"Don't you think it's weird if it's so easy to find out?" Lan Qi gently pushed the tea on the table to Jue Chan and said with a smile, "Since Dongyun said that the eunuch obviously wanted to tell her the truth, then it's okay
It was obvious that someone wanted us to investigate. At first, I was worried that someone was calculating that I would be too kind and wanted to sow discord between me and the emperor. But in fact, once I came into contact with this matter, I was already going to provoke the emperor.
Displeasure, they are very thoughtful."
Noble Jue Chan said: "I think so too. You see, this line was broken when it was traced to the eunuch. It is said that he left the palace, but it is not known whether he is dead or alive. Even if he is chased outside the palace, there may not be any results. Yes.
For them, it seems that they are not afraid of you finding out who it is. The important thing is that they instigated the relationship between you and the emperor. This is an extremely obscure secret that cannot be revealed, and you or the emperor may not be able to make it clear."
Lan Qi held the bowl of tea in her hand and tasted it slowly. With a sweet and bitter aftertaste in her mouth, she slowly said: "Now that she succeeded, the emperor and I really have a rift. I don't know what will happen in the future."
Regarding this, Mrs. Juechan was somewhat curious: "The empress and the emperor are real?"
Lan Qi asked, "What do you think?"
Jue Chan smiled and said: "I don't think so. How can the Emperor's affection for you be shaken by a Wang family? Even ten of her can't match it. She is just more coquettish and beautiful than others. She is a
A beautiful but fragile vase.”
Lan Qi's heart trembled. She admired Jue Chan for being able to see through everything calmly. Xuan Ye had just told her not long ago that Xuan Ye said Wang was just a beautiful woman.
"Your Majesty, you don't need to take Wang Changzai too seriously. Although I am not qualified to give my thumbs up on the relationship between you and the Emperor, but after so many years of watching with cold eyes, Your Majesty still has doubts about your prajna. On the contrary, the Emperor feels a little pitiful.
"Mr. Jue Chan picked up the blue and white porcelain cup and drank the tea. He lowered his eyes and said softly, "I think that the emperor is very knowledgeable about the affairs of the harem. He can care about what he cares about, and he can't care about what he doesn't care about even if it turns upside down.
Let him take another look. We concubines are both vases and chess pieces to the emperor. The more prosperous and stable the harem is, the more holy we are today. Since ancient times, beauties and misfortune have always matched a fatuous and incompetent king. Today's holy king will not worry about him.
What troublesome beauty will appear around me?"
Lan Qi said with a smile: "On the trip to Dolenor, Concubine Rong joked with me and said that the emperor brought you with him because he wanted to show the people on the grassland how dazzling the beauties of the Qing harem are."
Jue Chan didn't care about such a joke, after all, it was the truth, and said: "I know very well the responsibility of being a retinue, and dress up beautifully and solemnly every day, without embarrassing the women in the Forbidden City." She stopped.
He paused and continued, "Before I said what I just said, I wanted to say that we are either a vase or a chess piece, but you, the empress, are neither."
Lan Qi listened and ate tea again. Yun Danfeng smiled softly: "When you hear more nice words, you should feel happy. I just keep your words in my stomach. I understand it."
"yes."
"I'll put aside Concubine Hui's matter for now. I'm not going to ask the Emperor about Concubine Wen being drugged." Lan Qi smiled slightly, "You just have to wait and see how the Emperor will treat her."
Jue Chan was disdainful, and when she mentioned Concubine Hui, a frightening hatred appeared in her eyes, and she said quietly: "It's still early for me to see the scene I want to see. Your Majesty will not touch Concubine Hui, otherwise she will do that."
She has so many bad deeds that a hundred times of death will be enough. Your Majesty also knows that the Emperor will not touch Concubine Hui."
Lan Qi said: "Because of my elder brother."
Jue Chan smiled and said, "That's the eldest brother."
"Just don't hurt yourself." Lan Qi felt that her throat was a little dry and seemed to want to avoid this topic. They had once said that if they couldn't spend their lives together, they should get together and break up. She always felt that sooner or later they would. One day, Master Jue Chan is an excellent think tank, but after all, they both have different views on the world from the bottom of their hearts.
Lan Qi considers herself a person who can give up her insistence for the sake of worldliness, but Jue Chan, her former paranoia is still soaked in her flesh and blood.
In the days after that, for the second anniversary of Empress Xiaoyi in July, Lan Qi didn't pay too much attention to the trivial matters in the palace. Three or four days later, she discovered that even the maids and eunuchs in Yonghe Palace were talking about it. When Lu Zhu told her, she felt Qianqing Palace has now become a place for jokes. It turns out that for some reason, Yuan Yao, who had been silent since entering the palace and gave birth to a daughter, suddenly became a frequent visitor to Qianqing Palace in the past few days, and became favored within a few days. On par with Wang Changzai, it was as if the emperor suddenly came to his senses and remembered that there was such a beauty from the south of the Yangtze River hidden deep in the palace.
Concubine Rong secretly transferred her from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to see it, and told Lan Qi like a treasure that Yuan promised to be a guest in Qianqing Palace, and nothing had happened. Even Wang Chang had not been grateful to Yulu before, and the emperor seemed to It's just nice to them on the surface.
"Your Majesty holds them together, and those jealous people are looking for trouble with them. We have been quiet for a while." Concubine Rong seemed to be looking at a joke, and joked again, "I also thought, how many years will my lord live forever?" He is about to turn forty. Although thirty is like a wolf and forty is like a tiger, one cannot be too squandering. Seeing those few people taking turns in Qianqing Palace, I am still worried about his health. Now it seems that the emperor understands in his heart. ."
Lan Qi flipped through the bills from last year and this year's autumn in her hands, comparing the fees and expenses of the two years, without raising her eyes, and said casually: "Sister, don't think too much of our father. , he is the most greedy, can he really be so strict about not remembering things? If you need to persuade him, you still have to persuade him. The worst he can do is make him angry. Once he calms down, he can still understand the severity. "
While he was talking, someone came from outside. A rare visitor came for the first time. Concubine Yi didn't know where to stay. She came to Yonghe Palace to pay a visit. The weather was getting colder, and she had replaced her smoke gauze gown with a brocade one. She looked gorgeous and noble. , but she found it too hot, so she sat down and fanned herself with her hands, saying, "It's only the beginning of July. Tao Hongfei said it was getting cold and took out her autumn sweater and asked me to wear it. She was afraid of being laughed at by the palace maids and eunuchs when she walked on the road."
Lan Qi and Concubine Rong looked at each other, and Concubine Rong said: "Now when the wind blows in the cool place, my bones feel chilly. After all, my sister is young, and I can't stand it for a long time."
Yifei curled her lips and sneered. When she saw the account sheets spread out on the table, she flipped through them and said intentionally or unintentionally with her face raised: "No matter how young you are, you can't compare to those few."
Lan Qi remained silent, while Concubine Rong smiled: "They will never be able to match the glory you once had, so don't make it a joke."
Concubine Yi said: "But some people are not afraid of wrinkles crawling out of their faces, and they are still rushing to seduce the emperor."
Lan Qi felt uncomfortable and thought that Concubine Yi was laughing at her. But then she thought about why Concubine Yi did this, and then she calmed down. As expected, she heard her say: "You two sisters can't guess, do you know that we Where are you sitting now, Long Live Lord?"
Lan Qi packed up the things in front of her, called Huan Chun, and blamed her for not serving tea to Concubine Yi. Concubine Yi turned away and sneered: "It's so cold at night that I can't sleep at all. How dare you drink tea? After drinking tea, then
We'll have to stay up until dawn." As soon as the conversation changed, he complained to the two of them, "I just went out and wanted to take a walk in the garden, but I saw the emperor's chariot going to Changchun Palace. I thought to myself, this is not possible, Your Majesty.
Why did I miss her so much, but the chariot stopped and I saw the emperor enter with my own eyes."
Concubine Rong coughed dryly and said, "What's so strange about that? The Emperor can go wherever he likes."
Concubine Yi groaned and sighed: "Sister Concubine Rong, please listen to what I have to say." She still impatiently used her hand as a fan to keep away the heat, and talked about what happened in front of the Changchun Palace. It turned out that although the emperor entered through the Changchun Palace's door
, but the person waiting in front of the door was Mrs. Yuan Yuan. She said with gritted teeth: "That little vixen, when she saw the emperor, she didn't even bow to the emperor, she just stretched out her hand to hold his arm. People in the market said that she leaned against the door and was smiling. Isn't that what Hui is like?"
The concubine is really shameless, the eighth prince lives in the Changchun Palace, and she is not afraid of teaching the child bad things."
Lan Qi and Rong Fei listened expressionlessly. How could they know that in the early years, Concubine Yi hated the emperor for doting on Concubine De, and said similar things to Concubine Hui. If they knew, they would definitely remember it, but Concubine Yi
The concubine herself had long forgotten all about it.
Yi Fei said to Lan Qi: "Sister De Fei, what's the matter with you? Why are you having such a conflict with the emperor? Now even you are cold-blooded. Have we really run out of energy this time?"
Concubine Rong suddenly interjected, with a slowly teasing and contemptuous tone in her words, she actually asked her face to face: "According to my sister, are you thinking about those things that happened to Long live the Lord at night? Otherwise, I see you, your life is full and nourishing, why do you say that you have exhausted your energy?
In that case?"
Lan Qi was very surprised when she heard this. Concubine Rong would never offend others so directly.
At the same time, the emperor was in the Changchun Palace. He couldn't remember the last time he had set foot in the palace, and he even had the impression that he had never been there. When he entered, Yuan promised to hold her arm affectionately. He wanted to do
Showing it to outsiders, she opened it as soon as he entered the door, but before he could bother, Concubine Hui had already scolded Yuan for being rude.
Yuan didn't dare to be presumptuous and stood aside timidly. Xuan Ye and Concubine Hui sat down in the main hall. He came with no purpose. It just happened that Yuan promised to be in Changchun Palace. Yuan promised to be young and unstable, so he took advantage of his recent favor.
She ran out to pick him up, but was scolded by Concubine Hui. Afterwards, Concubine Hui calmly explained to the emperor: "Yuan promised to be lively. I wanted to be with my sister to relieve my boredom, so I neglected to follow her rules. Your Majesty."
Don’t be offended, I will restrain her carefully from now on.”
Xuan Ye didn't pay attention at all. Instead, he stood up and said, "Let's go to Yinhu's room and have a look. He has always done well in his studies, but I rarely care about his private life. However, the child's learning is so gentle and elegant, and it must be your credit."
Concubine Hui was very nervous. Fortunately, she had begun to care about Eighth Prince recently. If the emperor had asked her half a year earlier, she would have been completely clueless.
Xuan Ye smiled slightly: "Let's go, I don't know which room he lives in."