The charcoal in the palace was divided into different grades, among which red charcoal was the most precious and in limited quantity.
Therefore, the only two people in the palace who could use red charcoal were the emperor and the empress dowager.
The imperial concubine would only receive a small reward occasionally, otherwise she would only be given 75 kilograms of high-quality charcoal every day.
If it’s not enough, you can only buy it with your own money.
The other concubines of lower ranks could only receive about 20 to 30 kilograms of medium-quality charcoal per month.
The minimum allowed is only ten kilograms per day.
In such cold weather, at least a hundred kilograms of charcoal would be burned in a day, which shows how much the cost of the charcoal fire is.
This red charcoal is durable and smokeless, and is the best charcoal in the palace.
Everything was arranged. Wang Yun asked someone to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to bring up a sedan chair before striding towards the palace gate.
He was afraid that if he arrived too late and made the future empress wait for a long time, and if the empress froze to death, the emperor would chop off his head.
While running all the way, Wang Yun even fell because the road was slippery, and his butt hit the ground hard.
"Who? Who's in charge of clearing the snow in this area? Why don't you ask someone to clean it up? If you fall on the Queen, watch out for your heads."
The palace maid who was sweeping the snow nearby was frightened to death when she saw the eunuch falling.
Fortunately, she didn't hear that she was going to be punished, so she walked over and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.
The prince rubbed his sore butt and glared at the palace maid. He didn't have time to argue with her.
"Scan carefully."
"yes."
The maid was slow to react and realized what she had heard. She was confused. When did the Empress appear in the palace?
It was freezing cold and many roads were covered with snow. Your shoes and socks would get wet as soon as you stepped on them.
Xu Jinyi was already wearing thin clothes, and the tip of her nose turned red and her hands and feet were stiff from the cold.
Panting but not daring to stop.
The palace gate that was so close to me seemed out of reach. It was right in front of me, but it took me half an hour to walk there.
Eunuch Wang Yun was shivering in the cold wind at the palace gate. He waited for a long time, but he couldn't stand it anymore and hid behind the wall at the palace gate.
The guards watched the two people walking towards the palace gate, and without waiting for them to get close, they walked forward and pretended to drive them away.
Of course, he also saw that his father-in-law was waiting for someone, but he saw that Xu Jinyi and the other two were walking in the wind and snow.
This person didn't look like the kind of person the father-in-law was waiting for, so he wanted to send her away without waiting for Xu Jinyi to say anything.
"Go, go, go, you're not allowed to approach the palace gate!"
"Sir, please be kind and let our young lady see the emperor?" Su Mian said with a pleading look on his face.
Along the way, Xu Jinyi only told her that he was going to the palace to find the emperor. She thought Xu Jinyi was going to sue and knew nothing else.
"The Emperor is the supreme ruler. How can he see you whenever he wants? Let's go now."
"If you want to file a complaint with the Emperor, I advise you to go back. You'll probably die on the nail board before you even see the Emperor."
Su Mian's face was pale with fear, because he knew that before he could file a complaint to the emperor, he would have to roll over the nail board with his flesh and blood.
Just when she was about to persuade her young lady to give up, Xu Jinyi slowly took out the dragon-shaped jade pendant given by the emperor.
"Sir, please take this jade pendant and present it to the Emperor. He will know the answer once he sees it."
The pleasant voice made the guard look at Xu Jinyi's face. Although she was wearing a veil, her exposed eyes were extremely beautiful.
He glanced disapprovingly at the jade pendant in her hand, and his eyes suddenly widened.
"Miss, please come in quickly. I'm sorry for my poor eyesight."
"Quick, call Eunuch Wang Yun, the girl is here." The guard was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out. This was the emperor's jade pendant.
Whenever they left the palace, they would see the emperor wearing it around his waist, but now it appeared in the hands of a girl.
Thinking of his own neglect just now, he wanted to chase the person away.
The guard shook himself and walked with Xu Jinyi while begging for mercy.
"Miss, I'm so sorry. I didn't know you were the emperor's guest. I'm sorry for offending you just now. Please spare my life."
"Don't tell the emperor, I'm so grateful."
After experiencing life and death, in front of Xu Jinyi, all lives were equal and he didn't take what just happened to heart at all.
She also knew that she didn't look like someone who could enter the palace.
"It's your duty, I don't blame you."
"Thank you, young lady." The guard breathed a sigh of relief and felt like he had escaped from the gates of hell.
Although I don't know who the girl in front of me is, but the fact that the emperor attaches so much importance to her and sends eunuch Wang Yun to pick her up and gives her a personal jade pendant means she must be someone the emperor values.
If the emperor knew that he had just stared at the girl and had a bad attitude, he would definitely lose his life.
Eunuch Wang Yun came out running, glanced at Xu Jinyi, and then looked at the guards.
Because the emperor only asked him to pick someone up, and he was not sure who it was?
If he picks up the wrong phone and the original owner doesn’t get it, then he’s done for.
"Eunuch Wang Yun, this girl brought the emperor's jade pendant." The guard reminded.
Xu Jinyi spread the jade pendant in the palm of his hand.
Eunuch Wang Yun's face immediately turned into a smile: "Young lady, please come, the emperor has been waiting for a long time."
Su Mian was completely confused by the guard's sudden change in attitude and the eunuch's obviously flattering attitude.
What they mean is that the emperor knows her daughter, and this jade pendant also belongs to the emperor?
However, knowing that the palace was very strict with rules, Su Mian didn't say a word even though he felt it was strange.
Instead, he followed Xu Jinyi and did not dare to look around as he entered the palace for the first time.
When Xu Jinyi looked at the snow on the top of the sedan chair, she knew that the emperor must have had someone waiting there for a long time.
The sedan was very luxurious. After Xu Jinyi sat in it, she found that it was very warm inside, which was quite different from the temperature outside.
Glancing at the sleeve warmer beside him, Xu Jinyi held it in his hands, and his frozen hands finally felt a little warmer.
There were snacks on the small table, which showed how thoughtful the person who arranged to pick her up was.
This calmed Xu Jinyi's panicked heart a little.
It is said that once you enter the palace, it is like entering a deep sea. The emperor has so many women, and she was a little panicked.
She was afraid that the emperor only liked her a little bit and that she would not be able to help her brother if she entered the palace.
Su Mian was a maid and had no sedan chair to ride in, but she was happy for her young lady.
Ouyang Zhixia was caught by people from the Prime Minister's Mansion not long after he ran away.
Realizing that they had caught the wrong person, the servant thought to himself that something was wrong and hurriedly went after Xu Jinyi.
However, they could never have imagined that Xu Jinyi would run to the palace.
So even if the Prime Minister's Office sent more people, they couldn't find the person.
Upon learning that the person had escaped, Prime Minister Xu was so angry that his face turned blue, and he slapped Wu in anger.
"It was all your good idea. It would have been fine if it had been done, but now everyone has run away."
"I've been raising it for so many years, and it was just around the corner when I could use it, but now something went wrong."
"If you can't even keep an eye on one person, how on earth are you supposed to manage this family?"
Wu covered her face in shock. She didn't expect that the prime minister would dare to hit her.
Over the years, no matter what happened, he never hit her.
After all, she has the Wu family and the imperial concubine behind her.
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