Harem strategy

Chapter 37
"What does my sister want to give to the Empress Dowager?" Li Jialuo asked.

"As for me, I'm done drawing a picture. Concubine Xian's family has prepared it for her. It's definitely a good thing. I can't compare it." Qin Sesel said.

"Sister's painting is good, this birthday gift is not bad."

"I'm afraid that the queen mother won't even look at it." Qin Sesel said mockingly.

"After all, we will do what we want." Li Jialuo said, and Qin Sesel nodded.

The queen mother's birthday is coming soon. During the day, she accepts the congratulations from the wives, and at night, the wives congratulate the queen mother.

These married wives are all the queen mother's daughter-in-law, daughter or sister-in-law.

Li Jialuo and the others were low in status, so they sat at the back, laughing and laughing in front, and they all accompanied the Queen Mother.

When only the people in the palace were left and the emperor came over, everyone became excited, and even felt no interest in watching these singing and dancing performances, so they looked forward to presenting the birthday gift to the queen mother later, so that the emperor could take another look.

Concubine Wang Xian glanced at Li Jialuo from a distance, Li Jialuo was whispering to the person next to him.

Looking at Beauty Qin Sesel again, Beauty Qin nodded to her, and Concubine Wang Xian smiled triumphantly.

Let the musicians go down, now is the time for everyone to give birthday gifts to the Queen Mother.After the empress presented a set of clothes made by herself, the concubines all began to present one by one. Concubine Wang Xian was the second, and what she presented was an eight-foot-high red coral.

Compared with Queen Zhao's clothes, they are really much more expensive.Concubine Wang Xian's things were prepared by members of the Wang family. Empress Zhao didn't feel flustered, especially Concubine Wang Xian's sweet mouth wished the Queen Mother good luck in the East China Sea and a longer life than Nanshan.

The Queen Mother was so happy that she praised Concubine Wang Xian to the Emperor.

The emperor Xiao Jing nodded and smiled, he himself was very handsome, but now this inadvertent smile made the hearts of the concubines below tremble.

But thinking about Concubine Wang Xian's big show today, I must be Concubine Wang Xian's attendant tonight, and nothing will happen without them, it's really abominable.Many people looked at Concubine Wang Xian's eyes with jealousy, but they didn't dare to let others see it, so they all lowered their heads.

Concubine Wang Xian said with a smile: "Sister Empress and I have finished presenting our birthday gifts, let the younger sisters below start too."

The Empress Dowager looked towards Empress Zhao, and Empress Zhao said with a smile: "What my sister said is true, Your Majesty, do you see?"

The emperor nodded slightly, and the people below continued to offer gifts.

There are all kinds of things, and many of them are full of new ideas. When it is Li Jialuo's turn, it is already halfway through. Li Jialuo, a concubine, can be the first to be promoted among the newcomers, so naturally more people pay attention.

"Mother, this is Wu Liangyi. The emperor has just promoted her position. It can be seen that the emperor likes it very much. I just don't know what gift she gave to the mother. If you want to get the emperor's favor, this gift It must be different." Wang Xianfei's words made everyone focus on Wu Liangyi.

As a concubine, Li Jialuo is naturally not easy to speak. The queen mother said with a smile: "Wu Liangyi? Aijia remembers that the Aijia thought this child was a good one at the beginning. Sure enough, it is still in line with the emperor's wishes. The gift is not good. It's important, the most important thing is the heart, otherwise, wouldn't Aijia become a person who wants to accept gifts?"

The people around who said this laughed, and the high-ranking concubines all flattered. Empress Zhao saw Wu Liangyi alone below, and said: "Wu Liangyi, the empress dowager also said that giving gifts is just a wish, so you don't have to be nervous." .”

"Yes, Empress Dowager, my concubine wishes the Empress Dowager a happy life every year." Holding up the gift on the box, people around the Empress Dowager naturally took it over, Wang Xianfei said with a smile: "Mother, The concubine also wants to see what gift Wu Liangyi gave, so that the concubine can learn from it in the future."

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "It's just a trivial matter, if the Concubine Xian wants to see it, it's natural."

Generally, the gifts for low-ranking concubines can be delivered directly, and there is no intention of opening them on the spot.

Unless you are someone who really wants to show off, you don't need to put it in a box. After all, there are so many low-ranking concubines. Isn't it a waste of time to look at them one by one?
It's just that the concubine Wang Xian acted like this today, and everyone knew that she was definitely trying to find fault with Wu Liangyi.

This Wu Liangyi didn't know whether it was lucky or unlucky, but she was targeted by Concubine Wang Xian.

However, most of the concubines still felt that even if they were targeted by Concubine Wang Xian, as long as they could get promoted and be favored by the emperor, they would not hesitate to do so.

They entered the palace originally to compete for favor, and being envied by others is better than ignoring you.

Empress Zhao persuaded: "Sister Xianfei, you see there are still many people waiting below, I think it's better to forget it?"

Concubine Wang Xian also smiled and said: "Sister, look at you, it's just a matter of a while, sister, I see this birthday gift, the empress dowager has agreed, I must listen to what the empress dowager says."

Empress Zhao's face changed slightly, but seeing that the emperor didn't care, she didn't say anything more.

Concubine Wang Xian triumphantly opened the box Wu Liangyi sent up, but then her face froze.Empress Zhao said with a smile: "It turns out that what Wu Liangyi sent was a set of Buddhist scriptures, and the empress just happened to use them."

Everyone who doesn't know that the Queen Mother is a Buddhist, and she gave a set of Buddhist scriptures that she copied herself.

The Queen Mother also took the Buddhist scriptures to read, and said with a smile: "Wu Liangyi's writing is good, generous and decent, the Ai family likes this gift very much."

Everyone offered gifts next, because Wu Liangyi was rewarded by the queen mother, and the people around were enough to come and talk to Wu Liangyi.

"Qin Meiren, it's your turn to salute." Another beauty next to her pulled at Qin Meiren who was wondering what she was thinking, and she didn't realize it.

It was almost midnight before everyone went back. The emperor followed the queen to Kunning Palace, and now everyone felt more at ease.

The sound of broken porcelain came from the Yonghe Palace again.

When Qin Meiren woke up the next day, her eyes were very red and swollen.Li Jialuo had a good night's sleep.

When I woke up the next day, I looked at Qiuyun kneeling under me, but didn't say a word.

I was served for breakfast and practiced calligraphy for a while.

Qiuyun has changed from being stubborn at the beginning to being wary now.

"Master, this servant is guilty!" Qiu Yun knocked his head loudly.

Hu Po scolded: "Qiu Yun, do you want to coerce Master?" What is such a kowtow?
"Let her continue knocking, I want to see if her head is hard or the ground is hard!" Li Jialuo said lightly.

Qiu Yun originally thought that this Wu Liangyi was a soft-hearted person, and he kowtowed a few more times, and even bled. In order to prevent outsiders from saying that she was mean and inferior, Wu Liangyi definitely wanted to make her get up. Who knew that this Wu Liangyi How could she continue to say such a thing?

Hu Po also threw a pair of cut-off shoes in front of Qiu Yun. Qiu Yun trembled in fright, and looked up at Wu Liangyi, who looked at Qiu Yun with a half-smile.

Qiuyun knew that his affairs had been exposed.

(End of this chapter)