Chapter 116: Dark Belly
When Wen Yingxue and Zi Su followed the eunuchs to the Queen's Palace, many officials' wives were already waiting there.
"The Ninth Prince's Consort is here! The wife of Marquis Dingyuan is here!" The eunuch at the door announced. As soon as Wen Yingxue and Zi Su stepped into the hall, everyone's eyes turned to them.
Wen Yingxue was now a first-rank imperial minister, and was treated with respect here. So when Wen Yingxue entered, most of the people in the hall saluted Zi Su and Wen Yingxue.
There was a loud noise, and all the women in the hall bent over. The scene was quite spectacular.
The two of them shouted quickly.
As the official's wife stood up, Wen Yuyan's personal eunuch came over and said, "Your servant greets the Ninth Prince's Consort and the Marquis Dingyuan's wife. The Empress just instructed that upon your arrival, you two should rest in the inner hall."
When Wen Yingxue heard this, she immediately gave Wen Yuyan a thumbs up in her heart.
"Oh! As expected of the wife of Marquis Dingyuan, the Empress's biological sister, she is treated differently from us."
Suddenly a woman's sharp voice was heard in the hall.
Wen Yingxue and Zi Su looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman in her thirties who was speaking. She was wearing a light yellow court dress. One could tell from her attire that she must be from the royal family.
Yuan An, the personal eunuch beside Wen Yuyan, explained in a low voice to Wen Yingxue and Zisu, "This is the emperor's aunt, the late emperor's sister, Princess Jiayao."
Princess Jiayao was the late emperor's youngest sister. They were twenty years apart in age, and the late emperor treated her very well.
Zi Su and Wen Yingxue saluted Princess Jia Yao, who snorted coldly but did not shout.
Wen Yingxue frowned. What's wrong with this person?
Zi Su whispered, "Princess Jiayao's daughter loves you, big brother. Ever since big brother personally requested an imperial decree to marry you, she has attempted suicide twice."
After hearing the whole story, Wen Yingxue sucked her teeth. Really, it was all Nie Chubai's fault for having a face that attracted so many people.
Seeing that Princess Jiayao was taking a long time to wake up, Wen Yingxue stood up by herself, glanced at her, turned around and was about to enter the inner hall.
Zisu hurried to follow.
"How dare you! You dare to get up before I even called out. Don't you take me seriously?" Princess Jiayao slammed the table and said angrily.
"Who said I didn't take you seriously? If I didn't take you seriously, would I have saluted you?" Wen Yingxue said.
Princess Jiayao's expression immediately looked better.
Wen Yingxue looked at her expression and continued, "But some people shouldn't take themselves too seriously. They're shouting and yelling in the Queen's palace. I wonder who they're trying to slap in the face?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Princess Jiayao's face turned pale immediately, and she pointed at Wen Yingxue and trembled so much that she couldn't speak.
Wen Yingxue sneered, turned around and walked away, ignoring her.
In the inner hall, Wen Yuyan had already dressed up and was sitting there. When she saw Wen Yingxue walk in, she immediately gave her a thumbs up.
"I heard you yelling at people right here, Qiang!"
Wen Yingxue rolled her eyes, slumped down on the chair, and said, "Don't bother me. I'm just arguing with you in your palace anyway. If it gets out, people will say you're not teaching your sister well enough."
Zi Su also sat down, and Yuan An immediately came over to serve tea.
Wen Yuyan's expression suddenly changed, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I've long wanted to make things difficult for that old woman. You don't know, she relied on the fact that she is the emperor's aunt and insisted that the emperor take her niece as his concubine.
The Emperor declined, saying he was still in mourning and couldn't hold a wedding, so he turned it down."
Wen Yingxue frowned. Isn't this Princess Jiayao really too ignorant?
"Where does she get the confidence to be so arrogant?" Wen Yingxue asked curiously.
Wen Yuyan sighed and said, "She has an imperial decree from the late emperor in her hand, which states that no matter what mistakes she made, she will be exonerated."
"Hehe, she's seeking death by relying on this imperial edict. Just wait and see! She will definitely have a miserable end in the future." Wen Yingxue said.
As she was speaking, Yuan An came in again and said, "Your Majesty, all the officials and their families have arrived."
Wen Yuyan nodded, took a deep breath, and then took Wen Yingxue and Zisu out.
"The Queen has arrived!" Yuan An sang, and everyone present knelt down to salute.
Even though Jia Yao was a princess, she had to kneel down.
"Stand up." Wen Yuyan's voice came.
Princess Jiayao started to act like a spoiled child as soon as she stood up: "Your Majesty, your sister is so sharp-tongued that she even dares to contradict me."
Wen Yuyan glanced at her calmly: "Really? Yingxue, what's going on?"
Wen Yingxue stood up and replied, "Just now, Her Majesty summoned me to the inner hall, but the princess wouldn't let me in. This is the Queen's palace, so I naturally had to obey Her Majesty, so I went in. That's why."
"Aunt, is what my sixth sister said true?"
Princess Jiayao remained silent. Her sister-in-law, Madam Li Er, stood up and said, "The wife of the Marquis Dingyuan lied. The princess did not say that the wife of the Marquis Dingyuan was not allowed to enter the inner hall."
Wen Yuyan's face turned cold, and she said coldly, "I'm talking to the princess, why are you butting in? Who taught you the rules?"
Mrs. Li Er immediately knelt on the ground.
"Okay, you don't have to be so sarcastic. You're just jealous because my niece is about to enter the palace as a concubine, so you're looking for her mother.
"Empress, you are the mother of the nation and should be the model for the whole country. You cannot hinder the expansion of the royal family for your own selfish desires." Princess Jiayao threatened.
Wen Yingxue pretended to be shocked and covered her mouth, saying, "How is this possible?"
Princess Jiayao glanced at her and said, "Why is it impossible?"
"It's been less than two months since the late Emperor passed away. According to etiquette, the Emperor must observe a hundred days of mourning and cannot possibly take a concubine. Could it be that the Emperor is going to break the rules left by our ancestors?"
Wen Yuyan continued, "How could the wife of Marquis Dingyuan speak so nonsense? The emperor has told me many times that he will observe a three-year mourning period for his father. How could he possibly take a concubine now?"
"Oh? If that's the case, then I don't know where the news of the princess taking a concubine came from. Did she decide it herself?" Wen Yingxue asked.
"Nonsense! Taking a concubine into the harem is a major event. Without the emperor's order, who dares to say a word?"
The two sisters sang in unison and cooperated very well.
Looking at Princess Jiayao again, she had already started laughing awkwardly: "Haha, I was wrong, I didn't take a concubine, I didn't take a concubine."
Wen Yuyan hummed softly: "Well, it doesn't matter if I say something wrong, but I'm afraid that if my aunt says something wrong, it will have a bad impact on your majesty's reputation.
I am the Empress, the mother of the nation, and must always consider Your Majesty's best interests."
Princess Jiayao nodded in agreement: "The Queen is right."
"In that case, Madam Li Er, please get up quickly. I don't want to hear that I'm punishing the concubine's biological mother out of jealousy."
Wen Yingxue smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you're worrying too much. Everyone in the world knows that the Emperor only has the Empress in his harem now. Where did the concubines come from?"
Wen Yuyan nodded, and the two sisters looked at Princess Jiayao's face, which was turning red and green, and both curled the corners of their lips in a very good mood.
This scene fell into the eyes of the officials and their families below, and suddenly they felt that the two sisters were similar! Both were scheming people.
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