Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Nine

In the evening, Chunjia sent Yanyin to Yanfu Palace to spread the message, asking Empress Ji to deal with Concubine Zheng. The request was that such bad behavior of slandering the innocence of the concubine must be severely punished, and at the same time, no word or phrase should be spread, which would damage the imperial concubine. Reputation: "Your Majesty is also considering the Empress Dowager."

According to Chunjia's intention, Yan Yin stood on the Chongchang Hall, and said sternly, "After all, everyone knows that the real concubine is one of the honored ladies who were appointed by the empress dowager herself, although it is Zhenxishu Concubine The recommendation was made by the Empress Dowager through many investigations, and after being checked by the empress herself, she was finally selected layer by layer. If the real concubine and empress are free, your Majesty knows that the empress dowager, concubine Zhenxishu, and the empress are determined You wouldn’t do something like letting a lewd and promiscuous woman enter the palace as a concubine on purpose, but people in the world are ignorant, so what might they say?”

"At that time, if it reaches the ears of the Empress Dowager, won't it disturb the Empress Dowager's rest even more?"

"In this case, the Queen's Empress will have a hard time in her heart, won't she?"

Empress Ji pursed her lips and said nothing. After a while, she said calmly: "I know, you go back and report to His Majesty, and say that I will handle the matter for him."

Yan Yin knew that the Empress looked calm now, and she was not sure what to do in her heart, so she bowed her hands and said, "Your servant will leave."

He simply left.

As for Empress Ji, she quickly and swiftly led her to Yanlan Palace.

Concubine Zheng was anxiously waiting for news from Xuanqing Palace—Chunjia hadn’t heard any news since she entered Xuanqing Palace—seeing the little maid running up, she was overjoyed, I thought Huanhua Temple had a result.

The kind of good news that Yun Fenghuang was unlucky.

Unexpectedly, the little servant fell on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the Queen's Majesty is here!"

"Empress?" The imperial concubine was startled, her heart pounding, subconsciously pressed her chest, and murmured, "Why did the empress come here?"

She didn't know the process, but felt something was wrong.

Empress Ji has always prided herself on her status, and has never been in the concubine's palace.

Especially in the past few months, because the Empress Dowager Yuan and Chun Jiaming have blatantly favored Yun Fenghuang and wanted to seize the empress's power to Concubine Zhen, the empress has been more low-key.

Even if he intends to unite with himself, he didn't say that he came to the door directly?

The noble concubine changed her mind and said, "Follow me to meet the queen."

The concubine and concubine met in the court, and their eyes just met. Concubine Zheng quickly bowed her knees and saluted: "Concubine..."

"Okay!" Just as he opened his mouth, he was stopped by Empress Ji, "Come on, take the Zheng family down!"

"Your Majesty?!" Concubine Zheng was shocked, and an unbelievable guess came to her mind, but she couldn't believe it, and asked subconsciously, "My Lady, the real concubine..."

Empress Ji looked at her and scolded: "Shut up!"

Seeing that Concubine Zheng seemed to be dissatisfied, she still had something to say, she sneered slightly, "Master Zheng hates the concubine first, and after defying Yi's intentions, is this Zheng's tutor?!"

When the Zheng family was mentioned, Concubine Zheng was stunned for a moment, let go of her resistance, let the palace servants brought by the queen take her down, took off a piece of jewelry on the spot, took off her gorgeous robe, and knelt down on the floor tiles ——Afterwards, the servants of the Central Palace searched the entire Yanlan Palace, almost inside and out, and finally found a few rough-made dolls, with Yun Fenghuang and other concubines written on them. The name is logical, and the queen ordered: "Take all the Yanlan Palace, except for Zhao Cairen!"

Of course Zhao Cairen was an exception because of her pregnancy, so when the people in the middle palace acted, instead of embarrassing her, they took care of her.

After all, this lord had been caught in the dark when he was in the palace, and the road back was bumpy, and he had been lying on the couch for a long time to protect his pregnancy.

Just the day before, the imperial concubine invited the emperor to stay overnight on the grounds that her pregnancy was not good.

Thinking about it like this, I also know that Zhao Cairen's pregnancy must not be very stable.

If their hands and feet are more serious and their tone is more aggressive, this person will have troubles, even the queen will definitely not be able to bear it.

If it was an ordinary palace man, he would surely die.

So he didn't dare to do anything to Zhao Cairen.

However, Zhao Cairen was still very frightened, and asked to meet the empress to intercede for the noble concubine: "Your Majesty, the noble concubine is always dignified and virtuous, gentle and kind, how could you hate the real concubine and even curse the concubine? Is there some misunderstanding here? This concubine believes that the imperial concubine is definitely not such a person... Please be aware of the details and return the imperial concubine's innocence!"

Empress Ji was sitting in the main hall at this time, watching the people below search for more "evidence", and glanced at her upon hearing this.

Zhao Cairen entered the palace when the emperor got married, so he was one year older than the empress. But at this moment, his figure was bloated, and his face had gained more than a circle of fat. There were faint spots on his originally fair skin, and he seemed to be a generation older than the empress.

"I heard that the imperial concubine doesn't like you very much. I didn't expect you to speak for her." The queen stared at her for a while, then she looked away, and said slowly, "You are honest."

"My empress is absurd, I just feel that..." Zhao Cairen muttered, she came from a humble background, if she hadn't been lucky enough, she would have been completely wiped out in this huge palace.

When I was happy before, I lived frivolously for a while.

But the cold reception of the noble concubine, and the fact that the empress dowager, the three empress dowagers, and the empress only cared about the heir and not about herself, quickly made her wake up and understand what a concubine of her origin should have attitude.

At this moment, the whole body is shrunken and docile, stammering, "I feel... I feel that the imperial concubine is really not that kind of person."

"These things are not something you can talk about as a palace concubine." Empress Ji said indifferently, "I'm afraid that the noble concubine will not be able to raise the child in your womb, so you can talk about it while the palace is idle. Whose palace will it go to?”

Zhao Cairen was a little at a loss. In fact, if she had feelings for the imperial concubine, it would not be wrong to worry about the imperial concubine. pass her.

Moreover, the Yuzhen Palace where she was before had never had a master, and Concubine Zheng was the only master she had been with so far.

I can't talk about feeling like sisters, but after a few months, I'm used to it anyway.

The most important thing is that although Concubine Zheng is very distressed that her child has been murdered, she can't find the murderer. A concubine whose family background is far inferior to her own, is confused and has nothing to do with her pregnancy until now, but she also understands her The favor is far away, and there cannot be no emperor's heir under his knees.

Therefore, he was very generous with Zhao Cairen's basic necessities of life, and even contacted the Zheng family to take care of Zhao Cairen's natal family.

In this way, after this talented person received the news from his family, he also regarded himself as a noble concubine.

As a result, the imperial concubine said she would fall from power, so how could Zhao Cairen not be confused?

Hearing what the empress said, he opened his mouth. After all, he didn't have the guts to make a fuss, so he lowered his eyes and said, "The empress, the imperial concubine, she..."

Empress Ji was too lazy to talk to her, so she interrupted: "If you don't choose, I will choose for you—the imperial concubine has a very high status, second only to me in the palace. The status of a concubine who is pregnant with an emperor's heir should not be too low... Then the real concubine is fine."

True concubine?

Zhao Cairen was stunned for a moment, remembering that when the imperial concubine rumored that the imperial concubine was generous to the people in the palace, he had also envied her, and secretly thought, why wasn't she assigned to the Xuanqing Palace in the first place?

So now there is such an opportunity?

She was in a daze, and didn't want a maid next to the queen to speak, and said, "Madam, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to do so? Zhao Cairen's offspring, the original mother concubine is one of the four concubines. There is a tacit understanding in the palace, and the status of adoptive mother , can only be ranked from low to high, but the status of a true concubine is not as good as that of a noble concubine."

What the court lady said is true. Although there are no express regulations in the palace ban, the fact is that if an emperor's heir determines the concubine to be raised, once the concubine has something wrong and cannot continue, the person who takes over must be in the same position. Above the previous adoptive mother.

At least, flush.

If they are the heirs of the emperor, the only ones who are qualified to raise them after the death of the Yuan Dynasty are the successors.

If the emperor did not establish a successor, but the heir was young and needed to be taken care of, then it would be recorded as the emperor's personal upbringing—maybe in fact it was the concubines who were responsible for the upbringing, but these concubines could only be regarded as helping at best.

Although the child in Zhao Cairen's womb hasn't landed yet, it's not completely untenable for Empress Ji to pull out this rule: "You're right. It's just that the status of the imperial concubine in the palace is second only to me. Gong, so what should I do?"

"Why don't you... the empress work harder and raise this emperor's heir herself?"

"This is inappropriate. I am the lord of the six palaces. Is it normal to raise an heir personally? This is a big matter. I haven't discussed it with the elders before. It is inappropriate."

"Your Majesty, what happened to the imperial concubine has happened now, and I don't know what will happen in the future. Listening to His Majesty's tone, maybe even Yanlan Palace will not stay. At this moment, Yanlan Palace, everyone else Forget it, Zhao Cairen is always pregnant, if it is not properly arranged, what if the emperor's heir has a mistake, what will happen? If she is arranged with someone else, the status of the real concubine is not as good as that of the imperial concubine, let alone that she is now I am very busy, and the Yigui under my hand is also pregnant, so how can I be so busy? The concubine Ying has always used knives and guns, and she doesn't know how to take care of others; Wei Zhaorong and others are not too young and don't understand anything. , it’s just that the status is too low and inappropriate... In this way, besides the empress, Zhao Cairen and his wife, who else can we count on?"

As the maid said, she glared at Zhao Cairen, and raised her voice a little, "Zhao Cairen, what do you think? Apart from the Empress, who else is suitable to take care of you two at this moment?"

Zhao Cairen opened his mouth, not knowing what to say?

She wanted to say just now that she thought it would be nice to be a real concubine in the palace...

But the Queen's master and servant sang together so clearly, she... what else could she say?

I could only hold back my fear and kowtow, and said in a low voice: "It's the honor of the concubine that the empress does not dislike her."

...Because Chunjia stayed in Xuanqing Palace until the next day, and Yun Fenghuang waited until it was almost noon the next day before he had time to inquire about what happened. Chen Zhu came up to report with a full face of resentment, saying that Empress Ji was shameless Somehow, he actually cut off the heir of the emperor who should belong to Xuanqing Palace!

This is not the point, because although the emperor's heir is precious, Yi Guiren in Xuanqing Palace still has one in his stomach.

What made Chen Zhu feel uneasy was: "Madam, this talented Zhao was born in Yuzhen Palace. When she found out that she was happy, she was the first to tell the empress. If the empress wanted to raise the emperor's heir herself at that time, she can do so." It was brought up in a while. But now, it is really suspicious to take him to live in Yanfu Palace while taking advantage of the concubine! There are rumors in the palace that this is because Zhao Cairen's conceived child is a male heir! "

There is a high probability that our Yigui is pregnant with a princess. If Zhao Cairen comes, maybe the living eldest prince will be in his hands!

How can you bear this situation? !

Seeing Xie Hengyu and the others looking forward to "My Lady, let's get Zhao Cairen back", the corners of Yun Fenghuang's mouth twitched, and he didn't continue talking about Zhao Cairen, but asked: "Where is the noble concubine?" ? How is the concubine now?"