refuse to be a concubine

Chapter 6 Your hair smells so good
It was that cold young father-in-law. Although I only met once half a year ago, his coolness impressed me deeply.

Under the golden morning glow, he seemed to be much taller than then, with a slender figure, fair complexion, and handsome features, but the coldness was more frosty than when we first met.

Why can a person be so cold?
"Eunuch Tang, go slowly." The steward of the embroidery workshop spoke to him respectfully, almost flattering.

His name is Tang Yu, and he is the celebrity around the queen, or in other words, the celebrity around all the women in the palace.

He is just a little eunuch, not in charge, nor the head of any palace, just because he is a celebrity, everyone respects him.

I smiled at him, he only glanced at me faintly, then looked at the round door not far away, where the bright yellow sedan chair had just passed, he glanced at me again, then walked indifferently in front of me, Leave from the path in the courtyard.

I didn't care much about his indifference, so I walked quickly to the aunt who was in charge of the embroidery workshop, and bowed, "Auntie, I want to borrow a needle and thread, and the thread is sky blue silk, do you have it?"

The aunt nodded, "You wait here, I'll get someone to bring it to you, but you have to send it back as soon as you're done."

When I nodded happily, I heard a sharp voice behind me shouting: "No need, come here, take this maid away for me."

I was already apprehensive, but this sharp voice startled me. As soon as I turned around, two eunuchs rushed over and grabbed my arms, one from the left and the other from the right.

"What are you doing?" I blurted out.

"What are you doing? A bold palace slave, dare to tear Concubine Liu's clothes and ask why? Take her away." The leading eunuch stared angrily.

"What? Let me go."

I can't help but say that these people will leave after they frame me. No matter how much I struggle, it's just a waste of effort.

When I walked out of the round door of the embroidery workshop, I saw that Tang Yu was standing not far away, looking at this side coldly. I wanted to ask for help, but I had no relatives or reasons with him, and it was only the second time I met him. How can you help me?

At this time, I can only strengthen myself.

Today's people love Emperor Su very much. Although he has not been on the throne for a year, he has issued dozens of policies to benefit the people, and all of them are true.But there is another reason why the people love him, that is, he is not a lustful emperor, and he has only eight women in total, one queen, four concubines and three concubines.

Emperor Su didn't favor anyone too much, all the concubines were equally exposed to the rain and dew, and they were evenly divided. However, although Concubine Liu was ranked fourth among the concubines, she was actually second only to the queen. Why?It is said that Concubine Liu contributed a lot to Emperor Su's successful ascension to the throne. Although Emperor Su treated all concubines equally, in terms of rewards, Concubine Liu was the first to choose after the empress, so we can see one or two.

As soon as I entered Concubine Liu's Palace, I saw the little washerwoman who had torn Concubine Liu's clothes standing in the main hall in fear. When she saw me being pushed in, she turned her head in panic, not daring to look directly at me.

"Why?" I wanted to ask her what was going on, but the little washerwoman suddenly changed her cowardly appearance and ran behind the eunuch who pushed me in, pointed at me, and cried, "Elder-in-law, it's her. It was she who tore Concubine Liu's clothes, returned them, and threatened me not to speak out, or she would make me look good."

"What? What are you talking about?" I looked at her in astonishment, so much that I forgot to argue for a while.

"I'm not talking nonsense. You asked me if I had needles and threads, and you said you wanted to mend them secretly, so you went to the embroidery workshop to borrow needles and threads."

"Obviously you broke Concubine Liu's clothes, I kindly helped you, how could you frame me like this?"

"I have no grievances with you, what are you doing to frame you? The clothes in that room are silk and satin made from the finest silk that women in various palaces paid tribute to. A washerwoman like me is not allowed to enter at all." , if you hadn't tricked me into entering the house, I would have, I would have..." The little washerwoman was sobbing, making one really feel that she had been greatly wronged.

"That's not the case at all, how can you tell such a lie?" I was so angry that my face was livid.

"I didn't lie. If I really did it, why would I tell Concubine Liu? Isn't this a self-inflicted trap?"

"You came to tell Empress Concubine Liu yourself?" I had a bad feeling in my heart, I seemed to be tricked, but I didn't know her well, so why did she harm me like this?
"The servant (servant) has seen the empress." The people around him knelt down one after another.

"Has anyone been caught?" The soft and charming voice is different from the concubine Concubine Ming's soft voice with arrogance, and the concubine Liu's voice is so charming that it can make one's bone crisp.

I was so familiar with this voice, it was so familiar that I forgot who she was at the moment, and suddenly turned around and stared at her without hesitation.

Curved black eyebrows, smiling colored contact lenses, peach-like face, and enchanting figure.

The moment I turned around, the smile in her beautiful eyes was no longer, but amazed, unbelievable, until it was cold, and finally the smile returned to her pupils, the change was so fast that one would almost think she was astonished just now Just dazzled.

My whole body was as stiff as a rock, and no matter how much I thought about it, I would never have imagined that the current Concubine Liu was Chen Liuer, the former oiran of the Red Chamber.The memory came again like a tide. That night, I went to the Red House to deliver the handkerchief, but my innocence was destroyed, I was bullied, and almost died.

My favorite mother also left me at that time.

Before I knew it, I clenched my palms into fists.

"Stay back." Chen Liuer ordered.

When the palace man retreated, he specially held the lamp in his hand.

It turned out that it was already dark.

No one spoke.

In the hall where there were only her and me, Chen Liu'er lowered her face, stared at me coldly, her gaze was like a needle, and she sized me up from head to toe.

I stood quietly, despite the turmoil in my heart, I didn't make a sound, but no matter how calm I was, I'm afraid my complexion was extremely bad at this moment.

"How did you enter the palace?" She finally spoke.

I don't know what to say, or can say, and her, is there a difference between saying or not?
"This palace is asking you, how did you enter the palace?" She asked again, a little more eagerly.

Forcibly calming my turbulent heart slowly, I took a deep breath, and saluted lightly: "Miss Concubine Liu, this servant did not break your fine clothes, your empress has learned a lot."

"Don't worry about the clothes, tell me, how did you enter the palace?"

"Since the empress no longer pursues the matter, the servant girl will leave first." I saluted again.

"Stop." She said sharply, "I am asking you something."

"The maidservant has already entered the palace, so what if the empress knows the reason why the maidservant entered the palace?" Apart from that night, what else do I have to do with her?It's just that she didn't expect that she would become a concubine.

Chen Liuer's eyes were full of doubts, she looked at me for a while, and asked half tentatively: "Su En, let me ask you, that night, I was talking about that man, do you know who that man is?"

My body became stiff again, and I wanted to hide my thoughts, but she suddenly squeezed my chin tightly with her hands, and forcefully raised my head to look directly at her. He said: "It seems that you have seen the emperor."

I took a step back and my face paled instantly.

She suddenly laughed coquettishly, "You hate him, and you still hate him after you know his identity?"

As if it was really funny, she laughed for a long time before stopping.

As for me, every time she smiled, my heart ached. I tried to calm down, and the unwillingness, resentment, and helplessness I tried to suppress were once again severely imposed on me in her laughter.

"He is the emperor, the supreme being in the world. It's your honor to be favored by him. Which woman doesn't try her best to throw herself into his arms and try to please him with trepidation. You have such an opportunity but you are still a little washerwoman? Do you say you are stupid or stupid?" Her eyebrows and eyes were full of sarcasm and sarcasm.

"If you have nothing else to do, the maidservant will leave." I don't want to stay in this Concubine Liu Palace any longer.I am like nothing, they all live above me, being bullied and ridiculed, I can only be silent, but silence does not mean surrender, it just keeps my thoughts.

"The ladies in the palace are talking about one thing in private these few days," Concubine Liu said slowly, her voice was so leisurely, "It seems that you are the one who disrespects the emperor in Concubine Ming's Palace."

I paused as I left, only to hear her say again: "For the sake of our acquaintance, I would like to remind you that Concubine Ming has always been a narrow-minded person, and killing people with borrowed knives is not uncommon in the palace. This time I was lucky enough to meet me, but next time I won’t be so lucky.”

"What do you mean?" I turned around and asked.

"What do you think?" She smiled charmingly.

The night wind was extremely cold, and the magnificent palace during the day was quiet and gloomy under the moonlight.

After leaving Concubine Liu Palace, I walked slowly on the long corridor. Not far away, palace people with lanterns came in and out of the round doors on both sides from time to time.I stopped and looked at their busy figures, only to feel a little confused.

"What are you looking at so preoccupied?" Accompanied by a frivolous voice, a pair of hands that are whiter than a woman suddenly stretched out from behind and hugged me, and the warm breath blew by my ears, "It smells so good."

I was taken aback. That night, the man who ruined my innocence also came from behind...

The unbearable past made me scream subconsciously and struggle with my hands and feet.

"what--"

"Let me go, let me go—"

(End of this chapter)