Liu Zhaoyi knelt in front of the door, the howling cold wind blew by, she couldn't help shivering.
A pair of velvet embroidered shoes stopped in front of him.
She trembled, and slowly raised her head, she was indeed the maid next to the empress.
"Miss Hanqiu..."
Hanqiu smiled slightly: "Mistress Zhaoyi, please get up. The empress is kind enough to allow you to kneel in the side hall and ask someone to bring you a cushion. There is a charcoal basin in the side hall, so you won't be frozen."
The hope in Liu Zhaoyi's eyes was instantly shattered, but it was better to go to the warm side hall than to kneel in the cold wind. She couldn't, she could only bend down and kowtow to thank her, saying each word in a word: "Thank you, empress."
Then, went to the side hall.
Not long after, Concubine Xi also came over.
"Sister Xipin?" Liu Zhaoyi's eyes widened.
Concubine Xi secretly gritted her teeth, deeply regretting that she stood out for Liu Zhaoyi today. But the matter has come to this point, she can't give up halfway, and lose all face in the trouble.
So Concubine Xi had no choice but to smile wryly, deliberately pretending to be hesitant to speak.
Liu Zhaoyi was really fooled, and asked her what happened.
—With a heart as big as Liu Zhaoyi, naturally he would not think that if he asked others why he would kneel as a punishment, would it make the other party feel embarrassed and embarrassed. After all, she used "Yun Xiang's clothes and Hua Xiangrong" directly to congratulate Concubine De for moving into Yunxiang Palace, but in the end she completely offended Concubine De to the dead.
Fortunately, this time Concubine Xi deliberately led her to ask, so that she could tell her story in a logical way.
When Liu Zhaoyi heard that concubine Xi offended the queen and concubine for her sake, and was finally thrown to kneel together as a punishment, she felt extremely grateful. Especially concubine Xi said that she felt very distressed seeing herself kneeling outside the door, and asked the empress to change to a warm place.
It turned out that if concubine Xi hadn't spoken up, the empress would never have allowed her to come to the side hall to punish her by kneeling! Fortunately, she still believed what Hanqiu said, thinking that the empress was really kind!
Liu Zhaoyi saw that there was no one watching them, only a gatekeeper guarding from a distance, making sure they were not lazy, so they couldn't hear their whispered conversations. So he hurriedly went to Concubine Xi's ear, wanting to whisper something to scold the Queen.
Before he could speak, Man Chen came in with two young eunuchs.
The two eunuchs came in with a basket of broad beans each, Man Chen nodded slightly, and the eunuch quickly sprinkled the beans in front of them.
Concubine Xi's expression changed when she saw this: "Miss Manchen, this is?"
Manchen glanced at her with her coffin face that could scare concubines into tears: "Liu Zhaoyi doesn't understand the rules, the imperial concubine originally wanted to punish the two of you for copying the palace rules. But the weather is cold, and the empress is sympathetic to you. You froze your hands, so you exchanged a punishment."
She pointed to the broad beans on the ground: "It just so happens that Chinese New Year is about to come, so the two ladies will pick up Buddha beans here, and when they finish picking up, they can go back."
Buddhists have a daily activity of picking up Buddha beans. The main method is to pick up Buddha beans, that is, broad beans, one by one, and put them in a container. After picking up the buddha beans, cook them the next day, whether it is as a gift to passers-by like porridge, or to share food with everyone in the family.
The main purpose is to pray for longevity.
Seriously speaking, this is also something that the wives of various families often do when they have nothing to do. It can not only pass the time but also pray for the family. But there is still a difference between picking up Buddha beans on your own initiative and being punished for picking up Buddha beans.
What's more, they are picking Buddha beans at this moment in the name of praying for the empress and the imperial concubine.
Do they want to pray for these two? Definitely don't want to. Not only that, but kneeling to pick it up is a very humiliating thing for both of them. However, the situation is stronger than others, and there is no room for them to resist.
Moreover, facing Manchen's face, they didn't have the courage to resist, especially Liu Zhaoyi who had been tortured once before.
The two concubines thanked "en" politely, and began to pick up Buddha beans under the supervision of the eunuch and maid, and there was no chance to desert and be lazy. Fearing that none of these people would be happy, he dumped the buddha beans they had picked up and asked them to pick them up again.
This time Liu Zhaoyi completely regretted meeting Concubine Shen Gui.
It was not until evening that the two of them finished picking up the buddha beans and were helped back by their own palace servants.
After closing the door, Concubine Xi smashed a set of tea sets.
"Your Majesty!" The maid who was accompanying her was startled, and quickly knelt down.
Concubine Xi pulled off her handkerchief, her expression distorted: "Mrs. Shen, you are too deceitful!"
The maid did not dare to answer, so she could only bow her head in silence.
Concubine Xi who didn't respond, naturally no one around her dared to stop her from losing her temper, and all kinds of things in the room fell to the floor. If it wasn't for Concubine Xi that it was inconvenient to move around, maybe not only the things around her would suffer, but the whole house would have to be smashed.
Another court lady who had just gone to get the medicine came back and saw the mess in the room, she was startled, she turned around and closed the door dead.
"My empress, calm down, don't be so angry!" She carefully avoided the tiles, came to Xibi's side, and rubbed the blood on her knees with medicine.
Concubine Xi was out of temper for a while, but now she finally calmed down a bit and was able to listen to what she had to say.
The palace lady waited carefully for a long time, and she was relieved to see that her mother seemed not so annoyed and her reason had returned.
"Why did you go there for so long just now?" Xibi asked calmly after she had indeed returned to her senses.
Only now did the palace maid have the opportunity to talk about what she had just encountered: "Your Majesty, when I was going to get the medicine just now, I ran into..."
She ran into a young eunuch in Xipin's palace, who obviously came to find her on purpose.
The status of this eunuch is not high, but it is very important. He is a chess piece placed in the palace by Prime Minister Yu You, and is mainly responsible for delivering news from outside the palace to concubine Xi. Mainly to tell the sisters of the Yu family about his recent situation, and then urge the sisters to seek profit for him.
For example, this time, Yu Youxiang was read a book in the court, saying that he allowed his tribe to oppress the people.
In fact, it wasn't a big deal to him. Didn't that big family in the capital have any dark history or dirty things? It is very common for dudes to go out and bully the common people. If Yu Youxiang hadn't been reported to the imperial court in a serious manner this time, he would not have cared about it.
He even felt that the emperor would not care about such a small matter.
It's just that since they've all sued, it's true that the Yu family did something wrong, so the Right Prime Minister will have to be punished. It is considered to save everyone's face, otherwise it will appear that the emperor is a faint king and does not love the people.
Therefore, he fined the right minister with half a year's monthly salary and a one-month ban.
What Yu Youxiang meant was to ask his daughter to quickly blow the pillow wind on the emperor, so that the emperor could reduce some punishment. Find a reason to fish him out earlier, let him return to the court and continue to make trouble.
Concubine Xi rubbed her temples with a headache: "What's your Majesty's attitude?"
Did he really not care about this petty crime, or did he pretend not to care
The grand maid shook her head, how could she tell. The eunuch didn't say why, he could only say that the emperor's temper is not so easy to guess, and the emperor's unpredictable heart is not just for fun.
Everything can only be guessed by the concubines and courtiers themselves, and no one can give an accurate answer. If you guess wrong... just consider yourself blind.
But concubine Xi didn't think it was a big deal, and she planned to plead with the emperor to act like a baby, and it should be over. So she simply didn't worry about whether the emperor was angry or not, and she didn't think the emperor would be angry for a few ordinary people.
"That's all." She changed the question, "Who impeached the father?"
The palace maid knew about it, and she quickly replied, "I heard it's Han Yushi."
Concubine Xi had heard of Han Yushi, but she, a woman who had basically never been in contact with the court, did not know which faction the official was. But that doesn't mean she can't figure it out. Now the factions on the surface are her father's faction and the leftist faction. Yu Dang himself won't impeach his own family, so that's the leftist faction.
Moreover, Prime Minister Zuo was clearly on the side of the emperor, saying that he was a royalist party. It doesn't matter whether this Han Yushi is a real leftist party, a pure royalist party, or a leftist party under the name of a royalist party.
Anyway, the leftist party now says that he is a royalist party, so let him be regarded as the leftist party.
Therefore, Concubine Xi thought of Shen Yuqing.
As a harem concubine, she is not a concubine who harms the country and cannot control the court and persecute courtiers, but she can deal with the daughters of Shen Zuoxiang's family who have entered the palace, such as Shen Yuqing.
It's just that she can't beat Shen Yuqing on the bright side, so it's better to go the secret way.
She doesn't need to care about the left side, my father will definitely send someone to find the little pigtail of the Shen family, and then retaliate with a tooth for a copy. On his own side, as long as Shen Yuqing made a mistake, it would be fine.
"But, this..." the grand lady hesitated to speak.
Concubine Shen Gui made a lot of mistakes, and she has not seen what happened to her. Moreover, what mistakes could they cause the imperial concubine to make
Concubine Xi glared at the palace maid with hatred: "No amount of affection will be wiped out sooner or later. Concubine Shen always challenges His Majesty's bottom line, and sooner or later she will be rejected. You don't understand this truth?"
Moreover, she didn't need Shen Yuqing to make too many mistakes. It would be best if Concubine Shen Gui could be punished, but if not, it would be good to kill the imperial concubine's feelings.
Besides, if she followed her strategy, it might be true that Concubine Shen Gui would really anger the emperor.
Since ancient times, concubines and concubines in the harem are most taboo to intervene in court affairs. If Concubine Shen Gui interferes...
Concubine Xi showed a smug smile: "Go and call someone, I have something to tell you."
"Yes, ma'am."
The twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month is a small year in the Yan Dynasty. On this day, the folks will post Spring Festival couplets, sweep the dust, and sacrifice to the Kitchen God, and the palace will also pretend to be like this.
Concubine Shen Gui went back to Jianjia Palace after breakfast, as the lord of the first palace, she also wanted to do something with her own hands to make a good omen. So she took a duster and pretended to brush the bed, bed curtains and other places, counting it as dust.
Just as she was about to go to Fengyi Palace to play with her daughter-in-law, Que Yue quietly walked over and whispered in her ear that there was a court lady asking to see her.
"Oh?" Concubine Shen Gui raised her eyebrows, why would a court lady come to see her so sneakily
The imperial concubine simply sat back on her seat: "That's it, let her in."
The one who came was a little court lady with a delicate appearance who was not very eye-catching, and I'm afraid she didn't have much sense of presence in the palace. As soon as he came in, he first gave a big gift to Concubine Shen, saying "The imperial concubine is a thousand years old".
"Tell me, what do you want to see me?" Concubine Shen took a sip of tea, feeling that it was not as delicious as the milk-flavored drink prepared by Fengyi Palace for her daughter, so she put it down bored.
The maid didn't notice it, she kept her head down and answered dutifully, she didn't dare to look up at the empress above.
"If you go back to your mother, the servant is from the lady of Liu Zhaoyi." She first reported her family name, and then continued with some sincerity, "I am afraid that you have never seen the servant, and the servant is not working in the palace that loves the maid. If you dare to lie to your empress, the servants were actually inserted into the palace quietly by the Qing family of Dali Temple."
Liu Zhaoyi is the young lady of Dali Temple Qing's family. This Dali Temple Qing is a third-rank official after all. Although the position is not particularly high in the capital, where the third rank is everywhere, it is not low. It is no problem to install some people in the palace.
However, what kind of plot is there to let Liu Zhaoyi take the initiative to expose the dark chess
Concubine Shen looked at this little maid, and didn't think she was like a pawn of the Liu family. Because Liu Zhaoyi is so stupid, it always makes people think that most of the Liu family are also idiots...
But I also know that this is impossible, otherwise the master of the Liu family would not be able to sit in the position of Minister of Dali Temple. Shen Yuqing forced herself to accept the setting of "Liu Zhaoyi is a rare and rare flower in the Liu family", and then she could continue to face the seemingly reliable little dark chess in front of her.
In view of this court lady's good attitude and very frankness, Concubine Shen believed her words for the time being.
"Why did you come to see Ben Gong?" She asked again, this time to let the other party stop talking nonsense and get straight to the point.
The court lady was not afraid, and explained her future intentions in a concise manner.
It roughly means that Liu Zhaoyi was already scared because of being tossed twice by Man Chen, and she didn't dare to offend the imperial concubine again—this is true—so she was asked to make amends to the empress, and begged the imperial concubine to forget the villain's mistakes and let her go. Ma, don't argue with her. As for herself, she dared not come to see Shen Yuqing and Man Chen. This is one.
Second, he came here for the future of himself and his useless brother.
This starts with the eldest son of the Liu family, this person is a dude with little ability.
But, he doesn't do anything harmful, he just idles around and does nothing. The point is, he doesn't know much about reading, and he doesn't dare to go to the military to fight for his future. He is very timid. I just want to earn an ordinary official position and fool around.
It would be best if the position is higher and lucrative, but if it is really not enough, an official position is fine. In short, the most important request is to give him an official who can barely see a lot of things. It doesn't matter too much if there is no oil or water, it is enough to let him talk about it and talk to his friends.
You have to know that his other friends are basically not able to support the wall with mud, and their family background is not very good, and they can't even get a job as a small official under the shade of the family.
The Minister of Dali Temple has tossed about his son's relationship, but it didn't work. The errands suitable for his son are basically taken up by other related households. He is a self-made Dali Siqing, which is really not good enough.
Therefore, the Minister of Dali Temple paid attention to the Shen family, but Zuo Xiang couldn't get through there, and the Shen family did not do business in buying and selling official positions.
Dali Siqing's wife was in a hurry, either because she was in a hurry to go to the doctor, or because she herself was unreliable, in short, she decided to follow the path of Concubine Shen Gui. Maybe it will work if a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor? Hearing that Concubine Shen in the palace loved gold, silver and jewelry, she asked her daughter to take this opportunity to ask for one.
Even if Concubine Shen Gui didn't talk about moving the prime minister, she could still follow the path of Mrs. Shen's natal family or the son or mistress of the Shen family. Regardless of Mrs. Shen's family, Shen Yuqing's elder brother and sister-in-law alone are in line with the expectations of Dali Siqing. One of them is the Minister of the Household Department, and the other is the daughter of the Minister of the Household Department. The Household Department is a rich place.
No matter how bad it is, even if it doesn't bring a future for the son, it can still help the daughter to have a good relationship with the imperial concubine, so that the daughter can have a chance to climb up. It is much better than indulging a silly daughter to completely offend the imperial concubine to death.
After talking about the cause and effect, the maid took out a dozen large-denomination bank notes from her bosom, knelt down on her knees, and held her hands above her head with a very respectful attitude.
After talking for a long time, it turned out that he was here to bribe her.
Concubine Shen Gui squinted slightly, looked at the maid below, but did not speak.
I have also lived in the harem for a year and a half, not to mention that Xinru is more sensitive than Gan, at least he has a much more sensitive sense of conspiracy. This sudden bribe seemed strange no matter how you looked at it.
Although there is no big loophole in the palace lady's rhetoric, it is probably not very reliable that Mrs. Liu can raise a Liu Zhaoyi like Mrs. Liu.
However, Shen Guifei still subconsciously felt that there was a fraud. Maybe it was because Liu Zhaoyi was tormented by her so much, if she was a normal person, she should hold a grudge and wait for an opportunity to get revenge.
Even, she is not normal.
"Once the matter of bribery is exposed, it will not be a trivial matter." Concubine Shen Gui said slowly.
The current emperor has no objection to the reasonable giving of gifts to relatives, but he hates bribes. If it's just a small amount, he really doesn't have the energy to take care of it, but if it's a large amount, he definitely can't eat it. Moreover, he does not support the sale of official titles. It's just because the people who do these things have a big background, it's not easy to clean up for a while.
And looking at the bank note in the hand of the court lady, it is roughly estimated that it will not be a small amount, and it is for buying an official... Both things the emperor hates are touched, and Concubine Shen Gui will not accept it even if she wants to die. This living person doesn't care whether she loves money or not, or lacks money.
To be honest, if she was short of money and directly robbed the emperor's private treasury, the emperor wouldn't say anything, so why should she go against the emperor
Bribery is not a good thing, even if there is no conspiracy, Shen Yuqing does not intend to accept it.
But the little maid was not discouraged, she pleaded a few words, seeing Concubine Shen Gui's firm attitude, so she changed her tune and put it another way.
"The imperial concubine is not willing, and the servant does not force it. The main purpose of the servant is to ask you to let the empress Zhaoyi go. If you have offended me just now, please forgive me." She came here as if to make amends to her own mother, and she didn't intend to offend Shen Guifei, and was even afraid that the other party would become bored because of the request just now.
Concubine Shen was noncommittal: "Get up, I am not angry."
The little maid let out a sigh of relief, and showed some smiles: "The imperial concubine is magnanimous, so naturally she will not be angry with us. Please accept this bank note, and I will not mention the official position in the Liu family. I don't care about my mother-in-law's confrontation for the sake of it. My wife only has such a daughter, and the baby is tight, for fear that she will be tormented if she offends the nobles in the palace."
"There is no need for a silver ticket." Shen Guifei slightly frowned.
She is not as knowledgeable as a little Zhaoyi, as long as Liu Zhaoyi doesn't get in the way.
Moreover, now that she accepts it, if the emperor asks her to hate Liu Zhaoyi later, will she hate Liu Zhaoyi or not? There is no need to force yourself into a dilemma for some money.
Moreover, Concubine Shen's image of loving money was also pretended by her, she herself didn't pay much attention to yellow and white things. If it wasn't for raising a daughter-in-law and adults, even if she was poor enough to eat and sleep in the open every day, it would be fine.
But the little palace maid refused to give up: "Imperial concubine, if you don't accept it, my empress can't rest assured, so I ask her to accept it, just think it's my empress spending money to buy peace of mind."
Concubine Shen Gui looked at her with a half-smile: "Is it none of my business whether she is at ease?"
From the beginning to the end, Shen Yuqing never said that she had forgiven Liu Zhaoyi, nor did she say that she would not care about Liu Zhaoyi. Although she thought so in her heart, she never admitted it.
"You..." The maid opened her mouth, a little dumbfounded, "Didn't you say that you are not angry..."
Concubine Shen interrupted her lightly: "I mean, I'm not angry and you have to ask me to buy an official."
The maid was speechless.
But she continued: "As for Liu Zhaoyi, if she doesn't come to be a demon, when I'm in a good mood, I won't care about her; if I'm in a bad mood, I can't tell. If she still acts as a demon, why should I be a demon?" Let her go because of a little gold and silver? I don't need money."
Can't refute.
"If she is restless, that would be great." Shen Guifei curled her lips viciously, "Isn't it better for me to be so restless that I can't sleep, getting thinner day by day, and losing my face? There will be less in front of me." An eyesore."
After all, she, Shen Yuqing, is a "noble concubine", an emperor or a concubine. And Liu Zhaoyi is also the emperor's concubine, the two of them are not cousins who live in peace, but "rivals in love".
If there is one less rival in love, then one less, this is the correct mentality of Gong Dou.
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