Twilight GL

Concubine Shu saw the queen for the first time one month after entering the palace.

It stands to reason that the concubine should go to see the queen on the second day after entering the palace.

But in that month, the empress was ill, so he was spared from greetings from the whole palace.

Concubine Shu's maid, Chunran, who was brought from her mother's house, was very worried that if her mother's frizzy temper bumped into the empress for the first time, she would have to suffer a lot of embarrassment in her future life in the palace.

She asked people around to find out about the empress's likes and taboos, so that her own empress would have a bottom line in her heart, and then she could choose what the empress liked to say.

Who knows, she has inquired for many days, no matter what she inquires from the dining room, flower house, imperial garden or other empress palaces, all of them are unanimous, saying that the empress empress has a very good temper, is extremely kind, and never makes things difficult for others, please Concubine Shu Empress, don't worry.

As the daughter of a martial artist, Concubine Shu likes horseback riding and archery. She wanted to see a husband and son-in-law she liked, so the palace issued an imperial decree to make her Concubine Shu.

She has only been in the palace for less than a month, and she has seen many things that are one thing in person and another thing behind her back, and she has long been very annoyed by the confinement of the palace. When she suddenly heard this public opinion, she couldn't believe it, she just felt that this empress must be an extremely hypocritical person Humans must be very good at doing things on the surface, coaxing the palace people into obedience, it may be so bad behind the scenes.

She was thinking like this, on the day of her visit, despite Chunran being at the side in a hurry, she almost tore a piece of handkerchief, even if she did not rush to wash and put on makeup, until she went out, it was already an hour late.

"Your Majesty, why don't the servants go and plead guilty to the Empress, and say that you are sick, Madam, so I'll see you in a few days later." Chun Ran said urgently.

Wouldn't it be obvious to talk to people by going at this time?

Concubine Shu calmly boarded the sedan chair, and said impatiently: "What are you afraid of? Isn't she kind and has a good temper? How could she be in trouble with my concubine entering the palace?"

She was so tired of staying in the palace these days, she was already full of anger and always wanted to find a place to vent.

When we arrived at the Hall of Renming, the concubines who greeted us had already dispersed, and Concubine Shu entered the gate of the palace, and a group of people came forward to salute her, and said with a smile: "The concubine Shu is here, and our concubine is here to take care of the flowers and plants. If you come, please go to see her directly."

She spoke very kindly, as if she was completely unaware of Concubine Shu's negligence.

Concubine Shu has a flamboyant temperament on the surface, but she is easy to soften her heart. If others treat her well, she can always remember two points.

After being said kindly by this palace man, Concubine Shu felt a little short in her heart before seeing the queen.

She was guided by the palace man to go around the front hall, and saw a garden behind the hall.

In the middle of the garden is a cobblestone road. Walking along it, you can see many rockery attics with rare plants and trees.

Concubine Shu was born in a wealthy family, and the rare beauty in the eyes of the world is nothing compared to her, not very attractive.

She walked forward behind the palace man, and when she reached the end of the cobblestone path, she saw a person wearing a light colored shirt, holding a flower hoe in his hand, digging the soil by himself.

And there was a group of palace people standing beside them, either serving tea or holding towels, without making a single sound.

Concubine Shu knew that this was the Empress Empress.

The palace man who led the way said to her: "Concubine Shu, wait a moment." Then he went forward.

She walked up to her, saluted first, and then said something, Concubine Shu saw the queen looking over, their eyes met, the queen smiled and nodded to her.

Concubine Shu didn't know if it was true or not that the empress had a good temper, but the empress was really beautiful, her skin was snow-like, and her eyes were full of water. When she looked over, Concubine Shu was fascinated by her pair of endless autumn water The like eyes are attracted.

She was led to the empress and gave her a salute. It is said that the first meeting should be a big salute, but concubine Shu forgot in a daze. When she straightened up, she saw the empress's surprised face and remembered it.

She stood there in embarrassment, not knowing whether to pray again, or to wait for the empress to question her.

She was very nervous, and the queen spoke at this moment. Her voice was very pleasant, her tone was unhurried, with a slight smile: "I am going to plant some orchids in the field in this spring, and I will not take care of you!" is you."

Concubine Shu was startled, but the queen did not blame her.

She mumbled: "Don't neglect, it's the concubine who neglected the empress."

After she finished speaking, she saw a young Gong'e who was behind the empress laugh shortly.

Concubine Shu blushed all of a sudden.

The palace man moved the seat, and the empress gave it to him: "You sit first."

Concubine Shu didn't dare to sit there, standing there, the queen didn't force her, she smiled and asked, "Are you a girl from the Marquis Chu's family?"

Concubine Shu nodded and replied, "The concubine's father is Chu En."

The palace people brought water to ask the queen to wash her hands.Concubine Shu watched from the side, and felt that the queen's hands submerged in the clear water were very beautiful.

After the queen cleaned her hands and changed her clothes, Fang sat down and said with a smile, "Okay, you sit too."

The second time she gave the seat, Concubine Shu did not dare to resign, so she followed suit.

The two of them sat neither close nor far away, similar to the arrangement of the main and guest seats in the hall.

"It's been a month, have you gotten used to it?" the queen asked with concern.

Concubine Shu frowned and said, "I'm not used to it, it's very different from home."

This time it was not only the little maid, but the rest of the palace staff also lowered their heads to hide their smiles.

The rules of Renming Palace are the strictest in this harem, but everyone has been in the palace for so many years, and they have never seen such a sincere concubine, so they couldn't help laughing.

Concubine Shu was so uncomfortable that she suddenly showed timidity and dared not speak any more.

The queen raised her hand and sent everyone down, leaving only the two of them in the garden.

"There are many rules in the palace, there are many people, and there are also many frictions. It is inevitable that there will be some disturbances. If you are not used to it, you should have less contact with them." The queen said softly.

She managed the harem quite cleanly, and the concubines and palace servants did not dare to do things that violated the palace rules, but there were too many people, and it was inevitable that there would be disputes, and it was inevitable that there would be more competition for profit. The harem was very noisy.

After hearing this, Concubine Shu felt that what the Empress said was quite right. She noticed that the soil had only been loosened halfway, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty wants to plant bluegrass, let me and your concubine help."

She has been riding a horse and archery since she was a child, and she has great strength, and it is easy to loosen the soil.

The little girl has bright eyebrows, and when she smiles, she is carefree and bright.

The queen nodded and said, "Okay..."

So concubine Shu loosened the soil, the queen sowed the seeds, and this small piece of land was soon filled with orchid grass.

"Your Majesty likes bluegrass?"

"I like it, I like it very much."

"Then why only plant this small piece of land?" Concubine Shu was puzzled, and turned her head to look at the flower beds full of exotic flowers and plants elsewhere. This garden is the queen's garden. She likes it, so she can plant all orchids. Wouldn't it be refreshing to wait until the orchids are in full bloom?

The queen buried the last few bluegrass seeds in the soil. Hearing what she said, she couldn't help laughing, and then she was quite helpless: "You can do whatever you want like this."

Concubine Shu didn't understand: "You are a queen, so naturally you can do whatever you want."

The queen shook her head: "I am the queen, so you can't do whatever you want."

Concubine Shu still doesn't understand, the empress is the most honorable person in the world besides the emperor, why can't she do whatever she wants?

She still wanted to ask, but she saw someone from the palace came to report, saying that Lin Shangshan from the imperial dining room had something to see.

The Queen has no time to spare.

She took the wet handkerchief from the palace man, wiped her hands, and said to Concubine Shu: "You go back first, if you are bored in the palace, you can come and talk to me."

Concubine Shu said: "Yes..."

The queen left.

Concubine Shu stayed where she was, looking at the bare land, where the seeds had just been sown, and it was unknown when bluegrass would grow.

Chunran had been waiting outside the gate of the palace for a long time. Seeing Concubine Shu coming out, she rushed up to greet her, and asked her questions with concern: "How is your empress? Is the empress embarrassing your empress?"

She had been there for so long, Chunran was worried that she would be punished inside, and was thinking about how to invite the palace servants of Renming Palace to inquire, but fortunately, the empress came out.

She shook her head and sighed: "The Empress is really a very good person."

Chun Ran was taken aback, and asked, "Didn't you say that it was mostly an act? Why did you say that the queen is all right after we met?"

Concubine Shu remembered that what she thought before coming to see the queen was that the queen must be a hypocrite, so she came late and deliberately neglected.

Unexpectedly, the queen was not angry at all, not angry that she was late, nor angry that she did not give a big gift, she talked to her kindly, and said that she would be bored in the future, so she could go find her.

Concubine Shu felt a little guilty, and felt that she had wronged a good person: "I made a mistake, the queen is very kind, tolerant and gentle, the palace people are right."

Her rhetoric made Chunran worry again, the empress was so well protected at home.

Chuhou has three sons but only this daughter, so he naturally regards her as the apple of his eye, and presents all good things in the family to her for her to choose. She likes riding horses, so she looks for horses everywhere to please her. She likes archery, so he teaches her personally , don't read poetry and books, don't read the admonition of women are women, let alone learn to be a female celebrity.

But it’s okay to be so pampered and pampered outside the palace. Marrying to the children of the aristocratic family, the children of the Hou family, and even the clan makes it impossible for the Marquis of Chu to suppress her. Who knows that she will marry to be the emperor’s concubine. It's not appropriate to have a pampered temper.

Chunran is always worried that the empress' temper will harm her.

Just like now, people's hearts are separated by belly, so it's so easy to distinguish between good and bad.

What's more, in this palace, which one doesn't look the same on the outside, but looks the same behind the back.

However, the empress is so gullible, and she believes that the queen is a good person with just one side.

Chunran was very worried, but she was not easy to persuade. She had served Concubine Shu for so many years, so she didn't know her temper.

Chun Ran could only sigh secretly.

In the next few months, Concubine Shu often went to the Queen's Palace and gradually became familiar with the Queen.

Sometimes when the queen is free, she will talk to her, interspersed with the rules of the palace, telling her what to be careful about, and what things in the palace are absolutely unacceptable.

Sometimes when the queen is not free, Concubine Shu stays by herself.

Anyway, once a woman enters the palace, her life is fixed, and the next years will be wasted. The most important thing for Concubine Shu is to spend time at will.

"Ah Chu..."

Concubine Shu raised her head suddenly upon hearing this sound, and saw the queen smiling at her by the door.

"Why is the empress here?" Concubine Shu said happily, she quickly got up and ran over to the empress, bowed briefly in front of the empress, then went to shake her hand. After sitting for too long, my hands are cold.

She hurriedly withdrew her hand, rubbed it together, and put it to her lips for a breath, but the smile in her eyes did not diminish at all: "Did the Empress come to see me?"

She was always the one who went to the Hall of Renming on weekdays, and it was the first time that the Empress came to the Hall of Nanxun.

The queen handed the small stove in her arms to Concubine Shu: "You warm it up first."

Concubine Shu was also polite and took it.The hand stove was really warm, but Concubine Shu was a little distracted, thinking that the warmth was caused by the charcoal fire in the stove, or the temperature of the empress's palm.When she thought of the latter, her heart fluctuated a little.

"I haven't seen you for a few days. What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" the queen asked.

They talked as they walked in.

There was thick snow in the courtyard, and the red plum trees were in full bloom. Concubine Shu was sitting in the courtyard in a daze. Now that the Empress Empress is here, naturally she can no longer stay in the courtyard.

She is in good health, and it doesn't matter if the cold wind blows, but the empress can't catch the cold.

"I... I'm doing business." Concubine Shu replied hesitantly.

The queen seemed a little surprised, and concubine Shu got angry: "Can't I do business?" It seemed that she could only mess around.

The queen couldn't help but smiled: "Of course Ah Chu has business to do."

The person who rolled the curtain by the door lifted the curtain, the queen stepped into the hall, and then asked, "What's the matter that makes Ah Chu concentrate so much?"

Concubine Shu didn't say anything this time, she turned her head to look out the window, her cheeks were already puffed up.

The queen looked amused, and looked at Chunran who was standing beside her. Chunran understood, and with a smile on her face, she stepped forward and whispered everything into the queen's ear.

Concubine Shu caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye, and said anxiously, "Don't say it!"

But it was too late, Concubine Shu looked at Chunran and stepped aside with low eyebrows, then looked at the queen again, her eyes were red.

The empress really couldn't do anything, she had to say something to her first: "Why are you at odds with Concubine De?"

"She was the one who ridiculed me for being illiterate!" Concubine Shu said angrily.

"Then do you understand?" the queen asked again.

Concubine Shu was even more aggrieved: "No way!"

She said the word "unreasonable" loudly, her eye circles were redder than before, and Cai was just angry.

But right now, she is sad, and feels that the Empress Empress is also mocking her for not knowing how to write.

The empress sighed, seeing the teardrops of this man slipping down, she waved at her, Concubine Shu reluctantly walked over, let the empress take the handkerchief, and wiped away her tears: "Don't cry, Cry in winter, be careful to freeze your face."

Concubine Shu pursed her lips and did not speak.

"You don't know Wenhan, and you compare her to poetry. How can you win? You should compete with her on horseback riding and archery. Only by using your strengths to attack her weaknesses can you be sure of victory."

Concubine Shu was stunned when she heard what the queen said, and then realized that she was reckless.But her mind was completely attracted by the word riding and shooting.

Her mood gradually became depressed, and her voice also softened: "I haven't touched riding and shooting for a year."

She rides a horse every day at home, and shoots her arrows into the bull's-eye every day, but since entering the palace, she has never touched a horse, let alone a bow.

The palace is resplendent and resplendent, with rich clothing, fine food, and everything that one expects to find. The people in the palace also look up in a thousand respects, worshiped by hundreds of officials, and admired by the world.

But for Concubine Shu, who is flamboyant and used to being free at home, this place is no different from a cage.

The queen knew her temperament and knew that she was not happy in the palace, her eyes softened, and she said in a comforting voice: "This palace will help you win."

When Concubine Shu heard the words, she immediately forgot her sadness and didn't dare to say: "How can you help me?"

Most of the concubines will have a small study room in the palace, so that when the emperor comes, if he is interested in reading, he will not have nowhere to go.

Since Concubine Shu entered the palace, the small study has not been used. Fortunately, the palace people are diligent and often clean it, and the four treasures of the study in the study are also fully equipped.

The queen led Concubine Shu in, ordered someone to grind the ink, spread the paper, and asked Concubine Shu to write on paper and pen.

The pen is a good brush, made of high-quality wolf hair, and the ink is also good ink. It is pine flower ink specially used in the palace. The paper is white and clear, with a faint fragrance of plum.

However, Concubine Shu Shu is really not good at calligraphy.

She has been impatient since she was a child, and she has only been studying for half a year. She can recognize and write, but that's all.

"Write..." The queen stood aside and said calmly.

Concubine Shu looked at her pitifully, and saw that the queen didn't have the slightest intention of accommodating, so she could only bite her lower lip, picked up the pen, and tried her best to write it well.

After a while, she stopped writing.

The queen looked at what she wrote and shook her head.

Concubine Shu's head was lowered, she already regretted it in her heart, she knew that the Empress would not help her win, she lost to Concubine De, and if she lost, she lost.

It's just to lose face and get angry, but to lose face in front of the empress, she felt very sad, as if something was weighing on her, making her too ashamed to lift her head.

"Come, I will teach you." The queen held her hand.

Concubine Shu couldn't care less about her shame, her heart skipped a beat.

The queen held her hand and led her to write. First, she wrote the simplest character "上".

This time, the handwriting is much more elegant, and even the character has come out.

"Winter Solstice Poetry Conference is to write the proposed poems on the paper by hand, you have to practice this handwriting first." The queen stood behind her and said in her ear.

Concubine Shu nodded her head indiscriminately, she could only feel the empress's breath in her ears, and the elegant fragrance of her body was in her nostrils.

Concubine Shu pursed her lips tightly, not even daring to look back.

"As for poetry..." The queen pondered slightly, "I'll turn around, and I'll send you a few collections of poetry, and you can read them all, that's all."

"Oh..." Concubine Shu replied, but she didn't know what the queen said.

Then the queen took her to write a few more words.Concubine Shu followed suit. She didn't write well, and the queen didn't dislike her. She explained to her in detail what to pay attention to, pay attention to the skeleton of the characters, and remember the strokes of the strokes.

"Don't worry, practice slowly, there is still half a month left, and you will be able to practice." The queen also encouraged her.

The empress is so devoted, so Concubine Shu naturally has to be careful.

They wrote for an hour, and someone came from the Hall of Renming, saying that the wife of the Zheng family outside the palace had come into the palace, and they brought Zheng Mi, the little granddaughter of the Zheng family, with them.

There are guests in the Hall of Renming, so the empress can't stay any longer, but she is not in a hurry to leave, and she gave a few words to Concubine Shu carefully, asking her not to be discouraged, and not to slack off.

Concubine Shu said yes, but when the queen was about to leave, she tugged at her sleeves in a panic.

"What's the matter?" The queen's temper is really good. With a smile in her eyes, she looked at Concubine Shu so gently, "But is there anything else you don't understand?"

Concubine Shu didn't know why she was so nervous, but she really wanted to know, so she calmed down and said boldly: "I don't know the name of the empress, can you write it to me..."

A woman's boudoir name would not be mentioned, not to mention that no one in the palace dared to call the empress by the empress's name, so Concubine Shu didn't even know the empress's name after more than half a year.

This is easy, the queen glanced at her with a smile, picked up the pen, and wrote a word on the paper.

Then put the pen back on the pen holder, Fang said: "I will come back tomorrow, don't be lazy."

As soon as the queen left, although there were still many palace servants left in the study, Concubine Shu always felt that it was much empty.

She stood in front of the desk, looking at the last words left by the empress for a long time.

"Lan..." she murmured.

Lan, Zheng Lan, Ah Lan.

She recited them one by one in her heart, and every time she recited them, her heart became warmer.

When she came back to her senses, she had already written a word on the side, Yan.

Chu Yan, Zheng Lan.

She was a little absent-minded, and she didn't know where her spirit was going, she just stared blankly.

Until Chunran entered the room, she called out, "Your Majesty?"

Concubine Shu Fang Fan came to her senses. She crumpled up the paper with her name written on it and pinched it in her palm, as if she had been splashed with cold water.