These concubines can only go to the Empress Dowager to complain. Many of them were selected by the Empress Dowager to enter the palace and have close ties with the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager has to consider them and persuade the Emperor to at least treat them equally!
The Queen Mother listened to the concubines' complaints and pleas and sent people to invite the Emperor several times.
However, the emperor declined the offer on the grounds that he was busy with government affairs.
She sent someone to deliver the tonic to the Qinzheng Palace, and the emperor ordered it to be returned intact.
At this moment, the Queen Mother looked at the high-ranking concubines crying in the hall and the black medicine that had already gone cold, and she felt something was not good.
In the past, the Empress Dowager felt that Emperor Xiao Ping was like the water in the cup. She could see through him at a glance, and he was obedient and never refused to do anything she asked him to do.
Now, I feel that Emperor Xiao Ping is hard to understand and not as obedient as before.
After these concubines finished complaining, they saw that the Queen Mother seemed to have no solution, so they lost interest and bowed and took their leave, leaving only Concubine Li alone.
Concubine Li came from the Empress Dowager's mother's family and was a cousin of the Empress.
But the relationship between the two is not close.
The Queen Mother held a cup of fragrant tea, glanced at Concubine Li who was sitting upright below her, waved her hand, dismissed the palace maids, and said:
"Everyone's gone, just say whatever you want to say."
Concubine Li was a beautiful woman, dressed in luxurious attire. She leaned slightly toward the Empress Dowager and whispered, "Empress Dowager, have you noticed that the Emperor has changed?"
"Hmm" the Queen Mother lowered her eyes.
Concubine Li came closer and said, "I think it's all that Concubine Zhen's fault. The emperor was not like this before she entered the palace."
The Queen Mother raised her eyelids slightly, "What do you want to do?"
Concubine Li's bright eyes flashed, "This is what I think——"
The hall is filled with the scent of sandalwood, concealing conspiracy and plotting.
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