Everyone in my harem is talented

Chapter 140 Side 1

"Why is the Queen Mother here? Zhang Deli, hurry up and serve her some tea."

Qin Zhi didn't look up, but flipped through the book in his hand without looking away.

Zhang Deli hurried forward and tried to help the empress dowager sit down, but she pushed him away.

"Zhi'er, I have sent palace maids to your Zhaozheng Palace to invite you many times.

You always make people reply to me, saying there is no time, no time.

So I came here to see what you were busy with. How could you be so busy that you couldn't even see the Queen Mother?"

"Mother, it's all because the state affairs are complicated, the court officials are useless, and the princes are still young and can't help me at all.

Isn't the talent show over? Is there anything else that my mother wants to talk to me about?"

Qin Zhi put down the book in his hand, made up an excuse not to be serious, and asked in confusion.

He suddenly held his forehead and smiled:

"Look at me, I'm so busy that I'm confused. The selection of concubines has long been the business of the queen, the mother of a country. What does it have to do with my mother? My mother definitely didn't come to me because of the selection of concubines."

Zhang Deli heard His Majesty's words admonishing the Queen Mother not to meddle in other people's affairs, and walked forward with a cup of tea as if nothing had happened.

"Your Highness, please have some tea. This is this year's new tea. His Majesty asked the servants to clear out last year's old tea. If you want to drink some, we can go get some for you."

Zhang Deli's words sounded a bit sarcastic, but if he was scolded for it, he would definitely cry out that he was innocent, because there was nothing false in his words.

"Get out of my way." The Queen Mother glared at Zhang Deli and said angrily.

"Zhi'er, you should know why I am here."

"I don't know. Just tell me what you mean, mother." Qin Zhi straightened up and looked up.

"After all, Concubine Zhen is your cousin, and she is pregnant with the dragon heir. How can you be so cruel to her?"

"It seems that mother knows what she did? Not to mention Concubine Hui, the Fourth Prince is still your grandson. I respect mother. If mother were not there, I would not let her go so easily. Why does mother never seem to learn to be content?"

Qin Zhi looked directly at the Queen Mother and said.

The Queen Mother's face turned red after hearing what Qin Zhi said. She clenched her fingers, as if she had returned to the awkward years when she was the Crown Princess and the Queen.

She didn't answer, just turned and walked away with a cold face.

"Empress Dowager, shall we go back to Ci'an Palace?"

"Let's go to the Pepper Palace."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Wait, forget it, let's go to Chongde Hall."

"Yes, ma'am."

Seeing the Queen Mother’s angry face, Xinyun didn’t dare to say anything.

The Chongde Hall is very spacious and its location is a bit remote, but it is not simple or dilapidated. Instead, it is very quiet and elegant.

Lu Xinyin did not bring any palace servants with her and was locked up in Chongde Hall alone.

Her housekeeper aunt Bai Zhong seemed to be in great danger.

Lu Xinyin gently stroked her pregnant belly which had not yet shown any signs of pregnancy, and was not panicked. As long as His Majesty had not demoted her position, she would still be Empress Zhenfei.

The baby in her belly was her hope of regaining favor, and she discovered that His Majesty didn't seem to attach that much importance to the Fourth Prince.

Lu Xinyin originally thought that she was dead. Seeing how much His Majesty cared about the Fourth Prince, she thought that His Majesty would not let her live.

"My son, is it because of your existence that my mother was able to survive?"

Having said that, Lu Xinyin didn't hope that His Majesty let her go just because she was pregnant with the dragon heir. She hoped that His Majesty still cared about her a little bit.

She suddenly recalled the scene when she first met His Majesty.

It was on the second day of the late emperor’s enthronement ceremony. That year, Lu Xinyin was ten years old.

Qin Zhi was wearing an apricot-colored robe and looked extremely dignified. He spoke to the late emperor gently. After the late emperor left, he watched him leave quietly.

An unintentional breeze blew across the branches, and all the crabapple blossoms fell down. He reached out to catch the falling petals. The scene was so gentle.

Lu Xinyin's eyes were gentle, and a faint smile could not help but appear at the corner of her mouth.

She was hiding quietly behind the rockery at the time, and Your Majesty did not see her.

Lu Xinyin was too timid at the time and did not dare to show up. She returned home with a blushing face and told her mother that she wanted to marry her cousin.

Her mother then thought of a way to ask the aunts in the palace for help, and invited several aunts in the palace to come to the mansion to teach her, and taught Lu Xinyin how to bribe them, thus making full preparations for His Majesty's future selection of concubines.

She was too persistent, which was probably why her mother was the first to discover that she was possessed by Lu Liniang.