Emperor Xuanwu nodded her little head: "If you do a good job, you will naturally be rewarded."
He looked at Fang Rumeng: "As for the reward, Fang Dianyi will decide, and then we will report it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Fang Rumeng's face was filled with joy: "On behalf of the embroiderers in the dressing room, I would like to thank the Emperor, and thank you very much, Concubine Zhen."
Tomorrow is the New Year's banquet, and Empress Zhu is still angry with the emperor and has no intention of attending.
In other words, she was waiting for the emperor to say good things to her.
The annual New Year's Eve banquet is the most grand festival of the year. Only the presence of the emperor and empress can show the harmony in the harem, and the coming year will be harmonious and smooth.
But Emperor Xuanwu seemed to have no intention of reconciling at all. Tomorrow was the New Year's Eve banquet, and no one came to give her new clothes or ask her about the arrangements for the party.
What she didn't know was that the emperor had given the Ministry of Internal Affairs full authority to take over the banquet, and on the grounds that the queen had a headache, the palace officials were not allowed to disturb the queen's recovery.
"Empress..."
They looked worriedly at the Queen who had been sitting quietly by the window all morning, gritted their teeth, knelt on the ground cruelly, and knocked their heads on the floor: "Queen, I beg you to go and admit your mistake with the Emperor, okay? If you don’t think about yourself, you should also think about the fifth prince! If you fall, how will the fifth prince survive?"
"Wow, wow, wow..."
As if feeling Empress Zhu's sorrow, the fifth prince in the nanny's arms let out a cute cry and waved his little hands to ask Empress Zhu to hug him.
The fifth prince was almost one year old, and the children in the palace were all precocious. He had sensed Empress Zhu's sadness and disappointment from her expression, and wanted to use his little hands to comfort his mother.
Those dull eyes also shed tears after hearing the fifth prince's cry.
Empress Zhu said with a hoarse voice: "Bring the fifth prince over."
The nanny took a look at Fen Wan and felt that the Queen was not emotionally stable at this time, fearing that she would hurt the fifth prince.
Fenren directly hugged the fifth prince and placed him on Queen Zhu's lap. The fifth prince immediately stopped crying, his eyes turned into two crescent moons with smiles, and for the first time he called out a not-so-standard: "Mother... mother... Mother..."
"The fifth prince has called you!"
This consonant ignited all the fighting spirit of Queen Zhu.
She seemed to see the eldest prince and the second prince who had already gone, and their faces gradually merged with the fifth prince, becoming her third child.
Suppressed and broken cries overflowed from her lips. She hugged the fifth prince tightly. Her tears soaked the little man's shoulders, but he wisely stretched out his hand, hugged Queen Zhu's neck tightly, and put his head against her. next to her face.
Seeing this, Manyan also shed tears: "Look, my dear, the fifth prince knows how good you are to him!"
yes!
Even such a young child knows who is really good to him and can give you a hug and comfort you when you are sad.
The emperor was such a big man, yet he stabbed her heart with a knife.
Can't he come and give his first wife a step down?
no!
She couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
Empress Zhu wiped away her tears, her eyes gradually hardened, she took a deep breath and said, "Fenwen, I can't keep my concubine..."
She had not been cruel before because she felt that the concubine Zhen was not a threat to her status. No matter how favored she was, she was still a concubine and could not affect her status in the palace.
But this time the emperor's behavior made her deeply aware of how terrifying the emperor's love would be if it were given to only one person.
Today she can be a concubine, tomorrow she can be a concubine, and in the future she can be a concubine, an imperial concubine...
In the end, she, the queen, will also abdicate in favor of others.
Even if the emperor hates her for the rest of his life, it doesn't matter. The position of queen will always be hers.
"Queen, Eunuch Jiangchuan from Hexi Palace is here."
The little eunuch's voice sounded outside, and Queen Zhu withdrew her cruel eyes and asked the nanny to carry the fifth prince down.
After being greeted by many people, the queen covered her tears and couldn't see any clues before walking out of the back hall.
Jiang Chuan had been waiting for a while, but he didn't show any signs of anger or anxiety. He still led the people to greet Empress Zhu in a polite manner.
Empress Zhu was angry and didn't scream. Jiang Chuan just knelt down without any anger at all.
"snort!"
The cold snort sounded cold and gloomy in the spacious hall.
Empress Zhu squinted her eyes: "Concubine Zhen does have a few loyal dogs around her, but I don't know if these dogs know that they are eating my food, and they should respect my real master."
Hexi Palace... no... the entire harem, strictly speaking, are all slaves of the Queen.
The salary and money in the harem were all allocated from her hands.
It was she, the royal queen, who kept this group of dog slaves.
Jiang Chuan said with a smile: "Queen, you remember wrongly. Our queen only has one dog, and her name is here. On weekdays, she eats chicken, duck, fish, meat and fruits and vegetables raised by the servants in Hexi Palace, but it is indeed like the queen." As the empress said, he is a good and loyal dog, and empress, you are really very discerning."
The implication is: Magpie and I are both humans, not dogs, and Concubine Zhen has never treated us as dogs. But there is indeed a dog called over in Hexi Palace. It eats the food of Empress Zhenbin and has nothing to do with the Queen. It is indeed a good dog that is only loyal to Empress Zhenbin. What the hell, Queen Empress? The eyes of wisdom see clearly.
There's more than one pun.
Once it is said that Empress Zhu treats her slaves not as humans but as dogs, then aren’t all the slaves who serve her dogs?
The second said that they did not eat Queen Zhu’s food. They were the emperor’s people. Since the palace assigned them to the empress Zhen concubine, then they were the people of the concubine Zhen concubine and were worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth.
Third, they said that Hexi Palace is self-sufficient, doing their own work, and having enough food and clothing. They didn't ask you, Queen Zhu, to raise them. It's only natural for slaves to get a salary for their work, otherwise you let others serve you in vain?
Fourthly, Empress Zhu has a very good vision. She knows that the people in Hexi Palace are loyal to Concubine Zhen, so there is no need to resort to sowing discord, which is not effective.
Queen Zhu was so angry that she clenched her fingers tightly. The veins on her forehead hidden under her black hair were bulging, which was very scary.
Jiang Chuan knew that a slap in the face would require a sweet date, otherwise the face-conscious empress would really take action.
He knelt down to the side, revealing what the two palace servants behind him were holding: "Queen, these are newly forged clothes from the dressing room. Concubine Zhen thinks that the dressing room sent the wrong ones." , Such gorgeous clothes should be worn by the Queen at the New Year's Banquet tomorrow, isn't this... I quickly ordered my servants to bring them to you, the Queen."
Wrong delivery?
This is impossible, how can the dressing room...unless it is the emperor!
Empress Zhu sneered at first, then stood up excitedly: "Did the emperor ask you to come?"
