Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

Chapter 230 Leaf Card

"What Your Majesty said is that we both took the liberty to bother Your Majesty." Wei Zhaoyi apologized politely.

Lu Wanning shook her head, and said, "Wei Zhaoyi is polite, I'm idle as well, it's a good thing that you can come and talk with me."

Chen Zhaoyi's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and said with a smile: "The empress doesn't dislike the interruption from the two concubines, so the two concubines will often come to talk with the empress to relieve boredom."

Lu Wanning quite liked Chen Zhaoyi's quick-talking personality, she smiled and nodded: "You are welcome anytime."

"Then the concubine and the courtier will come to disturb you often." After Chen Zhaoyi finished speaking, she said with a smile: "If I had known that your mother is so easy to get along with, the concubine and the minister would have come to disturb you."

Lu Wanning smiled and said, "It's not too late to know now."

"What the empress said is true." Chen Zhaoyi nodded and said: "In the future, if the empress has nothing to do, she can ask my concubine to play leaf cards with sister Wei."

"Playing the leaf card?" Lu Wanning was a little surprised.

Seeing Lu Wanning's surprised expression, Wei Zhaoyi explained with some embarrassment: "Please don't take offense, Madam, it's Sister Chen who takes it for granted."

"The courtiers and concubines have nothing else to do on weekdays. They can only play leaf cards with the maids and do needlework to pass the time. The empress has a lot of things to do on weekdays. She has to match the emperor and take care of the four princesses." , I guess I don’t have time to play this.”

Only then did Chen Zhaoyi come to her senses, and quickly said: "Sister Wei said that the concubine can't speak well, please don't blame me, the leaf card, the horse hanging, etc. are all elderly people. It's usually used for entertainment when you're bored, but your empress is now at a certain age, so she definitely doesn't want to play this."

Lu Wanning shook her head and said, "Actually, I'm quite interested in leaf cards, but I just don't know how to play them."

When they were in the Hou Mansion before, neither Lin nor Dow had a hobby of playing leaf cards, so Lu Wanning naturally had no experience with leaf cards.

Wei Zhaoyi opened her mouth to say a few polite words when she heard the words, but Chen Zhaoyi said with a smile: "Actually, the Leaf card is very simple. If the empress wants to learn, the two ministers and concubines can teach the empress."

Lu Wanning nodded and said, "Okay, then we have time to play together later."

Seeing what Lu Wanning said, Wei Zhaoyi chose to shut up, watching Chen Zhaoyi and Lu Wanning start chatting.

Chen Zhaoyi and Wei Zhaoyi stayed in Qingxi Pavilion for more than an hour before leaving. When they left, Chen Zhaoyi and Lu Wanning made an appointment to play leaf cards together tomorrow.

Lu Wanning didn't get along with Chen Zhaoyi and Wei Zhaoyi much before, but from this time getting along, Lu Wanning found that of the two, Chen Zhaoyi's personality is more straightforward, and Wei Zhaoyi's personality is more cautious, but the only thing is that neither of them seem to be that kind of love A scheming person.

It's more relaxing and pleasant to associate with such a person.

Therefore, Lu Wanning also agreed to Chen Zhaoyi's invitation.

However, although Lu Wanning agreed to Chen Zhaoyi, they still didn't get their leaf cards on the second day.

Because the queen mother didn't know when someone hired Hong Fu's class, and tomorrow the queen mother will listen to the opera in the Yanyu building.

The empress dowager can't listen to the opera by herself, what's the point of that, these harem concubines, including the noble ladies who came to the summer resort this time, are all going to accompany them.

After Lu Wanning got up early to see off Luo Chengjing, after a simple breakfast, she took the fourth princess to pay her respects to the Queen Mother as usual.

The empress dowager looked at the fourth princess who turned around neatly beside her, and said to Lu Wanning with a smile: "It is inevitable to be noisy when singing, and the fourth princess is still young, so don't take her with you when listening to the opera, so as not to be caught by the gongs and drums." Shocked."

Hearing this, Lu Wanning turned to the empress dowager with a grateful face, and said: "It's still the empress dowager who loves Chun'er and thinks of her everywhere. If you don't say it, the concubine would not have thought of this."

The Empress Dowager's compliment to Lu Wanning was very helpful, she smiled and said: "You are still young, so there will inevitably be times when you can't think of it, and when you have more experience in the future, you will naturally know everything and think of it."

Lu Wanning nodded, smiled and said to the queen mother: "What the queen mother said is that the queen mother should mention more concubines in the future."

The queen mother waved her hand and said with a smile: "It's not necessary to mention anything, just add two more brothers or sisters for our Chun'er."

Lu Wanning blushed when she heard the queen mother's words, and lowered her head in embarrassment.

The queen mother looked at Lu Wanning's shy look, and wanted to tease her, but Laifu walked in from the outside and told the queen mother that the Hongfu class at the Yanyu Building was ready, and the families of the princes and ministers were also ready. has arrived.

The queen mother then smiled and said: "Since everything is ready, let's go too. I heard that Hongfu troupe has become popular all over the country in recent years, especially the popular Huadan Lanxiang in their troupe. It is said that the singing voice is soft and delicate. No one can match, and today we have seen it.”

Lu Wanning asked the nanny to bring the fourth princess back to Qingxi Pavilion, Qingzhi was also left to take care of the fourth princess, and she took Qingdai to follow beside the queen mother.

After hearing what the empress dowager said, Lu Wanning smiled and said: "The concubine is blessed today, and this is all thanks to the empress dowager."

There was already a stage set up upstairs in Yanyu, and now Hong Fu's class has already decorated all the places that need to be decorated, and the costumed characters have also been dressed.

All the ladies and ladies of princes and ministers sat in their seats, gossiping in twos and threes, waiting for the arrival of the empress dowager.

"The empress dowager is here!"

After the eunuch's singing came, all the people present knelt down to pay their respects: "I have seen the empress dowager, please greet the empress dowager."

The queen mother sat down on the main seat with a smile, and said: "Get up, the Ai family invited you here today to watch a play for entertainment, so don't be cautious."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager."

After thanking everyone, they got up.

Seeing the empress dowager was seated, the leader of the Hongfu class quickly presented the playbook and asked the empress dowager to order a play.

The Empress Dowager took a look at the opera excerpts and asked, "What is your opera troupe best at?"

The head of the theater troupe said: "Going back to the Empress Dowager, on weekdays, the opera troupes sing more in "The Story of the Phoenix", "The Story of the Purple Hairpin", "The Story of Handan", "The Story of the Jade Hairpin" and "The Story of the Resurrection."

"Then "The Story of the Jade Hairpin"."

After the empress dowager finished speaking, she handed the playbook to Lu Wanning on her right, and said, "You guys can order a few too."

Concubine Jing, who was sitting on the left hand side of the Empress Dowager, saw that the Empress Dowager handed the playbook directly to Lu Wanning, and the handkerchief in her hand was crumpled into a ball.

She has a higher status than Lu Wanning, even if the empress dowager asked them to order some drama, she should let her do it first, but the empress dowager handed the playbook to Lu Wanning, isn't this an insult to her?
(End of this chapter)