Concubine Jin snatched the meat from Concubine Zhen's front and said, "Even the king of heaven can't stop me from playing chess and eating meat."
The four ladies, Concubine Xian Guipin, Zhao Qian Sun and Li, played the game of passing the flower around the table, and their laughter could be heard from far away.
The banquet was set up under a flower wall to the east of the Pepper House Palace. People drank among the flowers and grilled meat under the moon. Everyone's face was filled with smiles. The palace rules and dogmas were gone. The concubines took off their masks and lived their lives freely and unrestrainedly again.
The emperor stood against a high platform, his eyes fixed on the playful concubines. What the imperial teacher said was indeed right. She was a banished immortal who had strayed into the mortal world, and was the one who could take off other people's masks.
The eunuch from Qiwu Palace came to invite the emperor, and Fugui whispered something in Xunhe's ear. Xunhe waited until the emperor came down from the platform before telling him that the queen had sent someone to convey the message.
"She is my wife, I should go and see her."
A sedan chair traveled from the Jiaofang Palace to the Qiwu Palace. The queen saluted him. The queen's etiquette was excellent. She was 22 years old this year and was the queen carefully trained by the Qiu family.
The emperor looked at her quietly. Qiu Yuying was a qualified queen, but not a qualified wife.
For example, at this moment, he wanted to eat quietly, but the other party wanted to ruin his appetite.
"The toad blood in Gu Gengyi's hand is gone." The queen's voice trembled slightly when she asked this question.
"Hmm." The emperor replied with a single syllable.
"Then what am I? I am the Empress chosen by the Queen Mother for the Emperor."
"In the past, I had no choice but to obey the Queen Mother in everything."
"What now?"
"Now Gu Gengyi is my choice."
"Your Majesty, you are too heartless."
"It's not that I'm heartless, but that the Queen is too greedy."
The queen stared at the emperor in disbelief, unable to believe that he would say such cruel words.
"You want the throne of Queen, you want the support of the Queen Mother, and now, you want to take over my heart."
"Your Majesty is my first husband. Husband and wife should be of one mind. How can you talk about usurping power? Don't you care about me and me at all? Don't you have any affection for me?"
The emperor put down his chopsticks and stood up from his seat.
"I respect the Queen as much as I respect the Queen Mother and the Qiu family."
The queen's face was covered with tears and she was crying like a pear blossom in the rain.
"Why her? There are so many women in the harem, why did you choose Gu Yinwei?"
"The Queen has always had her way with everything she wants since she was little. She doesn't understand my suffering. For me, being able to freely choose the person I love is a kind of happiness in itself."
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