The emperor said this, and Jin Xin couldn't be persuaded anymore.
She is just a concubine.
Taking advantage of the new year, the imperial edict came down.
After the imperial edict was issued, the former concubine Ying was promoted to concubine Ying, and the concubines Yang Guiren and Chen Guiren in Qiandi were also granted the title of concubine. Concubine Shun was promoted to concubine Shun, Concubine Fang was concubine Fang, and Concubine Lan was concubine Lan.
The later batch of beautiful women did not have the title of imperial concubine. They were only shun concubines and were promoted to the title of concubine within a few months.
Later concubines didn't know why, but the first group of people who stayed in the residence knew why.
What else can I do besides envy?
With just one face, you don’t have to do anything and you’ll be in the position smoothly.
After the canonization ceremony, Concubine Shun came again soon.
Shoushou knelt down towards Jin Xin and kowtowed three times. Jin Xin quickly asked her to get up.
"Concubine Shun, what do you mean by this? Why do you come here to kowtow to me?" Jin Xin asked.
"I'm here to thank you for your advice. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't be where I am today. My father has been promoted to the Ministry of Household Affairs and is ranked in the west rank. Such an honor. I'm so proud. Very grateful.”
"I also hope that the emperor will be happy and that you can be sensible. Being a woman is not easy, especially when a woman enters the harem. She has no choice. She should look forward, and she has to look forward. Now you have such a feeling Such achievements are not in vain.”
Concubine Shun nodded and blessed herself again, "I will definitely seize the opportunity."
Jin Xin nodded happily.
In the end, she seemed a little embarrassed to speak. Jin Xin frowned at her and didn't speak.
"I asked your Majesty to keep the secret for me about what happened before. I will definitely repay you in the future."
Concubine Shun has accepted her, and now she is seeing her family getting better and better because of her favor. She also feels this kind of happiness, and she has actually figured it out.
Although she was still a little regretful that there was no result for the person she fell in love with at first sight, she knew that there would be gains and losses.
"This is natural." Jin Xin smiled.
Concubine Shun was so favored, it would be a great thing if she could let go of Gu Zhao. Gu Zhao had a good future. He was a high-ranking official with military power. He was so young and had such a future. Naturally, he couldn't ruin it because of Concubine Shun.
Concubine Shun would not think so hard that she would ruin the future of both of them.
It was the New Year, and Mr. Hong also gave Hong'er a holiday. His old man also celebrated the New Year and gave Hong'er a holiday. Hong'er immediately came to Kunning Palace.
The younger sister was playing with her own. As soon as Hong'er came, he grabbed Huan'er's face and kissed her hard several times.
"Sister, my brother misses you so much!" Hong'er pinched his sister's face as if he was playing with a puppy and couldn't put it down.
Huan'er burst into tears instantly.
Hong'er quickly hugged her and kissed her on the face again, feeling very weak.
Huan'er raised his fist and hit his brother. Hong'er dodged, and Qian Qian'er jumped up and down, "If you can't hit him, come after me."
Jin Xin looked up to the sky helplessly and sighed, Hong'er liked to make her sister angry, and she was enjoying herself there.
"Hong'er, if you make my sister cry when you come here, be careful I beat you." Jin Xin said with a straight face.
Hong'er had no choice but to stand still and let Huan'er slap her hard on the buttocks.
It was neither painful nor itchy, Hong'er turned around and kissed her again.
Cuigu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She stepped forward and pulled Hong'er away, saying helplessly, "First Prince, if you mess with the princess like this, you are no longer her favorite brother."
Hong'er was stunned for a moment and then said, "I am her favorite brother. I was just joking with her."
Then, he stepped forward and smiled carefully, but Huan'er ignored him at all, turned around and left to play by himself.
Hong'er had no choice but to lick her face and coax her with a smile.
It's back and forth, not to mention too much fun.
Concubine Lan walked in at this time and said with a smile, "You can hear the noise in the house even outside the door. The eldest prince is very skinny again."
"Greetings to Lady Lan." Hong'er obediently stepped forward and said.
Concubine Lan smiled and said, "The eldest prince is really lovable."
"Since he went to the Shang Shufang, his temper has become more lively and wild." Jin Xin said helplessly.
Jinxin asked Jiang Quwu to identify several children from aristocratic families and send them to the palace. They would be selected later in the year, but the eldest son of Jiang Quwu's Yue family had already been selected to enter the palace and study with Hong'er.
The eldest grandson of the left prime minister is naturally not bad.
Jin Xin thought he had a calm temperament, but he didn't expect that the two guys would play a lot of tricks together. They were serious when they were studying. When they took a break, they would not take a nap and go to the garden to play. Hong'er's temperament was also different. A lot more lively.
Before, Jin Xin was worried that she would make him stupid by asking him to read every day so strictly. But now she saw that he was really energetic.
The emperor was right, let him go to the horse riding stable to burn off his energy.
"Why are you here now?" Jin Xin looked at Concubine Lan and asked with a smile.
"It's nothing, it's not the New Year that's about to happen. My natal family sent me some things, some supplements, and some specialties from the south. I can't eat so much in my palace, so I thought of sending some to my queen."
After saying that, he asked Ruoying'er to bring them up, and the five of them lined up in a row. Jinxin looked at these things and suddenly became curious, "I heard that there are a lot of fruits in the south. It will take more than half a month to send these things to the capital by water. It’s not even fresh when you come in, but these fruits look very fresh.”
"My concubine's aunt is married to the governor of Jiaozhou. She returned to her parents' home this year and took these things with her. Naturally, she picked fresh ones before sending them to the palace."
No wonder.
These fruits looked good, so Jin Xin made people accept them.
The two children were having fun. Jinxin just peeled an orange and gave it to Honger, but Cuigu felt something was wrong and hurriedly snatched it away.
Jin Xin was stunned, "What's wrong?"
"Mother, these oranges don't taste right." Cuigu said, taking out the silver needle to test the poison, but she saw that the silver needle turned black.
Jin Xin was stunned and threw the orange away in fear.
Seeing this, Hong'er stepped forward to pick it up, but Jin Xin scolded him, "Put it down!"
Hong'er was startled, and the orange in his hand dropped. He was still a little frightened, "Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?"
"Take him to wash his hands!" Jin Xin said nervously.
Cui Gu quickly asked people to take away the two children, and then brought all the things in to inspect them one by one.
In the end, only the black needles were found in the fruit, and the skin was soaked in poison.
The bowl of fruit in front of her was poisonous. Jin Xin stared at the bowl of fruit and said coldly, "Call Concubine Lan to me for questioning."
Jin Xin was really frightened. If she had fed the child just now, Hong'er would be gone.
When Concubine Lan heard something happened, she came quickly.
"Queen, what's wrong?" Concubine Lan was puzzled.
Jin Xin stared at her, "You said, these oranges were carefully selected by your mother-in-law and sent to the palace?"
Concubine Lan was stunned for a moment and suddenly felt bad, "Is there something wrong with these things?"
"Are you pretending to be stupid or do you really not know?" Jin Xin asked with a frown.
One thing after another, Jin Xin really didn't dare to believe her anymore.
