Concubine Sun leaned lazily on the stool and rubbed her wrists contentedly. Looking at the red and swollen palm prints on Concubine De's cheeks, she felt comfortable.
Concubine De felt extremely humiliated, thinking that she, the noble daughter of a scholarly family, was now slapped by a lowly daughter of a county magistrate?
Gritting her teeth hard, she slowly raised her head, only to see a pair of beautiful eyes covered with bloodshot eyes: "Empress, please say something bold, Concubine Rong Chen. Do you know what Hui'er forced her to do after setting the fire? Do you really think that I, the concubine, have not caught anything?"
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have come to this damn peony garden to look for her!
Concubine Sun chuckled slowly: "I naturally know that you have something to do. After all, Hui'er's younger siblings were saved by you. However, I didn't mean to threaten you. You are older than me after all. , your qualifications and foundation in the palace are not shallow, I should respect you as much as I respect my eldest sister."
After saying that, she helped Concubine De up with a smile and comforted her softly: "Sister was just frightened."
Concubine De felt her hair standing on end, and she suddenly had an unpleasant feeling that she was trying to steal the skin of a tiger.
"Sister, we are all sisters serving His Majesty, how could I harm you! I regard my sister as one of my own, so I borrowed my sister's people without asking, and did some trivial things for me. Sister. Don't be so stingy. We are all concubines, and we have to work together in the same boat." After saying this, Concubine Sun reached out and gently touched Concubine De's slightly red and swollen face, but she felt a feeling that she had never felt before in her heart. Feel.
Concubine De is really a beautiful woman that is rare to find in the world, but His Majesty even ignores such a beautiful woman... It is good to have power.
Concubine Sun's gaze was so piercing that it made Concubine De tremble all over, but she didn't even dare to move out of fear. She mustered up the courage to say, "You, aren't you afraid that I will tell His Majesty?"
Tell your majesty? Concubine De has been in the palace for so many years, but she is still so naive when it comes to His Majesty's affairs.
Concubine Sun suppressed her smile with self-mockery: "Sister also knows that I have always been of the same mind as Your Majesty. Even if you tell me, Your Majesty won't believe it. Besides - you have my handle, but I don't have your handle." ? If you really go and say it, I'm afraid your natal family will also be implicated by you!"
"Then you're not afraid of hurting your mother's clan?" Concubine De's hair stood on end, and Concubine Sun's nonchalant look made her look like a bachelor.
"My mother's family is my mother's family, and I am me." Concubine Sun was used to reading "The Biography of Cao Mengde" and was already familiar with the sentence in it. She would rather teach me to betray the world than teach the world to betray me.
The interests of her natal family and her mother's family are nothing compared to her own interests. They are just trying to contain each other and take advantage of each other!
Not to mention the mother clan, even her husband, children, when it comes to protecting herself, she will spare no effort!
Concubine De was dumbfounded by the fierceness of her sharp eyes that were buried deep in her bones. She was not uncommon with cold and selfish women in the palace, but she didn't even care about her mother's family, as if she was the only one in the world. A woman alone is truly unheard of and unseen.
Isn't it that they entered the palace at the request of their family to continue the bloodline and glory of their family and the royal family? Isn't it just to support their mother clan?
Concubine Sun... is so cruel.
No wonder she always wins.
Concubine De held back her tears, held back her wide sleeves with great authority, and said, "Well, what do you want me to do?"
Having been forced into this situation, it was easy for Concubine Sun to manipulate her.
Concubine Sun can ignore the Sun family, but she cannot care about the Xia family.
"Sister, I don't want to use you as a pawn, but I hope you can be my helper and my firm backing," Concubine Sun picked up the jade bucket on the case and took a few sips of the wine like a drunkard, then continued He actually put his mouth in front of Concubine De and sprayed the smell of wine on her slightly opened full red lips. Seeing that Concubine De was dizzy as if she was drunk, a hint of intelligence flashed in her narrow eyes. Concubine Sun asked her with a smile, "Sister, do you think that when we women enter the palace, which step is the most perfect?"
The two lips were so close that Concubine De felt her lips itching and her heart itching too.
Concubine Sun asked her meaningfully. Concubine De was stunned for a while, then turned her face to the side in embarrassment, touched her blushing cheeks that were almost burning, and said casually: "Well, since we women have entered the palace to serve His Majesty, , the most fulfilling thing is naturally to ascend to the position of queen."
After saying that, she bit her lip and lowered her head.
Concubine Sun smiled nonchalantly after hearing Concubine De's honest answer. She bent her fingers and gently scratched Concubine De's egg-white cheeks. Her voice was even more gentle: "Queen Zhuang Xi is the queen, but you see Looking at her life, can it be considered perfect?"
As early as when Empress Zhuang Xi burned herself/burned in the Lama Temple, Concubine Sun realized that the so-called empress position above ten thousand people was not actually the end, but just the beginning of a new stage, which was not considered life. The ultimate perfection.
Concubine De stuttered in her answer, dodging Sun Guifei's approaching step by step: "Then, that means she can sit on the position of Queen Mother and enjoy her old age in peace."
Ascending the position of Queen Mother, for the concubine, is indeed an excellent summary of the previous generation's palace struggle work.
At this moment, Concubine Sun sat down directly on the white marble table. She shook her head after hearing the words, then picked up the jug and skillfully poured a cup of hot wine into Concubine De's small jade cup, handed it to her and said: "Our Queen Mother Everything is under His Majesty's control, and now even the power to control the Sixth Palace has been handed over to you and me. Is this considered complete?"
Concubine De twists her handkerchief and her mind wanders, but she suddenly guesses what "the most perfect" in Concubine Sun's mouth means. She steps back in shock and says: "You, you, you, you actually think, want... …”
Want to listen to politics behind the curtain? Want to wear a dragon robe as your daughter?
These...she couldn't even think about it!
When she knew that His Majesty was neglecting her, Concubine De just wanted to use her wisdom and skills to plan in the Sixth Palace so that she could spend this life safely and bring glory and wealth to the Xia family. This was the best thing. .
She originally thought that Mrs. Sun probably just wanted to be the queen, so just be so. Concubine De didn't care very much in her heart. After all, she had no children and was not involved in seizing the throne for the time being. But who would have known that Sun Guifei, who looked so quiet, was actually hiding such great ambitions! Most people want their son to be the emperor, but she wants to be the emperor herself!
Concubine Sun nodded gently, with a quiet and well-behaved smile: "Yes."
Once you have tasted the taste of power, you will never forget it.
But she knew that she was from a humble background, and none of her brothers and sisters in the family could help. Lan Ruoge's Sun Jieyu would be fine as long as she didn't cause trouble. How could she dare to discuss her with such a brainless thing? The real thoughts in my heart.
There were no helpers in the palace. After Empress Zhuang Xi left, His Majesty became wary of her. Concubine Sun knew that if she didn't make any move, it would be really difficult for her to move forward in the future.
She had been secretly observing Concubine De for a long time.
Concubine De's appearance was excellent. Before Chen Xiurong entered the palace, her appearance and bearing were second only to Queen Zhuang Xi. She was as elegant as a fairy, elegant and refined, but His Majesty did not favor her.
Leaving aside this point, Concubine De's family background is also good.
Concubine Sun's idea of how good her family background was was never one of being noble and prominent, but rather modest, low-key, and enduring.
Concubine De is the daughter of a scholarly family, and several uncles in her family are famous civil servants. Such a family is very good in the Dali calendar where culture is valued over military affairs, and His Majesty will not touch it easily. What's more, the children of the Xia family are particularly low-key in their behavior, which is obviously much better than the dazzling and sharp-edged Gu family.
The most important thing is that Concubine De has only one eldest princess, which does not conflict with Concubine Sun's own interests.
This was also the most important reason why she chose Concubine De as her helper.
"What's the benefit if I promise you? What's the harm if I don't promise you?" Concubine De frowned deeply, obviously struggling.
After Queen Zhuang Xi left, she seemed to have lost half of her arm, and she can only act in hibernation until now.
"The advantage? The advantage is that Zhao'er's future concubine will definitely be named Xia, and after His Majesty's death, my sister will definitely be the most noble concubine in the palace. The eldest princess's marriage will also be decided by her own sister." All three are too tempting.
For the concubine De who has no prince, he has captured her fate accurately.
Concubine Sun smiled sweetly: "But if my sister doesn't agree, it won't matter if the scandal of the Jianxian Pavilion is leaked. I'm afraid that the second prince's acne will also fall on my sister, and... Empress Zhuang Xi was pregnant back then. I think Your Majesty will also be very interested in how the first child slipped away accidentally." Accidents in the palace are usually not accidents.
However, Your Majesty already knew why Empress Zhuang Xi's first child failed, and it was because of this that His Majesty kept alienating and neglecting Concubine De.
Naturally, Concubine Sun would not tell everything about this matter.
Back then, it was the Concubine Xia who was engaged to the fourth prince. However, many things happened later, and the quasi-Crown Princess Gu ended up getting together with the fourth prince. She married into the palace and became a official before Xia. Concubine, Xia had no choice but to be the concubine of the fourth prince with shame and humiliation.
Concubine De will always remember that day, when the Gu family got married in a red dress, and the sedan chair symbolizing her status as the royal concubine slowly passed by the door of the Xia family. She listened to the lively sounds of the wind and beating, and imagined that she should have been like this. One day, he walked into the palace from the main entrance in a dignified manner.
The concubine, no matter how nice it sounds, is not the main wife. No matter how well-born she was, she still couldn't get through the main entrance according to the rules.
Because of this, the sisterhood between her and Gu came to an end.
And Concubine Sun actually brought this up to threaten her. It seemed that she had no choice but to obey.
No matter what, if you seek skin from a tiger, you will seek skin from a tiger. In life, there are always gains and losses.
"Then over at Jingyi Huangzhuang..." After taking a sip of the hot wine in the cup, Concubine De thought of the second prince and was a little shy when she spoke.
Concubine Sun covered her mouth and giggled: "Sister, don't be embarrassed, we will be sisters from now on. As for the second prince, let him leave it to his fate."
A breeze came, and outside the peony garden, dusk was just right.
