Rebirth: The imperial concubine is no longer jealous, and the emperor panics

Early in the morning, it was so hot that people felt tired.

Shen Yao changed her clothes and left Changxin Palace with Chun Nong.

In the long corridor, twists and turns, we arrived at a yard next to the imperial kitchen.

With a "squeak" sound, Chun Nong pushed open the carved wooden door.

Shen Yao lifted her skirt and stepped into the threshold.

Sitting beside the boxwood desk, the female official was sipping tea leisurely. She was wearing a pearl corolla and a green round-necked robe.

When she saw Shen Yao, she was stunned, quickly stood up, and saluted her.

"Greetings to the noble concubine!"

Shen Yao nodded slightly to her, and then sat down in the inner court where Qin Qing was sitting.

Shen Yao stretched out her white fingertips, picked up the tea cup that Qin Qing drank from just now, and took a slight sniff. He picked up another cake on the plate and looked at it twice.

Chun Nong handed over the white Juan handkerchief, Shen Yao took it, wiped her fingers gently, her eyes were cold and solemn, and the corners of her lips were slightly raised.

She seemed to be still teasing Qin Qing, "Qin Zhangling is really an elegant guest who knows how to live his life. What he drank was Yuqian Longjing and what he ate was golden ham cake."

Shen Yao smiled again and said, "Longjing before the rain is a gift for the imperial family. Only twenty of these golden ham cakes are produced in the imperial kitchen every day. Only concubines of the harem and above can enjoy them."

Although Qin Qing felt guilty, he proudly stood up and defended himself.

"I don't know, the empress, but this tea is made from Bitan Piaoxue, and its taste is similar to Longjing. It was given by my aunt, Qin Momo. This cake was also given to me yesterday by the Queen Mother, who praised me for being more and more dignified in my work."

In Qin Qing's eyes, Shen Yao was nothing more than a noble concubine who had been abandoned by the emperor and had lost her power, and was not something to be afraid of.

Shen Yao then looked around and said, "This room is also cool. As a rule, the imperial concubine can enjoy five pieces of ice a day in summer. One piece of ice weighs more than a hundred kilograms."

"As for a sixth-grade imperial edict, you enjoy much greater blessings than I do."

Shen Yao walked to the center of the room and kicked the ice cubes in the copper basin.

"I originally wanted to invite the Queen to sit in Changxin Palace for a while, but the heat in Changxin Palace may have hurt the Queen's body. It is not as cool as this courtyard. It seems that I am afraid that I want to use the courtyard of the Commander-in-Chief. Once used.”

Qin Qing looked slightly embarrassed.

Shen Yao didn't look at her, just said to herself,——

"I heard that Qin Zhangling is from Huizhou. A strange thing happened in Huizhou last year. A scholar was beaten to death on the street. The case was ignored locally."

"I don't know about Qin Zhangling. Do you know about this case? The court cherishes talents. This good scholar was innocently killed. He really lost a pillar of the country."

Shen Yao sighed deliberately, "But this scholar's ancestors are also considered to have accumulated good deeds. He is a distant uncle who happens to be a friend of Jingzhao Yin Luyun. Now he has written a complaint to impeach the local magistrate of Huizhou and is sitting on the censor's desk. This censor Doctor Shi is my father’s student.”

"Perhaps I should tell my father that although the man who beat the scholar to death was the nephew of Qin's commander, the commander did not know about it."

"Your Majesty, I really don't know anything about this matter."

Qin Qing looked nervous and defended himself.

"The imperial concubine has misunderstood. I will order Bing to be sent to Changxin Palace. I have already punished those palace officials who were slack in the past few days."

Qin Qing knew that this noble concubine was not easy to mess with, so he laughed along with her.

"I also firmly believe that the commander is innocent."

After Shen Yao finished speaking with a smile, she waved her fan and pulled Chun Nong away.

On the way back, Shen Yao's steps became much faster. Passing by the Royal Garden, I picked up a handful of peonies and put them in a vase.

When we returned to Changxin Palace, many eunuchs brought ice cubes to us.

"Empress, look!"

Xiao Xizi's joy came through the window. When Shen Yao raised his head again, he entered the hall with a huge bamboo basket in his hand.

Shen Yao asked Xiao Xizi to wash and cut the cold melons, honeydew melons, peaches, etc. in the basket and put them on ice. Give it to everyone in Changxin Palace every day at noon, dusk, and Xu.

Now I can lie down on the imperial concubine's bed with peace of mind.

Shen Yao took out a brand new script and looked at himself.

In the storybook, the scholar passed the examination for a high official position and married a lady of the Shangshu. The abandoned poor woman went to Beijing with her three-year-old son to find her relatives. At this time, Miss Shangshu fell ill and died, and the poor woman became rich and reunited.

Shen Yao was so angry that she threw away her notebook and sighed,

"Bring me a pen, I want to write my own script!"

The ending in Shen Yao's mind was that the poor woman later met her ordinary but hard-working lover, and the two of them lived a self-sufficient pastoral life, the man farming and the woman weaving.

And the scholar, who had been prosperous for half his life and lonely for the rest of his life, was reincarnated in the next life and ended up in this woman's house, working as a cow and a horse.

Shen Yao stood at the desk, holding a pen in his hand and dipping it in ink. His pen moved like a dragon and a snake, and he was constantly daydreaming.

Xiao Xizi interrupted Shen Yao with a thin voice shouting through the window - "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has sent someone to invite you!"

The pen tip in Shen Yao's hand stagnated, and a ball of ink fell on the paper. She looked at it, put down her pen, and crumpled the stained paper into a ball.

At the gate of the palace, Nanny Qin, who was close to the Queen Mother, was waiting for Shen Yao with her old chapped face.

"Mom, please wait a moment!"

Shen Yao went into the inner hall to change clothes.

It has been a long time since she went to pay her respects to the Queen Mother. When we meet later, I don’t know how I will be beaten.

In three days, it will be the Qianqiu Festival

The quarrel between Shen Yao and the Queen Mother in her previous life originated from an embroidered pearl Guanyin statue she presented during the Qianqiu Festival.

In this life, she has re-copied Buddhist scriptures and prepared other gifts. But she drove Bai Wanzhu away and offended the emperor.

This made Shen Yao have to sigh, this unbreakable fate was really setting up ambushes for her at every turn.

Lu Lingchuan was indeed her enemy in her previous life and her bad fate in this life.

How could she have been trapped in the huge prison of the palace if she hadn't married him in the first place.

Shen Yao muttered to himself, "This is a bad year," and was carried to Cining Palace by a sedan chair.

After entering the palace and bowing, her face was calm and calm, but her heart was actually filled with anxiety.

The Queen Mother sat on the phoenix throne, and the majestic female voice sounded above Shen Yao's head.

"The Ai family heard that you felt sick and vomited at the banquet in the Emperor's Palace?"

The Queen Mother's phoenix eyes were curved, and the corners of her lips seemed to be smiling.

Shen Yao suspected that his eyes were blurred.

Can the Queen Mother still smile at her?

She hurriedly knelt down and replied softly, "Thank you, Queen Mother, for your concern. I was just unwell that day."

"How long has it been since you asked for Ping An Mai?"

The Queen Mother looked at Shen Yao lovingly and complained about Lu Lingchuan, "The emperor is a man after all, and no man is careless."

"Mr. Hu, please diagnose the imperial concubine's pulse!"

As the Empress Dowager raised her voice to give orders, an old man with gray hair and a boyish face came out of the side hall.

Hu Yanling was the imperial physician dedicated to the Queen Mother, and was the master of Zhang Songhe, the current head of the imperial hospital.

He greeted Shen Yao and the Queen Mother respectively, and then made a "please" gesture to Shen Yao.

Shen Yao sat on the armchair specially brought by the little eunuch, and a white silk hand was placed on her wrist.

The old man looked, listened and inquired carefully.

"I had a chance encounter with your empress last year. Last year, your empress' body looked very weak and was not conducive to childbirth. Now, she has a rosy complexion and is well nourished!"

Hu Yanling knelt down and reported to the Queen Mother, "Although the Imperial Concubine is not pregnant with an heir for the time being, please rest assured that the Imperial Concubine will have a fat mother and a strong son in the future."

Shen Yao blushed, where did this quack doctor come from?

What kind of words are you talking about?

Where did she gain weight?

Shen Yao lamented for a while. She originally thought that the past few days of hard summer and poor diet were difficult, but at least she was on the right track and her waist should be a little thinner. Unexpectedly, an old man exposed her old story again today.

The Queen Mother was very happy, "What a fat mother and a strong son!"

"Watch and enjoy!"

Shen Yao was stunned. Hu Yanling said a few words and was rewarded. And she tried her best, but she couldn't please the Queen Mother in the slightest.

Two red lacquer trays were handed to Shen Yao. They were filled with golden beads and Hongbao earrings.

"Your Majesty, please thank me!"

At Nanny Qin's reminder, Shen Yao straightened her long skirt, knelt down and thanked the Queen Mother.

"Well, your concubine is a good wife of the Ai family. If the emperor is willing to take you with him, then he belongs to you."

The Empress Dowager was worried about the emperor's misfortune in the harem these days, but even if she ordered Shen Yao not to enter Xingning Palace and Qinzheng Palace, her son was willing to take Shen Yao with her in Hanyuan Palace.

As long as her son likes her and has her grandson to hold her, she doesn't want to care too much.

"Queen Mother, it's time to deliver soup to the emperor."

Nanny Qin said respectfully, and then added, "In the past few days, the emperor has been reviewing memorials all night, and he should be resting in Xingning Palace at this time."

"Well, today's soup, my concubine, you will deliver it to the emperor."

The Queen Mother twisted the beads in her hand, looked at Shen Yao and said warmly.

"I send?"

Shen Yao couldn't believe her ears. Didn't the Queen Mother always wish that she would stay away from the Emperor?

Is this asking her to give her soup or to give her death?