Chapter 157 Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger

However, when she was still Concubine Li Gui, she had been dominating the palace for more than ten years, and none of the concubines came to plead for her.

In the past, she had great power under her, including Jin Zhaoyi, Zhang Wanrong, Chu Jieyu, Jiang Zhaoyi...

Now, because of their opposition to Concubine Zhen, these people have either lost their favor and gone to Xinzheku, or have been demoted and no longer have the Holy Favor. The rest have scattered and have not come out to make trouble for a long time.

When Jiang Zhaoyi was sent to the cold palace, Concubine Li Gui did not say a word to help her, which was the real reason that made them feel disappointed.

You know, Jiang Zhaoyi offended Concubine Zhen for Concubine Li Gui.

As they recalled this, they were shocked to find that Concubine Zhen was not a naive person at all. If she was, how could she have let so many concubines end up in such a miserable way?

She...she pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger!

Didn't she eat the big tiger, Concubine Li, cleanly?

It's not just Concubine Li.

Wasn't it because Jiang Xinyue's father found evidence of Song's crime and sent him to the prison of the Dali Temple that Jiang Xinyue's father was promoted to the Minister of Justice so quickly?

The Song family fell, and the biggest beneficiary was the Jiang family, but later, for some reason, the Song family's attack and revenge fell on the Minister of Personnel, Lord Jiang.

I heard that Minister Jiang had been reported several times by the censors of the Yu Shitai recently. After checking, the emperor found that Minister Jiang had indeed done those stupid things, and he was so angry that he cursed in the court.

Lord Jiang is now most afraid of two things every day, one is to go to court, and the other is to see the old man who helps Yu Shitai.

How come the Jiang family is fine?

The concubines in the palace thought it was amazing, but Jiang Xinyue knew that if she had not written a letter home and let her stepfather temporarily avoid the brunt of the attack and put all the credit on Minister Jiang, the Jiang family might have ended up worse than Minister Jiang.

Thanks to Minister Jiang's greed, after Prime Minister Song fell, Jiang Yankun listened to his daughter and took ten consecutive days of sick leave, taking Ruan and several children to the farm to hide from the "overwhelming wealth".

The Song family couldn't find Jiang Yankun, so they could only vent their anger on Minister Jiang.

But Minister Jiang still felt that he had made great contributions, and Jiang Yankun just relied on his daughter who was favored in the palace to follow him to pick up a leak.

The emperor wanted to find a reason for the father of the favored concubine to be promoted, so Jiang Yankun was added this time.

It was entirely his own credit that brought down the Song family.

He was in such a hurry to be a target, Jiang Yankun couldn't bear to be shot like a hornet's nest, so he simply disappeared. In the past ten days, Minister Jiang jumped up and down, and stole the limelight in the court.

Jiang Xinyue could only say that Minister Jiang still didn't understand the emperor well enough. This master was a spear... not... but he would be thrown away after use.

So time passed slowly, and when Jiang Yankun came back, a series of conspiracies against the Jiang family had already begun.

Didn't Jiang Yankun rely on Concubine Zhen for his promotion? What does it have to do with the Song family?

It was this low-key approach that allowed Jiang Yankun to sit on the chair of the Minister of Justice steadily, and no one found fault with him.

Because he was the father of the favorite concubine, he got to the top through nepotism, so he had to be praised.

This is a long-standing tradition in the officialdom.

Jiang Xinyue watched Pei being forcibly dragged away, without any emotion on her face. Even though Pei Zhongshu looked at her with a vicious look for a long time, she just reminded him: "Old Zhongshu Ling, I know that I am very beautiful, but don't stare your eyes out. If you look at me again, I will not be your granddaughter."

Jealousy?

Envy is useless.

It is not your granddaughter who is so beautiful and still needs to be pampered.

Inexplicably, Pei Zhongshu understood the message she wanted to convey from Jiang Xinyue's eyes.

He is really old and can't lift a knife anymore, and a little concubine dares to provoke him like this.

Jiang Xinyue said that she even dared to scold the emperor now, so how could she be afraid of this old thing Pei Zhongshu?

Pei was executed by the emperor, and her body could not be buried in the Pei family's ancestral tomb. The Song family would not want a body that had already been divorced.

Pei Zhongshu could only watch his daughter, whom he had doted on since childhood, being strangled to death. He brought her body home, but was stopped by the clansmen from burying her in the ancestral tomb, so he could only find another Feng Shui treasure land.

As for how Pei's three brothers and old lady Pei were heartbroken and cursed Jiang Xinyue to die a bad death, that was a story for later.

I believe they would not dare to express any dissatisfaction in front of her.

It was the emperor who gave the order, not her. She only said that Pei should pay with her life, and it was not her who did it.

The emperor could have given her a few beatings and let her go, just as Pei Zhongshu had expected at the beginning.

But the emperor did not do that. He followed Jiang Xinyue's wishes.

The power of life and death has always been in the hands of the emperor. If the Pei family wants to hate someone, they should hate the emperor, not the beautiful, kind, versatile and acting Concubine Zhen.

The emperor and the empress had to attend some ancestral sacrifices in the afternoon. Jiang Xinyue was pregnant, so it was inconvenient for her to attend these occasions, so she had to go back to Xi Palace.

On the way, she met Concubine Liang and Concubine De who were waiting halfway.

What do these two want to do?

When Concubine Liang saw her coming, she showed a big smile: "Sister Concubine Zhen, I finally waited for you. Concubine De just got a good evergreen. Do you want to go with us to see it?"

She was pregnant. She was crazy to go to Concubine De's palace, right?

And she was with Concubine Liang, the crazy woman who was sometimes good and sometimes bad, and Concubine De who was very secretive.

She resisted the urge to roll her eyes: "I am not interested in those flowers and plants. Sister Liangfei, you should go and see them with sister Defei! Don't let a vulgar person like me disturb your elegance."

She didn't even look at the two of them, and walked past them calmly.

"Humph!"

Liangfei's expression changed faster than turning a page, and she shook her handkerchief and said: "Why is she so proud? Can the emperor favor her for a while and do it forever? I heard that the one from the Pei family is about to enter the palace."

"Pei family?"

Defei frowned: "Pei Wu?"

"Who else besides her?"

Liangfei twisted her handkerchief, looking extremely hateful: "When she was still a child, she followed Mrs. Pei into the palace. She was sharp-tongued, just like Zhenpin now. She was so young, but so sharp-tongued. I have suffered from her."

Concubine De smiled and said, "Isn't it just right for her to come to the palace? Let her and Concubine Zhen fight each other, and we will enjoy watching the excitement."

Concubine Liang couldn't laugh: "Concubine Zhen has already made the palace a mess, and now there is Pei Wu, will it be our turn to be the emperor in the future?"

Speaking of which, they are only 25 years old, and for ordinary women, this age is the best time.

But the women in their palace are different.

25 years old is already the age of daylilies, and they can't compare to those young girls of 15, 16, or 17 years old.

Pei Wu is only 15 years old, so tender that you can squeeze it to make it water.