After Zhao Chen's careful consideration, after noon the next day, a pot of half-human-high blood-fluorescent jade coral tree was placed in the most conspicuous place in Xuanzhu Hall.
Lai Xi brought a large number of eunuchs and delivered expensive cloth, on which the best embroiderers outlined patterns. The cloth sparkled in the sun, attracting many concubines to rush into the Xuanzhu Palace.
Lin Zhiya was taking a nap and had to get up to entertain them.
Ever since the last time she paid her respects, Lin Zhiya has tried her best not to let them appear in front of her in groups.
Lin Zhiya discovered that because the Chinese Valentine's Day was approaching, the concubines all wore new clothes that were brighter and more beautiful than usual, and they floated into her palace like butterflies.
Unfortunately, the new clothes they made after searching through all their closets and boxes were sold out before they could even get warm to the touch.
Ma Cainü touched the fabrics Lai Xi had laid out, then looked at the clothes she was wearing, her expression feeling lost.
Yuan Cainu also smiled reluctantly. God knows how much preparation she had made for the Qiqiao Festival. In order to make the dress more outstanding, she sent someone to ask her father to buy the materials from southern Xinjiang at a high price and sent them to her as fast as possible. It was not until today that she finally finished making it.
There are two sets in total. The one I am wearing is slightly worse, and the other one is kept at the bottom of the box and worn when I pray for good luck.
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Now that she had seen the rare fabrics in Wanpin's palace, Yuan Cainü had already anticipated that the clothes she wore would not even make a splash.
Looking at Lin Zhiya again, she was calm and composed, with dignity in her eyes and eyebrows, as if she was used to this kind of scene.
If you don’t even care about the gold mines, how can you care about these things?
Thinking of this, Ma Cainü and Yuan Cainü were convinced and no longer worried about these materials.
"Majesty +5."
Lin Zhiya looked at Ma Cainv and Yuan Cainv with approval, wondering how much majesty these two people could generate.
If you get 5 points every day, that would be 50 points in ten days.
Ma Cainu: "I am quite confident that I will be able to be skilled in martial arts tomorrow. None of my sisters in the boudoir can compare with me... But now in the palace, these sisters are also very clever and skillful. Concubine Wan should be the first. If I am lucky, I can be in the top three."
Lin Zhiya secretly glanced at Ma Cainü's hands hanging by her side. Her fingertips were slender and white, and she subconsciously thought that she must be very good at threading a needle.
Lin Zhiya asked: "How many needles and threads can you thread?"
Ma Cainu proudly said, "It only takes me a few breaths to pass through the nine-hole needle."
Yuan Cainv's pupils shrank and she silently took a few steps back. She was still hoping that the spider would respond with her cleverness, but she couldn't count on threading a needle to beg for dexterity.
Ma Cainu asked curiously, "Madam Wanpin, how about you threading a needle to pray for dexterity?"
Lin Zhiya said vaguely: "It's just average. I didn't get any good results in the Qiqiao Festival before, and my needlework performance was just average."
This was because Lin Zhiya had learned this from sewing clothes when she was young, and she had no talent for needlework.
Ma Cainü secretly took note that Concubine Wan had never been lucky in previous years, so it seemed that she didn't care about this, so she could compete for the first place without any worries.
Lin Zhiya saw her take out something carefully wrapped and handed it to her. She hesitated for a moment and opened it. It was a pair of hand guards sewn by a female horse. It was the first time that Lin Zhiya received such a gift, and she couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Facing Ma Cainv's sparkling eyes, Lin Zhiya began to greet her sensibly, "Oh, be careful not to hurt your hands. It's so well made. I can't bear to use it."
Ma Cainu managed to smile and took the opportunity to say, "My mother has always told me since I was a child that women should be careful to protect their hands. Although it is not very cold now, Concubine Wan should also pay more attention."
Lin Zhiya pretended to be surprised and raised her hand to look at it in front of her eyes. Her skin was crystal clear. "No wonder my hands have been cracked recently. It turns out that I lacked Ma Cainu's hand protector."
Ma Cainü puffed out her chest with pride.
Unknowingly, Yuan Cainü became a marginal figure in the conversation. She witnessed the entire process of Concubine Wan being bribed by Ma Cainü with a strange expression.
Yuan Cainv was suspicious. Yuan Cainv came with her. They both entered the palace together and were considered a force in the palace, but she had never heard Ma Cainv say that she sewed a hand guard for Wanpin.
As expected, there is no complete friendship in the palace, Yuan Cainü's eyes dimmed.
What made her even more tormented was that she had nothing in her hands, which made her look extremely awkward at the moment.
Lin Zhiya had the materials put away. Because she was worried that they might get moldy and damaged, she picked out some that were difficult to store and randomly distributed them to the concubines who came.
After getting the material, everyone couldn't wait to go back and cut it. Without Lin Zhiya rushing them away, they gradually dispersed.
At the entrance of Xuanzhu Palace, the people who had delivered the hand guard to Ma Cainü were seen talking.
"Ma Cainv is too flattering. Wanpin is in power, but she is not the queen. What's the point of sewing a hand guard for her?"
"Who made it so that there is no one in the harem who can compete with Wanpin? Wanpin's attitude is no different from that of the queen."
"The material given by Concubine Wan is really good. I want to make a lotus leaf skirt when I go back... Ma Cainu is not favored and has no one to rely on in the harem, so it is understandable that she wants to please Concubine Wan."
"If you ask me, Ma Cainu is really embarrassing."
Ma Cainü finally came out of Xuanzhu Palace. When she heard these words, her eyes turned red with anger and she left quickly.
These villains never dared to say a bad word about Concubine Wan in front of her.
Lin Zhiya was observing the jade coral tree carefully. She wiped and touched it with a handkerchief in one hand, half squatted down, and carefully protected this precious tree.
It’s valuable. It’s really valuable.
Lin Zhiya carefully walked around the tree, thinking that Zhao Chen was so generous this time, could he have fallen asleep?
She actually has a smaller pot, which she places in the corner as a bonsai. It is incomparable to this half-person-high pot.
Being an emperor does give you a lot of treasures, Lin Zhiya thought enviously.
In the evening, Zhao Chen arrived just in time for dinner. His imposing demeanor quickly faded after he stepped through the threshold. He even clenched his fists and coughed weakly a few times.
Lin Zhiya widened her eyes and backed away, "What's wrong with the emperor?"
Don't let yourself get infected with some disease.
Zhao Chen frowned, his voice a little hoarse, and he said without much strength: "I caught a cold when I went to court this morning. The imperial physician said that my health is getting worse day by day."
[…What? I almost thought it was an old man who came in.]
Lin Zhiya suspected that she had heard wrongly. Zhao Chen was obviously still young, and he was smashing the imperial study one set after another. How could he suddenly act like he was about to die?
Lin Zhiya consoled him, "What kind of imperial physician is that? It would be better to just drag him out and execute him."
Zhao Chen hesitated. It seemed that Lin Zhiya didn't understand what he meant. He said more bluntly: "The imperial physician said that I need to strengthen my body. After thinking about it, I decided to learn martial arts."
Zhao Chen turned his head and looked into Lin Zhiya's eyes. Lin Zhiya looked puzzled and distrustful, which made Zhao Chen's eyes twitch and he made faces to hint at her.
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