The officials retreated, allowing Chang'an and Yan Li to live in a clean world.
Chuntao quickly walked down the jade steps, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Yan Li: "Your Majesty, just now the servant broke into the Palace of Qinzheng without authorization and almost killed the Queen, damn it! Damn it!"
Rong Chang'an said: "I asked you to come in, what is your crime! If the emperor wants to punish you, then I will punish you too."
Rong Changan looked at Yan Li, "Your Majesty, do you want to punish Chuntao?"
When Chuntao was in the Li Hai Dynasty, not only did he help Yan Li and Rong Chang'an deliver letters, but he was also very kind. How could he punish such a person who has been kind to him? Besides, she is Rong Chang'an's maidservant, as the saying goes, Yan Li will not make things difficult for Chun Tao.
Yan Li came over and held Rong Chang'an's hand, and the two looked at each other with tenderness like water.
"Chang'an, how could I be willing to punish you! If you hadn't come in to rescue me just now, I would have been besieged by those ministers."
Rong Changan's eyes were clear, and his face was brimming with happiness: "You just need to know my goodness!" The voice was delicate, very soft, and it was really a different person from the state of the ministers who were arguing with each other just now.
Seeing that Chuntao was still kneeling, Yan Li walked down the jade steps and helped Chuntao up himself.
The first time Chuntao was touched by the emperor, a burst of electricity flashed through her body, and her mind was almost numb.
"Chuntao, I forgive you for your innocence. You are so loyal to the queen, I should reward you well. If I am not by the queen's side, it is thanks to you for taking care of me."
When Chuntao heard that she was going to be rewarded, she was very frightened and waved her hands repeatedly, her face flushed as if she had drunk too much wine: "Your Majesty, this is what Chuntao should do, it is not worthy of a reward! I hope the Emperor will take back his promise!"
Rong Changan asked Yan Li: "Your Majesty, what do you want to reward Chuntao? If it is money, it would be too vulgar."
If you don't reward money, what can you reward? Yan Li spent a lot of time pondering.
"Since the Empress said she would not reward money, I will reward you with a gold medal. With this gold medal, it will be much more convenient for Chuntao to go in and out of the palace in the future. Even if Chuntao makes a mistake and is held accountable by other ministers, Chuntao can also use this gold medal as a talisman. "
The mistakes made today have made the ministers very dissatisfied, and Chuntao doesn't want to make other mistakes.
"Your Majesty, Chuntao will never make mistakes again!"
Yan Li then ordered the eunuch next to him to get a token, and Yan Li personally took a pen and wrote on the token: "The emperor rewards Chuntao with a gold medal" in small script, and then bestowed Chuntao.
Generally, only those who have made outstanding achievements and the royal family can have this honor. Chuntao is just a maidservant, but she also has a gold medal. Chuntao is both excited and panicked.
"Chuntao really can't bear it..."
Yan Li signaled Chuntao not to refuse anymore: "I gave you the gold medal because I want you to do more for the queen and protect her more. Now that she has offended so many ministers, I am afraid that the ministers will regard her as a thorn in their side. What will she do in the future?" The ministers have to come up with some right and wrong."
If a loyal minister directly admonishes him, Rong Chang'an will restrain himself a bit, but Rong Chang'an does not want to give face to treacherous ministers like Du Keming who hand over Ziyan.
"According to the tone of the emperor, is it because I was too fierce just now, offending all the ministers?"
Yan Li said: "I didn't mean to blame the queen, but just thought that the queen could use a more tactful way just now."
"Tactful?" Rong Changan raised his chin slightly, as if those ministers were still there, with an awe-inspiring look, "I don't know what is tactful, I only know loyalty and treachery, in my eyes, you can't rub it sand!"
Yan Li knew Rong Changan's temper, she was an aggressive woman, so he didn't mention what happened just now. He looked outside the Hall of Qinzheng, and saw that the sky was hot and the ground was covered with thick shade.
"Queen, it's very hot today, why don't we sit in the shade of willows in the imperial garden to enjoy the coolness, what do you think?"
Rong Changan didn't want to mention the unhappy things just now, he also looked outside, now it's a good time to go to the imperial garden to enjoy the cool air.
"If you just enjoy the cool air, it won't be very pleasant. Wouldn't it be better if you have two cups of iced tea to cool off the summer heat?"
Yan Li smiled: "The empress also has a sense of elegance, so let's go to the imperial garden to enjoy the coolness. Chuntao, I'll leave the iced tea to you."
It was rare to see Rong Changan and Yan Li being so happy and interested together, Chuntao happily agreed: "Okay, servant girl will go now!"
After leaving Qinzheng Hall, Chuntao brought two maidservants to the imperial dining room and asked the imperial cook to prepare tea, and she took two maidservants to the ice cellar to get ice cubes.
The ice cellar was underground, and it was so cold that Chuntao had goose bumps on her arms when she went in. At that time, there were other maids in the palace who took the ice, and they talked about it while taking the ice.
One of them said, "Have you heard about that?"
Another court lady asked, "What is it?"
One said: "So you don't know! I heard that there is a... haunted in the back mountain!" When the maid said "haunted", she deliberately lowered her voice very low, as if she was afraid that the ghost was right in front of her eyes and would eat her. go.
The other maid was taken aback, her face turned pale: "You... What you said can't be true, can it? Why is the back mountain haunted!"
The maid curled her lips: "I don't know how many people died unjustly in the empress. The yin is too heavy, so naturally there are many unclean things."
"How did the back mountain become haunted?"
The maid said: "Isn't there a melon field in the back mountain? A large piece of watermelon was planted, and the sky was hot. At night, the concubines were enjoying the cool in the pavilion, so they ordered the maid to go to the back mountain to pick melons. To go to the melon field, you have to pass through a hall. When passing by, I found that the hall was inexplicably dimly lit, and seemed to be talking under the light. The maid thought that someone was doing something dirty inside, so she tiptoed over, stood outside the door, and dug a small hole in the window paper .”
"It's fine if you don't look at it. When you look at it, there are two people standing under the statue of Wang Bodhisattva in the main hall. One of them has disheveled hair and is wearing white clothes. His two eyes are as bright as two lamps. The maid was shocked and cried out. The ghost in the hall, the ghost said a word..."
The other court lady kept swallowing, she must have been terrified: "What did the ghost say?"
The maid said: "The ghost said, you bitch, you lured thieves into the city, and returned my Li family! That maid was so frightened, she vomited and fell outside the door."
"So, isn't that...that ghost Li Hai!"
The maid said: "Li Hai died a miserable death, that's why he turned into a ghost and wandered around the back mountain."
"The slut he said, could it be that Rong..."
The two maids turned their heads and saw Chuntao. They were taken aback and stopped talking. With their heels on the back of their heads, they quickly left the ice cellar with their heads down.
Chuntao thought: What nonsense! If there really is a ghost, and that court lady is already stupid, then who told this story? Hmph, but those ignorant people can cheat smart people, it's really a joke!