Because she was anxious, Shi Jiaojiao didn't wear shoes at all.
The reason why Concubine Jiao was named Concubine Jiao was because she was covered in slender white jade and beautiful flowers. From her toes to the tips of her fingers, there were no traces of scars, and even her hair was as smooth as splashed ink.
The emperor liked his concubine, not only as a favor, but also as if he were playing with a flawless and beautiful porcelain figurine.
Usually the maidservants serve her, and they are even more meticulous. In Yongyi Palace, this concubine is the living ancestor among the living ancestors.
Her hands and feet were soaked in flower juice every day, and her shoes and stockings were made of fine silk brocade. They had never been scratched, and she had never worn them before, let alone jumping to the ground without even wearing them.
So she got down and stepped on the ground with her bare feet. All the maids in the room gasped and knelt down like dumplings.
On the contrary, Zhao Pingci did not often walk around the palace. She mostly followed the prince in and out, and had no intention of asking about the concubine's habits. She was indifferent to the palace people's reactions. She did not raise her eyes to see Shi Jiaojiao, but bowed in a neither humble nor overbearing way. He lifted up his clothes and was about to receive the gift.
Zhao Pingci felt extremely reluctant, but the status was here. In this world, being a high-ranking official was overwhelming, not to mention that there was a huge difference between concubines and eunuchs.
"Zhao Pingci, the slave of Sanqian, has met the concubine, the concubine, the concubine is blessed..." As Zhao Pingci spoke, he knelt on the ground, but halfway, his bent knee was suddenly kicked by a delicate white foot.
"No need to kneel down." Shi Jiaojiao stood in front of Zhao Pingci, staring closely at his features, with ripples of joy in her eyes.
The etiquette in the palace was complicated, and there was absolutely no reason for a slave not to kneel when he saw his master. Except for the maids who served him personally, there was absolutely no reason for the concubine to have physical contact with anyone.
All the maids and eunuchs in the room looked as if they had eyes on the backs of their heads. They were so shocked that they almost fell to the ground. Zhao Pingci froze in this position, not even caring about etiquette, and looked up at Shi Jiaojiao in shock.
Shi Jiaojiao is holding up her skirt, her head is full of pearls swaying, her smile is as bright as a spring flower, her lips are red and her teeth are white.
Zhao Pingci was shaken, then knelt on the ground, kowtowed and apologized.
"My dear, forgive me!"
Looking directly at the concubine is not a big deal for them, let alone looking directly at it. The years in the palace and high court are lonely, the emperor's favor is extremely rare, and there are not a few eunuchs in the harem and the concubine hanging out.
But for the emperor's beloved concubine, even if a male cat rubs against her twice, it is a capital offense.
Shi Jiaojiao didn't stop Zhao Pingci from kneeling down to her. She pursed her lips helplessly, then looked around and said in a deep voice, "You all can go down."
Everyone stood up quickly after hearing the sound. Zhao Pingci was shocked and confused, thinking that Concubine Jiao was unhappy. He hadn't said anything yet, so let him go out...
He moved his lips, then closed his eyes in resignation, and tried to get up, but Shi Jiaojiao's slender jade fingers gently pressed his shoulders.
"You're not asking to see me. You haven't said anything yet, so why are you in a hurry?" Shi Jiaojiao wrote this after all. She entered the scene very quickly. She only lightly pressed Zhao Pingci's shoulder and quickly raised her hand to close her sleeves.
The maid put on Shi Jiaojiao's shoes silently, and exited silently. The eunuch with the shrill voice just now also exited, but when he turned around at the door, he raised his head and knelt down towards the room. The two people glanced at each other quickly, with unknown emotions flashing in their eyes.
After Zhao Pingci was pressed on the shoulder by Shi Jiaojiao, his whole body stiffened into a wooden pile. He couldn't blame him for being shocked and confused. It was really Shi Jiaojiao's actions one after another that were too unreasonable.
Zhao Pingci was in a state of confusion, wondering what the purpose of the concubine was. Only when the slave was extremely favored and the master had a gentle temperament would he touch his subordinate gently to show his closeness.
But this is definitely not the relationship between him and the woman in front of him, so what could be the reason for this concubine’s behavior
Could it be that she was keenly aware that she had joined the prince's party and wanted to win over him
The emperor's heirs are really rare. Although the imperial doctor has always kept silent about the results of his diagnosis, how could he keep this kind of thing under wraps? The emperor's physique is not conducive to fertility, and it is very difficult to have heirs.
The concubine has been favored for several years and has not produced anything. The emperor is getting older every year, and the years are ruthless. I am afraid it will not be easy to really give birth to an heir.
So by wooing him, did Concubine Jiao intend to contact the prince through him
In this blink of an eye, Zhao Pingci had already carefully analyzed in his mind the plot of Shi Jiaojiao's blockage just now that prevented him from leaving.
But even if he wanted to explode his head, he still couldn't figure out that Shi Jiaojiao's behavior was just because he met his little enemy and subconsciously couldn't control his desire to get involved.
Everyone in the room exited, and Shi Jiaojiao stared at Zhao Pingci intently.
The little enemy in this life looks to be around twenty, and his appearance is the same as in the previous worlds, with only slight changes. His eyebrows are still the same, but his temperament is very restrained.
To the extent that he is restrained, he gives people the feeling of being silent, as if his breathing has been trained to keep everything about him within the unobtrusive "circle".
Shi Jiaojiao remained silent, while Zhao Pingci put away the chaotic thoughts in his heart and spoke first.
He lowered his body a little lower, maintaining his humble posture, and without any nonsense, he went straight to the point, "I sincerely ask you to give gentle treatment to the servants of Sanqian Office. They are all still young and have little experience in walking around in the palace." , I was also temporarily dispatched to escort the empress today. If something like this happens, the slave will definitely come back... mother... empress?"
Zhao Pingci originally said it with clear logic, but also passed the blame to the people who were temporarily dispatched to escort the three money officers today.
Sanqiansuo does not have escort duties. On weekdays, it is only responsible for arranging flowers and plants in various palaces.
Something like this went wrong today. It was clearly someone who deliberately wanted to defeat his "soldiers and horses." By that time, it has been determined.
It is undeniable that Yu Xin did it, but I don't know whether it was his selfish desire or the concubine's instruction.
It's just that these meticulous thoughts, like spider webs, were all torn apart by Shi Jiaojiao's movements.
She couldn't help but squat down, grab Zhao Pingci's collar, and pull it away.
Without a system, he traveled through the world again in his dream, and the ring on Shi Jiaojiao's hand was lost and recovered. She only needed to confirm one more thing to clear up all her doubts.
However, her move was too sudden. Zhao Pingci reacted very quickly and failed to grab Shi Jiaojiao's hand immediately. When he did, his clothes had been torn apart.
"Empress!" Zhao Pingci couldn't care less about what she was looking at or not, and she didn't dare to touch Shi Jiaojiao. She grabbed her collar and backed away.
Before Shi Jiaojiao could take a closer look, Zhao Pingci had already hid far away, grabbing the collar with one hand and kowtowing on the ground with the other.
"Show me." Shi Jiaojiao also took two steps forward and was about to reach out again, but Zhao Pingci was already lying on the ground, giving Shi Jiaojiao no chance to reach out.
The voice rose a little higher, "Empress!"
Shi Jiaojiao squatted next to him, dumbfounded by his such a big reaction.
She just wanted to see if her ring was back and the jade pendant around her little enemy's neck was still there.
But seeing Zhao Pingci's shocked look, Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help but want to laugh, especially wanting to tease him.
So she stopped taking action, and stood up slowly. Zhao Pingci quickly straightened her collar, feeling as if cold water had been poured on boiling oil, and she was completely confused.
What is she doing? !
What does she mean!
Zhao Pingci tidied up his clothes and knelt on the ground. His mind was completely mixed into a pot of porridge. Although his expression didn't seem to change, Shi Jiaojiao felt that if he had hair, he would have exploded into a round ball by now.
Kinda cute.
Shi Jiaojiao became interested immediately. Without the constraints of the system, she could return to the world of novels in her dreams. Seeing her little friends, Shi Jiaojiao's mood actually kept rising.
Now that she has met her little friend, her inexplicable inability to settle down after returning to the real world has gradually stabilized.
Shi Jiaojiao leisurely walked around twice on the ground and said, "Aren't you here to intercede for those little servants?"
Shi Jiaojiao's voice returned to the lazy tone that suited her personality, "I can't even get the slightest bit of sincerity, even if I don't even give it a glance."
Zhao Pingci suddenly raised his head and looked at Shi Jiaojiao. Shi Jiaojiao looked at him with a smile on her lips and a pair of peach blossom eyes, making him confirm at a glance that it was what he thought!
Zhao Pingci felt like his head was split in half by the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder. No matter how complicated his thoughts were, he never dared to think in that direction...
Is this concubine crazy? !
Zhao Pingci was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. She had been struck by lightning. There were indeed a lot of scandals in the harem, but they were all concubines who were not favored, had no hope of turning around, or even gave up on themselves. The manly eunuch saw it.
The concubine is now more favored than the queen. Even if she is pregnant with a dragon heir, it is just around the corner. How could...
Zhao Pingci thought that his appearance was not outstanding. When entering the harem, in order not to obstruct the view, even if he was just a rough servant, his appearance was the basic thing. A lot of people, no matter how hard it is, he can’t get his turn!
Zhao Pingci trembled his lips and opened his mouth several times. He didn't know what he could say or how he could react in this situation!
Seeing his expression changing, Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help but chuckle, "Look how scared you are. Doesn't this palace look like a man-eating beast?"
Zhao Pingci put his head on the ground and looked like he was about to fall to the ground. Shi Jiaojiao was very patient and waited to see his reaction.
Zhao Pingci was shocked and his mind was spinning at high speed, thinking about what he would do in this situation.
If Concubine Jiao really wants to die, Zhao Pingci has no reason to accompany her. No matter what the reason is, no matter who starts it, at the last slightest sign of trouble, it will be slaves like them who die.
Besides, Zhao Pingci hated Concubine Jiao so much that even looking at her would remind him of how he ended up in this situation. How could he possibly have anything to do with her
But he was just a slave. Even if he took the position of the leader of the Sanqian Institute, he was nothing more than an ant in front of the concubine who co-managed the harem with the queen.
This is not a pit of fire but an abyss. Not to mention jumping into it, even getting close will be fatal.
But who can help him? Prince
Although he has joined the prince's camp, he has never done anything important for the prince so far. The prince has countless people, so how can he care whether he, an eunuch, lives or dies...
Besides, if such scandalous things got into the ears of the prince, he would probably be the first to die!
Zhao Pingci felt miserable for a moment, and even hated Concubine Jiao to the point of itching her teeth.
Just as the two of them were fighting for silence, a voice suddenly came from outside the door, "The Emperor has arrived—"
Zhao Pingci and Shi Jiaojiao trembled.