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Chapter 151: Su Nu's Sorrow

The Yao family is a small family.

It is not easy to live in the capital. Ordinary people have a hard time living in the capital. The small families among officials naturally have limited well-being. Yao Jinse is the eldest daughter in the family. She has an older brother and a younger brother and sister. Her parents have a good relationship and there are no concubines or mistresses. Although the family is not well-off, they can live a pretty good life by increasing income and reducing expenditure.

The original owner had long been aware that none of his brothers and sisters were capable of achieving anything. Perhaps because he had known this for a long time, he had relied on himself for many years and tried not to trouble his family if possible. However, Yao Jinse was very different in this regard.

In Yao Jinse's opinion, many things are difficult to accomplish relying solely on one's own strength, and having the support of family members is naturally much better than having no support at all.

Even if her family members really couldn't help, as long as they didn't hold her back, it was already a good situation. So she arranged for Grandpa Xiaochi to help her deliver letters and contact her family in advance. After all, she felt at ease over the past year.

No matter how thicker blood is than water, it cannot withstand the passage of time. Emotions will fade away with the passage of time. If we cannot use interests to bind everyone together, we should interact more often to strengthen the feelings between each other. Family ties also need to be maintained. Otherwise, when you really need it, it will not be a matter of just a few words.

Let's just take it one step at a time.

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Everything was being arranged intensively inside Chengqian Palace, which was calm but undercurrents were surging. On the other side, in Liuchun Pavilion, it was a completely different scene.

Qiao Yanran, He Yunqing and Bai Fengping sat at a round table, but none of them spoke, and the expressions on their faces were not very good.

The New Year is just around the corner, and everyone should be getting together happily, but now the atmosphere in the room is such that no one can describe it as relaxed.

"Actually... you two sisters don't have to worry so much." Bai Fengping has always been the most cautious one in the crowd. The ability to read people's expressions honed by her years of being among noble ladies allows her to always detect people's negative emotions in any situation. However, in many cases, these emotions are not something she can solve. All she can do is to say a few nonsense words to comfort them: "Although Lady Qi is pregnant now, why do I feel that even if she gets pregnant at this time, it is not necessarily a good thing?"

Her words seemed unintentional, but they really touched the hearts of Qiao Yanran and He Yunqing.

Ever since the last incident with Concubine Yi, whether out of compensation or for some other reason, the emperor has always spent most of his time in the harem in Chengqian Palace. Imperial Concubine Rong has been favored for many years since she came to the palace. In this matter, neither Qiao Yanran nor He Yunqing have any intention of competing with the imperial concubine, but the emperor is too cold to them, which can't help but make them suspicious.

The women in the palace always attach great importance to favor, simply because the word favor is really related to too many things. Of course, the most important reason is that no one wants to stay lonely in the deep palace for a lifetime. Under the high walls that never see the sun, there is really nothing to pass the time.

It would be fine if there were no one else, but Qi Meiren entered the palace with everyone else, which made the emperor feel very
Even though she was not particularly favored, she still had the chance to get pregnant. This was already very eye-catching.

In the eyes of everyone in the harem, Concubine Qi has always been a low-key person. Even when she was pregnant, she did not show off because of the child - this is also a very normal phenomenon. After all, at that time, the incident of Concubine Yi had just happened, and everyone was very careful. It is always bad to be too conspicuous. Concubine Qi used to live a very quiet life, never causing trouble, living her own life peacefully, never leaving the house, and never competing for anything except the rewards from the Queen and the Queen Mother.

Originally, He Yunqing and the others were also very calm.

When winter came and the weather got colder, many thoughts were not so strong. As for the competition for favor, after experiencing the incident with Concubine Yi, they, as the instigators, really wanted to take a break. The emperor doted on the imperial concubine and had no time to care about others, so they just waited.

This feeling of waiting had originally suppressed other emotions very well, but after today, all these things are different.

The fact that Concubine Qi returned to the emperor's sight was not a good sign in itself.

In the harem, most of the interests that the women fought for were related to the emperor. This was an unspoken consensus. Now that there was one more person to share the emperor's attention, naturally the number of people who originally had the emperor's attention would decrease.

People like He Yunqing are better off, as they were once favored, and it cannot be said that they have completely fallen out of favor now. However, some concubines like Bai Fengping, who have never entered the emperor's sight, have a more miserable life.

And these are not the most important things.

"Ping'er is right. People with children in the palace are often the target of public criticism. I don't know how many people are staring at Concubine Qi's belly. We don't need to worry about it. Moreover, we can't do such a thing as harming an unborn baby." He Yunqing took Qiao Yanran's hand and said in a deep voice: "The most important thing right now is to confirm what the queen is thinking."

Yao Jinse didn't need to guess the Queen's thoughts, but He Yunqing and Qiao Yanran didn't. The two of them were now firmly following the Queen. Even if they hadn't made this matter clear on the surface, they had a tacit understanding about Concubine Yi's previous incident.

Although the Queen did not take advantage of the situation and implicate the Imperial Concubine in this matter, or perhaps it could be said that the Queen did not have the ability to do so, but the Queen must have known some truth about this matter. The fact that she did not point it out meant that the Queen at least wanted to win them over.

——He Yunqing could have guaranteed this before, but now he doesn’t dare to make this guarantee.

The reason why she was able to bring her sisters to stand on the Queen's side was, on the one hand, because she saw that the Queen and the Imperial Concubine did not get along well, and on the other hand, she also knew the character of her own sisters.

Qiao Yanran has always attached great importance to relationships since she was a child. If she and the emperor developed romantic feelings, given the emperor's romantic nature, Qiao Yanran would inevitably be hurt in the future. She and Qiao Yanran grew up together, and she thought she could not be so cruel as to give up the sisterhood of so many years, so she simply dragged Qiao Yanran to do things together.

In this way, even if an emotional rift arises between Qiao Yanran and the emperor in the future, there is at least a queen who can help them.