Chapter 272 Waiting for the right moment

What do you mean?

The Imperial Concubine is not wearing Fuguangjin?

This is impossible, they are clearly the same.

Emperor Xuanwu also chuckled: "Fang Dianyi of the Clothing Office has indeed developed a Xiaguang Satin that is exactly the same as Fuguangjin, but more beautiful than Fuguangjin. Even in the daytime, without the light of candles, this dress can emit a dazzling brilliance. In the sun, it will refract the light like the clouds in the sky. I have seen this fabric being made with my own eyes."

He was explaining to Jiang Xinyue.

"Zhang Ronghua still lacks experience." Jiang Xinyue looked at Zhang Ronghua, who was stunned, with a half-smile: "I advise you, instead of staring at me all day long, hoping that I will make a mistake, you should read more books, so that you won't mistake the sunset for the floating light."

Is she a fool?

How could she use the banned fabric to make clothes? Wouldn't that be a blatant excuse for others to criticize her?

There were hidden laughters everywhere, and Zhang Ronghua blushed. She turned around but didn't find the person who was talking to her in her ear.

Jiang Xinyue was a smart person. She would never make a request to the emperor. Instead, she said to the emperor: "Xiaguang Satin is colorful and shining, even better than Fuguang Jin. I see that the ladies and nobles like it very much. When the emperor rewards the meritorious officials, Xiaguang Satin may be in short supply."

Who is the biggest meritorious official?

Of course, it is Fang Dianyi.

Emperor Xuanwu nodded and approved of her words: "When we return to the palace, I will issue an order to promote her to Siyi."

Siyi is already the highest female official in the Siyi Room, but Jiang Xinyue wants more than just the Siyi Room. She wants Fang Rumeng to be in charge of the entire 24 departments of the Shanggong Bureau.

But this matter cannot be rushed.

Fang Rumeng entered the palace at the same time as her, and in more than two years she has been the highest female official in the Clothing Office of the Shangfu Bureau. She has a promising future.

It's not that no one has investigated the relationship between Fang Rumeng and Jiang Xinyue, but at that time, Jiang Xinyue was already the apple of the emperor's eye.

Not to mention that Fang Rumeng is really capable, even if she is a straw bag, the emperor's beloved concubine just wants to keep his little sister in the palace to accompany him and relieve his boredom, so what's wrong with letting her be a female official?

Now that she has made the Xiaguang Satin that can compete with Fuguangjin, who dares to object to her being the Clothing Office's official?

If you are not convinced, can you dye a more beautiful cloth than Xiaguang Satin?

"Your Majesty!"

As the banquet came to an end, Pei Zhongshu and Jiang Yankun came in from outside together: "This old minister has something to report."

Old man Pei had a sullen face, followed by his smiling cheap father.

Jiang Xinyue looked at Ruan, and was relieved when she saw that she didn't look like she had any problems.

His cheap father was very happy, thinking that he had gained a lot from this battle.

Emperor Xuanwu cleared his throat: "What does Pei Zhongshu want to say?"

Everyone at the banquet looked at Pei Zhongshu. His chest was not rising and falling in a normal arc. He endured for a long time before he suppressed the anger that was about to burst out: "After thinking it over again and again, this old minister still wants to recommend Chang Hu, the head of the Ministry of Justice, and Jiao Wei, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, to become the prefect of Guiyang and the governor of Chenzhou. These two people are outstanding in the Ministry of Justice and should have been promoted to a higher position long ago. Minister Jiang, don't you think so?"

The Ministry of Justice has long been separated from the six ministries and does not listen to the orders of the Secretariat. The officials in it are all Jiang Yankun's people. In other words, they all listen to the orders of the emperor.

Pei Zhongshu asked with gritted teeth, obviously unwilling to change two of the emperor's people in such an important place.

It means that they will lose control over Chenzhou, an important place in the future.

The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Jiang Yankun with a questioning look.

So, because Ruan was molested by Pei Zhishuo, Pei Zhongshu was willing to bleed heavily in order to keep the Jiang family quiet?

Is this the fruit of victory that Jiang Yankun won after fighting with the opponent for hundreds of rounds?

Jiang Yankun nodded slightly, and the emperor agreed to Pei Zhongshu's "request".

But it was a bit unfair to Yue'er's mother.

He just promised Yue'er that he would not let Ruan suffer any grievances.

Compared with this, the affairs of the court are naturally more important.

Emperor Xuanwu held Jiang Xinyue's hand and whispered, "I heard that Zhou is already terminally ill. The Jiang family will have funeral arrangements this year. When the time comes, I will issue an edict to confer your mother the title of Imperial Lady."

Jiang Yan was married in Kunming, and his wife was still there, so he couldn't raise Ruan's status, otherwise it would cause unnecessary criticism.

Jiang Xinyue would never refuse, she lowered her head and smiled shyly.

The crescent moon was gradually covered by clouds. The banquet was over, but Concubine Ye was still nowhere to be seen. Concubine Zhang was puzzled: "It was clear that the emperor carried Concubine Ye when he left. Why did the emperor come back with the Imperial Concubine?"

Huan'er was even more confused: "The Ice Soul Illusion Butterfly has never failed before. With the medicine in the wine, the imperial physician should not be able to find out what happened."

"Meow~Meow~"

The black cat jumping between the rockery called out to Concubine Zhang twice.

Concubine Zhang took out two small dried fish from her wide sleeves and threw them over. The black cat jumped up to catch them and ate them happily.

"What can be found out?"

She chuckled: "The medicine in the wine is colorless and tasteless, and it is non-toxic when used alone. The powder that falls off the butterfly's body when it flaps its wings is also non-toxic. Even if it is found that the two kinds of powders were used at the same time, it is still non-toxic. The poisonous... From beginning to end, there is only this handkerchief used by Ye Changzai."

She held a snow-white handkerchief in her hand, and with a casual wave of her hand, the handkerchief fell into the artificial lake at hand.

The sweet scent that Ye Changzai smelled when wiping her mouth was the medicine of the wine and butterfly powder.

Only when these three things come into contact will they take effect.

But this fragrance will disappear completely within two hours.

In other words, if you check after the emperor is done, you will find nothing.

Because the wine was colorless and tasteless, the powder had already been inhaled into his nose, inducing the aroma of the medicine, and it was even more invisible.

When the black cat jumped down from the roof, the eunuch's tray was already stained with powder. Except for the eunuch, no one had touched the emperor's wine bottle.

Even if they tortured the eunuch severely, he would definitely not say there was any problem.

Not to mention Ye Changzai, a fool, who probably still doesn't understand why she became the suspect of drugging the emperor.

It's this Imperial Concubine...

She's too hard to kill!

Looking at her seductive appearance at the banquet just now, it's probably because the emperor was drugged and refused to touch Ye Changzai, but asked someone to call the Imperial Concubine to detoxify.

That means it's not time for her to show up yet, so let Cheng Jieyu and Liu Guiren, the two outliers, continue to jump around for a while, maybe a blind cat will catch a dead mouse and let them succeed once?

The emperor is not a love-mad lover, can he stay with the Imperial Concubine for his whole life?

There will always be a day when she falls out of favor.

What she has to do is wait for the opportunity.