Wonderful Puppet

When Luo Zhizhen came over, Zhen Miao was also coaxing Brother Xiang and Brother Yi to take a nap in the wing room.

It's already September, but she still has a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.

There is no other reason, Brother Xiang is too naughty!

Xu Shi gradually grew up, and Brother Xiang's cleverness began to be used in fighting wits and courage with adults.

For example, now, he is not sleepy, full of energy, and Yi Geer is full of food and sleeps, so when Zhen Miao is not paying attention, he pokes Yi Geer's little buttocks, Yi Geer blankly opens his eyes and puckers his mouth When she was about to cry, Zhen Miao hurriedly coaxed again: "What's the matter, Brother Yi, did you have a dream?"

Brother Yi subconsciously looked at Brother Xiang, then shook his head.

Zhen Miao didn't understand it at first, but after a few times, she finally discovered Brother Xiang's little tricks. After teaching this brat, Brother Yi started to have a headache again.

"Brother Yi, why didn't you tell mother when brother did something bad?"

Brother Yi frowned, struggled for a long time before saying: "Brother said, you can't make small reports with mother."

Zhen Miao narrowed her eyes: "Mother is a little sad, brother Yi listens to brother more than mother."

Brother Xiang on the side thought sadly, mother is even jealous of him, is this really okay?

Brother Yi is an honest child, hearing what Zhen Miao said, he hurriedly comforted him: "Mother, Brother Yi listens to you, it's just..."

He glanced at Brother Xiang and said, "Brother said, I am obedient, and every time I eat chicken legs, I will leave his for me."

Zhen Miao's mouth twitched.

Very good, the little bastard Brother Xiang already understood the principle of "eating people with a soft mouth and short hands", and coaxed Yi Geer, a naive boy, into a daze for a while.

Brother Yi is so honest, what will he do in the future?

Brother Xiang saw that the situation was not going well, so he hurriedly said, "Mother, my brother should listen to my brother. In this way, when I grow up, I will take good care of him, so that no one will bully him."

Is this kid mature?Even guessed what she was thinking?

Zhen Miao raised her eyebrows, and just about to teach the two troubled children a few more words, Mu Zhi stood at the door and said, "Grandma, the third girl is here."

Zhen Miao patted Brother Xiang's butt: "Sleep quickly. Play tricks again, and I'll clean you up later! Brother Yi, sleep well too."

As he spoke, he stood up and told the two nannies: "You take good care of the two brothers."

After finishing speaking, he walked out and went back to the main room along the Chaoshou corridor. Luo Zhizhen was sitting in the main room. When he saw her coming, he quickly stood up and saluted: "Sister-in-law."

Come here at this time.Zhen Miao was quite puzzled, but she walked over calmly and said with a smile, "Third Sister is here, let's sit inside, I just went to see the two children. I kept you waiting."

Although she insisted on breastfeeding her two children at the beginning, she still had to abide by some rules.

When Brother Xiang and Brother Yi turned three years old, they moved out of the main room and moved to the East Wing.In order not to alienate the mother and child, she would personally coax the two children to sleep after lunch.

Luo Zhizhen obviously knew that it was a bit abrupt to come to the door at this time.But ever since she found out about the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Banquet from Mrs. Cai, she was really tormented and couldn't wait any longer. Fortunately, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law got along well these years.She has some affection, otherwise she wouldn't have the courage to come over and confide in her heart.

"It's my sister who is being rude, but there is something I want to tell my sister-in-law."

Zhen Miao nodded, took Luo Zhizhen's hand and went into the outer room, and when the tea was served on the wooden branch, she asked all the serving maids to step back, and then asked, "What's the matter, Third Sister?"

"Sister-in-law, I heard from my mother that on the day of Double Ninth Festival, there will be a Chrysanthemum Appreciation Banquet in the palace?"

"Yes."

"Am I going too?"

Zhen Miao said with a smile: "Of course, when the servants in the palace came to deliver the post, they specifically said so."

Luo Zhizhen turned pale, twisted his hands on his lap, bit his lip and asked, "Sister-in-law, can I not go?"

Zhen Miao withdrew her smile, took a careful look at Luo Zhizhen, and asked after a moment of silence, "Sanmei doesn't want to go?"

Luo Zhizhen nodded: "I don't want to."

"Then...second aunt told you about the purpose of holding the chrysanthemum appreciation feast in the palace this time?"

"I said it." Speaking of this, Luo Zhi really couldn't hold on anymore.

In the end, she is just a 14-year-old girl, and she was born as a concubine. It takes courage to avoid the matter of choosing a concubine. If she hadn't looked coldly at her sister-in-law all these years, she would not dare to mention it.

Who should I mention?If Mrs. Tian was still there, I'm afraid she'd come over with a lot of sarcasm after hearing it, and she would have to sneer at her. Although the current stepmother's face is good, it's only limited to this, making her feel that she doesn't know how to praise her, and it will be even more difficult in the future. .

As for the grandmother... Ever since her bowl of glutinous rice balls almost killed the old lady, this girl has a shadow in her heart. She only respects the elderly elders, but she no longer dares to approach them indiscriminately.

Seeing that Luo Zhizhen was already on the verge of falling, Zhen Miao sighed softly and patted her hand: "Sanmei, don't worry, just listen to me."

"Ah."

"Since you know that this Chrysanthemum Appreciation Banquet is for the selection of a concubine for the new emperor, you probably have to go."

Luo Zhizhen shook his hands, and asked with the last glimmer of hope: "Is it okay to call yourself sick?"

Zhen Miao shook her head: "This is inappropriate. This is the first time the new emperor has chosen a concubine after he ascended the throne, and the ones chosen are all noble girls. You are the only girl of the right age in the Duke of Zhen's mansion. If you come from here, even if you are called sick this time , I am afraid that you will still be invited to enter the palace in a few days. You must know that this time is to use the name of the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Banquet to select a concubine, not a formal selection, and there is no missed time. Call yourself sick? Come down three or five times, even if the Tian family is not upset, spreading rumors about your weak health will be very unfavorable to your marriage."

Luo Zhizhen is at the age of marriage, once the rumor of poor health is spread, of course there will be no lack of interest, but those who are born well, or marry the eldest son and grandson of the family, I am afraid that they will be discouraged.

Luo Zhizhen's face suddenly turned pale, without a trace of blood.

She knew since she was a child that a woman has two chances to decide her fate in her life. One is her birth, which cannot be chosen. She is unlucky because she crawled out of her aunt's belly, and the other one is to get married.

She doesn't want to enter the palace, and compete with countless women for the man with the most noble status, doesn't she just want to marry a good man and live a stable life?

"Sister-in-law, please help me, I really don't want to enter the palace, fight with a group of women, in the end it may be nothing, and even my life will be buried in it." Luo Zhizhen knelt down with a plop, hugging Zhen Miao leg, weeping bitterly.

Zhen Miao looked down at Luo Zhizhen who was kneeling on the ground, feeling a little emotional in her heart.

The same concubine, Luo Zhizhen and Zhen Jing, have completely different temperaments.

She still wanted to make sure, so that Luo Zhizhen would not live a happy life after she got married, and would start to secretly envy the dignity of the concubine and complain.

"Has Third Sister really thought it through? You know, many people cherish this opportunity very much."

Luo Zhizhen raised his head, with tears in his eyes, and a determined expression: "Sister-in-law, since I came to you, I have thought clearly. You see, where the concubines of the previous emperors have gone after generations of new emperors ? Just now, apart from the queen mother, how many concubines of the late emperor are still in the harem?"

Those concubines who have children are lucky to say that those who have no children will all go to the temple to stay, and those who are unlucky will have to be buried with them.

Not to mention, Emperor Zhaofeng died, and the Empress Dowager Zhao, who was promoted to be the empress dowager, directly let Concubine Wu Guifei, who was quite beloved by Emperor Zhaofeng in the last few years before his death, be buried.

There is no need to find out the reason. It is enough for the queen mother to say that the first emperor could not leave Wu Guifei. Who made Wu Guifei come from a commoner background?

It is also because Concubine Wu Guifei came from a humble background, she leapt to become a noble concubine and concubine with boundless glamor back then, she sat in the seat vacated by Princess Fang Rou's mother concubine Jiang Guifei, even ordinary people knew that there was such a low-born concubine in the palace , it's not surprising that Luo Zhizhen knew about the ending of her unlucky beauty.

Having said so much, Luo Zhizhen gritted his teeth and went all out: "In the final analysis, among the three thousand beauties in the harem, there is only one who can really have the last laugh. Zhizhen knows that once she enters the palace, that person will never be I!"

Zhen Miao subconsciously nodded, agreeing with Luo Zhizhen's thoughts.

Not to mention Concubine Wu, but Concubine Jiang, whose father was reused because of the war and gradually gained power, is not going to be honest now.The woman who once looked down upon Queen Mother Zhao at all is now living quietly in the deep palace, as if she never existed.

What's more... what's more, Emperor Chen Qing is a pervert!

If she could, she would not want to step into the imperial palace at all, but it is a pity that she was born in the imperial society and is the future mistress of the Duke's Mansion, so she can't do it completely on her own.

Fortunately, even though that man is perverted, with the dignity of the Son of Heaven, he should not back down. He will still be the elder brother after he said it himself. If there is any more absurd behavior, just throw it in his face.

"Since that's the case, Third Sister, when the time comes, you will still enter the palace with me."

"Sister-in-law?" Luo Zhizhen tightened his hand holding Zhen Miao's thigh, a teardrop was about to fall on his long eyelashes.

"You get up first." Zhen Miao pulled her to sit down, and said with a smile, "You are also a solid girl, you may not be selected to enter the palace."

Luo Zhizhen's eyes gradually brightened, and he hesitated: "What does sister-in-law mean--if I dress up and behave normally, I will lose the election?"

"You are a girl from the Duke's Mansion. With such a background, I think that even if you dress up in an ordinary way, the chance of losing the election is not great."

With a high background and ordinary qualifications, this is the rhythm of being favored by the queen mother every minute, right?

If the empress dowager and the empress do not get along, it's okay to say, since the empress dowager and the empress will inevitably fight for the territory of the harem, but who let the current empress be the empress dowager's niece?

"Then... I will be negligent in my words and deeds when the time comes—"

Zhen Miao shook her head: "When the time comes, all the noble ladies will go, your reputation will be ruined if your words and deeds are inappropriate. I think, just do the opposite, you dress up beautifully, behave appropriately, and then show some enthusiasm Eyes, the Queen Mother will probably avoid it." (To be continued~^~)

PS: I went out yesterday, it is not convenient to climb up to ask for leave, there is a second update today, but it should be at night.Miaoqiu is expected to end at the end of the month or early July. This is the last month to climb the pink list. Please support me a lot. I hope it can end with a good result. Thank you dear ones.