Chapter 39: Love Affair
Meng Yan was the mistress of Changchun Palace. If the concubines below received any rewards, they would naturally inform her first.
Yunxiang couldn't help but open her mouth and looked at the imperial concubine carefully.
Meng Yan was a little surprised. What was wrong with the plot? Why would Lu Haozhi reward Bai Yuxin for no reason?
Logically, she shouldn't have seen Lu Haozhi yet.
She was stunned for a moment, then saw the person kneeling on the ground waiting, so she cleared her throat, "I understand. I'll record it and send it to Bai Da Ying."
Just after sending this person away, Ruizhu came in hurriedly from outside.
As soon as she entered, she said anxiously, "Your Majesty, this Bai Yingying doesn't seem very honest. That pot of red-crowned red ink is extremely valuable. It might take the greenhouse three or four years to cultivate even one, and this year they finally got a limited number of pots. Your Majesty has asked the Emperor several times before, but the Emperor has refused. And now, in the blink of an eye, the Emperor has rewarded Bai Yingying. It shows that Bai Yingying has caught the Emperor's eye."
Meng Yan looked at her sweaty face and her anxious look, but found it a little funny. "Look, I don't care much about this matter, Ruizhu is even more anxious than me. I don't know, who is the imperial concubine, me or Ruizhu?"
This was a big joke. Yunxiang wanted to laugh, but she didn't dare to. She could only glance at Meng Yan and Ruizhu.
After Doukou finished writing the big characters, she put down her pen, climbed onto the kang, and snuggled into Meng Yan's arms.
Meng Yan immediately hugged her, stroking the little girl's head while smiling faintly, "It's just a pot of flowers. The emperor can give it to whoever he wants. Even if Bai Da Ying really caught the emperor's eye, so what? She entered the palace to be a concubine. What's wrong with that?"
She had a vague impression of the matter of the red-crowned crane.
In her previous life, she seemed to have chased Lu Haozhi to ask for this flower. In fact, she was not indifferent to flowers. She just wanted to prove Lu Haozhi's care for her and her different status in the palace.
Thinking about it now, it all seems like a joke.
"Empress!"
Ruizhu stamped her feet anxiously. Previously, she felt strange seeing the Empress acting calm and not competing for favor, but it was fine since no one came to compete for it. However, now that she saw that someone had obviously attracted the Emperor's attention and the Empress still looked indifferent, she became very anxious.
"Okay, no big deal."
Meng Yan was getting a little impatient. Why couldn't these girls be taught?
"I once liked a pot of flowers, but now I don't like them anymore. Isn't that human nature? People's minds don't always change."
Nothing is constant, and neither is she.
Seeing that her master was determined to retire, Ruizhu was helpless no matter how anxious she was and had to shut up.
The person who delivered the reward returned to the Yangxin Palace and met Lu Haozhi.
"Bai promised to thank the emperor for the reward. It is not appropriate to see the emperor in person at the moment, so he kowtowed to the emperor in Le Zhixuan."
Who wants to hear this!
While practicing calligraphy, Lu Haozhi pretended to be indifferent and asked calmly, "So, what does the imperial concubine say?"
The slender and strong fingers hold the rosewood wolf-hair brush, and write on the paper in a flying dragon and phoenix style.
ah?
The man opened his mouth wide. It has always been the case that who gets rewarded depends on the attitude of the person being rewarded. Who cares about those irrelevant people?
Inadvertently seeing the Grand Steward Rong An's expression, his mind was quick as he said, "The Imperial Concubine didn't say anything. She wrote it down in the booklet and told me to send it to Bai without even glancing at it."
He guessed that the Imperial Concubine was always jealous, and since the Emperor had rewarded Bai Da Ying, he must be interested in her. However, he was afraid that the Imperial Concubine would become jealous and cause trouble, so he asked this question.
He thought that by saying this, he would be in good standing and would not offend anyone, but suddenly he saw that the eyebrows and eyes of the chief steward Rong were almost twisted together, and his face looked like a bitter melon.
"That's all, what else?"
Lu Haozhi snorted coldly, but his hand holding the pen did not stop.
What else could it be?
The young eunuch racked his brains for a long time before finally coming up with something to say. "Your Majesty, just as I was leaving, I passed under the eaves of the inner hall of Changchun Palace and heard the Imperial Concubine say something about a pot of flowers she once liked, but now she doesn't. People's minds don't always change."
Rong An slapped his thigh and turned his head to the side.
Lu Haozhi held the brush and wrote cursively without saying a single word. Silence fell over the Yangxin Palace.
"Get out!"
After waiting for quite a while, the young eunuch, who was almost numb from kneeling, finally heard these words. He got up from the ground as if he had been pardoned and ran out.
Lu Haozhi threw the brush onto the inkstone, and the ink immediately splashed all over the table.
He tore off the rice paper he had just written on, crumpled it into a ball and threw it on the ground.
"Today's handwriting is particularly bad!"
After saying that, Lu Haozhi strode straight to the west window and looked out.
Rong An gazed at the emperor's tall, broad figure and muttered inwardly, "No, you gave me these flowers as a gift. What else do you want to hear from the Imperial Concubine? You used to think the Imperial Concubine was noisy and jealous, and now that no one's jealous of you, you're still unhappy. You truly are the most difficult emperor to serve since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
No, the Great Zhou Dynasty only had two generations of emperors.
"Rong An!"
Rong An shuddered and trotted over, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
Lu Haozhi called someone over, but didn't know what to say for a long time.
When he turned around, he saw Rong An with his eyes wide open, waiting for him to speak.
"Stupid servant, I didn't know how to send someone to check on Concubine Lin. If nothing is wrong, report to Ningshou Palace and don't let Concubine Xuanhe worry!"
Rong An was kicked on the buttocks and felt quite aggrieved, but as a eunuch, he had to swallow any grievance no matter how great it was.
At that moment, he covered his butt and went out to do his work.
Lu Hao was the only one left, lost in thought as he stared at the several potted plants on the ground in the yard that were sprouting thriving buds.
People's ideas will not always remain unchanged.
He chewed over these words over and over again.
But in his mind, he suddenly recalled that she had just entered the palace as a concubine. On the night when she first received the emperor's favor, after the joy, her small hands gently drew circles on his naked chest, confusing his mind.
Her eyes were like water, she wanted to look at him but didn't dare to, she dodged shyly and coquettishly.
"Once I become your concubine, I will be with you forever."
This is what she said to him on their wedding night.
Perhaps because of this sentence, he doted on her three times in one night until she fell asleep exhausted in his arms.
This is what you said yourself. Are you going to change now?
It’s a pity that you are my concubine. You can’t go anywhere. You will be mine in this life.
Lu Haozhi tightly grasped a tourmaline bracelet in his hand, and the smooth beads actually showed some cracks.
On the day the newly-elected young lady entered the palace, the emperor gifted the concubine Bai with a pot of precious flowers. News of this spread like wildfire, filling the palace with rumors. It even overshadowed Lin Yanrong, who had collapsed from poisoning.
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