Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

When the hot pot was brought to the table, Lu Wanning smiled and said to Luo Chengjing: "This concubine suddenly wanted to eat hot pot at noon today, so I asked the dining room to make it. Your majesty, have a taste?"

Luo Chengjing nodded, and his tone was joking, "My concubine always knows how to eat, and I am lucky to come to your Linglong Pavilion with my concubine today."

Lu Wanning smiled embarrassedly, but said: "Actually, eating hot pot like this is not enjoyable."

Luo Chengjing was curious, "Oh, then how do you eat to be enjoyable?"

Lu Wanning looked longingly and said: "It's best when it snows heavily, and the snow has already fallen on the ground in a thick layer. At this time, put a warm charcoal pot in the pavilion, and put a steaming warm pot on the table. pot"

"A windproof curtain is hung around the pavilion, and the curtain is half rolled up. Sitting in the pavilion, you can just see the red plum trees covered with snow falling outside the pavilion."

"Warm up a pot of wine, and enjoy the hot pot while drinking and admiring the plum blossoms. Thinking about it, I think it is one of the great pleasures in life."

Luo Chengjing imagined the scene that Lu Wanning described, and I have to say that it is really beautiful.

So, he said: "When it snows next time, I will help my concubine realize this wish."

In addition to the imperial garden, there is also a plum grove in the southeast corner of the palace. The plum grove is full of red plums, and there is an octagonal pavilion in the middle of the plum grove.

In the Ruyi Hall, after knowing that the emperor had gone to Linglong Pavilion for dinner, Zheng Meiren paused for a moment with her fingers plucking the strings of the pipa, before continuing to play the half-way tune.

But I don't know if it's because of my confusion, but she played several mistakes in the second half of the originally very familiar piece of music.

The masters of other palaces in the harem also learned from different places that the emperor was enjoying the plum blossoms with Zheng Meiren, but they didn’t want to meet Lu Meiren on the way. In the end, Zheng Meiren went back to her palace alone, while Lu Meiren accompanied the emperor to enjoy the plum blossoms. Beautiful, the emperor also went to Linglong Pavilion with her for dinner.

After dinner, if there is no accident, the emperor will definitely stay in Linglong Pavilion.

In Qingren Palace, after hearing the news, Concubine Jing took a sip of the tea in the cup without haste, and then said flatly: "Beauty Lu is a good means."

Zheng Meiren actually suffered a loss in her hands so easily.

Sujuan, the court lady next to Concubine Jing, observed Concubine Jing's face carefully before expressing her own opinion, "Madam, it seems that Zheng Meiren is not Lu Meiren's opponent, you have put so much thought into her. I'm afraid it's not worth it."

Concubine Jing smiled, "Do you think I helped Meiren Zheng intentionally or unintentionally, and brought Meiren Zheng to my side in order to fight Meiren Lu?"

Sujuan blinked, with a puzzled expression on her face.

Is it not?My empress and the imperial concubine were at odds, and the imperial concubine brought her cousin into the palace, so my empress naturally wanted to find a reliable helper.

And Zheng Meiren, who is the most favored among the newcomers and has little support in the court and the harem, is obviously the most suitable candidate.

Sujuan always thought so, but she didn't expect that Zheng Meiren would lose to Lu Meiren for the first time today.

Concubine Jing shook her head, "You're thinking wrong, I help Meiren Zheng not to let Meiren Zheng go to the ring with Meiren Lu, but for my family."

It was her father's intention to let her make friends with Zheng Meiren and bring Zheng Meiren to their camp, and her father's goal was not Zheng Meiren himself, but the Zheng family behind Zheng Meiren.

It’s true that her father is a great general, but raising the army is the most expensive thing. Even if the soldiers’ salaries and the pensions of the sacrificed sergeants are distributed by the court, there are still many places for the army to spend money, not to mention the exchange of human relationships. .

Their family is not like Zhongyonghou's Mansion, which has meritorious service for generations, and has the foundation accumulated by the ancestors to support it.

Her father climbed to the position of general from a small soldier all the way by himself, and the family didn't have much property.The Zheng family is a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. If the Zheng family can become their family's money bag, then her father will not have to worry about money in the future.

Feiyu Palace, when Wen Zhaoyi heard this, a touch of melancholy flashed across her face. It had been more than two months since the emperor's birthday banquet that day, but the emperor had never visited her Feiyu Palace.

Thinking of the culprit that caused all this, Wen Zhaoyi's voice was full of hatred, "Is there no letter from outside the palace yet?"

It has been so long since she sent the letter, and including the time spent traveling back and forth and the time her aunt sent someone to investigate, the reply letter should have arrived by this time.

Han Lu shook her head and said, "I'll ask Eunuch Huang again tomorrow."

Wen Zhaoyi nodded, "Please give him some money."

On the second day, Han Lu left the door with a stuffed purse, and came back with a letter not long after.

Handing the letter to Wen Zhaoyi, Han Lu was a little dissatisfied and complained to Wen Zhaoyi: "It's also a coincidence. After the slave gave the silver, Eunuch Huang also happened to bring the letter into the palace."

"These eunuchs are all blind to money." Wen Zhaoyi snorted coldly while opening the reply letter.

After reading the letter, Wen Zhaoyi felt a little unbelievable, that the embroiderer's hiding the needle in her shoe was really her own behavior, and it had nothing to do with anyone else?

Wen Zhaoyi read the letter again, and found that the handwriting was indeed her aunt's handwriting, and it was her aunt's own handwritten reply.

So what is said in the letter is indeed true?The reason for breaking her grace was actually the sins committed by her aunt in the past.

Knowing this, Wen Zhaoyi's resentment towards her aunt has deepened. Because of her, she has been bullied and bullied by others since she was a child. However, because of the romantic debts she incurred in the past, her future was ruined.

When Wen Zhaoyi's aunt was not redeemed by Wen Zhaoyi's father, she had made a life-long mutual promise with someone. This person was the elder brother of the embroidered mother. At that time, the elder brother of the embroidered mother was a scholar with a small family. It can be said that the family wealth was gone, but Wen Zhaoyi's aunt later met Wen Zhaoyi's father.

In order to live a better life, Wen Zhaoyi's aunt betrayed her agreement with Xiuniang's brother, and in order not to let Xiuniang entangle her and ruin her glory and wealth, she even paid money to have Xiuniang and her brother away from where they used to live.

But what she didn't expect was that after Xiuniang and her brother were driven out of the city, they were robbed. Xiuniang's brother broke his leg in order to protect Xiuniang, and the only entanglements on his body were taken away.

The embroiderer sold herself to the palace in order to save her elder brother, and because she knew how to embroider with one hand, she was assigned to the needlework bureau as an embroiderer after entering the palace.