Yuan Yao entered the palace at dusk.
The carriage came to a stop, and the palanquin was ready. Carrying Yuan Yao, they quickly headed towards Consort Lin's residence.
Beichen Palace.
Palace servants carried food trays and moved about inside and outside.
Just as Consort Lin and the Emperor were about to have their evening meal, a young eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, Consort Lin, Princess Yuan Yao requests an audience."
"Yuan Yao?" The emperor picked up his chopsticks, then put them down again.
He glanced at the dishes on the table and said to Li Deshan, "Go and bring Yuan Yao in."
Yuan Yao stepped through the door and, upon seeing the emperor, paused in surprise.
The emperor is here too.
The emperor noticed Yuan Yao's expression and his face darkened: "What? Are you unhappy to see me here?"
Yuan Yao snapped out of her daze and obediently bowed: "Yao'er greets Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine."
"Rise," Consort Lin said calmly. "Someone, bring a seat for the princess."
Yuan Yao was placed next to Consort Lin.
The document hidden in my sleeve felt slightly hot to the touch.
At this moment, Consort Lin asked, "Does the Princess have any favorite dishes?"
Before Yuan Yao could answer, the emperor said in a deep voice, "Yuan Yao doesn't eat outside food, so there's no need to worry about her."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yao replied, "Your Majesty, I had already eaten dinner outside the palace before returning."
Although she left in a hurry, she still managed to grab a quick bite at Zuixinlou.
I ate it secretly...
Seeing this, Consort Lin said, "Someone, pour the princess a cup of tea."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Yuan Yao said obediently.
Consort Lin had a striking and spirited appearance, and her gaze was not particularly gentle when she looked people over.
She glanced at Yuan Yao, ignored the emperor, picked up her chopsticks, and began to eat.
The emperor's chopsticks reached straight for a plate of roasted lamb leg that was crispy and juicy.
Consort Lin raised her eyes and looked over without any expression.
The emperor paused with his chopsticks, then reached for the greens next to the roasted lamb leg.
The meal was finished quietly.
Yuan Yao discovered something interesting.
Consort Lin doesn't seem to like the Emperor very much...
The emperor tried to pick up some meat several times, but Consort Lin stopped him with a cold look each time.
That's fun, absolutely fun!
Aside from the Nine Thousand Years Old, this was the first time Yuan Yao had ever seen the emperor so obedient in front of others…
After dinner, the table was cleared, and Consort Lin asked, "Princess, if you have something to say, please speak plainly. I am a little sleepy."
Feeling sleepy after eating?
Who would believe that?
They clearly wanted to drive her and the emperor away.
Yuan Yao hesitated for almost half an hour before finally making up her mind.
She spoke softly, "Your Majesty, Yao'er... has something she wishes to ask of you..."
Beg her?
Consort Lin said indifferently, "I don't concern myself with affairs. If you have something to ask, why don't you go and ask the Empress or the Emperor?"
Yuan Yao thought to herself: If I ask someone else to do this, won't you hate me to death?
She took out a document from her sleeve and obediently handed it to Consort Lin in front of the emperor: "Your Highness, this is why Yao'er came to see you."
Someone told me that the only person I could contact about this was you.
Is she the only option?
Consort Lin reached out and took the document.
Upon seeing this, her spirited eyebrows and eyes immediately furrowed together.
"Smack!"
Consort Lin slammed her hand on the tea table.
The tea table legs wobbled, and tea splashed everywhere.
The emperor's eyelids twitched twice: "What's wrong?"
Consort Lin did not answer, but instead held the document and asked Yuan Yao in a cold voice, "Was this document written by you at the behest of Cao Cao's camp?"
“Hmm…” Yuan Yao nodded, her voice soft and obedient: “Your Majesty, as you know, my father just took a lot of silver to provide disaster relief…”
Qianhua Palace is currently impoverished...
Yao'er felt that 500,000 was no small sum, and wanted to ask the Empress to intercede and see if Lord Cao could charge Yao'er a little less...
Is this about charging less money?
This is clearly a scam to swindle money from others!
"Smack!"
Consort Lin slapped the tea table hard again.
"Click..."
The tea table has a crack.
Yuan Yao: "?"
This Consort Lin, how could she be so strong?
No wonder he was born into a family of generals!
The emperor's eyelids twitched twice more, and he said coldly, "Show me the thing."
"Your Majesty... perhaps you shouldn't look at it?" Yuan Yao glanced at Consort Lin.
Consort Lin glanced at her and handed the document to the Emperor: "It won't hurt to take a look."
The emperor indeed took it and examined it carefully.
"Smack!"
The emperor slammed his hand heavily on the tea table.
"Splash..."
The tea table, which initially only had a crack, shattered into several pieces...
Yuan Yao clutched her chest.
The emperor and the imperial concubine are both incredibly irritable!
Scary.
If that slap had landed on the top of her head, she would be dead...
Just as Yuan Yao was lost in thought, the Emperor handed the document to Consort Lin: "The Cao family and the Lin family are getting bolder and bolder!"
Cao Cao's audacity was undoubtedly due to the protection of Marquis Dingjun.
The Cao and Lin families dared to do this, yet no one dared to expose them, simply because of the Crown Prince!
A bunch of short-sighted idiots!
"Your Majesty, please calm down," Consort Lin said, her voice somewhat cold. "This matter can be handled by your humble servant."
"Your Majesty, I will certainly give you a satisfactory explanation."
The emperor snorted coldly: "I don't want this to happen again!"
"Your Majesty, I understand." Consort Lin gazed at the palace gate, her expression cold and detached.
Yuan Yao was carried out of Beichen Palace in a sedan chair.
Before leaving, a palace maid came out and said, "Princess, this servant has come to convey a message from the Imperial Concubine."
Yuan Yao sat in the sedan chair: "Please speak."
The palace maid respectfully said, "Her Majesty said that she and His Highness the Crown Prince owe the Princess another favor."
"If the princess needs anything in the future, she can come to Beichen Palace to find her."
Yuan Yao gave Dan Qing a wink and said, "Please thank Your Majesty for me."
Danqing stepped forward and handed several silver ingots to the palace maid.
The palace maid took the silver and said with a smile, "Your Majesty has one more thing to say."
Anything else to say?
Yuan Yao asked, "What?"
The palace maid leaned over and lowered her voice: "Her Majesty said that she knows why the Princess came to see her."
Yuan Yao was slightly shocked.
She acted very well.
Unexpectedly, Consort Lin saw through it?
At this point, the palace maid added, "Five hundred thousand taels is indeed no small sum."
The Empress said, "The Princess isn't entirely stupid; she knew to come to her, and that would save her the money."
Yuan Yao: "???"
What Consort Lin saw through wasn't her petty scheming.
All right.
She was overthinking it.
After a long period of observation, Yuan Yao discovered that Consort Lin was a straightforward and honest woman!
She was the mother of the Crown Prince and came from the Marquis of Dingjun's family. Her maternal clan was very powerful, so she didn't need to use any tricks to secure her position as a Noble Consort.
Yuan Yao forgot about the towering palace of Beichen Palace and sighed softly.
She... clearly prefers the Empress a little more.
That's all, these are things she can't control!
Yuan Yao said, "Return to Qianhua Palace."
On the way from Beichen Palace to Qianhua Palace, you will pass Haoran Hall.
When I passed by Haoran Hall, the hall door was open and there was a faint candlelight inside.
Yuan Yao was taken aback: "Father is back?"
After asking the question, she gave a self-deprecating laugh.
She was confused. "Father, he's only been gone a few days..."
Danqing glanced inside and said, "Perhaps one of the officials has something to attend to."
At this hour, what could possibly be going on in the Haoran Hall?
Could it be... that something big has happened?
Yuan Yao frowned: "Go in and take a look!"
After getting off the sedan chair, Yuan Yao hurriedly ran into the Haoran Hall.
Even before she reached the palace, she could hear commotion coming from inside—
"This is a plague! The entire city of Huai River is flooded. If the imperial court doesn't send medicine, are the people of Huai River just waiting to die?"
"But that's a city of 300,000 people! Where would we get so much medicine?"
"You mean, if there's no medicine, we should just let the plague spread? The Ninth Prince is still here!"
plague?
Huai River City...is it plagued?!
Yuan Yao was both surprised and anxious.
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