Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

The fact that the Queen could still do something to Yi Xin even in the palace frightened Fu Cha, but it also made Dong and the Xia family find out the Queen's bottom line. To put it bluntly, without the Queen Mother's tacit consent, the Queen herself could only play around in a hidden residence, and the harem was not the Queen's world.

Therefore, Yi Xin's initial approach was to target the Queen Mother directly. As soon as the Queen Mother left, she arranged to report corruption in the Imperial Household Department. In this way, both the harem and the Imperial Household Department would be severely purged, and the Queen would probably have no one left in her hands.

Because Concubine Hui was pregnant, Concubine Wan felt that she could not handle the whole thing on her own, so Concubine Hui suggested that Concubine An be taken in.

Concubine Wan was immediately a little unhappy, not because Concubine Hui's idea was bad, but because Concubine Hui made the decision before her.

Concubine Hui didn't know that her sister, whom she had always treated with kindness, had begun to alienate her. She was still persuading Concubine Wan to get pregnant as soon as possible, and even blurted out that she had used the pregnancy-aiding prescription given by Liu Bin.

Wanpin was just a little surprised at the time. After all, in her mind, Concubine Hui had always been dignified and generous, and didn't seem like the kind of person who would take the so-called recipe for having a child.

Concubine Hui felt a little embarrassed by Wanpin's look. Although she felt a little awkward, she didn't think much about it. Instead, she continued to sell it to Wanpin: "This Liu Bin is also from Jeju, and I spent a lot of money to bribe him. Now that I am really pregnant with this, this prescription is somewhat credible."

When Wanpin was at home, her parents warned her that the best recipes for having a child were just medicines that nourish the body. If there were things that could help her get pregnant, most of them would harm the mother and the fetus and were totally unacceptable.

But she couldn't say these words at this time, so she just evaded the question and said, "Sister Mei is pregnant now. If I get pregnant too, how can we have the energy to deal with Concubine Hua? Anyway, we are all young, and pregnancy is not something that is urgent."

Concubine Hui was only touched by the fact that Wanpin was wholeheartedly caring about her, so she didn't hear anything wrong in Wanpin's words. Even Caiyue, her personal maid whom she brought into the palace from the Shen family, was grateful to Wanpin. This made Wanpin, who had ulterior motives, feel ashamed. After some self-reflection, she decided not to be jealous of Concubine Hui, the little sister who was wholeheartedly taking care of her.

With the help of Concubine Wan, An Changzai quickly arrived at the Old Summer Palace. She was accompanied by Baojuan and Baoque. Because of her initial mistake, Baojuan had never been able to officially return to the position of first-class palace maid, but it was easy for An Changzai to bring her to the Old Summer Palace.

Baojuan was still committed to getting An Changzai to leave Wanpin and Hui Guiren and turn to the Queen. After all, she was the nail planted by the Queen next to An Changzai, so when she was packing up, she began to be sarcastic to Wanpin and Hui Guiren: "This Wanpin and Hui Guiren are really not very decent. Given your relationship with them, is it difficult for the Emperor to take you to Yuanmingyuan from the beginning?"

An Changzai's reverence for the emperor was far greater than that of ordinary people, so she immediately spoke up for Wanpin and Hui Guiren, "This final list was decided by the emperor himself. How can Wanjie and Hui Guiren have any say? Besides, they will think of me as soon as they get a chance."

Baoque looked at Baojuan deeply. Although she also wanted An Changzai to keep a distance from Wanpin and the others, it was only because she saw that Wanpin's favor from the emperor came too quickly and too strongly, which was a bit beyond common sense. She was worried that Wanpin would fall out of favor in the future and implicate An Changzai too much. But she had no intention of making An Changzai hate Wanpin or offend her.

Baojuan felt a little uncomfortable when Baoque looked at her, but Baoque had already established a firm foothold in front of An Changzai, and Baoque never argued with her, so the two of them were still able to discuss things together and were harmonious colleagues rather than enemies. Baojuan was a little unsure about Baoque, but she just felt that he had been a little too eager for quick success recently, so she planned to find another opportunity to alienate An Changzai and Wanpin and others.

With the support of Concubine An, Wanpin and her party almost made the emperor forget even Concubine Hua, so Concubine Hua directly bypassed her biological mother, Guiren Cao, and gave Princess Wen Yi cassava flour, causing Princess Wen Yi to vomit milk in front of the emperor and develop a high fever.

When Concubine Cao knew that Concubine Hua was using Princess Wen Yi to frame Concubine Wan, she could only be mad in her heart. She hugged Princess Wen Yi with tears streaming down her face, and began to calculate who else in the harem could overthrow Concubine Hua and accept her and her daughter's power.

The Queen, Concubine Qi and Concubine Duan definitely cannot do it. The Queen and Concubine Qi are in the same party. Even if they agree to her temporary allegiance, once Concubine Hua falls, she and Princess Wen Yi will become abandoned pawns and will inevitably follow in Concubine Hua's footsteps.

Although Concubine Duan and Concubine Hua had a grudge, she felt that Concubine Duan's weak body was nothing more than a sign of her being unable to see through.

The only ones left are Concubine Wan and Concubine Jin.

But Concubine Jin made it clear that she would not associate with other women in the harem, especially those from Concubine Hua and Concubine Wan. It was as if she had set up her own force, and she had no suitable token of allegiance.

As for Concubine Wan, she was also jealous of her favor, but she didn't know when Concubine Wan would grow up. She could wait, but Princess Wen Yi could not.

After the imperial physician carefully examined Princess Wen Yi, he replied respectfully, "The princess has taken cassava flour by mistake. This cassava flour nourishes the liver, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and nourishes the skin. It is most suitable for women, but not for children under three years old because cassava flour is sticky and difficult to digest. The princess has taken cassava flour by mistake and has gastrointestinal discomfort. She only needs a dose of digestive soup and be careful not to let the princess continue to have a fever."

The emperor was dissatisfied with Concubine Hua and Concubine Cao as soon as he heard this. He called the imperial physician to quickly prescribe medicine and asked Concubine Hua, "Where did the cassava flour come from? How could it be delivered to Wen Yi?"

Concubine Hua was very upset by the emperor's look, but the show had to go on, so she simply admitted that she had not been strict with her subordinates, and asked people from the imperial kitchen in front of the emperor. However, she did not expect that the imperial kitchen reported that Concubine Jin and Concubine Wan had both sent people to get cassava flour, and they went to get it on the same day.

Hua Fei only wanted to plot against Wanpin, but she didn't expect to get a big surprise. She immediately bypassed the emperor and told Zhou Ninghai, "Go and ask Jin Fei and Wanpin to come over and question them. Jin Fei is pregnant with the heir to the throne, so you should speak respectfully."

By now the emperor had understood that Princess Wen Yi's misfortune was purely because Concubine Hua was displeased with Wanpin's recent favor, so she deliberately framed Wanpin, but she did not want to implicate Yi Xin.

The emperor knew that Yi Xin had recently made a new kind of snack. Yi Xin had sent a lot of it to the emperor in the past few days, and the ministers of the previous dynasty also benefited from it. That's why the emperor did not suspect Yi Xin. After all, that snack was made with cassava flour as the main ingredient, and the emperor could more or less calculate that the cassava flour that Yi Xin had previously received would be almost used up.