I rely on food to guide the whole harem

When the imperial concubine was invited to Kunning Palace, the palace people only said that the queen had invited her, but did not clarify what it was.

She thought that there was some important matter in the palace that needed to be discussed by the concubines in the palace, but when she arrived, she realized that it was the queen who wanted to invite her to have a meal together for some reason.

She had no expression on her face and was about to leave immediately.

"Why, the imperial concubine doesn't even give me this bit of face?"

The imperial concubine paused when she heard the words, but sat down anyway.

"You and my sister haven't sat down and chatted so quietly for a long time."

There were complex emotions in the queen's words, and the imperial concubine didn't want to distinguish, so she replied respectfully and unfamiliarly: "The empress is joking, the empress is busy with palace affairs, and the concubine dare not disturb her."

The queen smiled lightly, and signaled the palace man to cook the dishes for the imperial concubine. The palace man walked up to the imperial concubine and was about to move the bowls and chopsticks, but was stopped by the imperial concubine's close maid, Jin Yu, who directly picked up the chopsticks and used them for herself. The master cooks dishes.

The imperial concubine took Jinyu's sliced ​​meat that was cooked and cooled slightly, and put it directly into her mouth.

The queen stared at her face with great interest. The imperial concubine's complexion was as cold and inviolable as before, but the slightly red eyelids betrayed her. Her eyes were full of water, and tears oozed and swirled little by little. Like petals soaked in dew in the morning.

"My sister is still used to it?" The queen raised her eyebrows happily, "Is this 'spicy hot pot' delicious? I am the first one to think of you when I have something good."

The imperial concubine pursed her lips tightly, her expression became more and more cold, "Since the empress has nothing else to do, and the concubine is not feeling well, I will take my leave first."

"Oh? My sister is not feeling well..." The queen's eyes showed some meaning, "Then go back and rest earlier, if I am sick, Ninghe will inevitably have trouble again."

Under her gaze, the imperial concubine froze, she only slightly bowed her knees to salute, and then led the maid away. Her walking posture made the queen think of a word inexplicably: fled.

The queen couldn't help laughing out.

Eunuch Sun's old face also turned into a chrysanthemum. He stepped forward and handed the queen a cup of tea to relieve the spicy heat, and persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, since you like it, why don't you invite the imperial concubine to come and accompany you? I haven't seen your empress smile for a long time. So happy."

The queen took the teacup and sighed, "I need to invite you a few more times. With her suspicious nature, she must be in a hurry to get angry for several days."

Eunuch Sun sighed silently: "When the empress was still in the mansion, the imperial concubine had such a good relationship with you. In the entire Xiao mansion, she only talked to you and only smiled at you. Now..."

The queen lowered her eyelids to hide the expression in her eyes: "Yes, it was really good at that time..."

Thinking of the past, the queen was a little dazed for a moment.

The previous dynasty was cruel and tyrannical, the emperor was fatuous and lawless, and there were uprisings in various places. In the end, it was His Majesty who won the world today.

That year, the entire Liang clan was wiped out, only Yu Huangguifei, a five-year-old princess, who was too young to understand human affairs and was only a princess who could not shake the country, was left alive to show His Majesty's benevolence and to fight against cruelty and cruelty. The Liang family of the people is different.

This Princess Yongning, the last of the Liang Dynasty, was brought up by the former Prime Minister Xiao and now Master Xiao Ling of Zhongshu Ling. When she first entered the mansion, she was as cold as a fake doll, unable to cry, laugh, or speak.

At that time, all the houses in Xiao's mansion had children, and in this life they had only one daughter, Empress Xiao Qinglan.

Xiao Qinglan, who has no sisters since childhood and is a dirty, stinky brother, is naturally very interested in Liang Yongning, a finely carved jade doll. She teases her every day, and slowly, she really melts the ice. .

It's a pity that later, in order to consolidate the political power, His Majesty married Xiao Qinglan as the Empress of the Central Palace. When the two sisters met again, Liang Yongning somehow spread the title of the most beautiful woman in the capital, and was welcomed into the palace as the Imperial Concubine.

She changed back to that cold look, and she was also a stranger to the queen.

"It's as if she wasn't the one who hugged Bengong and cried into tears the day I entered the palace."

The queen murmured in a low voice, and she didn't realize how petty the words were, how inconsistent with the dignified status of the queen of the middle palace.

The imperial concubine hurried all the way to the Chonghua Palace, the surrounding air pressure was extremely low, and all the palace people dared not take a breath.

As soon as she entered the door, the imperial concubine ordered the maid in a low voice: "Go and pour me a pot of tea."

After drinking a whole cup of tea, he resumed his glamorous and noble posture, and began to think about the queen's intentions.

What's the matter with the queen, since she entered the palace, she has been inseparable from the queen, and this time she was suddenly called to go, is it really just for the meal?Or, has the queen noticed something?

The imperial concubine waiting for orders inside, another big court lady, saw that the empress looked calm, and stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, you are finally back, Commander Song is asking to see you."

The imperial concubine was just about to announce people to come in, but she was stopped by Duanyan's next sentence, "Commander Song said that the empress was invited away by the queen just after he came back from a business trip to ask for an interview. .”

The imperial concubine was startled when she heard the words, and Jin Yu behind her turned pale with shock, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, is the empress suspicious?"

The imperial concubine supported her forehead with a slight headache: "The palace has been going so smoothly these years, and I have been careless against her. Hurry up and send a trustworthy person to inform Commander Song to check all the people in the palace. See if there are spies from other palaces mixed in."

I would like to take the order to retreat.

Duan Yan stepped forward to rub the empress's temples, and asked: "Isn't the empress always worshiping the Buddha behind closed doors and not wanting to be troublesome?"

The imperial concubine closed her eyes, and the long fingertip of her little finger on her right hand unconsciously scraped gently against the armrest.

"I really hope that the person who opposes me is not her."

When Qi Yangui returned to Qingning Palace from Lenggong, Xiao Quanzi was rummaging around in his room, Baizhi and Yuzhu were being dragged by two young eunuchs, looking at him angrily.

Xiao Quanzi and the others heard voices outside the door, and hurriedly tried to restore the house, only to see that Qi Yangui had pushed the door open.

"What are you doing?"

"Your Highness is back? I'm helping you clean up the house." Xiao Quanzi was a little flustered, and then thought that the prince had always been short-tempered, and he didn't dare to say any sarcastic words to his face before, so he regained his composure and shook disapprovingly Shaking the quilt in his hand, a piece of jade fell out from the quilt core.

Xiao Quanzi picked up the jade, seeing that the color was not very good, curled his lips in disdain, and put it in his arms.

"I think you are getting bolder, do you still remember who is His Highness?"

"Remember, aren't you the Crown Prince of our Great Qi Dynasty?" Xiao Quanzi finished speaking, and walked out of the room swaggeringly.

Qi Yangui looked at Xiao Quanzi's back with serious eyes, making everyone else back off too.

Baizhi and Yuzhu supported each other, and help His Royal Highness close the door in shame.

When the room returned to silence, someone tapped lightly on the window sill twice.

Qi Yangui's voice was cold, and he called softly, "Tang Jiu."

The window was opened, and a black shadow lightly turned in from the window, bringing with it a sharp wind like a knife, and then immediately hid silently in a dark corner, which could not be seen unless one looked carefully.

There was no sound at all during the whole movement, and the maids and eunuchs who were moving outside the door didn't notice that there was already an extra person in Qingning Palace out of thin air.

Black Shadow Tang Jiu took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to him without saying a word.

Qi Yangui took the letter, and after reading it, he said in a low voice, "Tell General Xu, if you can't win him over, find a way to get rid of him, and we'll find another candidate."

"Xiao Quanzi can't stay. Have the other two family members found out where they are?"

Tang Jiu lowered his head and reported back: "He is already in our hands, and the fifth prince has not controlled their family."

Qi Yangui nodded slightly: "Qi Yan is still so conceited, let's start taking action."

The black shadow was signaled, flew out of the window, swept across the top of the tree, and landed outside the Qingning Palace in a few breaths, it turned out to be already dressed as an eunuch.

Qi Yangui folded the letter in half, put one end close to the candlelight, the letter paper instantly ignited flames, then slowly turned into ashes, extinguished, and a wisp of green smoke floated leisurely.

He walked slowly to the window, his eyes swept across the entire palace bit by bit, the palace under the setting sun was so majestic, solemn and indifferent, the corners of his mouth curled up for a moment.

"Do you know that a young eunuch drowned in the lotus pond on the other side of the cold palace?"

"I've heard that too. You said it's not good for this little eunuch to go. Why go to the Leng Palace? Who doesn't know that it's eerie and haunted there!"

"How do you know that he passed by himself, maybe by a female ghost?"

"Can a eunuch still be excited?"

A few little maids gathered together and were chatting gossip. Tang Yinjiang was tired of cooking milk tea and hot pot soup and came out with a sand fruit in his hands. Jiu just listened to it.

Sure enough, wherever there are people, there will be gossip, even the palace is no exception.

"Kacha," Tang Yinjiang took a bite of the shaguo, startling a few young maids, who were about to kneel down tremblingly.

"Hey, don't kneel!" Tang Yinjiang hurriedly stopped them, "Don't kneel to me, you guys continue chatting, I'll just join in the fun."

"Auntie, don't make fun of us... Hey, my dishes haven't been washed yet!"

"Yes, I remembered, I still have two bowls to send to Li Yuchu."

The little maids each found an excuse to disperse, Tang Yinjiang sighed, since Li Chun was kicked down by Concubine Liu, the aunt in charge of all the palace ladies in the imperial dining room has been vacant, she offered spicy hot pot to the queen this time, no If he was rewarded with silver again, he was directly promoted to this position.

Not to mention some more inexplicable tasks, since then the little palace maid has always detoured when she saw her, fearing that she would pursue the matter of following Lichun to help the tiger against her, now she doesn't even have to listen to gossip, it's really boring.

If possible, she really wanted to tell the queen, I don't want officials, I want money!

However, the monthly salary of the promotion has also increased a little, which made her feel a little relieved.

Tang Yinjiang squatted in the corner with a deep expression on his face, gnawing Shaguo, when Xiaotao greeted him from behind.

"I see, I see. Has someone placed an order again? Do you want hot pot or double skin milk?"

"No, aunt, a little eunuch said that the Leng Palace insists on you delivering food!"