"Let me go with my sister!" Lu Yunxi was afraid that Wei Ning'er's stubborn spirit would cause a big disaster. [ ]

"Yeah!" Wei Ning'er nodded slightly.

"Mr. We're closer to the firewood and charcoal place. Where should I go first?" Xiao Yizi asked.

He had been worried that something might happen to his master when he was making trouble, but he felt relieved after a while. Since those dog slaves were not good at taking their eyes and dared to do so, he would dare to go out and make trouble with his master.

"Then go to the firewood and charcoal place!" Wei Ning'er ordered.

"Let's go to the firewood and charcoal. Be careful and lift your shoulders well. Don't throw the two little masters!" Xiao Yizi walked forward while instructing the eunuchs.

In the palace, in order to facilitate heating in winter, each palace has east-west warming pavilions. There are holes dug under the outer eaves of the windows of the warming pavilions, and brick stoves are built to burn charcoal for heating.

The masters in the palace were even more popular with smoked cages and hand and foot stoves specially used for heating.

The charcoal used in the smoke cage, hand stove and foot stove is made of high-quality wood from Zhuozhou, Tongzhou, Jizhou, Yizhou and Daxing. After making charcoal, it is transported to the red basket, cut into small sections according to the size, put into a red round jingle basket, and then sent to the palace for later use, so it is called "Red Roll Charcoal".

This charcoal is black and shiny, has excellent texture, has long-lasting combustion, has strong firepower, and is odorless and smokeless. It can be said to be the best among charcoal.

The concubines in the palace can be assigned red charcoal every month according to their grade, but now some people deliberately use inferior products to make up the numbers. How can Wei Ning'er not be angry?

The Firewood and Carbon Department is responsible for the storage and distribution of firewood and Carbon. It has two chief eunuchs and twenty-five eunuchs.

Even if the masters in the palace were not favored, they would not condescend to the nobles and go to the place of Chai Carbon, because the two leaders and eunuchs were surprised by Wei Ning'er's arrival and then ran out.

"I wish you a blessing to Concubine Ling and a blessing to Concubine Lu!" The two of them brought a group of slaves to Wei Ning'er and Lu Yunxi, but their faces were filled with a hint of disdain and contempt.

Seeing this, Wei Ning'er's eyes darkened and did not ask them to get up. She sat on the chair that Xiao Yizi brought to her. She looked at the servants kneeling on the ground, smiled on her face, chatting with Lu Yunxi, who was sitting beside her, as if she had completely forgotten the servants kneeling on the ground.

After about two quarters of an hour, Wei Ning'er looked at the time and then looked at the people on the ground and smiled: "I wonder what the two father-in-laws call me?"

"The eunuch Lu Cong, the leader of the slave Chaitan Department."

"Cao An, the eunuch in the head of the slave Chaitan department."

"Please pay tribute to Concubine Ling, I wish you all good luck!" The two of them said in unison, but they were trembling and trembling.

"So it's Eunuch Lu and Eunuch Cao. I dare to ask the two of you, is it cold on the ground?" Wei Ning'er sneered.

"This..." The two of them didn't know what she meant, so they were a little hesitant.

"Since the two father-in-law don't feel cold, then continue to kneel down!" Wei Ning'er smiled carelessly.

"Empress, the ground is cold!" Lu Cong replied immediately.

"Yes, it's the Empress!" Cao An also echoed.

Because they were kneeling in the yard, although it had not snowed at this time, they were so cold that they felt pain all over. The two leaders and eunuchs behind them were a little unbearable.

"It turns out that all the father-in-laws know that it's cold... But... I and Lu don't know that it's the third day of November. According to custom, at the end of last month, my father-in-laws would send someone to send red charcoal to the Yanxi Palace in my palace, but... I haven't seen it until today. I have been frozen for several days and have become numb after a long time. I don't know the feeling of coldness." Wei Ning'er changed the subject: "Look at me, I'm not afraid of the cold, but I forgot that my father-in-law are so noble. Let's get up, so that some people will say that I'll blame the slaves!"

"Yes! Thank you!" Wei Ning'er's words made Cao An and Lu Cong, who were still trembling with coldness, burst into cold sweats on their foreheads.

Wei Ning'er winked, and Xiao Yizi immediately ordered the slave to remove her and Lu Yunxi's chairs. Wei Ning'er then stepped in.

"This is the first time I have come to Chai Carbon. It looks good!" Wei Ning'er looked around and said with a smile.

"Yes..." Lu Cong and Cao An said with a smile.

"Oh... the father-in-law also used red charcoal!" Wei Ning'er looked at the incense burner in the room and smiled.

When the two of them heard this, their faces changed drastically and they immediately knelt down: "I know my guilt!"

"The rules in the palace are that the masters can only use the red basket charcoal. The two father-in-law deducted the cost of the Yanxi Palace to enjoy it. It's so bold!" Wei Ning'er said with a smile.

"Grandmaster forgive me, this... this is the rest. Only the servants have the courage to forgive me!" Cao An said intermittently, looking like he was scared.

"The Yanxi Palace in my palace is not there yet, so you say that this is the rest. OK, I and Lu are here fortunately, you... This is cursing me and Lu. I will report to the Empress and the Emperor."

"Stop the anger, stop the anger!" The two of them kowtowed in a hurry.

Wei Ning'er didn't look at them and said to Xiao Yizi beside her: "Go and take it yourself. Since the two father-in-law forgot about our Yanxi Palace, we have to do it ourselves. I don't want more, so I will take the share of this palace and Lu Guiren!"

"I dare not bother Eunuch Yi, I will take it!" Lu Cong said and got up from the ground.

"I'm going to get it for the empress too!" Cao An followed hurriedly.

"I still have to go to the Interior Office to take a look. Now there is no time for the people around me!" Wei Ning'er looked at the Jingguo in the hands of the two of them and smiled.

"Empress, please go and do your best. I'll send it to the Yanxi Palace to the Empress!" Cao An's face was full of a flattering smile.

"Yes, yes!" Lu Cong also smiled awkwardly.

"Then I'll ask for my two father-in-laws. I don't know what happened to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The things I gave to me have become worse and worse recently. I have to go and argue, so I won't talk to you more!" After Wei Ning'er said that, she went out with Lu Yunxi.

"This is what our young master rewards the two father-in-laws. I hope to take care of our Yanxi Palace in the future!" Xiao Yizi gave them a bag of silver and said with a smile.

"This...no need, serving Concubine Ling is our blessing!" Lu Cong and the others shook their heads and said.

"Please accept it!" Xiao Yizi said again.

"No, no, no..." The two of them didn't have the courage.

"Hey... Nowadays, some people don't like money. Since the two father-in-law don't want it, our family won't force it anymore. See you back!" Xiao Yizi said with a smile.

"Yes, go slowly!" The two of them smiled and sent Xiao Yizi out.

"Come on... I have to be careful in the future. This makes it too difficult to deal with!" Seeing them leaving, Lu Cong said bitterly.

"Yes, it seems that we can't take the benefits of Concubine Xian." Cao An also said with regret.

"We are still good at it. No matter how we say it, we are slaves. We are really too harsh on our master. In the end, there will be no good results. Things in the palace have changed rapidly. The master who is still bullied by us today may be favored in a blink of an eye. We will be the one who is unlucky at that time!" Lu Cong said in a deep voice.

"Yes, our brothers should hurry up and go to Yanxi Palace to deliver carbon in person!" Cao An sighed, then pulled Lu Cong in.

"Master, you don't know that on winter day, the two leaders and eunuchs in the Chaitang Department are popular in the palace. They also like to show off their airs in front of the servants. Today is a relief!" Xiao Yizi said with a smile.

"Well... they are tactful this time. If there is another time, I won't spare them like this!" Wei Ning'er said with a smile.

"I know today. I should not just tolerate this palace. In the end, I will be bullied!" Lu Yunxi said thoughtfully.

"That's not. Sister, look at Yipin. She is not favored and often angers the emperor and the empress. But so what? The servants in the palace all hide when they see her, and they are so scared that anyone dares to provoke her." Wei Ning'er suddenly remembered Yipin.

"Everyone says that if Yipin is anxious, it will be no different from that shrew in the market. Who is the servant in the palace afraid of her!" Lu Yunxi laughed softly.

Wei Ning'er nodded slightly: "You and my sister should gain a foothold in this palace, and should not be too weak, otherwise it will be difficult to protect themselves!"

"Yeah!" Lu Yunxi nodded slightly, it seemed that she could not compromise too much in the future.

"My little master, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has arrived!"

The seven departments and three courts directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs are under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All matters such as clothing, food, housing, and transportation of the imperial family are undertaken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The minister in charge of the Office of the Internal Affairs was a second-rank official position, not a eunuch, but a minister trusted by the emperor. Even Fu Heng also served as a minister in charge of the Office of the Internal Affairs.

However, due to convention, there is also a place in the palace that specializes in distributing fees to the masters in the palace, and here is the eunuch who decides.

After Wei Ning'er got off her shoulder carriage, she and Lu Yunxi entered the Interior Office through the back door.

"Let the concubine be lucky, and the noble man Lu be lucky!" The newly appointed eunuch, He Kui, immediately welcomed him.

Wei Ning'er didn't want to talk nonsense to him and said coldly: "Go to the front hall to invite your minister to come, come to protect, Haiwang, Fu Heng, Gao Bin, anyone else!"

He Kui was shocked when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "This... the Empress forgives the crime. As a concubine, the Empress cannot meet the court officials!"

"I can't stand it? Where will this injustice be extended to me? General Manager He means that I want me to meet the emperor and the queen and ask them to make the decision, right?" Wei Ning'er suddenly lowered her face.

"Grandmaster calms down!" He Kui said tremblingly.

"Because the ministers wanted to avoid the female relatives in the palace, General Manager He was ordered to pay the fees for each palace in the backyard of the Interior Government. I dare to ask General Manager He why the fees for the fewer in Yanxi Palace in recent days are often the worst?" Wei Ning'er asked, his face full of anger.

"Empress, it must be the negligence of the slaves!" He Kui took office shortly after he took office, and had never heard of any concubines who went to the Interior Office to question him. At this time, he was caught off guard and had to refuse.
Chapter completed!