"Useless! A bunch of useless people! Do I have to handle such a trivial matter?"
Yang Qi didn't dare to speak, so he silently picked up the memorial and put it aside.
These were all delivered by the ministers this morning, waiting for Emperor Long Jingchen to review them. They had delivered the same things before, and the Emperor hadn't been this angry. So what was the reason for the Emperor's outburst of rage?
Yang Qi looked at Long Jingchen without daring to say a word.
"Thump!" Long Jingchen threw down another memorial: "Does the Duke of Zhang's son need to ask me about his marriage? Am I his father?"
Yang Qi: ...
The food box that the young palace maid had just brought in to deliver the snacks fell to the ground with a "thud." Startled, she quickly knelt down and crawled forward a few steps, pleading, "Your Majesty, spare my life! This servant deserves to die."
As she spoke, she kept kowtowing, and Long Jingchen felt annoyed by her obsequious manner.
"Get out!" he shouted at the palace maid.
The young palace maid was so frightened that her legs were trembling. She looked up at Yang Qi, who waved her away, signaling her to leave immediately.
After the palace maid left, her legs went weak and she sat down on the ground. She knew she was finished. It wasn't that she was afraid Long Jingchen would blame her, but that she would probably get another beating when she got back.
She was the Empress's little palace maid. The Emperor hadn't visited her for several days, so she asked the little palace maid to make some snacks and send them to Long Jingchen so that he would remember her. Who knew that this kind of thing would happen?
When the emperor first ascended the throne, he decided to abstain from women to fulfill his filial duty in order to observe three years of mourning for the late emperor. When the mourning period was over and the concubines thought their chance had come, the imperial advisor predicted that Mars would be in conjunction with the heart of the sun. From then on, the emperor rarely even came into contact with meat, let alone women.
Although the Emperor always showed favoritism towards Sang Ruo, whether intentionally or unintentionally, he was still fair to them.
Therefore, the harem has always been relatively stable, except that the empress's relatives have become quite powerful, so the emperor will continue to take concubines to stabilize the court.
The little palace maid, thinking that she would probably get a beating from the Empress when she got back, sat down in front of the Zichen Palace and started sobbing.
Hearing the crying only made Long Jingchen more annoyed. He glanced at Yang Qi, who immediately understood his meaning and walked straight towards the entrance of Zichen Palace.
"How dare you! What are you crying about here! How unlucky!" Yang Qi scolded Xiao Xian in a low voice.
Upon hearing Yang Qi's voice, Xiao Xian immediately turned around and knelt on the ground. She didn't dare to raise her head and just kept kowtowing: "Your Majesty, spare my life! This servant has no choice but to kneel down."
Yang Qi frowned, flicked his whisk, and continued, "What do you mean you had no choice but to bring the Emperor here, all this weeping and wailing!"
Xiao Xian looked around, crawled forward a few steps on her knees, and cried to Yang Qi, "Eunuch Yang, please ask the Emperor to save me! I don't want to die! Eunuch Yang, please save me!"
As she spoke, she kept kowtowing to Yang Qi.
Yang Qi sighed: "Alright, get up and talk."
Xiao Xian didn't dare to get up after hearing this, and just knelt down and said softly, "This servant is Xiao Xian from the Empress's side. The Empress ordered this servant to deliver some snacks to the Emperor, but this servant accidentally spilled them just now. Eunuch Yang, please save this servant. This servant really didn't mean to."
Yang Qi looked at her for a long time before speaking: "It's no big deal. Get up. His Majesty is magnanimous and won't blame you for such a small matter. Go back and tell the Empress that His Majesty has accepted it."
Upon hearing Yang Qi's words, Xiao Xian immediately kowtowed repeatedly: "This servant thanks Your Majesty. In the future, Your Majesty can consult this servant if you need anything. This servant will do anything to help you. Thank you, Eunuch Yang."
Xiaoxian finally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Empress's methods of tormenting people were even more painful than killing her outright.
She never expected that Long Jingchen would help her like this, and her respect for Long Jingchen grew even stronger.
Her gaze slowly hardened...
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