This morning, Wu Jie finished her grooming and went to Phoenix Rite Palace to say hello.

Since the Pear Blossom Banquet, Empress Gao has suffered a lot and hasn't shown her face for many days.

Wu Jie and other concubines came to pay their respects, but to drink a cup of tea to express their concern for the empress's phoenix body. Then the female officials in charge, such as Mother Qiu or Bai Lu, came out to convey the empress's intentions and ask them to leave.

Then everyone can leave.

But today's atmosphere is a bit different.

After all the concubines gathered and took their seats, Mother Qiu was not in a hurry to let everyone leave, but announced something solemnly.

Disposal of Lu Guipin

At first, everyone thought that if Lu Guifei committed such a big mistake, even if she didn't accrue her family, she would have to be executed according to the palace rules. Who knew that Empress Gao's punishment was to demote her to the lowest rank of seventh-rank beauty. Into the limbo.

Empress Gao is upright and tough. From the maids around her to the concubines in the palace, she has always been rewarded heavily for meritorious service and severely punished. It is rare for her to be lenient.

Lin Zhaoyuan couldn't help but asked, "Mother Qiu, this concubine Lu Gui, no, beauty Lu made such a big mistake, how can she forgive her easily, I heard that it is still difficult for the empress to get out of bed, coughing and wheezing."

Mother Qiu smiled and said, "Ms. Zhaoyuan has a heart. It's just the empress's wish, which is beyond my imagination. The fact that Lu Meiren escaped from death may be due to her impartiality in enforcing the law. It's just a knife to use."

Lin Zhaoyuan was taken aback by this ulterior motive, looked at Mother Qiu in panic, and dared not speak any more.

The hall fell into silence.

Wu Jie lowered her eyes and made a dull and dazed look.

The silence didn't last long. Concubine Hongshu twirled the golden pearl ring on her hand, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty is magnanimous, which is the blessing of the Sixth Palace. Your Majesty's health is getting better, and we can rest assured."

After finishing speaking, she stood up, supported the female officer's hand, and Shi Shi ran out of the palace door.

Wu Jie and others also got up and left one after another.

Madam Qiu stared at their receding figures with a gloomy expression. After a while, he returned to the apse.

Inside the dormitory, Empress Gao leaned on the rug, and in just a few days, her rosy cheeks lost a lot of weight.

Mother Qiu looked at it, full of resentment.

Since the last miscarriage, the empress had hurt her body, and she had to recuperate for several months before she recovered a little bit, and then this happened again. These ghosts and monsters will not let it go until they have eaten all the bones of the empress.

A cool breeze blew in through the gap in the open window. Mother Qiu hurried to the window, "Mother, why did you let them open the window again?"

"The room is so stuffy that people don't even want to eat." Empress Gao said lazily, "How is it outside?"

"Lin Zhaoyuan and the others were shocked when they heard about the treatment of Lu Meiren. But Concubine Hongshu looked indifferent, as expected, she had no sense of shame."

Empress Gao smiled, "I've always thought that she was young after all, and she wanted to be strong everywhere, so she didn't bother to care about it; That old woman. Ben Gong endured it too, everything is going well with the family. But I didn’t expect, one step back, one step back, and now even my life is at stake.”

Speaking of later, with disheartened.

Mother Qiu's voice was choked with sobs, and she knelt down, "Your Majesty has suffered a lot in the past few years. When you were in the Northwest, you didn't need to live like this."

Empress Gao shook her head and said with a smile, "It's not a grievance, it's just that some people are shameless and have to be spanked twice to feel comfortable."

Nanny Qiu nodded, her eyes turned cold, "Since the empress has also figured it out, this old slave will definitely beat them up this time, knowing that the members of our Lingbei Gao family are not easy to mess with."

Empress Gao smiled with a hint of coolness, "Let's just watch."

Returned to Bixiao Palace. When Chi Rui heard the news, she couldn't help showing her indignation.

"Such vicious calculations turned out to be just"

"This matter is for the empress to deal with. I don't want to talk too much." Wu Jie immediately interrupted her, "Besides, even the empress doesn't mind, so I'll make people laugh."

Chi Rui immediately realized that the biggest victim this time was the Queen, why?

Wu Jie's expression was flat, "You just have to restrain our palace, don't talk too much during this time, just run around."

Chi Rui felt terrified in her heart, came to her senses, and hurried out to restrain the palace servants.

After the confession, Wu Jie went to the backyard to relax.

Sure enough, someone was still basking in the sun, and his whole body was full of laziness.

"What's the matter, are you worried about cutting the weeds and not getting rid of the roots?"

"Even you have heard the news." Wu Jie was surprised.

Chen Jiao sat up straight, "It's not a secret thing, if you are upset, do you want me to help you solve it?"

Wu Jie was taken aback, "Don't come here carelessly."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Concubine Lu Gui has been wronged in the first place, so it is reasonable to deal with it like this."

Chen Jiao raised her eyebrows. When the two of them talked about this last time, Wu Jie said that Lu Pingting was wronged. He only thought she was a woman with a soft heart, so he laughed at her. Now it sounds like there should be something else hidden.

Wu Jie didn't whet her appetite either.

"It's true that Lu Pingting wanted to kill me, but no matter how stupid she is, she would not dare to use the Queen's life as a tool to kill me. You can't kill a chicken with a butcher's knife."

Chen Jiao laughed, "You consider yourself a chicken, you are open-minded."

Wu Jie glared at her, and continued, "In addition to the elixir taken by Empress Gao, Phoenix Rite Palace did not publicize the taboo of the silver string begonia, and everyone only knew that the Empress did not like this flower. Lu Pingting was in the palace. How can you know the inside story if your foundation is shallow?"

"Let me speculate. It should be that a few days ago, some servants intentionally or unintentionally mentioned that the empress hated the silver string begonia because once it was taken internally, it would cause nausea and vomiting, or a rash or other reactions. It is definitely not life-threatening. That's why Lu Pingting dared to take the risk and set up this situation."

"And she was able to set up this situation, and of course the help of caring people is indispensable. Otherwise, just relying on Shan Fang's fellowship and some money and snacks, the little eunuch in the inner treasury can be negligent and become a person in the inner treasury. Are they all idiots? Naturally, someone behind the scenes helped to make it so smooth, and even the incense dew copper stove came out of the warehouse to the Pear Blossom Banquet without being checked again."

Wu Jie said a series of doubts.

Chen Jiao finally understood, "You mean, Concubine Hongshu"

Wu Jie nodded, she didn't want Empress Gao's favor, she wanted Empress Gao's life

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Concubine Lu Gui was making a fuss, with this ready-made scapegoat, it happened to be successful in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that the maid beside Empress Gao responded in time and urged her to vomit, and finally escaped.

Lu Pingting is intelligent and quick-witted, but unfortunately she was too impatient. She wanted to stir up wind and rain before she could figure out the situation within a short period of time in the palace, but she didn't know the depth of the water in the palace. How could the inner house of a fourth-rank official in the Lu family be comparable?

Empress Gao put Lu Guipin down gently this time, just to announce to some people that she has found out the truth and is waiting to take revenge on the right lord.

Now in the court of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Hong family and the Gao family are fighting against each other. The two teams of North Korea, Chinese and military almost all rely on the breath of the two giants, Prime Minister Hong and General Gao Da. The power of these two factions is reflected in the harem, which is Empress Gao and Concubine Hong Shu.

In fact, everyone in the harem knew that the daughter-in-law that the Empress Dowager favored at the beginning was her own niece, and she was brought into the palace many times. However, the first emperor was in poor health in his final years, but he was paranoid, so he appointed the eldest daughter of the Gao family for his son. Among them, it must also have the meaning of appeasing the border generals and winning over the military power in the northwest.

After Yuan Jing ascended the throne, Gao was appointed as the queen, which is very respected. If the cousin is hired into the palace again, she can only be Concubine Shu. It now appears that Concubine Hong Shu is not satisfied with this arrangement.

No matter what the turmoil in the harem is, after all, he is just a fish in the pond that has been affected. As long as you protect yourselves wisely and watch the show with peace of mind and a low profile, it will be fine.

In the following ten days, the harem was really unstable. First, a eunuch in charge of the internal treasury construction department reported to his immediate superior that he was greedy for money, stealing property from the royal treasury for his own use for many years. A small stone stirred up a thousand waves, Empress Gao ordered a thorough investigation, several eunuchs in charge of the inner treasury were involved, and sent to the Punishment Department.

The scope of the involvement became wider and wider. On the seventh day after the incident, the people from the Punishment Department took away Xia Guiren from the palace of Concubine Hongshu with the queen's warrant.

No matter how dull the people in the palace were, they began to realize that something was wrong. Under the bright sun, even the sweeping palace servants worked in silence, no longer like to gather together and whisper together as usual.

These days, more than a hundred court ladies and eunuchs have been taken away by the Department of Punishment. They did everything from the inner storeroom to sweeping the garden, and several of them worked in the Phoenix Rite Palace.

Just when Wu Jie was dazzled by watching, the drama that started with the investigation of the corruption case in the internal treasury suddenly came to an abrupt end due to an accident.

The queen mother fell ill again, and she was so weak that she couldn't drink water or rice. It needs to be served by the emperor, a filial son and grandson, before he can eat a bite or two.

Wu Jie sighed in disappointment, probably there is no more afterplay. Although the empress dowager's move is foolish, it will work after all tests.

No matter how angry Queen Gao was, she couldn't kill them all. After all, the word filial piety comes first. What's more, the Queen Mother's health may be really not very good.

The mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in this world seem to be ordinary when pinched, only suffering from the emperor and many cannon fodder caught in the middle.