Treacherous Living in the Imperial Harem

Chapter 178: Concubine Mu

When the news of the flood in the Peach Palace came out, everyone thought it was the empress dowager who did it.

After all, Concubine An just had to eat, and even the sixth prince was taken to the Spring Palace to be raised. Empress Dowager Yuan was very angry with the queen for this... Everyone knew it well.

So when I heard that the fire was set by the nobleman Gu Su, the purpose was to save himself, to escape from the Queen's hand, and the whole palace was greatly surprised.

This time, even Concubine Shu and Concubine De are talking about Gu Zhen's incompetence in private: "This Gu Su is so many years younger than her, and she has only been in the palace for a few days, and she has caused such a disturbance. The queen is really... kind-hearted and soft-hearted .”

Concubine De snorted and said, "Gu Su doesn't have much brains, otherwise she wouldn't have been tricked into entering the palace by her family back then. I'm afraid this matter cannot be done by her own master and servant."

She felt that the Empress Dowager Yuan was still inseparable.

"Even so, the empress is useless." Concubine Shu said in a low voice, "When Yun Jieyu was alive, when did she cause trouble for the noble concubine? Did Yun Jieyu not want it? Or was it someone else who couldn't think of using her to make a fuss? No It's just a chance."

They are currently in the side hall of the Spring Palace, and the empress and concubine were summoned into the main hall by the Queen Mother Yuan.

The queen's three younger sisters went in together.

The left and right are not her own family members, the queen mother doesn't feel bad, she said to let the relevant people understand, then those who are related must be present, including the injured Gu Liman who was also dragged from the couch.

Originally, the queen mother only wanted the four sisters of the queen's family to confront each other, but Emperor Yunfeng Huang was favored by her and insisted on watching, so she could not firmly oppose it.

I don't really want to object.

Because the relationship between the imperial concubine and the queen is not very good, with Yun Fenghuang at his side, maybe he can make things worse for the queen.

"I remembered that the miscarriage was related to Gu Liman, so I confronted her, but I didn't know that she not only spoke rudely, but also threatened me with the Twelve Princes." When Gu Su agreed to set fire to make the matter escalate, he She has already thought about it, she was originally a bit extreme, after making up her mind now, her attitude was very calm, without any guilt or fear, and she said loudly, "I am not angry, so I hurt her by mistake... Knowing that she was in the wrong, she was willing to make an apology, but the queen sister wanted to use this to get rid of Gu Liman who planted her concubine. In order to survive, the concubine had to set fire to her residence in order to attract the attention of the empress dowager and her majesty! Otherwise, as a concubine I am so humble, I am afraid that I don’t even know how I died!”

Before Gu Zhen came here, he prepared himself repeatedly, telling himself that regardless of whether Chunjia's words were true or not, he had said so, and in order to stabilize his back position, he should pretend.

But listening to the younger sister's distorted words, she felt that she couldn't pretend anymore.

"Queen, this lowly servant girl is talking nonsense, in fact she has always..."

Just like what the queen thought, Queen Mother Yuan didn't know what happened, she just wanted to make trouble out of nothing, Gu Su took the initiative to give such a handle, she immediately defended it, and told her to shut up before the queen could speak: "Sorry Everyone sees that it is you who is talking nonsense! Da Gugui just said a few words, and you scolded her in a hurry! Does she depend on your face when she speaks and acts, and she is what you say? If this is the case, why bother? Want all these people to come?! Just listen to you alone!"

"What the empress dowager said is very true." Yun Fenghuang insisted on mixing in for the purpose of sowing discord, and immediately supported the empress dowager, "Empress empress, you should take it easy, the two Gu nobles on the left and this Gu Cai Everyone has been brought here. What is the truth, the Empress Dowager has her own decision, so why are you anxious? The Empress Dowager is the most wise and decisive, why can't she see the inside story clearly?"

Empress Dowager Yuan was also annoyed at seeing Yun Fenghuang, but she was expressionless when she heard these words, but she felt that it was right to allow this lowly maidservant to be by her side.

It’s not a big deal to help stimulate Gu Zhen right now, the key is that when Chunjia comes, how much he can support Gu Zhen when the Empress Dowager and Yun Fenghuang unite with him based on how firmly he protects Gu Zhen’s post ?

The Empress Dowager and the noble concubine looked at each other, there was no warmth in their eyes, but there was a tacit understanding in their eyes.

Afterwards, it was about the same as they expected. Gu Zhen was reminded by the emperor that she was not so impulsive anymore, but she couldn't bear the grief and indignation of being betrayed by her own cousin, and the embarrassing words sung by the queen mother and noble concubine. She really wanted to go out immediately Grab the knife with the guards and kill all the living things present! ! !

What disappointed the Queen Mother and the concubine was that the emperor didn't show up, not only didn't he show up, he didn't even send someone over from the beginning to the end, it was like he didn't know what to do here.

Yun Fenghuang felt sorry for losing an opportunity to greatly stimulate Gu Zhen, but she also knew that this was in line with Chunjia's personality.

He didn't want to change the queen at all, but he also didn't want to offend the queen mother and the noble concubine.

So this kind of scene is simply pretending to be confused.

Otherwise, if he intervenes, who will help?

Help the queen, he is reluctant to wrong the queen mother and the imperial concubine.

Help the empress dowager and noble concubine, the queen is already short of bargaining chips, and if bad news comes out at this time, even if the outside world does not try their best to pull the Gu family down, judging from the fact that Gu Zhen has been ill several times in a row before, don't come here at that time Die in grief...

The emperor simply let it go.

His thinking is that these three are not stupid, even if Gu Zhen lacks a little bit of ability as a queen, he is not completely brainless.

So even if there is a lot of trouble, it will not be completely out of control.

Just wait until they're done, and then think about how to deal with the aftermath.

So the emperor didn't go back to the harem that night, and the next morning, when he heard that the empress and concubine had gone back to their respective places the night before, the flags and drums died down, so Shi Shiran went to the Spring Palace to ask for peace and appease the Empress Dowager Yuan.

Then he was told that he had an extra concubine Mu.

Well, it's Gu Su.

"The Ai family doesn't understand what is going on with the Gu family's family education? They are sisters who are related by blood, and they come to the palace together to serve the emperor, so why can't they get along in harmony?" The Queen Mother Yuan told the emperor calmly, "Like The imperial concubine and Concubine Zhenxishu are not related by blood. When Concubine Zhenxishu was around, their sisters were not affectionate? Even if there were some grievances in private, for the sake of family dignity, they should pretend to be? The four daughters of the Gu family are really good! They look like Qiu Yu! Ai's family doesn't want to care too much when they are getting old, so I thought about giving Gu Su a concubine Mu, so that they can always remind them of the four sisters, how to get along with each other in the future That's the way!"

Chunjia: "..."

He calmed down and tried to object, "Mother, this Gu Su was just a mere nobleman in the past, is it too much to become a concubine all at once?"

"It's nothing." Empress Dowager Yuan was well-founded, "Concubine Mu's background is not low. If the queen did not deliberately suppress her sisters, she would be qualified to be a concubine for the first time. Aren't concubine Shu and Concubine Jing the same? Besides, if you want to talk about breaking the rules What is the background of the noble concubine, didn't she rise to the position of noble concubine step by step back then, didn't she?"

Seeing that the emperor was still struggling, the empress dowager gave the others a wink to tell everyone to go down, and she said earnestly, "The empress mother is also for your own good. Although you don't like the empress Gu Zhen, but for the sake of the overall situation, you never thought of shaking her." I don’t even think about taking the bastard as my successor, right?”

This point, even Yun Fenghuang knew it well, and naturally the Queen Mother who raised Chunjia alone would not fail to see it.

Right now, I want to seize the emperor's thoughts and persuade, "But have you ever thought about it? Although Gu Zhen is not very smart, she doesn't look like she can interfere in the government affairs, but because she is not smart, sometimes it is easier to do bad things! This In the world, are there still few examples of doing bad things with good intentions? You have personally persuaded her in the past two years, but she just can't listen! Why? Because she always feels that she can rely on the Gu family, not you! In this way, even if you intentionally indulge the noble concubine to target her, she will mainly give in and never think about improving her scheming city to be more worthy of you!"

"Concubine Mu is different."

"This is the queen's own cousin, she has loved and cared for her sincerity as a younger sister!"

"The empress can tolerate your preference for the noble concubine, but how can she tolerate Concubine Mu stepping on her position?"

"Aijia is deliberately flattering Concubine Mu, so as to stimulate the Empress to be smarter, and don't always drag you back in a muddle-headed way!"

Chunjia knew that what the queen mother said was not true, but the main purpose was to suppress the queen and the Gu family.

But he also has his own considerations, that is, the root cause of his efforts to protect Gu Zhen's succession is because Gu Zhen is not very smart, and in addition, although the Gu family has a prosperous heir but has no successors, the possibility of threatening the new king in the future is unlikely , There is no potential to become the next Ji family.

However, the previous dynasty was not without the empress dowager, and there were no smart people in the descendants, but they relied on filial piety and the filial piety of the young emperor to suppress the imperial power and bring chaos to the court.

Although this kind of descendant family often gets rich soon, the damage to the royal family may not be small.

If you accept the existence of Concubine Mu, maybe you can stir up disputes within the Gu family and further weaken this time-honored family?

Thinking so, the emperor acquiesced to the queen mother's arrangement.

But after leaving Chunlang Palace, when he arrived at Huanhua Palace, he still put on a face, asking Yun Fenghuang to explain clearly what it meant to mess with the birth mother of the twelve princes?

"Your Majesty, why do you pour all kinds of dirty water on the concubine?!" Yun Fenghuang immediately exploded, "You can simply say that the concubine's lost child is also the fault of the concubine!"

Chunjia was just lying to her, seeing this, she was afraid that she would really be wronged, and she was afraid that she would not be stimulated by being pregnant, so she softened her tone and began to coax her.

And Yun Fenghuang actually lied to him, seeing that he was subdued, he immediately understood, and became more and more reluctant, crying and making noises, and yelling that his stomach was uncomfortable... After tossing the emperor for a long time, he still refused Exposing it, asking him to investigate thoroughly, he must find out who did it to the sisters of the Gu family to make a fuss, she will not bear the charge!

"Okay, okay, it should be that the sisters themselves had a quarrel, I said something wrong, I didn't mean that, I just wanted to ask how your twelve-year-old biological mother was hurt like that, but just now I was thinking about other things , Say it’s bad as soon as you open your mouth!” The emperor thought that if this matter was not done by the imperial concubine, then it was basically the work of the Empress Dowager Yuan.

The reason why he questioned Yun Fenghuang was not to blame her for being cruel to Gu Liman, but because his favorite prince gave priority to the tenth prince and the twelve princes, but he also really liked Yunfenghuang, so of course he didn't want to. There is a feud between Yun Fenghuang and the Twelve Princes.

But this is hard to say, and now being forced by Yun Fenghuang to get to the bottom of it, he could only perfunctorily say, "Ah Huang is the most magnanimous, so don't bother with me, huh?"

Yun Fenghuang snorted and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that His Majesty thinks that way, that's why he said it?"

"How is that possible?" Chunjia coaxed her, "Is that the kind of person I am? Ah Huang is the one I trust the most."

Yun Fenghuang held on to airs, made things difficult for a while, and then eased his face: "Although this concubine is a person who can't rub the sand in her eyes, but today is no better than in the past, even if it is to accumulate virtue for the child in her stomach, this concubine's eyes are so strong that I am not ashamed." How dare you do anything? It’s too late to take care of the baby now! Your Majesty, don’t forget that the concubine was not pregnant at the time, but the news that she was able to conceive was spread, and the medicine bag on King Qin’s body was taken away by the concubine It still scares me to think about it.”

Chunjia also felt that it made sense, after all, he firmly believed that the imperial concubine valued his children.

Even if the imperial concubine is usually domineering and domineering, now she is finally pregnant, for the sake of the child's wife and peace, she should rather believe it than believe it in doing good deeds.

So, what happened this time really wronged the imperial concubine?

He felt a little guilty in his heart, but after thinking about it, he asked again: "When the queen mother forced the queen to be a concubine Mu, you also agreed?"

"Can my concubine disagree?" Yun Fenghuang rolled his eyes at him, "At that time, the empress dowager's attitude was very firm. Since my concubine became pregnant, my energy has not been as usual. I feel exhausted after sitting for a while. I wish I could come sooner. Finish the matter and leave, this is one. The second..."

She stretched out her hand to caress her pregnant belly, and sighed, "The empress dowager, the loving mother, said that there have been no newcomers in the palace for the past two years, so concubine Mu is considered a newcomer after all. Now that the concubine is pregnant, it is inconvenient to serve your majesty. Your majesty always It is His Majesty's kindness to come to Huanhua Palace to visit this concubine, but this concubine has to consider His Majesty...it is time to bring some people up to serve you."

Chunjia didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said: "There are already many people in the palace, and there are many descendants under my knees. But why should I pay attention to what is new or not? I am not a king of color."

"Then what can I do?" Yun Fenghuang said aggrievedly, "How could this concubine not want His Majesty to accompany this concubine? But who told me to serve the emperor? Not to mention the busy government affairs, I always leave you behind." In Huanhua Palace, after a long time, you may forget that you are the one who is willing to accompany me, but I feel that I am jealous, and I will not let you go even if I am pregnant! What will I do then? ?”

Chunjia said: "When did I do such a thing?"

"Your Majesty just suspected that the concubine killed the biological mother of the twelve princes?" Yun Fenghuang asked quickly.

The emperor coughed dryly: "It was a slip of the tongue if I said it."

Yun Fenghuang snorted and said: "Anyway, what the loving mother Empress Dowager said, if the concubine did not agree at that time, it would seem that she didn't feel sorry for your majesty. Besides, it's just a concubine. If your majesty doesn't want to go, the concubine can force you to go." Is it impossible for you to go there? You can't displease the kind mother, the Empress Dowager, for such a small matter."

"You pretended to be tolerant in front of your mother, but you hoped that I would not go to Concubine Mu's place?" Chunjia laughed and pinched her cheek, "Ah Huang is still so bad, she just uses me as a raft."

The last bit of doubt in my heart dissipated.

After all, the imperial concubine is indeed not a virtuous and generous master.

Jealousy and arrogance are obvious.

So in the silence of the Six Palaces, Gu Su ascended to the sky in one step, from a nobleman to a concubine Mu.

This turning point made many people a little bit overwhelmed.

Even after Yun Fenghuang sent Chunjia away, he remembered to ask: "By the way, then...how did you deal with the birth mother of the Twelfth Prince?"

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