All the concubines in the harem are time travelers

Bu Ji asked around and found out he had no intention of leaving, so Xiu Yu had no choice but to extend her hand to lead the way and spoke respectfully.

"Please follow me, my lord."

"When the Queen Mother returns, she will summon you."

She led Bu Ji and Li Er to a side hall, arranged everything skillfully, asked the palace maid to bring tea, and went to the small kitchen herself, got a plate of snacks and put it on the table.

"My dear, please rest here for a while."

Bu Ji smiled and nodded, and Xiu Yu stopped accompanying her and went out to do work.

Li'er leaned over to take a look at the snacks on the table, then picked up the teapot, lifted the lid to take a look, and said while smacking his lips.

"Master, what are these? They are clearly snacks and tea for the palace maids and eunuchs. She actually used these to entertain you."

Bu Ji took a quick look, reached out to pick up a piece of dessert and took a bite.

It’s just the most ordinary mung bean cake.

Li Er stopped her and said with a serious expression.

"Xiu Yu is clearly humiliating you, how can you eat it? Spit it out quickly."

She was furious, but Xiu Yu was from the Cining Palace and was more than ten years older than her in terms of qualifications, so she didn't dare to argue with her directly.

Bu Ji remained calm, ate a whole piece of mung bean cake, and then picked up the teacup and drank it all.

"I'm hungry. I've only been taking medicine these past few days and haven't had any snacks."

Li'er took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, saying.

"The Emperor ordered the kitchen to prepare several kinds of fashionable snacks early in the morning. I think they are exquisite and delicious. I will serve them to the young lady when I return to the palace."

Bu Ji wiped his mouth and nodded.

"However, these mung bean cakes and mixed tea are also very good things. I have never tasted them before. If you are willing, how about I exchange them with you, using the snacks that the emperor rewarded me with."

Li'er's eyes lit up, her mouth was watering just looking at those snacks. It was a good thing that her master wanted to exchange with her.

"No, no, how can you eat the food of slaves?"

She waved her hands repeatedly.

Bu Ji pretended to be angry, patted her and said.

"Why, you are only allowed to eat the snacks given to me by the emperor, but I am not allowed to eat yours. You are so stingy."

Li'er hurriedly defended herself, stammering and not knowing how to say it. After a while, she finally compromised.

"Yes, Master, I promise you."

Bu Ji smiled faintly, picked up another piece of mung bean cake and started eating.

There was nothing added to the mung bean cakes given to the palace ladies. It was made entirely of mung beans and sugar. The mung beans were coarsely ground and the sugar grains were very large, so it looked more like mung bean filling in buns than mung bean cakes.

It has a rough texture and the pure fragrance of mung beans. You need to chew it carefully and slowly so that you can swallow it without getting stuck in your throat.

Take another sip of the miscellaneous tea, that is, the tea foam, the tea fragrance dilutes the density and hardness of the mung bean cake, the two fragrances blend together, as if you are in a bamboo forest in the other world.

It turns out that the really delicious food in the palace is in the hands of the palace maids and eunuchs.

Most of the snacks sent by the imperial kitchen to the concubines in each palace were flashy and superficial. They were either for the sake of exquisiteness or for the sake of good luck. They did not care about the taste. They were just to make people feel pleasing to the eye, but it was impossible to eat them.

Fortunately, Concubine Shu was here. She cooked delicious meals and snacks, so everyone was able to enjoy the feast.

Especially Chun Changzai, who was in the growing period, always complained of hunger and was picky about food when eating the food prepared in the imperial kitchen, which made people worry.

The Queen was also worried about Chun Changzai, so she let her live with Concubine Shu. Chun Changzai grew taller and fatter.

Footsteps were heard from the Cining Palace, and a large number of palace servants poured into the courtyard like carp crossing the river. Two large sedan chairs carried by eight people stopped, each more gorgeous than the other, with pearl tassels all over, and a fist-sized luminous pearl on the top of the sedan chair.

When Bu Ji walked out of the door, he only saw the back of a woman. The pattern on the gauze dress was woven with dark gold thread, and dotted on each feather of the phoenix were tiny and round rose crystals and tiger-eye stones. The broken beads and tassels sparkled like stars and shone like flowing clouds, revealing an enchanting royal elegance.

She thought that this person must be the legendary Lady Yongning.

Xiu Yu's voice came from not far away.

"My dear, the Queen Mother invites you to the main hall."

Bu Ji followed Xiu Yu, and Li Er followed closely behind.

When they arrived at the main hall, Bu Ji still couldn't see Empress Yongning clearly. She knelt in the middle of the hall, three meters away from the empress dowager and saluted. The empress dowager and Empress Yongning were sitting on chairs on the white jade steps, one on the left and one on the right, with Empress Yongning slightly forward.

"Get up."

The Queen Mother finally spoke and signaled the palace maid to bring a chair over for Bu Ji to sit down.

Today, Miss Yongning was here, and she had been standing in the main hall, as if she was being punished. It would not sound good if this got out.

"Thank you, Queen Mother."

Bu Ji sat on the chair and tried his best to look dignified.

From the high hall, through the layers of beaded curtains, a crisp, refreshing and penetrating female voice came, like a strong spring breeze.

"Are you Bu Ji? The daughter of Bu Cong and Fang Wensheng?"

It was the first time that Bu Ji heard "her" mother's name from someone else. She only knew that Bu Ji's biological mother was Fang.

She stood up and bowed again before she even had time to warm up her chair.

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Bu Ji pays his respects to His Majesty, may His Majesty be blessed with good health and good health."

Miss Yongning waved her hand, and the nanny she brought with her lifted the pearl curtain in front of them, helped her to stand up, and walked a few steps forward, but did not go down the stairs. She still looked down at the woman who was paying her respects below.

"Don't be restrained in front of me. Just sit back down."

When Bu Ji stood up, he met her eyes and was amazed that there was such a beautiful woman in the world. He didn't dare to look at her any longer and lowered his head and sat obediently.

I have only heard from people in the capital that Lady Yongning is a female Bodhisattva, both in appearance and in her heart.

In the early years, the late emperor had just ascended the throne and his foundation was unstable. He did not want to fight with the enemy and harm the people and generals on the border, so he proposed a marriage alliance.

Originally, they wanted to adopt a royal daughter as a princess, but the king of the enemy country heard the name of Miss Yongning from somewhere and sent an envoy to marry Miss Yongning of Chu and Jin.

The matter was delayed for several months before it came to fruition.

On the seventh day of the seventh month in the first year of Taichu, Empress Yongning married a princess to the small barbarian country of Mobei on the border and was granted the title of Right Lady.

In the first month of the third year of Taichu, the monarch of Mobei died, and his eldest son succeeded to the throne. He occupied his father's harem and renamed Yongning*** a beauty.

In March of the fifth year of Taichu, the king was obsessed with beauty and incompetent, so his younger brother took his place and falsely claimed to have conferred the title of Grand Lady on Yongning, but in fact he also usurped her.

In April of the fifth year of Taichu, the Chu and Jin states sent troops to annihilate the Mobei state in one fell swoop. Miss Yongning, who was one month pregnant, was sent back to the palace by the generals.

Empress Yongning loved the people so much that she was willing to sacrifice her own reputation to serve three husbands. Even today, there are still storytellers telling stories about this incident.