[Comprehensive] The glory of the traitorous concubine

Concubine Zhen's words put Concubine Wan in an embarrassing situation.Just now she should take the initiative to say this to please the emperor, anyway, the queen mother will not really annoy her...

Wan Concubine saw that the emperor gave Concubine Zhen an approving glance, made amends, and said a few words of intercession for the crown prince.The queen mother saw that she had said so, so she gave up.

That night, the emperor naturally wanted to stay in Wanpin Palace.On the way back as a sedan chair, Xiao Zhang didn't say a word.The girls looked worried, and Shu Qingzhi looked the most worried.

Back at the Yifu Palace, Qing Zhi helped Xiao Zhang up, and said cautiously: "Master, the House of Internal Affairs has sent you a winter coat today, let the maidservant bring it for you to have a look at?"

Xiao Zhang waved his hand: "It's getting late, I'm tired, let's see it tomorrow."

Qing Zhi hurriedly said: "How about the servant preparing hot water and flower petals for the master, taking a bath to relieve fatigue?"

Xiao Zhang nodded lightly, and let Qing Zhi take off the water-red cloak for herself.When Qingzhi squatted down, she and Baoqin looked at each other, understanding each other.

The bath water that Qingzhi prepared...is not usable.

Xiao Zhang was willing to take refuge in Concubine Wu at the beginning, one reason was to stabilize his position and not be harmed by Concubine Wu for the time being.The second is because... Concubine Wu Gui told her an amazing secret.

The queen seemed benign and harmless, even a little useless.But she is in charge of the harem after all.Nearly every concubine has a nail placed by the queen.They are not outstanding, nor are they too mediocre, and they are all in charge of the master's dressing, bathing and changing.

They not only smoked contraceptive incense on the concubine's clothes, but also tampered with the bath water.For fear of being found out, I don't use special bath water every time, and only use it continuously for a few days after going to bed.And a favored concubine like Xiao Zhang soaked in that kind of water almost every day.

After Concubine Wu Gui reminded her, she never used the bath water prepared by Qingzhi again.That's why the queen had a strange look on her face when she heard that she had a miscarriage.

Perhaps Concubine Wu Guifei deliberately told her just to drive a wedge between her and the empress that the empress trusted her so much on the surface but still refused to allow her to conceive and have children. Obviously she was just using her and never had any sincerity towards her.This statement is not entirely credible, but it is not unreasonable.

The queen... After all, she is not someone who can talk to her.

No matter how kind and considerate the queen is to her, they are essentially a competitive relationship after all.

Fortunately, she didn't have any real feelings for the queen, otherwise she would be very sad when she knew the truth.

But now, she just smiled lightly.

When holding the piano to wait for her to take a bath, he said worriedly: "What is the girl going to do with Qing Zhi?"

Xiao Zhang raised his hand and brought out a drop of water.Playing with her nails, she said with a light smile, "She's just a small character. If you touch her, the queen will be suspicious instead. Why bother?"

"What does that girl mean?"

"The queen's illness is getting worse day by day. I'm afraid there are not many people in the harem who sincerely hope that she will recover. Sometimes it's a headache, and sometimes it's a heartache. If we don't need to do it, the queen won't have much life."

The queen's illness came suddenly and strangely, obviously someone didn't want her to live.

"Who could have done it..." Baoqin looked serious.

"Think about the queen's death, who is the beneficiary?"

Baoqin lowered his voice and exclaimed: "Zhen... concubine!"

Xiao Zhang sneered and said: "Isn't it? He has seniority, status, and a child under his knee. Now it seems that Concubine Zhen and Concubine Wan should have reached a certain consensus. When Concubine Zhen takes the position of queen, I want Zichu Wanpin's son to be the crown prince."

Baoqin nodded: "Do the two of them want to be the queen mother together?"

"How is it possible..." Xiao Zhang has been the empress dowager, and he understands the feeling of dominance.It is impossible for a person who sits on the queen's position to hope that another woman will share the honor of the queen mother with her.

She sighed softly: "Although Concubine Wan has a bit of scheming, she is just a little white flower, and she is too immature compared with Concubine Zhen. Her child... I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it."

Baoqin frowned slightly: "Miss, what do you mean, Concubine Zhen will attack Concubine Wan, and the two of them will fight each other?"

Xiao Zhang's expression became serious, and he said in a low voice: "I'm afraid things are more than that simple..."

Xiao Zhang's expectations were right, the next evening, when the prince came out from the emperor to greet him, he happened to meet Concubine Zhen.

Because Concubine Zhen was kind to him yesterday, the Prince had a good impression of her, so he was not as rude as he was to Concubine Xian, and obediently called "Ms. Zhen".

Concubine Zhen has no children, so she likes children very much. When she saw the prince, her eyes rolled with a smile: "His Royal Highness."

Concubine Zhen is not young. When she smiles, there are obvious fine lines at the corners of her eyes. She looks very kind, even a little more friendly than his biological mother, the queen.The crown prince hated the empress's behavior of nagging him for a long time every time they met, so he liked Concubine Zhen even more.

"Is Empress Zhen also going to see Emperor Father?"

Concubine Zhen nodded her head and said kindly: "Yes. I made some cakes with my own hands. If the crown prince doesn't mind, why not go to my palace to try it? It's cold, the crown prince should also drink a glass of wine to warm his hands."

The prince hesitated and said: "Wine? I like it, but the queen mother is afraid that I will be greedy, so she won't let me drink it on weekdays."

Concubine Zhen smiled softly: "Just drink a few cups of hot wine to warm up, it's fine."

"Alright then!" The Prince's affection for Concubine Zhen grew stronger.

When they arrived at Concubine Zhen's Palace, the two sat around the fire, holding wine glasses, and chatted unconsciously.

"Where's the third brother?" the prince asked.

Concubine Zhen's face showed a very lonely expression: "He misses his biological mother, I sent him back to see Concubine Wan."

The prince looked at Concubine Zhen sympathetically, and felt that this woman was really pitiful.The third prince, a white-eyed wolf, is not familiar with him.

The prince said: "Madam Zhen, don't worry, when Concubine Wan gives birth to a child, she won't care about her third brother, and he will have to come back to you at that time."

Concubine Zhen glanced at him worriedly, shook her head and said, "No, on the contrary, I may lose that child forever. Concubine Wan was already favored, and the emperor's heirs are weak, but she has great fortune, and now she is pregnant with the emperor's second son." If a child is a prince, the emperor will be happy, and it would be hard to just make her a noble concubine or imperial concubine."

The prince frowned and said, "Isn't it?"

Concubine Zhen said meaningfully: "Why not? Don't forget the prince, the queen mother has always liked sister Wan concubine the most..."

The Prince's eyebrows furrowed even tighter.Why does he think... Wanbi is a dangerous woman?

No wonder his mother always disliked Concubine Wan, and murmured in his ear that the third prince was supported by the queen mother, and it was very likely that he would take away his crown prince.

In the past, the prince didn't take it seriously, but today he felt something was wrong when Concubine Zhen mentioned it like this.

"However, as far as I am concerned, it is not a big deal even if she is named imperial concubine." Concubine Zhen looked at the prince's expression and said slowly: "The empress is so ill now that I can't get involved in the trivial matters of the harem. Although I have the heart to be the empress Troubleshooting and solving problems, but in the end it is not as young and well-behaved as Concubine Wan, and Long Live God likes it. The imperial concubine is the same as the vice queen, and it is more legitimate to take care of things, so there will be no slaves who take advantage of my clumsy mouth to bully me and not do things well. "

The prince pursed his lips tightly, took a deep look at Concubine Zhen, and said in a low voice: "Miss Zhen, you are really a good person."

Concubine Zhen shook her head and said with a smile: "I don't have any children, I have no desires, and all I want is for everyone to be safe."

The prince seemed to be awakened, with a look of panic in his eyes.Yes, Concubine Zhen has no children, so she has no desires or desires.Now that his eldest brother is dead, Concubine De gave birth to a princess again, and only Concubine Wan has a prince.And now Wanpin is pregnant again...

Coincidentally, his mother's queen was seriously ill again. Could it be that Concubine Wan killed his mother's queen and wanted her to be a queen because of her son?

No, absolutely not!

"That's right." Concubine Zhen said with a smile, "Sister Wan's concubine is in her prime now. Although the crown prince's status is noble, he has offended her after all. To put it bluntly, the prince might as well meet up with Sister Wan's concubine and recognize her." Wrong, this not only gives Wan Concubine dignity, but also makes the Crown Prince sensible."

The prince pursed his lips tightly and did not agree easily.

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The crown prince bid farewell to Concubine Zhen, and came to the queen's bedroom by some strange error.

Under the heavy curtains, his mother looked even older.The prince asked with blank eyes: "Mother, do you hate Concubine Wan?"

The queen coughed twice, and said in a low voice: "The queen mother is old... don't want to compete for favor... I'm afraid Wanbi's child will threaten your status."

"Queen mother, I'm also afraid. I want to be the prince, and I don't want to die like the eldest brother." The prince's eyes suddenly showed sadness and panic that didn't match his age: "Father doesn't like me, I know... yesterday He defended me in front of the Empress Dowager, and only punished me to contemplate my mistakes behind closed doors. But he asked the palace servants not to give me a sip of water for a day and a night, until he called me to pay his respects just now, and personally checked whether I had eaten... Empress Mother, you said Father Why is your heart so cruel?"

The queen seldom heard her son talking so much to herself, so she was a little surprised for a while.She beckoned the prince to her side, patted his head, and said softly: "Silly boy, because your father... is the emperor."

"Emperor?" The prince seemed confused, as if he didn't understand the term.

The queen seemed to be very tired, and her dark eye sockets made her look listless: "It's the emperor, so he is destined to be ruthless...otherwise he can't be a good emperor."

"My son is the crown prince, the future emperor." The crown prince stood up suddenly, with a very faint smile on his lips, "The minister should be ruthless, right, mother?"

The queen didn't know why, but she nodded anyway.

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The prince is just a half-grown boy, and he doesn't know much about the secrets of the harem.The method he can think of is very simple, very direct, but also very effective.

He solemnly asked Concubine Wan to come out to enjoy the snow on the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Concubine Wan did not doubt that there was him, and after arriving at the place, the crown prince apologized to Concubine Wan politely according to Concubine Zhen's words.Wan Concubine was very surprised, but also complacent.So what about the prince, he is still prostrate at her feet!

But Wanpin soon lost her complacency.

Not long after the prince resigned and left, she was afraid of the cold during pregnancy and wanted to return to the palace.A few reckless palace maids suddenly ran over from the other side of the bridge and knocked her into the icy lake with brute force.

A thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the lake, but it shattered under the pressure of Wanpin's body, and the bitter lake water was still underneath.

The palace people hurriedly jumped down to rescue them, and the palace maids who bumped into them also jumped down.

When rescued, Concubine Wan was already dying.And those few maids also died.Obviously not to save people, but to die.

Concubine Wan was sent back to the palace, Concubine Zhen rushed over after hearing the news, and summoned all the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital to come for diagnosis and treatment, but in the end she couldn't keep the child in Concubine Wan's stomach.

Wanpin cried hoarsely all night.

Outside the room door, the emperor heard her screaming cry, he just sighed weakly, turned around and said, "I pass on my will, Jin confers Concubine Wan as... Concubine Wan."