Selling wife for fame? Kick out the scumbag and marry the new emperor to enjoy the harem of favors

Chapter 60 Something is going to happen
I pay my respects to the Weiyang Palace. It is quite quiet today.

That's right. The queen has always been a person of high status and would not easily get involved in a fight. Concubine Zhuang had just been punished to copy Buddhist scriptures, and she was probably tired, so she didn't jump around today.

Not to mention Concubine Yi, now she will not confront Xie Jiu openly easily, and Concubine Wei never does things that initiate fights.

The rest, because of their low status, naturally did not dare to provoke Xie Jiu.

After all, Zhao Xingjin stayed at Xie Jiu's place last night, which clearly showed that he was favored.

Chen Cairen was unhappy, but she didn't dare to say anything.

Firstly, Zhao Xingjin had given her the cold shoulder yesterday before leaving, so she was afraid. Secondly, she had seen Xie Jiu's fighting ability and didn't want to provoke him.

Neither Concubine Yi nor Concubine Zhuang has gotten what she deserved, so if she throws herself at them now, she's just asking for a beating.

So the ceremony ended smoothly.

When Xie Jiu was free in the morning, he went directly to Changle Palace to meet Princess Wenxi.

Since he was teaching, he didn't need anyone to serve him for the time being, so Chunrong and Qingfang went to do their work separately, one left the palace and the other cleaned up the palace.

Changle Palace.

When Xie Jiu came over, he saw Princess Wenxi was already studying on her own.

It's just that his little face looks angry, and he doesn't look like he really saw it.

"Your Highness." Xie Jiu called softly.

Princess Wenxi immediately looked up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Now she has changed her name again, because Xie Jiu has become Zhao Xingjin's concubine, and is considered Princess Wenxi's stepmother, so calling her teacher is a bit unorthodox.

"Why does Your Highness look unhappy?" Xie Jiu walked over and asked carefully.

Princess Wenxi pursed her lips and lowered her head. "I heard the people around my elder sister saying bad things about Empress Xie. I wanted to teach them a lesson, but my elder sister is my mother's daughter, and I didn't dare offend her, so I had to pretend I didn't hear anything. Now that I think about it, I feel so cowardly and useless."

Having said that, Princess Wenxi raised her head and looked at Xie Jiu seriously, her almond-shaped eyes filled with anger.

"They don't understand Empress Xie at all, they just talk nonsense. Empress Xie is a very good person!"

Xie Jiu felt a warm feeling in his heart as he looked at the little princess who was protecting him.

He then patted Princess Wenxi's head and said, "Your Highness defended me, I am very happy, but Your Highness was right not to teach those around Princess Zhaoqing a lesson today."

"Really?" Princess Wenxi still blamed herself, "But I should have spanked them hard and told them not to criticize the master."

Hearing this, Xie Jiu raised the corners of his lips and said gently, "It's logically possible to do so, but if we do so, it will definitely incur the displeasure of the Grand Princess and even the Queen. If they want to make trouble for Your Highness, it will be more trouble than it's worth. There's no need for us to do such unprofitable things just to vent our anger."

"Are we just going to leave it like this?" Princess Wenxi was a little depressed.

"Before you have the confidence and ability to suppress your opponent, you must first learn to bide your time. A gentleman's revenge is never too late." Xie Jiu patted her shoulder, paused, and continued, "But if you must retaliate immediately, you must learn to use the situation to your advantage. Your Highness, think about it, in this palace, besides the Empress, who else can make decisions for you?"

She guided her, and Princess Wenxi quickly gave the answer.

"Father, and Grandmother!"

"Yes." Xie Jiu nodded with a smile, "But this is because it happened to Your Highness, so the Emperor and the Queen Mother took action. Your Highness, don't do this for others, and don't do it lightly. Friendship is something that will become less and less with use."

After listening to these words, Princess Wenxi seemed to understand most of it.

He nodded and said nothing more.

But Xie Jiu had already remembered what Princess Wenxi mentioned just now.

It seemed the Queen truly hated her, to the point where even her own princess disliked her to this extent. After today, this dislike would likely only deepen.

noon.

After finishing the class, when Xie Jiu returned to Ninghua Palace, Chunrong came to pick him up.

"Jieyu, everything I instructed you to do outside the palace has been completed." Chunrong held an umbrella to shade her from the sun, lowering her voice. "Also, I've investigated the young lady from the Xie family that Princess Yushu mentioned. I'm afraid she's not ill, but imprisoned. This illness is just an excuse to break off the engagement. It's just as Jieyu thought before. She was chosen by the master and was to be sent to the palace, so their relationship was broken up."

Xie Jiu lowered his eyes, "In that case, try to meet with my sister. As long as she is willing to cooperate, I will naturally help her."

"Yes." Chunrong responded.

Then, Xie Jiu continued, "Since the matter I asked my father to do has been completed, when can we get the news?"

"I guess there won't be enough food in Weiyang Palace at noon today." Chunrong smiled.

After hearing this, Xie Jiu didn't ask any more questions.

Sure enough, at lunch time, news came from the palace that Sun Baolin had a miscarriage and the mastermind behind it was actually the queen.

It was said that the maidservant named Liuzhi beside Princess Wenxi, as well as the servant who made snacks in the imperial kitchen, were bribed by people around the Queen early in the morning. They wanted to put the blame on Concubine Zhuang, but when their plan failed, they had to drag Qinlan out as a scapegoat.

At that time, Xie Jiu was also implicated, probably because the Queen saw that the Emperor wanted to take Xie Jiu into the palace, so she wanted to stop it.

This series of inferences originated from a theft case in the Beijing government office this morning.

The case was reported by Mr. Wang, the shopkeeper at Yulongzhai, the largest pawnshop in the city.

It was said that he was away two days ago and a clerk in the shop took away a piece of jewelry. When he came back and took a look, he found that the jewelry was made in the palace. Some of the things were taken out for pawning. After all, some palace maids and eunuchs received rewards from their masters, but they had no use for them, so they exchanged them for cash.

But after asking carefully, he found something wrong. The clerk said that the person who came to pawn the items was an ordinary peasant woman, and said that the jewelry was her dowry.

Shopkeeper Wang thought something was wrong. He dared not accept such things of unknown origin, so he sent people to investigate. However, the peasant woman and her family insisted that it was a dowry. Shopkeeper Wang felt that it was impossible for them to have such a good thing and thought it was stolen, so he reported the people to the government office this morning.

Well, when the peasant woman and her family were imprisoned and tortured, they confessed everything, saying that their daughter had done dirty work for others in the palace and was rewarded by the nobles. Now that her daughter was dead, she wanted to sell these things and prepare to move away with the whole family. She never expected that this incident would happen before she left.

When the people in the yamen heard that the matter concerned the palace, they did not dare to be careless. They investigated it carefully and were even more shocked to find that it concerned the royal heir.

So at noon, Jingzhao Yin He Zhihong hurried into the palace to meet Zhao Xingjin.

When Zhao Xingjin heard the name Liuzhi, he remembered the incident when Sun Baolin had a miscarriage.

He was also suspicious at the time. The queen's behavior was really abnormal, but he still chose to preserve the queen's face as the empress. He did not pursue the matter to the end, thinking of giving her a lesson so that the queen would restrain herself.

But I didn't expect that the quarrel would break out again after such a long time.

But it would have been fine if Jingzhao Yin He Zhihong had come to the palace to report, and the matter could have been suppressed, but what happened was that Sun Baolin's grandfather and several censors who were on good terms with Lord Sun also came with him.

Several old civil officials said that it was a matter of the royal heir, and that it concerned the survival of the Great Jing Dynasty, and that they could not be careless.

This forced Zhao Xingjin to give an explanation.

As expected, the matter was traced back to the Queen.

Naturally, the queen could not be touched at will. Zhao Xingjin also lost face when such a scandal occurred in the palace.

Moreover, the dragon fetus in Sun Baolin's belly is now safe, so it is impossible for him to do anything to the queen. However, he must give an explanation to the outside world, so he can only find another scapegoat.

One of the senior palace maids in Weiyang Palace is about to suffer.

(End of this chapter)