The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 466 The painting is poisonous (3)
As soon as the officers and soldiers of the imperial court arrived, they kicked open the door of the newly opened antique shop that Li Chongguang had mentioned, only to find that the shop was already empty.

Li Chongguang knelt in front of the emperor, crying with snot and tears: "Your majesty, I heard you mention Dong Yuan's painting two days ago, and I tried my best to find it, but I never wanted to be seen by someone with ulterior motives." It was used, the old minister deserves to die, he almost hurt the dragon body, I beg the emperor to forgive me."

Mu Jingzhi sneered coldly: "Master Li, is your Ministry of Rites really so busy?"

Recently, the emperor has vigorously selected people from poor families to serve as officials, especially those talented young people. After being promoted, the imperial court suddenly had many fresh faces.

These people are neat and eager to learn, and usually have no chance to show their talents. Once they are reused, they will desperately seize this opportunity. The emperor's account, big and small, are all meticulous, and they will soon be able to take charge of their own. This has already made many veterans feel threaten.

This Mu Jingzhi is the best among these young talents, and he is deeply loved by the emperor. Although Li Chongguang is an old minister, he dare not offend him. Annoyed by crying, he kicked him out in a fit of anger.

Xiao Jun was in a bad mood right now, and asked Mu Jingzhi, "What are you doing here at this time?"

Mu Jingzhi did have something hard to say, but seeing that the emperor was in a bad mood, he decided to suppress it temporarily, and waited a few days to talk about it, then replied vaguely: "A few days ago, someone in the court impeached the queen's uncle. Lin Xiude embezzled and accepted bribes, the **** incident, does the emperor still remember?"

When Xiao Jun heard this, she became angry, "Of course I remember, didn't I already be convicted of copying the house? What's the matter?"

Mu Jingzhi said euphemistically: "The mansion in the capital was stolen, but it is said that there are a lot of things hidden in the old mansion in the south of the Yangtze River. What should the emperor do?"

Xiao Jun snorted coldly, threw the teacup in her hand on the ground angrily, and said sharply: "It seems that he has been in office all these years, relying on the power of his family, he has indeed done a lot of business, and he openly made my court , as a good way for him to make a fortune. Then keep copying until the end! As for who will..."

Mu Jingzhi hurriedly said: "Qin Huairui, the magistrate in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid he can't use it. The two of them are quite friendly. It's always difficult to control things thousands of miles away."

The emperor sneered coldly: "Are you afraid that they will work together and dare to play tricks on them?"

Mu Jingzhi thought for a while and said, "Even if he is asked to investigate, there must be a reliable person present. Why don't the court send an imperial envoy and ask Qin Huairui to help?"

The emperor thought about it for a while and felt that this method was feasible, so he asked, "Then who do you think is more appropriate to send?"

Mu Jingzhi couldn't answer for a while, the emperor knew that he probably didn't think it through yet, so he said: "Forget it, you go down first, I will think about it before I talk."

Qingchen had heard about Lin Xiude a long time ago. It was a big deal in the capital, but it seemed to have nothing to do with her, so she never took it to heart.

When she woke up, it happened that the emperor sent Fuquan to see her, Qingchen asked a few words casually, and Fuquan casually mentioned to her about Master Mu's trip to and from Lin Xiude's house, and the emperor got angry about it.

Qingchen knew it well, and it was inconvenient to ask more, so he asked someone to send Fuquan out.

When the emperor came to see her in the evening, he saw Jin Xin and Jin Xiu kneeling on the porch outside the door as punishment. Xiao Jun knew that she had always treasured these two girls, and if others punished her, she would feel very distressed. What a big mistake, both of them are kneeling here.

Xiao Jun saw that her spirit had improved a lot, and that the swelling in her hands had subsided, so she asked, "What happened to Jin Xin and Jin Xiu, why were they punished to kneel?"

Qingchen half leaned against the edge of the bed, glanced out of the window and said slowly: "Jin Xin has always been in charge of the money matters in my Tonghua Palace. The family of a little palace lady didn't tell the concubine that the concubine asked Jin Xin to find out what was going on. Who knew that these two girls would hide it from me because of their good relationship on weekdays, and said that it was because of this month's It's because of my poor health and high expenses. It's not a bad thing to influence them. If I really tell my courtiers and concubines, can they still stop me?

It's nothing else, I was angry when the two of them didn't even believe their own master, and they collude behind my back to make troubles, so the concubine got angry and asked them both to kneel and reflect.The courtiers and concubines have no way to control them, making the emperor laugh. "

As she spoke, the smile on the corner of Xiao Jun's mouth became more and more unpredictable, "You should be punished. If you don't get angry, they will always think you have no temper. As a master, you should know when to be kind and when to be kind." It is not necessarily a good thing to be lenient when the time comes and the punishment is severe.”

Qingchen said lightly, "What the emperor said is that only those who make mistakes will be punished."

This sentence seems to be a bit thoughtless, but the emperor understood it, smiled and said: "Thanks to Xiao Jue for today's matter, otherwise you may be in danger of life. What I mean is, When you are well, you should thank him in person.”

Qingchen knew that what Xiao Jue did in a hurry today was really inappropriate, which probably made the emperor unhappy, so he thought about it and said: "It is probably because the emperor loves the concubine that he is willing to save the concubine. I should thank him, but the concubines are full of vulgar things, only the painting that the emperor rewarded the prince may still take it seriously, but it was awarded to the concubine by the emperor, and the concubine is a bit reluctant. The emperor and the prince grew up together The older one knows his preferences best, why don't the emperor give him something for his concubine to show his gratitude?"

Xiao Jun stretched out her hand and pinched her face, but she was not willing to use any force, and said fondly, "When did you become so stingy? They spared their lives to save you, but you are reluctant to give up even a painting."

Qingchen pouted, and said coquettishly: "What the concubine cares about is not the painting, but the emperor's heart. The emperor clearly knows what the concubine thinks, but he insists on making fun of me by saying that on purpose."

She was very disturbed, she was obviously joking, but the expression on the emperor's face was extremely unnatural, under the thin smile, there were clearly suspicion and anger.

Sure enough, he heard him ask again: "Don't you ask me how he is? Do you really not care about the life and death of your savior?"

Qingchen bowed her head and said: "Gu Yunfeng went to the prince's place, and came back to tell the concubine that the prince is fine, so that the concubine does not have to worry." Looking at the emperor's face carefully, she finally felt that it was true if she said something. It's too late, "The concubine heard..."

Xiao Jun asked suspiciously: "What did you hear?"

(End of this chapter)