Concubine Shang Yunxiao

Chapter 119 Mango
Yinhua took off all the hairpins from Ruan Xiangsu's head, untied her bun, let her hide on the toffee chair, and gently massaged her.

After a while, when Ruan Xiangsu gradually fell asleep, his father-in-law's voice came from outside the hall: "The emperor gave Ruan Zhaoyi fruit."

Ruan Xiangsu opened his eyes, and hurriedly said to Yinhua, "Hurry up and pick up the fruit. It's inconvenient for me to look like this."

"Yes, ma'am." Yinhua got up and went out.

Then came in with a plate of bright yellow fruit.Ruan Xiangsu took a breath and said, "What kind of fruit is fragrant."

"Your servant has never seen it before." Yinhua put the fruit on the desk and said, "The father-in-law said that it is a foreign fruit from the Western Regions, called mango. The emperor heard that the tribute said that it was rich in nutrition and good for beauty, so he gave it to me." The Empress sent one copy. The other was given to the Empress Dowager, and neither the Empress nor the other concubines were rewarded."

Ruan Xiangsu smiled, and slowly got up, his face was full of arrogance.She walked over to the desk, picked up a piece of mango with a toothpick inserted in her hand, looked at it again and again, and said, "The color is weird. I don't know what this fruit looks like."

After finishing speaking, he put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and said, "It's really delicious."

Yinhua said: "My father-in-law specially told my mother to eat it carefully. Because its juice is very easy to cause people's allergies."

"Oh?" Ruan Xiangsu was extremely careful immediately, and ordered Yinhua to fetch a shawl handkerchief to wipe his mouth.

"Yinhua, you can eat some too," Ruan Xiangsu said.

"This is the fruit that the emperor bestowed on the empress. It is the emperor's love for the empress. The servants dare not."

"Don't dare, eat it." Ruan Xiangsu said with a smile.

Yinhua smiled and ate a piece and stopped eating.

"Good things also have their disadvantages." Ruan Xiangsu looked at Yinhua and wiped his mouth.

"There are pros and cons to everything."

Ruan Xiangsu smiled lightly, sat down on the soft stool, and took a gold and silver mirror on the dressing table with the pattern of feathered men, flying phoenixes, flowers and birds, for comparison.Touching his face which was still firm and not old, with a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth, he said to Yinhua: "Yinhua, help me comb my hair. The emperor should come later."

"Yes." Yinhua took a comb to dress Ruan Xiangsu.

Just as she finished her bun, Ruan Xiangsu suddenly called out, "Stop."

"What's the matter, ma'am?" Yinhua asked.

(End of this chapter)