Zhao Chen: I seemed to hear that Concubine Lin missed me.
Zhao Chen smiled and nodded to Lin Zhiya from a distance. It seemed that it was time to promote Concubine Lin.
Before Zhao Chen could think of anything else, Nian Zhaoyi's gentle voice came. Zhao Chen frowned and looked over, and found that Nian Zhaoyi's hand holding the cup was shaking slightly.
Nian Zhaoyi: "Your Majesty, all the beauties selected today are here. Please take a look and see if you are satisfied."
Why is she shaking? Zhao Chen was thinking, and he heard Lin Zhiya's inner voice.
【Come on, let the storm come even harder! 】
Zhao Chen didn't know what Lin Zhiya was doing, so he simply ignored it. He looked around and then asked Nian Zhaoyi, "Where is the concubine?"
Nian Zhaoyi: "Xiu Nu...Xiu Nu is right here."
Zhao Chen looked carefully and saw that there was actually a person sitting where Nian Zhaoyi was pointing. The person's face was flushed with shame, his head was just above the table, and his legs were dangling shakily in the air.
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Even though Zhao Chen had been emperor for many years, he had never seen such a scene, and clouds instantly gathered in his eyes.
Nian Zhaoyi cried and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please listen to my explanation. The selection of concubines this time is too poor. We can only choose the generals from the short ones. I am not neglecting Your Majesty."
Is that really the case? Zhao Chen looked down at Nian Zhaoyi. This woman who used to be generous and decent had greatly refreshed Zhao Chen's impression of her in a short period of time. She became profit-seeking and had no bottom line.
Concubine Nian was crawling on the ground. Zhao Chen looked at her wrinkled face and actually had the illusion that he was looking at the Concubine Dowager.
What's even more outrageous is that the phrase "respect the elderly and love the young" suddenly popped up in Zhao Chen's mind.
"Really?"
Nian Zhaoyi nodded repeatedly: "It is true, Your Majesty. The other sisters can all testify to this."
Zhao Chen almost half believed that it was because the quality of the concubines was too poor, although... although the concubines selected were really too bad.
[The one sitting at the table on the left is Nian Zhaoyi’s sister, and the one on the right is her cousin. ]
Lin Zhiya’s voice came faintly.
Zhao Chen was immediately furious and shouted, "Come here, send these two back to the Nian family, and send Nian Zhaoyi back to the Nian family as well!"
Lin Zhiya clenched her fist excitedly, [Good, you did a great job, Zhao Chen.]
How dare you call me by my name! Zhao Chen looked back at Lin Zhiya unhappily. Lin Zhiya immediately suppressed the excitement on her face and said softly, "It's not that serious, Your Majesty. Concubine Nian's crime does not deserve death."
Nian Zhaoyi was so angry that she vomited blood, "Noble Lady Lin, stop talking nonsense. When is the Emperor going to execute me?"
Lin Zhiya said caringly: "It's all my fault. You can go without worry, Nian Zhaoyi. You can rest assured that I am in the palace."
Who is leaving? Nian Zhaoyi was so angry that her eyes rolled up and she felt dizzy. She would never leave the palace even if she died.
Just as the thought faded, two guards arrived and dragged Nian Zhaoyi away. Nian Zhaoyi shouted, "I did not randomly select concubines. My sisters in the palace can all testify. I do not want to go back to the Nian family, Your Majesty."
Zhao Chen looked at the other concubines with a majestic gaze, and they all avoided his gaze.
Choosing two relatives from your own family, and you still say that you didn't choose randomly? Zhao Chen sneered, looking at Lin Zhiya gently.
Fortunately, I have you, Concubine Lin, otherwise I would be deceived again.
Lin Zhiya was equally gentle and kind. Fortunately, there was your sign-in system, otherwise all the messy beauties would have entered the palace.
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Three days later, a letter was delivered to Lin Zhiya at full speed.
There was a mud mark with Lin Yiyuan's fingerprint on the letter. Lin Zhiya knew Lin Yiyuan. If he hadn't been at the end of his rope, he wouldn't be in such a mess.
As soon as Lin Zhiya opened it, she saw that it was full of complaints.
It's really strange to complain to yourself.
Lin Yiyuan said in the interview that he was jolted all night to the disaster area and his body was aching and itchy...but this was not the point. The point was that there was not enough money to resettle the victims, so all the victims ran away.
The victims arrived at Junlan County in the east, but the county did not dare to accept them. To the south, Huiyuan County also did not dare to accept them.
Lin Yiyuan said at the end of the letter that he still needed money, so please give me all the money you have.
Lin Zhiya put down the letter and fell into deep thought. It seemed that the gold mine in her hands could be mined, right?
Lin Zhiya gathered three thousand miners to rush to the destination. Soon, the news of the cash mine spread, and everyone's tone became more heated when talking about Lin Zhiya.
What a great fortune! A gold mine actually grew out of the broken ground!
Two hours later, Zhao Xiaoxiong and his brothers came to their mother's gold mine to inspect it. They saw the ten-year-old Nian Baoyue staring at the gold mine with hatred.
Zhao Xiaoxiong was alarmed, "Cousin, what are you looking at?"
Nian Baoyue came back to his senses and stammered, "I just came to see the fun and the gold mine."
Zhao Xiaoxiong lowered his head and found that Nian Baoyue's hands were covered with oil and there was a pungent smell on his body. In his other hand, he was holding a box of matches.
"You want to start a fire?" "This guy is bad, he wants to burn Kuang Gong." "Kuang Gong has no grudge against him, he doesn't want to live anymore, right?"
The princes were talking about it.
Nian Baoyue panicked and ran in the opposite direction, shouting, "I didn't mean to set the fire. It wasn't me."
"Catch him!" Zhao Xiaoxiong shouted, chased after him and kicked Nian Baoyue on the leg.
Nian Baoyue staggered and was stopped by the guards before he could run a few steps.
What followed was a beating and kicking. The princes were all eight or nine years old, but they were very tall and their strength should not be underestimated. Nian Baoyue was soon beaten to the point of screaming.
"I won't dare to do it again. I won't dare to do it again." Nian Baoyue covered her face and cried timidly.
Zhao Xiaoxiong didn't want to bully a weakling, and a hint of boredom appeared in his dark pupils: "...If we catch you again next time, your father won't be able to help you."
Nian Baoyue returned home with a bruised face and nose. She found her aunt lying in bed and lay beside her crying in pain.
Nian Zhaoyi was startled and held up her nephew's face. "What's going on? Who dared to hit you?"
Nian Baoyue: "It was the Fifth Prince. I heard that Concubine Lin caused you to be sent back home, so I wanted to burn her gold mine. I didn't expect to run into the Fifth Prince and his men. They beat me up like this."
Nian Zhaoyi was completely exhausted. When she heard that Lin Zhiya had really dug up a gold mine, she felt envious and itchy.
She didn't care whether he was her nephew or not, but she wanted to return to the palace. She had only been away for a short time, and it seemed that Lin Zhiya was becoming successful again.
As soon as Nian Baoyue left, Nian Zhaoyi found a large square jade that had been hidden in the bottom of the box, asked someone to carve it into the shape of a jade seal, and then threw it into the gold mine at night.
This square jade is made of the same material as the jade seal in Zhao Chen's hand, but Concubine Nian's piece is much smaller.
She wants to report Lin Zhiya for treason and see how Lin Zhiya explains it. This time it's finally Lin Zhiya's turn to go home!
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