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

As long as they don't sleep with the emperor, they still have a chance.

The virtuous concubine fiddled with her earrings, "As long as I can see the emperor, it's only a matter of time before I sleep with him. I didn't expect the queen to have the best luck."

None of the women who can enter the palace are easy to deal with.

Every word is meant to sow discord.

Gu Jianchu's face was cold, without a trace of smile, "Sister Xianfei is really good at joking. It would be better for me not to meet you."

"The Emperor might turn over the names of the sisters first."

The other concubines watched them quarreling with their eyes and noses, and occasionally joined in with a few words.

After drinking a cup of tea, Gu Jianchu didn't want to continue talking nonsense with them. He rubbed his temples with his fingers and said, "I'm not feeling well today. Let's go home early."

After everyone knelt and bowed, they left Kunning Hall in twos and threes.

When they were a little further away, the imperial concubine pulled Liang Guiyi aside and asked, "Didn't you say that the little palace maid was infallible? How could she have failed?"

Liang Guiyi knew the Imperial Concubine's temper well, so she explained gently, "I didn't know that the maid was so stupid that she could put the evidence in the wrong place. She didn't hurt the Empress at all, but ended up killing herself."

She looked around and saw that there were no outsiders around. She whispered, "I live close to Kunning Palace. I was a little full last night, so I came out to eat and found something."

"What did you find?" Concubine Shu asked impatiently.

If it weren't for Gu Jianchu, the position of queen would have been hers.

"I heard some strange noises in Kunning Palace, and soon after, I saw a figure hurriedly leaving the palace."

As soon as Liang Guiyi finished speaking, Concubine Shu's eyes lit up instantly.

"The Queen isn't really having an affair, is she?"

"I don't know about this. Maybe it was just the eunuch or imperial physician in the palace. After all, it was dark, and I might not have seen it clearly." Liang Guiyi said ambiguously.

"Who would allow a eunuch to go to the concubine's bedroom so late at night? It's even more impossible for an imperial physician to do so. Since you live close to the queen's bedroom, you can help me keep an eye on what's going on there. If anything unusual happens, report to me." Concubine Shu's eyes were filled with uncontrollable excitement.

Far away in Chuigong Palace, Xie Ci'an was busy dealing with memorials, but the figure of Gu Jianchu and the lingering scent of jasmine on her body kept appearing in his mind.

He impatiently went to pick up the brush placed aside, and paid no attention to the eunuch who came to serve tea. His arm bumped directly into the hot tea in the eunuch's hand, spilling tea all over his hand, and the teacup was knocked to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The young eunuch was so frightened that he fell to his knees, his body shaking like a sieve. "Your Majesty, please spare me, Your Majesty, please spare me."

The young eunuch banged his head hard on the bluestone slab, and soon blood was staining it.

Hearing the noise, Cheng Song immediately trotted in and kicked the young eunuch. "Stupid thing, how could you not even serve a cup of tea properly? Hurry up and get punished. Don't be an eyesore to His Majesty here."

Cheng Song protected the young eunuch before the emperor got angry.

The emperor usually liked them to bring hot tea. He knew the temperature well. It wouldn't cause serious burns, but pouring hot water on the skin would probably cause minor injuries. "Your Majesty, I will go and call the imperial physician."

"No need to go to so much trouble. The injuries I received at the border before were more serious than this. Go get some cold water to apply on it." Xie Ci'an didn't feel much pain, but the place where the hot water splashed on him turned visibly red.

Cheng Song hurriedly asked someone to get some cold water and cleaned up the broken teacup.

Cheng Song took the cold handkerchief brought by the young eunuch and applied it to the wound carefully, not forgetting to roll up his sleeves a few times. He was horrified to find that the emperor's wrist was wrapped with silk cloth, and there was still blood on it.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? I'd better call the imperial physician to take a look."

"There's no need to make public this minor injury. If I call the imperial physician, who knows how those old guys from the previous dynasty will stare at me." Xie Ci'an rubbed his eyebrows irritably.

Cheng Song had been serving Xie Ci'an since he was a child, and he had already had a vague suspicion. He asked tentatively, "Is the Emperor going to Kunning Palace tonight, or will he visit other concubines' palaces?"

Xie Ci'an caught a glimpse of the silk bandage on his wrist, which seemed to have been accidentally wet by the young eunuch. "We'll go to Kunning Palace later. There's no need to make a fuss."

Although Cheng Song was a little curious, he kept his mouth shut and didn't ask any more questions.

As night fell, Xie Ci'an changed into a black robe embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon and came to Kunning Palace alone.

Gu Jianchu ate a little too much tonight and felt uncomfortable due to indigestion. The door to the palace was not locked, so Xie Ci'an came in easily.

After what happened last night, Yunhe was now on guard with great vigilance. After hearing a slight noise, Yunhe took two steps forward in the moonlight and saw the emperor again, who had not entered the harem for more than a year.

Frightened, Yun He reacted quickly and was about to bow and report, but Xie Ci'an raised his hand to stop him, "No need to make a fuss, I'll go in by myself."

Yunhe had no choice but to quietly step aside and wake up Zhuxi and Zhuxia who were already resting.

Xie Ci'an strode into the inner hall and saw Gu Jianchusi lying on the bed with his legs spread out, his slender white jade hands touching his swollen belly. When she heard the voice, she thought it was Zhu Xia, "My stomach is still a little uncomfortable. Zhu Xia, go get me a glass of hawthorn water to help me digest the food."

Not hearing a response, Gu Jianchu lay on her back and took a look. She saw a tall figure standing upside down not far away. Especially when she saw the man's face, she suddenly rolled out of bed and said, "Your Majesty, why are you here again? Yunhe and the others are really incredible. They didn't even inform us."

[What's going on? He hasn't been to the harem for a year, but now he's coming here frequently. He even comes to my place every night. I'm afraid he's here to settle the score.]

If he wanted to settle the score, he could have done so then.

Gu Jianchu quickly stood up and saluted, but was halfway to her kneeling when Xie Ci'an helped her up and said, "There is no outsider here, the Queen does not need to salute."

"The Queen accidentally injured herself last night, and it was wet by the eunuch serving tea today. I came here to change the medicine." Xie Ci'an said, rolling up his sleeves to reveal a red wound.

"My technique is clumsy, Your Majesty, please call the imperial physician." Gu Jianchu didn't know what kind of abacus beads Xie Ci'an was using.

"Once the imperial physician arrives, the court officials will naturally know. Isn't the queen afraid of implicating the Gu family?" Xie Ci'an spoke in a frivolous tone, leaning skillfully on the chaise longue in front of the charcoal basin.

[It was clearly him who came to my house in the middle of the night and got hurt. Now he's threatening me, maybe he's using his injury as a pretext to blame me.]

Using the Gu family to threaten Gu Jianchu is indeed effective.

Although he complained in his heart, he was still busy taking medicine.

Xie Ci'an met many people, but except for the queen, he could not hear the voices of others. This might be related to the queen.

Gu Jianchu was afraid of hurting him, so he was very careful with his technique. They sat so close to each other, and the faint scent of jasmine drifted into his nostrils again unknowingly. Unlike the erotic scene he encountered yesterday, he felt inexplicably at ease today.

Little did they know that when the two were changing the medicine in the hall, the imperial concubine came with her people.