Chapter 65 Forget
Qi Yixiu raised her chin: "Okay, I'll wait for your hospitality. If the hospitality is not good..."
"If one meal is not good, then two meals will do." Shen Chuliu interrupted and shyly poked Qi Yixiu's hand: "Don't scare me."
Qi Yixiu let go and picked up the tea again.
The two of them drank tea quietly for a while, and then Shen Chuliu asked someone to clean up and started preparing to grind ink.
Qi Yixiu looked at the pile of memorials and sighed imperceptibly.
Shen Chuliu stayed in the imperial study for the whole afternoon. Before leaving, he received a small hand warmer as a reward from Qi Yixiu and went back.
It was a small cloisonné hand warmer with delicate carved patterns.
Shen Chuliu really likes it. She likes anything with beautiful workmanship.
Mainly because of this small hand warmer, the emperor also rewarded a small frame of gold-wire charcoal.
Gold wire carbon is also in large strips, but anything like this is bound to get bumped during transportation.
So there will be a lot of small pieces, which are just right for putting in hand warmers.
It's already mid-February, so there's enough for this year. It's impossible for it to run out.
After taking it back, Zizhu kept it carefully.
"No need to do that. Just leave it there, clean it up, and use it again tomorrow."
That night, the emperor naturally went to Changle Palace.
Yao Baolin came over early the next morning.
"Have you heard that Zhang Gengyi is dying?" Yao Baolin knelt down and bowed behind him, "They said he died before daybreak, and the imperial physician was called. Now I'm afraid he is dying."
"Hey." Shen Chuliu nodded: "Forget it, it's not convenient for me to go. Sister, go."
Yao Baolin was stunned: "You..."
She wanted to say that you should go and have a look, right? "Just go, sister. I know she was wronged in that incident, but I can't go. Don't worry, sister. Even if I don't go, it will be the same if I ask Yuanxiao to burn incense at that time." Shen Chuliu said.
Yao Baolin nodded and went out.
"Master, if you don't go, will there be any explanation when the time comes?" Zi Rui asked.
"How can a person live so rationally?" Shen Chuliu sat down: "She poisoned me, and I still went to see her? Why am I so temperless?"
Although everyone knows that Zhang Gengyi was wronged in this matter, so what?
Since she has such a reputation, Shen Chuliu will not act generously.
Being a kind and good person is certainly a good thing, but repaying evil with kindness is the character of a saint.
She didn't.
It also lets the people in the palace know that Shen Chuliu is such a vengeful person.
It would also help the emperor understand early on that she was not the kind of person who would turn the right cheek when someone slaps her left cheek.
I will not pretend to be virtuous and tolerant of everything.
Isn't this the case with everything in the world? When you act like you can forgive everything, you often end up getting more hurt.
Over time, others will only think that you can tolerate anything.
But if you show that you are unwilling to give in on one thing, even if people say you are heartless and have a bad temper at that time, there will be another time. Others will also consider how you say it here.
This is why some people are cold-hearted, have few friends, but live a comfortable life.
Because no one dares to provoke her easily when it comes to trivial matters.
In the harem, women gradually test each other.
For example, Concubine Jin was fortunately out of favor, otherwise, with her weak personality, she would have been eaten by someone long ago.
Shen Chuliu would never allow herself to be bullied. She would rather be called cruel.
She was just a concubine, why did she need such a good reputation? If she could really rise to a high position in the future, whether she was ruthless or not, wouldn't it be in the past? A small change of clothes was still considered a crime.
Since she is no longer capable, naturally not many people will come.
At least none of the concubines and the nine concubines came.
That is, Concubine Ning took the lead, and the people below came.
Everyone was sitting outside. Concubine Ning took a sip of tea and put it down with disdain: "Where is Lady Jing?"
"Sister Jieyu, Concubine Jing is not feeling well, so she won't come." Yao Baolin said.
"Hmph, feeling unwell? What a coincidence." Concubine Ning sneered.
Yao Baolin smiled apologetically, didn't dare to say anything, and sat down again.
"Tsk, Lady Jing has a bad temper, that's not surprising." Lady Li smiled and said, "Ah, it's also pitiful."
It was unclear whether this was directed at Zhang Gengyi or Shen Chuliu.
But after all, they were just waiting for someone to die, so they couldn't say anything.
In the inner room, Zhang Gengyi grabbed his girl's hand and said, "I'm not... not..."
The girl just said yes, but she didn't have any feelings after all.
The maid Zhang Gengyi brought from home had been sent away long ago, and the current one was never dedicated. Otherwise, Zhang Gengyi would not have failed so soon.
Zhang Gengyi was still muttering to himself before his death. After all, he had been wronged once, so how could he die peacefully like that?
But in the end, he couldn't withstand the torture and died.
The emperor's decree only said that she should be buried according to the rank of a concubine. She was buried according to the rank of a concubine, but she was not actually made a concubine.
Zhang Gengyi's tragic funeral was arranged in just half a day.
Of course, when a concubine passed away, she could not be left in the palace, let alone changed her clothes. Even when Cao died, she was hurriedly taken out.
So Zhang Gengyi was also sent away very quickly.
With her status and the crime she was charged with, she naturally couldn't enter the concubine's mausoleum.
The Queen is in confinement after childbirth, so there is no need for anyone to pay their respects.
Shen Chuliu hasn't gotten up early these days.
So when Qi Yixiu was almost done with his work and suddenly came to Cuiyunxuan, someone had just gotten up and combed his hair and had not yet eaten.
She was also confused, mainly because she was used to the fact that the emperor would not come here.
Both she and her servants ignored this.
She is a beauty now, and the emperor can come whenever he wants.
So she could only greet him helplessly.
The emperor looked at her with a half-smile: "If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have known that my beloved concubine loves to be lazy."
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. The Empress has been in confinement recently and did not greet you in the morning. I indulged myself a little and treated it as a secret holiday. I will not dare to do it again in the future." Shen Chuliu said pitifully: "I was also unable to change my mind at first. I was promoted to the rank during the Chinese New Year, and for a while I kept forgetting that I am a beauty."
Qi Yixiu smiled and said, "My beloved concubine, are you complaining about me?"
"No, Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand me like this. Zizhu, go and bring some tea." Shen Chuliu smiled calmly, "Your Majesty, just sit down for a while. I'll go change my clothes and I'll be ready soon."
Qi Yixiu still had a half-smile on his face and said nothing.
Shen Chuliu saw that he didn't seem angry, so she went in to change clothes.
She changed into a duck egg blue skirt and wore a few silver cat's eye jewelry on her head.
"Your Majesty, since you are here today, I will instruct the imperial kitchen to entertain you well."
Qi Yixiu looked at her for her unusually simple attire today and said nothing.
(End of this chapter)
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