Yuan Yunniang was only wearing her middle coat. It was already late autumn and early winter. Although the earth dragon had not yet been burned in the Spring Palace, the weather was already very cold.
While she was kneeling outside to apologize, her lips were green with cold.
After entering the palace, he bowed according to the rules, lowered his head and said nothing.
Queen Mother Yuan was angry when she saw it, and said with a sullen face: "Mother Yuan, what are you looking like?!"
"Anyway, the matter has been done. The Queen Mother takes pity on Sister Nei and takes care of Sister Gardenia, but she doesn't care about me at all. Even if I beg you for mercy now, it will be useless, but why bother?" Yuan Yuniang said calmly. , "Just do whatever the Queen Mother loves."
"If the Ai family doesn't care about you, do you think you can enter this palace?!" Empress Dowager Yuan laughed angrily, "Even if you don't have the ability to please the emperor, in the palace these days, whoever is short of you eats or drinks. , the application is not better than yours at home?! Or is it wronging you to give you such an opportunity?!"
Yuan Yunniang sneered slightly and said: "Your Majesty is young and powerful, and I am just a concubine. It is a blessing to be able to serve him. I will never forget the great kindness of the Queen Mother!"
"Since you know what's good and what's wrong, the Ai family asks you, why did you kill the Second Princess?" Seeing her attitude, Empress Dowager Yuan was about to get angry, but Zhan Liu persuaded her in a low voice. She suppressed her anger and asked, "Second Princess Is it possible that I can still offend you at such a young age?! Even if it is his adoptive mother Luo's fault, if you come to the Ai family to seek justice, will the Ai family ignore you?!"
This is the truth. Although Empress Dowager Yuan ignored Yuan Yuniang the most among her three nieces, she was her aunt and nephew after all.
It's one thing that she usually doesn't ask much about Yuan Yuniang, but it's another thing when other concubines bully Yuan Yuniang.
Especially in the Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard of Chunjia, with the exception of Yun Fenghuang, it really took no effort for the Queen Mother Yuan to deal with the other concubines... The other concubines did not have the courage to confront the Queen Mother Yuan.
That's why Queen Mother Yuan was particularly angry. If she really didn't care about Yuan Yuniang's life or death, it would be fine for Yuan Yuniang to go out of her way to take revenge when she was wronged, but she didn't!
Of course, the most important thing now is to find out how Yuan Yuniang reached out to Yanlan Palace.
So seeing Yuan Yunniang turning her face away and not answering, Queen Mother Yuan still held back her anger and asked her in a deep voice whose instigation did she listen to to do such a vicious act
"Ever since I entered the palace, I have been arranged by the Empress Dowager to be under the control of Sister Mei." Yuan Yuniang didn't say anything at first, but later she saw that the Empress Dowager became really angry. Zhan Liu also helped to persuade her, so that she would confess honestly. , so as not to ruin the harmony between her aunt and nephew. Of course Yuan Yuniang didn't care about the harmony between her aunt and nephew at the moment. She just thought about not wanting to suffer in vain. Fang Leng snorted and said, "Always look at her face in everything, So, besides listening to Sister Neem's advice, who else can I listen to now?"
Empress Dowager Yuan directly asked someone to come up and slap her: "The Ai family originally thought that you were the daughter of the Yuan family, so they had to give you a chance. Who knew that you, a cheap maid, were born from a little maid and didn't deserve to be on the stage? You did this by yourself. Waiting for something bad, not thinking about the fault, but instead slandering my sister, you really deserve to die!"
When the Queen Mother asked questions, Chunjia was listening nearby and quickly persuaded her to calm down.
As a result, before he had finished speaking, Yuan Yunniang sneered after being slapped twice, and suddenly said loudly: "The Queen Mother thinks that I am born of a little maid and it is not worthy of publicity. However, your Majesty is not born of a concubine." ? So it turns out that the Queen Mother has always looked down on His Majesty?!"
After hearing these words, the Queen Mother felt dizzy and almost fainted on the spot. Because of the Queen Mother, Chunjia never liked to directly deal with the Yuan family, especially the Yuan family's daughter.
But he couldn't care about it at the moment, and immediately ordered people to gagged Yuan Yuniang and drag her out of the palace. He then stepped forward to support the Queen Mother and told her not to behave like Yuan Yuniang: "She just knows that the crime is so heinous that it cannot be forgiven, so she specially chooses to say things that poke your heart, Why should you take it seriously? How come you don’t care about your child? Is it possible that she can instigate you with just a few words after these twenty years of upbringing and support? "
Empress Dowager Yuan just shed tears and said: "The Ai family is so angry with this cheap servant. Those words were specifically scolded by her. How could they mean the whole world?"
"I know, kid." Chunjia coaxed, "Don't be angry. Who has more children and doesn't have two disobedient and unfilial children? Just treat her as one of those people, and she will be punished. Don't worry about what she said. Some or not.”
Zhan Liu and other close attendants were also nearby to persuade the Queen Mother to calm down, saying that it was all Yuan Yuan's fault. She was the one who plotted to kill the emperor and instigated the Tian family's mother and son behind. "My maid looked at it. She was probably jealous of Mrs. Chunke and Zhaoyuan. She felt that The two of them were both concubines, but she was not. But even if they are sisters, they are superior to each other. Let’s not talk about concubines. Is Mrs. Chunke your majesty’s childhood sweetheart, or the empress dowager who raised her with your own hands? She also gave birth to His Royal Highness King Qi, among the Yuan family’s daughters, who can surpass her?"
"That's Empress Zhaoyuan. She was raised by her aunt and brought up carefully. In terms of talent, appearance and virtue, she is not inferior to the other four of the Luo family and the Ouyang family, so she was made a concubine together!"
"She is just a bit of a slut. She entered the palace because of the Queen Mother's love. What's wrong with being a concubine and living a good life with Mrs. Chunke?"
"It shows that people's hearts are not as good as snakes swallowing elephants. She can't blame anyone. It's just her own fault!"
The talkative Queen Mother finally stopped her sorrow and lost interest in interrogating, and said to Chunjia: "The Ai family sees that this wretched maid won't talk anymore, and the Ai family doesn't want to ask any more questions! Let's just kill him with a stick. , it was said to the outside world that she was so unlucky that she could not bear the blessing of being a concubine, and that she could not survive a sudden illness."
Chunjia actually wanted to ask again, because whether Yuan Yuanniang was instigated or bewitched or out of her own heart, she definitely did not have the ability to murder the wet nurse of the second princess.
And why choose an unimportant wet nurse of the emperor's heir to start
But the heartbroken look of Queen Mother Yuan at the moment made him very unbearable, so he nodded and agreed, thinking about it, and turned around to take Yuan Yunniang to ask questions.
After settling the matter, Empress Dowager Yuan lost interest and went directly back to her bedroom to rest, leaving Chunjia to go on her own.
"Why do you have to be sad, your Majesty? Your servant is watching from the side. Your Majesty really doesn't take that to heart." Zhan Liu accompanied her. Seeing that she was still depressed when she entered the bedroom, he advised her, "You have raised Your Majesty single-handedly." People, you still don’t know that Your Majesty has never been a narrow-minded person? He sincerely treats you as your own mother."
Empress Dowager Yuan let out a long sigh: "No matter how much you treat her like a biological mother, her real biological mother is still there!"
It's okay not to mention this, but it gives me a headache to mention this: "It's all in the past, why do you... That person is also a sensible person, hasn't he always been very knowledgeable over the years? If not, she had been there before I won’t make a fuss about going back to Fuyang County. Although Your Majesty is filial to you and didn’t say anything, I’m afraid he feels a little pity for her in his heart.”
"..." Queen Mother Yuan was silent for a while and said, "Regarding today's matter, do you think the person in Jiashan Palace is really sensible? If she is really sensible, how can she calmly seduce the niece of the Ai family?"
Zhanliu was startled: "You mean?"
"Today's matter, from what Mother Cuan mentioned about the birth of the little maid, the Ai family knew that 80% of it was done by Jiashan Palace." Empress Dowager Yuan said with a sneer, "She is retaliating and also warning... But it doesn't matter. The Ai family has been able to suppress her for so many years, but are they afraid that she will turn her back? If Princess Fuyangzhuang hadn't deliberately kept her to cause trouble for the Ai family, the Ai family would have sent her down to wait for the emperor's son when he landed. The late king! Later, Princess Fuyangzhuang passed away, and the emperor was old enough to know his biological mother and aunt. The Ai family thought of the emperor's obedience and thoughtfulness, so they spared the life of that cheap maid. Unexpectedly... "
She did not continue speaking, but said slowly, "Ms. Cuan is useless. Over the years in the palace, her methods of running the palace are not as good as that of Xiao Yun! Cang Niang did so many tricks right under her nose." He actually knows nothing! Go and ask Yuan Zhu to think about it and stop worrying about Li’s pregnancy. The Huzhu Palace is like a sieve. Even if Li gives birth to a prince to Niang, will he be able to raise it? It’s all a problem!”
Zhanliu sighed and said, "My servant will go right now."
After hesitating for a moment, she did not move immediately, but asked softly, "What about Jiashan Palace?"
"She is still lying on the bed pretending to be dying. Now even if the emperor knows what she did, the emperor's heir is safe anyway, and the big thing will be turned into a trivial matter." Empress Dowager Yuan squinted, "It's not like the Ai family wants to There’s no need to bring it up now if you want to beat her, just wait.”
… Yun Fenghuang stayed in the Huanhua Hall for most of the day. Chunjia finally came back when it was time to light the lanterns, and his expression was not very good.
She welcomed the person inside and sat down. She first asked about food and tea, and then asked how the second princess was doing, whether it was serious or not, and whether other wet nurses had been checked.
Chunjia answered absently, and Yun Fenghuang began to apply eye drops to Luo Hanyi, saying that even if the second princess was not Luo Hanyi's biological child, Xuan Jieyu was too careless about the emperor's heir.
Otherwise, there are now eight royal heirs in the palace. Just like her and the Yijia Palace next door, there are even more than one royal heir under her knees. Why is nothing going on, so Luo Hanyi is the one who got it
To say that the time in the palace was short, Concubine Rui also raised the second prince under her knees. Didn't you see this happen in Concubine Rui's palace
It can be seen that it is all Luo Hanyi's fault: "But this can't be entirely blamed on her. After all, the second princess's biological mother, Liang, was sent there by Xuanqing Palace and was not born and raised in Yanlan Palace. Xuan Jieyu felt uncomfortable, and she also treated the second princess It's human nature to not get close to her either. But after all, it's your flesh and blood, so she can love and protect her as if she's not her own. At least she has fulfilled her duties as a mother and concubine and protected her!"
"If you can't protect your children, what's the use of her position as head!"
Chunjia sighed and said, "How much do you dislike Luo Tieyi?"
Yun Fenghuang's purpose was seen through, and she felt awe-inspiring. She didn't care that Chunjia thought she was jealous and deliberately suppressed Luo Hanyi. The key was that speaking against Luo Tieyi could easily lead Chunjia to think that she was helping Qi Jiulu.
Therefore, he frowned and said: "What does this matter have to do with Luo Tieyi? If this matter happened to Ruifei, I would definitely say the same thing. Originally, Xuan Jieyu had always been indifferent to the second princess, so it was nothing Secret. Even if this time hadn't happened, I would still have planned to find an opportunity to give her a beating. Mrs. Liang was always sensible, well-behaved, and a good person when she was in my hands. However, she was no longer a mother. This time, even the Second Princess was frightened! If I, the former head of the throne, don’t say anything, won’t the Sixth Palace be more contemptuous of those who go out to me?”
Then he said, "Moreover, Mrs. Li is now in Huzhu Palace. How many concubines are missing from Huzhu Palace? Although I don't like Ms. Li very much, even if we get along with each other, I don't want her to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Liang. .”
Chunjia was immediately distracted and sighed with a smile: "It is dangerous for women to give birth. The Liang family, like the Chen family, are not the masters."
"I still believe in Concubine De, Xuan Jieyu is hard to say." Yun Fenghuang snorted, "Even if she didn't do it, at least she is careless!"
So I asked Chunjia how Yuan Niang's temperament has been lately. Has it gotten better or worse? Or is he not the palace concubine killer he was before? Is Li’s survival rate high after giving birth
Chunjia felt helpless and said: "I am just a concubine, how can you be so stingy?"
After all, he couldn't guarantee whether Yuan Yuniang would be killed or retained after Li gave birth...
Seeing Yun Fenghuang's reluctance, he coughed dryly and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. My queen mother is very angry today. Can you help me think of some ways to make her happy?"