Author: Ren Zelin

After seeing the Queen's dowry and the news that the 300,000 taels of silver the Queen had brought into the palace were directly deposited into the national treasury a few days later, all the families of the concubines who were chosen as concubines became uneasy.

On the third day after the news spread, the wife of the Minister of Rites went into the palace to ask for an audience with the Queen Mother.

At this time, Xie Pan'er was making small clothes with the Queen Mother.

This little dress was made for the child in Zhu Xiuxiu's belly.

When Wang Dongxue was pregnant with her child, she had two clothes. It was because she was participating in the talent show in the palace and she was busy learning the rules all day long and couldn't spare any time.

But now that Zhu Xiuxiu is pregnant, things are different.

She is a queen, and the concubines in the harem have not yet entered the palace, so she has nothing to do.

Suddenly, she heard that the wife of the Minister of Rites asked for an audience, and she wondered why the other party came.

The Queen Mother told her.

"The Minister of Rites has a granddaughter who is eighteen years old, a few years older than you. Your Majesty has chosen her as one of the four concubines.

If there are no accidents, it will be time to enter the palace in three months."

Xie Pan'er didn't answer after hearing this.

But the needle on my hand stuck into my finger.

She hissed in pain, then stood up and apologized, saying that she would go to the backyard to see Dafeng.

He was separated from the wife of the Minister of Rites.

Empress Dowager Xiao couldn't help but shake her head when she saw this.

This kid still hasn’t mastered his cultivation yet!

The wife of the Minister of Rites entered the Cining Palace and spoke to Empress Dowager Xiao for about half an hour before she came out.

But she did not leave the palace directly, but gave a few taels of silver to a young palace maid. After hearing that Xie Pan'er was watching Dafeng in the back garden, she also said that it was a rare trip to the palace and she also wanted to admire Dafeng's grace.

, so we went to the back garden.

Xie Pan'er was so restless at this time that she didn't notice anyone approaching, so she was startled when Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites greeted her.

Seeing that she was panic-stricken and did not adapt to the way others were saluting her, Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Etiquette snorted coldly and whispered, "Even if a pheasant becomes a phoenix, it will never become a real phoenix!"

Xie Pan'er couldn't help frowning when she heard this, and asked with an ugly face.

"What do you mean by Madam's words?

Do we have pheasants here?

Why do I only see Dafeng, this noble divine bird, standing here and standing out from the crowd?"

The wife of the Minister of Rites was stunned when she heard this and couldn't help but glance at Dafeng.

Dafeng suddenly looked up to the sky and let out a bright sound.

Suddenly a few birds fell from the sky.

Those young girls fell to the ground and were trembling, kneeling down to Dafeng.

This scene made Madam Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites stunned.

Xie Pan'er looked at her expression and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Look, this divine bird is a divine bird. Even if it stays here on the ground and doesn't fly in the sky, people look at it like a pheasant. But those flying in the sky, no matter how much they jump around, don't dare to fly.

It is so presumptuous in front of this divine bird!

Madam, do you think so?"

As soon as Xie Pan'er said these words, the face of Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites immediately became extremely ugly, and the veil in her hand was about to be shattered.

She bit her lower lip and it took a long time to hold back a sentence.

"Your Majesty is the Queen, so naturally it will be whatever you say. Who dares to argue otherwise?"

Xie Paner smiled softly.

He reached out and touched Dafeng's neck, but said nothing.

Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Etiquette gritted her teeth and said goodbye.

"It's getting late, it's time to surrender and leave the palace.

I’ll take my leave now.”

Seeing the back of Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites leaving, Xie Paner felt very baffled.

Xie Pan'er felt very unhappy when she thought that this person's daughter was the mother of a concubine who entered the palace three months later.

Even Dafeng didn't want to look at it, so he turned around and returned to Kunning Palace.

When going to bed at night, the emperor reached out to hug her out of habit, but she directly avoided him.

When the emperor saw this, he knew that she was angry. Yunxiang had already quietly told him that today the wife of the Minister of Rites came into the palace and deliberately spoke to ridicule his little empress.

Of course, Yunxiang would not hide the fact that the Empress pricked her finger.

I told the emperor everything.

Looking at Xie Pan'er's look now, he knew that something was wrong, and he had to coax him quickly, otherwise he would have to sleep in Suiyu's study tonight as he had just started eating meat.

"My queen, what's going on? Who made you angry?

Say it and I will help you vent your anger!"

When Xie Pan'er saw him like this, she couldn't get angry at all.

"It's not all you. You have chosen so many Yingying Yanyan, and this person hasn't even entered the palace yet! Others came to humiliate me, the head wife, first."

"Who dares to humiliate you? He is going to destroy his nine tribes to vent your anger!"

When Xie Pan'er heard this, she rolled her eyes at him and turned her head away from him.

"Okay, okay, I know everything. The wife of Sun Yu, the Minister of Rites, offended you when she came into the palace to pay her respects to the Queen Mother, right?"

"You know and still ask?

You can really pretend!"

The emperor chuckled lightly, then held her in his arms and whispered.

"My daughter was originally the first of the four concubines, but now she is seriously ill. When I entered the palace, I saw you, the empress of the palace, and felt very uncomfortable, so it was inevitable that I would say something to make you angry."

Xie Pan'er was shocked when he heard this and quickly asked what was going on?

The emperor brought his face close to her and asked her to kiss her, and then he said after getting the benefit.

"Then Miss Sun's heart already belongs to her, and she was forced to enter the palace to stand for election.

These days, I have been waiting for Sun Shangshu to ask me for mercy. I didn’t expect that this family is very capable of doing things, so I have delayed it until now!”

When Xie Pan'er heard this, she felt there was something fishy about it.

"What do you mean?

Why do you think they should have been here long ago?"

"I just knew some of the life backgrounds of these beautiful ladies when I was choosing concubines. I felt that this person actually had a special intention. Then they would definitely mess up the matter of entering the palace themselves.

I just didn’t expect that this matter would be delayed until now!”

Xie Pan'er didn't believe that he had no other hand in this matter, so she didn't interrupt, but looked at him intently.

The emperor was so shocked by Xie Pan'er that he had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Originally, I had already planned to create a drama about lovers getting married before Miss Sun entered the palace. What I didn't expect was that Miss Sun's lover was so incompetent that he was afraid of cuckolding me and losing his head.

So when Miss Sun untied herself, she committed suicide!"

Xie Pan'er: "..."

Seeing her small mouth open enough to fit an egg, the emperor kissed her directly.

I told Xie Pan'er later after she was exhausted.

What really made the Sun family give up and come to the palace to say that their daughter could not enter the palace was the Ji family's generosity.

Three hundred thousand taels of silver went into the national treasury, as well as gold, silver and jade jewelry worth an estimated one million taels.

Especially later, the emperor deliberately let people spread the news that the queen's dowry was used to fill the national treasury.

So those who were selected as imperial concubines had to think carefully.

If the dowry was too much, the emperor would definitely feel that these people were not honest officials. After all, the Li family's incident of buying and selling officials had just passed.

If there is no money for his daughter to bring into the palace, then what is the purpose of the news that His Majesty the Emperor is spreading so widely?

All the veterans in the court were all smart, and they considered it for a long time.

It wasn't until the Minister of Rites and his family got started that the Empress Dowager did not blame her. She also said that it didn't matter if she couldn't enter the palace. Her Majesty could just choose a girl from another family. She also gave some gifts to Sun Shangshu and his family. The emperor took advantage of this matter again.

, of the fifteen girls who were finally selected to enter the palace, four were admitted to the palace.
To be continued...