"The weather may be a bit hot recently. Why do I hear that many people in the Lingbi Palace are sick? Some have stomach upsets and some are vomiting. What's wrong?"

In Kunning Palace, after everyone paid their respects, someone asked the concubine Ling, "Why is it so serious? Isn't it an epidemic?"

"Ah?" Everyone was in an uproar.

"How could it be?" Concubine Ling said with a smile, "Then why am I fine? It's just that the people below accidentally ate something bad, so they feel a little uncomfortable. It's inevitable in this hot weather."

"Does this happen in other palaces?" Queen Nala asked.

Some people have it, some don't. Concubine Ling smiled and said to Empress Nala, "Don't worry, Madam, it's just because the weather is too hot. These things, including fruits, tend to spoil. This is normal."

Queen Nala nodded, "Then you should be more careful. The heads of various palaces are also serving snacks. This dysentery is also contagious."

"yes!"

Concubine Ling didn't want to continue this topic, so she said, "Empress, concubine, I remember that every year in this hot weather, the emperor takes him out to escape the heat. How come this year..."

"Is Concubine Ling anxious?" Queen Nala said with a smile, "But the Emperor said he won't go out this year."

"Oh? Why is that?"

Queen Nala sighed, "It's not the previous commotion. The emperor is very busy, thinking about this move, including people and carriages, and another expense. The emperor said two days ago Now, just stay in the palace this year."

Everyone was talking about it.

"However, the emperor will not treat everyone badly. The emperor said that when the third lunar month comes, the watermelons in each palace will be doubled. The two bowls of ice cups per day for concubines and above can be regarded as relief from the heat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, and thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" Everyone was very happy. If they don't go, they won't go. Even if they go, they won't necessarily take anyone with them. It would be better to have something for everyone, which is more fair.

It was said that the concubine Ling had finished her meeting. After walking out of Yikun Palace, she returned to her own palace and asked Linglong, "Have you got the medicine together?"

Linglong held the ancient book and the medicine list, and was picking out the medicines needed on the prescription bit by bit from the medicines one after another. In fact, it was fake that all these people were sick, just to get the medicine they wanted from various prescriptions. This was Lingbi's own idea.

It's also a good way to not draw attention to yourself.

Linglong said, "Master, we still need some rehmannia glutinosa, and everything is left."

"Rehmannia glutinosa?" Lingbi frowned, what should we do?

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw the young eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs walking in with several pots of chrysanthemums. After asking, I learned that the emperor's new reward was for the concubine to dance in front of the moonlight and chrysanthemums at night.

Concubine Ling came up with a plan, smiled and thanked her father-in-law who still sent the letter, and said to Linglong, "I have a solution!"

"master?"

Concubine Ling said, "You stopped going to the hospital for a while, so you went to the dining room and said that the emperor will come in the evening and that you and I will... stew some tonic soup to replenish the emperor's body. We need cooked rehmannia glutinosa and let them make it by themselves. Even if they go to the hospital themselves, they don’t dare not do it.”

"But it has been used in the soup, is it still useful?"

"This is the only way you can do it the first few times. Gradually they get tired of it, so you just say you'll watch it yourself. Then you just let it go..."

Lingbin winked at Linglong, and Linglong nodded quickly, "I understand, this slave."

Concubine Ling touched her belly and gritted her teeth and said, "The more they harm me and the less they look down on me, the more I will give birth to a child and a prince so that none of them dare to look down on me!"

In the evening, Emperor Yuande really came, but he was tired.

"Your Majesty, good luck." Concubine Ling was waiting in the courtyard early.

"Well, get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Concubine Ling stood up with a smile, stepped forward to hold the Emperor's arm, and said with a distressed look on her face, "Why does the Emperor look so haggard?"

"Really?" Emperor Yuande said nonchalantly, "Oh, I'm busy with official business! But your father is quite capable. He helped me a lot and settled a lot of money."

Concubine Ling smiled and said, "That's because the emperor doesn't mind, or else my father has this intention and doesn't have the chance?"

"Your father is strong and you are well-behaved. It feels like I have found a treasure!" Emperor Yuande hugged the concubine who was pressing his head, "Have you seen the flowers I sent today?"

Concubine Ling nodded and said with a shy look on her face, "See you, thank you, Your Majesty."

"Why are you thanking me?" Emperor Yuande leaned close to Lingbi's ear and whispered, "I read in a book that someone can fly all over the sky in the array of chrysanthemums. The writing is quite beautiful. I wonder if my beloved concubine can fly all over the sky. Care to give it a try?"

Concubine Ling said sheepishly, "Concubine, Pu Liuzhi, can't dance well. Your Majesty, just don't dislike her."

"I don't dislike it, I like to see you dance."

Concubine Ling said deliberately, "Aren't you tired, Your Majesty?"

"When I saw my beloved concubine, I was naturally not tired at all." Emperor Yuande lifted Ling's chin with his fingers and said.

At this time, Linglong came up with a bowl of soup. Concubine Ling said with a smile, "Your Majesty, this is the soup that I specially cooked for you to nourish your body. Do you want to try it?"

"Let it go first, I'll watch you dance first!" Emperor Yuan De said with a smile.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether you drink it or not. Thinking that Linglong has got this thing, he smiled and said, "Then please move to the courtyard, the concubines are all ready."

"No, no," Emperor Yuande said very ambiguously, "It's not in the yard, it's in this room... it's jumping on the bed."

"On the bed?" Concubine Ling was a little surprised, "Why are you dancing on the bed?"

Emperor Yuande smiled and said, "When you moved your house, didn't I ask someone to make your bed bigger? It should be something you can jump off, what do you think?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the concubine's consent, he rushed outside and ordered, "Here comes someone, put it on the table!"

It was Chen Yuan who did it himself. Pots of chrysanthemums were pulled out from the soil, made clean, and spread thinly on the bed.

"This is..." Lingbi was a little surprised. Why did it feel wrong? I thought it was just dancing among the flowers, just on the bed. Why is it still spread on the bed?

In a daze, Emperor Yuande had already finished the soup in one gulp. He bit Lingbi's ear very ambiguously and said, "I've finished drinking the tonic. Now it's time to look at your concubine."

Concubine Ling was a little at a loss, but Emperor Yuande's hands were already restless. Concubine Ling asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, didn't you say you wanted to dance? Do you still want to dance?"

"It's dancing! But," Emperor Yuan De bit his ears and said in a hoarse voice, "But you don't need to wear so many clothes. It's better to... be like this."

"Isn't this...isn't this bad?" Ling Bin's whole body was shaken. Did she make herself...take herself for something? The prostitute in Qinlou and Chuguan?

"Why, my beloved concubine doesn't want to?" Emperor Yuande hummed in a low voice, "Then I can leave? I must have other concubines..."

"I am willing! I am willing!" Concubine Ling said hurriedly.

"That's right, you are so good," Emperor Yuan De said slowly with a smile, "I knew you would be willing, you are different from them."

Perhaps these words were compliments from Emperor Yuande, but they were very harsh in the ears of the concubines. Is it because they were descendants of a famous family and came from a merchant family themselves? But soon Lingbi came out of this thought, what about being from a famous family? Nala is still one of the eight surnames. Isn't he still a small nobleman, below him?

"Your Majesty, then you come with me!" Concubine Ling said with a smile.