OFFERING CONCUBINES
EPISODE 12 - UNWARRANTED JEALOUSY

"Concubine Yi.."the hesitant voice of Consort Yuan suddenly stopped Xiao Yi's story.

Xiao Yi, turned his gaze to the tiny face in front of him that looked anxiously looking at him.

"You crying?" ask with a guilty face. Xiao Yi hurriedly wiped away his tears. Then smile with a clear bitter.

"I just miss my home" Xiao Yi replied in a trembling voice.

Concubine Yuan held onto Xiao Yi's fingers.

"Everybody's gonna miss home, someday if we're lucky we can go back home..."Consort Yuan seemed to be trying to comfort Xiao Yi. Even though he himself was unsure of what he said.

Xiao Yi nodded with a hopeful look, having a friend in this foreign place made him feel a bit lucky.

"Is there death, so that there is something to mourn in this place?" suddenly a woman in a bright yellow dress, a sour and stout face stood at the gazebo door.

His chin was raised with narrowed eyes full of suspicion.

Concubine Yuan immediately stood up, followed by Xiao Yi.

"Welcome to Concubine Mei," Consort Yuan welcomed kindly while saluting, the same thing Xiao Yi did.

"What's this?" ask again, regardless of the welcome given to him.

"We only had tea and had a few morning snacks, would concubine Mei join us?" Concubine Yuan asked.

"I was just passing by, not interested in joining." Consort of Mei.

"Why is this new concubine crying? whether she was too happy to tell me about the invitation to dinner with the king last night, so her tears spilled over in happiness" Concubine Mei said cynically, her eyes staring intently at Xiao Yi.

"That's not so Consort Mei's sister..." Concubine Yuan replied quickly, becoming uneasy with the sudden tension.

"Concubine Yi was just telling me about her hometown"

"Oh, huh? that only?" concubine Mei's narrow eyes with brown eyeballs flashed like a wolf on guard.

"Didn't she tell you too, how did she seduce His Majesty, on the first night? Didn't he tell you how to get His Majesty instigated by his venomous mouth?" Concubine Mei snarled, it seemed that her jealousy towards Xiao Yi was completely unenforceable.

"We're not talking about that..." Consort Yuan looked confused.

Xiao Yi did not say anything, he silently stared at the place where he stood, looking in surprise at the newly arrived Concubine Mei and continued to say things that she did not understand.

"Concubine Yuan, you don't need to defend her, we just need to listen to Consort Yi tell her shrewdness, since two nights in a row can accompany the king!" now the flash of jealousy in the eyes of Consort Mei turned into hatred.

"I didn't do anything..." Xiao Yi said softly.

"Not doing anything?! how can, Your Majesty just look at you, without you doing anything?" concubine Mei's tone of voice sounded mocking.

"Listen carefully, you have just entered this palace. You're just the new king's concubine, somehow you go after His Majesty so you can see you. But, in a moment Your Majesty will realize, you will only be thrown away like useless waste" Consort Mei looked furious in front of Xiao Yi with a dead red face.

Then in a fit of annoyance, he threw out the sleeves of his robe and turned to leave the gazebo where Consorts Yuan and Xiao Yi were both without saying goodbye or greeting.

Concubine Yuan let out a long sigh, while Xiao Yi was still pecking at his place standing like a confused person.

"What is he angry for?" xiao Yi asked as if to himself.

"Here it is, there is no need to be taken to heart, Consort Mei has always been so." Consort Yuan sat back down and poured the tea into the cup.

Xiao Yi sat down with a reluctant attitude. Consort Yuan thrust out a glass filled with tea and smiled widely back.

"May's concubine is always emotional, for unnecessary things sometimes she goes berserk for no reason. There's no need to worry too much" Consort Yuan sipped tea in her cup, trying to ease the tension Xiao Yi was experiencing.

"But I didn't do anything accused by concubine Mei..." Xiao Yi sighed, defending himself.

"So, on your first glorious night, Your Majesty did nothing to you? didn't he spend the night at Xingwu's guesthouse that night? the entire palace had known the rumors!" Now the glaring Consort Yuan was unsure of Xiao Yi.

"Your Majesty just slept in Xingwu's guesthouse due to drinking too much, we didn't even sleep in one bed..." Xiao Yi said half a whisper.

"Of course, the rumors circulating are always excessive. His Majesty will not touch his bride, it is an open secret in this palace.." concubine Yuan chuckled.

"Even, I'm not sure, Consort Mei used to sleep with her majesty like she told everyone, she likes to make up stories to make her more respected than other concubines."Concubine Yuan whispered with amused blinking eyes.

Xiao Yi only looked at concubine Yuan in confusion, is it so important to be able to sleep with His Majesty to raise the status of someone inside this palace, so that even concubines compete with each other for the attention of the king?

"Concubine Yi, knowing that you were on my first night with the king, even His Majesty only offered wedding wine without remembering to open the curtain that covered my face" Consort Yuan's voice sounded sad.

"She just came asking my name, offered me the wedding wine, then left. Two years I've been living in this palace, though the noble never again comes to Yangjie's guesthouse." The sorrow of Consort Yuan, was not understood by Xiao Yi. Supposedly, if Xiao Yi was in the position of Consort Yuan then he would be very happy.

"Is it really important to sleep with Your Majesty, for you?" Xiao Yi finally could not bear to not ask, about the feelings of this woman in front of him who was still unable to be understood by him.

"of course. Should not a wife serve her husband, that is our duty. If a husband doesn't want to touch us doesn't that make us very low?"Concubine Yuan asked in a bitter voice.

Xiao Yi did not know what to answer, he simply put down his teacup slowly as if not wanting to cause a sound that would probably add to the bad mood of Consort Yuan.

"Do you not know, the whole palace is busy talking about you? All the concubines are being engulfed in a great jealousy towards you" Consort Yuan lowered the volume of her voice. As if I don't want to be heard by others.

Xiao Yi was speechless, unsure that the jealousy of all the concubines in this palace was reasoned.

"Ah, never mind.we do not need to talk about such unimportant things. We better tell you about Youwu, I'm very curious about the city with the most extreme winter in the kingdom." The look on concubine Yuan's face turned bright.

"Winter in Youwu..." Xiao Yi said gamang, he seemed to lose interest in telling a story again.

"That year, when I came to Youwu, it was autumn. And every autumn comes, reminding me of someone I met at Youwu..." Concubine Yuan looked towards the calm-looking lake, as calm as her feelings that were suddenly possessed by longing.

"Someone?" Xiao Yi raised his black brows, curious.

"Yes, a young man in Mr. Qian's palace, who was picking pears in the garden. He is the most handsome man I have ever seen on Youwu. Although maybe he was just a servant in mister Qian's palace." Concubine Yuan laughed with a faint smile on her lips .

Xiao Yi listened carefully, everything about Youwu would interest him.

"She gave me the pear, and told me she had a friend who really liked the pear in the fall."

Concubine Yuan's forehead wrinkled, she was enjoying for herself what she was trying to remember.

"I liked it right away, at first sight. She had a very sweet smile, sweeter than the tanghulu sweets she gave the next day"

"Unfortunately, maybe we didn't match, we never saw each other again after"

Concubine Yuan sighed.

"I shouldn't have received the pear as a gift. My aunt once said, Li's fruit should never be made a gift, because Likai means to go. The pear always symbolizes farewell." Concubine Yuan ended the story with a cloudy face.

Xiao Yi now seemed to disagree.

"I love pears so much, even every fall, everyone in Youwu who knows me will come and send me a gift of pears when autumn comes,"

xiao Yi was excited.

"Someone once told me, a pear might mean farewell, but

we eat it to avoid parting with those we care about. By eating it, we have great hopes of being able to regroup with them in the years to come."

Xiao Yi's eyes glared far away, at the face of someone who was now firmly stuck in his memory.

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