The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Does the emperor care about Concubine Ning’s death?

No, what he cared about more was that Concubine Ning was dead, or was sentenced to death, but the person who "sentenced" her to death was not himself, the emperor.

Since it wasn't him who ordered the death of Concubine Ning, then was it the Queen Mother?

This thought only appeared for a moment before it was rejected by the emperor himself.

Empress Dowager Hu knew the truth of that year very well. After the death of the late emperor, she supported the empress in saving the life of the poor Concubine Ning. It was Empress Dowager Hu who personally arranged for Concubine Ning to change her surname and return to her clan name. Although Empress Dowager Hu had only assisted in the affairs of state when the emperor had just ascended the throne, not long after, after making sure that the emperor could handle it himself, she withdrew and went on a tour outside the palace without any attachment to power.

Moreover, although the empress dowager came back this time in the name of helping her daughter-in-law to manage the harem, she actually did not interfere in the internal affairs of the harem. She stayed happily in the Cining Palace all day long, and from time to time summoned a few old friends from her youth into the palace to chat. Moreover, the Empress Dowager Hu was an elderly person after all, and she simply did not have that much energy to stir up trouble, and there was no reason to cause trouble for her adopted son, with whom she had always had a good relationship.

But to be on the safe side, the emperor decided to let Feng Xiang go to the Cining Palace.

He held back Xie Yuzhen, who was about to kill the ministers, and said, "I will definitely investigate this matter. Don't be so impulsive. Wait..." He glanced at the frightened Minister Wen, and there was no sympathy for him in his tone. "After we find out whether this person is behind this, we will deal with him."

Xie Yu's madness was just a superficial normal state based on the rationality that always existed in her heart. After hearing what the emperor said, she realized that what she had said before really made the emperor emerge from the cocoon of his "king and minister" game, and she felt disgusted with Minister Wen, a pedantic chatterbox who actually had no involvement in the matter.

only......

Realizing that there were still several eyes looking at the sword in her hand, Xie Yuzhen temporarily gave up the idea of ​​putting down the sword to show weakness. She raised her sleeve to wipe her tears and looked at the ministers below again.

Needless to say, Minister Wen was so frightened that no matter how clever his tongue was, it could not withstand a sword cut. He finally learned to shut up. The initiator of the impeachment, Minister Cao, who was kneeling next to him, was trembling as if facing a powerful enemy, but dared not make a sound, for fear that the woman above him, who looked like a demon or a ghost, who was stunningly beautiful but also had a crazy aura that attracted everyone's attention and fear, would also stab him with a sword.

after all.

The way she looked just now, it seemed like even the emperor couldn't control her...

No wonder, such a beauty, even if she is crazy and making a big fuss, is still like a natural luminous body, making people's minds involuntarily follow her every move... Marquis Yuyang also lowered his head and raised his hand to touch the beard on his chin. He had a new understanding of the "Zhao Guipin" who was famous inside and outside the palace.

While he was happy about the fact that no matter whether his and others' plan for the queen would succeed or not, she was already dead and the throne was vacant, Marquis Yuyang felt anxious again - his daughter Wen Baolin was naturally a rare good woman in the world in his eyes.

She is gentle, virtuous, kind-hearted, and good at housework. For men, she is the perfect wife candidate.

At that time, Marquis Yuyang's half-brother found a girl who looked similar to Wen Baolin from outside the mansion and adopted him as his daughter. Marquis Yuyang was very angry. It was said that the girl came to see him several times. After a few words of persuasion, Marquis Yuyang found out that Shen Nanliu was just an ordinary woman with little knowledge, timid and petty-minded. Only then did he feel relieved.

It was just that his half-brother always loved to compete with him. Marquis Yuyang could not find his half-brother's mistakes in other areas, and seeing how much his half-brother treasured his adopted daughter, he could only tell the servants in the mansion to "serve the adopted daughter well" to vent his anger.

But what he didn't expect was that while he was speaking up for his daughter and venting her anger, Wen Baolin took the initiative to surrender to the enemy and treated his adopted daughter very well - didn't he even consider that the family was a good match? !

Marquis Yuyang, who had been holding back his anger, finally exploded when he learned that his half-brother was planning to send his daughter into the palace as a concubine.

Ignoring the objections of his mother and wife, and his daughter's resistance, Wen Baolin, who was already looking for a wife, entered the palace with his adopted sister in order to fight with his half-brother.

Until now.

These two sisters who were not related by blood, one was demoted to a commoner and died tragically, and the other was depressed and lost favor.

Wen Baolin's father, Marquis Yuyang, regarded the death of his half-brother's adopted daughter as his own victory. After the victory, he rarely felt a little guilty towards his daughter who was enduring the hard life in the palace.

Because of this so-called guilt, he decided to plan for his daughter to get the most noble woman status in the world - the queen.

Seeing that the Queen was dead, Marquis Yuyang no longer attached much importance to the previous plan. The first person to report this matter was Minister Cao, and those who echoed Minister Cao were the other minor officials. Marquis Yuyang hid behind the scenes and only intervened at the right juncture. It would be very easy for him to extricate himself.

As for the female official who ordered the death of Concubine Ning... Marquis Yuyang has not been able to connect her with the nail buried by his family in the palace for the time being. He has always given orders from above and let his subordinates come up with ideas. As for who will be responsible for the final task, Marquis Yuyang has become accustomed to leaving it all to his subordinates except for checking the most critical places.

Moreover, as an old and senior noble, although he had not planted many thorns in the palace, they were not just Wang Yue.

What Marquis Yuyang cares more about now is the emperor's performance today - he was really too indulgent to this woman. He was reluctant to blame her even when she took a sword to the palace and chased after the concubines. Instead, he tried to comfort the woman.

It was a well-known fact that Concubine Zhao was favored, but when he saw her today, while Marquis Yuyang felt that she was beautiful and worthy of a man's favor, he could not help but increase the threat posed by this remarried woman to his daughter's throne as queen.

In his heart, he began to think about how to extricate himself from the impeachment incident and continue to deal with Xie Yuzhen's Yuyang Marquis, not knowing that his expression had been seen by Xie Yuzhen.

The woman narrowed her red eyes and choked up, "I believe that Your Majesty will definitely give justice to the two ladies and me."

The madness in her body softened all of a sudden, and she turned into a delicate and beautiful girl again. She was greatly shocked by the Queen's departure. Her shoulders kept shaking, and she pursed her bloodless lips tightly. When the tears fell from the corners of her eyes, it seemed as if she was smashing herself...

Like a glass flower on the verge of breaking.

The emperor also fell into deep sorrow, but he did not dare to take it lightly - no one knew better than him that this woman, who was filled with a broken and pitiful feeling at this moment, was still harboring the kind of madness that made even him, the emperor, tremble with fear.

There was no blood on her sword yet, so how could she put it down so easily?