Imperial City Kunning Palace.

As the most noble woman in the entire Daxia Dynasty, Jiang Yuan has always played the role of the queen very well.

The emperor did not have long as the throne, and many positions in the harem were empty. In addition, the emperor's descendants were not strong, so there was only one princess born in the old residence. Now, when Shangjing wanted to go to another place, almost everyone was looking at the harem.

After all, except for Concubine Hui of the Qin family, who was nearly seven months pregnant, no other concubines had a pulse. The imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital even doubted whether there was something wrong with Shangguan Rui's body. Otherwise, he was in his prime and spent more than half a month in the harem. How could the empresses in the harem be so difficult to get pregnant? Of course, the imperial physicians only dared to rot in their stomachs. Who would think that their lives were too long to question a king that would not have any problems?

But what the imperial physicians didn't know was that it was not just the ministers in the court, but the ones he was the one he was most anxious about. He finally ascended the throne. In the end, if he couldn't give birth to a son, he would be vomiting to death.

For this reason, Shangguan Rui also quietly asked the holy hand outside the palace to take his pulse for him, and the news he got was that there was no problem with his body.

Later, when Qin Qin heard good news, Shangguan Rui felt a little relieved, hoping that the child in his belly would be a handle, and at least it would make the lower one understand that he is not a person who cannot give birth to a son. On the other hand, Shangguan Rui also poured rain and dew in the harem, hoping that more people could conceive dragon seeds.

It is precisely because no prince was born in the harem that the people below were also interested in sending their daughters into the palace. If they could favor the prince in one day, they would be the first prince of the Daxia Dynasty. Then they would really be able to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven by one person.

Now there are two of the four concubines in the harem. In addition to Qin Qin, who was promoted to Concubine Hui because she was pregnant with the dragon seed, the other one who ranks at a high position is Concubine Shu Xia Tang. Xia Tang is the girl of the Xia family and the cousin of the Empress of Yuan Dynasty. When Empress Yuan Dynasty was seriously ill, the Xia family was afraid that the emperor would forget the Xia family once Empress Yuan Dynasty died, so he sent another legitimate daughter to Empress Yuan Dynasty and named her sister Shiji.

Although Jiang Yuan didn't know what the talented and wise Empress Yuan thought, the emperor finally accepted Xia Tang and, after enthroning the empress, directly appointed Xia Tang as Shu Concubine.

In the morning, the queen was wearing a bright yellow formal attire and sat in the main seat waiting for the concubines below to pay their respects. This is the responsibility of the queen. She should not be jealous, but she must also maintain the balance of the harem dignified and generously.

It was almost time, and the concubines who came to pay their respects came in one by one and sat down according to their positions.

After everyone got out, the eunuch at the door shouted in a sharp voice: "Empress Hui is here."

The queen raised her eyebrows slightly, but she didn't expect that Concubine Hui, who had not come to pay her respects for several months, would suddenly appear in her Kunning Palace. She was surprised and saw Concubine Hui Qin wearing a pink dark butterfly love flower palace outfit, being supported by two palace maids, and walked in slowly.

The belly, which was almost seven months old, was already very obvious, but Qin Qin was obviously a unique person. Apart from the protruding belly, there was no trace of flesh on the rest of her body, and her face was still as beautiful as a flower.

"I have seen the Empress." Qin Qin bent down slightly.

The queen repeatedly said, "You haven't helped your master up yet, you're all pregnant with children."

After Qin Qin sat down, the queen asked with a smile: "Why is Concubine Hui here today? Didn't she give up your greeting? Now you have a dragon seed in your belly, and the most important thing is to give birth to a prince for the emperor."

Shangguan Rui has poor descendants, and now he attaches great importance to the fetus in Qin Qin's belly. He has to go to her palace to see her every day. Those rewards like flowing water are constantly being moved to Yanxi Palace. No one in the palace is jealous, but what's the use of jealousy? People are very proud of it. This is the dragon fetus that the emperor finally hopes for. Even those who have ideas in their hearts dare not take any practical actions. Even the queen avoids Qin Qin's greeting, so that her fetus will not make any mistakes when she pays her blessing. The emperor will blame her for the head.

The queen's words successfully attracted those angry eyes.

Qin Qin didn't care at all. When she gave birth to a prince, those eyes would probably be even worse. If she couldn't bear this, how could her mother be more expensive than her son? She would be so strong that Jiang Yuan would be overwhelmed.

"The Empress is polite to me, and I know that I am, but it is precisely because of this that I cannot be arrogant because of my favor." Qin Qin said with a smile.

The queen's hand holding the handkerchief couldn't help but tighten, and a sneer appeared in her heart. Did Qin Qin do less of this thing because of her favor? Relying on the piece of meat in her belly, she would pull all the good smells into her palace. I don't know if the piece of meat in her belly was carrying a handle, so she became so arrogant and waited until the future would be when she suffered.

This is how the women in this palace are. They smile on the surface and are more kind than anyone else. Every word in their mouth is a soft knife. If you can put a loop in secret, you will never be ruthless. Anyway, if you kill each other, you will be considered a one. 13acv.

"The Empress Dowager said that it has been a year since the emperor ascended the throne. Now many palaces in the harem are empty. I want to hold a talent show in the spring of next year to fill the harem and reproduce the descendants for the Shangguan family." The queen suppressed the discomfort in her heart and glanced at the few sitting under her with a smile.

Qin Qin's face froze and she sneered, "The Empress is so virtuous." There were only so many women, only the emperor, and there were obviously more monks and less porridge. But now she was told that more women would come in to grab this porridge, who would be really happy?

The queen did not take Qin Qin's attitude seriously at all, took a sip of tea, and continued: "But the emperor said that the talent show was exhausting the people and the money, it was really not appropriate to hold it on a large scale."

The woman's heart was rising and falling as the queen said. Qin Qin couldn't help but frown. What was the queen going to say? Could it be to see their changing faces?

"The Empress Dowager was thinking about the emperor's offspring, so she ordered several ministers to send portraits of girls of childbearing age in the family, trying to pick out five of them from it. The portrait has been sent. After seeing it, the emperor left ten of them and asked me to choose. After entering the palace, they will be sisters. You will also refer to the reference while everyone is here." The queen said as she asked the palace servants around her to bring a lot of scrolls on it.

There are enemies of their own future here, and everyone's hearts can't help but fall off.

Ten volumes of beauty pictures, cute, cute, beautiful, and beautiful. It can be said that there are all kinds of types. A successful person has already remembered the particularly outstanding appearance in his heart. Waiting back later, he will prepare for it. After all, only by knowing oneself and an enemy can he win every battle.

When Shufei Xia Tang opened a scroll, she was stunned when she saw the characters in the painting. Then the scroll "bang" fell to the ground, attracting everyone's attention.

Xia Tang followed the close-fitting palace servant and quickly stepped forward to pick up the scroll.

The queen asked with concern: "What's wrong with Sister Shufei? She feels uncomfortable?"

Xia Tang shook his head quickly, opened the scroll again and asked, "Empress, which lady Wei Xiner is this lady from?" I don't know if Xia Tang was intentional. When the scroll was opened, he looked at all the concubines. When Shangguan Rui was still a prince, he changed his face one after another. No wonder this Concubine Shu was so out of control. Isn't the person in the painting just like a Yuan Queen? His posture was more similar to Shu Concubine Shu, a sister with blood relationship.

Although Qin Qin felt very uncomfortable about the emperor's harem again, she didn't care too much about the portraits. She was careless about the portraits. Anyway, she felt that she was pregnant with a dragon seed. Once she gave birth to a son, no matter how beautiful the woman was, she would crawl under her feet when she entered the palace.

However, the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed because of the scroll in Shufei's hand. Even Qin Qin was attracted to the heart and couldn't help but look at the painting. She entered the palace after Shangguan Rui ascended the throne. Before, the Qin family was in a weak state, and she had never dated noble people like princes, and of course she had never seen Shangguan Rui's original wife, Xia Shao.

As if he hadn't noticed the strangeness in the room, the queen glanced at the portrait in Xia Tang's hand and said, "This girl has already been decided, the emperor spoke in person."

At this moment, even those who didn't know about the Yuan Dynasty were cheered up. What was this? They got the attention of the emperor before they entered the palace. Could it be that they would be even more favored than Qin Qin in the future?

Concubine Shu's face turned pale. The family chose to send her into the palace because she was somewhat similar to the Yuanhou, and wanted to gain favor with the affection between Yuanhou and Shangguan Rui. Over the years, she has tried her best to imitate Yuanhou, and she abandoned herself in terms of temperament and living habits. Sometimes Shangguan Rui would come to her palace to talk to her about Xia Shao, and his words were profound remembrance.

She thought that no one in the harem knew better than her about the emperor's feelings for the Yuan Queen, that was the true relationship between husband and wife.

The only one in Ningxia in the city is that she is just a bit similar to the queen of Yuan, and because she can accompany Shangguan Rui to recall the queen of Yuan, she has occupied one of the four concubines in this harem.

So if this woman who is 70 to 80% similar to her sister and has a similar charm and temperament, will she still have her seat in the harem? After all, only one substitute is enough, and Wei Xiner is obviously more similar to her.

Qin Qin's eyes turned and asked, "She has the surname Wei, what does it have to do with the Wei family of the Wei family of the Wei Yuan Mansion?" The woman who could be sent to the palace must have a certain family situation. There are really few families with the surname Wei in Shangjing. Qin Qin suddenly thought of the Wei Yuan Mansion. You must know that her aunt was married to the old Wei Yuan Mansion. Later, she entered the palace and was pregnant with the dragon seed and passed the message out, so that the Qin family could follow the aunt's path to build the Wei Yuan Mansion.

The smile on the queen's face remained unchanged, "Originally, it could only be regarded as a side branch of the Marquis of Weiyuan, but two days ago, the old lady of Marquis of Weiyuan recognized the girl under the knees of Weiyanqing and his wife and became the adopted daughter of Marquis of Weiyuan."

Qin Qin's face suddenly sank. She knew from her mother that this aunt was stubborn and might still be resentful that her family married her to Lao Weiyuan Hou as her second wife. She was not very close to the Qin family. Even the Qin family proposed to marry her was finally pushed by her, but she shouldn't have even brought someone in to fight with her.

Why did the emperor ask the queen to leave this Wei Xiner? Or did the emperor have seen this Wei Xiner before, or did it have any uniqueness? No matter what the reason is, it is true that Wei Xiner has entered the emperor's eyes. Although she is not afraid of those newly entered the palace, she can't help but fear Wei Xiner in her heart.

Xia Tang sighed as if he was faintly looking, and finally said lightly: "I was really shocked to see this girl. At first glance, I thought it was a portrait of my sister, but when I looked closely, this girl was younger than my sister, but her temperament was also very similar."

Xia Tang's words made the house fall into loneliness. No one in the palace knew the emperor's feelings for Empress Yuan, and even the sister Shufei was so moved. It can be seen that this was really similar, and with the emperor's extra grace, everyone's minds were floating.

Qin Qin also understood why everyone had such a weird expression when they saw Wei Xiner's portrait. What does the Weiyuan Marquis' Mansion mean? This aunt is also surnamed Qin, so she can be demolished like this. If such a person enters the palace, why don't everyone stand aside in the future?

When Wei Xiner appeared, everyone was left with no intention. Seeing that everyone's expression was faint, the queen dispersed.

I heard that when Concubine Shu Xia Tang returned to her palace, she was locked up in the room for a whole day. On the second day, she handed out a post, saying that she missed her parents' home and wanted her mother and her sister-in-law to come to the palace to see her.

After Huifei Qin returned to the palace, she threw a set of tea sets and punished two palace maids who provoked her. The next day she also handed in, saying that she wanted to summon the Qin family to the palace.

The queen was all right, and even the wife of Duke of Lu passed the sign to the palace the next day. In those days, the concubines with higher status used all kinds of reasons to meet their families.

The second day after the Duke of Lu entered the palace was the second day when Jiang Aojie was looking for trouble for the Wei family at the North City Gate and was ridiculed by the prince of Qin.

The wife of Duke Lu was less than fifty years old, but she had a good figure. She was a bit similar to Empress Jiang, and they were both dignified and square-shaped beauties. It can be said that the shrewd wife of Duke Lu’s mansion was able to have such prosperity today. Empress Jiang was the most outstanding daughter she taught.

When she learned that the third son was in trouble with the Wei family at the North City Gate, Mrs. Jiang scolded him fiercely and ordered Jiang Aojie to apologize to Wei Che the next day, while she herself chose to hand in the post to the palace to pay homage to the queen.

The Duke of Lu was the Queen's biological daughter. At the door of Kunning Palace, the Queen's confidant palace maid Hongyu had already been there.

As soon as he saw the figure of Duke Lu's wife, Hongyu greeted her and saluted, "Madam, you are here, the Empress is already waiting in the inner hall."

This Hongyu was from the Jiang family, and the Duke of Lu also trusted her. While following her, he quietly asked, "The Empress has not been discomfort these days, right?" There was a lot of controversy about the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion. Although the news in the palace was backward, I would have heard of it when such a big thing was heard. Otherwise, the impulsive evil of his family would not provoke the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion so openly. Isn't this telling everyone clearly that their Jiang family or the Empress Jiang in the palace was not satisfied with Wei Xin'er?

Not to mention that Wei Xin'er is the emperor's own preference. As the queen, no matter how many women the emperor has, she cannot show any jealousy. The queen of the emperor is also a thorn in her daughter's heart. She cannot touch it, for fear that she will do something to regret because of this unhappy feeling.

When Hongyu heard this, she replied in a low voice: "Madam, don't worry, the Queen is very clear in her heart. Even if that person looks like her, she is just a substitute."

The Duke of Lu nodded and said, "It would be best if the Empress can think like this."

As he was speaking, he arrived at the inner hall of Kunning Palace. The Duke of Lu stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

Jiang Yuan was wearing a green, half-old green jacket. When she saw her mother kneeling down to give a big gift, she couldn't help but say angrily: "What are you doing? There are no outsiders here. Isn't it going to ruin my daughter if you give such a big gift?"

The Duke of Lu's wife was exhorted, "Empress, this etiquette cannot be abolished, let alone the queen, who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people, why do you say such a thing as "Zhesha."

Jiang Yuan knew that her mother was cautious, so she stopped saying anything. She asked Hongyu to show her to the seat and let everyone who served her retreat so that the mother and mother could whisper.

"Empress, your third brother almost caused a big disaster yesterday." The Duke of Lu asked tentatively, and she was worried that her son would have such behavior and was instigated by his daughter.

"Mom, what did third brother do?" Jiang Yuan asked in surprise.

When the Duke of Lu saw that she didn't seem to be pretending, he felt a little relieved. His son was confused and they could make up for it outside, but they were afraid that Jiang Yuan would become willful in the palace and would arouse the emperor's disgust.

The Duke of Lu told the queen about everything that happened in the North City Gate without any concealment. "Fortunately, your third brother did not succeed in the end, otherwise his impulse would have hurt your reputation."

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "The third brother is confused. He shouldn't do this. Mom, you don't have to test me. I was taught by you personally. Can't you even see this powerful relationship? Although there is a thorn in my heart, which woman in this palace is not living in her shadow. Now, there are people in this palace who care more about that person than me, so you don't have to worry about me, I understand in my heart."

Jiang Yuan said as she attached herself to the Duke of Lu's wife's ear and whispered, and heard the Duke of Lu's wife nodding.

"It would be great if you think this way. You are right. You are already in this position now. You just have to watch them fight together. The smartest way to reap the benefits of fishermen."

Jiang Yuan's face smiled, and then when she thought of Jiang Aojie, she said again: "Mom, don't blame the third brother, he also feels sorry for me. Just persuade me more, but don't let my father whip it, otherwise I will hurt too."

The Duke of Lu knew that the brother and sister had always had a sense of spiritual connection. When he was young, one of them was sick, and the other often felt the same way. Because of this, since Jiang Yuan was named the queen, Jiang Aojie made a naughty mistake, he was only punished to kneel on the ancestral hall and never whipped him.

"Okay, will I not feel sorry for him?" As Duke Lu said, as he took out a prescription from his purse and handed it to Jiang Yuan, "This prescription is a prescription for giving birth to a child by your father. Now the most important thing for you is to give birth to a son as soon as possible. The one in Yanxi Palace who is 80% pregnant is not a prince, so now, you should be as biased as possible and give up on her. When the melon is ripe, some people will deal with her."

After Huifei became pregnant, she became arrogant because of her favor, and she was not the only one who offended her.

When Jiang Yuan heard that Qin Qin was probably not pregnant with the prince, she couldn't help but feel happy. She still had a chance. Once she gave birth to the eldest son, the position of the prince would be the one in their Lu family.

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Since Qingluan met Lin Zixuan, the scumbag on the road that day, she has lost interest in going out for a walk and spent most of her time in the yard.

I soak in the hot spring every day, practice calligraphy, read books, and occasionally make trouble and eat until I feel extremely comfortable.

On this day, when the river pond of the village was harvesting fish, Qingluan ran to see it with great enthusiasm. At the end, she personally selected two fresh fat fish and took it to the kitchen to prepare for the chef to make one fish and three roasts. When she walked to the kitchen door, she heard a loud-sounding woman saying: "This year is approaching, and there are more beggars. Now three groups of people have knocked on the door and begged for food."

"No, are those beggars stupid? There is only a manor here a few miles away. When they come here to beg for food, they can just starve to death." Another woman said sneered.

Qingluan couldn't help but burst into tears, and then he heard the loud-sounding woman say, "You are wrong. These manors are either rich people in Beijing, or come to our place to beg for food, and we can also give them enough food. Naturally, they are willing to walk more."

Qingluan heard this and walked in. When several mothers in the kitchen saw Qingluan, they quickly put down their work and said with a smile: "The girl is here."

Qingluan nodded and asked Xia Zhi to hand over the fish to the chef's mother. She said her request again. The woman answered her mouth full of words. Xia Zhi handed her a small piece of broken silver, and the woman was happy to thank her repeatedly.

Qingluan asked casually: "Are there so many beggars you just mentioned in previous years?"
To be continued...