The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After returning to Shouning Palace, the emperor's complexion did not improve much.

Xie Yuzhen asked the palace maid to bring warm honey water and personally handed it to the emperor: "Your Majesty, calm down. Shen Xiaoyi has always been honest and straightforward. It is not worth it to ruin your health for such a short-sighted person."

Unexpectedly, the emperor gave her a sidelong look and asked, "Is she the one I am angry about?"

Blinking innocently, Xie Yuzhen began to reflect on whether her attitude of enjoying the fun was too obvious. But since the emperor had already seen through it, she no longer hid it: "When I went to visit Liu Xiaoyi yesterday, I gave her some satin. Seeing that she was good at sewing, I instructed her to embroider a bamboo-patterned sachet for Your Majesty."

"Shen Xiaoyi was there at the time. Maybe she misunderstood, which is why she did what happened today..." Xie Yuzhen pouted, looking unruly and coquettish. "Now it seems that Shen Xiaoyi is a little ignorant of the ways of the world. Maybe she was spoiled too much in the Marquis' Mansion. I went to visit her yesterday and brought a lot of gifts. She went with bare hands. I'm afraid she even asked Liu Xiaoyi for something before she left."

"Oh?" The emperor's brows furrowed even more tightly.

Seeing that he seemed to have calmed down and was interested in the inside story of the matter, Xie Yu was really relieved and took out the prepared words without haste: "I gave the 'Xiaoxiang Silver Bamboo' satin that Your Majesty had awarded to Liu Xiaoyi. The original owner could not use it, and she, the Shen, got it."

The rewards given to the imperial harem during the Great Sheng Dynasty were all recorded. In order to make the records look better, precious silks like these would be given names that sound festive or elegant, and each type of satin had to be different.

Therefore, in order to know where Shen Xiaoyi got the satin she was wearing, all she had to do was ask the inner court to look through the files and everything would become clear.

The emperor believed what Xie Yuzhen said, but at the same time he knew very well that the reason why Shen Xiaoyi ran to him and showed herself was because of the restless woman beside her who was playing tricks behind the scenes.

He was a little annoyed in his heart, but as soon as he saw Xie Yuzhen's look of "I did a bad thing, do whatever you want with me", he couldn't help but soften his heart, and even took the initiative to make up for her - his beloved concubine was indeed a little bad, but she didn't actively harm anyone, she just said a few words that she liked bamboo. Who asked Shen to be so smart and try to win favor in this way, but because her brain was too stupid, she went astray?

Although he thought so in his heart, the emperor still wanted to maintain his dignity. He said with a stern face: "Since you entered the palace, you have caused so many troubles, but you don't know how to restrain yourself. Have you turned a deaf ear to what I told you before?"

Xie Yu really seemed to be frightened, with his eyes wide open, but the words that came out of that red mouth showed no fear at all, and even seemed extremely bold to others: "I took the initiative to recruit Concubine Qian - oh no, Qian Shunyi?"

She was very well behaved when she greeted him, and she didn't think of causing trouble at all. Who asked Qian Shunyi to keep pestering her? He also exposed her "sad stories" and poked at her "sore spots". Isn't this a ready-made target for establishing authority? With such a good target, which was delivered to her on her own initiative, could Xie Yu really resist taking advantage of it?

The emperor was speechless for a moment.

The Xie Yuzhen he first met was a trapped beast that had been forced into a desperate situation. She would bite anyone she caught, and any dog ​​that passed by would be kicked by her. The same was true when they had sex for the first time. Her ferocious and aggressive nature made the emperor feel both curious and unable to help but start to reflect on whether he had provoked her somewhere in the past.

After such a comparison, the emperor felt a little guilty.

Although Xie Yuzhen was distressed in Kunning Palace, and pushed Qian Shunyi down from the position of the head of the first palace, and then played tricks on his former beloved concubine Liu Shuyi, and today he dug a hole for Shen Xiaoyi and kicked her out, but... but...

What bad intentions could a cat have?

The emperor was almost convinced.

Xie Yuzhen was still not giving in: "Or am I like Concubine Zhu, slapping someone in the face in public on the palace street?"

When she got angry, her cat-like eyes opened wide and sparkled, and she looked at me from the side with an indescribable charm: "Or maybe I deliberately intercepted the doctor who was treating someone when she was about to get sick?"

After the emperor made a vertical comparison of Xie Yuzhen's degree of restlessness before and after entering the palace, he began to compare her various actions after entering the palace horizontally with other concubines who had also caused trouble.

In this comparison, Xie Yu actually seems to be particularly well-behaved!

She never provoked Qian Shunyi, but Qian Shunyi scolded her for being restless as a second marriage - what about the emperor who hooked up with a married woman?

She was not like Concubine Zhu who would rush forward at every turn. As a concubine in the palace, she would actually punish others with her own hands - it was really unbecoming.

Not to mention the matter of Liu Shuyi, the emperor thought that she was probably worried about Shen Xiaoyi who had suffered an unexpected disaster, so she spoke up for Wen Baolin. Well, this is a good thing. Not only is Liu Xiaoyi a woman who values ​​righteousness, but if you think about it carefully, isn't Xie Yuzhen the same?

It's a pity that although she was kind to the other person, that person was not a fool worthy of her kindness.

Why stop anyone else's favor, but you have to stop Liu Xiaoyi who has been taking care of you when you are seriously ill.

Lady Xie couldn't bear to see Liu Xiaoyi miss the chance to sleep with him, so she gave her some advice. But you were so smart and witty that you took advantage of her physical discomfort and directly took away the silk that someone else had given her, and changed her shabby skirt overnight, thus ruining the mood.

The more the emperor thought about it, the more he disliked Shen Xiaoyi. Conversely, he felt more and more that the person he had rescued from the quagmire of the Wuwei Marquis' Mansion was truly a rare treasure in the world.

So he couldn't keep up his serious expression any longer, and he took Xie Yuzhen into his arms and started to coax her.

Xie Yuzhen was naturally not a reserved person. Seeing the stairs, he went down quickly.

For a moment, the emperor and his concubine were in harmony and had a happy dinner together.

Only after seeing the emperor off did Xie Yuzhen feel much more relaxed.

She called Chunfen to massage her aching back, and Chunfen asked in confusion, "Madam, you praise Liu Xiaoyi so much, and suppress Shen Xiaoyi so much. I don't understand."

Xie Yuzhen lazily lay on the bed, and smiled when he heard this, saying: "You are still young, learn more from your sister Xia Zhi and me, it will be of great use in the future."

"Liu Xiaoyi is a smart person. She knows that I want to promote her, so she will take the initiative to get close to me. As for Shen Xiaoyi, let's not talk about her brain. I'm afraid she still can't figure out who she should hate..."