Just after dinner, Shen Meizhuang held Caixing's arm and walked back and forth in the front yard. The bigger her belly got, the more difficult it became for her to move.

If you ask her to kick someone again, I'm afraid she will fall down first.

After walking a few laps, my cheeks were slightly sweaty. At this moment, a loud voice sang outside the courtyard: "The Emperor has arrived!"

Shen Meizhuang took two quick steps to the gate to greet him.

Yinzhen looked at Shen Meizhuang's rosy cheeks, the loose hair on her forehead gently sticking to her cheeks, and the smile on the corners of her mouth was three times more beautiful than the flowers carefully cultivated in the imperial garden, making people unable to take their eyes off her.

Yinzhen took Shen Meizhuang by the hand and said, "My beloved concubine, why did you come out?"

Shen Meizhuang said softly, "I was originally taking a walk in the courtyard. The imperial physician said that this would help with childbirth."

As she spoke, she touched her belly, her face full of kindness.

Yinzhen gently stroked her cheek with his palm and rubbed it a few times. The feeling was like warm jade, which made him feel itchy in his heart. She looked even more beautiful.

At this moment, the sound of a piano was heard in the backyard, melodious and lingering.

Shen Meizhuang's smile remained unchanged, but her eyes darkened. Zhen Huan really let go of her pride and learned how to intercept favors, and it happened to her.

If she had been able to calm down and show up when the emperor was about to leave, it would have been better than directly seducing him with the sound of the piano.

However, Zhen Huan did it on purpose. The emperor was at her place and would not stay overnight. He started playing the piano as soon as he came in. He must have wanted to slap her in the face!

I wonder what kind of rumors will circulate in the palace after today? Shen Meizhuang smiled.

Yinzhen followed her into the main hall, but his mind was a little far away. He must have flown to the backyard, right?

Shen Meizhuang was naturally a considerate and understanding person: "Your Majesty, Sister Huan'er hasn't been doing well lately."

Yinzhen frowned, and Shen Meizhuang continued, "In the past, she was spoiled at home. After entering the palace, her food and clothing and the people who served her were very thoughtful and attentive. Now that she has suddenly been demoted and agreed to a lower position, she has suffered a lot."

"I want to help, but I'm afraid of hurting her pride. You know how proud she is. Your Majesty, why don't you go and see her on my behalf?"

Yinzhen looked unhappy. He thought of his childhood. After Tong E'niang passed away, his biological mother only cared about her fourteenth brother and completely ignored him. He had a very difficult life at that time.

He grew up in the palace, so he naturally knew that people in the palace flattered the powerful and looked down on the weak. Those who were not favored would naturally not be taken seriously.

However, Zhen Huan’s faults cannot be exposed in just a few words.

Yinzhen's eyes turned gentle again, with a hint of apology: "The north has sent a lot of mountain specialties as tribute. I sent someone to get them. Since my beloved concubine is worried about Zhen Huan, I will go and check on them for you."

Shen Meizhuang stood up to see him off: "Then thank you, Your Majesty. I will respectfully see you off."

In this way, Yinzhen strode towards the backyard with great enthusiasm.

Shen Meizhuang looked at the departing figure with sarcasm. This person's attitude changed quickly.

Xiao Shanzi came back very quickly. Shen Meizhuang was the mistress of the palace, so he naturally had to report to Shen Meizhuang before returning.

After a trip out to the hill, I felt refreshed and relaxed, as if I had been elevated, and I couldn't suppress my excitement.

As soon as he saw Shen Meizhuang, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.

"This servant thanks Concubine Lin for saving little Yunzi's life. He has already bought a shop outside the palace and plans to do some business."

Then he took out the remaining one hundred taels from his pocket and handed it over: "This is what's left after buying the shop. I will pay you back the rest as soon as possible."

Four hundred taels of silver were used to pay for his recovery and the sale of the shop. I guess Xiao Yunzi didn't win any money.

The two brothers were very sincere. It just so happened that she had a lot of prescriptions, but couldn't find the right person to run the business.

He did it as soon as he thought of it, and without paying attention to the small mountain kneeling on the ground, he stood up and walked to the study, picked up a pen, and wrote down a recipe for making ice.

When he walked back, he saw Xiao Shanzi still kneeling on the ground. He couldn't help but pat his forehead lightly and smiled embarrassedly.

"Look, I've been stupid for three years because of this pregnancy. I even forgot to tell you to get up first."

Xiao Shanzi also smiled shyly. He didn't expect the queen to explain to him: "The slave is not in the way."

Shen Meizhuang handed the prescription over, but Xiao Shanzi didn't even open it because he couldn't read.

After seeing Xiao Shanzi's reaction, Shen Meizhuang also reacted after a while and couldn't help but take the prescription back.

Xiao Shanzi is illiterate, and Xiao Yunzi is also illiterate, so Shen Meizhuang could only recite the prescription orally.

It was very simple. Xiao Shanzi was shocked when he heard it. How could he be told this? What did the Queen want to do?

Shen Meizhuang rubbed her forehead helplessly again. What had happened to her recently? She always spoke half-sentences, incomplete sentences, or omitted words, always leaving people confused.

I don’t know whether her son will inherit this stupidity when he is born, or if he will be stupid for another two months and then only have smartness left.

Shen Meizhuang: "Since Xiao Yunzi wants to do business, how about giving him this recipe and splitting the profits equally between us?"

It's just some stone-melting medicine, the cost is still very low, I think the profit should be quite big. She only gave a prescription, how much is too much?

Xiao Shanzi didn't know how much money this recipe could earn him, but if he earned more, he would give more as a gift.

He had no psychological burden in this regard, so he agreed and was worried that he would not be able to find an opportunity to repay the favor!

When Xiaoshanzi returned to the backyard, Zhen Huan had already successfully kept Yinzhen.

But before Yinzhen entered the room, she replaced all the items on the table with broken and unusable ones.

After meeting Yinzhen, she was very understanding. She didn't talk about her suffering, but let you see how miserable she was. She hinted in a more subtle way that all this might be related to Shen Meiyu.

Fortunately, these words were said the next day when Yinzhen was about to leave, otherwise he would have turned cold and walked away last night.

Unexpectedly, even after ignoring Zhen Huan for a while, her character had not changed at all, and she would always push the blame onto Concubine Ning whenever something happened.

It’s no wonder that the Empress Dowager said that her character was bad.

In the Qinzheng Hall, Yinzhen still summoned the General Manager of the Imperial Household Department. Huang Guiquan didn't know what he was summoned for, but when he was kneeling in the main hall, he saw that the emperor had an unfriendly expression, and he was trembling with fear.

Then, Yinzhen narrated Zhen Huan's experience. Huang Gui was very anxious and could only keep making excuses.

"Your servant... Your servant doesn't know. Your servant... didn't give any instructions. The Deputy Headmaster Jiang Minzhong personally sent the materials to Bitong Academy. Your servant had nothing to do with it."

Faced with Yinzhen's questioning, Huang Guiquan timidly kowtowed, cried and begged for mercy.

Yinzhen also guessed the general idea of ​​the matter from his intermittent narration, but this time he did not send anyone to summon Jiang Minzhong, but instead asked Su Peisheng to investigate.

In just a cup of tea, Su Peisheng ran back and confirmed that what Huang Guiquan said was true.

So Yinzhen directly ordered that Jiang Minzhong be imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment, and asked Huang Guiquan to replace a batch of items for Zhen Huan, but he still agreed to the position and did not violate the rules at all.

When Zhen Huan heard the result of the handling, she only dealt with the deputy general manager, without mentioning Huang Guiquan, Concubine Hua, or Shen Meiyu at all.

Feeling increasingly unhappy, he hurried to Yu and mentioned Shen Meizhuang again in a vague way.

Seeing that she was like a possessed person, staring at Concubine Ning, Yinzhen's misunderstanding deepened, so he explained the whole story to her.

Zhen Huan regretted that Shen Meizhuang was not involved, but at the same time she became worried because she had offended the Queen.

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