Seeing that the New Year was approaching, the emperor personally conquered a great victory, allowing the Huns to roll back to their own territory. The palace was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and there was joy everywhere.

The Queen Mother even issued an edict, saying that there would be a grand celebration in the palace this year, and she also asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to draw up a list, listing all the things that needed to be prepared and handled in detail, so as to prevent being in a hurry when the new year comes.

However, all this seems to have nothing to do with His Majesty the Emperor in the Qinzheng Palace. Since returning to Liangjing, apart from going to court to meet with ministers during the day, he has locked himself in his study to handle government affairs, rarely leaving the gate of the Qinzheng Palace.

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This made the concubines who had been waiting for several days even more anxious.

They hope that the stars and the moon point to his holy chariot to visit their residence, so that they can seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to regain their position.

Because no one could have imagined that the imperial concubine, who was so proud of the spring breeze, died with the incense of a big fire on the night she came back from her hometown to visit her relatives.

As for the cause, all the people who put out the fire agreed that the strong wind blew over the candles. It was just such a coincidence in this palace.

After learning that the imperial concubine went to Mingmai Palace and had some unpleasant encounters with the empress, the empress left angrily.

This fire also has a reason.

Of the concubines in this palace who are a little bit scheming, who doesn’t know that as long as they offend the Queen, how many of them will end well?

This speculation was finally confirmed after His Majesty returned to the palace and ordered the Queen to copy scriptures behind closed doors and pray for the Queen Mother!

So the concubines, after sighing hypocritically about the fate of their beauty, took out the gorgeous clothes that they had kept for a year and put them on one after another. For a while, they even served snacks and refreshments before He Bayu's case.

There were countless hairpin rings on handkerchiefs, which annoyed him even more.

As He Bayu threw these things out the door one by one and pasted the words "Busy with government affairs, please do not disturb anyone else" on the door of Qinzheng Hall, the concubines finally stopped.

But from then on, when He Bayu rarely came out of the Qinzheng Palace to relax, he would meet a concubine by chance in five steps, and a beautiful lady who had fallen into the water in ten steps...

If there was an occasional day when he neither met nor fell into the water, he would hear a melodious song from the bushes in the garden on the way...

That kind of resentment, that kind of inability to stop, that kind of pity made his rarely relaxed mood even more irritable.

So, from then on, he simply did not go out of the Qinzheng Palace. Even if he came out, he would wait until late at night when no one was around, so as not to cause any trouble when he met these concubines.

As a result, he stayed in the Qinzheng Hall until the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the New Year was still seven days away.

On this day, he was in the palace checking the secret report about the Northwest King sent by the secret guard.

It said that since the Northwest King showed his face once when he returned to Beijing, he hid in his mansion and never came out. Even his eldest son also stayed behind closed doors. It seemed that he sincerely accepted He Ba.

Yu's arrangement is to stay in Liangjing.

However, although the intelligence said so, He Bayu did not believe it, so he wrote a few words behind the secret report sent by the secret guard, then found an imperial edict and hurriedly wrote a few sentences on it.
Chapter completed!