Your Majesty, please do not disturb, the empress only wants to engage in business

Chapter 137 Is there any merit?
After talking for a while, Yao Jinse felt a little tired. Concubine Rong was even more listless than Yao Jinse, so she ordered Yao Jinse to leave first and continue with the heating matter. However, the specific details would have to wait until the concubine discussed it with the emperor tonight.

Walking out of Chengqian Palace, Yao Jinse walked on the blue brick and stone road, listening to the crisp sound of her own footsteps and the footsteps of the people around her on the stone slabs, and she unconsciously began to think again in her heart.

"Bai Tao, when we just walked out of the Imperial Concubine's palace, how did you see the Imperial Concubine's spirit?"

When she asked this question, she deliberately lowered her voice. Although there was no one around, it was a place where people came and went after all. If someone in some corner heard the questions she asked, it might cause trouble.

Yao Jinse lowered her voice, so Bai Tao naturally didn't dare to reply loudly. Besides, Bai Tao didn't know how to answer Yao Jinse's question.

"When I was in Chengqian Palace just now, I didn't dare to look at the Imperial Concubine. But it's strange. Isn't Imperial Concubine Rong from a martial family? Why does the Imperial Concubine look so tired?"

Even a little girl like Bai Tao could see it.

According to ordinary people's impression, Concubine Rong was born in a martial arts family and had practiced martial arts since childhood, so she shouldn't be so weak. Yao Jinse roughly knew the inside story - the book said that it was because of excessive martial arts practice since childhood that hurt her body, but Yao Jinse still had doubts about the concubine's weakness.

The real world is always more absurd than the world described in words, so she cannot guarantee that in the real world, apart from her weak constitution and old illnesses caused by past injuries, there is no one else who could have attacked the imperial concubine.

Of course, she was not loyal to Concubine Rong.

The most important thing to survive in the harem is not to tie yourself to a tree. People with good luck might be able to find a stable tree to tie themselves to, but Yao Jinse can't.

She never believed that she was a lucky person.

From childhood to adulthood, she had to fight for whatever she wanted with her own hands. No one would put good things in front of her, so she had long been accustomed to relying on herself for everything in her life. Whether it was Concubine Rong, the Queen, or even the Emperor Xie Yun'an, as long as conditions permitted, they could all be tools.

Therefore, most of the things that Concubine Rong asked her to do before would turn out to be different in Yao Jinse's hands. The result that Concubine Rong wanted would roughly be achieved, but Yao Jinse would definitely get some benefits. The benefits were not much and definitely did not seem excessive, but for Yao Jinse, they were more than enough.

What is most abundant in the palace is people from wealthy families. After all, there is a difference between the big families and the small families. Sometimes, things that others look down upon and that only show up between their fingers are extraordinary things in the hands of Yao Jinse and the family behind Yao Jinse.

Therefore, Yao Jinse never thought of taking all the credit for this time from the very beginning.

An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. With the Imperial Concubine protecting him, everything is easy. So from the bottom of her heart, Yao Jinse naturally hopes that the Imperial Concubine will live a long life. However, even she, a layman who has only read a few medical books and gained some knowledge of health preservation in her previous life, can see the poor health of Imperial Concubine Rong.

The imperial concubine is really too weak.

She looked strong, but that was because she had been taking medicine. Once she stopped taking the medicine, it was hard to tell what she would be like. But it was impossible to ask Concubine Rong to stop taking the medicine now.

Among the medicines that the imperial concubine mainly drank, the largest amount was the medicine for maintaining pregnancy, and the rest were some medicines for nourishing the body and replenishing qi. However, the imperial concubine's body was like a funnel, and everything she drank would always leak out. It's just that the amount she drank was too large, and it would take a while for it to leak out completely. That's why she looked like she had sufficient qi and blood on the surface, but her spirit was not good, and no amount of medicine could help.

Yao Jinse could only think about these words in her heart.

She was not an imperial physician, nor did she have any familiar acquaintances in the Imperial Hospital. Some words could not possibly reach the ears of the imperial concubine from her side. If there was something she could do in the whole thing, it was to make the imperial concubine live as long as possible.

After all, in the original novel, when Concubine Rong passed away, her death was not very dignified, and she died of external forces, not from illness or other reasons.

As long as the imperial concubine can live a little longer...even if she just lives to die of natural causes, the time should be enough for Yao Jinse.

Without the imperial concubine, there is still the queen, which is really useless. She can also make some plans about the love-hate entanglement between the male and female protagonists Xie Yun'an and Qiao Yanran. Yao Jinse sometimes feels like the director of the dramas she watched in her previous life. She has a script in her hands, but cannot control the final direction of the whole play. She can only try her best to make the play go in the direction she wants.

Silent all night.

The next morning, just after daybreak, snowflakes began to fall outside. The winter snow always comes early in the Forbidden City, but this time the snow was particularly heavy. It snowed and froze in an instant, making it difficult to walk. Fortunately, it was not the day for paying respects, so Yao Jinse stayed in the bedroom, set up a pot for herself, and took Bai Tan and Bai Tao to eat something to warm themselves up. She was quite happy and comfortable.

Bai Tan and Bai Tao insisted on following the rules and refused to sit down to eat together. Yao Jinse was unable to persuade them, so she just let them go and asked them to stand and use bowls to portion out the amount they wanted to eat. Later, she simply moved the pot to the servants' room so that other people in the palace could also warm up together.

The palace servants would never have such a good thing happen to them on a normal day. They were all immediately grateful to Yao Jinse. Those who were on duty today would finish their meals and go out to stand guard, while those who were not on duty could line up at the back. There would be plenty of charcoal and hot water.

People who are full always feel sleepy easily. Yao Jinse took off her hairpins and rings, leaned on the warm couch and wanted to take a nap. Although she was not particularly sleepy, she should take a warm nap in the house on such a snowy day.

However, good times are always very short. Before she fell asleep, there was a sudden chaos and noise outside. Along with the eunuch's somewhat sharp voice, a gust of cold air rushed in from behind the opened curtain, clearing away the sleepiness that had just been brewing in Yao Jinse.

"You are so relaxed."

Xie Yun'an strode in quickly, giving Yao Jinse no time to prepare. Yao Jinse could only maintain her current plain makeup and bowed quickly.

"Okay, get up," Xie Yun'an sat down on the heated kang, not caring about Yao Jinse's look, "I'm tired of reviewing memorials in the Yangxin Palace, so I came out for a walk. When I passed by you, I remembered that the imperial concubine said yesterday that you had made a great contribution, so I came in to see you."