Chapter 27 Daily Life in the Palace

Before dawn the next morning, Yi Xingen went to Huanhua Hall to pay her respects.

She was the first one to arrive, so that after a while, other Cai girls who were not serving the bed came over, and they were all taken aback when they saw it, before she stepped forward to greet her, and asked in a low voice, "Why did my sister come so early?"

"That's right, sister, Madam Jieyu looks very kind. Even if you come later, Madam won't blame you."

Yi Xing'en smiled, and said: "Your Majesty loves us dearly, so of course we can't neglect your Majesty because of this... Besides, Your Majesty is going to court, so it's time to get up."

Their conversations were soon reported to Yun Fenghuang who was still dressing up inside, Yun Fenghuang smiled and said: "It's not important, let them talk... By the way, the rewards are all ready ?”

Xi Jing hurriedly said that it was all over: "Your Majesty, please take a look!"

Yun Fenghuang glanced at the bronze mirror, it was a pair of gold-plated bracelets resting on a brocade cushion, carved with patterns of crickets and sesame grass, and inlaid with several medium pearls. Although it's not a very good thing, it's still flattering to use Yi Xingen's current position, but Yun Fenghuang thinks that as long as she doesn't look up to Yuan Lianniang's appearance, she will be promoted sooner or later. It's not abrupt anymore.

"Clean up the Xinuang Pavilion, and let them sit there when they come first." Yun Fenghuang thought for a while and then said, "It's hot in the morning, and they are all serving His Majesty, don't It won't look good when it's tanned, and it will make His Majesty lose interest."

After all, all the flowers in Xuanqing Palace are for her to bear children, if they don't take good care of them, wouldn't it be her loss that the emperor will come less?

Yun Qingman's heirs are certainly important, but as for the emperor's heirs, the more the better.

Anyway, she doesn't need anyone to pay for raising the emperor's heir.

The palace people didn't know what Yun Fenghuang was thinking, and praised her kindness in unison: "Ms. Yicai and the others can meet such a queen as the empress, it's like smoke from the ancestral grave!"

After gossiping like this for a while, Yun Fenghuang packed up, moved to the flower hall to have dinner, and by the way called Yi Xingen, Qu Hongzhuan and a few picking girls to wait on her.

These picking girls violated the rules when they were in the Xiuzhuo Palace, but after all, they came from humble backgrounds and behaved very cautiously and unfamiliarly.

Yun Fenghuang didn't care too much, admiring a group of concubines with beautiful looks and beautiful faces surrounding him and offering them all kinds of courtesies, he just felt that his appetite improved a little--by the way, he looks not bad either! The skill of serving meals is absolutely superior to this group of girls who are sharpening their guns before the battle. How did Yuan Lianniang have the heart to pick her nose and eyes at herself?

Sure enough, I can't complain that no one in the palace spoke well of her!

After a while, Yun Fenghuang wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said: "Okay, let's tell others, it's almost time, we should go to the Empress's place."

I didn't meet Jia Jieyu on the road today, but I met Lu Jieyu walking behind, Yun Fenghuang didn't care, and then I found that Lu Jieyu was even slower, and even wanted to stop on the side of the road to let her First enter the Yanfu Palace before leaving... Well, is this because you are worried that you will encounter trouble on the way?

Yun Fenghuang felt that this Lu family underestimated her too much, was she the kind of narrow-minded person!

After getting off the shoulders, he curled his lips and walked into the Chongchang Palace. At this time, concubine Shu and the others hadn't come yet, and the queen was naturally still tidying up, but Jia Jieyu and Wei Jieyu were already there. Seeing her, Jia Jieyu hurriedly pretended to admire the teacup in her hand, while Wei Hengyan leaned over and called "Sister Mao" with a smile, seeing Yun Fenghuang answering with a pleasant face, he was secretly relieved, and smiled more enthusiastically "Sister looks really good today. My sister has less ice cream in her shoulders today, and she is a little dizzy. Seeing my sister, my heart suddenly brightens up!"

"You will coax me." Yun Fenghuang smiled and pointed at her with a round fan, "It's not that the empress's place is shady, and you are almost fine after resting for a while, but you use me as a raft."

Wei Hengyan took her arm coquettishly: "My sister is the most honest and will not lie! If you don't believe me, my sister dares to swear to you!"

Yun Fenghuang knew what she was doing to flatter her, it was nothing more than yesterday's turmoil. Wei Jieyu, who was the first to propose "We should join hands with new concubines to fight against old concubines", was silent from beginning to end. Yun Fenghuang did not hold on, and suffered a loss in the end. Wei Hengyan could still argue that she was also trying to preserve her strength so that she would not be taken over by the old concubine and completely disgraced in front of the new recruits.

But Yun Fenghuang not only passed the test smoothly, but also caused Jia Jieyu and the others to suffer a loss. Wei Hengyan was afraid that she would retaliate, but also regretted that he didn't make the icing on the cake yesterday. Isn't he thinking of making up for it now?

At this moment, Wei Hengyan felt lucky to see this sister Mao as if nothing had happened, and felt guilty on the other hand, because he was not sure whether she would mind or not, so he could only increase his efforts to flatter her, and for a while he couldn't care less about the presence of the newly recruited girl. , thinking hard about flattery.

Just as he was talking, he suddenly saw Yun Fenghuang approaching him, and asked in a whisper: "By the way, sister Wei, do you know what Concubine Xue did yesterday to target Concubine Shu?"

Wei Hengyan was stunned for a moment, knowing that this was probably an opportunity for sister Mao to reconcile himself, and was about to speak when a figure flashed at the entrance of the hall, but Mrs. Yaoning and Lu Jieyu came in one after the other.

The three Jieyu who arrived first in the hall hurriedly stood up to greet Mrs. Yaoning.

Mrs. Yao Ning, who was born in Jiangmen, is tall and graceful, with a sassy look in her beauty, and she is a little nonchalant about unfamiliar people——she came in and greeted Jia Jieyu, then turned her eyes to look at Yunfenghuang. Wei Hengyan acted as if he hadn't seen it.

"It's really hot today..." Jia Jieyu, who was quite embarrassed when Wei Hengyan talked to Yun Fenghuang before, felt relieved, and rushed to talk to Mrs. Yaoning, but she didn't say anything. After a few words, Concubine Xin and Concubine Shu arrived one after another. The two sat down and exchanged a few pleasantries, and some palace servants came out to tell them that the empress was coming out soon.

There was nothing new after the empress came out, but Yi Xingen said meaningfully that Yi Xingen served the emperor very attentively last night, and was promoted to be a servant according to the rules. At the end, she said that since the imperial concubine hasn't come yet, she probably won't come today: " Let's go to the Queen Mother's side, we didn't make it because we were delayed yesterday, even though the Queen Mother doesn't care about us, she still has to accompany us."

Everyone echoed.

So a group of people marched to Mianfu Palace, and just after entering, they heard the loud sound of boards coming from behind, mixed with the suppressed sobs and groans of the palace people after being gagged.

The concubines were quite surprised, although they didn't think Empress Dowager Ji was the kind of master who couldn't bear to do anything to the people below, but she usually came to pay her respects, but she never encountered such a thing.

So much so that after entering the palace and finishing saluting, the empress took the lead in carefully asking the usual-looking Empress Dowager Ji: "I don't know what happened to the empress dowager?"

"Haven't you finished playing yet?" The Empress Dowager Ji was in the palace, because it was so hot today, and the doors and windows were closed tightly to prevent the ice mirror from melting too quickly, but it was not as clear as the empress and her party walking from the door. With a sneer, he turned his head and asked the valet, "Did the hands and feet of that screwdriver be broken?"

The attendant hurriedly said: "I was still talking about what the Empress Dowager said just now, and it must have been interrupted by now."

Empress Dowager Ji nodded, and said: "Throw it out after beating, the Mianfu Palace of the Ai family cannot tolerate such diabolical slaves!"

Hearing this, the concubines thought that something had happened. Who knew that the Empress Dowager told the Empress: "Minghui was frightened by a toad in the palace before, didn't she cry for a long time when she came back? Aijia asked the Royal Beast Garden to release her." A group of civet cats are in the palace, so they can catch some snakes and rats, so as not to scare people... Guess what? In Aijia Palace, someone secretly fed those civet cats. I really feel that Aijia is getting old. How dare the Ai family do tricks under their noses?!"

"Queen mother, calm down." The queen quickly persuaded, "They are all unworthy bastards, why should you be angry? Now that you have been beaten, let your hair fall out, let's see who dares to follow suit!"

Concubine Shu, Concubine Xin, Mrs. Yaoning, Jia Jieyu, and Lu Jieyu all agreed.

The two new concubines, Yun Fenghuang and Wei Hengyan, were not familiar with the Empress Dowager after all, and they also knew that the Empress Dowager was not a very kind person, so they didn't dare to speak out, only nodded from time to time to show that they followed the crowd.

only……

Yun Fenghuang noticed that Wei Hengyan kept scratching his sleeves while showing the attitude of "it's unreasonable for these lowly maidservants to dare to treat the empress dowager like this", showing panic and bewilderment.

It seems that sister Wei's palace is not very friendly to the civet cat that the queen mother specially ordered to put into the palace...

Well, the reason for "also" is of course that Yun Fenghuang had people drive out all the civet cats in and out of Xuanqing Palace early in the morning!

After all, she didn't have much feeling for things like cats and dogs, and there were examples of Miao Cai's sudden death, how could Yun Fenghuang not learn a lesson, and nip this flaw that could be exploited in the bud?

She did this before she moved into the Xuanqing Palace, and she has never heard anyone say that it is not allowed. Now look at it, does the Empress Dowager care so much about the civet cats that are kept in the palace?

How about... After going back, set aside a special place to raise a few of them in captivity to show that you value them?

Anyway, the royal family's money and people were used...

"Actually, Ai's family raised these civet cats not just to let them catch snakes and mice." A group of concubines coaxed and persuaded, and the queen mother finally felt better, and sighed, "I also think that the emperor has no son and a half under his knees. Yes, I don't know if the imperial concubine and Yue Jieyu will be able to import children to the royal family at the end of the year... There are people who name their children cats and dogs and beg for work. More civet cats can give the royal family some credit, alas..."

When she said that, those palace servants who fed civet cats indiscriminately must die.

Of course, no one would care about this right now, and they all hurriedly continued to appease the Queen Mother.

It was so easy to talk, after half a day, Empress Dowager Ji cheered up a bit, and asked why the concubines didn't come to pay their respects yesterday.

The Empress Dowager must have heard about this reason, and when she asked at this moment, she didn't know if she planned to intervene - Yun Fenghuang thought so, and put on a more obedient posture.

The Empress simply introduced it, but the Empress Dowager did not intend to re-sentence, she only focused on asking Concubine Zheng Gui: "It's so hot, she is still twin, why did she come out?"

After hearing that the queen said that everything is fine for the concubine, her complexion turned a bit dark, but the pregnant woman is normal, and her spirit is still very good. Empress Dowager Ji pondered for a while, and said: "Then can the concubine go to the palace to escape the summer heat? We will soon Let's go, the weather is so hot, to be honest, the two concubines are both conceived in the palace, the Ai family is really worried."

"This..." The queen was stunned, and said, "The daughter-in-law is not sure, or the daughter-in-law will send someone to ask the imperial concubine and the imperial doctor who has been asking for the pulse of the imperial concubine?"

Empress Dowager Ji said "hmm": "As for the Spring Palace and the Huzhu Palace, I have asked you, are you all sorted out? This year has been delayed, and we can't delay any longer. Minghui has been yelling every day for the past two days. It's so hot that I can't sleep, her children are like this, let alone the Empress Dowager? Bingjian is cool, but it is too cold, the Empress Dowager may not be able to bear it."

Empress Ji nodded again and again, promising to leave on time, and determined not to waste time... After this matter was finished, the Empress Dowager had no other orders, so everyone dispersed.

Yun Fenghuang went out, thought for a while, and then followed the queen's phoenix chariot to Yanfu Palace.