"The Queen Mother..."
A palace maid looked over from the window and said somewhat unbearably: "Ligui... Ligui has fainted."
Empress Dowager Wu stood in the window, her beautiful eyebrows frowning: "Is the Ai family blind? Can't you see? You pity her so much, how about accompanying her to kneel in the rain?"
The maid hurriedly knelt down and said she didn't dare.
She did feel pity for Concubine Li. Song's chief assistant had been sentenced to death by the Queen of the Qiu Dynasty. Although Prime Minister Song escaped, he was also dismissed from his official position by the emperor. I heard that life in the Song family is very difficult now.
The members of the Song family were also liquidated in varying degrees. The huge Song family was dispersed in an instant.
Li Guifei was originally a noble concubine, but now she has become a concubine that everyone in the harem can step on.
The Queen Mother deliberately rubbed her body, fearing that her body would be ruined.
On a rainy night, a shadow shrouded Concubine Li's head. Xia He looked up and saw Jiang Cainu holding an oil-paper umbrella, looking at Concubine Li who had fainted on the ground with neither sadness nor joy.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
Concubine Li was in a daze, squinting her eyes, thinking that the emperor had come to save her. She weakly raised her hand, trying to catch the dreamlike bubbles.
"Your Majesty, I have seen clearly that I am Jiang Cainu."
Jiang Yuan sneered: "Back then, I dedicated my life to my mother-in-law and died. But when I was framed by the queen and was thrown into the cold palace and suffered so much, what were you doing, my queen? Didn't you even give me a look? Concubine, you don’t care about my life or death at all?”
Li Guifei lay on the ground, holding her hands on the slippery ground, and tried her best to open her eyes wide: "Jiang Cainu? What are you doing...what are you doing here?"
After seeing Jiang Yuan's indifferent face, Li Guibi's eyes burst out with strong hatred: "Save you? If it weren't for you and Zhen Bin, how could I be in this situation today. I just wish I couldn't have done it in the first place. If you two bitches were burned to death in the cold palace, you wouldn't be able to succeed today."
Remember how graceful she looked when she punished Jiang Xinyue to kneel under the scorching sun in the imperial garden?
No one in the harem can compete with her.
It has only been a year, and the situation between people has been completely changed.
Concubine Zhen suddenly became the most beloved concubine in the emperor's heart, but she... was as miserable as a dog, and she had to be ridiculed by Jiang Yuan here.
Jiang Cainu sneered again: "What does it have to do with the concubine and the concubine Zhen? If your Song family didn't take the emperor seriously, why would you have ended up like this today?"
"What do you mean?"
"My concubine is meaningless. If I don't understand, I will continue to hate my concubine and my concubine!"
Jiang Cainu's eyes widened and she sneered: "Back then, I refused to save my concubine, but now I don't know how to be such a wolf-hearted person."
She said to the eunuch behind her: "When daybreak, I will send a long letter to Concubine Li... Oh no... She is no longer a high-ranking concubine. The emperor has decreed that you go to Xihe Palace to live with me. .”
Moreover, Jiang Yuan lived in the main hall as a low-ranking concubine, while Li Gui lived in the side hall as a high-ranking concubine.
The emperor's favor is gone, it turns out that he doesn't miss the old love so much.
Jiang Yuan was walking in the heavy rain, and the small oil-paper umbrella could not protect her shoulders from getting wet from the falling rain.
The eunuch holding the umbrella was even drenched, but he was still worried that Jiang Cainu would blame him for being caught in the rain.
look!
The palace is like this, where big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and shrimps eat gravel.
But one day, a small fish like Zhenbi will grow into a fish in the North Ming Dynasty and swallow all the big and small fish into its belly.
The Queen...she won't be proud for long.
It doesn't matter if Concubine Zhen doesn't want to ally with her, she can poach the Queen's heart by herself.
After solving the Song family, Emperor Xuanwu was in a very good mood recently, and even Jiang Cainu was promoted to Jiang Jieyu.
In addition, the Jiang family recently defeated the powerful Song family in a fight and was fawned over by the courtiers. Jiang's reputation for encirclement has also grown.
Only Jiang Yankun obeyed Jiang Xinyue's instructions. Whenever anyone asked, he would give all the credit to Jiang Huaiwei, trying his best to weaken the Jiang family's key role in this matter.
She also suggested sending Uncle Datang, the "initiator" of the clan, back to his hometown in Yizhou, trying not to let anyone remember this person.
What Jiang Xinyue said in her letter also makes sense. She said that the Song family tree has deep roots. Although the Song Dynasty chief minister has not come back to life, the Song family is still here, but the Song family has not been completely dispersed. It cannot cause any big storms, but it can deal with the Jiang family and The Jiang family is more than enough.
If the Jiang family is proud and arrogant when the Song family is in decline, it will inevitably sting the eyes of the Song family.
When the time comes for them to take revenge, the rising star of the Jiang family will not be able to resist it.
Besides, Jiang Yankun has already received the most practical benefit, being promoted by Emperor Xuanwu to the rank of third-rank minister, Minister of Punishment, so what else is he going to do with those false claims?
Jiang Xinyue also wrote another letter to her cousin Jiang Yanxi, saying that she would remind the emperor of him at an appropriate time, and that the Song family would not be afraid at that time.
If the direct line of the Jiang family was really capable, they wouldn't have only produced one master in the local government so far.
Jiang Yankun also advised his cousin: "After Sister Yue entered the palace, she defeated several of the emperor's favorite concubines. Even in the cold palace, she was able to get the emperor to let her out, and she was promoted. I can do it. She became the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment all because of her blowing pillows in the Emperor's ears. Cousin Xi... we must listen to Sister Yue. The day when the Jiang family will rise to prominence is not far away."
Jiang Yanxi was so impassioned by what he said, especially when Jiang Yankun asked him to select a few people from his clan who could read and send them to the capital. He said that he would build a clan school in Jiang Mansion and test the homework of several children in the school. Can they participate in this year's Qiuwei with Brother Ze?
It would be great if the Jiang family could produce more young and promising officials, but his future was not that important.
Jiang Yanxi immediately prepared horses and didn't even want the carriage prepared by Jiang Yankun because he thought the carriage was cumbersome.
He wanted to return to Yizhou as soon as possible, tell the news to the clan, and then bring the younger members of the clan over here early, otherwise he was afraid of delays on the road and would be late.
Originally, Qiuwei was scheduled for August, but due to the Song family's imperial examination fraud, the emperor pushed the date to the end of the year.
This is no longer called autumn or winter.
This trip to Yizhou will take a month!
There is not much time left to prepare.
After the provincial examination, the general examination will be held in February next year. The general examination will end, and March will be the last palace examination.
Time is quite tight.
Although the provincial examination can also be taken in Yizhou, Jiang Yanxi feels that the most promising person in the clan is Jiang Yankun, who was ranked second in the imperial examination that year.
So he decided to bring all the children of the clan to the capital and transfer their academic status to the capital.
The Jiang family is the richest man in Yizhou, and the prefect of Yizhou also counts on having some connections in the capital. Not only will he not embarrass them, but he also hopes to get it done for them as soon as possible so as not to delay the exam time.
