C42 (1/2)

”These two days, Imperial Doctor Hu had been going to Jade Dew Hall more frequently. According to the school children he left there, Lady Qiong's illness seemed to have worsened.”

”Hmph, as expected.” The Imperial Consort Lan smiled and turned around. Her muslin sleeves lightly rested on the dressing table and her attitude was lazy and graceful, ”Oh right, did you inform her family about Xi Yan's death? Go get someone to send twenty taels of silver to her family. After all, she served me for so many years. ”

Outside, a eunuch ran in to report. ”Empress, the emperor is about to arrive!”

”The candles over there, and over there, we have to light them too!” Right, right, and the top, light it up! Get them all together! ”

Fang Chun stood on the stairs with her hands around her waist, commanding the four to five palace maids and eunuchs to run around.

”Our Jade Dew Hall must completely light up, and not have a single place with darkness! Do you understand? It's not bright enough over there! Move two more candlesticks over there! ”

”Yes.”

”Yes sir!”

The hymen that received the order hurriedly found two candlesticks and placed them over.

Even before the time was up, the Jade Dew Hall was already brightly lit.

After Ye Qiongjiang ate some medicine in the afternoon, she slept for a little bit, but was woken up by the noise coming from outside. When she came out, he found that there were a lot of candlesticks in the courtyard, brightly lit, and asked in shock, ”Fang Chun, what are you doing?”

”Ah, Empress, you're awake!” ”Why did you come out? Hurry up and go back into the house.” When Fang Chun saw Imperial Consort Qiong, he immediately brought her into the house. As she supported her, she said: ”I only want to make this place brighter and sweep away all my bad luck.”

”Unlucky? What bad luck? ”

Fang Chun looked at her puzzled expression and said sorrowfully, ”Empress, don't pretend like nothing happened. If you're sad, don't keep it in your heart. Actually, this servant was calculating in her heart. In addition, tonight, the emperor had already … It's been five days since I've been here. ”

”…”

Ye Qiongjiang didn't really know how to reply. Her heart was broken, but unfortunately, she was different from the other concubines. In her heart, there lived another man.

”Turn out the lights. I can't rest well with the light.” Ye Qiongjiang returned to her room with Fang Chun's support. She did not return to her bed and instead stood at the window.

”Empress …”

Fang Chun looked at the figure of her back as she stood at the window. That lonely and thin figure, with the light from the candles in the courtyard shining in, made it seem even more obvious that Ye Qiongjiang was alone and independent.

This won't do. I must think of a way to take the Emperor back!

If Mo Hua didn't come, it would definitely be in accordance with her true intentions, and also let her feel at ease. As long as he took a little of the medicine prepared by the Imperial Doctor Hu every day, and let his look pale, it would save his the trouble of taking large doses of medicine to worsen her condition.

Until one day half a month later, Mo Hua had just left for the imperial court and returned to Audience Hall to review the reports. From the battle report that was submitted, the northwest defense line had become much more stable with Gu Rongzhi around.

Many places had to be funded by the state. Although China had always been a powerful country, there were still wars on all sides of the border. Together, they represented a considerable amount of expenditure.

Finally, he received a good news report from the northwest, calming his depressed heart a little.

After he finished reading the report in his hand and gently placed it on the table, Mo Hua relaxed his body and leaned back. He rubbed his nose and said: ”Qing An, you have been standing there for four hours already.

Usually when he was going through the memorials, Qing An would not follow him. He would only be attending to the eunuchs on duty every day.

Qing An immediately bowed, walked forward and took out a silver ingot from his sleeve, and placed it on the engraved dragon table.

Mo Hua was slightly startled, ”What does that mean?”

Qing An immediately bowed: ”Reporting to the Emperor, this was sent to me by Jade Dew Hall's Miss Fang Chun this morning.”

”Oh?” Mo Hua reached out and picked up the silver ingot, and weighed it in his hand. It was at least twenty taels.

”Miss Fang Chun means for this old servant to talk more about the Lady Qiong in front of the Emperor.” Qing An secretly lifted his head to look at the emperor's expression, then lowered his head.

”You are bold enough to accept bribes. A mere twenty taels has moved the general director of internal affairs beside me? Qing An, your 'loyalty' is truly fragile. ”

Qing An bowed even deeper, but still smiled: ”How would this old servant dare? But didn't they already report it to the emperor before they had a chance to warm themselves up? ”

Mo Hua looked as if he was cautious, but in reality, he was secretly laughing at him. He could only shake his head slightly. Qing An had followed him for a long time, if it was said that the people in the palace understood him the best, it would be none other than Qing An.

After placing the silver ingot on the table, Mo Hua chuckled, ”Jade Dew Hall has already passed on your message, you should keep the silver.”

Qing An laughed embarrassedly, he kept the silver ingot back into his sleeves and tried asking: ”Then your majesty, what do you think about tonight?”

Mo Hua's fingers lightly tapped on the armrest of the Dragon Throne, his rhythm fast and clear. ”We can't let Fang Chun waste this silver, let's go to the Jade Dew Hall tonight.”