Don't be a salted fish, the daily life of the concubine in the palace

Lanpin stamped her feet and clenched the embroidered handkerchief in her hand. She requested again and again: "Madame Qian, the Empress Dowager and I are family, so there is no reason why family members should not be close. Please go in and tell her that I miss my aunt."

Madam Qian still declined politely: "Before the Queen Mother took her afternoon nap, I asked this old servant to tell you: Find your own future, don't rely on others. The Queen Mother has made up her mind, Concubine Lan, please return to Huayang Palace."

After saying this, Nanny Qian turned and left.

Lanpin stood there for a long time, almost tearing the handkerchief in her hand. She was very depressed, not being favored by the emperor, not getting help from her aunt, and the Xie family was planning to send a new person to the palace to replace her...

Lanpin felt a sour nose and left the Cining Palace with a heavy heart. She took her personal maid to the Imperial Garden to relax. As she walked, Lanpin saw many eunuchs holding trays and carrying boxes.

"What are you moving the boxes for?" Lanpin asked curiously.

A chief eunuch replied, "Your Highness, the Queen Mother and Concubine Chen will leave the palace tomorrow to go to Anguo Temple to pray for blessings. The servants are moving their luggage."

Lanpin snorted and said sourly: "No wonder my aunt didn't see me, it turns out she wanted to go out of the palace for fun."

The eunuch did not dare to agree and ordered other eunuchs to continue moving things.

Lanpin felt bad and wanted to leave the palace. But once you enter the palace, it is like entering a deep sea. It is almost impossible to leave the palace. She is now a concubine of neither high nor low status, completely out of favor, and her mother is not qualified to visit her in the palace.

Unless you can become a concubine.

The position of concubine was honorable, and the biological mothers of the four concubines could visit the palace once a year. Lanpin felt bitter in her heart, she missed her mother's embrace and the free days before she entered the palace.

After staying in the palace for a long time, the days seemed especially long. She sat by the bed, watching the sun rise and set, and the days passed quietly.

She was lonely and miserable, so lonely that even Tan Tai Yin Xue disliked her. How pathetic.

Lanpin was wandering aimlessly in the Imperial Garden, and as she walked, she came to the East Pavilion of the Imperial Garden. Lanpin felt sad, and when she looked up, she saw a snow-white figure.

White clothes fluttering and black hair swaying.

Lanpin was so frightened that she almost fainted. She said angrily, "Sister Meifei, can you change your clothes? Last Mid-Autumn Festival, I was almost scared to death by you. Now, when I was walking in the garden, you scared me to death again."

The autumn leaves are falling, the breeze is blowing, and suddenly a strange white shadow appears in the bleak autumn wind, which can make even the bravest people tremble with fear.

Liu Ruyan looked back, her stunningly beautiful face showed no emotion, she only said calmly, "Be quiet, you're disturbing the autumn wind."

Lanpin rolled her eyes to the sky.

Liu Ruyan glanced at Lanpin, who was wearing red and green, and said, "The red and green dress ruins the autumn scenery."

Lanpin didn't see the Queen Mother today, and she was already angry. Liu Ruyan mocked her clothes, and she couldn't stand it. She mocked: "I like to dress brightly, what does it have to do with you? Wearing white everywhere scares people, and people who don't know would think someone died in the family. What's the use of having a pretty face? You dress like you're attending a funeral every day, no wonder the emperor doesn't favor you, you deserve it."

Liu Ruyan was silent.

After a while, she said calmly: "The emperor's love is like autumn leaves falling in the wind, no one can catch it."

Lanpin simply couldn't continue the conversation with her!

Lanpin stared at Liu Ruyan with hatred, saying that she was so useless and didn't know how to appreciate the good fortune she had! Liu Ruyan occupied the position of concubine for nothing, but lived a dull life.

Every year, Liu Ruyan's biological mother wanted to enter the palace to see her long-lost daughter, but she was always rejected by Liu Ruyan on the grounds that it would "only add to her worries."

Lanpin left with a wave of her sleeves, feeling a sense of malice for no reason. Lanpin rolled her eyes, and a vicious idea came to her mind.

She summoned her personal maid and whispered, "Send a letter home and ask the people at Si Tian Jian..."

The maid listened attentively, and nodded after a while: "I will do it right away."

Lanpin smiled and looked back at Liu Ruyan who was admiring the autumn scenery in the pavilion.

You pride yourself on being as calm and composed as a plum blossom, but suddenly you encounter an unexpected disaster. Can you, Liu Ruyan, still remain so calm and composed?

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The next day, at dawn, the team was ready to leave the palace. Before leaving, Shen Wei repeatedly told Rong Mama and the others to protect Leyou and the other children and to increase patrols near the Cining Palace to prevent the bad guys from taking advantage of the situation.

After giving the instructions, Shen Wei got on the carriage and accompanied the Queen Mother out of the palace to pray for blessings.

The moment the carriage drove out of the palace along the long royal road, Shen Wei suddenly felt unprecedented happiness and relaxation. She lifted the curtain and took a deep breath, smelling the scent of freedom.

The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing and said, "I know you are bored in the palace. From now on, I will take you with me when I go out of the palace to pray for blessings once or twice a year."

Shen Wei's eyes curved with joy, and she held the Queen Mother's arm affectionately, saying coquettishly in a soft voice, "Mother is so kind."

The Queen Mother smiled and stroked Shen Wei's soft hair, her eyes full of love. Before Zhao Yang got married, the Queen Mother liked to take Zhao Yang out of the palace for a stroll.

Shen Wei looks like Zhaoyang, but not quite.

No matter what, the Queen Mother treated Shen Wei as her own daughter.

Shen Wei was deeply loved by Li Yuanjing, and her children were sensible. She managed the harem in an orderly manner, and was praised by the court officials and supported by the ladies of Yanjing.

Only the Queen Mother could see that Shen Wei, who seemed to be enjoying a bright future, was actually living a miserable life in the palace. The Queen Mother took her out to relax, which also helped to ease Shen Wei's inner depression.

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The news that Shen Wei and the Queen Mother left the palace to pray for blessings soon spread to Changxin Palace.

Lu Xuan put down the pregnancy-preserving medicine in her hand, turned her beautiful eyes slightly, and asked the palace maid Xiaoqin: "I remember that the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince went to the training ground to practice horseback archery today?"

Xiaoqin nodded: "Master, you remember correctly, today the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince are both in the training ground. The Emperor is teaching them hand in hand, and there are also imperial guards on duty around them. The children of Concubine Chen are all protected tightly."

In other words, it is difficult to take action against Shen Wei's child.

Lu Xuan sneered: "She is cautious."

Lu Xuan's son Li Chengjue staggered over and lay in her arms, calling in a baby voice, "Mother, Mother, I'm hungry."

Lu Xuan touched her son's face lovingly: "Okay, your mother will take you to dinner. Chengjue, grow up quickly. When you are four years old, let your father teach you archery, okay?"

Li Chengjue: “Okay~”

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The sun was slanting, night was falling, and the cold moon hung in the night sky. The lights in Chang'an Palace were bright. After Li Yuanjing finished reviewing the last memorial, he said casually: "Go to Yongning Palace."

Deshun, who was serving the pen and ink, said, "Your Majesty, you forgot that Concubine Chen and the Queen Mother left the palace this morning."

Li Yuanjing paused in drinking tea.

I was so busy today that I forgot about this. Donglin Kingdom was going to send a beauty to Qing Kingdom. Li Yuanjing did not accept foreign girls. He was planning to discuss with Shen Wei in the evening which minister would be the most suitable to give this beauty to.

But he forgot that Shen Wei had left the palace.

Deshun asked, "Your Majesty, which mistress's palace are you planning to visit tonight? Or are you going to stay alone in Xuanming Palace?"

Li Yuanjing thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Changxin Palace and see Concubine Shu."

Walking out of the palace where he worked, the night fell and the moonlight was shining. As the palace servants carrying the sedan chair arrived, Li Yuanjing suddenly saw a fire in the distance and thick black smoke.

A eunuch hurriedly came to report: "Your Majesty, there's a fire in Concubine Mei's Yuxiu Palace!"