Pan Hou returned to the harem, and her heart was still beating "thump".

This bastard actually let himself look at this kind of thing, and almost made himself ugly in the court.

She stroked her chest and looked at the letter in her hand, feeling the urge to burn it.

But thinking that this letter was still useful, and it was Cao Bin's thing, she couldn't help but not start.

"Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?"

At this moment, Concubine Pang also chased in, and said with an inquiring face.

Empress Dowager Pan hurriedly received the letter and said with a smile on her sleeve:

"It's nothing, I'm a little unwell."

Concubine Pang didn't care about her, just stared at her sleeve and said:

"The letter?"

Listening to her inquiry for letters, Empress Dowager Pan instinctively refused:

"You can't ...... that letter"

Speaking of this, her heart suddenly moved, and she was secretly unhappy in her heart, and she couldn't be frightened alone, so she immediately changed her words:

"This letter is really ...... Sister Pang Fei should be mentally prepared. ”

As she spoke, she took the letter out of her sleeve and handed it to Concubine Pang with a hot hand, looking at her expression with some expectation.

Concubine Pang was curious, so she didn't refuse.

She was much calmer than Empress Dowager Pan, and although her face was flushed, she didn't have much reaction.

After reading it, she muttered hatefully:

"This sassy fox is really shameless, and he doesn't forget to seduce Juncai when he writes a letter!"

"Huh?"

Empress Dowager Pan was a little surprised, this reaction was a bit unexpected to her, this sister's heart is really big.

However, it was precisely because she asked Concubine Pang to read the letter that she was worried, and asked with a frown:

"Marquis Zhongjing won't really be seduced by that woman and go to Western Xia."

She greatly admired Cao Bin's ability, and was really a little worried that Cao Bin would abandon Song and join Xia.

In that case, Da Song Ke will suffer a big loss.

Concubine Pang hurriedly said:

"The queen mother can rest assured, the Cao family has been a prince for generations, and he has been entrusted by the first emperor to be orphaned, and he is in a high position, how can he be so unwise?"

"If he really has this heart, he will not let the Queen Mother read this letter."

Empress Dowager Pan nodded, and thought that her son recognized Cao Bin as his father-in-law, and immediately relieved herself.

She didn't think about withholding this letter as a hole card to restrain Cao Bin in the future.

One is that Pan Cao's two families are in the secret moon period, and she didn't expect it.

The two are just letters written by the Empress Dowager of Western Xia to Cao Bin, even if they are troubled in the future, they cannot hurt their roots, and they will also destroy the relationship between the two families now, and she has more harmful cards left by the first emperor.

Now she is thinking about how to continue to win over Cao Bin, the Xixia woman is too open-minded, which makes her feel a little pressure.

While she was meditating, a little eunuch suddenly ran in and said:

"Queen Mother, it's a big deal, go and take a look, it's up to fight."

"Marquis Cao has to kill Sima Zhiyuan......"

Empress Dowager Pan was startled, and hurriedly got up and said:

"Quick, come back to Zichen Hall with me!"

Concubine Pang was also a little anxious, she thought that Cao Bin was just talking, but she didn't expect him to really do it.

Sima Guang can be forced to commit suicide, but it must not be Cao Bin who takes the initiative to do it, once he does it, he will definitely become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the world's scholars.

At this time, the Zichen Hall was very lively.

Some ministers stepped forward to pull the rack, some added fuel to the fire, and some were eating melons on the side to watch the excitement.

However, seeing that Sima Guang was still there, the Empress Dowager Pan and the Empress Dowager both breathed a sigh of relief.

I saw him put the Qingyu sword on his neck, looked at Cao Bin sadly and angrily, and said:

"If you don't work hard and be loyal to Jinghou, the lower official will die by himself, but the lower official will not accept it!"

As he spoke, he would kill himself with a sword.

Empress Dowager Pan was about to open her mouth to stop it, but she felt that the clothes behind her were tight, and a sentence suddenly stuck in her throat, thanks to Wang Yanling stepped forward to stop it, otherwise Sima Guang would really be dead.

"The concubine loses her honor, and the queen mother forgives her sins."

She glanced back at Concubine Pang and saw her look of pity, and couldn't help but be speechless.

Although Empress Dowager Pan also hated Sima Guang, she still cared about the dignity of the court and would not watch him die in the court.

However, she didn't have time to worry about Concubine Pang, so she walked quickly to the throne, and after accepting the worship of the ministers, she looked at Sima Guang and snorted coldly:

"What are you dissatisfied with?"

"Didn't you make that bet yourself?"

Sima Guang was stunned for a moment, only feeling ashamed, he said that he was not convinced, because after reading the letter, Empress Dowager Pan's reaction was a little unusual.

Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Pan came back and slapped him in the face in a blink of an eye.

Empress Dowager Pan glanced at him with a cold face, waved her hand and said:

"Okay, go home and die, don't be coy in the court."

Now that Sima Guang is ruined, she doesn't have to be polite.

Thinking of the momentum of these people forcing themselves to pardon Zhao Ji a few days ago, and looking at his embarrassment today, Empress Dowager Pan only felt that her pores were full of pleasure.

Finally let out a bad breath today.

After this incident, even if Sima Guang would not commit suicide, he would not be qualified to join the office.

Perhaps, carrying his current reputation is worse than killing him.

Wang Yanling sighed and said:

"Junshi, you go home first!"

Sima Guang was stunned, walked up to Cao Bin with his sword in his hand, and said with red eyes:

"Please rest assured, Marquis Zhongjing, I, Sima Guang, will do what I say, and I will definitely apologize with death when I go home."

"It's just that I didn't expect that I, Sima Guang, would be arrogant and arrogant, sitting in a well and watching the sky."

"The means of the Marquis of Zhongjing, I want to speculate one or two can do nothing."

Cao Bin ignored him, just took the Qingyu sword, inserted it into the sheath, and said nothing.

Sima Guang didn't care, he staggered to the outside of the hall, and said in despair:

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, I've been studying the sages for twenty years in vain, and it's useless, useless......"

Seeing Sima Guang leaving, Empress Dowager Pan didn't care, and asked calmly:

"This matter is over, what else is there to do?"

Wang Yanling stood up and said:

"Back to the Queen Mother, there is also the matter of the Marquis of Zhongjing recruiting the daughter of the Li family as an official, the old minister doesn't know how to deal with it, and he still needs the Queen Mother to show him."

After a pause, he suggested:

"The old minister thinks that he can give the Li lady an official position in the palace, which is still justified."

Now, he doesn't want to do much, Cao Bin pretends to be sick, he didn't want to pursue it too much, it was Sima Guang who wanted to take the opportunity to bring down Cao Bin.

As for Li Qingzhao, he wanted to use this incident to give Cao Bin a favor, at least let him not force Sima Guang too much.

Maybe save his life.

When Cao Bin heard this, he was a little surprised, but he was also happy to see it.

This old guy is worthy of being an old bureaucrat, and he can come up with this kind of idea, but he has more experience than himself.

It's just that before he could be happy, Kou Zhun, the current imperial envoy, jumped out, he didn't care about Sima Guang's life or death, and directly reprimanded angrily:

"It's ridiculous, so it's even more contrary to etiquette."

"What's more, Zhong Jinghou has already made a mistake, Wang Xiang doesn't want to stop it, and he has to cover it up for him, isn't it a mistake on top of a mistake?"

"If so, how can there be justice in the imperial court?"

As he spoke, he bowed down to the Empress Dowager Pan and said:

"The ministers should be in the position, and they should be severely punished by the Marquis of Zhongjing and the daughter of the Li family, so as to set an example!"