What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

Chapter 12 Because I Want to Live
"It's almost there"

Estimated that the time was about the same, the queen slowly got up and left.

Lin Ximeng kicked the family letter into her arms, and withdrew like a cat.

Back in the main hall, she saw her cousin Meng Yuxi sitting in the empress's seat from a distance, drinking with the old emperor.

She was wearing a palace gown of peach-colored satin, covered with a layer of smoky tulle. She lifted her slender white hands, revealing a jade arm, and her breasts hidden in the placket were also faintly visible.

One old and one young, one fat and one thin.

Lin Ximeng only felt physical discomfort, and a strong nausea rushed into her chest.

The queen turned a blind eye.

With a dignified and noble smile, sitting on the other side of the emperor, drinking and laughing as usual as if he didn't see anything.

During the period, the second prince Xie Chenke came to toast, and the queen held him for a long time to talk, just like a warm scene of a loving mother and a filial son.

Lin Ximeng had to admire in her heart.

It is said that the prime minister can hold a boat in his stomach, but to the queen, he needs an aircraft carrier in his stomach.

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During the whole banquet, Zhao Liangdi didn't glance at her, but Xie Chenyu glanced at her through the screen.

During the period, the little eunuch came to deliver hangover tea twice.

Lin Ximeng drank calmly and continued to be a little transparent.

After the banquet, everyone dispersed.

Lin Ximeng and Xie Chenyu were in a carriage, Zhao Liangdi was still alone.

It was already midnight when I returned to the mansion, so it was only natural that she should be at bedtime.

Uncharacteristically, Zhao Liangdi didn't have vicious eyes as usual, she just stared at her twice before walking away.

Lin Ximeng followed Xie Chenyu to the study in the front yard.

After taking a bath and changing clothes, after tossing about as usual, Xie Chenyu hugged her panting, his eyes were extremely cold.

"Aren't you going to tell me something?"

Knowing that she couldn't hide it from him, Lin Ximeng simply told the whole story.

She knelt on the bed and raised the family letter above her head, and confessed every word of the conversation with the queen, without hiding anything.

Xie Chenyu was dubious.

"So obedient? That's the death of more than 100 people in your Lin family, so you're not afraid..."

"Afraid", Lin Ximeng was categorical.

"Why then?"

"Because I want to live", Lin Ximeng was firm again.

Maybe it's not her, she doesn't have much affection for the Lin family, so it's more rational.

As soon as the case of delaying the military plane came out, the general Lin Zhenyue was executed. Those who were over 16 years old in the Lin family were exiled for three thousand miles in northern Xinjiang to do hard labor.

This case caused a sensation in the entire city of Shengjing.

So far, in addition to the family in Beijiang, there is still a younger brother and a cousin who are missing in memory.

Although he is not the person himself, he still has to bear the burden of the family if he has taken over someone else's body.

The most important thing now is to be alive.

Once she died, the Lin family would be completely over.

"Good girl, I have some knowledge"

Xie Chenyu gently lifted her chin, and looked at Lin Ximeng's perfectly perfect face again.

"If you offend the queen, you still have some leeway; if you offend the main hall, you won't even be able to see the sun tomorrow."

"So..." Lin Ximeng slightly raised her lips.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, Ximeng knows what to do."

Xie Chenyu was very satisfied.

After tasting all the beauties in the world, he was already tired of any woman.

Now Lin Ximeng seems to have interested him a little bit. It turns out that not all beautiful women are brainless, and they are also somewhat smarter.

"Then show you the way"

Xie Chenyu shook his folding fan and said in silence for a while.

"I have a private estate in the suburbs of Beijing. It was given to me by my father three years ago on my birthday. The annual profit is tens of thousands. Since the empress wants to know something, then tell her."

Lin Ximeng knelt down as if she had received an amnesty, and said thank you.

Xie Chenyu twisted her arm: "Since Xie En, let's be more practical."

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At the same time, Jiaofang Palace
The queen took off her heavy makeup and sat alone in front of the dressing table, allowing Fang Rui to pull out her gray hair.

The bright moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival shines in through the hollow panes of black wood, as if covered with a layer of frost.

On the fifteenth day of the night, the emperor was supposed to spend the night at the queen's place in the middle palace, but...

"Concubine Meng is becoming more and more ignorant of the rules, and even dominates the emperor at fifteen"

Rao Fangrui, a confidant of the court lady for many years, is also a little bit impatient.

First occupy the seat of the empress, and then occupy the favor of the empress.

In time, I'm afraid that Jiaofang Palace will also be taken over by her.

The queen's mouth was full of bitterness: "It's been all these years, don't you still not see clearly?"

She took a sip of the golden silk red date tea that nourishes blood and nourishes qi, and lay down leisurely in the imperial concubine's clothes.

Perhaps it was because of obesity that he became short of breath after walking a few steps.

When her breath stabilized, she spoke again.

"I have been in the palace for more than 20 years. I have never seen the emperor so obsessed with a person. It is obvious that Concubine Meng is not outstanding."

Fang Rui was contemptuous.

"You don't look outstanding, but I'm willing to let go."

"I heard from Xiao Liangzi from the Qianqing Palace that he was screaming in the middle of the night, with a demonic voice like a wild ghost, and he couldn't stand it even if he listened too much, let alone a man of the emperor."

As she gets older, Fang Rui has nothing to worry about, these words are straightforward.

The queen snorted in disdain.

"Don't care about her"

"If she wants to pester the emperor, then so be it. What I am most worried about now is the crown prince."

She fiddled with the bodhi seed bracelet on her wrist, closed her eyes and thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't make up her mind.

"The second son, Xie Chenke, is virtuous on the surface, but vicious on the inside. In order to marry the noble concubine, he even has to kill his concubine. If he is chosen, there is no guarantee that he will not cross the river and tear down the bridge in the future."

"The third child, Xie Chenkang, is useless, and his biological mother Chen Guifei is still alive, so it's not my turn."

"The fifth brother Xie Chenmu is too stupid, he has no skills, he doesn't even know how to flatter, so it's not very useful"

"Lao Liu is smart, but it's a pity that he doesn't need to align the place, he just knows how to eat, drink and have fun"

"The old eighth, Xie Chenzhao, is good, but her biological mother, Li Jieyu, is really annoying. She has always been against me, and her son is not special to me."

The bodhi beads were turned around and around, but the queen still felt her head hurt.

"In my servant's opinion, the sixth prince is suitable," Fang Rui handed over a cup of fragrant tea.

"It's good to be a dandy, he will be coaxed by the food and drink, and he is filial, and in the future he will be whatever the empress says."

The queen nodded in agreement, then shook her head again.

"If it's not about his mother and concubine, I'm afraid that if I choose him, I'm afraid that he will know something in the future, and then point the sword at me to avenge my mother, then it will be bad."

"That's true," Fang Rui mused.

"Why don't you adopt a new prince? It doesn't matter who gave birth, just go to the mother and keep the son. Anyway, you raised it yourself."

The queen sneered: "What's the difference between that and the sixth child? I've grown so big with one-handed care, and it's almost the same as raising him personally."

Fang Rui didn't speak at all.

It is indeed difficult to deal with Li Chu.

"Forget it, I don't want to, I'm hungry, I didn't eat anything at the banquet"

"What does the empress want to eat, the servant girl asks someone to pass the snacks"

"I want a hoof flower, a dish of pigeon soup, and a plate of pumpkin rolls."

Fang Rui hesitated.

I want to say that the imperial physician suggested that you eat less greasy food and get up and move around more, but the queen's complexion is already bad, so Fang Rui couldn't persuade her anymore, so she had to go.

(End of this chapter)