Empress, she doesn't want to fight

Chapter 21

"What's the matter, are you uncomfortable?" Guo Chongyi asked with concern.

Guo Chongyi was an old man of Emperor Yong'an when he was in Qian's residence. She is only in her thirties this year, and she is not much different from Concubine Jiang's age. Older than the empress dowager.

Jiang Man had met Guo Chongyi a few times before at palace banquets and some occasions where concubines had to attend, but Guo Chongyi was quite similar to herself in some aspects, she didn't talk to people very much, and always sat alone, Jiang Man didn't expect that she would suddenly talk to herself.

Dazed for a moment, Jiang Man smiled at Guo Chongyi, "It's okay, but my waist is a little sore after sitting for a long time."

Guo Chongyi nodded and said: "If you feel uncomfortable, leave early, you are pregnant now, even if you leave earlier, the imperial concubine has nothing to say."

Jiang Man could hear the concern in Guo Chongyi's words, but she was surprised that Guo Chongyi's sudden overture was for that.

I don't know what Guo Chongyi's idea is, Jiang Man just nodded with a smile, "Thank you, Madam Chongyi, for your concern, it's just a little sore back, it's not a big deal, if I really can't stand it, I will tell the empress imperial concubine."

"You are the one who is pregnant, as long as you know it yourself." Guo Chongyi seemed to have heard the defense in Jiang Man's words, and turned her gaze back after speaking lightly, and stopped talking to Jiang Man.

The banquet lasted until Xu time. When Jiang Man returned to Yufu Garden, she was hungry and sleepy. Jiang Guifei’s birthday banquet, the food on the banquet was not bad, but Jiang Man didn’t dare to eat. I dipped my mouth with a teacup.

Wan Dong served dim sum, and Lian Qiu helped Jiang Man prepare hot tea. Jiang Man ate half a plate of dim sum with the hot tea, and then collapsed comfortably on the soft bed, sighing, "It's really a pain to attend a banquet while pregnant. .”

Wan Dong smiled and said: "Fortunately, the emperor is not a monarch who likes to enjoy himself. If he is like the former emperor, the master will suffer."

Jiang Man nodded. That's true. She doesn't like to be sociable. In this palace, she usually pushes away the concubine's banquet if she can, and only attends if she can't. But the late emperor liked to throw a banquet when he was alive. The emperor holds a banquet for you You can't just not participate for no reason. If you really participate in the banquet like the first emperor had a small banquet every three days and a big banquet every five days, you will feel suffocated just thinking about Jiang Man.

After such a comparison, Jiang Man suddenly felt that she was doing well now, and she didn't even feel uncomfortable when she had a Mid-Autumn Festival dinner to attend in August.

After attending Concubine Jiang's birthday banquet, Jiang Man has lived a life almost isolated from the world again.

During this period of time, there were no major events in the palace, except that some people fell out of favor, some people were fortunate enough to be favored by Emperor Yong'an, and the holy favor was in full swing.

Jiang Man held Wan Dong's newly made small clothes in her hand, flipping through them while listening to Lian Qiu's gossip.

"It is said that Lu Meiren has never seen the face of the emperor since she gave birth. Yesterday she met Chu Baolin, who is now favored in the imperial garden, and several concubines who were also admiring flowers in the imperial garden. Was it ridiculed?"

"It's strange to say that Lu Meiren's temper was humiliated by Chu Baolin in front of so many people yesterday, yet she turned around and left without saying anything."

"Maybe she's finally sober." Jiang Man's thoughts were all on the little clothes in her hands. After saying something indifferently, she measured the little clothes with her hands and said, "Such small clothes can really be worn by children." Are you going in?"

When Jiang Man said it, Wan Dong also became suspicious. After all, she hadn't made clothes for children very much. The size of the clothes was made by her and her acquaintance Shang Gongju's embroiderer. Make something a little bigger than this?"

Before Lianqiu entered the palace, she had seen a newborn child. The newborn child was not as big as a cat. She said: "The child is only a little big at birth. The size of the clothes in the master's hand seems to be appropriate. .”

Jiang Man thought for a while, and said: "Then make a few more sets according to this size, and make a few bigger ones. Anyway, children will wear them when they grow up. Don't they say that children grow up quickly?"

Although the child in her womb was born in the royal family, there must be clothes to wear. Even if they didn't prepare them, Shang Gongju must have prepared a lot of small clothes, but Jiang Man felt that she was more at ease with the small clothes made by her own people.

Jiang Man also made a few small clothes and a small quilt for the child herself, but Wandong and Lianqiu didn't let her do too much sewing, and Lianqiu's needlework was not very good, so she had to work hard to hold the winter .

After talking about the child's clothes, the master and servants chatted and said back to Beauty Lu, "I feel that Beauty Lu has really changed a lot, she is so low-key now, she was still in confinement on the day of the imperial concubine's birthday banquet." Didn't show up, it seemed like she stepped out of Luomeiju for the first time since she gave birth to confinement."

"Did she go to the imperial garden to meet the emperor by chance?" Wan Dong asked.

"Who knows." Lianqiu said: "I heard that Chu Baolin said that when he satirized Lu Meiren at that time, saying that Lu Meiren would go to the Imperial Garden to try her luck because she can't see the emperor now."

After speaking, Lianqiu sighed again: "This Chu Baolin is also very arrogant. Beauty Lu is a beauty after all, and she is two ranks higher than her in status."

Jiang Man put down the little clothes in her hands, and said with a smile: "Didn't you hate Lu Meiren very much before? Why are you sighing now that Lu Meiren is being ridiculed by others?"

Lianqiu smiled embarrassedly, "My servant actually hates Miss Lu, who told her to trouble you, my master, after thinking about it carefully, maybe that maid was ordered by Miss Lu to deliberately serve hot soup. Splashing it on your face, master. Thinking about it like this, how could this servant not hate her? It’s just that the servant hates Miss Lu, but what does Chu Baolin say? Speaking of which, the servant girl can't describe that feeling."

"Once you succeed, you will be insane," Jiang Man said.

"Yes, yes, that's the sentence." Lianqiu nodded and looked at Jiang Man adoringly, "Master is still smart."

Jiang Man smiled and said, "Maybe Chu Baolin was dazed by the sudden favor?"

Chu Baolin entered the palace in 13 years of Yongan, and is in the same batch as Lu Meiren. The difference is that Lu Meiren and Sun Meiren were favored by the emperor when they entered the palace, while Chu Baolin was still a royal daughter not long ago. I don’t know how to enter the emperor recently. His eyes suddenly became pampered and promoted to Baolin.

If you think about it, you will know that it is normal for a person who has been staying at the bottom of the mud to suddenly fly up to the clouds.

It's just that I don't know how long Chu Baolin can be proud. Next year will be the year of the general election, and there will definitely be a lot of newcomers in the palace, and there will definitely be some "lively" in the palace by then.

(End of this chapter)