In the middle of April, the day dawned very early, and when the eastern sky was only slightly white, it was only a little after four o'clock, and the entire palace of the King of Zhao was still immersed in silence. In the palace of Zhao Xuan's favorite concubine, your daughter, who had been busy during the day, had not slept until now.
When she heard the door of the palace rattling, your daughter gently calmed her son, Zhao Jing, who had been stirred up in his sleep, and only when Zhao Jing was sound asleep did your daughter gently get up and walk to the outer room.
"Your Highness!" In the outer room of your daughter's chambers stood a palace maid of about eighteen years of age, and when she saw your daughter come out, she lowered her voice and bent down to greet her.
"Well?" Your daughter kept her voice low as she spoke.
"The slasher has been intercepted by the Yan woman's inner circle and brought to the side hall." The maid's hair was slightly wet, obviously due to the dew she had gotten from staying outside all this time.
"That's good!" Your daughter slowly sat down on the couch, touching her heart, which was beating too hard.
"Ma'am, is it time to tell this matter..." The lady-in-waiting meant to tell Zhao Xuan about Queen Zhao's interception of the Piper.
"No! Thou shalt go to rest, and from today onwards, no one in the palace will be allowed to discuss this matter!" Your daughter shook her hand decisively, from now on, no one in her palace would have anything to do with this matter.
Zhao Xuan was the real master of this palace, and what Queen Zhao did in this palace could be hidden for a day or two at most. The day after tomorrow, Zhao Xuan was going to leave for his pilgrimage to Haojing, and your daughter believed that before Zhao Xuan's departure, the matter of Queen Zhao's private punishment of the slanders would surely reach his ears.
"No!" The maid led the order.
Your daughter was very satisfied with her capable general and began to promise her reward, "Shuang'er has done a good job this time, after a year or two, I'll make sure that you take a hundred gold out of the palace to get married!"
"Thank you, ma'am!" The maid rejoiced, kneeling down and prostrating herself at your daughter's feet in thanks.
Most of the waiters and waitresses in the royal palace were chosen from the people, entering the palace at the age of twelve or thirteen, and leaving the palace at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six. Servants at this age out of the palace is good, can be married to a wife. Women who left the palace at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six would be difficult to marry, and these women would either grow old alone or become concubines. Your daughter's promise to leave the palace at the age of twenty was quite a favor to the attendant.
"Yan Ji, you'll have to strike harder this time." Waiting for the maid to leave, your daughter Ji looked out at the clouds in the eastern sky and muttered something under her breath. The scene of her being pressed down and whipped by Queen Zhao's men back then was vivid in her mind, and what a painful memory it was!
Your daughter hopes that Queen Zhao will punish her more severely this time, and that only if the slanders are punished severely will things be exposed sooner.
After your daughter's maid left the palace, she did not go to her own residence to rest, but instead walked to the small door of the inner palace and knocked five times on it, which opened in response.
"How is it, Sister Shuang?" At the small door was a young man of twenty-three or twenty-four years old wearing tawny clothes. One could tell from the young man's clothes that he was a royal palace attendant.
At this time, most of the male servants in the king's palace were able-bodied males, and only a few were castrated for their sins and turned into yellow coats in the palace. After all, there were many young women in the king's harem, so in order to prevent the occurrence of dirty affairs, the able-bodied yellow clothes basically slept outside the inner palace walls at night. This young man behind the small door is an able-bodied man.
"It's done, the Queen has already brought people to shame the Piper." The young man in yellow asked without a clue, but the maid understood what he was asking.
"Does Lady Ji have a reward?" The yellow-clothed young man had a joyful look on his face.
"Yes, your daughter has given me permission to leave the palace and return home in a year or two." The maid and the yellow coat were a couple.
"Really? Great, when Shuangmei returns home, I will have my eldest brother ask His Holiness to come to my door to seek employment." The yellow-clothed young man's face was joyful, by next year, he himself will be at the age of leaving the palace, and was worrying that the lover would still have to wait for five or six years before he was qualified to return home.
Upon hearing her lover's words of marriage, the maid lowered her head in shyness.
"Don't worry, Sister Shuang, after you and I are married, I will not cause you to be wronged." The young man in yellow wrapped his arms around his lover and made a promise.
The eastern sky bright light is getting brighter and brighter, the king's palace began to have footsteps and the sound of people, the maid and the yellow clothes do not dare to stay for a long time, the two of them agreed on the time of the next meeting, and then hurriedly parted.
Yellow-clothed Goro returned to the attendant's residence, sat down for a few moments, and took his belt tag and left the royal palace. The yellow-clothed Goro was a small procurer of the king's palace, and was free to go out of the palace once or twice a day. After leaving the royal palace, Yellow Clothes did not go to the morning market, but turned into a residential house, in which lived a merchant of the State of Chen.
"Goro thanks the proprietor for his guidance!" Yellow Clothes bowed towards the merchant.
Wulang is worried that his lover will not be able to leave the palace soon, so he tells a merchant in Chen, whom he met through shopping, after a drinking session, and the merchant gives him an idea, which is to ask Shang'er to help your daughter to fight against the Queen of Zhao, so that the Queen of Zhao will be disliked by Zhao Xuan, and then your daughter will be favored by the king's court, and Shang'er, who is a meritorious servant, can naturally ask for a favor from her master.
"Fifth son, you and I are brothers, it's out of place to be so polite!"
The merchant of the Kingdom of Chen affectionately pulled up the yellow coat, the one called Goro, whom he had pulled together after three years to become close enough to be called a brother.
The merchant of Chen was an intelligence officer of the Kingdom of Wu based in the capital of the King of Zhao, and had been active in the capital of Zhao for four years.
Zhao Xuan every day during the day to accompany Zheng Yuming to visit various places, accumulated back to the palace, in captivity on the male pet body vent, each vent after sleeping time is not too long, Zhao Xuan did not sleep because of pleasure, every day is still early in the morning to get up to deal with political affairs. Zhao Wenzai and Bo Yaowu milling also rushed to the palace early, and Zhao Xuan report important affairs.
"Your Majesty, the Yan emissary has been at the post house for seven or eight days, is Your Majesty still not seeing him?" Zhao Wenzai was the first to speak.
Zhao Xuan coldly grunted twice. "Yan's envoy this time is set to ask for food, our country's old food in the last year mostly aided the northwest, how can we still succor Yan's country."
Zhao's granary still has some stale grain, but Zhao Xuan doesn't want to aid his great-uncle, there are always calamities in the past few years, and Zhao Xuan wants to stockpile grain to prevent any eventuality.
"Yesterday the Yan envoy visited the old man's residence and said that he wanted to exchange his steed for new grain."
"Horses for grain? My country is not short of good horses nowadays!" Zhao Xuan's face showed contempt, Zhao had originally always wanted to exchange money for Yan's steeds, but was always rejected by the King of Yan.
In order to get Yan's steeds, Zhao Xuan could only personally travel to Yan and beg Yan Ji to marry her, exchanging her position as the future mother of the state for six stallions. These six stallions came to Zhao to mate and breed for seven or eight years, and the quality of Zhao's horse breeds had improved.
The horse trade proposed by King Yan now could no longer attract Zhao Xuan's interest.
"Then the old minister will simply refuse the Yan envoy!" The fact that Zhao Wenzai would purposely bring up this matter in front of Zhao Xuan was actually due to the Queen Zhao's face, after all, the son born to the Queen Zhao was the first-born son, and very likely to be the Crown Prince of Zhao.
With the matter of Yan's loan of grain settled, the topic of conversation between the ruler and his ministers turned elsewhere, and after an hour of deliberation, Wenzai and the other ministers excused themselves and left.
"Why are you sneaking around?" Zhao Xuan waited for the courtiers to leave and frowned at his personal attendant, who had already explored the palace entrance for several times, and if Zhao Xuan hadn't favored him more, and if he had been replaced by an ordinary attendant behaving like this, Zhao Xuan would have already ordered the palace guards to drag him down and whip him.
"Your Majesty! Something has happened to the slut who served in the bed yesterday!" The personal attendant fell to his knees in front of Zhao Xuan with a plop.
"What happened?" Zhao Xuan sniffed and frowned slightly, secretly wondering if he had tossed and turned too much yesterday and made an injury to his male pet's body.
"Cunningly, yesterday, returning to the backyard from the Maharaja's quarters, he was abducted halfway to the side hall to be chastised, and was found dying."
"Asshole! Who is so bold!" Zhao Xuan shot up, he wasn't angry because his male favorite was dying, but he was angry that someone dared to challenge his authority.
"It's the Queen!"
"Bang!" Zhao Xuan kicked over the table, flung his sleeves and walked out straight to the Queen's palace. The attendants and maids serving Zhao Xuan followed behind in a panic.
Although Queen Zhao taught her backyard male favorites a hard lesson and took a breath of fresh air for herself, but the spots on the male favorites' naked backs were still stabbing her heart, Queen Zhao flopped down on the cushion and gritted her teeth, and if it wasn't for the accompanying maidservant's reminder to block the way, Queen Zhao wanted to kill the slasher right on the spot.
Queen Zhao was grieving, and a few of her maids who had come with her from Yan were whispering in the outer room.
"Third sister, how could you be so reckless as to casually tell madam about the gossip you heard!" The oldest maid beside Queen Zhao blamed one of the youngest.
"Sister! Sister also reported it to madam because she was furious to hear it, that slut even wanted to be the male queen, can't madam dispose of such an arrogant pariah?" The little maid cocked her mouth.
"Where in this world is the man the queen! This is nothing but theater!" The older maid gave a blank look.
"But Sister, this slasher has never been favored for four nights in a row!"
Even though Zhao Xuan favored your daughter the most, he had never summoned her to spend the night for four consecutive days.
"The king is not the one who loves sex, but this time he just feels fresh, if madam makes such a fuss, it will be bad if the king knows about it!" The older maidservant had seen and known a lot, and was very worried about Queen Zhao's overzealous behavior.
"It's bad, the Great King is coming towards the palace gate in anger!" The attendant outside the palace came in to report in a panic.
Upon hearing this, the Great Age Servant hurried into the chambers to report to Queen Zhao.
Zhao Xuan huffed and puffed into the Queen's palace, where Queen Zhao had just straightened her clothes with the help of her maids.
"Concubine pays her respects to Your Majesty!" Queen Zhao thought and knew that Zhao Xuan hadn't come to soften her heart, but to ask for punishment. Thinking about what Zhao Xuan had come for, Queen Zhao was so aggrieved that she wanted to shed tears.
"Your Ladyship is so capable nowadays!" Zhao Xuan's face was gloomy.
"Great King! What's wrong with my concubine disposing of that demonic person!" Facing Zhao Xuan's reproach, Queen Zhao also went out on a limb, feeling that she was very much in the right.
"A demonic person?" Zhao Xuan's face sank even further.
"The Great King has never made an exception to the rule of staying with one person for up to four nights, and the Great King has suddenly made an exception to the rule, isn't it that the slut has used the art of seduction? Concubines have the responsibility to dispose of those who seduce the Great King!" Queen Zhao angled her head.
Zhao Xuan was choked for a moment and said angrily, ''Good! Good! Even if Madam has the right to dispose of it, then she should call Yellow Clothes to punish it, not Madam herself! After a country, to cut off the road in the middle of the night and whip it with your own hands, what kind of behavior is that? Is that what a queen of a country does? You are not worthy of the title of Madam!"
Zhao Xuan means that the mother of a country should not behave like a jealous woman.
After hearing Zhao Xuan say that she was not worthy of being a country, Queen Zhao's brain 'buzzed' and exploded, speaking out of turn, "Your Majesty is trying to set up a male queen, right?"
As soon as Queen Zhao's words fell, Zhao Xuan's eyes really did show a fierce light this time.
Zhao Xuan and male favorites love, always choose the back style, because that can not see the face of the pretty, can be very fair-skinned pretty as Zheng Yuming, to do Xing thick, Zhao Xuan will be pretty as a lover of the heart, the words have to call it after the murmur. Jiao is not clear about the ins and outs of the story, it is assumed that Zhao Xuan favor to the later to be called, back to the backyard, and companions to boast, rumors spread, just by the Queen Zhao's maidservant heard.
"Foolish woman!" Zhao Xuan was as cold as ice and frost, looking at Queen Zhao with a single word: "Do you think that Zhao Xuan doesn't dare to repudiate his wife?"
Queen Zhao's last sentence was blurted out off the cuff, finished already regretting it, and now from Zhao Xuan's extreme anger exuded a mighty pressure on her face.
"Great King! Concubine was ushered in by the Great King's three books and six rites!" Hearing that Zhao Xuan meant to repudiate his wife, Queen Zhao couldn't help but tremble, not knowing if she was angry or scared.
Zhao Xuan took a few steps back and looked up and down at his wife, whom he had married for her six stallions. "Lone really regrets it!"
After Zhao Xuan finished speaking, he turned around and left without waiting for Queen Zhao to react.
"Too late for regrets!" Queen Zhao repeated this sentence and fell to the ground at once.
Zhao Xuan wanted to abolish the queen, but his pilgrimage to the capital of Heaven did not allow him to do so. Abolishing a queen is a very big deal, it is not just abolishing a woman's throne, it is also breaking the favor of two surnames.
Zhao Xuan was only two days away from the pilgrimage and could not get the abolition of the queen done within two days, so he could only put Queen Zhao under house arrest in the queen's palace before the pilgrimage and wait for him to return from the pilgrimage before disposing of her.