Chapter 270: Extra 1: The Talent Show
Spring, the sixth year of Chenghe.
Inside the East Palace.
Ye Wanhe looked at the East Palace courtyard, which she had not entered for six years, and felt filled with memories. In her more than thirty years of life, she had spent a full ten years here.
The reason I stepped into the Eastern Palace today was because Zhao Yu was going to move in.
Although Ye Wanhe felt that Yu'er was not yet nine years old and it was too early for him to move into the Eastern Palace, Yu'er felt that he had grown up and could live in the Eastern Palace.
Zhao Yun also felt that Yu'er should move to the Eastern Palace, so Ye Wanhe came to visit Yu'er today to check on the affairs in the Eastern Palace.
There are so many good and bad memories here...
Now that she has brought her children to the Eastern Palace, Ye Wanhe is filled with emotion.
Ye Wanhe entered the bedroom. The furniture inside was brand new, but the nanmu pillars carved with dragon patterns were still the same as before.
"Mother, I like this house very much. I want to live in the East Palace with my brother."
Little Princess Chang'an raised her eyes and looked at Ye Wanhe.
Ye Wanhe smiled gently and said, "An An doesn't want to live with your mother in Fengyi Palace?"
Princess Chang'an raised her eyes and said, "I can live with my mother in Fengyi Palace in the first ten days of the month, and live with my brother in the East Palace in the second ten days of the month."
Ye Wanhe patted her daughter's head lovingly and said, "Okay."
When Ye Wanhe was selecting palace maids for Zhao Yu, she recalled why the Palace Lady had such a headache when Queen Wei asked her to select palace maids to go to the Eastern Palace that year.
Now Ye Wanhe has many concerns when selecting palace maids for Zhao Yu.
Although she herself rose from a palace maid to a crown princess, she could honestly say that she had never had the intention of currying favor with the rich and powerful.
Therefore, when selecting young palace maids for Yu'er this time, Ye Wanhe also eliminated the ambitious palace maids, and mostly looked for those with clean family backgrounds, both parents alive, and honest and obedient little palace maids.
Ye Wanhe instructed the palace servants in the Eastern Palace again and again to take good care of the little prince, and then she looked reluctantly at Yu'er who was still a child in front of her.
Yu'er raised her eyes to look at Ye Wanhe and said, "Mother, don't worry, I will take good care of myself."
Ye Wanhe touched Yu'er's head and said to her little daughter, "An'an, we should go back."
Princess Chang'an held her brother's hand and said, "Mother, I want to play with you for a while longer."
Ye Wanhe smiled and said, "Then the Queen Mother will go back first. You can come back after you have had fun."
The little Princess Chang'an blinked her sparkling phoenix eyes and nodded slightly.
As soon as Ye Wanhe stepped into Fengyi Palace, she heard a little palace maid begging for mercy.
"Empress, save me, save me! His Majesty wants to give me fifty lashes."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life. I will never dare to do that again."
"Empress..."
Ye Wanhe saw that the slave girl who was dragged away by the palace servants was the new tea-serving maid by her side. Ye Wanhe saw that she was well-behaved and beautiful, and thought it would be a good idea for her to be a tea-serving maid in Fengyi Palace. However, she never expected that she was punished by Zhao Yun just a few days after arriving.
Ye Wanhe hurried into the hall, but did not see Zhao Yun. She saw Zhao Yun in the bedroom. He was changing into a clean dragon robe, and the black silk dragon robe was stained with tea.
"You are now finding it increasingly difficult to control your subordinates." Zhao Yun said coldly.
Seeing Zhao Yun was angry, Ye Wanhe just went over to help Zhao Yun put on his clothes and smiled softly, "That palace maid is only just coming of age, so it's inevitable that she's a little clumsy. As the monarch of Dasheng, why bother with her?"
Zhao Yun held Ye Wanhe's hand and said in a slightly annoyed tone, "How can she just be clumsy?"
Ye Wanhe said, "Didn't she just spill tea on you when she was serving you? It was her fault. Would she still be alive after fifty lashes? You don't want to be recorded in history books as a tyrant."
Zhao Yun said coldly: "Do you really not understand or do you just not care about me?"
Ye Wanhe said: "I will discipline the palace maids in the future and will not let them do such things in such a reckless way."
Zhao Yun said, "That maid didn't just fail to hold the tea properly. She was deliberately trying to seduce me. You were so generous that you even pleaded for her."
Ye Wanhe was surprised and said, "That palace maid is only fifteen years old. If our first child was still alive, he would be almost the same age as her."
Ye Wanhe thought that the palace maid's parents were probably about the same age as her and Zhao Yun, and she never thought that the little palace maid would have such thoughts.
Maybe it was because she became the queen from a palace maid. In the first two years after Zhao Yun ascended the throne, there were many palace maids who had ulterior motives. Zhao Yun punished a few of them and drove them out of the palace. They remained quiet for several years.
Ye Wanhe raised her eyes to look at Zhao Yun. Although he was old enough to be a little girl's father, Zhao Yun, who was in his early thirties, was indeed becoming more mature and handsome. What's more, he was the emperor, and he could indeed make a fifteen-year-old palace maid throw herself into his arms voluntarily.
Zhao Yun looked at Ye Wanhe coldly and said, "You have been focusing on Yu'er these past few days. How can you still have me in your eyes?"
"How can I feel at ease if Yu'er goes to the East Palace?"
Seeing that Zhao Yun's eyes were getting colder, Ye Wanhe just walked aside and checked the accounts, wondering if there was anything missing in the East Palace.
Zhao Yun snorted lightly, flicked his sleeves and left Fengyi Palace.
No one came to Fengyi Palace until late at night.
"My lady, it's late at night, it's already midnight, you should go to bed."
Ye Wanhe put down the account in her hand and said, "It's midnight? Where's His Majesty? Why hasn't he come back yet so late?"
"Your Majesty has already rested in the Taiji Palace."
Ye Wanhe listened to the report from the palace maid and said, "Maybe the state affairs are busy."
Ye Wanhe has been busy visiting Yu'er in the East Palace these days. Zhao Yun has not come to Fengyi Palace for four or five days, so Ye Wanhe took her little daughter to sleep together.
In the afternoon, she heard the palace maid come to report that Prince Ning's wife wanted to see her, so she ordered Yun Xiangye to come in.
Yun Xiangye entered Fengyi Palace and saw Ye Wanhe who was still dressing up and said, "Sister, there are rumors outside that His Majesty hasn't entered the harem for four or five days?"
Ye Wanhe looked at Yun Xiangye and shook her head helplessly, "I know that the mouths in the palace cannot be controlled, but if Your Majesty does not enter the harem for four or five days, what good rumors can there be?"
Yun Xiangye said, "These past two days, rumors have been circulating that you are jealous and that you beat a beautiful palace maid who served tea to His Majesty with fifty strokes of the cane. His Majesty already hates you. These rumors are too outrageous."
Yun Xiangye didn't believe that Ye Wanhe would do something like beating a palace maid.
Ye Wanhe was born a palace maid. Since she became the queen, she has given the palace maids many conveniences, such as allowing them to meet with their families every month.
The rule of leaving the palace at the age of 25 was changed to leaving the palace at the age of 23.
A lot of palace maids and eunuchs were streamlined, their salaries were increased, and there was even a system of female officials for palace maids. Many palace maids would be given a position as female officials with a rank when they left the palace. In this way, after leaving the palace, they would not be bullied by their families.
There was even a matchmaking agency specifically set up for palace maids, which introduced good husbands to those palace maids who were leaving the palace.
Yun Xiangye didn't think that Ye Wanhe would treat the palace maids so harshly.
Ye Wanhe said helplessly: "The rumors outside the palace are all nonsense. It was your Majesty who beat the maid with fifty sticks. How could I be so vicious? It's just a rumor outside."
Yun Xiangye said, "I heard from Gu Yan that your majesty has not come to the harem for four or five days. Yesterday and today, ministers wrote to your majesty asking him to put the royal bloodline first and hold a grand selection. These court officials just want to persuade your majesty to select a selection whenever they get the chance."
Ye Wanhe smiled faintly and said, "Since the Empress Dowager has left the will that no one should be selected for the imperial selection, how can Your Majesty select the imperial selection for the imperial selection?"
Yun Xiangye looked at Ye Wanhe and said, "But at the morning court today, His Majesty did not rebuke the Minister of Rites who wrote a letter asking His Majesty to take a concubine. Instead, he said that he would discuss it later... Sister, although my grandmother left a will that her descendants could not take concubines, if His Majesty wants to take a concubine now, this will cannot be constrained."
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