"A few clothes are nothing. There is no fabric. I only wear old ones. Who asked you to cause trouble? Do you still think that I, Zhilan Palace, am living well?"
Concubine Lan said her eyes were red, and tears fell down all of a sudden. He suppressed the shivers all over his body. He looks like a little doormat. It's really heartbreaking to hear.
When An Xiaoshan heard this, he gave a thumbs up in his heart. This little girl is an acting material.
"You bastards, a bunch of blind things, who said you don't have a backer, Lan Yatou? Isn't this palace enough of a backer?"
Sure enough, the old queen slapped the table and got angry.
"Huang Mei, go tell Yanshou what thing in the Shangfu Bureau told him to stop doing. How did you lift something without eyes?"
When the old queen gets angry, someone will naturally be in trouble.
Huang Mei glanced at An Xiaoshan, then walked away with a big face.
An Xiaoshan winked at Concubine Lan. Concubine Lan has a clear understanding of things.
"Queen Mother, you are not the Queen Mother, you are my biological mother. I have had someone support me for my daughter these years. I have had such a hard time..."
Concubine Lan knelt directly in front of the Queen Mother's knees, hugged the Queen Mother's thigh and cried.
This sentence pierced the Queen Mother's heart. One of her two sons could not enter the palace, and the other was busy all day long. She has two daughters. The eldest daughter always hated her because of her marriage and did not even show up for her fiftieth birthday.
The second daughter was locked in the study all day, and it was difficult for her to say a few words. Concubine Lan's voice directly filled the old lady's emotional void.
The Queen Mother is holding Concubine Lan, with Lan Yatou on the left and Lan Yatou on the right. The two of them are almost becoming a mother-in-law.
When An Xiaoshan and Concubine Lan came out of the Queen Mother's Palace, they were followed by a group of young eunuchs, carrying many things in the palace, which the Queen Mother had given to Zhilan Palace.
Hai Shou's chest was bruised heavily, and his breath smelled of blood. The imperial doctor said that he had suffered internal injuries and recommended that he rest.
There was still a big bump on the back of his head. After being treated at the Imperial Hospital, he led more than 20 young eunuchs to Zhilan Palace to cause trouble.
He couldn't believe it. A down-and-out noble concubine dared to offend him. If he didn't beat that little bastard to death today, he would write the word "Hai Shou" upside down.
When I saw a figure halfway along the road, I quickly asked all the little eunuchs to stop. He ran over at a trot and almost knelt down.
The person who came was a fat old eunuch in a bright red robe, with a bald head and no hat, as if he was taking a leisurely stroll.
"Ancestor, why do you have to come here for a walk?"
Hai Shou bent down and almost knelt down, serving the eunuch in front of him, Yan Shou, the chief steward of the inner palace.
"Is the injury serious?" Yanshou asked kindly.
"If I go back to my ancestors, it won't be serious, but I'll be embarrassed. You have to make a decision for me. That little beast in Zhilan Palace bullies people too much. I won't be able to hang out in the harem in the future."
When Hai Shou heard that his ancestor asked about this, he immediately said with a bitter look and added jealousy.
"Well, what you said makes sense. Then don't hang out in the harem. There happens to be a lack of eunuchs at the imperial mausoleum. You go and guard the imperial mausoleum."
Yanshou said slowly. Hai Shou felt as if he was struck by lightning and knelt down with a plop.
"Old ancestor, what are you talking about? My grandson, did you do something wrong? Why...why did you go to see the imperial mausoleum?"
Hai Shou immediately started howling in mourning, trembling with fear. The place of the imperial mausoleum sounded good, but in fact, in the deserted wilderness, how could the harem, the manager of the Shangfu Bureau, feel comfortable.
"In this harem, we are not afraid of anything. We are only afraid of being blind and offending people who shouldn't be offended. But your grandson dares to do it. The Queen Mother has spoken, so you can only go, or else... …”
Yanshou's last two hums made Haishou's hair stand on end.
When he left the palace, he didn't even think about when the situation in Zhilan Palace changed. He didn't hear that His Majesty went to his place.
Zhilan Palace fell into a sea of joy, not only the exquisite and beautiful materials that An Xiaoshan brought back from the Shangfu Bureau. The most important thing is the attitude of the Queen Mother today.
In order to support Zhilan Palace, the Queen Mother directly dismissed Hai Shou, the manager of the Shangfu Bureau, which made Zhilan Palace completely proud.
An Xiaoshan had been planning this day for a long time, and today he deliberately took advantage of Hai Shou. He deliberately hid the ivory belt in order to make the matter bigger.
In fact, they didn't understand this game. It seemed that they defeated Hai Shou to vent their anger on Zhilan Palace. In fact, An Xiaoshan took advantage of today's events to invite the Queen Mother to Zhilan Palace's car in advance.
Some things can only happen if you take the initiative. We can't wait for the Queen Mother to take the initiative to support Zhilan Palace, but we must ask her to come forward.
"Xiao Anzi, I heard the rat barking again yesterday... I was so scared..."
Concubine Lan held a small wine flask in her hand and walked a few steps to take a sip. Her face flushed, and the smell of wine mixed with her body fragrance made people intoxicated.
She staggered deliberately and almost fell into An Xiaoshan's arms. An Xiaoshan quickly helped her up and asked her to stand up.
"The rats have been coming here a lot lately. It seems like we need to clean up the place tonight..." An Xiaoshan said seriously.
"Well, you have to work hard..." Concubine Lan said excitedly with her eyes dim and drunk.
Concubine Wei Shu never expected that Zhilan Palace, which had been lying dead for three years, would actually fake her corpse today. Not only did she beat up Hai Shou from the Shangfu Bureau, but she also dared to steal her own clothing materials. It was simply lawless.
She and Hai Shou had the same idea, and they would fight back no matter what. But then she thought, this was a good opportunity. She had wanted to live in Zhilan Palace for a long time.
Just when she had finished getting angry and was about to start a big fight, news came one after another. First, the Queen Mother angrily dismissed Hai Shou from his position as the manager of the Shangfu Bureau, and then Hai Shou left the palace to guard the imperial mausoleum.
Then she got angry again and smashed all the furnishings in the Yulu Palace.
"This bitch, why does the Queen Mother indulge her so much?" Concubine Wei Shu finally realized belatedly that Zhilan Palace was actually so close to the Queen Mother.
She doted on the Sixth Palace and even looked down upon the queen, but there were two people she couldn't offend. One was naturally the emperor whom he favored, and the other was naturally the emperor's mother, the queen mother.
Wei Shufei was so angry after dinner that she didn't even eat a bite, and she lay alone in the backyard of Yulu Palace and was upset.
What made her even more upset was that the little eunuch came to tell her that the emperor was not coming tonight and had gone to Liquan Palace.
The Virtuous Concubine of Liquan Palace is the most peaceful. She keeps her Taoist robes dusty and inseparable from her hands all day long, and she never leaves her mouth to talk about Taoist scriptures. She and His Majesty can become a couple of gods and immortals.
It's not that Concubine De was in favor of His Majesty, she dressed like this on purpose. She was like this when she was at home. His Majesty firmly believed that the art of refining elixirs and ascending to immortality had something in common with her, but most of the time she went there to seek peace and quiet.
His Majesty does not come to Yulu Palace for only a few days every month. He always goes to the Queen's place for three or four days every month, but only to show the foreign ministers.
After dinner at the Queen's place, the Queen slept in the palace, and His Majesty meditated and practiced in the study, not sleeping together at all.
Other than that, most of them stayed with her, and occasionally went to Concubine De to seek some peace and quiet. The other concubines did not see the emperor for a year and a half.
Concubine Wei Shu knew that His Majesty must have deliberately avoided her today and did not want to be upset by this matter. But don’t you just think about it, why would you be more upset if he didn’t come? What a heartless person.
"Bitch Lan, when that thing arrives, I will kill you..." Wei Shufei said angrily.
Middle palace.
The queen held a white jade rosary in her hand and moved it feebly while her personal maid, Du Juan, reported what happened today.
An Xiaoshan was like a mad bull, smashing Shangfu Bureau. The first one to know was actually the queen. She was in charge of the harem and nothing could escape her eyes.
Unlike others, the queen likes to think too much when something happens, thinking about the deep meaning behind it, and what do An Xiaoshan or Concubine Lan want to do?
Before she could understand, the Queen Mother spoke, and Hai Shou went directly to guard the imperial mausoleum. An Xiaoshan and Concubine Lan, who beat people and robbed people, not only escaped unscathed, but also received rewards from the Queen Mother.
The Queen was different from others. She knew that Zhilan Palace was close to the Queen Mother, but she did not expect that the Queen Mother, who had been living alone in the Palace of Prayer for Good Harvests, would directly support Concubine Lan in Zhilan Palace without considering her own feelings.
The Queen felt a little regretful. If we had taken decisive action to deal with Zhilan Palace and An Xiaoshan from the beginning. The Queen Mother will not interfere if she finds out.
By the same token, now that the Queen Mother has spoken, she, the Queen, can no longer interfere.
"This An Xiaoshan is so brave." The queen stopped fiddling with the rosary beads and clenched her fists.
"My slave used to think that he was a handsome little eunuch who knew how to cook and was very articulate. Now it seems that he actually has the ability to charge into battle."
Du Juan said from the side.
"More than that, I have only recently figured out that Zhilan Palace was originally a dead fish, but it was revived by him. We must be careful."
The queen grabbed a rosary and slowly twisted it.
"An Xiaoshan? He has such ability? Why should we be careful?" Du Juan asked in disbelief.
"Dujuan, you know that I am not favored by the Holy Spirit, and we slept separately when he came here. But you don't know that he didn't like me from the time he became the Crown Princess. I don't like him either. It's just for the sake of the family and myself, I must firmly hold the position of queen."
The Queen spoke to Du Juan in an unprecedented solemn tone.
"Empress, do you think Concubine Lan will threaten your position? How is this possible?" Du Juan looked up at the queen in shock and said in disbelief.
"Du Juan, remember, nothing is impossible. A thousand-mile embankment breaks down in an ant nest. Everything starts from a small sign. She is a noble concubine..."
The queen said decisively that she would not let go of anyone or anything that might threaten her position.
The imperial concubine is only one level lower than the queen, and she will not rely on luck.
"But Madam, Concubine Lan is not favored by the Holy Spirit at all. Is it just a good relationship with the Queen Mother?" Du Juan didn't believe anything she said.
"Nip in the bud, don't wait for the threat to actually appear before you think of solutions. According to Concubine Lanlan's performance in the past few years, she is a dead fish. Only with An Xiaoshan can she have the threat of leaping over the dragon gate." The queen said.
"Slave, please find someone to kill An Xiaoshan as soon as possible." Du Juan said.
"No, maybe there is a better way..." The queen smiled slightly, how could Gong Dou only think about killing people?
An Xiaoshan was still making a fortune in silence, but little did he know that he was already on the Queen's blacklist.
