Chapter 176: See if there is anything inside that could cause a slip

Minghua Hall, Tianxiang Pavilion.

Wang Defa looked at Xue Qingyao kneeling on the ground and announced in the courtyard, "By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims: Lady Xue from the Minghua Palace is gentle, kind, respectful, and kind-hearted. She is very pleasing to my heart. I confer her the title of fifth-rank noble lady. I do this!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!" Xue Qingyao immediately bowed to express his gratitude.

After reading the imperial edict, Wang Defa smiled and congratulated Xue Qingyao, "Congratulations, Ms. Xue, you are the second concubine to be promoted this year, which shows that the emperor values ​​you."

The three words "second" sounded particularly harsh in Xue Qingyao's ears. His hand froze slightly as he received the imperial edict. Then he smiled and replied, "Thank you for taking the trip, eunuch. This is a small gift. Please accept it."

As the chief eunuch beside Murong Che, Wang Defa had many people who wanted to bribe him, but he would only accept the money if the person was worthy of his attention.

At this moment, he looked at Xue Qingyao, who was beaming with joy, and did not refuse. He took the bulging purse in her hand and turned around to leave.

When he saw the three people entering the Minghua Palace and walking in this direction, he quickly bowed and said, "Your servant greets Concubine Xue."

The smile on Xue Qingyao's lips froze, and the hand holding the imperial edict clenched tightly.

When she first entered the palace, Xue Youli was clearly inferior to herself, yet she caught the emperor's eye.

After she was favored, she was afraid that she would steal the emperor's limelight, so she always monopolized the emperor and prevented him from getting close to other women in the harem.

Fortunately, I seized the opportunity while she was sick in bed and successfully slept with her last night.

Everything has a first and a second.

I had some incense to liven up the mood last night, and I’m afraid the emperor won’t be able to leave me in the future.

Thinking of this, Xue Qingyao raised her red lips again, "Why did Concubine Xue come to my Minghua Palace?"

Now she is the only one living in Minghua Palace, but I believe it won’t be long before she can become the mistress of the palace.

Xue Youli glanced behind him, and Banxia immediately handed over a statue of Guanyin, the Goddess of Fertility, which her master had picked out from the warehouse.

"Sister Xue, I heard that you were promoted to a higher position. I am very happy for you. This statue of Guanyin is a gift for you. I wish you can have a son soon."

"Then I'll lend you my good words."

Xue Qingyao looked at the Fertility-Giving Guanyin in Banxia's hand, motioned for Biyu to accept it, and smiled softly, "No one in the harem can always be favored. The Fertility-Giving Guanyin you gave me may help me give birth to a little prince next year!"

She thought that she had just been favored, and Xue Youli was the first one to come to her and show her kindness, which showed that the emperor was already tired of Xue Youli.

Xue Youli probably wanted to become her ally, hoping to get some favor from her in the future.

But, how could Xue Qingyao possibly pull Xue Youli in?

She has already thought it through. When her position is higher than Xue Youli, she will return the humiliation she suffered from Xue Youli a thousand times over!

Xue Youli smiled slightly, "Sister Xue has finally made it through. If she can really bear an heir to the throne, it will be a great achievement."

Xue Qingyao replied, "After all, I just went to bed with you, so I'm not in that hurry. But you've been pampered for more than half a year, why is there no sign of pregnancy? It's like an old hen in a chicken coop. If it just sits there without laying eggs, it will turn into a pot of chicken soup sooner or later."

Banxia realized that Xue Qingyao was taking advantage of her status as the emperor's concubine and deliberately scolding her master.

She was so angry that she glared at Xue Qingyao with angry eyes.

However, Xue Youlisi was not panicked at all. "Sister Xue is already looking down on others and being disrespectful to her superiors on her first day of serving the emperor. Eunuch Wang, what crime should she be punished for?"

Wang De noticed that the atmosphere between them was tense, so he lowered his head and replied, "According to palace rules, you need to slap her in the face twenty times."

Xue Qingyao's eyes tightened when she heard this, and she quickly bowed to Xue Youli and apologized, "Madam Xue, I just want you to drink more chicken soup to replenish your body, and I don't mean to be disrespectful to you. After all, you are still young, and there is no need to be so anxious to have a baby."

"That's true. Sister Xue is older than me. If you don't take advantage of my illness to seduce the emperor, when you're old and ugly, the emperor won't even look at you anymore."

Xue Youli said to her slowly, and seeing that she looked unhappy, she smiled and raised her lips, "Banxia, ​​is the ginseng soup in our small kitchen almost ready?"

Banxia replied, "Yes, the ginseng soup is warming in the kitchen."

"Then let's hurry up and bring soup to the emperor. The emperor is very busy, and there are so many women in the harem waiting for him to pick their names at night. Don't tire him out."

After Xue Youli finished speaking, he led Banxia and Ayan away.

A Yan followed behind her and Ban Xia, and glared at Xue Qingyao before leaving.

Before A Yan entered the palace, Murong Ye told her that Xue Qingyao in Minghua Palace was his person.

Before A Yan entered the palace, Murong Ye told her that Xue Qingyao was the woman he liked, but Murong Che forcibly took her into the harem, breaking up the lovers.

He said this in order to establish himself as a deeply affectionate person in front of Ah Yan, so that Ah Yan would help Xue Qingyao without reservation.

However, Xue Youli deliberately instigated Xue Qingyao to be jealous of him, and even brought A Yan to watch a live show, just to let A Yan know that Xue Qingyao voluntarily slept with him, and had great ambitions.

At this point, her goal was achieved, so she did not linger any longer and headed home, preparing to deliver ginseng soup to Murong Che.

After they left, Biyu held the fertility-giving Guanyin in her hand and asked, "Master, what should we do with this fertility-giving Guanyin?"

Xue Qingyao didn't dare to take the gift sent by Xue Youli lightly. "Send someone to check to see if there is anything like musk that can cause miscarriage."

In fact, she actually hoped that there was something wrong with the Goddess of Childbirth, so that she could go to the emperor and cry her heart out, and maybe even get Xue Youli sent to the cold palace again.

"What if there isn't?"

"If you don't have it, throw it away! Xue Youli knows medical skills, if she wants to hide the poison, others may not be able to find any clues at all!"

At this time, Xue Qingyao's attention was all on the Goddess of Childbirth, and he did not notice that when Xue Youli left, he walked on his two legs in an unnatural way and limped.

…

Yonghe Palace.

Caixia also heard about Xue Qingyao's promotion.

She looked at Rong Qingyue who was sewing winter clothes for the little princess in the courtyard and was almost dying of anxiety, "Madam, the one in Minghua Palace is about to be favored, aren't you anxious at all?"

In Caixia's view, her queen is the only concubine in the harem who has given birth to a child for the emperor, and is also the person most likely to sit on the throne of the queen.

However, now the emperor only favors two concubines with the surname Xue, and he has not been to Yonghe Palace for a long time.

She was really worried about her master. After all, the queen was the person who had been with the emperor the longest. How could the emperor be so easily fascinated by the new and easily dislike the old?

Rong Qingyue was originally a non-competitive person, and she had an agreement with Murong Che.

Over the years, she has used herself and her children as a shield for Murong Che, just to have a place to stay.

How the concubines who entered the palace this year fight is their own business. As long as it does not hurt her and her children, she is too lazy to bother with these women.

Now that her child's asthma has improved, she only hopes to leave the harem, this place of trouble, when she has enough ability to protect the child.

Therefore, Rong Qingyue looked at Caixia's anxious expression and said calmly, "Caixia, it is the emperor's freedom to favor whomever he wants. If you dare to criticize the emperor again in the future, don't blame me for punishing you according to the palace rules."

Seeing that she had no intention of competing for favor, Caixia quickly bowed her head and admitted her fault, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I will never dare to do it again."

"You have to remember that your responsibility is to take good care of the little princess. We don't need to care about other things."

"Yes, I've made note of it."

Rong Qingyue looked up at the little boy playing on the swing under the big tree, and a hint of tenderness appeared in her eyes.

In the harem, she asked for nothing but peace and safety for herself and her children.

…

Zicheng Palace.

Murong Che lowered his head to review the memorials. Wang Defa went to Minghua Palace to announce the imperial edict. After returning to report, he stood beside the table and served tea and water to the man.

Murong Che sat upright at the table. Although his eyes were fixed on the memorials in front of him, the intense scenes that took place in Xue Youli's bedroom last night emerged in his mind.

He drank a lot of plum wine last night. Although his mind was still clear, he was half drunk.

He really didn't expect that his misogyny would break through the treatment bottleneck and be completely cured under that condition.

When he thought of the scene last night where Xue Youli was bullied by him and cried and begged for mercy, he curled his lips and couldn't help but chuckle.

Wang Defa, who was standing nearby, looked at the smile on the man's face and was extremely curious.

What interesting things were written in this memorial that made the emperor so happy?

Wang Defa was still wondering when he heard Murong Che nodding his chin towards the door. "Princess Xue is here to bring me some ginseng soup. Go and invite her in."

"I obey your command." Wang Defa took the order and walked to the door of the palace. After opening it, he saw Xue Youli and Banxia standing at the door.

Seeing this, he was shocked.

How did the Emperor know that Concubine Xue was outside the door at this moment? Could it be that they had a telepathic connection?

Xue Youli looked at Wang Defa who opened the door for her, her eyebrows curved, and she took the food box from Banxia with a smile, "Eunuch Wang, I'm here to serve ginseng soup to the emperor."

"The emperor has been talking about you since you were not here!" Wang Defa took two steps back with a smile. After Xue Youli went in, he considerately closed the door of the hall for both of them.

Xue Youli patted her lower back with one hand and held the food box with the other, and slowly walked towards Murong Che.

[Chu Xinyue really didn’t lie to me. A guy in his early twenties is really nice, but it really makes my waist tired! After being tortured by Murong Che all night, my old waist is almost broken! ]

At this moment, she was still several feet away from Murong Che, but Murong Che could clearly hear the complaints in her heart.

Just now when Xue Youli stopped outside the Zicheng Palace, he heard her mumbling in her heart and realized that she was here.

After last night, the distance at which Murong Che could hear Xue Youli's inner voice had become longer.

He combined Xue Youli's inner thoughts and thought for a moment, and suddenly found out what changed the distance at which he could hear Xue Youli's inner voice!