Chapter 139 Palace Maid
Xuanyuan Ling said that he asked someone to send it over, and he still used the name of wanting to eat plums. After all, he couldn't say that Shen Qing wanted to eat it.
If the emperor wants to eat, there will naturally be people to do the work.
Then a few days later, Shen Qing ate fresh plums, which were tender, juicy and plump. Shen Qing was very satisfied with the food and felt that it was good to appease the emperor. At least since entering the palace, his appetite had improved a lot. Well, he still had the motivation to work hard.
The days of Shen Qing's exclusive favor continued, and on the surface no one was in trouble at this time. However, one day when the Queen went to pay her respects to the Queen Mother, she mentioned that the Empress Dowager had no children. The Queen was embarrassed by what the Queen Dowager said, so she told the Queen Dowager about the current situation in the harem. The Queen Dowager was furious when she heard that an infertile woman in the harem was the only one who was favored by the Emperor.
Scolding the Queen for being ignorant, even if there is no selection of beauties at this time, can't the Queen take the initiative to pick a few beauties and send them to the Emperor?
Even if she is a palace maid, wouldn't it be enough to raise her position after being favored?
The queen was scolded so badly that she looked very unhappy when she returned to Fengyi Palace.
She is the queen. The emperor rarely goes to pay his respects to the empress dowager on weekdays. As a daughter-in-law, she has to perform her duties conscientiously. Not to mention that the empress dowager is not in good health now. She has to fulfill her filial duty. This is the rule.
However, the expression on the Queen's face every time she came back from visiting the Queen Mother was not much different from that on the Emperor's face when he came out of the Queen Mother's palace.
To be honest, this couple is really only particularly consistent when facing the Queen Mother.
But no matter how aggrieved I was, I had to listen to the Queen Mother's words.
Jinzhi felt that the Queen was unacceptable: "If the Emperor knew about this, the Emperor and the Queen Mother would never be well, and the Queen would definitely be implicated."
The Queen said expressionlessly, "What man doesn't like novelty? Now there is only Concubine Xi in the palace who is favored. The Emperor will surely get tired of it. Pick an honest one. Anyway, we don't know whether Concubine Li's baby is a boy or a girl. Send another one to her. If she is lucky enough to get pregnant, it will be an extra layer of protection."
Jinzhi knew that it was not easy for the Empress Dowager to be caught between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, but this was just her angry words. She patiently advised: "Your Majesty, you still have to consider the Emperor." After all, the situation is already difficult now because the Emperor has had a quarrel with Concubine Li. If someone else is forced to come in, the relationship between the Emperor and the Empress will become even more strained.
Although the Emperor couldn't say anything as long as the Empress did nothing wrong, the couple's relationship was so bad that there was no benefit at all.
The Queen knew what she meant. She had indeed angered the Queen Mother. This time, she thought for a moment and said, "Pick two good-looking girls and send them to Zhaohua Palace."
"Zhaohua Palace?" Jinzhi understood something: "What the queen means is..."
The Queen said, "Of course the Emperor will not be pleased if someone is sent to him openly. Now that the Emperor goes to Zhaohua Palace more often, I can take care of Concubine Xi more. Her Zhaohua Palace is far away, so it is not convenient for her to do anything. So I will assign two more servants to serve her."
That makes sense.
Jinzhi immediately understood what the Queen meant. The Emperor would certainly not be happy if she openly stuffed someone into the palace. However, if she placed someone in Zhaohua Palace and the Emperor saw her and was interested in her, could Concubine Xi still stop the Emperor from favoring her?
Jinzhi went to do it immediately.
So not long after, Chen Qing received two new palace maids sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These two palace maids really didn't look like palace maids, at least Chen Qing didn't think they were palace maids at first glance.
Although they were wearing palace maids' clothes, these two girls had slender hands and pretty faces. Standing next to Chunhua Fangyun, they looked like two young ladies.
The message from the other side was that the Empress gave this reward specially out of sympathy for Concubine Xi's hard work in serving the Emperor. This really shows sympathy for her hard work.
Out of sympathy for her hard work in serving Xuanyuan Ling in bed, are you sending two to help her share the burden?
The Queen had sent it over openly, and Shen Qing took it with a smile. It was not obvious that she was still relying on the Queen, so how could she not use it when she saw these two?
So Chen Qing smiled and said, "Thank you, Queen, for your consideration. I usually use Chunhua and Fangyun by my side. Other rough jobs are already taken care of. You just need to serve tea and water on weekdays."
You are in charge of serving tea and water. Even if the emperor comes and you serve tea, he will definitely see your intention.
The two newly sent palace maids had already been taught by Jinzhi what they were doing in Zhaohua Palace. Now, listening to what Shen Qing said, she knew that she understood.
Yes, a nobleman cannot refute the order of the Queen Mother.
Look, there’s not even a hint of unhappiness on his face.
So the two new beautiful palace maids stayed there.
How could Chunhua and Fangyun not figure out what these two palace maids who looked like they didn't look like proper servants did for a living? They were worried about Chen Qing.
"The Empress is obviously asking the two of them to treat you as a stepping stone." Shen Qing asked the Emperor to see more of them now that there were many of them coming. It was obvious at first glance that they would flirt with people. What would happen if the Emperor couldn't control himself at that time?
Chen Qing looked at them and smiled and shook his head: "If it's not me, there will be other places. If the emperor really wants to find someone else, can I stop him?"
Emperor, the situation in the palace now seems to be that he favors her alone, but so what? There are many maids in the palace, who are interested, good-looking, and want to climb up, who knows, if he really wants to find one, can he not find it? It is natural for the emperor to favor a maid, how can she stop it?
Chunhua Fangyun knew that this was one thing, but seeing how well the emperor treated Shen Qing, it would be fine if she went to another concubine's palace. But if he really wanted someone else in front of the noble lady, or if any of the lovers he got in the future came from their Zhaohua Palace, she would always feel uncomfortable.
The two new palace maids were named Mo Ya and You Lan. They lived in a place different from Fang Yun Chun Hua and the others. The room they lived in was similar to the young lady's, except that they didn't have someone to serve them.
As expected, these two did nothing all day long. Everyone else in Zhaohua Palace was doing their job, but these two were doing nothing and just watching others busy themselves.
At least he wasn't hanging around Shen Qing, so Shen Qing understood that he was not a spy sent by the Queen. It was obvious that he was here to win the Queen's favor. But then again, a spy wouldn't be sent so obviously.
Shen Qing was thinking this, and Xuanyuan Ling came again the next day.
With his arrival, Mo Ya and You Lan finally found work to do. After all, they had to serve the emperor, and they did an outstanding job in pouring tea and passing water. So Xuanyuan Ling saw clearly that there were two unfamiliar palace maids in Zhaohua Palace. Moreover, these palace maids smelled of perfumed powder, which must have been a sin. Chen Qing did not use perfumed powder, and after favoring Chen Qing alone, Xuanyuan Ling gradually disliked the smell of perfumed powder.
But now, there was a sudden smell of perfumed powder. Although he was not attracted by it, his nose could not bear it. He sneezed suddenly before he even drank the tea.
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