The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

"Why is she here for no reason? Hasn't Li Shurong always been in cahoots with Concubine Xian?" Zhu Xia ordered everyone to pack up the things sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Xie Qingzhi and Li Shicheng divorced, and the father and son of the Li family were imprisoned one after another. Now the demoted concubine has no chance of making a comeback in the harem, so Li Shurong naturally wants to find a way out for herself.

Gu Jianchu said, "Let her in."

Yunhe came back and brought Li Shurong in.

Li Shurong's father currently serves as the Minister of Rites, and her brother serves as an official under the father of Concubine Xian. Since entering the palace, he has been close to Concubine Xian.

"Your servant pays respects to the Queen. May the Queen be well." Li Shurong bowed and greeted Gu Jianchu according to the rules.

Gu Jianchu leaned back naturally in the armchair and said lazily, "Zhu Xia, please take a seat. Yun He, go make a cup of tea for Li Shurong."

After Li Shurong sat down, Gu Jianchu continued, "What kind of wind blew Li Shurong into this palace today?"

Apart from the usual greetings and formalities, the concubines in the harem rarely came to her palace, so Gu Jianchu was naturally happy and at ease.

"Since the weather is nice today, I thought I'd go out for a walk. Before I knew it, I had arrived at Kunning Palace. I wanted to pay my respects to the Empress."

Li Shurong took a brocade box from the hand of the palace maid behind her and brought it to Gu Jianchu, "Also, my father sent an old mountain ginseng to the palace two days ago. It would be a waste to keep such a good thing with me, so I thought of sending it to the Queen.

Wild ginseng can nourish the body, and I hope the queen can conceive a son soon."

Upon hearing this, Gu Jianchu choked on a mouthful of water and started coughing violently.

Zhu Xia stepped forward worriedly to help Gu Jianchu with his back.

"Are you okay, Madam?" Li Shurong asked with concern.

"It's okay." After Gu Jianchu coughed a few times, his throat felt less uncomfortable. "Thank you for thinking of me, sister. It's such a good thing, I'm embarrassed to accept it, sister, you should take it back."

Li Shurong suddenly became anxious. "How can I take back the things I gave to Your Majesty as a gift? If Your Majesty doesn't like it, you can give it to someone else."

"What are you talking about, sister? It's just that the things are too valuable and it's hard for me to accept them." Gu Jianchu glanced at Yunhe beside him.

The clouds and nature took over.

"Your Majesty is the master of the harem. All precious things should be presented to you." Li Shurong flattered her a few more times before leaving on the pretext of something.

The cold wind blew on her face, and Li Shurong wrapped her cloak tightly around her. After they walked away, the little palace maid beside her couldn't help but say, "In order to please the Queen, Her Majesty even gave away the old mountain ginseng that the Master had so much trouble to find."

"The Queen is in great favor now. I guess many people in the harem are eager to please her. As long as they can have a relationship with her, a piece of old mountain ginseng is nothing." The smile between Li Shurong's eyebrows disappeared.

"I just feel it's a pity to give away such good things. If I had known this, Your Majesty should not have been so close to the virtuous concubine when she first entered the palace. She should have been closer to the Queen."

Li Shurong suddenly stopped and said, "It's been a long time since I last visited Concubine Xian. Today the weather is nice, so why not go to her palace and have a chat? Concubine Xian's father and brother were both imprisoned, and her face was disfigured because of the Empress. She must hate the Empress to death now."

"He will definitely hate the Queen." The little maid nodded in agreement.

Meanwhile, in Kunning Palace, the two maids, Zhuxia and Zhuxi, stared intently at the old mountain ginseng on the table. "In the past, Li Shurong always followed the orders of the virtuous concubine. Now that the virtuous concubine has just arrived, she's already rushing to give the Empress a gift. Could it be that she's trying to be a weasel and pay New Year's greetings to a chicken? She has ulterior motives."

"Could it be that the Empress is in great favor now, and Li Shurong is in a hurry to come and show her goodwill to the Empress? After all, the virtuous concubine has fallen." Yunhe made a bold guess.

Zhu Xia shook her head. "That's possible, but my sixth sense isn't very good."

Li Shurong truly had bad intentions. She actually hid something that could damage blood vessels in the old mountain ginseng. I was wondering why this woman would be so kind as to give me such a valuable item, but it turns out she was afraid to use it herself.

[If you take this for a long time, it will harm your body and make it difficult to get pregnant.]

[Ultimately, it was all because of the Emperor. If he hadn't been running to Kunning Palace all day, I wouldn't have become the target of the harem women's full-scale attacks.]

Outside the door, Xie Ci'an finished dealing with Li Shicheng's affairs in court, and was thinking of coming over to have lunch with Gu Jianchu.

As soon as I walked into the yard, I heard Gu Jianchu's angry voice.

Not only that, she also scolded me.

Cheng Song was about to report, but when he heard that Gu Jianchu had not yet finished speaking, Xie Ci'an raised his hand to stop Cheng Song.

Li Shurong personally delivered the old mountain ginseng, which was considered a real-name poisoning, so she wasn't afraid of me discovering it.

[Well, she's not really afraid of being discovered. The things Li Shurong hid inside would be difficult to discover even if the imperial physician came.]

[None of the women who could be with the emperor were simple. They would resort to any means to harm others. Li Shurong must have put a lot of thought into thinking of this method.]

Xie Ci'an, standing outside the door, suddenly clenched his fingers under his sleeves.

Thinking back to the time when his mother also died in the palace fighting among the women in the harem, this was another reason why he didn't want to enter the harem.

The reason why he was willing to be close to the queen was because he could suddenly hear the queen's inner thoughts. In addition to deliberately finding out some things, he could clearly know whether the queen had other intentions towards him.

[There's even some gossip about Li Shurong. ]

Her father's position as Minister of Rites was actually obtained by replacing the imperial examination results of a friend from the same hometown. I never thought that impersonation still exists today.

How did Li Shurong's father manage to get away with such a rigorous examination?

[It turned out that he had paid a large sum of money to bribe a young eunuch at the time to switch their test papers. The other person's years of hard work had all been ruined by the old man, while the old man had been rising rapidly over the years.]

Cheng Song, who was following behind him, had been observing the emperor's expression. He saw that the emperor's expression became colder and colder, and he had no idea what the emperor saw.

However, seeing the emperor's expression, a bad premonition instantly lingered in my heart.

"Let Wen Zhu investigate whether anyone cheated in the imperial examination fifteen years ago." Xie Ci'an's tone was cold, and he deliberately lowered his voice to avoid being heard.

Why did the emperor suddenly check the imperial examination results from fifteen years ago?

Even if there was something wrong back then, I'm afraid the evidence would have been destroyed long ago.

Cheng Song did not dare to disobey and immediately arranged for his apprentice to tell Wen Zhu the news.

In front of the charcoal basin, Yun He saw that Gu Jianchu had not spoken, so he asked tentatively, "What are you going to do with this old mountain ginseng, Madam?"

[I don’t dare to eat something this good. ]

It's a waste to throw it away, and it makes me upset to look at it.

Just as Gu Jianchu was hesitating, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a man in a bright yellow dragon robe suddenly appeared in everyone's sight. The palace maids all greeted them and saluted. Even Gu Jianchu herself did not expect that the emperor had just come last night and came again at noon.