“…”

When Concubine Shu came, Yingying happened to go to the kitchen with the female official next to the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan was lying in the flower pavilion to appreciate the flowers. She raised her eyes lazily and glanced at Concubine Shu, and said unhappily: "Why is Concubine Shu free of time to come to Ai's house?"

When Shufei saw Yingying not being relieved, she politely treated her makeup and smiled, "I had a dream last night. In the dream, there was a child holding a gourd and looking for someone everywhere. When I saw that the gourd was exquisite, I wanted to come forward to ask for it, but the child refused to give it to me, and even said that the gourd was for the Empress Dowager."

The old eunuch beside the queen mother was very flirting and quickly continued, "Oh, Concubine Shu has made auspicious dreams."

"Yes." Concubine Shu glanced at Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan. Seeing that Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan's expression was much more relaxed than before, she continued: "I also woke up and felt that this dream was auspicious. Why don't you come and report the good news to the Empress Dowager?"

Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan is old and has been in good health in recent years. She likes to listen to auspicious words the most. Seeing Yingying not returning for a long time, Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan raised her hand with a tense face and said, "Sit down."

Seeing this, Concubine Shu smiled happily, thanked her and sat down with her skirt.

Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan was a withdrawn man and was in a state of turmoil. Because she was in a disagreement with Emperor Wucheng, Concubine Shu rarely came here on weekdays. If it weren't for the purpose of overthrowing the Gu family, she wouldn't bother to post the cold face of Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan, and laughed on her face. Concubine Shu was thinking about how to insert important topics.

After chatting for a few words, Concubine Shu spoke as she took the opportunity: "Didn't it mean that the Crown Princess is also here with the Queen Mother, why didn't she see her coming out?"

When the empress dowager finally got interested and snorted, "The girl went to the kitchen and said she wanted to make some pastry for the Ai family."

Although Queen Mother Zhao Xuan had some disgust in her tone, anyone could see that she was not rejected.

Concubine Shu's heart skipped a beat and screamed in secret. She didn't expect that Gu Yingying would slap the queen mother in a short time. After thinking for a while, she raised her smile and said, "It seems that His Majesty's punishment has made the crown prince's concubine much more obedient."

"I'm sure I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince has been very indulging in her."

What did Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan know? She was quite satisfied with Yingying now and said unforgivingly: "She just needs to be cleaned up."

Born in the Gu family, he was the only daughter of the Gu family. Yingying was arrogant and domineering and no one dared to take care of it. It was indeed a lack of people to clean up her life and teach her well.

Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan's words touched Concubine Shu's heart. She did not forget the grudge that Gu Yingying had given her face in front of Yan Jihua. Now that Yan Jihua has become Concubine Hua, she has been tortured by her for half of her life. As long as she takes this opportunity to defeat the Gu family, Gu Manru and Gu Yingying will not let her deal with it.

Concubine Shu was already thinking about how to punish Yingying. She heard about the East Palace by Rou Concubine. She was not so stupid that she told the Empress Dowager in person. She winked at the female official beside her and then said: "You can't say that. Everyone outside knows that the Crown Prince is gentle, and the Crown Princess is lively and fussy and deeply loved by His Majesty. The two are made of heaven and earth."

"You don't know how much the people outside envy the Crown Princess."

"Yes." The female official received a hint from Concubine Shu and quickly took over the conversation: "Just talk about the incident a few days ago, let alone the Crown Princess, even the sisters who served the Crown Princess were envious. No one was punished for such a big deal."

Perhaps in order not to be noticed, Emperor Wucheng only dealt with some palace servants in the East Palace, and the personal servants who followed Yingying and Qinrong were only punished with light punishment. You must know that if it were someone else, the palace would be unsecured.

Queen Mother Zhao Xuan didn't hear any major events that have happened recently. She caught something wrong in the female official words and frowned and asked, "Why don't you know what major events have happened in the Ai family?"

The female official pretended to be surprised: "Don't the Empress Dowager know?"

Concubine Shu quickly interrupted the female official and pretended to be angry and said, "Bold and cheap maid, there is no place for you to interrupt here. Why don't you kneel down quickly!"

The female official knelt down in panic and kowtowed with a white face to accuse her of guilt.

Queen Mother Zhao Xuan asked again: "What big thing happened?"

The female official glanced at Concubine Shu and shook her head, "No, I just said nonsense. Recently, everything in the East Palace is safe and nothing major happened."

The successful acting between Concubine Shu and the female official made Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan look cold. She raised her voice and slapped the table: "Ai family asked you again, what happened to the East Palace!"

"Stop the anger of the Empress Dowager." Even Concubine Shu knelt down.

The atmosphere was 'just', and Concubine Shu secretly pinched the female official and signaled that she could continue talking. The female official was about to speak, and the footsteps outside approached. The old eunuch who was waiting beside the queen mother saluted respectfully: "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Qin Rong came at the right time. He glanced at the Concubine Shu and the female official who were kneeling on the ground, stepped onto the Huating and asked, "What's wrong?"

Seeing that the expression of Queen Mother Qin Rong Zhaoxuan's face improved slightly, she hummed and pointed to the kneeling female official with her finger: "I heard from the Ai family that something extraordinary happened in the prince's uterus."

Qin Rong's expression remained unchanged. As the Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan pointed at the kneeling female official, he sat on the chair beside him with his lips curled up, "Oh? It was the first time that my grandson heard about it, and he wanted to hear what a great thing happened."

The female official was really panicked. She didn't expect Qin Rong to appear at this time. She didn't even have to say anything in her mouth, and looked at Shu Fei as if she was asking for help.

Concubine Shu pretended to be calm. She wanted to secretly trip up and not want Qin Rong to be caught. She was about to throw her out of the can, but suddenly she heard Qin Rong ask, "Why is Concubine Shu kneeling?"

She smiled faintly, Qin Rong put her arm on the table and said leisurely: "It's rare to see Concubine Shu come over. Her grandson just met Concubine Rou, and she said Concubine Shu was still joking with her grandson, but she didn't expect Concubine Shu to be really there."

There was nothing wrong with outsiders, but it sounded like a basin of cold water hitting her head in Shufei. You know, Gu Yingying handcuffed her to lock the prince and kneel on the temple by His Majesty. She had only thought about bringing down Gu Yingying and Gu Manru before, but forgot that her plan would not only offend the prince, but also give in to Rou Prince.

That little hoof!

Concubine Shu then realized that she was plotted by Concubine Rou. Concubine Shu found that no matter whether she could tell the matter of the Eastern Palace to the Empress Dowager, she would eventually take advantage of Concubine Rou's slutty person.

Qin Rong mentioned Rou Pin to her at this moment, one was to remind her, and the other was to warn her. Concubine Shu didn't dare to give up in the broken can, and she reluctantly held her smile and looked at the female official: "I don't know what happened to the East Palace. You said, what happened to the East Palace."

The female official was confused, and heard Concubine Shu gritting her teeth and saying, "If you dare to speak nonsense and anger Your Highness the Crown Prince, I will definitely not spare you."

The female official was shocked and immediately did not dare to say anything.

“…”

When Yingying walked back with the small pastry, she vaguely heard a female official crying and begging for mercy.

She looked around and found no abnormality. She thought she had heard it wrong. When she entered the flower pavilion, she found Qin Rong was also there, and immediately diverted her attention.

"Why is the third brother here?" Putting the tray on the table, Yingying put the small pastry on the round table. Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan glanced and pinched a piece, tasted it and raised her eyebrows: "Is this what you made?"

Yingying nodded and said embarrassedly: "It's not all. Yingying dared not get started by herself, and she also asked someone to help."

Queen Mother Zhao Xuan sneered as expected, "I'm clumsy and I'm still so slow to ask for help."

Yingying blinked and had long been accustomed to Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan's temperament. She poured a cup of tea and handed it to her: "Because Yingying went to make a pot of tea again, Yingying made this one alone and never asked anyone to help me. The Empress Dowager gave it a try?"

After Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan took it, Yingying came to Qinrong again and handed him the poured tea and said, "San brother, try it?"

Qin Rong took it with great shame, lifted the tea lid and took a few sips, "How come the third brother doesn't know that Yingying can still make tea?"

This was actually what Yingying learned from the Locked Palace in her previous life, and she had never done anything after she was reborn. Seeing Qin Rong finish drinking and adding another cup to him, she caught a glimpse of someone getting up, and then she realized that Concubine Shu was there too.

"It's nothing, I'll leave first." Concubine Shu has been sitting in the corner for a long time and has not spoken. When she saw Yingying coming back, her face became worse and worse.

As Concubine Shu left, Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan returned to her bedroom exhausted. Soon there were only Yingying and Qin Rong left in the flower pavilion. Yingying always felt that Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan was in a worse mood than before, so she asked in Qin Rong's ear: "Is something happened?"

Qin Rong hooked Yingying's little finger and played with it. She bent her lips and smiled casually and said, "It's okay, the emperor and grandmother are probably tired."

Yingying didn't think much about it, approached Qin Rong and rushed into his arms. When she saw him, she felt wronged and said, "I really want to go back to the East Palace."

Even if Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan doesn't cause trouble for her, the Buddhist temple is not as comfortable as the Eastern Palace. Yingying is punished to kneel down and copy scriptures every day, and her fingers are a little swollen these days.

Qin Rong pinched her hand and rubbed it, kissing the corner of her lips gently, "Looking for a chance, the third brother will plead with his father again."

A month was too long, and Qin Rong couldn't stand Yingying leaving her side for a long time.

The time was almost over, and Yingying could not stay here forever. After getting tired of Qinrong, she returned to the Buddhist temple. Yingying did not take the matter during the day seriously. It was not until Gu Manru got the news to see her at night that Yingying learned about the purpose of Concubine Shu.

...If Qin Rong hadn't arrived in time, Concubine Shu would have almost harmed the Gu family.

Gu Manru was in a bad mood because of this, and she said coldly: "A few days ago, Roubin wanted to make a trip to me, but was exposed. I punished her hard. She also had the means to take this opportunity to pretend to be pitiful and regain the favor."

These days, Emperor Wucheng always went to Rou Concubine. After a while, Rou Concubine was afraid that Shu Concubine would be jealous and attack her, so she couldn't help but want to climb up.

I have to say that Rou Concubine really has the means. She looks delicate and seems to be dependent on Concubine Shu. In fact, she often controls Concubine Shu. Earlier, the incident of Yan Jihua falling into the water was the idea she gave to Concubine Shu.

The old story is about to be staged. This time Roubin wants to use the incident in the Eastern Palace to get rid of Concubine Shu, and to take the lead in severely hurting Gu Manru and Yingying.

Yingying has not been involved in the harem for a long time, but she didn't expect that the group of people were still staring at her. Thinking that her aunt was assassinated by Rou Concubine in her previous life, she thought about it and asked, "Does your aunt want to get rid of Rou Concubine?"

For the safety of my aunt in this life, Yingying must not let this Rou Concubine be arrogant anymore.

Gu Manru didn't know what Yingying was thinking, so she patted Yingying's hand and didn't care much: "You don't need your aunt to take action."

"Let's wait. Roubin is too smart. She will be in your hands with your prince's brother in a few days."

Yingying also hoped that Qin Rong would treat Rou Concubine well, thinking that when Qin Rong came over next time, she would complain to him. Perhaps the Buddha noticed Yingying's harmful intentions, so she caught a cold that night. In the next few days, her condition did not improve. Qin Rong went to the imperial study room and finally asked Emperor Wu Cheng to speak out and exempt Yingying from kneeling.

Even so, Yingying was fined more than half a month, and she had to copy the scriptures for half a month when her condition improved.

This time Emperor Wucheng was really cruel and wanted to let Yingying learn a lesson to understand that the royal face was inviolable.

During her recovery, Qiu Anan mustered up the courage to see Yingying once. She didn't know why Yingying was punished. Before coming, she specially asked Chunxi to make chicken soup and called Princess Shunhe to go with her.

"Have you heard that something interesting happened in the imperial city recently."

Qiu Anan also heard the rumors about the imperial city that there were topics to talk about, so she went to find Yingying. When she first entered the Eastern Palace, she was still uncomfortable. Later, she saw that Yingying was interested in the matter about the imperial city and talked more.

"Do you know that Roubin has a younger brother? It is said that her younger brother saved Roubin when he was a child. He told fortunes and said that he was Roubin's lucky star, so Roubin loved him very much."

Rou Concubine's younger brother was called Shangguan Chi, and Qiu Anan told him everything he heard, "I had discovered that Shangguan Chi liked to run to Lelou earlier. At first, he thought he liked to listen to music, but now he found that Shangguan Chi was interested in a female piano player in Lelou."

He is very similar to Rou Concubine's delicate personality. Shangguan Chi is introverted and courageous. Unlike other young masters who are arrogant and domineering, he doesn't like to talk to others on weekdays.

It is precisely because of this that although Shangguan Chi went to Lelou to meet the female piano master every day, he never dared to say a word to the piano master. Yesterday, somehow, Shangguan Chi became more courageous after drinking some wine. He even asked the piano master loudly in front of everyone if he liked him.

The female piano player blushed on the spot, but she didn't answer at first. As a result, Shangguan Chi held someone's hand and refused to let others go. Instead, he didn't wait for the female piano player to speak, but instead expressed his joy for the female piano player.

"The most interesting thing about this incident is that the female piano player nodded that night, and Shangguan Chi threatened to marry her home." Qiu Anan couldn't help but admire the female piano player when he said this.

What is Shangguan Chi's identity? Not to mention the Shangguan family in the court, he also has a favorite concubine who was named a concubine in the palace, and he is not a zither master who can be attached to it. Qiu Anan smiled and said, "Now the imperial city is guessing whether Shangguan Chi is sincere. Many people have followed the trend and put bets, and they all think that Shangguan Chi is playing the female zither master."

After hearing this, Shunhe continued: "How can such a thing be a joke? If Shangguan Chi just played around, he would have thought about how the female piano player would stay in this imperial city in the future."

Yingying nodded and said, "The Shangguan family is not an ordinary family, and the female piano player is not a fool. If she hadn't seen Shangguan Chi's sincerity towards him, how could she dare to respond easily?"

However, she didn't know what kind of temperament Shangguan Chi was. Thinking of his deep-minded sister, Yingying added: "This kind of thing still depends on Shangguan Chi's usual behavior."

Qiu Anan agreed. She had contacted Shangguan Chi several times, so she still knew him a little. "I think Shangguan Chi is sincere. He is not very brave. He should not dare to make such a joke. He even said that he would marry a female piano player within three days."

"By the way, do you want to bet? Now most outside bets Shangguan Chi will not marry a female piano master in three days, so I also bet 100 taels."

Yingying was curious: "Which party did you bet?"
To be continued...