Concubine De's face turned pale with anger, she was a patient who ran so far early in the morning to pay her respects to the Queen, and ended up telling her it was nothing? She looked at the emperor aggrievedly, wanting him to decide for herself.
As a result, His Majesty's focus was only on: "Is Zitong sick?!"
The very anxious tone was ten thousand times more nervous than when she was concerned about the concubine whose arm had been cut.
There is no harm without comparison.
Han Qiu said implicitly: "It's just that I didn't sleep well at night."
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little worried about his sister. He strode inward, Concubine De quickly followed, and was stopped by Han Qiu.
"Concubine De, please go back."
Concubine De stared at her incredulously, this man was so embarrassed to stop her!
"The concubine is worried about the queen's sister, and wants to go in and visit." Concubine De said through gritted teeth.
"No need." This time it was the emperor who spoke, "Concubine De, go back and rest first."
After finishing speaking, before Concubine De could speak again, he disappeared from the other party's sight.
Concubine De: "..."
In the end, Concubine De had no choice but to go back to Yunxiang Palace in despair.
In Fengyi Palace, the empress has actually woken up. The complexion is also very good, it is rare to sleep late.
His Majesty the Emperor was relieved upon seeing this, and had breakfast with the two of them, ready to talk about business.
"There's nothing to talk about." It's rare for the empress to show her younger brother a good face, and she probably still remembers the fact that he and Shen Yuqing teamed up to lure the snake out of the cave.
The Emperor must know about Yu Xiurong's plan, and so does Shen Yuqing, but neither of them told her, so she was naturally unhappy.
His Majesty the Emperor was wronged and closed his mouth. In fact, he has nothing to talk about. Jinli and Manchen, who are very capable in business, will definitely be able to handle things beautifully, and there is no need for him to intervene. He was just looking for an excuse to come and see his sister, and by the way, he could also see his daughter together.
Thinking of his daughter, His Majesty the Emperor quickly changed the subject and asked about Qingxi.
"Why didn't you see Qingxi?"
At any rate, the queen gave him some face, and replied in a cold tone: "Qingxi got up early, so she is probably playing at the moment."
His Majesty the Emperor gave a dry cough, and ordered Han Qiu who had been watching the show for a long time: "Go and call the eldest princess."
Han Qiu took a look at the empress and saw that she had no objection, so she went.
Not long after, Qingxi walked in holding Han Qiu's hand, hiding half of her body behind Han Qiu, unwilling to come out.
"Qingxi?" His Majesty called out softly, "What's the matter? Father is here, doesn't Qingxi miss father?"
Qingxi lowered her head, kicked the blanket under her feet, and didn't speak.
His Majesty the Emperor was puzzled, and called again: "Qingxi?"
The little girl was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her head, her eyes were red, and she stared at him: "I don't want to! Bad father! Father hates it!"
The emperor was dumbfounded, how could he offend this little ancestor
Princess Qingxi sniffed, feeling extremely wronged. Her mother and concubine were both injured, and the emperor didn't come to see the mother and concubine, and even went to accompany the bad woman, the emperor hated the father the most.
Originally, Qingxi felt unhappy, but last night with her concubine mother, queen mother and adults accompanying her, she gradually forgot about it. Today, when she suddenly heard that her father was coming, she remembered this incident again. All little girls are like this, their emotions come as soon as they say it, and they can't control it as soon as they come.
She pouted, not wanting to talk to her father.
"Is it the father who made Qingxi angry?" His Majesty the Emperor asked hastily, walking over to hold his daughter's little hand.
In the end, he was dodged, and his loving father's heart was shattered.
Concubine Shen Gui knew at a glance that her daughter had committed an old problem again. But there is no way, the little girl is only five years old, although precocious, she is still a delicate child, it is normal to be ignorant. She gave Qingxi a wink, telling her not to make too much trouble, lest the emperor run out of emotion and start to get angry.
After all, she just didn't believe that the emperor could be a good father. Probably all his kindness is based on not affecting the imperial power and not offending his emperor's dignity. Once it crosses the line, it's hard to say.
Qingxi still felt aggrieved, she rolled her eyes and refused to compromise.
Fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor saw that his daughter was going to cry or not, and his heart softened. He didn't have time to care about whether to offend or not. He hurriedly coaxed a few more words, sweating out of anxiety.
"Ahem." Shen Guifei gave a dry cough, and glanced at Qingxi threateningly.
Qingxi flattened her mouth reluctantly: "Don't be angry, Qingxi is not angry, Qingxi misses her father."
His Majesty the Emperor: "..." Don't you mother and daughter think I'm a fool, please!
He made such a blatant wink, did he think he couldn't see Qingxi's reluctance and Shen Yuqing's threat
But after thinking about it, the emperor probably knew why this happened. Although he still didn't know why Qingxi was angry, he only guessed that he was angry that he didn't come to see her, but he wanted to understand Shen Yuqing's behavior.
It's nothing more than that he thinks that he is a father and cannot give Qingxi an ordinary father's love, and wants Qingxi to strengthen herself and not rely on this father.
His Majesty the Emperor, who wanted to be an ordinary and good father, gritted his teeth. This woman Shen Yuqing taught his daughter some messy things. I must have a good talk with this guy later, and I can't bring his daughter down again!
But right now, the most important thing is to coax her daughter.
Not to mention, with the threat of the imperial concubine, Qingxi was finally willing to reveal the reason for her anger. After listening to it, His Majesty the Emperor was stunned, feeling a little guilty.
He went to accompany Concubine De last night, of course because Concubine De was seriously injured, while Shen Yuqing had a fake injury. Moreover, he was not worried about Shen Yuqing at all, nor would he be worried about Shen Yuqing. What's more, De Concubine's father, Taishi Su, stood behind the literati from all over the world. Now that the outside world is fighting, there must be no mistakes on the literati's side, so he naturally wants to appease De Concubine.
But to Qingxi, Concubine De is an annoying woman, and Shen Yuqing is her relative.
She doesn't understand the balance of power above the court, or the intrigue among concubines in the harem. She only knows that her father doesn't care about her mother and concubine, so she doesn't like him anymore.
In the end, the emperor could only promise a bunch of empty promises, promising to protect her and her concubine mother and queen mother well in the future, and take good care of them, so he was forgiven by his daughter.
After coaxing his daughter to play, the emperor took Shen Yuqing to talk while the queen was dealing with yesterday's affairs.
"What nonsense did you teach my daughter?" His Majesty the Emperor condemned.
Concubine Shen sneered: "Yo, are you pretending to be your father now?"
"you... ... "
"What are you?" Concubine Shen stepped on him, "Have you forgotten how embarrassed you were in front of your daughter just now? You think you are a good father, but it's a pity that you put the court first from the beginning to the end." One, do you have the face to deny this?"
The emperor was speechless.
Concubine Shen continued her efforts: "When I just made the promise, I was happy, but how much can you do? Do you think your daughter is so young that she can be fooled? Do you believe that your daughter didn't take a single word seriously?"
"..."
In fact, if you think about it carefully, the emperor also felt shameless.
The possibility of that promise being fulfilled is really low, and he really cares more about Chaotang. It's not that he doesn't care about his daughter, it's just that... he habitually puts national affairs first and puts the rest on the sidelines.
For so many years, he has only been self-willed once in his elder sister's affairs, and then carefully maintained the balance between his elder sister and his family and country, trying not to let the balance become unbalanced. In this way, he can achieve his goals without sacrificing anyone.
But at present, he obviously did not put Qingxi in the same position as Fu Qiushui.
After all, although this was his only child, the biological mother was a woman he didn't like. Moreover, Qingxi's birth was also an accident, not what he expected. However, after the child was born, Yuxue was cute, well-behaved and sensible, so he couldn't help but give him more paternal love, and hoped that Qingxi would repay him far more than the paternal love he had given.
Why? He just wanted Qingxi to treat him as his dearest person by giving him a little charity? Go dreaming.
Concubine Shen was too lazy to talk nonsense with the emperor, so she turned around and left, she might as well spend time with her daughter if she had time.
Doesn't the emperor have a white moonlight? I also don't know if he has the opportunity to have a long-awaited child with Bai Yueguang, will he treat this child as well as he imagined. Or, he just took it for granted, thinking that he would be very good to a child he liked, but in fact he still put national affairs first and wronged his child.
Anyway, Concubine Shen Gui didn't have so many world affairs in mind, only four small ones: daughter-in-law, adult, daughter and money.
So it's better for Qingxi to be her daughter instead of being a scumbag like Fu Yanjun.
On Queen Fu's side, things have made a lot of progress.
The people behind the little palace lady have found out some clues, but there is no evidence for the time being, so I am afraid they cannot directly convict. But the emperor didn't need much evidence to punish a person. He just needed to treat that woman coldly for a while, and it was enough for her to suffer.
First, let’s talk about the messenger on the surface, the Maid of Feiyue Palace.
Miss Manchen brought someone to arrest the second-class maid, but the other party didn't dare to resist at all, and was so frightened that she knelt down and begged for mercy. If other people came to arrest people, she might not react so strongly, but if Man Chen came...
When Manchen was frightened and cried Concubine Shu, it happened that this girl was by her side.
Perhaps it was because of the deep love in adversity that the relationship between the two master and servant who were scared and cried together developed rapidly, so this court lady was so favored. Concubine Shu didn't get angry after making her own move, but instead praised her as her right-hand man.
Now, the right-hand man is imprisoned in Fengyi Palace.
The prison is in the front palace, a little far away. In order to facilitate the interrogation, he had to be locked up in Fengyi Palace first.
In terms of interrogation, Jinli is obviously better than Manchen. The court lady was not very timid, she looked stern and inward, and after a while of scaring her, she immediately resorted to everything.
She spoke in great detail, from the beginning when Concubine Shu set up a strategy but failed, to when she listened to her friend's advice and made a move, to when she asked Concubine Shu to ask for credit but deliberately did not mention that it was her friend's idea. Pile by piece, very fine.
The friend who encouraged her to do something was probably in a bad mood. Originally, she was very secretive, and no normal person would think of confessing her. But this palace lady was timid, she was afraid that if she missed something, she would be tortured severely, so she said everything that should be said and should not be said. So she was exposed.
Man Chen immediately took her with her, and went to Feiyue Palace again, and brought her friend here as well.
Concubine Shu was taken aback, thinking that Man Chen had come to catch her this time. Resisting her fear and bravado, she confronted Manchen for a while, but refused to do so. It was not until Manchen told her speechlessly that she was here to arrest the palace maid that Concubine Shu breathed a sigh of relief and let her go.
It doesn't matter if the maid folds two more, but don't catch her.
She just made a plan, but she didn't do anything. Encouraging this matter failed, let the second-class maid do it, but she didn't order it.
Her second ring plan was to stimulate Yu Xiurong, but in fact she didn't do anything, Concubine Mi went up to stimulate Yu Xiurong by herself.
The third ring plan is to cooperate with Yu Xiurong to ruin Concubine Shen's face. Unfortunately, Yu Xiurong actually did it in advance, which caused Concubine Shu's arrangement to not take effect.
The last is the fourth ring. Concubine Shu intends to tamper with Concubine Shen's future facial ointment. But at this moment, Concubine Shen Gui looked good, and the ointment hadn't had time to make it yet.
After all the calculations, although the plan was very complicated, she really didn't do it. At best, it can be regarded as a thief, even if it is found out, it is not a big deal.
After thinking about it, Concubine Shu felt relieved.
But what happened to the second maid who was taken away
"You keep an eye on the movement of Fengyi Palace, I want to know the situation as soon as possible." Concubine Shu said worriedly.
The little eunuch naturally responded.
The second court lady who was captured was a hard-headed one, and extorting a confession by torture was not very effective. Fortunately, everyone didn't care, this time Concubine Shu was pushed out to take the blame, and the rest of the women could take a break.
Anyway, the war is still going on outside, some women can't just clean up even if they find out. However, these things will be recorded, waiting for the future to slowly settle accounts.
The maid couldn't be trained for a while, so she just let it go and continued to search the matter of the little maid. Now only a clue has been found, and it is possible to infer who is behind it, but the details still need to be verified slowly.
Of course, these were all investigated in secret. On the surface, the Empress Empress went to Feiyue Palace for a while, and after she came back, she punished Concubine Shu and grounded her feet.
That evening, the matter was settled.
Concubine Yishu was jealous of Concubine Ming, so she plotted against Concubine Ming, but Concubine De was killed. Concubine Shu was deprived of her title "Yi" and demoted to wife. Now she is only a lady Shu, not as good as Concubine Mi. Not only that, Mrs. Shu had to be confined for half a year, copying the Four Books for Women and the palace rules a hundred times, and she was not allowed to lift the ban if she couldn't finish copying.
Originally, the punishment would not be so severe, but it can only be said that because Concubine Shu alone took on the crimes of three people, the punishment has tripled. In addition, the empress was very angry, and didn't think that Concubine Shu's original plan had not come into effect in time to be regarded as innocent, and His Majesty the Emperor only followed her lead, so naturally her sister would do whatever she wanted, so Concubine Shu was in tragedy.
After being demoted to wife, she can continue to be the lord of the first palace and live in the main hall of Feiyue Palace, but there are always some injustices. On the contrary, it was another low-ranking concubine who lived in her palace, but when the emperor came to Feiyue Palace to announce the punishment, she begged the emperor's grace to move out.
This concubine is none other than the pregnant An Jieyu.
She didn't want to stay in Feiyue Palace any longer, Mrs. Shu was grounded, and this Feiyue Palace basically became a place where nobody cares about. Not only Concubine Shu can't go out, other people won't come either. It would be fine if it was just like this, she can still raise her baby and seek peace, but if others don't come, the emperor won't come either!
An Jieyu wasn't too smart, but she wasn't stupid either. She knew that her life's honor and disgrace depended on the emperor. If the emperor doesn't come to see the child and see her, then what's the point of her being pregnant? It was originally a fake pregnancy, so I could only take advantage of the fact that there was no miscarriage.
But even if she is really pregnant, she doesn't get favored just by giving birth to a child. There are many unfavored princes and princesses in the imperial palaces of the past dynasties. That kind of child can't let her mother be more expensive than her son.
Anyway, An Jieyu wasn't really pregnant, she was still waiting for someone to give her an "abortion", so naturally she was eager to move out as soon as possible. It's best to move to a place with a good geomantic omen, and then live there, and find a chance to frame other people to harm her child by the way, so as to gain the emperor's sympathy.
With a good plan in mind, An Jieyu happily moved to the side hall of Yunxiang Palace.
The name Yunxiang Palace sounds good, and Concubine De has been favored recently. Originally, she was not left out in the cold, but now she was often visited by the emperor because of her injury, so An Jieyu lived here also enjoyed the honor. After seeing the wounded, the emperor came to see her as a pregnant woman, and would gently discuss with her how to raise the child in the future.
Although she knew that the child was fake, An Jieyu still felt good about it, but it was a pity that she wasn't really pregnant.
Concubine De was so angry that the emperor came to visit her every time, but he excused his injury and never favored her. Half of the times he came to see her, he would stay with An Jieyu. And even if she didn't stay at An Jieyu's place, she would go to see An Jieyu on purpose, which made her one of the dignified four concubines in a very embarrassing situation.
It's great to be pregnant, Jieyu, who is four levels lower than her, can keep pace with her.
The most exaggerated thing was that sometimes the emperor just took one look at her and ran to accompany An Jieyu and have dinner at An Jieyu's place. She wanted to invite the emperor to come and accompany her, but the little eunuch sent back a sentence: "An Jieyu is pregnant and has difficulty moving. If Concubine De wants to, why not come to the side hall for dinner together."
An Jieyu was found to be pregnant at the end of June this year. She was pregnant when she first entered the palace in early June. Now it is early October, and there is a leap in June in between. If you add it up, you are only five months old. The belly, actually told her that she was inconvenient? How big can five months be? Can't walk yet
Concubine De has never been pregnant, and it's not that she has never seen a pregnant woman.
Just being hypocritical, Concubine De spat secretly, thinking that An Jieyu must be yelling about being uncomfortable every day, otherwise the emperor could say such a thing? Let her, a fourth concubine, go to the side hall to dine with a Jieyu, so she would not do such a self-degrading thing.
It is not so easy for the emperor to sit on the blessing of all people.
Compared to Concubine De's exasperation, An Jieyu has been enjoying a good life recently. She lives in the Palace of Concubine De, and Concubine De dare not touch her, otherwise everyone will be the first to suspect De Concubine.
In addition, the emperor came to see her every now and then. Recently, her waist has not been sore and her legs have no cramps, and her energy and spirit have improved. Occasionally, walking in the yard with her stomach upright according to the imperial physician's instructions, she ran into someone from Concubine De's side, and she could greet them with a smile and ask about Concubine De's condition.
Although the other party always felt that An Jieyu was provoking.
Seeing that the two women hadn't made any trouble, the emperor put it aside for the time being. The purpose of bringing An Jieyu to Yunxiang Palace is to deal with Concubine De, but now is not the time.
An Jieyu can keep this child for at most three months. She is pregnant with a stillborn fetus, and it is a deformed fetus. Generally speaking, pregnant women choose to have an early abortion, but An Jieyu didn't find the opportunity early. Later, it was because having an abortion after four months would hurt her body. An Jieyu still thought about giving birth to the emperor's son in the future, so naturally she couldn't ruin her body just because of a fake pregnancy.
She simply thought that when she was eight months old, she would find someone to set her up and get rid of it. At that time, the stillbirth would give birth naturally, and it would not hurt the body. It was different from an abortion. And as long as she bribes the midwife, no one will know that she gave birth to a deformed baby, only that she gave birth to a stillborn baby.
Anyway, there has always been a saying "seven births and eight deaths", saying that children born prematurely in July are easier to survive, while those born prematurely in August are not easy to survive. At that time, combined with the accident she deliberately arranged, others would of course think that the child was stillborn because of other people's harm, and they would not think that she was pregnant with a stillbirth.
After consulting the imperial physician, His Majesty the Emperor also decided to wait until the eighth month. He sent someone to secretly test An Jieyu's intentions, to see what she thought, and if possible, he would give her a push. If it doesn't work, we'll talk about it later. In short, this child is a good tool to use.
After dealing with An Jieyu's matter, let's talk about the other two concubines involved in the Yu Xiurong incident.
Concubine De needless to say, she was injured now, and the court lady refused to let go of the person responsible behind it, and then she simply bit her tongue and committed suicide the next night. Then Concubine De cannot be implicated, so His Majesty temporarily let Concubine De go, but the other one can be dealt with.
Although no evidence was found, the person behind the maid has been identified. Shen Yuqing originally thought it would be Concubine Mei, the older sister of the Yu family, but it turned out to be her younger sister Xi Jieyu!
The author has something to say: Sister Yu is also a ruthless person, she won't be taken lightly
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