Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

"Why does Sister Zhuang Concubine keep staring at the Empress?"

Lu Wanning was thinking about it when Xi Concubine opposite her spoke in a weird way.

Lu Wanning glanced at Xi Concubine, smiled slightly, and said, "Sister, I just think that the Empress's complexion is particularly good, so I couldn't help but take a second look."

After finishing speaking, Lu Wanning turned her head and said to the empress: "I also ask the empress to forgive my concubine for offending me."

The queen waved her hand with a smile, and said, "Concubine Zhuang doesn't have to be so careful, I'm not the kind of narrow-minded person."

Lu Wanning smiled and said, "The empress is naturally the most lenient."

Concubine Xi saw that not only did the queen not attack Lu Wanning, but was also very happy because of Lu Wanning's words, she felt a little bit unwilling, but she could only shut her mouth sullenly.

Lu Wanning took Qingzhi to the Linglong Pavilion after asking the empress to come out. Zhou Cai had a low status and waited until the other high-ranking concubines had left before catching up with Lu Wanning from behind.

"Miss Zhuang, the weather is fine today, do you want to sit in the imperial garden?"

It's already autumn, and the weather is getting colder every day, but there is no wind today, so it's not very cold.

Lu Wanning smiled and said, "Then let's go sit down together."

The two walked slowly into the imperial garden, talking while walking, mainly because Zhou Cairen said that Lu Wanning listened.

"Your Majesty, you are now a concubine, and it may not be appropriate to live in the Linglong Pavilion any longer. The Emperor will let you move to the palace soon, right?"

The concubine can already live in the main hall of the first palace, and Lu Wanning has been promoted to concubine Zhuang, so there is absolutely no reason to still live in Linglong Pavilion.

Lu Wanning smiled and said, "Actually, Linglong Pavilion is quite good. I'm used to living there. If I really move out, I'd be very reluctant."

"Although the Linglong Pavilion is good, it is a bit small after all, and it is too far away from the emperor's Jianzhang Palace." Zhou Cairen said.

Lu Wanning didn't say a word, Linglong Pavilion was a little smaller, but she was the only master, so she could live there.

As for the fact that it is too far away from Jianzhang Palace, Lu Wanning also thinks it is nothing. If the emperor has the heart, then this distance is nothing to the emperor, but if the emperor has no intention, even if she lives in front of the emperor, the emperor may not Can turn a blind eye.

But Lu Wanning just thought about it, the palace must be moved, but I don't know where the emperor will let it move.

There are four vacant palaces suitable for her status in the harem, namely Changxin Palace, Taikang Palace, Ruichang Palace and Biyun Palace.

Among them, although the palace of Changxin Palace is large, its location is not good. The locations of Ruichang Palace and Taikang Palace are similar. They are both quite close to Jianzhang Palace, and they are also in the middle of the entire palace.

However, Ruichang Palace is larger than Taikang Palace, perhaps as big as two Taikang Palaces.

The location of Biyun Palace is not bad, and the area is neither too big nor too small.

Therefore, in comparison, Ruichang Palace is the best in all aspects, Taikang Palace and Changxin Palace have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Biyun Palace is neither outstanding nor too bad in all aspects.

If Lu Wanning were to choose, she felt that Biyun Palace was the most suitable palace for her now, and it was also the palace most likely to be ordered by the emperor to let her move in.

Zhou Cairen also had her own selfish intentions when she mentioned that Lu Wanning moved to the palace. She wanted to move to the same palace as Lu Wanning.

Seeing that Lu Wanning did not speak after listening to her, Zhou Cairen couldn't help being a little disappointed.

But she didn't show it either, instead she talked to Lu Wanning about the empress's birthday.

"The empress's birthday will be in a few days. What did the empress prepare for the empress's birthday?" Zhou Cairen said sadly: "At first, the concubine wanted to embroider a kang screen for the empress. All the ministers and concubines have almost finished embroidering screens, but later they heard that Du Cairen had also embroidered Kang screens to give to the empress."

Du Cairen was a beautiful girl who entered the palace in the same batch as Lu Wanning more than two years ago, but after entering the palace, Du Cairen seemed to only serve her bed once or twice, and she never made any waves after that.

If Zhou Cairen hadn't mentioned it now, Lu Wanning would have forgotten about this person, but she had never heard of Du Cairen's good life before, and it seems that Zhou Cairen's news is better than she thought Some.

Zhou Cairen continued to say, "Du Cairen's embroidery work is incomparable even to the embroiderers in the palace. Although the embroidery skills of the courtiers are good, if they are compared with Du Cairen's, That is, there is no place to throw it away, so the concubine doesn't know what to give the empress as a birthday gift now."

Lu Wanning smiled, and said, "I don't sell my female celebrities very much, so I can only give them to the vulgar."

Lu Wanning chose a pair of plum vases painted with peonies to give to the empress. This pair of plum vases is very brightly colored and is a relatively rare treasure nowadays. It would be a good idea to give it to the empress as a birthday gift.

Zhou Cairen listened, thought for a while, and said: "Then the concubine will also go to the treasury to pick out after returning, and choose two precious things for the empress as a birthday gift."

After saying this, Zhou Cairen remembered what happened when she paid her respects just now. She looked around and saw that there was no one else, and then she asked Lu Wanning: "Did you also notice that the queen was looking at the empress at that time?" Are you skinny?"

Lu Wanning nodded, and said, "Yes, the empress seems to have lost so much weight, but her complexion is better than before."

Zhou Cairen lowered his voice and said to Lu Wanning: "The concubine noticed it a few days ago. At that time, the concubine was curious and asked the people around her to inquire about it. The empress seems to have a bad appetite recently. She can eat only I use a few sips, but the empress insists on using a cup of blood bird's nest every day, which may be the reason why the empress looks better and better even though she has lost weight."

How could Lu Wanning fail to understand the meaning of Zhou Cairen's words, Zhou Cairen wanted to tell herself that she suspected that there might be something wrong with the blood bird's nest that the Empress Empress took every day.

It's just that Lu Wanning didn't want to express her own opinion on this matter, so she pretended not to hear the implication in Zhou Cairen's words and smiled, and said, "Maybe."

After Zhou Cairen heard Lu Wanning's perfunctory words, he stopped talking for a while.

She has known Lu Wanning for so long, and it can be said that Lu Wanning is the closest person in the palace. Seeing that Lu Wanning never puts on airs in front of her, she is willing to talk to her and give her the good things she got Give it to her.

So she thought that Lu Wanning had already regarded her as a sister she could talk to, but now she realized that Lu Wanning didn't trust her as much as she thought.

Zhou Cairen was somewhat discouraged by this discovery.