Concubine Shu held the emperor's warm hand, felt warm in her heart, and shook her head: "I'm fine, I may be feeling dizzy because I haven't eaten breakfast and am a little exhausted."
That's a good reason.
Although Emperor Xuanwu's eyes were looking at the rice seedlings in the ground, his peripheral vision was filled with Concubine Shu's figure. Jiang Xinyue walked at the end, using the crowd as a shield to observe them.
From a psychological point of view, loving someone is altruistic.
What is altruism?
Altruism means putting the interests of others first, which is what later generations call it: the love brain.
Although Emperor Xuanwu was not a lover, his forbearing look towards Concubine Shu had been exposed to Jiang Xinyue's observation.
Self-disclosure is the basis for the establishment of an intimate relationship. When a person begins to self-disclose, it is a sign of the establishment of a trusting relationship.
When the other party responds with the same self-disclosure, it shows that both parties are willing to develop further.
This back-and-forth exchange of self-exposure, when both parties reach a satisfactory level, interpersonal intimacy will gradually form.
Jiang Xinyue's eyes fell on Concubine Shu's face again, and she saw that although she made no movement to resist, her eyes were separated from her movements, showing pain and suffering.
Before it was too late, Concubine Shu didn't seem to open her heart to the emperor. The emperor was already burdened with having his head shaved!
The Dog Emperor pretended to be affectionate in front of her, and pretended to be doting in front of Concubine Li, but in fact the person he really cared about was his little cousin Concubine Shu, who had grown up with him as his childhood sweetheart.
The Wu family was hateful, but he did not anger the Wu family's daughters. The two direct daughters of the Wu family have both entered the palace as concubines.
Jiang Xinyue was not discouraged. There were so many bamboo horses in the world that they could not withstand the fall from the sky. Her fall from the sky would squeeze Concubine Shu out of Emperor Xuanwu's heart.
Anyway, she doesn’t want to accept the emperor, so she shouldn’t mind if she picks up the slack, right?
It doesn't matter if you mind. We are all the emperor's women, and everyone can achieve their own goals based on their own abilities. Healthy competition in the workplace is acceptable to Jiang Xinyue.
As long as she doesn't love the emperor and regards him as her boss, Jiang Xinyue will have no feeling at all about who he loves or loves.
The only thing she was afraid of was that Emperor Xuanwu did not respect martial ethics. When she and Concubine Shu collided in the future, he would favor Concubine Shu.
Then when you get promoted...oh no...when you get promoted, you will have a strong opponent.
Is Concubine Shu a good person?
Not sure, check again.
"ah!"
Just when Jiang Xinyue was looking at Concubine Shu, Empress Zhu suddenly exclaimed and fell into the mud.
The emperor's hand was holding Concubine Shu in his wide sleeves. Before he could hug Empress Zhu, he could only watch her fall down.
The two intertwined sleeves came apart. Empress Zhu thought she was dazzled and didn't pay attention. She looked down at the squirming, blood-red insect on her calf and almost fainted.
She is the mother of the country, and she is allowed to go to the fields and farm side by side with the emperor. This is a privilege that only the queen of the middle palace has.
She has always taken it seriously, so for a noble girl, she can keep her face straight, but Concubine Shu can't.
But this disgusting bug burrowed into her skin, making her hair stand on end. She couldn't bear it anymore and crawled to the shore, pulling the blood-red bug with her hands while crawling.
"do not move!"
Jiang Xinyue rushed over and grabbed Queen Zhu's hand: "This is a leech, specially designed to suck blood. If you pull it with your hands, it will aggravate the bleeding of the wound."
As she spoke, she quickly picked up the shoes placed on the bank and said to Empress Zhu, "Empress, I'm offended."
The sole of the shoe slapped quickly on the spot where the leech was sucked, making a "snap" sound. Queen Zhu's calves were red from the slap, and she couldn't help but want to lose her temper. However, when her calves were numb, she heard various surprised voices saying: "Master, it really fell."
And because it was not pulled out by force, there was only a very small wound on Queen Zhu's calf.
A farmer brought clean water over to wash her off, and praised Jiang Xinyue: "This lady seems to know a lot about farming. She is good at transplanting rice. She even knows how to deal with leeches, which is really rare."
Jiang Xinyue waved her hands in embarrassment: "My father is the young minister of Honglu Temple. There are not many other things in the house, but the entire study is filled with miscellaneous books. I learned all this from books."
Don't panic and say that you learned it from books, but there's no way to explain how a wealthy young lady like her, who has never left home, knows these things?
Emperor Xuanwu's eyes softened when he looked at her, and he helped Empress Zhu up with her: "Zhen Zhaoyi is also eager to save people. The empress shouldn't blame her, right?"
Empress Zhu felt embarrassed, but Jiang Xinyue did save her. During the spring plowing, she also saw an official who was bitten by leeches. The man was not as lucky as she was. After being manipulated by someone at random, the wound continued to bleed, and he almost died. Lost his life due to infection.
She shook her head and smiled at Jiang Xinyue: "It's too late to thank me, so how can I blame him?"
After a brief interlude, spring plowing continued.
By the time the plowing was completed, it was almost time.
The grass and whip were still handed over to the Minister of Household Affairs and the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture. The emperor went to Guangeng Tainan and sat facing south. The king and his subordinates stood in order of their classes.
Subsequently, the kings plowed the fields, the kings pushed the fields five times, the nine ministers pushed the fields nine times, the Yin officials of the government held the green boxes to sow the seeds, and the elders followed them to cover the soil.
After the ceremony, the emperor arrived at the Zhai Palace, where the governor and elders saluted. Thirty farmers carrying farm tools accompanied them. After the farmer cultivated all the remaining uncultivated fields, the ministers of Honglu Temple praised and celebrated, and all the officials saluted and celebrated. Then a banquet was given to the princes, elders and other people, and the farmer was rewarded with cloth.
It was supposed to be the Minister of Honglu Temple who came to pay tribute, but he wisely gave the job to Jiang Shaoqing, allowing him to show his face in front of Emperor Xuanwu and Zhen Zhaoyi.
I only blame myself for being too old and unable to give birth to a beautiful daughter who would enter the palace and win the favor of the emperor.
His daughters have all been married for many years, and his granddaughters have all agreed to get married. The youngest granddaughter is sixteen years old and got married last year.
He is now fifty-one years old, and even if he wants to give birth to a concubine for the emperor, he is unable to do so.
When Jiang Xinyue was eating, she was placed on the emperor's left side, and the seat on the right belonged to Empress Zhu.
This time, with her own strength, she made Emperor Xuanwu look upon her, and Concubine Shu also had to step aside.
If Emperor Xuanwu did not show his closeness to her, then those farmers would feel in their hearts that the emperor did not favor a concubine who knew all about farming, but instead cared about a concubine who despised the dirty work of farming. The emperor must not really value farming, but just do it. Just a look.
Jiang Xinyue, who was aware of the twists and turns of these things, ate the dishes the emperor gave her with a happy face, without any fluctuation in her heart.
Concubine Shu had a small stomach, and she didn't eat much in the palace. She only tasted the first two dishes served by the maid, and she said she was full after not even taking two bites.
Jiang Xinyue, who was holding a big chicken leg and chewing it deliciously, was embarrassed.
Is she eating? Or eat it?
Emperor Xuanwu, a dog emperor, wouldn't think that compared to his own Bai Yueguang, she is just a pig, right?
