[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

She finally walked in with her personal maids Su Lan and Su Mei, look, she only had two maids serving, Su Lan was her personal maid, Su Mei was assigned from the palace, and two other eunuchs, The four people around her are examples of noble status.

Xing Xiuyan is a talented person, but she brought four servant girls from her home, and the palace assigned another maid to come down, renamed Lan Jiu, and two eunuchs who are somewhat magnanimous.Relational account!

"Sister Xing is back?" Xie Wanying smiled and stepped forward.

Li Rong just left, and it's not a big deal to be such a low-level concubine, so he went out.

Xing Xiuyan got up and said, "Thank you, sister, please sit down."

After the two sat down around a carved jujube wood table, Xing Xiuyan cheered up and talked with Xie Wanying.

Jin Yao served tea for the two of them, Xie Wanying took a sip and sighed: "The tea here is better."

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "This Lu'an melon slice is not a rare item, but my family has a little business in the south of the Yangtze River. There are several rooms where people often come and go. This is a new one this year."

Xie Wanying laughed angrily and said, "Sister, don't try to coax me. The excellent melon slices are tribute tea, which is not available to the common people, and even the slightly inferior ones are only drunk by high-ranking officials. My family has also drank melon slices, so I don't think it's as good as my sister's." Sister Kuang's water is good, but the palace uses mountain spring water, not well water."

Xing Xiuyan said: "I never like to drink well water. If I drink well water, it must be a hundred-year-old well. I always feel that the water from new wells has an earthy taste."

Xie Yuanying mentioned that she drank tea made from snow water on plum blossoms at home, and Xing Xiuyan said: "I used to drink like this when I was in the south of the Yangtze River, but I just came to Beijing this spring, and there is no snow here."

Xie Wanying sighed: "Why didn't I think that I was still at home last year, making tea and enjoying the flowers with my sisters. Now I enter the palace alone, and it will be difficult for my relatives to see each other in the past."

As she said that, she wiped away her tears, and Xing Xiuyan sighed secretly: Tu Yuanyi, Tu Yuanyi, what a crime you really did!In modern times, this girl is only in the third year of junior high school, but now she is going to live in the court.A third-rank student studying politics, he is an official in the private sector, but his daughter is not a fart in the palace.

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help comforting her: "When my sister's father is transferred to the capital, the sage may give the concubine a favor and allow him to visit. My sister still needs to think in a good direction."

Xie Wanying wiped away her tears and said, "I didn't think about the bad things in the palace, I just missed my mother and sisters. Seeing the talent of my sister, I thought of my sisters at home, so I said all the words."

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "It's lonely in the deep palace, I'm also happy to have sisters talking."

The two talked for a while, and at noon, Shang Shanjian brought lunch, and set out three exquisite Huaiyang side dishes, two spicy and appetizing stir-fries and a bowl of soup.Xing Xiuyan kept her for dinner.

But seeing that the dishes were not cooked in a large pot in the palace, but rather fried in a small stove, Xie Wanying saw that they were different from what she ate.

After lunch, Xie Wanying returned to her own room, Xing Xiuyan was relieved and went back to sleep.

She fell asleep in the dark and groggy, Ziyue came over and woke her up, Xing Xiuyan turned over and told her to play by herself.

"The sage passed on his talents and was accompanied by the Royal Study Room."

Su Lan ran into the house, and persuaded Xie Wanying, "Xing Cairen is another eunuch from Tai Chi Palace. The sedan chair picked her up. It seems that she is serving her bed again today."

Concubines below the third rank do not have their own chariots, but Taiji Palace sends people to pick them up and accompany them, of course there are small sedan chairs.To say that the Tai Chi Palace is still some distance away from the harem.

Xie Wanying twisted her veil, feeling uncomfortable, she was the daughter of a dignified third-rank student of politics, from a noble family, but a person who was a servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to go first.

"Su Lan, am I not as good as Xing Cairen?"

Su Lan said: "Your Majesty is the most outstanding girl in the Xie family. They are all first-class in talent and appearance. What is Xing Cai's background? It's just that she has something to do with the inner palace. You think Mr. Manager, with their help, Cairen Xing won the first place. The nobleman will always be favored, and the sage will know that the nobleman is well."

Xie Wanying sighed, "I hope so."

……

Xing Xiuyan pulled her skirt and supported Li Rong's hand up the steps, and reported at the gate of the Imperial Study Room of Liangyi Hall, Zhao Gui greeted her.

Zhao Gui smiled and bowed his hands slightly to say hello: "The talented person is safe. The sage is currently reviewing the papers, so hurry up and go in."

"Thank you, father-in-law." Xing Xiuyan let go of Li Rong's hand, raised her skirt and stepped into the palace, but she was a little surprised that this palace made her feel familiar.

In that secret realm, the uncle transformed into a palace that looked like this, presumably this was the place where the uncle was most active during his lifetime.

Tu Yuanyi was critiquing papers behind the imperial desk. He was wearing a dragon robe in ordinary clothes, a white dragon robe embroidered with yellow dragons, and his head was only tied with a gem-studded hairband. The problem was that hairband was given by her.

"The courtiers and concubines see the emperor, and the emperor is safe." Xing Xiuyan saluted according to the etiquette of concubines in this dynasty.When Xing Xiuyan faced him at this time, she lacked the hatred of last night, she vented all her dissatisfaction, and the most painful time in her heart passed, her emotions were like the ebb of an ocean wave.The bottom of my heart is uneasy, I have to live, and I can only adapt to the "working environment". Standing behind her is not only the Xing family, but also the related Lin family, Shi family, and even the Jia family. The five maidservants of the dyeing house and the second supervisors of Su and Zhao, the reality cannot help her "one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies to death".

However, she still has something that cannot be expressed in words, but after men and women have the feeling of cloud/rain, they are always different from before, just like Xiren and Baoyu.Only emperors like Tu Yuanyi, who are different from ordinary men, usually don't have any feelings for the women they have slept with.

"Come here." Tu Yuanyi closed the memorial.

Xing Xiuyan stepped forward with small steps, Tu Yuanyi looked at the person standing in front of the table with his head bowed, and said, "Here."

Xing Xiuyan crossed the big desk and walked to his side, he pulled her into his arms, put his arms around her waist, and said, "Wasting time sleeping in the room in broad daylight?"

Xing Xiuyan is usually fine, but at this time it is unavoidable to be nervous when being hugged by a man like this. The messy images of last night filled her mind inappropriately, and her face flushed red.

"Catch up on sleep." She turned her head sideways and stated.

Tu Yuanyi laughed, helped her face, and said, "Why doesn't my beloved concubine dare to look at me?" Tu Yuanyi felt that she was very temperamental, but he had seen so many women in the world, and she left behind the temperamental one. in his heart.

Xing Xiuyan said: "Who said that my concubine dare not dare? The concubine fell into a pillow, just move around."

Tu Yuanyi smiled and nodded: "I believe you dare, after all, Concubine Ai is the first woman who dares to throw me down, she is really bold and unrestrained, she will not be shy like ordinary women."

Xing Xiuyan: ...

Of course she couldn't say that she was just resentful towards his bright future with broken wings, but she wanted to try to suppress the emperor and regain some of her poor dignity.

But it turns out that her skills are too poor, and she has been occupied by him in the end. She has no strength at all, and her business is unfamiliar. She needs to practice her business in the future, so she will rely on this kind of service for a living.If she had known this, she would have watched more action movies in modern times, and her skills would not have been so poor. She was ashamed to say that she was a skilled person.

Xing Xiuyan changed the topic: "The sage doesn't need to criticize the memorial?"

Tu Yuanyidan's phoenix eyes flashed, and he smiled lightly: "It's okay, there's nothing serious about it recently. Are you used to living in the Concubine's Palace?"

Xing Xiuyan pursed her lips, and said suddenly: "Can the sage stop calling his concubine 'Aifei'?"

"Why?"

"First, saints do not love concubines; second, concubines are not concubines. It is good for saints to call concubines Xiuyan or Xing Cairen."

Tu Yuanyi withdrew his smile, a trace of disappointment appeared on his face but it was only fleeting, and said: "Yesterday I let you go, come again today?"

Xing Xiuyan turned her head sideways, and said: "The concubine has been working hard to learn. The concubine is such a person. It's not bad to be able to learn this well. If the sage despises it, it's no wonder that the concubine is the only one who is allowed to enter the palace. The concubine is a miscellaneous fish mixed in."

Tu Yuanyi put his hand on her waist hard, she frowned slightly in pain, Tu Yuanyi's phoenix eyes were dim, and said: "You have already entered the palace, and I became your husband, this is the truth! What did you think before, How to plan, that was a thing in the past, how do you still want to be willful?"

Xing Xiuyan pouted and said, "Am I being capricious? In this palace, how many women have you called Aifei? The saint is my only man, but I am not the only concubine. Your name is Aifei, how do I know?" Are you calling me? I have a name and a definite identity, so don’t use such ambiguous names when you talk to me.”

"So... I'm jealous." Tu Yuanyifeng's eyes flashed, and he finally said with a smile.

"Hehe, I'm jealous of your sister..."

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help froze after the words came out. She still understood Tu Yuanyi to some extent. It's probably okay for this man to play with his personality and temper, but she would be punished for calling him dirty words.This man cannot be insulted.

Good women don't suffer from immediate losses.As for men, I just like the way of green tea whore acting like a baby, besides, she is his concubine, and concubine is all traitors, and there is no need to pretend to be generous, she just does what suits her status.

When small employees work in the company, they will flatter the manager, let alone the boss. This is the social reality and the reality of the workplace.Pretending to be an iceberg beauty?The new recruits pretend to look in front of the boss. They don't exist in modern times, but can they exist in ancient times?

Xing Xiuyan felt a sense of role confusion in her heart that she couldn't explain, because her experiences were too special, and his identities were too heavy, so she couldn't immediately unify her attitude towards him.Also because of the great changes in her life, she has not yet entered a new stage of stability.

When his phoenix eyes seemed to want to see through her bones, she grabbed his shoulder and shook lightly: "Call him Xiuyan, or you can call him Xiuxiu if you like! Saint, you are good or bad~~~ Don't be scared The concubine, the concubine is timid~~~ The saint scares the concubine."

Tu Yuanyi: ...

Tu Yuanyi calmed down, coughed, and said, "If you're not feeling well, should you ask the imperial physician to take a look?"

Xing Xiuyan caressed her forehead and said: "That's not necessary, the concubine will just go back and sleep."

Tu Yuanyi put his arms around her, patted her on the back lightly, and said, "I'll sleep with you in my arms."

"..." Then she will be sleeping with ghosts.

"Then how can I trouble the sage?" She sat up straight again, thought for a while, and said, "Actually, the sage knows about the concubines, and the concubines are unstable. The main reason is that they are new to the palace, not acclimatized, and have some thoughts. Relatives. Well, it seems that the female family members of the natal family can visit the palace every two or six days. Can the female family members of the concubine's family come in to see the concubine?"

This is what she has been thinking about along the way.

Tu Yuanyi's phoenix eyes gleamed, he smiled slightly, and said, "Visiting relatives on the [-]th is... the right of concubines above rank four Jieyu."

Tu Yuanyi knew in his heart that she didn't love him, and this was what made him dissatisfied. He was used to being an emperor, and women always put their body and mind on him. He didn't care about how many women died in the deep palace.

The emperor who had never really "been in love" didn't know the deceitful tricks of playboys to curry favor with women. Now he only knows how to conquer and use the resources in his hands to make the woman he likes fall in love with him eventually.Just like the concubines he met before, if they wanted to be promoted, they would doubly please him, and they would be happy if they promoted their concubines.

In his previous life, his concept of women was apart from pampering, he only knew this method.He is a majestic emperor, and it is impossible for him to tell others that the woman he likes does not like him, which pollutes his majesty and dignity, let alone ask others for advice.