It's almost time to wear it. The soft beauty relies on the child-bearing system to favor her

On the way back to Changle Palace, the nanny beside the queen couldn't help but whispered,

"Empress, are you really not worried? She has been given the power to assist in managing the six palaces while she is still pregnant. If she gives birth to a prince in the future, he might step on your head!"

The Queen waved her hand and frowned:

"Mammy, you are too impatient. We are just getting started and you are already scaring yourself and worrying about it."

The Queen put her hand on the Nanny's arm and walked slowly. She was calm and gentle, with a graceful demeanor, and her voice was neither hurried nor slow, as if she had expected this day to come.

"She's been promoted step by step. Isn't it only a matter of time? On the day of the palace selection, when the emperor came in, his eyes fell on her first."

"Although I don't know what she did to please the emperor, I expected that she would be favored by the emperor and then valued by the emperor."

"It's just that it happened a little earlier than I expected. Let's just wait and see how it develops. People's true colors will be revealed over time. Let's just focus on doing our own thing."

"Oh, by the way, Mammy, please spread the news as soon as possible and ask my father and brother to collect more information about the Su family father and son. Let's prepare first, so that if the situation changes in the future, we won't be caught off guard."

The queen looked up at the azure sky with a smile on her face, "I don't know what the situation is like in the imperial concubine's palace. She was quite clever yesterday, but unfortunately she picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons. The gain is not worth the loss."

----

The imperial concubine was hiding in her palace and throwing a tantrum.

The glass cups, jadeite cups, white jade plates, agate rings and other items in her palace were all destroyed.

It was placed neatly on the mahogany treasure chest one second ago, and the next second it was thrown to the ground, broken into pieces.

The imperial concubine threw everything that could be thrown in the palace. She was so angry that she wanted to curse, but fortunately she was held down by the senior palace maid beside her.

"Your Highness, please be careful with your words!" The head palace maid held the Royal Concubine in the bedroom and would not let her go out, fearing that she would act recklessly and lose her manners.

It would be bad if the emperor saw us.

"My Lady, just throw some things and forget about it. Don't make any more trouble."

"Yesterday, the Emperor clearly felt pity for you, the Imperial Concubine. Today, he also gave you the power to assist in managing the six palaces... If I am right, the Emperor will come to our palace today to comfort you and give you an explanation."

"I will have the outer room cleaned up right now. You should also dress up and calm down. We will wait for the emperor to come in a beautiful manner."

The imperial concubine's face turned the color of liver, and her chest rose and fell violently, "Huan'er, will the emperor really come today?"

Huan'er nodded, pulled the imperial concubine up, changed her clothes and jewelry, and wrung a handkerchief with hot water to wipe her cheek carefully.

Then she personally applied powder, rouge, and flower ornaments on her, and put on lip balm.

The imperial concubine, who had a face full of resentment and looked like a mad woman just now, was now bright and charming, full of charm.

The imperial concubine looked at herself in the bronze mirror, sighed, and said, "If the emperor doesn't come, and I lose the power to assist in managing the six palaces, then I will really lose both my wife and my army."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the eunuch's high-pitched voice coming from outside the palace, "The Emperor has arrived!"

----

Although the imperial concubine was stripped of her power to assist in managing the six palaces, she regained Rong Zhou's favor after that day.

Now, in this harem, the imperial concubine and Su Wanti are equally matched.

Su Wanti drinks spiritual spring water every day, and she is in very good health and has not had any serious reactions during her pregnancy.

When she reached the second trimester of her pregnancy, she was not sleepy like other pregnant women. Instead, she was full of energy, had a clear mind, and did not feel heavy in her body.

This gave her time and energy to arrange the affairs of the harem.

Over the past decade or so, the imperial concubine has not done nothing. She has placed people in the several departments and offices under her charge.

The first step Su Wanti took over was to find out the imperial concubine's people, keep them in place, and then select available people from various places and promote them.

Then slowly marginalize the imperial concubine's people.

This operation continued for just one month, and the imperial concubine's people were demoted one after another, and Su Wanti's people occupied these important positions.

The queen did not impose any restrictions on Su Wanti, nor did she secretly put obstacles in her way.

During this period of time, Su Wanti has been going smoothly.

Time flies, and it is early winter in the blink of an eye.

The weather was getting colder, and the blue of the sky was becoming lighter. In the palace, only green trees such as pine, cypress, magnolia, and nandina stood tall in the cold.

The other trees were left with only bare branches, covered with a thin layer of fallen snow.

On this day, just after dawn, a sign from outside the palace was passed into the Yufu Palace.

It was Madam Su who handed in a sign and asked to see Su Wanti.

In a few days, it will be the day of Su Hanri's trial.

Madam Su was in such a hurry to enter the palace, she must have succeeded.

"Is mother waiting outside the palace gate? Let her in quickly. Yuzhu, go and pick her up in person." Su Wanti ordered.

Then, she sat with her eyes lowered, calm and relaxed.

After a while, Mrs. Su arrived.

Today she was dressed in plain clothes, with her hair simply tied into a bun and pinned with a few silver hairpins.

After entering the room, she knelt down in front of Su Wanti, her cheeks pale and her eyes red and swollen like peaches.

"My lady, the master...he hanged himself to save your brother's life!"

"What?" Su Wanti stood up suddenly, and the milk tea in her hand rolled to the ground. The white porcelain bowl fell to the ground and broke into several pieces, and the milky white milk spilled all over the ground.

She staggered a few times and staggered over. "Mother, you are lying to me, right? Father, why would he commit suicide?"

Two lines of clear tears slowly flowed down her cheeks, and the crystal tears dripped onto the white marble floor, blooming into small water splashes.

Madam Su lowered her head weakly, her face ashen.

Soon, Rong Zhou got the news.

He was afraid that Su Wanti would be sad, so he hurried to Yufu Palace after the court session.

When Rong Zhou arrived, Madam Su had already returned home. She had to go back to take care of the funeral arrangements.

Su Wanti locked herself in the bedroom, biting her lips, crying silently without making a sound.

Rong Zhou walked into the bedroom quietly and saw Su Wanti's back.

She was already six months pregnant, but she had not gained much weight. Her shoulders were still thin and hunched. Just looking at her back made him feel distressed.

"Wan'er, I heard about it." Rong Zhou put his arm around her shoulders.

He felt the person in his arms tremble, and then leaned weakly on his chest.

"Your Majesty, although my father treated me coldly and was not close to me when I was in the Su Mansion, he is my father after all. Your Majesty, my father took his own life for my brother. Your Majesty, can you please let my brother go for my father's sake?"

Su Wanti sobbed softly.

Rong Zhou couldn't bear it, "Okay, I'll do whatever you say. I'll go and persuade Fu Xiang to withdraw the case. I guess he doesn't want to be known as someone who forced his colleagues to death."