Reborn as King again

Not surprisingly, I, Xia Zhirou and Xia Jin passed the final selection and entered the palace as the new young master.

When I was in Chuxiu Palace, I learned a lot about the dynamics in the palace.The emperor ascended the throne at the age of 20 and reigned for five years. During this period, apart from this time, he also held an audition before, and when he first ascended the throne, in order to appease the court, many officials' children were brought into the harem, plus other small countries Every year when paying tribute, beauties are also sent to Datong. After calculation, there are not a few concubines in the harem.

It is rumored that the emperor's two favorite concubines are Concubine Wan and Concubine Wen.These two favorite concubines have one thing in common, that is, they entered the palace in the early days of the emperor's ascension to the throne.Concubine Wan is very beautiful, she is beautiful, she is very tactful in dealing with people, she is a slick person, I think almost no one can compare to her in this year's show girls, the emperor doted on her for five years, and she gave birth to a son for the emperor A woman, although not yet canonized, is an invisible queen.I think she should be the emperor's favorite person.The other favorite concubine, Concubine Wen, is a man. As her name suggests, she is a very quiet person. She has a daughter. I can't find any advantages about this person except for his good looks. It is said that he has been neglected by the emperor before. Suddenly being held.I guess the emperor praises him [-]% because he is afraid of the family behind him. Concubine Wen has an elder brother who holds military power.

The days of studying palace rules in Chuxiu Palace were very boring, and Xia Zhirou couldn't bear it soon.She kept complaining to me that there were too many rules in the palace, the level of the other young masters was not very good, they couldn't see the face of the emperor, and so on.I laughed it off.Our Xia family has already produced two queens in a row, and the uncle seems to bet all his hopes on Xia Zhirou, wanting her to become the third queen.

My father also brought me a letter from outside the palace, asking me to form an alliance with Xia Zhirou, and quickly attract the emperor's attention, so that the emperor will not spoil his concubine Wan all the time.

To be honest, I really don't want to deal with Xia Zhirou. First of all, she is a concubine. Even if her position is raised in the genealogy, her lowly concubine blood lineage can't be erased. hostility.Secondly, Xia Zhirou was too arrogant and domineering, she looked at people with her nostrils, and offended a group of people before meeting the emperor.Just because she is my cousin, I have been implicated in many things for no reason, and I have been looked down upon for no reason. Thanks to my good temper, I try to keep a distance from Xia Zhirou, so that I can more or less earn some popularity for myself.

I didn't intend to enter the palace at all, let alone being pressed down by another man with a charming face, and I don't know the emperor, I don't know his preferences. If Long Yan was furious, he would have to pay for it.Anyway, there is Xia Zhirou by my side, let her do things like fighting for favor.

As long as you know the emperor's schedule and habits, it is easy to analyze where he usually appears at a specific time.I heard from the eunuchs that Concubine Wen's health is not good, and she usually needs to take a lot of tonics, and the emperor often supervises her.The time for Concubine Wen to drink the tonic is at a certain time in the afternoon, and every time the emperor goes to find Concubine Wen, he will take a small road and pass by a small garden. If he wants to see the emperor, he only needs to lay an ambush in the small garden in advance.

I intentionally told this idea to Xia Zhirou's maid, Gui Zhi, who was next to Xia Zhirou. Xia Zhirou thought that I was going to the small garden to meet the emperor, and she couldn't wait to wait in the small garden the next day. It's time for the emperor.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Zhi Roumeng was favored and named Concubine Rou, favored in the harem.For a while, Concubine Wan and Concubine Wen were among the three favorite concubines.

The emperor's favor satisfies Xia Zhirou's vanity to a large extent. She thinks that the emperor really loves her, and she often shows off to me. I don't express any opinions on this. I don't know what the emperor thinks, but if it is me , If I really love someone, I will definitely not pamper and touch the second person.

Two months passed quickly, and my green card was placed in front of the emperor.When I met the emperor for the first time, I had an illusion. He was wearing a mask, a mask that could never be taken off. He would tell me that he loved me between the sheets, but he had no interest in me at all. For the sake of my aunt, you can give me a Ronghua name. We are not in sync with each other in the intercourse, but he still invites me to sleep with me.In fact, these are small details, even if you pay attention, you may not notice them.But it's these small details that make me feel that the emperor is very fake, fake as hell.

On the surface, my relationship with Xia Zhirou is tepid, but inwardly, I obeyed my father's arrangement, formed a united front with Xia Zhirou, and tried my best to assist Xia Zhirou to win the queen's throne.

But I understand that Xia Zhirou is really not made for a queen, she is extremely jealous, ever since she knew that the emperor's favorite person is Concubine Wan, she has targeted Concubine Wan everywhere, and her methods are inferior, every time I've tried to persuade Xia Zhirou many times to calm down, but her arrogant posture doesn't listen to me at all.In the beginning, I was able to advise Xia Zhirou, such as asking her to hug the queen mother’s aunt’s thigh, and it’s better to do things for the queen mother in the palace, but later she was not capable enough, and she was not as reliable as Concubine Wan, so she blamed my idea in the end No, in the end I was too lazy to think of a way for her.

Within a few months, Xia Zhirou became pregnant. Originally, as long as she gave birth to a prince, our Xia family was bound to win the position of queen.But not long after she became pregnant, one morning, when I woke up, the maid Gui Zhi next to Xia Zhirou came to me and said that Xia Zhirou might have a miscarriage.After hearing this, I was very depressed. I really don't know what kind of brain Xia Zhirou is, who can't even keep a child.

My thoughts turned quickly, since the child is gone, why not use this incident to attack other favorite concubines.Concubine Wan is not easy to deal with, but Concubine Wen is much more innocent, to put it bluntly, she is stupid.Moreover, after Xia Zhirou became pregnant with a child, she somehow thought that the emperor's favorite person was Concubine Wen, and now she was full of thoughts about how to beat him.Then I'll help Xia Zhirou.

Soon under my plan, Xia Zhirou's miscarriage was blamed on Concubine Wen. I knew Concubine Wen was not in good health, and I deliberately arranged for him to kneel in the heavy rain for a day and a night. In fact, I didn't intend to kill him. , just want to damage the foundation of his body, it is best to make it difficult for him to conceive in the future.But I didn't expect Xia Zhirou to have such deep jealousy for Concubine Wen that she actually killed Concubine Wen's only daughter, and dealt the final blow to Concubine Wen who was already lying on the sick bed.

But since it's going to hurt people, I asked Xia Zhirou if she could do it more cleanly. It's fine if she sends her confidant maid to do it herself, but she was actually witnessed by the eldest prince on the way.The ending of Xia Zhirou can be imagined, the emperor buried Xia Zhirou and all the people in the palace in a rage!

Xia Zhirou was going to be buried, my uncle would definitely not agree, and begged the queen mother's aunt to intercede, and the emperor didn't soften his heart. At this time, I have to pretend, at least pretend to care about Xia Zhirou in front of my uncle and father , I don't want her to die.So I know that Concubine Wen won't talk to me, so I have to ask him, anyway, I can do my best.

But I never expected to meet the emperor. The emperor told me that he knew everything. He knew that I was the one who advised Xia Zhirou, and that I was the one who really framed Concubine Wen.I panicked immediately, I obviously did a perfect job, in the palace I deliberately kept a distance from Xia Zhirou, let her dominate without knowing it, almost everyone thought that my relationship with Xia Zhirou was not close , I have no clue, I don't know how the emperor found out.

I always thought that the emperor would kill me for his concubine Wen, but he didn't do it. Thinking about it, he has already killed a person who was sent to the palace by the Xia family. It is impossible to kill another one so soon, but since then From then on, my life really fell into darkness.

Since Xia Zhirou's death, the emperor never called me again, as if he had completely forgotten about me.But my uncle and my father put their hopes on me, hoping that I can replace Xia Zhirou and regain the emperor's favor.All my hole cards have been known by the emperor, he knows what kind of person I am, no matter how I behave in front of him, he will only think that I am pretentious.The emperor has already left me in the cold, obviously he doesn't want to see me anymore, how can I jump around in front of him?

When the uncle and the others knew my situation in the palace, they threw me aside like an abandoned child without hesitation, and didn't ask any more questions.

The attitude of the emperor and the attitude of the family determine my life in the palace, which is completely dark.

I don't know how I spent the next few months. Thanks to Xia Zhirou, she ate meat and I drank soup. The emperor treated me pretty well, but now he has left me in limbo. .The palace has always been red on top of white, and most people who see me losing power will just kick it.

In March of the following year, another extraordinary figure came to the palace, the former empress Xia Zhisu, Xia Zhirou's sister.

I don't have much impression of Xia Zhisu. She entered the palace to accompany the queen mother's aunt not long after I was born. Later, when the late emperor ascended the throne, she became the late emperor's queen. However, it is said that her relationship with the late emperor was not good.

Although I am almost a transparent person in the palace, I still know the news that should be known. For example, Xia Zhisu was forced into the palace by the queen mother's aunt, for example, the emperor tore up the face with the queen mother's aunt for Xia Zhisu's entry into the palace. .But this has nothing to do with me, until Xia Zhisu came to see me in person.

When Xia Zhisu came to my palace to look for me, I was lying in front of the window bored, staring at the buds of the new year in a daze, my thoughts wandering without knowing where to go.When I came back to my senses, I saw a woman who looked like the queen mother's aunt standing opposite. She was dressed in plain clothes and looked at me with almost pity.

The purpose of Xia Zhisu's coming to me is actually to want me to help her, to help her get a position!

I sneered at Xia Zhisu's request, even if my current situation is not as good as before, I still have my pride, and I am not a tool used by the family to wave it around.Xia Zhisu wants to take over?Why?Just relying on her status as a despicable concubine who was born in the first place?Or is it because of her face that looks like the Queen Mother's aunt?

In terms of identity, she is a former empress, the emperor's wife, and she is not good at eating vegetarian food, chanting Buddha, and knocking on wooden fish in Qinglian Temple, but she is still full of enthusiasm and wants to climb onto the emperor's bed and have incest with the emperor? !

I didn't have any intention of talking to Xia Zhisu, so I just replied: "You have the same mouth as your sister, it makes me feel sick."

Xia Zhisu's face collapsed on the spot, she said that one day I will regret it.

Three months later, even without my help, Xia Zhisu will still be in charge.The method is the same as that of Aunt Zhang in my family back then, get pregnant first, then it will be difficult for the other party to admit it or not.

Soon, Xia Zhisu took the place of his younger sister Xia Zhirou, and became the favorite concubine again.It is said that the emperor was very kind to Xia Zhisu, obsessed with her, and obedient to her in order to please her, and was looking forward to the arrival of the child in Xia Zhisu's womb.

One day, when I was walking alone by the gravel road in the palace, I met Xia Zhisu again.At this time, Xia Zhisu's belly was already swollen, she was wearing a palace dress, and her face was filled with a happy smile.I remember that when Xia Zhirou was alive, she was smiling so happily, but in the end, she was still buried.It's nothing to laugh happily, the winner is the last laugh.

I wanted to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Xia Zhisu. She is now the Concubine Su, and her status is higher than mine. I could only stop and salute her.

Xia Zhisu said with a smile: "Yuan Ronghua, you still have the mind to take a walk in the palace? Don't you know? Your mother Yuan Shi died of illness three days ago."

"What did you say?" I was stunned, wondering if I had heard it wrong. I knew that my mother was not in good health, but she would not die of illness.

"Ah, I forgot," Xia Zhisu hid her face and sneered, "Yuan Ronghua, you have already been abandoned by the Xia family, how can you keep the Yuan family?"

"What do you mean? Did someone kill my mother?" I frantically stepped forward, trying to pull Xia Zhisu's sleeve to ask clearly, but the eunuchs guarding Xia Zhisu's side pressed me hard Kneeling on the ground, let me stop.My head was spinning rapidly, who would harm my mother? I clearly eradicated all those thorny and ambitious aunts before leaving the house. Could it be that the new aunt my father married did it?

Xia Zhisu looked down at me, gloating in his tone: "This is only the Xia family's choice. Your mother's natal family has already lost, and she is in such poor health, and she is still occupying the position of the mistress of the Hussar General's mansion. What do you think?" Can she still sit still?" Xia Zhisu bent down and whispered in my ear: "Your brothers are not in the capital, and your sister is married, and you have been abandoned in the palace. Can you protect your mother? Originally, I gave you a chance, but you didn't know how to cherish it. I said before, you will regret it."

I trembled all over, looked up at Xia Zhisu, and said hoarsely, "Do I have any grudge against you?"

"I heard that you were the one who advised Rou'er when she was still alive. Why was she buried, but you were able to escape unscathed?"

"Sister Rou's funeral was her own fault." I figured it out, Xia Zhisu blamed Xia Zhirou's death on me!I admit that I used her as a weapon to frame Concubine Wen.But I didn't let her use such a despicable method to harm Concubine Wen's daughter.If Xia Zhirou had listened to me, how could she have ended up like this!

"Really?" Xia Zhisu sneered, "Then your mother's sudden death is her own fault. Who made her give birth to such an uneasy son."

My mind went blank, and I didn't listen to what Xia Zhisu said afterwards. I only knew that my mother was dead, and because of the family's abandonment, I couldn't even protect my own mother.

I don't know when Xia Zhisu left with her inner eunuch, but I was still kneeling beside the cold gravel road, without a clue, I didn't know what to do next, my vision was already blurred.

Suddenly, someone handed me a silver brocade handkerchief.I looked up and saw an unfamiliar face.

"You... are you all right?"

It was only in a daze that I remembered who this person was, another woman who entered the palace with me back then, Xia Jin.

I didn't pick up her Jinpa, but stared at her coldly and resentfully.

Xia Jin was frightened by my eyes, her cheeks were a little red, and she hesitated for a while and explained: "I...I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation with Empress Su, I just happened to pass by..."

Doesn't she know how wrong it is to say too much?I ignored her, I don't need others to pity her.

Xia Jin saw that it was not a problem for me to kneel and sit on the ground, so she stretched out her hand and supported my arm to help me up, "Yuan Ronghua, stand up first, the ground is cold, if there is anything you can't solve, you ..."

I pushed Xia Jin away, so I wouldn't be so downcast that a talented person would help me!Standing up, ignoring Xia Jin behind me, I wandered back to the palace.

I don't believe Xia Zhisu's words, how could my mother die?I sent someone to contact my father, but my father avoided my people very much and turned a blind eye for two consecutive days.In desperation, I had no choice but to find my elder sister who had already married, and soon my elder sister quietly wrote me a letter.She told me that after I lost power in the palace, my mother's health became worse and worse, and a high-ranking official in the family recently wanted to marry. Her daughter didn't dislike her father's age, but she wanted to be the mistress of the General Hussars , so the mother whose children were not around had to make concessions, and the mother "died suddenly" without accident a few days ago.

My sister said in the letter that my mother was going to have a funeral two days later, and she hoped that I could go out of the palace to attend my mother's funeral.

After reading my sister's letter, I felt a chill, bone-chilling cold. What kind of family do I live in? Even if my father and mother don't have a close relationship, but when my mother was young, her family did a lot for the Xia family. And the mother has kept everything in the mansion in good order for so many years, how could they throw away the mother like a scrap of paper!What did she do wrong? !

My mother is going to have a funeral in two days, I must go back, I must see my mother for the last time!

Concubines in the harem want to go out of the palace, as long as they get the approval of the queen mother or the emperor.I know that the emperor doesn't want to see me because he hates me so much about Concubine Wen, but I have no choice but to beg him.I don't need him to see me, I just need him to nod and let me leave the palace for a day and go home.I knelt in front of Qianlong Palace all night, the emperor was indifferent, in his heart I was a person of no importance.

Later, Eunuch Wanfu, the emperor's personal eunuch, saw that I was pitiful, and he said that even if I knelt down to death, the emperor would ignore me, so I might as well marry the empress dowager.

If I could ask the queen mother's aunt, I would have gone there long ago.That bitch Xia Zhisu was raised by the Queen Mother's aunt since she was a child, and she was deeply loved by the Queen Mother's aunt.

But I had no choice but to try my luck at the Empress Dowager's aunt. Sure enough, when I arrived at the Palace of Compassion and Peace, the inner eunuch who guarded said that the Empress Dowager Aunt did not see anyone or anyone.

At this moment, Xia Zhisu from the Palace of Compassionate Ning, who had seen no outsiders today, came out.Seeing my downcast appearance, she smiled contemptuously, "Why, Yuan Ronghua wants to see my aunt? You'd better come back tomorrow, today's aunt has a headache, oh, by the way, your mother seems to be going to the funeral tomorrow, I don't know if you will have time ?”

"Why is Cousin Su so hard to push?" I asked through gritted teeth.

Xia Zhisu walked to my side slowly: "Please beg me, beg me, I will tell aunt for you."

beg her?To beg a lowly and shameless concubine? !

If this kind of indignity happened in the past, even if it killed me, I wouldn't do it.But not now, I'm going to see my mother, I don't want to regret for the rest of my life, just kneel and kowtow, it's no big deal.

Without saying a word, I knelt down immediately, and I begged her, I begged her to not forget the villain, I begged her to be merciful, to help me talk, so that I can go back to my house to see my mother.In the future, I will agree to whatever she asks me to do, and I will not hesitate to do so. I keep begging, grabbing Xia Zhisu's skirt and kowtowing, just to see my mother for the last time.

Xia Zhisu looked at me and smiled, that smile was extremely weird.Immediately, I had an ominous premonition in my heart.

The next moment, she suddenly clutched her stomach, screaming that it hurts, and then she was about to fall, and then she was supported by the maid behind her.

Then the imperial doctor came and said that Xia Zhisu was frightened and had gas in her fetus, and I was the one who caused her gas in the fetus.Under Xia Zhisu pretending to be pitiful and crying, the Queen Mother's aunt didn't even give me a chance to explain. She saw that I was a first-time offender and Xia Zhisu's cousin, and gave me what she thought was a very light punishment. She asked me to go to the ancestral hall and copy the parenting scriptures a hundred times for the child in Xia Zhisu's womb.

The next day, the day of my mother's funeral, instead of going out of the palace to see her off, I had to copy the parenting scriptures in the ancestral hall for a cancerous tumor in the belly of a woman!

Thinking of me, Xia Zhiyuan, the young master of the Xia Mansion, since I was a child, I was the only one who plotted against others, but this time I lost completely and completely.

One day and one night is enough time for one hundred parenting scriptures, but I copied it for five full days.Whenever I pick up the pen and copy the disgusting scriptures, I always think of my mother lying in the cold coffin, and all the people mourning for her are actually wishing for her death. How can she go on the road with peace of mind?Thinking of this, I would burst into tears and wet the newly copied scriptures.

Five days later, I stepped out of the ancestral hall after copying the parenting scriptures. The bright sun shone on my cold body, but I couldn't feel any warmth.It's early summer now, and the vibrant scene is all black and white in my eyes.I feel that the world I live in is like an ice cave, abandoned by my family, I am not even as good as the lowest eunuch in the palace.I finally deeply realized the words "involuntary".

I didn't go back to the palace directly, but got rid of the eunuch behind me, I wanted to vent, I wanted to be alone, I really couldn't bear it any longer.

I ran aimlessly on the small road in the palace, anyway, no one would appear in this kind of place, I was crying, shouting, shouting while running.

Unknowingly, I ran to a very remote place. Few people came here, so the inner eunuchs were too lazy to clean it. I suddenly tripped over a vine under my feet and fell to the ground.

Instead of getting up, I rolled on the ground and cried like a three-year-old child. I always thought that there was no one around, so I let go of my voice and vented the unbearable pain in my heart.

I cried for a long time, until my voice became hoarse from crying and I lost all strength, and then I turned to sobbing.

At this moment, another brocade handkerchief appeared in my sight, and when I looked up, it was Xia Jin again, squatting in front of me, with a hint of worry in her eyes.

Before I could speak, Xia Jin hurriedly explained: "I...I didn't mean to eavesdrop on you crying this time, I...my yard is near here, and you cry very loudly, so... "

I ignored her. To be honest, I have nothing to do with her, so I don't need her to sell me favors.

I stood up, patted my palace clothes that had been covered with dust long ago, turned around and wanted to go in, I didn't want to show my most vulnerable side, especially in front of strangers.

But Xia Jin grabbed my sleeve and refused to let me leave.

I gave her a disgusted look, "Let go."

Xia Jin was frightened by my cold words, and immediately let go of her hand. I had just walked a few steps, and heard a voice behind me: "Well... I know you don't want others to see your current appearance, but your face has already changed. You are crying like a cat, and your clothes are dirty, you will definitely be talked about when you go back."

I stopped, turned around and looked at her unidentified.

Xia Jin said cautiously: "There are very few people in my yard, do you want to come and freshen up first?"

The Taihua Garden where Xia Jin lives is incomparable with my palace, but there is no way, who made her a talented person in the palace who is only a little higher than the senior internal supervisor.

The decoration of Taihuayuan is very simple, but I can see that Xia Jin is taking care of it very seriously.Xia Jin asked her servants to bring me a basin of water, and I washed my face, but I really couldn't change my clothes, so I couldn't let me go back in a woman's palace gown.

Xia Jin was very quiet, we didn't talk, after I cleaned myself up, I left without even saying thank you.

In the days that followed, I lived in a muddle, except to pay my respects to the Queen Mother's aunt, I never stepped out of the palace.I didn't bother to listen to any troubles in the palace, and I didn't have the appetite to eat anything. I lost weight quickly, and I just lived a day waiting to die.

I didn't think about revenge, what revenge do I have?Who to report to?The family that gave birth to and raised me for 15 years?Or the father who hurt me to the bone before entering the palace?In this world, the person I love left me and went to another world, but the person I should have hated was my close relative who had cared for me, and Xia Zhisu, the greatest pride of my family, was afraid that she would be supported to become a Queen, what else can I fight her with?I've already lost it.

A month later, Xia Jin appeared in my palace.She frowned again when she saw me sluggish.

I don't have much friendship with Xia Jin, I don't understand why she came to me.Xia Jin only said that the weather was fine today and wanted to ask me out for a walk.

Originally, it is best not to have too close a relationship between the male concubine and the female concubine in the harem, otherwise it will be easy to be said to be a dirty court, but there will be no such problems between me and Xia Jin, because our surname is Xia, and she is related by blood. It's my sister.

I didn't want to go out with her at first, but Xia Jin kept insisting on how good it was outside and what novelty there was. If I didn't see her blushing intermittently when she spoke, I really thought she was a fool.

In the end, in order to prevent the shy and stuttering noises in my ears, I followed Xia Jin out.

Xia Jin stopped talking along the way, she really wasn't a talkative person.

I don't know where Xia Jin is going to take me, I just walk side by side with her.She was right, the weather today is very good, so good that the sun makes me sick to my stomach.

The places we go are getting more and more remote, even competing with the place where Xia Jin lives.

Finally stopped in front of an abandoned palace.The plaque above the palace gate is clearly written, Lenggong.