The concubine is extremely cautious

"You dare to hit me..." Xue Jinyan was stunned for a moment. No one had ever hit her since she was a child, and no one dared to disrespect her.

"You are of a lower rank, but you call the superior by his name without distinguishing between superior and inferior. So what if I hit you?" Ning Wanyin looked at Xue Jinyan coldly:

"Xue, noble, man."

Xue Jinyan reacted and covered her face with her hands, glaring at Ning Wanyin angrily. She felt so humiliated that she wanted to kill Ning Wanyin on the spot.

"Noble Lady Xue is the Empress Dowager's niece, and you actually disregard the Empress Dowager's dignity..." A concubine from Xue's party looked at Ning Wanyin angrily.

Ning Wanyin said calmly, "The Queen Mother is the mother of the country, virtuous and noble, how could she tolerate such a thing that does not distinguish between the superior and the inferior."

"That's right, Concubine Xue doesn't know etiquette. What's wrong with Concubine Ning teaching her the rules?" Concubine Cen suddenly took over the conversation and looked at Xue Jinyan with a smile.

Xue Jinyan glanced coldly at Concubine Cen, and then looked fiercely at Ning Wanyin. She was just angry for the moment, but she was not ignorant of the palace rules. She suppressed her anger and bowed to Ning Wanyin:

"Thank you for your guidance, Concubine Ning. I will take my leave now."

His manners were impeccable, but he spoke these words with gritted teeth, and everyone could hear the deep hatred in them.

Xue Jinyan left angrily.

The concubines of Xue Dang looked at each other and hurriedly chased after him.

When Wei Yingya saw this scene, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart that Concubine Ning was really good at offending people.

You won’t survive three chapters, you definitely won’t survive three chapters!

The concubines left with different expressions.

Concubine Cen looked at Ning Wanyin with a smile, "Concubine Ning really impressed me today."

Regardless of whether it was the final counterattack...

And he even dared to slap Xue Jinyan in the face.

The former has wisdom, and the latter has the courage to fight to the death with Xue Jiayu.

It is difficult to find either of these two things, and only one in a million possesses both.

"I wonder if Concubine Ning would be so kind as to come to my palace for a cup of tea?" Concubine Cen looked at Ning Wanyin with a bright smile.

"It's getting late, I won't bother you anymore." Ning Wanyin declined.

Concubine Cen raised her eyebrows slightly, "You have already offended the Xue family. With Xue Jinyan's personality, she will not stop until she puts you to death. Without my help, how long do you think you can live?"

With your help, the emperor can kill me now.

"That is my own business. No need for outsiders to worry about it." Ning Wanyin drew a clear line.

Concubine Cen's eyes narrowed slightly. What an ungrateful person.

……

Ning Wanyin and her group returned to Lingxue Pavilion.

Xiao Guizi's legs were weak. After what happened today, he thought several times that his master was going to die...

"Master, you...why are you still hitting Concubine Xue? She will definitely not let you go..." Xiao Guizi reminded weakly.

Ning Wanyin said calmly, "She wants to kill me, so what if I hit her?"

Xiao Guizi suddenly understood. Indeed, the two sides had just fought a fierce battle, and whether they fought or not, it was clear that it was a life-and-death battle...

This is terrible. Maybe he should find another job?

Return to the bedroom.

Ning Wanyin dismissed everyone and only Lian Rui served her in bathing.

"Master, it was really dangerous today. Fortunately, I have the backup plan you left me." Lian Rui was terrified.

"I can't let Caiye go out without a backup plan." Ning Wanyin said calmly.

Caiye was a palace maid in Lingxue Pavilion.

How could Ning Wanyin dare to let her lure the snake out of its hole unless she had proven that she was bribed?

This morning, Ning Wanyin called Lian Rui alone.

"Every morning, the servants from each palace will deliver the filth to the Xinzheku. Calculating the time, it should be delivered by now." Ning Wanyin looked at Lian Rui and instructed:

"Go get some incense burner ashes from Qionghua Garden."

Every morning, the palaces would send the previous day's incense burner ashes, leftover food, fruit peels, night-blooming incense and other dirty things to the Xinzheku, where special people would deal with them, either using them as fertilizer or sending them out of the palace.

"Yes." Lian Rui accepted the order. This was not difficult, she just needed to find an excuse to go to Xinzheku and take some incense ashes.

"But what does the master want with this incense ash?"

"To give the banknotes a smell."

……

Many people couldn't sleep that night.

Ning Wanyin was sleeping soundly.

The next morning, Wang Degui brought the reward for the title of Concubine, which filled a courtyard with all kinds of things, and added two more palace maids according to their ranks.

Ning Wanyin gave rewards as usual and then went to Qianxin Palace to express her gratitude.

The emperor was discussing state affairs with his ministers and did not see her, so he asked her to go back directly.

That night, the Yiqinsi brought the jade book of concubines.

Ning Wanyin had just been promoted to Concubine, and the Imperial Bedchamber Office hurriedly made a new jade token for her.

I’m afraid of delaying the emperor’s turn.

But Helian Qi's gaze paused slightly on "Concubine Ning" and said, "Go to Linlang Palace."

Wang Degui was stunned. Going to Linlang Palace again?

The person in Linlang Palace was frightened, so it is understandable that Your Majesty could take better care of her.

But in the following days, His Majesty turned over the names of other concubines one after another and did not go to Lingxue Pavilion again.

For a while, the concubines in the palace were extremely confused.

Didn't the emperor just promote Ning Wanyin? Why did he suddenly dislike her?

Although everyone knows that His Majesty is moody, isn't this too moody?

It was deep night, inside Lingxue Pavilion.

Ning Wanyin sat on the bamboo couch by the window, quietly playing a game of chess.

Lian Rui was waiting on the side, her face unable to hide her worry:

"Master, His Majesty hasn't seen you for some time..."

Helian Qi no longer came to Lingxue Pavilion, and she also noticed something was wrong.

Ning Wanyin picked up a white chess piece from the chess table and said calmly:

"Your Majesty is suspicious by nature. He should have guessed that the five hundred taels of silver were put there by me."

"How did Your Majesty guess that?" Lian Rui was very shocked.

Ning Wanyin said, "There are already people from the two dukes in the palace. Concubine Xue is plotting something important, so of course she needs to use assassins who will never betray her. She also has the ability to place people in Lingxue Pavilion, instead of spending money to bribe an outsider temporarily, which is too risky."

"So, logically speaking, there shouldn't be any banknotes in Caiye's house. Even if you want to give a reward, you can just send the Xue family's people outside the palace to her house. Isn't that more secretive and safer?"

"Of course, because Concubine Xue can't say that Caiye is hers, she doesn't need to spend money to bribe her. So, I win this round."

"But His Majesty is thoughtful, intelligent and suspicious. He naturally understands that the appearance of this banknote is inappropriate."

Lian Rui was confused by what she heard, but she finally figured it out. "So what? Although the banknotes were given by the master, Cai Ye is indeed Concubine Xue's person!"

"You are wrong. Since there is no physical evidence, she could be a member of the Xue family, or she could be mine." Ning Wanyin looked at the chessboard in front of her, quietly stroking the white chess piece in her palm.

Yinzhu came out to confess because of the physical evidence she planted.

In other words, there is actually no definite evidence to prove that Ning Wanyin did not instruct Cai Ye.

"Your Majesty believed in you..." Lian Rui hastily explained, "At that time, when the banknotes had not yet appeared, His Majesty specifically asked people to check carefully... Your Majesty believed in you."

indeed.

When all the evidence pointed to him, Helian Qi believed that she was innocent.

But when everything settled down, he found that Ning Wanyin was the winner of this round, and he felt a little hesitant.

The human heart is hard to predict, but who benefits is obvious.

The emperor has always attached great importance to results, so it is not surprising that he has doubts about the ultimate beneficiaries.

Of course, compared to Ning Wanyin, the emperor is even less likely to trust Xue Jinyan.

In this matter, he was 99% sure that he believed Ning Wanyin, he just had a little doubt.

But, after all, the rift between her and the emperor was not about the authenticity of the five hundred taels of silver.

Instead, the emperor sensed her sharpness.

Not only can it be used to deal with enemies, it can also hurt your own people.

Even if it wasn't Ning Wanyin who did it this time, will she put the people he cares about in danger for the sake of her own interests next time?

Ning Wanyin was not the emperor's confidant cultivated since childhood. They did not have a deep friendship, nor did they have a foundation of trust.

Ning Wanyin would not trust the palace maids in Lingxue Pavilion, and how could the emperor trust a concubine he had just met for a short time?

It was just a knife he picked up along the way.

Very useful, but also very dangerous.

The more useful Ning Wanyin is, the more he will pay attention to her dangers.

As long as Ning Wanyin keeps moving forward, this situation is inevitable.

For the emperor, there is no irreplaceable chess piece. It would be a pity to throw away a good knife, but I am not sure about using it, so it is better to leave it idle for the time being.

And things that are left unused gradually become less important.

Sometimes, it looks like winning.

But in fact, it is already on the verge of losing.

She still needs to remind His Majesty of a small matter in order to truly win this game.

Ning Wanyin dropped the chess piece in her palm into the chessboard.

One move into the game, a small loss of half, but a revitalized the overall situation:

"Don't worry, His Majesty will see me."

Lian Rui hurriedly said, "Master, what do you need to do? Just tell me!"

"You don't have to do anything. Someone will help me." Ning Wanyin pursed her thin lips and looked at the chess board with deep eyes.

Lian Rui was very curious: Who would help the master? The master has no friends in the palace.