Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

The festival gifts to the concubines in each palace were given out early in the morning, and before noon, chapters of thanks from each family were handed in one after another.

Basically, following Shane's request is to ask for an audience.

Emperor Chongzhao first went to Mei Ruoqin's Qinghui Pavilion.

Mei Ruoqin was naturally very happy about the emperor's arrival. She was shy and timid, waiting for the emperor to ask about her pregnancy with sweet words.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhao sat down and took two sips of tea, asked "Is everything safe?", looked at the sky, stood up, and casually said:

"If you miss your family, tell the Queen and the Imperial Concubine. If you don't want to, forget it."

The last note lingered and the person had already walked away.

Mei Ruoqin was frightened.

When Nanny Duan saw her face, she stomped her feet in anger and chased after her!

Emperor Chongzhao seemed to know that Nanny Duan would come out, so he did not take the sedan chair, but slowly walked with his hands behind his back towards the Penglai Palace where the empress lived.

"If your majesty is very busy today, you should simply not enter the harem; since you are here, the first person you should appease is Concubine Rong, right?"

When Nanny Duan spoke to Emperor Chongzhao, she was very straightforward and didn't hold back at all when she was anxious.

Emperor Chongzhao smiled at her, then he slowly and carefully asked about Mei's physical condition, food intake, and daily mood.

After hearing that she had been restless at night, Emperor Chong Zhao pondered for a while before slowly saying, "So, she always believed that someone would harm her pregnancy.

"I always think that I can't protect her. Even if I send my old wet nurse to serve her, I still can't protect her.

“She wanted Wang and Geng to protect her.

"But Geng is timid, and I have no interest in her, so she turned her attention to Wang.

"It just so happened that the stupid maidservant beside Wang spoke out the truth between me and Wang, so -"

Emperor Chongzhao looked at Madam Duan with a half-smile, "Madam, did you allow the people around her to spread this news?"

Nanny Duan looked at Emperor Chongzhao steadily, and suddenly glanced at Qinghai who was following him.

Qing Hai took three steps back tactfully.

"Your Majesty, you said before that you could bear with it." Nanny Duan, who was a head shorter than Emperor Chongzhao, looked up at him straight in the eyes.

Emperor Chong Zhao did not back down, and the corners of his mouth curved up: "Madam, it is I who can bear to give it up, not you, or anyone else.

"If you are willing to give up, you will get something. Now, you have given up for me, so what do I get? The rumors in the palace?

"Do you know that because of this, all the ladies in the palace were talked about by people outside.

"Including the Mei family that you care so much about."

Nanny Duan fell silent.

"There are some things that I don't mind you doing on your own." Emperor Chongzhao turned around, his steps and words were also casual, "But if it ruins my big plan, then I will have to use your self-willed decisions as a crime and let you understand who this world and this palace belong to."

Madam Duan shuddered slightly, but then raised her head again, a gratified smile on her face, and then she crossed her arms and bowed respectfully: "I've made a note of this, and I will never do it again."

"Madam, please go back. It's noon now, and Mrs. Mei can't afford to be hungry." Emperor Chongzhao did not look back, but raised his hand to call for a sedan chair and sat on it himself, "Penglai Palace."

Qinghai hurriedly saluted to Nanny Duan and ran after the guard of honor.

Madam Duan stood there for a long time before she raised her sleeves, wiped the sweat off her face, and muttered, "Summer comes so early this year."

He walked slowly back to Qinghui Pavilion.

In fact, Queen Mo was no longer seriously injured. She turned over in bed, got out of bed to change clothes, walked a few steps, and so on, and she didn't feel any pain in any of her ribs.

But the imperial physician had always warned her seriously: "If there is a problem with the bones in the internal organs, it must be healed all at once.

"Last time you were attending a grand ceremony, I had no choice but to wrap you tightly in gauze before I dared to let you go.

"Your Majesty is very worried and has ordered the Imperial Hospital to cure you. Otherwise, he will ask me for my poor academic performance."

Especially now that Tao Ge'er is doing well in his studies and has moved back to his own palace; it is Wang Xifeng who has been scolded for all the messy chores outside.

As for Mei Ruoqin...the old woman from the Duan family protected that bitch so well that even if she stood up to take charge, she couldn't do anything to her.

It would be better for her to just lie there in the palace, out of sight and out of mind.

Anyway, she believed that with the emperor's character, as long as she didn't cause any big trouble, he would still treat her, the queen, with respect.

So when she got up early in the morning, Pu Ai put a hairpin on her door and a tiger talisman on her arm. After ordering the Dragon Boat Festival gifts to be brought back to the Mo family, she had someone dress her up.

She felt that the emperor would definitely come either for lunch or dinner.

Sure enough, at the end of the Si hour, someone came to report: "His Majesty said to come over for lunch to accompany the Queen and Prince Duan."

Empress Mo was very pleased with herself. She smiled and nodded, and ordered someone to send the list of dishes that she had prepared long ago, which were all Emperor Chongzhao's favorites, to the Imperial Food Bureau:

"Tell them to hurry up and get everything ready by noon."

He found an excuse to send Nanny Weng away, and then called Tao Ge'er, who was hiding in his room to study and write, and whispered a few words to him, asking him to tell them to Emperor Chongzhao.

Tao Ge'er frowned, very disapproving: "Mother, father has just ascended the throne, and there are so many things to deal with, and it is difficult to take every step.

"Mr. Lin said that what the emperor needs most now is for the people of the country to be united and for talented people to be employed by His Majesty.

"I'm afraid that what you want me to say and do is what father hates the most.

"Are you sure you want the child to do it?"

Empress Mo disagreed: "Brother Tao, you are my son first, and then Lin Ruhai's student. You should believe that your mother wishes you the best more than anyone else.

"So, you ignored the Queen Mother's words and believed Lin Ruhai instead. Do you want the Queen Mother to advise your father and drive him away?"

Tao Ge'er looked at Queen Mo in silence for a long time, then turned away and said nothing.

Empress Mo was a little annoyed, and her voice became stern: "Brother Tao, your royal grandfather and royal grandmother have always said that you are the most filial child in the world!

"Last New Year's Eve, when we were in such a difficult time, you still knew how to protect our mother. How come you didn't listen to a single word our mother said once you entered the Daming Palace?!"

Tao Ge'er understood what he said, and his eyes instantly turned red with tears: "Mother, are you saying that I am unfilial now that I have become a prince?"

Before she finished her words, Nanny Weng came in quickly from outside, her face gloomy, and she looked at Empress Mo coldly.

Empress Mo was even more ashamed and angry: "Ms. Weng, you must remember your identity. No matter how high your rank is, you are just a slave of this palace!

"Looking at me like that, do you not want your eyes anymore?

"My filial and sensible son has only moved out for a few months, but you and Lin have taught him to talk back to me like this!

"Who ordered you all? Is it..."