Suddenly, Rong Changan's eyes lit up, as if two bright lights had been lit.
"Chuntao, that bowl of chicken soup..."
Chun Tao didn't understand Rong Chang'an's meaning: "Does the Queen want to drink chicken soup? This servant will boil it for you."
"No!" Rong Changan said irritably, "Is that bowl of chicken soup still there?"
Chuntao said: "Here! There is a big bowl on the table."
"Bring it!" Rong Changan ordered Chuntao to bring her the chicken soup almost in a scolding voice.
Chuntao had no choice but to pass the bowl of oily chicken soup to Rong Changan: "Queen, you don't want to drink it?"
Rong Changan sniffed it, and he smelled a different smell from the usual chicken soup. Hatred flashed in her cold eyes, she bit her lip, as if there was really an enemy standing in front of her.
"Yan Li, Yan Li, I really didn't expect you to be so ruthless! Hmph, I see you through."
Chuntao was surprised and said: "Queen, you don't suspect that the emperor deliberately put poison in the chicken soup to cause you to have a miscarriage?"
Without the child, Rong Changan's body was already half cold, but now that she realized that Yan Li had tampered with the chicken soup, her whole body was even colder.
"Who else is it if it's not him! Didn't you listen to that maidservant? Yan Li cooked the chicken soup himself. Besides him, would anyone else dare to put medicine in the chicken soup? We all misjudged the person. Yan Li is a gentleman on the surface, but in fact Behind his back, he is a crazy, sinister and vicious hypocrite."
Chun Tao frowned, no matter what, she would never believe that Yan Li was the one who drugged the chicken soup.
"Because I told him that the child belonged to Li Hai. He acted very generous in person, but in fact he was very cruel. He went back and tried every means to make me abort the child. I just thought, how could he be so kind and cook chicken soup for me personally? , and someone sent it over at night! It turned out that it was the weasel who gave the chicken a New Year's greetings, uneasy and kind!"
Chuntao thought, if it was Yan Li, it would be terrible!
Rong Changan looked out the window and said with a sneer: "Yan Li, just wait, you hurt my child, I will pay with blood!"
Boom, boom, boom!
In the early morning, the solemn bells of the Forbidden City startled a flock of white pigeons flying away on the glazed tiles.
"What's that sound?" Rong Changan frowned and asked.
Chuntao shook her head, looking very confused: "I don't know either! I'll ask the queen."
Ringing the bell in the morning is rare in the Forbidden City. Only in time for festivals and when foreign envoys came to congratulate the emperor would the bell ring in the palace. Could it be that Rong Changan has forgotten what holiday is today
Chuntao didn't come back until it was completely bright, holding a bowl of porridge and a bowl of pickles in his hand. For the past two days, Rong Chang's mouth has been calm, and he only wants to eat these things.
Chun Tao put the porridge on the table beside the bed, took a spoonful of the porridge, and put it in Rong Changan's mouth.
Rong Changan just ate a few grains of rice, and asked, "Have you gone to find out? What was the sound just now?"
Chuntao looked embarrassed, he hesitated to speak.
How shrewd is Rong Changan, how can he fail to see through Chuntao's expression!
"Chuntao, do you have something to say that you don't want to tell me?"
Chuntao said: "The empress only needs to know that it is the bell for celebration, and there is no need to know what it is for celebration."
The more Chuntao said that, the more Rong Changan felt strange, the more he wanted to know.
"Tell me, what bell is that celebrating?"
Seeing that she couldn't hide it, Chuntao had no choice but to say: "If I tell you, the queen should not get excited."
Rong Changan narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Chuntao coldly and sharply: "Quickly tell me, what's going on?"
Chuntao said: "The emperor has issued a decree to canonize... Ziyan as the new noble concubine. The bell is the first round of bells for the canonization ceremony."
Rong Changan was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly smiled again.
The old man goes out, the new man enters! But that Zi Yan is not a newcomer! Is there something wrong with Yan Li's vision? Why did he register Li Hai's favorite concubine as a noble concubine
Rong Changan thought it was a joke, and the irony made him dumbfounded.
"How could Yan Li fall in love with that bitch Ziyan! Doesn't he know what Ziyan is?"
Chun Tao also said angrily: "I also think the emperor's choice this time is really unimaginable. Ziyan is insidious and cunning. Many bad things in the former palace were caused by her instigating Li Hai. It's not that the emperor doesn't know. I want to make her a concubine. Besides, she was Li Hai's most favored concubine in the past, and the emperor made her a concubine again, isn't she afraid of being laughed at by the world?"
Rong Changan asked: "Did you inquire outside just now, did some ministers advise the emperor to prevent the emperor from enshrining Ziyan as a concubine?"
Chuntao shook her head: "My servant has never heard that there are ministers who came to remonstrate with the emperor not to make Ziyan a noble concubine. Even if there were, it would be of no use, because this was the emperor's decree made early this morning, and some ministers don't know about it yet. !"
Rong Changan didn't need to think about it, but he knew why Yan Li was in such a hurry to make Ziyan a noble concubine. He must have spent the night at Ziyan's place last night.
Thinking of this, Rong Changan felt nauseated, and the pain in his abdomen became more intense.
When Yan Li wanted to make her queen, all the ministers were passionate, they unanimously condemned Rong Changan for being inhumane, and vowed not to let her be queen. The biggest reason given was that Rong Changan was Li Hai's queen. It's really ominous to be a queen!
But now, Yan Li canonized Ziyan as a noble concubine! Zi Yan was Li Hai's favorite concubine in the past, and the degree of love was many times greater than that of Rong Chang'an. Why is there no minister to dissuade it
Rong Changan sneered and said: "This can only explain one problem, the minister and Ziyan are actually the same breed!"
These ministers were carefully selected by Li Hai. If they were not loyal to Li Hai, they were very flattering.
They were afraid that Rong Changan would be smart and capable, and would assist Yan Li in cleaning up the courtiers, so they teamed up to get rid of Rong Changan first.
Their plan couldn't be hidden from Rong Changan, but they managed to deceive Yan Li.
…
Outside the Taimiao, hundreds of officials gathered on both sides of the avenue.
The mane-cutting car that Zi Yan and Yan Li were riding in rattled to the gate of the Taimiao.
Under an apricot-yellow parasol, Yan Li stepped on the cloud shoes, stepped on the dismounting post, and got off the car. His crown was shining in the morning sun.
Then, the one who got out of the car was Zi Yan in a luan suit, with pearls and emerald greens on her head shining in the sun, she was radiant;
She stepped on the dismounting post, but she didn't get off immediately. Instead, she glanced domineeringly at the ministers, the guards in cloaks, the resplendent palace building, and the enlarged image of the morning beauty of the Great Jing Kingdom.
If possible, she really wanted Rong Changan to see everything in front of her, to make Rong Changan envious and jealous, to make Rong Changan vomit blood and die.
She wants to tell Rong Changan that time will tell everyone who is the real winner.
She did not deny that she had been defeated by Rong Changan once, but today, she stood in front of the Taimiao and accepted the congratulations from all the officials, but what about Rong Changan? But he stayed alone in the Fengming Palace, watching the withered flowers and the fragmentary chirping of birds. What a striking contrast!
She spent three times more time standing on the dismounting stake than Yan Li.
The two walked side by side on the red carpet, towards the Taimiao, which symbolized power and family.
Inside, under the guidance of the Minister of Rites, Zi Yan offered incense and kowtowed to the ancestors of the Yan family—not the Li family anymore.
Afterwards, the Minister of Rites read to all the officials a booklet Yan Li had just ordered the Hanlin scholars to write. In the book, Yan Li praised Zi Yan as a kind, kind, friendly, filial rare woman, she is enough Assist Yan Li in managing the harem and promote the prosperity of the dynasty.
After the announcement, Ziyan officially became the noble concubine of the new emperor Yan Li.
She and Yan Li went to the jade steps in front of the Taimiao to receive congratulations from all the officials.
"I will kneel down to see the imperial concubine a thousand years old!"