The draft has been settled, and the selected new concubines have arranged for their tutors to leave the palace and take care of themselves. While I was busy, I took a moment to calm down, and at the same time I asked Jinxi to send someone to tidy up the new palace and arrange for the palace servants to serve.
.The queen just let go of the matter, and I couldn't ask her for advice. I only discussed it with the imperial concubine and the concubine De. They were busy, but Yu Yin and Yu Rao came to the palace to greet me and stayed to help me. Yu Rao was just having fun for a while.
, and Yu Yin was used to taking care of the affairs of the palace, and she became more and more comfortable with her help. In the past few days, Yu Rao got up early and went to the palace. In the evening, he paid his respects to Xuanfen's biological mother and adoptive mother, the two concubines, and then returned to the palace. A few days later, he met Xuanfen entering the palace, and then
She smiled at him and said, "Yu Rao is here with me, which distracts the prince from taking care of the palace."
But he just smiled and said with pity, "If she likes it, let her do it. If my brother is not in the house, she will be boring, so it is better to chat and laugh here with my sister-in-law."
Yurao was also amused after hearing this, and soon she came less often. On the contrary, Yuyin stayed in the side hall of Rouyi Palace to cook for me, and stayed there for several days. On this day, Jinxi came with a volume of pictures of the palaces in the palace.
He told me that the paintings in some palace rooms were too old to be repainted and were not suitable for new palace concubines to live in. Yu Yin was choosing embroidery patterns for me, but after hearing this, he came over and said: "Sister, you said that the day of the draft
The emperor is very fond of this Jiang beauty, so naturally he has to choose a place for her that is close to the emperor's Yiyuan Palace, but he has to prevent her from competing with the eldest sister for favor, so she has to go to the Yiyuan Palace for the eldest sister's Rouyi Palace.
The only way to make it easier for my sister to control it. The Wanjin Pavilion at the back is good, the terrain is good, and the scenery is good. I think the emperor and Jiang Meiren will be grateful to their eldest sister for her attentiveness after moving in. Jiang Meiren is a close friend of the queen, and everyone is the best.
As we all know, we might as well let them live closer to each other, so Qiwangxuan is not bad. It is close to Zhaoyang Palace and surrounded by interesting mountains and rocks. One day the eldest sister does not want to see them coming and going, Jiang Meiren will fall into a
We don’t know if we will fall down.” As she said this, she couldn’t help but chuckle.
I stared at her and said, "You are very considerate. You are willing to plan so carefully for me and to arrange the residence of others. Why don't you think about arranging a good residence for yourself? There are people coming and going in Rouyi Palace, how can you
If you don’t come back, the prince will be worried.”
She ran her slender fingertips across the palace map drawn on fine silk, and said softly: "The prince treats me not like the nine princes treat Yurao. Sister, it's not that you don't understand this." She hissed softly, "Which one has the power to treat me?"
I am obsessed with the Queen Mother's favor in the palace, and my name is Li Jia. Now that she has become popular, people in the palace have gradually dared to look at me and consider what we want to do."
I comforted her with words, "You are not the only concubine in the mansion. Now that she is well, the servants have to consider her. So I ask you to take charge of the affairs of the mansion."
Yu Yin was startled for a moment, as if sighing, "She is a rich woman, so she just needs to be more particular about everything. It's just that I am in charge of affairs and follow her wishes to do things. It seems that I am a head shorter than her and become a concubine."
I usually follow her orders."
"What matters between false reputation and real power? You decide what to do. She is on an equal footing with you, so naturally you have to listen to what she wants. But whether to do it or not, and how to do it, is ultimately your decision." I patted her hand.
, "Only when a person is in his position can he seek his own government. You are the concubine of the Qinghe Palace. This position was chosen by you. Naturally, you must sit firmly in your position. Once you leave, it will be someone else's world."
I paused and said, "Although You Jingxian seems to have no intentions, she still needs to be on guard against others."
"How could she not be so clever? She is the most clever. She is already pregnant!" Yu Yin has been absent-minded occasionally these days. I really saw it, but I always thought it was just jealousy with You Jingxian.
Unexpectedly...I was startled and quickly asked: "When did it happen?"
Yu Yin's green-white nails dug into her palms, causing a burning flush, "I don't know! I don't know anything! I'm so stupid, - I only know that after she recovered from her illness, she often reviewed calligraphy and painting with the prince.
, also went into the palace to pay their respects to the Queen Mother, but suddenly news came out that You Jingxian was two months pregnant. I didn’t know anything!" Yu Yin was overly excited, and his shoulders were shaking violently, as if they were beating.
The wings struggle against the trapped bird in the cage.
The news came so suddenly. Even after seeing Xuan Qing's gentleness towards Jing Xian, there was still a sour feeling in the corner of his eyes. He would finally have his own child, and it would be born for him by a woman who loved him.
I called him "Father" openly. I smiled. Isn't this exactly what I expected? However, the corners of my lips were so sour, and the stiffness of my smile could be recognized without looking in the mirror. Jinxi handed over a bowl of hot tea with a saucer at the right time.
My palms were so hot, burning hot, as if there was a hot thread running straight into my beating pulse, against the sourness and coldness in my heart, rushing through my blood. I said softly: "Don't worry.
. Even if she has a child, given a little time, you will definitely have a child of your own."
"How could I have my child?!" Yu Yin raised his head sharply, the light in his eyes piercing my heart as if to bite people, "It has been ten months and twelve days since I married the prince.
——" She said in a daze, bewilderedly, "In order to avoid You Jingxian's infatuation, he stayed in my Jizhen Pavilion almost every night. However, except for the wedding day when he slept next to me wearing Chinese clothes,
Every other night, he never even took off his coat." Her gaze was like a bone-scratching knife, severly scratching my face, "Don't worry, the prince has never touched me, even if he was with me during the day.
My companions and sitmates treated me extremely well, but he never touched me. He never even hugged me to sleep, let alone a child! The closest relationship between me and the prince recently was just talking about you together. Eldest sister, you
Tell me if I am pitiful!"
My heart felt like someone was beating a war drum, and it was chaotic and shaking. I never thought that their marriage would look like this after the facade of love was torn away!
"Eldest sister, I'm not afraid a long time ago! Since I married him, I've known that he only has you in his heart. Because I've always known it, and I know there's no way to change it, I accept my fate. But this is the case for me, and it's the same for You Jingxian. But,
Now it is You Jingxian who actually has a child, but I am the only one who is kept in the dark, and I am the only one who doesn’t have a child—" She screamed miserably, and suddenly fell down softly.
Her cry was faint and pitiful, like a little snake spitting out bright red letters that slowly wormed its way into her mind and swam away coldly. She sobbed and said madly: "Mr. Jiang will also have a child in the future. She will
When she goes to the Queen's Zhaoyang Palace, she will be so greedy for the wonders of the mountains and rocks that she won't care if the moss slips under her feet, she falls and the child is gone.
The more I listened, the more frightened I became. I couldn't help but shout, "Yuyin, the child is innocent!"
Yu Yin's crying gradually subsided. She stood up slowly, and her expression returned to her normal calmness in an instant. She wiped away her tears quietly and quickly, and said lightly: "Sister, I'm talking about Jiang Meiren. She
The children in the future, like your children, will all belong to the emperor. I say this to remind the eldest sister that the road is not good. If Miss Jiang really has children in the future, she must be careful. And..." She searched my face meaningfully.
He looked worried for a long time before he downplayed it, smiled leisurely, patted his forehead and said: "Eldest sister, don't worry, You Jingxian doesn't have children, I was just confused and wrong."
I was stunned immediately, then understood, and said slowly: "You should go to the Liyuan to act, it is much better than the children of the Liyuan."
The corners of her lips raised, and the bright gold and sapphire pendants on her earlobes shone brightly like sea water. "Watching the theater is not only for entertainment, but also to alert the world. My eldest sister and I are both daughters of the Zhen family. Naturally, I have to remind my eldest sister, You Jing."
Xian is not a stupid person. When she was really ill or faked, she made a lot of noise and got lovesick and insisted on marrying into the Qinghe Prince's Palace. The eldest sister should have known that she was someone who was willing to let go and would use ruthless methods.
Now that the Queen Mother likes her, she will come and go in the palace more frequently. If the eldest sister accidentally shows an expression, it will affect more than just the prince. Of course, I believe in the eldest sister's sense of propriety and patience."
The beaded tassels on the temples were cool against the hot ears. They were iced, and suddenly they swayed away, and the roots of the ears became hot again. The wave-like shock in my heart was slowly frozen by the cold. I didn't want to know that my biological sister
You actually came to test me like this. Even though my heart was as cold as ice, I tried my best to smile calmly, "Why bother with so much trouble in speaking and doing things? I understand your good intentions." I paused and said, "The prince is yours.
Husband, my brother-in-law."
"The eldest sister has always been the smartest, no wonder she is favored by dad. But..." she glanced at me, "Some things are easy to say but too difficult to do. My sister is just afraid that her eldest sister will have many people and many things to do, and she will not be able to make decisions at the moment, so she talks too much.
Just a reminder." She sighed quietly, "The situation between the three of us in the palace has been determined, and I can't change it. But sometimes when I face the two princes, I still feel that I am separated from my eldest sister. I don't need to lie to my eldest sister.
Of course, the prince has never touched me since we got married, and he probably has never touched You Jingxian. Neither I nor You Jingxian, the prince and I are just husband and wife on the surface. The person he really regards as his wife in his heart is
It’s always just you.”
She came closer step by step, full of grievances. I said in a clear voice, "You tell me what you want me to do!"
Her eyes were full of sorrow and grief, and when she was about to give up, she suddenly knelt down at my feet and cried: "How can I know what to do? I always have only some vague ideas, but I beg my eldest sister to love me."
She lamented: "My eldest sister understands better than me that if the prince thinks about my eldest sister all his life, he will probably never be happy!"
My body was shaken, and I felt an unspeakable sadness in my heart. It was as if the old wounds in my heart had been poured with countless new salts, and it only ached. "Do you want me to say or do something to the prince myself?"
There were snow-white tears in her eyes, "How dare my sister make the prince sad? I just dare to ask my eldest sister, when I pretended that You Jingxian was pregnant just now, didn't my sister feel a little bit uncomfortable in her heart? My sister had nothing else to think about, I just begged her not to let her go.
If you still care so much about the prince, it will give my sister and the prince a way to go, and it will also give the Zhen family a way to survive."
Every word fell into my ears coldly, and I took a breath of cold air, "Since you are married to the prince, you should understand that I no longer care about the prince, let alone hinder the relationship between you and your husband. If I am really worried about the prince's affairs, it is also
Remember that a family of in-laws should work together to support each other, rather than plot and test each other. Therefore, you really don’t need to worry about it." I suppressed the turbulence in my heart, for fear that I would let out a trace of my expression and make her worry, so I pretended to go back to see the internal affairs.
The seasonal silk and satin sent by the government. Turning over the pieces of silk and spring brocade with your fingers, it seems that you are turning over your own messy emotions, layer upon layer, uncovering countless undercurrents. It turns out that the blood relationship between sisters is nothing more than this! Holding back the cold teeth,
Finally, I calmed down and picked out a piece of smoky purple hanging flower brocade, and said calmly: "The emperor likes to see me wearing purple, so it would be great to use this satin to cut spring clothes. My sister should also choose a piece to make new clothes." I turned my head and said,
He tried his best to force a smile, "I don't know if you are openly married to the prince. I only know that since you are his concubine, you must be in her position and pursue her political affairs. The most important thing is to be close to you.
Hold on tight, the days in the palace will last forever, you must know how to hold on to the most important things."
She stood up slowly, with a thin smile, and even her expression was as hazy and cool as mist, "Yu Yin will remember the eldest sister's teaching today, but I ask the eldest sister to also remember what the younger sister asked for today.
, I hope my sister will be safe. I will go to visit my concubine later. There are some things that it is not convenient for my eldest sister to say for the prince, so my concubine can do it for me."
I glanced at the palace map on the case and said, "Looking at the strategizing and thorough planning you have just done, you will naturally not suffer any loss in Prince Qinghe's Mansion."
Before she finished speaking, Hua Yi came in and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Jing from the Sixth Prince's Palace has arrived and said she wanted to pay her respects to your Majesty."
I smiled and said, "If you tell Cao Cao, Cao Cao will come. You can see that you can't talk behind others' backs."
Yu Yin frowned, and the flowers between his eyebrows turned into twisted flowers, "I don't like to see her. In the palace, I saw her pestering the prince. I hid with my eldest sister just to avoid her and get some peace. Unexpectedly,
It’s not as good as it should be.”
I tried my best to calm down and motioned for her to hide behind the screen, "Out of sight is out of mind, so I'll just send her away."
Yu Yin nodded, got up and went to the pavilion behind the painting screen. I straightened my clothes slightly and said to Huayi, "Please come in."