First Concubine

Chapter 150 Good news from heaven (2)

Shui Linglong nodded and sat down. The little palace maid offered a cup of tea, Shui Linglong took it with both hands, but didn't drink it. She didn't like the bitter taste recently. She looked at the Buddhist beads that the queen kept touching and said with a smile, "These beads are really exquisite."

The queen's face showed a happy look: "It's a New Year's gift from the third princess. Long live the Lord and I are one. I heard that the eminent monk of Putuo Temple consecrated it."

Pfft - Shui Linglong almost laughed out loud, she really knows how to whitewash the peace. The third princess clearly left the temple, but the queen got two strings of Buddhist beads to show the merits of the third princess. So, it is very important to have a powerful mother. This kind of If the situation happened to other princesses, the ending would not be so optimistic.

Shui Lingyu's eyelashes trembled in an irregular rhythm. Alas, she actually wanted to praise her, but she was afraid of offending the queen. She really regretted not being bolder.

The queen smiled again and said: "It's freezing cold. My aunt has caught wind and cold. The princess has returned to Leng's house to attend to her illness. Does the old lady have any objections?"

The old lady put a tight spell on the servants in the house regarding Leng Youru, and they were not allowed to reveal even a single word, but the reason was not announced to the public. This excuse should have been thought up by the Leng family. The queen's father, Yao Sheng, and Leng Youru's mother, Yao Xinyu, are siblings. Isn't the queen Leng Youru's cousin? Shui Linglong didn't believe that the queen didn't know the inside story. She was probably testing the Zhuge family's attitude by asking this question.

Shui Linglong put down the tea cup and said gently: "As for your Majesty, I will do whatever the old lady says."

The queen paused for a moment while holding the beads, and then pointed out something else: "The old lady is very open-minded. My cousin often praises the old lady in front of me that she is the only good mother-in-law in the world. She can be happy with the old lady. A lifetime of blessings." This time, he changed his name to "cousin."

Shui Linglong felt a strong coercion coming towards her face. She subconsciously wanted to win over the other party in terms of aura. This was a conditioned reflex mentality developed from years of high position. The harem belonged to her, and all women Everyone must submit to her. Whoever challenges her, whoever goes against her, whoever doesn't take her seriously will be a thorn in her side! What about Queen Yao? Didn't he kneel at her feet and beg her to let the young seventh prince go? The defeated general in his previous life dared to demonstrate nakedly to her in this life and seek death!

However, her inner demon only surfaced for a moment, and she remembered that things were different now. She was not Xun Feng's executioner, but Zhuge Yu's wife. The queen was not an enemy, she could barely be called an ally. After all, they had something in common. Opponent - Xun Feng. Stuffing her thoughts back into the depths of her soul little by little, Shui Linglong raised the corners of her mouth slightly: "Yes, you should cherish blessings when you are in blessings. My mother-in-law taught me this truth."

The queen glanced coldly, and said with a slight twinkle in her eyes: "It's rare for you to enter the palace, go and see Concubine Zhen later. I remember that Concubine Zhen likes to collect embroidery, and it just so happens that the Shang Palace Bureau has released a new batch of different products. Madam Jiang, let me choose some Hunan embroidered silk handkerchiefs for my concubine.”

Mo Ju walked to Shui Lingyu very cooperatively and said with a smile: "Mrs. Jiang, please!"

Shui Lingyu looked at the smiling empress with a complex expression, and then at Shui Linglong who remained calm, and then left Baicui Pavilion with Eunuch Zhang. The maids and eunuchs also filed out of the huge space. This pair of strong women and Eunuch Zhang are left. The queen's smile gradually faded, and a hint of willfulness appeared in her eyebrows: "The prince often praises Miss Shui for her intelligence and noble nature. She is definitely not comparable to ordinary women. I wonder how Miss Shui evaluates herself?"

Shui Linglong thought for a while and said calmly and calmly: "Everyone looks at things from different angles and reaches different conclusions. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very virtuous and looks at people with tolerance, but I dare not look at people with intelligence." Self-proclaimed.”

"You can't be cowardly enough to question your mother-in-law openly." The queen smiled lightly, her eyes were deep, like a bottomless black pool, slowly reflecting the cold light. Eunuch Zhang was secretly frightened, the queen had always She is the first concubine who can express her emotions and anger without expressing her emotions and can force the queen to look like this with just a few words.

Shui Linglong lowered her eyes and said nothing. This matter was about comparing who had a tougher attitude. Anyway, the Queen did not dare to do anything to her except for her kindness and power in words.

The corners of the queen's mouth twitched and she continued: "You are a sensible person, so I will speak openly with you. I believe the old lady's decision is true for the time being, but the Leng family is the first family in the Great Zhou Dynasty. , you have to consider what offending the Leng family will bring to the Zhenbei Palace."

Shui Linglong continued to remain silent. The queen just wanted to whip her! At least give her a word and make her perform a one-man show like a fool! The queen's throat slipped and she said: "Furthermore, the marriage between Kashgar Qing and the Leng family is of great significance. If one of them is not done well, at least, both parties will become the laughing stock of the Great Zhou Dynasty; at worst, both parties will go to war and affect the current situation. These As the future mistress of the Zhenbei Palace, you should think carefully about the stakes. I appreciate your character and intend to have more contact with you, so you must not let down my hard work."

Shui Linglong said this time: "Well, thank you very much." Nothing more happened!

 The Queen almost gave up! From whom did you learn this skill of being indifferent to oil and salt? After all, she is the queen of a country, and for her to talk about this, doesn't she know how to sell the mother of a country a favor?

Shui Linglong sees it this way. The favor the queen owes her is very good, very good, so good that it makes people happy. If she has any three illnesses in the distant future, the queen can cure them one by one. But the problem is, if she can be an unconscionable seller today, she will become a traitor to her country in a frenzied way in the future. Her integrity cannot be lost even for a minute. Therefore, I will definitely not get on the Queen's pirate ship.

In the end, the queen was defeated: "Okay, let's go see your fourth sister!"

Shui Linglong stood up and bowed: "Yes, I will leave."

Just as he was about to turn around, the little palace maid reported outside the door: "Empress De Fei wants to see you!"

Without even thinking about it, the queen said coldly: "I am exhausted and will not receive any guests today! Zhang He, please send the Crown Princess to the Millennium Palace!"

Shui Linglong raised her eyebrows. Concubine De was the queen's confidant, and the two had always been close. How could the queen show such an irrepressible coldness? Was the queen angry at Concubine De because she was angry with her, or was she really angry with Concubine De?

Eunuch Zhang sent Shui Linglong and Shui Lingyu at the door to the Millennium Palace. As soon as Eunuch Zhang left, Shui Lingyu took Shui Linglong's hand and said mysteriously: "Sister, did the Queen send me away just now?" I want to talk to you?"

Shui Linglong: "Yeah."

Shui Lingyu rolled her beautiful eyes, broke the casserole and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Why are you asking so many questions?" Shui Linglong glared at her, remembering how angry she was at the old lady and trying to use her as a shield, Shui Linglong didn't have a good look to give her.

Shui Lingyu encountered a soft nail. She was unwilling but could only say calmly: "You are capable, you are the crown prince of the palace, I am just the royal wife of an official!"

 These words sounded sour and contained a hint of showing off. Indeed, Shui Linglong's imperial edict was given by the palace, but she earned her imperial edict by herself. Therefore, she felt that her waist was straighter.

Shui Linglong laughed: "I know you are still chirping, but you are not a sparrow on the tree!"

Shui Lingyu frowned and said, "You can bully me as much as you want. If the fourth sister bullies you later, I will never help you!"

Shui Linglong ignored her and walked directly into the Millennium Palace. The two of them first went to the main hall to meet the eldest princess's biological mother, Ji Zhaoyi, who had now been promoted to a higher position. They gave her a meeting gift and then went to Shui Lingyue's moon. Hua Dian.

As soon as the two of them walked around the corridor and passed through a small garden to enter the Yuehua Palace, they met the elegantly dressed Liang Guiren at the door. Seeing her hurried look, she seemed to be going out. What a coincidence. , Shui Lingyue's personal maid Si Xi accidentally bumped into her. It can't be said that it was a collision, because Si Xi stopped the car in time and knelt aside, only touching a piece of his sleeve. But Liang Guiren raised his hand and slapped him: "You're blind! Where is the palace? Is it a vegetable market? Mud can't hold up the wall!"

Liang Guiren snorted coldly and walked out of the Millennium Palace from the opposite path. Shui Lingyu opened her mouth in surprise. The person just now must have been Liang Guiren. She couldn't figure it out. How could Liang Guiren dare to slap Zhenbi's maid?

Si Xi looked up and saw the two aunts standing at the end of the small garden. His face turned pale and he got down and said, "My slave, please say hello to the eldest aunt and the third aunt!"

The two walked towards Si Xi, Shui Linglong looked at her condescendingly, and said seriously: "Liang Guiren has always been so arrogant?" The memory of Liang Guiren still lingered on when she visited Shui Chenxiang in the palace last spring. At that time, she felt that Liang Guiren was so arrogant. The noble man was quite arrogant, but he didn't expect that the other party was arrogant to the following extent.

Si Xi lowered his eyebrows and hesitated: "Not... all the time."

 That said, it started recently, and it’s been a few days. Shui Linglong blinked slowly: "Why don't you report it to Empress Zhaoyi and ask her to uphold justice?"

Si Xi's eyes turned red: "Although Empress Zhaoyi is the empress of the Millennium Palace, in the turbulent palace... she is not enough to watch!"

 Not enough to see at the palace? In this way, Liang Guiren has found a solid and powerful backer, so he is confident. The first thing Shui Linglong thought of was the imperial concubine. Apart from the imperial concubine who could be so arrogant in the palace just by virtue of her position as queen, who else could be so arrogant? But the survival rules of the harem also told Shui Linglong that status is not very reliable. Could it be that Shui Lingyue...

With doubts, Shui Linglong and Shui Lingyu entered Shui Lingyue's inner palace. Shui Lingyue sat on the main seat, wearing a gorgeous purple palace dress with gold thread and pearls, and her hair was combed with hair that was beyond her age. She has a mature bun, a pair of violet gold hairpins, three plum blossom gold hairpins, and some small and unique pearl flowers. She wears four gilt bracelets on her wrists, which match the same color necklace on her neck. She is full of wealth. pressing. Shui Lingyu's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise. Shui Lingyue caught her expression and smiled contentedly. When she looked at Shui Linglong again, she couldn't laugh anymore.

Shui Linglong looked at Shui Lingyue like she was looking at a little puppet that had been thrown aside casually after someone got tired of playing with it, with a touch of ridicule. When a person must reflect her own value and status through gorgeous clothes, she no longer has these two things. .

"Good luck to you, Concubine Zhen." The two of them greeted Shui Lingyue, and Shui Lingyue gave Shui Linglong a half-gift in return. She glanced at Si Xi, whose cheeks were red and swollen, and scolded awkwardly: "Are you rashly bumping into someone again?" I've warned you before that the imperial palace is not a minister's palace, so you have to be very alert, but you turned a deaf ear to my words again and again, and you didn't get much done, but you caused a lot of trouble! I told Empress Zhaoyi and Guiren Liang that anyone who makes mistakes in my palace will be beaten to death by me! The punishment you received today is considered light, so you retreated to the wall and thought about it!" After saying this, he turned around again! Looking at Shui Linglong and Shui Lingyu, she pretended to be calm and said with a smile: "Today is a gathering of my sisters. The eldest sister and the third sister, please don't be polite to me and sit down quickly."

Shui Lingyu almost thought that she had recognized the wrong person. The daughter of the concubine who only talked down to Shui Lingxi but kept talking to them... was she really the gentle and polite concubine in front of her?

Shui Lingyu became more and more difficult to hide her impatience, but Shui Lingyue calmed down her temper day by day. It can be seen that the living environment has a fatal impact on a person. Shui Linglong swept her cold eyes and asked with a smile: "Fourth sister, where is the twelfth prince?"

"Your Majesty, look how happy Twelve is smiling!" In the Chengde Palace, Concubine De held the nearly half-year-old Twelve Prince and sat on the Emperor's lap, smiling charmingly.

The emperor put his arm around Concubine De's shoulders and pinched the pink cheeks of the twelfth prince with the other hand. He also smiled: "Yes, he looks as cute as our Eleven when he smiles."

The eleventh prince rushed over, kissed his younger brother first, then raised a childish smile and said, "Are you praising your son, your minister, or your twelfth brother?"

 The emperor laughed out loud: "Father is praising you two!"

“Then…who is the cuter, the son, the minister, or the twelfth brother?” the eleventh prince asked very seriously.

Concubine De's face changed slightly, for fear that the emperor would suspect that she had taught her these words. In fact, she had never taught him!

 But the emperor was in a very good mood. He touched the forehead of the eleventh emperor and said with a smile: "Eleventh is the cutest! His endorsement is better than your tenth brother and ninth brother. Father loves hard-working children!"

The eleventh prince hugged the emperor's neck and slapped him **** the face, causing the emperor to burst into laughter.

"Eleven really likes his brother, but I always ask Concubine Zhen's children to accompany Eleven in Chengde Palace. Isn't it too selfish?" Concubine De looked at the emperor with a smile, and the emperor said, "Ten "One is too lonely, it's good to have a younger brother to accompany him, and it's also good for Twelve, and Twelve is in love with you, and he won't cry if you hug him."

"Your Majesty, Concubine De, I would like to see Mr. Liang." Xiao Anzi reported softly at the door.

 The emperor's smile faded and he was no longer happy!

Concubine De was happy in her heart when she saw this, but she still said gently: "I was negligent. I have always heard that Sister Liang is good at calligraphy. I wanted to ask him to teach Shi Shi how to practice calligraphy. I didn't expect..." She lowered her head. , smiled shyly!

“You didn’t expect me to come to see you?” the emperor asked jokingly.

Concubine De looked at the twelfth prince who was vomiting milk bubbles in her arms, and whispered shyly: "Your Majesty, you have been here for seven days in a row. I feel like I am in a dream. I don't dare to have extravagant wishes today."

This kind of honor and favor is comparable to that of the original Jade Concubine.

The emperor said: "Let Liang Guiren come in and practice calligraphy with Eleven, and you and I will take Twelve to the flower room."

"That's very good." Concubine De came close to the emperor, and when the eleventh prince wasn't paying attention, she gave him a gentle kiss. The emperor was very happy, and looked at her with a more doting look.

Liang Guiren tidied up her appearance and entered the inner palace. She bowed to the emperor and the concubine, fully expecting the emperor to see her beauty. However, the emperor didn't even raise his eyelids. She frowned in disappointment and looked at her again. Concubine De, Concubine De shrugged helplessly and said, I have created opportunities for you, but you yourself cannot impress the emperor.

Liang Guiren gritted his teeth and led the eleventh prince to the small study to practice calligraphy. The emperor hugged Concubine De, who was holding the twelfth prince, and went to the flower room of Chengde Palace.

　　It is said to be a flower room, but it is actually an alternative sleeping palace with hundreds of flowers blooming and warm as spring. Official Xin took the twelve princes out and left the fragrant palace to the two imperial concubines...

Shui Lingyue's long eyelashes trembled fiercely, her hands buried under her wide sleeves clenched into fists, her eyes flashed, and she tried her best to speak in a normal tone: "Oh, that's it, Concubine De asked me to take the twelfth prince there. Let’s get together at Chengde Palace. Aren’t you and Third Sister here? I’ll let Lady Officer Xin take the Twelve Princes.”

Shui Linglong made a gesture to get up: "Oh, we have delayed your business. You should go to Chengde Palace. Without the mother and concubine to accompany you, the twelve princes may make a fuss."

Shui Lingyue grabbed Shui Linglong's sleeve and said with a sneer: "No, Concubine De has experience, and Miss Xin is also here. Twelve is good. Besides, Concubine De and I see each other every day, but you and Sanmei don't We can’t come here often, it’s more worthwhile for us sisters to catch up on old times.”

Shui Linglong stayed with Shui Lingyu, and the three of them chatted all over the place. Shui Lingyu's brain was being fed by Governor Jiang. The more she lived, the more she went back. She pulled Shui Lingyue and asked many questions that even Shui Linglong blushed. , Shui Lingyue somehow managed to answer them one by one, including some secrets between eunuchs and palace maids, eunuchs and palace concubines, palace concubines and palace concubines, or palace concubines and palace maids. Shui Lingyue also knew everything.

Shui Lingyu's curiosity was greatly satisfied. At the end, she added: "Fourth sister, have you worked with anyone to relieve your loneliness?"

Shui Linglong choked on a mouthful of warm water. You deserve it, Shui Lingyue!

Most women are really lonely. It is obvious that the three of them don't like each other, but they are chatting enthusiastically, like best friends who have been separated for many years, or like a sister born from her mother's womb.

Soon it was lunch time, and the Twelve Princes still hadn't returned. Shui Lingyue had people serve food, including six delicacies that the Queen alone gave to Shui Linglong and Shui Lingyu: white meat with garlic paste, smoked rabbit legs, and stir-fried king oyster mushrooms. Scallops, stir-fried mango belly, braised eggplant with soy sauce and dry pot tea tree mushrooms.

 (End of this chapter)