The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Liu Shuyi's misconduct was seen by everyone, and even Xie Yuzhen felt a little sorry for her at this moment. However, on second thought, if it weren't for the fact that Shunyi Bo was lustful and never treated his own women well, how could things have developed to this point?

And if Hong had been more compassionate and soft-hearted, and had shown mercy to the women in the backyard who were more helpless and powerless than her, and had not humiliated Concubine Xu and her mother repeatedly, or had simply been tough enough to kill the evil creature that gave rise to Marquis Shunyi's desire, she would not have been pushed out to bear the biggest blame in the end and lost her life.

Liu Shuyi was shaking non-stop due to excessive grief and couldn't even utter a complete sentence. Her condition was obviously not suitable for a visit to the Queen Mother. When the Queen came out and saw her like this, she couldn't help but sigh, and then ordered the female official to send Liu Shuyi back first.

The ladies helped Liu Shuyi to stand up. She walked a few steps with dazed eyes until she passed by Concubine Xu who had an expressionless face. Liu Shuyi's eyes focused slightly, and then she turned her head to look at Concubine Xu: "...I will not forgive you."

Lady Xu raised her eyebrows: "Empress Shuyi, what you said makes it sound like I have done something wrong to you... Hehe... This really makes me confused and wronged." She was born weak, and she spoke in a low voice with her sleeves covering the corners of her mouth, as if she was bullied by Liu Shuyi.

Liu Shuyi stared at Concubine Xu for a while, but in the end, her hatred overwhelmed her anger. She forced herself to calm down, turned around and left with the female officials.

The moment Lady Xu turned around, she lowered her eyes and gently stroked her belly with her hand - there was indeed a child here, but the child was not healthy enough, and she herself did not want to have a child.

There are medicines that can replenish the fetus in the mall of the Wonderful Medicine System. She completed a few tasks slowly and had enough points to redeem them - but Concubine Xu didn't want to. Ever since she knew that the original purpose of this system on her was to overthrow the villain Xie Yuzhen, she had a resistance to the tasks issued by the system.

Besides, her life now is good enough. If she hadn't been eyeing the expensive anti-poison pill, Concubine Xu might have slacked off on her mission long ago.

What's more crucial is that when Liu Shuyi came over just now, she raised her hand and gently splashed the medicine powder that had always worked in the past onto Liu Shuyi, but Liu Shuyi's emotions did not get out of control... Considering that her temperament had changed drastically after she was released from confinement, Concubine Xu had to guess that perhaps Liu Shuyi had some kind of adventure that made her methods ineffective.

[Qi Yao, can you tell whether Liu Shuyi has a system? ]

After accumulating some points, the Qi Yao System began to slowly repair its functions. The first thing it repaired was the detection of energy fluctuations emitted when other systems were used, so as to detect the existence of other systems.

[Ding——No traces of other systems in the palace were detected, but Liu Shuyi has a layer of energy protection belonging to this world. Unless she directly takes the medicine produced by this system, the effect of the medicine will be greatly reduced or even ineffective. ]

Lady Xu couldn't help but clenched her hands into fists in her sleeves:...This is a bit difficult. As long as Liu Shuyi is here, I have to pretend to be distant from Sister Xie for a day. It really makes people feel uncomfortable!

She then thought of Cui Liu, who was forcibly sent to Yuchunju by Liu Shuyi yesterday, and a new plan emerged in her mind.

After seeing off Liu Shuyi, the Queen gave the remaining concubines a few words of lecture, and without further delay, she led everyone to the Cining Palace.

The Cining Palace is the head of the northern palace city of the imperial palace. It has become more and more magnificent after being renovated generation after generation, and it has a kind of heavy beauty accumulated by history.

It is exactly what Xie Ruizhen likes.

The palace is now headed by the Queen, and the four ladies under her are Concubine Deng and Concubine Song. Concubine Song was in poor health and did not come, so Concubine Ning and Concubine Deng stood together, one step behind the Queen.

Concubine Li and Liu Shuyi were supposed to stand together in the third row, but Liu Shuyi was sent away early, and Concubine Chen was in a sullen mood and didn't want to step forward, so the newly promoted Concubine Zhao, Xie Yuzhen, stood on the right side of Concubine Li.

The concubines walked into the main hall of the Cining Palace in an orderly manner.

Xie Yuzhen lowered her charming head obediently and politely, and following the voice of the strange female official, she and the other concubines bowed deeply to the empress dowager who was sitting at the top.

After three kneelings and nine kowtows.

Xie Yuzhen heard a very calm old lady's voice: "We are all family, don't be so reserved, sit down, raise your head - who is Concubine Zhao, come forward and let me see."

Xie Yuzhen was not surprised that the Queen Mother called her name first. She dressed so beautifully today, wasn't it just to let the Queen Mother see her at first sight?

She took small steps with dignity, walked to the Queen Mother and knelt down to salute: "Your concubine Xie of Shouning Palace pays respects to the Queen Mother."

The tone was lively and somewhat intimate. Xie Yuzhen did not even look up. He only saw the corner of the empress dowager's skirt embroidered with blessings, fortune, pine and cypress, and the shoes that slightly extended beyond the hem of her skirt.

After she bowed and asked how he was doing, she displayed her usual attentiveness in flattering the emperor, and slowly raised her head with the most graceful movements, with just the right amount of admiration in her eyes.

His sight moved slowly upward from the hem of the empress dowager's skirt, first passing by a pair of wrinkled hands that were obviously an old person's, then to the empress dowager's slightly hunched shoulders, and then, Xie Yuzhen saw a very ordinary face, not much different from the old ladies sitting in the streets chatting and knitting slippers.

The Queen Mother is already very old.

Compared with the late emperor's concubine Defei and Huisu, who just passed away, they are simply two generations apart.

"She's a well-behaved child." Empress Dowager Hu looked at Xie Ruizhen with a smile. She took Xie Ruizhen's hand. The old man's wrinkled and brown hands contrasted sharply with the girl's delicate and fair hands. "Since you've entered the palace, you should live a peaceful and good life in the future. When the fifth girl grows up a little, bring her to me to see."

As she spoke, she took off a dark green jade bracelet inlaid with gold from her wrist and put it on Xie Yuzhen. She then asked the nanny beside her to bring the gift for the little princess. Xie Yuzhen took a look and found that it was a complete set of children's longevity lock anklets and other items. They were all made of pure gold inlaid with gems that were obviously very expensive. She immediately knelt again to thank Empress Dowager Hu for the reward on behalf of her daughter.

Empress Dowager Hu only said these two sentences to her before letting go and letting Xie Yuzhen sit back in her seat. She then turned to look at the empress sitting beside her and said, "Thank you for taking care of the harem. I heard on the way back that you had a serious illness. I wonder if you are well now?"

The queen smiled and replied, "Thank you for your concern, mother. I am fine now, and I have the help of other concubines in my daily duties, so I am not tired."

Empress Dowager Hu nodded, her expression becoming a little sad. She glanced at Concubine Deng and sighed, "Both the Deng and Li families are capable, it's a pity for Zhiniang (Concubine Song)... She was also good at managing household affairs, but in the past... Oh, what a pity..."