Spring apricots around the palace wall

Chapter 9 The Banquet of the Closing Palace ([-])

"It's okay, you can do your best."

The queen was determined to stuff people into the imperial concubine's palace, and she said, "That's it, go back and clean up a side palace."

She turned to Ye Guiren and said, "If you don't want anything, please tell the imperial concubine that the imperial concubine will take care of you properly. You are pregnant, so you must be happy everywhere."

"Yes." Ye Guiren lowered his head and agreed.

The emperor looked at the queen, his lips moved, as if he had any opinion, but he didn't say anything after all, he just said to Concubine Ying Gui: "Concubine, Ye Gui and the eldest son of the emperor, I will leave it to you."

Concubine Ying Gui's expression was as if she had eaten a fly. She had already said that, and she couldn't push it away any more, so she could only accept it.

This was done like this. The concubines toasted the emperor's wine one by one, and the atmosphere of the banquet gradually became lively.

Concubine Shu sat close to Ruan Wei, leaned into Ruan Wei's ear and said, "You are really generous, this Ye Zhen was originally a noble concubine, and it took so long for you to be pregnant, but you even gave her to the emperor. It's good, mother and child are more expensive, if she really gave birth to a prince, she would go up all the way, and it may not be possible to step on your head."

Ruan Wei smiled, "That's her ability."

Concubine Shu looked at her in surprise, "Ruan Concubine, can you say a few more words, I can't always see through you."

"Don't think too much, in short, I am not a saint who repays grievances with virtue." Ruan Wei said.

It was a coincidence that Ye Zhen's problem was discovered.

Ye Zhen was originally a maid assigned to Yaohua Palace by Sizhenfang in the palace. She mainly arranged jewelry for Ruan Wei and dressed her every day.She also has a craftsmanship of perfumery, and is good at getting some spices on jewelry. When the breeze blows, there is a faint fragrance in the air, which is intoxicating.

Ruan Wei liked her to do it like this, and Ye Zhen always changed the way to make perfume.

Until that day, on a whim, Concubine Shu wanted to play hide-and-seek with Ruan Wei in the Yaohua Palace. Concubine Shu secretly hid in Ye Zhen's room, and the cat that was not too dirty entered the closet.

Concubine Shu entered the closet and noticed something unusual.There wasn't even a single piece of clothing in this closet. Ye Zhen put all her clothes on the bed without putting it in such a big closet.

Then, she was very careful and smelled a faint scent in the cabinet.

The queen had let her smell this fragrance before and warned her to stay away from this spice if she wanted to have a baby, but she actually felt that the smell of musk made her comfortable at the time, and she also felt that she was still young and didn't want to give birth, so she bought it Some were smoked in the bedroom.

After smelling it for a long time, she is especially sensitive to the smell.

She found the small porcelain bottle that gave off the smell, picked a little bit on her hand, and put it back in place.

After hearing Concubine Shu's words, Ruan Wei immediately pretended to be unwell and called the imperial physician to check her jewelry one by one.

Sure enough, musk was smeared in her jewelry without exception.

Ye Zhen's way of perfumery is good. She can add several other flavorings to musk to completely cover up the smell of musk.

No wonder Ruan Wei has been favored a lot, but she has never been pregnant.

Ruan Wei didn't make a statement, but went to check Ye Zhen's details, and then she learned that Ye Zhen's mother worked in the Taiwei's mansion, and she came from the Taiwei's mansion.

In this way, before Concubine Ying Gui entered the palace, Taiwei Xu was already paving the way for her.

Now in this banquet, Concubine Ying Gui's face is always ugly and tight, as if someone owes her tens of thousands of taels of silver.

In the past, as long as Concubine Ying Gui was there, other concubines were not very interested, and the emperor would treat the concubine more favorably, but this is not the case today.

After Ruan Wei peeled the crab meat for Concubine Shu, the emperor also broke off the crab legs, took out the meat, and placed it on a beautiful white jade plate. in front of the queen.

The queen raised her eyebrows slightly, and said, "The crab meat is delicious, but this palace cannot eat it because of the situation in the past few days. This bowl of crab meat is still served to the imperial concubine. It is not a waste of your Majesty's heart."

The emperor was used to her like this, but he was not angry, but said:
"The group of ministers in the court were staring at the queen's belly, pointing at the queen to give birth to a direct prince for me. The queen should be more careful and take good care of her body everywhere."

The white jade plate was brought in front of Concubine Ying Gui, and Concubine Ying Gui couldn't swallow the crab meat that was donated by the queen.

But this, again, was stripped by the emperor himself, and she couldn't transfer it to others, and she couldn't put it aside.

She moved her chopsticks bluntly.

The queen stroked the red agate inlaid on the slender golden armor, watched the imperial concubine finish eating the crab meat, and smiled lightly: "The imperial concubine doesn't seem to be in high spirits."

"Nothing," Concubine Ying Gui gave an exaggerated smile, "I haven't seen the emperor for half a month, how can I not be interested."

"Is your concubine complaining that the emperor didn't come to see you for half a month?" Concubine Shu gnawed at the meat and shouted, "The emperor hasn't come to me for three months, so I'm not unhappy."

Concubine Ying Gui's face sank, "You maliciously misinterpret the meaning of this palace."

Everyone turned a blind eye, and her words were like a stone sinking into the bottom of the sea, and no response was received.

The emperor smiled and said to Concubine Shu, "I haven't seen Concubine Shu for a long time, Concubine Shu, I will go to your place tonight."

"Yeah!"

Concubine Shu was very happy, but she thought about it and said, "But Your Majesty, today is fifteen."

The first and fifteenth days of the first lunar month belong to the queen.

Only then did the emperor remember the days, and glanced at the queen, "I almost forgot, then tomorrow, tomorrow, go to Concubine Shu's place."

Concubine Shu was about the same age as Ruan Wei, but she was more like a child. She was grinning to the bottom of her ears.

Ruan Wei asked her in a low voice, "Do you like the emperor very much?"

Concubine Shu also lowered her voice and said to her, "I like men, I'm a woman, there's always something in need, right?"

Hearing this, Ruan Wei almost spit out a mouthful of fruit wine.
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After the banquet was over, Ye Zhen followed Ruan Wei back to Yaohua Palace to pack up.

She has been silently following behind Ruan Wei, Ruan Wei is on a cobblestone road, reminding her: "Be careful of slippery roads."

Ye Zhen said a little self-sacrificingly: "What if you are careful, can this child be born?"

Ruan Wei stopped and looked back at her: "What are you talking about?"

"Why do you refuse to keep me in Yaohua Palace?"

Even if Ye Zhen was promoted to a nobleman, there was still a distinction between esteem and inferiority. She should not have looked directly at Ruan Wei and talked like this. Perhaps it was because Ruan Wei had always been affectionate, or perhaps it was because of the prince in her belly. She was looking at Ruan Wei at the moment. , there was some questioning in his eyes.

Ruan Wei said lightly: "The imperial concubine's Yufu Palace is much more magnificent than the Yaohua Palace. This palace thinks that you are pregnant and will find a better place for you."

Ye Zhen said again: "But that noble concubine is not easy to get along with, you and the queen clearly know but..."

"Do you think this palace and the queen can't get along with you, and they have to let you go into the tiger's mouth?"

"Is not it?"

Ruan Wei smiled, "Let your fallen leaves go back to your roots, don't know what's good or bad."

After speaking, she walked away.

Only leaving Ye Zhen stunned in place, she recalled over and over again what she meant by the word "leaves behind".

(End of this chapter)