Scholar Yin said calmly: "Your Majesty may not know this, but General Zhou has lost all his limbs. He often cries to Your Majesty in the palace and wants to retire and return to his hometown. Your Majesty also feels that he is no longer a threat."
He added more water to Ming Lanruo, like a qualified counselor: "In addition, the Zhou family is now the top military general in the court, and your majesty still needs to rely on them to frighten the Northern Mongolians. Your majesty probably... This time he just let the donkey go downhill.
Come out after the week."
Ming Lanruo took a deep breath and said coldly with disgust: "He is really a smart man."
Although he doesn't want to admit it, Emperor Ming is indeed very good at playing with checks and balances, and he can bend and stretch.
I don’t know how many years it took Cang Qiao and how much thought he spent to get Emperor Ming to trust him to such an extent.
Scholar Yin said calmly: "If you are not a smart man, how can you win the trust of the late emperor and treat him as the most trusted person? Then he suddenly launched a coup and was left alone and helpless, and his whole family was silenced?"
He smiled slightly and said mockingly: "The only one who is truly stupid is the cowardly and useless late emperor, who deserves to be exterminated."
Seeing this, Ming Lanruo sighed secretly and changed the subject: "The governor did not know before Emperor Ming released Zhou Hou."
Scholar Yin raised his slender red phoenix eyes to look at her and nodded: "That's right, the governor didn't know that he did something about Zhou Hou."
Ming Lanruo narrowed her clear and cold eyes, leaned back on the chair, and tapped the table with her fingertips: "There will be a banquet next week..."
That woman will definitely go by herself and give herself a show of strength on the spot, right?
After that week, she became a mortal enemy of herself, but now she is still her mother-in-law in name only, so she can manipulate her in a legitimate way!
"Little lady, do you want to stay here tonight, or give me the pill to suppress the smell of roses on your body." Scholar Yin suddenly spoke leisurely.
Ming Lanruo thought about it and decided to comply with his request. After all, he was so angry with her and Xiao Xi today.
Although his voice was very calm at the moment, there was a cold and dark fire in the eyes that looked at her, which made her skin crawl.
She immediately took a small bottle from her pocket and pushed it to him: "Here."
Scholar Yin raised his hand to hold the medicine bottle, put his hand on the back of her hand, and smiled sadly: "Young lady has some backbone, but not much."
Ming Lanruo's ears are a little hot. If she has the guts to not give him the pills, he will eat her bones tonight, right?
She coughed obediently and changed the subject: "It's not that I don't want to give it to you. The taste of your rose mint-flavored balls will dissipate on its own. On the contrary, eating too many of these taste-depressing things is bad for the stomach.
"
She didn't lie.
Scholar Yin smiled and said, "Really? I met the governor a few days later and the young lady told him personally that he misses the young lady very much."
Ming Lanruo smiled wildly at his gentle smile.
…
Sure enough, three days later, Ming Lanruo received a decree from the Queen, announcing that she would enter the palace to help prepare for the Double Ninth Festival banquet.
Ming Lanruo directly complained that he was ill and did not go there. He did not even see the female official who chose the imperial concubine. The female official became very angry in Concubine Ming's mansion and scolded Ming Lanruo for disrespecting her mother-in-law.
Ming Lanruo ignored her and prepared for the banquet. She was afraid that she would be asked to go to the palace to learn from it. If she did not do well, Empress Zhou would reprimand and punish her "daughter-in-law".
But after the female official left angrily, Ming Lanruo asked Chunming to ask people to keep an eye on where she went.
Five or six days later, this time, Emperor Ming issued an imperial edict, announcing that she and King Qin would enter the palace to attend the Double Ninth Festival banquet.
The queen also thoughtfully gave her a new princess dress to show how much she values Ming Lanruo as her daughter-in-law.
To put it simply - if Minglan is not dead, she must go.
She simply didn't waste any time and directly accepted the clothes sent by the Queen's female officer along with Emperor Ming's imperial edict.
He and his father-in-law sent the proud female officer out to wait, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid there is something wrong with this dress. Please take a good look at it, and don't let the queen find out."
Ming Lanruo glanced at the dress: "Is the blue bird pattern on it actually a phoenix totem that violates taboos? Or does the dress belong to a certain noble person and violates His Majesty's taboo? Or maybe there is something wrong with the stitching of the dress, and it will fall apart in public if you move it.
Exposing my body? Otherwise, what kind of medicine was soaked in my clothes that would cause my skin to break apart?"
He father-in-law: "...you know so much, you can write a storybook."
Ming Lanruo: "Haha..."
In her previous life, she was also an adulterous concubine who indulged herself in the harem. What doesn't she understand about this little trick of palace fighting?
What is really fierce and terrifying is the struggle of the previous dynasty.
"Now that you know, I don't think Chitose is too worried." He and the father-in-law breathed a sigh of relief.
Ming Lanruo said calmly: "Don't worry, I have a sense of discretion."
With that said, she handed over the seemingly gorgeous but hidden dress to Grandma Wang.
…
On the day of the Double Ninth Festival banquet, the ladies of high rank and the noble ladies of the clan all put on a first-class make-up and entered the palace.
Ming Lanruo was also dressed in princess makeup and a phoenix crown, and entered the palace in the carriage of Concubine Ming's mansion.
Originally, King Qin was supposed to come to Concubine Ming's mansion to pick her up, but the queen called her son into the palace in advance.
Ming Lanruo had no choice but to enter the palace alone, which didn't matter to her. It was just that when she got off the carriage, she would inevitably cast some sarcastic and gloating glances at her.
Everyone knows that Concubine Ming is at odds with her mother-in-law, Empress Zhou, and it is Concubine Ming's credit for Empress Zhou being imprisoned.
I heard that today Empress Zhou asked Zhou Xiangyun, the concubine of Prince Qin's palace, to enter the palace in advance together with Prince Qin.
There is something to watch today.
Ming Lanruo's cold eyes glanced over, and all the noble ladies lowered their heads, not daring to speak basely.
Ming Lanruo sneered, supported Jing Ming and Chun He's hands to get out of the car, and entered the palace gate with sufficient posture.
But she didn't go directly to the Queen's Palace, but went to a slightly remote pavilion in the Royal Garden.
After Ming Lanruo entered the pavilion, several eunuchs took shovels and dragged earth trucks from a distance to block the only path, preventing others from passing by. They only said that the nearby gravel road was being repaired.
In the pavilion, when Chun Zhaoyi saw her, she immediately knelt down and said, "Ming Fei."
This time, Ming Lanruo didn't ask her to get up, and just said lightly: "Yingchun, you have some days in the palace, and I didn't ask you to do anything big, only two things, one is to serve Emperor Ming well and let him pamper you.
, the second is to take a fancy to the Empress Zhou in the palace."
Yingchun couldn't help but blush with shame. She had told Concubine Ming that she was willing to enter the palace to serve the emperor.
In the first picture, she is prosperous and wealthy, and in the second picture, she has washed away her identity as a prostitute in Yangzhou.
She did well at first, but these days, when Concubine Ming went to the Northeastern Territory, she stopped watching the empress and focused on getting rewards from Emperor Ming.
Unexpectedly, the imprisoned Queen Zhou used some means to lure Emperor Ming to her palace, and even let Emperor Ming relive old dreams with her and get into bed with her.
Empress Zhou had been Emperor Ming's favorite concubine for many years, so she naturally had the means to please the emperor. She had also been a married couple for many years, which actually made Emperor Ming feel pity for Empress Zhou, who was over forty years old.
In addition, the two young masters of the Zhou family had made meritorious deeds in the north, so they found an excuse to let Zhou Hou escape from the confinement.
After Yingchun briefly explained the cause and effect, she kowtowed on the ground: "Yingchun was short-sighted and negligent."
Ming Lanruo helped Yingchun up, her eyes sharp and cold: "Yingchun, I know you like money and wealth, but you have to know that in the palace, if you are negligent, you will die without a burial place. You have to live well to spend money.
.”
Many people despised women like Yingchun, but she felt that there was nothing wrong with Yingchun having a clear purpose and not being hypocritical and sanctimonious.
Yingchun is just one of her customers.
Yingchun nodded delicately and tremblingly: "The slave family knows! Concubine Ming, don't worry, there will never be a next time!"
…
In the Queen's Palace, Queen Zhou sat in front of the dressing mirror and looked at herself in the mirror. Her pale and thin face was covered with rouge and lipstick to cover up her frail look, making her appear somewhat cold and delicate.
The female official on the side asked: "Would you like your make-up to be heavier, so that people like Concubine Xian can look at you as a real wife?"
However, Queen Zhou just shook her head slightly and said coldly: "Your Majesty likes my cold and fragile look now. I want to wear heavy makeup and look delicate and charming. Isn't it like Gengchun Zhaoyi's foxy look?"
The female official noticed the hostility in the queen's tone and said obediently: "Your Majesty is a phoenix in the world. Chun Zhaoyi was just a humble flower-growing aunt and a dirty woman who married for the second time. How can I compare with you?"
"Ming Lanruo, that little bitch has entered the palace?" Empress Zhou took out a phoenix hairpin and gestured it to the edge of her bun.
The female officer nodded: "Yes."
Empress Zhou looked at the mirror and showed a gloomy and twisted smile: "Today, I must avenge my past humiliation and make her never come back, in order to relieve my hatred of being framed and imprisoned."
This time, Ming Lanruo will definitely not be able to escape!
"Mother, your dress." Zhou Xiangyun, King Qin's concubine, personally held the robe and bent down respectfully to help her mother-in-law change.
Empress Zhou glanced at her, frowned in disgust and said: "A commoner is a commoner, and she has the air of a small family."
