Queen's Development

Chapter 284 Buying People's Hearts
Hearing the words, Qingming frowned her well-groomed brows: "The mansion previously sent people to report the progress, but now it has been about 20 or more days since I have not come to report."

Empress Jiang closed her eyes, sat there leaning on the bright yellow embroidered phoenix brocade pillow, and said after a while: "You can find an excuse to go back to the mansion to have a look tomorrow morning!"

Qingming answered "yes" and said, "Your Majesty, go back to bed and sleep!"

Qingming arranged for Empress Jiang to sleep, spread out her bedding, and fell asleep on the footsteps of Empress Jiang's big bed.

Li Chun took a few young maids back to the side room where the maids lived, and began to wash and prepare for bed.

Among them, there is a little maid named Yuxi, a fellow of Lichun, who lives in the same house with Lichun.

Yuxi twisted a hot towel and handed it to Lichun, saying: "Sister Lichun, have you seen the emerald-encrusted gold bracelet that the Empress gave to Sister Qingming yesterday?"

Li Chun took the hot towel and wiped his hands, but did not speak.

Yuxi glanced at Lichun, and said: "Sister Lichun, what we talked about in private is to fight for you. They are all close relatives brought back by the empress from her mother's house. Why should Sister Qingming take all the benefits, but So unfair to you!"

Lichun's new hatred and old resentment welled up in his heart, and he was furious for a while, and said coldly: "Who will let people serve the empress!"

Yuxi smiled and said: "But we all think that sister Lichun has done the most work and the hardest work!"

Li Chun sneered and said: "But people can serve on the bed, but I can't!"

As soon as the words fell, she seemed to realize that she had said something she shouldn't have said, and without explaining, she threw the towel into the basin, then went to the bedside and began to undress, preparing to fall asleep.

Yuxi thoughtfully fished out the towel and twisted it again, then picked up the copper basin of water and went outside to pour water.

In the early morning of the next day, Empress Jiang sent her trusted female officer out of the palace in Qingming to Jiang's mansion to deliver the rewards for the year-end sacrifice.

When Yuxi heard the news, she immediately told Lichun, who was not supposed to be on duty today, and said with an unfair face: "We are detained in the palace all day long, who doesn't know that going out of the palace to give rewards is a good job, not only can we go out to relax, but I can get a lot of rewards! Seriously, why is it that Sister Qingming goes on such a beautiful job every time!"

She glanced at Li Chun, saw Li Chun's face was livid, and said: "Sister Li Chun, I heard that the wax plums in the imperial garden are blooming, let me accompany you to relax, we are not on duty today anyway!"

Lichun was depressed, so he went out with Yuxi.

The two walked and talked, and they arrived at the Imperial Garden before they knew it.

Yuxi pointed to Qiansui Mountain in front of him and said, "There is a wintersweet forest in the north of Qiansui Mountain, let's go there to see it!"

The cold north wind carries a faint fragrance of wintersweet, which is refreshing. Lichun is a little irritable, so he walks forward with Yuxi.

As soon as he walked outside the Wintersweet Forest, Li Chun heard the voice of a little girl in front of him. The voice was delicate and delicate, and he couldn't help being surprised: "Why is there a little girl in the palace?"

But after thinking about it, she understood: "Is it Princess Chang'an?"

While walking along the path, Yuxi said softly: "Last night, the Prince's family of four didn't leave the palace, so we stayed in the side hall of Yutang Hall!"

Seeing this, Li Chun had no choice but to follow, but he heard Yuxi say: "Your Majesty really loves Prince He. Except for this dynasty, there is no such thing as a foreigner can live in the palace in all dynasties!"

She approached Lichun, and said in a low voice: "Prince He will be canonized as the crown prince tomorrow, and he will be the emperor of the Great Zhou in the future. At the very least, Concubine Bai can occupy the position of concubine. Sister Lichun, let's not talk to Concubine Bai later. Disrespect, so as not to offend Concubine Bai!"

Lichun naturally knew that what Yuxi said was reasonable, so he agreed.

After walking not far, Lichun saw among the plum branches, Concubine Bai, wearing a jade green satin ferret cloak, was leading a little boy and a little girl for a walk. She is very handsome, she is Lin Yin with the Prince's son; the little girl has big black eyes, her lips are like petals, very cute, she is the princess of Chang'an.

Followed by Li Xiuzhen, the chief eunuch of Yutangdian, and Han Lin, the personal servant girl.

Seeing that Li Xiuzhen, who is very popular in the palace, actually followed and waited on Concubine Bai, Lichun's heart was moved, and he didn't dare to neglect, so he hurriedly went forward with Yuxi and bowed his knees to salute.

Yuzhi glanced at Yuxi with a smile, knowing that this clever little maid was also a hidden stake arranged by Li Rui, so she smiled and said: "You guys came just in time, I need some wintersweet to make balm, Lichun, you two will also help me!"

How could Lichun dare to refuse, so he respectfully answered "yes", and really took a delicate flower basket from Hanlin, and went to Meilin to pick wintersweet together with Yuxi.

Yuzhi took her children for a walk in the plum grove.

Naya heard her mother tell these allusions about wintersweet, she smiled and recited a phrase - "Dark Fragrance Floating Moon Evening", and translated it into Xixia in a whisper, then looked up at her mother, waiting for her praise.

Yuzhi doesn't understand Xixia language, but she knows that her daughter can not only speak Chinese, but also Xixia language, she is really very smart, she is also happy in her heart, and said softly: "My Naya is so smart!"

Naya smiled brightly: "Everyone in the palace speaks Xixia. My father was afraid that I would forget Chinese, so he spoke Chinese to me and taught me to recite poems!"

After hearing this, Yuzhi felt complicated, but she always had a smile on her face.

Lin Yin listened to it, she had many questions in her mind, but she didn't ask them immediately, but kept it in her heart, and was going to try to find the answer by herself, and if she couldn't do it, she would ask her mother again.

Lichun and Yuxi picked a lot of wintersweet, and then they came to pay a visit to Concubine Bai.

Yu Zhi smiled and told Han Lin: "Li Chun and the others have worked so hard, reward each of them with a pair of hairpins!"

Han Lin answered "yes", and really took two brocade boxes and gave them to Lichun and Yuxi respectively.

Lichun and Yuxi hurriedly expressed their thanks.

Yuzhi smiled gently: "I like to be lively, come and play with me when you have free time in the future, I have my own reward!"

Lichun answered "yes" and retreated with Yuxi.

Back in their own room, Lichun and Yuxi quietly opened the brocade box bestowed by Concubine Bai.

In Lichun's brocade box are a pair of red gold inlaid pearl hairpins, each pearl is about the size of a peanut, white and very round and delicate.

In Yuxi's brocade box are a pair of pearl hairpins inlaid with silver, and the pearls are also smaller than Lichun's.

Yuxi took out her pair of pearl hairpins, put them in her hair bun, looked at herself in the mirror, and said, "Bai Fangfei is really generous. When we see Bai Fangfei, let's go up and show courtesy. Maybe next time we will reward you more." Precious jewellery!"

Lichun took the pair of red gold pearl hairpins and appraised them carefully, thinking: the pearls on the hairpins alone are probably worth 100 taels of silver, not to mention the inlay technology and the gold on them!
She looked over and over, but she couldn't find the sign in the palace, and she felt even happier - if it was a palace-made jewelry, there would be a sign on it, and it was all registered in the register, and she would not be able to sell it if she needed money urgently in the future!
Concubine Bai gave this jewelry as a reward, it is really a good thing, in the future when I leave the palace, I can exchange it for money at any time
Thinking of Concubine Bai's sentence "I like to be lively, come and play with me when you have free time in the future, I will have my own reward", Li Chun's heart was a little hot.

According to the system, palace ladies and maids will be released from the palace when they reach the age of 25, and Lichun will be released from the palace in two or three years, and she has no natal family, so naturally she will save more gold and silver for herself
Thinking of this, Li Chun locked the brocade box into his own box, then packed up and dressed up, and then went to the Palace of Funing to serve her.

Not long after Lichun went to serve her, Qingming hurried back.

Seeing that Qingming's complexion was not good, Lichun hurriedly pretended nothing had happened, and walked slowly to the window of the dormitory, pretending to admire the red plum blossoms that had just bloomed outside the railing, and listening to the movement in the dormitory—the empress was sitting on the brocade couch in front of the window If the empress and Qingming were talking here, she might be able to hear something.

Sure enough, there was a faint and urgent voice from inside: "The old lady originally said that there has been no news from the people sent to Jiangnan for a month. Who knew that just after she finished speaking, she received news that those people sent to Jiangnan were detaining Mama Yang. On the way back, they all disappeared, and that mother Yang also disappeared."

Li Chun listened attentively, but the bedroom was very quiet, there was no sound at all.

After a while, Li Chunfang heard Empress Jiang's weak voice: "Since that's the case, let's take the next step, spread the word and let them start spreading news in the capital, saying that Lin Jia is the illegitimate child of Jiang Shuyan and His Majesty, and he is not right! "

Hearing this, Li Chun shivered all over, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, which was sticky and uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)