Women in the palace are often the loneliest people in the world.
Compared to the nunnery, it feels a little more unwilling.
Cen Yunchu never took the initiative to deal with them. She would not do superficial things with these people just to relieve her loneliness.
She is not naive enough to make friends with these women in the harem. It is obvious that they are doing it for their own benefit. Whether it is good for her or bad for her, it is all with purpose.
What's more, Cen Yunchu was not lonely. He went to her palace almost every day regardless of the emperor.
Just reading a book, playing chess, or even playing with the birds and admiring the flowers are enough to pass the day.
Song Meiren and Jiao Meiren accompanied Cen Yunchu as they walked slowly along the path of the Imperial Garden, commenting softly on the surrounding scenery from time to time.
"Empress Ruifei is in the pavilion. Let's go and say hello. It's not a good idea to go around." Separated by a peony wall, several people were sitting in the octagonal pavilion.
The leader is Ruifei Cui Mingyu, who is Cui Mingzhu’s biological sister.
With her were two talents and one Zhaoyi, and the second princess was also with her.
Cui Ruifei had no income of her own, so the second princess was fostered under her name because her biological mother's status was too low and she had died a few years ago.
Cen Yunchu had dealt with the Concubine Rui when he was outside the palace. Although they had not met, she still sent someone to send a jade cicada to her home.
Speaking of which, Cen Yunchu and the Cui family had a long history of grievances, and now that she is so favored, it is no wonder that Cui Ruifei feels comfortable.
But after all, they have been in the palace for many years, and everyone has developed some skills in being able to express emotions rather than emotions.
"I was telling Han Zhaoyi and the others just now, why are there so few people in the garden today? You are here, come sit down together, everyone is chatting and lively." Cui Ruifei said with a smile.
Cen Yunchu and others thanked her and sat down, and Song Meiren said: "Empress Ruifei, in a few days it will be the time to pay tribute to the flowers. How should we spend this year?"
At the end of March every year, flowers are displayed in the palace to send off spring.
"They also said that the Queen Mother was not feeling well, so she assigned me this job. I couldn't figure it out for a while." Cui Ruifei said with a smile, "My ex-emperor also discussed with the emperor to find someone to come.
Be my helper. Sister Yun is the most intelligent and talented, and she is also young, so it is most appropriate to leave this job to her."
"I'm new here, and I haven't figured out many of the rules in the palace yet." Cen Yunchu didn't want to take on this hot potato. "Besides, since the Queen has assigned this job to my sister, and she will pass it on to others, I know that you don't take credit. I don't know."
I’m afraid I’ll say I’m not very respectful to the Queen.”
How could Cen Yunchu not know that Cui Ruifei wanted to praise and kill him?
She also knew that the Queen asked Cui Ruifei to co-manage the Sixth Palace just because she did not pose a threat.
Unlike Concubine Gao Hui who gave birth to a second prince, it was possible for her to compete for the heir apparent.
"But, the peonies bloomed so late this year." Han Zhaoyi quickly changed the topic. If she continued, the atmosphere would be different.
Cui Ruifei didn't seem to take Cen Yunchu's words to heart. She just smiled lightly, took the second princess's hand and said: "Feifei, don't you also like to read and draw on weekdays? If you want to ask for advice, you can go to Cen Jieyu.
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The second princess is thirteen years old and looks quite quiet.
After hearing what Cui Ruifei said, she just smiled at Cen Yunchu.
Everyone chatted for a while and then dispersed. Cen Yunchu returned to his palace and wanted to rest for a while.
Not wanting the emperor to come, he would go to the Imperial Study Room every day after leaving court to review memorials, or call ministers over for questioning.
I thought I had to finish the matter today, so I came to see Cen Yunchu.
"The weather is nice today, why don't you come with me for a walk in the Imperial Garden."
"I just came back from there," Cen Yunchu said, "I don't want to go there again."
"Okay, okay, then I won't go." The emperor took her hand and said, "What did you read again today?"
Cen Yunchu didn't speak, but pointed at the desk beside him.
She was still not enthusiastic about the emperor, but the emperor didn't seem to care either.
"I just received Lingnan white tea as a tribute. I remember that you like to drink it." The emperor said, "It's good to practice tea art in your free time."
"I don't like it," Cen Yunchu said. "The Emperor might as well go to another palace."
"Every time I come, you have to rush out. It's really unreasonable!" Although the emperor said this, he was not really angry. Instead, he hugged Cen Yunchu into his arms, "Do you think others don't advise me like this?"
"Then the emperor should listen to the advice," Cen Yunchu said, "I don't want to be talked about as a disaster that confuses the king's exclusive favor."
"Whoever dares to say that to you, I will chop off his head first!" The emperor said, "Do you know what I said when they tried to persuade me?"
Cen Yunchu shook his head, perhaps to express that he did not know, or perhaps to express that he did not want to hear it.
But the emperor doted on her so much that even if she acted like this, he still found her extremely cute.
"I will tell them that we have a prince and a princess. We are at peace both inside and outside, and we have not given any official titles to the Cen family. What else can you say? Whoever keeps telling me that rain and dew are equally affected by rain and dew, I will
Give him twenty or thirty concubines, and let him make clouds and rain every day, sowing widely and harvesting little!"
Cen Yunchu couldn't help but smiled.
Her smile made the emperor even happier.
"I should smile more. Once I see you smiling, I don't care how much trouble I have." The emperor breathed a sigh of relief.
But Cen Yunchu smiled once and then stopped laughing.
"Isn't it because someone in the palace is making irresponsible remarks?" The emperor was afraid that she would be wronged.
"No," Cen Yunchu naturally would not make false accusations, "Everyone compliments me everywhere."
Although she said this, her face was always calm.
The emperor naturally wanted to make her happy: "They bought a pair of parrots from outside the palace. They are very good at talking. Ask them to bring them in and show them to you."
The emperor's rewards were so numerous that Cen Yunchu's palace could hardly keep them.
Gold, silver, jewelry, silks and satins, and clothes from all seasons are all so commonplace that Cen Yunchu is not unfamiliar with them.
The emperor changed his tricks and tried his best to give her interesting things.
This pair of parrots is blue and green, and both have red beaks.
He was chattering in a cage, and when he saw Cen Yunchu, he said how good the empress was.
"My dear, listen, this is what my slave just taught them. These two little things learn so quickly." Bai Fu said with a smile.
Cen Yunchu took out the pearl hairpin on his head to tease the two of them, and taught them to recite poems.
The wonderful thing is that these two parrots not only learned it quickly, but also imitated the tone and expression perfectly.
"Do you like it?" the emperor asked, leaning against Cen Yunchu's temples.
Cen Yunchu hummed as an answer.
"Then I will rest in your palace tonight, and you are not allowed to drive me away," the emperor said.
Cen Yunchu said in his heart, it's useless even if I drive you away, in the end it's not you who has the final say.
