Chapter 25 I Am Thinking of His Majesty!

Yun Fenghuang's face was gloomy for a moment, and then he sneered: "Is the empress confused? The Xie and Qi families did have an engagement in the early years, but not to mention that this marriage has been canceled long ago, let alone that the concubine does not have a surname now." Thank you, Qi's son's life and death, what's the matter with this palace?"

"There is no third person here, but why are you so hypocritical?" Empress Ji said hesitantly, "Did you forget that time at Chunban Villa..."

She said this sentence very slowly, giving Yun Fenghuang enough opportunities to interrupt, but Yun Fenghuang just looked at her with a mocking face.

Empress Ji didn't finish her sentence, she just looked at her coldly for a while, and then she chuckled, "Qi Jiulu, it's not unfair to lose! You are such a cruel Qingmei, you deserve to be as hot on the outside and cold on the inside as Your Majesty." Bamboo horses make a pair. Although Yuan Niangniang is not a pity to suffer on her own, but a pure person like Qi Jiulu grew up with your childhood sweetheart, it is really a bit wronged."

Yun Fenghuang smiled indifferently: "It turns out that the empress likes Qi's son? Then how about the empress granting me some benefits, and how about helping me to match you up? Although the empress is older than Qi's son, it is expensive. As the middle palace, and the daughter of the Ji family, the son of the Qi family would not mind kissing Fang Ze."

"If the benefits given by the empress make me really satisfied, I can also help you get rid of Qi's son's current wife and concubine. How about letting him be your only concubine?"

"..." Empress Ji's face flashed with fury, her fingernails dug into her palms, her eyes were burning like torches, and after a while, she said coldly, "I've been watching these days, and I thought you didn't want to go with Qi Jiulu at the beginning, because you were greedy for glory and wealth , I have some affection for His Majesty. As a result, you have betrayed Qi Jiulu on the one hand, and on the other hand, you have pushed this palace, Hongxing, from the palace... It seems that the only thing you admire is power and status. In the past, in the Northland, He chose Qi's son who is second to none in the North; when he came to the Imperial Capital, he hooked His Majesty and would not let go!"

Yun Fenghuang said calmly: "Your Majesty said that although you are His Majesty's middle palace, His Majesty only hates you and has no affection for you. Do you think His Majesty would care about your affair? To put it in a bad way, If you really cheated on a foreigner, no matter how angry His Majesty is on the scene, it is too late to be happy in your heart—because there is a reason to take care of you and the Ji family behind you!"

"So why does this concubine have no affection for His Majesty? This concubine is thinking of His Majesty!"

She Shi Shiran said, "As for Qi's son, empress, let me tell you the truth, and you don't need to waste so much time and make a fuss about him. Not to mention that the matter between my concubine and him has long since passed, and the two parties have already separated. Marriage, is it interesting to talk about those old sesame seeds and rotten millet?"

"Let's say that the concubine is now a real concubine, in charge of the palace, and she is raising the actual eldest son and daughter of the emperor under her knees. In the palace, everyone is very fond of her arrogance; outside the palace, the blood relatives of the Xie family who are concubines are in official positions. The Shangzhu who has become an official and Shangzhu, and even Rang'er has coerced Yiguo Duke's Mansion, although they are not so reliable, but generally speaking, they have to stand on the concubine's side..."

"It's such a good situation, may I ask my lady, do you think this concubine will ruin her future for Qi Jiulu?"

Empress Ji didn't speak.

In this case, it is true that most people will give up the bamboo horse.

But the problem is, that is not as straightforward as Yun Fenghuang.

Anyway, growing up together as a childhood sweetheart, how many things did Qi Jiulu do and fight for her?

That's what the Zhujiu Clan did, Yun Fenghuang didn't feel any emotion or guilt?

The queen frowned slightly, not because she despised the concubine, but because she felt that the matter was difficult.

Indeed, ever since the news of Empress Dowager Yuan suppressing Yun Fenghuang with a full moon banquet came out, Zhonggong has been closely watching the progress of the matter, and found that Yun Fenghuang turned around to seek compensation from Chunjia, so Empress Ji decided to use The favored concubine's resentment towards the loving mother, the empress dowager, helped the empress dowager and her mother, the empress dowager, return to the palace.

But the problem is that although Yun Fenghuang definitely resents the empress dowager, he doesn't necessarily want to help the Ji family.

So Empress Ji sacrificed Qi Jiulu's card, thinking that even if she couldn't make this real concubine obey her every word, she could gain the upper hand anyway.

As a result, the master didn't get involved, as if he had never had anything with Qi Jiulu, and even turned against each other long ago——even if he could say what he wanted to do with the queen and Qi Jiulu, how could he expect this trick to be of any use to her?

"You have great plans, but the loving mother Empress Dowager doesn't like you." Realizing that the original plan was useless, Empress Ji regained her composure, changed her tone, and said earnestly, "She was born in the Yuan family of Fuyang, although she is not as good as me. The family of the Ji family is much higher than that of the Xie family from which you were born. Coincidentally, Concubine Shu went there before, and there was no one available in the Sixth Palace. After leaving the palace, how could she continue to praise you?"

The queen said, "Besides, there is a grudge against Yuan Niangniang between you and her... Even if you bear it this time, there will be another next time. Now the only imperial heir in the palace is raised under your knees, and she is still shining brightly." Lend the full moon banquet to show your face, when there are more emperors in the future, you just watch her treat the emperors in other palaces as her heart, and ignore the emperors under your knees."

"She raised His Majesty single-handedly, and her relationship with His Majesty is worse than that of the Queen Mother."

"Even if people like me know that His Majesty still likes you, what would the previous court think?"

"At that time, the princess under your knees will be fine, but how will the prince deal with himself? Even if you try to win the East Palace for him, you will have to worry about it for a day if you don't take that seat-after all, maybe someone will take it What about the criticism of 'not being filial to the emperor's grandmother'?"

"It's still a worry."

"Besides, since the newcomers entered the palace, although His Majesty still visits you the most, the total number of times has been less than before."

"Your Majesty, as the Son of Heaven, the most indispensable thing is newcomers every year - if they can enter the Luo family this year, how do you know that there will be no Zhang family and Li family next year?"

"No matter how favored your real concubine is now, no matter how powerful you are, how can you be strong even if you know how to pinch the top, how can you possibly continue to fight year after year?"

"It's just that you are not tired, don't you want to do other things?"

"Taking care of the palace, educating the emperor's heir, consolidating your position, suppressing dissidents, considering your background, you have to take care of the previous dynasty... It's already very difficult, and there is a loving mother, the empress dowager, who is always watching you. , are you really sure that you want to waste time with her like this?"

"She is His Majesty's dearest mother, she can afford it, and you can afford it?"

These words were deafening, and Empress Ji thought she was heartbroken, but Yun Fenghuang was unmoved at all, and said: "Your Majesty, why bother to scare me? Although my concubine's background is not good, my first cousin has already married Her Highness Princess Penglai. Coupled with the relationship between the second prince and the Duke of Yi, even if the concubine falls out of favor in the future, it will not be difficult to support her for a lifetime! But why bother to do such perverse actions, when the time comes, stealing chickens will not cost you money, and it will ruin yourself and your majesty for nothing. love!"

"..." Empress Ji stared at her for a while, then suddenly sneered, and stood up, "Then it seems that this palace is trying to provoke dissension, since you have no intentions, concubine Zhen... I will leave!"

She turned around and walked out.

Yun Fenghuang didn't stop her, and only waited for her to walk to the door before he said slowly: "I don't know how Mr. Ji Minggan is doing recently?"

Empress Ji frowned slightly, stopped and didn't look back, Fox asked: "What do you mean?"

"It's nothing." Yun Fenghuang chuckled lightly, "Young Master Ji used to be His Majesty's companion, and he was able to enter and leave the palace, and he was also familiar with the princesses. But, it's just acquaintance, and it has nothing to do with it. Please also invite the Queen The empress took the opportunity to tell Young Master Ji about this. Otherwise, the three His Royal Highnesses are about to get married, so it would be inappropriate for something unlucky to happen, which would bump into the emperor's descent, right?"

"..." Empress Ji turned around to look at her with a gloomy expression, and Yun Fenghuang returned a gentle smile.

Looking at each other for a moment, Empress Ji said slowly: "You still have a bit of conscience."

Yun Fenghuang said in a low voice: "It's about the royal reputation, the concubine has nothing to do with it, the empress don't blame the concubine as long as it is."

She thought that talking to a smart person would save trouble—she seemed to be reminding the queen to take good care of her younger brother and not to spoil Princess Jinyun's marriage, but in fact, she was talking about the queen before, only the Ji family can save Qi Jiulu , making euphemistic threats.

If something happens to Qi Jiulu, she will kill Ji Minggan!

Even, it wasn't just Ji Minggan.

In short, the Ji family dared to see death without saving them, so she let the Ji family have no one to save them!

Who asked Empress Ji to inform her of the news and tell her that the Ji family can save Qi Jiulu?

"Dingbei Army..." The two reached a tacit agreement. Empress Ji returned to her seat, thought about her words, and was interrupted by Yun Fenghuang before she spoke: "Mother, this is a military and national event. The palace, but I don’t want to hear it. Let’s just talk about the things in the palace, shall we?”

Empress Ji was slightly surprised. She thought that since Yun Fenghuang was still willing to protect Qi Jiulu, it was impossible not to care about why Qi Jiulu was in danger of killing him.

In the end, the master didn't even want to hear it?

But he didn't know that Yun Fenghuang thought in his heart that at the full moon banquet, Xiao Chen and the others also came to the palace to congratulate, but they didn't mention Qi Jiulu at all, and they probably didn't receive any news at all.

It can be seen that this matter is confidential, so it is better not to know.

What if she found out, showed traces unconsciously, let Chunjia know, and suspected that she missed her old lover, then...

Anyway, the Ji family dared to use this as a bargaining chip, so it can be seen that they are relatively sure of saving people.

It's good that people are alive, as for the reason, as for the real murderer behind the scenes, it's not urgent.

Empress Ji saw that she was silent after she finished speaking, and she was also silent for a while, before asking: "What do you want to say?"

"The empress dowager and mother empress dowager have been lingering in the palace for a long time, and they couldn't even attend the full moon banquet with the second prince and Zhaoqing. It's just that it's easy to invite the two phoenixes back to the palace, but... after these two return to the palace, it's not so easy to shake the position of the loving mother, the Empress Dowager."

Empress Ji frowned and said, "It's easy to go back to the palace? How is it possible? If it's easy, do you think I, Mrs. Ji, would like to let the Empress Dowager live alone in the palace for more than half a year? Your Majesty now despises me, Mrs. Ji, except you , others don’t even have the guts to speak up.”

Yun Fenghuang laughed lightly, and said: "Your Majesty was born in a rich family, she is still too polite. Or, because she was afraid of His Majesty, she looked forward and backward, and made things complicated. How should I say this? Why bother?" Someone persuaded His Majesty to agree to take Fengjia back?"

"Have you forgotten the example of the concubine accompanying Gu Zhen and returning to the palace in a hurry?"