Chapter 71 An Lingrong 12
Only after she boarded the sedan chair for the return trip did Lingrong finally breathe a sigh of relief. After all, he was a suspicious emperor with a long history of power, and she always had to be on edge when interacting with him, lest she say something wrong and offend the monarch.
When they returned to their palace, a room full of servants stood in the cold wind, eagerly waiting. At the front was Xiao Jinzi, who had vowed to be the most popular person in front of her master. As soon as she saw the carriage, she immediately called for everyone to get ready. As soon as Lingrong's sedan stopped, Biqing, Baojuan, and Baoque immediately grabbed their coats and hand warmers.
"My lady, this servant..." Biqing gently lifted a corner of the sedan chair and was about to hand the hand warmer inside. Her eyes met Lingrong who was sitting in the sedan chair, and she immediately froze in place.
"Oh, Sister Biqing, why don't you quickly dress the young lady and bring her in? It's already October, and the wind is so strong at night. It's so cold that the young lady will be frozen!"
Seeing her standing there in a daze, Xiao Jinzi was so anxious that she wanted to pick it up herself. This was only the first day the young lady was in bed with him. If she got sick from the cold, their Chengqian Palace, which was just starting to make progress, would be doomed immediately.
Biqing ignored him, her expression becoming strange. But she moved quickly, stuffing the hot water bottle in, and then shoving the apricot-red, pomegranate-patterned Pegasus fur coat into Baojuan's hands.
Before anyone could ask, Biqing had already reached out and helped the young lady down from the sedan chair.
"this……"
The three of them glanced at each other and immediately lowered their heads to do what they were doing, but there were joy on their faces.
Especially Xiao Jinzi, after he took care of the young eunuchs who had brought the guests back, he immediately ran to the front yard of Chengqian Palace with joy.
"Are you back?" In a side room in the front yard, Feng Sanman, the chief eunuch of Chengqian Palace, was soaking his feet. He only asked this question when he saw someone come in.
"Yes, it's time to rest now." Xiao Jinzi couldn't suppress the joy on his face, which made Feng Sanman laugh and scold: "You useless thing."
"Hehe, isn't this what makes the apprentice happy?"
"I've told you so many times. It was just a matter of words. You didn't have to follow me around." Feng Sanman sighed, wiped his feet clean, and was about to bring water to pour, but Xiao Jinzi got there first:
"I've already said that even if it's just a small favor from you, I, Little Jinzi, can't be ungrateful. Besides, I haven't suffered any loss by following you. I haven't been sitting on the bench in Chengqian Palace for two years when Little Master An fell from the sky. This is all the blessing that comes from following you."
Feng Sanman was too lazy to fight with him. Seeing Xiao Jinzi's eyes and eyebrows smiling when he talked about An Changzai, he couldn't help but wonder, "Are you so sure?"
Xiao Jinzi immediately described the scene he had just witnessed. Feng Sanman listened and nodded. "Looking at it this way, it's at least two or three points accurate."
"Once the reward comes out tomorrow, we'll have a 50% chance of winning."
Hearing this, Xiao Jinzi felt more at ease. His master had always been cautious in his actions, and since he said five points, it meant that he was very optimistic about his master.
In Xiao Jinzi's opinion, the master is very powerful and should not spend the rest of his life guarding this palace.
The young lady is also a rare good master in this palace. Now that she has just entered the palace, she is short of manpower.
Oh, when I think about it this way, his master and the young lady are simply, they are made for each other... It seems not right, never mind.
Xiao Jinzi held her master's thigh in her left hand and the young mistress's thigh in her right hand, and she moved freely in the palace, falling asleep in a beautiful dream where everyone respected her.
On the other side, Biqing happily helped their young lady into the bedroom. Ziyuan, who had been waiting inside, immediately took out a bowl of warm ginger soup and watched Lingrong drink it in one gulp.
Baojuan, holding the coat behind Biqing, stayed quietly, taking the opportunity to look around.
"My lady, this cloak..." Bi Qing waited until Ling Rong finished drinking the ginger soup before helping her change her clothes. After Ling Rong half leaned on the bed, she held up the cloak with white fox fur and a pattern of sky and green clouds that the emperor had given her and looked at her with a smile.
Ling Rong glared at Bi Qing, who had the audacity to tease her master, and said coldly, "Just put it away, you're talking too much."
Biqing was not sad after being scolded. Instead, she looked at Ziyuan and the smile in her eyes became even brighter.
When they first followed the young master, they were often frightened by her cold face. But as time went on, they learned to distinguish when the young master was truly angry and when she was just at a loss.
For example, just now, the young lady was shy.
Biqing took Baojuan out. Ziyuan was on duty tonight, so she slept in the outer room, waiting to come as soon as possible if the young lady needed her at night.
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The next day, as soon as Lingrong returned from paying her respects to the Queen, rewards poured into Chengqian Palace like water.
Within half a day, everyone in the palace knew that this new young lady was extraordinary and seemed to be very much to the emperor's liking.
As was customary, the Yikun Palace was missing a lot of decorations, but the magnanimous and benevolent empress gave her a kang screen depicting a playful baby, a symbol of the extinction of the family line.
The ladies and concubines in other palaces were also inevitably jealous, but unfortunately, they started complaining too early.
For five consecutive days, An Lingrong's brand new green card was polished by the old man, the emperor.
An Lingrong and the Emperor had already gotten to know each other better than ever before. Well, after getting to know her in depth, the Emperor was extremely, extremely, extremely satisfied with her in every way!
This can be fully demonstrated from the fact that she received gifts for five consecutive days and was promoted to a noble person on the fifth day.
"My dear, don't stand under the window for too long. You might get a headache from the wind."
As soon as Biqing came in, she saw their young lady sitting under the window with her hands propped up against it. There were some sewing baskets scattered around beside her, and she seemed to be doing embroidery.
He hurried over to lower the window, and just as he was muttering a few words, his attention was attracted by the purse in Lingrong's hand.
"My lady, is this the one you made for the Emperor?"
"Well, the 30th is the Emperor's birthday. I'll feel at ease if I can get it done in the next two days."
"But I heard that all the palaces have prepared many valuable and rare gifts. Especially for Concubine Hua, I heard that she specially asked her brother, Lord Nian Gengyao, to find a rare stone with the words 'Peace Under Heaven' naturally formed on it."
Ling Rong, however, did not care: "Why compare with others? I am only following my heart."
Lingrong picked up the royal blue sachet in her hand and looked around. Seeing that there was no problem, she put down the sachet and rested for a while.
"My lady, you are so attentive. The emperor will surely like it." Biqing saw her twisting her neck, and she was afraid that her shoulders were sore from doing too much embroidery, so she walked over and began to massage them with appropriate strength.
"What is it that I will definitely like?"
Lingrong and Biqing turned around together, only to see that the emperor had been standing outside the door without them knowing when. Seeing that both the master and servant were staring at him blankly, he walked in in a good mood.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." Lingrong secretly rolled her eyes in her heart. The dog emperor is really addicted to eavesdropping. I thought you were hiding under the window and not going to come out.
Thinking in her mind, she glanced at the small map in the lower right corner, looked at a small green dot that overlapped with her, and put the map away with satisfaction.
It was worth it for her to sit by the window early in the morning holding the sachet and enjoying the cool breeze.
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