Harem for a living

Chapter 93

"Ma'am, it's getting late." Looking worriedly at Chen Manrou who was leaning on the soft couch, Xiangyue came over and pulled the thin blanket up: "Will you go to bed and rest?"

Chen Manrou yawned and nodded: "Have someone prepare hot water, I'll take a shower first. By the way, the two pieces of cloth for Qi Meiren have been delivered? And the rewards for Wang Jieyu and the others have also been handed out." Bar?"

"It's all been arranged." Talking to Yue, he turned the charcoal fire to be more vigorous, and the cup stopped next to him. After listening to Chen Manrou's instructions, he turned around and asked someone to burn a brazier in the bathroom, put hot water, and put The bathroom was smoked hot, and then things for bathing were placed.

Chen Manrou nodded, motioned to Yueyue to pour her a glass of water, took two sips, put down the teacup, glanced at the cup, and asked with a sigh, "Have you sent the teacup from Han Wanyi?"

"It has already been delivered. Han Wanyi wants a set of teacups after the rain. The servant girl saw that her order is enough, so I asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deliver it to her." Duoyue tidied up the account books on the table next to him, slightly He said with some concern: "The servant girl has watched for the past two days. Han Wanyi and Concubine Hu are indeed a little close. Madam, should we make preparations in advance?"

"What are you preparing? Concubine Shu is shrewd. She can leave her son alone in the palace. She must have a trick. What do Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi have?" Chen Manrou sat up casually and said, "Even if Concubine Hu can get Ci'an The Empress Dowager's blue eyes, do you think Empress Dowager Ci'an will let her harm her own grandson?"

"Then we don't care about this matter? If something happens in the future, will the empress say that you have mismanaged it?" Duiyue put away the thin blanket, helped Chen Manrou get up, and walked around the screen to the bathroom.

Chen Manrou yawned again: "Let's just let it go, you find someone to keep an eye on Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi, if they really do something, let's come up with a countermeasure."

In fact, she was even more skeptical that what Qi Meiren heard was said by Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi on purpose. Thinking about the children in the harem, the queen's son is the eldest son, and Concubine Hu's son is raised in Ci'an. Although Concubine Shu is not favored, Concubine Shu's son is at least the first son other than the eldest son. If she, Chen Manrou, also gave birth to a prince, she would not even have the slightest advantage.

He can't take the lead, he is not very favored, and he can't curry favor with the Empress Dowager Ci'an.If she, Chen Manrou, was on the tip of her horn right now and figured out a way to get rid of Concubine Shu's second prince, wouldn't she have fallen into Concubine Hu's trap?
So Chen Manrou would never act rashly before she figured out what was going on.I really thought that Concubine Shu was a fool who could sweep away the obstacles in Concubine Yang Gui's stomach and win the title of second prince for her son. If she was stupid, there would be no shrewd ones in the harem.

Seeing Yue Chen Manrou in a calm manner, she didn't take this matter to heart at all, and she could only take it to heart, and planned to find a few people to find out about the situation tomorrow.

Because there is a precedent for this matter in the harem, Chen Manrou didn't take too much effort to deal with it. Every other day, she would go to the Yongshou Palace to ask the queen, and occasionally she would invite Concubine Liu and Cheng Zhaoyi to help her settle the accounts. Life is also considered easy.

It will soon be the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is considered a small year.Chen Manrou wants to order people to first remove the god statues pasted in various palaces and halls and replace them with new ones, that is, small Buddhist halls. If there is a need to replace them, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must provide Buddha statues.

It's just that the Kitchen God is in the imperial dining room, and sacrifices to the kitchen are done by the head of the family. Of course, the emperor is the biggest master of the palace, so this matter has nothing to do with Chen Manrou. She only stares at the general imperial dining room. The sesame candies and biscuits brought in were sent to the palaces, according to the number of people, no more and no less.

This task was relatively trivial, so Chen Manrou simply called Concubine Liu, Concubine Hu, Cheng Zhaoyi and Han Wanyi, and asked them to count the number of people and send someone to send things over.It also means to let everyone supervise each other. Although this thing came out of her Zhongcui Palace, the person who handled it was not from Zhongcui Palace.

"Concubine Hui, Jingren Palace, Yikun Palace, and Yonghe Palace. If the main seat is not here, how many pancakes should I send?" Concubine Hu was in charge of counting the pancakes. After sending the pancakes from Yongshou Palace, she was a little bit troubled.

Chen Manrou turned her head and looked at her: "Even if the person is not here, the things have to be sent there, you..." Halfway through the speech, what Qi Meiren said before suddenly came to mind, Chen Manrou immediately changed her words: "Since you don't know these things, Just be in charge of keeping the accounts, Cheng Zhaoyi, you and her will change."

Cheng Zhaoyi was a little displeased, curled her lips and looked sideways at Concubine Hu: "I don't even know this, and I don't know how to celebrate the New Year in the past!" Don't think that the biscuits are worthless, they mean a lot.These biscuits are all based on the number of people. If one is missing, it is equivalent to one less population, which is almost the meaning of cursing people to death.

Concubine Hu was also not happy, she frowned and said to Chen Manrou: "I just didn't think about it for a while, since Cheng Zhaoyi is not willing to do this, I don't force it. Moreover, Empress Hui has already guided the concubine, and the concubine already understands what to do gone."

Chen Manrou glanced at the moon, and the moon quickly stepped forward to stop Concubine Hu: "Your Majesty, you are weak, you should order your servants to do these things, besides, the empress has also sent someone over, so I won't bother you. "

The biscuits had already been divided. It was impossible for the Household Department of the Imperial Dining Room to send a basket of biscuits and let Chen Manrou distribute them slowly.In fact, if it weren't for the fact that today is a small year, which is rather special, these meals would have been allocated by the Imperial Dining Room itself, and then delivered to the palaces.

At any rate, it is also the food for offering sacrifices to the stove, and the Imperial Dining Room is no longer qualified to handle these things if it is stained with fairy spirit.

What Chen Manrou and the others have to do is to count again, and then send them to the palaces according to the number.In the process of counting, it is inevitable to accidentally touch a biscuit.

Fortunately, the queen's box was packed in a golden phoenix box, and no one dared to open it.

"Han Wanyi, I see something wrong with Concubine Hu's face. You can help Concubine Hu to the side and rest." Chen Manrou saw that Han Wanyi was staring at Ma Tang, and immediately sent Han Wanyi away. They are very intimate, and they must not be allowed to touch these foods casually.

Han Wanyi looked at the sesame candy box in front of her, then turned her head to look at Concubine Hu, bit her lip, walked to Concubine Hu, and stretched out her hand to help Concubine Hu: "Msg Concubine Hu, what do you think? , shall we go back first?"

Concubine Hu watched Duoyue briskly handing the boxes one by one to the little eunuchs who were waiting next to her, and said with a chuckle: "Since Concubine Hui is busy here, we have nothing to do, if we don't go back, are we going Is it cold in here?"

"It's just that I didn't think about it clearly. I just wanted to ask Concubine Hu to help, but I forgot that Sister Hu is not in good health." Chen Manrou was not angry, but said with a smile: "It's not good for me to delay Sister Hu too much. Take care of yourself, sister Concubine Hu will go back with Han Wanyi for the time being."

Concubine Hu's complexion changed. She originally wanted to take advantage of Chen Manrou, but she didn't expect Chen Manrou to push it cleanly. At this moment, she couldn't stay even if she wanted to.

"The concubine will leave." Han Wanyi squeezed Concubine Hu's wrist without any trace, and Concubine Hu smiled, and saluted Chen Manrou. There was no one else, she turned around and left.Hu Zhaoyi laughed from behind: "It's just a prince. Look, the eyes are growing on the top of the head."

"Sister Concubine Liu, please come and help me today." Chen Manrou didn't respond, but turned to talk to Concubine Liu.Concubine Liu hurriedly waved her hands and smiled, "Concubine Hui's words are too polite. Anyway, we were idle in the past, so we came to do something, so we became more energetic."

Chen Manrou smiled and said a few more words to Concubine Liu. Seeing that they finished their work quickly, she asked Duoyue to send them back in person.I went back to my room and called Jinhuan: "You have someone go and see, apart from the things that came out of Zhongcui Palace today, there are other things sent by Concubine Shu."

She didn't know what was going on, but she always felt uneasy, if Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi wanted to kill two birds with one stone...

Thinking about it, Chen Manrou called Manager Ming again: "Do you remember all the things that came out of our palace today? Where did they go, who came into contact with them halfway, you know all these things, right?"

Manager Ming nodded affirmatively: "There is nothing else to send out, except for these biscuits and sesame candies, no one even leaves Zhongcui Palace today."

"But I always feel that something is wrong. Think about it, Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi, did they do something else?" Chen Manrou walked a few steps in the room and said with a frown. The purpose is to retreat immediately, but just now, she said something weird and then left, which is really a bit abnormal.

Manager Ming went out again to gather all the people and questioned them one by one. Everyone said that they didn't notice anything unusual.

Soon, Duiyue and Jinhuan also came back.

"Mother, Concubine Shu's place, except for our delivery of sesame candies, no one else went there. Because Concubine Shu is not in the palace, Concubine Shu's Yikun Palace is closed on weekdays, and it has not been opened today."

Jin Huan came over first and said that the second prince was young and the queen was not feeling well, so the second prince didn't have to pay the queen a favor for the time being, and just stayed in Yikun Palace all day.

No one passed by, nor did they open the door, so Chen Manrou finally felt a little relieved.Turning his head to look at Xiangyue, he stepped forward and said, "Outside of Zhongcui Palace, Cheng Zhaoyi only let the slaves go back, but did not send them away. But Concubine Liu didn't say anything, and the slaves sent Concubine Liu to Changchun Palace. back."

It seems that there is nothing wrong with it.Chen Manrou frowned slightly, thinking that she might be suspicious. She just heard that kind of words a few days ago, but seeing the actions of Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi today, she became a little suspicious.

"Since there is nothing to do, let's rest." After a long time, she couldn't think of anything wrong, so Chen Manrou could only wave her hand and say, after working for such a long time, she felt a little tired.

"Your Majesty, the Second Prince is sick." In the middle of the night, Chen Manrou was sleeping deeply, when suddenly she heard the voice of Xiangyue.Chen Manrou repeated the sentence in her mind, and sat up abruptly: "What did you say?"

"The second prince has a high fever, and Concubine Shu's eldest maid Yun Zhan is waiting outside." While looking for clothes for Chen Manrou, Dui Yue said anxiously: "Yun Zhan said that the imperial doctor has already passed, but the second prince has a severe fever. , I can’t even cry now.”

"Where's the Queen? There's the Emperor, and the Empress Dowager Ci'an, but they all reported to someone?" Chen Manrou grabbed the lapel and tied it up, then hugged the big cloak against the moon and wrapped it around Chen Manrou.

"Yun Zhan said that he has sent someone to report to the Queen, and the Emperor has also sent Mr. Liu Cheng, but the Empress Dowager Ci'an is too old, so she didn't dare to send anyone." Said to Yue, while saying that he had been arrested. The comb combed Chen Manrou's hair.

Just as she was about to insert a hairpin or something, Chen Manrou waved her hand: "It's been a while, so don't bring any jewelry, let's hurry over, I don't know what happened to the second prince at the moment."

If the second prince really can't be saved, maybe she will be involved too.After all, Director Ming and Jin Huan had checked before, not only did Yikun Palace not open, but even for food, they were the only ones who delivered sesame cakes and sesame candies from Zhongcui Palace.

(End of this chapter)