The Favorite of the Court of Joy

"Side concubine Hua?" Zhang Xiaoqian heard Xiaocheng mention that this Hua family has been serving him in the palace since the prince was still the prince. She also followed Zhao Minghan when he built a mansion outside the palace, and she was also Zhao Minghan's number one favorite. This woman, although her status is only a wife, but in the palace, even Concubine Lin has to be courteous.It is said that this Fahrenheit is low-key, gentle, and kind, and often goes to the temple to pray for the prince.

"Yes, I will make Tihua as my side concubine tomorrow. You have served me for a long time, and I will give you a title. I will also mention you as my side concubine tomorrow, Zhang side concubine." The side concubine, This position is already touching the sky for the darlings, and they would even snicker in their dreams.

Zhao Minghan thought that there would be joy on his face, and even thanked him in advance, but there was none. On the contrary, his whole face was gloomy.

Zhang Xiaoqian snorted coldly, and said: "I don't care about the name of concubine. Let my child call someone else's mother, you two are really the same kind, your emperor's nephew also told Wan Zi so."

"You... how do you know he is the emperor?" Zhao Minghan wondered if his nephew told Wan Zi himself?

"I'm not as innocent as Wan Zi. Bai Twelve, isn't it just the word "emperor" for an emperor? Your good nephew, the private visit of your micro-service seduced Wan Zi's heart, and Wan Zi gave birth to a child but had to carry it to him." He is raised by his concubine. He said that he will be brought into the palace when he is in power. Are you kidding me? He is the emperor, and there are three thousand beauties in the harem. Is one of us, Wanzi, missing to give him a child? Besides, since he is the emperor, why didn't he? Right, if you want to accept Wan Zi into the palace, it depends on people's face? I think he is clearly deceiving us Wan Zi. He looks down on our darling just like you, and only treats our darling as a plaything. After killing the child, you have to use such a trick as embedding flowers and plants, your methods are disgusting!"

Zhao Minghan was completely irritated, raised his hand, and swung it over. A red palm print stayed on Zhang Xiaoqian's fair face, causing him to burst into tears in an instant.

"This king and the emperor are not something you can criticize as a little pet. Is this king pampering you too much and making you lawless?"

Zhang Xiaoqian covered one side of his face, not wanting to say anything, and stared at Zhao Minghan firmly.

Zhao Minghan took a deep breath, and then said: "Son, I'm going to make a decision. You feed me well, drink medicine well, and give birth safely."

Zhao Minghan turned around, faced the door without looking back, and said again: "You'd better listen to this king obediently, otherwise this king will sell the maid who served you and the four maids of blue, green, and purple to Yihong. If necessary, this king will send Wanzi and Ximei to Xunhuan Pavilion."

The original Zhang Xiaoqian was thinking about how to fight against him, but after hearing such a sentence, his whole body exploded, "How dare you? Wan Zi is also the emperor's man, you dare to move?"

"Why don't you dare?" Zhao Minghan turned around, glanced at him indifferently, and said, "It's just a male favourite. Without Wanzi, there are Qianzi and Baizi. Do you think the emperor will marry Ben for a favor? Wang Zhiqi? You think too highly of your Wanzi, don't you think carefully about what this king said."

Zhao Minghan turned to the door again, and shouted, "Come here, pass on the dinner."

After a while, Xiao Cheng brought the food to the table.

Zhao Minghan walked out of the door and said the last sentence, "Since you don't welcome this king so much and don't like the title of side concubine, then this king will not come to Yimei Garden in the future, and there is no need to give you a title."

Xiaocheng saw her master crying, with a slap mark on one side of her face, feeling extremely distressed. "Young master, come, let's eat, you can't starve your child even if you are hungry."

Zhang Xiaoqian moved his position, picked up the bowls and chopsticks, and ate desperately. While eating, he cried, burst into tears.He felt his heart hurt so much.Zhao Minghan really just treated him as a pet.But most of his heart has been given away, how can he get it back.

"Young master, please don't cry, don't cry, if you cry again, the maidservant will cry like the real one."

Zhang Xiaoqian didn't want to cry, because the nerves in his brain couldn't control the lacrimal glands, which constantly stimulated his tears.The maidservants beside him couldn't help wiping away their tears secretly.

While crying, Zhang Xiaoqian did not forget to chew the food in his mouth, but he did not forget Zhao Minghan's "explaining".After eating, he drank the medicine while crying again, and then asked Xiao Cheng to wait on him and go to bed.

Zhang Xiaoqian, who was lying on the bed, thought of Zhao Minghan's ruthless resolute embarrassment when he left, and he felt very uncomfortable.Zhang Xiaoqian just fell asleep with tears in his eyes.Sleep until very late the next day before waking up.

The next day, Zhang Xiaoqian settled down on the bed before getting up and letting Xiaocheng and others come in to serve her.

At the breakfast table, although Zhang Xiaoqian was talking and laughing as before, everyone knew that he had a quarrel with the prince last night. Although they didn't know the content of the quarrel, seeing Zhang Xiaoqian crying so hard, they also knew that the quarrel was serious. How fierce.

After breakfast, Xiao Cheng brought the anti-fetal medicine, and Zhang Xiaoqian drank the whole medicine without saying a word, not even eating the candied fruit.Then he waved his hand and told Xiao Cheng to go down, he wanted to rest.

Wan Zi and Xi Mei just came to look for him, seeing this, they had no choice but to wait for him to wake up before coming.

"Wan Zi, what do you think happened to Xiaoqian and the prince, weren't they all fine yesterday and the day before yesterday?"

"I don't know either, I'll ask Xiaoqian later." Wan Zi was worried if she had offended the prince because of her affair with Big Brother Bai.Zhang Xiaoqian felt sorry for himself, and once said that he wanted to find Brother Bai to beat him up.Since Brother Bai said that the prince is someone he trusts very much, it means that they have known each other for a long time, and Brother Bai must also be a nobleman.They are just lowly darlings, these high-ranking officials and nobles hate them to point fingers, if Zhang Xiaoqian really angered the prince because of him, his heart will be even more uneasy.At first, I thought it was very embarrassing to live under the fence.

Until noon, Wan Zi went to find Zhang Xiaoqian and asked him to take him to other places in the palace.In fact, he did it to make him feel better.However, Wan Zi kindly made a mistake.

Originally, it was good to go out for a walk in the yard, to see the flowers and tease the fish, Zhang Xiaoqian's mood gradually improved.Tired from walking, I wanted to go to the pavilion to rest.However, in the process of walking towards the pavilion, Zhang Xiaoqian heard the maids or servants passing by in twos and threes say that Mrs. Hua has been pregnant for nearly two months. Whether a child is a boy or a girl is gratifying.In addition, there are others who say that the lord requested an order to confer Mrs. Hua as the side concubine Hua, and now Mrs. Hua has brought people to the front hall to welcome the imperial decree.

After hearing these gossips, Zhang Xiaoqian's face became paler and paler, and the faint smile that gradually appeared on his face disappeared in an instant.He really didn't expect Zhao Minghan to do what he said and act so quickly, not only announcing that Hua's pregnancy, but also inviting the canonized imperial decree so quickly.In another eight months or so, his child will be someone else's child.Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoqian felt pain in his heart.Even he himself is getting more and more confused about himself.Isn't he unable to accept the fact that a man is pregnant?Since the child can't be aborted, and he doesn't need to be responsible for raising it after giving birth, it's not much different from having no child. Shouldn't he thank Zhao Minghan for thinking of a perfect plan for him?Why should he feel sad.

"Qianhong, let's go back." Wan Zi said.

"Okay. Let's go back. Yimeiyuan is my world."

But on the way back, I met another unfriendly person—Ms. Lu.She is the concubine's daughter of the Minister of Rites, Bu Shanglu, and the older sister of Bu Shangjian.Originally she was also a beautiful beauty, but Zhao Minghan liked the new and disliked the old very quickly, so she left her somewhere else. Thanks to her father who was a minister, she lived comfortably in the palace, and no one dared to bully her easily.Thinking of Concubine Lin's downfall, she should be the one who regained her favor, but she did not expect that Mrs. Hua, who was born as a lowly court lady, would become pregnant and be made a concubine.How could this make her not jealous, resentful, or dissatisfied.There is nowhere to vent her anger, and she happens to meet Zhang Xiaoqian who just fell out of favor, how can she let him go.

"Hey, isn't this the gifted young master Qian who is the only spoiled one? Why is his face so pale? Is it because he couldn't sleep well or eat well?" Mrs. Lu continued with a smile, "You say you, you have been spoiled for so long , why didn't you ask the prince to arrange a title for you, such as wife or concubine. Oh, I feel sorry for you. Have you seen that, and you haven't seen Sister Hua serve the prince for a few days, but she has a child, She was also made a side concubine. You..."

Mrs. Lu sized Zhang Xiaoqian up, and then said: "Why don't you learn a little bit, I heard that Beloved can conceive like a woman. You see, you have been pampering yourself for so long, and your belly is not up to snuff. Back then, it was better to distribute this honor and favor to everyone, and let everyone spread their branches and leaves for the prince."

"Mrs. Lu, you think highly of yourself. I, Zhang Xiaoqian, have only been in the palace for two months, and I have only been favored for more than a month, about forty or fifty days. Madam Lu, you have stayed in the palace for so many years, and you have received Your favor must have surpassed mine for forty or fifty days, and I have never seen your belly become stronger and give birth to a son and a half for the prince." Zhang Xiaoqian then said, "Mrs. Lu, you have time to hit me. Why don't you go to the doctor to take a good look at your belly, maybe it's your problem that you can't have a baby."

"Wan Zi, let's go." Zhang Xiaoqian really didn't want to spend too much time with stupid people.

"You...you..." Mrs. Lu's entire face was contorted immediately, and the silk in her hand was torn to pieces.

"Ma'am, don't be angry. If you are angry, you will hurt yourself." Xiaoyu, the big maid next to her, said, "No one knows that he has fallen out of favor. When the prince forgets him, you can go to him to avenge him. He is a joint name A male favorite who has no points, if you find an excuse to hit him twice, the prince will not say anything."

After hearing these words, Mrs. Lu's mood changed from bad to good.

Leaning on Plum Garden

Seeing Zhang Xiaoqian's uneasy expression, Wan Zi urged him to go to rest quickly, and asked Xiaocheng to invite the doctor.Zhang Xiaoqian waved his hand to signal them not to go.He invited Xiaocheng and other maids out, leaving only Wanzi and Ximei.

"Xiaoqian, do you have something important to say?"

"Yes." Zhang Xiaoqian nodded, and then said, "Do you know the real identity of your big brother Bai? And Ximei, that Mr. Tang San is not an ordinary person."

Of course Wan Zi and Xi Mei knew that they were not ordinary people, but after Zhang Xiaoqian said this again, they were a little more nervous, as long as they were not villains.

"Xiaoqian, can you answer me first, what happened between you and the prince last night, and why everyone said you fell out of favor today."

Zhang Xiaoqian sighed, and said: "I said that I don't want a child, and I can't accept that I have a child. But I just said that I can't accept it for the time being, and I will try to accept it."

"What?" Wan Zi and Xi Mei were both surprised.Their darlings have no offspring, because the people who take care of them will not let them have children.So how lucky it is to have a darling with offspring, not to mention the prince is willing to keep a child, Zhang Xiaoqian doesn't want it, no wonder the prince is angry.

"I also said that he is the same as your big brother Bai, and he dislikes us as favorites, so he doesn't want to put the child with us to raise, but to report it to other women."

Wan Zi immediately guessed some facts, and said: "You mean, the current Concubine Hua of the Hua family, she is not pregnant, the prince deliberately released the news, and when your child is born, she will say that she gave birth .”

Zhang Xiaoqian nodded, feeling tight in his chest, and said: "Why should my child call someone else's mother, Wan Zi, I can't accept it." Zhang Xiaoqian didn't tell them that he was originally going to be named a side concubine, but he didn't want it. .

Why is Wan Zi willing to accept his child being called someone else's mother, but for the sake of a better future for the child, he can only do so.

"Even so, you can't say that the prince and Brother Bai are the same thing. It's too ugly. No wonder he is angry." Ximei said.

"He was angry, and I was even more angry. Do you know what else he said?" Zhang Xiaoqian's eyes turned red immediately, and he continued, "He said, if I don't follow his arrangement, I will sell Xiaocheng and the others to a brothel. Send you two back to Xunhuan Pavilion."

"This..." Wan Zi and Xi Mei didn't expect Zhao Minghan to be such a ruthless person. In order to force Zhang Xiaoqian to submit, he involved other people. Sure enough, the royal family was the most annoying.

"He is a man of his word. He told me yesterday that today he would announce that the Hua family had wedding cakes and canonize her as a side concubine. Today he has done so. He also said that he would never set foot in Yimei Garden again..." said Here, Zhang Xiaoqian burst into tears.

Wanzi and Ximei cried so much that they worried.Especially Wan Zi, he knew that Zhang Xiaoqian must have fallen in love with Prince Rui unconsciously.

"Don't cry Xiaoqian, if you are sad, the child will also be sad with you." Wan Zi patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, and Ximei took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears.

"I can see that the prince likes you. If you go and convince him, he will forgive you."

Unexpectedly, although Zhang Xiaoqian was sad, he wanted to fight Zhao Minghan to the end. "I don't want to. If I bow my head first, I will have to bow my head first in many things in the future. I can't admit defeat first."