Chapter Two Concubine De: I Seem to Have Leaked Something...

When Yun Fenghuang rushed to the host of Concubine Ouyang Shu, Chunjia hadn't come yet, but the queen and concubine De were already here, both of them looked very ugly, Concubine Shu knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

Seeing the imperial concubine coming, she immediately walked from the queen's knees to Yunfenghuang not far away: "The imperial concubine and empress have learned a lot, I treat the second prince as if I were her own, and I have never treated you badly, and I don't know that the slave is harboring evil intentions , Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he actually made such a frenzied move! Otherwise, if I killed him early in the morning, I would still let him get close to the prince?!"

"How about it?" Yun Fenghuang glanced at her and ignored her, and walked over to ask the queen and concubine De.

Empress Gu said: "Before, the Empress Dowager was sick, and the second and third princes were sent to the palace and Ouyang's knees. This time, the palace man who attacked was personally instructed by Ouyang to serve the second prince. According to Ouyang and his close attendants , During this period, nothing was wrong. But just now, Ouyang personally watched the people put the cages in person, and the palace servant told him that the house was in such a mess that he might offend the prince, and wanted to take the prince to play by the pool, so she agreed ..."

Then the palace man carried the second prince to the pool and threw him down!

The most important thing is that when other palace people rushed to rescue the second prince, he bumped his head on the rockery by the pool and died on the spot!

"Is the palace attendant originally from the palace, or is it a dowry that Ouyang's family brought into the palace?" Yun Fenghuang nodded and asked again.

Concubine De glanced at Ouyang Fulu on the ground: "Sister, she is a servant in the palace. It seems that the Second Prince does not have Concubine Shu's dowry."

Concubine Shu quickly explained: "This is because the concubine's dowry has no experience in taking care of children. I was afraid that they would not be able to serve the second prince well, so I didn't send them over."

This is of course an excuse, in fact it means that Ouyang Fulu doesn't attach much importance to the second prince, and he is reluctant to assign his dowry confidant to him.

I just want to raise it casually, if I can live, I can't live.

Anyway, at such a young age, she can still give birth to her own child, so why raise another prince, who was the daughter of a criminal minister.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this kind of plan. If the second prince was not thrown into the pool in full view, but fell ill or something and disappeared quietly, and Ouyang's family pretended to be sad, it would be fine. .

No one would go after Ouyang Yanran's granddaughter for Ji's grandson.

Even if the Empress Dowager is not reconciled, at most she will be scolded publicly, it's nothing.

The problem is, the second prince is not missing quietly, but has been murdered openly.

The palace man who murdered him was chosen by Concubine Shu to take care of the prince, and the second prince did not have a dowry from Ouyang's family. Based on this, the fact that Ouyang's treatment of the second prince was not careful enough could not be concealed.

"Others are inexperienced, but your wet nurse brought you up with one hand, so will you be inexperienced?" Gu Zhen frowned, and said bluntly, "When you become pregnant, I want to see. Should the palace promote someone to take care of it, or let the dowry go?"

Concubine Shu couldn't answer, she crawled to Yun Fenghuang again, crying and begging her to see clearly, find out the real culprit who murdered the second prince, and restore her innocence: "Even if the concubine is negligent in taking care of the second prince because of inconsiderateness, no matter what It's his mother and concubine, she never thought of harming him!"

Yun Fenghuang said lightly: "You don't need to tell me that something like this happened in the palace, the palace and the queen will definitely investigate it to the end."

Let her go down first, and let a group of servants come up to ask questions.

Concubine Shu left with a sob, and before she left, she kowtowed to her, begging her to clear up her grievances.

When Concubine Shu went out, the servants serving at the Broken Bamboo Hall were called in one by one for interrogation. Gu Zhen frowned and asked Yun Fenghuang: "What do you think?"

"The palace people should be hiding it very deeply." Yun Fenghuang sipped his tea and said, "Concubine Shu's people didn't find anything wrong with him at all, even at this moment, they can't think of anything suspicious about his whereabouts." Action. Otherwise, even if Concubine Shu doesn't care about the second prince, she really has no reason to harm him, how could she let such a person stay with the second prince?"

Gu Zhen felt that this was all nonsense, and said, "Then who do you think he belongs to?"

"Your Majesty, don't you know?"

Gu Zhenxin said that if I am so capable, there is still room for you concubines to assist the sixth palace?

She thought for a while and said, "Just now when the news from Shanyuan Temple came, something happened to Kang Jieyu's son. I don't know if it's related."

"But why did the remnants of the Ji family murder the second prince?" Concubine De questioned, "Why is the second prince also the grandson of the Ji family! If they want to murder, they should also target the other emperor's heirs?"

Gu Zhen said: "Isn't the second prince just in a coma and nothing happened? Maybe it's a trick? After all, the Shanyuan Temple..."

She glanced at Yun Fenghuang, "No one will think of those two right now, right? But once the incident about the second prince happened, who would remember it? Anyway, no matter how bad it is, there will still be the third prince, right?"

Although the second prince and the third prince are born of Kang Jieyu and are the grandsons of the Ji family's direct relatives, they are not Ji after all, they are not loved by Chunjia, and they are so young. To the remnants of the Ji family, these two children are actually nothing to them Useful, at least not for now.

Far less important than the former empress Ji Lingzi, or their biological mother Kang Jieyu.

Therefore, if the second prince is in danger, but the Ji sisters can be exchanged for their lives, then there is no need to hesitate.

"But will Your Majesty do this?" It seemed to be no problem, but De Fei's doubts made the queen silent.

Indeed, she wanted to understand this truth, wouldn't Chunjia understand?

Will Chunjia compromise?

impossible.

If he would compromise, the Ji family would not have been slaughtered so quickly and decisively.

There are so many back-hands and entangled contacts, nothing is of use.

Just like that.

If you use public opinion to suppress such an emperor, you can only pray that he will gain more benefits by obeying public opinion, otherwise he will not pay attention at all.

"The former empress is not that stupid." Yun Fenghuang said slowly, "The empress is His Majesty's married wife, and she must be no inferior to you and me when it comes to understanding His Majesty. She knows very well that such small tricks can't help matters." It's useless, it will only annoy His Majesty. From the perspective of my concubine, I'm afraid this matter has little to do with the Ji family, but more with Concubine Shu."

The queen was stunned and said: "You mean Concubine Shu to the second prince..."

"It's not Concubine Shu." Yun Fenghuang said, "It's just that the empress has forgotten the stalemate over the position of the fourth concubine earlier? Although no one said that Ouyang was not suitable to be Concubine Shu, the position of Xian Concubine was really debated for a while. "

So, "Now that the fourth concubine is settled, how do you know that no one has found another way, thinking that you can pull Concubine Shu down and go up by yourself? Anyway, everyone knows in their hearts that the most contemptible among the imperial heirs in the palace are the second prince and the third prince." isn't it?"

The empress was displeased and said: "Although Concubine Shu doesn't pay enough attention to the second prince, the third prince is like my own son! Concubine, please pay attention to what you say, you are not the only one who treats the emperor's heir as your own!"

"Yes, the concubine said it was bad, the empress is kind and loving, and she is full of pity for all the emperor's heirs." Yun Fenghuang said, "But you also know that there are too many people in the palace, and not everyone has your kindness. Yes. Some people don’t dare to do anything for their own promotion?”

After she said this, both the empress and concubine De subconsciously shifted their gazes.

This is not about you, the concubine...

The whole process from Baolin to imperial concubine is almost stepping on the upper position of the sixth palace...

Gathering her mind, the queen pondered and said: "You suspect that it was the concubine Gong... Could it be Concubine Shao and the others? But the relationship between Concubine Shao and Concubine Shu has never been bad..."

"Know people, know face, but don't know heart. Besides, when they entered the palace, Xuan Zhaoyi was always the leader, but now Concubine Shu is the top one. Even if Concubine Shao is pregnant, she is only a concubine. How can I be convinced?" Wei Hengyan said gloatingly, "Maybe he was confused for a while, and made a move on the prince?"

Last year, there were quite a few changes in the median position of the palace, basically all of them moved.

The four concubines are noble, virtuous and virtuous, and they are Yunfenghuang, Ouyang Fulu, Wei Hengyan and Yuan Zhiniang.

On the lower concubine positions, apart from the original concubine Xie, several new concubines have been added, the former Mrs. Manya is now the concubine Wan, Meng Youyi, the original Zhaoyi is now the concubine Shao, and the original Mrs. Chunke is now the concubine Yuan Lianniang... ...Concubine An, the Jin Feng Yunfenghuang, was very annoyed for a while, saying that all the daughters of the Yuan family have become virtuous concubines, so why should they take another concubine?

Besides, since Yuan Niangniang fell out of favor, she has been staying behind closed doors. She neither served the Empress Dowager nor even went to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager. If she was so negligent, it would be considered honorable if she was not punished. , it is simply unreasonable!

She said this publicly, and there were many second opinions from the previous court and the harem. After all, Yuan Niangniang's actions were really unpopular.

Empress Dowager Yuan originally focused on Yuan Zhiniang as a virtuous concubine, but she had no intention of promoting Yuan Zhiniang to the throne. But since Yun Fenghuang said so, she became angry and insisted on making Yuan Niangniang an concubine!

In the end, Chunjia found a reason to promote Xie Wuzheng to two levels of officials to settle the matter.

Apart from Rou Kun, the wives who went down to the concubine position also included Cui Lianye, the concubine Yuan Xin who was promoted from the nine concubines and now Mrs. Qingshu.

Cui Lianye's promotion this time was proposed by Gu Zhen. After all, she is an old man who entered the palace together. It's okay to be suppressed by a powerful character like Yun Fenghuang. What does it look like if Yi Xingen and others are ranked ahead of her? Gu Zhen was a little bit sad, holding on to Yun Fenghuang and insisting that Cui Shi be promoted. Cui Lianye has basically never been favored in the past year, and Chunjia has probably forgotten about this person long ago.

Yun Fenghuang didn't bother arguing with the queen because of her, so he nodded deliberately to make things difficult.

In the Nine Concubines, Luo Hanyi took over Zhaoyi who was vacant after Concubine Shao was promoted, and still retained the title "Xuan", and the original Zhaoyuan Jia Pingye became Zhaorong who was vacated after Roukun's promotion... Jia Pingye This promotion was proposed by Yun Fenghuang.

She said it casually, because although Jia Pingye was a bit of a boss, she was very comfortable with her figure. Anyway, the concubine who had fallen out of favor long ago, her position was all that mattered.

That's why Jia Pingye was very grateful, just like Yishi Qushi, she would come to pay her respects from time to time.

Next is the new Jin Zhaoyuan Ping Xianyi promoted by the empress. This was Gu Zhen's most trusted concubine when she was still Mrs. Yaoning. She even let her directly take over the Qiongfang Palace, which can be said to be very trustworthy.

After all, although the empress did not say that she lived in a hidden residence, generally speaking, unless the emperor had too many favorites to live in, the palace she once lived in would not be easily given to other concubines to live in.

Below that are Xiuyi Yi Xing'en, Xiurong Qu Hongzhuan, the other seats of the nine concubines are still vacant, and Jieyu has sealed a few of them, but it doesn't matter now, and the old masters don't dare to interrupt when they talk The kind, the high position doesn't even bother to remember, let alone the concubines at the bottom.

At this moment when Concubine De brought it up, the Empress and Concubine recalled their current positions, and said just now: "Concubine Shao and Concubine Xuan Zhaoyi may be jealous, but to attack the prince... Isn't that courageous?"

The queen thought to herself that it would not be surprising if the imperial concubine did this, but the Yin family and the others might not be as ruthless.

After all, once found out, it's no joke. Even though Chunjia doesn't care about the twin princes, these two are his own flesh and blood after all. From Shenzong Xiaozong to Chunjia, three generations of emperors have worried about their heirs. The former commoner Ji Sheng, the former empress Ji Lingzi, and the former Chongyi Lu Qidao who were executed in a brutal way last year were all charged with murdering the emperor's heir.

If the culprit of this incident was lightly punished because the second prince was not favored, wouldn't it be unfair for Ji's aunt and nephew and Lu Qidao?

Who would take such a risk if it was not a last resort?

Especially now that the successor has filled the vacancy left by the former empress. Although the fourth concubine is higher than the concubine, the noble concubine wins the special room, and the Shu concubine, De concubine and Xian concubine are not as good as her in terms of doting... This is really not the case Such a great attraction makes people risk the world's shame to seek a promotion.

Empress Gu is actually more suspicious of Yun Fenghuang...

I was wondering if this person didn't like Concubine Shu and wanted to get Ouyang Fulu down, or maybe he felt that Ouyang Fulu, Meng Youyi, Yin Xuan and Luo Hanyi were too close together, so he was looking for a reason to call Are they jealous of each other?

It's definitely not that Gu Zhen thinks too much, or thinks too badly of the imperial concubine, in her opinion, these are common operations for the imperial concubine, it's no wonder that the imperial concubine doesn't do this!

... Yun Fenghuang didn't know that the queen thought of her so much. She really doubted Yin Yan and the others. After all, Concubine Ouyang Shu was not a fool. Even if she didn't value the second prince, such a prince would not hinder her. It's useless at all, there's no point in cheating him on purpose. If you want to dig such a hole under her nose, no matter how you look at it, it is more convenient for those who are as close as sisters.

After all, Yun Fenghuang himself was cheated by Concubine Xie who was as close as a sister, wasn't he?

It must be right to doubt the sisters before meeting the senior!

"Concubine Wan and Concubine Xuan Zhaoyi are fine, but Concubine Shao is pregnant." The queen did not object to calling people over to question her first. Anyway, their identities are here, so it's okay to ask wrong questions. The problem is, "Let's go." We persuaded her to stay in the palace with the two empress dowagers before, and she insisted on coming. I’m afraid she’s still resting due to the exhaustion of the boat, so I’ll call her over and make a fuss. Don’t hurt here or there. It's comfortable, it's all because of us."

Yun Fenghuang said: "Let Concubine Shao go first, then call Concubine Wan and Xuan Zhaoyi over first."

The palace servants hurriedly went to run errands, but at this moment, the people from the Broken Bamboo House approached, and said anxiously: "My mother just fainted from a panic attack!"

Then call the imperial doctor, the queen gave orders, and someone will naturally do it.

As a result, Concubine Wan and Concubine Xuan Zhaoyi have not yet arrived due to the winding mountain road, and the imperial physician who has not yet left because of the second prince gave the results of Concubine Shu's situation first... Empress Gu asked with a heavy heart: " Are you sure? Is it really a happy pulse?"

After getting reassurance from the imperial physician, the queen ordered a reward, sent the person out, turned her head to look at Yun Fenghuang, it was the kind of frustration of a person who was also in the end of the world: "This is really good news."

"Could it be that Concubine Shu looks down on the second prince because she knows that she is happy?" Concubine De also felt a little sour. After all, although she gave birth to the third prince, she is only a daughter. Do you know if you will win a man in one fell swoop?

When she came back to her senses, she subconsciously said, "After all, no matter how much you don't care about the second prince, even if it's the prince, you have to take care of her. If not, she can concentrate on taking care of her own flesh and blood!"

Hearing that the empress and Yun Fenghuang both looked at her, it was clearly written in their eyes: So, that's how you looked at the fifth prince back then?