The Job of an Imperial Concubine

"Concubine Zhao, the emperor asked the servant to bring you something." Gao Dezhong bowed to Zhuang Luoyan, seeing Zhuang Luoyan sitting on the head, a little lazy, with a smile on his face, "The servant first greets you."

"Eunuch Gao doesn't need to be so courteous," Zhuang Luoyan asked Tingzhu to bring Gao Dezhong the embroidered pier, seeing that Gao Dezhong refused to sit down and did not insist, he just said: "I wonder what the emperor gave you?"

"Back to your empress, the emperor knows that your empress likes to taste crabs, and a batch of high-quality crabs just happened to be saved in the palace, so he asked the servants to send some to your palace, as well as the recent pearl agate eyebrows. If you like it, you can keep it." Next, if you don't like it, I will send it back to the palace to save you."

Zhuang Luoyan glanced at the group of court ladies and eunuchs behind Gao Dezhong who were holding things, and couldn't help laughing: "With so many things, does the emperor want me to be picky?"

"Your Majesty, the hairy crabs have been sent to the palace's kitchen," Ting Zhu said, "and some other ingredients have also been put away."

Zhuang Luoyan nodded, then looked at Gao Dezhong again, "Did the emperor say anything else?"

"The emperor also said that if the empress is interested, I will go to Qianzheng Palace to enjoy the new song and dance of the Yuefu with the emperor later." Speaking of this, Gao Dezhong hesitated, "The emperor said that he knows that the empress does not like drama, but this time You should like singing and dancing."

Seeing Gao Dezhong's natural expression, he knew that he was embarrassed to directly talk about his vulgar hobby, so he smiled and said: "Thank you, Eunuch Gao, I've made it clear, I'll go after I sort it out."

Gao Dezhong didn't even dare to say that, but he didn't leave, he just stood in a corner and watched Zhuang Luoyan enter the inner room.

The decoration of the Xihe Palace is not luxurious, and there is almost nothing in it that violates the regulations, but the overall decoration is very warm. In this way, Gao Dezhong, who has seen the private methods of the concubines in the harem, is more careful about this Concubine Zhao. A concubine would only be careful about her own words and deeds, not even a small decoration in the room. Such a woman will not be as simple as it seems on the surface. The more comprehensive a woman is, the more complicated her scheming is, not to mention this Women can still occupy a strong position in the heart of the emperor.

Even if he couldn't figure out what kind of temperament the emperor had, he still knew a little bit about it. He always loved women, not to mention extraneous thoughts, but recently the emperor has really lost his mind on Concubine Zhao. Even the empress dowager was dissatisfied with concubine Zhao's appointment, the emperor didn't change his face in the slightest.

But the emperor just ignored the opinion of the empress dowager yesterday, and now he is giving Xihe Palace so much grace, I don't know if the empress dowager can live with it.

"Your Majesty, this apricot dress is pretty good," Yun Xi chose an apricot dress with wide sleeves.

Zhuang Luoyan glanced at it, and said: "Is this sent by someone sent by the empress two days ago?"

This wide-sleeved apricot-colored long dress is really gorgeous, and people can't help but put it on at a glance, which also shows how much thought the queen gave Zhuang Luorou.

"No need, choose that purple dark pattern tunic dress," Zhuang Luoyan yawned, and stopped looking at the dress that the queen gave her. After Yun Xi had finished dressing herself, she asked, "And When Yu sent this suit, what else did he say?"

Yun Xi thought for a while, "I didn't say anything, but you must be the best match for this dress, my lady."

Zhuang Luoyan twitched her brows slightly when she heard the words, and took down a green jade hairpin from her hair, "This hairpin doesn't match the purple robe, so it's fine."

"Yes." Ting Zhu and Yun Xi exchanged glances, followed Zhuang Luoyan and walked out.

Qianzheng Palace is the bedroom of the emperor of the Kyushu Dynasty. Feng Jin sat in the side hall, watching the dancer wearing an apricot flower dress and combing her flying hair spinning on the red carpet, squinting her eyes slightly, playing with the rhythm. beat.

"Concubine Zhao is here," following the eunuch's summons, Feng Jin opened his eyes and looked back at the woman who walked in. The lavender tunic skirt well outlined the woman's slender waist, making people want to hug her impulse.

"I have seen the emperor before." Zhuang Luoyan stepped forward with a smile, and looked at the dancer dancing on the red carpet with the corners of her lips curled up, her eyes narrowed slightly, "What a beautiful beauty, no wonder the emperor specially asked my concubine to come and watch."

"I didn't ask you to come and see the beauties. This dancer danced in the autumn rain and flying to the sky. I saw something interesting, that's why I asked Gao Dezhong to ask you to come and see." The next kiss, "Don't misinterpret my thoughts."

Zhuang Luorou blushed slightly, turned her face away and said: "The concubine looked at this dancer girl's gorgeous clothes and hair like black silk, so she praised a few words, what did the emperor think?"

Feng Jin didn't expose her shy appearance, stroked her hair and said: "I asked on purpose, the clothes on this dancer are specially worn to fit the meaning of the dance. If you don't like it, I will let her change it." That's it."

"Is the emperor deliberately making fun of my concubine?" Zhuang Luoyan pushed Feng Jin, and hummed softly, "Didn't you tell me to let my concubine watch the dance, why don't you start soon?"

Perhaps because of being amused by Zhuang Luoyan's appearance, Feng Jin showed no sign of anger at all, instead he signaled the dancer to dance in a good mood.

The dancer's figure is very good, every move is beautiful, as if she is really a fairy who wants to fly away in the autumn rain, Zhuang Luoyan leans in Feng Jin's arms, looks at the dancer with a smile, there is no smile in her eyes.

"Is this dance specially arranged?" Zhuang Luoyan watched the dancer finish dancing, and said, "It's really beautiful."

"This is what I specially ordered Yuefu to show you. Do you like my concubine?" Feng Jin didn't intend to let go of Zhuang Luoyan's arms, and Zhuang Luoyan took advantage of the situation to find a more comfortable position.

"The dance is pretty good, but I think the color of this dress is not very good." Zhuang Luoyan tilted her head and thought for a while, "I always feel that there is something wrong."

"Oh," Feng Jin looked down at Zhuang Luoyan in his arms, "what's wrong?"

Zhuang Luoyan looked at the dancer and thought for a while, knowing that the dancer's eyes were getting more and more fearful, and then said: "This beauty has a romantic figure, I think the light color is more suitable for her, and the apricot yellow is too solemn. kind?"

"You can wear this color, you don't have to think about others," Feng Jin said indifferently, "You look good in clothes, so it's possible that others can have your beauty?"

"The emperor can't think that concubines are good everywhere," Zhuang Luoyan said anxiously, "In the entire palace, the beauty of concubines is really not surprising."

"Didn't my concubine hear that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?" The emperor's smile became more obvious, "I think you are the best dressed, who can say more?"

"Then in the eyes of others, the concubine is just relying on the emperor. What's more, the apricot yellow is a little bit against the nobleman, isn't it inappropriate?" Zhuang Luoyan hesitated before expressing her worries.

"It's just a dancer's clothes on the stage. I think the queen won't mind too much. You don't have to think too much. I see that your brain is not good. If you think about it too much, I'm afraid your brain will be even more useless." Feng Jin waved the dancer back, smiled and began to play with Zhuang Luoyan's fingers.

The corners of Zhuang Luorou's mouth became more and more curved, she lowered her head and grabbed the emperor's finger with her backhand, and bit it down. Hearing the sound of the emperor's inhalation, he looked up at the emperor, "Your Majesty, my mind is quite good, if you continue to speak like this, what if I am really stupid?"

Feng Jin laughed loudly when he heard the words, rubbed his bitten finger on Zhuang Luo's rouge for a while, and then said softly and slowly: "Even if you are stupid, I will not despise you."

Zhuang Luoyan's smile dimmed a bit, and then she showed a big smile again, "There are so many sisters in the harem, and the concubine is getting more and more stupid, so I don't know how to get along in front of the emperor."

The emperor paused slightly with his fingers, then moved his hand away and hugged her into his arms.

Zhuang Luoyan was in the arms of the emperor, but no one could see who it was.

It was getting late, and the Queen's Jingyang Palace had already lit the palace lanterns. The Queen flipped through the internal affairs booklet of the harem, looked sideways at Heyu who was standing beside her, and suddenly asked, "Today, the emperor summoned Concubine Zhao to go to the main palace. Knock and dance."

He Yu lowered his head and said, "Yes."

Turning over a page of the account book, the queen said calmly, "What did Concubine Zhao wear?"

"It's a corseted hairpin skirt made of Sichuan embroidered satin given by the emperor." Heyu hesitated and said, "Since Concubine Zhao went in, she hasn't come out. I heard that the emperor asked her to stay overnight."

The queen gave her hand a slight pause, and then said flatly, "Oh, she has just been promoted, it's normal for the emperor to love her more, but I don't know if Concubine Zhao likes that song and dance."

He buried his head lower and lower, and whispered what he had inquired about.

The queen held the account book tighter and tighter, and it took a long while before she calmly said, "Of course I don't mind what a dancer is wearing. The emperor and my husband and wife come here often, so I really understand me." That being said, But a page on the account book was pinched open.

Jingyang Palace became dead silent.

In the middle of the night, it started to rain, Zhuang Luoyan woke up from the dream, and found that her waist was gently hugged by the emperor, she frowned, and barely saw the situation on the bed through the night pearl inlaid on the wall , After a night of fierce fighting, the bed was a little messy. She gently removed the emperor's hand, sat up and pressed the quilt for the emperor before lying down again.

"Why did you wake up?" Feng Jin hugged him into his arms again.

"Did the concubine wake you up?" Zhuang Luoyan shrank into the emperor's arms and whispered: "The concubine heard that it's raining, and the autumn night is getting cold, so I wanted to press the quilt for you, and never wanted to disturb you gone."

The light of Ye Mingzhu was not bright, so Zhuang Luoyan couldn't see Feng Jin's expression clearly, but she felt that the hand holding her was getting stronger, she hooked the corners of her lips, and arched into the emperor's arms.

The emperor patted Zhuang Luorou's back lightly. After a long time, he didn't stop until the person in his arms gradually fell asleep. Listening to the sound of rain outside, he thought he would no longer feel sleepy, but fell asleep very quickly. past.