The most beautiful lady in the harem

Chapter 116 What Servant and Master

Qingzhu and Qingcao are now the chief maids in front of Emperor Yongjia. They live in the same room, so they can speak in a low voice without worrying about being heard.

When Qingcao heard Qingzhu's words, she was speechless and didn't know what Qingzhu was thinking.

How could a master like Qin Zhaoyi deliberately speak ill of a servant like her in front of the emperor?

But Qingzhu just came back from the front and slammed the door as soon as he entered. He was so angry that he didn't want to send tea in anymore, so he just picked up some green grass and sent it over.

Qingcao really didn't understand Qingzhu's arbitrary guess about Qin Zhaoyi.

In her opinion, there was no comparison between these two people, one was as far away as heaven and the other was as far away as earth. Qingzhu didn't need to be jealous of Qin Zhaoyi at all.

Qingcao sighed in her heart. She had been serving in Chengqian Palace for some time and was close to the emperor. Every time there was a new person coming to serve, Qingzhu would always say a few sarcastic words.

Either the chosen concubine has something wrong with her, or the chosen concubine to serve her has something wrong with her.

But after all, they came here together from the Northwest and have been together for so many years, so Qingcao and Qingzhu have some feelings for each other.

Occupying such a high position, it would be bad if she did something wrong, so she reminded her, "We have been with the Empress for so long, and now we are serving the Emperor. We are blessed to have such a good job, so we should just do our own thing well."

"Who the emperor wants to favor, and who is jealous of whom, none of this has anything to do with us. And I think that Qin Zhaoyi is not difficult to get along with. The emperor likes her, and there must be a reason for it."

After hearing this, Qingzhu smiled speechlessly and said, "Which noble who can be picked by the emperor is not liked by the emperor?"

Qingzhu meant that there were so many women in the harem, and the one who was chosen by Emperor Yongjia must be Emperor Yongjia, who had some feelings for her, but who knew how long this feeling would last?

So this is not important to her. Being favored is not important, status is what is important.

Just like their Concubine Xin Shufei, it has been a long time since she returned to the capital and served the emperor.

As soon as she came back, she was favored endlessly again and became one of the four concubines, which was what others could not get.

Qingcao frowned, not knowing where she got so many reasons. But when they were taken separately, they all seemed to make sense.

Maybe Qingzhu has been motivating herself for so long that she has developed her own way of thinking, and ordinary people really can't persuade her.

And from what Qingzhu said, it seemed that she felt very hopeful.

"No matter what, he is a noble person, and this is not something we can discuss." Qingcao was afraid that Qingzhu would overstep his authority, so she was reluctant to say something harsh.

"The emperor's palace is not an iron wall, so you should say less of these words. As long as the emperor favors her, besides, whether the emperor favors her or not, she is the emperor's woman and has nothing to do with us."

Qingzhu sat in front of her dressing table. It was called a dressing table, but in fact it was just a small table shared by her and Qingcao.

On top of the table was a round bronze mirror brought in from outside the palace.

They were not like the masters who had their own dressing table for rouge and powder, which was not exquisite but extremely simple.

But in this place, Qingzhu would sit here for the time of an incense stick every night.

Every month after receiving her salary, she would ask someone to buy some rouge, powder, and perfume from outside the palace, and she would fix her face in front of the mirror every day.

She looked at herself in the mirror, left and right, and admired her face for a moment. Then she turned her head to look at Qingcao who was sitting on the couch, and said, "Sister Qingcao, you are really loyal. You are the only one who knows this. Who else knows it?"

Qingcao was speechless. She lowered her head, bent down, took off her shoes, put her legs on the couch, covered herself with the quilt and prepared to sleep.

Qingcao felt that servants should stick to their duties, but in Qingzhu's eyes, she just thought she was stupid.

After Qingzhu wiped her face, she wiped her hands and lay down on the couch with Qingcao.

With a bit of shrewdness and enthusiasm in her eyes, she whispered to her, "What servant or master? Being a servant or a master is just a matter of a word from the emperor. Look, who has everyone in the harem been envious of in the past month?"

"Isn't she the Concubine Zhang who got a son at once? Who was she before? She wasn't a daughter of an official family, let alone a noble lady in a noble mansion. She was just a little girl from a farmer's family who was sold to be a servant."

"But you see, she is lucky. She turned over a new leaf and became a noble concubine."

Qingzhu was extremely envious, even though she was envious of her own master, Concubine Xin Shufei, for being favored.

But if she is more down-to-earth, she now feels that Concubine Zhang's path is more suitable for her. They both come from small families, and she wants to follow exactly the same path.

Moreover, in Qingzhu's heart, she even felt that she was more worthy of being the woman of Emperor Yongjia than Concubine Zhang.

That Concubine Zhang was actually a farm girl from a farming family, while she was more or less a city dweller. It was just that there was a famine and her parents had no food, so they sold her to the Xin family.

Qingzhu felt that she had been brought up in a scholarly family, and even though she was a girl from a scholarly family, she had more background and knowledge than those farm girls!