"What's wrong?"
The sweet apricot reminds me of the taste of the medicine bowl just now.
Her home is next to a pharmacy, and she has smelled a lot of medicine since she was a child.
So just now when Wang Xi walked by, she smelled a somewhat familiar smell.
The fishy smell didn't look like medicine, but it seemed like it was put in to suppress other smells in the medicine bowl.
He couldn't name it, but it made Tian Xing feel weird for no reason.
Xie Nianyao urged dissatisfiedly: "Asking you, what did you just say?"
"It's nothing," Tian Xing calmed down: "It just feels a bit fishy."
"Is there any medicine that doesn't stink?" Xie Nianyao sneered: "Don't delve into other things, but I think about it, has Chunhua from Linhua Palace been in the palace since she was a child?"
The rest of the concubines, like her, Ouyang Xi, and the personal maids around her were actually brought as dowries.
He took care of them since childhood.
But Cheng Ning was different. Cheng Ning didn't have any maids in the past. After something happened to the Cheng family, all the servants were imprisoned.
Therefore, all the people in Linhua Palace were arranged by Wei Yanzhou later.
In other words, there is no absolute confidant around Cheng Ning.
Tianxing didn't understand what she was thinking: "What's wrong, empress?"
"Since you have recognized your master halfway, how loyal can you be? Now that you are free, go and have a chat with that Chunhua and see if you can use him for your own purposes."
Want to instigate rebellion against Chunhua?
Tian Xing didn't quite understand: "But Madam, this Chunhua looks honest and honest, I'm afraid she is a protector of the Lord. What use do we need her for?"
"Honest? Are there any honest people in this palace? Wang Xi looks at Honest, doesn't he also treat me with contempt? If you give me enough benefits, he will be obedient."
"Yes, concubine."
Xie Nianyao looked at the palace road in front of her and was extremely arrogant: "There is no need for her to do anything. Just tell us what happened when your Majesty went to Linhua Palace to talk to that bitch."
The chariot went all the way back to Fengluan Palace.
Next, due to the trivial matters of the New Year, the entire palace was busy.
The queen was punished, and then Wei Yanzhou issued an edict asking her to take full responsibility for the preparations for the palace banquet.
After giving a date a slap, Xie Nianyao became happy again.
However, as news of the queen's punishment spread, the previous dynasties began to criticize Wei Yanzhou's harem.
The emperor had lost both his aunt and his biological mother.
The few remaining concubines left by the late emperor were not close to him at all.
Therefore, no one supervises Wei Yanzhou when it comes to the affairs of the palace concubines and heirs.
However, because Wei Yanzhou was already quite old, he never married a wife and had no children when he left the mansion.
Now that he has ascended the throne, heirs are a big deal.
But someone inquired and said that according to the records in the King's Affairs Room, the emperor did not go to the harem a few times a month, and when he did, he stayed in Linhua Palace.
That's okay, Concubine Xi is now the daughter of a guilty minister, and she still has His Majesty's special favor. It's just nonsense.
As a result, many people wrote memorials, advising the emperor to soak up the rain and dew and fill the harem next year.
Others say that even if the queen makes a mistake, she is still the mother of the country and there is no reason to spoil her concubine and destroy her wife.
Forget about the three noble concubines, we can't be biased towards the queen and ask Wei Yanzhou to drink a bowl of water.
There are even those who say, overtly or covertly, that Wei Yanzhou's beauty makes him faint, and that Cheng Ning seduces the harem.
There are also examples of Wei Yanzhou being late for the morning court because he stayed at Linhua Palace, and the time he stopped the court.
The Cheng family was imprisoned, and no one they had ever been friends with dared to speak for Cheng Ning.
Hence the sound of rebellion.
I originally thought that Wei Yanzhou would take action, after all, people's words can be feared.
But no, he could even be called calm.
When a court official wanted to speak at a court meeting, he would listen attentively and finally ask: Is there anything else?
If I have you, I will continue talking; if not, I will disperse.
The officials were so depressed that their faces were livid, but he went to Linhua Palace as usual, and no one could guess his temper.
Within a few days, the few officials who had spoken out in anger all made political mistakes of one kind or another.
Wei Yanzhou showed no mercy and imposed the heaviest punishment.
So they all knew it, and it wasn't that he didn't care. It turned out that he had remembered them all, and he couldn't escape even if he had the chance.
Wei Yanzhou was rebellious and used his actions to tell them what it meant to stay out of their own business.
The Xie family is not convinced. If anyone wants to say who is most looking forward to Xie Nianyao giving birth to a legitimate son, it must be them.
The status of the Xie family was inherently unstable, and the identity of the head of the family was unclear. If there were no heirs by his side, everything might be in vain.
Xie Zhiyun also worked hard to raise a spark secretly, and used the courtier's mouth to "do justice" for the queen.
Unexpectedly, I hit a brick wall.
At the court meeting that day, Wei Yanzhou dismissed another official.
This official was the first to stand up and say that Wei Yanzhou was biased.
Today it happened that his son was riding a horse in the market and injured someone, and was reported to the police.
Wei Yanzhou was directly dismissed from his post and investigated.
His eyes were fixed on the Xie family.
He knocked on the armrest of the dragon chair nonchalantly and asked lazily: "Xie Aiqing, do you have any other opinions?"
The finger pointed directly at Xie Zhiyun, as if he understood the operations behind the scenes very well.
Xie's people were almost sweating in the cold weather.
Having dealt with so many of them in the past few days, is it possible that Wei Yanzhou wouldn't even let them go?
Xie Zhiyun cupped his hands towards him and hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "Your Majesty has decreed that if a minister makes a mistake, he should be punished. I have no objection."
"After listening to Xie Aiqing's words, I still feel that my punishment is wrong, but I am forced to do so, so I can't say more."
Wei Yanzhou spoke coldly.
This was to force Xie Zhiyun to say that he punished him well, but if he said it, it would be tantamount to slapping the courtier in the face.
Wei Yanzhou is very good at knocking down mountains and shaking tigers.
No matter how dissatisfied Xie Zhiyun is, he can only follow his wishes: "Your Majesty is right in punishing you. If everyone teaches their children like Mr. Zhu, wouldn't Yanjing become a place where the powerful are rampant?"
Only then did Wei Yanzhou feel satisfied.
After this, even if Xie Zhiyun wants to tease the ministers in private, those courtiers will definitely not dare to join him!
One is the devil who kills without blinking an eye, and the other is the powerful man who clings to the devil.
The courtiers who had not taken sides could not help but feel relieved.
The courtiers who had helped Xie Zhiyun not commit any crime were unable to swallow or exhale.
After the meeting, they walked out in twos and threes, whispering.
There was no one around Xie Zhiyun.
There were originally a large number of people who gathered around him to flatter him, but today they all stayed far away, and no one dared to come forward.
He was afraid that he would be punished by Wei Yanzhou if he had anything to do with him.
They truly felt that the new emperor was not the previous emperor. He had a strong hand and refused to recognize his relatives.
The wisest way to protect yourself is to stay away from disputes and do your own thing.
After just a few steps, starting from Xie Zhiyun, everyone stopped.
Under the long steps, Cheng Ning stood there quietly in a palace dress.
