Chapter 141 As soon as the palace gate is closed, he says that Ai’s family is sick.
The concubines are almost going crazy. They have been pampered and raised. After entering the palace, they are rich in clothes and food, and nothing is too light or too heavy. On weekdays, even if they pour water and tea, there are slaves, and they will feel tired after walking a few more steps.
Now they are asked to farm and endure the sweat, sun, and rain. At the same time, their faces will be rough, their hands and feet will be rough, and they have to go into the mud, and there may be all kinds of disgusting insects. That is simply asking them to
Life!
The fragile concubine immediately burst into tears: "Why is Lord Long Live so cruel, woo woo woo..."
The servant below was so frightened that he repeatedly warned: "Your Majesty, be careful what you say, be careful what you say."
The concubines in each palace had their own reactions, and in the end they were confused and took their maids out together.
They are going to the Queen Mother for help!
This time, the concubines showed unprecedented unity.
In Zhuang Ning Palace.
When the Queen Mother received the news, she sat dumbfounded. She confirmed it several times in disbelief, and then asked Aunt Qin: "Has the decree been issued?"
Nanny Qin nodded, unable to do anything. This time she was at her wits end and didn't know what to say.
The Queen Mother asked again: "Did Qunfang Hall and all other halls transmit the decree?"
Nanny Qin and the eldest palace maid Qiu Yan looked at each other and nodded in unison.
"Oh, it's coming soon." The Queen Mother looked dazed, and said to herself for a while: "It must be the Aijia..."
She was not sure and asked Qiu Yan: "What did the emperor say when he came over that day? Why is the Ai family... why is it a little confused?"
Qiu Yan spoke in detail: "Long live my Lord, please rest assured about the draft. I will definitely take it seriously in the future. I also said that empresses in each palace should take Queen Shengde as a role model."
"So..." The Queen Mother was a little confused: "Then what did the Ai family say?"
Qiu Yan hesitated to speak. After a while, he lowered his head and said respectfully: "You agreed, and it should be like this. Long live the Lord said that he would make arrangements, and then left."
"So that's it..." The Queen Mother looked stunned and sat blankly.
It turned out that she was the one who made the emperor have such an idea.
The Queen Mother was very happy that the emperor paid attention to beautiful women and the harem.
Later, the emperor said that he had to make arrangements. The queen mother didn't think clearly at that time, and the emperor left.
Now the Queen Mother figured it out and murmured to herself: "It turned out to be arranged here..."
"How come you pay so much attention to it?" The Queen Mother was puzzled.
"The Ai family thought..."
Normally, shouldn’t we care more, reward more, and summon concubines more often to show our attention, right?
How could there be such a big deviation? It was completely different from her imagination. The emperor’s priority was to let the beautiful women and concubines go to farm?
The Queen Mother never understood how her son's attention was so different.
No one could answer the Queen Mother's question, and Zhuang Ning Palace fell into a long silence.
Not long after, a panicked voice broke the silence: "Queen Mother, it's not good, it's not good!"
A palace man came in from outside the door, stumbled in, out of breath.
Aunt Qin glared sharply: "You are bold and there are no rules or regulations. Why are you panicking?"
The palace man quickly knelt down to apologize.
The Queen Mother raised her hand and waved it, and said feebly: "If there is anything wrong with you, please tell me."
Could there be anything worse than her son sending all his concubines and beautiful women to farm?
And this matter originated from her!
Mother and son in the Tian family are like a nest of snakes and rats. Even among ordinary people, they don’t play with their daughter-in-law like this.
The man in the palace reported anxiously: "When I return to the Queen Mother, the empresses from all the palaces are coming here, and several of them are already crying, sobbing and wanting to see you!"
This palace man still had to go out to do errands and found out, so he simply didn't even do his errands and ran back to report it quickly.
The Queen Mother stood up suddenly, why did she come here at this time, do you need to say?
She was horrified: "Hurry up, close the palace door quickly and say that Ai's family is sick."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, the Queen Mother changed her words: "No, just say that the Ai family didn't sleep well last night and are going to bed now!"
This saves the emperor from worrying about coming to see her during his busy schedule, and saves the concubines from staying with her on the pretext of serving her.
The Queen Mother was in panic. In the past, one or two concubines would come to her and cry, which would give her a headache, let alone a group of concubines. Just thinking about it made her head hurt. But the cause of this incident was still her, and she couldn't explain clearly.
Soon, the first batch of concubines outside Zhuang Ning Palace arrived at the scene, demanding to see the Queen Mother, and there was a lot of lamentation.
Then the second batch, then the third batch, until the concubines arrived neatly, even the concubines who were aloof and lonely in the palace came.
They knew that it was useless to ask to see the emperor, and they did not dare to go. The Queen Mother was kind and as long as she did not violate the bottom line and was very lenient on weekdays, they wanted to start with the Queen Mother and seek room for change.
The Queen Mother vaguely heard the noise outside. She walked around anxiously and became angry again: "The Ai family knows it! If the emperor gets interested, nothing good will happen!"
It’s better not to pay attention!
This time, we not only have to worry about whether there are any remaining beautiful girls, but we also have to worry about the concubines.
What's more, the commotion this time is so big that even the rules of the general election have been changed, which will definitely alarm the courtiers, who are afraid that a pregnant woman will enter the palace to test whether there is any deeper meaning.
When the Queen Mother thought about it, she had a lawsuit on her head. How could she say that she persuaded the emperor to care about the harem, and the emperor followed her arrangements.
The Queen Mother thought about it, and even came up with an idea: "It's getting hot, why don't we go to the summer palace?"
Turning around, I couldn't think of it. The draft was not over yet. With such a large-scale effort, the concubine and the wife of the bride must be ordered to go with them. There is no way to avoid it.
A faint sigh came from Zhuang Ning Palace: "There are thousands of ways to do it, but why do I just think of going to the fields to farm..."
Not only the Queen Mother couldn't think clearly, but no one in the entire harem understood how the emperor could suddenly have such an idea.
The Queen Mother felt that the root of everything lay with her. If she had not attracted the emperor's attention, he would not have had such an idea.
But Lihua had different weird thoughts. She always felt that this matter had something to do with her, and she had a vague idea in her mind, and it almost worked out.
But things came one after another and developed rapidly, leaving her no time to think about it.
The show girls have experienced many tortures and blows since they entered the palace, and they accepted it faster than the concubines.
While the concubines were still complaining outside Zhuangning Palace and begging to see the Queen Mother, a group of beautiful ladies brought out by King Lihua Juan were already in the grounds of Yufeng Garden.
Everyone is uniformly dressed in clothes newly issued by the Shang Gong Bureau for farming, neatly dressed with narrow sleeves, long trousers and cloth shoes, and a bamboo hat on their head.
Lihua specially asked for the bamboo hat. When other beautiful women saw her like this, they imitated her and wore it even if it looked ugly, because Wuli always had her own reasons and would suffer if she didn't wear it.
As Lihua expected, Yufengyuan had already arranged everything, and the eunuch Yutian and the maid personally demonstrated and explained it.
Each show girl was assigned a ridge of land, and she had to do everything herself from loosening the soil to sowing seeds, fertilizing and watering to weeding and removing insects.
The show girls were stunned when they heard this, and under Lihua's lead, they gritted their teeth and learned. First they started to loosen the soil with hoes and shovels.