Empress with no Virtue Chapter 44: Shou Sui

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The new year is approaching, and the atmosphere in the entire palace has become festive. Every palace is busy cleaning up the old and welcoming the new, and the palace people are getting rewards without mentioning them.

The eunuchs and maids of Kunning Palace are naturally the most envied. The empress herself has a rich family and a lot of wealth, and the emperor rewards her every day, so she is simply the richest woman in the entire palace. She is also generous with her actions, and in the past few days, she has rewarded her servants to the point of grinning from ear to ear.

The couplets in Kunning Palace were all written by Ji Wu Jiu himself. They were written on red silk with a brush dipped in ink and hung on the door couplets. His strokes were broad and elegant, and even Ye Zhenzhen had to admit that these two strokes of calligraphy were indeed very good.

Ji Wu Jiu moved a lot of things to Kunning Palace as usual. Not only that, he also specially brought a pair of white jade swans and gave them to Ye Zhen Zhen with his own hands.

Ever since she figured it out, Ye Zhenzhen had the mentality of establishing a good relationship with Ji Wu Jiu. She couldn't offend this person.

He determines her life and death. If she wants to live a comfortable life, she must not be too disrespectful to him. So she asked Su Yue to pack a lot of things for Ji Wu Jiu in return. When she saw Concubine Zhuang and the others making things for Ji Wu Jiu with their own hands, she also followed suit and modified a half-made purse she had made before and embroidered it on A dragon was sent there together.

The embroidered dragon is not very pretty. At first glance, it looks like a struggling centipede. Ji Wu Jiu played with the purse and wanted to wear it. However, he had to worry about his image as the emperor during such a big festival, so he had no choice but to put the purse in another purse and hang it around his waist.

For Ye Zhenzhen, celebrating the New Year is a good thing, but it also has its outrageous aspects: staying up late on the New Year's Eve. In previous years, when she was a little girl who had not left the government, it didn't really matter whether she stayed up late or not. She was a sleepy sleeper, and her family loved her and let her go to bed early on New Year's Eve.

But now, as a queen, she can no longer hide away. On New Year's Eve, inside the Qianqing Palace, Ye Zhenzhen accompanied Ji Wu Jiu and stayed up late with the concubines. There were various fruit boxes on the table, and all kinds of pastries made people's fingers twitch when they saw them, but none of these could save Ye Zhenzhen. When it was time to sleep, she felt as if some mechanism had been pressed on her body, her eyes were dull and she was drowsy. The concubines below were chatting and laughing, but she didn't say anything to them, just like a doorkeeper.

Ji Wu Jiu looked sideways at her and couldn't help but feel a little distressed. He wanted to pull her into his arms and let her have a good sleep, but it didn't feel right to do that, so he had to endure it.

After finally getting to midnight, Ye Zhenzhen was almost dreaming. Ji Wu Jiu pushed her awake and told her that it was time to eat dumplings. Eating dumplings at the end of the year is a folk custom in some places, and the royal family also followed this.

There are sixty-four kinds of fillings in the dumplings. When they are served, they are placed on the big table. Whoever wants to eat what kind of fillings they want can order and let the people around them pick it up. Ye Zhenzhen casually mentioned several kinds of stuffings in a daze, and Suyue put them on a plate and brought them to her. She half-closed her eyelids and looked dull. Ji Wu Jiu couldn't help but feel amused.

Ye Zhenzhen picked up a dumpling and put it into her mouth. She chewed it twice and then stopped.

"What's wrong?" Ji Wu Jiu asked.

Ye Zhenzhen covered her mouth with a handkerchief, moved her mouth a few times, and spit out a copper coin on the handkerchief. The copper coin is a gift coin specially made by the Ministry of Rites. It is clean and bright, with the four characters "All Nations Come to Court" cast on it.

Ji Wu Jiu came over to take a look, and said with a slight curl of his lips, "It seems that the queen is going to have good luck this year."

Ye Zhenzhen doesn't think there is any necessary connection between eating something hard and bringing good luck. She picked up another one and bit it, her face turned dark.

Ji Wu Jiu watched helplessly as Ye Zhenzhen spit out another copper coin, this time it was "a good harvest".

The other concubines couldn't help but feel a little envious when they saw Ye Zhenzhen eating two gift coins in a row. The gift money was put in when making dumplings. There were only ten pieces in total. Now the queen ate two of them at once. The remaining eight pieces were distributed among so many dumplings. Who knows which one is inside?

Soon they discovered that they had thought too much.

Like a machine that spits out money, Ye Zhenzhen spit out two more. One is "the country is peaceful and the people are safe" and the other is "the weather is smooth".

So everyone stopped eating dumplings and looked at her curiously.

For Ye Zhenzhen, having something in her mouth interrupted was really a very emotional thing. She didn't eat either. She put all the dumplings on the plate and opened them with chopsticks.

Just like this, two more people came out, one was "good luck and good fortune" and the other was "many descendants".

Looking at the pile of six coins in front of her, Ye Zhenzhen felt helpless, as if she had cheated.

Ji Wu Jiu was very happy, "The Queen is really my lucky star!"

The concubines were very discerning. Regardless of whether they were happy or not, they all joined in and said auspicious words. Ye Zhenzhen rewarded them one by one, and Ji Wu Jiu rewarded them again. After a lot of tossing, she could finally go to sleep.

At this time, she was so sleepy that her head was dizzy and her steps were shaky.

Ji Wu Jiu said, "The Queen is so tired, so there is no need to go back to Kunning Palace. Let's rest in Qianqing Palace tonight."

"How can this be done?" Ye Zhenzhen yawned and was about to leave.

"I say yes." Ji Wu Jiu simply picked her up and said to the other women, "You all should leave."

Everyone just watched helplessly as he hugged Ye Zhenzhen and left. In fact, for most concubines, although there is envy, jealousy and hatred, they are not very strong. After all...the emperor is dying...

Only Concubine Xian thinks a little too much. A few days ago, the assassin's matter was ignored. Instead of venting his anger on the Ye family, the emperor promoted Ye Mufang to a noble position. Su Jieyu died in an unknown manner, and Ye Zhenzhen did not receive any punishment. Instead, he promoted Xu Xuanshi to go. In the cold palace.

...It seems that the emperor is sincere towards the queen.

Thinking of this, Concubine Xian felt bitterness in her heart.

***

Life during the New Year is nothing more than that, eating, drinking, having fun. Unlike other women in the harem, Ye Zhenzhen also had to receive the ladies who came to pay her New Year's greetings, one after another without stopping. She worked all day during the day, and then went out for a walk at night to enjoy the cold wind and be quiet.

That night, when she passed by Luhua Palace, she suddenly saw a white shadow flashing in front of her, very fast, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ye Zhenzhen was a little surprised. She rubbed her eyes and asked, "Suyue, did you see something?"

"Go back to your Majesty, I didn't see anything, but what did you see?"

Ye Zhenzhen thought she was dazzled.

Wang Youcai said from the side, "Madam, I seem to have seen a ghost."

"How do you know it's a ghost?" Ye Zhenzhen asked with a smile.

"She was wearing white clothes, with long hair, a green face, fangs, and a **** mouth..."

"Okay, the more you say it, the less reliable it becomes." Su Yue said.

Wang Youcai suddenly pointed forward, "Mother, it's here again!"

Ye Zhenzhen took a closer look and saw that it had indeed appeared again. It looked like a person, dressed in white, with hair hanging down on all sides, covering his face. His feet seemed to be hanging in the air, nearly half a foot above the ground.

"Queen, I died so unjustly!" it said, its voice was erratic and distant, with a cry in it, which made people's skin tremble when listening to it.

Wang Youcai and Su Yue simultaneously took a step forward to block Ye Zhenzhen.

Ye Zhenzhen asked, "Who are you?"

"Return——my——sex——life——"

Ye Zhenzhen held the shoulders of Wang Youcai and Su Yue, pulled them to both sides, stepped forward, stood with her hands behind her back, and laughed loudly, "Since the innocent souls are asking for their lives, my life is here. Why not come and get it quickly?"

"..."

Su Yue admired the Queen from the bottom of her heart for being able to drive ghosts into silence.

Seeing that the other party was silent, Ye Zhenzhen walked towards it. As soon as it saw Ye Zhenzhen approaching, it turned around and ran away.

So that night, the queen led a group of people to chase a ghost, shouting and killing, causing a commotion throughout the palace. In the end, the ghost failed to catch up, and they found the abandoned white clothes and wig in the garden.

"Pretending to be a ghost." Ye Zhenzhen concluded.

Su Yue was a little confused, "Empress, who could have done this? Why did he pretend to be a ghost to scare you?"

"I don't know who he is for the time being. The incident took place near Luhua Palace. He pretended to be a ghost. He probably thought that I had killed Su Jieyu and wanted to scare me." Su Jieyu said. Only she and Ji Wu Jiu knew about his death, and it was normal for others to misunderstand him.

Su Yue was puzzled, "But like this...he won't get any benefits."

"There's no need to worry about pretending to be a ghost. What I'm afraid of is that he might have some tricks up his sleeve." After thinking about it, Ye Zhenzhen said, "Everyone in Kunning Palace must be extra careful these days and keep an eye on eating utensils." ."

Su Yue agreed.

Ye Zhenzhen narrowed her eyes, "I would like to see if he has any other good tricks."

The author has something to say: Thank you to aikame, Zhou Shuiyin, Yidou Sheng, An Er, Xiaoxiang Passer, and zz for the mines. I knocked them down one by one and ravaged them~