Harem Pampered Beauty: Chen Xiangxue

Chapter 29

Sitting under the eaves, Murong Xue rested her jaw in one hand and held a scroll of scriptures in the other.

Ding Xiang smiled and said: "Your Majesty, tomorrow is the emperor's birthday, what gift is your Majesty going to give?"

Murong Xue didn't even raise her eyelids, and she answered after a while: "Go and see what good things are in the warehouse, just pick one at random."

"Here," Ding Xiang gritted her teeth, the emperor's birthday is the biggest event in the palace, and her lady actually said it casually.

Pei Lan said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid the Emperor will be unhappy."

Murong Xue leisurely flipped through a page of the book, and said slowly: "Why should I go to great lengths to give him presents for his birthday, I have never seen him give me anything good for my birthday."

Ding Xiang smiled and said: "The emperor gave all the good things in the whole palace to the young lady."

"I don't care." Murong Xue put down the scroll in her hand and looked at the flowers and plants not far away.Tangdi, rose, wisteria, and Ling Xiao are all common flowers, but they can be seen everywhere in the Queen's Fengyi Palace.People in the palace discussed in private that Empress Murong was indeed a commoner-born empress, and even the flowers she liked were approachable, not delicate or rare in the slightest.

Ding Xiang cautiously said: "Your Majesty, let's take some time to prepare. The Empress didn't send anything during the Dragon Boat Festival. Your Majesty..." Thinking of that day, she felt terrified. The Emperor ran to Fengyi Palace angrily. She wished that Fengyi Palace would be demolished, but later, with a heartbroken expression on her face, she finally collapsed drunk on the jade steps outside the palace, throwing up a mess.

Murong Xue sighed helplessly, "Then you go and choose one carefully." As she said that, she frowned her pretty willow eyebrows again, and said in a waned way: "Actually, everything in the palace belongs to him, so give it to him." The gift is just from Fengyi Palace to Qianming Palace, it’s not all his back and forth, don’t you think it’s boring?”

Ding Xiang tentatively asked: "Why don't you, Madam, make birthday cakes for the emperor again."

"That's right, the emperor mentioned it several times, both openly and secretly, just because he wanted to eat the birthday cake made by the empress."

Murong Xue paused, and said, "I forgot how to do it."

Ding Xiang immediately said: "Your servant remembers."

Pei Lan also said: "Yes, this servant also remembers that the empress made birthday cakes for a whole day. Those sesame seeds were put on by the empress herself with the tip of a needle."

As she was talking, she suddenly couldn't continue, and her eyes were sore that she wanted to cry.She will never forget the scene of that day in her life, Murong Xue picked up those dyed sesame seeds with the tip of a needle, put them on the cake one by one, and wrote a Chinese character for longevity.When the word "longevity" was spelled, her arms were shaking.

At that time, Murong Xue really did everything for him.

Looking back at those years, both of them felt uncomfortable at the same time. That period of time was really difficult, and the past is unbearable.

Ding Xiang said: "The birthday cake is too difficult, why don't you cook for the emperor once?"

Pei Lan echoed, "Yes, doesn't the Emperor like to eat the dishes cooked by the Empress the most?"

Murong Xue acted as if she hadn't heard of it, she just smiled faintly: "I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep." She got up and walked lazily into the bedroom, leaving the difficult issue of gift giving to Ding Xiang and Pei Lan.

Pei Lan whispered: "Why don't you let the Ministry of Rites handle the emperor's birthday? This way we don't have to worry about it."

Ding Xiang said angrily: "Aren't you stupid if you really don't understand? On the emperor's birthday, neither the Ministry of Rituals nor the harem celebrate it. It's clear that he wants to spend time alone with the lady. Imagine how he used to be, and let the lady cook for him." Yes, give him a present."

Pei Lan sighed: "But, Miss has been angry with the Emperor recently, so she definitely won't do it."

Ding Xiang said: "Then what should I do?"

"Let's just send some things over there first, and see if we can fool them."

The two sighed and went to the warehouse.There are countless good things here. Although the two little girls have seen some of the world with Murong Xue these years, their knowledge is limited, so they bravely picked a suet white jade dragon carving, a side inkstone, and a clump of coral. , sent to Qianming Palace.

These few things were all gifts from Yeluyan to Fengyi Palace, just like what Murong Xue said, they were still his things.It can't reflect Murong Xue's heart at all, both Ding Xiang and Pei Lan deeply feel that the emperor will definitely not be satisfied with such a birthday gift, as expected.

Before it was dark, Yeluyan arrived at Fengyi Palace. Seeing his expression, Ding Xiang and Pei Lan felt that the wind and rain tonight would not be small.But the two of them still can't find a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and they have to wait outside the palace at any time with trepidation. The errands in the palace are really difficult.

Murong Xue will get up from the bed, her hair is still loose, and her pretty little face, which was pink in sleep, is extraordinarily delicate and beautiful.

Yeluyan stared at her obsessively, but she glanced at him lightly and passed him, as if he was an invisible person.

Sitting in front of the dressing table by himself, he combed his long black and smooth hair with an ivory comb.

Yeluyan stared at her back, couldn't help but said angrily: "It's my birthday, you didn't show it at all."

Murong Xue looked back at him, and said, "Didn't Ding Xiang Peilan send you a gift?"

Yeluyan grabbed her arm and said angrily, "You know exactly what I want."

Murong Xue raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Then you clearly know what I want."

Yeluyan was silent, and said after a while: "I will never break my promise."

(End of this chapter)