Seeing Xiao Zhen looking at her and smiling, Ren Jinxiu suddenly hugged Xiao Zhen's arm, winked, and became more and more cute: "Sister, do you think I'm cute now? Do you like me even more?"

"Have you noticed this?"

"Of course, Sister Azhen didn't look at me as kindly as she does now."

Xiao Zhen was surprised by the concubine Jin's sharp mind and did not deny it. He said with a smile: "Then you still like me so much?"

"Because I think my sister is a very good and kind person and can be a good best friend."

"Best friend?" Xiao Zhen felt that this word was quite new. In her world, there were no best friends, only brothers. There were no whispers in the boudoir, only life and death on the battlefield.

Ren Jinxiu nodded and said happily: "We will be best friends from now on. If sister is unhappy in any way, just tell me."

Looking at Concubine Jin's round, deer-like eyes shining with anticipation, Xiao Zhen began to yearn for the best friend she said: "Okay."

The next day, Xiao Zhen regretted that she had agreed too quickly, because Ren Jinxiu pulled her to talk to her best friends all night long. They were all trivial things that she could talk about for a long time, which made her dumbfounded.

.

The next day, the sky continued to be gloomy, and the rain kept falling. During breakfast time, Concubine Jin took her again and started talking about things in the palace, starting from the flower she liked in the imperial garden,

A piece of stone, talking about the flower withering and the stone changing its place, and then what happened between the palace maids, and then the Queen Mother's indifference to her after she came back, the Emperor

The emperor's displeasure with her and so on, Xiao Zhen was thinking while listening, is there boredom in the palace that can make Jinfei, one of the four dignified concubines, so lonely that she treats even a small thing as a big deal?

Said repeatedly.

When he had a rare moment to rest his mouth, Xiao Zhen asked: "Jinxiu, don't you need to go to the Queen Mother to pay her respects?"

"No need. I'm about to give birth. It's hard to get up so early every day with such a big belly."

"Did the Emperor ask you not to go to the Queen Mother to pay your respects?"

"He doesn't bother to care about me."

Xiao Zhen: "..." Then asked: "It has been so long since the Queen Mother has been back, and you haven't even paid her a greeting?"

"Sister A-Zhen, you don't know that the Queen Mother doesn't like me, why should I bring trouble to myself?" Ren Jinxiu put down her chopsticks, held her face in her hands and said, "Besides, she will be busy with the wedding of the Emperor and Ning Niansheng.

, are too lazy to argue with me." Is that so? Xiao Zhen

It's not that simple to think about. Judging from the incident that Empress Mu targeted her, the Empress Dowager is not very broad-minded, and can even be said to be quite narrow-minded. Once the Empress' wedding is over, I'm afraid she will have to deal with anyone.

Jinxiu is great. Fortunately, Jinxiu has Ziran and Master Ren to protect her.

With.

"Sister Azhen, how did you make Brother Ziran like you so much?" Seeing the curiosity on Concubine Jin's face, Xiao Zhen thought about it seriously: "You also know that I have forgotten a lot of things. Of course,

As soon as I opened my eyes, Ziran lied and claimed that I was her wife. I had no doubts at the time, thinking that I was so mediocre and that such a beautiful young man could not lie to deceive me.

, it’s so crowded.”

Ren Jinxiu was surprised for a long time before saying: "Brother Ziran is so despicable."

Xiao Zhen also agreed with this point.

"Later, sister found out that brother Ziran had lied to you. Did you show him how powerful he was?" "No. Although I found out that he lied to me, Ziran treated me very well, so there is no such thing as forgiveness or not.

"Yes." Xiao Zhen smiled heartily: "Besides, whether it's family background, character, or knowledge, I should be the one who ranks higher." On this matter, I'm afraid everyone in the world thinks so.

for.

Ren Jinxiu's face suddenly turned gloomy.

"What's wrong?"

"Sister, when will the emperor be able to treat me the way brother Ziran treats you?"

At this time, the two of them had finished their breakfast. Aunt Ru led the palace maid up to remove the bowls and chopsticks, and heard Xiao Zhen say: "The emperor still treats you differently."

"Really?" Ren Jinxiu thought for a while and shook his head: "It does seem a little different to outsiders, but in fact he treats me like this, and he treats the maids the same way. Unless there is court, otherwise he won't even look at me.

Neither."

The wind was a bit stronger today than yesterday. Xiao Zhen accompanied Ren Jinxiu and walked along the corridors of the palace to digest the breakfast he had eaten.

When talking about the emperor, Ren Jinxiu's beautiful face was filled with sadness: "Sister, what do you think I should do to make the emperor like me?"

Concubine Jin really asked the wrong person this question. Xiao Zhen thought about it and asked, "What if I don't get the emperor's favor?"

"Can't get it?" Ren Jinxiu murmured and didn't speak for a long time.

"It's windy outside, let's go into the palace." Xiao Zhen took her hand and walked back into the palace. Looking at the held hand, Ren Jinxiu's eyes looked from these hands to Xiao Zhen's side face little by little.

Her family was still in the palace, and no one had ever held her hand. Even her father only held her hand when she was a child, and never again after she was seven years old. But her parents did not care about her.

Love, brother Ziran's care for her is no less.

Ren Jinxiu suddenly smiled brightly and said: "If you don't like the emperor, you won't get it. I still have a father, a mother who loves me, brother Ziran, and sister Azhen to help me. At the worst, I still have an aunt to accompany me."

It’s here.”

When the girl who was following behind heard what the empress said, she pursed her lips and smiled and said: "The empress is right, this slave will always follow the empress and serve the empress in this life."

Xiao Zhen smiled and glanced at Ren Jinxiu: "I didn't expect that the empress would be so open-minded." But she liked this answer very much, and the Jinfei empress quite impressed her.

Ren Jinxiu sighed: "What else can you do if you don't want to open it? It's impossible for such a big harem to live with only one or two people. The emperor can't love it, and I can't hate it either. Right, Sister A-Zhen?"

"Exactly right."

As they spoke, the two looked at each other and smiled.

The days in the palace were indeed quite boring. At the end of the day, Xiao Zhen only chatted with Ren Jinxiu and took a walk. In simple words, he just ate, drank and had sex. He finally understood why Ren Jinxiu pestered her to go to the palace to accompany her.

After dinner in the evening, Ren Jinxiu must have been tired and went to bed early. Xiao Zhen asked Aunt Ru to bring her a book to read.

For example, when her aunt wrote to her, she said: "I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Madam, for coming to the palace to apologize to your Majesty."

Xiao Zhen looked at her.

Auntie Ru smiled sheepishly: "My Majesty was quite lonely in the past. Unless she made too much noise, the Emperor would only come here, but he would sit there for a while and then leave."

"You mean, the emperor has never spent the night here?" Xiao Zhen was surprised beyond words.

Aunt Ru nodded sadly: "Madam is your favorite and most trusted sister. I know that Madam will not tell outsiders, so I dare to say this. Our lady is really a good girl, but I don't know why she doesn't want to please the emperor."

joy."

Xiao Zhen frowned, feeling quite confused. She knew that the child in Jinxiu's belly had been obtained through some not-so-glorious means, but for such a beautiful person, the emperor should not be so indifferent to her.

ah.

After her aunt left, Xiao Zhen thought about it for a while, but she really couldn't think of any other reason. Besides, it was not her place to think about such a thing, so she didn't think too much about it.

At this time, a loud thunder passed through the sky, deafening the originally silent night.

Summer thunder is rolling, summer has arrived.

Xiao Zhen stayed in the palace for two consecutive days, and on the third day, Xiao Zhen wanted to leave the palace.

Ren Jinxiu held Xiao Zhen's hand reluctantly, wishing that Xiao Zhen could live in the palace with her for the rest of her life. Only when Xiao Zhen promised to come back next time did she let go.

The person who took her out of the palace was not Aunt Ru, but another female official, Aunt Ci. Aunt Ci was older than Aunt Ru, and she was more easy-going. She and Aunt Ru were the two stewards in the Jinfei Palace, and they had always been

Deeply trusted by Ren Jinxiu.

In three days, Xiao Zhen had become familiar with them. Just as Aunt Ci was telling Xiao Zhen about the interesting things that happened to Ren Jinxiu in the palace, she saw someone coming from the side door, saluted Xiao Zhen and said, "Han

Hello, madam."

"Hello, Eunuch Ma." It was Eunuch Ma, the chief steward around the emperor.

Eunuch Ma said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please ask Mrs. Han to go to the imperial study."

"Did the Prime Minister ask me to go?" Xiao Zhen thought it was because Han Ziran couldn't wait for her.

"The Prime Minister is out of the city today and will come back later. She is the wife of the Emperor Xuan."

Xiao Zhen was surprised that she, a concubine of a minister, was asked to go to the imperial study by one person. Isn't this inconsistent with etiquette? But since the emperor has called her, it would be even worse if she didn't go.

Familiar road, familiar scene. One year ago, Xiao Zhen worked as the emperor's shadow guard for a month. It can be said that Xiao Zhen would walk in the darkness around him every day and listen quietly for a while. At this time, there was no shadow guard around.

It wasn't until she got closer to the royal study that she felt the aura coming from the shadows.

The old imperial study room.

As soon as Xiao Zhen entered, he saluted the bright yellow figure on the imperial desk: "A commoner woman has seen the emperor."

The emperor was approving the papers, as if he didn't see Xiao Zhen come in, nor did he hear Xiao Zhen's greetings. When Eunuch Ma on the side saw this, he ouched anxiously in his heart, his emperor's ancestors were getting angry again, he
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