364 grace
Every time a new girl enters the palace, it means that a new round of division of power has begun.
Lin Su casually turned over the information representing each beautiful woman. Xia Yan served with tea. Seeing Lin Su's fingers pause slightly, she immediately came forward to deliver the tea and looked at the top name by the way.
"Li Qiulan," she said in a low voice, "this slave and maidservant heard Chang's special mention."
Lin Su took a tea, glanced at Xia Yan, and said with a smile, "Is it possible that you still have to ask for a reward? Is there anything wrong with this Li Qiulan?
Xia Yan pulled out Li Qiulan's paper separately, then turned to the page of the family table, pointed to her mother's column and said, "Her mother's surname is Zhang, and she is a cousin to the mother of today's queen."
Lin Su smiled and motioned Xia Yan to put back Li Qiulan's information.
"Is there anyone else besides her?"
Xia Yan shook her head slightly, "At least, we didn't find anyone else."
"You don't need to look at the rest," Lin Su smiled tiredly. "I think the Empress has waited long enough."
Xia Yan nodded slightly, packed up the pile of paper, and then returned to Lin Su's side and whispered, "When they are all settled down, I'm afraid they will come to say hello to the master."
"It's always necessary to see each other." Lin Su ordered Xia Yan to call the spring finch. Xia He and Xia Lian both came in and waited for her to change into the imperial concubine's palace costume. Then she raised her high hair and matched it with a set of beautiful imperial concubine's head. When she took care of everything properly, there was a voice of eight prostitutes begging for seeing her outside.
Lin Su motioned Xia Yan to go out to greet the beautiful girls first, and sat in front of the dressing table inside and silently looked at the hairpin.
This hairpin was also given by Zhou Shuxian on her birthday. However, many years later, Zhou Shuxian not only did not kill her and take back the hairpin, but fell into the cold palace.
I just don't know how she would react if she saw this hairpin again?
Lin Su smiled and slowly inserted the seemingly ordinary hairpin into her hair. She stood up with the hands of Xia He and Xia Lian and walked towards the outer hall.
When the eight girls saw Lin Su coming out, they immediately got up and knelt down to salute. Lin Su sat down on the main seat, and then reached out to signal them to get up.
"Sit down." She said lightly and let go of Xia He's hand: "I'll give you tea."
Xia He then retreated and soon brought the maid of honor to serve tea.
The beautiful women did not dare to speak easily, but just sat silently in their seats, bowing their heads and looking down honestly. Lin Su also did not have the desire or hope to talk to them. She just sat and whispered to Xia Lian some things.
"Afu said yesterday that he wanted to come and eat glutinous rice cakes, and I don't know how he remembered it. You tell the kitchen to prepare it so that he can come and eat it when it snows in the afternoon. Now he has moved out of Fuliu Hall. You should also tell Fujiang more about ordinary things, so that he will not be bullied by some restless slaves.
Xia Lian answered one by one, and Lin Su turned her head and looked at the beautiful girls present. Seeing that their faces were different, she smiled and said, "I've always been busy here. First, I'm not well served, which wronged you."
The women quickly got up politely, and Lin Su motioned them to sit down and talk.
"I'm the most tired of those rules here. You just sit and talk. Otherwise, the endless salute is also annoying.
The second beautiful girl sitting on the right said, "The status of slaves and maidservants naturally have to be polite in front of the imperial concubine."
The beautiful girl next to her also opened her mouth and said with a smile, "The imperial concubine is sympathetic to us, and we can't go over the unruly one."
Lin Su turned his head slightly and looked at the two of them, and the two quickly stood up.
The man who spoke first, wearing a sapphire blue shirt, knelt down and said, "The maidservant is Changyue." And the woman in light blue next to him saluted and said, "The maidservant is Chang Xing."
Lin Su said, "Get up, you two. Look, you are actually twin sisters. But I don't know which one is the sister and which one is the sister?
In this way, the beautiful girls present are not so restrained. Lin Su is now in charge of the whole harem, and it is naturally easy to greet a few beautiful women. Li Qiulan is one of the women in goose yellow clothes. She looks beautiful, and her eyes are flexible and bright, but she looks good.
However, Lin Su did not praise her or target him much. After talking impartially for a while, each of them took two pieces of cloth and some accessories last time and let them disperse.
When everyone left, Xia Yan said, "According to the maidservant, this time the beautiful girl is the twin daughters of the Chang family, and Li Qiulan will win the emperor's heart. Others look just normal, and it's not a big deal.
"Silation!" Lin Su stared at Xia Yan, "Now you are becoming more and more presumptuous."
Xia Yan brought tea with a smile and whispered, "What the maidservant said is from the heart. Who doesn't know that the emperor's thoughts are on the master's womb now."
Lin Su restrained the smile on her face and said, "Now I have a fetus that I can't sleep, and Lianfei is too busy with her two children, and Wei Tiantian is now a concubine Jing, and now she is still favored. The day before yesterday, it was served by a nobleman, but?"
"It's a noble man. The maidservant looked coldly and only felt that she seemed to be favored now, serving for three days and two heads..."
"Don't be afraid, now that the new actress enters the palace, the emperor's attention will naturally be distracted." Lin Su pondered for a moment, and then said, "Now that the girls have entered the palace, they naturally need to find an opportunity for the emperor to see them. You go and tell me to go down. Three days later, I will hold a banquet in the imperial garden to enjoy flowers with the concubines and beautiful women in the palace.
Xia Yan immediately answered the order.
Three days later, the weather was just right in the afternoon. Lin Su sat with the concubines in the harem, and there were four tables of girls under the balcony. With the cool fruit wine, fruits and pastries, the atmosphere of the women is also harmonious. After a while, Si Yu finished his political affairs and came over.
Lin Su gave up her seat, sat next to Si Yu, poured tea and handed him over. Then she turned her head and looked at Wang Liulian and said, "Concubine Lian is now taking care of the second prince and the second princess, and she seems to be a little haggard."
Wang Liulian smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern. My concubine is not bad. However, the second prince has been raised by the queen since he was a child. Now that he is away from the queen's care, he is a little uncomfortable. The concubine is trying to ask the emperor for a favor.
She stood up, knelt in front of Si Yu, and said, "My concubine looked at the second prince crying every day. He would be sick for a while, and I was really distressed. Although he is not the son of a concubine, after all, he is the emperor's child, and the concubine treats the second prince like the second princess..."