Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

House arrest meant nothing to Yi Xin, but it was very important to Zhen Da Ying and Shen Mei Zhuang. They did not expect to lose this game so miserably that they could not even keep Cai Yue, the maid that Shen Mei Zhuang brought from home.

It was true that Concubine Nian was under house arrest, but Songzhi and Zhou Ninghai under her were allowed to go out, so Concubine Nian directly asked Zhou Ninghai to go out and send Caiyue, who was with Shen Meiyu, back to the Imperial Household Department. As for Liuzhu and Huanbi, who were with Zhen Ying, Concubine Nian finally had a brain and asked Zhen Ying to choose which one to send to the Imperial Household Department.

Cui Jinxi, who was by Zhen Ying's side, originally wanted to be confined to Suiyuxuan with Zhen Ying, but unexpectedly, Concubine Nian would not allow Cui Jinxi to leave Yongshou Palace at all. Therefore, in the end, only Liuzhu and Huanbi, two palace maids from the Zhen family, stayed by Zhen Ying's side.

However, Huanbi was somewhat conceited. Seeing that Zhen Da Ying was favored and even once named a concubine, she thought that she was also a daughter of the Zhen family. Although she was a slave in name, her birth was much higher than that of Guiren An. Even a daughter of a small county magistrate like Guiren An could be promoted from a daughter to a noble lady. With her status and appearance similar to Zhen Da Ying, she should at least be able to become a concubine.

Huanbi didn't want to go to the Imperial Household Department. She didn't need to beg Zhen Da Ying for anything. Since she entered the palace, she saw that Zhen Da Ying tolerated her in everything. Even when she spoke out her disdain and ridicule towards Concubine An, Zhen Da Ying only said a few words verbally and still let her do as she pleased. So Huanbi knew that her identity might have been known by Zhen Da Ying.

Liu Zhu has always been very loyal to Zhen Da Ying. When Zhen Da Ying asked her, she sincerely let Zhen Da Ying decide where she should go, which made Zhen Da Ying even more embarrassed.

But in the end, only Liu Zhu went to the Imperial Household Department, because Zhen promised that she would never let her half-sister Huanbi go to the Imperial Household Department to suffer.

Concubine Nian and Song Zhi were confused by Zhen Ying's decision. Concubine Nian felt that something was wrong. After all, even she knew that Liu Zhu was too honest, but he was the most suitable for Zhen Ying at the moment. On the contrary, Huanbi, who was just a servant but always pretentious, was obviously not someone who could share hardships.

Concubine Nian couldn't help but nag at Songzhi: "Songzhi, you said that Zhen Da Ying is not a person with a problem in the brain, why do you want to send a truly honest person away?"

Songzhi didn't quite understand at first, but now she thought of a possibility: "Perhaps, Zhen Ying has some secrets that cannot be told, and you all know that Empress Liu Zhulian is very honest. Zhen Ying must think that she will not say anything even if she suffers in the Imperial Household Department. But that Huanbi is different."

This makes sense, so Concubine Nian soon became curious about the secret that Zhen promised to keep, "Zhou Ninghai, go and tell Concubine Guaerjia quietly about this news. Since the Queen has already set up the stage, we might as well use it."

Concubine Nian's connections were dispersing quickly, but it wasn't as if there were none left. Besides, now she had no other expenses except maintaining the remaining few people, so she had some money left.

Zhou Ninghai responded and went to make arrangements. Within two days, both Noble Lady Guaerjia and Noble Lady Fucha knew that Zhen Da Ying might be harboring a big secret.

It was just that Noble Lady Fucha and Noble Lady An stayed quietly in the Yanx Palace and did not go out. Instead, Noble Lady Guaerjia sent a message to the Queen. The Queen was of course very interested in this news. As an old conspirator, she almost immediately judged that the news about Zhen Da Ying might not be as insignificant as Noble Lady Guaerjia thought.

So the remaining people in the Queen's hands also took action and re-screened Zhen Da Ying and the two maids she brought into the palace. They had checked twice but found no results, but unexpectedly, Jian Qiu's unintentional words gave the Queen inspiration.

Jianqiu wanted to persuade the queen to give up, "Your Majesty, there is really nothing wrong with Zhen Yingda, and her two palace maids are nothing either. If there is anything wrong, it is that Huanbi is somewhat similar to Zhen Yingda."

How could the Queen care about the appearance of the personal maids around the concubines? Especially since Zhen Da Ying always brought Liu Zhu with her every time she met the Queen before. Even if they met her occasionally in other places, how could the maids look directly at the high-ranking concubines?

So the Queen had no idea what Huanbi looked like, but Jianqiu, who was also a palace maid, had seen Huanbi several times.

The Queen smiled and said to Jianqiu, "Look, it's coming out now."

"Send a message outside the palace and ask them to carefully investigate how the maid named Huanbi entered the Zhen family and what her background is."

"I have a feeling that Huanbi's background may lead to the execution of the entire Zhen family!"

Jianqiu kept wondering in her mind what the origin of that girl named Huanbi was, and why the Queen could determine her background and cause the entire Zhen family to be executed?

Although his mind was full of mixed thoughts, Jianqiu acted ruthlessly and the news soon reached the Ulanara family through the remaining secret channels.

However, almost everyone in the Ulanara family is now unemployed at home, and everyone has complaints about the deceased empress dowager. Although they are also dissatisfied with the queen, they still feel that having a queen is better than having no one in the harem. Therefore, after many excuses, everyone still arranged people to investigate the affairs of Zhen Yuandao's family.

But the emperor's stick-stick department was no pushover, especially since the emperor intended to expand it and even renamed it the Blood Dropper. When the queen delivered the letter, the Blood Dropper didn't notice it, but when the news reached Ulanara's home, the Blood Dropper soon noticed what was happening in Ulanara's home.

Xia Qian first went to the emperor to apologize, saying that the queen had contacted the Ulanara family again, but the Bloody Guillotine did not notice anything during this process. When the news reached the people of the Ulanara family and started to take action, the Bloody Guillotine realized that something was wrong.

Of course the emperor was dissatisfied with Xia Kan, believing that Xia Kan had made many mistakes in the harem, so he fined him half a year's salary, and the matter was over.

But he became suspicious of the Queen's actions and ordered Xia Qian to send people to assist the Ulanara family. He also wanted to know what had happened that would make the Queen take the risk of contacting people outside the palace.

With the involvement of the Guillotines, Huanbi's life story, which Zhen Yuandao had been hiding, was soon presented to the emperor.

It turned out that before Zhen Yuandao married Madam Yun, the biological mother of Zhen Da Ying, he had an engaged childhood sweetheart, whose family was a member of the Baiyi tribe who had naturalized earlier.

Originally, the Three Feudatories Rebellion did not affect Huanbi's maternal family at all. However, unexpectedly, Huanbi's maternal family was set up as scapegoats by their superiors, so the whole family was liquidated. As a result, Huanbi's biological mother became the daughter of a criminal, and the engagement with Zhen Yuandao was not continued.

But no one expected that Zhen Yuandao secretly took the girl out of the Music Bureau and raised her outside, and later forced her to give birth to a daughter, who was Huanbi.

When Huanbi was six or seven years old, her biological mother died of illness. Huanbi was taken back to the Zhen family by Zhen Yuandao as a slave and sent to Zhen Daying. Later, she became Zhen Daying's personal maid and was selected to enter the palace with Zhen Daying.

The emperor hated Zhen Yuandao to the extreme when he saw that Zhen Yuandao confessed Huanbi's life experience to Zhen before she agreed to enter the palace, and asked Zhen to secretly look after Huanbi and give her a good home.

“How outrageous!”

"What is the place of Zhen Yuandao being my harem?!"