In Jingxi Palace.
Concubine Shu was in a very good mood. The emperor actually favored a noble from a baron's family. The two imperial concubines must be furious.
This is going to be a big show.
Concubine Zhuang hated all the concubines equally, and was ready to teach Concubine Ning a lesson when she arrived.
She had no impression of Lady Ning at all...
I don't even remember what she looks like.
But everyone waited for a long time and the protagonist never showed up.
Until Lian Rui came late to report:
"My master is not feeling well and is unable to pay respects to the Queen Mother, so I am here to ask for leave."
The whole palace was silent.
"What?" Concubine Shu couldn't believe it. This little noble was too arrogant.
Concubine Zhuang also widened her eyes. Even she didn't dare to offend the empress dowager, so how dare she do that to this little noble lady!
The entire Jingxi Palace was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The first thing Concubine Xue looked at Concubine Cen was whether the Cen family was interfering and deliberately trying to embarrass the Xue family?
But seeing that Concubine Cen was also surprised, she suddenly felt some disgust towards Concubine Ning.
Without the support of the Cen family, she was just a small nobleman. Not only did she seek her own death, but she also caused her Xue family to lose face.
What an idiot.
Concubine Shu suppressed her shock and said, "It's getting late. We should go and pay our respects to the Empress Dowager. Lady Ning is unwell. I will inform the Empress Dowager. You go back and take good care of your master."
She did not punish Ning Wanyin.
It's the Queen Mother's reputation that is being challenged, why is she so anxious?
Lian Rui seemed unable to understand the expressions of the crowd, so she bowed and retreated.
Concubine Shu was in a very good mood and led a group of concubines with different expressions to the Cining Palace.
Everyone arrived at the Cining Palace.
Concubine Shu led all the concubines to pay their respects.
Empress Dowager Xue glanced at the concubines and asked again, "Which one is Concubine Ning? Come forward and let me see you."
The atmosphere became quiet.
Concubine Shu stepped forward and replied, "Noble Lady Ning said she was not feeling well, so she did not come to pay her respects to you..."
The whole palace was quiet.
All the eunuchs and palace maids in the Cining Palace were stunned.
Not to mention the person involved, Empress Dowager Xue, who was stunned for a moment before she reacted and flew into a rage!
If you dare not greet her, it would be a slap in her face!
In front of the entire harem, he did not take the Queen Mother seriously.
If she didn't punish them severely, wouldn't these concubines think that Empress Dowager Xue and the Xue family were kind and could be bullied?
"This is the first time I've seen such an ignorant woman!" Queen Mother Xue's face was gloomy.
Concubine Xue stepped forward and took over the conversation, "Aunt, Concubine Ning is disrespectful to the Queen Mother. She should be deposed and sent to the cold palace."
"Shufei, go and send her to the cold palace." Empress Dowager Xue ordered coldly.
Concubine Shu glanced at Concubine Cen, and seeing that she did not comment, she respectfully accepted the order.
Although the Cen family is in opposition to the Xue family, they have a tacit understanding, which is to eliminate the third party first without any prior agreement.
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Concubine Shu led the eunuchs to surround Lingxue Pavilion.
The eunuchs and palace maids who were serving were all terrified.
"Miss——" Lian Rui looked at Ning Wanyin in panic. Although she did whatever the young lady asked her to do, she did it without hesitation...
But she felt very uneasy because she didn't pay her respects to the Queen Mother.
"Don't worry, help me up and go pay my respects to Concubine Shu." Ning Wanyin just closed her eyes for a while, she didn't look very well and looked lazy.
Danli was almost dying of anxiety. Is it a question of whether to pay respects to Concubine Shu or not? You are about to be sent to the cold palace!
I don’t know whether the Queen Mother is magnanimous and will punish those who serve her.
The faint light of morning light was scattered, illuminating the Lingxue Pavilion, and the windows were bright and clean.
A woman in a lotus-colored long dress, with her three thousand black hair casually tied up, walked out with the help of a palace maid.
She wore no makeup, and her eyes and eyebrows showed weariness, but one could still tell that she was a beauty.
Concubine Shu glanced at Ning Wanyin and thought to herself, she is indeed a beauty, but there has never been a shortage of beauties in the harem, and countless beauties have been buried.
"I pay my respects to Concubine Shu. It's hard for Concubine Shu to come visit me in person..." Ning Wanyin said with a smile.
Concubine Shu was too lazy to waste time talking to such a fool, and said directly, "The Queen Mother has ordered that you are disrespectful to the Queen Mother and will be sent to the cold palace to reflect on your actions!"
Ning Wanyin was surprised. "Why does Concubine Shu say that? I have always been respectful to the Empress Dowager."
"You are so arrogant and rude that you don't pay your respects to the Empress Dowager. This is extremely disrespectful and unfilial!" The chief eunuch of the Cining Palace who was accompanying him angrily accused.
Ning Wanyin looked aggrieved. "I am not feeling well, not rude or arrogant. Besides, it was His Majesty who exempted me from paying respects... Could it be that I shouldn't have listened to His Majesty? Is this what Concubine Shu meant?"
Concubine Shu choked. This is really using the emperor's casual words as a shield...
I don't know whether to say she is arrogant or stupid.
She would not respond to this, "I have no such intention, I am just following the Queen Mother's orders."
At this moment, there was a sound of anxious footsteps outside the door. Wang Degui and a group of eunuchs hurried over, looked at the scene in front of them, and hurriedly saluted and said:
"I pay my respects to Consort Shu and Lady Ning! It's all my fault for not being able to rush to the Cining Palace earlier to convey the Empress Dowager's instructions. Your Majesty has said that Lady Ning has worked hard in the emperor's bedchamber, so I have specially allowed her not to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager today. I hope the Empress Dowager will be tolerant."
As he spoke, he looked at Concubine Shu with an apologetic look on his face. "Thank you for coming here, Concubine Shu. Noble Ning has no intention of being disrespectful. I am just following the imperial edict. It's all my fault that I was a step too late and failed to go to the Cining Palace in time to explain the situation to the Empress Dowager, which led to this misunderstanding."
The truth is of course...
When the emperor heard that the Cining Palace had sent people to capture Ning Wanyin, he asked him to convey the oral order to the empress dowager.
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