Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

Aunt Wanqi pondered for a moment and whispered, "I heard that her aunt has been coming here more often recently..."

Defei's eyes began to roll around.

Defei's calmness lasted only three or five steps. When she met the next wave of palace maids and eunuchs, she disappeared again and started crying and throwing tantrums.

Only when she returned to her Pearl Mirror Palace did she sit under the window and ask Juanjuan to come and help her wash and dress. Then she asked Aunt Wanqi with a smile:

"Aunt, am I behaving well?"

Aunt Wanqi praised her gently, "Excellent. You have done everything the Madam asked you to do.

"Now there is only one thing left, Your Majesty, you must be able to keep your composure."

De Fei was curious: "What is it?"

"The emperor has been favoring Sang recently." Aunt Wanqi paused deliberately when she said this.

Sure enough, the expression on Concubine Wu De's face suddenly turned ugly.

Aunt Wanqi sighed and said softly, “Your Highness, when the harem of the Supreme Lord is at its most populous, the positions of concubines are all full.

"Below Rong Hua, there are at least a hundred people..."

Concubine Wu De lowered her head and lightly lifted her foot, overturning a round stool next to her. It rolled only three feet away when she bumped into a wide-mouthed crystal vase containing lotus flowers.

The bottle fell down and shattered onto the ground.

Juanjuan remained calm and called for someone to come in and clean up the mess.

Half a minute had passed by the time the servants cleaned the floor and left.

Aunt Wanqi said nothing.

But Concubine De seemed to have calmed down by half, and she raised her chin as if nothing had happened: "Aunt, go on."

"Yes."

Aunt Wanqi lowered her eyes, and her voice changed from gentle to calm, with a barely perceptible hint of alienation.

"When the affairs of the Southern Palace are almost settled and the court is stable, the Emperor may send a letter to bring the two emperors back to the capital.

"The Supreme has been the only one in power his entire life, so he will definitely not come back.

"But Prince Su is coming back soon, and the Queen Mother must be unable to stay in the other palace. She might want to start the selection again on the pretext of 'filling the Emperor's harem and producing heirs for the royal family', so that she can return to the capital.

"Before the next selection, the Emperor will definitely look at all the beauties that have already been selected. Your Majesty, you must be mentally prepared for this."

Concubine De hummed, her face indifferent, but she said: "If it is really as my aunt expected, then this selection will be the first selection after your majesty entered the Daming Palace.

“I think there should be at least ten.

"I am not favored in the palace now. With my grandmother's scheming, she will at least send two people to help me.

"I can't handle jealousy."

Aunt Wanqi breathed a sigh of relief and spoke a little softer: "Your Majesty is smart and understands everything at once."

"But this doesn't stop me from hating all those vixen bitches who come to snatch the emperor from me!" Concubine De snorted coldly, scratching the table with her long red nails. "Aunt, don't worry, I know my faults, but they don't know my strengths!"

Aunt Wanqi lowered her eyes: "Yes."

"Have you investigated that Zhou?" Concubine De looked up at Mingming.

Mingming nodded: "I checked. There must be something wrong.

“Although she was a vegetarian, a Buddhist, and a person who took nothing to heart, she had two maids around her who suddenly became loyal to her.

"On the surface, it seemed that all the money was allocated to her from the Yunting Palace normally, but the two eunuchs allocated to her could be bought with a bag of silver.

“Those two maids were tested in every way but remained unmoved, which is not normal.

"I have sent word out to check on the situation at their homes.

"Madam is very cautious. She told you that things will turn out well if you take it slow. Life is long. Please don't be anxious."

Concubine Wu De smiled complacently and looked at Aunt Wanqi: "Look, what did I say?

"I was puzzled back then: Mo Huaiyin is our master's cousin. Even if she was stupid, she wouldn't beat her colleagues to death on the first day she entered the East Palace!

"It's just that this Zhou guy is too cruel. He actually dared to risk his life and lie in wait for three years, risking his life to frame someone else!

“Isn’t she pretending?

"That's great! I'll chop off her entire hand before she can stretch out her claws!"

Aunt Wanqi sighed, not knowing what to say.

The master she serves has a real "fluctuating IQ"!

"Your Majesty, Madam said that for people or things that have nothing to do with you, you should stay away and watch the show, and not get involved." Mingming said again.

De Fei pouted unhappily: "I'm in a bad mood. If you don't let me bully Zhou, then I'll go find someone else to cause trouble!"

Aunt Wanqi subconsciously looked at Mingming, and then at the same time, she looked at Juanjuan.

Juanjuan wanted to look away and play dead.

Mingming raised an eyebrow at her.

Juan Juan, who was extremely helpless, had to speak: “Although Mei has caused the dislike of the emperor and the empress, she is still pregnant and cannot be provoked.

“Ms. Sang has just been favored by the emperor. If the emperor targets her, it will inevitably make him unhappy, and it is inappropriate to ignore her.

"Geng Ronghua and Shi Ronghua are close to the Imperial Concubine. If they were to take advantage of them for no reason, the Imperial Concubine would inevitably seek revenge on them when she gets up to handle the matter.

"Among the rest, Li Xuanyi, Yang Guiren, Song Guiren, and Deng Guiren, they don't have much in common with us..."

Defei held her chin with her hand and pursed her lips, pointing at the four tea bowls with her fingers, and finally chose Yang Guiren.

She smiled and said, "This is great! She lives with Zhou and Li, she is shallow to begin with, and she has money!

"If I go and bully her, Zhou won't help, and Li can't help either. Maybe I can get something real!"

He immediately decided, "Let's go and take a walk around Mingyi Hall!"

"My lady, you should still be in a panic and boredom at the moment, how can you wander around? Why don't you wait another day or two until the matter of the master has been roughly concluded?"

Juanjuan advised again.

Defei lay on the table, snorted, gently tapped the white porcelain tea tray of Jun kiln with her fingers, and slowly pushed it out.

The tea tray slid to the edge of the round table little by little, and then fell down with a loud crash, and the tea tray, teapot, and tea bowl were all broken into pieces on the ground.

Juanjuan couldn't help but sigh, and once again called for someone to come in and clean up.

Just as the palace servants were quietly sweeping up the broken porcelain, someone hurried in from outside, ran straight to the inner room, and reported in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, Concubine Rong is pregnant!"

Concubine De was immediately excited: "Really?! How did she fall? Who did she fall on? The Queen or the Imperial Concubine?!"

“She went to see the Imperial Concubine, claiming that she wanted to visit her, but the Emperor was in Yinyu Palace today, so he didn’t let her in.

"The Emperor also called Nanny Duan in, scolded her, and ordered that Concubine Rong be sent back immediately to take care of her pregnancy.

"Who knew that before Nanny Duan left the palace, Concubine Rong fainted outside, bleeding all over the floor.

"Standing next to him was Sang Ronghua, who happened to be visiting the imperial concubine."

The visitor whispered, "Mei Shu, who serves Concubine Rong, said that Sang Ronghua told Concubine Rong that Mei Ran was named a talented person..."

Concubine De burst into laughter: "This Sang is such an idiot! How dare she get involved in such a thing!"

"In fact, when Sang Ronghua saw Rong Fei standing there shaky, she was so scared that she wanted to take a detour. It was Rong Fei who called her over...

"Moreover, when Sang arrived, the ceremony hadn't been completed yet, and Concubine Rong collapsed..."

The visitor lowered his head and sighed, "It was purely a frame-up, that's all."