Chapter 922: The Wasteful Prince vs. the First Female Official 1
Chapter 922: The Wasteful Prince vs. the First Female Official 1
"Gong Shang Gong, have you remembered everything I told you?"
Inside the magnificent hall, a woman was wearing a bright yellow palace dress with gold embroidery, a phoenix around the collar, and a pleated skirt embroidered with peonies, looking extremely luxurious.
There is a natural laziness in his speech.
This person is Gongsun Yun, the imperial concubine who is favored by all the other concubines in the palace.
Inside the hall, all the palace maids and waiters were dismissed, leaving only one person standing under the high seat.
Lingyao was dressed in a dark official uniform with pale blue cloud patterns embroidered on the cuffs. Her brows were as dark as a distant shadow. She listened to the imperial concubine's blessing and responded with a "yes."
Seeing that she understood, the imperial concubine nodded with satisfaction and continued to give instructions lazily.
"The Crown Prince is spoiled. If there's anything he wants or wants to do, Concubine Wen will just go along with it. The Crown Prince lost his mother at a young age, and I'm now in charge of the harem as the mistress of the six palaces. Naturally, I have to take extra care of him. In the future, you should come to my palace regularly to report on the Crown Prince's studies. This will allow me to have an explanation to the Emperor and not let him down..."
Any intelligent person can understand the meaning of the words.
This matter will completely ruin the prince.
However, it is said that this prince has committed many evil deeds and is tyrannical and unreasonable, and he has probably been spoiled for a long time.
Although he is the crown prince, he lost his mother and power at an early age. Not only does the imperial concubine who is now in great favor have her own prince, but even the emperor does not seem to have much affection and care for this legitimate son. Otherwise, how could he agree to let Wen Lingyao, a female official, be the crown prince's tutor.
Lingyao listened to the imperial concubine's nagging for a long time before coming out of the hall.
Outside the door was Wen Lingyao's subordinate Chun Tao.
Seeing Lingyao coming out, he hurried forward and said, "Sir Wen, what did the Imperial Noble Consort say? Sir, are you really going to be the tutor of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Lingyao nodded and said "hmm".
Chuntao's face immediately wrinkled up like the wrinkles of a pinched bun.
Following Lingyao, she anxiously said, "I heard that the Crown Prince's last tutor had his arm removed after less than a month of instruction, and the one before that resigned after less than two weeks. Lady Shanggong, you were originally a female official, so how did you suddenly get promoted to the Crown Prince's tutor? Was it Lady Shangyi's doing?"
The Lady Shangyi that Chuntao mentioned was the female official who had always had a bad relationship with Wen Lingyao.
Lingyao looked back at Chuntao and signaled her to be quiet. They had not yet left the Imperial Concubine's palace and there were ears and eyes everywhere.
Chuntao was quickly awakened by Lingyao's cold gaze, and immediately shut up and lowered her head.
Although Zhao Shangyi and Wen Lingyao did not get along well, this incident had nothing to do with her, and she did not have that much power.
It was just a trap set by the Imperial Concubine.
The late queen came from a distinguished family and was born into a famous military family. When the late queen was alive, the emperor had to get the late queen's approval before he could favor a concubine, let alone have three thousand beauties in his harem.
Later, the late queen died of illness. Although the Helian family, the queen's mother's family, had its military power reduced by the emperor over the years, there were many old ministers in the court who were on good terms with the Helian family. Therefore, despite the death of the late queen, no one dared to touch the position of the crown prince.
As the leader of the harem, the Imperial Noble Consort, although she has her own children, never treats the Crown Prince badly. She even dotes on him, giving him almost everything he wants. Whenever the Crown Prince does something wrong and the Emperor criticizes and blames him, the Imperial Noble Consort will come out to persuade him.
Therefore, they all had a good reputation outside, but the prince, because he got into trouble every other day, had a bad reputation among the people and in the palace.
Lingyao returned to Wen Shanggong's residence, packed her things without much hesitation and went straight to the Prince's Eastern Palace.
As soon as he entered the room, before the palace maids announced him, he saw the prince, Xuan Yanjing, standing outside the palace.
The young man was leaning against the pillar, wearing a gorgeous royal blue brocade robe, a jade belt loosely tied around his neck, with a hint of nonchalant arrogance between his brows.
Seeing that Xiao Si was slow to bring the tea, he kicked over the tea tray and sneered, "You useless thing, you can't even do this?"
The palace servant immediately frowned and bowed his waist to admit his guilt, and presented another cup of tea to Xuan Yanjing. "It is my fault, Your Highness, please forgive me. Your Highness, please calm down."
The young man glanced over, snorted softly, and with a flick of his robe, he sat down on the stone bench next to him. "This prince never drinks a second cup of tea. Are you looking for death? Why don't you go and make me a new pot of tea?"
The eunuch immediately took back the tea in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, bowed and retreated while apologizing.
"Yes, Your Highness. I will go down and make you another pot of tea..."
As he said this, the eunuch turned around, greeted Lingyao and saluted, but did not stay for long, fearing that the prince behind him would get angry again, so he quickly retreated to make tea.
Xuan Yanjing, who was sitting down, raised his eyelids and saw Lingyao walking towards him.
He curled his lips, and his eyes lit up visibly, staring at Lingyao as if he had discovered something interesting and fun.
Then he raised his hand and hooked his finger at Lingyao.
"Are you the tutor that the Imperial Concubine sent to this palace?"
"Yes." Lingyao responded coldly and walked forward following Xuan Yanjing's finger, while Chuntao behind Lingyao did not follow and stood where she was.
Then she saw that the Crown Prince had a smile on his handsome face as he waved to Wen Shanggong to come over, but he kicked Wen Shanggong the moment she approached!
Just when she subconsciously wanted to close her eyes and not want to see the miserable state of Wen Shanggong, she saw Wen Shanggong tilt her body as if she had foreshadowed something in advance, and just avoided the kick from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince kicked in the air, his footing was not stable, and if he had not held on to the stone table, he would have almost fallen to the ground!
When the prince steadied himself and realized what had just happened, he immediately clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white and veins on his forehead throbbing faintly.
Her peach blossom eyes, which had originally been smiling, were now wide open, and her lips were stretched into a cold, hard line. She growled at Lady Wen Shang Gong, "How dare you! Who gave you the courage to hide?"
His voice was filled with the youthfulness of youth, yet also revealed an unquestionable arrogance.
"A mere third-rank female official is worthy of being the Crown Prince's tutor? Are all the officials in the palace dead?!"
The Crown Prince was furious. All the palace maids and eunuchs around him lost their voices. They lowered their heads and almost turned into potatoes buried in the soil, for fear of being seen by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. As soon as they lowered their heads, they were split in two.
Chun Tao didn't dare to respond, her body trembling as she muttered to herself, "Only the first day we met, and the Crown Prince is already so cruel. Will Lady Shang Gong resign like the previous Grand Tutors?"
Who would have thought that amidst the Crown Prince's roar, Minister Wen did not even raise his eyes, but simply picked up the jade teapot left on the table, and the water trickled into the teacup, creating ripples.
She waited until the tea was foamy before gently pushing it to the table, her tone calm and without a trace of emotion: "Enough of the quarrel, let's get down to business." The official ornaments on her temples were as steady as her, not moving at all.
The young man waved his hand and threw the teacup to the ground. The fine jade shattered like candy, and the splashing water wet the corner of Lingyao's clothes.
"Business? Are you qualified to discuss business with me? A third-rank female official, are you really going to teach me palace etiquette?"
His eyebrows were raised high, but his tone was still childish. After saying that, he turned around, flicked his sleeves, and walked away. The jade pendant on his waist jingled, as if it was accompanying his arrogance.
Lingyao's hands are itchy.
This kid is really bad and needs to be beaten.
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