The soft smile hanging on the corner of Yun Fenghuang's mouth froze.
How have these two years been for her
I'm afraid it would be great for anyone other than her to answer it for me, right
In the harem of the former dynasty, who didn’t know that today’s emperor is so doting on noble concubines that even the empress dowager, a loving mother, has to stay away
but…
Yun Fenghuang really couldn't say the word "good".
Maybe it's because she has been doted on since she was a child, and her childhood sweetheart's ex-fiancé is very obedient, so her requirements for "goodness" are higher than ordinary people.
In the eyes of ordinary people, she came from a humble background, had a temperament that was overbearing and arrogant, and her methods were quite ruthless... Such a woman was already blessed to be able to enter the palace and serve the emperor. She also received the emperor's love, was promoted to a noble concubine, and raised the emperor. The eldest son, the emperor, the eldest daughter and other imperial heirs shared the power of the queen, and the emperor even disobeyed his loving mother the empress dowager for her sake. No matter what, it was time to say that this life was worthy of the emperor's grace and that he was deeply grateful for the emperor's grace.
However, she really didn't feel it herself.
The emperor was sincere to her, but not wholeheartedly.
This made Yun Fenghuang feel that he was just like King Qin and Zhao Qing. When nothing happened, they could do whatever they wanted, but once something happened... it would only be a matter of a blink of an eye to say they would throw them away.
Not even the slightest hesitation or guilt.
So, can it be praised
"Why did His Majesty suddenly ask like this?" She thought for a few times and said with a smile, "Did I do something wrong to make Your Majesty angry?"
"I know without you having to tell me that you must think that I am not very good to you." Chunjia glanced at her and said lightly.
Yun Fenghuang was surprised and said, "Why would your Majesty think so? Who in the palace and in the harem, in the government and at home, doesn't know that your Majesty is very kind and loving to me?"
That’s right, the previous dynasty, harem, court and the public thought so, but I don’t think so!
I'm really surprised. You know in your heart that you don't treat me well
"Ahuang, you don't have to go around in circles with me. I know that you have always been resentful towards me." The emperor took a sip of tea and said with no expression on his face, "Actually, I am not as good to you as others think."
Come again, come again, come again!
Yun Fenghuang chuckled in his heart. The emperor put down his body and had a heart-to-heart talk in person. He could say anything from his heart... Are you touched
She was very moved the moment she entered the palace.
So everything was said in detail, such as Qi Jiulu and so on.
This time... if she is fooled again, she will lose her title as Concubine Min!
"Your Majesty has your Majesty's difficulties." Yun Fenghuang's smile froze for a moment, and then faded away, replaced with a touch of sadness and helplessness, and sighed softly, "Actually, Your Majesty has always tried his best to treat me well. It's because I'm greedy, I always want something better."
Chunjia: "..."
He was silent for a moment and said, "Ahuang, you have always been smart. You have said everything I wanted to say."
The emperor was not surprised by this result. The imperial concubine was never as easy to fool as the queen. Before he came, he was still thinking about how miserable he was and how hard it was for him to talk about it. As a result, before he could get to the point, the imperial concubine stopped him with one sentence.
Also, back then he had secretly learned from the imperial concubine how to deal with elders.
The imperial concubine can teach him, but she can't use it against him
Thinking of this, the emperor simply stopped talking and said straight to the point, "I like you very much. No matter what happens in the future, I will always arrange the rest of your life for you. But... there are some things you want that I really can't give you."
"I know." Yun Fenghuang narrowed his eyes, then smiled brightly and said, "Are you afraid that I will make a mistake on my errand and make you embarrassed? But I don't seem to have done anything?"
She said without any guilt, "Before, the Xing Ningbo couple came very aggressively. As a palace concubine, wouldn't it be reasonable for me to go to the Queen Mother to ask for help? After all, if I were alone, in order to appease the anger of the Queen Mother's family, I would It's okay to feel a little wronged. But I'm feeling heavier now. Your Majesty knows that it's not easy for me to be the heir. If there are three long and two shortcomings, how can I live for the rest of my life? So I can only If you can use the words to ask the Queen to come forward and protect my concubine, if Your Majesty feels that something is wrong..."
"That's not it." Chunjia stared at her, sighed slightly, and said, "Ahuang, we agreed that we should speak frankly... have you forgotten?"
As Yun Fenghuang listened, his eye circles gradually turned red. He tightened the handkerchief in his hands, but raised the corners of his mouth and said mockingly: "Of course I haven't forgotten it... But I don't dare!"
She said lightly, "I used to be young and frivolous. I always felt that with His Majesty around me, I had nothing to be afraid of! So I acted and spoke unscrupulously. But now, I am pregnant in person, and all of a sudden, I am less timid. I am worried for a while. I'll worry about this and that for a while. What worries me the most is being rejected by His Majesty. It's not like I haven't thought about it before. I'm getting older, but Your Majesty is still young and strong. One day, I'll be old and yellow, but Your Majesty is still gorgeous. Zhengmao. When the time comes, there will be younger and more beautiful people to serve His Majesty and show off their power... But at that time, I felt that it was nothing. Anyway, I have had a period of your Majesty's life, right? If His Majesty doesn't like me , I don’t want to be this concubine anymore, that concubine… at worst, I will die!”
Seeing Chun Jia frowning, she ignored it and continued talking to herself, "But it's different now. Now that I have my own flesh and blood, I suddenly become less courageous and don't dare to do it anymore. After all, if I am alone, , if you die, you will die. Whether your majesty remembers me, forgets me, or feels that I don’t know how to appreciate me... I am dead, so why care about so many things? But my children... Even if I am under the Nine Springs, how can I not be concerned about her?"
"There is no royal heir of my mother in this palace..."
Yun Fenghuang sneered a few times and looked up at Chunjia, "Your Majesty, what do you think of me treating King Qin, Zhaoqing, the Seventh Prince, and the Ninth Prince?"
Chunjia: "..."
If this had been before the palace coup, he would have been able to deny it righteously.
After all, what Yun Fenghuang meant just now was that he valued his own flesh and blood more than his adopted sons and daughters.
She may not care about King Qin and the others after she dies, but she will care about her biological children.
From the emperor's point of view, there are enough reasons to accuse her of not being tolerant and generous, and not truly treating King Qin and others as her own children.
But now...
His father, King Qin and their biological father, decisively abandoned more than a dozen of his biological children on the day of the palace coup, and ordered only the tenth prince and the twelfth prince to be preserved as legitimate sons.
Then what shame does he have to accuse the imperial concubine
After all, the imperial concubine took the seventh prince with her, and arranged for her confidants to take King Qin and Zhaoqing to escape.
"Ahuang has always been a loving mother." The emperor was silent for a moment and sighed softly, "Let's talk about Prince Qin and the others. Even the children of the second and third princes are also under your care."
The treatment he had given King Qin and Zhaoqing before was that the concubine was accompanied by several children of similar age.
So Chunjia said this, but in her heart she was not surprised at Yun Fenghuang.
In his opinion, the imperial concubine is very good at being a mother. She always loves her very much and pays close attention to her studies. She is not the kind of person who blindly flatters and kills her children for the sake of her own reputation. Even if you value your own biological children more, you are not harsh on your non-biological children. This is understandable and human nature.
He is still the biological father, and he has not said that he will treat every child equally, not to mention that the imperial concubine only favors her own children between biological and non-biological children
"Your Majesty, I thought so before I was pregnant." Yun Fenghuang looked at him and said slowly, "But after I became pregnant, especially as the month progressed, I felt more and more clearly that the child was pregnant. Growing up little by little... I discovered that I was actually not kind to King Qin and the others."
She sighed, feeling a little unmotivated, "I used to protect King Qin and the others. If they were wronged, like Zhao Qing who became disabled, although I would be angry and distressed, I wouldn't say that I couldn't live my life for them. However, now that I have my own flesh and blood, I feel that I can do anything for this child! The grievances that I felt were absolutely unbearable in the past, the temper that I felt would never be restrained no matter what... For the sake of the child , I am so happy with it!"
"So, I still remember the agreement I made with Your Majesty, but I don't dare to do it anymore."
"I am worried that I will displease His Majesty because of my willful and reckless behavior... Well, my child has not yet been born. How will the child spend the long time in the future? In the palace, there is no love from Your Majesty, and I have no natal family. As a support, how to protect this child? How to make this child grow up well and happily?"
"...Why are you so cautious?" Chunjia didn't speak for a moment. He silently told himself that the imperial concubine had always been cunning and good at figuring out her own thoughts.
These words and the fragile posture at this moment were probably made specially for him to see, which is not trustworthy.
But he pondered again and again, and still couldn't help but said, "I still don't know what your temper is? Over the years... I have blamed you? But why worry about what I will argue with you? Besides, your child... How can I still not protect you? Up?"
Yun Fenghuang sneered in his heart, don't you know Concubine An's temperament better
Didn’t Concubine An fall out of favor
Before you entered the palace, you must have promised Concubine An everything
Otherwise, why would Yuan Yuniang take it for granted that the queen position belongs to her, and the position of prince should belong to her child
Therefore, she didn't take Chunjia's words to heart at all. She just sighed: "I trust your Majesty, but I don't trust myself. I am afraid that I will gradually lose my head in your majesty's favor, and finally do something that will make it impossible for your majesty to continue." Hui Hu made a mistake... Therefore, I have to restrain myself from now on, so as not to embarrass His Majesty in the future and also harm my mother and son."
Even though Chunjia was trapped in her emotions, she couldn't help but pity her. He laughed angrily when he heard this: "You... are you doing this with me? Doesn't this mean you don't believe me?"
This move of retreating to advance is what I plan to use to trick you!
It's okay if you don't accept this, but you want to turn against me
The emperor was quite helpless and stopped beating around the bush and asked directly: "Let's settle other matters. But since you have become suspicious of Xiaoba's life experience, tell me directly, can I still sell you? Why bother tossing it around? Report to the queen, causing trouble in the temple? I don’t blame you for anything else, I also know that you have been wronged by what happened this time. But the queen mother... Well, is it only the queen mother who is embarrassed this time? "
Yun Fenghuang also admired him. It was such a big deal that the prince was not her biological child, but the emperor could still reason with her properly at this moment.
But she didn't dare to take it lightly because of Chunjia's peaceful attitude at the moment.
The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and an emperor like Chunjia, who is feared by his subordinates, is even less of a thing.
You can say pleasant words at the moment, but you can turn your face cruelly and cruelly later.
"Your Majesty, I not only know that the eighth prince's life experience is different, but I also arranged for the two farmers from Wannian County to complain." Yun Fenghuang took a deep breath, then smiled and said lightly, "We even set up an ambush in Wannian County, and once Marquis Yongchun passes by, we will kill Marquis Yongchun for rebelling!"
Chunjia was speechless for a moment, then said thoughtfully: "Didn't you tell the queen about this?"
"Of course it's my concubine." Yun Fenghuang sneered, "Even the fourth prince and Yun Jieyu were forced to death by my concubine. Oh, and by the way, the King of Chu, His Highness, was also the murderer of my concubine! Even Qi Qi was the one who killed me. Your Majesty, it was also my concubine who committed the crime... There are other crimes that I may not be able to remember during my pregnancy. Your Majesty, tell me all of them. Can you please remind me?"
The emperor was embarrassed: "I mistrusted others..."
"Who told His Majesty this?" Yun Fenghuang asked, "It is well known that Your Majesty always loves me, so even if a casual person doubts that I am in love with you, how can I have the courage to speak to His Majesty? This person not only made a statement but also made Your Majesty believe it, but who is it? Your Majesty, why don't you tell me so that I can reflect on it and see if I have offended someone without knowing it?"
Chunjia coughed dryly and said: "No one said this, it was me... who misunderstood!"
It is true that Gu Zhen was not bitten to death by the imperial concubine, but in Chunjia's view, Yun Fenghuang was undoubtedly very suspicious.
Moreover, Chunjia also had some knowledge of the contacts between Chen Jing's subordinates and Gu Shao through the Imperial City Department.
Therefore, it was reasonable for the emperor to immediately suspect Yun Fenghuang when he learned that someone was inciting the queen to make a fuss about the eighth prince's life experience.
In fact, if it weren't for those two farmers, Yun Fenghuang would have considered confessing
After all, she knew Chunjia's temperament. If she refused to admit something that could not be denied at all, it would only make him angry and bored.
It would be better to find a reason that he can understand or tolerate and admit it directly, which will make it look more upright.
But since those two farmers were out, Yun Fenghuang of course denied it!
She wanted to persuade the Queen to start with the Eighth Prince, but since someone had taken the initiative and thoughtfully arranged the certificates, what else was there to say
I, Yun Fenghuang, am innocent!
"Your Majesty, what have I done to make you so worried?" Since Yun Fenghuang had a clear conscience, he naturally refused to give up and asked coldly, "You just said clearly that I am a good concubine. Why do you always suspect that I will be harmful to the emperor's heir? I have never had much relationship with the eighth prince. I don't even know what the eighth prince looks like now. Why bother to target him? Yes, I I don’t like the empress dowager who is a loving mother. Because the birth date is approaching, I am also very worried. If I follow in the footsteps of Concubine Wen Huixian... "
"That's impossible!" Chunjia frowned and lowered her face to interrupt her, "Don't say such things!"
Yun Fenghuang ignored it and insisted: "If I am as unlucky as Concubine Wen Huixian, I will pass away and leave only the emperor's heir. I am indeed uneasy, fearing that the empress dowager, a loving mother, will not like me because she does not like me. The emperor's heir is also fed up. How difficult will it be for this child in the palace by then? Moreover, I used to act and speak very freely. There are many people in the palace who are jealous of me! I will leave as soon as I leave. Will the child have to endure all kinds of criticism and suppression? Every time I think about this, I feel sleepy and uneasy... "
"I'll say it again: Don't say such things!" Chunjia looked gloomy and said coldly, "If you don't like it, just tell me, why do you have to compare the Yin family with yourself?! Can the Yin family compare to you! "
Yun Fenghuang saw that he was really angry, and felt a little complicated.
This person probably really didn't want anything to happen to her.
But the sourness was immediately suppressed.
Sincerely... so what
Even if he was sincere, he would still suppress her. Such sincerity... ha.
"Then I'll tell you the truth." Yun Fenghuang calmed down and said calmly, "I don't worry about my loving mother, the Queen Mother, so after thinking about it these days, I feel that if something happens to me, His Majesty is busy with government affairs, and It is also impossible for me to personally raise an heir. In this way, the most likely person in the palace to treat my heir well, and the one who has the ability to do so, is probably the empress... After my death, everyone around the Chongchang Palace was very moved. Brain... But I didn’t murder anyone! So, Your Majesty, why do you think that the eighth prince’s life experience was caused by me?”
Chunjia was silent.
He felt... something was wrong
Obviously I am planning to question the imperial concubine!
Obviously I feel that the imperial concubine is becoming more and more outrageous and should be beaten.
Why is it that the imperial concubine has been questioning me for a long time