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Chapter 244: Revenge

Although the food, clothing and other expenses allocated to each palace master every month are fixed, there is actually a lot of water involved.

Take charcoal, for example.

With Xiao Liangdi's position, she can receive 20 kilograms of charcoal every month, which will double after winter.

But these twenty kilograms of charcoal can be divided into good and bad.

The fruit wood charcoal usually used in Qingge Palace is not the best charcoal, but it is also considered to be of medium to upper quality. A piece of charcoal can burn for a long time and does not produce much smoke.

But the miscellaneous charcoal that Baoqin got now was the lowest quality charcoal. It was not only broken, but also burned quickly and produced a lot of smoke. If you use this kind of charcoal for heating, it will make you cry.

Baoqin naturally didn't want to let her young master suffer this loss.

She wanted to replace the defective and inferior goods in her hands. Not to mention replacing them with the best ones, but at least with the same ones that Qingge Palace usually used.

But the catkins refused to change.

She raised her chin and said arrogantly, "Everything that should be given to Xiao Liangdi is here. If you think these things are not good, you don't have to use them!"

Baoqin was very angry: "You are using public power to take revenge on your own!"

Liu Xu sneered: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. We, the Concubine, follow the rules. If you dare to talk nonsense and ruin the reputation of the Concubine, don't blame us for being rude to you. According to the palace rules, a palace maid who talks nonsense about the master will be slapped in the face!"

Baoqin's face turned red with anger. She wanted to say something else but was stopped by Qingsong.

Qingsong advised in a low voice: "This is Yulian Palace, it's their territory. If there is a fight, we will definitely suffer. Let's go back first and see what the young lady says?"

Baoqin had to suppress the anger in her heart.

She asked Qingsong to move these things back.

Liu Xu deliberately spoke to others in a loud voice.

"Some people, who are obviously just little pheasants, think they are golden phoenixes, thinking that all the good things in the world belong to them. They really have no self-awareness at all! Today I want to make them recognize their own identities. A pheasant is a pheasant and can never become a phoenix!"

The people in other palaces were afraid of offending Concubine Bai and not getting any good things in the future, so they all agreed servilely, saying that Sister Liu Xu was right.

Baoqin was furious.

If Qingsong hadn't held her back, she would have rushed over and torn Liuxu's mouth!

Only after the two of them walked away did Liu Xu shut up and go back to the house with a smug look on his face.

Concubine Bai was making tea with graceful and skillful movements.

Liu Xu smiled and said, "My lady, I have distributed all the tributes for this month according to your instructions."

Concubine Bai: "Didn't the people in Qingge Palace say anything?"

"Baoqin seems to be very angry, but what can she do? After all, her master is just a concubine, one level lower than you, the queen. Even if she is angry, she can only hold it in."

Concubine Bai smiled gently.

She already knew that the Crown Prince could not marry a Crown Princess for the time being, which meant that for a long time to come, she and Concubine Li would be the two people with the highest status in the backyard of the Eastern Palace.

Even if Xiao Liangdi is favored, doesn't she still have to be inferior to her?

Liu Xu was a little worried: "What if Xiao Liang Di complains to the prince?"

Concubine Bai said calmly: "When the time comes, I will just say that I made a mistake accidentally, and say a few soft words, and the matter will be over."

This was not a big deal, and she was the daughter of the Crown Prince's tutor. It was not reasonable for the Crown Prince to bother with her about these trivial matters.

(End of this chapter)