Concubine Xian was right. The palace maid's behavior was indeed suspicious. It was not like what she said, that she suddenly had a change of heart. Instead, someone behind the scenes told her to say so.
Ning Yuxi had previously guessed that the Queen might take advantage of this birthday party to do something to regain the power to manage the harem, so she paid more attention.
Sure enough, she discovered that the queen had sent someone to bribe the maid, but her original intention was to let the maid extinguish a few charcoal fires in the greenhouse and spoil a few fruits so that she would have an excuse.
After Ning Yuxi knew about this, she revealed it to the eldest princess's people and also told her that the death of her mother Liu was caused by the queen.
The next thing was done by the eldest princess. Unexpectedly, she was so cruel that she destroyed all the fruits and ruined her own birthday party.
But think about it, the eldest princess's biological mother, Liu, had always been at odds with the queen during her lifetime, and Ning Yuxi also revealed the cause of her mother's death to her. She must hate the queen now.
Everyone wants to harm her, but she has always been quiet. But if no one harms me, I won't harm others. But if someone harms me... she is not someone to be trifled with!
Let them fight among themselves, and wait for you to both suffer losses!
Not long after returning to the palace, people from the palace brought various record books to Concubine Xin and Concubine Rong. Originally, the two of them were supposed to come in person, after all, there had to be a handover, and various precautions had to be discussed.
But it was obvious that the two of them did not intend to do so and just threw it all to her.
Ning Yuxi was too lazy to argue with them. Since she had gotten the advantage today, she naturally couldn't act like a good kid anymore. She obediently checked the booklet.
Fortunately, the emperor had asked her to assist the empress in organizing the hundred-day banquet for the twins. At that time, fearing that she might not understand, he assigned her a managing nanny, Nanny Hu. Later, she was not sent back and remained in her palace. Now Nanny Hu had a place to use her skills.
Besides, Madam Hu was appointed by the Emperor, so there is no need to worry about her being bribed by anyone.
Ning Yuxi spent the entire afternoon following Madam Hu to learn how to take care of these things. Fortunately, the Queen had been in charge before, and she was the legitimate daughter of a noble family, so she could easily manage the household affairs. She only needed to follow the Queen's old rules.
Even so, she had to fully understand the things in the harem, otherwise it would be embarrassing if the emperor asked her something and she didn't know the answer.
She was busy until dinner time, and even looked through the books agreed upon by Concubine Xin and Concubine Rong. It was better to be cautious in the palace.
When Ruyi came to urge her to have dinner, she was looking at a booklet that had been agreed upon by Concubine Xin and Concubine Rong. This booklet recorded the purchase of fabrics to be used for making spring clothes for the palace maids and eunuchs.
Each person can be allocated two sets of spring clothes, made of high-quality mulberry cotton. She couldn't help but sigh that working in the palace is good, not only with high wages and good benefits,
Clothes were distributed every quarter. Although she didn't know what kind of fabric this mulberry cotton was made of, she knew it must be of good quality just by looking at the high quality.
She was sighing when Luoying came in to call her for dinner. She then realized it was already dark. She stretched and looked at Luoying's light purple palace dress and asked, "Luoying, is your dress made of that mulberry cotton fabric?"
She was quite interested in the mulberry cotton, after all, she had never heard of it.
Luoying was a little surprised that her master asked about the fabric of her clothes, but she answered honestly: "My master, my clothes are not made of mulberry cotton. Generally, the clothes of third-class palace maids and ordinary eunuchs are made of mulberry cotton.
The clothes of second-class palace maids and some eunuchs with a bit of face are mulberry cotton with a little pattern. The senior palace maids, housekeepers, and eunuchs in each palace usually wear high-quality fine cotton or fabrics with a bit of satin.
Ning Yuxi was thoughtful when she heard this. It means that the worst thing people in the palace wear is the high-quality mulberry cotton coat. It really is the imperial palace.
At this time, a small figure ran over. Little Cheng Zhao rushed to her side, frowned, and looked at her and said, "Mom, it's time to eat. Let's eat first. If you don't eat, your stomach will hurt."
Ning Yuxi was amused by the little guy's cute expression and pinched Chengzhao's smooth and tender face: "Okay, mother will accompany Chengzhao to dinner."
When Ning Yuxi brought little Chengzhao to the dining hall, Ruyi was serving the meal with several young palace maids. She thought of the mulberry cotton she had just mentioned and couldn't help but look at the young palace maids serving the meal a few more times.
It is worthy of being called top quality. This mulberry cotton fabric looks much better than ordinary cotton fabric.
However, no matter how good it looks, it is certainly not as good as the silk and satin sought after by wealthy families, otherwise Ning Yuxi's original body would not be unaware of this kind of fabric. Although her original family was only a fifth-rank official before, they also wore silk and satin, so she did not know about this mulberry cotton.
The next day, Ning Yuxi sent the booklet containing the items to be purchased to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Naturally, she no longer needed to worry about purchasing and manufacturing these items.
It takes two days for the Imperial Household Department to purchase things. However, the day after Ning Yuxi delivered the booklet to the Imperial Household Department, an unexpected person suddenly arrived at her Shuqing Palace.
Ning Yuxi was woken up early that morning by two noisy little kids. She got up earlier than usual and was putting on her makeup when the gatekeeper, Xiao Linzi, suddenly came in to report:
"Master, there's a young eunuch outside the door asking to see the queen. He says he's from the Imperial Household Department."
What were the people from the Imperial Household Department doing here so early? The masters of the palace were usually still asleep at this hour.
Ning Yuxi thought for a moment and asked Xiao Linzi to bring him in.
After dressing neatly, Ning Yuxi came to the main hall and saw a young eunuch who was unfamiliar to her standing there with his back bent. The young eunuch was frighteningly thin. When he saw her, he hurried forward and saluted:
"I pay my respects to Her Majesty, Consort Yi. Your Majesty, I am Xiao Fangzi, a miscellaneous eunuch in the Imperial Household Department. I have the audacity to bother you today because I have something important to report to you."
Ning Yuxi looked at him calmly. Seeing him bent over, gritting his teeth and swallowing his saliva from time to time, he seemed very nervous and uneasy. She said softly, "Just tell me what you want to say."
The young eunuch pursed his lips and said, as if he had made up his mind, "My Lady, someone is trying to frame you!"
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