Chapter 38 A Concubine
On the first day Si Linglong returned to Linghua Palace, the first thing she did was not to continue copying the palace rules, but to... walk the fox.
"I've only been away for two days, and you've been slacking off again."
As Si Linglong walked, she gave this instruction to the fat fox in front of her who was walking with his butt twisted and reluctantly twisting.
"As a fox, you've already lost at the starting line. Foxes can catch chickens by themselves, but what about you? You'll be caught by a chicken if you go out!"
The fat fox that was slowly wagging its tail in front turned its head when it heard the sound, and gave Si Linglong a disapproving look with a very arrogant attitude. After a glance, it continued to sway forward.
That posture...
I can't say it's very similar to its owner, but I can say it's very similar.
Si Linglong was complaining in her heart when suddenly a woman screamed from the front, "Ah!"
Seeing that Xue Sha had already run to the front, Si Linglong hurriedly followed him and saw two women standing in front of Xue Sha. One of them looked like a master in the palace, but Si Linglong had never seen her before.
This person was none other than Lady Qi, who happened to be picking flowers nearby. When she saw Xue Sha, she looked a little scared, but also a little curious and timid.
Si Linglong stepped forward, and with one arm, she lifted up Xue Sha's round head and bent it into her arm, signaling to him, "Don't be afraid, it has no offensive power."
It's not that they can't attack, but that they don't have the ability to attack.
Yes, because I’m fat and my body is very clumsy.
Xue Sha was pinched by her neck. He shook his head unhappily and tried to struggle out of Si Linglong's arms, but the facts proved that he had never gotten any good results at the hands of this human since the first time he saw Si Linglong.
Noble Qi looked at the man and the fox in front of him curiously. After a long while, he asked in a low voice, "Is this the Snow Killer Highness in the palace?"
The Emperor had a favorite named Xue Sha, and everyone in the palace tacitly called her Little Prince.
But concubines like these who live in the harem have little chance to see the emperor, nor do they have much chance to see this fox.
She turned her eyes to Si Linglong, and said timidly but firmly, "I have met Mr. Lang."
"Who are you?"
As soon as Si Linglong expressed her doubts, Shu Hong stepped forward and reminded her quietly, "Sir, this is Sir Qi."
The two have the same position, but their treatment in the palace is very different.
Lady Qi is the daughter of a Hanlin scholar. After entering the palace, she was almost not favored. She got the position of a lady only because of her father's influence. She is completely different from Lady Si Linglong, who climbed up the ladder with her own ability.
Not to mention, although Si Linglong is still a noble lady, the fact that she lives in a side hall of Linghua Palace makes her an existence that no other concubines can compare to.
Si Linglong looked at the delicate beauty in front of her, her eyes fell on the basket in her hand, "What are you doing here?"
"I heard that bamboo shoots can clear away heat and detoxify when boiled into tea, so I asked someone to get some bamboo shoots to make scented tea."
Si Linglong's ears twitched slightly when she heard this, and she subconsciously looked at Mr. Qi in front of her, "What is bamboo water?"
"Put fresh bamboo on fire and roast it. The nutrients in the bamboo will flow out from the cuts at both ends. What flows out is bamboo juice."
When Qi Guiren talked about this, he didn't seem to shrink back, and said in a low voice, "I heard that this bamboo shoot can be used as medicine. It can be used to make porridge or tea, which is very good for the recovery of the body."
Si Linglong opened her mouth slightly and looked at the delicate and weak Qi Guiren in front of her with some surprise, as if she had learned something new.
But only she knew in her heart what she was surprised about.
[Nima, I've seen this line before.]
[In the original novel, the heroine of the novel heard a certain "concubine" talk about the efficacy of bamboo ditch water, and took the initiative to use bamboo ditch water to cook porridge for the dog emperor. As a result, this thing was incompatible with a medicine that the dog emperor was taking at the time. The dog emperor was poisoned and the heroine fell into crisis. Later, the prince of Li found out the truth. It turned out that the concubine had a grudge against the dog emperor, so she wanted to use Bai Qianqian to kill the dog emperor...]
The reason why she remembered this plot and the lines was because she was curious about the bamboo shoots mentioned in the novel, so she and Brother Ba tried roasting bamboo shoots together to give it a try...
When Si Linglong thought of this, she couldn't help but take another deep look at Mr. Qi in front of her, her almond-shaped eyes dim.
It turns out that Lady Qi is that "certain concubine"...