don't take me for fun

The wooden signs were divided into four groups, and Li San took a closer look, and each sign had a name written on it, which looked like a sign for a sleeping concubine.

Li Lingjiu took out four brands from three piles and introduced them to Li San one at a time.

"Chen Guifei, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Chen, is well-educated, gentle and virtuous. She is neither arrogant nor impatient and can hold her breath. She is the most difficult to deal with. She can greet everyone in the palace with a smile on her face. She is very popular, and most of the concubines stand in this team." As Li Lingjiu said, he put Concubine Chen's brand in the pile with the most brands.

"This," Li Lingjiu picked up another sign and said to Li San: "Zhao Yuyan, the daughter of General Zhao on the southeast border, her father and brother are mostly in the army, with a hot temper, easy to be used, and a straightforward nature."

Li Lingjiu pointed to the remaining two signs and said, "Yan Meiren and Ling Meiren are both my cousins. The two of them have some issues with Concubine Zhao, but they don't want to stand in line with Concubine Chen, so they have a good relationship."

"As for the rest of them," Li Lingjiu said, "it's nothing but grass."

After speaking, Li Lingjiu looked at Li San and asked, "Do you remember?"

Li San nodded seriously.

"We'll see how you perform in the future." Li Lingjiu patted Li San's shoulder, feeling relieved.

"Hey, what?!" Li San looked at Li Lingjiu suspiciously, "What performance?"

Li Lingjiu pursed her lips and looked at Li San with a smile, but didn't answer.

"You're going to sleep here today. The Empress Seal Ceremony has just ended. If people see it when you go back, you will inevitably gossip that the emperor and the empress are at odds."

"Then stay away from me."

The emperor leaned close to Li San's face and said, "Don't worry, I'm not manly. But if you want, I can try."

"Hehe" Li San pushed the emperor away, took the quilt away, and went straight to sleep on the bed in the outer room.There were still quilts in the cabinet in the inner room, so Li Lingjiu didn't stop him and let him go.

According to the etiquette, on the second day after the conferment, all the concubines came to greet the queen, which can be regarded as a formal meeting.

Early in the morning, Li San was pulled up again, and was served to wash up in the chaos.Since coming here, Li San really hasn't had a good night's sleep.

Before breakfast could be eaten, the maids came to report that all the maidens were already outside Xianyun Palace, waiting to be summoned.

All these people have come, so I can't eat by myself and let people wait, so I can only invite everyone in.

Li San went out to ask someone to come in, but Xiaoxi quickly stopped him.

"The young master is the empress. Apart from the emperor, he is the highest in the palace. How can he go out and lower his status. We set up tables, chairs and snacks in the yard, waiting for them to come in."

Li San thought about it, it should be like this, and then sat on a chair in the yard eating sunflower seeds, waiting for Xiaoxi to call someone in.

There were only about twenty concubines, but each of them brought their own maids, which filled the Xianyun Palace, which was already a little cramped because of various flowers and plants.

"This Xianyun Palace is too small, just the few of us come in and it is fully occupied." The person who spoke was Zhao Yuyan, Concubine Zhao, the daughter of the great general.Zhao Yuyan looked around for a week, and saw that there were many bamboos planted here, and there were stone tanks to raise flowers and fish in the yard, which was a bit strange, "You are small, why are you still growing flowers here? The emperor didn't give you a bigger one." Yard?"

Is this for provocation?No wonder it is said that the court is difficult to mess with. There are really not many people who give the Queen a hard time.But this time Li San was thinking too much, Zhao Yuyan was careless, and she was used to speaking directly, so she really didn't mean to ridicule Li San.

"My son is diligent and thrifty, and he doesn't want to do construction work, and he doesn't want to bother the emperor. But the emperor cares about him, so he gave Xianyun Palace to him. No one else can ask for it." Xiaoxi is unwilling to bear it, no matter if it is sincere or unintentional. , the fight back is to fight back.

"Why didn't I know there was such a place in the palace?" Concubine Zhao was puzzled and looked around at the sisters.

"Sister, you haven't been in the palace for a long time, so I don't know." Concubine Chen Guifei said, her soft voice was very comfortable, "Xianyun Palace used to be the palace where the empress dowager lived, and every flower and grass in this palace , Birds, beasts, insects and fish were all produced by the empress dowager herself. Since the empress dowager left, the emperor was sad, and it has been vacant here. Now it is given to the empress empress, which shows the emperor's love for the empress empress."

"Hey, don't call me Niangniang." Li San got goose bumps when he heard the word Niangniang, how could he call a man Niangniang.

"Hey, look at my mouth." Concubine Chen quickly explained: "The palace was originally a woman's house, and they called each other sisters. Suddenly a young master came, and we didn't know what to do."

Li San rolled his eyes, thought for a moment and said, "The emperor said yesterday that you can call me empress, or you can just call me by my name."

"Then sisters, I'll call you Empress." Concubine Chen Guifei bowed, and the other concubines followed suit. From this point of view, Concubine Chen Guifei indeed had the right to speak among the concubines.

Li San invited all the concubines to sit down, and called Xiaoxi to arrange refreshments.Most of these people were very quiet after they sat down, probably due to the majesty of the emperor, but a few of them were a little more courageous and chatted with each other.Li San took a closer look, and it happened to be the few people the emperor showed him yesterday.

"Hey, what's that?" Concubine Zhao called out, got up and went to the fence surrounded by bamboo to look inside. There were a few snow-white little rabbits squatting there. Diced carrots strewn across the fence. "What a cute little rabbit. Since I left the border and entered the imperial city when I was a child, I have never raised these little things again."

Those who are close to Concubine Zhao, heard that there is a little rabbit, got up and ran to see it.Concubine Zhao turned her head and stared at Li San: "Can I give you a hug?" As soon as the girl showed off her cuteness, no one really could bear to refuse, so she nodded immediately and said, "Be careful not to be bitten by a rabbit."

Concubine Zhao opened the low gate of the fence, walked in and squatted down, seeing how cute these fluffy things were, she couldn't help but hugged a small one out.Asking Xiaoxi how many fresh vegetable leaves she wanted, she came back and sat down to tease the rabbit in her arms.

Everyone was chatting, but Li San actually felt very bored.This woman's family chat is nothing more than those parents in the palace who are short-sighted, at most it is about relatives and ministers' affairs, Li San dare not be interested.Respond with a few words casually, praise yourself when others say it is good, and demean yourself when others say it is not good.Could this be what married men face all day long?No wonder married men would rather go to their friends to drink and chat until midnight than go home and listen to their wives nagging.

"Empress, I heard that the emperor must make you empress. You can tell us sisters, so that we can learn from each other." It was Ling Yuezhao who spoke.The baby in this life has a fat little face, big eyes, faint willow leaf-curved eyebrows, and a small cherry mouth under a delicate and slightly straight nose.It was the type that Li San liked, but it was a pity that she was someone else's wife, Li San sighed in his heart.

"I don't know why he insisted on making me queen. I didn't know him at all before."

"I heard that Daoist Yu figured out that the empress is the emperor's destined person, so the emperor invited him into the palace, saying that he could bless my dynasty. I don't know if it is true or not?" This person is Yan Xiuxiu, the emperor's cousin.Li San glanced at it. Although his appearance was not as likable as Ling Mei's, he was still pretty enough.It's a pity that he can't speak, which is obviously ironic that Li San is not favored by the emperor, but he has to marry.

"In the end, I'm better than some people, but it's just thanks to the kindness of my mother's family. It's a pity that a bachelor who has studied poetry and books gave birth to such a daughter who doesn't know how to be mean. Hey..." Concubine Zhao touched the little rabbit in her hand and sighed. It seems to be a pity.

"Who are you talking about? Didn't you also inherit your father's kindness? Hmph, don't think that I don't know, the emperor is just afraid of General Zhao, otherwise why would he let a rough woman like you enter the palace." Yanmei shot back , But as soon as I said it, I stopped immediately. It is good to know some things in my heart, but it would be a taboo to say it.

"Let's just talk about you!" Concubine Zhao did not show any weakness, "I don't like your appearance the most. It's not pleasing to see who is better than you. What can you do if the empress can bless us? You can't say that you are not as beautiful as Ling Mei. In terms of gentleness, I can’t compare to Sister Chen, but when it comes to poetry and etiquette, who else can you compare to except me? When it comes to having children, who in this palace can’t, huh?”

Yanmei was so blocked that she couldn't speak, she looked around angrily, no one helped her speak, she patted the table and got up, and they all left without looking back.

Ling Meiren's mother is Yan Meiren's aunt, and they are closest to each other in this palace.This is the first time paying respects to the empress, so it is done like this, I am afraid that there will be another enemy in the palace in the future.

Ling Meiren stood up and saluted Li San, "Sister Yan is still young and speaks recklessly, don't be angry with the Empress, I will accompany you here for her."

Li Sanzheng blinked his eyes in bewilderment, heard Ling Meiren speak, came back to his senses and said: "Oh, it's okay, it's a good thing for a little girl to have a temper, so that she won't be bullied, I'm a big man who won't follow me The little girl is angry."

"The emperor and empress are magnanimous, it's the sisters' blessing. I'll go and see Sister Yan first, all the sisters have fun." After Li San waved his hands, he left in a hurry and went to look for Yan Meiren.