Chapter 52 Autumn Hunt
The autumn hunting that everyone has been looking forward to is finally here.
Guanghua Palace brought a lot of people on this trip, and because they would be staying away for a few days, the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation could not be wrong.
Aunt Qu has been busy for a long time, but now there is one more thing to do.
The Emperor's meal.
The emperor cannot eat meat. Last year, he ate porridge sent by the imperial kitchen. Yes, An Ji heard it right. Everyone ate barbecue and drank broth, and the emperor drank porridge.
If this matter were to spread, I'm afraid people all over the world would praise the emperor for being diligent and frugal and being a good emperor.
"If you can't drink the broth, can't you do something else?" An Jiu looked at Aunt Qu in surprise.
Aunt Qu shook her head: "The conditions in the wild are not good, and His Majesty doesn't like to trouble others, and..."
It was then that Aunt Qu whispered to An Jiu that the chief steward of the imperial kitchen was actually the nephew of the Empress Dowager.
An Jiu "..."
An Jiu understood what Aunt Qu meant.
To put it bluntly, the Imperial Kitchen has some relationship with the Empress Dowager. The Emperor has long wanted to deal with the people in the Imperial Kitchen, but whenever he made a move, the Empress Dowager stopped him. The Emperor and the Empress Dowager are not biological mother and son, so he cannot go too far, otherwise it will be embarrassing for the Empress Dowager.
An Jiu thought it was outrageous. How could this sound even more outrageous than the 49 tribes of Mongolia? As the ruler of a country, the emperor, he didn't even dare to offend the imperial kitchen?
However, it was only after Aunt Qu said a few euphemistic words that An Jiu understood what she meant.
The emperor's biological mother was Concubine Chun, who was said to be a great beauty. At first, she was very much favored by the late emperor. But later, Concubine Chun made a mistake and was banished to the cold palace, and even her son was not favored by the late emperor.
As for the Queen Mother, she was not born into a high-class family, and her appearance was not outstanding among the beauties in the harem. She was able to become the Queen by working her way up step by step.
Because the late queen died early, and the other concubines either made mistakes or died of illness, the late emperor began to feel that her gentle nature was very pleasing when he reached middle age, and since she had a good temper and character, he made her the queen.
The reason why the current emperor is valued by the late emperor is, firstly, because of Concubine Chun. When Concubine Chun died, the little prince had no one to take care of him, and the late emperor remembered Concubine Chun's kindness. Secondly, the emperor is very smart.
How smart is he?
According to Aunt Qu, it would take other little princes several days to memorize a book at the fastest, and that was considered impressive. Some could not even read it at all. But the emperor was different. He had a photographic memory and could write it out from memory just by flipping through it once.
It doesn’t seem like a big deal when you’re surrounded by ordinary people, but when there’s a genius around you, the terrifying gap becomes apparent.
The late emperor was like seeing a rare treasure. He doted on the emperor and loved him very much. He even ignored the opposition of court officials and the fact that the empress dowager was pregnant, and insisted on making the emperor the crown prince.
The late emperor was a very arbitrary person. No one dared to oppose his decisions, and it was useless even if someone opposed him.
"Later, the queen gave birth to a little prince. The late emperor, out of guilt, named him the Prince of Ruyang when he was born. Your Majesty was also very good to this brother. He gave him the largest fief and let him stay in the capital. Despite this, there were still people in the court who said from time to time that your Majesty's throne was not legitimate. In front of the queen mother, your Majesty always bowed his head and tolerated everything, otherwise he would be criticized."
An Jiu understood.
I see.
I didn't expect that an imperial kitchen could be involved in so many things.
Before, An Jiu thought that the people in the imperial kitchen were stupid, but now she thought that maybe it was intentional. The empress dowager believed that the emperor had taken her son's position, but she was powerless to change the situation. It was normal for her to find some trouble for him elsewhere to disgust the emperor.
If the emperor said anything, the queen mother would tell the public that the emperor was ungrateful and had separated from her...
No wonder the emperor always had that attitude when he mentioned the queen mother. He probably knew that the queen mother was dealing with him, but he couldn't do anything to her for the time being, and he didn't want to get upset because of this matter...
Even Anjiu, a hard-working worker, felt a little sympathetic towards the overbearing CEO who was bullied by his vicious stepmother...
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Xiaoqiu left, and the only two senior palace maids left in Guanghua Palace were Anjiu and Xiaodong. Xiaodong looked frightened, and was stupid and not very smart.
Aunt Qu had no choice but to pick out a few smart ones, leaving four to serve outside and do odd jobs, and promoted two to be senior palace maids. The names of these two people still continued the style of Guanghua Palace, one was called Xiaoqiu and the other was called Xiaoxia.
An Jiu joked, "Aunt, next time you meet Xiao Qiu in front of you, will you be confused?"
She thought Xiaoqiu was sent to do hard labor somewhere, just like Xiaohua, but Aunt Qu smiled and said to her, "Don't worry, that's impossible."
An Jiu's smile froze on his face.
So is Xiaoqiu dead?
"Just because you broke a teacup?"
"A teacup?" Aunt Qu shook her head: "More than that..."
She said to An Jiu meaningfully: "You should also be more careful."
An Jiu seemed to be thinking about something.
Aunt Qu didn't say much.
If An Jiu was smart, she would be able to figure it out.
Xiaoqiu didn't have to die. For breaking a teacup, she would have been sent to work somewhere else. At least she was still alive.
But Xiaoqiu's mistake was that she shouldn't have accepted money from others and told others the whereabouts of the emperor.
This touched the emperor's bottom line.
Even after being dragged away, she still blamed An Jiu, saying that she was not in her room at night and had an affair with the guards.
The person with Anjiu was not a guard.
But since Xiaoqiu said it out loud, it means she knew something.
Then you can't stay.
If the speed was fast enough, Xiaoqiu's body should have been taken out.
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The autumn weather is clear and sunny.
The emperor's carriage was extremely large. An Jiu was in the carriage and enjoyed the treatment of an emperor together with the emperor.
She was a little excited.
I think this job is really great.
The emperor was drowsy.
He got up very early today and is now catching up on his sleep.
The site for their autumn hunting was in the suburbs of Beijing. Normally, it would take half a day to walk there, but the team was long. In addition to the emperor, there were also concubines, ministers’ families, and some royal relatives.
There are so many people that security is difficult, and the Royal Guards have to count the number of people to prevent assassins from sneaking in.
These people got up earlier than the emperor and were now sleeping. Only the very young gentlemen were following outside on horseback, running around and laughing loudly. An Jiu did not lift the curtain to look because Aunt Qu said that it was not allowed and outsiders should not be allowed to see what was going on inside.
The team did not rest on the way, but the emperor drank too much water and he had to pee urgently, so he stopped the carriage and jumped out. Not long after, he came back and An Jiu gave him water to wash his hands.
The emperor asked, "You're not going?"
An Jiu said: "I won't go."
How could she go out when there were only grown men outside? In the morning, Aunt Qu wouldn't let her drink water and fed her three eggs, saying that she wouldn't have to go to the toilet after eating them.
The emperor understood, and he leaned against the carriage to continue sleeping, but Prince Duan came over on horseback.
"Brother, do you want to ride a horse?"
The emperor was very moved...
【I want to go.】
An Jiu thought, if you want to go, just go.
"I am tired. I won't go."
"Then I'll go first." Prince Duan rode away on his horse.
The emperor was very envious.
An Jiu couldn't understand him.
Then she heard the Emperor sigh.
An Jiu looked up and saw the emperor sleeping against the carriage again.
But my inner thoughts kept coming.
[I want to go too...]
[I can’t go…]
[I am the emperor, I must be steady...]
An Jiu "..."
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