Chapter 29 Waiting for the bed
Man Luo walked up to Aunt Fei and knelt down, "Auntie, I want to summon a girl to come and have dinner with her. Please ask Auntie to be accommodating."
"I wonder which girl your Majesty wants to call?" Aunt Fei asked with a smile.
High-ranking concubines can summon beautiful women, but the queen has not summoned any beautiful women yet, but Lu Zhaoyi took the lead in summoning them. What is she going to do?
"Fang Li'er, Miss Fang."
Aunt Fei looked at the beautiful ladies and said, "Miss Fang Li'er, please."
She really didn't expect that Fang Li'er would be related to Lu Zhaoyi, but even if there was no such relationship, Fang Li'er's beauty would not be buried.
Fang Li'er and Zhuang Qingchan lived in the same room. After dinner, Jiang Changning met with the three Zhuang sisters. Zhuang Qingchan told them, "Fang Li'er's aunt is Lu Zhaoyi's aunt."
This relationship is not considered close. Lu Zhaoyi summoned Fang Li'er to come over, which is worth pondering.
The next day, a piece of news came, which shocked the show girls.
Fang Li'er went to bed last night, and the emperor promoted her to the rank of seven-rank selected attendant.
In the Qiyuan Palace, the queen put the cup in her hand on the table and put it down, "Lu Yawen, you are getting more and more unruly."
It is the queen's authority to arrange for beautiful women to be at her bedside.
"Your Majesty, do you want to summon a beautiful lady to accompany your Majesty for dinner?" A palace maid next to her asked cautiously.
The queen leaned on the brocade cushion and remained silent for a long time. She had been married to the emperor for five years and was only twenty-one years old now, but...
My beauty is cut off before I grow old, and I sit leaning against the smoked cage till dawn.
After a long time, the queen said: "Go and bring Fei Zhen."
Fei Zhen was Aunt Fei who was responsible for disciplining the beautiful women. After a while, she entered the Qiyuan Palace and said, "I would like to pay my respects to the empress. May the empress live a thousand years."
"No need to be polite, sit down and talk." The queen said calmly.
"Thank you, empress." Fei Zhen sat on the round pier with half her buttocks.
"Why didn't Lu Zhaoyi come to report to me when he called for beautiful women yesterday?"
"Reporting to the empress, Fang Xuanshi is the cousin of empress Zhaoyi. I thought it was just a chat between sisters." Fei Zhen waited for Fang Li'er to be canonized before she found out the relationship between the two, but she didn't know this.
Tell the queen.
The queen summoned Fei Zhen not to ask questions, and she didn't say more about Fang Li'er. "Which of the beautiful girls is more outstanding and can come and have dinner with me?"
"If we talk about appearance, the one who stands out the most is Jiang Changning, the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family in Hangzhou." Fei Zhen said.
"Jiang Changning? This name sounds familiar. Let her come." The Queen agreed.
"Your Majesty, you can't." The palace maid stopped her.
The queen looked at her displeased and asked, "Why?" Her eyes were sharp. Could it be that this little hoof had an outside intention?
"Your Majesty, this Jiang family's legitimate daughter is the Queen Mother's savior," the palace maid said.
"Fei Zhen, you are so brave!" the queen was angry.
"Your Majesty, I don't know about this." Fei Zhen knelt down.
"I don't know." The Queen snorted coldly, "You even know that Fang Li'er is Lu Yawen's cousin, but you don't know that Jiang Changning is from the Queen Mother? Fei Zhen, you deliberately recommended Jiang Changning to me, you are
What do you want to do?”
The queen thought a lot for a moment. She had never given birth, and the queen mother was already dissatisfied with her. If she disrupted the queen mother's arrangements again, the queen mother might let the emperor depose her.
Even if the courtiers objected and the emperor failed to depose her, a queen who was imprisoned and fell out of favor would not live long.
The sixth palace has no owner, who will the emperor appoint as his successor?
Concubine Song!
The queen suddenly stood up and kicked Fei Zhen.
"Slave..." Before Fei Zhen could say anything in defense, she was kicked down.
"What benefits did Song Zerou give you to cause you to harm me so much?" the queen asked sharply.
A flash of panic flashed in Fei Zhen's eyes, "I don't want to harm your empress. Although I am stupid, I still know that your empress is the master of the harem. Holding the Phoenix Seal gives me great courage. I don't dare to harm my empress. Please, please
The empress has a clear warning."
The queen was silent, and Fei Zhen kowtowed heavily, "Your Majesty, among the show girls, the most outstanding one is indeed the Jiang girl. With my humble knowledge, I feel that the Empress Dowager must have wanted the Jiang girl to participate in the show."
Jiang's daughter serves the emperor, so I think... I am guilty."
The queen sneered, "Your knowledge is indeed shallow."
If the Queen Mother wants Jiang's daughter to serve the Emperor, does she need to go through the draft process?
Liang Guibin and Wu Bin were given directly to the emperor by the Queen Mother. Liang Guibin gave birth to the emperor's three princesses.
"I acknowledge my guilt." Fei Zhen kowtowed a few more times.
The queen sat back on the soft couch and asked, "Among the beautiful ladies, who else is good?"
Fei Zhen thought for a while and said: "There are two beautiful women, not bad. One is Shen Huamei, the daughter of Si Zhenfu, the commander of the Beijing Guards."
The commander of the Beijing Guard, Si Zhenfu, was a fifth-rank official, so it was difficult to handle.
Seeing that the queen remained silent, Fei Zhen continued: "The other one is Su Wanyang, the daughter of the magistrate of Huayin County."
Huayin County!
A faint smile appeared on the Queen's lips, "After ten days of learning the rules, it's time for the show girls to be more relaxed and lively. Let them go to the imperial garden to play and find some flowers to arrange."
"Yes, empress." Fei Zhen replied.
"The title is about egrets flying in the desert paddy fields, and yellow orioles singing in the overcast summer trees." The queen gritted her teeth when she mentioned the word oriole.
Fei Zhen knew that the empress was holding a grudge because Fang Li'er had just been appointed as the chosen attendant.
Fang Li'er was brought to the emperor by Lu Zhaoyi, and she had already joined Lu Zhaoyi's faction.
It's just that she was almost accused, so it's not easy to take eye drops now.
Fei Zhen returned to Jingyi Palace with the Queen's oral instructions.
As soon as she left, the queen ordered her confidant maid: "Check Su Wanyang and make sure she has no connection with anyone else in the palace. I don't want to cultivate another white-eyed wolf."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The palace maid took the order and left.
Jiang Changning felt upset knowing that he didn't have to learn the rules tomorrow and had to go to the Imperial Garden to pick flowers and arrange them.
She can arrange flowers, but she doesn't want to arrange flowers.
Letting beautiful women go to the imperial garden to pick flowers is nothing more than letting them wait to be picked by the emperor.
The next day, the show girls all dressed up.
Jiang Changning was no exception. Everyone was dressed up, but if she had a plain face, she would be more eye-catching.
Youth is the most invincible. Simple and dull clothes for young ladies still make them look graceful and charming when worn on young ladies.
The sun in mid-June is so hot that even in the morning, walking around in the sun for a while will make you sweat.
The beautiful ladies were not afraid of the heat, walking back and forth in the garden, fluttering at butterflies and picking flowers, as cheerful as the birds on the branches.
Jiang Changning was not in such good spirits as them, so he picked a bunch of white flowers, a yellow flower, a few lining leaves, and returned to Jingyi Palace.
The emperor's chariot appeared in front of the beautiful ladies, which made most of them happy, "Your Majesty is here, Your Majesty is here."
The beautiful girl wiped away her sweat and pulled her hair back.
Holding a round fan to half cover his face, his eyes were dark and his eyes were full of eyes.
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Chapter completed!