Di Qianao didn't stop his movements, he continued to draw her eyebrows carefully, and when both eyebrows were drawn, he said softly: "I only drew the queen's appearance on rice paper, but now I finally have to draw her eyebrows for the queen.
"
Luo Changan's cheeks warmed up slightly. Seeing that he didn't answer Xiao Yu's matter, she felt a little uneasy. After all, it was the name of the opposite sex, and he was the supreme emperor of the 95th. It was really disobedient for her to ask him to take back the imperial edict for another man.
, she lowered her head and wrung her hands.
Di Qianao put the eyebrow pencil in the dressing box and looked at her with narrowed eyes. The veins on the back of his hands protruded, but his temper was buried deep in his heart. He said softly: "What happened with Xiao Yu was a misunderstanding. I originally wanted to reuse him."
, sent to Chu State to help me handle business matters. If he is unwilling to contribute to me, just give up."
Luo Changan breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, "It turned out to be a misunderstanding. I was wondering how the emperor could force Xiao Yu and his family away. Why?"
"It turns out that this man of mine, with just one sentence, can make people think that he is using his power to bully others. We all know him so well, he can talk to me directly if he has something to do, and he doesn't need to go through you to tell us. We are already separated." Di Qian'ao couldn't tell the difference between happiness and anger.
Luo Changan smiled and said: "It would be great if that's the case. He doesn't have to move his family. But whatever happens with Zhao Ge, Xiao Yu seems unwilling to marry Zhao Ge."
"Since we have already proposed marriage, if he goes back on his word, wouldn't it be an insult to Zhao Ge's reputation? Xiao Yu can just weigh it himself. If he really doesn't care about Zhao Ge, I will let it go with just one word." Di Qianao smiled and comforted.
Luo Changan, "I asked Haiyin to hurry up and send a message to him, telling him that there is no need to move far away."
Luo Changan nodded, "The emperor is absolutely right. If the engagement is terminated, Zhao Ge's reputation will be damaged in the future. Moreover, Zhao Ge has been taking care of Xiao Yu's daily life these two months. Everyone knows that she is his fiancée. I
Seeing that Zhao Ge is also interested in Xiao Yu, I think they are a good match, and the emperor has indeed found a good girl."
"You don't have to be bitter. Haiyin helped advise Zhao Ge on his personality. I don't know it personally. Haiyin has read countless people over three dynasties and will not recommend a bad person."
Luo Changan blushed and said, "I didn't think much about it..."
She couldn't keep up with the emperor's meticulous thinking, and his thoughts were too detailed. In fact, she didn't think about the sour aspect in broad strokes. Even if it was really the person recommended by the emperor, she wouldn't think too much about it.
"When he gets married, I will give him a generous gift. If time permits, I can go to the wedding banquet with you." Di Qianao touched Luo Changan's hair and said with a smile: "The white-browed miracle doctor has been with him for many years, and he is taken care of by the miracle doctor.
, he is definitely fine. If you want to visit Xiao Yu recently, he will be protected by the shadow guards, and you can go and have a look at any time. I am sure."
Luo Changan looked at Di Qianao with great emotion. It felt very comfortable that he could accept her as her friend. It felt great to be able to talk openly and honestly. She hugged his waist and said softly: "I was talking to Cangmiao yesterday.
I’ve seen him, and it’s good to have the miracle doctor and Zhao Ge taking care of him now. Plus, he’ll be relieved to know that he doesn’t have to move away. After all, my status makes it inconvenient for me to visit him frequently.”
Di Qianao touched her head and said, "But are you worried that I don't mean what I say? Why don't you go if you care about me? I said that we trust each other."
Luo Changan raised his eyes and stared at him, slowly leaned on the desk, and said wistfully: "Last night... I didn't get a good rest. I'm really tired and don't have the energy to go out. Let's talk about it later."
Di Qianao felt relieved, and his prejudice against the porridge food just now disappeared. It turned out that she was not tired, but had to hold on for a while and got up to serve tea and cook porridge to the Queen Mother. He couldn't help but feel unbearable and just whispered
He said: "Don't stay away from me for too long. I won't be so excessive. I won't be like that in the future."
Luo Changan nodded quickly, "I understand."
"There is no need to pay homage to the Queen Mother all the time from now on."
"The Emperor, please don't worry about the affairs of the harem. Just worry about the affairs of the country." Luo Changan smiled warmly, "I can do that."
Di Qian walked out of the palace proudly, and Cang Miao came to greet him. He asked directly: "What's going on in Xiao Yu?"
Cangmiao replied: "Yesterday Luo Changan and I went to see Xiao Yu. He is seriously ill and has a negative impact on you. If you don't handle it well, Luo Changan will turn against you. You suppressed the matter last night
What?"
"I guessed that this was the matter. I didn't let her talk about it last night, so I just appeased her." Di Qianao said displeasedly: "A great man in Xiaoyu, but he changed his career in a different place, so he got sick. I don't think he is a rival.
Already."
"How can all men be as heavy-bearing as you?" Cangmiao said: "It is a man who has no power to fight back in front of you, which must be detrimental to his manliness. I can understand him. You, this man,
Just moving at random can hurt your muscles and bones."
"I'm going to kill Xiao Yu. I warned you not to continue to think about Luo Chang'an. Now it's here again. It's only been two months. It really pissed me off. I endured the fire all night!" Di Qian said
Ao looked at Cangmiao coldly, "Do you have a way to resolve it?"
Pfft! This jealous person was actually afraid of upsetting Luo Changan, so he took the initiative to ask for a solution. He was still very considerate of Luo Changan's opinion of him, and finally learned to loosen Luo Changan's tight grip in his hands, which showed that he was carefully maintaining the relationship.
A fragile relationship.
"It will definitely not work if Xiao Yu is beheaded." Cangmiao coughed lightly, "Luo Changan treats him as a good friend and brother. I saw it yesterday. She was also facing you in front of Xiao Yu. Don't allow others to say you are not good.
OK."
Di Qianao looked pleased.
"Xiao Yu himself has a good character. Xiao Yu didn't find Luo Changan, it was Zhao Ge who came forward. According to me, you might as well become friends with Xiao Yu. This will definitely make Luo Changan sincerely convinced by you."
Di Qianao was startled, "Is it your first day to be friends with the man who almost took my wife away?"
Cangmiao patted him on the shoulder, "I suggest you do this and completely let Luo Changan convince you. If you want to use your freedom to kill Xiao Yu, you have the final say."
Di Qianao walked slowly and asked softly: "What does it mean to be friends with him?"
"It means that Luo Changan can talk to him, and maybe spend some time alone with him occasionally, and express condolences during holidays, etc. It is normal for him to accidentally rub shoulders."
Di Qianao couldn't calm down immediately. If he heard something unbelievable, he asked, "Alone?"
"For example, let's say a group of friends are getting together. Everyone has gone away at once, and they are the only ones left at the dinner party. It's not that they are alone together intentionally, but it is unintentional."
Cangmiao tried to communicate with Di Qianao. People who are responsible for national affairs will pay attention to all the details when it comes to Luo Changan. Qiuyan and thousands of troops are all men fighting together. Did I say anything? Someone
Are you bigger than me?...Well, I suddenly feel very humble.
"Where are Hai Yin and Mei Guan? Where are my eight hundred shadow guards? I'm not here at the dinner party either?" Di Qian'ao found it incomprehensible, "It is impossible for such a situation to be convenient for a group to happen!"
Cangmiao was speechless: "...I give up, just kill Xiao Yu!"
Di Qian'ao didn't say anything for a long time, and said slowly and helplessly: "Hai Yin, pass on the decree and accept Xiao Yu as a close friend."
Haiyin: "..." Friends' wives are not to be played with. I understand what you mean, Emperor, and Xiao Yu must also understand.
Cangmiao: "..." It's the first time I've seen someone accept a love rival! I've gained a lot of experience.
***
Aunt Mei came into the house and presented the contraceptive soup to Luo Chang'an, "My Lady, you look so beautiful in your phoenix robe. You must never take it off again."
Luo Changan took the decoction and drank it in small sips.
Aunt Mei said softly: "The emperor told you before he left that you should drink this medicine not because someone helped him give birth to a child, but because your body can no longer take any more."
Luo Changan felt a move in her heart, and nodded, and after passing his mouth, it became more legitimate. She bit her finger and put some blood in the inkstone. She quickly copied the rules of visiting relatives and handed them to Aunt Mei, "Submit a hundred-character blood letter to
Queen Mother. Don't let the emperor know about it, so as to avoid turmoil in your life, and don't affect his governance."
"Either you say you are not your biological child. The eldest princess has lived here for a year and you haven't seen her say anything. If you go home for more than a month, it will be gone if you don't see the blood. If you hadn't spoken out first, I'm afraid she would have given you a look.
"When?" Aunt Mei brought in all the records of the harem that Luo Changan had left behind this month and put them on the case. "Xue Guiren came to ask for help several times before and wanted to advance the monthly payment for another three months. It seems that he has it in his hand."
I’m short-sighted.”
When Luo Changan heard that the things he had put aside were coming up one by one, he cheered up and thought, "When I gave birth to Jinfeng, I couldn't protect Jinhe during the confinement period. There was a time when Jinhe was naughty, and the palace maid failed to do anything.
Look, I almost got worried when I almost fell into the lake. It was Xue Guiren who took a step ahead of the shadow guard to pull the person out of the water and brought him back. It was really a false alarm. I will remember her kindness.
.The monthly advance was approved for the first two times, so how can I make an advance again?”
Aunt Mei said, "The Shadow Guard won't fall into the water if she doesn't take action. But she happens to be by the lake. It's just convenient and she wants to curry favor, so she sent her here."
Luo Changan shook his head, "You can't say that. After all, it's a favor. I will always miss her."
Aunt Mei smiled and said: "Her natal brother is a gambler, and her natal mother is indulging in it. Her father was originally a fourth-rank official in the court, but unfortunately he died of illness last year. Her brother gambled away the family, so her natal mother forced her to support her brother. Listen,
She said that the teacher took away all the jewelry on her body."
Luo Changan said softly: "Everyone has a fixed monthly amount. There was no rule about advance payment, but the Queen Mother did not allow it. I hid it from the Queen Mother the first two times. And she will advance more than half a year's money, and she will use it in the future.
What a living. As a nobleman, her annual salary was only two hundred taels. Now she had taken away nearly one hundred taels. The remaining one hundred taels were spent for her brother to gamble. She starved to death in the palace.
No one has pity for her, she must break her brother's gambling addiction."
The palace concubines are basically priced clearly by the Queen Mother, and receive a fixed salary including food and accommodation.
During festivals and festivals, there are different levels of silver rewards based on status, and food in each palace is also distributed according to status.
One of Luo Changan's main tasks was to manage the concubine's food and clothing expenses budget, etc., etc., in order to help the emperor manage the harem.
With dozens of concubines here, the annual expenses will be tens of thousands taels higher. If they were all dismissed, it would save a lot of money for the national treasury. Hey, I have this idea of not being respectful to the world again.
Luo Changan's salary is the highest in the entire harem, and he is a senior manager among the palace concubines, with a salary of one thousand taels per year.
In the past, when I was a slave, I was given twenty taels of silver per month. It is said that it was specially approved by a certain big leader. Ordinary slaves only had one ounce of silver per month. At that time, I felt that the queen was very high and mighty, and her grace and splendor should not be desecrated. I hid on the dragon bed and yearned for being the queen.
What a scene of spending money like water.
After becoming the queen, I unveiled the mystery of the harem and took a look at the salary schedules of the concubines and myself. It seemed that it was just that. Being a queen for three years was not as much as earning from a big business at home.
Thinking of this, I want to make money by embroidering and selling cloth.
Fortunately, I have the key to the treasury, which makes me feel like I can do it again.
Weirdly, when she was a slave, the emperor wanted to give her a small treasury in another courtyard, and recently he wanted to give her the key to the treasury. He probably knew that she came from a merchant family and was used to the smell of copper since she was a child. Her father also raised her rich, so the Queen Mother decided this
One thousand taels of silver a year couldn't sway her, so he used his wealth to intimidate her, which was... extremely cruel.
Aunt Mei nodded, "Guiren Xue seems to be too determined to cut off all contact with her mother and brothers. I just say that my mother is easy to talk to, so she did it once, twice, and now she's here again."
"I..." Luo Changan clasped his hands, tired of these trivial matters, and admitted, "If I knew that she was giving money to teach her brother to gamble, I would not agree to it the first time. But this time
After all, she spoke, and he advanced another twenty taels to her. He only told her that there were only eighty taels left in the account for her whole-year ration this year, and let her think clearly. It is extremely difficult for a woman to live without a body in the palace.
After all, we must not break the rules. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to carry out my work. What should I do if one and two people come to advance."
Aunt Mei then took twenty taels of money and sent it to Xue Guiren in the palace. It happened that Xue Guiren's mother Zeng was visiting relatives in another courtyard. The servant handed the silver to Xue Guiren and said, "My lord, the Queen has agreed to advance twenty taels."
Two, saying there is no next time, there are only eighty taels left in the account, the noble man needs to live frugally for a year."
Xue Guiren was a little angry, "If I hadn't saved the prince, he would have fallen into the water and drowned. Instead, he sent me away with twenty taels. The queen mother has been neglectful recently, and the second in command can handle the expenses of the entire harem. I don't know how much money she has in her hands."
.Pian Dijun taught her how to control it, and he made all kinds of treasures for her, and no one else could get a penny from them."
Before Xue Guiren could take the silver, it was snatched away by Zeng. He opened the money bag and saw that there were only twenty taels, so he scolded Xue Guiren, "If you are more ambitious, why would you teach her to show your face?"
!Useless things!"
Xue Guiren looked away in shame, and said sarcastically: "Mom, there is no need to say more, the Queen is already doing very well. I have paid three times, and no one can allow me to advance money like this. If I hadn't been there a few days ago,
The prince almost fell into the lake and pulled him up, but he had such a big face."
"Bah, you speak for her for twenty taels! Isn't this your own monthly money?" Mrs. Zeng was full of dissatisfaction, "They were all kicked out of the palace and she was left alone. Why don't you use your brain?"
It’s not a disaster!”
Xue Guiren only said: "The emperor loves her. What can I do if my daughter is of low status? She won't be promoted for a few years after entering the palace. If she puts her down, wouldn't I consider myself unlucky, especially the emperor will only make her feel worse. The emperor returned to the palace before.
Not long after, she was given a bright palace lantern, and the concubines were given a beating, and now they are all beaten out overnight. It is said that it is because of state affairs that there is no time for the harem, but why doesn't the queen come to visit the harem? "
"I would like to ask Aunt Jixiang to set up a line to catch up with the Queen Mother. When your father was still alive, I often walked around with the Queen Mother. Later, when your father was gone, I stopped walking around. If you teach her to cover the sky with one hand,
, the Queen Mother is still kept in the dark!" Zeng was angrily, really stimulated by the twenty taels of silver. The prince's life was worth twenty taels. Who didn't know that the luminous pearl in the Queen's palace lantern was worth hundreds of thousands of taels!