Thrown Into the Wolf’s Den! Zaizai Holds Space In His Hands To Survive the Disaster Year

It was the first time for Shen Ningning to enter Concubine Rong's palace.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a small indoor rockery for viewing placed directly opposite the door. With the gurgling water in the fish tank, there was a pleasant fragrance that hit my nostrils.

A screen with flowers and a full moon stands behind the viewing tank, seeming to isolate the biting cold outside.

Shen Ningning rubbed her cold face with her small hands and breathed out a warm breath.

The eldest palace maid said: "My dear, the princess and my cousin are here."

 Concubine Rong's cordial call came from the room: "The tea soup is also ready. Come in quickly."

Shen Ningning was still a little restrained, but Qi Xiuwei, as if she was at her own home, took Shen Ningning's hand and said, "Come on, have a taste. The tea made by my aunt is very fragrant."

After walking around the screen, Shen Ningning realized that the fragrance she smelled at the door was actually coming from the tea brewed by Concubine Rong.

Under the large, semi-open window, there was an Arhat bed and a small square table, with a small red clay stove on top of it steaming.

Concubine Rong sat beside her, smiling and calling the two of them over.

Shen Ningning asked curiously: "How can you cook the fragrance of flowers?"

Concubine Rong looked at her with a gentle smile: "The princess has a really good nose. I also put plum blossoms and dried gardenias in the tea soup with the silver tip of mountain needles."

“Not only does it smell refreshing, but after drinking it, it can dispel the cold and generate heat.” As she said this, she handed over two cups.

Qi Xiuwei and Shen Ningning sat opposite Concubine Rong. The two little girls were holding hot fragrant tea and sipping it in small sips.

After a few sips of tea, she felt completely refreshed. Shen Ningning exclaimed with emotion: "It tastes really good."

Qi Xiuwei immediately smiled at her and said, "If you like it, why don't you just come and drink it every day?"

Shen Ningning blinked her big round black eyes: "Then how can I trouble the queen every day?"

"Why not? As my cousin's chamberlain, you can drink it every day."

Hearing what Qi Xiuwei said, Shen Ningning immediately put down the tea cup silently.

Concubine Rong saw it calmly and said with a smile: "Weier is recommending the princess to her aunt, isn't she?"

Qi Xiuwei nodded: "Aunt, if the princess can stay, we can be my cousin's female officials together."

At this moment, Shen Ningning, with her pink lips and waxy lips, mustered up the courage to say, "But I don't want to stay."

There was a brief moment of silence in the room.

Concubine Rong asked first: "What's wrong, Princess? Is there any difficulty?"

Qi Xiuwei was stunned for a moment before she realized: "Ning Ning wants to be a female official for the prince!"

Shen Ningning shook her head: "I don't want to be anyone's female official for the time being, because I haven't learned it yet."

“Normally during class, I have to drag the cart my brother made for me so I can move the books.”

She stretched out her two chubby hands and said, "Moreover, look at me, my hands can only hold one pen at a time, so I can't help the prince read."

“My eldest aunt said that a female official should not only hold books for the prince, but also grind ink for him, but I am so busy!”

Concubine Rong was stunned. Then she covered her lips and laughed softly. The maids around her also pursed their lips and snickered.

Princess Funing is so cute, she even refuses people with serious childish words.

Concubine Rong smiled and said: "Don't worry Ning Ning, I already have a candidate in mind for the female officer."

She looked at Qi Xiuwei: "Weier, this child, begs her father to send letters to me every day. She must be this female official. I really can't refuse."

"I heard that she got good results in all the tests this time. I think that the position of female officer should belong to her. I asked you two to come here just to enjoy tea."

When Shen Ningning heard this, she felt relieved, and immediately the smile on her face became sweeter and cuter. “Thank you, Madam, the tea is so delicious.” She was finally willing to pick up the teacup again.

After chatting for a while, Concubine Rong said to Qi Xiuwei: "You should go back first. I have a few words to say to Ning Ning alone."

 Qi Xiuwei has a well-behaved and quiet temperament. When she heard the words, she immediately stood up.

"Aunt, Naweier has resigned." As she said that, she blinked at Shen Ningning twice, then followed the palace maid and left.

After she left, Shen Ningning took out the wooden round sign with the deer engraved on it and placed it on the table.

“Mother, this thing should be returned to His Highness Ninth Prince. I know His Highness wants to thank me for helping him feed the deer, but since I am not his female officer, I shouldn’t take his things.”

Concubine Rong’s gentle and deep gaze was as dark as the sea water.

She glanced at the wooden sign and smiled: "You kid, you ask a lot from yourself. Is this a small thing worth returning?"

However, she did not force Shen Ningning to accept it.

Concubine Rong looked out the window and saw the north wind blowing through the courtyard, bringing the snow to rustle down.

The charcoal in the small red clay stove on the table seemed to be almost burned out, and the bubbling sound gradually disappeared.

At some point, all the palace people had retreated, leaving only one eldest palace maid standing outside the screen, motionless, like a sculpture.

"Hey." Concubine Rong sighed first: "Princess, don't blame me for being too talkative. I called you here because I want to take a good look at you. You and my sister are really similar. resemblance."

Shen Ningning opened her dark eyes: "Is it your godmother's deep thoughts?"

Concubine Rong nodded, looking at the courtyard with a somewhat nostalgic and sad look.

"I'm afraid Prime Minister Xie won't tell you something. The reason why my sister broke up with the Qi family was because my mother wanted to marry her to a distant relative of our Qi family."

"But at that time, my sister had already committed herself to Prime Minister Xie, how could she accept anyone else?"

"My sister fought hysterically over this matter, but my mother insisted at home and my father couldn't do anything to her, so my sister left with Prime Minister Xie in a fit of anger."

"This made my parents and relatives in the clan angry. As the saying goes, a wife is a concubine. They felt that her sister's leaving with a man regardless of her reputation would bring down the family's reputation."

“But I feel that my sister is brave for the one she loves, and I have always envied her.” At this point, Concubine Rong raised her hand and wiped the glittering corners of her eyes.

Shen Ningning kept holding the tea cup and listened carefully.

Those big eyes, with long eyelashes that only blinked occasionally, seemed to be listening very intently.

 She also wanted to know about Shen Siyi's past.

Seeing this, Concubine Rong smiled slightly: "That's far from the truth. After my sister severed ties with the Qi family, she became the wife of the Xie family."

"In the past few years since she was married, she gave birth to three children for Prime Minister Xie, but the youngest daughter disappeared a few years ago. You should also know about this. My sister drowned because of this."

“When I saw you, I felt an indescribable kindness. Because you and my sister’s eyebrows are so similar, that’s why I gave you the Yin Ruyi before.”

"However, I didn't expect that you are not her biological daughter, so I am very confused. Why is there such a coincidence in this world?"

Dense clouds were falling in the sky outside, and the north wind was howling, making the unlit temple dark.

Concubine Rong was sitting in the half-dark light, her eyebrows slightly lowered, showing compassion and sadness.

"Ning Ning, I wonder if Prime Minister Xie made a mistake? You should be his daughter."

"Otherwise, how could you have the same red mole on your hand as his biological daughter?" Concubine Rong said, taking Shen Ningning's little hand.

 Hand facing up, the small and delicate red mole is extremely conspicuous in the cold and dim light.