Chapter 485: The Final Arrival From the Northland

But in fact, Li Jieyu didn't trust Queen Gu or the queen's dowry.

She didn't think that the Queen would harm her, but that Queen Gu's methods were not good enough.

Even the culprit she really suspected was not someone from the imperial concubine's side, but Gao Jieyu.

"The new concubine in front of the queen, besides me, is the only one." Li Jieyu said to her confidants in private, "If this palace is considered infertile, can the queen take care of me? Everything must be tight With that bitch!"

The left and right whispered: "Your Majesty, why didn't you tell the empress about this idea? The empress must also not like Gao Jieyu and other vicious people."

"But it is a fact that I will have a hard time giving birth in the future." Li Jieyu said with a complicated expression, "The result has already been made. Even if the Empress doesn't like Mrs. Gao, she won't praise me too much...then the result will be the same It's the same. Besides, after the Empress Empress uses Gao Shi heavily, can Gao Shi still coax the Empress a bit? As for the palace in the middle palace, do you think Gao Shi can't coax her?"

The attendants all sighed: "I don't know what kind of luck this Gao Jieyu has had. She was obviously not qualified to be a concubine at the beginning, but she also became Jieyu in the end!"

If Mrs. Gao hadn't become Jieyu, Li Jieyu's master and servant would have plenty of ways to handle her due to the difference in status.

But this one is also Yigong Jieyu now, even if she doesn't have a title, she is a little lower than Li Jieyu, but everyone is a low-rank concubine, who can do anything to win whom?

Li Jieyu wouldn't actually have any fear if she was intriguing in normal times.

The point is that she has been pregnant and giving birth these days, and her energy and physical strength have been dragged down a lot.

"Don't talk about these things anymore." Li Jieyu bit her lip and reminded, "Don't forget how the difficult things about this son of the palace got out?"

There are eyeliners in this palace.

Since there may be Gao's eyeliner, how can there be no queen?

He was about to dismiss his confidantes, when someone came to report, but it was Gao Jieyu who came to visit on his own initiative!

Li Jieyu's master and servant were startled when they heard the words, after discussing for a while, Li Jieyu finally decided to send Gao Jieyu away just to be on the safe side.

But Gao Jieyu forced her way in and said, "What time is it, are you still here to vent your anger on me? Don't even think about it, how did the empress ask us in the past?! Now you can put this thing in your belly When a piece of meat is born, one should really be grateful for the imperial concubine's favor, so that Mrs. Gu didn't dare to die! Otherwise, which one can be saved, your child or my life?"

Hearing these words, Li Jieyu was stupefied at first, then felt chilly in her heart, and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?!"

"Could it be that you have been raising a fool for so many days?" Gao showed contempt, leaned in front of her, and whispered, "The queen forced us to agree to risk our lives, and the heirs should put the interests of Yanfu Palace first. , do you really think that since these days, no one cares about and asks, and you have forgotten to give birth to the child? Don’t even think about it, as far as we have heard, the empress and the Gu family have been under the imperial concubine’s care for the past few years. Is the loss in the hands of the empress still less? As the saying goes, one learns one's wisdom. How can the queen empress and the Gu family expect that no matter how tragic the fate of you and me, the noble concubine empress will be hurt? "

"Judging from the changes in the former dynasty that I have heard these days, I am afraid that after the matter of Xie Xiaoyu is settled, if there is no matter that the tenth prince and the twelve princes are raised by His Majesty, the next step for Gu's family is to go from the front to the harem. The imperial concubine is attacking!"

"Leaving aside the previous dynasty, you and I would not expect any arrangements in our identities."

"The harem...hehe, besides forcing you and me, do you think the empress has other ways to pour dirty water on the imperial concubine?"

Li Jieyu heard her face turn blue and white, and then hummed for a moment: "You mean, you didn't make the rumor?"

Gao Jieyu said: "Of course it's not me! If I have the ability to find out such a secret as yours, why do I let you survive?"

Ignoring Li Jieyu's angry face, she sneered and said, "It's you, I heard that you sent someone to the queen to invite an ancestor to come back to sit in the township, so I know that you must be stupid to think that I am harming you! "

"You mean, the empress did this?" Li Jieyu frowned, "But...even though I never framed the imperial concubine with my child in my womb, aren't you also stingy in sacrificing yourself for the middle palace? Why did the empress target me like this? ?”

Gao Jieyu said coldly: "Of course it is to make the bad relationship between you and me to a higher level. It will be convenient for her to control in the future!"

Seeing that Li Jieyu was silent, she said again, "Do you think that you and I are not in harmony with each other, a majestic queen, there is no need to calculate like this?"

She just sneered, "But don't forget, the empress is an old man who entered the palace when His Majesty got married, and now she can be our mother at any age! I have inquired before that before we entered the palace, the empress was because of Longping The bad news for Hou is that he fell ill one after another. This time, Hou Longping is simply gone... You are in confinement yourself and did not go to the middle palace. Your confidants should know that the queen's complexion is really not very good now. ?”

Li Jieyu heard the words and looked at her confidant who was not far away.

The confidant nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Gao Jieyu continued: "The empress is old, even though she is of noble birth and ranks in the back. When she was young, she couldn't hold back the concubine. Now, can she feel at ease with a concubine like us who is younger than the concubine? Even if you I am the daughter of the former Gu family! How could she not try to make things right for us while she was still a little bit energetic?"

"..." Li Jieyu groaned for a while, and let the left and right back down, leaving only Gao Jieyu to speak, and then said in a low voice, "What exactly do you want?"

"It's just asking for a way to survive." Gao Jieyu looked at her and said slowly, "How much Your Majesty loves the concubine, I believe that after this incident, everyone can see clearly. I don't expect to be like the empress. As expected, we have been favored by Concubine Bo. But if there is no emperor's favor...do you think that the empress specially picked us into the palace just to let us be empresses?"

That is of course impossible.

No matter how gentle, generous and talkative Gu Zhen is in the wind review, it can't change the fact that this kind of noble girl from a wealthy family, no matter how generous she is in normal times, can do anything when it comes to key interests.

The difference is nothing more than how many means they have.

Li Jieyu breathed out slowly, and said: "How is it so easy? The only thing to blame is that we have only been in the palace for a short time, and now all the high-ranking officials have secured their positions. Moreover, I believe you can see that even if the high-ranking officials are at odds with each other, but When facing us people, there is a tacit understanding, and we will not be allowed to be promoted easily, let alone get involved in the imperial power! Unless it is like Tian Jieyu, who is the blood relative of the noble concubine, there may still be a hope or two. Otherwise, go around Zhuan Zhuan is just a pawn for them. How can I decide to win my own life and future?"

"That's true, but why don't you just do nothing?" Gao Jieyu asked back, "If that's the case, then just pretend I haven't been here!"

... When the two Jieyu were discussing closely about their future and freedom, Yun Fenghuang also received the news that Li Jieyu's childbirth was hindered. Cross it out.

"In this way, Tian Jieyu and the others serve His Majesty a few more times, maybe there will be good news."

Yun Fenghuang thought over and over again, but said: "Li Jieyu can be crossed out, but the extra arrangements should be given to Jing Jieyu as much as possible, not to Ru Nan."

Seeing Qing people's surprise, she sighed, "Ru Nan... After all, he was chosen by Brother Twenty-One, who knows what will happen?"

Until the suspicion of Xie Wuzheng is cleared, Xie Runan is determined not to be promoted again.

Yun Fenghuang didn't want to ambush himself in a secret room in the palace.

"..." The Qing people were silent for a while, and then sighed after a long while, and said, "I hope that the empress will find out earlier what the son-in-law has done."

But this timing is really inconvenient, after all, Xie Wuzheng is thousands of miles away to keep his filial piety.

It is impossible to finalize such a big matter through the servants.

And it's still a while before siblings meet.

During this time, who knows what will happen again?

People in the Qing Dynasty dared not say it, but felt heavy in their hearts. They always felt that Xie's prosperous family in the past would never be seen again.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the end of the year, and an envoy came from the north, travel-stained, saying that it was a New Year's gift on behalf of Sui'an and his wife, and it was logical to pass the post to the palace to meet the noble concubine.

When Yun Fenghuang heard this very common news, he felt mixed feelings in his heart, and he calmed down, and then he ordered: "In that case, let someone come."

The person who came was an old servant she was very familiar with, and he seemed to have accompanied Xie Wuzheng on expeditions.

After entering to salute, he quickly raised his head to look at the top, and sighed: "My lady has lost a lot."

"There are a lot of things these days, it's inevitable." Yun Fenghuang yelled lightly, and then ordered to give a seat, and then said, "But I don't know that His Highness still has Brother Twenty-One, how is it going?"

The old servant said that everything is fine, that is: "The two ladies are young, and they caught a cold a few days ago. His Highness was very worried. After taking care of them for two days without taking off their clothes, they almost fell ill. The son-in-law is very troubled by this. It took a while. Fortunately, I found a doctor with high medical skills in Beidi, and after some diagnosis and treatment, I was fine."

After hesitating for a while, he continued, "The Eighteenth Young Madam became seriously ill after hearing the bad news earlier. These days, Ms. Sun has stayed with the two young ladies in front of His Highness. A few days ago, the Eighteenth Young Madam eased up a lot. Now the doctor sees that there is nothing serious."

Yun Fenghuang nodded noncommittally, and suddenly asked: "Why did you come so soon? I thought that after the news of the eighteenth brother was reported, the twenty-first brother would send someone to contact me."

"Returning to your mother, the concubine was indeed very worried and wanted to send someone here." The old servant said in a low voice, "But thinking that this matter was caused by Mrs. Gu, I was worried that Mrs. Gu's other actions of planting and framing would set her back. There is Xie family in an unjust place, so I immediately searched Hefu thoroughly..."

According to the old servant's suggestion, after Xie Wuzheng received the news of Xie Xiaoyu's ruin, the first thing he did was to deal with the aftermath.

Including but not limited to Xie's flirting with Qi Jiulu over the years, some of the clan members committing crimes in private, some tacit understanding between Xie's family and the officials' families in the North, etc...

In short, what the old servant means is that Xie Wuzheng has not rested these days.

The result of this busy work was that he ensured that even if Mrs. Gu had some handles related to Mrs. Xie's before, she would not be able to cause any trouble!

The old servant especially hinted: "Mr. Qi and I, Mrs. Xie, were on good terms in the past, but after what happened that year, they have become estranged. Although in the past, the masters thought that they were in Huizhou, so they didn't have to make too much trouble, so they took the initiative to ease the situation. There are a lot of relationships, but now there are few people in the family, but they can't handle many favors...these days are getting more and more peaceful."

The meaning inside and outside the words is that even the Patriarch of the Qi family has settled down.

Qi Jiulu's future events will not affect Yun Fenghuang's reputation.

Yun Fenghuang pondered, unable to speak for a long time.