Chapter 1378 Is there any news from the cold palace?
After "dealing" with the incident in the Imperial Garden, Feng Qianyan and Qin Ruolan left one after another. Instead, Queen Xu Miaoyin stood there, not moving for a long time.
Chun'er stood quietly beside him.
But soon, the wind started to blow in the garden. The cool breeze made people shiver. Chun'er said softly, "My queen, don't stand in the wind, or you will catch a cold."
"Uh-oh."
Xu Miaoyin seemed to come back to her senses, nodded, turned around and walked out from the side door on the other side.
This road leads to the imperial study.
However, she walked in silence, her face still pensive. Chun'er looked at her carefully and said, "Does your Majesty think there's something wrong?"
“…”
Xu Miaoyin was silent for a moment, then said, "Have you figured out anything?"
"Slave? Slave is stupid."
“…”
Xu Miaoyin looked back at her again, but saw Chun'er's bright eyes blinking and he lowered his head to avoid her gaze.
Xu Miaoyin smiled and said, "Little hoof."
After cursing, the expression on her face relaxed a little. When she looked up, the imperial study was in front of her.
She walked in.
As soon as you enter the imperial study, you can feel the depressing atmosphere inside.
These days, this kind of dullness has become the norm here. Zhu Feng almost always eats and lives in the imperial study, and rarely even returns to his own bedroom. Now when I walked in, I saw him sitting behind the desk with one hand on the teacup. I don't know if he just drank tea or was about to drink tea, but his eyes were fixed on the memorials on the other side.
He was so absorbed in watching that his hands kept moving, almost dragging the teacup off the edge of the table.
At this moment, a pair of slender and soft hands protected the teacup.
Zhu Feng looked back and saw Xu Miaoyin standing beside him, holding the teacup with both hands. He could feel that her hands were slightly cold.
"Queen, when did you come?"
"I just came in, but the Emperor was so engrossed in reading the memorials that he didn't even hear my footsteps."
"Um."
Zhu Feng nodded and closed the memorial, just as Xu Miaoyin put the teacup back on the table.
The two people looked at each other.
Zhu Feng asked, "The Queen's hands are a little cold. Where does that come from?"
"Just came from the Imperial Garden."
"oh."
Zhu Feng had only asked a single question and had no intention of asking more, but Xu Miaoyin continued, "I was just passing by, but I ran into Concubine Ning and Lady Qin, and a small incident occurred. I dealt with it before coming here."
"Oh?" Zhu Feng frowned slightly: "What's going on?"
Xu Miaoyin told him everything that had happened before.
Zhu Feng was silent for a moment, then asked, "What does the Queen think?"
“…”
Xu Miaoyin hadn't expected him to react immediately, but when she saw that his face showed no sign of joy or anger, she hesitated for a moment. After thinking for a while, she said softly, "I just told Concubine Ning not to go out these days. It's been almost five months, and her belly has grown a lot."
"Yeah?"
"The Emperor has been busy with state affairs recently and hasn't visited the harem."
"Um……"
Zhu Feng didn't seem to want to talk about this topic and only asked, "Then - Madam Qin, how did you deal with it?"
Xu Miaoyin said carefully, "Although Madam Qin said she didn't mean to do it, she almost caused Concubine Ning to fall. If she had really fallen, I'm afraid we would be in trouble now. So, I will give her a small punishment and a big warning. I will ask her to return to Yanxi Palace to face the wall and not come out for the time being."
Zhu Feng listened with a complicated expression, his eyes flickering, and no one knew what he was thinking.
After a long while, he nodded gently: "That's fine."
After finishing speaking, Xu Miaoyin saw that Zhu Feng fell silent, and it seemed that he didn't intend to talk about this matter anymore. Of course, she didn't say anything, so she helped him sort out several books on the edge of the table. She found that the one on the top was "Han Shu", which seemed to have been read countless times, and the corners of the pages were slightly curled up.
Xu Miaoyin asked, "Your Majesty has been reading the Book of Han recently?"
"Well, I have nothing to do, so I flipped through it."
“…”
Xu Miaoyin knew that he certainly wouldn't just flip through the book out of boredom. For someone like Zhu Feng who had spent half his life on horseback, the part of the Book of Han that probably touched him the most was the story of Emperor Wu's campaign against the Huns.
When he was still the young Prince of Yan, he was very fond of this period of history and regarded the two generals Wei and Huo as his goals. After the two got married, Xu Miaoyin was the daughter of a general, and the two often talked about this long history.
Zhu Feng sighed and said, "This time, while reading the book, I discovered that besides the brilliant general Wei Huo, there was another person who made great contributions to Emperor Wu's victory over the Xiongnu. However, there was not a single mention of him in the book."
"Oh? Who is it?"
"Queen Wei."
"Queen Wei?"
"Indeed. During the decade or so when Emperor Wu was focused on combating the Xiongnu, his harem was peaceful, with almost nothing to distract him."
“…”
"This is all thanks to Empress Wei, who allowed Emperor Wu to concentrate on dealing with the Xiongnu."
Hearing this, Xu Miaoyin's heart skipped a beat and she turned to look at Zhu Feng.
Zhu Feng's eyes flickered as he looked at her and said, "If the Queen could keep my harem peaceful like Queen Wei did, I would never treat you like Emperor Wu treated Queen Wei."
“…”
Xu Miaoyin was silent for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty's words have left me somewhat bewildered. Keeping the harem stable is my responsibility."
"It's not easy to do your job well."
“…”
"I knew that He Yi wished he could split himself into two people to do the work, but there are so many people in the previous dynasty who ignored their responsibilities and only focused on my harem. They took my salary but came to meddle in the harem's affairs. I really don't want to keep such people any longer."
"I understand, Concubine."
These few words made Xu Miaoyin break out in a cold sweat.
It was hard to tell whether Zhu Feng was reminding her or hinting at her, but at least, he had been very active on the border these days, and there was also an invisible mysterious man coveting the court in the dark, so he really couldn't be too distracted by the harem.
Zhu Feng showed a rare smile on his face and nodded at her.
Xu Miaoyin's back was covered in cold sweat, even soaking her clothes. She said softly, "Your Majesty, it's time for me to go back."
"Well, go back."
"I'll take my leave."
After saying that, Xu Miaoyin retreated to the front of the table, bowed to him, and turned to leave.
But just when she reached the door, Zhu Feng hesitated and called her.
"The Queen."
Xu Miaoyin immediately turned around and asked, "Your Majesty, do you have any other instructions?"
“…”
Zhu Feng was silent for a while, then said, "Any news from the Cold Palace?"
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