The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little awkward.

Xu Ronghua thought for a moment and broke the silence, "Last time I heard that Yue Hui in Xiaoyi Palace was ill. I wonder if she is getting better?"

Shen Xiaoyi looked up at her and said, "I don't know. The maid has been ill for a long time and has not recovered. I reported it to the Shanggong Bureau and asked them to move her away and replace her with a healthy one."

Xu Ronghua felt speechless for the first time in a long time.

"Pfft." Lady Zhang covered her lips with a handkerchief and laughed, "Shen Xiaoyi, you and Wen Baolin are sisters. Your ways of doing things are really different. Fang'er, whose leg was broken, was about to die, but Wen Baolin paid for the imperial physician to treat her. You just got sick, but you hurriedly pushed him away..."

"She's just a maid, and she's unlucky enough to become my maid. Of course her life is even more worthless than Wen Baolin's maid. I don't have the family wealth to give her proper treatment. It's a waste." Shen Xiaoyi's tone was a little more impatient.

She thought that after falling in love with the emperor this time, she must not just get by as she did in her previous life. She must let seductresses like Concubine Zhang and Xu Ronghua know that her position in the emperor's heart was far higher than theirs.

Shen Xiaoyi wished she could sleep until one year later, the day when she started to be favored in her previous life.

Most of her mind was immersed in a world that belonged to her alone, and she didn't notice that she had already caused Concubine Zhang's displeasure by calling her a maidservant and a worthless person.

"Shen Xiaoyi has a bad temper. I just want to remind you kindly that the Queen Mother will be returning to the palace soon..." Seeing that the person opposite her was still indifferent, Lady Zhang felt like she was biting on a turtle shell. "The Queen Mother is a devout Buddhist and is the kindest to the palace servants. Shen Xiaoyi, you are so unkind, you should be careful."

Shen Xiaoyi only listened to Lady Zhang's words of rebuking her for being unkind, and immediately raised her eyebrows: "If Lady Zhang has pity on that maid, then go to the Shang Palace Bureau and ask for her."

She originally wanted to say that Concubine Zhang was also born as a palace maid, no wonder she felt the same way as Yue Hui, but the crow's mouth system in her mind was warning her like crazy, reminding her not to forget that she had just made up her mind to keep a low profile and wait for the right opportunity... This attitude of talking nonsense to everyone she met did not seem like she was going to keep a low profile.

[They are just a group of doomed losers. I have been reborn, but I still want to... That's all. I will let them go this time. ]

The Crow's Mouth System only felt that its non-existent brain was buzzing. It felt more and more that Shen Xiaoyi was crazy, but who knows, maybe it was because of her madness that the emperor liked her?

After all, the taste of Emperor Qiyuan was really hard to guess, and the harem was filled with crazy women.

With her chin raised, Shen Xiaoyi turned and left.

Xu Ronghua, who stayed behind, showed an embarrassed look on his face and said to Lady Zhang: "She...has always been like this, she speaks and acts casually, but her heart is not bad. Lady, please don't take it personally."

This is a lie.

How could Shen Xiaoyi not have a bad heart?

Xu Ronghua thought of the two times she was attacked by her system, and how she jumped up and down before Wang Xuanshi had a miscarriage. She also saw Concubine Zhang's indignant look after being humiliated. She had been undecided about how to get rid of Shen Xiaoyi quietly, and suddenly she had an idea.

Although Concubine Zhang was a palace maid, she had never been treated like this since she entered the Imperial Study. Moreover, because of the Emperor's love for her, she had always been the leader among the palace maids serving tea, almost the same as a formal female official with an official rank. Who in the Imperial Study dared to treat her with such a contemptuous attitude?

But she still remembered her original purpose, so she suppressed her anger, secretly thinking about teaching Shen Xiaoyi a lesson, while putting on the most kind smile on her face: "I just entered the palace and I'm not familiar with everyone. I thought I had provoked her..."

"She has this temper, everyone knows it."

The two of them pretended to be nice to each other on the palace road, and while they were socializing, they were walking towards Shouning Palace.

When they arrived at the place, the palace maid who stayed in Jinghua Tower told them that Xie Yuzhen was not there.

Chunfen said to Xu Ronghua with an apologetic look, "This morning, the craftsman's workshop said that the things that Madam Cairen had asked them to make for the young prince were ready. Madam Cairen wanted to go over and check them herself on a whim, and told me that if you, Ronghua, came over today, you don't have to wait for her."

In fact, there was another sentence, which was to let Xu Ronghua go into Shouning Palace to rest and play by himself, but Chunfen glanced at Concubine Zhang and did not say this out loud.

"That's unfortunate." Xu Ronghua also understood Chunfen's meaning. With an outsider like Concubine Zhang present, she certainly wouldn't act too close to Shouning Palace, let alone stay in Jinghua Tower waiting for Xie Yuzhen to come back. "Please ask Miss Chunfen to tell Madam Cairen that I'll come to visit you when I have time."

Therefore, Lady Zhang could only secretly hate her bad luck today. First she met a crazy person when she went out, and then she had the nerve to follow him here, but unfortunately the owner was not there.

She had no choice but to leave.

Craftsman workshop.

Xie Yuzhen was pregnant and the emperor was holding the child next to her. They looked like a harmonious and loving family of four.

Some time ago, she had used some tricks to ask the emperor to personally design a longevity lock for his unborn daughter. Today, as soon as it was made, she sent for the emperor to come as well: "Master Chen has great craftsmanship. I see that it is exactly the same as your drawing, Your Majesty!"

The small golden lock in the shape of auspicious clouds is engraved with rice-sized patterns of the Chinese characters for "Fu Shou" in different fonts. In the middle is a pigeon-blood ruby, and below hangs a flawless piece of mutton-fat white jade, with long tassels strung with plump, round little pearls.

The necklace used to match this longevity lock is made into the shape of a gourd vine, with patterns of young deer and cranes engraved on the vine. The red gold base is filled with bright silver threads, which is extremely luxurious.

This is just one of them.

Xie Yuzhen took the trouble to look at the twenty or thirty boxes in front of him one by one. Not all of them had patterns drawn by the emperor himself, but they were all novel and auspicious, and it was obvious that a lot of thought had gone into them.

When the last wooden box was opened, a plum blossom hairpin was revealed, with sandalwood branches, jasper leaves, white jade flowers, and red jade core.

How come the previous boxes contained items for infants, but the last one contained long hairpins that were only used by adult women?

Xie Yuzhen glanced at the emperor, then lowered her head shyly.

The emperor put aside his gratitude and personally took out the plum blossom hairpin from the box and gently pinned it into Xie Yuzhen's thick black hair.

Flowers are like beauties, and people are more beautiful than paintings.

The emperor could not help but sigh: "This proud plum blossom really praises you very much."

"Your Majesty." Xie Yuzhen was not restrained by the fact that her son was watching. She pretended to be embarrassed and gently pinched the flesh on the emperor's waist, which only tickled him but did not hurt him. "Really? The child is watching."

The emperor laughed a few times, then took out a sandalwood bracelet from the bottom of the box, called Xie Yi over, and put it on the child's chubby wrist: "I want to confer a title of nobility on Tan Nu, but I haven't decided on a title yet. What do you think, Xie Yi?"