The Great Wu Empire, which spans thousands of miles, has been established for more than a hundred years, with clear politics and stable borders. The capital, located in the north of the center of the empire, has a suitable climate, prosperous cultural and educational trade, and the people live in peace. To the north of Zhuque Street in the capital, to the south of Wansui Mountain, to the east is Jinghu Lake, to the west is Cabinet Lane, surrounded by a moat with a width of more than ten feet, it is known as the imperial city known as the Forbidden Palace. Thirteen concubines of different status lived in the West Sixth Palace of the Forbidden Palace.

The Yongshou Palace next to the Hall of Mental Cultivation is occupied by the noble concubine Du Tingxin. Because of her elegant demeanor, like an orchid, people in the palace prefer to call her Concubine Lan. Concubine Lan is the orphan of the late first-class Duke of Wei Du Ruhe. She was adopted by the Queen Mother since she was a child, and grew up with the emperor's childhood sweetheart. She is undoubtedly the most favored concubine. Behind the Yongshou Palace is the Yikun Palace. The chief concubine of the Yikun Palace, Xing Yiyong, is the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Xingyu, and the only registered concubine other than Concubine Lan Gui. There are two talented people.

There is no main seat in the Changchun Palace, and there are eight regular attendants and talents. Chuxiu Palace next to Xianfu Palace, there are two big pagoda trees in the yard, next to the Imperial Garden, separated from the Palace of Mental Cultivation by two layers of palaces, usually inaccessible, I live here alone, I am the queen. Since the three-day bridal chamber was moved out of the Kunning Palace and entered the Chuxiu Palace, she was rarely recruited, like a queen sitting in a cold palace.At the same time, she is also the only daughter of Ling Xuefeng, the chief assistant of the cabinet who holds the power of internal affairs and foreign affairs.

Right now I'm bored playing with an ivory lotus bead. I don't believe in Buddhism, and worshiping Buddhism, Taoism and gods is a trick played by old women who have lost hope in life. I am still young, and there are still many wishes that have not been fulfilled, and many things that I want have not been obtained. I am still full of confidence in myself, even though Xiao Huan has never looked at me once. Xiao Huan is my husband, the emperor of this empire, a man who has just turned weak and is in charge, has little control over political affairs, and does not have much appetite for women.

He is my husband in name, and likewise, the husband of other women in this harem. When those women saw him, it was as if a mosquito had seen blood. If they hadn’t observed etiquette, I think they would have rushed to hug him neck, desperately kissing his overly straight eyebrows. They would talk about who had just been rewarded with half a cup of white fungus soup, and it turned out to be the leftovers from Xiao Huan's drink, it was like fairy dew!They washed themselves for nothing, guessing whose green card will be turned over by Xiao Huan's hand tonight.They were discussing how the talented man with the old-fashioned bun can still wander around triumphantly?

They don't know what love is, and of course I don't know, there was a time when I thought I knew love, and then the man said sorry, I knew I was wrong. But those are old things, there is no need to mention them again. What I'm thinking about right now is how to get a woman to say sorry to me. I'm not a vain woman, but I'm not generous enough to allow another woman to step on my shoulder and shit and pee.I'm going to teach that arrogant martial artist from Yikun Palace a lesson. This self-righteous woman was only summoned by Xiao Huan to serve in the Hall of Mental Cultivation for two consecutive days, yet she dared to contradict me in front of the empress dowager and concubines.She thought the harem was a small garden opened by the father of her mere third-rank servant?

Of course, there are many ways to teach her a lesson. I can spend a few months to win her over, making her think that the queen in the forbidden palace is her most devoted sister, and then spend a few months or even a few years waiting for someone who can marry her. The chance to put her to death, for example... One day Xiao Huan was no longer interested in her, and she made a big or small disaster by virtue of her friendship with the queen. If I think this method is too exhausting, I can still be tactful and unintentional. During the gathering of concubines in the harem, I can praise Wu Lianming's dazzling favor... I don't need to be provocative, or even show what I should It won't be long before those women in the palace with exquisite wrists and thoughts like lightning will work very hard and carefully to remove Wu Lianming, the thorn in everyone's eyes, on my behalf.

In this harem, there are really too many ways to make a person disappear inexplicably. Today, though, I'm not going to use any of these methods—because those aren't fun enough. The glazed beast on the desk was breathing green smoke from its mouth. I sat up from the couch, put my bare feet into the gold embroidered shoes of mandarin ducks, stood up, and dragged the vermilion long dress with hundreds of phoenixes and floating clouds on the long velvet Persian carpet. Supporting my head with my hands to prevent the golden phoenix hairpin with the seven treasures inlaid on it from falling off, I smiled at the hill beside me: "Do you want to go with Miss and me to show off the majesty of that martial artist?"

Xiao Shan is the dowry girl I brought into the palace, and now the maid in charge of Chuxiu Palace, who is not used to being old or young, actually glanced at me and said, "What do you want to play?" I laughed, raised my hand to look at the freshly painted Koudan on my fingertips, and glanced at her: "Just watch carefully. Go, and send someone to call Wu Cairen to the Royal Garden. In addition, tell her that the person in front of Jiangxuexuan Make me a pot of tea under the wisteria trellis." Xiao Shan has some embroidery hobbies. At this time, he curled his lips and reluctantly threw away the shoe uppers he was embroidering, and got up to go out to decorate.

I waited for a while, put on the snow brocade cloud shoulders, covered the bare shoulders outside the palace dress, walked out of the room, beckoned to a few maids and servants, and muttered for a while. All arranged, let's go. Along the way, umbrellas meandered, and a group of maids of honor followed behind. When we arrived at the imperial garden, the tea and cakes in the kiosk had been prepared, we cleaned the stone bench and sat down, just in time to hear a commotion at the entrance of the imperial garden, Xiaoshan had brought Wu Cairen. From the pine and cypress branches in front of Tianyi Gate to Jiangxuexuan, there is a distance of about 200 steps. You need to pass through a flower bed, a row of large vats for raising lotus, a Taihu stone rockery, and a wisteria flower stand. In the blink of an eye.

I picked up the glass of Shifeng Longjing on the table and sipped it slowly, and then heard the sound of screams, cracking porcelain jars, water, slipping, running, and screaming all the way in front of Tianyi Gate. When all the sound stopped, I put down my tea bowl and looked up. Wu Cairen stood under the pavilion, hairpins were in a mess, his hair was scattered along his cheeks, his beautiful big eyes opened in horror, the light green tulle was wet against his body, and mud and grass blades slid down along the undulating curves. . If my arrangement was correct, then she was first splashed with cold water on her head, and then pushed into the muddy lotus vat when the sky was dark. However, she is such a beauty, she is so embarrassing and she is not concealed, no wonder she is the only one favored among the concubines in the harem. I squinted my eyes, stood up with a smile, and covered my chin with the round fan in my hand, revealing half of my mouth: "Oh, isn't this a martial artist? Why is he covered in mud?" Wu Cairen stared at me blankly, his eyes opened wider and wider, and his voice trembled: "You, you..." I put down the round fan from my mouth, put it on my left hand, and stared in the eyes: "Wu Cairen, have you forgotten the rules in the palace? Come, teach her!" The maids next to me are much more obedient than Xiao Shan. As soon as I finished speaking, someone jumped out: "Follow the queen's order!" Immediately after two consecutive "bang bang" kicks, Wu Cairen fell to his knees with a plop. Those ferocious maids made a rough move, and Wu Cairen fell to the ground and supported his body with his elbows so that he didn't fall down. She stood on the ground, struggled to raise her head, her almond eyes were wide open, and she still wanted to argue with me. I laughed, walked slowly in front of her, bent down and stretched out my hand, and pressed the handle of the fan on her shivering shoulder. The force was not strong, but it happened to be on her shoulder blade, which was enough to make half of her body numb. Looking down at her, I smiled slightly: "Wu Lianming, do you think that a woman who is also the Lord of Long Live, you are more beautiful than me, and you will please the Lord of Long Live, but you want to kneel down to me, and you will be ashamed once you see me." It’s unconvincing and unreasonable to salute once, isn’t it?” I raised the corners of my mouth higher and looked straight into her eyes: "I can tell you, even if you are more beautiful than me, and you will please Long Live God better than me, I can still make you stumble once you see me, see above If you fall a hundred times, you will fall a hundred times. If you don't believe me, I will slowly make you believe it." I smiled, and put my mouth next to her ear, "Or you can go to ask your Long Live God or the Empress Dowager to help you. , to see if they can protect you." I moved my head away from her ear, and I still smiled, in Wu Lianming's eyes, I should be no different from a snake and a scorpion: "Actually, you should also be more careful-who made me a queen, but you are not. " Straightening up, I removed the round fan from her shoulders and threw it at her feet: "This fan is stained with mud, so I will give it to Wu Cairen." I smiled, "The Internal Weaving Bureau only produces five pieces a year. Western organdy gauze fan, don't waste it." I turned around and called Shang Xiaoshan and a group of court ladies who watched the fun, and staggered back to the palace. When I turned around the flowery wisteria trellis, I looked back. Among the flowers, Wu Lianming was lying on the ground, fists clenched Holding hands, face buried in messy hair, no expression could be seen. Back at Chuxiu Palace, waiting idly until Youshi, news came from the Hall of Mental Cultivation that Xiao Huan called a martial artist to sleep tonight. The next morning, when I went to greet the queen mother as usual, Xiao Huan was there. I walked over with a smile on my face, greeted the queen mother first, and then said blessings to Xiao Huan: "The concubine has seen Long live." "Come on, come on, what's your courtesy, Empress, come and sit down here." The Empress Dowager kindly pulled me to sit beside her, and took my hand, like a loving elder. I smiled, and asked Xiao Huan who was beside me: "Long time no see, is Wan Sui feeling better?" It's not that I'm being hypocritical, it's that the Tai Medical Bureau always claimed that Xiao Huan had a cold and illness and needed to rest more, which made him look weak, and it was because of this that he got married after he was weak. What cold disease?If he had a cold, my teeth would fall out.Always ignoring government affairs under the pretext of being weak, never delaying government meetings, but throwing all political affairs to the cabinet. . Before Xiao Huan could answer, the Queen Mother over there frowned and turned to ask Xiao Huan: "Long time? Emperor, how long has it been since you saw the Queen?" Xiao Huan got up immediately, and replied respectfully: "After returning to mother, it is the child emperor who has been negligent these few days." The queen mother looked at him, paused for a moment, and sighed: "Since ancient times, how can the emperor not have some partial favors? As good as everything is good, isn't the queen also a good daughter? You should love the queen more." I listened quietly at the side, lowering my eyebrows and bowing my head: This is really beautiful, how considerate of me-it is absolutely impossible to hear the meaning of saying that I have no ability to keep men. Xiao Huan nodded respectfully: "The queen mother has taught you the right thing, and the emperor will keep it in mind." "You always say you remember it, remember it, but in fact you don't take it to heart at all." The queen mother's expression softened a little, she smiled and blamed, and then looked at me, "Queen, the emperor has something wrong with him. The place, but the emperor has been in poor health since he was a child, and the state affairs are busy, so the long and short in the harem, the empress should also worry about the emperor, right?" I quickly got up too: "The concubine would like to follow the teachings of the empress mother." "Okay, okay, I didn't say anything to you, it's worth it." Saying this, the expression on the Queen Mother's face softened, she smiled and took Xiao Huan and me by the hand, "Hurry up and sit down." Let's go, the three of us will talk about homework for a while." Xiao Huan and I sat down again, the Empress Dowager took my hand and chatted a lot, nothing more than trivial gossip, I responded and chatted like this for half an hour. It wasn't until the queen mother said that she was tired and wanted to sleep, that Xiao Huan and I quit together. After leaving the Palace of Compassion and Ning, I accompanied Xiao Huan and walked back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation through the long corridor, he suddenly smiled: "Is the Queen very angry these days?" I sighed first, and then looked at him with a smile: "I haven't seen a piece of Wansui's clothes for a few days and nights, and my concubine is getting angry. Wansui still asks such a question, which really makes my concubine sad!" He actually smiled softly: "If the Queen really wants to see me, just send someone to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to say yes? I'm flattered that the Queen can care about her so much." The smile on my face didn't decrease at all, and I said flatteringly, "Long live, what you said is really true." "Really?" He turned to look at me, with a faint smile on his lips, "Isn't the queen's words duplicity?" I raised my eyebrows, with a fake smile on my face, even I felt hypocritical: "The concubine speaks from the bottom of her heart, it's not like long live, she refuses to show any sincerity." He lowered his head and smiled, and took the conversation away lightly: "Although Wu Cairen is pampered, the queen has already punished him, can you look at my thin face in the future and stop fussing with her?" Finally got to the point, right?I just said that in the past, intentionally or unintentionally, I would always avoid meeting with me, but today I am not afraid of seeing each other, and specially waited for me at the Queen Mother's place, just to intercede with Wu Cairen. "Well, Long Live knows this too. Others may have nine twists and eighteen loops of intestines, but the concubine only believes in one reason. I will make her uncomfortable if anyone makes me uncomfortable. But, the concubine's It’s over when you get angry, and it’s not like some people, who greet people with a smile and plot behind their backs, so scheming.” I looked at him with a smile, “You think so, long live?” He chuckled and nodded: "Just listen to what the queen says." While talking with him, a black figure came from the other side of the corridor, hurriedly approached, and touched the ground with one knee: "Your servant, Li Hongqing, has seen the Lord Long Live and the Empress." The person who came was Li Hongqing, the deputy commander of the accompanying battalion of imperial guards who was in charge of the harem guards. The royal guards of this dynasty are divided into two battalions, the Accompanying Battalion and the Gu Xing Battalion, with about 200 people in each battalion. In every corner of the empire, intelligence was collected and officials at all levels were monitored. All corrupt officials were afraid of mentioning the word Gu Xingying.Although the number of the two battalions is less than five hundred, each of them is one of a hundred elites, not to mention superb martial arts, and there are many capable people with unique skills, which should not be underestimated. The two battalions are directly commanded by the emperor, and their status is also very special in the empire. The four commanders, the principal and the deputy, have been hereditary from the four princes of different surnames who followed the emperor Taizu to fight in all directions. Uncle Weiyuan, the third class riding a general. The emperors of all generations in Dawu always treated the leaders of the two battalions with respect and respect, as if they were brothers and sisters.With such a heart-to-heart exchange, the two battalions of imperial guards, as the emperor's confidantes, have no doubts about their loyalty to the royal family. Li Hongqing has always been informal in front of Xiao Huan, immediately got up when his knee touched the ground, glanced at me, and paused: "Long live, Hongqing has something to report." Knowing that I wanted to avoid suspicion for such a secret report, I smiled and saluted Xiao Huan: "The concubine will leave first." Xiao Huan nodded with a smile: "The queen cherishes it." I smiled again, backed away. After walking a little far, I looked back, Li Hongqing was standing in front of Xiao Huan, I don't know what he was telling, and then a slender white figure walked out from the Shunyi Gate next to him. Xiao Huan's arm, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, glanced at me from afar. Imperial concubine Du Tingxin. I couldn't help but sneered, was this for me?If you don't want to show it to the martial talents who are currently in the holy family, what should you show me?I won't pose any threat to her, Xiao Huan probably doesn't even want to touch a finger of mine. Looking at the backs of those two who depended on each other, I didn't know why I suddenly felt a little sour, just a little. Asking Ann, I was so short of breath and chest tight, I took the maids and servants along the corridor until I reached the gate of Chuxiu Palace. A court lady, go to the imperial garden to breathe. The lotus vat that was broken when teasing Wu Lianming yesterday was cleaned up long ago and replaced with a new one, now only some inconspicuous mud remains in the hidden corners. The embroidered clothes on my body made my shoulders uncomfortable. There was a gust of wind, and it rustled through the bushes and flowers. I don’t know why I had an illusion. I felt as if there were footsteps coming. Looking back, there was nothing behind me, only the imperial garden The lush vegetation undulates and stretches in the wind.