Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

Who to choose?
The noble concubine went through all the low-ranking concubines in the harem in her heart, and finally had two candidates in her mind, one was Cui Jieyu, and the other was Weng Jieyu who had only been favored for a few days at the beginning.

Relatively speaking, among the two, Weng Jieyu is more suitable than Cui Jieyu.

After all, there is a Dingyuan General's Mansion behind Cui Jieyu. If she raises Cui Jieyu's child, if the Cui family finds that child in the future, it will be difficult to say whether the child is close to Zhongyonghou's Mansion or Dingyuan General's Mansion. .

But if it was Weng Jieyu, Weng Jieyu's father was only a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and had no military power in his hands. If the child was smart, he would not kiss a useless Hanlin scholar, but would alienate the Zhongyonghou Mansion who holds a heavy soldier .

Moreover, Weng Jieyu has fallen out of favor now, if she can give Weng Jieyu a hand, Weng Jieyu will definitely be grateful to her, which will make it easier for her to achieve her goal.

But if she chooses Weng Jieyu, she has to find a way to get Weng Jieyu back into favor first.

The imperial concubine thought a lot, and finally decided to wait. If Lu Meiren still can't conceive within this year, she won't continue to wait.

At that time, beauty Lu will naturally be useless, and she doesn't have to keep the useless beauty Lu, because she will threaten her status.

When Meiren Lu is gone, the emperor will not treat her as coldly as he is now, even for the sake of the Zhongyonghoufu. At that time, it will not be difficult for her to find a chance to make Weng Jieyu return to favor.

After thinking about these things, the frost covering the imperial concubine's face finally dissipated a little.

The noble concubine who did not get the reward was dissatisfied, and the queen and others who got the reward were also unhappy.

In Fengyi Palace, the Empress originally liked the two bottles of rose water very much, so she asked people to take out her clothes happily and prepared to sprinkle them with rose water, but when she learned from Fei Cui, Beauty Lu got four bottles After drinking the rose water, the queen suddenly lost her mind.

Glancing at the two bottles of rose water on the table, the queen said lightly: "Okay, put it away, don't put it in front of my eyes."

Hearing this, Liuli hurriedly stepped forward to put away the rose water on the table.

The empress sat alone for a while, but she still couldn't get angry, and said angrily: "The emperor really dotes on Miss Lu, and the rewards he gave even surpassed the empress of this palace." where to put it?

Jade at the side glanced at the Queen's expression cautiously, tried her best to find a reason to comfort the Queen and said: "Your Majesty, you are angry, this servant thinks that the Emperor will reward Miss Lu with four bottles of rose water not because of how she is favored, but because of how she is favored." It's because of the second princess."

"Second princess?" The queen frowned and looked at Fei Cui, "What does this have to do with the second princess?"

"Beautiful Lu gave the second princess Yindiexiang before. Some time ago, the second princess was ill and was in a bad mood. It was the Yindiexiang made by Lu Meiren that made the second princess happy again. Moreover, Lu Meiren directly gave the second princess The incense prescription of Yindiexiang is dedicated to the empress dowager."

"Although the Empress Dowager gave Meiren Lu a reward and even let her mother visit her in the palace, the emperor did not reward Meiren Lu at all."

"This rose water happened to be among the offerings from Xidan Kingdom this time. The emperor may have remembered that Meiren Lu brought out the Butterfly Incense before, so he rewarded Meiren Lu with two more bottles of rose water."

After listening to what Fei Cui said, the queen thought about it carefully, and felt that it made sense.

However, even so, the queen was still upset.

On the second day, after Lu Wanning finished greeting her, just after she came out of Fengyi Palace, she was stopped by Liuli, the big maid next to the queen.

"Miss Liuli." Lu Wanning turned around and greeted Liuli with a smile, then asked, "Miss Liuli, is something wrong?"

Liuli bowed to Lu Wanning, and said, "Miss Lu, the Empress has something to ask for you."

Lu Wanning sighed silently, and nodded with a smile, "Then please, Miss Liuli, take me to see the empress."

Liuli nodded, "This way please, Beauty Lu."

Lu Wanning followed Liuli and returned to Fengyi Palace. When she was approaching the main hall of Fengyi Palace, Lu Wanning heard Liuli beside her whisper a few words, "Rose water."

Lu Wanning was startled, and soon realized that Liuli was reminding her that the reason why the queen was looking for her was because of the bottles of rose water that the emperor rewarded her yesterday.

In fact, even if Liuli didn't remind her, Lu Wanning could guess that the reason why the queen was looking for her today was because of those bottles of rose water, and she had already foreseen that the queen's empress was looking for her at the moment, most likely because of bad people.

But Liuli reminded her that she would also be grateful to Liuli.

Lu Wanning nodded slightly towards Liuli, indicating that she knew.

Liuli took Lu Wanning to stop at the entrance of the main hall, and asked Lu Wanning to wait there before going in to report to the queen.

Lu Wanning had been standing at the gate of the hall and waited for more than half an hour. After waiting for Lu Wanning, she couldn't stand anymore, and Liuli appeared in front of her again. She lowered her head and looked at Lu Wanning with guilt, and said to Lu Wanning: "Queen The empress was busy just now, and now I have time, beauty Lu, go in quickly."

After Lu Wanning entered, the queen was sitting on the seat with her eyes closed.

Lu Wanning walked slowly in front of the queen, knelt down and saluted, "The concubine has seen the queen."

But the queen in the seat still closed her eyes as if she didn't hear it.

Lu Wanning slightly raised her voice, and said again: "The concubine has seen the empress."

The Queen remained unresponsive.

Now Lu Wanning understood that the Queen had made up her mind to pretend not to hear, and let her kneel here, so she simply stopped talking and knelt quietly on the ground.

Lu Wanning knelt for about two quarters of an hour before the queen on the seat slowly opened her eyes. Seeing Lu Wanning kneeling on the ground, she seemed very surprised, "What's wrong with Beauty Lu, why is she still kneeling on the ground?" where?"

Fei Cui, who had just been standing beside the queen, said in a timely manner: "Empress, beauty Lu greeted you just now, but you haven't called yet."

"Look at this palace..." The queen seemed to have just realized it, and said to Lu Wanning with some self-blame: "This palace has been staring at the prince reading last night, and I slept a little late. I just wanted to close my eyes and rest for a while. Who would have thought it would be true?" I'm asleep, is Miss Lu okay?"

Lu Wanning replied in a calm tone: "It's natural for the empress to supervise His Royal Highness's study, and my concubine understands, and my concubine is fine."

"That's good, Beauty Lu is really sensible." After the queen finished speaking, she looked at Lu Wanning who was still kneeling on the ground, shook her head and said, "Why are you still kneeling, stop kneeling, get up quickly, and sit down for a while."