The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 504 The Cunning Emperor (2)
Qingchen thought it was something that offended her, but it turned out to be because of this, and felt that her anger was really idle, so she smiled and said: "I didn't say anything, but you are getting angry, if you have nothing to do, go help I sewed the neckline of that silver fox brocade cloak. I accidentally tore the thread at that place yesterday, and the wind feathers fell on the bed. See if there is the same one in our small warehouse. If not, send someone to get some."

Jin Xin hurriedly responded, "The wind fur on the neckline of the empress is white fox fur. I'm afraid we don't have any in the small warehouse. The servant girl will ask Qinxue to go to the House of Internal Affairs to bring some back. It's cold, so don't you just wear it when you go out?" .”

Jinxin ordered Qinxue to go to the House of Internal Affairs to pick up things. Qinxue ran into Mu Jingzhi, who was worried halfway, and she stepped aside to bless Fushen. After Mu Jingzhi passed by, she continued towards the House of Household and go.

Just now Mu Jingzhi saw a figure flashing past him, and when he came back to his senses, Qinxue had gone far away, and he had to identify it carefully for a long time before he recognized that it was a girl from Qingchen Palace.

Seeing him coming, Liu An rushed in to report, and came out after a while and said, "Master Mu, please come in, the emperor has summoned your lord to go in."

Mu Jingzhi smiled gently: "It's time for you, Father-in-law."

The emperor was critiquing papers in the imperial study, Mu Jingzhi went into the Nuan Pavilion to salute, and then heard Xiao Jun say: "It has been several days since Qin Huairui escorted the belongings of Lin Xiude's Jiangnan old house back to Beijing, I think he has been working abroad all year round It is rare to be reunited with his family, so he will stay in Beijing for a few more days, which is what the queen mother wants. Let me ask you, have all the property embezzled by Lin Xiude been counted and put into the warehouse?"

Hearing the words, Mu Jingzhi seemed to be in a heavier mood, hesitated to speak, and said for a long time: "It is still in the process of counting, and it may take two or three days to register the [-] or [-] boxes of things. When the counting is over, my minister The brochure will be presented to the emperor for viewing."

Xiao Jun naturally saw that he had something on his mind, but she didn't ask any more questions. She casually responded, put down the ink pen and gave her a seat, and then asked again: "I heard that your father was lost on his way to a foreign post. A little daughter, can this happen?"

Mu Jingzhi hurriedly replied: "If you go back to the emperor, this matter is not false. When our family was staying in a shop on the road, the nanny took Weichen's little sister out to buy food. It turned out that it happened to be the Lantern Festival that night. There are so many people, and people are lost in the end, this incident has always been a pain in the heart of the whole family of Weichen, and my mother has been ill for many years because of this, which is also helpless."

Xiao Jun nodded thoughtfully, and asked inquiringly: "My concubine Rong is also surnamed Mu. Her life experience has always been a mystery, and she is alone in the harem with no one to rely on. I always feel distressed. What I mean is to think Find her a mother's house, and there happens to be such an old incident in your family. If Mrs. Mu doesn't mind, I want her to return to your family. You go back and discuss with Mrs. Mu and Mrs. Mu to see what happened. Is it appropriate?"

Mu Jingzhi listened quietly to the emperor's words at first, and then became a little stunned in disbelief. Seeing the emperor's inquiring gaze, she hurriedly stood up and knelt down and said, "The emperor has given such a great favor to the Mu family. The principle of agreement, wait for the minister to go home and clarify the matter, and then bring his parents into the palace to thank him."

Seeing that he agreed, the emperor was also quite happy, "Get up first, don't tell outsiders about this beforehand, we will talk about it after her birthday. In addition, I have something to tell you, my concubine Rong is in poor health these days. Unwell and unable to go out all the time, she likes jade carving gadgets, you can pick up some new and ingenious things from those brought back by Qin Huairui, and send them to her to relieve her boredom."

Mu Jingzhi hurriedly said respectfully: "My minister obeys the order."

Seeing that he didn't speak, the emperor asked again: "Is there anything else to play?"

Mu Jingzhi was still hesitant to speak, and finally said: "No more."

The emperor smiled knowingly, picked up the ink brush on the case, and continued to review the unfinished memorial just now, "If there is nothing else, you can go down first."

Mu Jingzhi hurriedly bowed and said: "I will leave."

After leaving the imperial study room, Mu Jingzhi still couldn't calm down. He didn't know how favored this concubine Rong was until now. Jumping, if such a favorite concubine of the emperor recognizes the Mu family as her mother's family, she will undoubtedly be a powerful helper.From then on, the Mu family's position in the court must be more stable.Just because of her, the emperor will not embarrass the Mu family in the future.

Thinking of the little maid he met just now, she seemed to be going in the direction of the House of Internal Affairs, Mu Jingzhi suddenly had an idea in his heart.Since the emperor wanted him to pick some rare items and send them to Concubine Rong's palace to cheer her up, he didn't dare to delay for a moment and went to do it right away.

When the things were delivered to Xihe Palace in the evening, Qingchen looked at those vulgar jade wares, and really couldn't figure out what Mu Jingzhi's intention for sending these things was.

The little father-in-law who delivered the things said that Mr. Mu followed the emperor's will, but how could the emperor reward him with such a rough and crude ornament?

Seeing that she was staring at the things on the table without making a sound, Jin Xin blushed a long time ago, and said angrily: "Master Mu is really arrogant, the emperor wants to reward the empress, so naturally he picks up the good ones and sends them here. What do you mean, I really look down on people! The gifts are not from his family, so why are you so stingy?"

Qingchen raised her eyes and glanced at her, and asked back calmly, "You also said, since it is not his family's property, he is happy to use the state treasury's property as a favor, why should he offend me for no reason? Besides, he is Acting according to the order, isn't it afraid that this palace will sue the emperor to punish him? Mu Jingzhi is a young and mature man, and he is shrewd and experienced in dealing with people. I always feel that he must have his purpose for doing this, but I just can't figure it out for a while. "

Yun Lan also frowned and pondered for a while, before she thought about it and said: "Your Majesty must not be dissatisfied with this matter, otherwise others will think that Your Majesty is proud of her favor, and even dare to dislike the things that the emperor rewarded, how about Just put these things in the house and wait until the emperor comes to see them."

Qingchen nodded with a smile, Yun Lan thought of it with her, "I also mean the same thing, no matter what Mu Jingzhi means, I don't want to get mixed up so as not to be used by others, so I will share these things with the empress. Let's put the bonsai of plum blossoms that the empress gave you together, it will make the difference between good and bad."

Jinxiu came in with the medicine from outside, put down the bowl and said with a smile: "It's very windy outside, it's getting colder and colder today, the emperor wants your empress to celebrate her birthday together, fortunately, your empress is almost fine, I heard The emperor ordered the sewing room to rush to make new clothes for the empress, and it should be delivered in the next two days or so."

(End of this chapter)