Empress, she doesn't want to fight

Chapter 48 The Man Behind
Jiang Man smiled and shook her head, "What do you compare with her?"

Speaking of which, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will be around the corner. Every year, there will be a large number of promotions in the palace during the Lantern Festival. I think it should be the same this year, but she just got promoted to the beauty position a while ago, so this year's promotion should not be for her.

During Chinese New Year in previous years, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there will always be concubines in the palace holding banquets. This year, I don’t know if it’s because of the disaster in Yuning Mansion or something happened in the palace on New Year’s Eve. There is no one in the palace holding banquets .

Especially after the matter of Su Jieyu and Bai Cairen, everyone in the harem was even quieter.

Everyone's eyes are basically focused on Liao Qiu's re-investigation, wanting to know how it is going, whether someone in the palace will fall down, and even pay less attention to the whereabouts of Emperor Yong'an.

Liao Qiu's progress is quite gratifying. He spent a lot of effort and finally found some clues. The chief eunuch Li Delu of the imperial dining room had a younger brother outside the palace. This younger brother gave birth to three sons, and among them A son was adopted under Li Delu's name.

A few days before the accident, Li Delu's son Li Youfu sent several letters to the eunuch. The specific content of the letter is unknown, but Liao Qiu felt that it was probably related to this incident.

He sent people to Li Youfu's house and Li Delu's younger brother's house, but they went, and the two families were gone.

Although the person disappeared, it undoubtedly proved that his guess was correct. As long as the investigation continued in this direction, sooner or later he would be able to find the person behind the scenes.

It's just that things didn't go as smoothly as Liao Qiu thought. He sent someone to find Li Youfu and Li Delu's younger brother's family. After spending a lot of energy, they only found the bodies of Li Delu's younger brother's family. As for Li Youfu, he didn't know if he was dead. In other places, or escaped.

After Liao Qiu and Emperor Yong'an reported the results, Emperor Yong'an only said three words: "Continue to investigate." He wanted to see who was so capable.

Liao Qiu could only continue to have people look for Li Youfu, to see people and dead bodies, and on the other hand, start from other places.

Li Youfu and the others disappeared, but Li Youfu and his neighbors were still there. Liao Qiu came to ask from door to door, and Li Youfu's family was in contact with those people on weekdays. During those few days, there were strangers haunting Li Youfu's house.

After asking around, someone provided some clues, saying that a man with a big beard came to Li Youfu's house in the past few days. Like nice people they've never met before.

Liao Qiu asked someone to draw a portrait of this man, and went to find him. This time they found him, but they couldn't pry his mouth open. Liao Qiu had no choice but to check the man's past, and finally found out This man named Zhao Dahu used to be the nursing home of Ji's family for a while.

When Liao Qiu reported this result to Emperor Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an was silent for a while, and then said: "Continue to investigate, find a way to pry Zhao Dahu's mouth open, and listen to what he has to say."

After Liao Qiu came out from the imperial study, he grabbed Zhao Quanfu and said, "Eunuch Zhao, what do you mean by the emperor? Do you not believe that Ji Zhaorong did this, or do you want to protect Ji Zhaorong?"

Zhao Quanfu couldn't guess what Emperor Yong'an was thinking, but he was sure of one thing, no matter whether Ji Zhaorong did it or not, since the emperor asked Liao Qiu to continue the investigation, it meant that the emperor didn't want Ji Zhaorong to die for the time being.

Zhao Quanfu said to Liao Qiu: "Why do you ask so many questions, the emperor asked you to investigate and continue to investigate, isn't that enough?"

Liao Qiu nodded, "Yes."

The concubines in the harem waited for several days until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. There was still no conclusion on what happened on New Year’s Eve. Everyone knew that this might be the case this time. When you get the evidence, go to the emperor to make the decision.

Song Yuyi was lying on the bed and was staring at the top of the bed in a daze, when she heard Chaoyun say: "Your Majesty, the emperor is here."

Song Yuyi heard it, but she didn't want to move.

Emperor Yong'an came in and saw Song Yuyi lying on the bed with blank eyes.

Chao Yun was afraid that Emperor Yong'an would blame Song Chuyi, so he hurriedly explained to Song Chuyi, "Your Majesty, our empress has often been immersed in her own thoughts these days, and has no reaction to many things outside."

Emperor Yong'an waved his hand to let Chaoyun go down, then sat down beside Song Yuyi's bed, and said, "I will give you an account of what happened on New Year's Eve sooner or later, and you should also pay attention to your body."

After Emperor Yong'an finished speaking for a while, Song Yiyi said quietly: "I know that I am a concubine, and I will not be able to become a concubine. If you pay attention or not, that's it."

Song Yuyi is a sensible person, even Emperor Yong'an couldn't say anything to lie to her.

Seeing that Emperor Yong'an was silent, Song Yuyi smiled wryly and said, "I don't care about life and death, but the poor fifth princess will lose her mother and concubine because she doesn't understand anything. She has such a body, and it is unknown whether she can live. Something about the emperor?"

"Tell me." Emperor Yong'an said.

"I have a cousin in my family, who is gentle in sex and beautiful in appearance. I want her to enter the palace to accompany me for a while."

Emperor Yong'an looked at Song Yiyi with a complex expression for a while, then nodded, "Since Aifei likes it, let her enter the palace to accompany Aifei for a while."

Song Yuyi said: "The concubine will let people enter the palace tomorrow?"

"Follow my concubine's will."

After seeing Song Yuyi, Emperor Yong'an went to see the fifth princess again. It has been half a month, and the fifth princess still looks like a wrinkled kitten. Emperor Yong'an only took a look at it, and told the nurse and palace servants who took care of the fifth princess. He said: "Take care of me well, and if there is something to do, let someone go to Ninggong to report to me." Then he left.

The fact that Emperor Yong'an went to Minse Palace did not attract the attention of the people in the harem, and everyone was waiting for the decree of the Jin Dynasty that came every year.

In the evening, the decree of Jin Feng was sent to the various palaces. This year, the number of concubines conferred by Jin was extremely small. There were only a few of them. One was Jiang Cairen, who was promoted to Jiang Meiren, one was Yu Jieyu, who was promoted to Yu Chongrong, and the other was Hu Meiren. , Hu Jieyu was promoted, and Jiang Man herself was also promoted to Jieyu.

Jiang Man thought before that it was impossible for her to be promoted this year, but who would have thought that she would be one of the only four promoted this year.

But after being surprised, Jiang Man was relieved, thinking that her promotion this time was a reward from Emperor Yong'an for her sister's last donation of silver.

The other people in the harem did not expect that there would be Jiang Man in the promotion list this time. How long has it been since Jiang Man was promoted last time, not even a month. Isn't this promotion speed too fast?No one in the palace has ever achieved such a speed of promotion.

Just thinking about the time when Jiang Man entered the palace and the money donated by Jiang Man's sister last time, it is not unacceptable for everyone to be jealous. It is not unacceptable to go from Baolin to Jieyu in five years and still give birth to a prince. nothing.

(End of this chapter)