After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

Du Changfeng wanted to scold me, but when he saw my pale face, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Go back to the house quickly, it's cold outside."

I looked at Du Changfeng, who had lost weight, and said with some heartache: "After all, you are Yiping's brother. You must take good care of yourself. Otherwise, if something happens to you, who will take Yiping to marry in the future?"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. His Majesty is still waiting for you in the room." After Du Changfeng finished speaking, he flicked his cloak and strode away.

I returned to the restaurant and saw the waiter cleaning the place. All the smashed tables and chairs were moved aside, while Zheng Xian was still sitting in the private room, apparently waiting for me.

I walked in quickly.

Zheng Xian glanced at me and asked, "Did you see someone you know?"

I nodded and said, "I saw Ankang just now, but I don't understand why he followed Zhou Min. Time was too urgent and I didn't have time to ask him."

Zheng Xian stood up and said, "I wanted to have a good meal today, but I was disturbed. Forget it, I will go to the Chang'an government office and then return to the palace."

I was also a little uninterested, so I said, "Forget it, you'd better not go to such a messy place. You haven't been vaccinated yet, and it would be terrible if you get infected with smallpox."

We are not brave enough to vaccinate Zheng Xian and the ladies in the palace yet. Firstly, we are afraid that the vaccine is unsafe. We will not vaccinate them until the death rate does not exceed expectations after it is widely promoted. Secondly, Zheng Xian is weak and we are afraid that he cannot withstand the toxicity of the vaccine. If something happens, it will be the crime of murdering the monarch, which no one can afford.

Zheng Xian thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he said, "Then let's go back to the palace."

Wei Yi went to drive the carriage himself.

After getting on the carriage, I felt a little stuffy, so I opened the curtain and leaned against the window to watch people coming and going on the street.

People on the street were walking hurriedly, and seeing that they were all walking in the same direction, I guessed that they were all rushing to find vaccines.

It’s the first day of vaccination and no data has been fed back yet. I hope everything goes smoothly and nothing serious happens.

I was just daydreaming when I suddenly saw Du Changfeng leading a large group of people surrounding a house. I looked carefully and saw the word "post station" written on the plaque. Could this house be the post station of Xihe Kingdom?

Although Dayu and Xihe were enemy countries, it was a common practice among all countries not to kill visiting envoys. Therefore, if these envoys came to visit with legitimate reasons, they would be arranged to stay at the post station.

Zhou Min was a hostage and could only live in the post station, but he was the prince, so he was treated better than the envoys. Not only was he provided with good food and drink, but he also had money to spend. That was why Zhou Min was so arrogant, wandering the streets all day, eating, drinking and having fun, living a carefree life, and no one dared to do anything to him.

Du Changfeng surrounded the entire post station, and except for the doctor, no one else was allowed to enter but not leave.

Someone led several doctors into the post station. Not long after, these doctors came out, all of them shaking their heads dejectedly. It seemed that Zhou Min's condition was not good.

When passing by the post station, I waved to Du Changfeng to say hello, but Du Changfeng, who was doing his job, had a serious face. He just nodded at me symbolically and went back to his work.

Zheng Xian, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Did we pass by the post station just now?"

I hummed and said, "Yes, General Du has surrounded the post station with his men."

Zheng Xian sighed and said, "It is a troubled time. Now that Crown Prince Zhou is injured, I am afraid that the envoys from Xihe will soon enter the capital."

I said, "Just go in, are you afraid of them?"

Zheng Xian said: "It will be difficult to explain the injury that Crown Prince Zhou received at the foot of the imperial city. If he dies, it will be a reason for them to attack us."

But I didn't want to waste my time treating this kind of scum, so I pursed my lips tightly and said nothing.

Seeing my expression, Zheng Xian shook his head and said, "Don't look at it. It's very cold with the curtain open."

I had no choice but to retract my head and let down the curtain.

When leaving the palace, Wei Yi drove the carriage slowly, but when returning to the palace, it was as if an evil ghost was chasing him, and the carriage drove very fast, and returned to the palace in no time.

After returning to the palace, Zheng Xian sent me to move the Buddha statue. He was obsessed with this matter and couldn't wait a moment, so I had to go to Chang'an Palace to move the Buddha statue back to Taihe Hall and place it in the imperial study where Zheng Xian could see it at a glance, so that he would know whether I had burned incense every day.

Zheng Xian was not in good health, so he went to rest after returning to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. I was left alone with nothing to do, so I took a book and walked to the entrance of the hall, sat on a long chair next to the gate, leaned against the pillar, and stared at the sky in a daze.

It was a rare sunny day today and it wasn’t snowing. The sky was blue and clear, as if it had been washed by water, so smooth and bright.

I was daydreaming when suddenly it became dark above my head. I turned sideways and saw Gui Lanzhi, Concubine Gui and a group of palace maids and eunuchs standing beside me, glaring at me viciously.

Before I could come to my senses, a palace maid came up to me and said in a stern voice, "How dare you not kneel down and salute the Imperial Concubine?"

Before the maid could finish her words, she suddenly slapped me in the face.

The slap was quite hard, and my pale and bloodless face immediately swelled up, with five bloody marks appearing.

I stood up with a frown on my face and said, "Your Majesty allowed me not to kneel even to him, so who are you? How dare you ask me to kneel?"

Gui Lanzhi smiled coldly and said, "You are Zhao Man, right? You are quite good-looking, but unfortunately you are a man. Your Majesty does not have any sexual preferences. What are your intentions? Why do you stay in the Hall of Supreme Harmony every day?"

I rolled my eyes and said, "I don't want to live in this palace without any freedom, but what can I do if His Majesty won't let me go?"

What I said was the truth, but to Gui Lanzhi, it sounded like a great insult.

Almost all of the one hundred concubines in the palace were released, leaving only about twenty who refused to leave, one of whom was Gui Lanzhi.

Gui Lanzhi used to be the most favored concubine, but since I appeared, Zheng Xian has never summoned any concubine to sleep with him, and even the queen was rarely summoned. Now I said that His Majesty refused to let me go, which aroused her anger.

She gnashed her teeth and said, "Come here, beat this ignorant bitch to death!"

What did I do to offend anyone? I was just sitting in the corner and got beaten.

I took a few steps back and said, "If you hit me, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the consequences."

Gui Lanzhi smiled coldly and said, "Who do you think you are? You still say I can't afford the consequences. Beat her up and let her see how powerful I am."

As soon as Gui Lanzhi finished speaking, the eunuchs behind her surrounded me.

There were many guards in front of the gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but they only obeyed Zheng Xian and Wei Yi. When they saw me being beaten, they pretended not to see it.

Zheng Xian, ah Zheng Xian, I didn't provoke this girl named Gui. It was she who wanted to die, and it's none of my business.