Traveling through books: trapped in an infinite cycle of injustice

The Queen Mother's birthday banquet is imminent and will arrive in ten days. Qinglin Palace has not reported the program so far, and Concubine Jin doesn’t know what birthday gift to give to please the Queen Mother.

Concubine Jin is like a corpse in the real world. She has no ambition to make progress and just wants to lie at home. I don’t understand how she managed to live till now in this palace without fighting or grabbing. It is possible that she will be lucky, and stupid people will be lucky. The maids in the palace all helped Concubine Jin with advice.

"Why don't we let Mu Yi perform and dance? Among our group, she is the only one with outstanding martial arts (dancing) skills!"

"Qing'er, are you here to make a joke? If you ask Mu Yi to dance, it's not bad if you ask her to perform a chest-breaking performance. She is good at martial arts, not dancing."

"Linglong, how can you say that to our Mu Yi? How can she break a boulder in her chest? She can fly in the sky and dodge the slap."

The two of them talked more and more outrageously, making Yan Muyi like a god who could perform all kinds of tricks.

"I see that you two are good at performing on stage. I'll give you two a script. Your performance is very vivid. No one in cross talk is as good as you."

Concubine Jin just watched the maids chatting happily, but she didn't come over to finish.

A day passed and still no solution was found. In the end, I went to the Empress to apologize, saying that we in the Qinglin Palace really had no talented people who could share the burden for the Empress, and we had no chance to make a fool of herself for the Empress Dowager. The Empress finally let us go in the Qinglin Palace because Concubine Ying had three popular shows this year, so we were able to get away with it so easily.

Since the show doesn't need to be released, it would be most appropriate for everyone to give the Queen Mother whatever birthday gift she wants. Everyone talks to me about night-bright pearls, phoenix hairpins, phoenix crowns, shrouds, jade bracelets, etc.

After talking a lot, I feel that giving these birthday gifts every year is nothing new. Moreover, the Empress Dowager did not like Concubine Jin if she had no heirs. If she continued to give such unoriginal gifts, she would eventually become an unknown and transparent person in the palace.

While everyone was brainstorming, Yan Mu thought of the original gifts given to the emperor, queen and queen mother in previous palace dramas. She recalled a drama in which the queen mother was overjoyed when she received a statue of Tathagata Buddha and liked it very much.

So Yan Muyi prepared to tell Concubine Jin to give her a statue of Tathagata Buddha. Everyone looked at her with confused eyes and asked: "What is Tathagata Buddha?"

She forgot that in this world, Tathagata Buddha might not be called Tathagata Buddha. She simply said it meant Buddha statue, and everyone probably understood.

Concubine Jin then called for a painter to draw a statue of Buddha. The artist painted ten Buddha statues, but none of them were of Tathagata Buddha. It seems that people in this world really don’t know what Tathagata Buddha looks like. She could only draw a portrait of Tathagata Buddha herself and give it to the painter.

The painter looked at this picture with astonishment in his eyes. Is this really a Buddha statue? This is the first time I have seen a Buddha statue that is so fat and cute. The portrait artist did not dare to say anything and made final modifications based on Yan Muyi's painting.

When the portraitist showed Yan Mu the portrait of Tathagata Buddha, Yan Mu raised his hand and praised the portraitist for his great work. He gave the portraitist a rainbow fart and praised the portraitist to the point of elation.

Then he ordered people to go outside the palace to find a transparent jade as big as a human being, and then invited a powerful carver to come back. This time, for the Queen Mother's birthday gift, the entire Qinglin Hall was bleeding profusely. In the next two months, everyone will probably have to eat porridge to survive.

Concubine Jin even complained to Yan Muyi about this matter, saying that it was the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, so there was no need for us to sell everything to get a gift.

"Madam, you can't go on doing nothing like this. Although you are favored in this palace, you can't stand in the palace without heirs. Why doesn't the Empress Dowager like you? Isn't it because you have no heirs? Do you want to Let the Empress Dowager look at you differently and grab a life-saving straw other than the Emperor. The Empress Dowager must be your best candidate."

Yan Muyi's words made Concubine Jin stunned for a moment, as if her son was urging his father to make progress every day and work hard. Concubine Jin also thought it was reasonable, so she all agreed with Yan Muyi.

In two days, it was the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet. Linglong sent people to other palaces to find out how the other concubines were preparing. They had all prepared gifts and programs. Only our temple has not seen any sign of it. Linglong nervously asked Yan Muyi when he would finish the gift. Now everyone is laughing at our joke.

Yan Mu looked at the sculptor on the side and then at the semi-finished product, which looked more and more like a finished product. Ask the carver how long it will take to finish. The sculptor said there was still one day left to complete.

Considering that there will be a birthday banquet in two days and we have to eliminate uncertainties, we must not let the carver delay it until the last minute. Yan Mu asked the sculptor to work overtime and stay up all night to carve the statue tomorrow.

By the time tomorrow comes, a jade stone statue of Tathagata Buddha as big as a person will be placed in the center of the courtyard of Qinglin Hall. All the maids and attendants in the palace came to watch this novelty.

"Mu Yi, it's really yours! I actually did it. It's hard to find such a big piece of jade, let alone carving it into a Buddha statue that I've never seen before."

"Yes, yes, I think this gift is more precious than the East China Sea Night Pearl!"

Concubine Jin saw that all the maids and servants in the palace were gone, so she heard the noise and came to the courtyard to find everyone talking around something. So he shouted loudly: "What are you all doing? Don't you have to work anymore? Your master is still in the dormitory, and no one is there!"

Seeing Concubine Jin coming, Linglong hurried over and pulled Concubine Jin to the Tathagata statue.

"Madam, Mu Yi really made it. Look what a unique Buddha statue it is."

The moment Concubine Jin saw the jade statue of Tathagata Buddha, she felt as if golden light had suffused her. This Buddha is vividly displayed in it. It is not a golden body, but it looks like it is shining with golden light. The feeling of cold and lubricated jade on your hands is an unprecedented feeling.

Concubine Jin was also dumbfounded at this moment. Yan Muyi had really done it and made a unique gift. When she looked at this jade Buddha statue, she didn't want to give it to the Empress Dowager. She wanted to keep it for herself.

Yan Mu saw Jin Concubine's little thoughts and said to Concubine Jin knowingly: "Madam, I don't want to let the child catch the wolf. You yourself like it very much, so the Empress Dowager must also treat you because of this gift. It’s impressive.”

When it came to pursuing a career, Yan Muyi would make her invincible in Qinglin Palace. She found that she was increasingly inseparable from this smart and energetic little man.

Tomorrow is the birthday banquet, and Yan Mu has reported to the queen that he wants to be the last one to give a gift. The Queen knew that all the palaces had prepared birthday gifts in advance, but Qinglin Palace had not received any. She was probably afraid of making a fool of herself, so she wanted to be the last one. Yan Muyi, on the other hand, wanted to make a big show of it without everyone knowing about the gift, so that everyone present would be blinded.