It is already the beginning of October, and the night is already cold, even if the emperor has no restrictions, last night he had a heavy cushion under his feet and a robe on his body. But kneeling all night still made the two concubines faint from exhaustion.

As soon as they entered the Dragon Ao Palace, Concubine Huan and Concubine Zhu knelt down in front of the emperor and couldn't get up, and at the same time, they immediately couldn't suppress their urgent trembling voices and said:

"Your Majesty, please forgive your sins...... The concubines are stupid, I don't know why the emperor punished the two concubines for kneeling in front of the door of the Dragon Ao Palace? ”

The two of them manage the harem, and until the emperor divides the power into two halves for them, their status in the harem is very high.

I don't know what happened, the emperor would suddenly let the two of them kneel in front of the door of the Dragon Ao Hall all night without explanation?!

This is a very heavy punishment, and it has the meaning of disregarding the dignity of the status and dignity of the concubine.

At this time, Concubine Huan and Concubine Zhu didn't care about how to lose face in front of the harem, but asked the emperor with trepidation as soon as they came in.

Both of them were pale in their little faces, their foreheads were covered with cold sweat, and their upper bodies could barely support it.

The emperor had a faint look and said, "I met a eunuch on the palace road last night, and I wanted to force and bully a concubine, who was a talented person from the Lotus Palace. Lingcai people met me and told me that I had not been in the harem for a long time, and the minions in the harem were able to cover the sky with one hand and control the concubines. ”

The emperor paused for a moment, and even asked directly: "I don't come to the harem, but I ordered the two of you to manage the harem, this kind of absurd event can appear, are you two dead?" ”

When Concubine Huan and Concubine Zhu heard this, they glanced at each other, and there was a panic in their eyes that others could not see.

The two of them paused for a moment, and immediately began to explain with white faces, "The emperor forgives the sin...... The concubine is ashamed, and there is such a thing in the harem...... However, the emperor, the concubines were wronged, the concubines didn't know that there was such a thing in the harem, the concubines lived in different palaces, and some concubines with low status didn't often go out of the palace where they lived, and the concubines didn't know what was going on. ”

"Moreover, the emperor, no one has reported this matter to the concubines...... The concubines didn't know who gave the minions such a great convenience, and cooperated with the minions to persecute the concubines...... It's the concubine's fault, the concubine is negligent, but the emperor, the concubine really doesn't know. ”

The two concubines kicked the ball out.

The emperor glanced at Concubine Zhu lightly, and did not investigate it first, but instead asked people from some departments in the palace to bring people who were found to have colluded with the eunuchs and cooperated with the eunuchs.

The imperial guards escorted people up, Concubine Huan and Concubine Zhu temporarily stepped aside, and the two glanced at each other again, their eyes full of a certain meaning.

"Back to the emperor," General Gao Shao entered the palace overnight last night, and was leading people at this time, and reported to the emperor when he came in: "Your Majesty, last night the ministers led people to interrogate them strictly, and found out that the deputy head of the imperial dining room in the palace, the female official of the weaving department, the third steward of the palace affairs department, and the two big palace maids in the palace all had private dealings with the strong eunuchs in the harem, and secretly cooperated with the strong eunuchs, so that the strong eunuchs could get stuck in the low-ranking concubines, so as to persecute some concubines. ”

The imperial guards escorted people up, and several of them looked frightened, and as soon as they came in, they knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the emperor and kept saying that they had wronged and spared their lives.

The emperor's face was still pale, and he said: "Although the palace is empty, there is no prince and princess garden, and there is no East Palace, Empress Dowager Palace and Empress Fengyi Palace to serve, so only the harem is left, and the various departments in the palace are more closely connected with the harem. However, the divisions in the palace are the divisions in the palace, not the departments of the harem! Where did you come from to get the reason to mix up the affairs of the harem and cooperate with the eunuchs of the harem to persecute the concubines? ”