Chapter 364 Pork Meat Stewed Vermicelli (6)
"The Ai family asked you to establish your authority and knock on those buyers and cooks who don't have big positions but are very demanding. What did you do?" The concubine who was half lying on the couch frowned and looked at the person kneeling in front of her. The palace man on the ground cursed, "How on earth do you do things?"
Kneeling on the ground, Chai San, the newly appointed general manager of the Internal Affairs Yamen, kowtowed and admitted his mistake again: "I know my mistake!" When he raised his head again, his forehead was already covered with beads of sweat.
This sweat can be scary or hot.
Chang'an is not like some places in the south where it feels like spring all year round. The winter in Chang'an was very cold. He had just come in from outside, and there was a thin layer of snow falling in the sky. He was naturally wearing a thick jacket.
But as soon as he entered the dowager's bedroom, he felt a "boom" and a wave of warmth hit him.
This is not surprising. There are seven or eight burning charcoal pots placed in this palace. No matter whether it is your majesty or the queen, no palace will have more charcoal pots than this number.
Your Majesty has always been filial to the concubine, and the rules and regulations can be applied to others, even to yourself, but not to this nurturing concubine.
Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the unpopular concubine who was relatively inconspicuous in the late emperor's harem has transformed into a high-ranking concubine.
Chai San looked at the concubine who was half-lying down. Next to the concubine, several palace maids were kneeling on the ground and wiping the milk spilled on the ground. Next to the milk was a rolled up thin blanket, and under the concubine's body There is also a thin blanket of similar colors.
He recognized that they were two thin blankets sent as tribute from Persia at the beginning of the year. Unexpectedly, all of them were sent to the dowager, and not one was left behind by the majesty and the queen.
She didn't expect that the concubine would use such a rare thing so carelessly, and milk would be spilled on it.
Chai Sanrao boasted that he had become powerful once and that he would waste money and materials after having too much money. But compared to this concubine, he could be called "frugal".
Chai San had nothing to be dissatisfied with after having taken care of him easily in the past, and now he had the power. He had done something wrong now, and he should accept the punishment.
There was only one thing he wanted to make clear.
"My concubine, you are so stupid, you really specifically mentioned the Dali Temple public chef to beat me up!" Chai San kowtowed and said, "In front of all the government offices in the capital, beat them for 'faffing around' and looking for money." Got it!"
"Asshole!"
With an angry scolding, a tea cup filled with milk hit Chai San again. The hot milk splashed onto his face. The hot milk met the newly scratched scar, and Chai San gasped in pain. , but he endured the pain and did not dare to say a word. He just kept his head down and was scolded.
"The Ai family asked you to beat the public chef of Dali Temple, but they didn't let you offend all the government chefs in the capital!" Concubine Jing scolded, "It's your responsibility to hand over the ingredients to the internal affairs office for dispatch just now. Did you think of it? Even if you are greedy, you should take it step by step. Are you here to scold the Ai family? "
After saying that, he slammed the few memorials he was holding on Chai San's body: "Here, look, look, those officials are like dogs that smell the smell, they come up and attack Aijia A barking meal!”
Chai San, who was kneeling on the ground and being scolded, glanced at the several memorials that fell beside him. Without looking at the contents of the memorials, he knew that there would be nothing good in them when he saw the signatures at the bottom of the memorials.
Looking at those memorials, Chai San felt a little aggrieved: He, Chai San, was just a villain, just greedy. He was so greedy and so obvious that he would never do anything hopelessly stupid. Isn't this matter... the result of Concubine Jing's instruction?
No matter how aggrieved she was, she had to wait until she had been scolded by Concubine Jing before she could speak.
After Concubine Jing finished scolding her, Chai San was about to speak, but the maid who was sitting at the end of the room and beating Concubine Jing's legs spoke before him.
"My dear concubine," the palace maid said, "this matter is not Xinyue's fault, but it is Eunuch Chai who is wrongly blamed."
Chai San, who had bowed his head and had already received a scolding, heard this and said hurriedly: "This old slave is stupid, I can't blame Aunt Xinyue."
I really wanted to speak for him as long ago as His Majesty showed the memorial to Concubine Jing. How could I wait until now? Chai San sneered in his heart, but no matter how unwilling he was, he did not dare to show any disrespect to this formerly inconspicuous laundry maid.
It is not impossible that he was attracted by the concubine once and entered the concubine's palace, and then changed his identity because of doing "good things" and became a celebrity around the concubine, but this Xinyue does not seem to be for this reason.
Seeing the palace full of maids kneeling on the ground doing work, or standing to the side with solemn expressions, not daring to show any signs of slacking off, one knew that Concubine Jing was not easy to get along with.
This palace maid who called Xinyue was in sharp contrast to the solemn expressions of the palace maids. She was sitting at the end of the bed. Although she was tapping her legs for the concubine, her strength and gestures showed that she was not as good as those who were slightly. As a palace maid who knows medical skills, she was kept by Concubine Jing's side because of other reasons.
For this reason, Chai San didn't have any guesses in his mind, but he didn't dare to say anything. He just pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending he didn't know.
Hearing Xinyue speak, after venting her anger, Concubine Jing's face suddenly stiffened, and then her anger dissipated and she waved her hand.
Upon seeing this, the maids in the palace and Chai San who was kneeling on the ground quickly retreated.
After everyone in the palace retreated outside the palace, Concubine Jing turned to look at Xinyue, sat up, subconsciously brushed the hair from her forehead, and asked, "Did he give instructions?"
Xinyue nodded.
Concubine Jing frowned: "Didn't this offend all the yamen in the capital? The king of hell is easy to give away, but the devil is difficult to deal with. Those yamen purchasers and cooks are not easy to deal with."
In fact, this incident only offended those fellow buyers and cooks who can usually charge a lot of money? Even the officials who ate in the Yamen and the students who studied and ate in the Imperial College were offended from top to bottom.
This is an absolute fool's errand.
"Your Excellency, we are short of money and are very anxious." Xinyue knocked on Concubine Jing's leg again and said while doing so, "It doesn't matter. If you offend her, just push Chai San out."
Hearing this, Concubine Jing immediately said, "But he took care of me back then..." Before she could finish her words, she shook her head, sighed, and said, "That's it! The amount of money the Ai family gave him this year was... The kindness I received from those meals back then has been multiplied many times. I am so benevolent and righteous that I don’t owe him anything anymore.”
Xinyue looked at Concubine Jing who looked like she was "repaying her kindness", and a trace of ridicule flashed in her eyes: How can a favor in times of trouble be the same as the icing on the cake?
But what does this have to do with her? She's just a doer.
Looking at Concubine Jing in front of her, Xinyue spoke again: "Besides, with Yang En, Your Majesty will not treat Concubine Jing for such a trivial matter. Otherwise, why would you send these memorials to remind Concubine?"