The rebirth of a concubine: Gong Du will become the Queen Mother

Lu Zhaolin asked: "How did those two die?"

Yao Xingde replied: "He offended the imperial concubine and was beaten to death with a stick."

Lu Zhaolin raised his eyebrows and asked again: "Why did they offend the noble concubine?"

Yao Xingde said: "The two little palace ladies were laughing and playing in the palace. At the corner of the palace road, they collided with the little eunuch who was carrying the carriage for the imperial concubine, causing the imperial concubine to fall off the carriage and get injured. "

When he said this, Lu Zhaolin suddenly remembered that this matter did seem to exist in his memory.

From this point of view, it is reasonable that they would be beaten to death by the rod.

But once the matter was investigated here, the clues were completely lost.

Jiang Shiying sighed: "It seems that Aying can only admit that she is unlucky."

Lu Zhaolin squeezed her hand and said, "I just said I would protect you."

Jiang Shiying raised her head to look at him and listened to what he said: "According to the decree, the queen has neglected her duties and mismanaged the harem. She will be fined half a year's salary."

Yao Xingde raised his head in shock: "Your Majesty?"

This would slap the queen in the face even more than asking him to go to Fengyi Palace to deliver a message.

Lu Zhaolin hadn't finished speaking yet: "The female officers Shang Gong, Shang Yi, and Shang Gong will be dismissed from their posts, and new female officers will be selected to take their place."

Three of the six ministers were removed, and these three were all the Queen's people.

Yao Xingde was about to take the order when he heard Lu Zhaolin say: "Tell the queen, if anything like this happens again, I will assume that it was her hand. The Shang Palace Bureau is all under her control. I don't believe it. Those two little There is something wrong with the palace maid, but the queen is not aware of it."

In Fengyi Palace, after Yao Xingde left, another batch of porcelain was broken.

Early the next morning, everyone received a message from Fengyi Palace that the Queen was unwell and would be excused for the next few days.

Thinking of the two decrees last night, no one in the palace was surprised.

In the Xianfu Palace, the imperial concubine sat in front of the dressing table, yawned and said: "Just tell me, there is no need to get up early today. Okay, I will go and sleep for a while."

When she received the news last night, the imperial concubine had already guessed that the queen had just lost such a big face and there was no way anyone would laugh at her in Fengyi Palace.

This "sickness" is estimated to last for several days, and it will be "recovered" after the limelight of this incident has passed.

The eldest palace maid Xianyun was a little helpless: "My queen, don't you want to know why your majesty issued two imperial edicts and slapped the queen in the face?"

The imperial concubine raised her eyes: "Have you found out?"

Xianyun said: "It hasn't been found yet."

The imperial concubine chuckled: "Who said we can only find out after checking it? Zuo is just related to Jingyang Palace."

Xianyun still wanted to ask, but the imperial concubine was already lying on the bed, got under the quilt, and said: "Put down the curtain and turn off the lights. If Funing wakes up, you can play with her for a while."

Xianyun sighed, followed her instructions, put down the curtain, turned off the lights, and quietly left.

Inside the bed tent, the imperial concubine's face was buried in the pillow, with a somewhat scary smile on her lips.

In Jingyang Palace, when people from Fengyi Palace came to deliver the message, Lu Zhaolin had not left yet.

Together with Jiang Shiying, he learned the news that the queen was "sick".

Hearing this, Lu Zhaolin raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell the queen to take good care of her health. If she never recovers, I will have to leave the affairs of the harem to others to take care of."

The palace messenger who sent the message was frightened, his head lowered, and he did not dare to say anything except "promise".

On the surface, the concubines in the harem were worried about the queen's "illness", but privately they were worried about it.

In Xuande Palace.

Concubine Li sat on the soft couch, took a sip of tea, and then frowned: "Those idiots from the Department of Internal Affairs, I am a concubine after all, are you using this kind of stuff to deal with me?"

Her eldest maid, Shuang Yan, was able to calm down her anger with some nice words.

Then, I don't know what Li Bin thought of, but she said: "Groom me, let's go and see the Queen."

Shuangyan was stunned: "Isn't the Queen sick?"

Li Bin glared at her: "What's wrong? It's obviously because of His Majesty's two decrees that she was too embarrassed to see anyone."

Shuangyan saw that she had no control over her words and dared to say these words directly. She looked outside anxiously and saw that it was very quiet outside, so she felt relieved.

Li Bin had already stood up and was walking towards the bedroom.

Shuangyan took two quick steps and followed her, saying, "You already know this, why do you still want to ask to see the Queen?"

A smile appeared on Li Bin's face: "It is at this time that I can more fully demonstrate my loyalty to the Queen. When the Queen recovers, are you still not allowed to take more care of me?"

Shuangyan thought this idea was unreliable and wanted to stop her, but couldn't.

Outside Fengyi Palace, Li Bin waited for a cup of tea and finally saw the picture screen in front of the queen.

A smile appeared on her face: "Girl Huaping, does the Queen want to see me?"

After Huaping bowed, he said: "The Queen is not in good spirits and has rested. Thank you for thinking about the Queen's health. Today is really unlucky."

The smile on Li Bin's face froze, and when she spoke again, she lost the excitement just now: "I would also like to ask Miss Huaping to convey my concern for the Queen."

Huaping said with a kind face: "Don't worry, the Queen and the Queen know your thoughts."

After saying a few more polite words, Li Bin led the people and left Fengyi Palace.

After walking only a few steps, she heard her scolding: "Bah, why are you so weak? Who doesn't know why?"

As soon as these words came out, Shuangyan broke into a cold sweat and quickly covered her mouth in offense.

Li Bin pulled her hand off and said angrily: "What are you doing? Do you think you can commit the following crime?"

Shuangyan almost knelt down to her: "My dear lady, even if you want to complain, you have to see where we are, right? If people from Fengyi Palace hear it, from top to bottom in our palace, Who can get anything good?"

She was really worried about following such a master.

There was no way, who asked her to grow up with Li Bin and be treated like a sister by her? In this life, I'm afraid this life will have to fall on her.

Li Bin knew what she said was right, so she stopped talking. But looking at her expression, it was clear that she didn't have anything nice to say.

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Two days later, Jiang Shiying took a break at noon. Seeing that the weather was fine, she took people to visit the Imperial Garden.

After walking around for a while, I saw that the sky was getting dark.

Xiao Pingzi said smartly: "I will go back and get the umbrella."

Jiang Shiying nodded, pointed to a hexagonal eaves pavilion not far away and said, "Let's go to that pavilion and wait for you."

Xiao Pingzi made a promise and trotted towards Jingyang Palace.

The rain came very quickly, and as soon as Jiang Shiying led people into the pavilion, it started to rain heavily.

"Mother, someone is coming." A Yuan reminded.

Jiang Shiying followed her fingers and saw a palace maid running towards the pavilion with a few apricot flowers in her arms.

In an instant, she ran to the pavilion.

"This slave has met the Pure Concubine."

Jiang Shiying nodded: "Come in and take shelter from the rain."

In less than half a cup of tea, the rain stopped and the sky gradually cleared up.

Jiang Shiying looked up at the sky and said, "There's no need to wait for Xiao Pingzi, let's go back."

Ah Yuan held her arm and said, "The road is slippery after the rain. Madam, please be careful when you step."

On the other side, in the princess's residence.

As soon as Dongqing entered the yard, she saw Wen'er coming towards her.

"Sister Holly is back. I just said that I would take an umbrella to pick her up."

As she spoke, Wen'er took the apricot blossom branch from Holly's hand.

Dongqing said: "It only rained for a short while and then stopped. I found a pavilion to take shelter from the rain, and I didn't get too wet."