Each sign carries a hint of hope, hoping to be chosen to sleep with the emperor tonight.
After a long while, I finally heard the emperor say majestically: "Go to Guanju Palace."
The people in the Imperial Household Department immediately took note and cautiously asked, "Is the Emperor going to the main hall or the side hall?"
Xuan Ling looked stern as he picked up the sachet and letter and walked out of the Yangxin Palace.
After a while, the imperial carriage stopped outside the gate of Guanju Palace.
He slowly got down from the imperial carriage, hesitated for a moment, and went to the side hall.
When Dun Shuyuan heard the news of the emperor's arrival, she hurriedly adjusted her hair and skirt, then hurried forward to greet him, bowing in a delicate voice: "Your Majesty, your concubine respectfully welcomes you."
Xuan Ling walked up and took a seat, and Dun Shuyuan hurriedly ordered the servants to serve tea and water.
"Your Majesty, have you had dinner yet?"
“I have.”
Dun Shuyuan touched her face shyly and twisted her waist to come to his side, "Your Majesty, you must be tired, right? I will massage your shoulders to loosen them up."
Xuan Ling originally wanted to take the sachet to question Sheng Xiyan about why she came to Guanju Palace, but he didn't want to expose her and destroy the atmosphere that the two of them had worked so hard to create.
Dun Shuyuan thought to herself that her clever plan had successfully alienated the relationship between the emperor and Sheng Xiyan. She must sleep with him smoothly tonight, especially since she calculated that these few days were the best time for conception.
She winked at the palace maid, and soon a plate with a sachet on it was brought over.
She picked it up, knelt down in front of Xuan Ling very obediently, raised her head and said coquettishly:
"Your Majesty, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. This is the sachet I made for you. I am narrow-minded and can only care about Your Majesty, so I only make sachets for Your Majesty. Unlike Sister Sheng, she is kind and lovable. She prepared a large basket of spices and made a sachet for each of the servants in the main hall."
She placed the exquisite sachet in Xuan Ling's hand, but Xuan Ling didn't take it. He stood up and said, "I'm tired. Let's rest."
Dun Shuyuan hurriedly followed him to the inner hall and carefully helped him change his clothes.
When he took off his dragon robe and was about to hang it on the hanger, he touched the sachet in his sleeve. He turned around secretly to take a look and found that it was indeed the azure sachet that Sheng Xiyan had embroidered for Emperor Xuanwu. He was secretly delighted. She was so smart. She only needed to add fuel to the fire and the emperor would never pay any attention to that little bitch in the main hall again.
She knelt on the ground and took off her boots, then said in a gentle voice, "Your Majesty, I am going to take a bath. Please wait a moment."
Xuan Ling picked up a book on the table and started reading. This was the book that Dun Shuyuan used to pretend to be knowledgeable, but she never read it on a normal day.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Dun Shuyuan was wearing a pink hibiscus tight skirt, with her long hair draped behind her. She looked radiant after bathing, with delicate makeup, and the low-necked dress made her chest look snow-white.
Xuan Ling went up from the end of the bed and saw that the emperor was reading attentively.
Xuan Ling recalled that day at Sheng Xiyan's place, where the "Historical Records" was placed on the soft couch. He glanced at the page she was reading and saw that it read "When the family is poor, one longs for a good wife; when the country is in chaos, one longs for a good prime minister."
I casually asked her, "What is Yanyan's opinion on this?"
Sheng Xiyan said, "I believe that the key to judging a person's moral integrity lies in how he behaves in the face of poverty and wealth, lowliness and prosperity. Only those who are consistent in their words and deeds, and who are true to themselves, can shoulder the important task of rescuing those in need and restoring order."
He was a little surprised at the time. It was rare for a woman to have such insights.
At this moment, I thought of this and asked, "My beloved Concubine Dun, what are your thoughts on 'pulling your hair three times after bathing, spitting out food three times after eating'?"
Dun Shuyuan touched her hair in astonishment, "Your Majesty, I am stupid and I am afraid I can't speak well."
"It's okay, just say whatever you want, I'll just listen, and I'll forgive you."
Dun Shuyuan didn't understand what Xuan Ling meant. She pondered over what he had just asked. "Mu" refers to bathing? "Fa" refers to hair? "Rice"? "Vomiting"?
He knelt beside her and stammered, "Your Majesty, does this mean that when bathing, you should remove all the hair that has fallen from your body to keep it clean, and when eating, you should spit out the food that you don't like to eat to avoid indigestion?"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Ling threw the book onto the table and said coldly, "How dare you interpret such a profound allusion in this way? If you don't understand the scholarship, don't pretend to be so. You are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor."
He lay down, and Dun Shuyuan's face flushed with anxiety. She begged in a coquettish tone, "Your Majesty, I have been studying 'Female Rules,' 'The Four Books and the Five Classics,' and 'Female Virtues' since elementary school. I have only just started reading this book. I absolutely did not deceive Your Majesty."
She burst into tears, but she would never miss such a good opportunity today.
Pulling her long hair aside, a sweet floral fragrance emanated.
"Your Majesty, let me give you a massage first."
She massaged Xuan Ling's legs. After a while, he asked, "What kind of incense are you using?"
Dun Shuyuan came closer and said coquettishly, "Your Majesty, this is a special incense made by this concubine. It contains jasmine, magnolia, lavender, rose..."
Xuan Ling closed his eyes and said teasingly, "No wonder this fragrance smells so dull."
Dun Shuyuan had a plan in mind, and said with a hint of grievance, "I was inspired by seeing Sister Sheng picking tuberoses the day before yesterday, so I learned to make incense. Sister Sheng is a very kind person and even taught me."
Xuan Ling said: "She is enthusiastic."
"Your Majesty, do you know? Sister Sheng was holding a tuberose, her eyes tearing up. She said it was a flower she had planted with someone very important in the past... Your Majesty, who do you think Sister Sheng missed?"
Xuan Ling opened his dark eyes and glared at her coldly, making Dun Shuyuan tremble. Suddenly, she heard his majestic command: "Get out."
Dun Shuyuan rolled off the bed, knelt on the ground, and pretended to be ignorant and said, "Your Majesty, please don't be angry because I speak without restraint."
"I hate people who gossip behind people's backs. Go to the flower hall and kneel down."
"emperor...."
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