Chapter 282 The Imperial Concubine

is Too Much Cats are raised by people with a purpose, and cats can hide many things, such as bugs and powder.

Butterflies... Butterflies also have powder on their bodies!

The black cat landed outside the tray put down by the eunuch, and the dust flew into the wine pot. Ye Changzai was startled by the black cat that jumped down, and the powder fell into the cup. She drank the wine to suppress her shock.

All of this was not enough to make the emperor and Ye Changzai's medicine take effect, because the imperial physician verified that there was no poison in the wine.

The butterfly is not poisonous, and the wine is not poisonous, but so many coincidences put together are strange in themselves.

The timing of the black cat's appearance was also very coincidental.

The one who was frightened by the black cat was Ye Changzai, who had an attack with the emperor.

Wait!

There is also the handkerchief that Concubine Zhang lent to Ye Changzai to wipe her mouth.

Ye Changzai said the scent was very unique and she liked it very much, but Concubine Zhang said it was just an ordinary handkerchief wrapped in candied fruit, not a floral scent.

Could it be Concubine Zhang?

Jiang Xinyue had been in the palace for a short time and was not particularly familiar with many of the less outstanding concubines in the palace.

She nodded: "Go and invite Concubine Jiang to come, and tell her that I have made some rare delicacies here, and invite her to have lunch with me."

Jiang Xinyan's marriage crisis has been resolved. Pei Zhishuo was bitten by the poisonous scorpion released by Jiang Xinyue. Although it was not fatal, he would not be able to be humane in the future.

Scorpions themselves are not poisonous, but Jiang Xinyue applied the impotence medicine prescribed by Doctor Yan on the tail of the scorpion that stung people.

Instead of marrying a scoundrel, Jiang Xinyan returned to the Jiang family's residence and stayed with her two cousins, so that others would not speculate that she was a gift left by her sister for the emperor.

"You said that the Imperial Concubine invited Concubine Jiang to have dinner with her?"

The emperor stopped writing, looked at the sick Wang Dequan, and asked tentatively, "No one came to invite me?"

Wang Dequan rubbed his sore lower back, and said in the emperor's expectant eyes, "Yes, there are people. Concubine Liu and Concubine Cheng from the Jueyue Pavilion, and Zhang Ronghua from the Qingliang Pavilion have all come to the garden. Does the emperor want to go?"

Sick!

The emperor glared at him, and went back to review the memorials with a gloomy face.

Last time, Wang Dequan was implicated in the Chinese medicine. After the imperial physician used medicine to relieve him, he had to lie in bed for three days before he could get out of bed, and his lower back was still hurting.

After getting up, he felt that his body was not as good as before. Fortunately, the emperor remembered their old friendship and did not blame him for being clumsy. He now cursed the person who drugged him thousands of times in his heart every day.

After listening to Jiang Xinyue's description, Concubine Jiang answered for her: "Concubine Zhang was selected to enter the palace five years ago. She seems to be from Jingzhou. The local government recommended her to enter the palace because of her beauty. I heard that she is an orphan. Because of her humble background, she has not been favored so far. She is just a little beauty."

After that, Concubine Jiang frowned and said, "Your Majesty, you also know that our emperor has that kind of personality. For people who are useless to him, no matter how beautiful they are, he will not look at them twice. Not everyone is like you

, Your Majesty." People as beautiful as the Imperial Concubine are exceptions.

When she shed a tear, the emperor wanted to pluck the moon from the sky and give it to her, not to mention the position of the queen.

Jiang Xinyue could only say that since she came out of the cold palace, Concubine Jiang seemed to have opened her filter to the maximum.

"What about the fragrance on the handkerchief?"

She only cared about this: "What kind of flowers are used to pickle the flower fragrance? Why did Lady Zhang say that the fragrance is very unique?"

Concubine Jiang frowned and thought for a while: "Just listening to this, I can't guess, but if I can get the handkerchief and smell it, I can basically know."

She is not bragging. If she inherits her mother's family's perfume-making industry, she will become the most outstanding perfume maker in the Great Yan Dynasty.

In the past, the emperor doted on her and praised her for her pleasant fragrance more than once, saying that she was the most fragrant and best-smelling flower in the Yu Garden.

Unfortunately, after the Imperial Concubine entered the palace, the emperor seemed to have lost his sense of smell and could no longer smell her priceless fragrance.

A blessing in disguise.

She felt that it was good to have such a life now where she didn't have to look at people's faces, fight for favors, and could appreciate the Imperial Concubine's peerless beauty every day.

To be honest, she was willing to become the vanguard of Li Guifei because of Li Guifei's unrivaled beauty in the harem.

She was a person who judged good and bad by appearance.

"That's not difficult."

Jiang Xinyue used a serving chopstick to pick up a piece of fish for her: "Have dinner first, and after dinner, I will invite all the concubines to have afternoon tea in Baihua Garden."

The term afternoon tea was also known to the people in the palace from the Imperial Concubine.

Drinking tea in the afternoon, isn't that afternoon tea?

"She also invited all the concubines to have afternoon tea?"

Emperor Xuanwu's chopsticks were almost broken by him, and he gritted his teeth and said: "She has time to invite Concubine Jiang to dinner, and she also has time to invite concubines to drink tea, but she doesn't come to see me, she doesn't come to invite me, right?"

"That's right!" Tang Shiliang frowned in disapproval: "The Imperial Concubine is too much."

"Shut up!"

No matter how much, he was the only one who could scold. If someone said something wrong about Jiang Xinyue, Emperor Xuanwu would feel offended.

Tang Shiliang held back his laughter as he served the emperor food: "Your Majesty, if you miss the Imperial Concubine, why not go directly to the Hundred Flower Garden? Is there any place in this summer palace that you cannot go to? Besides, Concubine Cheng has also been invited, so she won't be discovered."

Concubine Cheng has been favored recently, and others would only think that the emperor went there for Concubine Cheng.

The emperor thought so too, and his movements while eating became faster.

Wang Dequan looked at the emperor and then at Tang Shiliang. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but it seemed that after he recovered from his illness this time, the emperor and Tang Shiliang had become much closer.

He had served the emperor for half his life, and he didn't dare to make such jokes with the emperor, but Shiliang dared to do so.

And the emperor didn't seem to be angry.

After serving the emperor and cleaning the table, he had to make tea for the emperor.

Wang Dequan shook the whisk in his hand and said, "Shiliang, I haven't made tea for the emperor for several days. You can make this cup of tea for me today!"

Tang Shiliang raised his eyebrows and looked at his godfather, then smiled and said, "The tea made by godfather has always been the best for the emperor. Didn't godfather teach me how to make tea?"

Having said that, Tang Shiliang still followed Wang Dequan to the tea room.

Although the emperor had all the wealth and the best things in the world, only Wang Dequan knew that the emperor's favorite tea was not the famous Jingu Gong tea, Taiping Houkui, or Wuyishan Dahongpao.

It was the Green Snow Bud Mother Tree Tea, which was not as famous as the first three. This tea has gone through hundreds of years, and it is still full of spirit and form, protected by clouds and mist, nourished by spring dew, and has excellent color and fragrance.

Wang Dequan only taught this secret to his godson Tang Shiliang. The water temperature was just right to brew the aroma of the tea leaves, and the color, temperature and taste were all the ones that the emperor liked best. Wang Dequan smiled slightly: "It seems that you have learned all the skills of your godfather." So, he no longer needs to promote him.