Cattails are quick-witted.
Knowing that the master was going to Kunning Palace, he ran back ahead of time and called several eunuchs and maids. Originally, she was stopped outside, but Concubine Su Gui insisted on breaking in, and the maids and eunuchs below did not dare to stop her. If something happened then, the empress would be fine, so they would not be able to tell.
So on the one hand, it was a real break-in, and on the other hand, it was a false barrier, and Pan'er led the people directly into the palace.
The moment Empress Chen saw Pan'er, she sat up straight, and at the same time put away the frustrated expression on her face.
After hearing Pan'er's words, she just said with a gloomy expression, "Fuchun, answer Su Guifei."
Fu Chun hurriedly stood up straight, put his hands under his belly, and lowered his head halfway, as if it wasn't her who hit someone just now. This respectful posture and manner can't be faulted by anyone, and she is worthy of being the big maid beside the empress.
"Back to the imperial concubine, the reason why she called Bai Shu is because she received something from the Ministry of Internal Affairs not long ago, and there were some mistakes in it. Who would have thought that when Bai Shu came here, she would speak rudely and offend the empress, so the empress would order her servants to teach her a lesson."
"Bai Shu is from Jingren Palace. She took the wrong things a while ago. She didn't come forward from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Instead, she has to trouble the empress to intervene in person. Besides, Jingren Palace got the wrong things. Why doesn't this palace know? What happened at the time, why didn't you say it at the time, but instead asked the teacher for the crime afterwards?"
Fu Chun's words are obviously an excuse, and since it is an excuse, it cannot bear to be investigated.
But obviously Fu Chun was not aimless, so she didn't panic.
"Bai Shu received two sable furs from the House of Internal Affairs. According to the regulations of the harem, there are no high-quality sable furs in the imperial concubine category. Only the empress, the empress dowager and the empress dowager have them. You probably don't know this rule, that's why the Empress sent her over to ask questions."
Pan'er really knows about this matter, although it's not cold yet, the maids below are already preparing her winter supplies. Such as homely clothes, hats and shoes, unless they are auspicious clothes, they are usually made by the maids who are good at needlework when they bring things back.
Bai Shu is usually prudent, so she is in charge of Jingren Palace's dealings with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She told Pan'er a while ago that she was going to get mink furs to make her a hat and wipe her forehead. She never thought about the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A new batch of high-quality sable furs arrived, and I made two tributes to Jingren Palace.
On the surface, this kind of thing violated the rules, but the palace always behaved like this, the house of internal affairs would look at the palace where the empress was favored, and it was inevitable to honor some things that were not within the rules.
Pan'er didn't take it seriously, after all, she received too many things that were not within the limits, just like Zong Cong sent her to make clothes and cloaks for her. , never expected that Fuchun would use it as an argument at this moment.
It seems that the Kunning Palace was waiting to catch her pigtails, not for a day or two, otherwise, a court lady in Fuchun would have found out that she had obtained two sable furs from the House of Internal Affairs
But it's not that Pan'er has no way to deal with it. Before she came, she knew that today's matter would not be good, but she didn't care. Anyway, she shouldn't be the one who was afraid of it.
Pan'er didn't even look at Fu Chun, and put on the air of a noble concubine: "Bai Shu, what should I say when I talk to my master?"
Bai Shu, who had been knocked down to the ground, stood up and bowed her head after Pan'er came in, and replied: "Respond to your mother's words, in order to show respect, slaves and servants should use honorific words when talking to their master, and they must say what they say. Master's words."
"Well, she offended Bengong, teach Bengong a lesson!"
Bai Shu was also unambiguous, and grabbed Fu Chun's skirt two steps forward.
Fu Chun was still stunned: "You can't hit me..."
"A servant girl, even a servant girl can't speak, so give me a few more slaps and teach her the rules."
"yes."
Empress Chen said angrily, "Concubine Su Gui, what do you want to do?"
At this time, Pan'er had already gone to sit on the chair next to her. Empress Chen was on the first phoenix seat, and she randomly chose a seat at the end. It seemed that one was on the top and the other was on the bottom, but she didn't lose her momentum at all.
"Returning to the empress, the concubine came to talk to the empress to talk about family affairs, but never thought about it...Fu Chun is so ignorant of the rules, in order to avoid such things from happening again in the future. Your empress will teach her a lesson and teach her how to behave, lest she go out and cause trouble for the empress in the future."
While speaking, Bai Shu's slap was already raised.
Yes, whirl.
That's how Fuchun beat her before, but now that the imperial concubine and empress came to save her at the risk of falling out with the queen, she naturally wanted to beat her back in the same way.
Fuchun didn't cry like ghosts or howl like wolves, but he hit hard, and it was inevitable that he would feel pain a few times.
Empress Chen couldn't bear it.
She has grown so big, no one has ever dared to be so presumptuous in front of her, and has never been so embarrassing. Empress Chen has been suffering for the past two days. Of course she knew that it was not wise for her to call Bai Shu over, but she ordered someone to go home and ask her. This move gave her more leeway.
If the Chen family didn't know about it at all, and she asked her to make things worse, then the matter would come to the fore. She was no longer the only daughter of the Chen family in the palace, not this bitch surnamed Su!
The tenth girl of the Chen family died a long time ago. Since her surname is Su, it is best to keep her surname Su for the rest of her life!
"You knew already?"
Empress Chen's eyes frightened Pan'er a little. She had seen this kind of look in Empress Chen when she was at the end of her life and was about to be imprisoned in the cold palace in her previous life.
"what do you know?"
Amidst the clapping of applause, such a conversation is extremely weird.
"You know what I'm talking about!"
"Are you afraid?"
"What is this palace afraid of? I am your majesty's first wife, and this palace is the queen of the middle palace. As long as I do not make mistakes for a day, your majesty will not be able to dethrone me. You are just a noble concubine. I am afraid of you?" Chen said. The queen sneered, but something in her eyes couldn't fool Pan'er, an old enemy of two lifetimes.
"My surname is Su, not Chen. The thing you risked your life for is actually not worth mentioning to others." Saying that, Pan'er stood up with some disinterest, and walked out the door.
Bai Shu also stopped and followed behind.
"I don't believe that you don't covet a rich family background!" Empress Chen stood up from the phoenix seat and screamed while pressing on the armrest.
When Emperor Jianping came to the throne, he only conferred the title of imperial concubine Pan'er, which meant that her status was too low to be raised too high all of a sudden.
Pan'er stood still and looked back at her: "Do you think the Chen family is really good to us?"
If so, why didn't Emperor Jianping set up a prince
This principle also applies to Pan'er. She already has three children and has the position of imperial concubine. She really doesn't need another Chen family.
Empress Chen sat down on the phoenix seat.
She naturally understood the meaning of Su's words, she hadn't thought about whether it was because of the Chen family that His Majesty did not make Duo'er the crown prince. The Chen family already has a Chief Assistant, a Minister of Rites, and a Queen. If there is another crown prince, after a few years, will this country be named Zong or Chen
But what can she do
The surname Chen is both a help and a constraint for her. If it wasn't for the surname Chen, she would not be selected as the crown princess. Similarly, if it wasn't for the surname Chen, she might have been suppressed by the Su family long ago.
She can only have the surname Chen, and she can only have the surname Chen.
The way back was very quiet. Although there were court ladies and eunuchs watching quietly on the long street, they only dared to peek.
Back at Jingren Palace, Bai Shu said: "If it wasn't for the slaves..."
Pan'er shook her head and said with a smile: "Sooner or later, there will come a day when I have no intention of going back to the Chen family, so as to prevent her from doing something more irreparable in a panic, it will be cheaper to tear it apart."
So Pan'er deliberately opened up and said that she had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but she did not expect the opportunity to come so soon.
"Go and ask Cattail to apply some medicine for you. After all, it's a girl's house, so don't make a fool of yourself."
Cattail pulls Bai Zhu down, and deliberately jokes with her.
Bai Shu didn't say anything, but his eyes softened a lot when he looked at Cattail. If it wasn't for the cattails today, she would have ended up dead if she bumped into her so boredly. Fortunately, the cattails were "problematic" again... .
Pan'er didn't go to the Qing Palace either, and when she saw Zong Cong didn't come at dinner, she was relieved, thinking that he must be very busy with government affairs, so he didn't care about such trivial matters for the time being, and gave her some room for buffering, thinking How to explain when you think of it.
So someone passed on the meal and used it with the three children.
The gathering today was pretty neat. With the increasingly heavy homework in the study room, Zong Yue did not come to Jingren Palace every day for dinner, and the women's school in the Eastern Palace was also moved to the palace by Zong Cong. In the long row of enclosures in Ningshou Palace.
Now Wanying is getting bigger and bigger. In addition to teaching them to read and write, the masters of women's schools also put women's craftsmen, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting into daily life.
Wanrong didn't dare to say that she wouldn't learn it, but with the previous experience of getting her fingers pierced, she is not too resistant to learning it now. Among the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is very interested in painting, which is beyond Pan'er's expectation.
As for Zong Qian, seeing that he was about to turn five years old, he would enter the study room when he was five years old, so he moved to Nansan School in advance.
But ever since he grew up and knew what was going on, he loved to pester his brothers and sisters, and lived in Pan'er Palace less often, so when he heard that the yard was going to be moved, he was happier than anyone else, and let Pan'er be his mother. There is a kind of exclamation that it is too big to leave.
Normally, mother and son would never be quiet when eating together, and Zong Yue and Wan Rong didn't talk much today, and even Zong Qian, who was always noisy, talked less.
"What's the matter, what are you?"
Zong Yue looked worried and said: "My son heard that the mother and the empress had a conflict because a maid broke into the Kunning Palace?"
The news spread so fast that Zong Yue had heard about it.
Pan'er went to see Wanrong and Zongqian, apparently they also knew about it.
"It's nothing, it's just that the Empress has withheld the Baizhu, and the mother went to ask her to ask for it."
"Then why does she want to withhold Atractylodes Atractylodes, the people of our Jingren Palace are the ones who can be easily withheld by her in Kunning Palace!" Wanrong said indignantly.
Pan'er nodded her forehead: "Look, it's your mother who has spoiled you. You can say what you can and can't. You're not young anymore, don't you know? Even if you understand this in your heart, you can't talk nonsense. Well, as the empress is the lord of the six palaces and the prime minister has great power in the harem, it is only natural for her to ask a court lady to ask questions, but it is because Bai Shu is her personal maid that she will take care of what she wants."
"Then she knows that Bai Shu is Mother's personal palace maid, and if she buckles it at will, she is clearly bullying Mother!"
It's not unreasonable for Wanrong to say this, but it's hard to say who is bullying whom this time.
"My mother is as useless as you said, and she was bullied casually? Besides, there are your father, the empress, she dare not bully me casually. Well, this is all adults' business, how old are you?" , just worry about the affairs of the grown-ups, and don’t worry about getting old before you get old. It’s okay, mother. You should be whatever you are at ordinary times. Work hard and focus on your studies. As for you, don’t be mischievous. The rest of the mother will take care of herself deal with."
This mischievous person was naturally talking about Zong Qian, he was a little bit unconvinced, and his small mouth was deflated. As for Zong Yue and Wan Rong, they exchanged glances and said nothing.
After dinner, Zong Yue and the others stayed to accompany the plate, and even talked and laughed to make her happy.
After all, he is still a child, sometimes he can't be so comprehensive on the surface, he always looks out of the window from time to time, probably wanting to say why the emperor didn't come today, but he didn't say it clearly.
Until Pan'er told them to go back to rest, Wanrong even gave Zong Qian a wink, telling him to stay with his mother to sleep with his mother today, but Zong Qian was a ignorant wink, and asked the elder sister why she winked at her, did she? Eye discomfort.
But Wan Rong was annoyed, but Pan'er couldn't help but drive them back, and at this moment Zong Cong came.
"Royal father."
After Zong Cong sat down, he glanced around at the children, then at the plate, and said, "How long has it been? I haven't gone back to rest yet. Zong Yue has to go to the study room tomorrow, but can he get up in the morning?"
Zong Yue scratched his head with a smile and said: "I forgot to talk with my mother and concubine for a while, and my son will come back right away."
The three children left together, and Pan Er specially ordered people to light up the lanterns on the road so that they would not fall. After the children had left, she asked Zong Cong if he had had dinner.
Sure enough... it was useless.
"Datong was accidentally attacked by the golden men outside the customs. Although it was lucky that it did not fall, Hu Bingcheng, the general soldier of Datong, was seriously injured. Now Datong is in chaos. I don't have the heart to have dinner."