Palace Scheming: the Queen In the Cold Palace I

Chapter 24 Return to Feng Palace to Palm Houyin (4)

However, after sitting on this phoenix chair, Yun Qing realized one thing, that is: he would have such a headache just dealing with this small harem affairs. As the king of a country, the emperor had to sit on the chair every day. It wouldn't be much easier to sit on the dragon chair high up than on my phoenix chair.

Hehe, it is true that only when you stand at the highest place can you know the oppression of high places. People in the world only know that high places are good, but they don’t know that high places are extremely cold!

"Miss, Concubine Hua is here." Xiao Taohong walked into the palace. Yun Qing was closing her eyes to rest. When she heard the voice, she immediately opened her eyes and said, "Well, please come quickly."

"Blessed sister Queen, I have come to say hello to my sister." Before anyone arrived, a fragrant smell floated into the palace. Following the flash of red shadow outside the palace, He Ruowan's colorful figure was accompanied by the rhythmic ring. The sound entered the hall.

"Sister, no courtesy, there are no other people here, you and I sisters don't need to be so intrusive." Yun Qing stretched out his hand to give a gesture, and He Ruowan also took advantage of the situation and gave a half salute, and then took two steps forward.

"Sister is really dedicated. She has just recovered and started taking care of these complicated tasks." Her beautiful eyes glanced at the few case books on Yun Qing's desk, and He Ruowan's voice was light, but there was a hint of unobservable jealousy.

“Sister, please sit down!” Yun Qing smiled slightly and said calmly: “Bitao, hurry up and cook the new tea that Eunuch Rong brought this morning for Sister Hua Concubine to taste!”

"Yes!" Bi Tao, who had been silent since He Ruowan entered the palace, heard Yun Qing's instructions and just responded with a low voice before exiting the palace.

Yun Qing was still smiling. After He Ruowan sat down, he pointed to the scattered books in front of his case and said with a smile: "My sister came just in time. I was just thinking about sending someone to invite her. My sister has been helping to take care of the harem in the past few days. Everything is really hard for my sister.

Although I have taken over these trivial matters now, I still have to ask my sister to work harder to help; especially since the Queen Mother gave instructions yesterday and the Tomb-Sweeping Day will be here soon. As soon as the Qingming Festival is over, the beautiful ladies reported from various places will be sent to Tiancheng one after another. You and I, sisters, also need to pass this beautiful girl selection to select a group of beautiful girls with both talent and beauty for the emperor. Harem. Haha, these lists are the copies sent by Eunuch Ronglu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, just now. Please help my sister bring them back to the palace to note down the net worth and status of the beautiful ladies. Fortunately, during the selection, I won't know nothing. "Draft?" "He Ruowan raised her eyebrows and looked a little ugly.

She didn't know that after the emperor took over the throne, the first batch of drafts would be held in the harem to enrich the harem. It's just that these days, I have been helping to take care of the harem affairs, but I have never heard anyone mention the draft.

The Queen Mother did not ask any questions about what she was doing, which made her think that the palace was so peaceful that it made people panic.

Unexpectedly, Yun Qing only returned to the palace for one day, and these news came one after another, which showed that the Queen Mother was still suspicious of herself.

 But there is no reason. The Queen Mother also likes herself very much. Whether she is greeting her or at a family banquet, her attitude toward her is always to kiss the woman in front of her. So, what is going on?

"Yes, my sister is both talented and beautiful. I feel relieved to leave these matters to my sister." Yun Qing smiled, his voice was calm, and there was no suspicion in his expression at all.

He Ruowan immediately raised her face, put away her thoughts, and said with a smile: "The emperor is really lucky to marry a capable and selfless woman like my sister. It's no wonder that the queen mother likes her so much. Compared with her, my sister is really the only one who is favored by the emperor. I spoiled you...sister, you won’t blame my sister, right?”

 At the end, her voice sounded cautious and her eyes became reserved, as if she was worried about Yun Qing's displeasure.

"My sister relieves the emperor's worries day and night, and takes good care of the emperor. These are things that my sister has not done. So I am really happy for you to see that my sister can win the emperor's favor. If my sister can give birth to an heir for the royal family as soon as possible, my sister will I believe both the Queen Mother and the Emperor will be very happy.”

Yun Qing raised his eyes and glanced at He Ruowan, who was looking shy, but his smile was still as light as the breeze.

　Seeing that she seems to be talking about things that have nothing to do with her, He Ruowan can't help but feel a sense of frustration. I don't believe that she has no intention of competing for favor! Or is she so scheming that even she can't see through it?

 “Haha, sister is so kind!” He Ruowan pretended to smile, and was about to stand up to say goodbye, but saw Bi Tao entering the hall carrying a tea set. She first placed it on the tea table nearby, then took out two tea cups, strained each one, and then poured it into the purple clay pot nearby. Then each person poured a cup of tea and presented it to them respectively.

 “Hua Fei, please have some tea!” Bi Tao really didn’t like this delicate woman.

Not only because she caused the young lady to be ridiculed by everyone on the wedding day, but also because in her heart, anyone who could be regarded as a sister to the fourth young lady Yun Ya would never be so noble.

Even if she is the most talented woman in the world, she is just a false name given by the world.

"Well, the fragrance fills my nose, and the tea color is green and transparent. It is indeed a good new tea." He Ruowan smiled and held up the tea cup, elegantly opened the lid of the tea, just took a sniff, and said: "I think this must be the best new tea." It’s the spring tea Maojian from Guzhang Xinna. It’s delicious. My sister’s palace now only has a batch of Biluochun that was sent as tribute last year. It’s not as fragrant as this.”

Bitao was slightly surprised. She didn't expect this woman to be so powerful. She could accurately tell the origin of the tea just by smelling it. She was not in vain.

"Sister, you have good eyesight." Yun Qing took a sip and said with a faint smile, "This tea is bitter in the mouth and sweet when you taste it carefully. Boiled with the nectar collected in the morning, it is even more fragrant and fragrant, with a mellow taste and a refreshing aftertaste. As expected, it is not Speaking of Mingqian tea, the eight processes of greening, greening, kneading, frying, cooling, shaping, drying and screening must have cost the local officials who paid tribute a lot of thought. It is a great pleasure for me to taste this new tea before the Qingming Festival."

He Ruowan's fingertips trembled and she almost spilled the tea in the cup. She glanced at Yun Qing in great surprise, but saw that her beautiful eyes were smiling and there was no provocation at all.

Hurrying to cover up the panic in her heart with a sip, she hurriedly took a sip. Her original complacency faded away, but instead she felt increasingly uneasy and depressed in her heart.

 Then she sat for a while, then hurriedly got up and left on the pretext of not disturbing Yun Qing while he was handling palace affairs.

"Miss, Concubine Hua has bad intentions. Miss, please be careful." After He Ruowan left, Bi Tao quickly picked up the tea cup she drank from, poured out the tea and threw it directly into the waste basket.

 I thought to myself that although Concubine Hua has extraordinary knowledge, the young lady is not inferior to her. Since I was a child, I followed the young lady to learn how to make tea. When it comes to tea ceremony, I may not be inferior to her, a wealthy lady who only knows how to open her mouth with food and stretch out her hands with clothes.

Yun Qing raised her eyebrows and did not raise her head. She just buried her head in front of the case and asked, "Oh, Bi Tao, tell me what's so bad about Concubine Hua?"

Bi Tao angrily wiped the stool where He Ruowan sat, and said angrily: "Usually those who are good at harming others are always on guard. The young lady just invited her to have a cup of tea, but she used the silver armor on her little finger to test it while blowing air. Tea! Humph, tell me, miss, isn’t this kind of person scary?”

"Haha, I didn't expect Bitao to be so attentive." Yun Qing smiled, raised his head and saw the angry look on Bitao's face, which had always been careless and careless. He couldn't help but stretched out his hand and said softly: "Come and take a look, here is the record of Yuan Shang The supervisor of the palace bureau, Mr. Fugui, was transferred to the dormitory bureau the day before yesterday. Haha, this is really beyond my expectation. "

"That's what he deserves. The fox pretended to be the tiger's, and he was domineering. He finally got his retribution." As expected, Bi Tao was diverted from the topic by Yun Qing. The anger just now turned into applause for Fu Gui's punishment, which made Yun Qing couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile. .

"Is it that simple?" Hearing her question, she seemed to have something else in mind. Bi Tao couldn't help but become curious and asked, "Don't you think he deserves it?"

"That's right, but for a **** who is at the mercy of others, he is also very pitiful." Yun Qing's eyes dimmed slightly, and his voice couldn't help but be heavy, "Actually, it's not that I didn't see the small movements of Concubine Hua you just saw. . Maybe as you said, we should pay more attention to people like this in the future."

　　Hey, the danger of the harem is not that the danger lies deep in the palace, but that the danger lies in the human heart.

Seeing that the draft is coming soon, a large number of beauties will swoop into the palace like moths, and many innocents will also be buried in the back garden of the palace.

Another three days passed in a flash. Yunqing was busy dealing with trivial matters in the palace every day. Aunt Fangfei also came to Jinfeng Palace on time every day to teach, but the look on her face became more relaxed day by day.

"Your Majesty, the day after tomorrow is the Tomb Sweeping Day. The Emperor will take his concubines and heirs to the imperial mausoleum to worship their ancestors. Now that the Queen Mother is old and afraid of being distracted, she asked the Empress to arrange the specific matters and ask the Emperor to confirm it as soon as possible. The entourage of the harem for ancestor worship!" Before Fang Fei left, she suddenly mentioned to Yun Qing the matter of ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival, which made Yun Qing slightly stunned. He didn't expect that this ancestor worship would be arranged by himself.

"Auntie knows that Yunqing has just adapted to the customs in the palace, and there is a real gap in knowledge about royal ancestor worship, so she asked aunty to teach Yunqing." She smiled sheepishly, Yunqing had a good impression of this Aunt Fangfei, and couldn't help but reveal Lovely face.

From Yun Qing's point of view, Aunt Fangfei is usually stern, but her down-to-earth and generous personality suits him very well. Therefore, the two of them got along very happily. In front of her, Yun Qing gradually became very casual from being slightly reserved at the beginning.

When Aunt Fangfei reminded her that as a queen, she should sit upright and not lean back on the chair all the time, Yun Qing just stuck out her tongue playfully, and it was difficult for her to act coquettishly to outsiders: "Yun Qing knows! Haha, aunt is like Yun Qing My nanny, even her tone of voice is so similar.”

It is true that although Aunt Fangfei is much smarter and more capable than the nanny Yunqing has been dependent on since childhood, Yunqing can't help but feel sad when she shows concern for Yunqing beyond respect.

Having lost her mother since she was a child, it is rare for her to find warmth similar to that of a wet nurse in outsiders, so she can't help but show a small dependence on her.

Bitao once saw Yun Qing acting coquettishly towards Aunt Fangfei. Her expression at that time could be described as frightened.

In Bi Tao's eyes, the young lady is always the sensible and indifferent young lady. She never acts coquettishly towards others, let alone easily reveals her unique tenderness to others.

Even the young lady’s concern for herself, and only her husband and sister, had never surprised her like this.

 But at that moment, she felt extremely sad because such a young lady made people feel distressed for no reason.

"In fact, all that is required for the arrangement of the harem is to determine the list of participants in the harem, and to uniformly dress and bring items on the day of the ceremony. As for other princes and ministers, they are arranged by the Ministry of Etiquette, so the empress does not need to worry. The most important thing is They are the members of the harem’s entourage confirmed by the emperor, so this matter must be approved by the empress.” Fang Fei stood aside with a calm expression, and her attitude towards Yun Qing was extremely loving.

Perhaps it was because of her nanny's words yesterday that she, a woman who had had a child before but was unable to keep her child due to an accident, felt a pity in her heart.

 Yunqing! She is actually just a child, but she has to take on so many important responsibilities early on and take care of everything in the harem.

　　Well, I hope this child can be happier than the Queen Mother back then, take less detours, and suffer less sins...

 (End of this chapter)