Jia Cunzhou (Jia Zheng) Is Promoted to Director; Xue Pan Gets into Trouble Again and Is Sentenced to Exile

The story goes that Concubine Zhao was in her room scolding Jia Huan when she heard him talking back in the outer room: “I only knocked over a medicine pot and spilled a little medicine. That girl didn’t die. Why should she scold me, and why should you scold me too? You even say I’m cruel and that I’m doing everything to torment her. Just wait—one of these days I’ll take that girl’s life, and then we’ll see what you can do to me! Tell them to watch out!” Concubine Zhao rushed out from the inner room and covered his mouth. “You still dare to talk such nonsense! Be careful someone doesn’t take my life first!” Mother and son quarreled for a while. Concubine Zhao remembered what Wang Xifeng had said earlier, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She did not even send anyone with a word of comfort to Wang Xifeng. A few days later, Qiaojie recovered. After this affair, the resentment between the two sides ran deeper than before. One day, Lin Zhixiao came in to report: “Today is the birthday of the Prince of Beijing. Please instruct us, sir, how we......