The other concubines present couldn't help but glance at her: Was the Empress Dowager's golden plaque with the character "Yi" useless?
What a joke!
In certain situations, due to the constraints of social norms and filial piety, even the Empress's phoenix seal could not surpass the Empress Dowager's gold medal with the character "Yi"!
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager's face darkened immediately: "What do you mean by the Ninth Princess's words?"
"Sigh, Your Majesty, please don't ask anymore. Don't let this affect the relationship between the royal family and the Chen State Duke's family. After all, the Empress and the Crown Prince both come from the Chen State Duke's family, so it's understandable that they are a bit arrogant." Ji Fengyao handed the gold medal to Lin Shuang, indicating that she should return the gold medal to the Empress Dowager.
The two most powerful figures in the palace are the Empress Dowager and the Empress.
Since ancient times, it has been difficult for mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law to get along.
As the previous champion, the Empress Dowager naturally believed that she was the most powerful person in the harem.
The Empress, in terms of both power and status, was closest to the Empress Dowager.
She was naturally the one the Empress Dowager feared most. The Empress Dowager would be extremely concerned about even the slightest disrespect or provocation from the Empress.
really.
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager immediately retorted angrily, "Don't rush to return the plaque, tell me what happened!"
"Sigh, I really don't want to be the villain..." Ji Fengyao looked like a kind little fairy, covering her face with a handkerchief and winking at Xi Que beside her.
The magpie understood and stepped forward.
“If Miss won’t tell, I will!” She walked to the front of the hall, indignant and with a sorrowful voice, and said, “The other day, our Miss heard that the Duke’s Mansion had acquired a batch of precious medicinal herbs, including the ones needed by the Empress Dowager. She thought that since the Duke’s Mansion was the Empress’s maternal family, it was only right to offer the Empress Dowager a few herbs, so she took the Empress Dowager’s gold token and went to ask for the herbs.”
To everyone's surprise, when they arrived, they not only made excuses and refused to give the medicine, but also said that our young lady was using Your Majesty's name to steal their things. Judging from what Miss Chen said, it seemed that she wanted Your Majesty to come to our door in person to ask for the medicine before they would believe her.
Miss Chen also said that her older sister was the Empress and the future Empress Dowager. Sigh, what a nasty thing to say.
Our young lady had no choice; she was worried about Your Majesty's illness and wanted to gather the medicine as soon as possible to ease your pain. So she had them make a register, recording everything they had taken, and only then did they stop.”
As Xique spoke, she took out the booklet she had brought from the Duke of Chen's mansion yesterday and presented it to him: "These are the things we took from the Duke of Chen's mansion yesterday."
Aunt Sun took the booklet from Xique and opened it. Sure enough, it was filled with medicinal herbs.
The Empress Dowager took the booklet, her eyes falling on the signatures of Duke Chen and Ji Fengyao, and her face turned ashen with anger.
The concubines present were also in an uproar.
Even though the Ninth Princess was a bandit in the past, she went to ask for medicine for the Empress Dowager.
The Duke of Chen's mansion not only obstructed the process in every way, but also registered it, made signatures and fingerprints on it. This clearly shows that they did not want to show respect to the Empress Dowager!
Meanwhile, in the Empress's palace...
The Duchess of Chen, dressed in her imperial robes, was pulling at the Empress, tears streaming down her face: "Empress, this time, no matter what, you must get justice for us. My dowry is one thing, but what about the treasury, and Ziying's dowry? It's almost empty now, with hardly anything left!"
The Empress flipped through the booklet containing only a few medicinal herbs, her brows furrowed: "If you hadn't made this booklet, I wouldn't have been so upset. After all, that bandit doesn't have a good reputation, and people would believe she stole something. But your biggest mistake was making this booklet and having Father and that bandit sign and affix their fingerprints to it!"
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