Concubine falling from heaven

Chapter 14 The Miser

"But many things are beyond your control. Even if you don't want to, you have to obey." Although Qin Fei said this to Meng Zihan, her eyes were a little wandering, as if she had unusual thoughts.

Involuntary?Indeed!Meng Zihan looked at Concubine Qin's back and was full of thoughts.If the emperor took a fancy to him, if he didn't enter the palace, he would be disobeying the holy order, at the least, he would be beheaded, and at the worst, he would be beheaded all over the house.But Meng Zihan is not from here, so he is not worried about being brought into the palace.

But after thinking about it, I haven't found a way to go home yet, so how can I leave this land that I can't control myself?Don't want to fail to return home, but instead of being decapitated.Thinking of this point, I can't help feeling cold, it seems that I really have to be careful every step of the way, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.

"Zihan!" Suddenly hearing Concubine Qin's call, Meng Zihan was startled.

"Ah! What?" Meng Zihan seemed a little panicked.

Concubine Qin asked softly: "Did I scare you?"

"No!" Meng Zihan just smiled and didn't say much.

Concubine Qin was worried that Meng Zihan was really frightened, so she comforted: "Zihan don't worry, the emperor likes you so much now, if you want to live in the palace, you can rest assured."

"Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger, not to mention your heart is unpredictable! Concubine Qin is always by your side, you should know this very well, don't you?"

Concubine Qin didn't expect that Meng Zihan in front of her was a little more rational than she imagined, but then she smiled and said: "Even if the emperor doesn't protect you, there is still the King Chen who is under one person and above ten thousand, isn't he?"

"Him?" Recalling the scene of that night, Meng Zihan really felt that he was living next to an extremely dangerous person, "Forget it, let's not talk about it, the emperor and the others must also go down, right? How about we go back."

Concubine Qin nodded.

In the Chonghua Palace, Emperor Xuanyi, Mu Xuanchen, An Lingfei, and Ye Feng were laughing for some reason. Meng Zihan and Concubine Qin rushed in, and everyone looked strange when they saw it.

Mu Xuanyi said with a smile: "Oh? Zihan is back? Why don't you play a little longer."

Concubine Qin wanted to leave after bringing Meng Zihan back, but Mu Xuanyi let Concubine Qin stay.

"Hey... I'm not interested!"

Before Meng Zihan waited for Mu Xuanyi to give him a seat, he sat weakly on the seat next to An Lingfei and limply lay down on the table.Concubine Qin wanted to remind Meng Zihan, but was stopped by Mu Xuanyi, and then she smiled.

An Lingfei casually poured a cup of tea for Meng Zihan, Meng Zihan didn't feel flattered, but drank it casually.Regarding this scene, Mu Xuanchen, Ye Feng and Eunuch Liang beside Emperor Xuanyi were no strangers to it, but Concubine Qin and Xia Zhu were more surprised.

Mu Xuanyi took a sip of tea leisurely, looked at Meng Zihan, put down the cup and said, "I used to go out of the palace to climb the wall, but now I really let you out of the palace to play in the palace, why are you not interested?"

"It's not all your fault!" Meng Zihan said listlessly.

"This king hasn't left this Chonghua Palace since the next court, how did it hurt you?" This girl is quite good at shirking responsibility if she caused trouble by herself.

Hearing this, Meng Zihan rushed to Mu Xuanchen regardless of everyone's eyes, opened his arms and twirled around before asking, "Is there something wrong with His Royal Highness?"

An ordinary woman would leave shyly after being looked at by a man, but Meng Zihan stood in front of Mu Xuanchen openly to let him see, and even asked his opinion, this is really unheard of except between husband and wife. It can be done through ordinary relationships.

Mu Xuanchen was startled by Meng Zihan's actions, picked up the teacup and took another sip of tea before replying: "What's wrong?"

Emperor Xuanyi and Concubine Qin had never seen such a scene before, watching them as if they were watching a stage performance, they enjoyed watching it with great interest.

"Oh! Don't drink it!" Meng Zihan snatched Mu Xuanchen's teacup and put it on the table, stretched his arms in front of Mu Xuanchen and asked, "Look, look , what did you see?"

"Wha... didn't see anything!" Mu Xuanchen looked at Meng Zihan in astonishment like a frightened child.

An Lingfei and the others also stretched their necks to look, Ye Feng stood aside and said, "There's nothing, what are you looking at?"

Emperor Xuanyi and Concubine Qin also blinked their eyes in confusion.

"There is nothing, of course I can't see anything!" Meng Zihan retracted his arms, sat down on the chair next to Mu Xuanchen, and continued listlessly: "Hey... Chenwang's Mansion! In the eyes of others, it is What a place, and it turned out that there was no jewellery, no bracelets, no earrings, no necklaces, nothing! It would be a shame to walk out!"

"Hahaha..." Emperor Xuanyi couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing this, and even Concubine Qin who was beside her was a little blush from being teased, she brushed her peach blush, and the dimples on her cheeks were rippling with rays of light.

"This king is a big man, how can he have women's jewelry?"

"As a prince, you don't even have money to buy jewelry, do you?" Meng Zihan turned to look at Mu Xuanchen.

Mu Xuanchen suddenly smiled, and said, "Didn't you say 'a beauty is a beauty even if she doesn't wear gold and silver'?"

Emperor Xuanyi smiled and added: "That's right! Didn't Zihan also say, 'Even if an ugly woman dresses up to the fullest, she's just an imitation'?"

What do they mean by this?Could it be that Concubine Hui has already filed a complaint?Then why didn't Emperor Xuanyi scold her when she entered the door?

"The villain sues first?" Meng Zihan said to himself with his mouth curled up and his head bowed.

Concubine Qin immediately helped Meng Zihan with a good word: "Your Majesty, Zihan is outspoken and has no intention of contradicting Concubine Hui, please don't blame him."

"What Concubine Qin said is that Weichen and Zihan have known her since they met. She definitely didn't intend to offend Concubine Hui. Please forgive me!" An Lingfei also got up to intercede.

"Let me think about it!" Emperor Xuanyi didn't say that he would be punished or that he would not be punished. He just continued to drink tea. Meng Zihan looked at Mu Xuanchen. To intercede for her.Meng Zihan screamed in his heart: He is really an unreliable guy, it seems that he has to rely on himself for everything.

"Your Majesty!" Mengzi said softly, "Not only can you not blame me, but you have to reward me."

"What? You insulted my beloved concubine obliquely, and I still want to reward you. Why is that?" Mu Xuanyi thought this was quite funny.

Everyone was waiting for Meng Zihan to justify himself.

Meng Zihan thought, if the words are good, the emperor might be able to get some rewards when he is happy.In this way, even if she leaves the Prince Chen's Mansion, she is not afraid that she will not be able to support herself.

So Meng Zihan walked up to Mu Xuanyi excitedly, picked up the teapot and poured tea for him, Mu Xuanchen smiled slightly when he saw it, this Meng Zihan's flattering skill is really top-notch.

"Your Majesty!" Meng Zihan smiled, "The Emperor manages the affairs of the court every day, so naturally he has no time to manage the trivial affairs of the harem. Although Concubine Qin entered the palace earlier than Concubine Hui, she is weak and isolated, so Zihan, as a Idlers, help the emperor and empress to point out Concubine Hui's inadequacies, so as to prevent Concubine Hui from losing the emperor's face in the future, isn't it meritorious?"

"Heh!" Mu Xuanyi laughed, "At first glance, I have to thank Zihan for helping me manage the harem?"

Concubine Qin was amused again, and Xia Zhu became happy when she saw that her master was happy.

"Is that really a reward?" Meng Zihan chased after the victory.

"Then what reward do you want?" Mu Xuanyi asked.

"I think..." Meng Zihan couldn't answer for a while, because he wanted too many things. If he said too much, the emperor would think that she was greedy. If he said too little, wouldn't he be at a big loss?In vain sang a play.

Seeing this, Eunuch Liang reminded immediately: "Miss Meng, you should think about it, the emperor has already opened the golden mouth, so don't miss such a good opportunity."

"Whatever Zihan wants, it's okay to say." Concubine Qin said.From Concubine Qin's eyes, Meng Zihan could see her thoughts, but it was a pity that Meng Zihan didn't have such a wish.

Emperor Xuanyi stared at Meng Zihan with a smile at some point, and Meng Zihan felt a little uncomfortable, as if he had seen that look before, when he saw Mu Xuanchen from the corner of his eye, Meng Zihan suddenly realized.A woman's sixth sense told her that things were not going the way she first expected.

Mu Xuanyi said: "It's better for Zihan to live in the palace and help manage the harem. In this way, you can have whatever you want."

Concubine Qin was all smiles, and Mu Xuanyi's thoughts coincided with hers.

Only two sounds of "pop!" and "poof!" were heard.An Lingfei was about to drink tea, but was so startled by Mu Xuanyi's words that he dropped the teacup in his hand to the ground, while Mu Xuanchen spat out a mouthful of tea impolitely.

The ladies of the court frantically cleaned up the mess, and the two looked extremely embarrassed.

Everyone thought that Meng Zihan would readily accept the emperor's kindness, but she hurried forward and said: "Hey! Emperor... Your majesty! Don't make fun of me, I would rather be a free little sparrow than a Be a canary trapped in one place."

"If Zihan is willing, I will allow you to enter and leave the palace freely, how about that?" Mu Xuanyi asked tentatively.

"Your Majesty has so many beauties in the harem, it is estimated that Zihan was plotted against by some concubines before he came to freedom!" Meng Zihan replied ungratefully.

Mu Xuanyi smiled softly: "With Zihan's ingenuity, how could he be plotted against? And with me here, who would dare to hurt you?"

"As the saying goes: a wise man will make a mistake if he thinks about it! The emperor doesn't want Zihan to be the one who is a good friend, right?"

Everyone has never seen any woman who would give up the chance to become a concubine in the harem, and Meng Zihan is No.1.

Seeing that Meng Zihan was so persistent, Mu Xuanyi looked at her for a long time, and finally stopped forcing, just sighed and said: "Since this is the case, I don't want to force others. It's just... which man with some power or money in this world is not three wives?" Fourth concubine, did Zihan give up his life because of this?"

"If you can't find a man who says 'weak water three thousand, just take a scoop', Zihan would rather die alone." Meng Zihan's words were concise, but shocked the audience.

Mu Xuanchen looked at Meng Zihan who was alive and kicking in front of him, but now he had such an expression, suddenly a little strange, but he felt admiration in his heart.

The whole room became quiet, the father-in-law and the court lady didn't even dare to breathe, and shrank aside in fright.

"Hahaha..." Mu Xuanyi burst into laughter suddenly, "I see that I am not good enough for Zihan! But I will definitely find a man who is 'weak water three thousand, only take one ladle' to match Zihan !Hahaha……"

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

In the end, Emperor Xuanyi not only rewarded a lot of gold and silver jewelry, but also rewarded Meng Zihan with the tribute cloth and supplements.On the carriage, Meng Zihan held the silver and showed the happy expression of a miser. Seeing this, Mu Xuanchen couldn't help shaking his head with a half-hearted smile.

Seeing this, Ye Feng said with a smile: "Fortunately, there was no danger this time. I was really scared into a cold sweat in the Chonghua Palace just now. Miss Meng seems to be a normal person."

"What are you afraid of!" Meng Zihan turned his head to look at Mu Xuanchen who immediately returned to his icy expression and replied, "If there is no kind-hearted person to save him, he will die at most!"

Ye Feng asked suspiciously, "Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Scared! Who is not afraid of "death"!" Meng Zihan said casually while studying the jewelry in his hand.

"Then Miss Meng violated the emperor's good will? You know, this harem concubine, others can't ask for it!"

Meng Zihan glanced at Ye Feng disdainfully, all of this was seen by Mu Xuanchen at the side.

"Cut! I don't care about being a concubine in the harem! Even if I become a queen, it's not like competing with many women for a man. What's more, death depends on the situation. Death is lighter than a goose feather, and heavier than a feather." Taishan. If you are depressed and tortured to death all day long, it is better to speak up and speak out, and die well." Meng Zihan's rhetoric stunned Ye Feng, and made Mu Xuanchen look at him differently.

After Mu Xuanchen looked at Meng Zihan for a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "It seems that you are a chivalrous woman, Zihan, why don't you give the jewelry in your hand to the poor people! How about it?"

After hearing this, Meng Zihan immediately tidied up her treasure, covered the jewelry box and held it tightly in her arms.Seeing this move, Ye Feng couldn't stop laughing, and Mu Xuanchen tried his best to hold back his laughter, but he could still see his smiling eyes.

"What are you laughing at?" Meng Zihan pouted and said, "It's the so-called saving the emergency, not the poor! I bought these treasures with my life. I didn't get anything in the Chen Palace, and I finally got something from the emperor. , don’t make a mistake.”

"You are really a miser!" Mu Xuanchen said.

"Whatever you say!" Meng Zihan didn't care what others said, he just wanted to protect his own property, thinking that if these things were brought into the 21st century, he would really send them away.

Xiao Hai could hear laughter in the carriage even when he was driving the carriage, he turned around and shook his head with a smile, this Meng girl is really a treasure.

As soon as they arrived at Prince Chen's Mansion, all the servants had already waited at the gate of the mansion to greet him.

After seeing Mu Xuanchen, Caiyun immediately ran to Meng Zihan's side, and asked nervously, "Ms. Meng has finally returned to her home. Caiyun has been worried for so long."

"I'm not going to the battlefield, what are you worried about?" Even Caiyun was worried about herself, and Meng Zihan was almost mad at her.

Seeing Meng Zihan's safe return, Caiyun finally breathed a sigh of relief, seeing Meng Zihan tightly holding a small box in his hand, Caiyun asked curiously: "What is this?"

Mentioning the things in his hands, Meng Zihan became excited again, and pulled Caiyun to run to his residence, Caiyun looked back at Mu Xuanchen, turned around and saluted before leaving, who knew that the salute was only half done before Mengzi Han was dragged away.

Mu Xuanchen and Ye Feng looked at each other and smiled helplessly, Zhang Butler smiled and shook his head and followed Mu Xuanchen.

Back in the room, Meng Zihan ecstatically opened his treasure box and presented it in front of Caiyun. Caiyun was dumbfounded. He had never seen so much silver and precious jewelry until now.

Meng Zihan picked out an emerald hairpin with a piece of cloud for Caiyun. "this is for you!"

"For... for the servants?" Caiyun was flattered and couldn't believe it.

Meng Zihan took Caiyun's hand, put the hairpin in Caiyun's hand, and smiled sweetly: "Your name is Caiyun, there is a cloud on this hairpin, isn't it tailor-made for you?"

Caiyun took the hairpin with tears in her eyes, and wanted to kneel down to thank the reward, but Meng Zihan grabbed her arm and prevented her from kneeling.

Looking at Caiyun's grateful expression, Meng Zihan could only helplessly look at his jewels aside, this hairpin can make this girl happy like that, girls in ancient times were so easily satisfied.

Just after night fell, the palace of Prince Chen was already extremely quiet, except for the occasional patrolling guards passing by outside the door, there was Meng Zihan's extremely boring sigh.

Caiyun was going to wait for her to take a bath, but when she walked to the wash room, Meng Zihan suddenly wanted to take a flower petal bath like the ancients. Anyway, there is no shower gel here, and it would be nice to have a petal bubble, so Caiyun immediately went out to collect petals.

Although there is no mistress in this Prince Chen's Mansion, there are quite a lot of flowers and plants.There are gardeners to manage it every day, and there are seasonal flowers all year round.

"Ah...there is a snake!" Caiyun outside the door suddenly screamed.

Meng Zihan heard the sound and opened the door to see what happened. A snake was staring at Caiyun covetously. Caiyun was so frightened that he curled up on the ground and dared not move.

"Caiyun! Don't...don't move! Don't...don't move!" Meng Zihan was also frightened and faltered.

But judging by the appearance of the snake's head, it is not a poisonous snake, it must have crawled out of the grass near here.Hey, although the flowers and plants are beautiful, there are too many snakes, insects, rats and ants.Meng Zihan looked around and saw a net, probably because Caiyun had seen her keep calling her bored a few days ago, so she had someone make a net for catching butterflies.

Meng Zihan cautiously walked towards the door, for fear that the snake would divert his attention.

Sure enough, as soon as he picked up the butterfly net, the snake turned its head around.Meng Zihan was so frightened that the hand holding the butterfly net kept shaking.

"Meng... Meng girl, save... save... save me!" Caiyun said in a crying voice, it seemed that she now regarded Meng Zihan as the savior.

Meng Zihan's forehead was covered with cold sweat. Although she knew that the snake was not poisonous, looking at its sharp eyes still made her whole body stiff.But now is not the time to be afraid, you have to catch it quickly.

Carefully, and then stretched out the butterfly net carefully, the snake seemed to have a premonition that someone was about to be caught, and began to move its head slightly from side to side.It was too late to say it, and at the moment when the snake was about to rush over, Meng Zihan quickly covered the net mouth.

The two closed their eyes in fright, and after a few seconds of silence, feeling the weight of the butterfly net in their hands, Meng Zihan slowly opened one eye and found that the snake was already lying in the net bag , finally breathed a sigh of relief.

While Caiyun was still so frightened that he curled up on the spot and did not dare to open his eyes, Meng Zihan had already magnified his courage, and said with a smile: "Caiyun, look, the snake has caught it."

After hearing the reputation, Caiyun wiped off her sweat, patted her chest and came to Meng Zihan's side.

"What about this snake?" Caiyun asked.

"Hmm...how about giving it to the imperial physician tomorrow morning and letting them make medicinal wine." Meng Zihan said while looking at the snake.

"Soak... in medicinal wine? But, what should we do tonight?" Caiyun still didn't dare to get close to the snake, pulling Meng Zihan like pulling a savior.

"Go get a rope!"

"Ah? Oh...oh!" Caiyun immediately turned to look for the rope.

After finding a rope, the two of them tied the net bag with a slipknot with great effort, trapping the snake in the net bag.

After placing the snake in the corner of the room, Caiyun waited for Meng Zihan to take a bath. When he came to the washroom and looked at the bathtub, a thought suddenly flashed into Meng Zihan's mind, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Turning around, he asked, "Caiyun! What do you think His Royal Highness Prince Chen is doing now?"

Caiyun didn't think about it, so she replied: "Just now I saw Xiao Hai was preparing bath products for Master, so he should be taking a bath too!"

Meng Zihan nodded secretly with a smile, and asked again: "Does His Royal Highness have to be attended by many people when taking a bath?"

Caiyun shook her head and said, "Our master doesn't like others to wait for him to take a bath."

"That means, he is alone now?" Meng Zihan said to himself.

Looking back and seeing that Caiyun was still busy spreading flower petals for her and preparing to change her clothes, Meng Zihan said, "Go back and rest, you were also frightened just now." His Royal Highness does not need others to take a bath, how can I be more delicate than him? You go to rest, or I will be angry."

Seeing that Meng Zihan was so persistent, Caiyun retreated in response.

Seeing that the colorful clouds had gone away, Meng Zihan came to a certain place in the room, looked at the snake lying in the butterfly net, and secretly thought of a bad idea.

"Mu Xuanchen! If you dare to take advantage of me and eat my tofu, you are looking for death!" After speaking, there was another evil smile.

Sure enough, there were no guards at the gate, Meng Zihan secretly delighted: God helped me, Mu Xuanchen, Mu Xuanchen, if you do too much unrighteousness, you will kill yourself.

The thieves looked around and saw no one around, so they gently pushed away.door, and tiptoed into the room, even the sound of breathing was controlled as much as possible.

There were no electric lights in this ancient time, only the flickering candlelight. Although there were not many decorations around, Meng Zihan still took every step carefully, for fear of hitting the tables and chairs and making noise.

He could still vaguely hear the "hissing" sound of the snake in his hand, Meng Zihan felt a trace of fear in his heart, secretly worried, don't scare that dirty ghost and get bitten by a snake instead, that would be a real success It is said that "stealing chickens is not enough to lose money."

But why is there no sound in this bath?Meng Zihan quietly peeked into Mu Xuanchen's bathroom.

I saw Mu Xuanchen turned his back to Meng Zihan, covered his face with a bath towel, leaned his hands on the edge, and sat quietly in the lotus pond. waves.

Seeing Mu Xuanchen like that, Meng Zihan felt a little uneasy: Why do you have a pool to take a bath while I only have a tub?The environment is still so quiet.

This is really enviable, jealous and hateful, and people must be pissed off compared to others.The faint heat in the pool, accompanied by the light veil floating randomly, makes the entire Jinglian Pond look like a fairyland.

Pouting her lips and looking back at what she was holding, Meng Zihan raised the corner of her mouth.

Meng Zihan's hand holding the butterfly net shook, and the snake crawled out obediently.Seeing that the snake had completely escaped from the net, Meng Zihan immediately retracted the butterfly net.

"Mu Xuanchen! If you dare to eat my tofu, go to hell!" Meng Zihan murmured to himself with a smile for a while, then turned around and "retire after success".

"Ah!" After a short but not loud cry, the previous tranquility was restored.

Meng Zihan's hand on the door stopped, and then his heart trembled. After waiting for a while, there was still no movement.

"You won't be scared to death, will you?" Meng Zihan panicked at this moment.

Slowly moving to the side of Mu Xuanchen's net lotus pond, he saw that Mu Xuanchen was really leaning against the pond without moving.

Meng Zihan had already neglected that Mu Xuanchen was completely naked at this time, and the water in the pool was extremely clear. Although there was a faint heat shrouded in it, he could still see his bronze-colored and strong body in the pool.

"Hey! Mu Xuanchen! Hey! No... no way!" Still nothing happened, Meng Zihan really panicked now, turned his head and saw that a snake had died beside him, and there were bean-sized drops of sweat on his forehead Stopped, "How...how is it possible? This snake is not poisonous, I just want to scare him, I never thought of letting him die!"

Looking at the motionless snake, Meng Zihan said to himself again: "I've only heard that bees will die after stinging people, but I haven't heard that snakes will die after biting people?"

(End of this chapter)