"The Queen, the welfare has been so good recently, does the Emperor want to put all the ladies in the cold palace to death? Isn't this a decapitation meal?"
Zhao Yurou has been eating to her heart's content every day for the past few days. She didn't expect to be treated like this in the cold palace. She always thought that her life must be coming to an end, so people kept bringing food to them.
"I don't know what's going on. It's been really weird lately!"
Feng Lingyu also found it very strange. The little eunuchs who came to deliver meals obviously had a much better attitude, and the dishes they were served were the same as those for the concubines in the harem.
In addition, since she is the Queen, she is treated better than others.
For the first time, she felt that she was a queen. No one usually paid attention to them. She felt that she was just an ordinary person, not even as good as the ladies serving in the harem.
"I always feel that something is fishy. He is so kind to useless people like us. Could it be that the emperor wants to grant amnesty to the world? Then can we go out?"
Zhao Yurou was picking her teeth with a toothpick while wandering on the ground wondering what was going on.
But after thinking about it, it seems that I haven't heard anything important or happy happening in the palace.
"If you have wine today, you will get drunk today..."
Concubine Yu sat aside and read Sister Feng Lingyu's latest novel, murmuring softly.
Under Feng Lingyu's careful care these days, she has calmed down a lot, but she has nightmares at night. Feng Lingyu stays with her every night, and basically the two of them sleep together.
"Did you see that our Xiaoyu has been reading more books recently and has become better at speaking!
You are right, just like us women who have been left in the cold palace.
I don’t know if I will be killed one day, and I’m afraid it will be difficult for me to go out in the future. I’d better live one day at a time!”
Zhao Yurou nodded in agreement and picked up the chicken drumsticks on the table and gnawed on them, "If you follow the Queen, you will have meat to eat, and you can't finish the chicken drumsticks every day!
I am really touched. Sunflower, please make me some carrot soup at night. I want to get some air!"
"Okay, Concubine Rou!" Sunflower nodded gently.
Although the greatest sent a lot of things, there was not much left. After all, there were so many mouths in this cold palace, so Feng Lingyu would give some food to the concubines who no one cares about.
The emperor ordered the queens to be ranked according to their status, and the empress was naturally the first. As for the empresses in the previous dynasty, they could not get any good things.
And people like Zhao Yurou who have just entered the palace are only one level above the palace maids, so their food is still very average.
If you think about it carefully, this order from the emperor seems to be aimed at the empress. Except for the empress, who has the highest status, everyone else in the cold palace is just a small number.
Some have just entered the palace, and some have been attacking for a long time but have not received any rewards.
But fortunately, at least I can eat enough and don't have to eat those leftovers.
"Don't eat too much. Go out and digest it. Look at this, someone will bring it to you every day, and no one will compete with you!"
Feng Lingyu's tone was very calm, but her mood was not very good. This little eunuch is not here, how should she get the eunuch uniform.
It is absolutely forbidden to kill someone, unless someone provokes her, but the eunuchs and maids who came to serve her recently have very good attitudes, and they all bow to her when they see her.
She couldn't guess what the emperor was up to, and she didn't want to guess.
But the matter of Concubine Yu's injury could not be ignored. Ever since Concubine Yu moved to her palace, the deaf palace daughter had not appeared again.
I can't figure out whether this palace maid can hide her identity or whether there are other reasons.
"Your Majesty... let's go out for a walk!"
After Concubine Yu was tired of reading, she put down her book, stretched herself, walked over, looked at her with a smile and said.
"Okay, where does Xiaoyu want to go?"
"Xiaoyu knows a very interesting place. There is no one there. The plum blossoms are in full bloom this season. Let's go and see it!"
With a smile on her face, Concubine Yu took her hand and mysteriously led her to the backyard. They walked for about ten minutes and reached the end of the courtyard. On the left hand side, there was a dog hole in the palace wall.
It's not very big.
Fortunately, the two of them have slender bodies and can just climb out.
This was the first time that Feng Lingyu discovered that there was a large plum blossom forest behind the cold palace. There were about a thousand plum blossom trees, and the snow-red plum blossoms were in full bloom.
"Isn't it beautiful? Your Majesty has already forgotten this place, right?"
Concubine Yu looked at the girl next to her meaningfully.
Feng Lingyu looked confused. Could it be that Concubine Yu didn't discover this plum blossom field by accident?
She looked at the girl next to her in surprise and asked tentatively, "Should I remember this place?"
"Of course you have to remember. This is the place where your Majesty and I first met. There were only two plum blossom trees at that time. Your Majesty knew that I liked plum blossoms, so he ordered people to plant plum blossom trees in this place!"
Concubine Jade Qiao looked at her with a smile, and the happiness on her face didn't seem to be fake.
"I planted this for you?"
Feng Lingyu still couldn't believe it. Everyone said that this woman was an unloved waste. Some people said that she had never met the king and was forced to be like this by life.
But from what he said, she and the former emperor not only met, but they may have fallen in love with each other.
"That's right... I just entered the palace that year, and the king knew that I liked plum blossoms, so he brought me to this place specially, and then let people fall into this plum blossom forest, and come with me every year to see it!
Later, the king fell in love with someone else, and never accompanied Xiaoyu to see the plum blossoms here again."
Concubine Yu felt very disappointed as she spoke. She lowered her head and burst into tears.
Looking at her rosy appearance, Feng Lingyu was very shocked. It seemed that this girl was not an ordinary concubine. She had far more secrets than she imagined.
"Don't be sad, I will come with you every year to see you!
The plum blossoms are blooming so beautifully, they look just like Xiaoyu, and they are even more delicate than flowers!"
Feng Lingyu gently rubbed the top of the girl's hair, imitating the tone of the person in her memory, and softly comforted her.
Sure enough, the girl was very helpful. She leaned in his arms obediently and nodded gently, "I will definitely be obedient in the future. Your Majesty, you can like others, but you must never dislike Xiaoyu!"
"How could I not like Xiaoyu? If anyone dares to bully Xiaoyu in the future, Xiaoyu must tell me immediately, and I will definitely help Xiaoyu beat that person to death!"
Feng Lingyu saw that his meaning was relatively clear at this time, so she wanted to draw out the matter of who hit her. Unexpectedly, after saying this, the girl's expression changed instantly.
"Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. How can anyone dare to bully Xiaoyu? No one will bully Xiaoyu. Your Majesty, please don't think too much!"
Concubine Jade's beauty turned pale and she shook her head in panic.