Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

After finishing her makeup, Lu Wanning sat in the room and waited for a while, but before Fengyi Palace came, Lu Wanning sighed, stood up and said to Qingzhi: "Bring the cloak sent by the Needle Industry Bureau a while ago, I should Let’s go out to greet the empress.”

The cloak Lu Wanning mentioned was made by the people from the Needlework Bureau with four pieces of fox fur sent by the emperor. After it was delivered, Lu Wanning tried it on. Not only did it look good, but it was also very warm.

After putting on the cloak, Lu Wanning didn't take the stove, and went out with Qingdai.

The palace roads in the palace had already been cleaned by the eunuchs and court ladies, but the snow was heavy, and a thin layer fell on the palace roads not long after they cleaned it.

Lu Wanning was extra cautious with every step she took, for fear that one of her feet would accidentally fall.

It took more than half of the usual time before Lu Wanning reached the gate of Fengyi Palace.

At the door, I met Zhou Cairen who also came to pay his respects. When Zhou Cairen approached Lu Wanning, he found that there were obvious signs of falling on Zhou Cairen's clothes.

Seeing that Lu Wanning's eyes fell on the dirt on her clothes, Zhou Cairen gave a wry smile and said, "I was in a hurry when I just went out, and accidentally fell down, and I was afraid that going back to change clothes now would delay my greetings to the empress, so I only You can come here to greet the empress first."

Although Zhou Cairen approached Qu Cairen with a purpose before, she had a clear purpose and had no evil intentions, and Lu Wanning did not dislike her. Hearing what she said, Lu Wanning kindly reminded her.

"Zhou Cairen, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate for you to greet the empress like this, why don't you go and tell the lady Liuli next to the empress yourself, and ask for leave!"

Zhou Cairen thought for a while, then nodded, "You are right. I am going to greet the empress with such a disheveled appearance, but I will be convinced. Thank you Lu Meiren for reminding me. I will go to Miss Liuli and ask her to help you. I will give the Empress a leave of absence."

Seeing that she listened to the persuasion, Lu Wanning smiled, and took Qing Dai into the main hall of Fengyi Palace.

On Zhou Cairen's side, he found a little maid, stuffed her purse, and asked her to help find Liuli.

As soon as Liuli came out, Zhou Cairen stepped forward with a smile and said, "Miss Liuli."

Liuli smiled and shook her head, "Liuli is just a servant girl, I dare not be a girl from Zhou Cairen, I wonder why Zhou Cairen asked Liuli to come here?"

Zhou Cairen showed his dirty clothes to Liuli, and said, "I blame my carelessness. I accidentally fell when I was approaching the gate of Fengyi Palace just now, and I was in a mess. It is really a shame to go to see the empress like this." It’s indecent, it’s too late to go back and change it, can you please trouble Miss Liuli and Empress Empress to make a false statement for me?”

As he spoke, Zhou Cairen took out another purse containing silver nude and stuffed it into Liuli's hand.

Liuli took a step back, avoiding the purse in Zhou Cairen's hands, and said with a smile: "Talented people don't have to do this, this is what slaves should do. Talented people wait here for a while, and slaves will go and talk to the empress on behalf of talented people." .”

Zhou Cairen was a little uncertain for a moment whether Liuli thought the money was too little, or if she really didn't want to take it. When she was thinking about whether to simply give Liuli the gold bracelet she was carrying, Liuli had already turned and entered the room.

Zhou Cairen had no choice but to give up.

After a while, Liuli came out, smiled and said to Zhou Cairen: "The Empress has agreed."

"Thank you so much Miss Liuli, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"You are welcome." Liuli smiled and shook her head and said, "This servant is going to serve the empress and go to the front hall, so I won't talk to him anymore. Let's go back and change clothes."

"Miss Liuli, go get busy first, I'll be back right away."

When the Empress appeared in the front hall, there were still several vacant seats that were previously occupied, one was for the imperial concubine, the other was for the concubine Hui, and there were also those for Qu Cairen and Zhou Cairen.

The queen looked at those empty seats with an unattractive expression.

Concubine Jing glanced at the Queen's face, and added fuel to the flames: "In this weather, it's fine if Concubine Hui and Qu Cairen are not pregnant and can't come to pay respects to the Queen, why are the concubines and other concubines too lazy to come to the Queen Your Majesty, hello?"

After Jingfei finished speaking, no one answered, and the hall fell silent for a while.

After a while, Zheng Meiren glanced at Lu Wanning, covered her lips with a handkerchief and smiled, and said, "Sister Lu, why doesn't she speak, the imperial concubine is your cousin, Zhou Cairen is also relatively close to you, and the two of them at the same time If you don't come to pay your respects to the Empress, won't Beauty Lu tell the difference between the two of them?"

Lu Wanning smiled softly, and said: "It's not wrong that the imperial concubine is my cousin, but Zheng Meiren is also my sister, and all the ladies sitting here are also Wanning's sisters. Is it true that Zheng Meiren said such things? Treat us as your own sisters, are those sisters and sisters you usually talk about fake?"

Zheng Meiren snorted softly, "Sister Lu is such a trick to steal the post. What the younger sister said is that the imperial concubine and Zhou Cairen didn't come to pay her respects to the empress. Why did Sister Lu say that she has become a younger sister and doesn't regard you as a sister. "

Lu Wanning calmly said: "Since Zheng Meiren, let us be sisters, then we should understand that it is nothing to do with me if the imperial concubine did not come to greet the empress, because the imperial concubine is not only my sister, but also Zheng Meiren's sister, Zheng Meiren, do you think so?"

Concubine Jing saw that Meiren Zheng could not speak against Lu Wanning, so she said in time: "Beauty Lu is right, the fact that the imperial concubine does not come to greet the empress does not have much to do with Lu Meiren, after all, before Meiren Lu entered the palace, the imperial concubine was sick because of her weakness. It’s been a long time since I came to pay my respects to the empress.”

At this time, the queen said to Liuli behind her: "Let someone go to Zhaoyang Palace, Yongchun Palace and Ruyi Hall to ask, and see what happened to the noble concubine, concubine Hui and Qu Cairen."

Liuli agreed, and just as she was about to turn around and tell the empress what she wanted, she saw a little maid come in and report to the empress: "Empress, Miss Lan Xin from the Ruyi Hall, please see me."

Hearing the Queen call for someone to come in, Liuli didn't move for a while.

After Lan Xin came in, she saluted the queen first, and then said: "Your Majesty, forgive me, my talented people got up early today to come to pay their respects to the Empress, who would have caught a cold yesterday, and felt the whole body I was so dizzy that I had no choice but to ask my servants to come and confess to the empress."

"Since I'm sick, why don't I come to tell someone earlier, can I ask the imperial doctor? Qu Cairen is pregnant with a dragon seed now, so he can't be ignored." The queen's tone could not hear any joy or anger.

Lan Xin respectfully said: "This servant thanked the Empress Empress on our behalf, we have sent someone to invite the imperial physician."