Abandoned Concubine's Promotion

Chapter 89 Lychee
After sitting for about a quarter of an hour, Su Qingyan saw Qi Xiuyi coming in from outside the hall, a trace of confusion flashed in her eyes, and then she looked away as if nothing had happened.

Su Qingyan saw Qi Xiuyi, and Qi Xiuyi naturally saw her too. She hesitated for a while, and finally walked towards her position.

Different from the palace banquet on the Duanyang Festival, this time, Qi Xiuyi sat across from Su Qingyan, and although they were still in front of each other, they couldn't speak anymore.

One after another, all the concubines arrived in Yanqing Palace, and when everyone was present, the Empress supported the Empress Dowager and entered the main hall of Yanqing Palace together.

After all the concubines stood up and saluted Emperor Jing, the Empress Dowager and the Empress, Su Qingyan sat down again.

The singing and dancing began, and the palace people brought up the meals and placed them in front of everyone's tables. Su Qingyan picked up the chopsticks, ate something in small bites, and watched the singing and dancing in the hall.

Sitting at the top, Emperor Jing looked around the hall, and finally fell on Su Qingyan. When he saw the red coral bracelet on her wrist, a smile curled up on Emperor Jing's lips.

"Your Majesty, Aijia heard that you dote on a Jieyu recently." Noticing Emperor Jing's gaze, the Empress Dowager saw Su Qingyan, she smiled and asked Emperor Jing.

"Mother's queen, Chen Jieyu is the daughter of Su Zhiyuan. Her elder brother has just made great achievements in the Northwest."

Regarding the Queen Mother's question, Emperor Jing's face remained unchanged, he looked away, looked at the Queen Mother and replied.

"Su Zhiyuan, that's a good minister. Ai Jia remembers that your father praised him back then."

After listening to Emperor Jing's words, the Queen Mother nodded. The favor of the harem is often inseparable from the relationship of the previous dynasty. If you say this, it is normal to give some favors.

Seeing the Empress Dowager nodding, Emperor Jing raised his wine glass, "Empress Mother, I respectfully respect you."

Responding with a smile, the Empress Dowager drank a glass of wine with Emperor Jing before continuing to watch the song and dance. Emperor Jing put down the glass, and a glint of haze flashed in his eyes.

Su Qingyan didn't know that she had just been discussed by Emperor Jing with the Queen Mother, and after watching the singing and dancing for a while, she couldn't help but feel a little bored.

Although the food on the table tasted good, it was summer after all, so she couldn't eat much, so she simply put down her chopsticks, ate the fruit, and continued watching the singing and dancing that she found boring.

It's summer now, and there are many fresh fruits to eat. What Su Qingyan is most proud of is the fresh lychees on the table.

After all, it is a tribute presented to the palace, this lychee is naturally excellent, not only the meat is sweet/nucleus/small, but also very juicy/watery.

In just a short while, Su Qingyan ate up all the lychees on her table.

The lychees were extremely sweet, Su Qingyan ate a lot, and when she ate other fruits, she felt that they were tasteless.

Looking around the hall, seeing that there were still lychees on other people's tables, Su Qingyan couldn't help but feel a little greedy, she still wanted to eat...

Su Qingyan's actions were noticed by Emperor Jing. He reached out and picked up a lychee, peeled it, and put it in his mouth.

"Queen, this year's lychees are pretty good." Usually, the queen mother loves to eat fruit, so Emperor Jing said to the queen mother after eating.

"Really? Aijia, try it?" After listening to Emperor Jing, the queen mother picked up a lychee, peeled it and tasted it, "Well, it's really good, sweeter than previous years."

"Since that's the case, let the palace servants serve another plate for each table. When the palace banquet is over, the minister will send someone to Shoukang Palace." Smiling, Emperor Jing gave Kang Ninghai an order, and Kang Ninghai responded , quietly backed out.

Not long after, the palace people brought fresh lychees and put another plate on each table. Seeing the lychees in front of her table, Su Qingyan couldn't help but feel happy.

The queen also sat in the first place, and she remained very quiet throughout the palace banquet.

She could hear the conversation between Emperor Jing and the Queen Mother, and she could also notice Emperor Jing's gaze.

When Xushi was approaching, the palace banquet ended, and the queen glanced at the lychee in front of Emperor Jing's table, then got up, supported the queen mother with Emperor Jing, and walked towards the outside of Yanqing Palace.

All the concubines got up together and saluted Emperor Jing, the Empress Dowager and the Empress, and sent the Empress Dowager to the sedan chair until Emperor Jing and the Empress went back to the palace respectively.

Su Qingyan sat on the sedan chair, touching her stomach contentedly. She ate a lot of lychees today, and she was quite satisfied with what she ate.

However, she heard that eating too much lychee would cause her to get angry, so she had already thought about it. When she got back, she would tell Nanny Jin to get her something to relieve the fire.

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Back at Longgan Palace, Emperor Jing ordered someone to prepare hot water. He sat on the chair and frowned slightly when he thought of what the Empress Dowager asked him today.

He did not expect that the Queen Mother had just returned to the palace today, and someone was gossiping in front of the Queen Mother. It seemed that he should find a chance to clean up the palace people in Shoukang Palace.

When Kang Ninghai came in from outside the hall, he couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw Emperor Jing's slightly frowned eyebrows.

Walking to Emperor Jing's side, Kang Ninghai stood quietly with his head bowed, waiting for Emperor Jing's order.

"Kang Ninghai, find a chance to replace the people in Shoukang Palace with a new batch."

After listening to Emperor Jing's order, Kang Ninghai hurriedly responded, just now he was surprised that the emperor was not happy because he was so well-behaved, but now it seems that it was the people in the empress dowager's palace who annoyed the emperor.

Kang Ninghai's eyes flashed clearly when he thought of what the Queen Mother said during the palace banquet today, when he was standing beside the emperor and serving him.

Someone must be gossiping in front of the empress dowager, otherwise, how would the empress dowager know that the emperor loves Chen Jieyu?

"By the way, you can go to Dianzhong Province tomorrow morning to have a look. If you still have fresh lychees, send some to Tao Ranju. By the way, let's see if there are any fruits that can be used to remove fire. Send them together. Ah Qing will eat them today." There are a lot of lychees, if I eat them again tomorrow, I am afraid I will get angry."

Stretching out his hand and rubbing the center of his eyebrows, Emperor Jing gave orders again.

"Yes, don't worry, Your Majesty." Responding again, Kang Ninghai couldn't help but sigh in his heart, after all, Chen Jieyu is special, not to mention the emperor's title for her, just saying that this kind of love is beyond the reach of others.

Today, there are so many concubines attending the palace banquet, but the emperor can notice that Chen Jieyu ate a lot of lychees.

Speaking of which, this lychee is considered a rare item, because the place of production is not in the capital, but in the south, so if you want to send it to the palace, you have to freeze it with ice cubes, and then rush to the capital.

Several large baskets of lychees, when they arrived in the capital, after picking, there were not many left. These lychees were not easy to store, so they had to be eaten as soon as possible, or kept in ice cubes.

At the palace banquet today, there were a lot of lychees. Kang Ninghai reckoned that when he went to the palace tomorrow, there might not be many left.

The emperor also had intentions, knowing that eating too much lychees would easily get angry, so he specially ordered him to send some fruits to relieve the fire, presumably Chen Jieyu would be very happy to see the lychees.

(End of this chapter)