Traveling to the ancient harem

Chapter 172 Huang Bin

The Hall of Nourishing Heart.

"This is it." The emperor took out the page with the yellow leaf written on it from a pile of documents and handed it to the queen.

"Huang Ziye." The queen read out the name.

"That won't work." The Queen Mother's voice was so sharp that it was almost piercing: "Everyone else can do it, but she can't."

Everyone in the room was startled. Even the emperor who had his eyes closed and was pretending to be asleep could no longer pretend and sat up straight in his chair.

"Why?" The emperor's voice was calm, and no emotion could be seen on his face, but the emperor emeritus, who knew his son best, knew that this was a manifestation of his extreme anger.

"If I say no, then it's not possible." The Queen Mother said unreasonably. She couldn't say that Huang Ziye didn't get along with her niece. She felt that this reason was untenable, so she could only act tough.

"Then who do you think is better? Your shameless niece from your mother's family, or the vicious concubine surnamed Shi who harmed people with your niece? I just realized now that I, a dignified emperor, don't even have the right to choose a concubine. Since the harem is under the control of my mother, what do I need this harem for? Let's disband everyone as soon as possible. From now on, my mother can arrange whoever she likes to come in." The emperor waved his robe sleeves fiercely, sweeping all the tea bowls on the table to the ground, and immediately there was a crackling sound in the Yangxin Palace: "Old Yu, let's go."

Eunuch Yu followed the emperor swiftly. What a shame this empress dowager was. The emperor finally found someone he liked, but she just jumped out to mess things up. Now the emperor has given her the cold shoulder. Let's see how she's going to step down.

In fact, the empress dowager was really embarrassed. The emperor snorted, turned around and left.

The third prince also left in despair. His love, which had not yet begun, died just like that. The woman he loved belonged to the emperor from now on.

Little Prince Fu also left, but he was a man who could not keep quiet. As he walked out, he did not forget to speak: "Some people just don't know their own weight. Do they really think they can cover the sky with one hand?"

"As a person, your face is only a face if others give you face. If others don't give you face, you are nothing."

"No, I met someone I can't mess with..."

Now only the Queen Mother and the Empress were left in the Yangxin Palace. The Empress wanted to leave, but seeing the Queen Mother's angry face, she didn't dare to move. However...

The queen tried desperately to suppress the upturned corners of her mouth, but she couldn't. She could only say in her heart that the emperor did a great job and that she had wanted to do the same for a long time.

The Queen Mother sat on a chair. She had never experienced such embarrassment before. The broken porcelain on the ground reminded her how angry the Emperor had just been.

The Queen Mother was angry and afraid. Although the Emperor was her son, he was first and foremost an emperor. Her son had been cold-hearted since childhood and had no affection for her at all. He became even worse when he grew up. However, he had always been very good at controlling himself. It was the first time that he had lost his temper like today.

The Queen Mother raised her head. Everyone had left, but the Queen had not even asked anyone to come in to clean up the broken porcelain pieces on the floor. This was done on purpose to embarrass her. Also, looking at the corners of her mouth that could not help but curl up, who knows how happy she must be in her heart.

"Hmph, you only have a few days of happy days left, and I don't know why you are so proud. Wait until these beautiful girls enter the palace, and see if you can still smile." The Queen Mother suddenly stood up and walked out, not forgetting to stab the Queen in the heart before leaving.

The Queen's face became visibly gloomy. Although she had known for a long time that the Emperor would not belong to her alone, looking at the beauties in the harem, she wanted to drive them all out. Unfortunately, this was impossible. With just this selection, who knew how many would enter the harem?

Thinking of this, the Queen's head began to hurt again. The Emperor personally chose Huang Ziye. Although there was an element of anger in his choice, it was undeniable that Huang Ziye was the most outstanding in appearance among the concubines this year. It was good for her to enter the palace, so that she could compete with the other two and she could also take a break in between.

The imperial edict of enthronement was sent to the Huang Mansion three days later, and Huang Ye was enthroned as Huangpin. However, it was already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year was almost approaching. In order to show his great grace, the emperor specially granted these selected beauties permission to celebrate the New Year at home and return to the palace on the fifth day of the first lunar month after the Chinese New Year.

"Fortunately, it's just a concubine." The Huang family members who received the imperial edict were somewhat relieved. According to their family background, it was impossible for them to become the head of a palace as soon as they entered the palace. Could it be that the little Prince Fu had contributed to this?

The Huang family is not so sad now. Since the matter has been settled, it is time to start doing what needs to be done.

Not to mention the old man's plan, Huang Ye can't go out now. Although she is allowed to celebrate the New Year at home, she is nominally the emperor's concubine and cannot show her face in public. So Huang Ye has nothing to do except paying respects to her grandmother and visiting her eldest nephew. Every day when she comes back, she stays in her hibiscus garden, tinkering with some medicinal herbs and making some new food.

Green Bean and Red Bean were destined to accompany her into the palace, so Green Bean also brought a cook from the big kitchen with her to learn how to cook from her, in case the people in the mansion couldn't get used to the food in the big kitchen after she entered the palace.

Whenever Qiu Yun'er has nothing to do, she comes to accompany her every day, and brings some food back for the people in their family when she leaves.

The incident started when she left on the first afternoon. She saw that Green Bean had fried a whole pot of chili meat sauce because the old grandfather had specifically requested臊子面 in the evening. She begged Huang Ye to ask Green Bean to fry an extra pot and take it back, thinking that she could give it to her family to try. As a result, her grandparents, father, second uncle, and even her six-year-old cousin all complained that it was not enough and insisted that she bring more back next time she went out to play. However, the Huang family did not eat臊子面 every night. There was no other way. Now, whenever she came, she would pack up a large portion of whatever the Huang family was eating in the evening. Everyone in the family was looking forward to it.