Travel through different worlds and experience different lives

After arriving at the palace, everyone went back to rest. The place where An Lingrong lived was called Lianxi Lechu, which was full of lotus flowers and was also specially arranged by the emperor.

After An Lingrong came here, she fell in love with it and didn't want to go back to the palace.

Haha, the emperor doesn’t know. If he knew, he would be so depressed.

But we didn't go out to play right away. Instead, we asked someone to clean up the house and everyone had a good rest.

Seeing so many lotus flowers, An Lingrong decided to make some lotus cakes and get some lotus seeds and lotus roots to eat.

After a few days of rest, An Lingrong came out for a walk when she had nothing to do. She asked Shunfeng to go boating, and a few of them planned to go boating on the lake.

Let Yunxue bring her piano, and she will play and sing later. It will be so comfortable. Although it is hot here, it is still bearable. Besides, An Lingrong will not sweat if she doesn't want to.

The boat was not big, so we took Shunfeng and Yunxue with us and let them row the boat by themselves.

When they reached the middle of the lake, it was not so hot here. Yunxue used a big lotus leaf as an umbrella and everyone sat in the boat. An Lingrong smiled and said, "Let's pick some lotus flowers and take them back. Pick the good ones and go back to make something delicious later. Also pick some lotus seeds and get some lotus roots."

An Lingrong put down the piano and said: I'm playing the piano, there's no one here, we can listen to it ourselves, haha.

Shunfeng smiled and said: Your Majesty, you don’t know, playing the piano and singing are so beautiful. We always try to learn from them, but we just can’t learn them.

An Lingrong smiled and said: I will teach you later.

After thinking about it, she sang a short and easy song that was quite suitable for the occasion. She played the piano and sang at the same time. As soon as An Lingrong opened her mouth, the ethereal voice sounded like the echo in the valley, so spacious and ethereal that people were unconsciously drawn to the song.

“Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, and the lotus leaves are so lush and green.

There are two carps playing with each other in the blue waves.

Fish play on lotus leaves in the east, fish play on lotus leaves in the south.

Whose girl is hiding among the deep lotus leaves? She throws a lotus branch across the water with a smile."

An Lingrong didn't know that not far away, the emperor and several ministers were sitting in a pavilion, drinking tea to relax and admiring the lotus flowers. Suddenly, they heard the sound of a piano coming from the center of the lake. The sound of the piano was beautiful, but unexpectedly, the singing was even more beautiful.

This was also the first time that the ministers realized that the sound of the piano was beautiful and the singing was even more beautiful.

After An Lingrong sang twice, she began to teach the four of them to practice singing. An Lingrong sang a line, and the four of them followed suit.

After a few people learned how to sing, An Lingrong played the piano and let them sing.

On the emperor's side, several ministers asked: "Your Majesty, who played this music and sang this song? It's so beautiful."

The emperor did not hide it, after all, he also wanted a few ministers to give advice.

It was An Lingrong playing the piano and singing.

Minister A was a little shocked: Your Majesty, are you talking about the daughter of Duke Cheng'an, now Empress Chenfei?

The emperor nodded and said: Yes.

Minister B: Since you are Empress Chenfei, why are you still frowning?

Emperor: Oh, I don’t know what to do. Now I feel that her heart is getting further and further away from me.

Minister C asked curiously: Your Majesty, why?

The emperor said helplessly: It was because Zhen was pregnant before and went to Concubine Chen’s palace to make trouble, so Concubine Chen punished her by confining her to her room. I thought that Zhen was pregnant, so I sent some things over.

Concubine Chen directly announced that she was wrong, and released Zhen from house arrest. She herself was placed under house arrest for three years, and her salary was fined for another three years. In other words, she locked herself up. Even during the New Year, it was useless for me to invite her. If Concubine Chen's mother had not come, she would not have come out.

After I delivered the things to Zhen, Su Peisheng told me that it was because Concubine Chen had managed the palace with great difficulty once, but because of the emperor's action, she completely stopped managing it. I wanted her to cooperate with the six palaces before, but Concubine Chen didn't want it.

The harem is in a chaotic state now, and sometimes I don’t know what to do. Concubine Chen also said that if you don’t like her, you can send her to the cold palace, and she doesn’t mind.

Minister Ding was shocked, then he thought for a while and said: Concubine Chen would rather go to the cold palace than take care of those things, and she doesn't pay any attention to the emperor. This must mean that she has completely given up on the emperor. After all, if anyone just punished someone and you go to deliver things like this, everyone in the palace will think that the emperor is slapping Concubine Chen in the face.

Concubine Chen thought the same. Even if the emperor explained, it would be useless because he had already done it.

Moreover, I heard that after Concubine Chen entered the palace, she almost always stayed in the palace, or went to the Imperial Garden when the Emperor was in court. The Emperor would definitely not go anywhere after court.

She hasn't even slept with the emperor until now. Every time the emperor wants her to sleep with him, she always finds some excuse to refuse, right?

The emperor nodded helplessly and said: Yes.

Minister Ding sighed and said, “Your Majesty, Concubine Chen’s character is no worse than that of a man. She probably doesn’t like the palace, and she doesn’t like competing with other women for a man. If she is destined not to compete, then she won’t expect anything. She won’t even want to have a child if she doesn’t want to sleep with you.”

Concubine Chen is a smart person, but also a pitiful person. She clearly didn't want to enter the palace, but was finally sent in by the emperor.

It would be fine if she could be free and easy after entering the palace, but there are always concubines causing trouble. For a concubine who doesn't care about the emperor, she doesn't care who the emperor favors. She just hopes that those people don't disturb Chen Fei's peace.

Who knew that she just punished someone who disturbed her peace, and was slapped in the face by the emperor, and didn't even bring overnight. No one wants to care about you anymore, not to mention that you are not in her heart.

The emperor said helplessly: I also regretted it after giving the gift, but no matter how I coaxed her, it was useless.

Minister A said helplessly: Your Majesty, please give up. Concubine Chen will never change her mind unless she is stupid. You can finally live a peaceful life.

How can such things be changed?

Minister B asked curiously: Empress Chen is not the kind of woman who likes to be with one man for the rest of her life, right? If that's the case, Your Majesty should just give up.

I have to say something unpleasant. If Concubine Chen thinks that way, she will dislike the Emperor.

It's like a man marries a woman who has been divorced many times and will feel dirty. After all, he comes to her place today and goes to someone else's place tomorrow. She will not like such a man.

I think it is impossible for Chen Fei to share a man with others given her personality.

So it is normal that Concubine Chen doesn't want to pay attention to the emperor. After all, every time you go to someone's place, the smell of rouge and powder is different.

Even if you take a shower, the smell will still remain.

The emperor listened blankly and found that An Lingrong was indeed that type of person. Since she didn't like sharing a man with others, then she wouldn't sleep with him to avoid being disgusted. Maybe that was what she was thinking.

The emperor felt a little upset, but he had no way to disband the harem. Was it really necessary that he could not see or touch her?

Minister C thought about it and felt that it was feasible, but he couldn't do that. However, seeing the emperor's current state, he decided to tell him a method and it was up to the emperor to decide how to do it.

Minister C said helplessly: Your Majesty, unless Concubine Chen is the Queen, and don’t discuss it with her, she probably won’t want to be the Queen. After all, many people like to sit in that position, but Concubine Chen’s personality doesn’t care about that.

But Your Majesty, if you really consummate your marriage with Concubine Chen, you cannot go to other concubines anymore.

Otherwise, we will never sleep together again in this life. This is the only solution I can think of.

After hearing this, the emperor thought for a while and said: Although I am not afraid of those ministers now, the Chenfei family is too weak.

Minister C was speechless upon hearing this and said: It seems that the emperor does not understand what love is. So what if the queen’s family is weak?

You are the emperor, and you have the final say on who to choose as your wife, not the ministers. You are not a puppet in the hands of the ministers. You can just kill the disobedient ministers. Why keep them alive? Are they just a nuisance?

Seriously speaking, if Concubine Chen became the emperor, do you believe that these ministers would not dare to say a word?

Upon hearing this, the emperor asked curiously: Why?

Minister Ding said with some regret: The emperor's harem is so chaotic, but no one dares to take action against Concubine Chen. Can peace be achieved by just ignoring the secular world?

There was a means for that. Your servants have also heard that the Empress Dowager's maids were beaten with boards because the maids did not move when Concubine Chen asked them to pour tea. They were then sent to the Ministry of Punishment. Every word they said was for the Empress Dowager's consideration, and even the Empress Dowager was stunned at the time.

You have to know that the Queen Mother is an old veteran in the palace. She can be intimidated by such a big shot who just entered the palace. Do you think she is a kind person?

Chen Fei's kindness is different for different people. The people of the world, beggars from all over the place, and even the palace maids and eunuchs in her own palace will all be treated kindly. This is the difference between her own people and outsiders. Chen Fei is more decisive and ruthless towards those who go against her.

There is no need to keep those who are disobedient. There are so many obedient people. There is no point in keeping those troublemakers. She doesn't need them to teach her how to do things.

The emperor was stunned when he heard this, and was even more shocked. It turned out that he had been too cowardly all along, and even had to take care of himself in everything. This world belongs to me, so can't I do whatever I want with it?

When do we need others to tell us what to do?

After I figured it out, I no longer felt like a mountain was pressing down on me. It turned out that I had been putting pressure on myself all along. An Lingrong did a great job. If you don't like me, just keep it to yourself. Just don't come and act in front of me. What does your life or death have to do with me?

If you dare to jump in front of me, I will kill you. Can you turn over a new leaf if you keep it alive? I am not the Buddha. It is the Buddha's business to put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha. What does it have to do with me?