I just want to live a happy life

Chapter 154 Fu Cha Yi Xin 30

Yi Xin glanced at the incense on the small table next to her and replied, "Your Majesty, this is what I made when I was free. It's a calming incense. Your Majesty, what do you think of the smell?"

The emperor nodded: "This smells great. I didn't expect you could make perfume."

He was telling the truth. The fragrance did smell good, peaceful, gentle and not pungent. Rather, it was warm and delicate.

Yi Xin seemed a little embarrassed and didn't say anything. The emperor looked at her. Yi Xin's skin was smooth and rosy. She had become much prettier since she gave birth to Hong Yao. She was no longer as arrogant and brainless as before, and he liked her more and more.

The emperor had an idea. He pulled Yi Xin to the bed and wanted to do something. Yi Xin obeyed him. The emperor just touched Yi Xin's collar, and without any warning, he closed his eyes as if he fell asleep.

Yi Xin casually let him lie on the bed, and only then did she reveal a look of disdain.

How could she possibly sleep with him? The incense placed next to her was not a soothing incense at all, but a dream-inducing incense that she specially mixed using her plant powers.

When he wakes up again, he won't realize anything is wrong and will just think he has slept with her.

On the next day, the emperor woke up from his sleep and saw Yi Xin sleeping soundly in the bed. He did not wake her up, thinking about what happened last night and knew that she was tired.

The emperor got up from the bed and was helped to put on his clothes. After washing up, he went to see Hongyao before leaving the Yanx Palace.

Then, after leaving Yi Xin, he went to Concubine Nian.

Although Nian Shilan was demoted to a concubine because of Zhen Huan's miscarriage, the emperor had not yet removed Nian Gengyao. At this time, Nian Gengyao was still a minister he valued, so he had to visit Nian Shilan, so he rested there for one night.

When Zhen Huan learned about this, she was a little dissatisfied. Concubine Nian killed her child, but the emperor still went to her. Moreover, she was a concubine with a title, so logically he should come to her first and then go to other concubines.

But what if she was dissatisfied? She didn't dare to get angry with the emperor like she did when she had just had a miscarriage. The only thing she wanted now was for the emperor to come to her as soon as possible.

Otherwise, she really wouldn't be able to have a good New Year.

But Zhen Huan was disappointed again. The emperor stopped going to the harem because New Year's Eve was approaching and there would be a banquet on New Year's Eve, so he naturally could not go to the concubines in the harem.

Chinese New Year was approaching, and Yi Xin also wanted the maids and eunuchs in her palace to have a good year. Yi Xin had a son and power, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not dare to withhold her things. Instead, they flattered and tried to please her, and sent her many new materials, furs, clothes, ornaments, utensils, etc. of various kinds.

And they are all good quality stuff.

Not only that, thick winter clothes were also delivered to the palace maids and eunuchs in her palace, as well as charcoal. The young eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs also renovated the parts of the Yanx Palace that needed renovation.

Looking at the newly built palace in front of her, Yi Xin's eyes flashed with satisfaction. She lacked nothing. Everything she thought of was done by the people below. She could spend a comfortable New Year.

But things were not so easy for Zhen Huan. After all, everyone in the palace knew that she had fallen out of favor for several months. Even when the emperor came to Sui Yuxuan, he would go to Huanbi's place. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has always been a place of flattering the powerful and bullying the weak, so they would not be polite to a lady who has fallen out of favor.

As a result, the people in Zhen Huan's palace found that everything was going wrong for them and they were being troubled by the servants in the Imperial Household Department.

Liu Zhu went to the Imperial Household Department to ask for his monthly allowance, but the people there either evaded the question or delayed the process. In the end, the money they gave was not enough. It went without saying that a lot of money must have been deducted by the servants in the Imperial Household Department.

Not only that, the winter clothes in Zhen Huan's palace were delayed in being delivered, and the charcoal was also short of weight and was not enough. Zhen Huan also wanted to use silver to buy them, but the things in the palace were expensive, and she had little silver left, so she could not buy much.

In addition to the Imperial Household Department who were trying to make things difficult for Zhen Huan, there was also Huanbi. Huanbi also didn't want Zhen Huan to have an easy life and she was full of malice towards her.

Everyone in the palace knew that Huanbi had been favored by the emperor for quite some time. Although the emperor had not visited Huanbi for a few days, she had not yet fallen out of favor, and the people in the Imperial Household Department would not offend her at this time.

So under Huanbi's suggestion, it became increasingly difficult for Zhen Huan to ask for things.

Shen Meizhuang has always been on good terms with Zhen Huan. She would usually visit Zhen Huan in her palace and chat with her. She knew Zhen Huan's situation and helped her in any way she could.

But the current Shen Meizhuang is not the person who was granted the right to manage the harem by the emperor shortly after entering the palace to serve the emperor.

At that time, her words were still very useful in the palace and she could take care of Zhen Huan, but now it is not the same as before. Ever since she was imprisoned for false pregnancy and then released now, Shen Meizhuang has been cold towards the emperor, so she has never served the emperor in bed since she was released and has no favor.

Originally, she could have obtained the Queen Mother's protection by serving her and had an easier life in the palace, but Yi Xin would not sit idly by and watch Shen Meizhuang's life improve in the palace because of the Queen Mother.

After all, it was Zhen Huan who asked Xiao Yunzi to scare the original owner, and Shen Meizhuang was also involved. She would not let her go.

So she used some tricks, and from then on Shen Meizhuang, who had been diligently running to Shoukang Palace, was rarely able to enter. She lost the protection of the empress dowager and the favor of the emperor. Moreover, she was still a minor noble lady, and if her mistress, Concubine Jing, did not make things difficult for her, her life might be very difficult.

Even so, although the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not dare to do it blatantly, they still withheld some of Shen Meizhuang's things.

So Shen Meizhuang couldn't help Zhen Huan much.

Zhen Huan had a really hard time this year. The food that was delivered to her tasted bad and was not only too little, but she also had no appetite. Because there was not enough charcoal delivered, she was often woken up by the cold while sleeping in the palace.

Her life was already so difficult as the master, let alone the servants who served her. It was really not a life for a human being.

Some of the servants had been serving Zhen Huan since she was first conferred the title of Concubine Wan by the Emperor. Before that, because of the Emperor's favor towards Zhen Huan, the servants around her had a better life than some of the less favored concubines, and they usually had no shortage of anything.

Their appetites have long been spoiled, and the difference between their current lives and their previous lives is not just a little bit, but huge.

Faced with this situation, they did not think about overcoming the difficulties with Zhen Huan. Instead, they complained a lot, complaining that Zhen Huan could not get the emperor's favor and could not reward them with things. They also resented Zhen Huan for being as pretentious as others said. She finally got the emperor's attention in Yimeyuan, and when the emperor finally came, she actually turned him away.

What made them even more indignant was that they were all on duty at Sui Yuxuan, so why were their lives so poor, while Bi Chang had everything she needed there, and the servants around her lived much better than them.