The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Xie Yuzhen currently has no way to contact this empress who should still be living quietly in the North Palace, but she can tease Meng Ronghua at any time!

When Xie Yuzhen learned that there was an old nanny beside Meng Ronghua, she became more and more certain that her aunt was still alive and even had considerable power. She was able to smuggle the northern owl into the palace, and she chose such a time to attack...

Thinking of this, Xie Yuzhen broke out in a cold sweat.

She originally suspected that the owl was coming for her, and now, after getting all the information about the late emperor's concubine and the Meng family, she felt a wave of fear while confirming her own conclusion.

Shouning Palace is so close to Baosi Pavilion. If the emperor cared more about Concubine Wang and was willing to sympathize with her pain of miscarriage and loss of her child, then there would be no need for him to personally escort Xie Yuzhen back to the palace that night.

Not to mention... Concubine Deng seemed to be injured.

Although she did not use her injury to win favor, and did not even show that she was injured, when she came to pay her respects that month, everyone still saw her bandaged hand and that she was limping a little when she walked.

The queen's clan suffered a miscarriage.

Deng, one of the four concubines, injured her legs.

Xie Yuzhen was completely unharmed. In fact, if Shi Mang had not been found out early, she would have been suspected of plotting to cause the king's concubine to have a miscarriage...

As a suspect in the case, Baosi Pavilion and Shouning Palace are only a hundred steps away...

One thing after another.

If the emperor had not accompanied her and was good at fighting, no matter how brave and calm Xie Yuzhen was, she would probably have been injured by the sudden attack of the owl, not to mention that she was pregnant. If she was bumped into, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Should I be slowly moved by the emperor's protection?

No.

What Xie Wei really wanted to know was - what did he know and what did he want to do?

Time returns to the present.

Meng Ronghua was struck in the heart by Xu Baolin's sharp words. She angrily shook off Xu Baolin's hands: "...You are just a lowly thing. Don't think that just because you are attached to the Xie family, you can, can..."

Xu Baolin let the wound on his wrist slowly ooze blood, and even used his other hand to tear the wound bigger: "What can I do?"

"You can be favored?"

Her smile did not fade at all, and the hairpins hanging down from her temples swayed gently: "Am I not favored already?"

Xu Baolin opened his arms, like a bird showing off its gorgeous feathers, to show Meng Ronghua his love that had become tangible: "This is the Jade Palace and Jade Tower Nine Gauze Dress, Meng Ronghua, do you know how it is made?"

"Just for the base material, we have to start with silkworms. We carefully select the most plump and round ones, and then use virgins under the age of fourteen to pick tender leaves from century-old mulberry trees to raise them until they grow up and spin silk. Then we take the most uniform and softest section of silk, dye it, and weave it with gold and silver threads into kesi satin. Then we take the most white and delicate silk threads raised by the same method and weave it into this light gauze with moderate hardness and just the right mesh..."

It's just a set of dress, it's time-consuming, laborious and exhausting.

Rather than the beauty and luxury of the finished product, the power and honor it represents are more valued.

As Xu Baolin's narration was deliberately boastful, Meng Ronghua only felt his head getting dizzy.

This kind of dress has always been only offered to the royal family and can be used to offset the taxes of an area.

Although she was a lady of noble family, she could not afford such a dress. But now... and now... the dress that symbolized the royal family's wealth and the emperor's favor was worn by a woman of low birth who was inferior to her in every way and who had no part that he could compare to!

How dare she? !

Meng Ronghua felt the smell of blood in her mouth, and gritted her teeth and said, "Such extravagant things are a waste of money and labor, and are really not what concubines like me should enjoy. My Meng family is a century-old family. Although we don't have fancy clothes, we have unique character and pride. This thing alone is priceless... Xu, don't think that you can become noble by wearing expensive clothes... You are so frivolous and low-class, you..."

"Oh!" Xu Baolin raised her hand to cover her mouth and laughed, "I thought I was a noble lady from the Meng Ronghua family. Not only could I recite my family tree since I was a child, but I also know your family's past history like the back of my hand."

"What do you mean?" Meng Ronghua suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

But Xu Baolin slowly said, "This Jade Palace and Jade Tower Nine Gauze Dress was captured from the foreign invaders who invaded the Central Plains when the Great Sheng Dynasty was founded..."

She stared at Meng Ronghua, whose face was gradually turning pale, with a half-smile: "Although it is well preserved, it is an old item after all. But His Majesty said that since this thing has been made, it is better to use it to its due purpose instead of putting it on the shelf."

"This dress must have been worn by someone in the Hu people's palace back then. Alas, I was too happy and forgot for a moment that Meng Ronghua's family was in the north. When the barbarians invaded, you kowtowed to the Hu people and served them as your lord in order to protect your century-old family business..."

"You...you shut up!" Meng Ronghua couldn't stop shaking all over.

Xu Baolin would never do what she wanted, and curled his lips: "You even sent the daughter of the clan leader to the Hu people as a concubine. Oh, this is really the character and pride of your noble family!"

Her expression was stern. “I wonder if there are any elderly people in Meng Ronghua’s family who are still alive today. Would he find this dress familiar?”

Meng Ronghua was almost fainted by her anger. She was speechless and her face turned red. She didn't know how to refute. In anxiety, she called out the names of Nanny Ji Lan and Xinxia.

Seeing that the time was almost right, but she still hadn't achieved the result she wanted, Xu Baolin was not willing to let her go. He immediately stopped her and continued to sarcastically say, "You claim to be from a noble family, but you always rush to serve whoever is in power. Even the barbarians who have a deep hatred for our Central Plains want to lie down and act like dogs. You even have the nerve to call yourself a noble lady, and look down on this and that. I don't know if you have the integrity of a noble family, but you are so shameless that I have to admit that!"

"My father and brother are officials in the court, doing things that benefit the country and the people. No matter what, I am nobler than you, a lowly person who ignores the grace of my father for giving me life."

"No matter how noble you are, can you be more noble than a prince?" Xu Baolin was waiting for her to say this after she had run out of arguments, and to bring out her father and brother. "When Concubine Xie gives birth to a prince, I will be able to get pregnant too. By then, you can kneel at my feet with the pride of a noble family that sends its daughters to foreign races as concubines!"