Chapter 117: She is a foxy woman, pestering the emperor day and night
Shen Yuanwei looked at the thick stack of banknotes reluctantly, and asked the beauty in front of her with a smile, "She is Xinpin, and you are?"
The concubine saluted to Shen Yuanwei in a coquettish manner.
"I am Concubine Lan. I entered the palace at the age of eighteen. I am now twenty-eight years old, eleven years younger than Concubine Xin next to me."
At this point, Concubine Lan turned her head and looked at Concubine Xin with a smile, but she was actually scheming.
"Sister Xinpin, if you were born a year earlier, you would be forty years old now, which would be exactly one generation older than me, sister. Don't you think so? You see, you are older than the emperor, and the emperor may not be willing to favor you. You asked Concubine Zhao to help you persuade the emperor to favor you. Wouldn't that make it difficult for Concubine Zhao?"
Without waiting for Xinpin to speak, Lanpin smiled and leaned towards Shen Yuanwei, saying warmly, "Empress Zhao, even if you want to mediate for someone, you have to pick someone who is young, beautiful, and fertile. If you pick an old one to present to the emperor, won't that just invite the emperor to scold you?"
Xinpin was so angry that her face turned pale.
She was about to point at Lanpin and scold her, but Lanpin raised her slender jade finger and pointed at Xinpin's face, chuckling, "Oh, sister Xinpin, look, you are so angry that wrinkles appear at the corners of your eyes. Please control your expression. If the emperor sees this, he will be disgusted, right?"
Concubine Xin gritted her teeth and stared at Concubine Lan, her eyes turned red with anger.
Perhaps her family background was not as good as Lanpin's, so she didn't dare to say a word back after being rebuked several times. Now she was humiliated like this again. She was so angry that she cried, but she still didn't dare to rush up and tear Lanpin apart.
She pinched her palms tightly and forced herself to swallow the bitter water. She didn't look at Concubine Lan, and bowed to Shen Yuanwei with tears in her eyes, "Madam Zhao Fei, you have a mad dog that bites people here. I am rude and will take my leave first."
Lanpin watched her leave with a smile, not caring about being called a mad dog.
Shen Yuanwei had never expected that she could just walk around and watch a quarrel between concubines.
She felt a little pity for Xinpin who left in tears.
Some are also afraid of Lanbin, this mad dog that bites people.
Tsk.
So she didn't want to stay in the palace.
She easily sympathized with the weak, and she disliked people who bullied others by taking advantage of their power. However, in this deep and forbidden palace, the weak concubines might not be worthy of help...
And if she acted impulsively and offended this concubine who bullied others, she might bear a grudge and plot to harm her in the future...
Shen Yuanwei put away her sympathy.
She told herself that she was just a passer-by in this palace. There was no need to sympathize with anyone, let alone hate anyone. Everyone has their own destiny, so don't worry too much.
When Concubine Lan saw Concubine Xin walking away, she immediately pulled Shen Yuanwei's sleeve and begged softly.
"Empress Zhao, please help me, please..."
Shen Yuanwei smiled.
"Even the Empress can't control who the Emperor wants to favor, so how can I influence his mind? But I will mention it to the Emperor tonight. The sisters in the harem miss him very much. As for who he wants to favor, that depends on the Emperor's own preferences."
Lanpin frowned.
There are so many sisters in the harem, the emperor may not choose her...
She stuffed the banknote into Shen Yuanwei's sleeve and begged, "Empress Zhao, can you please mention my name in front of the emperor? There are so many beautiful women in the harem, and we have so few opportunities to stand out. Empress Zhao, please have pity on me..."
Shen Yuanwei took out the banknotes from her sleeve with great pain and returned them to Concubine Lan with a smile.
"Sister, I love money, but I cannot accept this money from you. If I accept money from someone, I will help that person to invite the emperor to her place. Then the emperor will become a prostitute, and you will become prostitutes, and I will become a pimp. The emperor will be angry, and then none of us will be in good shape."
“…”
Lanpin looked at Shen Yuanwei in shock.
She thought she was quite outspoken, but Concubine Zhao was even more outspoken than her.
but……
Zhao Fei had said so, so it would be inappropriate for her to give him more money. Once the emperor heard about it, she would really become a prostitute who wanted to spend money to have sex with the emperor...
It's going to be bad luck.
Lanpin had no choice but to take the banknote back and looked at Shen Yuanwei with resentment, "Empress Zhao, do you also speak like this in front of the emperor?"
Shen Yuanwei smiled, "Yes, that's why the emperor wants to kill me every day. He spared my life for the sake of my belly. Maybe after I give birth to the baby, you won't see me anymore."
Lanpin was shocked again, "You..."
Shen Yuanwei patted the back of her hand and said, "I don't have many opportunities to show up in front of you. We should cherish every moment we have."
After saying that, she walked into the Weiyang Palace.
Lanpin was left standing there in a daze, scratching her head.
The Emperor likes... this kind of woman?
…
Shen Yuanwei arrived at the door of the bedroom. Just as the palace maid was about to go in to pass on a message, Shen Yuanwei heard several concubines inside angrily speaking up for the queen.
"Empress, I think Concubine Zhao really doesn't take you seriously at all. She has been in the palace for so many days, but she has not come to greet you many times. She just relies on the emperor's favor to look down on everyone!"
"That's right. I don't know why the emperor is so obsessed with her. I heard that yesterday, because her pregnancy was stable, the emperor doubled the monthly salary of all the servants in the palace. Those servants were so happy that it was like New Year's Day. They all shouted, "Long live the Concubine Zhao, long live the little prince..."
"Humph, whether it's a little prince or a little princess, we won't know until the baby is born. Don't shout about the little prince now, or you'll be happy for nothing."
"Empress, I really feel sorry for you. You are obviously pregnant, but the Emperor doesn't even bother to look at you. He only cares about praising the mother and child. If you don't know better, you would think she is the Empress!"
Shen Yuanwei found it interesting.
These concubines are sitting here saying bad things about her, they don't know at all that the Queen is in cahoots with her, and the Queen is counting on her to give birth to a little prince...
Sure enough, the next moment Queen Wei spoke slowly.
"You are not complaining for me, you are complaining for yourself. You feel that you have been in the palace for more than ten years and have never been pregnant, but she got pregnant as soon as she came. You are so upset that you come to complain to me."
"But this is not your fault. I understand that you are suffering."
"I still say the same thing. If you want a child, find a way to get the emperor to favor you. As long as you are pregnant, I will allow you not to come to pay respects and lie down comfortably to rest your pregnancy."
The concubines were silent for a moment.
The next moment, they spoke again with resentment.
"Empress, it's not that we haven't thought of a way, it's just that Concubine Zhao is too seductive! She has been dominating the emperor since she entered the palace, living in the emperor's room and pestering him day and night. How can the emperor be willing to see us?"
"We have been there to deliver ginseng soup and desserts countless times, but each time we were stopped by Eunuch Chen before we even stepped into the bedroom door..."
"Empress, can you please take care of that Concubine Zhao? The emperor belongs to everyone, she can't monopolize him alone..."
When Shen Yuanwei heard this, she walked in with a smile.
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