pampering wife

Chapter 144

The imperial court's progress in purging the He family is much faster than Qingmei imagined. Qingmei hides in the other courtyard and hears new news brought back by Junli every day——He Jiuling's charges have been verified one after another, which has repeatedly provoked the emperor to sue. He Nianhai confessed to all his crimes under the cruel tactics of the right guard, and also involved a lot of party members; edit...

As if the building was crumbling and decaying, the formerly prosperous He family was reduced to street rats overnight, the males were imprisoned and the females were sold into slavery, even though there were two queen mothers and empresses in the harem, nothing happened. It can stop the emperor from punishing the He family.

When Jun Li talked about these things, besides expressing that the fall of the He family was very pleasing to the hearts of the people, he couldn't help sighing a few words, "I'm afraid Father has long held grudges against the He family, and I have not done a lot of things that have been arranged in the court all these years." You can see. The He family has become more and more arrogant in recent years, and even the queen mother is speechless when those charges are laid out."

These news naturally made Qingmei very happy.In her opinion, the punishment of the He family deserved it. All the emperor's punishments were applauded, but there was one thing that made her puzzled, "The He family has lost power, is there no movement from the prince?" The He family is the prince's backer. His loss of power was a fatal blow to the prince, so he didn't take action to protect the He family?
Jun Li was a little surprised, looked at her and said with a smile: "I know these things are very important. The prince is too busy to take care of himself at the moment, how dare he show up again, he has been calling sick and thanking guests for the past few days, and he dare not touch the affairs of the court. "

"Has he been implicated by the He family?"

"Don't you understand why your father let the crown prince intervene in your father's case?" Jun Li smiled, "At that time, the crown prince was afraid that the He family would be implicated too deeply, so he hid some things. Angry. It seems that this prince has lost his place in the heart of the emperor." He clasped the table with his fingers, and his tone was full of gloating.

It was getting late now, the two of them were having dinner in the Baosha, Qingmei was biting the prawns that Junli had peeled, her eyes were full of smiles, "You seem very proud?"

Jun Li smiled and said nothing, put the peeled prawns on the plate in front of her, hesitated for a moment, picked them up again and wanted to eat them herself, but Qing Mei stopped her with quick eyes and glared at him, "What are you doing!"

"Eat." Jun Li earnestly said, "You've already eaten a lot, you shouldn't be too full for dinner, be careful... hey you!" While he was nagging and persuading, Qing Mei leaned forward and ate away with his chopsticks Picking up the shrimp, he smiled triumphantly and said, "I told you to peel it until I am satisfied. The prince wants to be lazy right now. This apology is too dishonest!"

Junli is helpless, who told him to hide the matter of proposing marriage with the emperor?I thought I would give a surprise after things were settled, but who would have let Chu Hongxiu leak the news, alas.

The two talked and laughed, and it was already dark when dinner was over.These few days Junli has been very busy, he was busy with the affairs of the He family during the day, and he was not even allowed to rest at night. Not long after the meal, the head of the palace, Shi Qian, came to report the matter, and Junli had to leave first.

On the other side, Qingmei was lying on the fence to enjoy the cool air, shaking a fan in her hand, and her thoughts were spinning slowly.According to Junli's intention, although the emperor agreed to grant the marriage, the imperial concubine was not happy about it, so he temporarily concealed the matter.Qingmei thinks about it carefully and thinks it is expected, just like Xu's hope that she can marry a good man, the noble concubine naturally hopes to marry a satisfactory daughter-in-law, with Qingmei's experience, it is not strange to be picked on by the noble concubine.

After two days of recuperation in the other courtyard, Junli leaves early and returns late, Qingmei has nothing to do, so she immerses herself in the various stories in the stories that Junli has found.This morning, after breakfast, I went to the back garden to relax. I was happily reading a book in the pavilion, when I suddenly heard a servant girl come to report that someone from the palace had come to see her by name.

The other courtyard is not as complete as the palace, although people are sent to guard it closely, but the person in charge is only an old mother.She usually lives in this place, and rarely sees people in the court, so she hurried to invite Qingmei after hearing about it.

Qingmei hurriedly went to the living room, there were already several people waiting for the guests, the old mother led the staff to stand in the living room, and an eunuch sat on the guest seat, drinking tea with her fingertips up.Seeing that Qingmei was surrounded by people, the old mother hurriedly said to Qingmei: "Miss, come here, this is Zhao Neiguan from the palace."

"It seems that this is Miss Qu." Eunuch Zhao Ying's voice was indeed different from that of the man's. There was a hint of tact when speaking, and even the voice was different.He cleaned himself up early, his neck was even and smooth, and he was only in his early twenties at the moment, except for some spots, there was no trace of stubble on his face, and he looked extraordinarily fair.

This was the first time for Qingmei to see an eunuch, although she was afraid because of her status as an internal official, she was still curious after all.When she glanced over, she considered him secretly, then bowed her knees and saluted. After dealing with the King of England for so long, she really hadn't had any contact with any palace servants. She was naturally surprised that someone came here unexpectedly.After she saluted, she asked: "The internal officer came to look for me in person, but is there something important?"

"The imperial concubine wants to see the girl, so she sent me here. Is it an urgent matter? The lady is in a hurry, so hurry up and enter the palace with me?" There was a smile on his face, and his voice was also in a questioning tone. , but the urging meaning in it couldn't be more obvious.

When Qingmei heard this, her heart skipped a beat.How many concubines and concubines can there be in such a huge palace?It's not just the big and small concubines Wei.Today, Jun Li had something to go out early, and the noble concubine summoned her suddenly, what else could it be for?

Because of Zhao Ying's urgent urging, Qingmei couldn't shirk it, so she hurriedly changed into a solemn dress, chose some jewelry to dress up a bit, and followed him out of the other courtyard.

Outside, there was a green cloth pony carriage from the palace, because Qingmei's status is really low, this carriage is naturally cramped and small, when she sits upright inside, there is only a gap of one or two feet on both sides.Only Qingmei was summoned by Zhao Ying. Naturally, other people in the other courtyard could not follow her, but her safety could not be neglected. A few guards secretly followed her to the outside of the moat of the imperial city.

The carriage wobbled to a stop on the other side of the river, and Qingmei was invited to get out of the carriage.It was just a word to say yes, Zhao Yinghou was outside the carriage, Qingmei helped her out of the carriage, and followed him to the inside.

The majestic Meridian Gate stood in front of him, and the guards stood upright under the vermilion high wall. The closer he got to the vermilion wall, the smaller he felt, and a solemn mood gradually emerged in his heart.

(End of this chapter)