Yu Meilian accompanied the Queen Mother and waited at the palace gate.
As soon as the Queen Mother saw the motorcade coming, she went to greet them. Her face showed excitement about the Emperor's return, but when the carriage stopped and Pu Kun got off, her face turned ugly again.
Pu Kun brought Yu Jinshu to pay his respects to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother questioned, "Your Majesty, you have dispersed all the concubines I had worked so hard to recruit into the harem. Now that the Queen has also encountered an accident, there is no one left in the harem."
Yu Meilian came forward and said, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you."
What she meant was that even if there was still Concubine Ning in the harem, it couldn't be considered that there was no one there at all.
Pu Kun looked at Yu Meilian and frowned: "Who are you?"
Yu Meilian was secretly angry when she saw that the emperor didn't recognize her, but she still had a smile on her face: "Your Majesty, I am Concubine Ning."
She looked at Yu Jinshu and said, "She is the elder sister of Yu Daxueshi."
When the emperor heard that she was Yu Jinshu's legitimate daughter, he became interested. "You are Jinshu's legitimate sister? Then why don't you leave the palace?"
Yu Meilian said, "I am willing to serve the emperor together with my sister Jinshu."
Pu Kun's face darkened. "As long as I have Jin Shu, I don't need you to serve me. You should just marry and go home like them! You won't waste your youth in this palace."
The Queen Mother was unhappy: "Your Majesty, we finally have one concubine left, and you actually want to disperse her too. I won't allow it."
Yu Meilan has been accompanying the lonely empress dowager these days, and she is very attentive, thinking wholeheartedly about how to please the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother really fell in love with the usually unknown Concubine Ning, and felt that Concubine Ning was a sensible person for not following the Queen in making trouble.
Yu Meilian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the Queen Mother speak for her.
She knew that the emperor always listened to the empress dowager.
This time, Pu Kun didn't want to listen to the empress dowager. He looked at Yu Jinshu, wanting to ask for her opinion.
Yu Jinshu quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, since my sister wants to stay in the harem and serve you, Your Majesty, why don't you agree to her request? From now on, I will have her by my side in the palace."
After hearing this, Pu Kun looked at Yu Meilian and said, "Since you want to stay in the harem, then it's up to you."
Yu Meilian originally thought that Yu Jinshu would ask her to leave the palace, but she didn't expect Yu Jinshu to say such a thing.
But she would not be grateful to Yu Jinshu. In her opinion, Yu Jinshu let her stay because he was intimidated by the empress dowager's majesty.
But she didn't expect that Yu Jinshu really wanted her to stay.
Since she wanted to stay in the harem so much, then she could stay there until she was old! In such a huge harem, she was the only concubine. Even after the empress dowager passed away, she would only be able to talk and chat with the palace maids.
As for the emperor, Yu Jinshu was confident that she could make him and her be together for the rest of their lives.
Even if she didn't go to the harem, she could still stay with the emperor day and night.
Pu Kun said, "Mother, it's late. I'm tired, so I'll go back to Zhenghe Hall first. You've been waiting for a long time, so go back and rest early."
He took Yu Jinshu into the carriage, and the carriage drove towards Zhenghe Hall.
As Yu Meilian watched the carriage getting farther and farther away from her, she felt that she was getting closer and closer to the emperor.
When more than thirty concubines followed the queen out of the palace, she chose to stay. She thought this was the best decision she had ever made in her life.
Now that there is no queen in the harem, the emperor will one day get tired of Yu Jinshu and remember that he still has her as a concubine in the harem.
To be honest, she has a status and she is the emperor's woman.
Who the hell is Yu Jinshu? At best, he is just Pu Kun's plaything.
If you play with something for too long, you will eventually get tired of it.
Yu Meilian helped the empress dowager onto the sedan chair and returned to the harem.
As soon as Pu Kun and Yu Jinshu returned to Zhenghe Hall, they both went to their bedroom.
They first took a bath together, and then Pu Kun wrapped Yu Jinshu in a cloth and carried her to the dragon bed.
The Zhenghe Hall was a place of ecstasy.
In Ning Fei's Jing'an Palace, Yu Meilin was counting dozens of glass beads back and forth to pass the long and lonely night.
The next day, Yu Jinshu was accompanying Pu Kun in the study of Zhenghe Hall to review a pile of memorials when he heard the eunuch come in to report that Earl An Ning and his wife had sent a letter, wanting to enter the palace to meet their two daughters, Concubine Ning and Grand Secretary Yu.
Pu Kun looked at Yu Jinshu and said, "Jinshu, your parents are here, it's a good time for us to reunite."
Yu Jinshu's face looked a little gloomy, and he was obviously not happy to meet her.
Pu Kun caught her emotion and asked, "Why? Don't you want to see him?"
Yu Jinshu put the letter down and said, "Yes, of course I must."
Pu Kun did not see the joy in her eyes that her relatives were about to meet.
In the afternoon, Earl An Ning and his wife entered the palace.
Pu Kun did not summon him. He waited for Yu Jinshu to leave the study and then called Zhang Lilai.
"Send someone to investigate what happened to Yu Daxueshi in the Anning Marquis's mansion. The more detailed the better."
"As you wish."
Yu Jinshu went to the front hall and asked someone to call Yu Meilin over.
Anning Earl Yu Hengqing and his wife Zhang first stepped forward to pay their respects to Yu Meilin.
Although Yu Meilian was not favored by the emperor, she was still a concubine, and even her parents had to kowtow to her when they saw her.
As for Yu Jinshu, although he was favored by the emperor, he was just a minister and his status was lower than that of an earl, so he did not need to perform the ceremony.
Yu Jinshu had to follow the rules and bow to his father and stepmother.
After the greetings, Yu Meilin took the high seat, while Yu Hengqing and Zhang walked to Yu Jinshu and sat together.
Yu Meilin looked at this sitting posture and felt unhappy.
Zhang was her biological mother, and she couldn't bear to see her being so intimate with Yu Jinshu.
Yu Hengqing smiled broadly as he looked at Yu Jinshu, "Jinshu! You are truly a father's pride. To be favored by the Emperor, if you can give birth to a prince in the future, I will be able to comfort the ancestors of the Yu family."
Yu Jinshu felt sick after hearing this.
She was favored by the emperor, so what did it have to do with Yu Hengqing? What did it have to do with the ancestors of the Yu family?
"Hmph! What's so strange about that? The Emperor is just trying to find something new. Father, you have to understand clearly that I am the woman with a legitimate status by the Emperor's side."
Yu Hengqing looked at Yu Meilian with a worried look on his face: "Meilian..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by his daughter, "Father, please call me Concubine Ning."
What a big rack!
Yu Hengqing felt unhappy.
Zhang couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she walked over to her daughter and tried to persuade her, "Meilian, there's no one important here right now, so why don't you just be more relaxed?"
Yu Meilian said coldly, "Mother, this is the imperial city. When we are in the imperial city, we must abide by the rules of the imperial city."
Zhang couldn't stand beside her own daughter any longer. She sighed and could only return to her seat.
Yu Hengqing was still fuming, so he could only say in a harsh voice, "Empress Ning, you should be more considerate of the Emperor and consummate your marriage with him sooner rather than later, so as to bring honor to the An Ning Marquis's Mansion."
Yu Meilian said unhappily, "Don't worry, father. I will definitely consummate my marriage with the emperor."
Zhang took Yu Jinshu's hand affectionately again and said, "Jinshu, since you are close to the Emperor, please help your sister find a way to create some opportunities for your sister and the Emperor so that your sister can consummate her marriage with the Emperor as soon as possible."
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