Su Jing didn't expect that after receiving the imperial edict, Ah Man did not come back.
After hearing the news, Concubine Zhu was so excited that she almost jumped up. This was the handle that Ah Man handed to her.
She thought Ah Man was really stupid. Things were different now, but she still dared to disobey the imperial edict. So, after learning the news, she happily went to the imperial study. Of course, she had to put on some eye drops as soon as possible.
She had not expected that, as the favored concubine, she was the only one in power in the palace, but the eunuchs in the imperial study actually stopped her outside the door.
"You bunch of dogs and slaves, you think I'm easy to bully, don't you? Believe it or not, I will peel off your skin." Concubine Zhu was very angry. She had tolerated them praising the queen before. After all, she was the Queen of the Central Palace and was favored by the emperor. She didn't expect these dogs and slaves still didn't take her seriously. She was the most noble woman in the palace and the emperor loved her very much, but they didn't even let her enter the imperial study.
"The emperor does not like to be disturbed, please forgive me, Your Highness." Even though she disliked Concubine Zhu's arrogance, she was after all a concubine appointed by the emperor himself. Now the emperor stayed in her Qingque Palace every day. Even if she was stopped by the emperor's order, she could not offend her.
"The emperor doesn't like outsiders to disturb him, but he didn't say he doesn't like me to disturb him. When you go and report to the emperor, tell him that I know she is tired and I want to come and keep her company."
"Your Majesty, it was the Emperor who said he was busy and didn't want to see you. You'd better go back first." The little eunuch overheard Concubine Zhu's words and hurried to persuade her. She was now making a lot of noise at the door of the imperial study, disturbing the Emperor, and in the end she would be the one to be punished.
"You dare to forge the imperial edict. Why should I go back first? The emperor likes me the most, and Jinxiu is also the emperor's favorite daughter. How could he not want to see me?" Concubine Zhu looked arrogant. She remembered what the emperor said last night. She didn't believe that the emperor was tired of her.
"Your Majesty, the Emperor is in a bad mood today. Please come back when he is in a better mood." The eunuchs were speechless. They could see that the Emperor's favor towards Concubine Zhu was completely different from his previous favor towards the Empress. This Concubine Zhu actually...
"Let her in." The emperor's cold and angry voice came from the imperial study. He was just taking a rest in the imperial study, but the stupid woman, Concubine Zhu, was chattering outside, which was really annoying.
"Did you hear what the emperor said? Did you hear it? You bunch of dogs and slaves." Su Jing's words made Concubine Zhu even more certain that it was they who stopped her. If they hadn't stopped her, the emperor would definitely have let her in.
The few young eunuchs who were scolded were not frightened at all. Concubine Zhu did not understand the emperor, but they knew him best. Although the emperor let Concubine Zhu in, he did not hide the impatience in his words at all.
The arrogant and complacent Concubine Zhu did not expect that as soon as she walked into the imperial study, a teacup would fly towards her. She dodged it instinctively, and then another one flew towards her.
No matter how slow she was, she knew that only the emperor could throw a teacup at her in the imperial study, so she stopped dodging and let the teacup fall on her. The teacup fell to the ground with only a crisp sound, but her bright red pomegranate skirt, which she had just changed, was already covered with tea stains.
She didn't understand why, but she could only kneel on the ground and apologize quietly.
"Ms. Zhu, do you know what the Imperial Study is? You are a concubine, and you want to enter the Imperial Study. You really don't know how to live or die."
Su Jing's voice was cold and indifferent, like ice in winter. Concubine Zhu couldn't help but shiver as she listened to it.
Although she was not favored during these years in the harem, no one lost her temper with her. Even the emperor had never treated her like this.
"Your Majesty, I am just worried about you. I know you sent someone to the imperial mausoleum to pass on your order, but Ah Man didn't come back. I was afraid you would be angry, so I came to comfort you. I am just too worried about Your Majesty, so I forgot the ancestral precept that the harem should not interfere in government affairs."
Concubine Zhu knelt on the ground and explained anxiously. She didn't even dare to look at the emperor. She was extremely scared.
(End of this chapter)