Palace scheming: Empress Leng Gong I

Chapter 24 Returning to Fenggong Palace (4)
However, after sitting on this phoenix chair, Yunqing realized one thing, that is: he would have such a headache just dealing with this small harem affairs. As the king of a country, the emperor needs to sit every day The high dragon chair would not be much easier than this phoenix chair.

Oh, sure enough, only by standing at the highest place can one know the oppression of heights. People in the world only know that heights are good, but they don’t know that heights are extremely cold!
"Miss, Concubine Hua is here." Xiao Taohong walked into the hall, Yun Qing was closing her eyes and resting, when she heard the voice, she immediately opened her eyes and said, "Well, please hurry up."

"My sister is auspicious, my sister is here to greet my sister." Before anyone arrived, a burst of fragrant smell floated into the hall first, followed by a flash of red shadow outside the hall, He Ruowan's Ana's figure was accompanied by a rhythmic ring The voice stepped into the hall.

"My sister is free of courtesy, there is no one else here, you and my sister don't need to look outside like this." Yun Qing stretched out his hand to make a gesture, and He Ruowan followed the trend with a half-respect, and then took two steps forward gracefully.

"My sister is really dedicated. She has just recovered, so she started to take care of these chores." Meimou glanced at the few files on the desk, and He Ruowan's voice was soft, but there was a bit of unobservable jealousy.

"Sister, please sit down!" Yun Qing smiled slightly, and said calmly: "Bitao, quickly cook the new tea that Eunuch Rong brought this morning for Sister Hua to taste!"

"Yes!" Bi Tao, who had been silent since He Ruowan entered the hall, heard Yun Qing's order, and only gave a low response before exiting the hall.

Yun Qing was still smiling, and after He Ruowan sat down, she pointed to the scattered brochures in front of her case, and said with a smile: "My sister came just in time, I was thinking of sending someone to invite her. A few days ago, my sister has been helping to take care of the harem Everything really made my sister work hard.

Now although I have taken over these trivial matters, I still have to ask my sister to work harder to help; especially as the Queen Mother ordered yesterday, Ching Ming Festival will come soon.As soon as Qingming is over, the beautiful girls submitted from all over the country will be sent to Tiancheng one after another, and you and my sisters also need to pass this selection of beautiful girls, and select a group of beautiful girls with both talents and looks for the emperor to enrich the future. harem.Hehe, these lists are copies sent by Eunuch Rong Lu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs just now, I would like to trouble my sister to help me take them back and list the net worth and status of all the beautiful women first, so that they will not be ignorant during the selection process. "" Draft? "He Ruowan raised her eyebrows, her face was a little ugly.

It's not that she didn't know that after the emperor accepted the empress himself, the first batch of drafts would be held in the harem to enrich the harem.It's just that these days, I have been helping to take care of the affairs of the harem, but I have never heard anyone mention the draft.

And the queen mother didn't even ask about what she was doing, making her think that the leisure in the palace was so unnerving.

Unexpectedly, Yun Qing only returned to the palace for one day, and these news came one after another, which meant that the Empress Dowager still had doubts about herself.

But there is no reason.The queen mother also likes herself very much. Whether it is greeting her or at a family banquet, her attitude towards herself is always to kiss the woman in front of her. So, what is going on?

"Yeah, my sister is both talented and beautiful. I leave these matters to my sister. My sister is very relieved." Yun Qing smiled, her voice was calm, and her expression did not show any suspicion at all.

He Ruowan immediately looked up, put away her thoughts, and said with a smile: "The emperor is really blessed, to be able to marry such a capable and selfless woman as the queen, it is no wonder the queen mother likes her so much. Compared with the elder sister, the younger sister is really the emperor's favor Spoiled... Sister, you don't blame my sister, do you?"

At the end, her voice became cautious, and her eyes became reserved, as if she was worried about Yun Qing's displeasure.

"My younger sister shared the worries and labors of the emperor day and night, and cared for the emperor with all my heart. These are things that my elder sister did not do. Seeing that my younger sister is favored by the emperor, I am really happy for you. If my younger sister can give birth to an heir for the royal family as soon as possible, my elder sister I believe the queen mother and the emperor will be very happy."

Yun Qing raised her eyes and glanced at the shy He Ruowan, her smile was still as light as a breeze.

Seeing that she seemed to be talking about things that had nothing to do with him, He Ruowan couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. I don't believe she has no intention of competing for favor!Or, is she so scheming that she can't even see through herself?

"Hehe, sister is so kind!" He Ruowan pretended to smile, just as she was about to get up to say goodbye, but she saw Bitao entering the hall with a tea set.She placed it on the tea table at the side first, then took out two teacups, strained each one, and then poured them into the purple clay pot at the side.Then each poured a cup of green tea, and then presented them to the two of them respectively.

"Concubine Hua, please have some tea!" Bi Tao disliked this delicate woman from the bottom of her heart.

Not only because she caused the young lady to be ridiculed by the whole world on the day of her wedding, but also because in her heart, anyone who calls fourth young lady Yun Ya a sister will never be so lofty.

Even if she is the most talented woman in the world, it is just a false name given up by the world.

"Well, it smells fragrant, and the tea color is green and transparent. It really is a good new tea." He Ruowan smiled and held up the teacup, lifted the tea cover gracefully, took a sniff, and said: "It must be this tea." It’s Guzhang Xinna’s spring tea Maojian, my sister is so delicious, and now there is only a batch of Biluochun that I paid tribute to last year in my sister’s palace, so it’s not as fragrant as this.”

Bi Tao was slightly surprised, she didn't expect this woman to be so powerful, she could tell exactly where the tea comes from just by smelling it, which is not in vain.

"My sister has good eyesight." Yun Qing took a sip and said with a light smile, "This tea tastes bitter, but it tastes sweet when you taste it carefully. Boiling it with the nectar picked up in the morning is even more fragrant, and the taste is mellow and refreshing. Negative of this Mingqian tea. I want to come to the eight processes of greening, greening, kneading, frying, cooling, shaping, drying, and screening. The local officials who paid the tribute must have spent a lot of thought. It is also possible It is very comforting for me to have a taste of this new tea before Qingming."

He Ruowan's fingertips trembled, and she almost spilled the tea in the cup. She glanced at Yun Qing in amazement, but she saw her beautiful eyes smiling, without any provocative look at all.

Busily taking a sip to cover up the panic in her heart, she took a hasty sip, the original complacency faded away, and what she got in return was an increasingly intense uneasiness and depression in her heart.

After sitting for a while, she hurriedly got up and left with the excuse of not disturbing Yun Qing's handling of palace affairs.

"Miss, Concubine Hua has a bad heart, miss should be careful." After He Ruowan left, Bi Tao hurriedly picked up the teacup she had drunk, poured out the tea and threw it directly into the wastebasket.

I thought to myself, although Concubine Hua is very knowledgeable, Miss is not inferior to her.Even since I was a child, I followed the young lady to study the way of making tea. When it comes to the tea ceremony, I may not lose to her, a rich young lady who only knows how to open her mouth with food and stretch out her hands with clothes.

Yun Qingxiu raised her eyebrows and didn't look up, she just buried her head in front of the case, and asked while remembering the palace affairs: "Oh, Bi Tao is talking about what is wrong with Concubine Hua?"

Bi Tao angrily wiped the stool that He Ruowan sat on, and said angrily: "Usually those who are good at harming people are always on the lookout. Miss just invited her to have a cup of tea, but she used the silver armor on her little finger to test it while blowing air." Tea! Hmph, miss, isn’t this kind of person scary?”

"Oh, I didn't expect Bitao to be so careful." Yun Qing smiled, raised her head and saw the angry look on Bitao's face, she couldn't help stretching out her hand, and said lightly: "Come here and have a look, it's recorded here Fugui, the supervisor of the palace bureau, was actually transferred to work in the bedroom bureau the day before yesterday, hehe, this is really beyond my expectation."

"That's what he deserved. The fox pretended to be the tiger and acted like a bully. He finally got his retribution." As expected, Bitao was diverted from the topic by Yun Qing, and her anger had turned into applause for Fugui's punishment, which made Yun Qing shake his head with a wry smile .

"Is it that simple?" Hearing her question, she seemed to mean something else, which made Bi Tao's expression curious, and asked, "Don't miss think he deserves it?"

"It should be right, but for a eunuch who is at the mercy of others, he is also very pitiful." Yun Qing's eyes dimmed, and his voice could not help but be heavy, "Actually, I did not miss the small movements of Concubine Hua that you just saw. .Maybe as you said, those who are good planners are suspicious. We should pay more attention to this kind of people in the future."

Hey, the sinisterness of the harem is not in the depths of the palace, but in the hearts of the people.

Seeing that the draft is just around the corner, there will be a large number of beauties rushing into the palace like moths, and many naive ones will be buried in the back garden of the palace.

Another three days passed in a flash, Yunqing was busy with the trivial matters in the palace every day, and Aunt Fangfei also came to Jinfeng Palace to teach on time every day, but the expression on her face became more relaxed every day.

"Your Majesty, the day after tomorrow is the day of Ching Ming. The emperor will take his concubines and heirs to the imperial mausoleum to worship the ancestors. Now that the Empress Dowager is getting old and afraid of going to the hospital, she asked the empress to arrange the specific matters and ask the emperor to confirm it as soon as possible. The entourage of the harem who worshiped the ancestors!" Before Fang Fei left, she suddenly mentioned to Yun Qing the matter of worshiping the ancestors during the Qingming Festival, which made Yunqing slightly stunned, who did not expect that this time the ancestor worship was also arranged by herself.

"My aunt knows that Yun Qing has just adapted to the customs of the palace, and she has a lack of knowledge about the fact of royal ancestor worship, so I ask my aunt to teach Yun Qing." Smiling embarrassedly, Yun Qing has a good impression of this Aunt Fang Fei, and she can't help revealing A pleasing beauty.

From Yun Qing's point of view, Aunt Fang Fei is usually serious, but her generous personality suits her temperament very well.So the two of them got along very happily. In front of her, Yun Qing also changed from a little cautious at the beginning to a very casual one.

When Aunt Fangfei reminded her that as a queen, she should sit upright and not lean on the back of the chair all the time, Yun Qing would just stick out her tongue playfully, and rarely act like a baby to outsiders: "Yun Qing knows! Hehe, Aunt looks like Yun Qing Oh, my nanny, even the tone of her speech is the same."

Indeed, although Aunt Fangfei was much smarter and more capable than the nanny Yun Qing had depended on since she was a child, Yun Qing would always feel sad when she showed care beyond respect to Yun Qing.

Having lost her mother since she was a child, it is rare for her to find the warmth of a nanny in outsiders, so she can't help showing a little dependence on her.

Bi Tao once saw Yun Qing being coquettish to Aunt Fang Fei, and her expression at that time could be described as frightened.

In Bi Tao's eyes, Miss is always the sensible and calm lady who never acts like a baby to others, let alone reveals her unique tenderness to others easily.

Even the young lady's concern for herself, and only the master and sister, has never surprised her like this.

But at that moment, she felt extremely sour in her heart, because such a young lady made people feel distressed for no reason.

"Actually, all that the harem needs to arrange is to determine the list of participants in the harem, as well as the uniform attire and items brought by the palace people on the day of the ceremony. As for other princes and ministers, they are all arranged by the Ministry of Rites, and the empress does not need to worry about it. The most important thing They are the entourage of the harem confirmed by the emperor, so this matter must be approved by the empress." Fang Fei stood on one side with a peaceful expression, and her attitude towards Yun Qing was also extremely loving.

Maybe it was because of what she said like her nanny yesterday, which made her, a woman who also had a child but couldn't keep the child due to an accident, feel a little pity in her heart.

Yunqing!In fact, she is only a child, but she has to take on many important responsibilities early on, and take care of everything in the harem.

Alas, I hope this child can be happier than the queen mother back then, take less detours, and suffer less crimes...

(End of this chapter)