An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

Songzhi returned to Xinghuachun Pavilion crying. There were deep palm prints on her face, and blood marks left by fingernails. She looked particularly terrifying upon closer inspection.

Concubine Hua had never thought that after kneeling for an hour, Zhen Huan would still dare to order people to beat her chief palace maid, and even did it so cruelly that it was unknown how long the bloody marks on her face would remain.

If Songzhi's appearance was ruined, how could she, as her master, face shame?

This slap in the face shows that Zhen Huan is really taking advantage of her favor and being arrogant. If she is not taught a lesson, she will be laughed at by all the palaces.

Especially the old lady, the Queen, maybe she is laughing so hard at the sight of Wuling Spring Scenery!

“Lingzhi, ask Jiang Cheng to come over and check the wound on Songzhi’s face.

Zhou Ninghai, invite Concubine Cao and Concubine Li to come over to me, and tell them that there is something important to discuss."

Zhou Ninghai sighed, and looking at his wife's face, he knew that he had to act without stopping, otherwise the wrath of thunder would fall upon him.

However, when he arrived at Concubine Cao's place, Princess Wen Yi was still taking a nap. Zhou Ninghai's hurried tone woke Princess Wen Yi up. The little child burst into tears because of discomfort, which made Concubine Cao very distressed.

Cao Qinmo held Wen Yi in her arms and tried to comfort her patiently, but Zhou Ninghai kept urging her and the princess couldn't fall back asleep.

With anger rising in her heart, Cao Qinmo glanced at Zhou Ninghai unkindly, and then she tried to coax Wen Yi on the side.

"Lady Cao, the queen is in a hurry. If you are slow, I will not be able to stop her from getting angry."

Cao Qinmo took a deep breath and forced a smile. She called the wet nurse to coax Wen Yi, then she changed her clothes and followed Zhou Ninghai to Xinghuachun Pavilion.

They walked very fast along the way, Yinxiu didn't even have time to hold an umbrella for Cao Qinmo, they just walked so fast. If Zhou Ninghai wasn't a cripple, I'm afraid they would have to jog to keep up.

Cao Qinmo's face became more and more worse. She already knew what Concubine Hua wanted to do by asking her to go.

But he was asked to find a solution but was not treated with the slightest courtesy. Even a senior eunuch in Concubine Hua's palace dared to give orders to a noble like him, and completely ignored Wen Yi's crying.

What a damn servant you are, what a damn Concubine Hua.

Why should I seriously help her think of countermeasures to deal with Zhen Huan who did nothing to regain her favor? If Concubine Hua fails, won't I have to bear the blame for her?

Following Concubine Hua to do these dirty and evil things all day long, but unable to even get a position as a concubine, what's the point of following this master?

When they were halfway there, they saw Lipin's sedan chair moving ahead, swaying slowly and not showing any sign of urgency.

Seeing this, Concubine Cao was even more furious. A beautiful but useless woman with nothing but beauty was useless except for flattering Concubine Hua.

It's really disgusting to have such a person riding on your head.

Concubine Cao entered the Xinghuachun Pavilion with a lot of anger in her heart, but when she saw Concubine Hua, her expression changed to humility. She bowed carefully to prevent Concubine Hua from venting her anger by punishing her.

"Zhen Huan has repeatedly overstepped her authority and humiliated me. If you two sisters have any tricks, why not show them to me?"

Cao Qinmo sat on a chair, drinking tea silently. She had no intention of thinking of any solution. She was only thinking about whether Wen Yi had fallen asleep. She thought that he might still be crying because his mother was not around.

Lipin, who was sitting next to them, had no idea what had happened. It was only after Zhou Ninghai told her what happened today that Lipin nodded as if she suddenly understood.

"My lady, a few days ago, a man named Kang Luhai came to me through someone and asked me to serve him.

But I despise that vixen, and I despise Kang Luhai, who flatters the powerful and bullies the weak, so I didn’t agree.”

"Send someone to contact him in the next two days. If he can become our man, it will be convenient to do things for us." When Concubine Hua heard the good news, her expression softened visibly. She glanced at Cao Qinmo and coughed intentionally.

Cao Qinmo had already sensed Concubine Hua's gaze. She didn't want to speak, but Concubine Hua was so powerful and had a bad temper that she had to give some advice. "But Concubine Zhen is favored again. Kang Luhai, the fence-sitter, may want to return to serve again."

Concubine Hua looked disdainful. In her eyes, this kind of fence-sitter was the easiest to bribe and would do things for her as long as she spent a little money.

I really don't know what Cao Qinmo is making a fuss about. She is indeed the daughter of a poor family. She is so stingy that she can't even learn how to buy people's hearts with money.

"Leave the matter of bribing Kang Luhai to Concubine Li. Concubine Cao, you should think carefully about how to torture that bitch."

Cao Qinmo rolled her eyes in her heart. Kang Luhai is a very soft-hearted guy.

If she were caught by Zhen Huan and others, she would immediately confess who ordered her to do this. Concubine Hua was really not afraid and insisted on using Kang Luhai to do the job.

"Earlier, the queen used the affair between Zhen Changzai and Prince Guo to push Zhen Huan into becoming a concubine.

This incident must have planted a seed of suspicion in the emperor's heart. Since the queen wants to use Kang Luhai's hand, why not prepare some "evidence"? "

After a brief thought, Concubine Hua felt that this was a very good idea. After all, the affair between Zhen Huan and Prince Guo had caused a lot of controversy, and she didn't know how many people in the palace had heard about it.

It was just that Dan Feng failed and was caught by Concubine Jing, which gave Zhen Huan the opportunity to turn the tables. But this does not mean that Zhen Huan and Prince Guo have no relationship at all.

With the emperor's temper, how could he tolerate his concubine having an affair with his brother? If the royal bloodline was confused, how would he explain to the late emperor?

"As for the evidence... we can't just prepare the evidence for Prince Guo." Lipin covered her mouth with a fan, her eyes curved with a smile.

Seeing Lipin answering, Hua Fei naturally handed the matter over to her. After all, Hua Fei had no intention of doing such a laborious task, as she also had to please the emperor.

The discussion at the Xinghuachun Pavilion was over in just a cup of tea, and the plan made by Concubine Hua and her gang against Zhen Huan started with Kang Luhai, the inconspicuous chief eunuch.

Unfortunately, Zhen Huan was busy playing chess with the emperor and had no idea that the incident that damaged her reputation had happened again.

Of course, the one who planted the root of the disaster was Zhen Huan herself, who had private contact with Prince Guo and chatted happily with him.

"Silang, how are you going to resolve this move of mine?" Zhen Huan held the black chess piece and placed it in a corner of the chessboard.

The emperor glanced at the beauty's face, then looked down at the chessboard. He thought for only a moment and immediately placed the white chess piece.

The situation of the chess game was reversed in an instant. Zhen Huan looked at the chessboard carefully and found that the emperor had laid a trap long ago. Step by step, one after another, trapped her black pieces to death.

"Silang is a man of foresight. I am ashamed of myself as he is not as good as him." Zhen Huan put down the chess piece with a smile. The emperor could beat her so easily. She really didn't know how good his chess skills were.

The emperor laughed at the praise. He held Zhen Huan's hand and rubbed it slowly. "Wan Wan is naughty and doesn't take chess seriously."

Zhen Huan didn't expect that her little action of staring at the emperor while playing chess would be discovered. She raised her hands to cover her face, and her face was flushed.

"I embroidered a nightgown for Silang," Zhen Huan called Liu Zhu over and handed her the bright yellow nightgown. She spread the clothes with both hands and showed the emperor the embroidery pattern of two dragons playing with pearls. "Does Silang like it?"

The emperor's face darkened for a moment. He thought that he was the only emperor in the world who could use the dragon pattern. Where did the second dragon come from?

These two dragons playing with the pearl, doesn't it mean that someone wants to compete with me for the throne? Thinking of the romantic affair between Zhen Huan and Old Seventeen, the emperor's face became more and more gloomy.

Zhen Huan was immersed in her own joy. She embroidered the two dragons playing with a pearl stitch by stitch for a long time. Even her fingertips were pierced by the embroidery needle.

When I washed my face this morning, I still felt some pain.

But the emperor never spoke, and Zhen Huan became a little panicked. She held the nightgown in her hands, her mind racing, and she immediately thought that the emperor might be suspicious because of the embroidery pattern.

"Two dragons playing with a pearl bring rain from the sky, and the sound of the exquisite pendant can be heard in the Jade Pool." This pattern of two dragons playing with a pearl is my concubine's wish for the emperor and all the people in the world.

May the weather be favorable and the people live in a fairyland like in Yaochi."

Zhen Huan hurriedly uttered two lines of poetry, and with her flexible brain she figured out the purpose of embroidering the pattern. She even had a smile on her face, appearing extremely casual.

The emperor's expression finally softened. He motioned for Zhen Huan to sit next to him so that they could look at the carefully embroidered nightgown together.

"The material is good. It must be very comfortable to wear." The emperor changed his expression, as if he really liked this nightgown. "Many people in the palace have embroidered nightgowns for me, but Wanwan's is the one I like best."

"I noticed that His Majesty is also wearing a piece of embroidered gold dragons and clouds. Compared to this one, which one does His Majesty like better?"

The emperor looked at Zhen Huan meaningfully, and the jealousy on her face was easily caught. He pointed to the one at hand with satisfaction, "Of course it was embroidered by Wan Wan. The other one can't compare to your thoughtfulness."

When Zhen Huan saw that the Emperor was still chatting and laughing with her, she knew that she had passed the test of embroidering the double dragons playing with pearls pattern. The embroidery pattern of the nightgown with a golden dragon emerging from the clouds was so exquisite that she really could not compare with it.

But the emperor loves himself the most, so naturally he would love this pajamas as well.

"The embroidery of the golden dragon emerging from the clouds is really beautiful. I like it very much. I wonder which sister embroidered it. I also want to learn how to embroider it."

"It seems... it was made by Lady An. If Wanwan wants to learn how to embroider it, just ask Su Peisheng to cut out the pattern and send it to Yuedi Yunju for you."

Zhen Huan didn't expect that the emperor treated the pajamas so casually. It seems that An Lingrong is just like this in the emperor's heart.

How dare she ask someone to pretend to be a ghost and scare him. If the emperor knew about this, I wouldn’t know how to punish her.

On the other side, Ling Rong kept sneezing. She rubbed her nose and wondered if she had not recovered from her illness yet.

Zhaoshui heard the voice and ran over quickly. He put his hand on Lingrong's forehead to feel the temperature. "Fortunately, you don't have a fever. Is the young lady feeling unwell?"

"That's not the case. Why don't you take my pulse and test your medical studies?"

Zhaoshui blinked his eyes and tentatively reached out his hand to Lingrong's wrist. But before he touched it, he immediately withdrew his hand and raised a playful smile.

"I have only been learning for a few days, and I have not yet mastered the skill of taking a pulse. My young master, you think too highly of me."

"You little girl." Ling Rong scolded with a smile. She stopped sneezing and didn't care so much about it.

After all, she didn't expect that Zhen Huan and the emperor would twist the pajamas she embroidered while they were being affectionate with each other.

"By the way, Zhaoshui, have you heard any news about Fu Changzai in the past few days?"

"I did ask someone to check, and Fu Chang is indeed taking that medicine these days, but she has only been in the garden for a short time, so there is no way to know whether she is pregnant."

Lingrong nodded. The medicine for Fuzi was given by the Queen. As long as she used it, it would not be difficult for the Emperor to have a child given his good health.

After counting the days, she would have to wait until she returned to the palace to know whether she was really pregnant.

"We have to think of a way to get Concubine Fu and Concubine Zhen to compete with each other."

"But this Concubine Fu has been staying up all day recently. She has not come out except to pay respects to the Empress. I think this is a bit difficult."

"That's true." Lingrong knew that Fuzi was not content with the position of a maid, but as a palace maid, she was much smarter than Yu Ying'er and never looked for trouble in front of the favored concubine.

On the contrary, because of her face that resembled Queen Chunyuan, the emperor would look at her from time to time.

However, there are too many beauties in the palace who look like Queen Chunyuan, and I only resemble her in voice. No wonder the emperor doesn't like to come to me recently.

Apart from Concubine Hua having to copy the palace rules herself, Lingrong has not been subjected to any other torture so far, so she is not so eager to use new tricks to please the emperor for the time being.

“However, now that Concubine Zhen has surrendered to the Queen, there is actually no need for us to do anything. The two of them will confront each other, and we just need to add a little spark to them.

And this Mars is the emperor's favorite. Meet with Fu Changzai tomorrow and talk to her about how Concubine Hua was abandoned by the emperor on a rainy night."

"My lady, do you want Fu Changzai to put himself in other people's shoes and feel some sympathy for them?"

Lingrong nodded. This Concubine Fu liked to hide in her shell like a turtle, but she had to pry open the shell and let her come out to see how Zhen Huan had snatched her favor.

It's just a pity that Fu Zi lives with Concubine Xia, and has not experienced the fawning and bullying attitude of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She has to ask Xia Dongchun if she can help her open a door for him.

"Yes." Zhao Shui agreed promptly. She thought for a while, hesitating whether to remind the young lady that today's medicinal food had not yet been delivered to the emperor.

"And this." Ling Rong wrote down the Queen's prescription from memory. She shook the paper and blew away the ink. "What do you think would happen if Concubine Hua used it?"