"Your Majesty!" Concubine Zheng knelt down in front of Chunjia without saying a word, and said sadly, "I beg your Majesty to see clearly and clear my name!"
Before Chunjia could speak, there was a "plop" next to her, and Yun Fenghuang also knelt down. His eyes were filled with tears, and he was sad and plaintive. His cry was prettier than hers, his expression was more aggrieved than hers, his body was weaker than hers, and his voice was choked with sobs. She was more delicate than she was, and said: "Your Majesty, I am not very blessed. I am unable to give birth to an heir for Your Majesty personally. I can only hope for the people in the palace. Now Yi Yuwan in the palace is pregnant, and I am full of thoughts about her. It's too late for her, so how can she care about anything else? I'm really unjust!"
"..." The emperor calmed down and said slowly, "Mao Zhaoyi."
Yun Fenghuang sobbed softly and took two steps forward on his knees: "I'm here!"
"From the time you came to Luqin Terrace to now, whether I, the Empress, or the Imperial Concubine, have anyone said they doubted you?" The emperor said with a sullen face, "You are so arrogant that you even question the imperial concubine. What are you thinking!"
"Your Majesty, you must be clear!" Yun Fenghuang said with an unconvinced look, "I came to Luqintai to ask for justice because of Sister Shu Fei's incident! As a result, Zhao Chenggui didn't get into trouble sooner or later, but today Something happened to His Majesty when he was resting in Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion at night... How can I not suspect that this matter is directed at me?"
Concubine Zheng pinched the handkerchief, her whole body was trembling with anger, and she said in a trembling voice: "If I had known that Zhao Chenggui would have trouble tonight, even if I personally stayed by her bed, I would never have allowed anyone to harm the emperor's heir. Go! Mao Zhaoyi, you are so slanderous!"
Yun Fenghuang said: "Your Majesty, please don't be so full of words! Don't forget that the abortion medicine appears in the anti-fetal medicine you gave Zhao Chenggui. No matter how good the prescription and pulse report you gave are, It only shows that you care about yourself, but it doesn’t mean that you are responsible for Zhao Chenggui and his wife! Moreover, who knows how the abortion medicine got into Zhao Chenggui’s medicine bowl? Could it be it itself? Did you walk in with long legs?"
"Mao Zhaoyi is young!" Concubine Zheng said with tears slowly falling from her eyes, "I preceded you nearly ten years in the palace, and now looking at you newcomers, I feel older and younger! Zhaoyi has no children. Ability, or maybe still able to bounce around! But I don’t have such energy! Since the poor prince... "
When she said this, she subconsciously touched her lower abdomen, which had returned to flatness and could not even see the traces of pregnancy under the cover of her palace clothes. She burst into tears, "Ever since my poor baby was gone, I still have trouble sleeping and eating! Let’s talk about attacking Zhao Chenggui, even if he hears words related to miscarriage, he can’t stand it, let alone allowing those pickled things to enter Luqin Terrace?!”
Concubine Zheng was only slightly plump during her pregnancy. After the miscarriage, she quickly lost weight and was even thinner than before pregnancy.
Because she received the news of Zhao Chenggui's accident very unexpectedly, she got up in a hurry. She was not neatly dressed, her coat was tied loosely, and her waist became more and more shabby. Her hair was disheveled, and she only held a long The hairpin was tied up, and now she looked like she could not bear the repeated blows. Those who heard it were really sad and those who saw her shed tears. Even Chunjia, who had always been unkind to her, showed a sigh of relief.
However, Yun Fenghuang, with his hard-hearted heart, just sneered: "Because I can't do anything for Your Majesty personally, I am more and more interested in the people in the palace! In these days, whenever Your Majesty goes to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, I will always He arranged for the people in the palace to sleep with him in a different way, and even treated Yi Yuwan, who was pregnant, as if she were her own sister!"
"I think this is the normal way to be upset about the emperor's heir. Zhao Chenggui was not originally from Yanlan Palace, but because the concubine had a miscarriage, the queen sent someone to Luqin in order to comfort the concubine. Taiwan. As a result, the imperial concubine first ignored her, so that Zhao Chenggui was extremely frightened; then she allowed someone to put abortion products in Zhao Chenggui's anti-fetal medicine! I dare to ask how the imperial concubine could have it at this time Why do you feel sorry for the emperor's heir?"
She said disdainfully, "Who doesn't know how to say something nice when the upper and lower lips touch each other? My dear concubine, please think carefully with your conscience. In what way do you care about the emperor's heir? Oh, maybe you care about yourself. I feel really sad for the missing emperor. But is it possible that what Zhao Chenggui is carrying is not His Majesty’s flesh and blood?!”
"You cheap maid!!!" Concubine Zheng listened to these heart-wrenching words, the color on her face instantly faded away, her lips were trembling, and she pointed her halberd at Yun Feng Huang, what she wanted to say ended up being He roared angrily, got up from the ground, rushed up and beat her, "How dare you slander me like this!"
But Yun Fenghuang was clever and immediately stood up, took three steps at a time and hid behind the emperor, shouting: "Your Majesty, look at her! Look at her!"
Emperor Chunjia: "..."
He looked at the two concubines chasing around his seat with a blank expression, and asked in a cold voice, "Have you had enough?!"
Concubine Zheng burst into tears, but she immediately knelt down and apologized: "I know I was wrong!"
"Your Majesty..." Yun Fenghuang still wanted to complain reluctantly, but the emperor turned his head and glared fiercely before he knelt down aggrievedly, not forgetting to mutter, "This is the imperial concubine's..."
Seeing the emperor looking at her coldly, she pursed her lips and finally stopped talking.
"The imperial concubines Zheng and Zhaoyi Yun have behaved inappropriately before the emperor." Chunjia pinched her forehead and ordered with a stern face, "You will be grounded from tonight!"
Concubine Zheng choked with sobs and kowtowed: "Concubine Sin, please obey the holy order!"
Yun Fenghuang hummed: "I obey your orders."
While talking, the two of them did not forget to glare at each other.
The emperor looked tired, and since Zhao Chenggui's fetus was temporarily saved, he had no intention of staying any longer and got up: "The Queen has urged the Zheng family and the Yun family to be grounded. I will go back to the Xingxin Hall first."
Empress Ji sent the emperor away and returned to the hall. She sighed and said to the second concubine: "If you have something to say, you can't say it properly. It's inexplicably like this! There are only a few concubines in the palace now, and they come one after another... No way. Let the newcomers see all your jokes!"
"Your Majesty, why am I being laughed at by the newlyweds?" Hearing this, Concubine Zheng smiled bitterly, "I'm almost being trampled under the soles of the newlyweds!"
Empress Ji glanced at Yun Fenghuang and her tone became colder: "Mao Zhaoyi is young and ignorant, and I don't bother to argue with you. But the palace has its own rules. If Guo keeps acting up again and again, Your Majesty can tolerate you, but I cannot tolerate people who act recklessly!"
"Your Majesty, this is obviously the matter caused by Concubine Shu..." Yun Fenghuang was interrupted by the Queen in the middle of his words: "Go back to your Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion!"
Yun Fenghuang was watched by the queen's attendants and returned to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion angrily.
She had almost settled in before. When she came back, she freshened up a little and then went to bed - she thought she would sleep soundly, but this night Luqin Terrace, Baose Xiaozhu, Xingxin Hall and other places were almost up all night. .
The next morning, the waiter from the Fangyin Pavilion came to send a message, saying that the Queen Mother was very angry when she learned that Zhao Chenggui was murdered. Considering that her mother, the Queen Mother, had just returned from praying at Shanyuan Temple and was very tired, the Queen Mother had never been interested in worldly affairs. , so he ordered his loving mother, the Queen Mother, to be responsible for a thorough investigation.
Therefore, Queen Mother Yuan ordered people to call the relevant people to the Fangyin Pavilion early in the morning for questioning.
Then, the rosy-faced and energetic Yun Fenghuang was mixed in with the concubines with haggard expressions and dark eyes, which stood out...
Empress Dowager Yuan noticed it, twitched the corner of her mouth, and asked one by one what happened according to the rules. After repeated questioning and verification, she asked the others to step aside for the time being, leaving Yun Fenghuang alone to speak: "You made such a fuss last night. The emperor was so angry that he walked away and returned to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, feeling quite relaxed!"
"The Empress Dowager Mingjian!" Yun Fenghuang looked aggrieved, "I really didn't want to cause trouble! When I first heard that something happened to Zhao Chenggui, I was frightened! After all, there are pregnant concubines in this palace, and they have always been... I wish I could serve Yi Yuwan in person every day! No, I didn’t have all my hairpins at that time, so I chased her directly to Luqin Terrace! As a result, I just heard... "
"Why are you so suspicious at such a young age?" Empress Dowager Yuan had just asked about Lu Qintai's experience. It was very clear. She interrupted with a sigh and said, "Although your concubine is not as good as you are to Yi Yuwan towards Zhao Chenggui." She is very caring, but Your Majesty has no children yet, how could she not pay attention to Zhao Chenggui's pregnancy? There is no way she would risk Zhao Chenggui's pregnancy."
Yun Fenghuang was ashamed to admit his mistake: "I was also frightened. After all, what happened to Concubine Shu and Concubine Xin before... I really thought that this time I came for you."
She didn't hide anything, and stated her conclusion in detail, "Not long ago, I received the grace of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, so I found a group of people from home who had served me as servants to come to the palace to serve as servants. Two of the mothers made special plans for Yi Yuwan and other pregnant concubines in the future. This is not... It's not about worrying about Lu Qintai's affairs. After all, it will turn out that I only have those close attendants who enter the palace. A basket came out of Luqintai...I am really scared!"
She began to wipe her tears and said miserably, "If this were a normal time, my life would be gone if it were gone! But my biological mother is still here! Whenever I make a mistake, how can she listen? Not yet? When the time comes, she... I... I would not regret my own death, but I have never repaid my biological parents even one tenth of the kindness I have shown them, so how can I have the heart to let them worry about me again?"
"You are really concerned about chaos." Empress Dowager Yuan still prefers the deep love between mother and daughter. After all, she has neither impressive close friends nor any earth-shattering marriages in her life. The mother-son friendship between Chunjia and Chunjia has been devoted to her efforts for most of her life, and it still continues to this day.
Yun Fenghuang kept saying that he felt sorry for his mother and felt sorry for his biological parents. Even if the Queen Mother knew that the young concubine was dishonest, she probably said this deliberately. After all, her expression softened a lot and she scolded, "You just think that something like this happened in Luqintai is irritating. You went to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, why don't you think about what happened in the palace these past two days?"
"In the palace?" Yun Fenghuang was crying immersed and hard. He was slightly startled when he heard this, and said blankly, "In the past two days in the palace... has the mother, the queen mother, come back from praying for blessings?"
After saying this, I suddenly thought of the rumors about Princess Jinyun and Ji Minggan, as well as the emperor's attitude, and suddenly realized, "What did the Queen Mother mean???"
"The matter between Princess Jinyun and Mr. Ji was spread by the people in front of the Queen Mother." Empress Dowager Yuan sighed and whispered, "But the emperor did not agree with this matter. He sent someone to Xianzhi last night. Ting, let the Empress Dowager take care of the rumors in the palace... Those palace servants who spread the news were killed with sticks overnight. If nothing else happens at this moment, where would the Empress Dowager's face be?"
Yun Fenghuang was speechless and said: "But... But you shouldn't attack the emperor's heir!"
Of course, these words were expressed to Empress Dowager Yuan. In fact, she didn't think there was anything wrong with tricking an emperor's heir to cover up Empress Dowager Ji's face. The imperial concubine was so cautious, wouldn't something happen to the child in her belly just because she said it? Everyone in this palace says that the imperial heir is extremely valuable, but whether it is actually valuable depends on who he is.
She was just surprised. Ji was not stupid. Even if she did this, how could she tell Queen Mother Yuan that she knew everything about her the next night