Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

  Chapter 262 Visit

  The imperial sedan chair of the Empress Dowager Huayang walks through the Xianyang Palace.

   Not long.

   A group of people came to Mrs. Zheng's palace.

   Seeing Mrs. Zheng's palace, the Empress Dowager Huayang's heart moved, and she suddenly thought of what happened at Yao Meiren's banquet last time.

  The relationship between the Empress Dowager Huayang and Madam Zheng has always been 'close', or to use a more accurate term, Madam Zheng has always been attached to the Empress Dowager Huayang for survival in the Xianyang harem.

  Because Mrs. Zheng was able to become Yingzheng's concubine at the beginning, it was the decision made by the Queen Mother Huayang. At that time, Yingzheng had just ascended the throne and had no power or power in her hands, so she could only let the Queen Mother Huayang take the throne.

  And this is one of the reasons why Mrs. Zheng has only been Ying Zheng's "Madam" for so many years, not the "Queen".

  Because of this incident.

   Although Mrs. Zheng has been the concubine of Yingzheng in name for so many years, she has basically been constrained by the Queen Mother Huayang in the harem.

This situation was not relieved to a certain extent until after Fusu was born, but it did not have any substantial impact, because the influence of the Empress Dowager Huayang did not come from her status as the "Great Empress Dowager", but from the "Chu Foreign relatives' right.

  The Empress Dowager Huayang is the backer of the "Chu Foreign Relations Lineage", and the "Chu Foreign Relations Lineage" is the support of the Queen Mother Huayang. The two complement each other.

  So as long as the power of the "Chu Foreign Relatives Lineage" does not collapse for a day, then Mrs. Zheng will always be suppressed by the Queen Mother Huayang, and she will never have a bright future.

  So Mrs. Zheng really started to turn around, which came from the rise of Ying Zheng.

  The appearance of Mr. Mo enabled Yingzheng to overthrow two mountains, Lu Buwei and Lai Ai, in just two or three years, and put the "Chu foreign relatives lineage" on the ground with a blow.

  The power of the "Chu foreign relatives lineage" has been greatly reduced, which has forced the confinement of the Empress Dowager Huayang's power, because Mrs. Zheng can gradually regain a little voice in the harem.

   In addition, not long ago, Fusu gained the trust of the King of Qin and gained the right to 'supervise the country'.

   On the other hand, I am old and frail, and I will die soon.

   Various factors add up.

   It seems that it is not incomprehensible to prompt Madam Zheng to openly 'violate' her own order and challenge her status at Yao Meiren's banquet.

  At first, the Empress Dowager Huayang really thought so.

   But then after the banquet.

  The Empress Dowager Huayang gradually felt that something was wrong with Mrs. Zheng's reaction at that time.

  One, according to what the Empress Dowager Huayang has always known about Madam Zheng, Madam Zheng is not a stupid woman, on the contrary, she is very smart and good at forbearance.

At Yao Meiren's banquet, Mrs. Zheng was obviously a little too 'naive'. In that case, doing that kind of behavior that blatantly 'defied' her would not only make her, a dying old woman, feel resentful, but also It will not bring any benefits to Mrs. Zheng herself.

   This is not a move that a smart woman can make.

  Secondly, Mrs. Zheng's reaction at that time was a bit too intense. After all, at Yao Meiren's banquet, the Empress Dowager Huayang just asked Fusu to be by her side and eat with her.

  Even if Mrs. Zheng is unwilling, there is absolutely no need to react so excitedly.

  At that time, Mrs. Zheng gave the Empress Dowager Huayang the feeling that it was more appropriate to say that she was 'fearing' something rather than resisting her.

   There was a moment of silence.

  The Empress Dowager Huayang slowly raised her right hand, and asked the servants to turn around and walk towards Mrs. Zheng's palace. Just as the imperial sedan chair of the Empress Huayang arrived outside the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, she suddenly noticed something strange.

   "Why are there so many guards here today?"

   "Returning to the Empress Dowager, Mrs. Zheng's palace was burglarized a few days ago, and the murderer has not been arrested yet, so I have sent more people nearby in the past few days."

   It was a guard stationed in front of Mrs. Zheng's palace who answered.

   "Thief? The majestic Xianyang Palace was actually attacked by thieves. What are you doing for food?" The Empress Dowager Huayang was obviously displeased.

   "The empress dowager forgives the crime." The guard apologized very quickly, as if it had been rehearsed in advance.

   "Hmph! Our family has no right to dispose of you. When this case is solved, you can go and plead guilty to the king!"

  The Empress Dowager Huayang snorted coldly, but did not pursue the matter any further.

  Actually, the Empress Dowager Huayang didn't really take this matter to heart, and the reason why she asked for guilt was just to put on an attitude.

  In fact, the Empress Dowager Huayang knows better than anyone else that it is impossible to solve a case like this.

  Will there be no thefts in the palace?

No.

   Actually quite the opposite.

  In the real palace and harem, there are often countless cases of various sizes, but under normal circumstances, for the face of the emperor's family, most of these cases will be suppressed and then left alone.

  The vast majority of these 'cases' in the harem stemmed from open and covert struggles among concubines in the harem, who planted and framed them.

certainly.

   There are also some thieves who really commit crimes.

   After all, this is a world of martial arts. Those thieves and heroes in the rivers and lakes, I don’t know how many are proud of committing major crimes in the palaces of various countries.

  Although the vast majority of them died on the way of 'committing a crime', there will always be one or two successful people.

   Regardless of the situation, the possibility of this case being finally solved is extremely slim.

  After asking a casual question, the Queen Mother Huayang also walked into Mrs. Zheng's palace after a pass.

  The sudden visit of the Empress Dowager Huayang was undoubtedly something that surprised Mrs. Zheng, but at the same time, Mrs. Zheng also felt a little panic in her heart.

  After all, in the past, if something happened, the Empress Dowager Huayang always summoned Mrs. Zheng to Huayang Palace to have an audience. However, it was the first time that Mrs. Zheng met Mrs. Zheng when she took the initiative to come to the door like today.

  The Empress Dowager Huayang's view of Mrs. Zheng is accurate, that is, Mrs. Zheng is a smart person.

  Smart people don't think too highly of themselves.

  So Mrs. Zheng is very clear that the real reason for the Empress Dowager Huayang's visit this time is definitely not because Fusu has obtained the right to 'supervise the country' and her status has risen with the tide.

   "Did the Empress Dowager also notice it?"

  Madam Zheng felt a little uneasy, she was not a timid person, but the impact of this incident was too great, to the point where even Madam Zheng felt a little scared.

  Since Yao Meiren came back from the banquet, Mrs. Zheng found that she had been watched both openly and secretly.

   This kind of surveillance made Mrs. Zheng feel quite disturbed.

  However, this anxiety does not stem from the surveillance itself, but the surveillance, which means that her previous guess has at least an 80% probability of being true.

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  (end of this chapter)