Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

The Supreme Lord took away 99% of the people who belonged to him in the Daming Palace.

The only ones who stayed behind were Wu Wei, Zhou Dai, and a few imperial guards such as Long Jinwei.

Emperor Chongzhao went to court, and Wang Xifeng returned to the palace to pack her luggage.

The palace had been arranged long ago, and she had been supervising the construction since she entered the palace. Now that everything was ready, she ordered everyone to move in.

Among them, the new queen lived in Penglai Palace.

Because Wang Xifeng had to assist in the management of palace affairs and bring Princess Heke with her, she chose a slightly larger Yinyu Hall.

The rest, Concubine Wu De, Concubine Mei Rong and Li Xuanyi were qualified to live in the main hall.

But Concubine Wu De was so domineering that no one wanted to live with her, so she was made to live alone in an exquisite and small Pearl Mirror Palace.

Geng Ronghua still followed Concubine Mei Rong, and the two of them lived in Qinghui Pavilion.

Li Xuanyi lived in Mingyi Palace with Concubine Yang and Concubine Zhou.

Sang Ronghua originally wanted to continue living with Concubine Song and Concubine Deng, but unfortunately she herself could not live in the main hall. After much thought, she simply lived in Wangxiantai with Shi Ronghua.

Concubine Song and Concubine Deng lived in Jiefu Palace.

Now that the arrangements were made, everyone started moving and cleaning, and officially unpacking and placing the luggage they had packed from the East Palace. They were busy for nearly half a month before everything was completely tidy.

As for the ten things that Wang Xifeng and Emperor Chongzhao wanted, it was just as Dai Quan and the Supreme Lord had discussed privately, that they were only the ten pieces of brocade.

In theory, Emperor Chongzhao had gained a huge advantage in this matter.

But with a twist of the tongue, it could be seen that Wang Xifeng abused her power for personal gain and used her power as assistant manager to embezzle good things from the emperor's private treasury.

A few days later, Concubine Wu De came to Emperor Chongzhao in the name of making summer skirts and made a pampering move, specifying that she wanted brocade.

Emperor Chongzhao didn't react, so he asked Qinghai to find a horse and send it to her.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Concubine Wu De immediately ordered someone to take the cloth and go find Wang Xifeng to get rid of the bad luck.

It happened to be the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, and Wang Xifeng begged Lady Zhai to give He Ke a day off so that she could learn from her how to arrange various celebrations during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Concubine Wu De entered the palace with a haughty manner. She saw a number of female officials spread out all over the palace with food, gifts, toys and accounts from the festival, and she was immediately filled with jealousy and envy.

"Oh, what does this mean? People say you abuse your power for personal gain, but you are not shy about it and even openly bring everything to your own palace to taste and play with!"

He turned his eyes and saw He Ke standing next to him, and immediately pointed his finger at him, "It's bad enough that you are corrupt, but you also want to lead the princess astray!"

Because today was the day Wang Xifeng specially taught He Ke how to host the Dragon Boat Festival, and He Ke was thinking that Lin Daiyu's parents were divorced and no one taught her these things, so he brought Lin Daiyu with him.

Seeing that Concubine Wu De opened her mouth and threw a basin full of dirty water at her, how could she tolerate it in front of Lin Daiyu?

He immediately wanted to stand up and have a serious fight with Concubine Wu Defei.

Wang Xifeng smiled helplessly, grabbed He Ke, and signaled to Ji Ma: "Take the princess and Lin Jie'er to the county lady.

"The county lady had lived in Shandong for a long time. Although they don't celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival as much as the south, I think they have many unique customs. Let the princess and Sister Lin go and listen to them. It will also be a topic."

Madam Ji understood and agreed with a smile, and then told Cai Xiangchun beside her:

"Please ask the chef to make a list of the names and order of the food to be served at the Dragon Boat Festival. I will give it to County Lady Zhai so that the princess and Sister Lin can learn from it."

Wang Xifeng waved her hand, and everyone dispersed quietly.

Only He Ke did not say goodbye to Concubine Wu De before leaving. He glared at her angrily and strode away with Lin Daiyu.

Silently and quickly, everything in the hall was cleared out in just a moment's time - even the mugwort shown to He Ke was picked up one by one, leaving only the scent of mugwort filling the hall.

Wang Xifeng then sat down in the main seat with a smile, pointing to the high-backed chair below her: "De Fei, please sit down."

Nanny Ji's words have perfectly explained why there are so many Dragon Boat Festival items in Yinyu Palace at this moment. If Concubine Wu De continues to pester her, it would be a bit unreasonable.

At the moment, I had no choice but to treat the previous accusations as passing wind and pretend that they never existed.

Concubine Wu De snorted, sat down without any hesitation, and raised her hand to order someone, "Bring up the brocade that Your Majesty gave me."

Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows.

Yun brocade.

"This is the brocade made in Jiangnan that was offered as a tribute last year. It is a pattern of flowers, birds and branches.

“I don’t like it.

"I heard that there were two pieces of rich and noble flower patterns in the brocade from the year before last, and that one is my favorite.

"Now I am going to exchange this one with the imperial concubine for a rich and noble flower-shaped horse. I think this is fair and reasonable.

"Please take it out, Concubine."

Concubine Wu De held her chin high.

Wang Xifeng probably understood her intention and smiled softly: "It's too late. There is no more."

"Nonsense! How could it be gone? Didn't you take advantage of your contribution as assistant manager to steal a box of Yunjin from His Majesty's private storehouse?

"I heard that you got ten horses!

“I just came to exchange a horse with you, and you are so stingy!

"Haha! Didn't your Wang family say that you are very wealthy? Didn't your mother give all her dowry to you? When you entered the palace, the storehouse alone was piled up to the roof?

"Why, you are so stingy that you won't even exchange it for a piece of brocade?"

Concubine Wu De was very arrogant.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Yes, Concubine De was born in the mansion of the Princess of Kangle County. I don't know how many fine things she has seen. It's just a piece of brocade. What's that?

"I still remember that it was clearly written in the account book the other day that for the past twenty years, Princess Kangle would receive three to five pieces of brocade as a reward every year.

"I think Concubine De grew up wearing brocade. Why are you knocking on the door of my Yinyu Palace just for such a small piece of cloth?"

Wu Defei sneered: "That's none of your business! Let's just talk about now, are you going to give it to me or not?!"

After a pause, he sneered, "Or did you secretly send all those brocades out of the palace and take them to your mother's dowry shop to exchange for money?!"

Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows: "What did you say? Do you have any evidence?"

Wu Defei choked: "I am just guessing... No, I just heard it, that's all. Where is the evidence?"

"You asked me directly without any evidence, and you are so sure about it..." Wang Xifeng smiled and asked gently, "I also heard that Concubine De asked that all the utensils in the palace be replaced with pure gold.

"I also heard that the food sent by the Imperial Food Bureau every day was called pig food by Concubine De.

"Your Majesty is a man who practices frugality. Concubine De, are you being too extravagant? Should you exercise some restraint?"

Wu Defei was so angry that her face turned red, and she jumped up immediately: "The pure gold utensils I used are all my own things, and I didn't use a single penny from the palace!

“Although the food from Shangshi Bureau is not to my liking and I don’t like it, I have never said it is pig food!

"You slander me like this!"

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "I heard it just like you. It's just hearsay, I have no evidence.

"Oh, so this is called slander!?

"I had only been to school for a few days, so I didn't know what slander was.

"You are a lady of noble birth, you know more than me, and you understand that this is slander!"