Chapter 98: Concubine Cao’s Banquet

Zhen Huan lowered her brows and waved her fan twice, while Shen Meizhuang lowered her eyes and shook the sour plum soup at the bottom of the bowl.

"Banxia." Caiyue, who was unaware of the situation, answered again and asked caringly, "Does Miss Gong know her?"

Sun Miaoqing knew that she had said something wrong, and Han Ying beside her hurriedly tried to make amends for her master, "There is a person named Fuling in our palace, and I am afraid that the young lady has confused the two herbs."

"That's right."

Shen Meizhuang put down the bowl, touched the corner of her lips with her handkerchief, and said with a smile:

"That's a coincidence. Banxia said she learned how to make plum soup from a palace maid named Fuling."

They also talked about Princess Wen Yi's birthday and envied other people's children.

Sun Miaoqing, however, was not worried. Before leaving Suzhou, she had already consulted a famous doctor in Jiangnan and got a prescription for postpartum care.

There were many people in the Yanxi Palace and she was afraid of arousing suspicion, so she didn't dare to take the medicine. After falling into the water, her body had recovered long ago and she had been drinking the medicine based on her own prescription recently.

Compared to the secret recipe for menopause that Jiang Shen gave to Shen Meizhuang, my own recipe is a real and good one.

Several aunts and cousins ​​in the family have tried it.

It is definitely proven to be effective.

Zhen Huan wanted to wait until Sun Miaoqing left before she could talk to Shen Meizhuang, but seeing Sun Miaoqing's attitude, she knew she would not leave until she did.

The imperial physician came to the yard to check Zhen Huan's pulse. Zhen Huan stood up and said goodbye. Sun Miaoqing followed her out, but she intentionally left a handkerchief behind. When she walked out of the yard, she asked the maid to come back.

She waited under the shade of the tree, and when Hanying came back, she asked hurriedly:

"How is it? Did you hear it clearly?"

"I happened to hear a few words from a man called Liu Bin. Mr. Shen said he looked unfamiliar and had never seen him before."

"Of course I haven't seen him." Sun Miaoqing waved a fan in one hand and put his other hand on Hanying's arm, saying leisurely, "He was just transferred from his post in Jeju."

She also didn't understand Shen Meizhuang.

From the very beginning, he established himself as a dignified and stable person, but it turned out that the most dignified and stable person actually believed the secret prescription given by the imperial physician who served Mr. Cao.

The family had spared no effort to train and send this person to the palace, but just because of the word "fellow villager", she put her wholehearted trust in this imperial physician whom she had just met.

You are so young, you don't know that when fellow villagers meet, they shoot each other in the back.

It's always the acquaintances that harm the acquaintances.

Even her family, a daughter of a noble family, knew that Qi Shunzhai had stopped practicing two years ago, but Liu Bin didn't know about it, and she didn't suspect anything when she was told about it in person.

He has a passion for palace fighting but no sense of crisis at all.

Other people's Zhen Huan learns from every failure, but she fails again and again.

Zhen Lucha is also a scheming bitch. She is very cautious about her own affairs. When she saw Shen Meizhuang's problems, she did not remind her of anything and let her fall into the abyss. Only afterwards did she pretend to be sympathetic.

It would have been fine if she had kept everything secret even though people told her everything, but when she went to Xianyue Pavilion to visit the confined Shen Meizhuang, she even stabbed her in the chest, suspecting that she was faking her pregnancy to win his favor.

Plastic sisters.

Sun Miaoqing walked into Siyi Academy with a swaying figure: She knew that friendship between women was unreliable.

Xiao Lezi stepped forward and said that Concubine Cao had sent someone to tell her to attend a banquet there in two days.

Sun Miaoqing stopped fanning herself and asked, "Who are you talking about?"

"Princess Cao," Xiao Lezi added, "is Princess Wen Yi's biological mother, the former Concubine Cao."

Two days ago, the emperor went to Yinfeng Palace, and Nian Shilan had already mentioned this matter. The emperor liked Wen Yi, so he nodded, but he said he would think about the promotion of Jingpin and Lipin.

These two people have done nothing for the country, are helpless in the royal bloodline, and the emperor does not favor them very much, so there is no reason for them to be promoted to the throne.

Of course, there is a more important reason.

There is a quota of four concubines, and three of them are already there.

If two people want to go up, someone must go down or someone must go up.

The emperor originally suspected that Concubine Hua wanted to ascend to the throne herself and deliberately brought up this matter to pretend to be virtuous.

But from what she said in her heart, she never thought of this at all. She only wanted to occupy all the positions of concubines and not give Zhen Huan and Sun Miaoqing any chance.

Concubine Hua is a simple person and she doesn't think too much, but the emperor cannot help but think too much.

Any major disturbance in the harem would inevitably involve the previous dynasty, but the emperor had no plans to do so for the time being.

Sun Miaoqing naturally didn't know all this.

Xiao Lezi repeated, "Concubine Cao said that the princess' birthday banquet is coming soon. She doesn't want to invite a large crowd, so she will just set up a table in her courtyard and invite a few familiar sisters to get together. Please come and enjoy it, young lady."

Cao Qinmo was promoted to the throne?

It goes without saying that the Empress would never allow Hua Fei's people to be promoted to the throne.

Nian Shilan herself is narrow-minded and will not promote her subordinates.

I have to say that this time-traveling Nian Shilan is quite capable. She did not instruct Tutou to drug Zhen Huan, did not fall out of favor, and knew how to use the power in her hands to win people's hearts.

Sun Miaoqing snorted, he was just taking advantage of the Nian family's power.

Nian Gengyao will eventually fall.

Han Rui brought a bowl of sour plum soup, "My lady, you have been walking under the sun for so long, you must be feeling hot. Have a bowl of sour plum soup to cool off."

"I added ice cubes on purpose."

Sun Miaoqing looked at the layer of fine water droplets forming on the bowl. Every summer she missed her air conditioner and refrigerator, as well as her mobile phone and computer.

She was determined to enter the palace because she thought things outside were not as good as in the palace.

Sun Miaoqing drank half a bowl and liked it very much. "Who made this plum soup? The craftsmanship is even better than that of Xianyue Pavilion."

Han Rui: "My dear, it's the Poria cocos from our courtyard."

Sun Miaoqing was shocked by a burst of thunder, "Fuling?!!"

"Yes, the maids sent by the imperial palace to serve you." Han Ying was puzzled. "Doesn't the young lady know about this?"

Sun Miaoqing: “…” It turns out that Han Ying wasn’t just trying to make excuses for himself, he was telling the truth!

"It's more like the palace sent someone to harm me!"

She was just wondering where the Pinellia ternata came from in Xianyue Pavilion. It turned out that that jerk Nian Shilan had arranged for the Poria cocos to be brought here.

Sun Miaoqing slammed the table and said angrily: "I didn't come here to save you bastards from disaster!"

The small banquet for Concubine Cao's promotion, wasn't this just a small banquet held by Cao Qinmo to apologize to Zhen Huan and set up a trap for Shen Meizhuang?

You're a fox that doesn't even know how to hide its tail. Are you trying to frame me for a fake pregnancy?

Humph! Do you think I’m a vegetarian?