As soon as Concubine Chu entered the palace, Empress Dowager Yin fell ill.
Emperor Xuanping was so frightened that he hurriedly took his imperial doctor to visit him, but was turned away.
Aunt Bingyan has been serving the Queen Mother Yin for decades. Even when she was facing Emperor Xuanping, she dared to treat her with a cold face: "The little princess has invited Divine Doctor Chu to visit the Queen Mother in the palace. Divine Doctor Chu said
, the Queen Mother needs to rest due to her illness and cannot see people easily, especially those who have made the Queen Mother angry and rush to treat the sick people, such as the Emperor."
The extremely rude words made Emperor Xuanping look very unhappy, but he did not dare to reprimand him because of his guilty conscience.
In the end, I could only lead people away again.
And it wasn't until he returned to the Yangxin Hall that he noticed something was wrong.
"Concubine Chu has been in the palace for two or three days, and Xiao Jiu'er hasn't come to me to make trouble until now. Counting before that, I haven't seen her for almost ten days."
In the past, Emperor Xuanping had deliberately avoided seeing Yu Jiujiu because of the matter regarding Concubine Chu.
After doing the calculation now, I suddenly realized something, "It seems that it's not that Xiao Jiuer doesn't know about it yet, but that he knows it, is angry, and refuses to see me. Otherwise, according to the past, I would be too busy."
I haven't seen her for several days, and she has already come to see me on her own."
After all, she was his daughter whom he cherished and cherished. Emperor Xuanping knew Yu Jiu Jiu's habits very well.
When he realized this, he panicked a little.
When he decided to take Concubine Chu into the palace, he only made sufficient preparations and planned to use a lot of patience to deal with the possible troubles that Yu Jiujiu might make.
But in the end, she didn't make any fuss at all.
She simply refused to see him.
This completely unexpected situation caught Emperor Xuanping off guard.
He couldn't help but vent his anger on Zhou Dafu: "It's not what you said. If Xiao Jiuer made trouble, it would be over as long as she endured it. Now that it's fine, she came to make trouble with me! I want to explain to her
, there is no way to talk about the truth!”
After hearing this, Zhou Dafu was really dumb and speechless.
As a slave, he was just trying to figure out the emperor's wishes.
What's more, those were words the little princess herself had mentioned to him earlier.
Now the emperor is scolding him in turn...
Zhou Dafu slandered for a while, but he could only admit his mistake respectfully: "It's all the fault of the slave. Otherwise, the slave would accompany the emperor to Zhongcui Palace and explain it to the little princess?"
When Emperor Xuanping heard this, he immediately said angrily: "What are you going to do? Do you think Xiao Jiu'er will see me after you go there? She must have discussed it with the Queen Mother and refused to see me."
When Zhou Dafu heard this, he simply stood respectfully and stopped answering.
Emperor Xuanping couldn't help but get angry when he saw that he didn't say anything for a long time.
I simply picked up a memorial and started reviewing it, intending to use hard and selfless work to numb my nerves and not think about it.
Facts have proven that this method is indeed very effective.
With so many official duties piled up, Emperor Xuanping quickly forgot all about bringing Concubine Chu into the palace, and the fact that the Queen Mother and her daughter were angry with him and refused to see him.
Days passed like this day by day, and soon it was New Year's Eve.
According to the rules of the palace, the whole family must have a meal together on this day.
After being reminded by Zhou Dafu, Emperor Xuanping finally took time out from his official duties of correcting memorials and planned to hold a palace banquet, which could be regarded as a dinner for his family.
"Then Your Majesty, who will be invited to this palace banquet?" Zhou Dafu asked.
"Isn't the queen always responsible for this matter? Just let her decide." Emperor Xuanping didn't hear the reminder in Zhou Dafu's words, so he couldn't help but look at him strangely and said.
"But Your Majesty, in the past years, there was no more Concubine Chu in this palace. This year, if I invite Concubine Chu, I am afraid that the Queen Mother will not come. I heard that her health has improved somewhat in the past two days.
, I can get out of bed and walk around now. If I want to come to the palace banquet on New Year’s Eve, I should be able to come.”
Zhou Dafu had no choice but to speak clearly, "But if the Queen Mother goes there without inviting Concubine Chu, something seems wrong.
"If the emperor doesn't say anything about this kind of thing, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the queen to do it."
Emperor Xuanping came to his senses when he heard this.
He stopped correcting the mistakes, thought again and again, and said: "In that case, let's just not invite Concubine Chu. Anyway, she also likes to be clean and won't care about such a trivial matter. Then she will tell the imperial kitchen to
, I’ll also prepare an extra portion for Mrs. Chu to send over for the palace banquet.”
When Zhou Dafu heard this, he immediately told Queen Ning.
Queen Ning said she would definitely follow Emperor Xuanping's wishes.
So, when the day of the palace banquet arrived, the Queen Mother was indeed almost recovered from her illness and agreed to attend the palace banquet.
Emperor Xuanping breathed a sigh of relief.
For a palace banquet like this, the eunuch will go to each palace early in the morning to deliver the order. If you are qualified to attend, the eunuch will definitely inform you.
Concubine Chu had been waiting early in the morning.
But in the evening, she did not receive an order from Emperor Xuanping to invite her to the palace banquet. Instead, after it got dark, a young eunuch came over and said, "His Majesty, the Imperial Concubine, the Emperor has decreed that we invite the Imperial Concubine tonight."
The imperial concubine is celebrating New Year's Eve in Shou'an Palace, and the imperial dining room will send the dishes for tonight's palace banquet to the imperial concubine to taste."
Concubine Chu couldn't believe what she heard.
"What did you say? Your Majesty asked me to spend New Year's Eve in Shou'an Palace? Didn't you invite me to attend the palace banquet tonight?" She couldn't help but ask again.
"Returning to the Queen Mother, the Emperor did mean this. The Queen Mother was ill recently and finally got better. She agreed to attend the palace banquet." The young eunuch told the story of the matter and then left.
Concubine Chu sat there with an ugly expression.
On the side, when Aunt Fanghua saw this, she couldn't help but said angrily: "The emperor has gone too far! Didn't he throw you aside just to make the queen mother happy?"
"Isn't it?" Chu Taifei said with a cold expression.
Then, her eyes hardened, and a trace of cruelty flashed in her eyes, "But, he wanted to leave me here alone, without disturbing his Queen Mother, so I insisted on getting in front of them.
"Since I can't have a good time this New Year's Eve, then Yin Suxin can't have a good time either!"
After saying that, she ordered again, "Fanghua, dress me up. Not only will I go, I will also suppress that sick Yin Suxin!"
Chu Mian has always been extremely confident in her appearance.
Although she is fifty years old now, she always pays attention to maintenance, so when she dresses, she looks like she is only in her thirties.
She deliberately chose a red palace dress, the same ruby-studded skirt that the late emperor had given her.
Then, he appeared in front of everyone with a provocative look on his face.