Your Majesty, please do not disturb, the empress only wants to engage in business

Chapter 155: New Year's Eve Party

It’s only a few days, so Concubine Rong can certainly wait.

Looking at the account books was really a bad idea. Yao Jinse could actually guess what the imperial concubine wanted to do. She just wanted to express some sympathy and compassion for the treatment of the concubines by checking the accounts - after all, the monthly allowance of low-ranking concubines was so little, and everyone's life was not easy. But this trick was really stupid.

After all, what is the best way to subsidize others by allowing their relatives to enter the palace for an audience with the emperor?
Wouldn't it be better to just give money for this kind of thing?
So Yao Jinse probably guessed this, so she hurried over. If she hadn't met Wei Pingkai on the road, she could have found some other opportunities to explain the matter later. However, doing so would be like doing something under the Queen's nose, which would be very risky.

On the contrary, if we start with the fact that Concubine Qi is pregnant, this matter will be much easier to handle.

Basically, all concubines were required to attend the New Year's Eve banquet. Some concubines who were not favored by the emperor could only see him once a year, which was probably at the New Year's Eve banquet. This was a rule established to allow the emperor to see more people.

Unless there are really special circumstances, concubines who are not seriously ill still need to be present.

As a queen, she would arrange these matters very well. Unless she does not intend to preserve her reputation as a virtuous woman, she would not bully the unfavored concubines in such matters.

In fact, Yao Jinse was also very puzzled by this matter itself. She didn't know when the rumor that the queen would suppress the concubines began to circulate, but in fact, the queen herself had an transcendent status and did not need to compete with ordinary concubines for anything. Ordinary concubines even needed to rely on the queen for their lives, just like Concubine Qi this time.

As the person with the most actual power in the harem, many royal secrets are kept in the hands of the queen. If there is someone the queen really needs to be wary of, that person can only be the emperor.

After all, only the emperor has the power to depose the queen, and if the queen is deposed, her fate is generally not good. This is also to prevent the secrets held by the queen from being leaked. Through this method, it can also encourage the queen to regard the emperor as the absolute center.

As for Concubine Rong...to be honest, in the original novel, Concubine Rong was not able to survive to the end, let alone compete with the Queen for the throne. This in itself was an impossible thing. Even Concubine Rong herself had never thought of sitting on the throne. She was just using the Queen's favor to provoke the Queen.

If there was no emperor, in fact, Concubine Rong and the queen would have been very compatible in character. One was the daughter of a general who was born in the family of a founding hero, and the other was a repressed queen who had to pretend to be virtuous. Both of them had their personalities twisted in the harem. Yao Jinse felt that these two people should actually have a lot of common topics.

But in the current situation, it is obvious that these two people cannot be brought together, and she has no intention of uniting the Queen and the Imperial Concubine to deal with the Emperor. Not to mention whether this is possible or not, even if it is possible, these two are not people he can have any say over.

"In that case, let's do as you say. I have already arranged for someone to spread the news. There shouldn't be any problems in your family, right?"

Yao Jinse nodded. Speaking of delivering the message, it was not only Concubine Rong and the Duke's Mansion that had to worry about it. She would also need to send another letter to her family after she returned. The cause and effect of the matter still needed to be explained to her family in advance. Even if she couldn't say it too clearly, she had to make it clear roughly. There were some things happening recently so that her family wouldn't be too nervous.

Fortunately, not many people were watching Yao Jinse. It was the safest way for her to use the channel of Eunuch Xiaochi. After all, no one would keep an eye on a little eunuch in the Yexiang Bureau. These eunuchs working outside the palace were truly ants in the inner palace, whom the big shots would not even bow their heads to.

Otherwise, it would not be so easy for Yao Jinse to bestow favors and win people's hearts.

"Your Majesty is wise. With your arrangements, there will naturally be no problem. If your Majesty has nothing else to say, then I will take my leave first." Yao Jinse hurriedly left Chengqian Palace before Xie Yun'an arrived. As soon as she turned the corner, she heard the eunuchs' loud shouting from behind. However, this had nothing to do with her anymore. She only hoped that the imperial concubine could keep the secret in front of this emperor, whose mind was as tricky as a honeycomb, and not let the news leak out in advance.

Bai Shuang followed Yao Jinse quietly, and when they were in a place where there was no one around, she nodded at the look in Yao Jinse's eyes as she looked back.

"I've already started a conversation. Don't worry, my lady. The maids in the Imperial Concubine's palace are all very easy to talk to."

Is he easy to talk to? Not necessarily.

However, Yao Jinse did feel that Bai Shuang was a very interesting little girl. If used well, she would be a very good move. In the harem, there were very few people as likable as Bai Shuang.

And it's not the kind of love between men and women, but the kind of love that adults have for children. This kind of love often makes people let down their guard. The reason why Yao Jinse brought her here today was to let her talk to some young palace maids and eunuchs in Chengqian Palace.

Now Yao Jinse's status is no longer as good as before. As her status gets higher and higher, more and more attention will be paid to her, and it will not be convenient for her to do many things by herself. Cultivating these girls around her is just to leave a way out for herself.

In this way, it would be easier to pass messages to Chengqian Palace through Baishuang or let Baishuang obtain any information from Chengqian Palace.

"It's good to be able to strike up a conversation. As long as you can strike up a conversation, you won't have to worry about making further progress in the future. You did a good job on this matter. When you go back, tell your sister Bai Tao what you want to eat. We can make it in our small kitchen directly. If we can't make it, ask your sister Bai Tao to ask for it in the imperial kitchen."

"Can I have it too, my lord?"

When Bai Tao heard that there was something delicious, she immediately became excited and put her ear close to it.

"No, if you all have them, then what's the point of this reward? But I don't limit how much Bai Shuang can eat."

When Bai Tao heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"My lady is right. Bai Shuang is still growing, so she must eat more."

She was the one who went to the imperial kitchen the most on weekdays, so she naturally knew that there would be many more delicious ingredients in the imperial kitchen as the New Year approached. So she took two steps behind, pulled Bai Shuang with one hand and coaxed her.

Seeing her like this, Yao Jinse couldn't help but laugh in her heart and felt lucky.

How difficult would life be if there were no such happy people in the harem?