concubines are respected

Chapter 99
"Yes, that's true. It's just a concubine, how can everyone know about it with great fanfare." The old lady lowered her eyes and said a little tiredly. At the same time, she raised her hand and handed the wedding letter in her hand to Zijuan said, "Take it. Time is running out, you can go back and clean up. Although there will be no big wedding in the mansion, you are my granddaughter after all, and I will arrange the dowry for you." If people are prepared, they will definitely not treat you badly."

Zijuan took the wedding letter in a daze, walked out of the hall after the blessing...
"Old Madam, Miss Cousin is really pitiful, a good girl in the boudoir was ruined by the fifth prince..." Yun Rong stepped forward and said pitifully.

The old lady closed her eyes and shook her head, and said in a deep voice, "I can't blame others for this matter, if I want to blame, I can only blame her for being too calculating. Clever is misled by cleverness..."

"Oh? I don't quite understand..." Yun Rong doubted.

"Yun Rong, do you still remember the sound of the piano from the flower hall that day?" the old lady turned sideways and said.

Yun Rong nodded.

"At that time, I also said that the sound of the piano was five layers similar to what Qing'er played back then. In fact, the person who quietly disappeared in the flower hall at that time was Zi Juan. As for why she didn't dare to reveal her face when she heard our voices, at that time Although I don't quite understand it, but after Zhilan lost the election because of the broken string, my heart became very clear..." The old lady said secretly.

"Old Madam, what you mean is that the strings of the piano were tampered with by Miss Biao, so they broke when performing skills in front of the emperor." Yun Rong whispered in surprise.

"This is the only explanation." The old matriarch said sullenly, "As for the scandal that happened by the Bichi yesterday, hmph!" The fifth prince came here yesterday to visit Xian'er, how could he meet Juan'er by accident, and have sex with her by the pond in such an outrageous way. Is all this just a coincidence?"

"Oh my god, what happened yesterday was also arranged by Miss Biao. She...she is a girl, isn't she afraid that this will ruin her reputation?" Yun Rong couldn't understand Zijuan's eagerness to marry into the prince's mansion. Feeling.

"Famous festival? It's true that this child is filial, but she is extremely stupid to resort to all kinds of methods for her father. How would she know that even if she didn't use these methods to marry into the prince's mansion, her father would not?" I will lose my life." The old matriarch said slightly annoyed, "There was a secret news from the palace before, the empress fell, the country's uncle was exiled, Lin Yinglu was ordained as a nun, and Juan'er's father was imprisoned for a hundred days because he made up for his mistakes. You can get out of prison. It’s just that these news are secret and should not be mentioned to outsiders, so I didn’t tell Juan’er about it. I didn’t expect her to do such an indecent thing. Alas! God’s will, God’s will!”

"Old Madam, you don't have to think too much. Although Miss Biao is only a concubine, she has become a member of the royal family after all. When choosing a concubine again in the future, if the second lady is elected as a concubine again, the fifth prince's mansion will have our mansion." This is also the glory of the Lin family." Yun Rong comforted the old lady repeatedly.

"Hmph! Yun Rong, Yun Rong, how can there be such a good thing in the world. The royal family has always been most afraid of foreign relatives interfering in politics. Take the fall of the country's uncle as an example. I offended Long Yan, which is the root cause of his downfall. My Lin family already has Yuan'er as a concubine, and now Zijuan has become the concubine of the fifth prince. After this, the prince and concubine will definitely not point to the Lin family. Moreover, the steward of the fifth prince's mansion mentioned to me just now that the fifth prince's lewd behavior yesterday made the emperor furious. He ordered the fifth prince to reflect on his mistakes in the mansion. As for the fifth prince's concubine, the emperor will personally appoint her to marry her. As a result, Xian'er is completely hopeless as a concubine..."

This news made the old matriarch very depressed, and after so long planning, not only failed to send the girl from the side branch to the prince's mansion, but gave his own granddaughter to others as a concubine.

For the first time in these years, the old lady felt such a serious sense of frustration.A perfect performance, because of Zijuan's unexpected appearance, the curtain of regret falls...
After Zi Juan made such a fuss, the fifth prince's choice of concubine was finally uncovered.

In the blink of an eye, seven days later, Tang Xuanyu came to the Lin Mansion again to detoxify Suxian with acupuncture, and the toxin in Suxian's body was finally eliminated.

"The red rash on Miss Er's face has completely disappeared. I will take your pulse later and after a follow-up visit, I will apply the ointment I gave you on your face every day. I believe that Miss Er's skin will return to its original state without leaving any scars. " Tang Xuanyu said to Suxian while putting the silver needles into the needle box after finishing the needle application.

"Thank you, Mr. Tang." Suxian was in an extremely happy mood, raised her hand to caress her smooth face, and said to Tang Xuanyu with a sweet smile.

Tang Xuanyu chuckled, and asked softly, "Before, I taught the second lady the fingering technique to relieve the queen mother's back pain. I wonder if the second lady can practice it well?"

"Suxian is in the room these days, and she is proficient in fingering. I believe it will relieve the Queen Mother's back pain." Suxian responded lightly.

"That's very good. The news has come from Lord Hou. The third prince has recommended it to the queen mother. Second lady, you are very good at acupressure. The queen mother has issued an order. I believe you will be sent to the palace for physical therapy in a short time. Second lady We still need to seize the opportunity to please the Queen Mother."

Facing the woman in front of her who has the same situation as her, Tang Xuanyu is always very caring.In the years since he came to Da'an, although he was like a wild crane in the clouds, he ignored any human affairs, even though his heart was transparent, he never participated in it.

But only about Suxian, he couldn't help but help him frequently.This time, he decided to let Suxian enter the palace to get close to the Queen Mother after careful consideration.

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The early autumn has passed, the temperature has dropped a lot, and the Empress Dowager often suffers from back problems. Under the introduction of the third prince, Suxian finally set foot in the imperial city.

Entering the majestic and upright vermilion palace gate, under the guidance of the palace staff, Suxian walked through the deep Yongxiang, feeling more and more uneasy.

The Empress Dowager is the emperor's own mother, and she occupies a high position above ten thousand people. I don't know what her temperament is, whether she is kind or strict, whether she will look at her differently or even like her, or she will dismiss her and sneer at her.

While her thoughts were racing, Suxian followed the palace servants to a magnificent palace gate.The palace gate wrote a letter to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, presumably this is the residence of the Empress Dowager.

The palace servants who lead Suxian respectfully report back to the eunuch guarding the palace gate.

Not long after, a loud announcement came from the palace, "Teach Lin Suxian to see you!"

"Miss Lin, please." The palace man turned to Suxian and said.

Suxian looked ahead a little anxiously, collected her mind a little, mustered up her courage, and followed the palace servants to the bedroom with dignified steps.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the sleeping hall, I heard the voice of the maidservant, "Queen Mother, the medicine is almost dry, this maidservant will serve you the medicine."

"Take it down, the medicine Ai family from Tai Hospital takes it every year, but it still doesn't feel relieved. It's fine if you don't drink it!" A slightly old voice, mixed with impatience, slowly came from the bedroom.

"Empress Dowager..." The servant girl wanted to continue persuading, but was interrupted by the Empress Dowager's sullen voice, "Didn't you hear what the Ai family said, take it down!"

"Yes." The servant girl responded lightly, and then there was the sound of fine footsteps, the brocade curtains of the bedroom were raised, and a maidservant in emerald palace attire, holding a mahogany tray with a white jade medicine cup in her hand, walked out of the bedroom with a worried face. Nei stepped out.

Seeing Suxian standing in front of the bedroom door, the palace maid asked in surprise, "You...you are the doctor who treats the Empress Dowager's waist disease?"

How dare Suxian call herself a 'doctor'? When asked by the palace maid, she smiled embarrassedly, "Sister, you are joking, the girl just knows how to finger, and relieves the queen mother's back pain. How dare you call yourself a doctor."

"Oh..." A look of disappointment flashed across the face of the palace maid, and she murmured, "When the third prince raised his eyebrows, he said that you were proficient in physiotherapy, so the emperor agreed to let you enter the palace for a try. In terms of ability, I advise you to go back as soon as possible, so as not to delay the Queen Mother's condition."

Suxian was ashamed, and she didn't know how the third prince flattered herself eloquently when she raised his eyebrows. As for whether the three tricks taught by Tang Xuanyu would be effective on the queen mother, she was even more uncertain. What the palace maid said, delayed the Empress Dowager's illness, so how should I deal with it?

Thinking of this, Suxian couldn't help feeling a bit of regret for her rash entry into the palace to wait for her illness.

Just as he was turning his mind, the Queen Mother's questioning voice came from the bedroom, "But the doctor who Ze'er complained about has arrived?"

Now that she was on the verge of riding a tiger, Su Xian summoned up her spirits and responded, "Minister Lin Suxian asks to see you."

"Come in." The queen mother called softly, and Suxian immediately opened the brocade curtain and walked in respectfully.

The furnishings in the bedroom are extremely exquisite. All kinds of exquisitely carved utensils are placed one by one on the pear wood carving pavilion. In the middle of the palace, there is white marble inlaid inside, and a round table made of golden silk nanmu sculptures on the outside. The censer, the green smoke in the censer is lingering, so that the whole bedroom is filled with a touch of incense.

On the right side of the hall gate, on a brocade phoenix couch, a woman about fifty years old, with her hair twirling around and decorated with dripping beads and phoenix head golden steps, is lying on her side with her eyes closed.

"Lin Suxian pays homage to the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager is blessed and safe." Lin Suxian bowed respectfully on her knees.

"Oh?" The queen mother's phoenix eyes slightly opened, and she looked at Suxian with a vague look of surprise, "I didn't expect that the doctor who Ze'er raised his eyebrows was a beautiful girl, let's get up and talk."

"Back to the queen mother, there is a slight misunderstanding on this matter, please let the queen mother let Suxian report." Suxian was misunderstood again and again as a doctor. At that time, it was a trivial matter to cross the state, and it was a big disaster to commit the crime of deceiving the emperor inexplicably.

"Let's listen to it." The queen mother looked Suxian up and down, and said unexpectedly.

"Suxian is not a doctor. Suxian just learned from a person with excellent medical skills a while ago. Suxian learned some acupressure techniques from this expert, and it is very effective in relieving pain. It just so happens that the third prince I know Suxian's master well, and I originally wanted to invite him into the palace to treat the Empress Dowager. But the harem is where the royal family members gather, and it is really inconvenient for the master to walk around in the harem outside of the palace. Therefore, the master specially proposed to the third prince Suxian Xian entered the palace to serve the Empress Dowager. As for the doctor the third prince talks about, he is actually Su Xian's master, not Su Xian himself."

(End of this chapter)