Fortunately, the palace maid behind her, Ah Liang, secretly tugged her sleeve, she woke up in an instant, and her blocked throat was smooth. She took a deep breath, took the two things wrapped in bright yellow silk from Ah Liang's hand, and kowtowed, "Feng Ling and Feng Yin are here...... Please take a look at the queen. ”

Empress Xiao had a polite smile on her face, her eyes looked at her fixedly, and she looked at her for a long time before she said, "Mama Qi, go and pick it up." How can Concubine Jing be kept kneeling. ”

Mama Qi walked down and picked up the things in Concubine Jing's hand, and at that moment she clearly felt the power of Concubine Jing's ten fingers. However, sooner or later, it was useless to resist, and Mama Qi's hand was strained, and Concubine Jing's fingers were scratched by her, and she lost her strength in an instant.

Feng Ling and Feng Yin were presented to Empress Xiao. She opened it and swept it roughly, and then ordered someone to take it back. Concubine Jing had already climbed up from the ground, and Queen Xiao smiled at her and said, "Sister Jing has worked hard these days. ”

The queen laughed. Concubine Jing barely smiled.

Empress Xiao talked about talking to her sisters, but she was not idle. After receiving the Feng Ling Feng Yin, she gossiped with everyone and dispersed.

Everyone retired in an orderly manner.

Lin Yuan's body was inconvenient to walk slowly, and she fell last. Empress Xiao watched her step out of the palace gate, and whispered left and right: "Concubine Hui's body has also been seven months. Let's go and give some ginseng and matsutake mushrooms from the storeroom to Scarlet Smoke House. ”

Mama Qi responded, and whispered: "Concubine Hui, the vixen, has become more and more favored after becoming pregnant, and Concubine Jing is in power in front of her, she has done a lot of work, and Concubine Jing still has nothing to do with her." Mother, we can't take her lightly. ”

Empress Xiao squinted her eyes slightly: "Don't care about her first." The person we need to deal with now is Concubine Jing. ”

Although Concubine Jing has only been in power for more than two months, this period of time is enough for her to do a lot of things. In the past, Queen Xiao controlled the harem alone, and Concubine Jing intervened horizontally, I don't know how many nails were planted in each palace and bureau, and how many things broke her.

Empress Xiao felt upset when she thought about it. In the future, it will take a lot of effort to clean up Concubine Jing's power.

Mama Qi nodded and said, "Slave and maid, let's go down and do it." ”

"Hui Concubine, keep an eye on me." The queen's voice was dull: "There are many people in the Imperial Palace beside her, and it is not easy for our people to find out." But keep an eye on it. Her stomach can't move, the palace was splashed with dirty water by her before, and the emperor has been guarding the palace in his heart. It's a mule or a horse, wait until she is born. ”

When it comes to the heirs, Empress Xiao can't help but think of the five princes. The Ye family was her biggest bargaining chip, but the emperor took the opportunity to take it away, and now even if she is cleared of the charge, the emperor refuses to mention the Ye family, and he is simply planning not to give the child to her.

and has already referred to Concubine Tian as an adoptive mother......

Thinking of this, Empress Xiao's chest was like a needle prick, and the pain of the fine pieces converged into a sharp pain of cutting the flesh with a knife in an instant.

She screamed miserably and slipped off the phoenix seat.

Screams rang out one after another in the Changxin Palace.

***

The news of Empress Xiao's illness was crushed by Changxin Palace, and there was no leakage of the slightest rumor.

At that time, the concubines had just asked An to leave, and no one overheard it unexpectedly.

Empress Xiao didn't ask for a royal doctor, she would have pain once a day, but it was getting worse every day. Mama Qi and Bang Qiu were a few worried, but Xiao Yueyi still didn't care, first, she didn't want people to know that she was very sick and took the opportunity to seize power. The second is that the poison in the year was too powerful, countless imperial doctors and even the folk masters invited by the emperor list were helpless, a few days ago the imperial doctor Liang came to see, only prescribed some tonic prescriptions, and there was no better way. Xiao Yueyi knew that this disease could not be cured, and it was useless to count on the imperial doctor, so she simply broke the jar and broke it.

And she's not afraid, people who have been sick for ten years are still alive and well? The pain came and went as fast as it came, and a moment of stuff was completely bearable. When her body is cold at night, she is covered with a thick quilt, she is the queen, and she doesn't want anything.

Here, Empress Xiao took the phoenix seal and the phoenix order, and immediately began to serve the council vigorously. She first summoned the head of the six monks, inquired in detail about the reconciliation of the regulations, expenses, and tributes of each palace in these days, and then summoned the court steward and asked him to report the situation of the palace people.

In all fairness, in the two subjects of finance and management, Concubine Jing was naturally inferior to the queen. is like the manpower assigned by each palace, Empress Xiao can remember everyone's names after reading it, and Concubine Jing is far behind. If the two of them go back to modern times to take the college entrance examination, Concubine Jing can be admitted to the exam, and the queen will easily enter Fudan.

To put it bluntly, Concubine Jing is not outstanding in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

But people's emotional intelligence is not necessarily worse than that of the queen. If the two of them are bad girls in modern times, they don't study well and can't find a job in the end and can only go to the sugar daddy, and Concubine Jing is estimated to be richer than the queen.

In the days when the queen was grounded, Concubine Jing was not brilliant, but there was no chaos. There is no major problem with the account books of the various palaces and bureaus.

It's just that the expenses in the Tian Concubine Palace are three hundred taels more than usual.

The small words on the head of the account book were dense, but Queen Xiao saw at a glance that Xianfu Palace was wrong. She pointed to the number above and asked, "The share of concubines is sixty taels per month." Xianfu Palace has an extra three hundred taels this month. ”

Aunt Liu, the steward of the Shanggong Bureau, took office a year ago, and her predecessor was given death by the queen because of a problem with the ice cube. The current Aunt Liu is much more clever than her predecessor: "Back to Niangniang, isn't there a five princes living in Xianfu Palace, this cost is naturally more, and it is promised by the emperor...... However, according to common sense, the prince's monthly silver is issued separately, and the five princes have given one hundred taels per month, and they have already given the Xianfu Palace ......"

Aunt Liu understood very well what the queen wanted to hear, and searched for the distractions of Xianfu Palace.

Empress Xiao tugged at the corners of her lips and sneered: "I heard that Concubine Tian reported to the emperor that the five princes liked jade ornaments, so the things they sent to Xianfu Palace were very valuable, even beyond the share of concubines...... I don't know if the fifth prince really likes jade in the palace, but Tian Concubine is so extravagant, and she is not a model of concubines. ”

"Since the fifth prince likes expensive furnishings, then I'm afraid that the concubine position is not suitable for raising him." On the side, Bang Qiu is not very old, but his mind is lively.

Empress Xiao glanced at her, looked at her with a smile on her face, frowned slightly, and said, "Who the fifth prince puts is there, it only depends on the emperor's meaning." It's just a trivial matter on the moon, will the emperor not let Concubine Tian raise the prince because of this? You take this to the emperor and say it, don't you want the emperor to be promoted to the position of concubine! ”

Bang Qiu choked and couldn't speak. Empress Xiao thought for a while, and said with a light smile: "In this way, register all the utensils used by the five princes, and whatever the five princes want, the Shanggong Bureau will allocate them separately." Aunt Liu, you are ordered by this palace to go to Xianfu Palace to see if there are any things that were sent in the name of the Five Princes, but not placed in the Five Princes' houses. If there is, you will ask Concubine Tian on the orders of this palace, and ask her where she got the courage to forcibly seize the prince's things. ”

Aunt Liu understood as soon as she heard it, and retired with a smile on her face.

However, a few hours later, Concubine Tian was punished by the queen to kneel in front of the gate of Changxin Palace in the name of "arrogance".

Kneeling is not a very severe punishment, but it hurts face. Although Concubine Tian has not been doing well since she entered the palace, she has also risen to the top, and she has raised the five princes to be proud. She knelt straight in front of the gate of Changxin Palace, and the palace people who came and went couldn't help but look at her twice, and the more daring concubines snickered and pointed.

Concubine Tian pursed her lips tightly, looking stubborn. She has long known that compared to Concubine Jing's seizure of palace power, she won the five princes, and she is a thorn in the queen's side.

Even if Chen Province took the initiative to show goodwill, it could not erase the queen's anger. Concubine Jing has already handed over the queen's things, but the fifth prince will never return to the queen's hands.

When Aunt Liu came by the order of the queen, she easily found a jade Ruyi, two Yue kiln white porcelain powder neck bottles, and a set of jade green jade bucket tea sets in her bedroom. Where did she dare to admit the charge of "forcibly seizing the things of the five princes", so she had to kneel down and say that she was greedy for wealth and wealth, and took these things in the name of the five princes, but in fact, these are not what the five princes want.

Chu Huashang is ashamed to speak of her identity as a concubine, and her mother in the family is powerful. Before entering the palace, her life was dark, and she was often deducted in the house, and her food and clothing were cold. Although she is a noble daughter of the Chu family, she is not as good as a decent maid. Later, when he entered the palace, he was valued by the emperor and became a noble lord in the palace, so he was naturally dazzled by the wealth. She is not greedy, she only takes a little more petty profit, which is not too much.

Concubine Jing also knew about these things before, but unlike the queen, even if Concubine Jing wanted to do it against her, she didn't bother to care about this kind of thing.

The sin of arrogance is much lighter than the queen's hat.

Even so, she still had to kneel in front of the gate of Changxin Palace for a whole hour.

At dusk, it was time to pass the dinner, and there were many people in the palace, and she was offended.

The news that Chu Huashang was punished for kneeling spread quickly, and there were actually a few mean palace concubines who came to the gate of Changxin Palace to watch the excitement, which made Chu Huashang angry half to death.

After that, it became a topic of conversation among the palace people after dinner. Although Chu Huashang was appreciated by the emperor, and she was the adoptive mother of the fifth prince, her status was precious, but she couldn't stop the women in the palace from being bored and gossiping, even if she was afraid of her, she couldn't help but laugh and talk.

Empress Xiao listened to it as a joke and felt relieved.