After a while, Concubine Shu forced a smile and said: "It's strange that my sister came late yesterday, and today she hasn't arrived yet. It turns out it is such a happy event!"
Empress Ji hummed and said calmly: "Your Majesty's knees are still empty. The Imperial Grandmother and the three Queen Mothers are very worried. It is rare for a noble concubine to be happy, and I am also very sad."
After these two opened their mouths, other concubines dared to agree that this was good news, which showed that the country was blessed with great success.
Because the imperial concubine was exempted from greetings, the remaining people had already arrived while they were talking, and the queen led everyone to Mianfu Palace.
Empress Dowager Ji of Mianfu Palace had received the news, and her expression was not very good. However, she still followed the rules and told the empress in public to take more care of Lan Palace: "There are some nourishing medicinal materials in the Ai family, and they are all of the best. You can wait for me." Someone will come and get some and send them over. Let the imperial concubine have a good pregnancy and give birth to an heir for the emperor as soon as possible."
"Where can I use the mother's private treasury?" Empress Ji said, "My daughter-in-law has prepared it, so don't worry."
Empress Dowager Ji added: "Have you told Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Dowager Qu about this news? They have also been thinking about the emperor's heir. It's time for them to breathe a sigh of relief."
After talking about the concubine's pregnancy, Empress Dowager Ji waved her hand and left.
After leaving the door, the queen asked everyone to go back as usual.
Concubine Shu smiled and personally helped the queen sit on the phoenix chariot. She watched the honor guard go away, her face immediately turned ugly.
However, the gloomy look only appeared for a moment, and then it returned to normal. He stretched out his sleeves and got on the chariot: "Go back to the palace!"
After returning to Tongxia Palace this time, she did not call her two sisters to come into the palace to talk. Instead, she asked Yun Fenghuang: "Go and sit at Qingman's place. When you want to go back to Huzhu Palace later, just go there. There is no need to go back and forth." palace."
After all, she is the biological sister that Concubine Shu takes special care of. The place where Yun Qingman lives is not far from the Chengcai Palace. It is a small private courtyard shaded by flowers and trees. There is also a medium-sized lake next to it, with high and low water flowing out of it. There are many lotus leaves, and you can imagine the scene of the pond full of lotus leaves in summer.
When you enter, you will see lush flowers and grass. A cluster of jasmine flowers near the corner is in full bloom right now. The little yellow flowers add a lot of vitality to the yard.
Yun Qingman led Yun Fenghuang into the main hall and sat down, asked the palace servants to make tea, and brought up two plates of pastries, saying: "These pastries are sent from my sister's small kitchen, you can try them!"
"I haven't eaten it outside the palace." Yun Fenghuang tasted it a little, and felt that it was soft and sweet in the mouth. He put it down with a smile, "It's better to have it here. It's spacious and bright, the scenery is good, and the queen is nearby to take care of it."
"How is Xi Xingxuan?" Yun Qingman asked with concern, "Sister told me that there seems to be a beautiful apricot blossom tree there?"
Yun Fenghuang said: "Then you have to dare to go and see it. You don't know the rules of Concubine Yue..."
He told her what Concubine Yue's confidant, the eldest maid, had previously told her. After hearing this, Yun Qingman's face turned pale, and she felt guilty and worried. How could she live like this
"Fortunately, Concubine Yue has been grounded for these two days and has no time to take care of me." Yun Fenghuang looked at the situation and comforted her, "So I feel at ease these two days."
Yun Qingman frowned and said: "How can it be so simple? She is the leader after all. Even if she is grounded and can't get out, can't she still order her subordinates to cause trouble for you? I think the final analysis is because His Majesty has been with you these two days. Because of that, Your Majesty can’t always cherish Xingxuan.”
After saying this, he was afraid that Yun Fenghuang would misunderstand that he was jealous, so he blushed slightly and said, "I didn't mean anything else."
Yun Fenghuang said with a smile: "Can I still trust you? But have you forgotten that Concubine Shu said that Queen Mother Yuan will look at Concubine Yue? So even if His Majesty doesn't go to my place, it doesn't matter."
Yun Qingman said: "But Empress Dowager Yuan cannot always stop Concubine Yue..."
"Isn't our queen still here?" Yun Fenghuang patted the back of her hand, "My queen won't just sit idly by, don't worry!"
Yun Qingman bit her lower lip. She was not a fool. How could she not know that Concubine Shu was not very affectionate to Yun Fenghuang
But it was not easy to say it right now, so I could only sigh secretly and forcefully smile: "Yes, when the time comes, let's go together to beg my sister. My sister is a concubine Shu, and her status is always above that of the concubine Yue. "
They have always had a good relationship. They met every once in a while in the past three days, but this time they entered the palace. Counting the rules they learned before, it has been a long time since they sat down to chat and talk about things. At this moment, Yun Qingman wanted Yun Fenghuang to stay for lunch or even dinner, but Yun Fenghuang had no intention of staying long. After chatting with her for a while, he said that he had something to do and left first.
Yun Qingman was still reluctant to leave, and wanted to ask why she was so anxious, and whether she needed help to ask Concubine Shu for help. However, Yun Fenghuang left immediately without giving her a chance to speak, and left with Nianxuan!
"Do you think Feng Huang feels that her sister is alienated from her and doesn't want to spend any more time with me?" Yun Qingman, who was left behind by her, was very melancholy. She sighed in Jiaohe's small building and asked her neighbors, "I want to What can I do to make her happy?"
In comparison, Yun Fenghuang was very heartless. She had already forgotten about Yun Qingman as soon as she left Tongxia Palace, secretly thinking about her quick glance when she passed by Chengcai Palace just now: "Bu chariot." Just one, judging by the rules, it should be Mrs. Yaoning."
There are not many high-ranking concubines in Emperor Chunjia's harem, and there is currently only one of Madam's rank, so it is easy to judge.
But there must be more than one visitor in the palace, Mrs. Yaoning. After all, Concubine Shu has a good family background. She has been in the palace for ten years, so it is impossible for Mrs. Yaoning to be her only ally.
It goes without saying that the topic they are discussing now has something to do with Concubine Zheng's pregnancy and Empress Ji's sudden delegation of power.
Concubines of Yun Qingman's level and Yun Fenghuang's level are not qualified to participate in such a thing... So we have to work harder!
Yun Fenghuang walked for a while on the palace road, stopped, recognized the direction, and went straight to Yanfu Palace!
Nianxuan was stunned: "Chenggui?"
"Follow me." Yun Fenghuang said expressionlessly, "Be smart, look before and after, and try not to be discovered by others."
The two of them hid all the way, and finally bumped into a few palace people on the way. When they arrived at the gate of Yanfu Palace, Nianxuan was filled with worry. She didn't know what her Chenggui was going to do. She saw Yun Fenghuang take a deep breath, and it seemed that After brewing some emotions, he walked over with a panic-stricken look and said to the palace guard: "This young father-in-law has invited me. I am the Yun family of Xixingxuan Chenggui in Huzhu Palace. I came here to apologize to the queen." !”
The little chamberlain was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "What did you commit?"
"I... I'm sorry for the queen!" How could Yun Fenghuang be willing to tell him? Hearing this, he just covered his face and cried, unable to speak clearly with sobs. The young chamberlain couldn't help but have a headache. He scratched his head and said, "Forget it, you wait here, I will go to the main hall to report to my aunt."
After a while, he brought over a woman in a pale-colored palace dress. This woman wore a bun with a bun and hairpins and pearls. She was dressed quite luxuriously, but she was gorgeous but not vulgar, beautiful but not coquettish, and her temperament was very graceful.
She glanced at Yun Fenghuang, who was still sobbing, and said a few words of comfort, then said: "The Queen is taking a nap. I am the maid in charge of the Chongchang Palace. Please tell me if I have anything to do with you."
The implication is that your status as a concubine is too low to meet the Queen directly, so don't waste your time crying and be serious.
"Hello, auntie." Yun Fenghuang nodded towards her, showing a sad and sad smile, and fumbled from his sleeves to take out a hosta broken into four or five sections, which was used to help Nianxuan. The one he deliberately broke while concealing his expression choked up and said, "I wonder if Auntie knows this thing?"
The woman in palace clothes looked at it and said suspiciously: "This is it?"
...Well, it’s only been two days since the queen personally ordered the reward, so you don’t recognize it? !
Even if Yun Fenghuang had expected it, he was also confused at this moment, wondering how humble a concubine like me was in the eyes of Yanfu Palace? It’s okay if the queen doesn’t remember this random reward. You, the palace steward, don’t remember it either? !
This is too much! ! !
She must continue to work hard!
From now on, Nianxuan would also be at a loss when looking at the things that others carefully took out: Ah, is this a reward from my master to you? But I have no impression at all
"This is one of the things that the Queen gave me when I first met her." Yun Fenghuang calmed down his emotions and continued to lament sadly, "I love it very much, so I have been wearing it since I got it, but... But when I was dressing up yesterday, I... I accidentally dropped it!"
She promptly shed big tears and said sadly, "I'm sorry for the Queen! I'm guilty! Please ask my aunt to tell the Queen that I'm willing to be punished!"
The woman in palace clothes twitched the corner of her mouth. She thought that Chenggui sneaked over to apologize and cry about something!
It's just a random reward from Chongchang Palace. Not to mention the queen, she was just familiar to the palace people and didn't recognize it for a while. It was a reward from Chongchang Palace... It's really hard for Chenggui to be trembling with fear.
Well, in other words, it's really hard for Chenggui to think of such an excuse to show up in front of the queen, and to act tremblingly for a long time.
"That's it." The woman in palace clothes felt very bored in her heart, but she had to show a cautious look on her face and said, "I will go and report to the empress, and please wait here for a while!"
Although she knew in her heart that the queen would not care about such trivial matters unless she deliberately wanted to deal with Yun Fenghuang.
but…
Since Yun Feng Huang Zheng'er Ba Jing came to plead guilty, this matter had to be brought before the Queen and asked to be personally adjudicated.
Otherwise, she would be overstepping her duties and not paying attention to the middle palace. There is no doubt that this is a very taboo thing. A woman in palace clothes does not want to leave a bad impression in front of Empress Ji just to be lazy and take such a few steps.
So after a while, Empress Ji in the inner palace listened patiently to the whole story. She slightly curled her bright red lips and said: "The newly promoted maid... Is that the clan girl of Concubine Yun Shu? She broke the hairpin awarded by this palace. , come to apologize to me? Interesting."
The queen pondered for a moment, closed the volume she was flipping through in her hand, and casually ordered, "Just call her over if you have some free time."