Ning Yue looked like she was thinking, "Sister Shu Fei is right, the rules cannot be broken..."
The concubines were overjoyed. However, Ning Yue said next: "Then I can only aggrieve Sister Su. You live in the side hall of Ganlu Temple first, and the concubines are only two levels. As long as you serve the emperor well." , I promise that it won’t take long for you to move to the main hall.”
Su Linglong had been kneeling anyway, kowtowing and thanking her. It seemed that the Queen really liked her and kept her from getting up, probably to avoid her having to kneel twice.
Ning Yue: No, she could simply hate her, so she let her kneel for a while longer!
Concubine Shu: ...In this case, wouldn't Su Linglong be promoted again soon? If she had known this, she might as well have stopped talking!
Concubine De tightened her hand on the handkerchief, and no one in the palace made a sound. Fortunately, Qin Xin's appearance broke the awkward atmosphere, "Ladies and gentlemen, please have some snacks."
Ning Yue waved her hand, "Su Cairen, get up quickly, you might hurt your knees by kneeling down. Someone, please bring a chair to Su Cairen. Don't tire her out."
A eunuch quickly arranged a chair at the end, because the queen also offered tea and food, and thoughtfully moved a small table so that Su Cairen could eat. Su Cairen knelt down to thank him again before sitting back on his seat.
"You all should try it quickly. This crystal steamed cake is the best match for my tea. The taste is very unique."
Concubine Shu was upset in her heart, so she picked up the tea cup and drank a cup, but she was shocked as soon as she took the tea into her mouth!
This tea is unlike anything I’ve ever had before!
The tea soup is clear and bright yellow. It is slightly bitter in the mouth, but the sweetness is obvious. It makes people salivate. After taking one sip of tea, even the depression in the chest dissipates a lot.
Suspecting that she was delusional due to being angry, Concubine Shu picked up the tea cup again and took a sip. This time her feeling was even more obvious. The cup of tea in her hand was the only one she had seen and drank for the first time in her life. It was called the world's tea cup. No amount of nectar is too much.
"Queen, I wonder what kind of tea is in this cup? Why is this tea soup so clear and fragrant and so attractive?"
Ning Yue smiled at her: "This is Maojian. If you like, let Qin Xin wrap some for you later and take it back to drink."
Of course, the tea she brought out was all produced in space and cooked by her own hands. The taste must be incomparable to the so-called tribute tea in the palace.
Concubine De said anxiously: "Empress, you can't favor one over the other. I also like you very much."
"Okay, okay, we have everything. If you run out of drinks, you can come and get it from me. If there is not much, I can still get it in twos and twos."
Concubine De was really surprised. There were at least forty concubines who came to pay their respects to the queen today. Even if each person had two taels, that would still cost five or six kilograms of tea. If this was just ordinary tea, it would be nothing, but it was such a good tea. Taking out six kilograms at a time - I have to say that the Jiang family is really rich!
"I am waiting to thank the Queen for the reward!"
Ning Yue waved her hand to signal them to get up quickly. Since there were no seats in the main hall, the lower-ranking concubines could only go to the side hall to eat. There were only the main concubine and Su Linglong in the main hall.
After eating less than half a plate of snacks and drinking several cups of tea, Concubine De finally put down Kuaizi and said, "Oh, I'm so full that I don't even want to leave."
Ning Yue's eyes lit up: "Then don't leave, someone happens to be chatting with me."
Concubine Xian, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help bursting into laughter, "Queen, please don't listen to her. If she really stays, she also wants to drink two more cups of your tea. Don't be fooled!"
Laughter immediately came from the hall: "Who says it's not the case? We also want to drink two more drinks before leaving."
Ning Yue: "Didn't I promise to get some for each of you?"
"But this tea is so good that even my concubines are reluctant to drink it. I still have no burden to drink it here with you!"
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The concubines in Kunning Palace have not yet dispersed, and the news that Su Linglong was promoted two levels by the queen and moved to Ganlu Palace reached the ears of Xuanyuan Hao, who had just left the court.
Xuanyuan Hao chuckled and asked Chai Liang, who was standing aside, "What do you mean, Queen?"
Chai Liang's body bent more and more, but he spoke without any hesitation, "Given the Queen's infatuation for you, it is normal for me to do such a thing of loving the house.
Moreover, everyone in Su Cai is kind-hearted, so it is normal for the queen to like Lao Nu. "
Xuanyuan Hao laughed when he heard this. Yes, Jiang Ningyue was infatuated with him. He asked her to go east, but she would never go west. But he didn't expect her to be so generous. "Well, you can go there after we leave." Pass a message and say that I will go over to have lunch with the queen after I’m done with my work.”
Chai Liang: "I obey the order."
Ning Yue ate, drank, and chatted with the concubines for a while and then dispersed. Unfortunately, the high-ranking concubines were a little better, but the lower-ranking concubines really stood there all morning. It was so hard, and it made her heartache just to look at them.
She also issued a decree: "From tomorrow onwards, concubines below the fifth rank will not have to come every day to pay their respects to me. They only need to come once on the first day of the lunar month and the fifteenth day of the lunar month."
The little concubines immediately knelt down and kowtowed to express their gratitude.
Coming out of Kunning Palace, the three concubines, De Shuxian and De Shuxian, looked at each other and smiled. Concubine De said, "I just grew a pot of dark lotus flowers at my place. I wonder if the two sisters are interested in taking a look at it together?"
Concubine Shu: "I'm worried that my days are too busy and I don't know what to do when I go back. I just happened to go to my sister's place for a cup of tea."
Concubine Xian also agreed: "Why don't we also have lunch together? I heard that Sister De Concubine has a palace maid who is very good at making snacks. We just want to try it together today."
Drinking tea and eating snacks were just excuses. The three of them just wanted to get together and talk about what happened in Kunning Palace today.
After all, the queen has changed so much. The queen who used to be able to see through it at a glance is now somewhat difficult for them to see through.
After all the concubines left, Manager Chai, who had been watching the movement here, came over to deliver the order. Ning Yue smiled brightly: "Excuse me, Manager Chai, for making this trip. I will order people to prepare for the emperor's love." In the future, I will have to trouble Mr. Chai to put in a nice word in front of the emperor."
After saying that, he winked at Ruhua, who immediately took out a jade pendant of excellent quality and stuffed it into Chai Liang's hand.
Manager Chai loved jade the most. Of course, he would be rewarded with at most ten taels or twenty taels of silver, and a piece of good jade would be worth at least a thousand taels. Ning Yue seriously suspected that he deliberately let out his love for jade just to be greedy. The sound of wind.
But it doesn’t matter. The more greedy he is, the easier it is to take advantage of him. Ning Yue doesn’t feel bad at all!
In order to show his love for the original owner, Xuanyuan Hao almost emptied the entire palace when he was hired. Adding in the reward from the late emperor, the Jiang family's ten-mile dowry, and the filial gifts from the queen after becoming the queen, she was able to reward her in one day. Chai Liang can afford a fine piece of jade!
