Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 115

When Ruyi followed Zhao Qingze out of the Ci'an Palace, she looked back, and when she stepped onto the imperial carriage, a smile suddenly broke out on her face.

Her smile made Monk Zhang Er a little confused. He stroked Ruyi's back and asked strangely, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I'm just happy."

Ruyi shook her head with a relaxed expression on her face.

Seeing her like this, Zhao Qingze couldn't help laughing, scratched her nose, and said, "Why are you happy? Are you happy that I made you a royal concubine, or are you happy that I made the Queen Mother mad? "

When Ruyi heard the words, she gave Zhao Qingze an angry look, and replied, "Am I such a person? There is not much difference between a noble concubine and an imperial concubine. The queen mother, no matter what, is also your mother." , I know that you were afraid and uncomfortable just now."

Speaking of this, the smile on Zhao Qingze's face also faded slightly, but he still replied with a smile: "You guessed wrong, I feel very comfortable just now."

"Okay, you're fine."

Ruyi couldn't tell the truth of Zhao Qingze's words, but she didn't want to continue this unpleasant topic, so she just smiled and said, "I'm happy in my heart, but I just found out that coming to the Empress Dowager's side to pay her respects is different from what I thought."

Ruyi lowered her head and put Zhao Qingze's right hand between her own, holding it tightly.

"I don't really like your other women very much, and I don't want to see them, but when I saw them today, I found that only you, me and our children are a family."

"Stupid."

Zhao Qingze's heart shook slightly, but he pulled his hand out of Ruyi's, and pressed Ruyi's head in his arms, rubbed it randomly twice, and said with a smile.

Ruyi's face was buried in Zhao Qingze's chest, but she didn't need to confirm it, and she felt that she was smiling silly, but she was quite happy.

Zhao Qingze's posture holding Ruyi was actually uncomfortable, but Ruyi was unwilling to move, and just buried her head in Zhao Qingze's arms without moving.

However, after just hugging for a while, Zhao Qingze suddenly laughed, ruining the warm atmosphere.

Ruyi looked up at him strangely, with some complaints in her eyes.

Such a good and warm moment was ruined.

"What laughing?"

There was a bit of resentment in Ruyi's voice, but Zhao Qingze suppressed a smile, and said to Ruyi, "It's a good thing I didn't bring Aman up."

Ruyi listened, but forgot about her grievances, and she also felt a little funny and laughed.

Ever since she had a child and became a parent, the private space between her and Zhao Qingze was indeed often destroyed.Especially when Aman grows older, as long as the kid is around and ignores him for a while, he will try his best to show his sense of existence.

However, although it was a pity to lose the world of two people, Ruyi still smiled and said: "No way, who told us to be parents!"

You can't leave the child behind and play by yourself.

Zhao Qingze nodded with a smile.

If you wish, Zhao Qingze might as well agree, she thought Zhao Qingze also had a lot of resentment about this matter, so she couldn't help but joked: "What a good father!"

"Really?" Zhao Qingze looked at Ruyi and asked back, and Ruyi nodded quickly.

However, Zhao Qingze laughed again, and said slowly: "It's just that what you said seems to be what you usually say when coaxing Aman. You must not be fooling me."

"Uh……"

Ruyi was aphasia for a while, unable to speak. When she was thinking about how to answer, Luanjia stopped in front of Zhaoyang Hall. Ruyi couldn't help but let out a big breath, couldn't hold back her mouth for a while, and said with a smile One sentence: "Actually, in my opinion, you are the same as Aman and Tianyou."

After Ruyi said this, she smiled and ran down by herself. Shaoyao, who was standing beside Luanjia, saw Ruyi running down in a hurry, thought something happened, and quickly reached out to help her.

Ruyi had just stood firm on the ground, but she reached out and hugged Aman to act as a shield to prevent Zhao Qingze from doing anything to her.

Zhao Qingze walked out from the inside and saw this scene, shook his head with a smile, and walked up to Ruyi's side, seeing Ruyi's nervous look, he didn't intend to do anything with Ruyi at all, but he couldn't help but scare her with a smile: "If I really want to do anything to you, it will only be at night. It's useless for you to hold Aman now."

Although Ruyi knew that Zhao Qingze was just teasing her, she couldn't help but blushed.

When Ruyi and Zhao Qingze returned to Zhaoyang Hall, it was already noon, and lunch had already been served in the dining room. Ruyi handed Aman to the nanny to take back to feed her, and she ate lunch with Zhao Qingze .

After lunch, the two went to Tianyou's room and knocked. Tianyou was asleep. Seeing this, Ruyi and Zhao Qingze were afraid of disturbing him, so they just looked around by the bed and went to the garden together for a walk. for a while.

The two were talking slowly, when Zhao Qingze suddenly mentioned what happened in Ci'an Palace just now.

"I saw that palace man just now, I look at you like something is wrong?"

Ruyi froze for a moment when she heard the words, but said, "I just didn't expect Aunt Wang to be working next to the queen mother now."

After saying this, Ruyi glanced at Zhao Qingze, and then said softly: "Aunt Wang used to be the steward of the small kitchen in Jiaofang Palace. After I learned the rules, I followed Aunt Wang to serve her and learn how to cook from her. Yi, Aunt Wang has always treated me very well."

The palace man has always been introverted, and he is always very serious on weekdays, but Ruyi can feel that the palace man is really kind to her.In her heart, she also regards the palace people as close elders.

This kind of feeling is actually deeper than Yi's treatment of Mrs. Cao.

After all, during so many years of getting along with each other, when Ruyi was still a humble court lady, it was the palace people who protected her.The small kitchen in the Jiaofang Palace was not without conflicts, but Ruyi was hardly affected.Of course, Ruyi would not be naive and unaware. She also knew that if it weren't for the care of the palace people, she would not be able to safely be in front of the little maid in the small kitchen, and she would still be able to learn the skill of making pastries.

Zhao Qingze could see what was going on in Ruyi's heart just by the expression on Ruyi's face. He patted Ruyi on the back, but said with a smile: "This palace man is a powerful person, you follow her , If you only learn cooking skills, it would be too wasteful."

"A powerful person?"

Ruyi was a little puzzled, and looked up at Zhao Qingze. In Ruyi's impression, the people in the palace have always been quite indifferent. All the people obediently listened to the words of the palace man.

But to be able to be a powerful person in Zhao Qingze's words, there must be more than that!
Ruyi smiled, but pretended to be relaxed and said: "Aunt Wang is very good at making cakes. I have learned from her for so long, and I only learned a little superficial."

After hearing Ruyi's words, Zhao Qingze smiled to save face, tapped Ruyi's forehead, and said, "That's really a waste! But if you learn other things from the palace people, then I still have to doubt the things in front of me." Is Ruyi the one I like?"

Ruyi looked sideways at Zhao Qingze's trickery, but finally succumbed to her inner curiosity and asked aloud, "How powerful is Aunt Wang?"

Seeing Ruyi's eagerness for knowledge, Zhao Qingze stopped whetting his appetite and said, "Back then, when the Queen Mother married the Supreme Emperor, the Chen family married the Queen Mother with four maids, all of whom were trained by the Chen family. Your Aunt Wang was one of them, and among the four, she had the most trust from the Chen family and the queen mother. The emperor was not the emperor at the time, but there were many women around him, and none of them were easy-going lamps. In such a situation Now, the palace people protected the mother and gave birth to me and Zhao Qingli, and before I was born, the Supreme Emperor had no other heirs."

"Is Aunt Wang really that powerful?"

The surprised expression on Ruyi's face was undisguised, and it was hard for her to equate the people Zhao Qingze said with the palace people in her impression.

"When I was young, the palace people were still with the queen mother. The most impressive thing was that the palace people pulled out a maid who was trying to harm me by my side, and cleaned up the people behind her together."

The means are decisive and extremely cruel.

Zhao Qingze did not say this, "Later, the queen mother became the queen, and I became the prince, but the palace people were no longer with the queen mother. It is said that they asked the queen mother to transfer her to the small kitchen. This time, the queen mother will She transferred back again, probably because she felt that she could not control the situation."

"But……"

Ruyi couldn't help but frowned, but there was a bit of unexplainable emotion on her face.

"She was trained by the Chen family to follow the queen mother. It is impossible to betray the Chen family and the queen mother. As long as they have an order, she will complete it even if she loses her life."

Zhao Qingze said something to Ruyi in a light tone.

Ruyi lowered her eyelids and did not speak.She had no doubts about the relationship between the palace people and her, but she also knew the Queen Mother's malice towards her. Zhao Qingze's words were still echoing in her ears, and she also knew what he meant.

"I see."

Ruyi replied softly.

Seeing her like this, Zhao Qingze smiled and comforted her: "You don't have to worry that the palace people will come to you, she is much smarter than you think, and she won't make trouble for herself. I'm afraid the current queen mother doesn't know about you things with her."

Zhao Qingze could probably believe that the palace people had no malice towards Ruyi, but also had great kindness towards Ruyi.Although he didn't dare to take it lightly, Zhao Qingze knew the skills of the royal family. If she didn't want to do something, she wouldn't let the queen mother have a chance to order her.

This person's ability is not only in the back house, he can even move his hands and feet above the court, Zhao Qingze's eyes are slightly deep.

"Well, that's the best."

Although Ruyi said so, she felt a little melancholy in her heart, and she couldn't express her feelings, but she still felt a bit regretful when she thought that she would have no contact with the palace people in the future.

Zhao Qingze said to Ruyi earlier that the palace people would definitely not meet Ruyi, but it was exactly as he said, after seeing the palace people in Ci'an Palace that day, the palace people never appeared in front of Ruyi again. Sometimes Ruyi almost suspected that the person she saw in Ci'an Palace that day was her own hallucination.

Except for slightly touching Ruyi's heart that day, the palace people have no influence on Ruyi's life in the slightest.

The end of the year is approaching, and the palace is busy preparing for the New Year's Eve banquet.

As the highest-ranking concubine in the harem, Ruyi naturally needs to attend, not only the concubine Xian has sent someone to ask, even the queen mother has sent someone to ask.

Of course, there are many other people who wish to meet this newly promoted imperial concubine at the palace banquet.

Ruyi's canonization imperial decree, as well as the gold book and imperial imperial concubine's palace clothes were given to Ruyi personally as early as the second day after Zhao Qingze informed the queen mother. The gold book was given to Ruyi, and Ruyi was asked to quickly change the imperial concubine's palace clothes to show him.

The imperial concubine's palace clothes are bright yellow. Ruyi has been in this era for so long, and her thoughts have gradually become a little subtle. Seeing this color of clothes, the expression on her face can be said to be very subtle.Wearing it on her body, she couldn't help feeling a layer of panic in her heart.

However, when Zhao Qingze and Aman, who were wearing clothes of the same color, stood in the mirror with her, Ruyi couldn't help laughing. Is this the court version of parent-child attire?
Thinking of this, I felt a little regretful that Tianyou couldn't wear clothes of this color.

However, Ruyi only sighed in her heart, and naturally she would not really say it out. Although Ruyi always thought that Aman and Tianyou were the same, in fact, there was indeed a difference. Aman was the eldest son and the crown prince. Sitting in that lofty position, and Tianyou, in this life, he is destined to be only a courtier.

If Ruyi doesn't realize this correctly in her own heart, and doesn't really separate the education of the two children, I'm afraid that the conflicts between Aman and Tianyou will not be less than Zhao Qingze and Zhao Qingli in the future.

Of course, this is a point that Ruyi cannot imagine at all.

She bent down, looked face to face with Aman who was barely standing while holding her calf, and said softly: "Aman, will you treat your younger brother well in the future?"

Aman didn't understand Ruyi's words, but when she saw Ruyi squatting down, thinking that she was going to play with him, she grinned, showing her front teeth, and yelled "Cold! Cool!".

On the contrary, Zhao Qingze heard the meaning of Ruyi's words, and also heard Ruyi's concerns. He squatted down, stretched out his arms to hug Ruyi, and said softly: "Don't worry, Aman and Tianyou will only be a harmonious couple in the future. Brothers."

They will not turn against each other for that position, they will be the best brothers, and work together to take care of this picturesque country.

(End of this chapter)