The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After a period of chaos, Xu Yueyuan sat back beside Xie Yuzhen, and Xie Yuzhen showed some genuine sympathy, grabbing her hand and comforting her: "Don't be afraid, Her Majesty is reasonable and fair. This matter cannot be blamed on you anyway..."

After hearing the whole story, the Queen had changed the original "Liu Xiaoyi" to "Xu Xiaoyi". Xie Yuzhen knew that the Queen Mother recognized Xu Yueyuan's status in the inner palace. Not only would she not blame the girl, but she intended to let her continue to be a concubine.

But think about it, although Liu Hong was convicted, it would take a lot of trouble to deal with the Jingjun Marquis Mansion. Moreover, although Liu Hong's family had fallen, they were still in the official class, which was not something that the mother and daughter of the Xu family, two ordinary civilian women, could contend with.

Recognizing Xu Xiaoyi as a palace concubine was also to protect her life.

From this perspective, the Queen is indeed a kind person.

While Xie Yuzhen was comforting Xu Xiaoyi, he had already thought about it a hundred times.

Since the ups and downs of the Zhou family, Xie Yuzhen's heart has been full of thorns, especially towards these upper-class people, she is even more alert. She holds the emperor tightly, but still feels unsafe. She wants to get close to the queen, but she is afraid of courting a tiger...

The imperial physician who came in a hurry cleaned the wound on Xu Xiaoyi's head, applied medicine and bandaged it. Liu Hong was still kneeling beside her, looking miserable - this time, there were really few people who paid attention to her.

Concubine Ning suddenly came over and sat down on the other side of Xu Xiaoyi. Her eyes were directed at Xie Yuzhen: "Talented Lady Xie really surprised me this time."

Xie Yu really didn't know why she suddenly came to his house, so he answered cautiously and vaguely: "It was also a coincidence..."

Concubine Ning had a pair of thick black eyebrows that looked heroic. When she heard this, her eyebrows slightly raised: "Are you okay?"

"Hmm?" Xie Yuzhen tilted his head.

Concubine Ning smiled and said, "I mean, you must have used a lot of force to beat Liu Hong into this state. You are pregnant, do you feel uncomfortable?"

Xie Yuzhen blinked her eyes and said, "Thank you, Concubine Ning, for your concern. I am in good health and have no discomfort."

As soon as she finished speaking, Concubine Ning showed a bit of sadness on her face, but this sadness only lasted for a moment before her smile washed it away: "That's good, that's good."

After she finished speaking, she had no intention of waiting for Xie Yuzhen's response. She stood up, bowed to the queen, left the crowd, walked to the window, stood there, and looked out.

Xie Wei really felt that Concubine Ning seemed sad.

But she didn't know what had happened to Concubine Ning, maybe it was related to the child... But she didn't have the extra energy to speculate now, she just wrote it down silently, thinking that maybe it would be useful in the future.

Talk about the other side.

The palace banquet had not yet begun. The emperor and several of his close ministers were enjoying the osmanthus in the garden. Just as he was about to ask a few of his ministers to compose poems for fun, he saw the eunuch chief Li Zong step forward and say, "Your Majesty, the Empress has sent Yun Rong to invite you to the Siwei Palace."

Yunrong is the most useful female official beside the Queen. It must not be an easy task for the Queen to send her out.

The emperor nodded, told his ministers to enjoy themselves, then turned around and left.

"What happened to the Queen?" asked the Emperor.

Yunrong and Li Zong followed behind him, one on each side. Upon hearing this, Yunrong immediately replied, "The wife of the Marquis of Jing County entered the palace today and was disrespectful to the young lady who came out of the Marquis's residence. Xie Cairen saw them and beat the wife of the Marquis of Jing County. She brought the incident to the Empress and implicated the concubine who entered the palace under a false name. Because the incident involved the Marquis's residence, the Empress could not handle it, so she sent me to invite Your Majesty to come over."

"Entering the palace under a false name?" The emperor frowned, and he snorted and laughed, "The Marquis of Jing County has always been cautious, how could he have caused such an unseemly thing?"

"It's probably the wife of the Marquis of Jing County who made her own decision. She... I'm not going to say something disrespectful, but this lady is quite famous in the capital." Li Zong had a chubby round face, and he looked very happy when he smiled. "She doesn't like to socialize, and she doesn't seem to be very good at managing household affairs. It's hard for the Marquis of Jing County's children, except those from the main wife, to survive to adulthood."

The emperor laughed again: "It sounds like she is unkind. I remember that so-and-so is her concubine, no wonder she acted disrespectfully towards my concubines. But... it's her bad luck that she got into trouble with that bitch."

The shrew he was talking about was Xie Yuzhen, who had beaten the wife of the Marquis of Jing County. Thinking of Xie Yuzhen, the emperor's anger subsided a little, and he said with a bit of gloating: "Why bother with her? She has a strong hand. I'm afraid she will be beaten hard."

Yun Rong was secretly frightened after listening to this. She only knew that Concubine Xie was favored, but she didn't know that she was favored to this extent. Even if she beat up the wife of a first-rank marquis, the emperor didn't mind at all.

Li Zong, who had accompanied the emperor for many years, was more relaxed and said jokingly, "I think that lady really went too far, and she deserves a lesson from the talented lady..."

The emperor suddenly thought of the wife of Marquis Wuwei.

Coincidentally, she is also a marquis' wife. Moreover, the Marquis of Wuwei's Mansion is not like the Marquis of Jingjun's Mansion, which is on the fringe of the powerful class in Kyoto. The Marquis of Wuwei has real power in his hands, and the Marquis of Wuwei's wife is also from an official family, and her father is a county governor.

Even so, this fiery-tempered woman did not let off any of the people in the Wuwei Marquis's Mansion who had bullied Xie Yuzhen, from top to bottom. Even if they were her parents-in-law, who personally tied up Zhou Ting, the heartless man, and brought him to her door to apologize, she would slap them in the face one by one, not letting any of the three members of the family be left out.

As he thought about it, the emperor's brows, which had relaxed slightly, twisted again: "Why is she so impatient? If a subordinate is disrespectful, she can just ask the palace maids and officials to teach him a lesson. It's not worth it for her to beat him up herself. What if she gets hurt from exhaustion? Wouldn't she cry secretly again?"

Li Zong was not sure what to say, but he was experienced and understood that the emperor did not need him to answer everything. He just needed to praise him as he wished: "The talented lady is straightforward and innocent, and she has a warm heart..."

The emperor shook his head when he heard this: "She is so naive, huh?"

She takes advantage of the fact that she loves him and acts like a spoiled child. She is also very good at pretending to be someone else's opponent. If she is given a little help, she will climb up smoothly...

Fortunately, although she was noisy, she was somewhat sensible in her heart. Otherwise, no matter how likable this woman was, she would not be spoiled.