Chapter 7: Want to exchange fame and fortune for peace (2)

A helpless smile floated on my face: "Concubine Liu is rightly favored, and I am the queen, I am afraid that everyone knows that I was just married into the palace under the emperor's expediency. I will not be favored at all." I stopped and took. After taking a sip from the tea cup, "So, how can a concubine who is rightly favored go to a queen who is notorious and disgusted by the emperor?" I stared at Huiju's dodging eyes and said: "Not to mention that Concubine Liu is always proud, sometimes Relying on being pampered, even the emperor dared to violate one or two words of the emperor. She came to greet me. I never even dreamed about it.
Huiju knelt on the ground with a "plop": "Manny, the servant girl deceived the lady, and please forgive her."
I helped her up with a gentle voice: "I know you are afraid of me being angry, let's go, what did she do today?"
Huiju rubbed her hands and whispered: "The empress went out early this morning. The servants were cleaning. When I turned around, I saw a concubine standing in the courtyard, hurriedly greeting her. The maid beside her called us up, and Ask if the empress is there."
"What do you say?" I asked, after all, Shen Xiyao didn't allow me to leave Kunning Palace.
"The slave said that the maid went to Mingjingtang." Huiju replied: "The imperial concubine just nodded and took the imperial maid back and forth in the courtyard of Kunning Palace."
I frowned slightly, and Concubine Liu's move was considered arrogant.
"The slave servant didn't know who she was at the time, except that Kunning Palace didn't have the permission of the empress. Others couldn't wait to wander around. When they saw they were entering the main hall again, they stopped them." Huiju said that her eyes were slightly red. "Little Fuzi and the slave servant stopped the imperial concubine, saying that the empress is not in the palace, and asked her to go back first, and wait until the empress comes back to greet her. I don’t want the maid beside her to start a fire and ask us if we recognize that the person in front of me is the emperor’s favorite Concubine Liu concubine. She also said that there is no place where Concubine Liu concubine cannot go in the palace. The servants can only kowtow, but cannot let her enter the main hall."
I handed Huiju a cup of tea, and she thanked her and continued: "The slaves and maids knelt in front of the main hall to stop them. The concubine Liu did not speak, but sneered. The slaves were terribly scared, beside her Some of the palace ladies came up to pull us, we clung to the threshold firmly. Those palace ladies also kicked us a few feet."
My hand trembled. Concubine Liu didn't put me in her eyes at all in this move, but how could she put me in her eyes?
"What then?" I tried to calm my voice.
"Maybe it was because the slaves kept stopping, Empress Liu felt bored, so she told them all to retreat, stood alone at the door and looked at the main hall for a while, then took the people away."
I sighed for a sigh of relief, for fear that they would be tortured again, but I was also unwilling in my heart. No matter what, I am the queen that the emperor had to marry, even if he didn't want to, he still had to watch me walk in through the door of the universe. In terms of birth and respect, I am far better than Concubine Liu. She was so domineering only because of the emperor's favor, she didn't put me and the forces behind me in her eyes. Either she is too arrogant, or she has other bargaining chips against me.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but clenched a fist. Could it be...
Huiju saw that my expression was not depressed and said, "Don't be angry, mother."
I sighed and apologized to her: "It's me who is not good. You should be the most respected eunuchs of Kunning Palace in this palace. But I hold the title of this queen empty, which is actually useless. It also hurts you all."
"Niangniang, don't say that!" Huiju said hurriedly, "I don't dare to forget the good servants and maidservants, but she is willing to die for the mistress. Besides, this is what kind of grievance." She hesitated, "I am not No favors, but no contention. With the beauty and talent of the empress, which concubine in this palace can compare?"
I smiled, but shook my head. Although talent and beauty are the capital to be favored, they are not absolutely favored! Although I am proud of my birth, but because of this birth, I am destined not to be pleased by the emperor.
"Don't say this. So today, Concubine Liu hasn't said a word from beginning to end?" I asked.
Huiju thought for a while and said: "I haven't said anything, but when she left the gate of Kunning Palace, the servant maid vaguely heard what she said to the maid next to her."
"What?" I was suddenly nervous, as if this sentence would be very important.
"Well, she said, ‘you’re really embarrassing this palace just like that. Does this palace have to go in? When this palace gives birth to Lin'er, this will not belong to this palace.’"
My heart sank, it seems that my guess is mostly true.
From that day on, I thought that soon there would be news that Concubine Liu was pregnant. But nothing happened. Finally, today, the news was released.
"Miss," Haoyue saw me in a daze, thinking that I was feeling the situation today, and whispered to me.
Seeing her worried, I sighed, "Haoyue, are you afraid that if Concubine Liu gives birth to the prince, he will replace me?"
Haoyue didn’t speak, but just brought me a cup of red robe. I gently blew the floating leaves on it. The fine porcelain white lotus tea bowl was just brought to my mouth, and then put it down again,
Haoyue, don’t worry, I won’t let the Ling family make one. After the abolition."
After speaking, he took a sip, which was a little bitter. He raised his head and glanced at Huiju again, "What can the other concubines in the palace say?"
Huiju is the best sociable of the four maids I picked. She knows some eunuchs and maids next to some favored concubines in the palace, so she can tell me something about the harem. Although I am a queen in name but not in reality, you still have to know what you should know.
"Li Fei is very upset." Hui Ju took the tea bowl in my hand and said with a smile: "I heard the little Zhuozi next to Li Fei said that after learning the news, Li Fei smashed the suet bottle in the palace, but second Tian still went and said to Concubine Liu with joy."
I smiled and nodded, "Where is Hefei?"
"He concubine and empress do not have much action, I heard that they also asked the emperor to go to Longfu Temple to pray for the Liu concubine."
I let out a long "Oh", "It seems that he and the concubine are still smart." After thinking about it, he said to Haoyue: "How can I be regarded as the lord of the harem? Even though the emperor has been on the throne for a long time, he can become the throne. At a young age, I still don’t have an heir. It’s a good thing that Concubine Liu is pregnant, and we have to express it a bit. You make some delicate snacks tomorrow, and it’s my heart."
Haoyue nodded, but asked embarrassedly: "But, miss, what should I do?"
I smiled and looked at her, "My son and grandson on the day of my wedding, but you tasted it, just do that, and try to be lucky."
Haoyue thought about it carefully, "But there are some Nanshan golden silk cinnamon candied dates in it, which is very rare. I heard that it is a treasure that only the emperor can eat."