[Comprehensive] The Concubine's Counterattack Manual

Qi Luo hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist Ehuang's threats, went to the window to check under Zhou Ehuang's gaze, and came back to report: "It's Nanyin, the court maid who cleans the court."

Ehuang said calmly, "Go and announce her in."

But the keen Qi Luo found that the last trace of smile on Ehuang's face had also disappeared.

Qi Luo pursed her lips, but stood still.

The Queen's body was already weak, but due to the death of the little prince, her physical condition plummeted again.The imperial doctor said that if the general is not properly raised, the queen's life may be in danger. If she is told at this time about the scandal of the second young lady and the king, how can she bear it?

Betrayed by her husband and her beloved sister, even she, an outsider, felt heartbroken when she heard about it, let alone the sensitive empress.

Qi Luo secretly gritted her teeth, Nan Yin, this lowly servant girl must have been bought by someone, she had clearly ordered the palace people to silence, not to talk about anything about the king and the second lady, but this Nan Yin bumped into her at this time, What is it that wasn't intentional?

As for who is trying to harm the Empress Dowager, Qi Luo sneered in her heart, Zuo is just those women in the harem who can't be idle, the Empress is so kind to them, but they are racking their brains to fight for favor and power!

I don't know what benefits they promised Nanyin, so that she would rather risk being shot to do things for them.

"Go and announce her to come in." Zhou Ehuang repeated, with a heavier tone.

Qi Luo was slightly stunned, lowered her head and murmured: "Your Majesty, I'd better serve your Majesty to wash first."

Zhou Ehuang sighed: "Qi Luo, you don't have to take pains to hide it from me anymore, you will know what you should know in the end, what difference does it make if it's earlier or later?"

Qi Luo's eyes were slightly astringent, she thought, the empress actually knew everything, she didn't say anything, she just didn't want to worry about it, but now, someone insisted on sticking another knife in her wound!

Qi Luo turned around and went out, and when she came in again, she took the maid named Nanyin with her. Zhou Ehuang gave Nanyin a faint look. She was dressed like an inferior court lady and looked ordinary. She was kneeling in front of Ehuang, as if she wanted to keep calm, but Her thin shoulders trembled slightly, revealing her nervousness.

"The flowers are bright and the moon is dark and the mist is light. I can go to Lang's side tonight. Wear socks and walk on the incense steps, and carry gold-threaded shoes. See you at the south bank of the painting hall. I have always been trembling with people. It is difficult for a slave to come out, so I teach you how to show mercy." Zhou Ehuang whispered softly He recounted the poem in a soft voice, and then asked kindly, "You wrote this poem?"

Nanyin was secretly startled, after only listening to it once, the empress could recite it word for word!

She said truthfully: "After returning to China, this poem was not written by slaves."

Zhou Ehuang asked: "You didn't do it, so why did you announce it in public?"

Nanyin said calmly: "The servant just heard that the people in the palace were reciting this poem, and also heard that it was the new work of the lord. The servant listened to it once and memorized it in his mind, and just said it while cleaning."

Zhou Ehuang laughed lightly, but Qi Luo couldn't bear the anger rising in her heart, she gritted her teeth and said, "You sleazy maidservant, I just ordered you to stop singing this poem in the palace. Are you deaf or have no brains at all!"

After being sarcastically and scolded by Qi Luo, Nanyin's eyes were red. She remembered the promise made by that person to endure the humiliation in her heart, and sobbed softly: "Your Majesty is a lesson. The slave has been in the corridor outside the palace all the time." Cleaning, I just came in, the servant really didn't hear what Sister Qi Luo said."

gallery?

Zhou Ehuang's brows moved slightly, and he asked instead: "I heard that it snowed last night, is the snow deep?"

Qi Luo didn't understand what she meant, but she nodded honestly and said: "It has been snowing for two days, and the snow is still quite deep, and the snow has already risen to the ankles of the servants."

Zhou Ehuang understood, looked back at Nanyin, and said slowly: "I have issued an order a long time ago, once the snow has covered her ankles, the maids don't have to go out to clean it, the internal guard will send a special internal supervisor to shovel snow, why are you going out ?”

Nan Yin bowed down, put her forehead on the ground, and said respectfully: "Yesterday, when the lord and the second lady left, they said that the snow in front of the palace gate was too thick and it was inconvenient to walk. When the Lord came, he rebuked them, so he went to clean them up.”

Zhou Ehuang nodded, Nanyin heaved a sigh of relief, this difficult problem was over.

Before Nanyin was lucky, Zhou Ehuang's voice sounded faintly: "Where did you hear that poem?"

Nan Yin hurriedly replied: "I just heard a few maids talking when I was cleaning the gate of the palace, and I remembered what I heard."

"Are you literate?"

"The slaves are illiterate."

Nanyin's family is poor, and all the money in the family is used to support her brothers and sisters to study. She and her two younger sisters were sent to the palace as maids since they were young. There are many rules in the palace. , How could she be literate.

Zhou Ehuang knew it in her heart, she turned the book of poems in hand to "Zhaonan · Youmei", and then handed it to Qiluo, asking her to read it out.

Qi Luo was brought into the palace by Zhou Ehuang's natal family. The Zhou family has been known for generations, and even the maids and servants in the mansion can know a lot of words.

Qi Luo took the book in a daze and began to read. After Qi Luo finished reading, Zhou Ehuang smiled and said to Nan Yin: "This poem has three chapters, each chapter has four sentences. It is only more than the poem you read. Four sentences, I don't ask much, as long as you read the first eight sentences."

Nanyin was shocked. She didn't know how to read, and her memory was not very good. Even the poem of the king had been memorized for a long time before she managed to recite it. Now the empress of the country has given her such a problem, and she will have to listen to it just once. When she recited it, a layer of cold sweat broke out in Nanyin's palms. She stumbled and said, "You... Youmei... Actually... Actually... Qixi. Please... Please..." She tried her best to recall Qi Luo just now The poems I read, but the effect is not satisfactory.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Ehuang slowly said, "Who else is in your family?"

Nanyin's face turned pale as snow, she understood what the Empress had seen, Nanyin kowtowed deeply, and begged, "Please don't implicate the servant's family."

Zhou Ehuang's expression was dark and indeterminate, and his momentum was threatening: "Then you just say, who is instigating you?"

Zhou Ehuang had a gentle temperament, but when he got angry, just one word, the momentum made Nan Yin's heart tremble.

Nanyin's complexion changed drastically. After hesitating for a long time, she finally gritted her teeth and cried out, "It's the second young lady."

Qi Luo was shocked, and shouted: "What are you doing, you lowly maid? If such lewd words are spread, will the second lady's reputation be lost? Will she still smear her own reputation?"

"Your servant knows that the second young lady is the queen's sister. You don't believe what I said, but what I said is true, please check it out." After she finished speaking, her head hit the ground with a 'bang bang' sound. After a while, a mass of blood smeared on the gold brick, which was so clean and bright that it could almost reflect a human figure, but Nan Yin seemed to feel no pain, kowtowed all the time, and shouted repeatedly: "Slaves should be punished." Ten thousand deaths, I beg your mother to forgive me."

Zhou Ehuang turned his head and stopped looking at her, and said coldly: "Take it down and deal with it according to the palace rules."

Qi Luo went out and called two inner eunuchs to drag away the crying Nan Yin. When she came back, she hesitated to speak when she looked at her, "Your Majesty, Second Miss..."

Zhou Ehuang put on a silver-white fox fur cloak, stepped out of the hall step by step, stared at the west side hall where Zhou Jiamin once lived, and said softly: "Where does she live now?"

"After the little prince's accident, the lord ordered the second lady to move into the palace. Live, live..." Qi Luo bit her lower lip, a little hard to say: "...to live in His Majesty's painting hall."

"Heh!" Zhou Ehuang sneered, and remembered that poem again: "See you at the south bank of the painting hall, I have always been trembling with each other."

When the two of them were hanging out together, do you still remember that Zhongxuan had just died?When Li Yu wrote this poem, do you still remember that Zhou Jiamin is her own sister?

Zhou Ehuang lowered her eyebrows and caught a glimpse of a pot of hibiscus placed in the corner of the wall. It was Zhou Jiamin's favorite flower. She looked at the budding hibiscus in front of her. The breeze was blowing, and the fragrance of the flowers was blowing on her face. It was sweet and astringent, just like her life .

Zhou Ehuang entered the palace, and after Qi Luo waited for her to wash, she said: "Qi Luo, the sun is so good today, accompany me to the imperial garden."

Qi Luo persuaded: "Your Majesty, the snow has melted and it's cold. You're not in good health, so don't go out."

Zhou Ehuang smiled: "There are only a few days left, let me take a closer look."

In November, when the flowers are withering, it is the time when the hibiscus flowers are in full bloom. Zhou Ehuang has not been to the Imperial Garden for a long time, but she vaguely remembers that the last time she came, the flowers were in full bloom. Wintersweet and poinsettia stand against the wind, but now, there are only hibiscus swaying in the garden.

Qi Luo explained in a low voice behind her: "The king heard that Second Miss likes hibiscus, so he planted hibiscus in the imperial garden for Second Miss to watch."

Coincidentally, as soon as the words were finished, Zhou Jiamin was seen walking towards her. She was wearing a blue blouse, and she was smiling like a flower among the gorgeous hibiscus. Beside her, she said softly, "Is my sister coming to see Furong too?"

With such close gestures and words, it was as if there had never been any grievances between them, and all the unhappiness yesterday seemed to be forgotten by her.

Before Ehuang could open her mouth, she said to herself, "Sister, look, this year's hibiscus blooms really well. Your Majesty really has a good eye. The flowers you plant are all easy to live."

Zhou Ehuang took a deep look at her, "Flowers are good, people are better."

If she hadn't had memories of several lifetimes, she would have been pissed to death by Zhou Jiamin and Li Yu, a pair of scumbags like in her previous life!