In the evening, Chunjia sent Yan to Yanfu Palace to spread the word, asking Empress Ji to deal with Concubine Zheng Guifei, and the requirement was that this kind of bad behavior of slandering the innocence of the palace concubine must be severely punished, and at the same time, there must not be a word that spreads out, which damages the royal reputation: "Your Majesty is also for the consideration of the Empress Dowager." ”

Yan Yin stood on the Chongchang Hall according to Chunjia's meaning, and said with a glance, "After all, everyone knows that the real concubine is one of the noble ladies who was personally ordered by the Empress Dowager. If the real concubine is famous, His Majesty knows that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Zhenxi, as well as the Queen Mother, will never do anything to deliberately let a lewd daughter enter the palace as a concubine, but the world is ignorant, maybe what will they say? ”

"When the time comes, if it reaches the ears of the Empress Dowager, won't it disturb the Empress Dowager's recuperation even more?"

"In this way, the queen mother's heart is also going to be unbearable, isn't it?"

Empress Ji pursed her lips and said nothing, and after a while, she said lightly: "This palace knows, you go back and tell Your Majesty, and say that this palace will deal with the matter for him." ”

Yan Yin knew that the queen was now looking calm, and she didn't know what to do in her heart, so she didn't bother, and bowed: "The slave and maid are retired." ”

Just walked away.

And Empress Ji quickly took people to Yanlan Palace.

Concubine Zheng Guifei was anxiously waiting for the movement of Xuanqing Palace, Chunjia had no news since she entered Xuanqing Palace, and when she saw the little waiter running up, she was overjoyed, and thought that the results of the Huanhua Palace had come out.

The kind of good news that Yun Fenghuang is unlucky.

I didn't want the little chamberlain to lie on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Niangniang, the queen is here!" ”

"Queen?" The concubine was stunned, her heart was a little pounding, she subconsciously pressed her chest, and muttered, "Why did the queen come over?" ”

She didn't know what was going on, but she felt that something was wrong.

Queen Ji has always been from a humble identity, and she has never been to the palace of concubines.

Especially in the past few months, because of the partiality between Empress Dowager Yuan and Chun Jiaming, and wanted to seize the power of the queen to the real concubine, the queen has acted more low-key.

Even if you intend to unite with yourself, you didn't say that you came to the door so directly?

The concubine thought for a moment and said, "Go with the palace to welcome the queen." ”

The two concubines met in the court, their eyes were only on the same page, and Concubine Zheng hurriedly curtsied: "The concubine is ......."

"That's it!" As soon as he opened his mouth, he was stopped by Queen Ji, "Come on, take down the Zheng family!" ”

"?!" Concubine Zheng was taken aback, and an unbelievable guess came to mind, but she couldn't believe it, and subconsciously asked, "Niangniang, ...... the real concubine?"

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

Seeing that Concubine Zheng seemed to be unconvinced, and she had something to say, she sneered slightly, "The Zheng family is jealous of the palace concubine in the front, and disobeys Yi in the back, is this the Zheng family's tutor?!" ”

When it came to the Zheng family, Zheng Guifei was stunned, let go of resistance, and let the palace people brought by the queen take her down, took off a hairpin ring jewelry on the spot, took off her gorgeous robe, and knelt on the floor tiles. ”

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

After all, this master had a secret hand when he was in the palace, and there was a bump on the way back, and he was lying on the couch for several days to protect the fetus.

Just the day before

, the concubine used the reason that she was pregnant and not good, and invited the emperor to come over for the night.

In this way, I also know that Zhao Cairen's pregnancy must not be very stable.

In case they are heavier with their hands and feet and their tone is more rushing, so that this one will have three long and two short, even the queen will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

If it is an ordinary palace person, it will definitely be a dead end.

So I didn't dare to take Zhao Cairen.

It's just that Zhao Cairen was still very frightened, and asked to meet the queen and intercede for the concubine: "Niangniang, the concubine Niangniang has always been dignified and virtuous, gentle and kind, how can she be jealous of the real concubine Niangniang, and even curse the concubine?" Is there a misunderstanding here? The concubine believes that the concubine is not such a person...... Please let the lady know what is going on, and give the concubine a clean slate! ”

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

Zhao Cairen entered the palace at the time of the emperor's wedding, and he was one year older than the queen. But at this moment, his body is bloated, his face has gained more than a circle, and the original fair skin has faint marks, looking like he is a generation older than the queen.

"I heard that the concubine didn't treat you very well, but I didn't expect you to speak for her." The queen stared at her for a moment before she withdrew her gaze and said slowly, "You are a loyal one. ”

"Niangniang praises, the concubine body just thinks it's ......" Zhao Cairen muttered, she came from a humble background, if it wasn't for luck, she would have been completely annihilated in this huge palace.

There was a time of joy before, but I also lived a few days rashly.

But the cold reception of the concubine, as well as the reality that the empress dowager, the three empress dowagers, and the empress only cared about the imperial heir and not her, quickly made her wake up and understand the posture of a palace concubine of her own background.

At this moment, all the people up and down were shrunk and tame, and they stammered, "I think...... I don't think the concubine is really that kind of person. ”

"These things are not something that you can talk about as a palace concubine." Empress Ji looked indifferent, and said lightly, "In short, the concubine is afraid that she will not be able to raise the child in your belly, while the palace is idle now, you can tell me, whose palace do you want to share?" ”

Zhao Cairen was a little overwhelmed, in fact, to say that she had a lot of feelings for the concubine, it was not mainly because she was so worried about the concubine, although the concubine did not attach as much importance to her as Yun Fenghuang did to Yi Xingen, she did not deliberately harsh her.

Moreover, the Yuzhen Palace where she was before has never had a lord, and Concubine Zheng is the only one she has ever gotten along with.

It's not like sisters, but after a few months, I'm used to it.

The most important thing is that although Concubine Zheng Guifei is very distressed that her child is in the dark hand, she can't find the murderer, a palace concubine whose background is far inferior to her own, but she is confused and pregnant until now, but she also understands that her favor is far away, and she can't do without an imperial heir under her knees.

Therefore, he was very generous to Zhao Cairen's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even contacted the Zheng family and took care of Zhao Cairen's mother's family to a certain extent.

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

As a result, the concubine said that she would fall, how could Zhao Cairen not be confused?

Listening to the queen's words at this time, he opened his mouth, but he didn't have the courage to make trouble, so he only lowered his eyes and said: "The queen's mother, the concubine ...... her."

Empress Ji didn't bother to talk to her, and interrupted: "If you don't choose, this palace will help you choose a concubine with a very high position, second only to this palace in the palace." She has done something bad now, and the status of the mother concubine you are pregnant with cannot be too low...... Then it's a real concubine. ”

A real concubine?

Zhao Cairen was stunned, remembering that when the palace banned the rumors that the true concubine was generous to the people in the palace, he had envied it, and secretly thought, why wasn't he assigned to Xuanqing Palace in the first place?

It turns out that there is one now

Such an opportunity?

She was a little distracted, and she didn't want a palace maid beside the queen to speak, and said, "Niangniang, is it inappropriate to be so afraid?" Zhao Cairen's heir, the original mother concubine was one of the four concubines. There is a tacit understanding in the palace, the position of the adoptive mother can only be from low to high, but the position of the real concubine is not as good as that of the noble concubine. ”

What this palace maid said is a truth, although there is no explicit provision in the palace ban, but in fact, if an imperial heir determines the concubine to raise, once the concubine goes wrong and cannot continue, the person who takes over must be above the previous adoptive mother.

At the very least, it should be flush too.

If it is the heir of the emperor, the one who is qualified to raise them after the death of the Yuan Dynasty can only be the successor.

If the emperor does not have a successor, but the emperor's heir is young and needs to be taken care of, then it is also recorded that the emperor himself may actually be responsible for the upbringing, but these concubines can only be regarded as helping at best.

Although the child in Zhao Cairen's belly has not yet landed, Queen Ji is determined to pull this rule out, and it is not completely untenable: "You are right." It's just that the concubine's position in the palace is second only to the palace, so how should it be? ”

"Or ...... Niangniang worked hard to raise this imperial heir herself? ”

"This is not appropriate, this palace is the lord of the six palaces, and the imperial heir who is personally raised, is it ordinary? It's a big matter, and I haven't discussed it with the elders before, so it's not appropriate. ”

"Niangniang, the incident committed by the concubine has happened now, and I don't know what to do in the future. Listening to the tone of His Majesty's side, maybe even Yanlan Palace will not stay. At this time, up and down the Yanlan Palace, other people are also okay, Zhao Cairen is always pregnant, if it is not properly settled, in case the imperial heir has a mistake, how can it be good? If she is placed in someone else's place, the real concubine's position is not as good as the concubine, not to mention, let's just say that she is also very busy now, and the Yi Guiren under her hand is also pregnant, where can she be busy? Concubine Ying has always danced knives and guns, and she can't take care of people at all; Wei Zhaorong and the others at the bottom are either too young and don't understand anything, or their positions are too low and inappropriate...... In this way, apart from Niangniang, who else can Zhao Cairen and his son count on? ”

The palace maid said, glared at Zhao Cairen fiercely, and raised her voice slightly, "Zhao Cairen, what do you think of yourself?" In addition to the queen's mother, who else is suitable to take care of you two at this time? ”

Zhao Cairen opened his mouth, a little unsure of what to say?

She just wanted to say that she thought it should be good to be a real concubine in the palace......

But the meaning of the queen's master and servant singing and harmonizing is so obvious, she ...... What else could she say?

I could only endure the panic and kowtow, and said in a low voice: "The queen mother does not dislike the concubine, it is the honor of the concubine." ”

…… Because Chunjia stayed in Xuanqing Palace until the next day, and Yunfeng Huang waited until noon on the second day before he had time to inquire about what happened, Chen Zhu came up with a face full of anger to tell him, saying that Empress Ji was a little shameless, and actually cut off the imperial heir who should have belonged to Xuanqing Palace!

This is not the point, because although the imperial heir is precious, the Yi nobles in the Xuanqing Palace still have one in their stomachs.

What made Chen Zhu feel uneasy was that "Niangniang, this Zhao Cairen is from Yuzhen Palace, and when she found out that there was a joy, she was the first to tell the queen's mother." If the queen wanted to raise the imperial heir in person at that time, she could have brought it up at that time. But it dragged on until now, and it took advantage of the concubine to take people to live in Yanfu Palace, which is really suspicious! It is rumored in the palace that this is because the fetus conceived by Zhao Cairen is a male heir! ”

There is a high probability that our Yi Guiren is pregnant with a princess, if Zhao Cairen comes, maybe the living prince will be in hand!

How can you endure this situation?!

Seeing that Xie Hengyu and the others cast the expectant gaze of "Niangniang, let's go and snatch Zhao Cairen back", the corners of Yun Fenghuang's mouth twitched, and he didn't continue to talk about Zhao Cairen, but asked, "What about the concubine?" How is the concubine now? ”