When the one-month ban came, the guards outside Hexi Palace left, and Jiang Xinyue came out of the palace.
Taking advantage of the quarrel with the Queen Mother, Emperor Xuanwu built a small kitchen in Hexi Palace as if out of spite. Others only thought that Concubine Zhen was lucky and could benefit from the confrontation between the Emperor and the Queen Mother.
In fact, this was because the emperor felt sorry for Jiang Xinyue and was afraid that someone would poison her meals. It was the bowl of saffron and white fungus soup that woke him up.
The Xuanjing Division has been investigating for almost half a month. They have thoroughly investigated all the suspicious people in the imperial dining room and used all those who should be tortured. However, they still have not been able to find out who is behind the scenes.
In these years, the only children who grew up in the emperor's harem were the eldest princess, the second princess, the third prince, and a fourth prince who had been forgotten.
The fourth prince is six years old this year, and there has been no prince or princess in the palace for four years.
They all had miscarriages not long after they became pregnant.
Forget about one or two, everyone is like this, that is, someone is plotting to kill these pregnant concubines.
Concubine Zhen is his beloved, and he will never allow anything to happen to Concubine Zhen under his nose.
Therefore, the day when the ban in Hexi Palace was lifted was also the day when the small kitchen was built.
"The emperor is getting more and more ridiculous."
After Empress Dowager Wu settled Concubine Shu, she returned to the main hall of Kunning Palace. She was extremely angry and tried to suppress her feelings: "Who is a precious concubine? A mere concubine. Being a noble concubine is worth the trouble. How can he still do it?" Treat people as treasures, and the Ai family can’t even touch them.”
Aunt Gui had been Empress Dowager Wu's personal maid before she entered the palace, and now she was the highest-ranking nanny in the palace.
She brought a cup of warm tea over and said on behalf of Empress Dowager Wu: "The Empress Dowager also knows that she is just a concubine of a fifth-rank official. If the emperor continues to favor her, she will become one of the four concubines. You are Queen Mother, if you want to cure her, it’s just a matter of raising your hand. If the emperor is angry again, what can he do to you?"
The Yan Dynasty valued filial piety, and Empress Dowager Wu was the emperor's biological mother. When the Wu family was liquidated, the emperor already had a reputation of being cold-blooded and ruthless. If he did anything to Empress Dowager Wu again, the people would point their fingers at him and scold him for being unfilial. .
The reason why Empress Dowager Wu dared to confront Emperor Xuanwu like this was because the emperor could not do anything to her because she was satisfied.
Empress Dowager Wu's anger subsided by what she said: "You are right. The emperor's passion for Concubine Shu back then was much more crazy and enthusiastic for Concubine Zhen than it is for Concubine Zhen now. But the Ai family saw that the emperor was exactly the same as his father. They fall in love with each other when they see her, and if the Ai family hadn't refused to welcome her, the position of the Queen Mother would not have been occupied by the Ai family."
That's why she let Concubine Shu follow her old path and whet the emperor's appetite.
After thinking about it, Queen Mother Wu became angry again.
If a concubine hadn't been killed halfway, Concubine Shu would still have been the only woman in the emperor's heart.
Now...now their many years of planning have been ruined by Zhenbi.
"The Queen Mother, Concubine Zhen is outside asking for an audience."
Empress Dowager Wu had nowhere to vent her anger, so Jiang Xinyue came to her door herself.
"She still dares to come?"
Empress Dowager Wu slapped her hand heavily on the low table next to her, and the fire of Samadhi came out of her head: "What is she here for?"
The eunuch lowered his head, not daring to look at Empress Dowager Wu's expression: "Concubine Zhen... said that the emperor rewarded Hexi Palace with more than ten kilograms of Jiuyun Mountain's top-quality red robes, thinking... thinking that Kunning Palace didn't have it, specifically I brought a few kilograms for you to try, the Queen Mother."
Isn't this a provocation?
"Wow!"
The sound of cups and porcelain falling to the ground came from the inner hall. Jiang Xinyue patted her belly for fear of scaring the baby in her belly.
After a while, a little palace maid came out and said, "Empress Zhen, please come in."
The palace maid opened the curtain, and Jiang Xinyue walked in with Magpie and Xiao Xuanzi, with a smile on her face that Empress Dowager Wu didn't like.
"I send my regards to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother be blessed with peace and happiness."
"snort!"
"If you be less angry Aijia, Aijia will be blessed and safe."
Empress Dowager Wu deliberately didn't ask her to stand up, just to let her kneel for a while. I heard that not long after she entered the palace, she offended Concubine Li and was punished to kneel for half a day. She broke her knee from kneeling. Now the emperor ordered her to be nursed back to health in the hospital. With.
Why didn't you kneel to death?
"What did the Queen Mother say? How dare I be angry with the Queen Mother? It's too late for me to respect you."
Who is Jiang Xinyue? What is she here for today?
She came here specifically to anger Empress Dowager Wu, so how could she let her give her a blow?
So, while she was talking, she stood up and sat on the right hand side of Queen Mother Wu.
"Be bold!"
Seeing this, Aunt Gui immediately scolded: "The Queen Mother hasn't asked you to get up, let alone sit down. Concubine Zhen doesn't take the Queen Mother seriously, is she dissatisfied with the Queen Mother?"
"Ah! Aunt Gui knows that the Queen Mother will wake me up, and she also knows that the Queen Mother will give me a seat!"
She tilted her head with an innocent expression: "But I saw that the Queen Mother didn't let me get up, so I thought she had forgotten it! I have always been considerate and will not make the Queen Mother feel guilty."
Blame yourself for nothing!
Empress Dowager Wu was almost forced to speak obscenely by Jiang Xinyue's shamelessness, but her good upbringing allowed her to hold back.
Jiang Xinyue waved her hand, and Magpie brought up the red wooden box in her hand and presented it directly to Aunt Gui.
"This is the one the emperor gave to my concubine yesterday. I kept some for myself, and the rest was sent to you, the Queen Mother."
What this means is that the Dahongpao here is the second-rate product that Jiang Xinyue has chosen for the first time.
Empress Dowager Wu looked into the box that Aunt Gui had opened, and her head felt buzzing.
As expected...as expected, she shouldn't have any hope for Concubine Zhen.
The mahogany box contained a pile of tea stems and some finely chopped tea leaves.
There is no Dahongpao from Jiuyunshan in Kunning Palace, but she is the Queen Mother, and the palace bureau’s internal affairs minister, so any good things come to her closely. Is she a beggar? Want to drink the residue Jiang Xinyue sent?
"You give it to the Aijia..."
"Mother!"
Empress Dowager Wu's hand was already raised high, holding a tea cup with a white background and blue flowers. Emperor Xuanwu shouted loudly, but Empress Dowager Wu suppressed it.
"emperor!"
Jiang Xinyue threw herself into Emperor Xuanwu's arms, pinched her arm, and sobbed with tears in her eyes.
Queen Mother Wu’s eyes widened: Has it started? It's starting again, right?
The familiar feeling of being dominated by Zhenbi's cunning acting came back.
"Mother, Concubine Zhen is still young. If she does something wrong, you can teach her, but please don't let me see you always saying bad words and punching her in the future. This is against your will. Your status is too inappropriate."
Queen Mother Wu:?
Didn't she have time to do anything yet?
