The Return of An Lingrong in Legend of Zhen Huan

Note: This chapter is written by the author based on the fragments in The Legend of Zhen Huan. A little bit of the author's own conjecture is also added. Thanks for reading (o^^o)

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Because of Chun Yuan's old clothes, some old people in the palace brought up the matter again.

An Lingrong combined what she learned in her previous life with what she inquired about in this life and gradually pieced together what had happened.

When Yixiu was about to give birth, her family arranged for her to go to the palace to take care of her, either to show off or to arrange for her. During this period, Rouze danced in the Taiye Lake wearing the auspicious clothes of a concubine (perhaps even singing to accompany her), and "accidentally" caught the attention of the emperor at that time. Yinzhen fell in love with Rouze at first sight and immediately decided to marry her as his first wife.

After they returned to the palace from Taiye Lake, they happened to see Jinxi washing clothes with cold water. Chunyuan kindly said that Jinxi was so pitiful. When Yinzhen saw how gentle and kind she was, he loved her even more. He married Rouze regardless of the opinions of Yixiu and the Queen Mother, and Jinxi also won the favor of Queen Chunyuan.

After Yixiu gave birth to her eldest son, she still couldn't escape the fate of being born out of wedlock, and at that time, Yixiu was the only one in the entire palace who had a child. It may be that Rouze knew that Yixiu gave birth to a child with the help of a prescription, and because the child was destined to die or something, she didn't say anything.

During the two years since she entered the palace, Rouze's belly had been still. After much difficulty, she found out that she was pregnant. However, because a concubine was disrespectful to her, she made the woman kneel for two hours, which eventually led to a miscarriage. It was said that the concubine's child was almost three months old (An Lingrong suspected that she might have waited until the fetus was more stable), and because she was too advanced in age and it was snowing at the time, the woman died soon after.

Because the concubine was of high birth (although her official position was not as high as Chunyuan and Yixiu's father, her power was greater than Feiguyang), and it involved a child, before Yinzhen took any action, Rouze fainted due to "fright", and then naturally let Yinzhen know that his beloved Rouze was one month pregnant.

So the matter was hastily settled on the grounds that the concubine was disrespectful to the wife and Rouze was not aware of it. In this case, Yixiu's son, Yinzhen's eldest son, "happened" to have a high fever, and all the doctors were with Rouze. Yixiu could neither leave the palace nor go to Rouze, so Yinzhen was completely unaware of the loud noise.

The next day, when Yinzhen came to blame Yixiu for not going to congratulate his sister when she found out she was pregnant, he happened to see his son's cold body and Yixiu and her servant Jianqiu, who were both soaked.

Jianqiu immediately told Yinzhen about this. After hearing it, Yinzhen could not utter a word of the accusation on his lips. In the end, he just said, "Let Yixiu take good care of Rouze." She understands pharmacology and is Rouze's biological sister. Although she has no children, Rouze does. So from now on, he should treat Rouze's children as his own.

Yinzhen was afraid that a grand funeral would offend Rouze, so he buried his concubine and Honghui hastily, hanging only white cloth in their yard, while other places remained festive.

Although Yinzhen was blind and couldn't see it, the servants knew it clearly in their hearts. They said behind Rouze's back that not only had she not given birth to a child in the two years since she entered the mansion, but as soon as she was found out she was pregnant, she killed a concubine, a eldest son and an unborn child. She was a disaster star, and her child was also a disaster star, even worse than her mother.

After hearing these words, Yinzhen killed or punished the servants who said these words, and then bought some new servants. These servants did not know the inside story, but only knew that the current mistress of the house, Rouze, was an especially gentle and virtuous woman.

The official only had this precious daughter. Now that his daughter was dead, he not only did not punish the murderer but also buried his daughter hastily. He immediately rebelled and joined the Eighth Prince.

This made Yinzhen very worried. After all, he had only said that the concubine was disrespectful to Rouze, but no one knew how she was disrespectful. The concubine died without any evidence, and her personal maid was beaten to death. Everything was said by Rouze and her subordinates. Of course, the official did not buy it and took a lot of people with him before leaving. This greatly reduced Yinzhen's power.

Therefore, Yinzhen did not accompany Rouze during the entire pregnancy, but just asked Yixiu to take good care of her. This also gave Yixiu an opportunity to bribe Zhang Mi at the time. Rouze probably did not know that the matter would become so serious at the time. Yinzhen locked himself in the study for months. Because Yinzhen and several officials who were still in his camp often talked for a whole day, Rouze had no chance to go to the study to see him.

Perhaps because she felt guilty, Rouze did not trust Yixiu, but neither she nor the servants around her knew any medicine, so she could only listen to whatever Zhang Mi said.

Sure enough, on the day of delivery, Rouze died of dystocia, and the second prince she gave birth to also died.

I don't know if it was to maintain her previous image, or because she couldn't find evidence that Yixiu harmed her, or because she had caused a big mess for Yinzhen, so she asked Yinzhen to treat his sister well, and then she passed away.

Yinzhen saw that his wife was so kind until her death. He cried a lot, but he didn't cry for long, after all, he still had to clean up the mess that Rouze left for him when she was alive. But he also didn't forget to give his beloved woman a grand funeral.

When the official saw that the funeral of the murderer of his daughter was so grand, when Yinzhen invited Concubine Qi and Noble Lady Xin into the mansion to win over power, he submitted memorials one after another, directly making Concubine Qi the daughter of a criminal, and Noble Lady Xin's parents were also rushed thousands of miles away.

In the later period, when Yinzhen raped Li Jingui (the biological mother of the Fourth Prince) while drunk, they made a big fuss about it. However, considering that the woman was at a disadvantage, they asked the Eighth Master to impeach Yinzhen for relying on his power to bully servants. Yinzhen was forced to marry Li Jingui, which gave her a legitimate status and prevented her from being ostracized to death by others. After these rounds, Yinzhen was almost reduced to a commoner.

It is not known whether Li Jingui was born in a lowly family or the official was thinking of his own daughter, but no one bothered her during her pregnancy and the food was delivered according to the standard. However, she was lucky to get pregnant with a boy at once, but she was unlucky to die of hemorrhage (late postpartum hemorrhage) a week after giving birth to Hongli.

At first, it was just that the bad stuff (lochia) was a little more than usual, and by the time they found out something was wrong, it was too late to save the situation. The official was kind-hearted and finally secretly arranged a loyal nanny to take care of the young Fourth Prince.

When Yinzhen seized the throne, this official took advantage of Yinzhen's time dealing with the Eighth and Ninth Princes to dismiss all the servants in the mansion, cut off all relatives even those outside the Nine Clan, and even gave money to several concubines, letting them go home to live their own lives. He also distributed the last remaining money in the mansion to the servants, cut off relatives and the poor people in the capital. In the end, he burned the entire mansion with the tablet of his deceased wife alone. Before he died, he cursed God for not judging people and letting such a person become the emperor. In the end, he went down to reunite with his wife and daughter.

Because this official had a very good character during his lifetime, otherwise Yinzhen would not have considered winning him over in the first place. Many people received favors from this official, so they also complained for this official. After the emperor ascended the throne, he locked himself in the Yangxin Palace for most of the year, mainly to deal with these matters.

It was not until after the selection that the families of these new concubines came forward to help, and the emperor gradually calmed the matter down.

An Lingrong couldn't help but spit. Bah, this guy is gentle, kind, virtuous, and pure. Is she worthy of him? Let alone anything else, just by letting a woman kneel in the snow for two hours, you can tell that this man is not a good person.

Alas, as expected, one must not be tempted. Not only women but men will also become stupid if they are tempted.

Note: Orange has signed up for a competition for Tomato authors. From today until mid-June, he must publish 2500 words every day.

I was planning to take a leave and save up for two days, but I remembered that I promised you that I would update every day, so starting from today, either the number of words in this chapter reaches the required number, or I will post two chapters.

The author has also signed up to check in, and will post two to three chapters almost every day.

As for the exam, Juzi has been working frantically on the manuscript during the weekend. As long as it's after the end of March, everything will be fine.