Traveling to the ancient harem

Chapter 195 Xu Rou's Expectations

Yingxiangxuan.

Unlike the Ningyuxuan where Huang Ye lived, Xu Rou's Yingxiangxuan was the most exquisite palace in the harem except for the Queen's Kunning Palace, and it was also the palace closest to the Yangxin Palace.

In fact, when Xu Rou was young, the queen at that time trained her as the successor. She often went to the palace and was very familiar with it. She always felt that Kunning Palace, where her aunt the queen lived, was where she would live in the future when she entered the palace. She didn't pay much attention to other places, but she was interested in Yingxiangxuan. Not only was Yingxiangxuan exquisite, but it was also close to the emperor's Yangxin Palace. As long as the emperor was interested, he could see it when he went out.

Yingxiangxuan used to be Yi Baoer's residence. After the retired emperor abdicated, she moved out and lived somewhere else. Yingxiangxuan became vacant. The empress privately didn't want anyone to live here, so it was left vacant. Before Xu Rou entered the palace for the selection, she had already told the empress dowager that she wanted to live in Yingxiangxuan, and the empress dowager agreed. As the saying goes, the one who is close to the water gets the moon first. Being closer to the emperor means he can get more care from her.

The Queen agreed with the Queen Mother's suggestion to let Xu Rou live in Yingxiangxuan. Instead of letting someone else live there, it would be better to let this ignorant fool live there. She thought the Emperor liked her so much. Everyone could see how much the Emperor disliked Xu Rou. It was because the Queen Mother was too confident and thought that her niece would definitely be favored because she had a face that was almost exactly the same as hers. Little did she know that this was the face the Emperor least wanted to see.

When the emperor learned that Xu Rou actually lived so close to his Palace of Tranquil Longevity, he got very angry. However, the empress insisted that the queen mother had already sent people in, so he gave up.

The emperor had no idea what his mother was thinking about all day, but he couldn't lose his temper with her every day. The consequence of this incident was that the emperor ran to the small courtyard where his father lived and had another emotional exchange with his father, which made the retired emperor so angry that he didn't care about his fat body. For the first time, he took a feather duster and chased the emperor, the unfilial son, around the courtyard for several laps. The emperor was not driven out of the courtyard until he was exhausted and out of breath.

Xu Rou entered the palace much later than Huang Ye today. The reason, of course, was that she was very pretentious. She was so excited that she did not sleep all night. In the morning, before the palace nanny came, she ran to the courtyard where her mother lived, wanting to know how much silver her mother had prepared for her when she entered the palace. Her mother was usually emptied of money by her, so how could she have any money left? She sold a lot of things in the past few days and only then did she get two hundred taels of silver for her.

Xu Rou thought it was too little and knew that she couldn't squeeze anything out of her mother, so she set her sights on her brother and sister-in-law. Although Xu Jingye was a useless person, he married a rich woman. Although his brother's wife didn't have a good family background, she was a wealthy merchant. This was also the old uncle's painstaking effort. He was afraid that the second room would have no food to eat in the future, so marrying a rich daughter-in-law would at least not starve them.

Xu Rou ran to her brother's yard to ask for money. Xu Jingye was afraid of his sister from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't dare to go to his wife's house because she was also a tigress. Didn't he see how she could control her own parents? So he didn't dare to say anything. He couldn't afford to offend either of them, so he just had to see who would get the upper hand.

When faced with Xu Rou's statement that she would become the queen in the future and help them regain the throne of crown prince, her sister-in-law sneered. She had never seen such a stupid person who dared to promise this and that when there was no sign of anything happening. Although she had never seen the queen, the queen was definitely not as shameless as her. She just wanted to cheat money from her. She was not a fool, so she could not be fooled by her.

The two of them were engaged in a heated argument. Xu Rou's personality was that she would not give up until she achieved her goal. She refused to go out even when the maid from the palace arrived. She had seen many maids in the palace, and they were all respectful to her. So what was the point of waiting a little longer? The important thing was to get the money.

Xu Jingye's wife was so annoyed by her that she had no choice but to grit her teeth and take out five hundred taels of silver to get rid of this plague god. She was so angry that she took a stick and beat Xu Jingye twice to vent her anger.

Xu Rou, who returned to Tingfengju, was also restless. Sometimes she complained that the nanny's hairstyle was not right, and sometimes she complained that her makeup was not good enough. In short, she was dissatisfied with all kinds of things, which made the two nannies very upset. When she left, she was still not quiet and insisted that everyone was present and kowtowed to her before she left.

The eldest prince and his wife kowtowed, and were naturally full of resentment in their hearts. They did not even give the maid the most basic reward in the form of a red envelope. The two maids also felt unlucky, and after returning, they spoke ill of Xu Rou in front of the Queen.

Of course Xu Rou didn't know all this, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care. She and the Queen were natural enemies. What she cared about most now was whose room the Emperor would go to at night.

Xu Rou felt that she was the emperor's cousin and lived closest to him, so she knew without a doubt that her cousin the emperor would be the first to come to her. So she didn't eat dinner at all that night, as eating would affect her figure. She asked Qiu Die to help her bathe and change clothes early, put on what she thought was the best makeup, and sat on the bed quietly waiting for the emperor to arrive.

"Is the Emperor not here yet?" she asked Qiu Die who was waiting nearby again. As for Qiu Wen, she would not have been willing to bring her in if there was no one else to bring into the palace, so she stayed outside guarding the door, leaving Qiu Die alone in the room to serve.

"My queen, it's still bright outside." Qiu Die replied. After she finished her lunch, Xu Rou had been asking her to do this and that. She was already starving, but she didn't dare to say anything. Xu Rou knew her temper. She would be very angry if she knew that she wanted to go out to eat at this critical moment.

Xu Rou was pleased by the call of "Empress". This was the title she had been looking forward to for many years and today she finally got her wish. She felt so embarrassed when she thought that her cousin the Emperor would come in and be fascinated by her beautiful face.

Xu Rou was immersed in her own fantasy, her face flushed for a moment. Qiu Die's eyes flashed. Will the emperor really come tonight? What will the situation be like with her benefactor?