The daily life of the concubine of the Prime Minister

Chen Mansion in the capital.

Tingzhuxuan had not turned off the lights for three days and three nights. The servants dared not breathe, and even dared not make the slightest sound when walking.

The servants lived in anxiety every day. They originally thought that the Third Master was of a humble nature. Although he was serious, he never beat or scolded the servants. What they envied most was working in Tingzhuxuan.

But since the Third Master brought back the Third Lady, who was covered in blood and had no life, three days ago,

The entire East Courtyard was in a state of depression. Three old women and two maids had already been driven out.

The reason was simple: the Third Master heard the plan he had made up about whether the Third Madam was going to die.

He was sent away.

Another group of imperial doctors came out of Tingzhuxuan.

Nanny Feng, who had just arrived at the gate of the East Courtyard, hurriedly stopped the imperial physician.

Nanny Feng handed each person a silver ingot and asked with a smile:

"Dear doctors, how is my third wife?"

The imperial physician bowed to the old lady and shook his head: "The old lady can find a doctor among the people."

They had never seen such a strange disease before. According to Lord Chen's description, the patient must have fainted from fright.

But when they felt his pulse, they did find signs of being frightened.

Generally, when someone is frightened unconscious, the patient will wake up in a short while at the mildest, or become insane or even die at the worst. However, it is very rare for someone to remain unconscious for three days and three nights without waking up.

They had tried every possible method, but couldn't wake him up.

They even made a bold guess that the soul had disappeared?

However, they only mentioned this matter vaguely.

After hearing this, the old lady became even more worried. She thanked him again and walked to Tingzhuxuan.

Her son, who was handsome, elegant and proud of himself, was now sitting in front of the couch with a haggard face and unshaven beard. He was taking care of the person on the bed in his tattered clothes and wiping her face with a towel over and over again.

"Old man! Go change your clothes! It's been three days since you came back wearing these clothes!

"Okay, I understand, mother." Although Mr. Chen San responded, he still stood by the bed without moving.

The old lady sighed softly, but in the end said nothing.

"Mother, I am going to ask someone to come back and perform a ritual."

After a while, Mr. Chen San asked.

Since medical skills cannot solve the problem, we can only pray to Buddha.

The old lady naturally had no objection: "Okay, I'll go talk to the others, you don't have to worry..."

After the mother and son had discussed it, Mr. Chen San decided not to waste any more time.

In the three days since I came back from Shan'ao Village, I went out for the first time and went to the study.

Over the years, he has been a Buddhist and prayed to Buddha countless times by the bed, asking Liu Yu to wake up.

But there was still no movement.

Master Chen San closed his eyes and took off the Buddhist bracelet on his wrist. He picked up a pen and ink, wrote a letter for Taoist Linghui of Xingcheng Pavilion, and asked Feng Xiao to deliver it to Xingcheng Pavilion.

He thought about it and wrote another letter to the abbot of Anguo Temple.

three days later.

Taoist Priest Linghui of Xingcheng Pavilion came to Chen's house with two disciples.

Everyone knows that Mr. Chen San was a Buddhist all his life, but he invited a Taoist priest for his third wife.

The ritual at the Chen Mansion lasted for seven days and seven nights.

It makes me sad.

However, it was indirectly confirmed that Master Chen San was really confused, otherwise he would not have not gone to court despite the new emperor coming to invite him twice.

As long as Mr. Chen San was confused, someone would see an opportunity.

"Your Majesty, Lord Chen has been busy with his wife's affairs recently. I'm afraid he doesn't have the energy to be responsible for this performance evaluation. You should send someone else." An official in the imperial study came forward and suggested.

As soon as this official said this, several other officials seconded the proposal.

Emperor Ren'an, also known as Li Chen, pinched his brows and looked at Zhou Zheng who had been silent.

He knew that today's incident was arranged by Zhou Zheng, who wanted to take advantage of this period of time to exclude the teacher.

How could he possibly let Zhou Zheng be satisfied?

The performance evaluation of local officials was such an important matter that he was concerned about no one except his teacher.

Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't refuse them immediately.

Otherwise, the Censorate will have to jump out tomorrow to persuade him.

Emperor Ren'an smiled and asked:

"Then according to your opinions, who do you think is suitable? Mr. Zhou has just finished dealing with the Northwest Ice Disaster. He is old, and I plan to let him take a rest."

Originally, he had handed over the Northwest ice disaster to his teacher, but it was taken away by Zhou Zheng.

He also prepared a petition for merit from the people, forcing him to reward Zhou Zheng even more.

If Zhou Zheng were to leave again, I'm afraid there would be another Zhang Lianci.

Now only the teacher can compete with Zhou Zheng, but the teacher is avoiding him.

He's waiting to figure out a solution...

Emperor Ren'an directly rejected Zhou Zheng's decision to take over, catching several ministers off guard.

Seeing that Zhou Zheng looked unhappy, their thoughts raced and they tentatively mentioned the names of several Zhou officials.

Although Zhou Zheng was very angry in his heart and had already scolded Emperor Ren'an, he still had his reason. He had to decide the person while Chen Zhihe was not in the court.

Even though he was not optimistic about the person mentioned below, he still spoke in agreement.

Emperor Ren'an's expression remained unchanged, and he smiled modestly:

"Mr. Zhou, what you said is that I will give priority to the candidate for the minister responsible for performance evaluation."

"That's all for today! Come, escort the ministers out of the palace."

Everyone wanted to say something, but the chief eunuch beside Emperor Ren'an spoke first: "My Lords, please come in!"

Emperor Ren'an felt particularly happy when he saw Zhou Zheng and the others leave with gloomy faces.

"Laifu, go to my private vault, pick out a thousand-year-old ginseng, and send it to the teacher."

...

South market in the capital.

Madam Chen had just collected the rent from the shop when she saw two people coming out of the shop diagonally opposite. Even Madam Chen, who was usually well-mannered, showed anger in her eyes.

Watching the two people opposite leave, she only thought about it for a moment, told the maid beside her to wait for her there, and followed them.

Mrs. Chen followed the couple to the jewelry shop, then to the clothing store, and finally witnessed Zhou Huaian taking the woman through many twists and turns, and entering the small courtyard where they went in and out. She didn't care about her own panting breath and cursed:

"The Zhou family is great! My third brother always said that we are going to be in-laws, so he gave the good job to you and even spoke well of you in front of His Majesty."

"Bah, what a rotten thing! Not only does he bring disgrace upon himself, he even steals people..." After cursing for a while, Madam Chen turned around in disgust and went back to the South Market. She did not even collect the rent and got on the carriage directly and headed home.

But when he returned home, he saw all the servants heading to the east courtyard.

Thinking of Liu Yu who had been in a coma, he had no idea what happened to Zhou Huaian and quickly rushed to the East Courtyard.

"Third sister-in-law, please don't get into trouble!"