The most beautiful lady in the harem

Chapter 107 Lotus Leaf Meaning

As they were talking, a maid came in with a tray. On the tray were some freshly picked lotus leaves and lotus flowers. The flowers were in full bloom and the lotus leaves were green.

She knelt before the Empress Dowager Dong and said, "Your Majesty, these are the lotus flowers and lotus leaves that were just picked from outside the palace and sent by the Shanggong Bureau."

At this season, the lotus flowers are indeed in full bloom. When Qin Liuse saw the lotus leaves, he recalled the scene of meeting Emperor Yongjia in the lotus pond near Shu Yuexuan last year. In a blink of an eye, it has been almost a year.

The palace remains the same, but the old people have been replaced several times.

The Empress Dowager Dong loved to maintain her health and loved the best things of every season. She drank lotus water and also loved to use lotus leaves to boil medicine. Chinese medicine clears away heat and detoxifies, so when the time came, she would send baskets of it to the Cining Palace.

There were many concubines in the palace at the moment, and the Empress Dowager Dong waved her hand and told the maid, "Tell the steward to divide it up first, and when the children go back later, take some back to soak in water and drink."

The Empress Dowager Dong was so generous and magnanimous, so the sisters naturally stood up and bowed, "Thank you, Empress Dowager."

Everyone was talking and laughing. The Empress Dowager Dong looked at everyone with a smile. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and looked at Qin Liuse, "I remembered that the emperor also likes to drink lotus water. Qin Zhaoyi will send some to the emperor for me later. The emperor will be very happy if you send it to him."

Qin Liuse rolled her eyes in her heart, lowered her eyelids, and said yes in a low voice, while cursing the Queen Mother Dong in her heart.

She was currently in favor, but the Empress Dowager Dong made such a grand ceremony and asked her to deliver something to Emperor Yongjia in front of so many people.

God knows what these people present are thinking.

After all, he doesn't have any good feelings towards her.

As expected, after the Empress Dowager Dong said this, Concubine Xie shook her fan and said, "What the Empress Dowager said makes sense. Now our Qin Zhaoyi is the emperor's favorite. There are so many new girls in the harem. The emperor changes one every two or three days. How long will it take to finish the rotation? It may take several months."

Xie Jieyu said, looking at Qin Liuse with half an eye, "Others can't get in line, but Qin Zhaoyi alone can occupy the emperor four or five times a month."

Xie Jieyu said this with gritted teeth. Don't underestimate these four or five times. Emperor Yongjia did not change the names of the candidates every day, so there was a day or two between each time.

In other words, Qin Liuse alone had to occupy Emperor Yongjia for nearly ten days.

Concubine Xin Shu smiled and said, "Qin Zhaoyi has a good temper and is so pretty and charming. I am happy to see her, so how could our emperor not like her?"

Qin Liuse's heart skipped a beat. Concubine Xin Shu seemed to be helping her, praising her for everything that made the emperor like her, but in fact she was deliberately poking holes in other people's feelings.

He was still praising her, but the tone was different from when Concubine Ning Shu spoke for her before.

Concubine Ning helped Concubine Qin to confront Concubine Wen, and she was directly confronting Concubine Wen. Although she also used Qin Liuse as a rake, she was not like Concubine Xin who sounded like she was helping her, but in fact she was trying to sow discord.

But the meaning is hidden very deeply. When ordinary people hear it, they will feel uncomfortable, but they can't explain why.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Concubine Xie gritted her teeth secretly and felt very uncomfortable.

The Empress Dowager Dong was a woman who had climbed up the harem, so of course she could see clearly and understand the undercurrents going on underneath.

However, she just stayed out of the matter and kindly said to everyone, "Qin Zhaoyi is favored, so you all have to learn from her. You have received the emperor's favor and have continued to have children for our royal family. This is your merit and good fortune."

Xie Jieyu glanced at Qin Liuse and said sourly, "There are some things that we can't learn."

This statement was a satire on Qin Liuse's seduction of her master.

Qin Liuse had originally intended to just take it lightly and not take it to heart, but after hearing so many sour words from them, she felt a little rebellious for a moment.

She just looked in the direction of Concubine Xie, gave her a charming look, and then adjusted the hairpin on her hair bun, looking as if she was spoiled because of her favor. Seeing this, Concubine Xie clenched her fists tightly in front of Yi Xiu Li.

Seeing the gnashing teeth of Concubine Xie, Qin Liuse said leisurely, "I often remind His Majesty to treat everyone equally, but His Majesty has his own ideas. I am just a woman who regards my husband as my God. I cannot speculate on His Majesty's intentions, so I naturally listen to His Majesty."

After hearing this, Concubine Xie was so angry that her neck almost became stiff. However, since Qin Liuse had raised the issue to the point of guessing the emperor's intentions, she could say nothing.

After all, who can control whose name the emperor turns over? Even the servants in the Jingshifang will be severely punished if they are found to be secretly partial to their own interests. They can only suffer in silence.

When everyone gets together like this, it may seem like everyone is smiling, but in fact, few people are happy.

But Qin Liuse knew that this was what the Empress Dowager Dong wanted to see the most, and it was also her best trick, to sow discord. When she was serving the late emperor, she took advantage of her youth and favor and used this trick many times.

Because of the Empress Dowager's order, Qingqing came out of the Cining Palace with a bamboo basket in her hand, which contained the lotus leaves that the Empress Dowager Dong wanted to give to Emperor Yongjia.

While others were able to go back, they had to go on this trip for the empress dowager, presenting lotus leaves and lotus flowers to Emperor Yongjia, and completing the drama of loving mother and filial piety for them.

Now, it was almost time for lunch. Qin Liuse was standing under the scorching sun, thinking that after going to the palace of Emperor Yongjia, delivering the basket of lotus leaves and returning to Shu Yuexuan, she would be so hungry that her stomach would almost burst.

When I walked into the Yongjia Imperial Palace, I smelled a fragrance as soon as I stepped into the hall.

Qin Liuse's nose is not usually so sensitive, but today it seems that his nose has become longer because he is hungry.

The Yongjia Emperor had already used up five of his staff, and she, a second-rank Zhaoyi, still had to run errands and deliver things for people. If it wasn't for the Empress Dowager Dong who asked her to deliver it herself, she couldn't ask the eunuch to run errands for her and had to make the trip herself.

Emperor Yongjia obviously didn't expect Qin Liuse to come at this time.

"Why did you come to me?"

Qin Liuse took two steps forward and bowed to him. "This morning, I went to the Cining Palace with my sisters. The Empress Dowager Dong's palace had just received some fresh lotus leaves picked from outside the palace. The Empress Dowager sympathized with the emperor and asked me to bring some to the emperor to make tea or water to relieve the heat. I am coming here right now."

Yongjia nodded and motioned Qin Liuse to get up.

Qin Liuse turned sideways, ready to hand the basket in her hand to Emperor Yongjia's men, and then she would be done.

Unexpectedly, the person who came over and took the basket was Qingzhu.

Qin Liuse opened her eyes wide, obviously not expecting Qingzhu to come and serve Emperor Yongjia.