Step on a branch

Chapter 74 Concubine Shu
Walking out of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, Qin Luan saw a little maid on the palace road.

The palace maid bowed to her and said: "Miss Qin, this servant is from Concubine Shu's palace. Madam wants to see you."

Qin Luan didn't respond, and turned her head to look at the nuns of the Compassionate Ning Palace who sent her out.

Mammy lowered her hands, looking at her nose and heart with her eyes.

Qin Luan understood.

Being able to invite someone at the gate of the Compassionate Ning Palace, Concubine Shu's move obviously has the approval of the Empress Dowager.

She refused, and it was of no use.

It's better to cheer up and listen to what Concubine Shu wants to say to her.

Qin Luan nodded.

Follow the little palace maid all the way through the imperial garden until Concubine Shu's bedroom.

As one of the four concubines, Concubine Shu is naturally the head of the palace, but there are no other low-ranking concubines living here.

Concubine Shu lay on the couch, squinted her phoenix eyes and looked at Qin Luan for a while, then said: "Everyone get out, Miss Qin and I have something to talk about."

The palace people filed out.

Concubine Shu didn't even leave a maid in the palace, she just faced Qin Luan alone.

She beckoned and asked Qin Luan to come forward, and said in a low voice, "Actually, it was the Empress Dowager who asked me to find you."

Qin Luan was not surprised by this.

Concubine Shu saw that she was listening attentively, she chuckled lightly, and said softly, "You are destined to have no prince to marry. This is more difficult for the Queen Mother to sleep at night than her grandnephew being exiled and her elder brother falling ill. , she really wants to know how much you are capable of."

Qin Luan blinked.

The reason, indeed, is the same as what she guessed.

But these words, uttered from Concubine Shu, seemed to be ridiculed and malicious towards the Empress Dowager.

So, is Concubine Shu pretending to be obedient, but actually seeing the Queen Mother as an enemy, or is she a red face and a bad face, trying to find out in different ways?

Qin Luan couldn't guess for a while, so he just waited quietly for Concubine Shu to speak.

"She wants to know," Concubine Shu sat up, "As for me, I'm just too boring. You see, I have no children, and I don't see the emperor a few times a year. I feel bored every day. I just want you to tell me." say."

"Your Majesty, I'm straightforward," Qin Luan asked, "You don't have divine favor, and you have no children. Why are you the Fourth Concubine?"

The harem has the rules of the harem.

The emperor's concubines said a lot less, if they had to say more, they didn't have that much.

Moreover, it is not necessary to fill people up to make up the number.

There are still two vacancies for the fourth concubine, but Concubine Shu, who is among them, is very conspicuous.

"You really know how to ask." Concubine Shu's phoenix eyes were full of smiles, obviously she didn't feel the slightest offense to Qin Luan's direct question, "Why? Because I will please the empress dowager. The empress dowager I like my sweet-talking concubine who can understand her eyes."

"So today the empress followed the empress dowager's wishes and asked me to come and see you." Qin Luan said.

"That's right," Concubine Shu said very bluntly, "I sought my favor and found someone to talk to. You have nothing to lose. It's not bad for you and me."

Qin Luan blinked.

Qin Luan has always been keenly aware of the meaning of good and evil.

Don't look at Concubine Shu talking here and there, but she doesn't have the slightest malice towards Qin Luan.

Concubine Shu's smile was so real that Qin Luan couldn't take any precautions.

Without the scrutiny and exploration like the Empress Dowager, Concubine Shu can do whatever she wants.

Like, she's just there to get the job done.

This made Qin Luan even more curious about what Concubine Shu was thinking about besides following the Empress Dowager's wishes.

"I thought," Qin Luan also smiled, "if your empress wants to please the empress dowager, you need to work harder. You only need to click but don't work hard, and the empress dowager is not easy to fool."

Concubine Shu looked at Qin Luan suspiciously, and suddenly, she smiled even more happily.

She even cried tears of laughter.

Taking out the handkerchief and pressing it, Concubine Shu leaned on the pillow, signaling Qin Luan to come closer.

"That's what you say," Concubine Shu said with her lips pouted slightly, with a bit of contempt in her laziness, "but I don't like to embarrass girls. I'm in my early thirties, but I'm also I came here from [-]. The empress dowager, maybe it’s because she’s getting old and it’s been too long, have you forgotten?”

Qin Luan blinked.

Concubine Shu saw her expression of "I listened, but I don't express my opinion", she smiled and said: "So, talk if you want to talk, sit for a while if you don't want to talk, and stay for another quarter of an hour, so that I can deal with business."

Having said that, Qin Luan also sat down.

Entering the palace today, she did not wear Taoist robes.

In order to "not look like a lady", Qin Luan followed Mrs. Hou's words and recently, in front of outsiders, gave her grandfather a face.

Not having a whisk in his hand didn't affect Qin Luan's ability to close his eyes and concentrate.

As long as Concubine Shu doesn't keep staring at her...

Qin Luan is not afraid of others looking at her, but this is Concubine Shu's bedroom after all, one has to be careful when she comes here, and second, it is not polite to ignore her master at all.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Qin Luan opened his eyes and asked.

"People who practice Taoism really have so many abilities?" Concubine Shu frowned and pondered for a long time, "I want to know, is there any pill in the world that can make you pregnant if you take it?"

She had really thought about this question for too long, so that Qin Luan felt that Concubine Shu was just looking for something to say.

"You also said that you don't see the emperor for a few times a year. If you are pregnant, it's not suitable?" Qin Luan said.

Concubine Shu frowned, and said angrily: "Little girl, how are you talking? You haven't left the cabinet yet!"

"I didn't leave the cabinet, don't you also ask me for these?"

Concubine Shu pouted and looked at her.

Qin Luan had no choice but to say: "Instead of getting pregnant after eating, shouldn't you be more radiant? When the emperor comes, the child will come."

"You're right," Concubine Shu nodded, "Because of the Second Highness, the Emperor has been annoyed with Concubine Shun these days, so he doesn't go to her place, and the little ones in her palace are also troubled by not being able to see her." It's Shengyan.

What did I say earlier?There is no shortage of people in this palace, just like that Liu Zhaorong, who had died a few years ago, suddenly became full of glory, and immediately surrounded the Sacred Heart.

You reminded me, maybe she used some kind of elixir!

You give me a few pills of this medicine. "

Qin Luan: ...

She was sure that Concubine Shu was just looking for something to say.

She really gave Concubine Shu those weird pills, she definitely wouldn't take any of them.

The reminder in Concubine Shu's mouth probably refers to "there is an extra reason for the errand".

She tested Qin Luan's abilities for the Empress Dowager, and asked for a pill, isn't it an excellent entry point?
Maybe it's enough for a business trip, Concubine Shu didn't let Qin Luan sit for the agreed [-] quarter of an hour, happily seeing off the guests.

The little palace maid led Qin Luan to get up, and the palace maids who had retreated entered the palace again.

The old mother supported Concubine Shu and said: "You and Miss Qin had a very pleasant conversation, and the slaves can hear you laughing happily outside."

"Yes," Concubine Shu nodded, "I'm so happy."

Concubine Shu was in a daze when looking at Qin Luan.

It was like returning to the early morning when she was four years old, when she was rescued from the knife and looked up at the bloodstained and heroic girls.

She didn't know the names of each of them, but only remembered the words on the flying flag.

They said it was the word "rose".

That was the beginning of her new life.

It was also the reason why she spent more than ten years in this harem.

　Thanks to book friends echo99, Chuzhirenwei, and Mu Weichengli for their rewards, and thanks to book friends 99725 Suicaihua in Shucheng, who provoked Qingsi, and messed up the fleeting years for their rewards, and thanks to Xiaoxiang book friends 133*****865 reward.

　　
　
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