As before, it was a grand and complicated welcoming ceremony. Wang Rong looked at Zhu Yijun and said, "Your majesty, you have come to gather people. I can't bear to work so hard."
"Aren't you happy that I've come to see you?" Zhu Yijun asked.
"Of course I'm happy." Caught off guard, Wang Rong and the others could only hastily laugh.
"Then what are you not willing to do? It is their honor to be able to come and receive you. " Zhu Yijun said. There are not many palace maid s now, so when there are more, we can only let the empress dowager's concubine or concubine take over and everything will be peaceful. "
Wang Rong smiled lightly and followed Zhu Yijun into the hall. Zhu Yijun sat down at the Eastern Warm Pavilion, "Does the dish that I sent you suit your needs?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty." Wang Rong He said, "It's just that the empress's dishes are already enough, His Majesty gives them to me every day. Others might not know, but they might think that I'm not going to have enough to eat." Your Majesty said to pamper Jiao. "
"How can I spoil a few dishes." Zhu Yijun said, "Besides, how many dishes are you able to spoil it with?"
"That's hard to say." "Both His Majesty and Wang Rong are sitting facing each other." Since His Majesty only wants to send me off for three to five days, he naturally can't spoil me. In the long run, if I don't send him off one day, I'll feel wronged. I'll be spoiled. "
Zhu Yijun looked at her, "Then Zitong can spoil me instead."
Zhu Yijun said, "Zitong is worried that we will change, but I am not worried that we will change. This way, Zitong will serve us one dish each day. "
"I was wondering why His Majesty is here today." Wang Rong covered her mouth and laughed. It's just that His Majesty has given us food in the past few days and has not returned the favor by asking us for a debt. "
"Your Majesty came at a coincidence. "Today, I just so happened to invite two of my servants over to play the zither. They both practiced the zither since childhood, I don't know how to appraise it, I just think it's very nice. Maybe His Majesty will be able to say what's good about it after hearing it."
This was the first time that she had ever met a prince. The welcoming concubine did not leave immediately, and instead, she chose a few people to enter the palace hall. The rest of them looked at the women who were summoned in with envy. The king was inside the hall as well.
After exiting the Kunning Palace, Beauty Sun said to Wang Zhixi, "If the Empress wants to summon people to perform for His Majesty, why didn't she call you over? Aren't you a good player too? "
"If Beauty Sun wants to present herself in front of the imperial palace, then you can offer yourself up to the Empress for her sake. Why are you trying to drag other people into this?" Wang Zhixi laughed indifferently, her beauty was not inferior to the imperial palace. Although the emperor did not summon her with his blessing, no one in the imperial palace dared to look down on her. Even the empress had to be pampered, was there a better choice than taking care of her sister?
"How dare I embarrass myself in front of His Majesty?" "If we were to speak of the Imperial Lower Consort Yang Empress, the Imperial Lower Consort Liu Empress, the empress did not allow the two empress to present their skills because they did not care about their status. It would be an honor to be able to present their skills before His Majesty as concubines of concubines and concubines of concubines."
"Elder sister wants to show off, so you should go back and practice. I will help you tell the Empress that I am sincere." Wang Zhixi said. She was not a foolish person. The reason why she made such a dangerous move was because she had been reprimanded by His Majesty all along. The other reason was that she was jealous and her emotions were mixed when she knew of the relationship between the Emperor and Wang Rong.
She did not realize that she had actually made a mistake, but when the news of Wang Rong and the sealed woman came through, besides feeling jealous, she felt a deep sense of despair. She had broken her original ace in the hole.
The first few months she had entered the palace, she had lived alone in a palace without any favors. It was enough for her to think clearly.
It was unavoidable for her to be under Wang Rong, but how could she make use of Wang Rong and change her current state of decadence? Under Wang Rong, she could be above the other concubines.
And children.
Anything was possible. After all, there was still the empress dowager above her. For example, the current Empress Dowager Li. As long as she gave birth to His Majesty, who would ever mention that she was once just a palace maid now?
Wang Zhixi began to calm down. She had to be calm. Wang Rong She might not have treated her well, but she wouldn't find trouble with her and would even protect her when others bullied her. It was just like how no matter how much she had done, how she had misled others about Wang Rong, in the eyes of others, Wang Rong was still a reliable elder sister. What she wanted to do now was to be like the feeling she had given others from a young age. She wanted to be beautiful, gentle, and elegant. She wanted nothing more.
Even though she was on the verge of going crazy from jealousy.
Zhu Yijun leaned forward as he listened to the two ladies-in-waiting playing the zither. It could not be considered bad, nor could it be considered good, yet he looked at Wang Rong He with a serious expression and sat down with an extra seriousness. Zhu Yijun waved her over and sat down next to him, "Listening so earnestly, do you know what song it is?"
"It sounds good to me, sounds familiar, but the title of the song just can't come out from my mouth." Wang Rong He said.
"The one playing is Clear River Clouds." Zhu Yijun said, "But I heard that the following parts are different from the ones played by the court musicians? However, the original songs were spread widely, and all the famous musicians in the history of the dynasty who obtained the remnant music manual, would recreate it, and there would be several versions of it on the market. If you find it pleasant, then the people who call for Faculty Division will come and talk about it for you. "
Wang Rong He looked at him, "Are the musicians from Faculty Division beautiful?"
Zhu Yijun laughed, "If you want to be pretty, then you have to be pretty."
"More beautiful than those two?" Wang Rong asked.
Zhu Yijun then took a glance at the servant following her words, "We have not seen everyone with Faculty Division as well."
"What do you think of these two, your Imperial Majesty?" Wang Rong asked.
One was dressed in a pinkish purple robe, the other in a light yellow robe with her hands hanging down and her eyebrows lowered, her hair all rolled up, revealing a neck as white as jade. On her head, there was only a simple pearl hairpin, and tiny tassels adorned her ears.
"It's the same." Zhu Yijun said after looking at it for a while.
"Your Imperial Majesty's judgement is so high." Wang Rong looked at her and said, "You make me feel so terrified."
Zhu Yijun looked at her, "Zitong?" He didn't misunderstand her meaning? "Is Wang Rong He going to recommend him to a woman?" I heard that you've made a schedule for the imperial concubine, let me see it. "
"I wrote it myself. How did it get sent to His Majesty?" "His Majesty clearly said that there was no one else in the palace."
"I am one with you, husband and wife. Aren't my people yours?" Zhu Yijun said.
"His Majesty thinks too highly of me. Even I have something that I don't want His Majesty to know." Wang Rong said while looking at Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun held Wang Rong's hand, "If you don't want us to know, then kick our people out. With Zitong's intelligence, she will soon find out who our people are, right?"
"I don't need to." Wang Rong He said, "As long as Your Majesty is not afraid of being scared by my dark and obscure side, you can keep your majesty's report on the Kunning Palace."
"You are quite bold. You even said that you have a dark and obscure side to you." Zhu Yijun laughed, "Then I'll have to report everything to the ear. Before, it was only about our part, so I came over to say it."
"Your Majesty, you don't mind. Just listen and play." Wang Rong He said.
Zhu Yijun looked at him, "Didn't we send people to your palace to find out what you did in your chambers?
"There are so many dirty things in the imperial harem, but I don't want your hands to be stained with these dirty things." Zhu Yijun said to Wang Rong He's hand, "Let my people do those things for you."
Wang Rong He looked at him and said, "Your majesty's kindness towards me has left me with no way to repay you."
"Idiot. You and I, husband and wife, what kind of repayment is that? " Zhu Yijun said.
Wang Rong He looked at him. "Your Majesty."
When the zither music stopped, Zhu Yijun said, "Let them go."
Wang Rong He gave her a slight nod, and she led her men down. Zhu Yijun said to Wang Rong He, "If you don't like doing this kind of thing, you can also forgo doing it."
Wang Rong He looked at Zhu Yijun, "Your majesty, this is what a queen should do."
"You don't ask if this is something the empress should do, and if this is what you want to do?" Zhu Yijun said. Zitong, to us, you are different from others. We wish you know this point, remember this point, and don't become a woman that we don't know or like. "
"What would happen to His Majesty if I became like that one day?" It's a pity that you like my character, contrary to the rules of this palace. If you want to be a good queen, you will only find me more and more unfamiliar. In order to prevent my hands from getting dirty, you sent someone to clean up my mess.
But how could the empress not dirty her hands and solve all the problems? The safe house you took so much trouble to build for me, how long can it last? There will always be a time when I have to face it.
"Why do you have so much sadness in your eyes?" Zhu Yijun suddenly said, as he touched Wang Rong He's eyes.
"No sorrow, it is the gratitude of the Holy Grace that cannot be repaid." Wang Rong He leaned lightly on Zhu Yijun's shoulder. Look, she's acting now. Some things could only be said half-heartedly.
No matter what Zhu Yijun said, he would always treat him well because he was the emperor. From the very beginning, she would never trust him. She was in a vulnerable position, so wasn't he the Holy Mother?
"Alright, I'll give you three privileges." Zhu Yijun said, "Even if you do something that I am not happy about, I will forgive you three times."
Wang Rong He looked up, "Your Majesty, you have such a good plan?" "You already said that the person you gave me was helping me deal with my dirty work, then how could I do something that His Majesty doesn't like? Isn't this privilege just to tease me?"
"There are times when he is unable to do so." Zhu Yijun said.
"Isn't there still His Majesty?" Wang Rong He said, "When that time comes, I'll go and ask His Majesty for help."
"The harem has also been overseen by This Emperor. What are you, the empress, trying to say?" Zhu Yijun laughed.
"I'll take in a good girl for His Majesty." "" Wang Rong said with a smile. I'm just afraid that His Majesty will look down on me. "
"Your vision is really terrible. Just with those two candidates alone, what's so moving about them that it's worth you to send them to me."
"I just think the hands that play the zither are pretty." Wang Rong He said. Isn't this the same as me that can't play the zither? "