Harem for a living

Chapter 12

Empress Dowager Ci Ning was silent for a while, ignoring Chen Manrou who was kneeling on the ground.After a while, he turned his head and started talking to Concubine Shu and Concubine De, as if he had forgotten that there was still someone kneeling on the ground.

As for the queen, she didn't make a sound. Although Chen Manrou expressed her sincerity, but Chen Manrou had just entered the palace for a day, whether she was really sincere or not was another matter.Besides, it is not so cost-effective to offend Empress Dowager Ci Ning for a concubine who is not sure whether she will be useful in the future.

As for Chen Manrou, she said that kneeling as a punishment is a trivial matter, as long as the two don't let her get into the fight between them.Kneeling is not a matter of extra minutes, but standing in line is a matter of a lifetime.Besides, if the Empress Dowager Ci Ning was smart, the punishment to kneel down would not be too long.

Sure enough, when Chen Manrou felt her knees began to ache, Empress Dowager Ci Ning raised her eyebrows in surprise and said, "Hey, why didn't you get up, Concubine Chen?"

"If you go back to the Empress Dowager, I dare not get up without the Empress Dowager's order." Chen Manrou kept her body still, and said slowly, the Empress Dowager was choked, Chen Manrou's words were too difficult to continue.

Can she say, I just didn't tell you to get up on purpose?So, he turned around and reprimanded the queen: "Queen, you are really serious. Seeing such a delicate beauty kneeling there, you didn't say to remind Aijia! A queen, is it possible that she still cares about a concubine?" ?”

What you said was heartbreaking, and the queen's face froze for a moment, then she pulled her handkerchief and got up to salute the queen mother: "Queen mother, it's not that I don't want to say anything, but that you are talking with Concubine Yang, can I interrupt you? Although I don't know as much as Yang Guifei, I also know that when the elders are talking, as a junior, you can't interrupt at will."

Do you really think the queen is easy to bully?A reputation of jealousy is not good for women, not good for the main wife, and even fatal for the queen.If the Empress really wanted to accept this charge, she would have lived in this palace for three years in vain.

Concubine Yang's face froze, and when the queen's words spread, it became her own trouble for Concubine Chen.Thinking about it, she couldn't help giving Chen Manrou a good look, and got up and knelt down to make amends: "Empress Dowager, I really don't know that you didn't see Concubine Chen kneeling on the ground, I thought, I thought..."

Why do you think?The most versatile sentence in this palace is just half a sentence. What the empress dowager made up is that the concubine thought you did it on purpose, and what other people made up was that the concubine thought you were making excuses to make things difficult for the queen.

As a result, the empress dowager's complexion was not very good-looking.Glancing at the three people kneeling below, the empress dowager sneered: "The Ai family thought the empress was kind, and when things happened, they would only push them to the noble concubine. The Ai family also thought that the noble concubine was a noble concubine. Things will still be planted on the elders, you are really a role model for women in the harem. The Ai family tells you that although the Ai family is old, it is still possible for the emperor to depose a queen."

It's true, the Empress Dowager is the aunt's mother. If she just finds a reason, saying that the Empress is not filial or something, and uses words to run on her when she comes to pay her respects, plus the empress dowager's connections and the strength of her mother's family, it will take a lot of money to abolish the empress. A little twists and turns, but not impossible.

It's just that it's a way of killing both sides.Empress Dowager Ci Ning didn't think at all that this empress could use all her strength to deal with it.Her connections are for Xiao Jiu.

"Okay, don't put on such a mournful face for Aijia, Aijia is not dead yet." The Empress Dowager waved her hands impatiently when she saw that the Empress wanted to explain, "Hurry up, Aijia will be angry when he sees you." .”

The queen had no choice but to respond, and turned around to lead the concubines away, Chen Manrou naturally wanted to follow.They didn't know that the aunt next to the Empress Dowager was trying to persuade the Empress Dowager: "Mother, why do you bother? You make such a fuss today, don't you make it clear that you don't want to see the Empress and the others?"

"Hmph, Aijia doesn't just want to see the queen!" The empress dowager rubbed her forehead and leaned back. The aunt hurriedly stuffed her with a cushion. The empress dowager patted the aunt's hand and sighed: "Su Xin Ah, you are the only caring person left by Aijia. Today Aijia doesn’t know what’s going on, seeing those foxes, Aijia hates her heart! If it wasn’t for that bitch, Aijia’s son, How could he die unexplainably!"

As she said that, the empress dowager's face became grim: "That bitch killed Aijia's son, why should Aijia want to make that bitch's son feel better!"

Su Xin sighed, reached out and brought a cup of tea to the Empress Dowager: "Empress Dowager, this servant also knows that you are in a bad mood, but we have to plan this matter slowly, the Empress and Concubine Yang are not the same, One day, the two of them will fight. At that time, won't you be able to catch the fisherman's profit? Today, if you make a fuss, you will be at a disadvantage..."

Empress Dowager Ci Ning's face turned cold, she certainly knew that what she did today was inferior.For an empress dowager to make things difficult for a new concubine who has entered the palace, it will not be good to hear her reputation.

It's just that she hates that bitch's son, who can give birth to concubines one after another, but her son's body is lying cold on the ground. How can she swallow this breath!She just wants to provoke, let these women fight on their own, and then make that bitch's son extinct!

No one knows better than her what jealousy and discord will bring to those women after this harem.

Mrs. Chen is just a pawn.

From the Ci Ning Palace to the Ci An Palace, the Empress did not sit on a phoenix chariot, and the others had to follow on foot.When she walked to the Ci'an Palace, Chen Manrou felt that she was about to die. The pain in her body hadn't disappeared last night. She knelt for a long time just now, and now she walked for a long time. She felt that when she went back, It must have been a corpse.

Fortunately, God still has a conscience. When the Empress Dowager Ci'an saw her, she pulled her closer with a smile, and asked her aunt to bring her an embroidery pier: "You are the Chen family who entered the palace yesterday, right? You are so beautiful. Come and tell Aijia, can you get used to it after entering the palace?"

"Thank you, Empress Dowager, for your concern." Chen Manrou was so flattered that she was able to sit on a stool!It's still the closest to the Empress Dowager Ci'an!I don't know if the queen will cut her with an eye knife later.

"The concubine is very adaptable. The decoration of the Zhongcui Palace is very good, and the people sent by the empress are also very useful and quite capable. This morning, the empress, the imperial concubine, and the concubine Shu, the concubine, the concubine Liu, They all gave me very precious gifts, and I like them very much.”

As she spoke, she nodded vigorously, making the Empress Dowager Ci'an not sure whether Chen Manrou was really smart or not, so she could only smile and said, "Really? Didn't the Empress Dowager Ci Ning give you a gift just now?"

Chen Manrou raised her face and thought for a while, then slowly shook her head: "The Empress Dowager Ci Ning is too busy, she was chatting with the empress empress and the imperial concubine empress, so she didn't think of me for a while."

Empress Dowager Ci'an was a little surprised. She originally wanted to see what Chen Manrou thought of Empress Dowager Ci Ning, but she didn't expect to ask such a thing.It's a little difficult to handle now, will she give a gift later or not?

If possible, she would naturally want to give, and she still had to give a lot, with a lot of fanfare, so that she could slap that old hag Ci Ning fiercely.But she still understands the truth that one prospers and the other loses. Even if the two of them are at odds, it can't change the fact that they are also concubines of the former emperor, and it can't change the fact that the two of them are also called the queen mother of the two palaces.

If she slaps that bitch, outsiders will only see the discord between the former emperor's concubines and the two empress dowagers.She is not afraid of a bad reputation, after all, now that she is an empress dowager, even if she has a bad reputation, there is no one who can deal with her, and even those gossips will not speak in front of her.

However, she was afraid that her son's reputation would be ruined, and if the two empress dowagers were at odds, her son would have to smooth this face. Who would she be helping then?Respect the aunt or kiss the biological mother?

For a while, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was really in trouble. At the critical moment, the Empress was the most useful. The Empress covered her mouth with a veil and smiled softly: "Empress Dowager, I think, Empress Dowager Ci Ning must like Chen very much. Concubine, I want to reward you more, but I am afraid that Concubine Chen will not be able to get it, so I made an idea for Concubine Chen, and I will definitely send it to Zhongcui Palace later."

Empress Dowager Ci'an's eyes lit up, she clapped her hands and laughed, "Cining, this old woman, is going to rob me again. Really, it's rare for me to like such a caring person. No, she wants a big reward, and the Aijia also has a big reward." That's fine. Concubine Chen, you go back and wait, the Ai family will give you a big gift, do you like it?"

"I like it, concubine, thank you, Empress Dowager." The surprise on Chen Manrou's face was pure and obvious, and the Empress Dowager couldn't help laughing at it, and couldn't help but reach out and touch Chen Manrou's head: "So I'm still a little money fan, Aijia really lost his sight .”

"I made the empress dowager laugh." Chen Manrou said with some embarrassment. Only by establishing an obvious shortcoming is a normal person.She doesn't want to be the object of everyone's guard, it's so tiring.

The queen is a capable person, and she didn't come here purely to ask for peace. After the conversation between the Queen Mother Ci'an and Chen Manrou stopped for a while, she quickly interjected and asked, "Queen Mother, my daughter-in-law is here to ask you something. Do you also I know, my daughter-in-law is stupid, and I really don't understand the palace affairs, so please ask the Queen Mother to give my daughter-in-law some advice."

This is the name of my daughter-in-law and I, but the closeness can be seen at a glance.

Empress Dowager Ci Ning was very happy that her daughter-in-law was close to her, so she said with a smile: "If you are stupid, there will be no smart people in this world. Forget it, the Ai family doesn't care how long you are, just think about it for you." Come on, tell me what it is."

"It's like this. In one and a half months, it will be the emperor's birthday. The daughter-in-law thinks that the child is too young to be more than half, but the emperor said that the clothes will be removed this year, and there will be no lively things in the palace for several years. Want to Use this excuse to be lively."

Empress Dowager Ci'an nodded: "Well, what the emperor said is very reasonable, then you can do it."

The queen smiled wryly: "Queen Mother, the birthday of the Ninth Prince will be two months later."

(End of this chapter)