Zhong Cui Palace.
Zhu Qizhen only left at dawn. The eunuchs and serving girls in the harem spread the news that the Emperor was staying in Zhong Cui Palace, causing a lot of criticism in the harem.
In reality, Zhu Qizhen and Qi Muge had only played around in the room last night before sleeping together. Nothing else happened.
What could he do with his nine-year-old body?
He wanted something to happen, but his strength did not allow it!
After Qi Muge got up from the bed, Ji Xiang hurriedly came in to congratulate him.
"Congratulations, young master. Your good days are coming.”
"Good days? What good days? Last night, my back was sore.”
Ji Xiang revealed a meaningful smile and said,""What? Little Master, what are you talking about? This servant doesn't seem to understand. You just served the emperor yesterday, you should rest well and protect your body, right? Now that the news of you serving the emperor has long spread in the harem, those beauties who have just entered the harem don't know how to envy little master.”
"What's there to be envious of? The emperor is not so easy to serve.”
"Hee hee, little master rest well. This servant will go prepare breakfast for you.”
Knowing that her master would soon obtain a higher position, Ji Xiang could walk around the inner palace unhindered. The other palace maids and eunuchs were all polite to her, so she was extremely proud of herself.
In this harem, if you find the right master, no one will dare to bully you in the future.
The beauties in the harem were all shocked when they heard that the emperor was staying in Zhong Cui Palace!
It turned out that there was already a beauty in the harem who had been conferred the title for a long time.
They had only just entered the palace when they found out that she had even served the Emperor. If they did not grasp it tightly, their chances of climbing up would really be gone.
But everything depended on luck!
They were always deep within the palace walls, so how could they meet the emperor in the huge palace?
All the beauties began to rack their brains to do something to attract the emperor's attention, but it often backfired.
In the past two days, Zhu Qizhen had stayed overnight in Zhong Cui Palace, causing the beauties in the other palaces to be envious and jealous of Qi Muge. They all wanted to know what kind of peerless beauty could attract the emperor's attention.
Just as these harem beauties were painstakingly trying to attract the Emperor, only Qian Jinluan was not so stubborn. Instead, she found another way to serve Sun Ruowei.
Those newly appointed beauties in the harem were too narrow-minded. They only wanted to hang themselves on a tree.
But Qian Jinluan was different. She was extremely intelligent. On the day of the selection, she could tell that the Emperor was not interested in these beauties at all.
Then why should he stick his warm face to someone else's cold buttocks?
If she could make Empress Dowager Sun happy, she was the emperor's mother. In the future, wouldn't the emperor have to listen to the Empress Dowager?
……
At the end of the second year of Zhengtong.
The twelfth month of the lunar new year.
The royal court was holding an annual ceremony to worship the ancestors.
Xu Youzhen had arranged this important matter in the court properly. All the ministers came to the altar in front of the ancestral temple to hold the ancestral worship ceremony.
The imperial court was led by Emperor Zhu Qizhen, followed by a group of officials.
On the other side of the harem, Empress Dowager Sun Ruowei was the leader, followed by a group of beauties.
The Grand Empress Dowager was unable to attend due to her unwell condition, so Zhu Qizhen sent someone to take care of her.
The ancestral worship ceremony officially began.
First, the ceremonial officer read the sacrificial literature, then Zhu Qizhen put on his dragon robe and devoutly worshiped heaven and earth.
"Kneel!"
"Bye!"
When Zhu Qizhen paid his respects, the officials also knelt down.
This ancestral worship ceremony was extremely solemn. No one dared to slack off in the slightest, and they all behaved very piously.
Just as Zhu Qizhen was on the altar, worshipping the heavens and earth, Qi Muge arrived.
She panted heavily and quickly slipped into the harem.
At this moment, the other beauties all expressed their strong disgust towards Qi Muge's actions.
Sun Ruowei saw that Qi Muge didn't know the rules and her brows were also twisted into a knot.
This was a very important ancestral worship ceremony in the imperial court. How could he be so unpunctual?
Xia Linglong, the newly crowned beauty, was very jealous of Qi Muge being able to serve the emperor.
And now was the perfect time to take down Qimu Ge.
She quickly jumped out and knelt down, shouting,"Emperor, Beauty Qi is late! This was breaking the rules of the ancestral worship ceremony!”
Xia Linglong's shout immediately attracted the attention of the officials.
Zhu Qizhen frowned and said coldly,""Men, punish those who disrupt the ancestral worship ceremony with twenty strokes of the cane.”
Xia Linglong knelt on the ground with a dumbfounded expression and desperately explained,"Emperor, Beauty Qi is late, you should punish her! Your Majesty!"
Zhu Qizhen didn't listen to Xia Linglong's explanation and continued to pay his respects to heaven and earth without turning his head.
Qi Muge, who was hiding among the beauties, secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the little dragon did not punish her.
Fortunately! Fortunately!
Ji Xiang was indeed right, as long as he slept with her, the treatment would really be different.
The Emperor had been in Zhong Cui Palace for two days in a row, and her status in the Inner Palace had changed. Many palace maids and eunuchs would take a detour when they saw her.
Sun Ruowei looked deeply at Qi Muge and couldn't help but sigh.
Now that her son doted on a woman from another race, she was really worried that Zhu Qizhen would act impulsively and make Qi Muge his empress. That would truly be disgraceful!
As a mother, of course, she could not watch her son make a mistake. She had to think of a way to stop all of this!!!
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