The news that Wei Cheng rewarded a box of Dongzhu quickly spread throughout the harem.
What a concept is a box of dongzhu? The best quality dongzhu can only be paid tribute to three boxes a year. One box is given to the Queen Mother, and the other box is divided into four parts and distributed to four old people.
The last box is stored in the warehouse. In the past, when Wei Cheng was in a good mood, he would only reward five or six pieces at most.
Now he was so generous that he gave the entire box to Ning Yuzhen.
This made everyone in the harem feel sour in their hearts.
The news spread and reached the ears of Ji Yingsheng, who lived in seclusion.
As for her, she doesn't go out often, and she is not favored. The eunuchs and maids who serve her are also neglectful. Only Caiping, a son brought from home, serves her wholeheartedly.
Caiping was busy waiting for Ji Yao every day, which was not enough, and she had no time to inquire about what was happening outside.
Therefore, the fact that Ning Yuzhen got a box of Dongzhu was something that Ji promised to hear by chance when he was chatting with the eunuchs and maids who were neglecting him.
"My sisters from the same hometown just came to tell me that after Ning Changzai came back from Yangxin Palace this morning, Eunuch Fulu, who was serving the emperor, made a special trip to the Yihexuan and gave Ning Changzai a whole box of Dongzhu. !”
"Really? Ning Changzai is really favored. I heard that Dongzhu is very rare. I have been in this palace for several years and I have never seen the emperor be so generous to any concubine."
"Isn't that right? I really envy that stinky girl Lianxiang. She has such a good life and has a good master. Unlike us, we are afraid that we will waste the rest of our lives in this Western Palace!"
"We all have sympathy for each other. Ji promised to be cowardly by nature. Even if we were slaves, we couldn't be happy to see him, let alone the emperor. The bed he had finally got that day was only half gone. Has the time come back? I think back then, among the new ladies who entered the palace, only Ji Wenxing and Ning Chang had the lowest status. Now look at it, Ning Chang has a bright future. We... tsk tsk tsk tsk .”
They didn't care if Ji promised to be punished if he heard about it. Anyway, in their opinion, following such a master for the rest of his life would be considered useless.
Ji promised to listen to them expressionlessly. Caiping felt wronged for her and wanted to rush out to show off to those unscrupulous slaves, but was stopped by Ji promised to do so.
"Little Master! What those dog slaves said is so unpleasant, please let your slaves teach them a lesson."
Ji promised to shake his head slowly, returned to the couch, and stared blankly at the charcoal basin with a faint light of fire in front of him.
Caiping was afraid that her master would be stunned, so she threw herself in front of her knees and said, "Master, is he cold? I will go and ask the father-in-law of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give him more charcoal fire."
Ji agreed but shook his head, looking stunned and saying nothing.
After waiting until she was discouraged and Caiping was even a little disheartened, Ji promised to finally speak.
"My body is not cold, but my heart is cold." Her eyes moved to a gold and gem-set dragonfly hairpin placed in front of the dowry, and she suddenly smiled, "Look, my face is completely disgraced. Listen, Mr. Xia. A hairpin was eagerly delivered to me when the news came that I was going to bed, but I only went to Yangxin Hall for half an hour before I was sent back, like a dragonfly, unable to get wet from the rain and unable to bear the emperor's favor!"
Thinking of the emperor's attitude the night before, Ji promised to feel desolate in her heart. She would remember such a shame for the rest of her life.
Seeing that she was gradually turning into a demon, Caiping hurriedly covered her mouth and cried in a low voice, "My mistress, you must not think like this. I know best what kind of person my mistress is. To put it bluntly, the emperor is He doesn’t know the little master well enough, he doesn’t understand what a good person the little master is.”
Ji promised to feel really uncomfortable being squeezed out by the slaves. He cried against Caiping for a while, his eyes as swollen as autumn water, and he didn't give up until he couldn't see the original appearance.
Being helped back to the couch, she stared at the dragonfly hairpin and said hoarsely: "I was not loved by my father in the palace, and now that I have entered the palace, I am not loved by the emperor. My mother died early, and there is no one who loves me in this world." , The person who loves me, the hairpin Xia Fangshu gave me really pierced my chest."
Ji promised to call Caiping to bring the hairpin and smashed it on the ground. Still refusing to calm down, he stepped on it a few more times until the hairpin fell apart.
Although Caiping felt distressed when she saw them, after all, they had no jewelry when they entered the palace, and after entering the palace, it was as if they didn't exist. No one cared at all, let alone some beautiful jewelry, but objects are dead and people are alive. To make the master feel better, it doesn't matter if he loses a hairpin.
He hadn't eaten much in the past few days, so after Ji promised to finish the few tasks, he was so exhausted that he was breathing heavily.
She clenched the armrests of the chair tightly, her walnut-swollen eyes struggled to open wide, anger, resentment, and sadness enveloped her heart.
Caiping was a little scared when she saw it. She hesitated and said: "My lord..."
When Ji promised to hear the voice, she came back to her senses. The terrifying expression on her face quickly disappeared, as if it had never appeared before, and she returned to her cowardice in front of others.
"Nothing, I'm tired and want to take a nap."
All the reactions from each palace reached the ears of the one from Cining Palace.
The queen mother closed her eyes, with Jingxia pressing her shoulders from behind. When she heard her talking about a box of dongzhu, she couldn't help but frown.
"The emperor seems to be very fond of Ning Changzai recently? He even rewards Dongzhu. Even the queen can't find a box."
After all, Jingxia was a slave, and it was hard to say anything to anyone. He replied stiffly: "Ning Chang's position is not high, it's fine as long as the emperor likes it."
The Queen Mother sighed deeply and opened her somewhat cloudy eyes.
She didn't want to make the emperor unhappy, so as not to hurt the relationship between mother and son, but the past was choked in her heart, which was really hard to swallow, and even Ning Yuzhen was not happy.
When she was not the Queen Mother, Wei Cheng, who was still the Crown Prince, could be considered to have a hundred flowers blooming in his dormitory.
After all the deaths and injuries over the years, there are only four left.
The Queen Mother thought about it and found that there was no one who could support her. The Queen was resentful of the Emperor, Liang Concubine was stupid, Yigui people were arrogant and domineering and did not have a useful natal family, Xianfei was good, but it was a pity that she had lost the ability to have children.
As for the newcomers, the forces behind them are so intertwined that even if she intends to support them, she is afraid that they will end up with a blank stare.
The Queen Mother also thought that if she could live a long life and become a Queen Mother in the future, with children and grandchildren around her, that would be a real blessing.
There is still a lack of someone from the Wang family in this palace.
Jingxia could tell at a glance what the Queen Mother was thinking, and said, "Is your Majesty asking Duke Cheng'en to send a young lady to the palace?"
"The Ai family thinks so." The Queen Mother twirled the jade bracelet on her wrist, "Those bastards have done too many things out there, so let the Ai family finish it for them. Now they are fine. They have received retribution. The boss is old. After giving birth to a child, there are not many heirs in the house, and the only girl, Yan'er, is still young, so she has to wait for two years, and I'm afraid that the day lilies will be cold by then."
Jingxia rolled her eyes and said, "I remember, there seems to be a young lady in the side branch..."
