Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 116

On the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, Ruyi woke up early in the morning. When she woke up, Zhao Qingze was still asleep, but it was the sound of her flipping that woke Zhao Qingze up.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Qingze sealed his pen, stopped going to court, and rarely went to the front hall. He spent his days leisurely in the back hall with Ruyi and his two children.Although Zhao Qingze is a very hardworking emperor, but the bed is soft and the pillow is soft, and the soft jade in his hand is warm and fragrant nephrite, so he naturally doesn't think about it.

It was the same with Ruyi two days ago, the two of them often woke up and lay in bed, talking leisurely, and only got up to wash and eat when the nanny brought the two woken up children.

Ruyi got up early today, Zhao Qingze put his arms around her waist, and said lazily, "What are you doing so early, sleep with me for a while."

"Get up and get ready! Don't you have to attend the palace banquet tonight?"

Ruyi looked at the sky outside, in fact it was not too early, it was already almost time, and in another hour, it would be time for lunch.Although Ruyi has only participated in the palace banquet once, but it is still fresh in her memory. She only attended the palace banquet for a while, but it took a day to dress up.

It is also at this moment that Ruyi understands why in her previous life she could read magazines saying that celebrities spend more than three or four hours a day on dressing up. Just makeup is painted on each pore on the face, and this ancient makeup Dressing up is much more troublesome than modern ones. Clothes and hair are the most time-consuming.

"You sleep a little longer, you don't need to clean up anyway."

Ruyi reached out and took Zhao Qingze's hand from her waist, and sat up. When she said this, she felt a little jealous. For a man like Zhao Qingze, at most, he would change into a more formal clothes, and the other You really don't need to dress up.

When she was about to climb out of bed and call for Shao Yao to come and serve her, Zhao Qingze suddenly sat up from the bed.

"Why don't you sleep?"

Ruyi turned her head and looked over strangely, and saw Zhao Qingze rubbing her face, and also put her legs under the bed.

Shaoyao and Fangcao brought people in, and after a slight salute, they saw that they were already sitting by the bed, so they hurriedly asked people to come over and put on their shoes for them.

After the shoes were put on, Zhao Qingze stood up, helped Ruyi up with his own hands and said with a smile, "I won't sleep anymore, I'll wake up with you."

Ruyi smiled when she heard the words, but pushed him and said: "Actually, you can sleep a little longer, you don't need to wake me up specially."

"I'm afraid that if I don't get up, someone will be upset."

Zhao Qingze reached out and rubbed Ruyi's already messy hair. Ruyi bit her lip and couldn't help laughing as she listened.

After a brief grooming, Ruyi didn't dress up right away. Instead, she played with Aman and Tianyou, who were brought over by the nanny for a while, and then interacted with the two children, while talking to the nanny about how they would dress up at night.

"Aman is simple, just wear the bright yellow robe that I made earlier, God bless..."

Ruyi hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, but just looked at Zhao Qingze.

Tianyou is small now, and most of the time he is wrapped in swaddling clothes, and formal robes are rarely seen on the upper body.

Seeing Ruyi staring at him, Zhao Qingze put down Aman's fleshy little hand that he was playing with, and gave Deng Xian some instructions.After a while, Deng Xian came in with some small robes.

Ruyi took it and looked at it for a few times, but they were all made according to Tianyou's size.

"You still think carefully." Ruyi took the clothes and gestured twice on Tianyou's small body lying on the bed, and finally decided to wear one of the bright red four-claw python robes for Tianyou at night. After all, it is a festive festival, Ruyi I also want my children to dress festively and brightly.

The room was warm, and after Ruyi made gestures, she took off Tianyou's swaddling clothes and changed into this clothes.

Tianyou, who was wearing the big red robe, looked small, but his yellow face made him look much healthier. Aman, who was crawling around on the couch, saw his younger brother dressed in a big red envelope , unexpectedly crawled over and sat cross-legged next to Tianyou, stretching out his fleshy little hand to hold Tianyou.

"Little villain, what are you doing!"

Ruyi slapped Aman's little hand lightly, telling him to take it back, but Aman opened his mouth and laughed, and put his small face on Tianyou's face. Ruyi thought that Aman was going to kiss Tianyou, who knew Aman actually looked at it with his head propped up, and the saliva from his small mouth dripped on Tianyou's face.

Pfft, both Ruyi and Zhao Qingze laughed unkindly. Zhao Qingze hugged Aman's body from Tianyou's side while laughing, while Ruyi asked someone to wring out a wet towel to wipe Tianyou's face.

Tianyou was honest, he didn't cry after being bullied by his brother, but when Ruyi wiped his face, he even laughed.

Looking at this cute look, Ruyi's heart melted, and she couldn't help but kiss Tianyou's little cheek again and again.

Aman, who was imprisoned in Zhao Qingze's arms uncomfortably, was upset that his mother favored his younger brother in front of him. He pointed his little finger at his face and kept muttering: "Dear! Kiss! Cool! Cool!"

"I still miss my mother after doing something bad, the little thing thinks so beautifully."

Ruyi was about to reach out to take Aman, but Zhao Qingze stopped her and stood up holding Aman.

The range of sight changed suddenly, Aman opened his small mouth slightly, and after a while he laughed, wrapping his small arms around Zhao Qingze's neck, shouting: "Go! Go!"

"This child, why doesn't he like to stay in the house for a moment?"

When Ruyi saw Aman like this, he knew that he wanted to go out to play again, couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and then told Zhao Qingze, "Don't carry him out, we will have lunch later. "

Zhao Qingze naturally listened to Ruyi's words, but Aman was dissatisfied. He was put back on the couch again, and his little mouth pursed. Seeing that his parents ignored him, he simply howled. It was really howling, and there was no trace of it on his face. tears.

"This villain, who did he learn from?"

Ruyi was also a little speechless to the eldest son, but fortunately, the dining room brought lunch after a while, and after Ruyi took a small spoon and fed him a little bit of fish meat that had been stripped of thorns, Aman stopped making trouble, his eyes widened. Baba stared at the whole fish.

Ruyi was about to pick him again, but Zhao Qingze gave the plate of fish to the nanny, then handed her the chopsticks that Ruyi used to eat by himself, and said, "How can a mother like you serve him to eat, eat well, It's busy this afternoon."

Ruyi moved her chopsticks by herself.

After lunch, Ruyi didn't take a nap like usual, so she started to let Shaoyao and Fangcao dress up for her. The clothes were the bright yellow palace clothes that Zhao Qingze had chosen for her earlier in the morning. Although Ruyi felt a little flamboyant, But there was no objection either.At the palace banquet, in fact, there is no one who dresses low-key.

Zhao Qingze originally sat with Ruyi for a while, but something came up ahead, and Ruyi got impatient early in the morning with Zhao Qingze sitting on the side staring at him, so she pushed him and started chasing people away.

Zhao Qingze had no choice but to walk out.

Here, after Zhao Qingze walked out, her hands had just been dyed with Kodan and were being wrapped with cloth.

After Shaoyao cleaned her hands, she put on makeup for Ruyi and said, "Your Majesty, this kaodan should have been dyed yesterday, it's due to my servant's negligence."

"It's okay, I don't like to dye it either, even if you asked me to dye it yesterday, I might not be willing to dye it."

Ruyi smiled. To be honest, if it weren’t for the dressing of noble ladies in this era, you have to touch some articles on your hands. Ruyi really doesn’t want to dye it. It was infected, but she always felt a little weird looking at it.

I have a feeling in my heart that it will be bad if I accidentally eat this pigment in my mouth.

"Your Majesty's hands are so beautiful, it would be a pity not to dye them." Fang Cao combed Ruyi's hair gently, and said something flattering.

Ruyi just smiled and didn't answer.How can her hands be called beautiful? When she was a maid in the palace, she did a lot of kitchen work, such as lighting a fire and kneading noodles to make snacks, and fetching water and doing laundry. A little tender.But not to mention comparing with those who already have a pair of jade hands, it is impossible to compare with other masters in the palace.

It is true that one's hands can tell one's origin.

While talking, a person came in from outside the room and said softly: "Imperial Concubine, Princess Anrui is asking to see you outside the door."

An Rui came so early?
Ruyi was a little strange, but she still asked An Rui to come in quickly.

Anrui has already changed into a fine attire, although he used to look like this when he saw Anrui in the past, but compared with the past, today is more grand.

"Why did you enter the palace so early, how early do you need to get up!"

Ruyi was being dressed up, unable to move her body, her eyes looked at An Rui behind her through the mirror.

An Rui smiled, and said: "I used to get up early, and today I have nothing to do after packing up, so I just wanted to go to the palace to see if my sister-in-law needs help."

"Did you enter the palace alone?"

Ruyi blinked her eyes twice, and asked a little strangely.

"The son-in-law sent me to the gate of the palace, and then went back." The smile on An Rui's face was a bit sweet, obviously he and the son-in-law were very affectionate and had a good life.

"Will it make the two old ladies of Ninghou's mansion unhappy?" She said with some worry, although Anrui is a princess, she doesn't need to worry about seeing the faces of the elders in Ninghou's mansion, but after all, it is a family, if because of I have a grudge about this matter, I'm afraid it's not good.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, it was my mother-in-law who asked the son-in-law to send me into the palace!"

An Rui didn't say it out, she was also a little apprehensive about whether it would be bad for her to enter the palace alone, who knew that she mentioned it during lunch, the two old ladies in Ninghou's mansion really wanted her to enter the palace!That's right, having a good relationship with the palace must be the dream of all officials and family members.

"It's fine if you don't mind, but I don't need your help here, so you can just talk with me!"

Ruyi smiled, and as she spoke, she called the people below to move a stool over to sit with An Rui.

There was someone talking with her, and this boring dressing-up time passed very quickly. Although Ruyi felt that her waist was sore and her back hurt from sitting, but after everything was cleaned up, the result was gratifying. It is radiant, and some of them are so bright that I don't even recognize them.

"Sister-in-law rarely dresses up like this."

Seeing Ruyi's appearance, An Rui also felt a little strange, but his words were tactful.

Ruyi seldom dresses up, when she gets along with Anrui, she always wears the most common dresses, and even seldom puts on makeup on her face.

"Brother Huang is probably going to be dumbfounded."

An Rui made a rare joke about his awe-inspiring elder brother, but covered his mouth and laughed.

Ruyi also smiled, Shaoyao supported Ruyi and walked to the full-length mirror, while Fangcao took out the bright yellow palace gown and carefully put it on for Ruyi.

An Rui, who was standing behind Ruyi, looked at the robe on Ruyi in shock.

Although it has long been heard that Ruyi has been promoted to the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine can also share bright yellow with the emperor like the queen, but the robes of the imperial concubine are actually rarely used in bright yellow, and the one on Ruyi is exquisite, needless to say , the bright yellow ratio used above, this is not the imperial concubine's palace dress, it is almost a phoenix robe that only queens can wear.

It can be said that Ruyi's clothes violate the regulations, but it is not, although it is a bit out of line, and the clothes are probably the emperor's intention.Since it was the emperor's will, even if Ruyi put on the phoenix robe, it probably wouldn't matter.

Thinking of this, An Rui smiled slightly, walked to Ruyi's side, and said, "Which jewelry sister-in-law is wearing tonight, this bright yellow color, why don't you use rubies to match it!"

An Rui looked at the rings and hairpins on Ruyi's head, all made of gold and red, and suggested aloud.

"Well, just use this."

Ruyi suddenly remembered that Zhao Qingze had given her a set of ruby ​​jewellery, so she asked Shaoyao to dig it out quickly, but she saw Shaoyao picked up the box next to her with a smile, and handed it to Ruyi for a look.

Inside was lying the set of ruby ​​jewelry that Zhao Qingze gave not long ago. When the blood-red and blood-red rubies were opened, An Rui couldn't help but marvel.

"Brother Huang really loves sister-in-law."

She stretched out her hand to pick up the string of ruby ​​and phoenix tail collar, only to feel that the crystal clear but red alluring rubies on it seemed to turn into liquid and drip onto her hands.

Ruyi smiled but said nothing. To be honest, since Zhao Qingze often gave her jewelry, her feelings towards these things have become very indifferent.Although it's a bit pretentious to say so, she held these things not much different from the glass products she bought on Taobao in her previous life.

She is not a person who can distinguish good from bad, she just thinks that these things are really gorgeous.

Without waiting for Shaoyao and Fangcao to put it on for Ruyi, Anrui volunteered to wear it for Ruyi. Ruyi originally wanted to keep her busy, but Anrui smiled and said: "Sister-in-law just treats me as loving, Let me have a hand addiction!"

After all, he put the necklace in his hand on Ruyi's neck.

If you think so, you can only let An Rui wear it for her.

After everything was tidied up, Ruyi only felt that she had weighed a lot of catties, and she was too tired. Sitting on the couch with her waist supported, she couldn't help panting heavily. It was getting late, so Ruyi let Fangcao go. Aman and Tianyou went to the room to see if it was packed.

The dining room brought porridge, soup and small snacks, and Ruyi asked Anrui to eat them together.

"When it comes to the palace banquet later, I probably won't be able to eat too much."

It's not that the food at the palace banquet is not delicious, it's just that at the palace banquet, everyone basically seldom eats, for fear that eating too much will be indecent.

In the past, Anrui was used to eating after coming back from the palace banquet, but Ruyi's side had already prepared thoughtfully, so she couldn't help but smiled and said, "Then I won't be polite."

As soon as her words fell, Aman's cry was heard from outside the room. When An Rui looked up, he happened to see Zhao Qingze walking in with Aman in his arms. He was startled for a moment, and quickly put down his chopsticks to walk with Zhao Qingze gift.

(End of this chapter)