Chapter 745: Is the Imperial Concubine planning to seize power directly?
The Empress Dowager is old and her sleep quality is not very good. She often suffers from insomnia and nightmares, especially in the last few nights, and often wakes up in the middle of the night.
But since she started wearing this string of Buddhist beads, she feels that she sleeps much more soundly and rarely wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night.
The effect was so obvious that the Empress Dowager became more and more convinced of the monk and would go to Shengguang Temple every few days to listen to the monk talk about Buddhism.
The Empress Dowager was busy listening to the monks chanting and had no time to care about the affairs of the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine.
The discussions about the imperial concubine in the court never disappeared, but instead tended to intensify.
Recently, some people have linked the imperial concubine to the incident of the heavenly dog swallowing the sun.
The imperial concubine was assassinated when the heavenly dog swallowed the sun. Does it mean that even God couldn't stand the imperial concubine's tyranny and wanted to use the method of the heavenly dog swallowing the sun to help the assassin?
As soon as this statement came out, it was immediately recognized by the vast majority of people.
The heavenly dog swallowing the sun was a very bad omen. Every time the phenomenon of the heavenly dog swallowing the sun appeared, the emperor would write an edict of repentance, asking for forgiveness from heaven and avoiding a greater disaster.
However, this year, when the imperial concubine incident occurred, the ministers naturally preferred to let the imperial concubine be the "culprit" of the incident.
In this way, the negative impact brought by the heavenly dog swallowing the sun was solved, and there was no need for the emperor to condescend to apologize. It was perfect!
Xiao Xixi, who was still living a peaceful life in Yunxiu Palace, had no idea that she had become a demon concubine who brought disaster to the country in the eyes of many people.
She was currently listening to Concubine Li reporting the bill.
Originally, palace affairs were managed jointly by the three concubines.
But Concubine Jing was under house arrest by the emperor, and Concubine Lao kept claiming to be ill and refused to go out.
So all these messy things fell on Concubine Li.
Concubine Li was so busy that even her second chin was left with only one chin.
Just after distributing this month's allowance to each palace, Concubine Li sorted out last month's accounts and unexpectedly discovered that there was something wrong with last month's accounts.
Now the Empress Dowager is devoted to worshipping Buddha and doesn't like to take care of these trivial matters. Concubine Li has no choice but to come to the Imperial Concubine to talk to her about this matter and ask for her advice.
Concubine Li brought all the accounts with her and was checking them one by one, hoping to let the imperial concubine know clearly where the problems in the accounts lay.
She spoke so much that her mouth was almost dry and her throat was almost smoking. She finally finished explaining the accounts and when she looked up, she saw that the imperial concubine was actually dozing off!
At first, Princess Li thought she had seen it wrong.
She stared at the imperial concubine's face again and again, and sure enough, the imperial concubine was dozing off!
Not only was he dozing off, he was actually drooling!
Concubine Li was so angry that she almost exploded.
She had just worked so hard to read the accounts for such a long time, was it all in vain? !
Baoqin noticed that Concubine Li's eyes were almost spitting fire, so she coughed lightly and reminded her in a low voice.
"Your Highness, Concubine Li is talking to you."
Xiao Xixi: Zzzzzzz
Baoqin stretched out her finger and quietly poked the imperial concubine on the back.
This time Xiao Xixi finally reacted.
She raised her paw and scratched her back twice before continuing to doze off.
Baoqin almost knelt down before her.
Your Majesty, please open your eyes and look at Concubine Li!
If you don't wake up, Concubine Li will probably explode!
In order to wake the imperial concubine up immediately, Baoqin had to use her trump card.
She asked in a small voice.
"Want to have hot pot for lunch?"
Xiao Xixi opened her eyes instantly, turned to look at Baoqin, and spoke while wiping her saliva.
"Put more chili on it."
Baoqin agreed, and then quietly pointed in the direction of Concubine Li, signaling the Imperial Concubine to quickly go and comfort Concubine Li, and not let her get really angry and cause harm.
Xiao Xixi looked over and saw Concubine Li glaring at her angrily, her beautiful eyes looking like they could spit fire at any time.
She asked in surprise.
"You haven't left yet?"
Concubine Li laughed in anger: "I haven't finished my work yet, how can I leave? I'm not like the Imperial Concubine, who can fall asleep even when sitting."
Xiao Xixi smiled sheepishly: "I'm sorry, it was so boring sitting there that I accidentally fell asleep."
Since the other party apologized proactively, Concubine Li couldn't pursue the matter further and could only suppress her anger.
"Now that the Imperial Concubine has woken up, please help me come up with an idea and see how to deal with this matter?"
Xiao Xixi: "Are you talking about the accounting issues? Who was in charge of the accounts before?"
Concubine Li: "It's Concubine Tuberculosis."
No matter how many times, Xiao Xixi couldn't help but want to laugh whenever she heard the words "Lao Fei".
At this moment, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
"Since the accounts are in charge of Concubine Lao, let her sort out all the mistakes and omissions in the accounts."
When Concubine Li saw the smile on her face, she was slightly startled, and then she understood why she was smiling.
Indeed, the title of "Concubine Tuberculosis" is really funny.
Concubine Li couldn't help herself and smiled, her anger towards the imperial concubine also dissipated.
"But the consort is still recovering from her illness, so I'm afraid she doesn't have the energy to deal with these trivial matters."
In fact, Concubine Lao was not without energy to deal with it. She deliberately pushed all these things onto Concubine Li, wanting to make Concubine Li busy and overwhelmed, and then forced to ask Concubine Li to come forward to help solve the problems.
Princess Li felt that Concubine Lao was just being pretentious. She didn't want to spoil her, and even less wanted to beg her.
Xiao Xixi: "Since the consumptive concubine is in poor health, don't let her interfere in these matters in the future, so as not to make her work too hard and aggravate her condition. There are so many concubines in the harem, and there should be many smart and capable people among them. Concubine Li, who can you think of who is more suitable to take over the consumptive concubine's affairs?"
Princess Li was a little surprised.
Is the imperial concubine trying to seize power directly?
But can Concubine Tuberculosis agree to it?
Furthermore, although the imperial concubine has a higher status than all of them, she is still only a concubine after all, not the empress, and should not be qualified to decide the distribution of palace affairs.
Seeing that Concubine Li didn't say anything, Xiao Xixi asked curiously.
"Is there something wrong?"
Concubine Li hurriedly said, "I don't have any problem. I'm just worried that it will be difficult to explain to the Emperor and the Grand Empress Dowager. After all, changing palace duties is not a trivial matter."
Xiao Xixi: "I will tell the emperor about this. You just need to nominate a suitable person."
Princess Li thought about it seriously.
The person with whom she had the best relationship was Concubine Yao, but she knew Concubine Yao's personality well. Concubine Yao was fond of gossip and liked to inquire about news everywhere. She probably had no interest in things like managing accounts that required a lot of patience.
A person's face flashed through Princess Li's mind and she blurted out.
"Min Jieyu is good."
Xiao Xixi was slightly startled.
She didn't expect that Concubine Li would actually mention Concubine Min.
Since the autumn hunt, Concubine Min came to pay her respects to the imperial concubine every day.
Even if she made excuses and didn't want to see her, she still insisted on coming to Yunxiu Palace to check in, rain or shine.
To be honest, Xiao Xixi admired Concubine Min's perseverance.
If it were her, she would rather sleep a little longer in the house with such free time!
Princess Li was just acting on impulse, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Concubine Min was a very suitable candidate.
(End of this chapter)
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