Ma Xiuying's life is as usual, receiving concubines and concubines in a step-by-step manner, arranging harem affairs, and practicing the queen's canonization ceremony.

Whenever a concubine asks to see her in private and has something to report, Ma Xiuying asked Xunying to send a message to ask them to go to Guo Ninglian and Guo Hui to deal with it, and kindly told them that the double number Guo Ninglian is in charge, and the single number Guo Hui is in charge.

After a few days, the concubines saw that Ma Xiuying really ignored them, so they had to turn around and find Guo Ninglian and Guo Hui.

Kunning Palace is a lot cleaner, but Jingren Palace and Jingyang Palace are as lively as bazaars. As soon as this concubine left, that concubine came to visit again. Some concubines said that the charcoal in their palace was not enough, some concubines asked when the palace would buy new clothes when the spring begins, and even some concubines only sent the palace maid to say that they were unwell and wanted to ask the imperial doctor to take a look......

After being busy, Guo Ninglian and Guo Hui were tired and haggard.

Guo Ninglian gradually realized that something was wrong, she didn't have the joy of mastering the harem rights at all, but was like an old mother serving the concubines before and after the saddle.

How did she know that the concubines were angry with her in front of everyone, and they didn't dare to openly oppose her, so they deliberately had nothing to do to bother her, and some trivial things were exaggerated into big things, clamoring for her to solve them.

After being begged by a seemingly innocent concubine for unknown reasons again, she couldn't help but run to Guo Hui and complain, "Why do these women have so many things, won't they go to the internal affairs treasury to collect them if they have no supplies?"

Guo Hui was annoyed, the situation on her side was not much better than Guo Ninglian, and she rejected the concubines' requests several times and asked them to go to Guo Ninglian and Ma Xiuying, but Guo Ninglian was very busy, Ma Xiuying kicked back like a ball, and used Zhu Yuanzhang to press her. Seeing the bare garden and the sad-faced concubines, she was angry and said coldly: "Who told you to accept the queen's management of affairs and drag the palace into the water." If you like to worry about it, you can go, this palace doesn't have the good spirit of you. ”

Guo Ninglian held back her anger, and was stimulated by Guo Hui's attitude, and exploded on the spot, "At the beginning, you went with me to ask for the emperor, but now you are clean! And you don't have a shelf in front of the palace, but the palace is ahead of you! Even if the emperor canonizes the concubine, the palace is in front, and you are behind!" After speaking, Tie Qing had a small face, and left with his sleeves.

Guo Hui was so angry that she trembled all over, her beautiful facial features were distorted, and she looked particularly hideous, she stared at Guo Ninglian's back and spat fiercely: This palace can't clean up Ma Xiuying, can't it clean up you, a stupid slut!

Princess Ning Guo suddenly burst into tears.

Guo Hui came back to her senses, only to find that her sharp nails had pinched Princess Ningguo's arm at some point, and the blood was oozing out, she quickly let go of her hand and scolded: "Dead girl, won't your pestle squeak here?" And you people, one by one, are like dead people, even the princess can't take care of them, and drag down one person with ten sticks. ”

A group of palace people wailed and begged for mercy, they didn't know what they had done at all, Concubine Hui wanted to see the princess, and the palace people brought Princess Ningguo, who would have thought that Concubine Hui had pinched the princess herself, but punished them for taking care of them unfavorably, this is really wronged and there is nowhere to argue.

Ning Guo held back his tears and watched in fear as his servants were taken away and did not dare to make a sound. The appearance of the mother concubine was so terrifying, she didn't even dare to look up, let alone help plead. At this time, how she wished that her father could appear, only when her father was there, would her mother show her an amiable smile and give her the love she usually longed for but could not enjoy.

Guo Hui stared at Ning Guo, who was cowering, the more uncomfortable he became, over the years, Zhu Yuanzhang has more and more women, and more and more children, in addition to the previous five sons of Zhu Biao, Zhu Zhang, Zhu Di, Zhu Di, and Zhu Hu, Concubine Hu gave birth to the sixth prince Zhu Zhen, and Concubine Dading gave birth to the seventh prince Zhu Zhen. In addition to Lin'an, Ningguo, Chongning, Anqing, Runing, and even the Sun family, who was asserted by Mrs. Wu that she could not have children, gave birth to Princess Huaiqing after being treated and carefully conditioned by doctors across the country.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Ma Xiuying could no longer have children and liked girls, so he passed Princess Anqing and Princess Runing to Ma Xiuying's name. Even Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at these two princesses, and gradually he didn't pay attention to Ning Guo as much as before.

Ning Guo has always been an excuse used by Guo Hui to meet Zhu Yuanzhang, and now that Ning Guo is not favored, Guo Hui is very unkind to see this daughter, complaining that she is useless, complaining that she is not a boy, and even more angry that she can't give birth to a son like other women. Resentment and jealousy made her look at all the concubines unpleasantly, and she wished that all the concubines in the palace would die, especially those women who did not deal with her.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was about to ascend the throne, something bad suddenly happened in the harem.

Concubine Sun, who was pregnant, was bleeding after dinner that day, and Xiao'er, the palace maid of Chenggan Palace, hurriedly told Guo Ninglian to ask for a doctor (it was a double number that day, and Guo Ninglian was in charge of palace affairs).

Guo Ninglian was annoyed that the other party didn't stop when it was dark, and deliberately hung Xiao'er for a while before she was willing to meet her, and later heard that Concubine Sun was bleeding heavily and hurriedly sent someone to summon the imperial doctor on duty, but for some reason the imperial doctor on duty did not appear for a long time. When the palace maid who arrived at Chenggan Palace asked to see Guo Ninglian again to clarify the reason, Guo Ninglian personally rushed to Chenggan Palace with another imperial doctor, the fetus in Concubine Sun's womb was no longer guaranteed, and it was still a male fetus that had become a shape.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard the news, and he immediately ordered the imperial guards to thoroughly investigate the cause of Concubine Sun's bleeding and the whereabouts of the imperial doctor on duty. This investigation was not successful, the imperial doctor found a large number of saffron in Concubine Sun's dinner, and the body of the imperial doctor on duty was also found in the Taiye Pool, and there was a broken wine jug on the shore.

Because it involves the harem concubines and the imperial heir, the imperial guards did not dare to make a big move to investigate, and secretly arrested the palace people in the imperial dining room for interrogation. As for the imperial physician on duty, it may have been a drunken accident and fell into the pool of liquid while drunk and died. In the end, it was unanimously concluded that it was an unfortunate accident.

All the concubines rushed to Chenggan Palace, and after listening to the advice of the imperial guards, Ma Xiuying was full of shame, leaned over and said: "It's all the concubines who are negligent in management, and this happened today, please ask the emperor to give you the guilt." ”

"It's none of your business, I know you've been busy with the ceremony lately. Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand expressionlessly, and the vulture's gaze slowly swept around everyone. He knew in his heart that if he hadn't asked Ma Xiuying to divide some affairs to Guo Ninglian and Guo Hui, maybe there would not have been such a big mistake in the palace.