An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

Chapter 483: The Queen Mother

On August 23, the emperor's decree was issued, and the fifth prince Hongzhou ascended the throne. The succession ceremony was held on September 3.

Emperor Yongzheng was the Supreme Emperor, and Consort Sheng was his mother, the Empress Dowager, and the two lived together in the Cining Palace. As for Emperor Yongzheng's other concubines, they all moved their residences to live in Shoukang Palace and Shou'an Palace.

There were not many concubines, so these two palaces were enough to accommodate them. The Cining Palace was quite large, and Lingrong was very satisfied with it. It was a pity that she had to live with the emperor, which made her a little sad.

However, the emperor's health is very poor. He won't live long if he is left with me, so I can't enjoy my life in peace.

Lingrong counted the days on her fingers. After moving into the Cining Palace with the emperor, she began to plan to give the emperor a gift.

After all, because the Fifth Prince was about to ascend the throne, the matter of sending the poisoned wine to Yongshou Palace was delayed. It was not until the new emperor ascended the throne and the new concubine moved in that Ling Rong had the opportunity to send the poisoned wine to Yongshou Palace.

Upon hearing that the poison had arrived, Prince Guo immediately snatched it away, intending to commit suicide and save the Zhen sisters.

But Prince Guo had already abolished his own manhood in order to help murder the emperor, and now he wanted to die for the two sisters. How could they accept this?

The three of them were in a stalemate, and at the critical moment, Zhen Huan remembered the previous plan - Concubine Wan faked her death, and her body was placed in Ji'an for casket, and then Prince Shen would replace the body and successfully leave the palace.

This time, the poisoned wine gave them a legitimate opportunity to fake their death, and they no longer needed to find any excuses.

After taking the fake death drug, Concubine Wan was indeed sent to Ji'an, but Ling Rong was suspicious, so she naturally sent He Anming to investigate the cause of Concubine Wan's death.

Concubine Wan looked normal, just a little pale, but she didn't look like she was poisoned.

Because poison is usually taken orally, He Anming inserted a silver needle into her throat. The silver needle did not turn black, proving that Concubine Wan did not die from drinking poison.

In this case, how could Lingrong not know that Concubine Wan had used a fake death drug and tried to escape from the palace.

But how could Lingrong let her have her wish? She sent people to watch her day and night in Ji'an until the effect of the fake death drug wore off and Concubine Wan was forced to open her eyes.

Looking at Mu Jin standing beside her, Concubine Wan looked ashen. She knew that her and her elder sister's plan had failed, and she was afraid that she would never be able to escape from the palace.

"Ms. Wan has woken up. Her Majesty is still waiting for you in the Imperial Garden, wanting to reminisce about the past.

Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time, please do not delay, lest Your Majesty is unhappy. "

Concubine Wan had been hungry for a long time, and her feet were very soft when they touched the ground, so she fell to the ground accidentally.

Mu Jin did not help her up, but just watched quietly until Concubine Wan stood up. Then she called someone over and helped Concubine Wan up.

The Empress Dowager has great power in the harem. Even if Lingrong meets Concubine Wan in the Imperial Garden, no ignorant people will come out and get in the way.

In Chengrui Pavilion, Lingrong had set up a table of snacks. When she saw Concubine Wan, she called her over to have a meal.

Concubine Wan remained reserved. She sat down and although she was extremely hungry, she still slowly ate snacks and drank tea.

"The real Concubine Wan is dead," Ling Rong said slowly, "Do one thing for me, and I will let you leave the palace afterwards."

"What does the Empress Dowager want me to do?" Concubine Wan took a sip of tea to suppress the dryness in her throat. "I can stay in the palace, but I hope the Empress Dowager can let my elder sister and Prince Guo leave."

"I didn't ask you to come here to negotiate with me. If you don't want to do this, I can find someone else to do it.

As for you, if your fake death turns into real death, just throw it into a mass grave."

"What does the Queen Mother want me to do?"

"You should know that you are 80% similar to Empress Chunyuan, and 10% similar to Concubine Hua." Ling Rong rubbed her forehead, "I want you to pretend to be Empress Chunyuan from time to time and go to the Cining Palace to see the emperor."

"Empress Dowager, you don't want me to comfort the emperor, do you?" Concubine Wan said sarcastically, "I didn't expect you to love the emperor so sincerely, but have you ever thought that the emperor has never loved you.

Even towards me, he is more sincere than towards the Queen Mother."

"Don't try to guess my intentions. I'm only asking you to do this to give you a chance to take revenge on the emperor."

Lingrong exaggerated Rouze's past and told Concubine Wan, "You just need to pretend to be Queen Chunyuan and tell your hatred to the emperor.

In his heart, Queen Chunyuan has always been the most kind and beautiful person, and such a beautiful image must be shattered.

Lady Wan, you should know what to do, right? "

"Since the Queen Mother has spoken, there is no reason for me to refuse.

But I just can't figure it out, is the Queen Mother going to all this trouble just to destroy Queen Chunyuan's image in the Emperor's heart?"

"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. You're not as smart as your sister in this regard.

No wonder she would rather stay in the palace and give you the only fake death medicine so that you can escape."

Concubine Wan clenched her fists. Her heart was in turmoil, but she spoke cautiously, "Your Majesty, I wonder how my elder sister is doing now."

"She is now serving the emperor, taking care of him every day. I don't know how devoted she is."

"what?"

"And Shen Meizhuang who was in the cold palace, she is now serving the emperor, finally the sisters can see each other every day, and no longer have to suffer from the pain of missing each other.

When you get there, you can also meet Zhen Huan every day until you send the emperor to the underworld, and then I will let you leave the palace."

Lingrong spoke in a light tone, not feeling that her current actions could be considered as imprisoning the emperor. However, as soon as the emperor entered the Cining Palace, Lingrong drugged him, leaving him paralyzed on the couch, unable to get up at all.

Now he was trapped in a room, facing the two concubines he hated day and night, and the younger brother who became a eunuch because of his order.

Each of them talked about what they had done, their affairs with other men, their betrayals of the emperor, and their overwhelming hatred for him.

After today, he would still be able to see the late Queen Chun Yuan from time to time, and his best impression of Queen Chun Yuan would soon be completely destroyed.

"I don't have much patience. I will only give you half an incense stick of time to think about it."

"I will obey the arrangements of the Empress Dowager," Concubine Wan slowly stood up and bowed to Ling Rong, "Please take me back to the Cining Palace, Empress Dowager."

Hearing this, Ling Rong finally smiled, "I will send someone to supervise you every day. Remember not to lay a hand on the emperor. I want him to atone for his mistakes in the torture day and night.

But you don't have to worry too much. The emperor is in very poor health and won't live long.

When everything is settled, I can even arrange a marriage between you and Prince Shen."

Concubine Wan suddenly looked up. She really couldn't understand. The most she had with Prince Shen was verbal contact. How could the Empress Dowager discover the relationship between them?

She is really a very scary person, Concubine Wan sighed in her heart, no wonder she could sit on the throne of Queen Mother, this ability to predict the future is really too scary.

Only after Concubine Wan agreed, the gift Lingrong prepared for the Emperor was complete.

In the Cining Palace, everyone who came was there to visit Lingrong. Even the Fifth Prince would not come to see the sick bedridden Emperor.

The new emperor has already ascended the throne, and it was even an order issued personally by the retired emperor. No one would doubt whether Hong Zhou's accession to the throne was clean, so naturally no one would care about the retired emperor's health.

After all, in their eyes, a retired emperor who is unable to govern is no different from being dead.

That night, Zhen Yurao, wearing Queen Chunyuan's old clothes, sat beside the emperor's couch. She touched the emperor's face and the first word she opened her mouth was "Silang".

The emperor's expression changed suddenly, and he raised his hand tremblingly, wanting to hold Rouze's hand.

But Zhen Yurao pulled her hand back, "Silang actually still remembers me, which really makes Rouze happy."

"Of course I miss you and think about you, and I think about our past every day and night.

Sometimes I think that as long as there are witchcraft and celestial phenomena in this world, there must be ghosts.

But you have been gone for more than ten years, and you have never come to visit me."

"Silang, do you really not know why I didn't come?" Zhen Yurao's face was unclear under the candlelight, and the emperor was also a little confused due to the effect of the spices, so he couldn't see clearly at all. "Because I have to go to my beloved, how can I have time to visit you?"

"My beloved, the one you love the most should be me, but you have never seen me."

"Silang, you are joking. The one I love has never been you.

If you had not been about to succeed in your bid for the throne, I would never have entered your house and become your wife. But you are my sister's husband, and you are suspicious and stubborn, and I really don't like you.

But you are the emperor's choice, and you are greedy for beauty. In order to consolidate the status of the Ulanara family, I have to enter the mansion and become your wife against my will, and even try to please you in every way.

You think I don't regard you as the emperor but only as my husband, but in fact I don't regard you as my husband either. It's just a helpless choice."

Rouze laughed softly. The emperor was angry and tried to raise his hand to pull her, but Rouze dodged her. “You are indifferent to Yixiu. I thought you were a man who was not moved by beauty, but I didn’t expect that just a stunning dance could make you fall in love with her.

You are really good to me, and at one point I even fell in love with you.

It’s a pity that you are a useless person who can’t even balance the backyard, and you even asked my sister to harm me.

The women in your backyard are also restless. One or two of them are trying to get pregnant before me. Fortunately, they are not smart enough and I can kill them with just a little trick.

You are a fool. No matter how obvious my actions are, you will protect me and punish those women who truly love you.

The most pitiful one is the Fifth Prince who has already ascended the throne. His mother just discovered the truth about my coming to the palace, and she was put under house arrest when she was pregnant.

Later, she even used the excuse that the Fifth Prince was in poor health and the reason that they could recuperate outside the palace in peace to drive the mother and son out of the palace.

In fact, you already knew that I entered the mansion only for the sake of the family, and what has always been between you and me has always been your wishful thinking."

"Impossible, you are not Rouze, you are lying to Zhen." The emperor found it irritating, "Rouze and I fell in love at first sight, and after the renewal, we have been in perfect harmony and have never had any quarrels.

Rouze is a kind-hearted person. She never scolds or attacks other women in the mansion, even the sister who murdered her, and asked me to take good care of her when she was dying. "

Rou Ze chuckled, she stood up and looked down at the emperor, "Of course I will ask the emperor to take good care of Yi Xiu, because only in this way will the emperor think of me all the time, stimulate Yi Xiu all the time, and let him live under the shadow of me, his sister, all his life.

Your neglect of her and your love for me will drive this concubine's daughter, who has never been favored since childhood, crazy.

The facts are exactly as I thought. He killed almost all of your descendants and sent your beloved concubines to hell one by one.

It's just a pity that she died too early and didn't get rid of all your offspring. Instead, she let your least favorite son sit on the throne.

Yinzhen, actually the child I am pregnant with is not yours at all.

If he were still alive, he would have inherited your throne by now. How wonderful it would be."

Rouze took off a jade bracelet and gently placed it on the emperor's pillow. "This thing was given to me by you when I was pregnant. Take it back now. I don't want it."

"You...you vicious woman, why are you pretending to be Rouze? You are not Rouze, you are not my Rouze."

The emperor's blood boiled and he roared in anger, but eventually he fainted.

When he woke up, Rouze had disappeared. He didn't know whether his conversation with Rouze was a dream or reality, but there was indeed that shiny bracelet next to his pillow, exactly the same as the one Rouze wore when she was alive.

Zhen Huan pushed open the door and walked in. She twisted the handkerchief and wiped the emperor's face with her long nails. Seeing that the emperor seemed not to wake up, she deliberately called Prince Guo in.

The two of them sat beside the emperor's couch, looking at each other affectionately and talking about their first meeting in Yimei Garden. When Prince Guo got emotional, he took out a sachet from his bosom, which contained the small statue that Zhen Huan used when praying for blessings.

"Huan'er, I have been carrying this thing with me until today, and now I can finally show it to you."

"It's hard for you to keep such a small thing," Zhen Huan looked at her baby elephant and stroked it lovingly, "Now that I think about it carefully, the love between you and me started from that prayer.

I wish my parents and sister good health and happiness, and I wish I can live in peace in the palace for the rest of my life.

There are constant fights in the palace, and it is not easy to protect yourself. I hope the adverse winds will understand your intentions and not destroy you easily. "

Prince Guo held Zhen Huan's hand, and the two of them hugged each other tightly in front of the emperor. "I am glad that we are safe and see each other again. The rest of the world is empty. The two of us are together, and we will definitely not let you be destroyed by the north wind."