The noise in the front hall was deafening, but Guan Zhiyue in the Cold Palace had no idea! She didn't want to know either; she just wanted to farm in peace and quiet, and she didn't want to hear about anything else.
Guan Zhiyue had locked herself in her study all day, and finally emerged exhausted before dinner.
"I'm so damn tired, I feel like my neck and arms are going to break!"
"Bilian! Come quickly and save your mother! I'm exhausted!!"
Guan Zhiyue stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky and shouting. After hearing the call, Bilian came out from the kitchen not far away with a plate of lotus cakes.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
Guan Zhiyue looked at the lotus cake that Bilian was holding, reached out and picked up a piece and put it in her mouth. Then, without any regard for her image, she sat down on the steps connecting the covered walkway in the courtyard.
"Your Highness, it's so cold sitting like that!" Bilian quickly interjected to stop her.
Guan Zhiyue waved her hand and said, "No, that's not true. Come over and give me a massage. I feel like my whole body is about to fall apart."
Bilian quickly placed the lotus cake next to Guan Zhiyue and then walked behind Guan Zhiyue, where she did a series of actions as fierce as a tiger!
The pain was so intense that Guan Zhiyue cried out in agony!
"ah!!!"
"Bilian, you went way too far! My neck?! I feel like it's going to break!!!"
Bilian said cheerfully, "Oh, Your Highness, you don't know, this is supposed to hurt, but the comfort comes after the pain is over!"
Guan Zhiyue: I have a few words in my heart, but I don't know if I should say them!
Bilian did not receive a reply from Guan Zhiyue, so she asked, "Your Highness, I haven't seen you all day. What have you been doing in your study all day?"
Guan Zhiyue thought about how she had spent the whole day drawing blueprints in the study, and said wearily, "Have someone go to the Manufacturing Department."
"Ah! Your Highness, going to the Manufacturing Department again so late at night! Lord Yang of the Manufacturing Department has already finished his shift and gone home!" Bilian said, looking at the sky.
Guan Zhiyue yawned comfortably and said, "Oh! Is that so? Then I'll go first thing tomorrow morning."
"By the way, tomorrow you have some people clean the windows in my study and bedroom. In a couple of days, remove the windows so I can install glass windows."
When Bilian heard the word "glass," she thought of the carefree prince. Now he was involved in some kind of glass project, and their empress was finally going to install these glass windows!
"Yes, I will have someone come to clean it first thing tomorrow morning."
After Guan Zhiyue felt herself come back to life, she climbed up the steps and swaggered into the house.
Seeing that the weather was getting warmer and the water in the terraced fields was all ready, she was now going to prepare for transplanting rice seedlings in the pear orchard! Her own seedlings had already been cultivated in her space, and now she was just waiting to prepare the terraced fields and then transplant the seedlings.
Just thinking about transplanting rice seedlings and the golden ears of wheat, heavy with grain, makes her lips curl into a smile. Grain, it's all so heavy with grain!
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Ever since the Emperor saw the waterwheel designed by the Empress, he's been walking with a swagger, he's so happy!
"Hahaha~~ I want to put my hands on my hips and laugh out loud three times. I've been thinking about this for a long time! Today I finally did it, it's so damn satisfying!" After returning to his Chengqian Palace from the Imperial Study, Li Qiji, dressed in a bright yellow undergarment, stood in front of the dragon bed and roared to the sky.
Hua Quan, Ji Wu, and the group of people secretly led by Ji Shang were all startled when the Emperor laughed. They quickly grabbed onto the roof beams beside them, as falling off would be fatal if they weren't careful.
"Oh dear, Your Majesty! Don't scare people like this so late at night!" Hua Quan quickly stepped forward and pulled Li Qiji, who was laughing with his hands on his hips, away.
Li Qiji looked at Hua Quan, who was pulling at him, and shook off his hand, saying, "What are you doing? Don't lay a hand on me."
Hua Quan: I'll mess with your ancestors, just so you won't go crazy in the middle of the night!
"Your Majesty, why are you so excited and unable to sleep so late at night? Is it because you have some pent-up energy that you can't release?"
"Should I go and summon Consort Chen to come and serve me in bed?"
Upon hearing this, Li Qiji's smile vanished instantly, replaced by a cold expression.
Hua Quan thought to himself, "Oh dear, they don't want Consort Shen to serve them in bed. Shall we find someone else?"
"How about... Consort Changde?"
It's still chilly; perhaps we should try another one?
"What about Consort Zhuang?"
Still unmoved! Hua Quan was heartbroken! Why wasn't his emperor interested in having an heir?
"Then how about Consort He?"
Upon hearing Hua Quan's words, Li Qiji felt like a million grass mud horses were screaming wildly in his heart: No! Why isn't it the Empress? Why can't you, you damned eunuch, understand my heart?
Hua Quan looked at the emperor's cold face and thought, "Fine, he won't say anything more. Saving my life is the most important thing."
"Since Your Majesty does not wish to retire for the night, let us retire for the night! Didn't Her Majesty the Empress say that there is a surprise waiting for Your Majesty tomorrow?"
Li Qiji finally heard the word "Empress" from Hua Quan's mouth, but the follow-up he was hoping for didn't come. Instead, he was told to rest early and wait for the Empress's surprise tomorrow, not to go to the Empress to serve him in bed.
This is not the result he wanted!
Why?
Why is being an emperor so frustrating and difficult?
Why is the Empress different from the other women? Why doesn't she compete for the Emperor's favor?
Li Qiji lay on the bed, puffed out like an angry pufferfish, thinking about that wretched woman in the cold palace. Why wouldn't she come and show herself to him?!
Hmph ╭(╯^╰)╮, just thinking about it makes me angry~~~
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The next day.
As soon as Guan Zhiyue came out of the house, Bilian rushed over and said breathlessly, "Your Majesty, the concubines from the harem are at the gate of the Cold Palace again."
Guan Zhiyue raised her right hand to cover her yawning mouth, then stretched, raised her arms, and kicked her legs, saying slowly, "What are you doing in the Cold Palace so early in the morning?"
"This servant does not know!"
"Coming to freeload breakfast in my cold palace?" Guan Zhiyue straightened her clothes and said.
Bilian shook her head, and just as she was about to say something, the voice of the gatekeeper eunuch came from the main gate.
"Greetings to Your Majesties! May Your Majesties be blessed!"
Guan Zhiyue saw a large group of women, led by Shen Na, all dressed in flamboyant clothes. Their bare chests and voluptuous figures, with their waists swaying from side to side as they walked, came into Guan Zhiyue's view.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects! May Your Majesty enjoy boundless blessings and peace!"
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects! May Your Majesty enjoy boundless blessings and peace!"
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects! May Your Majesty enjoy boundless blessings and peace!"
Then came the sound of something that could blow the roof off the Cold Palace, which rang out in front of Guan Zhiyue. Then she saw those women squatting down, their hands alternately folded on their left sides.
Guan Zhiyue stood looking down at them from the bottom of the corridor, staring at them blankly without telling them to get up.
"What do you mean by this, ladies? Didn't I say I was exempt from the morning and evening greetings? It's early in the morning, so why not sleep in a little longer in the courtyard and get some rest so you can have more children for our Emperor!"
Shen Na and the others were so angry they wanted to kill Guan Zhiyue. You said you were exempt from the morning and evening greetings, so why didn't you let us skip the formalities when we paid our respects?
Guan Zhiyue just looked at them, then they looked at each other without saying a word. He Jiao's legs were numb, and she called out sweetly, "Sister Yue."
Guan Zhiyue then looked at the group of people and said with an embarrassed smile, "Oh dear, I forgot, ladies, please rise and get ready!"
Everyone: I don't believe you for a second! You wicked woman!
After Shen Na and the others got up, they looked at Guan Zhiyue's clothes. They were dressed simply and plainly. It turned out that Guan Zhiyue was going to work in the fields today, so she wore a coarse linen outfit, which was short and easy to wear later.
Then all the concubines looked at their Empress, and then at their own clothes, each of them secretly laughing at each other.
These women kept asking Guan Zhiyue a bunch of stupid questions, making Guan Zhiyue want to shut the door and unleash the dogs.
Oh! There are no dogs.
This made her really want to shut the door and let Bi Lian go!
Bilian: Why did you let me go? I don't bite!
The group kept Guan Zhiyue in the Cold Palace chatting all morning. They finally left when it was time for lunch. After Guan Zhiyue finally got rid of them, she looked up at the sky and couldn't help but sigh.
"This man is slowing me down!"
"This woman is slowing me down while I'm farming!"
Guan Zhiyue looked up at the sky speechlessly! She was going to turn the world upside down today! How did these damned women waste her whole morning?
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