After Prime Minister Ye agreed to the marriage between Jie'er and Shen Xi, he seemed to have a feeling of qi in his heart, so he turned this qi into the motivation to fill the harem for Shen Qi.
Within a month, Prime Minister Ye brought over twenty girls to Shen Qi, saying that he wanted Shen Qi to choose them carefully.
Shen Qi was originally concerned about Ye Chengxiang's face, and he was embarrassed to say something directly, but after a month, his patience was exhausted.
"I won't marry any girl the prime minister brings, so the prime minister should not waste his time thinking."
The prime minister was not too angry when he heard this, but asked calmly: "Then who do you want to marry? As long as it's a girl, I won't stop you."
Shen Qi sneered, and asked: "Everyone is dead, the Prime Minister is still worried?"
Prime Minister Ye was silent for a while, and then replied, "It's not that I'm worried, it's that I'm afraid."
Then he sighed again, and continued: "Forget it, you can figure out what to do about the harem, as long as the other party is a girl, I will never stop it."
As soon as Prime Minister Ye left, Shen Xi couldn't control his temper. He reached out and swept all the teapots and cups on the table to the ground.
He didn't understand why, why Prime Minister Ye was so unreasonable, why he still couldn't shake Prime Minister Ye's position after more than half a year, why he still had to endure everything.
After Ke'er entered the door, she saw Shen Qi clutching her chest and gasping for breath. She thought that Shen Qi had some kind of illness, so she rushed up to help her cousin.
"Cousin, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"
Shen Qi waved his hand and broke free from Ke'er.
"I am fine."
After sitting on the stool, he asked Ke'er, "Why do you remember me here?"
Ke'er glanced outside first, and was about to speak, but seemed to feel that it was not right, so he went back and closed the door.
After finishing all this, Jie'er sat next to Shen Qi, and asked Shen Qi in a low voice: "Cousin, do you want to get rid of my father?"
Shen Qi was puzzled, "What do you mean?"
Ke'er said: "A few days ago, I met an old acquaintance of ours on the street. She encountered some difficulties, but our manor couldn't take her in, so my brother said that he would send her to the palace. So I I just thought, she will come to the palace no matter what, why not ask her to help us?"
Shen Qi didn't understand even more, "What can you do for us?"
Ke'er leaned forward and whispered in Shen Xi's ear, "Pretend to be your favorite concubine."
After meeting Shen Qi's surprised eyes, Ke'er added with some guilt: "It's just a pretense, I don't really want you to do something with her, so that my father won't bring girls to you every day."
Shen Xi didn't mind if it was pretending or what, he was just very surprised at Ke'er's boldness.
"Anyway, I'm also the emperor. If you get a girl who doesn't know the details to pretend to be my favorite concubine, aren't you afraid that one day in the future, this girl will use this secret as a threat to ask us for something we can't give at all?"
Ke'er is very confident.
"I promise, the girl won't."
Shen Qi's curiosity was somewhat aroused, "Who is this girl?"
"Cousin wants to see her, right?" Ke'er jumped up from the stool in surprise, turned around and was about to go out, "I'll bring her here right now, and you two can talk face to face."
Although Shen Qi was curious about who that girl was, her heart was always very calm.
Until Ke'er led a person standing at the door and knocked on his door.
The girl has an outstanding figure, looks weak and weak, holding something tightly in her arms, followed Ke'er to Shen Qi in small steps.
The girl didn't cover her face with anything, so Shen Xi could see clearly.
It was the Wanwan girl who used to sing ditties in teahouses.
It was the crooked girl his mother had helped.
She is the Wanwan girl who always remembers his mother's kindness.
Seeing Shen Qi, Wan Wan knelt down, "Wan Wan sees the Emperor."
Shen Qi hurried to help, "There is no need to salute."
Shen Qi was very surprised when he saw Wan Wan, and after helping him up, Shen Qi remembered to ask: "Why did you come here?"
Ke'er helped Wanwan to sit down, then went to pull Shen Qi to sit on the stool, and said, "Let's sit down and talk."
It was purely an accident that Ke'er met Wanwan.
When she saw Wan Wan for the first time, she thought he was someone fleeing from somewhere, with ragged clothes and unkempt hair. But tightly holding the pipa in his arms.
Ke'er was wandering around with Ye Shu at first, when she glimpsed Wan Wan approaching from the corner of her eye, she purposely pulled Ye Shu inside because she was afraid that Wan Wan would bump into Ye Shu.
Unexpectedly, she didn't go far when she heard a loud noise from behind.
"Where did the beggar come from! Can you afford to pay for staining my clothes?"
When Ke'er turned his head, the angry man was about to kick Wan Wan's stomach.
Ke'er yelled anxiously, "Stop!"
When she rushed in front of the two people, before Ke'er could reprimand the person, the beggar-like Wanwan called her softly: "Miss Ye."
There are many people on this street who recognize Ke'er as Ms. Ye, but the voice is so nice and they recognize her as Ms. Ye, so Ke'er can't help but take a closer look.
Looking at it, it can be seen that the beggar-like person is the Wanwan girl.
While throwing money at the troublemaker, Ke'er took a handkerchief to wipe Wan Wan's face. She couldn't imagine what a girl had gone through to make herself like this.
But there were people coming and going on the street, because the man's yelling just now attracted many people to watch, even if Ke'er had thousands of questions to ask, he could only hold back.
They escorted him all the way home, and asked Ye Shu to invite Ye Linjiang, so they dared to talk behind closed doors.
Wanwan's face was still fair after being wiped clean, and there was no injury on his body, which made Jie'er heave a sigh of relief.
Wanwan explained: "I'm a girl, I'm afraid of encountering bad people on the road, so I dress up like a refugee."
Ye Linjiang was not familiar with this bend, but only heard a few words from Jie'er, so the tone of the question became more serious, "What are you doing in the imperial city?"
Wanwan: "Come to repay the favor."
"What kind of favor?" Ke'er asked suspiciously.
"I haven't repaid the empress's favor yet."
Ye Linjiang smiled coldly, and said: "My aunt has passed away for many years, and there is no need for you to repay her kindness. Girl Wanwan should go back."
Wan Wan insisted: "But the empress's son is still there, so I can't go back."
Jie'er prevented Ye Linjiang from saying anything else, and asked first: "It's been so long, why did Miss Wanwan suddenly think of repaying her kindness?"
Wanwan's eyes suddenly filled with tears, "Because I don't live long, so I want to return the empress's kindness before I go to see my mother, so that my mother won't blame me."
Jie'er hurriedly asked: "Why? Miss Wanwan is sick?"
Wanwan cried and shook his head, explaining: "After Mr. Chang'an stopped managing the teahouse, the teahouse fell into the hands of others. The man turned the teahouse into a brothel and forced me to pick up customers. If I refused, he called Me, lock me up and don't let me leave. About a month ago, he gave me medicine, and when I woke up, it was too late."
Wanwan stretched out his hand to touch his stomach, and said in pain: "At that time, there was a little life here. I lost my body, I'm sorry for my mother, so I don't want to live anymore, I tried to escape, originally I wanted to die, but then I realized that I hadn’t repaid the empress’ kindness, so I came here. I must repay this kindness, otherwise I don’t know how to face my mother.”