Lu Liangwei paused in her steps before remembering that the Virtuous Consort was a concubine of the imperial harem. She would be attending the Autumn Hunt as well.
It was the Empress Dowager's decree and not Long Yang's.
The Empress Dowager had earlier instructed Matron Chen to inform Lu Liangwei, or rather, 'educate' Lu Liangwei about this.
The Autumn Hunt was an annual event of the royal family. There had always been the tradition of concubines from the imperial harem tagging along since the ancestral times, and this tradition had been continued in this generation.
It was as if suggesting Lu Liangwei would make use of her position as Empress to stop the other concubines from attending.
Empress Dowager Xiaojing must have had too much free time on her hands recently. Long Yang might refer to her as the Empress Dowager out of politeness, but it did not mean that she had the right to meddle in the affairs of his imperial harem.
