Chapter 43 My beloved concubine has worked hard
Li Xiaoyi stood up and walked over to kneel down: "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, your concubine Li Xiaoyi bows to you."
"Well, he is indeed a good-looking child. Look at him, sister." Empress Dowager Li called Empress Dowager Feng.
"Oh, no wonder the emperor loves her so much, she is really pretty. I like her too." Empress Dowager Feng said with a smile, "Go and take my jade pendant to Li Xiaoyi's palace."
Li Xiaoyi thanked Empress Dowager Feng and her face showed joy, but not too joyful.
"They are all good children. You should serve the emperor well in the future and have children for the royal family." Empress Dowager Li rewarded everyone again and then went back to the palace.
After everyone dispersed and returned to Cuiyunxuan, Yao Baolin asked, "Why didn't I understand what happened today?"
"Sister, you don't know that the youngest son of the eldest wife of the Duke of Qi married a concubine's daughter of the Feng family." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
"So that's how it is." Yao Baolin shook his head: "This is going to make Li Xiaoyi's life difficult."
"That's not the case. It depends on what she does. Feng's hands are too long." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
Yao Baolin shook his head: "It's a bit too long."
They knew it all. Although Empress Dowager Feng was the legitimate empress, Empress Dowager Li was only a concubine.
But the current one comes from Empress Dowager Li.
The Li family was only a marquisate, and there were no outstanding people. There was no daughter of the Li family in the harem.
The Feng family was already a duke, with the legitimate concubine Feng Shufei and the sideline daughter Feng Yunu. Now they were even married to the Duke of Qi's mansion.
"The Duke of Qi's Mansion is not picky. They married a concubine's daughter. But that young master is a legitimate son, the youngest legitimate son." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
"Li Xiaoyi has raised the hearts of the Duke of Qi's Mansion." Yao Baolin said.
Isn't this just trying to take advantage of the east wind to get ahead?
What's the point of having a title? Without a job or an official position, you'll just be living off your savings. What can you do with just that little salary a year?
In Qingyin Pavilion, Li Xiaoyi dropped the beads as soon as she came in.
The servants were so frightened that they hurried to pack up.
She snorted coldly and said nothing, just changed her clothes and removed her makeup.
Everyone watched the emperor flip the card to see who would win next time. When the first day of the new year came, the emperor stayed overnight in Fengzao Palace.
On the sixth day of the New Year, Shen Cairen's name was called and she was asked to serve the pens and ink in the morning.
It's already September and it's getting chilly.
Shen Chuliu had her hair combed into a bun, but without any hair on her forehead, revealing her beautiful white forehead.
It's just that she has been craving spicy food lately and has a pimple on her forehead.
"Why don't you change your hairstyle?" Zizhu reminded.
"No need." Shen Chuliu smiled: "Perfect people don't last long."
Shen Chuliu smiled as she watched Zizhu comb her hair, and used a chain of gold wire and tourmaline beads to tie her hair into the shape of a gold ingot.
She wore a red gold flower inlaid with pink tourmaline in the front, and a delicate gold leaf-shaped gold jewelry at each end.
The earrings were also decorated with red gold tourmaline, and on the wrists she wore a red gold and red agate bracelet given by the emperor. She changed into a warm pink skirt, and over it was a snow-white cape with beautiful embroidered patterns.
When we arrived at Taiji Palace, we felt a warm atmosphere.
After she went in to pay her respects and approached the emperor, the emperor pulled her to his side.
"My beloved concubine has wintered early?"
"I am afraid of the cold. It is better to wear more clothes in this weather, otherwise the emperor will see that I am wearing too little and feel cold when he is not cold. It will be a big problem if he can't hold the pen steadily." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
"You're very clever with your words." Qi Yixiu smiled and said, "You're well dressed, but what's wrong? Are you irritated?"
He looked at the playful little red envelope on the concubine's forehead and asked.
She has fair skin, so a single pimple can be very noticeable and fatal.
It's rare for her to be so open and not hide anything.
"It's always drier in autumn, so Your Majesty should drink more water." Shen Chuliu said.
"Well, I'll reward you with some good ointment and some good chrysanthemum tea later, so that you won't say that I've treated you harshly." Qi Yixiu pulled her to sit in his arms.
After carefully examining the little concubine for a long while, he said, "As usual, grind the ink. You'll be tired today."
"I will take a rest secretly." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
Qi Yixiu also smiled and said nothing.
Other concubines would never answer like this, they would only say that they are not afraid of being tired, or that they will not be tired.
Only this one would say that he would take a secret break.
While sorting out the memorials, Qi Yixiu thought that the little concubine really knew how to dress up.
There are always moments of brilliance.
The weather is cold, and she looks cute and warm in this outfit. Her baby fat, which has not faded, combined with the modified bun, makes her look blessed and beautiful.
She is worthy of the gold jewelry. Most of the time, like during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she is a beauty of wealth and splendor.
When she was young, like today, she was just the right kind of pretty.
Different people are suitable for different things. With Shen Cairen's temperament, she looks rich and elegant when she wears gold jewelry all over her head. When she wants to be simple and elegant, she can also look good with silver. But white jade and other things look good on her, but they are a little bland.
She is also very smart and never makes mistakes.
Qi Yixiu thought again that there were people in the harem who were suitable for Bai Yu, such as Concubine Yi and Concubine Ning.
Especially Ning Jieyu, she has a cold temperament and aloof personality, which is the best match for Baiyu. But such a person will get bored after a long time.
After thinking about it for a while, he felt that Shen Chuliu today made him very satisfied. However, he was busy and Qi Yixiu could not take care of Shen Chuliu.
Shen Chuliu was indeed not joking. He would never tire himself out when it was time to rest.
During the trip, I drank tea twice and changed my clothes once. Changing clothes is like that...
However, her movements were light and relaxed, which did not annoy the emperor.
I admire Chusi so much. I have never seen any concubine who accompanied the emperor so comfortably.
Concubine Yi had come to accompany the emperor before, and he didn't see anything wrong with her, but it was only three or two times like that, and the emperor refused to call her anymore.
Concubine Zhao came once or twice when she was in favor, but she was too dull.
Even though Li Xiaoyi is so favored now, the emperor has never summoned her.
It is rare to see someone like Shen Cairen. She hasn't served the emperor in the emperor's bed for a long time, but when she comes, she is not worried about gains and losses and is still graceful and elegant.
Tsk, this girl from Marquis Jing’an’s mansion is truly amazing.
No wonder the eldest daughter of Jing'an Marquis's mansion is in charge of everything in her husband's house and is more capable of making decisions than her mother-in-law.
Shen Chuliu served for half the morning and had lunch at Taiji Palace at noon.
After a short rest, I continued to be busy in the afternoon.
She also took a quick look at the memorials Qi Yixiu approved. Half of them were about insect plagues in the south of the Yangtze River, and the other half were reports on autumn harvests in various places.
But it seems that the insect plague is under control.
Serving here has its benefits. For example, the story of Li Xiaoyi's uncle's child marrying Feng's concubine was seen in the memorials.
Otherwise she wouldn't have known it so quickly.
At dusk, Qi Yixiu finished reviewing all the memorials and sent them out: "My beloved concubine, you have worked hard."
(End of this chapter)
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