Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 353 Earthquake
Su Wanrou was accused of leaving the palace just like that, Jiang Changning was a little surprised, "How could the empress agree?"

This is the first show girl selected by the queen mother, even if she is not given a high position, she still has to stay in the palace to be favored.

"I convinced her." Emperor Xuanzhi smiled.

Jiang Changning smiled, "I know you convinced her, but I want to know how you persuaded her."

"It's a secret."

Jiang Changning's eyes flickered, "Then how will His Majesty be willing to tell this secret to my concubine?"

"That depends on what the empress will do." Emperor Xuanzhi raised his eyebrows.

"My curiosity is not that great." Jiang Changning didn't like him, turned around and walked inside.

"It's good to be more curious." Emperor Xuanzhi followed behind her.

"No, curiosity killed the cat." Jiang Changning shook his head.

Emperor Xuanzhi asked, "Why does curiosity kill the cat? Can't it kill the dog?"

The couple discussed this sentence for a long time, but Jiang Changning finally failed to know what method Emperor Xuanzhi used to persuade the Queen Mother.

In the next few days, several beautiful women were pointed out to the palace. Emperor Xuanzhi never called the beautiful women to bed, which made the beautiful women a little uneasy.

"Your Majesty won't point us all to the palace?"

"There's nothing wrong with pointing out the palace."

"I don't want to be pointed out."

"Can this matter be left to us to decide?"

"Feng Xiunv is fine, she is the only one who caught His Majesty's eye."

"It's a pity that His Majesty has not summoned her for so many days."

"Su Xiunv was the first one chosen by the Empress Dowager, and she has left the palace now."

"It's not bad to be Princess Runan."

"It's just a county princess, nothing special." This is a show girl with high ambitions.

"Hey, the princess of the county doesn't even look down on her. What's the matter, you still want to be a royal concubine."

"After entering the palace, who doesn't look forward to flying on the branches, do you want to be kicked out of the palace in despair?"

Several people with different ideas had a dispute, and someone smoothed things over and said: "Okay, okay, stop talking, after learning the rules for a day, aren't you tired?"

"Go back to your room and rest, there is still work to be done tomorrow."

"I don't know if tomorrow the Empress Dowager will make the question, or the Empress Dowager will make the question?"

"Who may be His Majesty who made the question?"

The show girls were talking, they dispersed and went back to the house to rest.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, the queen mother asked all the beautiful ladies to gather in the imperial garden, not knowing what to do.

Jiang Changning and Emperor Xuanzhi were neither keen on this matter, but the Queen Mother was still very interested.

But the Empress Dowager ordered someone to invite Emperor Xuanzhi, but she still didn't let Jiang Changning attend, euphemistically saying: It's easy to have a baby.

Jiang Changning didn't care, if she wasn't allowed to go, she wouldn't go, eating and drinking in Qiyuan Palace was quite leisurely.

In the imperial garden, the Empress Dowager ordered the dancers in the music workshop to perform dances.

Amidst the melodious sound of silk and bamboo, sixteen dancers danced lightly, with cheerful steps and gestures. The plump figure attracted everyone's attention and fascinated all the beautiful girls.

Emperor Xuanzhi looked indifferent, eating the melons and fruits on the table.

The queen mother smiled and deliberately told him about these beautiful girls, "Liu Xiunv is very polite despite her young age."

"Tian Xiunv's father and brother are all talented, and they have a lot of books in their family."

"Qin Xiunv."

"Feng Xiunv."

Emperor Xuanzhi gave the empress dowager a face, he would look at whoever she ordered, and he looked at the beautiful girls like a deer.

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager secretly rejoiced, and when the dancers finished their performances, she appointed a few more show girls to perform their talents.

Or reciting poems and composing, or playing the piano and singing songs, all of them performed very well.

But Emperor Xuanzhi didn't show any interest in them. The queen mother thought for a while and said: "Bring the pen and ink, the poems and sentences you wrote just now are all good. Write them down."

She remembered that Jiang Changning's calligraphy was good.

"Yes, ma'am." Feng Sui couldn't refuse, and didn't want to refuse, "My little girl is not talented, she's making a fool of herself."

Feng Sui originally looked a bit like Jiang Changning, but today she was wearing a white trousers, a pink-blue jacket, a pink-blue patchwork skirt, and a pink-blue gauze.

Wearing a bun with a few small blue flowers dotted on it, she looks more like Jiang Changning with her delicate and graceful appearance.

Emperor Xuanzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, he remembered that when he first met Jiang Changning, she was dressed like this.

How did this show girl know?

He didn't think the Empress Dowager would investigate this matter, so the people around Jiang Changning must have said it, and he was really brave.

He actually dared to spy on the empress's past, so as to grab his attention.

Emperor Xuanzhi was already thinking about how to find out who betrayed the master around Jiang Changning.

The queen mother asked: "The emperor's handwriting is amazing, what do you think of the handwriting written by Feng Xiunv?"

Emperor Xuanzhi was about to take the paper on which the poem was written to read, when the wooden table on which the melons and fruits were placed suddenly shook violently, and then fell over.

"No, there's an earthquake!" Emperor Xuan Zhi immediately reacted.

The Imperial Garden is fairly empty, but Jiang Changning is still in Qiyuan Palace!

"You take good care of the queen mother." Emperor Xuanzhi ran to Qiyuan Palace.

"Emperor, emperor, where are you going?" The queen mother failed to catch Emperor Xuanzhi immediately.

"I'm going to see Ningning." Emperor Xuanzhi was anxious, and called out Jiang Changning's boudoir name in public.

The Empress Dowager stared blankly at Emperor Xuanzhi who ran away, he cared so much about Jiang Shi, even if she forcefully gave him a few beautiful girls, I'm afraid she couldn't get Jiang Shi's favor.

The faces of the show girls were pale, they didn't know if they were frightened by the earthquake, or they were disheartened by Emperor Xuanzhi's concern for the Queen.

When Emperor Xuanzhi arrived at Qiyuan Palace, Jiang Changning had escaped under the protection of Xiulan and others.

Qiyuan Palace was repaired a few years ago, it is very strong, and the earthquake has little effect on it.

Seeing the panting Emperor Xuanzhi, Jiang Changning asked with concern: "Your Majesty, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, are you injured?" Emperor Xuanzhi asked.

Jiang Changning shook his head, "I'm fine, alas, the sons are still in the study."

Emperor Xuanzhi thumped in his heart, but still comforted her, "With Mr. Huang here, nothing will happen."

Not seeing his son, Jiang Changning was still worried, but the aftershocks started again, shaking so badly that he couldn't move around at all.

After a while, a few servants brought the three children over. The faces of the children turned pale with fright. Seeing Jiang Changning, the prince was still standing still, so Xiaobai and Xiaoqian rushed over, "Mother."

"Two darlings, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, father and mother are here." Jiang Changning put his arms around his two sons and comforted them softly.

Xiaoqian cried: "Mother, it's so scary, the child was almost hit by a shelf."

Emperor Xuanzhi stared, and followed Xiaoqian's servants.

The earthquake was alright in the palace. In the city, not only many houses collapsed, but also countless civilians were killed and injured. Some officials were unlucky and were smashed to death. King Yu was among them.

(End of this chapter)