Chapter 406: The Past

After the queen received the news, she urgently summoned all the concubines to discuss the matter in Chongchang Hall.

The atmosphere in the palace was extremely oppressive, and those who didn't know it thought there was some terrible news... Well, this is indeed bad news for empresses and concubines.

Even the concubine Cui Lianye, who was basically never beaten by Queen Mother Yuan, actually didn't want Queen Mother Yuan to return.

After all, Cui Lianye and his like, at least before the fall of the empress and concubine, would not even dare to think about the Qingci Palace. They are living their lives now. Low, is it not good to live a small life behind closed doors every day? When the child grows up, he will go to the feudal clan, and he just asks to go with him, to be a concubine in the fief, and he is really free and easy.

At this moment, the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, is back, not to mention the previous dynasty, the harem is definitely impossible to be peaceful.

Maybe they will be involved.

The faces of the high-ranking ones were sinking like water, while the low-ranking concubines were all trembling, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

After a while, the queen spoke and broke the silence.

The empress suppressed the irritability in her heart, forced a smile, and said: "It's really pitiful! Although I have known for a long time that the loving mother empress dowager has a good fortune, and she will be fine for a while. Now that I have received the letter of promise, I finally called Ben. The people in the palace breathed a sigh of relief! It seems that His Majesty can feel relieved of his heavy burden... I called you here today to discuss how to share your majesty's worries."

Concubines, look at me and I look at you. I think the meaning of these words should be, how to let the empress dowager, the loving mother, recover from this wave of recovery, and die early, so that the emperor does not need to worry about the empress dowager Yuan in the future ?

"It's just that the palace is far away. Even if the empress wants to be filial, you and I are probably out of reach now." Everyone thought so in their hearts, but it was hard to say it out, so they could only continue to remain silent, and Yun Fenghuang said, "Let's see what happens next, Your Majesty. Let's make arrangements. It would be great if the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, can return to the palace so that we can take care of her."

Gu Zhen thought in his heart, don't do it!

It's better for Empress Dowager Yuan to be more sensible and stick to staying in the palace... In this way, even if Chunjia is concerned about her, it's not so convenient for her not to be with her and want to do things.

She said lightly: "What the imperial concubine said is very true. How about this, everyone has worked harder these two days, but if you have free time, you can also learn from the imperial concubine and pray for the empress dowager to become a vegetarian."

The queen has thought about it for the past two days. Although the imperial concubine reacted quickly at the time, she did pretend to pray for the Queen Mother Yuan in the past two days, but...

If all the six palaces did this, it would appear that Yunfenghuang was just that way, and he didn't say he was particularly filial or considerate of the emperor.

Everyone heard the queen's hint, agreed one after another, and then quietly looked at Yun Fenghuang's face.

Seeing that the noble concubine looked calm, she didn't look angry, so she was a little relieved.

The empress then ordered the servants to arrange for the palace servants to tidy up the Spring Palace. Regardless of whether the Empress Dowager Yuan came back or not, as a daughter-in-law, she had to put on a gesture of welcoming her.

After the concubines dispersed that day, they went back to their respective palaces. On the way back, Yun Fenghuang ordered Chen Jing to make arrangements for Concubine Mu: "Others don't want the loving empress dowager to come back, so she can't do the same? She is the empress dowager's admiration." Wake up! You should be looking forward to the return of the loving mother, the Empress Dowager."

"I don't want to think about it, what is being passed on to her in the sixth palace now? She is not the only one who does this in this palace about the matter of going to the mother and keeping the child!"

"The second emperor's daughter and the birth mother of the sixth prince, who didn't go in a daze?"

"It's the children in front of the queen herself, the biological mother of the twelve princes, is it clear where they went?"

"Why did you come to Concubine Mu? Now that the eighth prince and sixteenth prince are still young, it's okay. When they grow up, the credit for Concubine Mu's hard work in raising them will become a hatred instead. ?”

"The reason why Liugong doesn't take her seriously is because everyone knows that the queen doesn't want to see her as a sister?"

"Otherwise, who would dare to offend Zhao Wubo's family background, concubine's status, and the status of the empress's cousin?"

"I don't even think about how prestige it was when Muzi was in the palace at an early age, she was usually a cousin in the middle palace!"

"It's the empress dowager who is loving mother, no matter how much she doesn't like to see the people in this palace, she is indeed kind to her!"

"If she is smart, she should find a way to show loyalty to the loving mother Empress Dowager right now, and ask her to return to the palace to sit in charge!"

Chen Jing was a little worried: "Mother, if the loving mother Empress Dowager comes back and asks Concubine Mu to embarrass us, will this...?"

"Are you stupid?" Yun Fenghuang looked at him in surprise, and said, "Concubine Mu is a fool, but the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, is not! Especially since she has suffered so much in the past two years, it is so easy to get such a turnaround." Can we not seize the opportunity? Bengong has not fallen out of favor now, and she just came back and asked Concubine Mu to find trouble for Bengong, causing His Majesty to be in trouble again. Isn't this a waste of His Majesty's affection for her? What's more? Well, the meeting between her and Ben Gong is, in the final analysis, just a battle of emotions."

The main reason is that many of her actions to cheat the Queen Mother Yuan are hidden very deeply, and the Queen Mother doesn't even know...

"Her old man has a deep-seated grievance with the empress and the Gu family!"

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about Yuan's downfall, and Gu's will definitely not be able to wash away the responsibility!

With such grievances ahead, how could the loving mother Empress Dowager care about her disagreement with Yun Fenghuang?

Anyway, Yun Fenghuang couldn't do it by himself.

"If this palace is a loving mother, the empress dowager, the first thing to do after returning to the palace is to persuade concubine Mu to replace the queen!"

Yun Fenghuang snorted and said with a smile, "After all, Concubine Mu is also a daughter of the Gu family! She is the queen, and Gu Zhen is the queen. To the Gu family, the difference is not that big! Moreover, Concubine Mu doesn't think that concubine Mu is the daughter of the Gu family! I have been kind enough to her over the years, but I am quite jealous of the queen... It is easy to persuade her to think about it!"

And if the loving mother Empress Dowager did this, Yun Fenghuang would definitely be happy to see it succeed, and would even contribute to it.

After all, no matter how dull Gu Zhen is, after all these years in the palace, she is not as smart and intelligent, mainly because she is compared with people like the Empress Yuan and Yun Fenghuang.

From the perspective of the entire Six Palaces, it must be much more clear than that of Concubine Mu.

If this Gu Su enters the central palace, then...

Not to mention the third prince and the king of Chu, the tenth prince and the twelve princes will only be more dangerous.

The point is, Gu Su might not be able to take good care of the tenth prince and the twelve princes yet.

After all, these two have been taken care of by Gu Zhen until now, not to mention whether they can still be matured, the biological mother of the tenth prince, Mrs. Ping, is Gu Zhen's confidant, and has no relationship with Gu Su! The biological mother of the twelve princes, although they are sisters with Gu Su, they have more grievances!

Gu Su now has the sixteenth prince who is still in his infancy from the Daxu family. From her standpoint, it must be more reliable to have the sixteenth prince.

This is naturally an excellent opportunity for Xuanqing Palace.

Chunjia even let go of the candidate for the crown prince, what about the next one?

If Gu Zhen was tricked by his cousin right now, would Chunjia really continue to choose Gu's daughter and not consider her?

Yun Fenghuang didn't think so.

So after such a calculation, it seems that the return of Queen Mother Yuan is not a bad thing...?

... After calming down and thinking about it, the imperial concubine felt that it was better to forget it.

The main reason is that Queen Mother Yuan is not stupid, and this master is not so easy to use. After returning, she may use the relationship between Concubine Mu and the Queen to trick the Queen, but it may not be easy for her as a noble concubine.

Anyway, to instigate concubine Mu to tear up the queen...

It's not like she can't do it herself.

Why come back with a quasi-ancestor?

Thinking of this, Yun Fenghuang added: "Anyway, Concubine Mu still has to provoke, and let her keep a low profile, so that the queen doesn't know about it. No matter how indecisive the queen is, I'm afraid she won't tolerate such a thing. She If the wind leaked accidentally, Zhong Gong must have decided not to spare her again this time!"

At the end of the first lunar month, someone from the side hall of Mianfu Palace came to report that Mrs. Shen had contracted a cold and wanted to ask for some rare and precious medicinal herbs.

After hearing the news, Yun Fenghuang naturally wouldn't refuse, and even went to visit her personally.

Of course, Taipin Shen didn't let her into the bedroom, saying that she was afraid of getting sick.

The two sides chatted for a while through the door, Yun Fenghuang felt that he had done his best on behalf of his cousin and sister-in-law, and was about to leave. Who knew that at this time, the concubine Shen called her to stop and said: "Your concubine, my concubine, two days before my death Remember some old things, and let the old people around you tell the empress, okay?"

"Your concubine." Yun Fenghuang was a little surprised, but quickly agreed.

After all, this is the concubine of the former emperor who came back to life in Ji's hands. If she didn't wink at her, she would definitely not be able to make it to the present, let alone give birth to the emperor's daughter.

Sure enough, Shen Taipin's palace servants accompanied Yun Fenghuang to the nearby Nuan Pavilion, cleared his throat as a gesture of politeness, and said, "Your Majesty, when the late Emperor was here, it was the same as today. Every summer, the Empress Dowager will be honored. Went to the Qishan Palace to escape the summer heat. But the first emperor didn't like the Qishan Palace very much. Therefore, he often found excuses to go out of the palace for a stroll, and even preferred to stay in the other courtyard of the courtier's house for many years. At the beginning, he brought the commoner Ji Sheng with him. Later, for unknown reasons, the emperor and the empress gradually lost their peace, so... they often brought the concubines with them. At this time, the common man Ji Sheng would go to Shanyuan Temple, and often even stay for several days."

Yun Fenghuang had heard of this matter in bits and pieces.

The reason why Xiaozong didn't like the Qishan Palace was not because he had any opinion on the palace, but simply because he didn't like the Ji family.

Because of the Empress Dowager, many of Ji's children who are similar in age to Xiaozong grew up in the palace.

They went in and out of the palace unscrupulously, and even treated the palace as half of his own home, which made Xiaozong feel very disgusted, thinking that he, the emperor, was not like a pure master in the royal palace.

So I would rather live outside.

"At that time, there were a few concubines who were quite attractive. They were also confused, and actually slandered the common man Ji Sheng in front of Emperor Xiaozong, saying..."

The palace man hesitated for a while, lowered his voice, and said in a low voice, "It is said that the common man Ji Sheng always goes to Shanyuan Temple. I am afraid that he has other plans, so I advise the late emperor to check it out!"

"In fact, the first emperor did not doubt the character of the common man Ji Sheng, but the concubine mentioned the Ji family, and the first emperor probably wanted to deal with the Ji family... Anyway, after hearing this, he privately checked the common man Ji Sheng's traces, and, The view of goodness."

Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while, and didn't immediately ask Xiaozong what he had found, but instead asked: "The late emperor didn't suspect the common man Ji Sheng... So, the relationship between the late emperor and the common man Ji Sheng is actually not bad?"

According to the palace man's description, the emperor and empress had already lost their peace at that time. Under such circumstances, the emperor still believed in the empress's character, obviously the former relationship was very deep.

In the past, Yun Fenghuang also heard that the reason why the Ji family did not trust Ji's daughter was that Ji Sheng once chose Xiaozong between his family and Xiaozong.

It is not surprising that Xiaozong trusted her so much.

However, in this case, how did the emperor and empress lose peace?