I am Shu Jieyu of Jinghe Palace, the most powerful woman in this harem.
Logically, people with real brains should not expose their ambitions, especially in the palace.
It wasn't until I was promoted all the way from the little palace girl next to Shun Zhaoyi to the concubine, and I saw that I was going to be ranked as the ninth concubine, and I desperately fought for favors that I couldn't hide it.
Shun Zhaoyi does not argue or grab, virtuous and virtuous. Her interest did not seem to be in the emperor, and her only hobby was to hold the Persian cat who was as docile as she was and talk to other concubines.
Then again, it was also my fate, if I had been a careful-eyed master, how could I be allowed to turn around and become the emperor's favorite concubine?
Shun Zhaoyi asked me, "Xiao Yun, you have learned everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you can also read and dance." So desperate to compete for favors, what is the picture? ”
"Tu money." My sister is different from me, my sister's aunt is a hussar general, and there is no shortage of money. ”
I took a bite of the melon on the tip of the little silver fork.
Shun Zhaoyi rarely answered the call, pulled out a smile that was not the same as in the past, and glanced behind me with a fluttering look in his eyes.
I wiped my mouth with a handkerchief, and when I looked back, the emperor was standing expressionless in the doorway with his hands behind his back.
I took a breath of cool air, and the half of the melon left on the silver fork snapped to the ground.
The emperor coughed softly, "Shu Jieyu... If you want any reward, you can open your mouth, and save it from passing on the thought that even concubines are being treated harshly. ”
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I don't mean that.
"What reward can the concubine want, the emperor comes to Jinghe palace to walk around, and the concubine is overjoyed." I pretended nothing had happened.
"Jinghe Palace does not carry silver with her, and Jie Yu has nothing to be happy about."
……
It's over, it's all heard.
"The Emperor... Come, eat melon. ”
The emperor was not very happy during the day, but in the evening he rewarded me with a pair of jade bracelets.
I opened the box and looked at it, it was not bad, the water head was excellent.
"Xiao Tang, take out the palace and come back and report the account to me." I shoved the box into Xiao Tang's hand and lifted my pen to write to Yao Yao.
This stupid girl grew up eating a hundred meals, and now she has tuberculosis, which is naturally disgusted by a hundred families.
Fortunately, I was a sister's contention, and the palace maid's little Bit Lu was enough to treat Yao Yao.'s illness.
"Shu Jieyu's writing is quite windy."
I shuddered, my hands shook, and the ink took a large chunk.
"Concubine please emperor Ann." I knelt down very reluctantly.
"Write what?" He helped me up.
"The family letter is just that, the emperor should not make fun of the concubine."
"Oh—" He glanced at me, "Don't you like your jade bracelet, why don't you wear it?" ”
"Concubines... Loved it. But the concubine was clumsy and afraid of breaking the bracelet, so she asked Xiao Tang to put it away carefully. ”
"Jie Yu's skillful hands can paint and play the piano, where is the stupidity?" Come here, tell Xiao Tang to take out the bracelet, and put it on now for Yuan. He took a sip of tea and drew the corners of his mouth to look at me.
I opened my mouth, hating that I couldn't fly out and drag Xiao Tang back.
"On the way here, I saw Xiao Tang holding a box, and his footsteps were hurried and he didn't know where to go."
When it's over, it's a great sin to deceive the king.
I couldn't make it up anymore, and in an attempt to get through, I reached out and put the teacup in the emperor's hand on the case and leaned into his arms.
The emperor was very bad, and reacted very quickly by raising his arm to block me, "Hong Fu-"
When it's over, is this going to be beaten into the cold palace? What should I do without Yao Yao's illness?
The Grand Eunuch Hong Fu walked in with a tray, and on the red silk cloth was a carved white jade bracelet.
The emperor took me, who was too frightened to move, into his arms, "This mutton fat jade bracelet was put on you by your own hands, and you are not allowed to give it to others anymore." ”
Moved? Don't dare to move, don't dare to move.
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"Does the white jade bracelet in the master's hand be taken out of the palace today?"
"No, no, no, this can't be—" I was lying reclining in the embroidered Mandarin duck, and quickly dropped the needle and thread and sat up to cover the bracelet on my hand.
Xiao Tang smiled and approached me, "The lord is finally willing to accept the emperor's things?" ”
"Xiao Tang, you don't know, if this bracelet is gone, my sister and my head will not be able to stay." I held my chin and sighed softly.
"The Lord is talking nonsense. The emperor is so spoiled, breaking the rules to let you start from Baolin, jinfeng to jieyu has only spent more than half a year, and the gold and silver rewards on weekdays are only a lot more than the niangniang next to them. Lord... Is there really no trace of emotion? ”
I bowed my head and said nothing.
Heck, I don't seem to be going overboard, and the concubines who have only tried to make money in the past probably can't find a second one.
Xiao Tang seemed to suddenly remember a very important thing, "Look at this memory of the slave, Master, yesterday's Zhang Taiyi said that Yao Yao's body is much better." ”
"Really?" I jumped down from the soft bed happily, and mouthed at the needle and thread on the case, "This Mandarin Duck purse was originally going to be sold to patch Yao Yao, and then I will finish embroidering you to stuff some spices into it and take it to the Taiji Hall to the emperor." ”
When Xiao Tang went to deliver the purse, he happened to bump into the queen.
The queen only smelled it once and said that the mugwort in the sachet was not enough to nourish people, but the sandalwood and herbs were precious and could dispel dampness and calm the spirit.
The empress also said that the emperor treated Shu Jieyu best, but Shu Jieyu did not pay much attention to the emperor and should be well taught.
So I followed the nervous Little Tang to the Taiji Hall to plead guilty.
It was really troublesome, sending a purse and sending sin over, fortunately I did not have to die to fall in love with this emperor.
Gonggong Hong invited me into the temple with a nervous expression like Xiao Tang.
The Emperor poked his head out of a large pile of recitals stacked high and glanced at me, "Give me the ink." ”
I quietly glanced at the chapters, and the dense little words made me dizzy.
After standing for a long time, he dozed off, and with the uneven strength in his hands, the cinnabar in the Yantai splashed himself.
He stopped writing and frowned, "What's wrong?" ”
"Nothing... The emperor has read the chapter for such a long time, do you want to rest your eyes and nourish your spirit..."
"Greasy mouth slippery tongue. Have you forgotten what you're here to do? ”
I was aroused and fell to my knees with a loud thud, "Concubines are guilty..."
"Well, so I used cinnabar to replace the ancient ink punishment with a cinnabar face, so as to plead guilty?"
I looked at him blankly, and he put down his pen and bent down to wipe a little cinnabar from my chin.
He was so close to me.
He looks really good, just as the empress said, the emperor is a heavenly son, I am just a slave born in a slight cold, and to seal a concubine is to lift.
Forget it, if he doesn't deserve it, he can't deserve it, I don't have a face and no skin, but I just want to make some money.
"The empress said that you were perfunctory, and Fang Cai punished you for an hour of ink research for the queen."
empress...... That's right.
"Concubines are punished."
"I just want to praise your Mandarin duck for being well embroidered, so I am willing to accept the punishment?" Didn't the Queen wrongfully accuse you? ”
...... Old fox.
The queen made it clear that she wanted to embarrass me.
Coming out of the Taiji Hall, the Empress's palace maid respectfully saluted me, "Shu Jieyu, the Empress Dowager has been waiting for you in the Zhaoyang Hall for a long time. ”
The queen waited for me, what good things could be done.
As I expected, when I entered the door, I scolded with a split head and covered my face: "I heard that the emperor only punished Jie Yu for one hour." The emperor was distressed by Jieyu, but the palace could not help but teach the emperor well, and go to jieyu's pampered and arrogant anger to the palace. ”
The queen chanted endlessly. I shrugged my head, my left ear in and out of my right ear, right as she was chanting.
It wasn't until the palace maid shoved the ink-dipped pen into my hand that I reacted with great enthusiasm, and the empress asked me to copy the Analects of the Woman.
So fierce, so fierce. She knew that I had studied an hour of ink in the Taiji Hall, and now she wanted me to copy the book.
In the past, when I first entered the palace as a palace maid, I ate cold meals on the board every day, and I didn't even have a quilt to cover when I was on duty at night. Later, I was transferred to Jinghe Palace, and my life was more comfortable. It wasn't until the letter from outside came in that Yao Yao was seriously ill that I began to be my desperate thirteenth lady again.
Now it's just a matter of writing a few words, and I'm a bit of a jerk.
I finished a page, pounded my waist, and was about to pick up my pen again, but I fell from my chair.
In a trance, I heard the sound of something breaking. It was as if the mutton fat jade bracelet on my wrist had hit the floor tile and shattered.
I closed my eyes to Xiao Tang's exclamation and went to sleep, and woke up again from the emperor's roar.
I'm so sleepy, the emperor is so noisy.
Why did he hold me so tightly that it hurt me.
"Shu Jieyu is pregnant, and Shu has already punished her, you still have to worry about it--the empress is so jealous, where is the half-point Lady Virtuous look?" How can we honor the Ancestral Temple and the Mother Ceremony of the World! ”
He roared so hard that his heart pounded with fear.
He had only been on the throne for two years, and although he did not smile for a day, he rarely made such a big fire.
I squinted my eyes and peeked, and the people in the room knelt down in the black, and the queen cried bitterly, which punished me for being domineering when I copied the book.
Wait, what did the emperor just say, Shu Jieyu is pregnant?
My good Yao Yao, wait for my sister to be promoted to the throne, and buy you more delicious food.
The strength on the emperor's arm increased a few points, and I guess he must have looked a lot like the cows in the village guarding calves when I was a child.
I suddenly felt that it was really good to be his darling. At least there was no need to take Yao Yao from house to house to beg for food, no longer need to be called a wild child that no one wanted; no longer needed to be beaten to the palace aunt's ruler and board, and no longer needed to eat steamed bread in cold water in the corner to save yao Yao's money.
I used to protect Yao Yao, and now there are people who protect me. It doesn't matter if he's sincere or not.
I never expected that the emperor would cry even harder than the empress.
He snot a handful of tears, and said unfavorably: "I don't have a daughter yet... I wanted a little princess as cute as you, but almost, almost no... It's a mistake, and you shouldn't be punished for studying ink..."
I was stunned and raised my head to look at Xiao Tang's equally shocked eyes—I had always thought he was paralyzed, and probably Xiao Tang felt the same way.
I saw that he was really pitiful, and reached out and touched his head, "Don't cry, don't cry, this... Concubines are strong and strong, and children are so easy to go..."
Xiao Tang handed over a handkerchief that wiped away tears and left the sleeping hall with interest.
The emperor used up the stack of handkerchiefs before gradually returning to his paralyzed appearance.
"I haven't finished reading today's sonata... I really can't stay with you for too long. ”
I nodded, "Concubine knows." ”
"Xiao Yun, Yuan... There is still one more thing to ask for. Oh, he suddenly called me like this, still with a red face, causing me goosebumps to get up, "The thing about crying in Jinghe Palace today... You, you are not allowed to say it. ”
"Well, the concubine knows." The emperor is at ease to batch the folds. I couldn't help but laugh.
Yao Yao was really getting better, and the letter he wrote to me also drew a smiley face.
I asked Dr. Zhang what reward he wanted, and as long as it was something I could give, I would never hesitate.
Zhang Shengtong knelt down in front of me with a thud, and he said that he wanted to marry Yao Yao.
If the emperor hadn't allowed me to kneel, I would have wanted to kneel in front of Zhang Province and give him a kowtow.
Yao Yao is not bad-looking, but she has been a leather monkey since she was a child, and I did not expect her to grow up to marry.
"You don't hate Shu Yao won't be a female worker who will only go to the house to reveal the tiles for three days and argue at both ends to ask for sugar gourd white jade cake to see fun things, and will not be able to walk without a word, just like a child crying ..."
"No, the minister is not suspicious." Zhang saved his body word for word.
"Then you must treat Yao Yao well, even better than I do to her."
The emperor promoted me to Zhaoyuan, Shu Zhaoyuan.
As usual, the Ninth Concubine should have a title, but the Emperor did not give me a word.
I didn't care much, but there was a lot of discussion in the palace.
People are afraid of what they say, and all kinds of suspicions I only listen to.
In the afternoon, Hong Gonggong entered the door with a smile and said that the emperor had asked me to go to the Taiji Hall to serve the pen and ink.
It's waiting for pen and ink again, and God knows what kind of ghost idea he hit.
He told me to sit down and take a bite out of the box in the corner. Xiao Tang understood and brought it to me.
"Open it and see."
It was the original sheep fat jade bracelet, which was repaired with gold and jade.
"Don't you have anything to say?" He said lightly.
"Yes. The concubine wanted to ask why the emperor treated the concubine so well. ”
"Because I like you." He didn't lift his head.
"But the emperor also likes other women."
"I was very busy, I had to read and write to learn to ride and shoot since I was a child, and I didn't like others without kung fu."
I bowed my head and said nothing. Later, Xiao Tang told me that my face was as red as cinnabar on the tip of the emperor's pen.
He snapped and put down his pen, and his solemn appearance was a bit like asking me to marry Shu Yao's Zhang Taiyi.
Shu Yao's illness healed and he married Zhang Shengsheng again. From now on, can you no longer sell what you have lost to you, and no longer compete for money? ”
I was stunned, "How the emperor... All you know? ”
I am Shu Zhaoyuan of Jinghe Palace, the most stupid woman in this harem.
Logically, a little palace girl like me can stay safe and sound until she is twenty-five years old and gets married. However, the stupid emperor who had just ascended the throne actually fell in love with the little palace girl hiding in the corner secretly nibbling on the steamed buns, and quietly watched her playing in the water in the Fengchi Pond to catch fish, folding the begonias and magnolia hairpin flowers on the shore.
So the emperor colluded with the most generous and virtuous lady in the harem, transferred the little palace girl to Jinghe Palace, and made her Baolin, Jieyu, and Zhaoyuan. He clearly investigated the family background of the little palace girl, what was used as jewelry for money, asking the doctor to treat his sister, he turned a blind eye, or rather, closed both eyes.
These are all things that Shun Zhaoyi told me with melon seeds.
Oh, what is the most generous and virtuous lady, obviously lied to me for so long.
I said, Sister, don't you like the emperor?
Shun Zhaoyi shook her head, "I am my grandfather's concubine, and I was raised as a concubine of the future generation." But they only taught me how to be a concubine, not how to love others. ”
She smiled slightly, and the slender fingers in the armor tapped the table, and the snow-white cat meekly jumped on her knees.
"Xiao Yun, when your child is born in the next day, will she call me a dry mother?"
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Sweet Rao'er - Shu Yao × Zhang's body
"Two dollars for Ai Ye, two dollars for the skin of the earth... Yao Yao, in the spring, willow flying silk, the body is more likely to have rashes, you remember to go to the street less. ”
In the past, Master always said that Zhang Sheng's body was stuffy like a medicine jar, but after the big wedding, he talked more and more.
"You can't go out on the street." Shu Yao frowned as he held his cheeks.
How not to go out of the street, the little flower cat must still be waiting for her under the third walnut tree west of the alley. Shu Yao would visit Yipinfang every day, wrapping two smoked chicken legs, one to eat himself, and one to remove the meat to distribute to the kittens.
She shoved the last piece of white jade cake into her mouth and was about to get up and sneak out the door.
It just so happened that a mother-in-law came in with a newly boiled soup medicine, and Shu Yao pinched his nose and jumped away, "I don't drink it, I don't drink it, those herbal juices are bitter and people's tongues are numb." ”
"Good medicine is bitter." Yao Yao, obedient. ”
"Zhang, you obviously said that when my tuberculosis is better, I will never have to drink medicine again, you are deceiving!"
The mother-in-law smiled and turned to withdraw.
"Don't stop me, the smoked chicken in yipinfang will be sold out."
Zhang Province's face darkened, and he flashed in front of the door, slightly raising his face like a teacher in a private school.
Shu Yao glanced up at him and sat back in his chair sadly. The two men sat one and stood, relatively speechless.
The more Shu Yao thought about it, the more aggrieved he became. How did my sister promise herself to this idiot? He also hated himself for being so sick and confused that he believed his word and his word.
At first, he had swore with a red face that he would treat her well for the rest of his life and not let her be afraid, but now he was forcing her to drink this unappetizing soup medicine, and he did not allow her to go to the street to find kittens. And beyond... Wouldn't those old sea oath mountain alliances be even less numerous in the future?
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Shu Yao was sad, but he saw Zhang Xie put the medicine bowl on the table and slowly squatted down.
"Are you in a hurry to feed that cat?"
"Who told you?" Shu Yao was surprised.
"Last time I happened to be on the carriage, I happened to see you teasing a pint of smoked chicken while teasing it." Zhang Shengsheng sighed, "Go ahead, I'll go with you and take the cat home, so that you don't have to worry about it every day." ”
"Really? I knew you were the best. Fang Cai's grievances were all forgotten, and Shu Yao smiled and bent his eyebrows, jumped up and pounced on Zhang Province.
"Only the same - the soup medicine still has to be drunk." Ten days later, the eldest princess and the little prince for a hundred days, if the noble concubine Niangniang sees the rash on your arm, there is no need to let the emperor and the niangniang absolve me of my sins. He paused and said, "I have prepared the sugar hawthorn earlier, and when I eat it, I don't feel bitter in my mouth." ”
"I promise you. But... You also have to promise me," Shu Yao pulled the sleeve of Zhang's body, "Zhang Province, you have to make me a lifetime of sugar hawthorn." ”