Empress, she doesn't want to fight

Chapter 37

Seeing Jiang Man look away, Su Chongyuan chuckled and continued: "Sister, was she just looking at Meiren Lu? Did she feel relieved by seeing Meiren Lu's current appearance? This is how the harem is. Looking at the scenery today, maybe it will fall tomorrow." Into the dust, only to be trampled on."

Jiang Man's tone was light, "Sister thinks too much, how can Lu Meiren take care of me?"

Su Chongyuan nodded, "That's right, my sister has a second prince now, and it's not what it used to be. Naturally, I don't care about people like Lu Meiren, but my sister should kindly remind my sister that the second prince is still young."

Jiang Man glanced at Su Chongyuan, raised her smile and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but the second prince is brought up by the empress dowager, and my sister doesn't worry about it, but my sister is still young now. For future consideration, I should have a child." .”

Su Chongyuan's face froze, but she soon recovered, and said, "What my sister said is very true, why don't you tell me, do you have any secret recipes for having a baby, otherwise it would be extremely difficult for others to conceive a child, When you come to your place, how can you get pregnant after sleeping once in 80 years?"

Jiang Man shook her head, "There is no secret recipe, but there is one piece of advice, that is, don't worry about what you shouldn't, and don't think about what you shouldn't. No one in the harem is a fool."

After speaking, Jiang Man didn't care what Su Chongyuan's expression was, and turned to leave.

Su Chongyuan looked at Jiang Man's back and almost crushed the handkerchief in his hand.

There are many varieties of camellias in the back garden of the Palace of Compassion, and there are also many rare ones, such as Eighteen Scholars, Chidan, and Zhuangyuanhong.

No one else was in the mood to appreciate these extraordinarily bright flowers, but Jiang Man was different. She carefully looked at all kinds of camellias in the small garden. Here, I sat down in my seat and waited for the empress dowager to come.

While waiting, everyone looked at Jiang Man in unison.

Jiang Man sat there as if nothing had happened, as if she didn't notice those sights.

After a while like this, the Empress Dowager finally came, and everyone looked away from Jiang Man.

"See Empress Dowager, Empress Jin'an."

"Get up." The Empress Dowager Zhou sat down on the main seat, and said kindly: "The Ai family has devoted all their attention to the Buddha in recent years, and has not cared much about the affairs of the harem. I don’t know you, it just so happens that the camellias in my garden are in bloom these few days, so I’m taking this opportunity to invite everyone over for a sit-down, and let my old lady recognize her.”

Concubine Gao Xian glanced at Concubine Jiang, smiled and said, "Look at what you said, Empress Dowager, you look much younger than my concubine, if my concubine stands with you, people who don't know me will think we are Sisters, or the kind where concubines are older sisters."

"You narrow-minded ghost." The Empress Dowager Zhou smiled and nodded at Concubine Gao Xian, and said, "After so many years, your mouth is still so good at deceiving people."

"The concubine didn't coax you, you are young." Concubine Gao Xian said and turned to Concubine Jiang, "If you don't believe me, ask the concubine."

Concubine Jiang glanced sideways at Concubine Gao Xian, and said with a smile: "Sister Xianfei is right, how old are you, my lord? If you are an old woman, then there is probably only a younger sister in the palace who dares to say a word. young."

The Empress Dowager laughed when she heard the words, apparently in a good mood, "Every one of you will speak well, but even if you speak well today, Aijia will not reward you with anything, on the contrary, Aijia wants you to give things to Aijia Woolen cloth."

Concubine Gao Xian and Concubine Jiang both spoke, and Concubine Wei De also followed suit, "Then we are at a loss, the concubine thought that there would be good things for the Empress Dowager today, if I had known that not only would there be no good things to take today, If you put your good things on your coat, the concubine will not come."

Empress Dowager Zhou shook her head, "That won't work, if you don't come to Ai's house today, you will call the door."

"Oh! It seems that we are going to bleed today." Feng Zhaoyi wailed and said, "Queen Mother, you should tell the concubines how to bleed today, otherwise the concubine's heart is really up and down. of."

Empress Dowager Zhou smiled and explained the purpose of today's banquet.

After the Empress Dowager Zhou finished speaking, some of the concubines present let go of their worries, their smiles became more natural, and some of them lowered their heads and became worried.

Those who are relieved are naturally high-ranking people who are afraid that the Empress Dowager intends to regain control of the harem. They have no shortage of money, not to mention that the Empress Dowager is obviously taking the lead in doing this to relieve Emperor Yong'an. They will only spend more for their own status, and will never I can't bear a little money.

The ones who are worried are naturally the low-ranking and unfavored concubines. They usually have no other source of income except for the New Year's rewards and their own salary. In addition, they are not favored. Make it more comfortable, everything needs to be taken care of, and the money on hand is not enough for them to use themselves, and now they have to donate it to the victims of the disaster.

The Empress Dowager Zhou didn't care what these people thought, after she told the story, she asked everyone to enjoy the flowers.

After admiring the flowers, the Empress Dowager Zhou said before the banquet: "The Ai family can't ask you to donate your money for free. When your money is delivered later, the ten people who donated more can come to me and choose two pots of camellias to take back."

"The concubine is greedy to see the flowers here, this time the concubine has to bring a pot back no matter what."

"Empress Dowager, don't be reluctant to turn around."

The high ranking concubines had a few fun words in front of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and then they dispersed one by one.

After returning that day, all the concubines in the palace sent people to send the silver to the Palace of Compassion.

Concubine Jiang gave 3000 taels, and Concubine Wei De sent 2000 taels. Concubine Gao Xian knew that Concubine Jiang had sent 3000 taels, so she became cruel and added another 2000 taels to the 1000 taels she had prepared. The same money as Concubine Jiang was sent over.

Although Feng Zhaoyi has not been favored these years, she has a second princess, and the emperor gives him a lot of rewards every year. She still has a lot of money. When she heard that Concubine Jiang and the others were all 3000 taels, and 2000 taels were taken out, she didn't want to lose After entering, he took 2000 taels of silver and went out.

Ji Zhaorong got the full support of the Ji family, and he had no shortage of money, so he took 2000 taels, and Song Yuyi also took 2000 taels. When it came to Guo Chongyi, Guo Chongyi only took 1000 taels, and Su Chongyuan was the same as Guo Chongyi.

Some of the concubines in the back took one thousand, some eight hundred, five hundred, two hundred, but at least everyone gave 100 taels of silver.

Jiang Man found that she still misjudged the wealth of the concubines in the harem, so after weighing it up, she confidently and boldly changed the 1000 taels of silver she had prepared into 800 taels and sent it to the Palace of Compassion.

(End of this chapter)