Poor Family

The Shi family entered the palace to thank them, but on the way out of the palace, they ran into Concubine Liu Gui and the female family members of the Liu family. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that Concubine Liu Gui was deliberately blocking people.

Seeing the unfriendly concubine Liu Gui and others, Mrs. Shi's heart sank slightly, she glanced at Jin Yue'e and Shi Fuxin, and signaled with her eyes that they should endure.

"Yongan greets the imperial concubine and empress."

"Wan An, the imperial concubine."

Princess Yong'an and Shi Fuyin took the lead in blessing Liu Guifei.

Concubine Liu Gui glanced at the two of them, ignored them, and turned her eyes to Mrs. Shi, Jin Yue'e, and Shi Fuxin who were also doing blessings, and gave a glance to the maid beside her.

The maid received the signal, and immediately scolded: "Presumptuous, why don't you kneel down to pay your respects when you see the imperial concubine?"

As soon as these words came out, both Princess Yong'an and Shi Fuyin changed their expressions.

Mrs. Shi knew that if Concubine Liu Gui was not allowed to vent her anger today, they would not be able to leave the palace smoothly, looked at Jin Yue'e and Shi Fuxin, and immediately prepared to kneel down. However, before the knees could be bent, the arms were grabbed by the granddaughter beside her.

Concubine Liu Gui and the female family members of the Liu family saw Shi Fuxin's actions, and their faces showed contempt and ridicule.

Except for formal occasions where female relatives must kneel when entering the palace, they are not required to kneel at other times, but if high-ranking concubines in the palace insist on embarrassing them, female relatives cannot disobey them.

After all, a concubine is the emperor's woman, representing the imperial power and the emperor.

It is only natural for a minister to kneel to the king.

Concubine Liu Gui just wanted to beat and humiliate Shi's family, to let them know that don't think that Shi Dinghao's becoming a son-in-law is a big deal, and that it would be easy for the Liu family to handle them.

Seeing that the female family members of the Shi family did not kneel down for a long time, the maid just wanted to reprimand again when she heard a crisp 'pop'.

Everyone looked around, and saw a piece of black and white jade carving broken into several pieces at the foot of Concubine Liu Gui's skirt.

Seeing the jade carving, Concubine Liu Gui and the female family members of the Liu family all had expressions on their faces. How could they care about the female family members of the Shi family?

When the emperor brought the crown prince, the fourth prince, and Chu Yao's favored clan children over, he happened to see Concubine Liu Gui and his party leave in a hurry.

"Greetings to the royal father."

"See the emperor."

This time, Shi Fuxin suppressed her reluctance and knelt down with Mrs. Shi and Jin Yue'e.

The emperor raised his hand to let them get up, and then glanced at Shi Dinghao and the prince.

Not long ago, Shi Dinghao told him that Concubine Liu Gui stopped the family members of the Shi family, and she hesitated to speak, just like what Concubine Liu Gui wanted to do to the Shi family.

The prince heard it from the side, and also talked about Concubine Liu Gui's overbearing.

For the Empress Dowager's sake, he was also worried that Concubine Liu Gui would make too much noise, so the Emperor reluctantly came over to have a look.

However, nothing was seen.

The emperor thought to himself at this moment, Concubine Liu Gui and the Liu family are still very familiar with the general situation.

Chu Yao looked at Shi Fuxin, then at Concubine Liu Gui and the others who had hurried away and couldn't see her figure, thinking.

The crown prince felt a little regretful, if Concubine Liu Gui raised an issue against the Shi family, for the Empress Dowager's sake, the emperor would also scold Concubine Liu Gui and the Liu family.

It's a pity that Concubine Liu Gui still has a little brain.

The fourth prince breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave Shi Dinghao a hard look.

Shi Dinghao, just now dared to sue his mother and concubine in front of him, to see how he would deal with him in the future.

The emperor and the female family members had nothing to say, and simply talked to Mrs. Shi, and asked about the situation of An Guogong's mansion, and then prepared to take the people away.

At this moment, the girl from the Shi family who dared to flatter him the first time she saw him spoke.

Hearing Shi Fuxin's voice, Chu Yao showed such an expression.

"Your Majesty, forgive me. Just now, my servant seems to have offended the imperial concubine."

Displeasure flashed across the emperor's eyes, Concubine Liu Gui was his woman, even if she made things difficult for Shi's family, Shi's family was courtiers, just accept it, and ran to him one after another to file complaints, is this a disobedience?

"Oh, tell me, how did you offend the noble concubine? I will listen to see if I want to help the noble concubine punish you?"

When the fourth prince saw that Shi Fuxin was pleading guilty on the surface, but actually complaining, his complexion sank immediately, but when the emperor said that the daughter of Shi's family would be punished, his expression relaxed again.

Hmph, his mother and concubine are concubines conferred by the emperor himself, how could a courtier's daughter be offended!

Shi Fuxin acted scared: "The courtier didn't kneel down to pay her respects immediately, the imperial concubine was so angry that she smashed a black and white jade carving."

The emperor laughed angrily at such a clumsy complaint. At this time, the family girl really thought that Shi Dinghao could run up to him and put eye drops on the noble concubine at will when he became a son-in-law. She was about to warn her when she suddenly thought of something.

"What did you say the imperial concubine smashed?"

Shi Fuxin hurriedly replied: "It's a black and white jade carving, my servant looked at it, and that jade carving looked a bit like the iron-eating beast I saw in the Bashu travel book."

The emperor's complexion suddenly changed, without saying a word, he turned around and walked towards Jingren Palace.

Chu Yao also thought of something, glanced at Shi Fuxin, and followed quickly.

The prince took a step behind, and thoughtfully glanced at Shi Fuxin who was kneeling on the ground.

The six girls of the Shi family.

He is no stranger to this girl at all, and the queen mother has tried to stuff this person into her backyard more than once.

The prince carefully looked at Shi Fuxin, um, she looks quite lucky.

Thinking of the expression on his father's face when he left just now, the prince's eyes became a little dark.

Seeing the fourth prince rushing to chase after the emperor, the prince glanced at Shi Fuxin again, and followed others to Jingren Palace.

After a while, only Shi Fuxin and the others remained in the Imperial Garden.

Princess Yong'an watched Shi Fuxin get up calmly, and her heart was slightly moved.

Every time he meets Shi Jiulang, the person Shi Jiulang talks about the most is his twin sister, saying how amazing she is, and seeing her today, she is indeed amazing.

In front of the fourth prince, the crown prince and others, he gave Concubine Liu Gui the eye drops in front of the emperor, and it seemed that it was done.

Princess Yong'an glanced at the emperor's party who had gone away long ago, her eyes flickered, she suddenly had a premonition that Concubine Liu Gui might suffer disaster this time.

"Princess, hurry back to Shoukang Palace, we are leaving the palace now."

Princess Yong'an insisted on sending the Shi family to the gate of the palace, and then returned to Shoukang Palace. After going back, after thinking about it, she still went to see the Empress Dowager and told her in detail what happened just now.

The Empress Dowager was lying lazily on the armchair, but after hearing Princess Yong'an's words, she also sat up with a 'bass'.

"Yong'an, tell me again, what does the jade carving that Concubine Liu Gui smashed look like?"

Seeing that the Empress Dowager was so serious, Princess Yong'an quickly repeated it: "Black and white, Miss Shi Liu said it looks like an iron-eating beast in the Bashu area."

The Empress Dowager got up and walked around: "Is the jade carving really broken?"

Princess Yong'an nodded: "Well, it broke into several pieces." Seeing the Empress Dowager sitting back on the armchair, she asked, "Is there any origin of the empress dowager's jade carving? After hearing this, the emperor's father also had a big face. Change."

The Empress Dowager didn't answer immediately, and after a while she said quietly: "Empress Wende likes the iron-eating beasts in Bashu area very much, and calls them national treasures."

"During the Taizu period, the great Chu state was powerful. Due to the shortage of treasury, some of the gold, silver and jewels were relocated. Empress Wende jokingly called it the royal treasure."

"There is only one entrance to the treasure, and the key to open it is an iron-eating beast made of black jade and suet jade. If you don't enter through the entrance, there will be organs all over the place."

If you want to get the royal treasure, you must first find the treasure map, and second, you must have the key to start the treasure.

After Xingzong, few people knew about the royal treasure, but the Empress Dowager knew that the regent found the treasure map back then.

Fortunately, he didn't get the entrance key, otherwise, the regent would have won that year.