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MTL - To Save the Female Supporting Role As My Duty-Chapter 226v2 Save Gong Douwen's blackened female supporting role (8)
Before dawn, Song Lingshu woke up. She had to go back to the palace when it was dawn. She tiptoed out of bed, glanced at the sleeping person, put on her clothes, and quietly went to her mother's room. inside.
The mother and daughter have not seen each other for a long time, so naturally they have a lot to say.
"Haruyuki, do you blame me for sending you into the palace?" Mother deliberately drove father out, lit a candle, and pulled her to sit down at the table.
"No, I knew this was my destiny since I was a child." Song Lingshu said.
"Hey, I'm a member of the royal family, so I naturally know how difficult it is, but I have to send you in." The mother said sadly, but she didn't agree. This marriage was arranged by the Queen Mother when they were young. In order to ensure the purity of blood, the royal family often married relatives.
"I know, don't worry, I'm very good in the palace, no one dares to bully me, the emperor has to respect me for your sake, not to mention I have many sisters, it's okay to fight with me , very comfortable." Song Lingshu comforted.
"Silly child, if you live well, why don't you have children yet." The mother touched her cheek, then pressed her into her arms, weeping silently.
The emperor has no relationship with her, and he is afraid of their family's influence, as long as she gives birth to a dragon son, according to the rules, she must be established as a prince, so he secretly arranged for her to avoid son soup.
She knew it a long time ago, but she didn't expose it and maintained the superficial illusion.
"Mom, it's okay. I don't want to have a baby either. It hurts so much. When you gave birth to your younger brother, you almost had a dystocia. I'm afraid even thinking about it." Song Lingshu raised his head and wiped her tears, and said with a smile, " And now I have Nian Qing, although she is not my own, but her mother left early, and she has already regarded me as her own mother. When you enter the palace next time, go and take a good look at her, she is very attractive. "
Mother nodded: "You are too sensible. I heard that Concubine Zhang Gui has become more arrogant recently. Are you really going to tolerate her making trouble?"
"Let her make trouble, I don't want to compete for favor, anyway, the emperor will not trust me no matter what." Song Lingshu said.
"We dragged you down." Mother sighed.
Song Lingshu: "No, you are my backer, so you must take good care of your body and be healthy, so that you can protect me. No matter how troublesome Zhang Guifei is, the emperor will not dare to do anything to me."
Mother laughed a few times: "Okay, we are all fine."
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, her mother brought her a few pieces of ancestral jewelry, and said solemnly: "These are all for you, you take care of them, and don't lose them."
"Okay." Song Lingshu opened the box, flipped through it casually, then stopped suddenly, and looked at her in surprise, "Mother, this is..."
"Your father's other half of the Tiger Talisman." Mother held her hand and whispered in her ear, "Your father and younger brother are away all year round, in case the emperor becomes suspicious...so this You have to keep a piece, and if something happens to them, you have to hold it up."
"But...does my brother agree to this?"
"That's what he proposed." Mother said, "A companion is like a tiger. You have to be careful when you are with the emperor. If he wants to touch you, our Yang family will not let him go easily."
"Thank you, mother." Song Lingshu carefully put the half of the talisman into his arms.
At dawn, Song Lingshu bid farewell to his family and returned to the palace with Ah Xian.
One night passed, and there seemed to be no changes in the palace, but there was already a turbulent undercurrent in private.
Concubine Zhao came to Kunning Palace and talked about what happened in the palace last night: "The emperor went to Concubine Yu's place last night, but Concubine Zhang suddenly fell ill in the middle of the night, so she called the emperor over, and everyone else was watching Concubine Yu's jokes. .”
Song Ling said comfortably: Concubine Yu might be overjoyed.
"Also, Concubine Zhang should have been blowing the wind in the emperor's ears, saying that you can go back to your mother's house as you like, your mother. She hasn't gone back for a long time, and she wanted to go back to see her parents, but she was reprimanded by the emperor, and she was even a little dissatisfied with her mother. gone."
"I guess, he is easy to be encouraged, that's all, let's not talk about it." Song Lingshu waved his hand, "Are you busy now?"
"No."
"Follow me to the Royal Garden."
In the gazebo in the imperial garden, several empresses sat together to gossip about last night, frowning and rolling their eyes, their expressions were very lively, eating grapes one by one, as if they were already chatting about gossip.
"Sisters, long time no see." Song Lingshu stepped forward to greet her.
A few people were taken aback, looked at her in surprise, and said to themselves that we only saw each other yesterday!
Concubine Xian almost got a grape stuck in her throat, she swallowed it hastily: "Empress Empress, are you returning to the palace so soon?"
"Well, I'm thinking about all my sisters, so I came back early." Song Lingshu smiled.
Faced with her sudden courteous words, cold sweat broke out on their backs, and they were all wondering if they provoked her somewhere, or did she hear the bad things they just said?
"This is a gadget I brought from outside the palace, you can share it." After Song Lingshu finished speaking, Cuiyu put the burden on her shoulders on the table.
Several people looked at the bundle with different expressions, and no one dared to open it.
"Why don't you take a look? Otherwise, I will personally come and open it for you." Song Lingshu was about to start, when Concubine Xian immediately started: "Let's come, let's come, don't dare to trouble your mother."
"Concubine Xian is really sensible." Song Lingshu smiled gratifiedly.
Concubine Xian only thought that she was hiding a needle in her smile! Terrible!
As soon as the bag was opened, there were objects commonly used by ordinary people inside. Concubine Xian picked up a rattle: "This is?"
"For your little princess to play with."
"Huh? Is this a shuttlecock?" another person asked.
"Well, I saw the boss make this with chicken feathers, it's fun."
"What's this?"
"Kong Mingsuo."
After delivering the things, she bid farewell to these people and turned to Lingyun Palace.
"What does she mean?" One person looked at her back and asked in a low voice.
Concubine Xian: "You can't see it yet, just win us over."
"But what Zhang Guifei gave is much more expensive than what she gave."
Concubine Xian: "This is her brilliance! Use the cheapest things to do the most expensive business! Sisters, we must not be tempted."
Several people: "That's right!"
In Lingyun Palace, Ah Xian was still chatting with Shu Wan about the interesting things about leaving the palace last night, talking dryly.
"Drink your saliva first." Shu Wan said with a smile.
"Let me tell you, my sister last night..."
"The empress is here—" the servants preached.
"Sister is here." Ah Xian immediately went to the door to greet her.
Shu Wan looked at her cheerful back, couldn't help laughing and said: "It's over, the empress's status has surpassed mine."
"You are all my friends, don't be jealous." Ah Xian turned around and smiled.
"Why are you jealous?" Song Lingshu stepped forward and asked.
"It's nothing." Ah Xian took her hand and walked inside, "I just kept talking to Shu Wan about the excitement of the capital."
Shu Wan saluted Song Lingshu, and Song Lingshu said, "We won't need to do so much in private from now on, Sister Shu Wan, I also brought you something."
"What?"
Cuiyu put another bundle on the table. Shu Wan opened it and saw that it was full of books, the titles of which read "Qi Min Yao Shu" and "Compendium of Materia Medica". And Jin Ping Mei...
She closed the page of the book with a red face: "Mother, what are you..."
"You can still hide in my palace." Song Lingshu leaned down and whispered in her ear.
Hearing this, Shu Wan held her forehead and laughed helplessly.
Seeing this, the expression on Ah Xian's face gradually faded. She couldn't hear what her sister said, so Shu Wan's face turned red with a smile. The two behaved so intimately that they almost surpassed her and her sister's level.
— No, no, my sister and Shu Wan are my good friends, I can't be jealous, I can't be jealous!
In the evening, the emperor came to Lingyun Palace again, but he came to look for Ah Xian, asked her about Yang Chan, and asked with concern: "How is Chan'er doing now?"
"I don't cry anymore." Ah Xian replied truthfully.
"It seems that the saintess is very powerful." The emperor touched her hand with a smile, and she pulled it out calmly.
The emperor's smile froze slightly, he coughed twice, and then asked: "Since the child can stop crying, is there any cure for my cough?"
"I'm not a doctor." Ah Xian said, "I just believe in my god, and he will protect us."
"Then can you pray to your **** to bless me with immortality?"
"Well, I will pray for the emperor."
The emperor smiled again, feeling drowsy, got up, went to bed and lay down, muttered in a daze, "My concubine, you have been in the palace for half a year."
Ah Xian's eyelids twitched, and he unexpectedly heard his implication - he will be able to sleep in half a year.
She lay silently on the table, looking at the dancing candles in front of her, feeling a little melancholy, she had already prepared herself before entering the palace, there would be a day, but why was she getting more and more afraid now?
Half a month later, it will be the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, and the harem is full of excitement. All the palaces are busy preparing birthday gifts for the Empress Dowager. Concubine Zhao came to ask Song Lingshu, "My Lady, what are you going to give?"
Song Lingshu: "Send her a blessing."
Concubine Zhao: "...? Be careful that she sends you out of the palace."
Song Lingshu smiled and said, "I'm just kidding, I haven't figured it out yet, what about you?"
"I'm planning to give a pair of jade ruyis. I heard that Concubine Zhang Guifei has prepared a very rich gift. I think it is true. She usually gives the most rewards, so she is naturally generous." Concubine Zhao said jealously.
"So much gold and silver jewelry, can her old man wear it?" Song Lingshu pondered for a moment, then suddenly rolled his eyes, "I heard that there are people from the music workshop performing?"
"Well, the Empress Dowager likes these, the picture is lively and fresh." Concubine Zhao said.
Song Lingshu: "Then let's give her this, to give her warmth and happiness."
Concubine Zhao: "What?"
Song Lingshu: "Go and find all the free sisters in the palace."
A Xian and Shu Wan were also brought by Concubine Zhao, and when they arrived, Kunning Palace was almost full of people.
They squeezed to the front and saw Song Lingshu standing on the steps with his hips akimbo, and said, "Come on, everyone stand in order of height, I will check each one."
Everyone whispered to each other and lined up according to the instructions. Song Lingshu turned to Concubine Zhao, "How many people did you find?"
"Back to your mother, one hundred and one."
"Hey!" Song Lingshu rubbed his hands expectantly, "That's just right, sisters, listen up, the Palace will select eleven people to perform at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, this is a great opportunity to show yourself, Queen Mother If you are happy with the emperor, will your blessings be less?"
When everyone heard this, they immediately exploded and asked impatiently, "How should I choose?"
"First look at appearance, second look at body posture, and third look at talent." Song Lingshu said, "Come on, the people in the first row step forward."
Ah Xian stood in the last row, watching her check one by one—
"You are not tall enough, we will be eliminated."
"You have the same hands and feet, and you will be eliminated."
"You laugh like you cry. If you don't manage your expressions properly, you will be eliminated."
"You're cross-eyed, get eliminated."
"You're all pregnant, get eliminated."
"Touching the belly button with the backhand is not a talent, so we will be eliminated."
A large number of people were eliminated one after another. When it was Concubine Xian's turn, Song Lingshu asked, "What is your dream?"
Concubine Xian: "Huh? Do you still want to talk about dreams?"
"right."
Concubine Xian thought for a while, and flattered: "I want to be like a queen."
Song Lingshu walked up to Ah Xian, and Ah Xian was about to talk about his dream, Song Lingshu said, "You were eliminated."
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Ah Xian held her back: "Why was I eliminated? Is it because I didn't do well enough?"
"You're not suitable." Song Lingshu looked her around and said.
In the end, 20 seed players were selected, and Song Lingshu asked them to go to the training together. At that time, only the best eleven were selected to attend.
Ah Xian watched her bring those twenty people into the house, his face paled, and he lowered his head a little aggrieved, especially when he heard bursts of laughter coming from inside, he was extremely sad.
"Let's go, go back." Shu Wan walked to her side and said.
Ah Xian was unwilling to leave, and asked, "Why didn't sister choose us? Does she not like us anymore?"
"She should have her own reasons, and I don't want to show my face." Shu Wan said, "Are you going back?"
"I'm not going back, I'm going to have a look." Ah Xian raised his foot and ran into Song Lingshu's room.
Shu Wan sighed.
When the emperor in the royal study heard the news, the pen in his hand was so shocked that he dropped it to the ground.
"What? The queen is choosing a concubine in her own palace?!"