Chapter 41: tit for tat
So Su Muwan didn't care much, but followed them quietly.
After visiting the emperor at the main hall, Shangguan Yu was taken away by the emperor to discuss matters. Only Queen Zhou Yuerou was left sitting upright in the upper seat, and on her left were several palace concubines dressed in costumes.
"I have seen the Empress, and the Empress is blessed with all my blessings."
Su Muwan and Su Xinai saluted in unison, and knelt respectfully in front of the queen.
The queen smiled and said gentlely: "You two sisters are so unique. The sister is so charming, but the sister is like a lotus in clear water. King Yu is lucky to have you two sisters."
"The Empress is too proud. I am not worthy of praise for the way I am like a puppet. "Su Xinai's cheeks flushed and she replied shyly, while Su Muwan, who was kneeling next to her, was stunned, without any indication, which one is higher or lower, and it was already distinguished in just one second.
The queen restrained her unhappy expression and pointed at the palace concubine who was dressed up next to her with a smile, introducing: "Come on, I will introduce you to you. This is the precious concubine. This is the first time you two have met."
"I have seen the precious concubine, and I have a great blessing." Su Muwan bowed with Su Xinai again.
The queen continued, "I don't think so just now. Now that I look at it again, I think Princess Yu is a bit similar, but Princess Yu is just as old as a flower, which really makes me envious."
"Haha, I am already the yellow flower of yesterday, how can I compare to Princess Yu's tenderness?" Concubine Zhen responded to the queen with a small group of daughters, and a hint of viciousness was added to her eyes when she looked at Su Muwan.
Su Muwan saw clearly and knew that the queen was deliberately using herself to stimulate the concubine Zhen, but who didn't know how old the queen was older than the concubine Zhen. If the concubine Zhen was a yellow flower yesterday, where would the queen have been able to get?
Besides, the queen directly raised hatred for Su Muwan, and she wanted Concubine Zhen to say more angry words. The queen said.
"I dare not be a concubine. The princess is extremely handsome. When I see her, I am so ashamed that I dare not look up. If the empress still wants to praise her, I will be really embarrassed."
Su Muwan's cheeks were slightly red, and she seemed to be at a loss. Although her flattery was too obvious, she could wear it all the time and not wear it. The princess felt that it would be good to enjoy it.
Concubine Zhen was a little displeased just now because the queen compared herself to Su Muwan, a little princess. Now she saw that Su Muwan was quite self-aware, and she saw that she was just a little joke and was so petty that she was so petty and could not be as elegant as a grandparent, so she felt relieved.
"Haha, I'm old, so I can't compare to my sister and Princess Yu."
The queen seemed not so concerned about the criticism of Zhen Guifei, but she happily admitted it directly. However, generally speaking, if the queen belittled herself, Zhen Guifei would like to praise her, but Zhen Guifei didn't know whether it was intentional or forgotten, so she ignored the queen's words and did not answer again.
The queen showed a slightly embarrassed expression at this moment. She glanced at Concubine Zhen with some displeasure and said, "I heard that Huan'er is going to come back from Huguo Temple today. The temple is not as thin as the palace. I don't know if it has ever been thinner?"
Who doesn't know that Shangguan Huan's body is a bit sturdy and plump, which is something that Zhen Guifei has always been troubled by. The Empress does not open the pot and she still asks in this kind of careful tone.
Concubine Zhen’s emotions were much more restrained than the queen. Although the queen stepped on her painful feet, she could still speak gently with a smile: “Huan'er went to Huguo Temple this time to pray for the emperor. Besides, Huguo Temple was also a personal seal by the emperor’s emperor. Everything is best, so how could she be thin? My sister said yes?"
Concubine Zhen directly used the emperor to block the queen's mouth. Even if the queen was not happy or prepared to refute her, it would be useless if she was not happy.
So the queen just smiled dryly: "Isn't it? It seems that this is the mediocre person who disturbs me."
Su Muwan sat quietly by the side with her eyes down, watching her nose and watching her heart as the queen and the princess competed against each other. She really wanted them to mock each other.
This way I had no time to take care of her. Unexpectedly, the queen seemed to know what others were thinking. After a change of the subject, the artillery fire continued to Su Muwan.
"Princess Yu has been married to the princess's mansion for a while, right? Have you ever asked for the Ping'an meridian?"
Although the words refer to the Ping'an meridian, the real meaning was to suggest whether Su Muwan's stomach was moving. She suddenly remembered that it was the same in her previous life. Whenever she entered the palace, the queen would ask her children questions. At the beginning, she would indirectly ask questions, but at the end, she would ask questions without any concealment.
It is because of this that she attaches so much importance to the issue of her offspring, for fear of implicating Shangguan Yu. When she is really pregnant, she will be careful everywhere, so she will be heartbroken when she hears Su Xinai say that Shangguan Yu issuing an order to abort her own child.
"Empress, I've been married to the prince for only three months!" Su Muwan deliberately pretended to be shy and answered, and turned her face away, showing her petty spirit.
"It's been three months, and you haven't gotten pregnant yet? You really should have learned from Concubine Zhen." The queen continued with a smile, deliberately using Su Muwan to stimulate Concubine Zhen.
Who doesn't know that when the princess entered the palace, the emperor stayed in her palace almost every night and was very loving to her. Therefore, the princess was found to be pregnant just one month ago.
The queen had just found out that she was pregnant and couldn't be happy with Concubine Zhen. As a result, when she was about to give birth, Concubine Zhen gave birth prematurely and gave birth to the queen. She gave birth to the eldest prince Shangguan Qian just a few hours earlier than the queen. In this way, the queen hated Concubine Zhen even more.
However, Concubine Zhen didn't like the queen? In the early years, they could still maintain a smile on their faces. However, as the emperor grew older and their princes grew up, they were too lazy to even cover up, which was almost equivalent to tearing their faces apart.
So when the queen heard what she said, Concubine Zhen knew that the queen was mocking her for seducing men, so she immediately covered her lips and chuckled and refuted.
"What are the words of my sister? At that time, my sister had just entered the palace, and the emperor liked this freshness. Now the emperor is not very good at all."
That's it, but the emperor has many concubines in his harem and can still go to the precious concubine more than three times a month. This shows that she is so popular that she can be called the saintly favor, and the empress still relies on the ancestral system to be divided into fixed day one, fifteenth day.
Seeing that she couldn't get a chance at Concubine Zhen, the queen simply didn't hold her back and instead locked her eyes on Su Muwan, who was the best bullying, and looked at Su Muwan with a serious expression and said, "I heard that King Yu is not going to your yard very much?"
"If you say that to the Empress, it's all your fault that I can't keep the prince." Su Muwan lowered her eyes and whispered, but she was sneering in her heart.
"Oh, if King Yu doesn't go, you won't take the initiative to invite him? As the official concubine, King Yu has no prince, so you should consider it more for your descendants."
The queen continued, and the tone was really true if Su Muwan hadn't known her face, she would have been grateful, but now she was really pretending to be moved.
"Don't worry, I will definitely work harder to keep the prince."
"Yeah." The queen responded lightly, and her eyes turned and fell on Pingping and Neering Su Xinai. In the past, she hated women who were as soft and weak as Zhen Guifei the most. However, she didn't like Su Muwan. When she looked at Su Xinai, she liked her much, so she changed her voice:
"The same is true for the concubines. You two are sisters in a family, so it would be the same if they gave birth to the prince first." After a pause, the queen spoke without any concealment: "Since King Yu doesn't go where your sister is, the burden of scattering branches and leaves will fall on you."
"I am afraid, and the prince dare not speculate on his own." Su Xinai saw Su Muwan being slapped in the face mercilessly by the queen, and she was in a good mood, but when she answered the queen, she showed a panic expression.
"I just want to rest assured that I will support each other with my sister and strive to give birth to a prince as soon as possible."
"Well, he is a sensible person." The queen nodded with satisfaction, then glanced at Su Muwan who was stunned with a little disgust, and told her displeasure: "You, you should learn more from your sister."
"Yes, I will remember it." Su Muwan lowered her eyes and responded respectfully, but no one saw the mockery flashing through her lower eyes.
At this moment, a noisy sound suddenly came from the front of the hall, mixed with the sound of a woman laughing and joking. It was not a shame that this was the main place of the palace.
Su Muwan lowered her eyes inadvertently, and there was a vague guess in her heart. The one who could shout in the palace without any concealment was the treasure in the palm of the precious concubine, and the princess Huaqing in her heart, Shangguan Huan.
In fact, from the chess between Concubine Zhen and the Queen just now, Su Muwan is not that difficult to deal with, but the memories of the previous life told Su Muwan that all this is the mask of Concubine Zhen.
The real precious concubine is insidious and cunning, and she is now just showing the tip of the iceberg in front of the queen. This is exactly her cleverness, she can expose the enemy's most taboo things to the enemy, thus creating an illusion.
If it weren't for the subsequent struggle to seize the throne and power, she might have been deceived by the appearance of the princess.
However, when Su Muwan thought deeper, she felt that it was understandable. If Concubine Zhen was really as easy to deal with as she seemed on the surface, how could she remain favored in the harem? She has maintained the emperor's interest in her for more than 20 years?
But if the concubine Zhen pretended to be extravagant, then Shangguan Huan was really stupid. She didn't know if she was protected too well by concubine Zhen and Shangguan Qian, and she grew up in a honeypot since she was a child, so she was willful and willful, and her cunning character was like a piece of white paper.
In the previous life, she became the sharp blade of Su Muwan's killing with a knife, especially herself. In the previous life, she didn't know how much she suffered in the hands of Su Xinai and Shangguan Huan.
After calculating the time, Su Xinai also met Shangguan Huan at this time, and according to his preferences, he quickly became an alliance.
What a pity, Su Muwan had long foresaw the conspiracy that Su Xinai and Shangguan Huan were going to perform, so Su Xinai is afraid that she can't laugh to the end this time.
Sure enough, Su Muwan had just guessed that the person coming was Shangguan Huan, and the eunuch at the door made a loud noise in his sharp voice: "Prince Chun, Prince Qin, Thirteenth Prince, Prince Huaqing is here."
Hum? Shangguan Chen is here too?
Chapter completed!