Chapter 8 Drunk
"Empress, please come down quickly, it will be bad if someone sees us!"
Jiang Xinyue, holding a bottle of wine in her hand, has already climbed up the peach tree in the courtyard of Xihe Palace. She lifted up her pink gauze and put it on her legs. Half of her snow-white calves swayed, making people stare at them.
There was no one as bold as her in the palace.
"Hush!"
A little tipsy, Jiang Xinyue put her index finger on her lips: "Keep your voice down, this is in our own palace, it won't be discovered." In her
later life, when she was a psychotherapist, she often had to drink a few glasses with her patients, so that they could narrow the distance between them and let the other party believe in herself.
At that time, her nickname was "A Thousand Cups Without Getting Drunk".
Jiang Xinyue accidentally discovered the girl's red wine buried under the peach tree for several years, and she dug it out happily.
She had only been in the palace for three months, and she was the only concubine living in Xihe Hall. The wine was buried by the ancestors, but had not been drunk yet, so it was a good opportunity for her, the descendant, to pick up the leak.
She drank elegantly, half lying on the branches in a leisurely manner. The peach blossom season had passed, otherwise it would definitely be a beautiful picture of a beautiful woman lying on the flowers and drunk.
"A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a relative. Raising the cup to invite the bright moon, the shadow and I become three people."
The woman's ethereal voice fell into the ears of Emperor Xuanwu, and it was so sad and sad.
He didn't know how he walked to the outside of Xihe Hall and ran into Zhen Ronghua drunk and reciting poetry.
She was like an elf in the mountains, out of tune with this harem. It was full of love that made her stay in this deep palace.
Emperor Xuanwu's heart, which was always lonely, seemed to be comforted at this moment.
In this vast world, there are people who come for him.
If Jiang Xinyue could hear Emperor Xuanwu's inner voice, she would definitely complain that this ancient emperor really loved to fill his head with nonsense.
She just felt that lying on the tree, looking at the starry sky, with the sound of frogs and cicadas in her ears, was extremely comfortable.
It was not long after the 11:00 p.m., which is 9:00 in modern times, and the nightlife had just begun. She was not sleepy, and she was just learning to climb trees like when she was a child at her grandmother's house in the countryside.
"I didn't know that my beloved concubine was so talented and could write poetry."
Jiang Xinyue squinted her eyes, tilted her head and looked at Emperor Xuanwu, then chuckled, and jumped directly over the courtyard wall and flew down.
Xi Que, Shuang Jiang, and Wang De were all so frightened that they almost cried out, but when they saw Emperor Xuanwu rush over like a fly and catch the person steadily, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Eh?"
The culprit who scared everyone didn't know what he had done wrong, and poked the emperor's face with his finger: "You... you look like someone else."
Wang Dequan lowered his head, and Xi Que and Shuang Jiang immediately knelt on the ground, sweating for their master.
It was too disrespectful to touch the emperor's dragon body in such a way.
The drunken master was too scary.
But to their surprise, Emperor Xuanwu was not angry. Instead, he weighed the weight in his arms, held the person more securely, and asked with a smile: "Who does she look like?"
The beauty's face was flushed, her eyes were blurred, and her charm was revealed.
She twisted in his arms, lowered her eyes and dared not look: "Looks like someone I... like."
After saying that, she covered her face with her hands because she was too shy, and did not dare to look at Emperor Xuanwu again.
The girl's thoughts were interpreted vividly.
The emperor's Adam's apple rolled twice, but thinking of Concubine Li Gui's temper, he still took Jiang Xinyue back to Xihe Palace and told Xi Que and Shuangjiang: "Take good care of your master, and don't let her get drunk again."
He didn't want others to see her charm.
"Yes."
Just when Xi Que thought that the emperor would stay, he went back to Changxin Palace.
As soon as he left, Jiang Xinyue opened her eyes.
Scared to death!
Fortunately, the emperor did not rest here tonight.
She dared to snatch people from Concubine Chu because even if Concubine Chu was not favored, she did not have any big backers behind her.
Li Guifei is different.
Not to mention that she is the most favored in the harem, her position is only second to the Empress Dowager, and she has the right to assist in the management of the six palaces. Just say that her father is the Prime Minister of the Great Yan Dynasty, who is a first-rank official
. He is already an existence that the Jiang family can't flatter. Not to
mention the high-ranking officials in their family.
If you really piss off Concubine Li, it will be as easy for her to crush her to death as to crush an ant.
The Changxin Palace was brightly lit. When Concubine Li woke up and found that the emperor was not there, she had already lost her temper, smashed several vases, and injured several palace maids.
When Emperor Xuanwu returned, Concubine Li had not yet had time to retract her anger. A palace maid with a slap mark on her face was picking up the debris on the ground.
"Your Majesty?"
Concubine Li's face was filled with surprise and regret, and soon turned into grievance and weakness: "Your Majesty..."
"What's wrong with my beloved concubine?"
The emperor's face was expressionless. He held Concubine Li's elbow and held her in his arms: "But which blind servant made my beloved concubine unhappy?"
He gave her the steps, and Concubine Li immediately went down: "The ice basins in the room are all used up, and those servants have not continued. I was awakened by the heat. Your Majesty is not here, and I was scared for a while..." She
smashed things and scolded the servants because she was scared? I'm afraid
that she saw that the emperor was not here, and she was angry, so she took out her anger on the palace servants!
Wang Dequan complained in his heart, what a graceful girl Concubine Li was when she first entered the palace eight years ago!
She is pure and innocent, kind and lovely, and has stunning beauty, which has won the emperor's heart.
Now she looks no different from those scheming women in the harem.
Thinking in this way, it is not difficult to understand why the emperor is attracted to Zhen Ronghua.
Zhen Ronghua now really has some of the grace and temperament of Concubine Li Guifei in her youth.
"Why is it raining again?"
Xi Que held an umbrella, and she and Shuangjiang supported Jiang Xinyue on both sides: "The weather has been hot and cold recently, and I don't know how to dress."
It is the season when wearing too much is hot and wearing too little is cold, and it is rainy and windy.
Jiang Xinyue also found it annoying. She was not a high-ranking concubine and could not ride in a sedan chair. It took her half an hour to walk from Xihe Hall to Yikun Palace. For a lazy person like her who had to take a taxi for a ten-minute journey, it was simply torture.
She was so tired that she had to get up a little earlier every day to avoid being late for the Yikun Palace to pay respects.
"Zhen Ronghua came early today. It can be seen that the emperor is not here. Zhen Ronghua must be more diligent."
Concubine Chu hated Jiang Xinyue for snatching the emperor, and always found a reason to stab her.
But everyone in the palace is like this. Those who are not fighting for it have already gone to see Prince Yan. Could it be that Concubine Chu has never snatched anything from others?
Jiang Xinyue sat above Concubine Chu, with a lazy look in her eyes: "If that's the case, then Concubine Chu should be the most diligent. Why don't you come to pay respects early every day? Are you slacking off the Empress?"
Concubine Chu is not favored, so she should be the first to come.
"What are you talking about?" Concubine Chu turned pale and knelt on the ground: "The Empress is wise, I have no such intention."
Empress Zhu didn't even look at her: "Zhen Ronghua just joked with you a few words, how could you be so scared?"
Fenyun glanced at Concubine Li Guifei. Concubine Chu is Concubine Li Guifei's person, so she feels guilty!