Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 45

"Just pass, just pass." Sheng Shaoqing sensed the system's danger in time, and tried to make amends.

Forget it, it's not bad if the host can pass the test, it's better to lower its psychological expectations a little bit.

"I don't know what happened to Yunzhi."

Just when Cui Yun came in, he heard Sheng Shaoqing muttering to himself, so he took the opportunity and said, "If the empress dowager is worried, why don't you send someone to take a look?"

Sheng Shaoqing shook her head. As soon as the work started over there, she sent someone to look at it. Doesn't it seem that she didn't trust him?
Comparing her heart with her heart, she doesn't like to be supervised when she is working, and it's not that she doesn't work, so she insists on watching her.

"Employees are not suspicious, suspects are not used, so be it."

Anyway, after a month, we will see the outcome.

"By the way, how did Yun'er check?"

After being busy for a while, she didn't remember that there was such a thing.

It's also strange to say, except that her father notified the two sisters to inquire about the situation that day, why didn't there be any movement afterwards?
"Returning to the Empress Dowager, Wei Chen has already sent someone to contact the people in Feng's residence, and there has been news in the past two days."

[Host, why didn't you ask me? 】

What is the purpose of wasting all this manpower and material resources if such a golden finger is left unused?
"If you want to say it earlier, why don't you wait for me to ask you?"

Sheng Shaoqing would not say that she forgot.

The system is silent, and it has to admit that she is right on this point.

"However, just now, Aning said that Mrs. Xu came to the Palace of Eternal Light this morning, and brought a pot..." Cui Yun continued.

"pot?"

Cui Yun clapped her hands, and Ah Ning and Lian Qiao walked in carrying a large saucepan, which looked quite heavy.

What kind of performance art is Madam Xu doing?
Ah Ning and Lian Qiao lightly put the pot down, Sheng Shaoqing walked forward, looked around the pot, looked left, right, up and down, it was an ordinary stew pot that couldn't be more ordinary.

Cui Yun was also puzzled, "Empress Dowager, what does Mrs. Xu mean?"

Sheng Shaoqing remained silent and asked her, who did she ask?
"System, do you know what this means?"

The system also kept silent and said it didn't know. It only showed that Mrs. Xu got up early and went to the imperial dining room to ask for this pot, and then sent it to the Palace of Eternal Light.

As for earlier, since Madam Xu returned from Yongguang Palace the day before yesterday, she spent the whole day yesterday looking at the ledger in Shouning Palace, and she didn't do anything strange.

"A-Ning, try opening the pot?"

Could it be that the mystery is hidden in this stew pot?

Ah Ning let out an "Ai", got up to remove the lid of the pot, and then gave a strange "Huh".

"what happened?"

Ah Ning called Lianqiao to uncover together, "Why is it so difficult to uncover?"

The two of them spent a lot of effort, but they didn't open the lid of the pot.

[Host... Let me show here that Mrs. Xu... had someone seal the mouth of the pot before she came here... I thought she did it to make it easier to carry, but now it seems that she did it on purpose? 】

Why seal the mouth of the pot?
and many more.

She seemed to understand.

"You... have you heard a word..."

Cui Yun, Ah Ning and the others looked at Sheng Shaoqing in dismay, waiting for the Queen Mother to clarify their doubts.

"I guess what Mrs. Xu means is: we're going to be so poor that we can't get rid of it..."

"Ah???" Everyone asked in unison, Madam Xu actually meant this?
[It seems... that's really the case. 】

Mrs. Xu has been looking at the account book for the past two days, sighing while reading it. In recent months, the palace seems to be more and more unable to make ends meet.

"Are we so poor????"

Cui Yun frowned, "It shouldn't be logical, there must be something wrong with the private treasury."

The last time Mrs. Xu and the others came to report on their work, they said that there was not much surplus in the palace, but they didn't expect that this would be the point where they couldn't get rid of it.

The system said before that those Huangzhuang have been emptied, who did it? !Who did it? !
Who wants to let her have nothing to eat? !

"I want to see, what are these Huangzhuang doing?!"

After thinking for a while, Cui Yun said, "The New Year is half a month away, and Prime Minister Ji's one-month period is half a month away. If you want to go to Chenliu with your majesty, why not choose a date during this period and go to the imperial palace on the way?" Zhuang take a look?"

"You just arrange it, but don't let them know."

So as not to startle the snake.

"A'Ning, let's go to the private warehouse now."

When Wang Shanggong heard that the Empress Dowager Luan was approaching in the Shanggong Bureau, his chubby body trembled, and he quickly got up and went out to greet her.

"Weichen has seen the empress dowager, why is the empress dowager here?"

Sheng Shaoqing raised his eyebrows, "Why, Wang Shanggong doesn't welcome Aijia?"

Sheng Shaoqing had been in the previous court for a long time, and she was able to deal with Ji Wenxuan with ease, not to mention Wang Shanggong. The tone of Wang Shanggong's words revealed that she, the Queen Mother, seemed like an unexpected visitor.

"I don't dare, I don't dare."

Wang Shanggong said that he didn't dare, but his body didn't move a step, still showing a gesture of resistance.

"System, why am I in such a miserable situation? It's okay for Xu Wan to point at me and scold me, but the little Shang Palace can also stop me? Those people in the previous court dare not treat me like this?"

【Well, judging from the current results, you used to live in the harem, and they were familiar with you, but they didn't have any respect for you when you suddenly came to power.The difference from the previous dynasties is that they are not familiar with you and your temperament, and they are still in the process of getting acquainted with each other. 】

"It means they thought I was the gentle and easy-going Feng Qing from before?"

[It should be like this, but there is no way to do it. In the past, your status was relatively low, you had no right to speak, and naturally you didn't have much power, so...the first emperor didn't just like you...]

Feng Qing and her are pretty consistent on this point, they are both social animals, and for eight years, there is not even a single acquaintance who can talk to in this palace.

"Wang Shanggong, how long have you been in this palace?"

Wang Shanggong didn't expect the Queen Mother to ask such a question, thought for a while and said, "It has been 14 years since I entered the palace as an official in Emperor Wu Dynasty."

"According to the ancestral system, you are about to leave the palace and return home, right?"

I just took the official examination yesterday, and the female officials in the palace have a 15-year term, and they can leave the palace to reunite with their families when they reach the age, so it stands to reason that Wang Shanggong should leave the palace and go home next year.

"Ah", Wang Shanggong's face was overjoyed, "This is not a return to my hometown, I just want to have a reunion."

Wang Shanggong has always used his chubby body to stand in front of her, and there is only one road leading to the private treasury in the palace, "Why, I can't go to the private treasury?"

"Ah", Wang Shanggong backed away as if waking up from a dream, "I don't mean that, my minister..."

Sheng Shaoqing ignored her and walked in with a group of people, while Wang Shanggong quietly pushed the person behind him, and the person turned around and fled quietly.

(End of this chapter)