There are two ways of fighting between concubines in the palace. One is to compete for favor. Naturally, they use various means to attract the emperor's attention. But now that the emperor is ill, they can't attract him even if they want to, because they can't even see the emperor.
The second way is to consolidate one's position by poisoning other concubines. In the palace, the only way to get poison is to frame someone. It is not easy to get poison in the palace. It is also very conspicuous when palace maids and eunuchs go out to buy poison, because the palace guards will occasionally search them. If they find poison on them, it will be a big deal.
There is a group of people in the palace who can come into contact with poison, and they are the people from the Imperial Medical Bureau. If the Imperial Medical Bureau is controlled, the harem will be temporarily peaceful. They don't have to be distracted to deal with it, and they can just concentrate on dealing with Concubine Yi and her gang, which saves a lot of trouble.
Of course, the most important thing is, who among the concubines has not had some ulterior motives? All these handles are in the Imperial Hospital. Now that Zi'an has taken over the Imperial Hospital, the concubines will have to curry favor with her so that she will not expose the past.
In this way, the harem was controlled by Zi'an and Murong Zhuangzhuang.
The old lady had nothing to do in the palace, so after breakfast, she went to Ci'an Palace to accompany the tablet of the Empress Dowager. However, the noble concubine was there, and she disliked her and didn't like to see her, so she pulled her aside to chat.
After a few days, the noble concubine had no time to hide.
But Chen Taijun was really shameless. Even though people had expressed openly and secretly that she was not welcome, she still came here happily early in the morning.
As soon as she entered the room, she opened her lion-like roaring voice and shouted, "Noble Concubine, are you awake yet? Hurry up and have breakfast."
Ah Fu stopped her and said, "My Lord, the noble concubine went to bed very late last night, please let her sleep a little longer."
"The old lady should go to bed early at night. Why do you go to bed so late?" Lady Chen raised her eyebrows. "Are you servants annoying her? If you can't even serve an old lady, what's the use of you? I'll ask the princess to replace you later."
She keeps calling her old lady. It's really true. I don't even know how much older she is than the noble concubine.
Ah Fu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Old Lady, you talked here until midnight last night before you left. Did you forget? Even if the noble concubine wanted to rest early, there was nothing she could do."
"Is there such a thing?" Chen Taijun frowned, "Then how come I can get up but she can't? Is she not feeling well? Okay, I'll come early tomorrow and take her out to exercise."
Ah Fu almost went crazy when he heard this, but he forced himself to hold back and said, "Wait here for a moment, I'll go wake up the noble concubine."
Ah Fu entered the bedroom. The noble concubine had already sat up and was in a rage. The lion's roar was too strong to pretend not to hear. "Just kick her out. I really don't want to pay attention to her. Is she crazy? She pesters me day and night. This is not the way to stare at someone."
"Your Highness, please calm down. She just said that she would come early tomorrow." Ah Fu said helplessly.
"This is crazy! This is crazy! You must think of a way right now to stop her from coming here in the future." The noble concubine really couldn't stand it anymore.
Ah Fu was also at a loss, "What else can we do? We can't just close the palace gates and not let her in."
The noble concubine suddenly raised her head and said, "Close the palace gates. Starting tomorrow, the gates of Ci'an Palace will be closed."
The next day, the old lady came again early in the morning, but this time the palace gates were closed, leaving only two shining copper rings facing her.
The old lady smiled meaningfully, "This noble concubine is naughty, naughty, but I like her."
Because the palace gates were closed, the old lady could not come in, so the noble concubine got up early today. It was a rare quiet day, and she wanted to discuss things seriously with Prince Nan Huai.
Last night, that old guy stayed until after midnight before leaving. It was so annoying.
"Your Highness, she's here again. She's standing at the door." Ah Fu walked in and said with a smile.
"Let her squat outside and don't open the door today."
"How will the prince get out later?" Ah Fu asked.
"Let him go out through the small side door. There are people guarding that side door, so she can't get in easily."
"Okay!" Ah Fu called people in to dress up the noble concubine. He walked out and wanted to call Prince Nan Huai over, but he saw a head suddenly appearing outside the palace wall.
"Oh my God, this old lady is really crazy." Ah Fu's eyes almost fell out. This person in her seventies or eighties actually climbed over the wall to get in.
"Afu, right? Come here, give me a hand!" The old lady lay on the wall, smiling and waving her hand.
Ah Fu went up to him bravely, "Old lady, it's too dangerous for you to do this."
"What can I do? I called several times but no one answered the door. I thought your concubine was dead. So I was so scared that I immediately climbed over the wall to take a look."
Ah Fu complained in his heart, "You are the only one who died? You are cursing me so early in the morning. How can you be so vicious?"
He walked over reluctantly and stretched out his hand, but a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: if she fell and broke her leg, there would be no way she could come back.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he raised his head and said, "Come, I will help you down carefully."
The old lady handed him her hand and said, "If it were in the past, I would have jumped down. I am old and lack of exercise is not good. That's why I came to find you early in the morning to exercise together."
Ah Fu stepped on the stone, grabbed her hand and pulled her hard. The old lady half passed the wall, but Ah Fu suddenly twisted his ankle and fell to the side with a cry.
At this time, the old lady's body had already passed the wall, and suddenly she lost the strength to support herself. She was about to fall upside down. If her head hit the ground, it would be terrible, because there was a stone on the ground, and her head might explode.
Only a scream of "Aiya" was heard, and the palace maids and eunuchs in front of the corridor hurried over and helped the old lady up, "What happened? How could she fall down?"
The old lady stood up with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine, but I don't know if Ah Fu is okay."
It is true that she fell down, but for some reason, she ended up falling on top of Ah Fu.
Although the old lady was not fat, she was still quite heavy. After all, she was a martial artist with strong arms and bones. She beat Ah Fu so hard that he shit.
Ah Fu stood up with the help of the eunuch. He looked really miserable. His waist was almost broken and he couldn't straighten up even with the eunuch's help.
The old lady walked up to him and thanked him repeatedly, "Ah Fu, I'm lucky to have you, otherwise I would be broken. You are my savior. Your Majesty is really good at managing people, and you have raised a sensible servant like you."
Ah Fu was choked by the mute and even breathing was painful. His face turned pale and he said, "Old lady, please don't do this again in the future. It's too dangerous."
"No, no," the old lady continued with a smile, "Just now I shouted outside but no one answered the door, so I have called someone to come over and cut off the bolt so that it can't be locked in the future. I don't need to climb over and can come in directly. Or maybe, I can move in here and accompany you every day and night, so that you two sisters can have company."
"You..." Ah Fu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. What kind of person is this? How could there be such a difficult and shameless person
Or an old man? How disrespectful of the elderly!
(End of this chapter)