Chapter 2181 Make Delicious Food for the Empress All Your Life
Mi Dou said: "So, I don't want to leave the palace."
Qi Xiao said: "Your father and brother are still waiting for you to leave the palace."
"They just want to marry me and get a betrothal gift." Mi Dou curled her lips, "I have been in the palace for ten years. How can I not give them monthly silver to help them live? They still want to take advantage of me. Here’s the last touch.”
Jin Shan couldn't help but smile and said: "Mi Dou looks at Han Han and he is so silly, and he understands in his heart."
"People just look stupid, not really stupid."
Mi Dou pursed her lips, "I'm twenty-six years old, and I look ordinary. When I leave the palace and get married, I either become a stepmother or a concubine. I go to other people's homes to see their colors, and I serve men and other people's children. I won’t live a life of humiliation and compromise.”
Yun Dai asked: "Then how did you decide?"
Mi Dou said: "This slave is just like Sister Qingyi. She would rather stay with the Queen than go anywhere. She will cook delicious food for the Queen all her life."
"This is a lifelong event, have you really decided?"
"In the past few years, I have thought about this countless times."
"Since you don't want to leave the palace, it's up to you." Yun Dai said.
"Thank you, Queen, for your grace." Mi Dou kowtowed, got up, and stood beside Qing Yi happily.
Among the others, two refused to leave the palace, and the remaining three were willing to leave the palace.
Yun Dai asked Qing Yi to give them a sum of money and let them out.
Including those on the roster, seventy maids will be released this time.
Although it cost a lot of money, the palace also saved a lot of money.
It's just that in some places, there is not enough manpower.
For example, Shangyi Bureau.
The seven or eight palace maids who were released were all highly skilled. Once they left, the Shangyi Bureau was stretched thin.
Qi Xiao suggested to Yun Dai that they select another group of beautiful girls to enter the palace.
In the eight years since Zhao Yuanjing came to the throne, he has only held one draft, and it was something the Empress Dowager had been striving to do. In the following years, there was never another draft.
Zhao Yuanjing had no interest in this matter, and Yun Dai would naturally not mention it.
Although they do not choose concubines, the palace maids are getting older every year, and some are released every year. There are fewer and fewer people, and there is never a replacement.
Sooner or later there will be no one to use the palace.
This is definitely not possible. Although there are few masters in the palace, the number of palace people required to maintain the normal operation of such a large palace is very large.
If such an exquisite palace is abandoned, Queen Yun Dai will be the sinner of history.
She thought about it and felt that this matter was very important, so she went to discuss it with Zhao Yuanjing.
After Zhao Yuanjing attended the morning court, he met with several ministers of the Ministry of Industry to discuss the matter of repairing the channel after the spring.
When Yun Dai arrived, the ministers of the Ministry of Industry had just left, and Zhao Yuanjing was drinking medicine.
He still looked the same when taking the medicine. He was holding the medicine with no expression on his handsome face. He drank it in one breath as if he were drinking tea.
Just like when Yun Dai saw him in the East Palace.
He looked very much the same over the years.
Looking back now, even people who take medicine every day will still feel bitter.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t drink so quickly.
Seeing him sitting alone behind the table drinking medicine, Yun Dai felt a little dazed.
After Zhao Yuanjing finished drinking the medicine, he covered his lips with a towel and coughed for a while.
Yun Dai hurried over and helped him along his back.
"I think your cough has gotten worse."
"No, I drank too much just now and choked." Zhao Yuanjing explained.
Yun Dai knew that he didn't want to worry herself.