Chapter 54: Excessive humility makes people hate

her Her arrogant look made Emperor Xuanwu laugh out loud, and he couldn't help teasing her: "When others compliment you on your beauty, you don't know how to be humble. Do you know how to be ashamed?"

Jiang Xinyue shook her head: "Your Majesty, excessive humility will make people hate you. Just like when I complimented you on being a good emperor who worked hard and loved the people, you also think that I have good taste, right?"

Would the emperor say that I am not?

The emperor, who was slapped in the face without being noticed, was very pleased and hugged her from behind: "On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, I will lead all the officials to the people for spring ploughing. My beloved concubine, do you want to go with me?"

I had heard that the ancient emperors had a spring ploughing ceremony of "holding the plow and ploughing the fields personally", but I had only seen it in TV dramas, but I didn't know what it was like in person. Jiang Xinyue was still quite curious.

She widened her eyes, and had long forgotten the emperor's unhappiness about her. Her eyes were full of expectation: "Can I go too? Really?"

Emperor Xuanwu loved her emotional feedback in time: "I said you can go, so you can go."

On the day of spring ploughing, the empress also had to go, and it was not difficult to bring two more concubines.

Cining Palace -

Although Empress Dowager Wu ignored the affairs of the harem, she knew exactly which concubine the emperor favored and which concubine he rewarded.

In the strong bitter smell of medicine, the pale face of Concubine Rong was revealed.

The palace maids in Cining Palace were more serious than those in other places. Their footsteps were almost inaudible, their breathing was shallow, and no one smiled or talked to each other.

Empress Dowager Wu, dressed in gorgeous clothes, sat by the bed. Not far away, a woman with a temperament as pure as a chrysanthemum and a beautiful face was kneeling on the ground.

"Empress Dowager..."

Rongpin said with her hair loose: "Sister has been kneeling for two hours. It's freezing cold. If she gets sick, you will be distressed."

The blue-faced woman on the ground was Rong Guipin, who had been named Shufei.

Empress Dowager Wu snorted coldly: "Shufei is aloof. The emperor came to her to ask for favors, but she was unwilling to forgive the emperor. She drove the emperor out of Jingren Palace and let Zhen Zhaoyi take advantage of it. Now I feel sorry for you, Rongpin, who was murdered. I want your sister to regain the emperor's favor and help you find the real murderer. But she is unwilling to do so. I guess she hopes that we Wu family members will die soon!"

Shufei felt sympathetic, with deep sorrow in her eyes that could not be dispelled: "Why should aunt care about Shi'er's heart? The emperor's love for Shi'er in the past was all an act, he did it for my aunt and father to see. Ever since the fall of the Wu family, the emperor has long given up on Shi'er. Now, there are more than 200 lives of the Wu family between Shi'er and the emperor. My aunt wants Shi'er to compete for his favor. How should Shi'er cope with it?"

"Then are you going to wait to die in this harem?"

Empress Dowager Wu was not unaware of the emperor's vigilance against her. The candidate for empress that the emperor wanted to marry was originally Shufei, but the emperor secretly chose the legitimate daughter of the Zhu family, which made her very angry.

"The emperor is disobedient. If you bear a son of Wu blood soon, I will ask the emperor to make him the crown prince. Then our Wu family will be prosperous again, right?" If

the son is disobedient, the grandson will take the throne. Where is the family affection in the royal family? What she wants is the supreme power.

"That Zhen Zhaoyi can't be kept any longer. I think she has already bewitched the emperor."

For that lowly girl, he even contradicted his mother. It was simply unfilial.

"Aunt!"

Rongpin grabbed her sleeve and said, "It was Zhen Zhaoyi who saved me."

"Pa!"

The pale little face was slapped, and it showed a sickly blush. Empress Dowager Wu pulled out her sleeve and stood up: "One or two of you are idiots. How did my Wu family produce two troublesome things like you? Anyway, I'm saying this today. No matter who you are, one of you must give birth to a prince. If not, you know what I can do." After

these words came out, Rongpin and Shufei's faces turned pale.

Although her father was dead, her mother and brother were still suffering in Ninggu Tower. If the Empress Dowager used them to threaten her, Shufei thought... she had no room to refuse.

In the following days, Emperor Xuanwu treated the harem equally. Except for going to Yikun Palace on the first and fifteenth day of the month, he spent three days in January resting at Li Guifei's place in Changxin Palace, two days for Defei, two days for Liangfei, one day for Jin Zhaoyi, and one day for Zhang Wanyi.

What surprised Jiang Xinyue the most was that Shufei of Jingren Palace, the niece of the Queen Mother, accompanied him for six days.

On the remaining days, he either rested in Hexi Palace or slept alone in Chengqian Palace.

No matter how strong a stallion is, he still needs to be careful, otherwise he will die of something, which will be a shame for the adults.

Among the concubines who entered the palace with Jiang Xinyue, some were favored once and then forgotten, and some entered the palace for more than half a year and never even saw the emperor.

They could only sigh at the moon, after all, no one in the palace could pity them.

There was only one emperor, how could they be divided?

In the blink of an eye, it was already the second day of the second month. Early in the morning, Wang Dequan came to Hexi Palace to inform that the emperor asked Zhen Zhaoyi to wear simpler clothes and dress more plainly to gather at the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Jiang Xinyue wore a silver-gray short jacket, a linen short skirt often worn by peasant women, and a pair of lotus-colored trousers. She wore gray cloth shoes, and her three thousand black silk wrapped in a headscarf, with only a simple dark red agarwood hairpin inserted, which looked simple and clean.

She arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony not too early. The emperor and empress had already arrived, and Concubine Shu was also standing beside the emperor, wearing a coarse cotton coat and a cloak, which made her look elegant and elegant.

It seems that Wang Dequan went to Jingren Palace first, and then came to Hexi Palace.

I just don't know whether this is the emperor's intention, or Wang Dequan came here casually?

Concubine Li Gui is a delicate and reserved woman. She wore the coarse linen clothes given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the spring plowing last year, and she got a lot of rashes on her body. This year, she refused to come no matter what.

Therefore, among the concubines in the palace, except for the queen, there are only Concubine Shu and Jiang Xinyue.

Her status is the lowest among the four, so the sedan chair is naturally ranked last.

This is the first time that Jiang Xinyue has left the palace since she traveled through time and space, and she has seen how the real ancient people lived.

Shuangjiang opened the curtains at the window for her, so that she could see the scenery outside better, and it was also convenient for her.

Zhen Zhaoyi was indeed a perfect master. She knew that she had been sold into the palace as a slave when she was six years old, and she had long forgotten what it was like outside the palace.

So this time when she left the palace, she did not bring Xi Que with her, but brought her out with her.

Because the emperor and empress were traveling, the vendors on both sides of the street had been ordered not to set up their stalls, and the streets were cleaned up neatly. Only curious people were stopped by the officers and soldiers, standing on both sides, looking up in anticipation at the team coming out of the palace gate.