Chapter 36 Protecting Nian Shilan

Zhen Huan was still thinking about Kang Luhai. When she heard this, she laughed and said:

"Sister, you are really getting along better with Concubine Hua now. But you are so suspicious just because I asked you a question."

"Empress Hua is a very lovely person at heart. I am willing to get close to her."

Shen Meizhuang said very sincerely, "But you and I have grown up together, how can others compare to us? Although my feelings for her and you are equally sincere, they are different."

Zhen Huan naturally did not doubt this. She pondered Shen Meizhuang's words: "Cute?"

"yes."

Shen Meizhuang thought of Concubine Hua lamenting about her hard work and feeling resentful, and she couldn't help but smile.

"There is something I have been thinking about and I still think..."

She wanted to tell Zhen Huan that she could hear Concubine Hua's thoughts, so Huanbi knocked on the door and passed on the message.

"My lady, Concubine Gong and Concubine An are here and have arrived at the palace gate."

Shen Meizhuang immediately became unhappy and said bluntly, "I don't like this Concubine Gong."

I don't like her coming to Suiyuxuan, nor do I like her going to Yikun Palace.

Even when I met him at the Empress's Palace to pay my respects, I didn't like him.

"I can see it too. It's because of her that you're alienated from Ling Rong, right?"

Shen Meizhuang didn't feel that she and An Lingrong were estranged.

After being selected, An Lingrong lived in Zhen Mansion and developed a relationship with Huan'er, but she did not. It was only because An Lingrong was good friends with Zhen Huan that she became closer to her.

She didn't like Sun Miaoqing, but An Lingrong and Sun Miaoqing went out together and treated each other like sisters, which made it even more difficult for her to have a deep sisterly relationship with An Lingrong.

Also...Empress Hua thought to herself that An Lingrong would use some inferior means to win favor in the future.

She always felt a little uncomfortable.

However, these are all small things if everyone can get along harmoniously.

She didn't want to make enemies anyway.

"Now that she's here, I can't just chase her away. Besides, she's been very nice to me."

Zhen Huan stood up and held Shen Meizhuang's hand, "Good sister, just think of it as for my sake, and be patient."

Shen Meizhuang clapped her hands helplessly, "Okay, for you! I'll endure it a little longer!"

Zhen Huan heard this and immediately turned around and said, "Please invite them in."

Sun Miaoqing came here quite often, and as soon as she entered the room, she joked, "If we had known that Sister Mei was whispering with Sister Zhen here, we wouldn't have come to disturb her."

If these words were said by someone who was really close to her, it wouldn't be a big deal. But Shen Meizhuang didn't like her, so she felt that her words were sarcastic.

"It's so warm in this room. It must be that Sister Mei delivered the silver charcoal first, so Sister An and I are late." Sun Miaoqing said with a smile.

Since they were all familiar with each other, there was no formal greeting when they met.

According to her status, Zhen Huan should stand up and give her seat to Sun Miaoqing, and sit on the soft stool with An Lingrong. Shen Meizhuang didn't want to ask her to move while she was sick, so she took the initiative to sit next to Zhen Huan and gave up her seat on that side.

Sun Miaoqing naturally sat in the seat where Shen Meizhuang had just sat.

An Lingrong saw that Sun Miaoqing was too far behind and it was inconvenient for her to talk, so she moved closer to Zhen Huan and Shen Meizhuang and sat on the soft stool.

"Sister Gong has stopped her monthly salary for two months and has been busy taking care of herself, but she still remembers Sister Huan. I know she is sincere." Shen Meizhuang held Zhen Huan's hand, "You always make others do this for you."

It would have been fine if the issue of stopping the monthly salary had not been mentioned, but when it was mentioned, Sun Miaoqing became furious.

That should have been Shen Meizhuang's punishment, but now he had taken it for her. She was not grateful, but instead said something sarcastic.

"Sister, I'm sorry, sister, although I haven't had a monthly routine in the past two months, my mother-in-law can still supplement me a little, so life is not difficult. Sisters should help each other all the time, sister Mei, don't you think so?"

Sisters helping each other?

Is Sun blaming herself for not speaking up to help her that day?

Shen Meizhuang said slowly, "Sister was late in paying respects that day. I wanted to speak up for her, but you know that Concubine Hua has always been powerful in governing the harem. If I speak up, I'm afraid that even Concubine Jing will be implicated. Sister, you won't blame me, right?"

Hypocrisy!

Sun Miaoqing didn't expect Shen Meizhuang to be so good at playing the green tea trick. She laughed and said, "How could that be?"

Zhen Huan saw that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense and didn't want to cause a quarrel, so she acted as a peacemaker and mediated.

"Suiyuxuan is a lonely place. Thanks to you, I can get through this winter better."

As expected of the heroine, she will enjoy the feeling of being the center of attention.

She has done all the good things.

Sun Miaoqing originally looked down on these two people, and even if he was careful in what he said, he still let it slip. "I am of low rank and I have little influence. I can't give anything else. I am just helping out when the time is right."

Zhen Huan didn't think twice: "How can there be a friendship more precious than helping someone in need?"

"In the final analysis, it's still the servants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who flatter the powerful and bully the weak. If it weren't for them, I would still be able to live well just relying on my sister's share."

It was impossible for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to openly withhold the allowances of each palace; only the parties involved knew about it.

Sun Miaoqing knew this because she had a God's perspective, but she didn't know that her God's perspective had expired.

Everyone knows that the chief steward of the Imperial Household Department is a distant relative of Concubine Hua, and the servants of the Imperial Household Department flatter the powerful and look down on the weak, and that is Concubine Hua flattering the powerful and looking down on the weak.

To put it more bluntly, Sun Miaoqing was telling Zhen Huan that Concubine Hua was deliberately targeting her!

Shen Meizhuang heard the hidden meaning and felt indignant for Concubine Hua: the Sun family relied on the Nian family to rise to power, but she was always at odds with Concubine Hua.

Ungrateful thing!

Shen Meizhuang wanted to protect Concubine Hua and retorted on the spot, but Zhen Huan quietly held her hand.

Zhen Huan avoided Sun Miaoqing's topic and easily changed the topic:

"Sister has been given a title now, and her position is higher than mine. How dare I be called 'sister' by her?"

Sun Miaoqing was naturally happy to hear this, but she still pretended to be disappointed, "Sister, if you say this, you want to distance yourself from me. How can I dare to come here in the future?"

"Look at you, you make people feel wronged." Shen Meizhuang said casually, "Why don't you apologize to them quickly?"

"Yes, yes, it's all my fault, sister. I don't have anything else here. I haven't finished the tea I brought from home. My two sisters just came in from outside. Hurry and drink some hot tea to get rid of the cold."

Zhen Huan entertained them warmly and the maids were busy.

"Is your sister feeling better lately?"

"It's the same old thing."

Although Zhen Huan was not pretending to be sick, there was something strange about her condition, so she didn't say much. She looked at Sun Miaoqing's makeup and hair, "The color of the jade hairpin on your sister's head is very beautiful. It must have been given by the emperor, right?"

An Lingrong said happily: "Sister Zhen, you don't know that Sister Gong is in great favor with the Emperor right now."

Sun Miaoqing was a little embarrassed, "In terms of favor, how can I dare to compare with Sister Mei."

She glanced at Shen Meizhuang, but Shen Meizhuang didn't say anything.

You thought you were so magnanimous, but you still can't stand seeing others being favored.

It is also thanks to the plot setting that she is able to avoid the heroine's period of favor, receiving great favor early, and becoming discouraged and out of favor early. Otherwise, wouldn't she still have to quarrel with Zhen Huan in the later stages?

Huh, sister?

What essential differences are there between the women in the harem?

Now that she is getting close to the female competition king of Yikun Palace, she may be more petty and mean by the bad company she keeps.

Sun Miaoqing thought to herself and said, "I seemed to see Eunuch Kang go to Qixiang Palace a few days ago. Was he sent by my sister?"

According to the plot development, Kang Luhai should have gone to Lipin's place. No one knew what went wrong and he saw him when he came in just now.

Sun Miaoqing had seen the butterfly effect before, so she was afraid of any changes, so she had to be cautious and ask one more question.