Xiao Qin'er entered the palace to pay her respects, like a purgatory.
Empress Pei was not polite to her, and angered her on the spot.
Even Gu Jiu and Ouyang Fu, who brought them into the palace to pay their respects, became affected fish.
"What kind of person is this palace? How dare Xiao Zhaoyi's sister enter the palace on time to pay her respects. Wasn't it good to stay at her mother's house for the past six months? Why don't you just stay here and go back to the palace!"
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Qin'er trembled and almost cried.
She knew that she would be implicated by her natal family.
I had no choice but to kneel down and plead guilty.
"My daughter-in-law was unwell before and she was recuperating at her mother's house. It's not that she didn't intend to enter the palace to pay her respects, but she didn't dare to enter the palace before her health was recovered, because she was afraid of getting sick."
Empress Pei snorted coldly, "I dare to say that I am sensible, so I want to reward you?"
"My daughter-in-law dare not."
"Why don't you dare. When you were in the palace, you dared to obey. Now no one is in charge, one or two, and I don't pay attention to this palace. This queen, this palace, is nothing."
"Daughter-in-law is guilty, please mother to calm down."
Now that we've talked about it, what should we do
Gu Jiu and Ouyang Fu could only kneel down and plead guilty.
I don't know how much anger Empress Pei has held back, but this time, all of them vented it out on them.
Ouyang Fu is okay, she will go to Concubine Shen Xian to pay her respects later, so she can take this opportunity to escape.
Gu Jiu and Xiao Qin'er could only endure it forcefully.
Empress Pei waved her hand, "The second daughter-in-law will step down first. I don't dare to keep you for too long, otherwise the empress concubine Xian should go to His Majesty and cry, saying that I have treated you harshly."
"My daughter-in-law doesn't dare." Ouyang Fu bowed her head and pleaded guilty.
"Let's go, let's go. I still want to talk to my two daughter-in-laws."
Ouyang Fu bowed and said goodbye.
As soon as Ouyang Fu left, the hall became quiet.
Empress Pei did not speak, Gu Jiu and Xiao Qin'er also remained silent.
The atmosphere is tense.
After nearly a cup of tea, Empress Pei said, "Everyone get up and sit down and talk."
"Thank you, Empress."
The two helped each other up and sat on the chair.
Empress Pei snorted coldly, feeling depressed in her heart.
She stared at Xiao Qin'er, "What on earth is your Xiao family thinking? Are you intentionally sending someone into the palace to cause trouble for the palace?"
"The queen mother misunderstood, the Xiao family has absolutely no intention of embarrassing the queen mother." Xiao Qin'er replied cautiously.
Empress Pei looked at her with a half-smile, "Then tell me what happened to Xiao Zhaoyi? What if she gave birth to a boy and a half girl in the future?"
Xiao Qin'er gritted her teeth and said: "No one can threaten the status of the queen mother. Even if there is a little prince."
But Xiao Qin'er had another idea in her mind.
Emperor Wende has many women, but for many years, no woman has given birth to a boy and a half girl. It is very likely that Emperor Wende was in poor health and could not conceive a woman.
In this way, naturally there will be no little prince and little princess born in this harem.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qin'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Xiao Qin'er only knew one thing, not the other.
She didn't know that Emperor Wende's body had already recovered.
In the past, none of the women in the backyard of the palace became pregnant because Emperor Wende didn't want those women to get pregnant.
Emperor Wende wanted to deceive the late emperor with the illusion of infertility, and make the late emperor feel guilty towards him.
Now, the late emperor has passed away.
Emperor Wende no longer has any worries.
He can make the harem concubine conceive a child at any time.
Empress Pei mocked, "What did your parents tell you?"
Xiao Qin'er hesitated for a moment, and then said: "My mother said that other nobles sent their daughters to the palace for draft, and the Xiao family can only make the same decision as everyone else."
"Not a single truth." Empress Pei didn't give Xiao Qin'er any face.
Xiao Qin'er was wronged and could only endure it.
Empress Pei smiled, "Okay, go and see your Xiao Zhaoyi, I won't keep you here."
Xiao Qin'er was tongue-tied, and it took her a long time to find her voice, "Daughter-in-law is not going to visit Xiao Zhaoyi."
Empress Pei didn't appreciate it, "It's your business whether you look at it or not, I don't care about it. Now I want to talk to the eldest daughter-in-law, you step back."
Xiao Qin'er bit her thin lips lightly, tears rolled in her eyes.
Empress Pei issued an order to evict guests, what can she do
She could only stand up and leave, planning to go to the Compassionate Ning Palace.
Once Xiao Qin'er left, Gu Jiu was the only one left.
Empress Pei stared at her.
Gu Jiu's face was calm, "I don't know what orders the queen mother has?"
"You are the eldest daughter-in-law, so you should pay more attention to the situation in the palace."
Gu Jiu was surprised, "But what happened?"
Empress Pei said: "The third child, the fifth child, and the sixth child are not married yet, and His Majesty intends to marry the three of them. You keep an eye on the three of them for me."
Huh
Did Emperor Wende get rich? He was willing to spend money to arrange marriages for his sons.
Gu Jiu asked, "Has Your Majesty selected someone to marry?"
Empress Pei shook her head, "It's the right choice. You keep an eye on the three of them on behalf of me."
"Could the queen mother tell me in detail how to keep an eye on them? To prevent them from going out and messing around, or not to intervene?"
Empress Pei smiled softly, "You have to take care of it when it's time to take care of it, and don't meddle when it's not time to take care of it. Do you know what's in it?"
Gu Jiu is naturally clear.
The third prince, fifth prince, and sixth prince are all concubines.
When dealing with the concubine's prince, Empress Pei was naturally more defensive than caring.
Gu Jiu bowed to accept the order, "Daughter-in-law understands. Daughter-in-law will arrange to keep an eye on them."
"It's so good. This time Xiao Qin'er returns to the palace, is there any noise between her and the fourth child?"
"There is no noise. Looking at the appearance of the four siblings, they should be in good health."
"After raising it for such a long time, it should have been raised long ago." Empress Pei leaned on the soft pillow, "You step back."
"My daughter-in-law is leaving."
After never coming out of Yang Palace, Gu Jiu was going to leave the palace directly.
On the side of the Compassionate Ning Palace, today is not the first day of junior high school, so she didn't bother to go over to pay her respects.
At any time, Empress Dowager Xiao didn't like her very much.
She didn't go there to make fun of herself.
Moreover, when Xiao Qin'er went to Empress Dowager Xiao, she might have a dispute with Xiao Zhaoyi.
As for the affairs of the Xiao family, she naturally avoided as much as an outsider.
It's just that he didn't expect to meet Ouyang Fu when he left the palace.
"What a coincidence. The second sibling moves really fast."
Ouyang Fu smiled wryly, "Concubine Xian is not in a good mood, I dare not sit for a long time."
Gu Jiu raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Recently, many people in the palace are in a bad mood."
"Yes! There are newcomers who forget the old ones. The concubines who came out of the palace almost fell out of favor collectively. Now in this palace, only the newcomers laugh, but the old ones cry."
Ouyang Fu said with deep emotion.
Gu Jiu smiled, "It goes back and forth, the harem has always been like this. We don't have to worry about the girls, they'll be fine."
Ouyang Fu was amused, "With the glory and wealth, the status and status are also obtained. Thinking about it this way, the ladies are indeed doing well. The two of us are nothing to worry about."
Gu Jiu nodded, "That's right. Anyway, we don't have any sisters in the palace, so we are better than the four younger siblings, so we don't need to be so embarrassing."
Ouyang Fu said: "Before in Weiyang Palace, I felt bad for the fourth sibling. That scene was so embarrassing."
Gu Jiu smiled and remained silent. There will be more embarrassing times in the future.
Wait until Xiao Zhaoyi gives birth to the little prince, just wait and see, there will be another scene.
The two went out of the palace together, each got into a carriage, and set off to return to the palace.
After returning to the palace, the first thing Gu Jiu did was to call Qian Fu for questioning.
"What have the Third Highness, the Fifth Highness, and the Sixth Highness been up to lately?"
Qian Fu bowed slightly, and said: "Madam Qi, His Royal Highness the Third Prince is busy with errands all day long, so he deserves to be appreciated by the top. The courtiers all say that His Highness is prudent and steadfast in his work."
Gu Jiu pursed her lips and smiled, and said insincerely: "It's really gratifying. His Highness the Third Highness has finally begun to emerge."
Qian Fu said again: "As for His Highness Fifth and His Highness Six, because both of them have no errands, except for studying, the rest of the time is fooling around outside."
"Where did you get the money?"
Being a dandy also requires money, okay.
Just that pitiful Prince Juelu is not enough for a month's expenses.
Qian Fu considered it for a while before saying: "Someone offered a gift to the two Highnesses, and both Highnesses did not refuse."
The so-called contribution means putting the property under the names of the two Highnesses in name. In fact, the family just provided some money to support the two Highnesses, and made an investment in advance.
As the saying goes, the hands are short, but the mouth is soft.
Others spend money to support you and provide you with various extravagant expenses. So when others need it, shouldn't they also give back a little
If you spend other people's money, then naturally don't be resentful when other people are acting mischievously outside in the name of a prince.
If people don't use the prince's name to mess around, where can they get the money to support the prince
In this way, it is indeed easy for the prince to get money.
The premise is to be able to bear the consequences.
Hearing this, Gu Jiu couldn't help frowning, "The Fifth Highness and the Sixth Highness both accepted other people's offerings?"
"Exactly."
"Does your Highness know about this?"
Qian Fu nodded, "Your Highness knew about it from the very beginning, and he beat up the two His Highnesses in private. After that, he didn't take care of it. His Highness said that he couldn't manage it."
This is indeed Liu Zhao's temper.
Tap once, listen to it or not.
If something happens, don't look for him.
If he doesn't add insult to injury, he is worthy of his brother.
Gu Jiu pondered for a while, did Empress Pei also know about this, and wanted to take the opportunity to anger the two Highnesses
She ordered Qian Fu, "Find out the person who dedicated the two Highnesses, and give me a copy of the information."
Qian Fu was surprised, "Madam wants to take care of this matter?"
"It doesn't matter whether it depends on the situation. But you have to understand. You just bring the information, and don't ask about other things."
"The old slave complies."