Empress and concubine

"Yi Niang, I just came back." The old mother guarding the embroidery stall at the end of the alley greeted Yi Niang with a smile, "Your mother is still serving at the master's house, but your father is waiting for you at home."

"Grandma Liu, it's almost noon, why don't you go back," Yi Niang said with a smile, "I just came out from the master's house, I have something to do with my father, Grandma Liu wants me to go to your house and call?"

"No need, Xiaonan will be here in a while, she is cooking with her mother," Grandma Liu waved her hand, "If you have something to do, come back quickly, and come to my house to play when you are free some other day."

"Okay, Grandma Liu, I'll go back first," Yi Niang greeted her as she walked around the corner, with a look of urgency on her face, and quickened her pace towards the house.

Not long after Yi Niang left, Grandma Liu's daughter-in-law came to ask her to go back for dinner, and Grandma Liu covered the stall with a white cloth and followed her back. There was absolutely no one going to happen behind the Palace of Wei.

As soon as Grandma Liu left, a man who often walked in this area came over. Seeing that Grandma Liu was not there, he made some gestures, and soon three men followed. Behind the wall went to Yi Niang's house.

"Why is the girl back now?" Yi Niang was seen by her father Wang Lin as soon as she entered the door. Wang Lin just asked a question, and saw Yi Niang turned her back and locked the door. The bong knocked against the corner twice, and put it on the window sill, "Follow me into the house."

Yi Niang then followed Wang Lin, went into the house together and locked the door, Yi Niang hurriedly poured two cups of hot tea and downed it vigorously, and she seemed to be scalded by the tea, her face was flushed, never A voice came out between the teeth, "Father, my sister said that she wanted to give me something. If I got it, then our family and my sister would be like grasshoppers on the same rope. If not, my sister would give me something." Get our family out of the house."

Wang Lin listened, and the word Sichuan between the eyebrows became more and more conspicuous. Wang Lin thought for a while, but he didn't express his thoughts directly, "In the past two years, when I came back from beating my brother, there are more and more maidservants around my sister. Thinking of your kindness, I trust you, and you are still the leader in all affairs, and the master has shown great kindness to our family, you have always had ideas since childhood..."

"Father," Yi Niang interrupted, with a flustered look on her face, she looked outside before whispering, "I'm telling the truth to Daddy, I've watched with cold eyes for the past two years, the prince is determined to change the world with his own power , The princess is helping the prince on the surface, but she has other ideas in her heart, now that the princess is pregnant, the mansion may not understand it even more."

"This, this, changing the sky?" Wang Lin's eyes were blank for a moment, and then he pretended to be calm and said, "It's what the prince thinks in his heart, and what does it have to do with the master's family."

"Father," Yi Niang was worried, and hurriedly pulled her father to hold her hand in it, and then she seemed to have some strength, "It goes without saying that our brother will give advice to the prince, but it seems that my sister will come in sooner or later." However, my sister and the concubine are like sisters, my wife is aloof, but she pretends to be deaf and dumb, I can see it, you can't see it, Daddy."

"Yi Niang," Wang Lin held Yi Niang's hand instead, and called Yi Niang's name, "Your father never treated you like a baby when you were young, but why do you forget, sometimes you see , It is exactly what others want to show you. The more you see, the more you will know. Now that my sister asks you to choose, how can you really ask you to choose?"

Yi Niang was stunned, and for some reason remembered the admonitions that Madam gave to herself and Liu Niang not long after entering the master's house, as slaves, the first thing is to be loyal, and the second...

Liu Niang thought to herself, and then slowly calmed down, "Thanks to Daddy for waking me up, I think it's because I have become more and more timid these years, and often lose my sense of control, so my sister is testing like this to see if I can still use it. of."

"I always said that you are smart, and sometimes you should be stupid. Now you come back to ask me to discuss it, but you are stupid in the right place." Wang Lin poured himself a cup of tea slowly, and a look flashed in his cloudy eyes. Shrewd with a different face, "Girl, our elder brother should also be called uncle now. The uncle and sister are biological brothers and sisters from the same mother. They can't write two characters of Chu in one stroke. How can the uncle and sister know?" It's different. Madam is superior, but the maids under her hand, since Liu Niang, have not married well, and all of them have married into the heart of the prince, which made him feel ironic. Not to mention that the princess was born in the Zhao family. To share weal and woe with the prince, what you said is very wrong."

"It's my daughter's fault. The master's family is doing their best to help the prince. The princess and the concubine are doing their best for the prince's wish." After being agitated, he gradually calmed down, thinking about his behavior just now, he felt full of embarrassment.

"Father, you have been staying at the master's house for the past few years, and you have seen it more and more clearly," Yi Niang smiled and lowered her head.

Just as Wang Lin was about to speak, someone knocked on the door of the main room, "Uncle Wang, Madam asked us to ask you if you have made up your mind."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Lin and Yi Niang were shocked, both of them stood up, Yi Niang hid behind the partition curtain under Wang Lin's signal, Wang Lin got up and opened the door, and saw that it was the personal guard beside Wang Lin , I understood it in my heart, and then saw three unfamiliar men standing behind him, looking at him with dark faces, with cold sweat pouring out from behind.

Wang Lin bowed his body, cupped his hands and said, "It's hard for your lord to come here in person. My Wang family is all servants of the Chu family, and my daughter is my sister's personal servant. I don't know what to choose. Naturally, it's better for the master's family to be cheaper. "

After Wang Lin finished speaking, the complexions of those men improved a lot. It was the leading guard who took a look into the room before saying, "Since the resolution has been made, please don't ask my sister to wait for a long time." , it's time for Aunt Wang Lin to come back, so we won't bother you."

After the personal guard finished speaking, regardless of Wang Lin's reaction, he politely pulled the door of Wang Lin's main room and closed it, and led the people out over the wall.

Yi Niang came out from behind the partition, her face was also pale, and she murmured, "Sister, I don't know that the princess is acting like this behind her back."

"Shut up," Wang Linhu said, "When your mother comes back and have dinner together, you can happily go back to my sister's side."

Yi Niang nodded with lingering fear, and let out a long breath.

"It's sunny, why did you lock the door, the head of the house, come and open the door for me,"

Yi Niang and Wang Lin looked at each other, each of them calmed down, Yi Niang quickly went out to open the door to Wang Lin's house, "Why did Mom come back, I don't have much to do today, my sister gave me half a day off."

This Yi Niang walked in front of Lord Yan once, but Chu Yao had just finished her lunch at the palace and was talking to Zhao Yi.Ziyan was called out to say something, and after a while, she came back with some snacks.

Zhao Yi looked at Ziyan questioningly, and Ziyan nodded quietly.Chu Yao is seeing all of these clinker.

In recent years, Chu Yao has been favored by Zhao Yi and has become more and more unrestrained, "Sister and Ziyan are playing some charades again, don't let me know."

Zhao Yi picked up a crystal dumpling and brought it to Chu Yao's mouth, and said nonchalantly, "Didn't you give Yi Niang a half-day vacation today? Coincidentally, I have a new style of dim sum here, and she doesn't have to eat it. Yan has always been on good terms with her, so she begged me to send someone to send some to her home, and she just came back."

"Zi Yan is so kind to Yi Niang, I'm so jealous," Chu Yao swallowed the dumpling that Zhao Yi handed over, and winked playfully at Zi Yan.

Zi Yan lowered her head and smiled, instead of continuing this topic, she talked about something else.

"This year, the sage ordered a general election. I think that every palace will give a lot of people. Now that the concubine is pregnant, our family may not have a side concubine," Zi Yan said, feeling a little worried.

Chu Yao thought about it for a while, and it was indeed time for this matter. Back then, eight beauties entered the Palace of King Wei one after another, and there was a side concubine at first, but was returned by King Wei. The saint was displeased, so King Wei sent Chu Yao approached the mansion by herself and begged for the concubine's grace. Now that many years have passed, Chu Yao only vaguely remembers those beauties who died in the battle where King Wei exterminated Hu. It's been less than a year.

Chu Yao thought about it, then looked at Zhao Yi.

What Chu Yao can think of, Zhao Yi naturally knows the inside story better, so she has always been indifferent to those beauties, but she has also started to prepare for Chu Yao to enter the mansion in advance. According to Zhao Yi, they are the first three sisters of the Chu family. My son was going to take Mother Chu back to the South to pay respects, she was reluctant to part with Yaoer, so she brought Yaoer to the mansion ahead of time, at most she would bother the prince to ask for a favor, and set up a few tables of banquets, so that no one would take it lightly. As for Zhou Gong's gift, And it won't be too late to say it after Yao'er becomes an adult.

Xia Yunjing also agrees with Zhao Yi's statement. After all, when Chu's mother returns to the south, Chu Feng, as a 'son', will also serve her. It caused Chu Feng to have a second heart, and besides, he also had the intention of calling Chu Yao into the mansion.

So Zhao Yi glanced at Zi Yan, took half a mouthful of Biyu Cake, pointed at Chu Yao and said, "Our family is going to have a side concubine, but the prince asked for it himself, if you want to get it sooner See you, and ask her for a reward."

The purple smoke was clear at a little bit, and her face changed into a happy expression, and she hurried over to kowtow to Chu Yao, "Oh, I'm blind, I don't know that our bride is sitting in front of me, I should be beaten, I should be beaten!"

"Ziyan," Chu Yao blushed, and hurriedly instructed the girl beside her, Jinyi, to pull Ziyan, "I'm talking nonsense about things that haven't been decided yet, and I'm not afraid that someone will tear your mouth off."

"Go and tear it up, she can just stand there and wait for you," Zhao Yi said with a smile.

"It's terrible, it's terrible," Chu Yao covered her face with her veil, "Look at this pair of masters and servants, they are bullying me together." She revealed another eye, looked at Jin Yi and said, "Even you Help them too, do you know where the master is standing?"

Seeing Zhao Yi, she hurriedly spit out the tea in her mouth, called the little maid to come up to change a cup, and then looked at the two of Zi Yan Jin Yi, "See what you've done to my sister, why don't you apologize to her soon, "Speaking and looking at Chu Yao again, "You have to be shy about things that are certain, it's better to ask the prince to come and talk to you."

After hearing this, Ziyan and Jinyi came over to salute and beg for mercy. Several people were arguing, when they heard Xia Yunjing's servant come in and knelt down to Chu Yao and Zhao Yi and said loudly, "The concubine is overjoyed, my sister is overjoyed, the canonized treasure Now that the book is down, my lord invites the two ladies to go to the front to meet you."

Zhao Yi laughed as soon as she heard it, "That's what Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, my sister is still hurrying to go with me."