Her arrogant little appearance made Emperor Xuanwu laugh out loud, and he couldn't help but tease her: "Others praise you for your beauty, but you don't know how to be modest. Are you ashamed?"
Jiang Xinyue shook her head: "Your Majesty, excessive modesty will make people annoying. Just like I praise you as a good emperor who is diligent and loves the people, you also think I have vision, right?"
Wouldn't the emperor say that I am not?
Emperor Longyan Dayue, who was invisibly slapped with a dragon's butt, hugged her from behind: "On February 2, during the spring equinox, I will lead all officials to go to the folk for spring plowing. Do you want my beloved concubine to go with me?"
I have long heard that the ancient emperors held a spring plowing ceremony where they "handled the plow and plowed their own hands". I had only seen it in TV dramas, but I didn't know what it was like to see it live. Jiang Xinyue was quite curious.
Her eyes widened, and she had long forgotten the emperor's suspicion of her unhappiness. Her eyes were full of expectation: "Can I go too? Is it true?"
Emperor Xuanwu was very interested in her immediate emotional feedback: "I said you can go, you can go."
On the day of spring plowing, the queen was also going, so it was not difficult to bring two more concubines.
Cining Palace——
Although Empress Dowager Wu ignored the affairs of the harem, she knew exactly which concubine the emperor favored and which concubine he rewarded.
The strong smell of bitter medicine revealed Concubine Rong's haggard and pale face.
The palace servants in Cining Palace are more serious than those elsewhere. Their footsteps are so light that they can hardly be heard, their breathing is shallow, everyone has a serious expression on their face, and they do not talk to each other.
The gorgeous Empress Dowager Wu sat beside the bed, and not far away, kneeling on the ground was a woman with a temperament as light as a chrysanthemum and a beautiful appearance.
"Queen Mother..."
Concubine Rong let her hair down: "Sister, I have been kneeling for two hours. It's freezing cold. If anything goes wrong while kneeling, you will feel bad."
The green-colored woman on the ground was actually a concubine who had been named a concubine.
Empress Dowager Wu snorted coldly: "Concubine Shu is naturally aloof. The emperor stooped down to beg her, but she was unwilling to forgive the emperor and drove the Nine-Fifth Supreme Lord out of Jingren Palace, allowing Zhen Zhaoyi to take advantage of it. Now I'm sad I feel sorry for you, Concubine Rong, that you were murdered and had a miscarriage. I want your sister to regain the favor of the saint, but she is not willing to help you find out the real culprit. She probably hopes that we Wu family members will die soon!"
Concubine Shu felt sad in her heart, and she could not get rid of the deep sadness in her eyes: "Why does my aunt need to prick Shi'er's heart? The emperor's love for Shi'er in the past was just for show, for aunt and father to see. Since then, The Wu family has fallen, and the emperor has long been disgusted with Shi'er. Now there are more than two hundred lives of the Wu family between Shi'er and the emperor, and my aunt lets Shi'er compete for favor. How should Shi'er deal with herself?"
"Then you have to wait for death in this harem?"
It was not that Empress Dowager Wu was unaware of the emperor's guard against her. The candidate for the queen that the emperor wanted to marry was originally a concubine, but the emperor secretly chose the concubine of the Zhu family, which made her very angry.
"The emperor is disobedient. If you conceive a son of Wu family blood as soon as possible, and the Ai family asks the emperor to make him the prince, won't our Wu family become prosperous again?"
If the son disobeys, then the grandson will sit on the throne. Where does the royal family come from? What she wants is supreme rights.
"That Zhen Zhaoyi can't be kept any longer. The Ai family sees that she has fascinated the emperor."
It was simply unfilial to contradict his mother because of that lowly girl.
"aunt!"
Concubine Rong grabbed her sleeve: "It was Zhen Zhaoyi who saved my concubine."
"Snapped!"
After receiving a slap on her pale little face, she showed a sickly blush. Empress Dowager Wu took out her sleeves and stood up: "Both of them are idiots. Why did you two miserable things come out of our Wu family? In short, The Ai family puts it here today. No matter which one of you, one of you must give birth to a prince. If not, you know the Ai family's methods."
As soon as these words came out, both Concubine Rong and Concubine Shu turned pale.
Although her father was dead, her mother and brother were still suffering in Ninggu Pagoda. If the Queen Mother used them to threaten her, Concubine Shu thought... she would have no room to refuse.
In the next few days, Emperor Xuanwu had a good time in the harem. In addition to going to Yikun Palace on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, he spent three days in January at Concubine Li in Changxin Palace, and two more days for Concubine De. Talent is given to a good concubine, and one day is given to Jin Zhaoyi and Zhang Wanyi.
What surprised Jiang Xinyue the most was that Concubine Shu from Jingren Palace, the niece of the Queen Mother, actually stayed with her for six days.
In the remaining days, he either rested in Hexi Palace or slept alone in Chengqian Palace.
No matter how strong the stallion is, it still needs attention, otherwise if it dies, it will be a loss for adults.
Among the beautiful ladies who entered the palace with Jiang Xinyue, some were favored once and then forgotten about them, and some had not even seen the emperor's face for more than half a year after entering the palace.
They can only look at the moon and sigh, after all, no one in the palace pities them.
There is only one emperor, how can there be enough points?
In the blink of an eye, it was February 2, and Wang Dequan came to Hexi Palace early in the morning to inform him. The emperor asked Zhen Zhaoyi to wear simpler clothes and dress more plainly, and go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to gather.
Jiang Xinyue wore a silver-gray short coat, a linen skirt often worn by farm women, a pair of lotus root-colored trousers, gray cloth shoes, and three thousand blue silk hair wrapped in a scarf. A dark red agarwood hairpin was inserted, making it look plain and clean.
It was not too early when she arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The emperor and empress were already there, and Concubine Shu was standing beside the emperor. She was dressed in a coarse cotton coat and a cloak, looking pure and beautiful.
It seems that Wang Dequan went to Jingren Palace first and then to Hexi Palace.
I just don’t know if this is the emperor’s intention, or if Wang Dequan just came by himself?
Concubine Li was pampered and she wore coarse linen clothes given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the spring plowing last year. She had a lot of rashes on her body. She said she would not come this year.
Therefore, among the concubines, apart from the queen, there are only two concubines, Shu Fei and Jiang Xinyue.
Her status was the lowest among the four, so the sedan chair was naturally ranked last.
This is the first time Jiang Xinyue has left the palace since time travel and saw how real ancient people lived.
Shuangjiang opened the curtains at the window for her, so that she could better see the outside scene, and it was also convenient for herself.
Zhen Zhaoyi was really the best master. Knowing that she was sold into the palace as a slave at the age of six, she had long forgotten what it was like outside the palace.
So when she left the palace this time, she didn't take the magpie with her, and brought her out specially.
Because the emperor and empress were traveling, the vendors on both sides of the street had long been ordered not to set up any more. The streets were cleaned up, except for the curious people who were stopped by the officers and soldiers and lined up on both sides, looking expectantly at the entrance of the palace. The team came out.
