The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The two looked at each other quietly for a while, then looked away silently.

He Sangrou stopped losing her temper, and Chen Peiluan pretended to be unaware of some of the secrets revealed in her previous words.

a long time.

"...Anyway, please think about this matter again." He Sangrou twisted her handkerchief anxiously.

Chen Peiluan's lips moved: "What are you going to do?"

"Of course I want to expose her."

"How to expose it?" Chen Peiluan rubbed her temples, forcing herself to calm down. She didn't want to think that the person they were talking to was Lin Qiao. "Even if she is really a girl, she is also a successful candidate. Even if a small candidate is nothing in front of you, don't forget that she is backed by the Yongjia Marquisate and Empress Xie!"

"Our dynasty treats scholars with honors with courtesy, so before entering the examination room, we will just do a simple body search to make sure there is nothing smuggled." He Sangrou told them their plan.

First, they asked a few scholars to question Lin Qiao's gender, so that rumors that she was actually a woman disguised as a man could spread quietly. Then, on the day of the spring examination, they asked an old scholar who had failed the examination for a long time to cause trouble, and took the opportunity to tear off Lin Qiao's clothes, so that the truth under the robe would be revealed to the world.

"She's in public, and there are men around. Even if His Majesty doesn't pursue her crime of deceiving the emperor for the Queen's sake, she's let so many men see her body, huh." He Sangrou's sneer easily provoked the dark emotions that were wriggling in Chen Peiluan's heart.

"Ridiculous!" Chen Peiluan could not help but slammed the table. "To verify that she is a girl, we only need to report to the Ministry of Personnel and ask them to send a female nanny to verify her identity in private. Then, how to deal with her will naturally be decided by Your Majesty!"

She glared at He Sangrou again: "Don't you think this method is too vicious?"

"What's so vicious about it? When people fight with each other, can they all be gentlemen and not villains?" He Sangrou said confidently, "If we don't make a big fuss about this, how can we show my husband's ability, and how can we give benefits to those who are willing to follow our family to cause trouble?"

"We all grew up in the capital, so don't tell me you don't know the methods used by the nobles above to silence people."

As she spoke, her eyes rolled: "You said earlier that Tao Er had a lover outside whose identity was not convenient to disclose, could it be this person?"

She may not be very smart, but she has a keen sense of smell for adultery.

Chen Peiluan raised her eyebrows: "So what?"

"Oh, you are willing to endure this humiliation, so what?" There was contempt in He Sangrou's eyes.

The dark emotions that were surging in Chen Peiluan's heart became more and more turbulent: "She is a woman, and so am I. The grudge between her and me is far deeper than yours. I hate her so much that I want her to die, but even so, I have never thought of using this method to deal with her!"

All she wanted was to expose Lin Qiao's female identity, drag her into the backyard, and then use the tactics used by the women in the backyard to compete with her.

It was not for any other reason, but because the back house was the battlefield that Chen Peiluan was most familiar with. She had always believed that women should fight in the inner house. Lin Qiao's practice of standing out as an official and not entering the inner house completely destroyed the rules that Chen Peiluan was accustomed to.

The first reaction of a person whose habits are overturned is denial. The same is true for Chen Peiluan. After denying what Lin Qiao did, her next move was to try to pull Lin Qiao to the position she was most familiar with, so that she could execute the other party in accordance with her common sense.

"I hate her. She is my enemy. I will use my own methods to deal with her and get rid of her, instead of bringing in a bunch of men and using this... this extremely despicable method to force her to death with men!"

He Sangrou was stunned: "You don't want to follow her and become an official, do you?"

The air solidified slightly.

Chen Peiluan suddenly couldn't even hear what He Sangrou was saying, and the mud accumulated in her chest was hitting her ribs hard.

thump.

thump.

Boom! ! !

"......Every woman has gone through this. As long as the man is successful, it's enough. If we can ask them to help us, why should we do our part ourselves? You are too nitpicking and too extreme." He Sangrou curled her lips, not noticing that Chen Peiluan's condition seemed a little abnormal.

"Anyway, I'll just tell you this. If you really don't want to join, just give me the maid. I... won't tell anyone else that you already know about this." Having said that, He Sangrou stood up and waited for Chen Peiluan's reaction.

Chen Peiluan lowered her head, rubbed her brows, and raised her face again, her face full of fatigue: "You are late, the maidservant is of great importance, I asked her and sent her away."

"Where was it sent?" He Sangrou asked quickly.

Chen Peiluan's expression gradually calmed down: "Princess Rongle's Mansion."

After a brief moment of stunned silence, He Sangrou said nothing more and left quickly with a livid face.

After she left, Chen Peiluan sent for the servants to send the maid to the Princess's residence as soon as possible without alerting others. "Since she is involved in such an important case, we cannot keep her in our residence. Princess Rong Le has always been kind to women and has a close relationship with the palace. If something happens in the future, she will be in the front line and it will at least save our family from the impact."

They are both noble ladies from the same circle. Chen Peiluan, who is considered rebellious in the eyes of everyone, and Princess Rong Le, who is simply a rebellious spirit, naturally have some friendship between them.

Send the maid away.

Chen Peiluan felt that there was no part of her body that was not tired.

As Sang Rou said, Chen Peiluan was also aware that she was an extreme person who loved to dwell on trivial matters. She could not understand, nor was she willing to think about the meaning of the actions of Lin Qiao and the many female officials after her. She just stubbornly believed that they were rule breakers and she was one of the victims of the broken rules.

But He Sangrou's words were like a heavy hammer hitting Chen Peiluan's head.

Why did she hate Lin Qiao?

Hate Lin Qiao for making Tao Er fall in love with someone else?

No, compared to this, she hated Tao Er even more for the fact that after being promoted by her, he turned around and denied his achievements because of an outsider, and even wanted to abandon her.

Chen Peiluan's family was ordinary, and it could even be said that their harmony was rare in this era.

It was such a family that nurtured an ambitious and rebellious woman like her, who tried to prove her ability by manipulating men to achieve success and fame, and packaged this relationship with crazy love.

Although she is rebellious, she is not completely rebellious and still acts according to the rules of this world.

But the appearance of Lin Qiao made Chen Peiluan feel that her cautious behavior of hiding behind a man and cultivating him as another mother, and convincing herself that she really loved him to the point of madness, became a joke.

She envied Lin Qiao, envied her for taking the path she wanted to take but didn't dare to take.

She hated Lin Qiao, hated that she had actually turned the path she longed for into a smooth road.

The dark emotions in her heart burst out at this moment. Chen Peiluan covered her stomach and laughed wildly, laughing until her whole body was cramped with uncontrollable pain.

The servants hurriedly carried her to the bed, and the maids rushed to call a doctor.

Chen Peiluan suddenly stopped laughing, grabbed the arm of the nanny she trusted the most, and said in a fierce and shrill voice: "Call Tao Er, prepare gifts, prepare heavy gifts! We are going to Yongjia, no, to the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion, that's not right! To the Princess Rongle's Mansion!"