An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

However, Cai Ping did not remain stunned for too long. As soon as she saw the two people, she immediately bowed her head and subconsciously wanted to cover her face with the flower.

"This servant greets His Majesty, Empress Sheng."

Lingrong glanced at the emperor and saw that he was indeed attracted by the beauty for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Get up."

"I thank the emperor, Empress Sheng." Caiping stood up immediately, with her head lowered, as if she did not want to attract the emperor's attention.

The emperor really didn't pay too much attention to it. He took Ling Rong's hand and said, "Go to the main hall and have a rest. Ask the palace servants to bring the newly cultivated lotus flowers for you to see.

If you find one you like, just take it to the palace to raise it."

Ling Rong replied, holding her belly and sitting down. She did not call anyone else to help. "Then I'll leave it to you. Call Cai Ping, right?"

"My name is Cai Ping, Concubine Sheng."

Caiping did not show that she knew Lingrong. She remained as humble as possible and did not dare to reveal any ambition in front of the two of them - there was no other reason, she was simply frightened by the Third Prince.

Fortunately, the emperor doesn't seem to have any interest in me. Although this will make it more difficult to complete the prince's mission, I can finally live peacefully in this greenhouse.

But Caiping completely forgot that the Third Prince was a prince after all. He had some power and she didn't know when he would be able to bring Caiping to his side.

But now she didn't have the energy to make random guesses. Caiping was busy choosing flowers for Lingrong, shuttling back and forth between the flower room and the main hall.

The table was filled with various kinds of lotus flowers. Lingrong touched this one and then that one, and from time to time she talked with the emperor about a few poems about lotus flowers. The atmosphere was quite harmonious.

However, Lingrong noticed that the emperor would occasionally look at the canna lilies placed in the corner, and it seemed that he was really attracted by Caiping's beauty.

Lingrong saw through the truth but didn't say anything. She pretended she knew nothing until Caiping brought in all kinds of lotus flowers. Only then did Lingrong ask her to rest.

"You have been tired for a long time. I will watch it by myself from now on."

Lingrong was supported by Zhaoshui and went to the table to look at the lotus. She saw the golden house surrounded by green lotus at a glance. The green double petals were unique and really stood out.

Seeing Lingrong staring at the flower, Caiping stepped forward to introduce it, "This golden house embraces green and looks like a peony, but the flower is rather delicate and needs careful care..."

Lingrong listened carefully. She had never seen this kind of flower before. She thought it must have been cultivated by accident. After all, it was similar in shape to the peony. If this flower had existed earlier, it would have been "monopolized" by the Queen Mother.

Caiping was indeed quite knowledgeable in flower-growing. Her eyes sparkled when she talked about it, and Lingrong couldn't bear to interrupt her.

It was not until an incense stick of time had passed that she gradually stopped talking, and with blushing cheeks she said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for speaking too much."

"It's okay. You really like it, and what you said is necessary. Even if you talk for a little longer, I will still like to listen."

Ling Rong smiled and said a few words of comfort, then was helped down to her seat by Zhao Shui, "Your Majesty, I like the golden house with green emeralds the most, so please ask someone to send more to Cheng Qian Palace."

"Rong Er only likes this kind?"

Ling Rong nodded. She fell in love with this flower at first sight and only wanted it. No matter how beautiful other types of lotus were, she didn't want them.

Although this flower looks like a peony, it is not a peony. Even if the queen sees it, she can't say much.

What's more... Lingrong gently touched her belly. As long as she could raise the flag, she would have the opportunity to sit on the throne of queen.

Besides, everything depends on human efforts. If her child is capable and seizes the throne, she can also become the empress dowager.

Now that the flowers had been selected and Caiping had been seen by the Emperor, Lingrong took the initiative to ask to leave.

The emperor did not hesitate at all, but just pointed at the lotus of Toshodaiji Temple nearby and asked Caiping to send her to the Yangxin Palace later.

That night, the emperor did not stay in Chengqian Palace. After having dinner with Lingrong, he returned to the Yangxin Palace to review memorials.

Hearing that Caiping had left with the lotus, she never left again. It seemed that she was left behind by the emperor to serve him, just like Yu Ying'er.

Lingrong thought that she would get the news that Caiping was taken into the harem early the next morning, but she didn't get any news until noon.

The emperor was surprisingly patient this time. Ling Rong secretly sighed that she had miscalculated and actually underestimated the emperor's patience.

However, there was some progress on one thing. He Anming was able to follow the clues and find out who was spreading the rumors behind the scenes.

Actually, this matter was thanks to Wei Lin. When he went to the toilet, he heard Doctor Zhang and a eunuch gossiping. The eunuch urged him to hurry up, so that He Anming was ostracized by all the doctors.

As for those rumors, there will naturally be people who will help add fuel to the fire, so there is no need for Doctor Zhang to continue to worry.

Fortunately, Wei Lin was a brave man. He just stayed there until someone else came in to use the toilet, and then he walked out calmly.

"It's a pity that Doctor Wei has never seen who the eunuch is, otherwise he would have found the person much faster."

"The only person who can order the chief judge of the Imperial Hospital around is the Empress."

Lingrong did not hide her speculation about the Empress. After all, everyone in the palace was her own people and the news could not be spread out.

"Could this eunuch be Jiang Fuhai?" Zhaoshui thought about the eunuchs in the Queen's palace, and the most capable one was Jiang Fuhai.

"It is very likely that he did this, but Jiang Fuhai has been following the Queen for many years, and I am afraid that we will not be able to dig out any useful information from him if we rely on ourselves."

Ling Rong sighed. This way, she could only reveal the matter to the emperor and ask him to send someone to investigate.

However, this would cause Wei Lin to be targeted by the Queen. If Wei Lin was willing, it would save her the trouble of being in the middle.

“Doctor Wei, you are the only one who heard this. If you tell the emperor, you will definitely be interrogated, and there is a high possibility that you will be targeted by the empress who is behind the scenes.

Whether you want to stand up or not, I will not force you, you can go back and think about it for a while, and then make a decision."

Wei Lin didn't hesitate at all. He cupped his hands and told Ling Rong to rest assured, "I am both a teacher and a friend to Imperial Doctor He. If I see that he is caught in rumors, I will definitely help him.

Besides, I believe that Your Majesty will not let us two suffer imprisonment."

"This is really embarrassing for me." Ling Rong smiled and waved her hands, "The heir in my belly needs you to take care of him, and you can indeed use this as an excuse to ask the emperor to go easy on you.

But He Anming knows too many secrets, and I’m afraid the Emperor won’t let him go.”

Wei Lin fell silent. He was Wen Shichu's nominal disciple, so he naturally knew what Wen Shichu and Hui Guiren had done.

In fact, he had tried to comfort Wen Shichu openly and secretly, but unfortunately, this man was stubborn and was completely blinded by love affairs.

In the end, his entire nine clans were executed, which was not unexpected to Wei Lin.

Now that He Anming was targeted, the emperor lost his trust in him. If he was really sentenced to death by the emperor, I was afraid that I would be the next victim.

"The lips and teeth are interdependent. Neither I nor Doctor He can be brought down because of Wen Shichu's incident."

Wei Lin saw it clearly, so there was no need for Ling Rong to spend more time to comfort him. "Sometimes I think you are more suitable for the harem."

"Your Majesty, please don't scare me like this."

Wei Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered in his heart, "Even if the emperor wants me to be his concubine, I can't agree."

"I still want to marry and have children, but I don't want to..."

"What are you thinking? I mean you are smart and you can understand everything at a glance."

Wei Linsao's cheeks turned red, and he didn't know how to respond for a moment. He hesitated for a long time before asking the queen what to do now.

"Just let the emperor hear what you say."

Ling Rong did not intend to retaliate in the same way, as that would be too tortuous and her purpose was too impure.

“Tell the emperor everything about this matter. Although the emperor will doubt your intentions, he will definitely send someone to investigate immediately.

The Queen will not have time to react and will inevitably be exposed.

But you..."

"I'm fine. Your Majesty is taking care of me, so I don't have to worry about not having money." Wei Lin was open-minded. What he did was not only to save He Anming, but also to show his loyalty in front of Ling Rong.

Lingrong did receive this loyalty, and she naturally didn't mind expressing her trust.

"Of course you will get the money, but you will be promoted to the position you deserve sooner or later."

"I thank you, Your Majesty, but for now I'd better keep my edge low, otherwise I will fall into someone else's trap just like Doctor He."

Seeing that Wei Lin could convince himself, Ling Rong saved herself the trouble. Only after she had finished using the medicine under Wei Lin's care did the latter feel relieved and went to think of a way to report back to the emperor.

In order to prevent the emperor from suspecting that it was Ling Rong who ordered this, he waited a whole night and only took the initiative to ask for an audience the next day.

As Ling Rong had expected, the Emperor immediately sent people to investigate Zhang Mi, and surprisingly quickly found out Jiang Fuhai who was behind it - it turned out that Zhang Mi could no longer withstand the threat from the Empress, and now with the Emperor in charge, he was naturally willing to tell everything.

However, he did not tell the emperor that he had tried to drug He Anming and use the opportunity to murder Concubine Tian.

But the rumor did indeed come from Zhang Mi's mouth. The emperor had already begun to suspect whether it was Zhang Mi who knew about the affair between Wen Shichu and Shen Meizhuang, or whether the master behind him knew about it.

At this moment, the emperor was worried again. This was an extremely embarrassing thing and he didn't want everyone to know about it.

In order to find out who was behind the incident, the emperor ordered Zhang Mi to be severely tortured, and only then did he reveal many things that the queen had done.

As for Jiang Fuhai, he was even more spineless. He revealed everything that Jianqiu had never said. The Queen was behind every one of Concubine Tian's children, Concubine Jing's children, Concubine Xu's children, and Concubine Sheng's children.

The means were so cruel and the behavior was so bad that if there were not a few smart people among them, I am afraid that few royal heirs would survive.

It turns out that the Empress's misconduct was not just a rumor, but the bloody truth.

The emperor lamented that he was kept in the dark, and even the people of the world knew the queen's true identity before him.

Because of this incident, the emperor had no time to accept Caiping as his concubine. At this moment, he could only arrange her to be a maid in the Yangxin Palace to make tea.

Compared to what the queen did, everything now became a trivial matter, and the emperor had no intention of dealing with He Anming.

However, on the day Jiang Fuhai made the confession, the empress dowager learned the news and summoned the emperor to Shoukang Palace to ask him how he planned to deal with the queen.

The emperor's first reaction was to depose the queen, but he knew how big a deal it was to depose the queen. Not to mention the ministers of the previous dynasty, even the empress dowager could not get past her.

And Rouze... Before Rouze passed away, she even asked me to take good care of Yixiu.

But what about Yixiu? She plotted to murder my offspring and framed my concubines. Her actions are simply too numerous to list.

"My Queen Mother, I haven't figured out how to deal with the Queen yet."

"Your Majesty, she is your wife after all. Besides, before Rouze passed away, she also asked you to take good care of Yixiu."

The Queen Mother spoke in a light tone. The Emperor stood with his back to her, so there was no look of nostalgia on her face. Instead, she looked indifferent.

The Empress Dowager didn't care about the Emperor or Yixiu. She only cared about the glory of the Ulanara and Uya clans.

Yixiu was just taking advantage of a surname. If Rouze were in her current position, the Queen Mother would also plead for mercy.

"But the Queen has killed countless royal heirs, Madam, they are all your grandchildren."

The emperor let out a long sigh. It was a fact that he had few children. If it weren't for the recent good fortune of Concubine Jing and Concubine Chun giving birth to princes one after another, he would have been harmed by the empress unknowingly again.

"I know this, so I don't ask the emperor to forgive Yixiu immediately.

But this concerns the emperor's reputation, and it is difficult to pass the test of the ministers of the previous dynasty."

As long as the emperor does not depose the queen, the empress dowager does not mind contacting the ministers of the previous dynasty and asking them to say a few words. She can still do it.

The Queen Mother was thinking, and suddenly she thought of Longkodo. She cursed in her heart and soon fell into a long period of sorrow.

"Even important officials from the previous dynasty would be terrified by what the queen has done.

If I continue to turn a deaf ear and cause my offspring to die out, won't the whole world laugh at me as the emperor?

Empress Dowager, can you bear to see your grandchildren get into trouble one after another?"

The Queen Mother was silent for a moment. In fact, she knew most of what Yixiu had done. There were even many things where she only said a few words to comfort her.

It’s just that Yixiu has her own ideas and won’t listen no matter how much you persuade her.

"Ever since Honghui passed away, Yixiu has been worried. But she is the queen after all, and there are many things she won't do.

Your Majesty, it is too arbitrary to convict Yixiu based solely on the words of a servant.

You should also listen to Yixiu's defense, so as not to wrongly accuse her and cause discord between you and your wife."

When the emperor heard the word husband and wife, he lost the desire to say more. He shook his head and said, "Yixiu and I have never been husband and wife."