Si Ningchi raised his eyebrows listening to Concubine De's words, and finally understood the reason for Concubine De's confident look just now.
This summer is a time when no matter how hot it is, it is not too hot to kill anyone. After all, it is the palace compound, and this dead person is still a talented person who has just entered the palace. Anyone with any brains will not treat the master so harshly, and then say that it is useless.
Ice and water are always provided for you to drink. There are so many ways to cool off the heat. How can I still suffocate you to death just by staying in the house?
Could it be that you got into the steamer by yourself?
The fan can no longer move?
No matter how bad it is, it's comfortable to go to the Imperial Garden and find a big tree to rest under the rockery. How can this person die of heat because he doesn't have access to ice?
Si Ningchi didn't believe it. Looking at Concubine De's sincere cry, he could understand that Concubine De had been suppressed for several months and finally couldn't hold it in anymore. Now he even risked his life to pull her down.
, no wonder Wu Sheng was so attentive in the past few days. She couldn't remember when she got the favor from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and waited for her here for a long time?
Fengwu Palace had many interactions with Wang Chengxiang, and Wang Chengxiang and Wu Shengping had been bitter rivals for many years. With Wu Shengping's ability, he should have known about this, but he still shamelessly flattered the queen. It was probably because of Concubine De's instructions.
Is it just for today?
"What?" Si Ningchi opened his mouth in shock, biting his lip with fear on his face and kneeling on the ground, "Your Majesty, I have no idea about this matter."
"It's all my fault, I was greedy for such a little coolness and happiness, but I didn't expect that a big living person could be suffocated to death by this ice." Si Ningchi imitated Concubine De, holding a handkerchief and wiping it at the corners of her eyes.
He went and said, "I don't know how the slaves below are still alive. This ice offering can only be used by the master."
"How can the slaves below have such a blessing? They can suffocate to death without using ice. How many people must have died in this palace?" Si Ningchi raised his eyes and glanced at Concubine De. Before Concubine De could say anything, she suddenly
She burst into tears: "I really deserve death!"
"Your Majesty, if you don't punish this concubine, how can you convince the public!" Si Ningchi raised his head and looked at Zhao Zongheng with stern eyes and said, "Your Majesty, please abolish this concubine!"
Zhao Zongheng, who just took a sip of tea: "!"
"!!!"
"?"
He stared at Si Ningchi with wide eyes, and paused for a long time before swallowing the sip of tea in his mouth.
Concubine De and Concubine Rong also secretly took a breath in shock, and looked at Si Ningchi with a look that seemed to reveal whether the queen was crazy.
After talking for a long time, everyone thought that the Queen was preparing to absolve herself of the blame. Concubine De was thinking about the excuse to overpower her, but after thinking about it for a long time, she came up and directly asked her to be abolished, and whether she could be punished directly.
Got it.
Ah, this...
Isn’t this the crime?
Zhao Zongheng pursed his lips, stared at Si Ningchi and said, "Does the queen know what she is talking about?"
"Your Majesty, this concubine deserves what she deserves for her crime." Si Ningchi raised his eyes with half a drop of tears in his eyes, looked at Zhao Zongheng and said, "I beg the Emperor to set an example for others after you are deposed."
"..."
"You get up first." Zhao Zongheng frowned and looked at Si Ningchi.
"Your Majesty?" Concubine De was shocked when she saw the Emperor's vague intention of relenting, and quickly said: "Today a talented person will die because of the Queen, and if there are others in the future..."
"The Empress, even if she has a phoenix body, can't be as valuable as the Emperor, right?" Concubine Rong also responded at the right time: "If everyone follows the example of the Empress, she is so extravagant, and all the concubines in the harem will follow suit, wouldn't it be wrong?
What a mess!?"
"As the example of the Sixth Palace, the Queen should be more diligent and thrifty." Concubine Rong's eyes fell on Si Ningchi, and with a bit of jealousy and resentment that was hard to ignore, she said to Zhao Zongheng: "Your Majesty! Now people are dead because of ice.
Everyone in the palace knows about this matter. If you ignore this matter, you may be in endless trouble, Your Majesty!"
Zhao Zongheng glanced sideways at Concubine De and Concubine Rong, fiddled with the rim of the tea cup at hand with his slender fingers, nodded and said, "What you said makes sense."
Zhao Zongheng turned to look at Si Ningchi: "You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when you're not a family member."
"Since the Queen is wrong, she must be punished." Zhao Zongheng retracted his hand, looked at Si Ningchi seriously and said: "The Queen will be punished to take care of all the affairs of the Sixth Palace from today on, and make sure there is no mistake in the calculation." "I originally thought that it would be better to leave the power of governing the Sixth Palace to Concubine De for the time being, and the Queen can also learn from it." Zhao Zongheng raised his eyes and said: "I never thought that the Queen would be so greedy for fun. As the Queen of Tianqing, she is really
Inappropriate."
"I am merciful."
Zhao Zongheng stood up as he spoke, straightened his sleeves and said with a gentle and calm expression: "From today onwards, Concubine De does not have to help the queen with affairs, the queen will handle it herself."
Concubine De: "..."
She covered her chest and looked at Zhao Zongheng with astonishment. Even with all her thoughts, she couldn't figure out why this matter was going like this!?
She tried her best to set up a trap, fully thinking that the queen would not be able to escape the blame this time. This was indeed the case, but how did it come full circle that the queen not only was not punished, but also lost the authority to take charge of the Sixth Palace? p>
"Your Majesty!?" Concubine De's face trembled, and she hurriedly took a half-step forward in an attempt to save the situation.
"I don't want to pursue the death of Lu Cairen." Zhao Zongheng stopped his feet and turned his head to look at De Concubine and said: "I will treat the Lu family members favorably, and Concubine De should be satisfied."
"In the future, the expenses in the palace must be strictly and clearly understood. I believe that the queen can handle this matter."
"Concubine Ruode means that I feel that my punishment is inappropriate." Zhao Zongheng glanced at her slowly and said, "I can, check carefully."
The words spoken in that calm and calm tone made Concubine De's scalp numb, and her back crawled a little panicked.
She knelt down and lowered her head: "I don't dare. The emperor clearly rewards and punishes me. I am not dissatisfied."
Zhao Zongheng's eyebrows relaxed: "That's it."
He raised his feet and prepared to walk out of the palace. When he passed by the queen, he paused, looked sideways at her and curled his lips and said: "At the end of the month, I will personally check the accounts of the harem."
"..."
Threat, this is definitely Chi Guoguo’s threat!
Si Ningchi almost lost his breath and glared at Zhao Zongheng's leaving back, "You might as well just kill me!!!"
She is really bad at math...
The death of a talented person was revealed so lightly. They all said that he slept deeply at night and suffocated himself to death with his head covered. Who would believe this?
But the emperor stopped asking questions, so everyone could only say this to the outside world.
Concubine De, who was a mute, suffered so much that she couldn't describe it. She didn't get any benefits and threw away the authority that should have belonged to her as a director. I don't know how many cups were smashed in Yu'an Palace. Concubine Yuan looked at her full.
The fragments of the ground muttered: "I still smashed them, but now the queen is in charge of the accounts..."
