Chapter 157 - Deliberate flattery
The other palace maids and eunuchs looked at the palace maid strangely, but unfortunately, the Imperial Consort Leng was too pleased and did not take it to heart.
When Imperial Consort Leng entered the palace, he saw that all of the palace curtains had been replaced with gold, there were dancing phoenix designs on them, and the furniture was also new in a different color.
"Congratulations, Empress." The other palace maids hurriedly congratulated him.
Imperial Consort Leng looked at the items. All of these used to be used by empress dowager, especially this golden color. Other than the empress dowager, no one else in the palace dared to use it.
Was the emperor going to make himself the empress?
"Maybe the Empress gave birth to a prince, so the Empress is the empress." maid flattered on the side.
Her clothes were also inlaid with precious stones and pearls. The Emperor had specially sent people to make them, and she was the only one who had this kind of honor as a pet. Even the Consort Shu had only bestowed something else to her.
"Your majesty, whose name plate did you flip tonight?" Imperial Consort Leng asked the servant beside him.
A young eunuch hurried forward to report, "Where is the emperor's imperial study? The eunuchs said that the emperor didn't have anyone's name tag today. They're currently discussing the country's affairs with the lords."
Thinking about it, the situation had just been set in stone. The emperor probably wasn't in the mood to go to the imperial harem. Moreover, the s of the harem are all old people now. The emperor likes fresh women and probably doesn't have much interest in entering the palace.
"Alright, I got it. Watch over me and notify me immediately if there's any news. Do you understand?"
The eunuch hurriedly replied, "Yes, Empress."
"I'm also tired, you guys can leave!" The Imperial Consort Leng caressed the hair ornament on his head, lazily walking to the side of the imperial concubine's bed, leaning on the large pillow, closing his eyes to rest.
In the time it took to brew a few cups of tea, he had gone to find the Concubine Qin's Palace. His expression was somewhat unsightly as he secretly glanced at Imperial Consort Leng who was resting with her eyes closed. He was thinking about how he could make Imperial Consort Leng spare him.
In the past, the Imperial Consort Leng was ruthless to the palace maids.
maid tremblingly kneeled on the ground and said, "Reporting to the Empress, then Concubine Qin …"
"What happened to Concubine Qin?" Imperial Consort Leng opened her eyes and looked at the maid who had a panicked expression.
The maid bit his lips and whispered: "This servant has arrived at the entrance of Concubine Qin's palace, but there is a seal bestowed by the Emperor at the entrance of the palace. No matter how this servant knocks on the door, no one answers this servant."
Imperial Consort Leng's body suddenly jumped up as she said in doubt: "Seal, what seal, you knocked on the door and they actually didn't say anything, right?"
"Yes, Empress. This servant went to find out about the others. I heard that the emperor has personally written a seal forbidding anyone from coming out of Concubine Qin Palace. When maid finished speaking, he sneaked a glance at Imperial Consort Leng, only to see that his face was extremely ugly.
"That means I can't take revenge even if I wanted to, right?" Imperial Consort Leng's belly full of anger had no place to put it.
maid lowered her head in fear. Her mouth was usually calm and he was doted on by Imperial Consort Leng, but love was limited. He was a worthless servant.
"Since you didn't do anything good, you still dare to come back?" Imperial Consort Leng shouted in anger.
The maid became even more frightened and quickly kneeled on the ground, begging for forgiveness: "I was also thinking about the Empress' body, I hope she will forgive me."
"I'll spare you, so that everyone else will follow your lead?" Someone, bring her to my Internal Torture Division, don't wander around in front of me, or I'll be annoyed. " The Imperial Consort Leng waved his hands impatiently.
Two young eunuchs came up and dragged maid away.
"Esteemed Empress, have mercy! Esteemed Empress, have mercy!" The maid begged for mercy. Everyone who watched on was trembling with fear, doing things for the Imperial Consort Leng. Even though they were rich, they didn't have the life to take it.
Just as they were panicking in the palace, they heard footsteps and the lazy voice of a woman, "What's wrong? Let go of her! Look at how scared you are, Little Sister Leng, when are you going to be merciful and not scream at all and kill the palace maids and eunuchs. That is the work of barbarians, not us concubines s. "
The only Consort Shu in the palace that dared to say such words was the one who shared a position with the Imperial Consort Leng.
Consort Shu waved her hand and called for the palace maids behind him to bring the errant palace maids out.
"And here I was wondering who it was that had such a heart. So it's the Consort Shu!" Imperial Consort Leng looked up in disdain.
Consort Shu had also changed into fresh clothes. The person who had given birth to a child was actually the same as before, without any changes. She was still as beautiful as before, not like any other woman in the world.
He was wearing a thin, misty robe, and a light green dress that looked like flowers. There was a jade colored ribbon at his waist, and a cloak of the same color over his shoulders, making him appear graceful, and he was as beautiful as a flower.
There was a row of jeweled pearl hairpins on the hairpin and a round butterfly hairpin on each side of the temple. There was even a pearl on the tip of her eyebrows, which made her look more and more beautiful.
Seeing Imperial Consort Leng's disdainful expression, Consort Shu continued to act as the imperial concubine, bed, and laughed: "Even though I am not of the Bodhisattva's heart, I will not be as vicious and merciless as my younger sister. Killing people is just like child's play. Since sister doesn't like that palace maid, then give it to sister! Elder sister looks at her pained expression. I just so happen to be lacking a maid. "
Imperial Consort Leng almost choked to death on Consort Shu's words. She was a good person that came to her own palace. If this group of servants were to see this, who would be willing to work for him in the future?
"Consort Shu, how can you be so free to come to my palace and make decisions?"
He picked up a fruit from the ground and ate it before saying, "The palace is in a depression. Although Du Qingcheng is still the Queen now, she is in the cold palace and the Emperor has not summoned her back yet. It is likely that due to this relationship between her and the Empress Dowager, the Emperor cannot love her again.
"I think that you and I are two great figures in this palace and we have to consider on behalf of the emperor. I feel that after the general situation has been decided, we should choose an imperial concubine."
Just as Consort Shu finished speaking, Imperial Consort Leng felt her eyebrows twitch, "Choose a concubine?"
The Consort Shu nodded and said: "Yes, I choose my consort. I can see that the palace is in a depression, so it's not lively at all. There are a few more sisters, and Sister Leng also has things to do.
When the Imperial Consort Leng heard her words become sharper, she could not help but snort coldly: "Consort Shu, pay attention to your tone. Your backer has already left the palace.
"Isn't that the same? Sister Leng still can't do anything to me, no? In fact, I don't even want to come see you, you are the most boring person, have a vicious heart, and can't tolerate others. Being sisters with you, and also have to be wary of you at all times, it's really boring and tiring, and in fact, I don't even want to come see you, you are the most boring person, and have a vicious heart and can't tolerate others. After the Consort Shu finished speaking, she did not even look at the Imperial Consort Leng's face. She stood up from the imperial concubine bed and walked towards the outside of the palace with the palace maid by her waist.
Imperial Consort Leng was not lightly angered by Consort Shu and said hatefully, "Is this Your Majesty's decision, or you, Consort Shu."
"Guess?" Consort Shu smiled brightly. In her eyes, her hatred was making her teeth itch.
All the men in the world were heartless, but once they settled down, they started thinking about the talent show and wasted their efforts by following him around.
When Consort Shu came out of the Imperial Consort Leng Palace, she asked the maid in the palace: "Is the Concubine Qin in your own palace?"
maid was so frightened that his face turned pale, he calmed down a little and said: "The doors of the Concubine Qin Palace are tightly shut, this servant cannot enter, and there are no sounds coming from inside, this servant does not know anything else."
"I understand." He was still worried about how she would resolve this crisis. Even if she could pass through the Emperor, she would not be able to pass through the Imperial Consort Leng, thus, he had no choice but to rush to the Imperial Consort Leng's palace. He was deeply afraid that she would eat his grievances, and never thought that the Imperial Consort Leng wouldn't be able to bring the Concubine Qin out of the palace.
Her methods are getting more and more brilliant.
After all, the child in her womb was the Emperor's.
The son of the emperor was withering away, and he was afraid that on account of his child, Rao Ru might end up spoiling her, but …
"Empress, shall we return to the palace?" A personal palace maid came forward and supported Consort Shu.
Consort Shu had just produced it for less than half a month and it was not easy to tire.
"Then let's return to the palace! We don't need to worry about them. "
Concubine Qin, concubine Luo and Honorable Zhang were still living in their original palaces. Because there were very few concubine s, Ministry of Internal Affairs was easy to take care of.
There were also new palace maids and eunuchs in the palace. In the past, there were quite a few who had been released from the palace, even some of the Grand palace maids at the level of aunts had gone as well. This was especially true for the palace maids in the empress dowager's palace.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
There were more and more newcomers to the palace, and fewer and fewer people were mentioning the old incident, and very few people knew that there was a Concubine Qin, so the palace was slowly being forgotten, other than the eunuchs who would occasionally pass by, they muttered: "This palace is really strange, why isn't anyone coming out."
The palace maid at the side reminded him, "This might be the Cold Palace. Didn't you see the emperor's seal? Maybe all the people inside are dead. "
Yes, Consort Shu would never forget to have her own palace attendants deliver food and clothes to the palace. Even Luo Ziyan gave a portion of her food to the palace personnel.
After two months of purge, the late emperor had already taken control of the imperial government as before, or was even more mature and ruthless than before. The officials who disobeyed him in the imperial court were all to be killed without exception.
The eunuch in the imperial study stood there for the entire morning. He was a bit sleepy and shook his head, but he didn't dare to step over. His eyes blinked uncontrollably, and he looked as if he was about to fall down.
Someone gently supported the young eunuch. The young eunuch was stunned for a moment, but then he saw a pair of gentle eyes, it was Ling Wang.
Today, the Emperor's most beloved younger brother, Yu, was him. He would often go to the palace to play chess with the Emperor and drink tea.
"Greetings to Ling Wang." The young eunuch was terrified, afraid that the Ling Wang would punish him.
Ling Wang waved his hand, "Exempt! You can go down! I have something to talk about with royal brother. "
After receiving the amnesty, the young eunuch hurriedly retreated.