Chapter 317
Wang Yanqing sighed inwardly, raised her head, and looked at the bright sunshine outside the window.
Fu Tingzhou is gone, and Feicui is going too. From now on, she will be left alone.
Anyway, Jade can still look forward to looking for her relatives, but as for Wang Yanqing, who can she look for?
The insider relayed Wang Yanqing's latest news back to Lu Mansion. Lu Heng flipped through the conversation between her and Feicui, and the more he looked, the darker his face became.
After reading all the content, he pressed his eyebrows, showing a headache after a long time.
There are few things in the world that can make him feel in a dilemma and can't start. The solution to Fu Tingzhou does not mean that he is all right.
Lu Heng thought that Wang Yanqing was just impulsive, and when her anger subsided, there would always be room for change. However, she was determined to leave.
Of course Lu Heng couldn't let her go, but he knew too much about the impact of distance on feelings. Once out of sight, no matter how deep the feelings are, they will always be forgotten a little bit. But Lu Heng couldn't come forward to stop him, otherwise, the scenes he did in front of him would be in vain.
Even backlash.
Lu Heng thought about Wang Yanqing all night and didn't fall asleep until very late. But not long after he turned off the lights, he suddenly heard eager footsteps outside. The guard didn't care about being rude and knocked on the door: "Sir, something has happened!"
Chapter 105 Palace Change
On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, there was an endless battle in the court over who to send to govern the Japanese pirates. Everyone can see that this is a sure-win war, so the various parties are fighting fiercely, and everyone wants to take a share of the war.
The previous dynasties fought openly and secretly, but the emperor did not show favor to either side. After the court disbanded, he dealt with memorials as usual, and when he was tired, he came to the harem to rest. Today, he was fortunate to be Concubine Cao Duan. After listening to the officials shouting about the day's war, the emperor was upset and just wanted to find a relaxing place to rest.
Concubine Cao Duan is gentle and lively, with a lot of witty words, which is very popular with the emperor, and the eldest princess is also eight months old, which is the cutest time for children. Although the emperor has three princes, but the prince is involved in the establishment of the heir. No matter what the character of the three concubines were, they became profitable after giving birth to the prince, and every word was carefully calculated. Therefore, the emperor did not like to go to the palaces of Concubine Zhao, Concubine Kang, and Concubine Jing.
Some active-minded old people in the palace saw this situation and ran to Duanfei Palace more and more diligently. Concubine Cao Duan was favored at a young age, and the eldest princess tied the emperor's heart, and it was only a matter of time before she became pregnant.
Duan Feiqing is just right, and her body is always healthy, maybe she will be able to give birth to a prince next time. Although there are three elder brothers on the fourth prince, all of them are neither the direct descendant nor the elder. Who can be established as the prince depends on whose biological mother is more favored. At this point, before Concubine Duan's son was born, he had already taken the lead.
The people from Yikun Palace picked them up familiarly, and Concubine Cao Duan and the emperor went to see the eldest princess together. Afterwards, Concubine Cao Duan and the emperor returned to the main hall to be alone. Concubine Duan was charming and beautiful, gentle and smiling, but she had a lively temperament when they got along, and she always had a lot of witticisms to tell the emperor.
Most of the officials in the court are in their forties and fifties, and there are very few young people that the emperor can get in touch with, so he doesn't like dignified and lifeless women. Hasn't he listened enough to the sermons of the cabinet ministers? Concubine Cao Duan's lively and interesting character was deeply liked by the emperor. He didn't need to think too much, just listen and relax.
Being alone late at night, the emperor quickly got up and undressed with Concubine Cao Duan. After the cloud and rain, the emperor fell asleep with satisfaction. After the emperor fell asleep, Concubine Cao Duan quietly got off the bed and went to the side hall to bathe and change.
The palace people followed to wait on Concubine Cao Duan to take a bath, but no one noticed that a dozen palace maids walked into the bedroom. Even if others see it, they won't care, maids, it's normal to wait in the dormitory, what else can they do other than crawling?
Therefore, no one has ever noticed that after those palace maids approached the bedroom, they pulled out a rope. The other palace maids were a little scared, and quietly pulled the sleeves of the person in front: "Sister Yang, this is the emperor, do we really want this?"
"Of course, we've already agreed." A woman with thick eyebrows, big eyes, square face and high cheeks stood at the head. It was she who held the rope in her hand and said firmly, "We have to collect dew before dawn, and we are so tired. I can't sleep all day, and I have to be toyed with by those Taoists and fed a mess of medicinal pills. You forgot how Sister Xiumiao died? If we don't start, we will die in his hands sooner or later."
The emperor believed, listened to the words of the Taoist family, sucked the wind and drank the dew, collected the dew drops before the sun rose to make drinks, and completely delegated the authority to Tao Zhongwen, and let the Taoist priest make elixir for him.
Tao Zhongwen's elixir needs to use the menstrual blood of the first person, and finding a woman in the folk cannot guarantee purity, so this honorable task is given to the beautiful girl in the palace. These maids have to brave the cold to find dew, and also to collect menstrual blood for Taoist priests. Women's menstrual periods are different. For convenience, Taoist priests use medicinal pills to adjust the date of the maids' monthly appointments, so that they can send monthly letters together at the specified time.
Taoist priests are much more convenient, but many palace maids suffer from irregular menstruation and weak health, unable to support the dew collection work at all. In order to keep these girls pure, Tao Zhongwen does not allow them to eat meat and grains, and only allows them to eat very few vegetables every day.