's face changed, and then she snorted coldly, "You two are sisters."
To describe the Zhuang sisters as sisters, it's just irony, and Zhuang Luoyan also knows that Zhuang Jieyu doesn't like her very much. Of course, anyone who faces a younger sister who is not as good as him in everything except her appearance, who opposes him everywhere, and who is arrogant and willful, will have the intention of getting close.
Zhuang Jieyu's face was a little unsightly, and she stopped taking Ma Jieyu's words.
Zhuang Luoyan turned to look at Ma Jieyu, and said with a half-smile, "Sister Ma has been in the palace for many years, and which of us sisters is not a sister?!"
"You!" Ma Jieyu's face sinks like water. She is not too young now, and her qualifications for entering the palace are quite early, but until now, she is only a fourth-rank Jieyu, compared with these beautiful and beautiful women in front of her. She has lost her tenderness.
"When we talk, how can you, little Wanyi, interrupt," Ma Jieyu's eyes turned cold, "come here, give me a slap."
"Master..." The maid beside Ma Jieyu looked embarrassed, her body shivered, but she didn't dare to move.
"My sister is disrespectful, and I hope that my sister will forgive my sin. The reason is that my sister said that our sisters are deeply in love, so I dared to answer the question. I didn't know that my sister didn't mean such a thing." Zhuang Luoyan bowed and looked at Ma Jieyu's face Even more embarrassing, the smile on the corner of his mouth did not increase or decrease.
"I haven't seen him for a long time, but Zhuang Wanyi's mouth is much more powerful," Jiang Xianbi looked at the scene from a distance, and whispered to Wang Concubine beside her, "I don't know if the means have improved."
Wang Concubine glanced at Ma Jieyu's embarrassed face, "I don't know if Zhuang Wanyi's methods have improved, but this Ma Jieyu has been in the palace for a long time, but her brain has regressed."
The three of them entered the palace on the same day. Jiang Xianconcubine is more or less a fourth-grade, and she is also a fourth-grade, only Ma Jieyu is a side-four. Thinking of the scene when Ma Jieyu was favored three years ago, there was a hint of irony at the corner of her mouth. laugh.
Ma Jieyu naturally can't let the servants around her hold Zhuang Luoyan's mouth, let alone outside the Jingyang Palace, just say it's somewhere else, a servant named Wanyi who has just received Jun's kindness, that is also jealous Immoral, make trouble for yourself.
Although Ma Jieyu was a little stupid, she still didn't lose her mind. She quickly calmed down, gave Zhuang Luoyan a grim look, turned around and left with the palace maid.
The lively concubines left in twos and threes, but after a while, only Zhuang Jieyu and Zhuang Luoyan were left.
"When my sister was ill, I missed my sister very much," Zhuang Luo looked at Zhuang Jieyu with a smile on her face. The original owner of her body made the queen dissatisfied, and this Zhuang Jieyu is probably a credit.
Zhuang Jieyu stared at Zhuang Luoyan's eyes. These eyes were very beautiful, so beautiful that they were annoying to her. She sneered. She held the hand of the palace maid, Xie Yu, and sneered, "Why is my sister like this?" The younger sister entered the palace two years early, just because she was a concubine, and she was only a little Jieyu after all these years, and her arrogant younger sister was only a daughter of the first daughter. She was also promoted to the fifth-rank Wanyi, and she is still only a fourth-rank Jieyu.
Whether she was unwilling or hated, she wished that this younger sister would fall out of favor and enter the cold palace, and even hoped that this younger sister would disappear in the harem so silently. But Zhuang Luoyan has obviously fallen out of favor, and the queen has obviously been displeased, why did she win favor again overnight, and even the queen's attitude towards her has changed
Just because she is a little more beautiful than herself, just because she is a direct descendant? !
Zhuang Luoyan saw the hatred in Zhuang Jieyu's eyes, lowered her eyelids, and stretched out her hand to be supported by Yun Xi, "My sister is a little tired today, so I will go ahead."
Watching Zhuang Luoyan's master and servants leave, Zhuang Jieyu said gloomily, "What news is there from Taoyu Pavilion?"
"Master, I heard..." Xie Yu whispered: "This morning, the eunuch director Gao Dezhong personally went to the palace to select six servants to use in Taoyu Pavilion. I heard that the emperor was worried that there were too few servants in Taoyu Pavilion, and he wronged Zhuang Wanyi. ."
"Aggrieved?!" Zhuang Jieyu sneered, "Which Wanyi is not such a slave, but she is wronged." As soon as she said this, she was shocked to feel that something was wrong, and she reluctantly suppressed her unwillingness and turned around to go to her place. go.
"Master, Miss, she..."
"Yun Xi, she's not the eldest but Zhuang Jieyu, don't forget," Zhuang Luoyan chuckled, where are the sisters in this harem
"Your Majesty, are you going to flip the brand today?" Gao Dezhong led the eunuch of the inner eunuch in. Seeing that the emperor was burying his head in approving the memorial, he lowered his voice a bit.
The cinnabar imperial pen in Feng Jin's hand paused, glanced at the brand on the tray, and reached out to a jade tooth plate, with the words "Su Shiruizi, the imperial concubine of Anqing Palace Shu." He turned over and turned over a wooden tooth card.
Gao Dezhong glanced at the tooth card, saw that the emperor buried his head in approving the book again, and withdrew with the eunuch who was the eunuch.
"The emperor's decree, Taoyu Pavilion will hold the lamp tonight."