Chapter 9 Heaven does not save everyone to save themselves
Chapter 9 God doesn’t save people, people save themselves
News of the former dynasty soon spread to the harem.
The Jade Concubine is grounded...
When passing by Yuxia Palace, you can still see the guards standing straight with swords in front of the palace gate.
I heard that Yuxia Palace is unknown...
It was so frightening that people walked in a hurry when passing by.
After this incident happened, Shuyue Palace was happiest. Concubine Rong sent someone to deliver a peach wood sword.
They say that the Taomu Sword suppresses evil, but in fact it is not just for the purpose of frightening people.
Zhong Chuchu was so angry that she smashed everything in the palace.
"Everyone says that this palace is unknown. The fortune tellers all said that I will be destined to be rich and wealthy. How can I be so unknown? It is clearly a conspiracy.
Your Majesty is so confused, why can’t you understand this?”
The palace maid and eunuch knelt on the ground, but they did not dare to express their anger.
Just at this time, a series of singing sounds from the eunuch came from outside.
"Your Majesty gave the Jade Concubine a pair of east beads, a hundred pieces of brocade, ten strands of agate bracelets, two red corals, and a pair of Ruyi jade..."
Following the eunuch's singing, a long line of palace people came towards Yuxia Palace carrying rewards, and filled the entire courtyard of Yuxia Palace.
Looking at it, one can see that it is so dazzling with jewels and jewels that even one's eyes are going to be blinded.
However, Zhong Chuchu didn't appreciate it, so she grabbed a bunch of bracelets and threw them at the palace attendant.
"Who wants this? Who wants this?"
"Where is your Majesty? I want to see your Majesty."
"Your Majesty, it's Mu Qingchao. That bitch Mu Qingchao, she deliberately pretended to be sick to frame me. Your Majesty..." Zhong Chuchu looked very pitiful looking at her crying and complaining.
The person who delivered the gift was Eunuch Lu, the eunuch under Shen Muchi. He glanced at the palace man who was smashed and found that he was his good apprentice.
After all, Eunuch Lu was an old man in the palace and acted more calmly. He knelt in front of Zhong Chuchu and said, "My Lady, please keep these things. They are your Majesty's favor.
Besides, this imperial gift was smashed by the empress. Your Majesty dotes on the empress, so he won't say anything. If others look at it, he will at least say that the empress is doting on her.
This is already the case. The empress has lost her reputation for nothing, so why bother?
Your Majesty is thinking of your Majesty, but it is not convenient to come and see her now. I will only have a tender and heartfelt talk with you when your confinement is lifted."
Eunuch Lu's words seemed to be comforting Zhong Chuchu, but in fact they made her speechless.
Zhong Chuchu felt like her breath was stuck in her chest and she couldn't let it out. It was so suffocating that she felt uncomfortable.
She was tired from all the fussing, and finally couldn't hold it any longer, so she threw herself on the table and cried loudly.
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The news that Zhong Chuchu was banned naturally spread to Chaoyun Palace.
When Mu Qingchao got the news, everyone was already in a state of confusion. He asked Chunya and Qiangwei in a daze to close the windows and burn the charcoal.
Chunya was naturally happy to see that the Queen Mother finally "stopped being stupid".
The charcoal fire in the charcoal basin started to burn, and the room became warm immediately.
The tense strings in Mu Qingchao's heart relaxed, and he became exhausted after nestling in the comfortable cloud quilt. He dozed off and listened to the two little girls sitting next to him chatting by the fire.
"I don't think the Qin Tian Prison is that good. The Queen Mother's illness is clearly due to cold, but she just said that the disaster star was in the way." Chun Ya said ignorantly.
Qiangwei said: "But don't you think it's strange? Why did the Queen Mother let us light the fire just after the Jade Concubine was grounded? Why did it have to be the Jade Concubine again?"
One sentence awakened the spring buds.
"You mean..."
Chun Ya was about to blurt out the words, but Qiangwei covered her mouth.
Qiangwei turned around and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Mu Qingchao had closed his eyes.
"I'm just guessing."
Chun Ya pulled down Qiangwei's hand: "But how does the Queen Mother know what Qin Tianjian will say? Is it possible that the Queen Mother still knows people from the previous dynasty?"
Qiangwei's expression was stern: "Didn't I say it? It's just a wild guess."
Chun Ya said: "Perhaps our Queen Mother is the lucky one. Anyone who goes against our Yuxia Palace is in bad luck. God is helping us."
Mu Qingchao was lying on the bed, his eyelids too heavy to lift up, but he heard these words clearly.
She felt ridiculous in her heart. How could there be any help from God in this world? It was all about people's self-help.
"Your Majesty and I both know very well that Princess Zhenguo and the Zhong family are supporting you to become emperor just because you are younger and can be controlled more easily.
But His Majesty has great ambitions, how can he be willing to be manipulated by others and become a puppet?
Your Majesty's immediate concern is not to let Concubine Jade get pregnant and prevent the Zhong family from taking control of the emperor's heir. Otherwise, in the future, relatives will interfere in politics and the country will be unstable."
That day, when she knelt in front of Shen Muchi and said these words, she could feel Shen Muchi's fearful and unkind gaze.
There are only two outcomes when such words come out, either Shen Muchi is angry at her for being disrespectful and sends her to death, or Shen Muchi appreciates her courage and takes a fancy to her strategy and recruits her into his army.
No matter what the outcome was, she had to give it a try. If she tried, there was still a glimmer of hope. If she didn't, she would definitely die.
Fortunately, Shen Muchi chose the latter.
It was also within Mu Qingchao's expectation.
Shen Muchi is an ambitious person.
She once read the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it was clearly written in the history books that the Southern Ming Dynasty worshiped Emperor Wen, who was cold-blooded and ambitious. He poisoned his own children to prevent his relatives from intervening in politics.
Poisoning parents and children...
Just four words, but it is shocking.
Speaking of which, Zhong Chuchu can be regarded as a miserable person. On the outside, he looks like a flower, with all kinds of favors, but he is just a tool for the game between the Zhong family and Shen Muchi.
Three years later, the confrontation between Shen Muchi and the Zhong family reached a fever pitch, but Zhong Chuchu had no idea that the child in her belly could help her consolidate her relationship with Shen Muchi.
The child was born, as Zhong Chuchu expected, he was a prince.
Zhong Chuchu was filled with joy and thought that she had got her wish, but she didn't know that it would be okay if she was a princess, but if she was a prince, he was destined to die.
It was Shen Muchi who strangled his son to death with his own hands.
When she saw her son's body, one can imagine the despair in Zhong Chuchu's heart.
But how could Shen Muchi have any sympathy for the woman who was sleeping with him?
Later, in the struggle to eliminate his relatives, Shen Muchi won and the Zhong family was defeated. He immediately killed Zhong Chuchu with a piece of white silk.
The Jade Concubine who was so proud all her life ended up like this in the end.
I strangled my son to death with my own hands...
It takes a very cruel person to do this.
Fortunately, in this life, Mu Qingchao is very clear-headed. Cooperation with people like Shen Muchi is cooperation, and emotions must not be involved.
Abandoning love, she looked for a chance of survival for herself in the complicated court situation. Since the planned elimination of relatives would come sooner or later, and since Shen Mu was always worried about Zhong Chuchu being pregnant with the emperor's heir.
Then she would help Shen Mu make plans sooner or later, and cut off Zhong Chuchu's way of sleeping with him from the beginning, so that the child who was not expected to be born would not be born at all, so that he could not be so cruel and bloody, and he could fight without bloodshed.
Shen Muchi had no reason to refuse.
But each of these things looks simple, but is extremely difficult to do.
Fortunately, the emperor paid off, and in this way, Mu Qingchao could truly show some value in front of Shen Muchi, and truly have a place in the harem.
Just at this moment, a servant's voice came from outside the door.