Wind and Rain Empire

After setting off the sky lanterns, the four returned to the Chunming Palace. At this time, the emperor yawned and seemed to be dozing off while sitting on the chair.

Zi Linglong stepped forward and asked

"Officer, are you sleepy?"

The emperor supported his head with his hands, his eyelids drooping

"I'm a little sleepy, Linglong, let's go back."

Zi Linglong patted the emperor gently

"Official, you are already in Chunming Palace, where are you going back? No trouble, right?"

After appeasing the emperor, Zi Linglong pulled the two concubines De and Shu aside, her eyes suddenly became a little determined, and she asked the two concubines in a low voice

"Tonight is the last chance for the two sisters to make a comeback. What if you two don't want it?"

Concubine Shu looked at Zi Linglong warily, and asked

"Sister, what do you mean?"

Zi Linglong took out a paper bag from her sleeve

"This is a pack of medicine that will definitely conceive the prince. You put it in tea and give it to the official to drink. Tonight, the official will be at your disposal. If you want it, take it. If you don't want my sister, send the official back to the palace." up"

The two concubines looked at each other, not knowing how to respond.

Zi Linglong turned around and took the medicine bag in her hand, and said softly

"Officer, let's go."

Concubine De suddenly snatched the medicine bag from Zi Linglong's hand

"I want!"

She took the bag of medicine and looked suspiciously at Zi Linglong

"You have this medicine, why don't you take it yourself?"

Zi Linglong smiled lightly

"Of course I have my reasons"

Concubine De still expressed doubts and shook off the medicine on her hand

"You...you won't use this to harm us, will you?"

Zi Linglong thought it was too funny

"Sister, do I need it? All this effort is just to harm you two?"

Concubine De thought for a moment, then turned to look at the sleeping emperor, and silently made up her mind

"Okay, we will trust you once"

Zi Linglong turned around and walked towards the emperor

"Officials, Linglong will leave first, and the two elder sisters will take care of you."

The emperor was already asleep and did not respond. Zi Linglong turned her head and glanced at the two concubines before leaving Chunming Palace.

Concubine De poured a bowl of tea, poured the medicine from the medicine bag into it, and then served the tea to the emperor

"Official, drinking tea will make you more sober"

The emperor sat up from the chair, rubbed his eyes, and drank the tea with the support of Concubine De

Concubine De handed over the teacup to the palace servants to help the emperor, Concubine Shu also followed

Two concubines holding the emperor

"Official, we will wait for you to rest, please slow down"

Concubine Shu and Concubine De slowly helped the emperor into the gauze tent, and blew out the lights

Xianfu Palace

Concubine Xian sat in front of the mirror and combed her hair strand by strand with a wooden comb, then put the comb on the dressing table

The maid who combs her hair is stroking Concubine Xian's hair

"The empress's hair is really smooth and beautiful, like black satin. I heard that the officials were fascinated by the empress's long hair back then."

Concubine Xian pursed her lips and smiled.

"That's not all in the past. Our Cao family is no longer the Cao family of the past, and I am not the careless little girl of the past. I am old (looking down at her hair) and finally have It's time to wither"

Xia Yu walked into the house quickly

"My lady, the official family went to Chunming Palace with Empress Zhaorong last night, but it was too late, and Empress Zhaorong returned to Ziyun Pavilion, while the official family..."

Concubine Xian stood up slowly, turned her head, and looked down at Xia Yu who was bending over

"What happened to the officials?"

Xia Yu doesn't know how to organize her words

"Actually... the official family is fine, it's Concubine Shu and Concubine De of Chunming Palace, their cousins...the two are sleeping together"

Concubine Xian's complexion changed unexpectedly

"What? (Takes a few steps forward, stops) Impossible, the two sisters have been out of favor for more than a year, how could the officials change their minds and favor both of them at the same time? This must be a rumor!"

Xia Yu looked up

"Your Majesty, this is really not a rumor. It was the palace people of Chunming Palace who saw the official family coming out of Concubine Shu's bedroom this morning, and Concubine De was the same. Only then did they know that the two of them went to bed last night."

Concubine Xian rolled her eyes from side to side, thinking anxiously

"How could this happen? It shouldn't be! (Sudden pause) What you are talking about is Ziyun Pavilion, where Zhaorong returned first?"

"exactly"

Concubine Xian breathed a sigh of relief

"In all likelihood, it's her fault. She took the officials to meet those two people, and then resorted to tricks to make the officials favor them."

Xia Yu is puzzled

"But empress, that Zi Zhaorong is not stupid, how could she let the officials favor those two? If those two are favored again, wouldn't they be in the same position as her? And if they become pregnant with the prince, Their position is more stable, and they can rely on the prince to be confident, and Zi Zhaorong is still Zhaorong, so what competitiveness does she have?"

Concubine Xian shook her head

"We know too little to analyze what she's up to"

In Defang Palace, the imperial concubine is playing with flowers and plants in the room, humming a little song

Sister Zheng Xian entered the door and coughed

The imperial concubine didn't turn her head, but asked directly

"Mommy, what's the matter?"

Zheng Xian bowed her head and replied

"Imperial Concubine, Zi Zhaorong asks to see you"

The concubine raised her eyes, thought for a while and smiled.

"Call her in"

"Yes, ma'am"

Zi Linglong walked into the house and bowed to salute

"Sister Zhaorong pays homage to the concubine's sister, sister Gui'an"

The imperial concubine turned around and walked towards Zi Linglong

"My sister is free, why did you think of coming to my sister's place? (To Zheng Xian) Mother, you all go down."

Zheng Xian left with the maids

"My younger sister came here to make amends to my older sister. Last night, I wanted to invite my older sister to play with the sky lanterns. The officials followed me and didn't go too far. They stopped at Chunming Palace and entered Chunming Palace..."

The imperial concubine interrupted Zi Linglong's words

"Don't mention such trivial things. Why would my sister blame you? But you, don't you feel any reconciliation in your heart when you watch the two wolf-like sisters serve the official family?"

Zi Linglong tilted her head and sighed

"Hey, what's the use of being willing or not, this is fate, isn't it? Sister"

The imperial concubine looked at Zi Linglong and thought it was funny

"Yes sister, I can understand your feelings, you just want those two to conceive a dragon child!"

When Zi Linglong heard it, her complexion changed drastically.

"Sister, what are you talking about? What do you mean my sister wants them to conceive a dragon son? If they can conceive, it is their blessing, if they can't conceive..."

"Look and see, don't panic, don't panic"

The concubine gently patted Zi Linglong's shoulder with her hand

"You, you are still young, you get excited when you get hit, it's not good, it's easy to expose your tricks!"

Zi Linglong stared at the imperial concubine

"In front of my sister, how can my sister have any plans?"

"Hey, yes, you really don't want to play any tricks in front of this palace. I know your thoughts very well, sister, and now I won't expose you, but don't worry, this palace will not tell anyone, this palace I will play with you, you know?"

The imperial concubine whispered into Zi Linglong's ear

Zi Linglong's inner monologue

"How could she know this? No, she can't know what I'm planning, no one else can know"

The imperial concubine supported Zi Linglong by her shoulders from behind

"Sister Zhaorong, my advice to you is that since you have already entered the palace, you should stay in the palace well. Once you come, you will be at ease. Don't keep thinking about the colorful world outside. This palace changes in a blink of an eye. too many things"

Zi Linglong lowered her head slightly, and answered in a low voice.

"My sister taught me what my sister taught me."

In the Ziyun Pavilion, Zi Linglong was pacing up and down in the room, with a lot of preoccupations

"This noble concubine acts so low-key and never attracts attention. I didn't expect it to be because she has such insight and scheming. Fortunately, if she understood my intentions, she would not confront me... But it is really important to hold her in my hands. The secret of her secret, such a large underground passage, she must not be able to deny it. Regarding what I did, she can only rely on guesswork, there is no evidence... In other words, I have a chess game to control her, but she does not. Control my chess..."

Hong Wan enters the room

"Your Majesty, the maidservant has already found out what you asked for."

Zi Linglong looked anxiously at Hong Wan

"Then tell me quickly"

Hong Wan nodded

"Your Majesty, this concubine is the younger sister of Lord Yang Yishan, the Observatory of Fuzhou. This Lord Yang is capable of writing and martial arts. He has strong personal abilities but does not interfere with state affairs with power. He has a good reputation in the court and is a rare and virtuous minister. The imperial concubine was with the queen mother when she was young, and the officials liked her appearance so they took it from the queen mother. Although the relationship between them seemed dull after the appearance of the empress and even the concubine Chen, the relationship between them has been as gluey as paint, of course. That's right, the officials also dote on Concubine Xian at the same time, but before I said that the most favored concubine is the concubine, and according to her former maid, this concubine is also good at classics and history, has a high level of literary attainment, is sensitive to human nature, and is good at power technique"

A relaxed smile appeared on Zi Linglong's face

"Oh, sure enough, I think people are pretty good (to Hongwan). In order to protect ourselves, we can't provoke this person in the future. Her destiny is there, and no one can resist her."

Hong Wan is confused

"Hong Wan doesn't understand, what does your lady mean?"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you don't understand now, you will gradually understand in the future, in fact, in this harem, you can tell at a glance whether anyone has a life or not and can be a queen."

Hong Wan looked at Zi Linglong with adoring eyes

"Your Majesty is really amazing, Hong Wan also wants to learn such a powerful way of distinguishing people."

Zi Linglong smiled and patted Hong Wan's head

"You can't learn this, it requires experience in the world"

She looked at Hong Wan with a thousand emotions, her inner monologue

"I know who will be the queen in the future, who will be favored and who will fall out of favor, who will even lose his life, but so what?"

Zi Linglong felt a little sad about all this, but then her frustrated expression gradually turned into a faint smile

"At that time, everything will have nothing to do with me..."

Zi Linglong finally smiled happily, and Hong Wan looked at Zi Linglong in great perplexity.

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