The scene fell into silence. Xi Honglei glanced sideways at the woman next to her, and silently cursed in her heart, she was brainless. Then, she acted as if nothing happened and looked at the other people.
The people sitting next to Xi Honglei all had excellent looks. Xi Honglei's eyes glanced over their faces one by one, and he felt a bit bitter in his heart.
Such good years, such a beautiful woman, but they have to waste the rest of their lives in this harem where people kill people and dogs bite dogs. How many people come here willingly. How many people are forced to do so.
Sent here? Everyone has their own sufferings, and everyone has their own unexplainable sufferings. Today they are sitting here, but who can say whether they will become stepping stones for others tomorrow?
Clear?
"My dear ladies, Honglei heard that you all just entered the palace, right?" Xi Honglei sorted out his thoughts and looked at the woman sitting opposite him, who was the first one to leave the palace.
Asked the person who agreed with him.
When Ren Xinyu saw Xi Hongtear looking straight at herself, she nodded and replied to her words. "That's right, we all just entered the palace. I wonder if Miss Xi has anything to say to us sisters."
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"It's nothing, I just want to get in touch with the empresses and listen to what you have to say." Xi Honglei smiled sweetly, met Ren Xinyu's eyes, lowered her voice, and said slowly: "They are all newcomers to the palace.
Each has their own difficulties. To put it bluntly, we are all brought together because of the Emperor. It is not bad to sit together and chat occasionally, is your Majesty right?"
Xi Honglei's words made Ren Xinyu and others more sure of the rumors they had heard. It seemed that Xi Honglei was really going to become the master of the harem... She was just the one who wanted to be the queen, so she came to
What do these people who have just entered the palace and have no power do? What are the benefits?
After Xi Honglei finished speaking, he paused for a moment and then continued: "The ladies are the masters and Honglei is the slave. I am looking for the ladies today just to say a few words to you."
"What are you talking about?" Ren Xinyu frowned and looked at Xi Honglei, unable to understand her thoughts.
"In the harem, there will be a queen after all. But the emperor and the queen mother have not yet decided who will be the queen. I told a few people clearly that the queen mother came to me and wanted me to help choose from among the empresses.
One person was recommended to her as a candidate for the queen. Honglei worked for the queen mother and understood her old man's thoughts. The only reason why she had not helped the emperor choose the queen was that she had not taken her fancy to the harem yet.
Yes. Can some ladies understand what I say?"
Xi Honglei suddenly said such words, causing Ren Xinyu and others to immediately freeze there, looking at each other, not knowing how to respond to her.
What does Xi Honglei mean by saying this to them? To provoke a relationship between them and those who came to the palace before? But this is too obvious, right? Will the Queen Mother really let her help choose the queen? Who is she?
How could the Queen Mother trust her so much?
A series of questions made no one dare to say anything rashly. Looking at their silence, Xi Honglei smiled slightly and still stared at Ren Xinyu intently.
Seeing Xi Honglei keep looking at her, Ren Xinyu couldn't help but feel a little panicked. What is she going to do?
"Why does Miss Xi keep looking at me? Is there something dirty on my face?" Ren Xinyu said as she wiped her face with a handkerchief.
"Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. I just think that your Majesty is so beautiful that even I, as a woman, want to take another look at her." Xi Honglei spoke to Ren Xinyu half jokingly and half seriously, and touched Chen'er.
He raised his head, a flash of light quickly flashed through his red tearful eyes, and continued: "The ladies can discuss it together. If you have figured it out, come to me."
After Xi Honglei finished speaking, he stood up and turned around to leave.
"Wait a minute." Ren Xinyu watched Xi Honglei take two steps and suddenly stopped her. "There are so many concubines in the harem, why did you come to us?"
"Because we are all newcomers, if one of the empresses can really become the queen as she wishes, then Honglei hopes that the empress can take care of Honglei and her children in the future, and Honglei will be extremely satisfied."
Xi Honglei spoke slowly, word for word, and then left with Chen'er.
No one knew that Shu Rumei approached Xi Honglei that day and asked her to help establish the queen. Xi Honglei had no choice but to agree to Shu Rumei. Today, I found Ren Xinyu and the others.
The words spoken to them were also spoken to those secret ears.
Ren Xinyu and the others are newcomers, and they are all in the same frame of mind when they are together, and they are not very courageous, so they will never dare to spread the word about what happened today. But Xi Honglei wants this matter to reach Ran Yunpo's ears.
If we go there, we have to take this strategy.
Sure enough, as Buchu Honglei expected, she was called over by Ran Yunpo that night.
Ran Yunpo sat there with a gloomy face, watching Xi Honglei walk in with cold eyes. Xi Honglei looked directly into Ran Yunpo's eyes, and asked knowingly: "Why is the emperor so anxious to find me?"
thing?"
"I heard that the Queen Mother asked you for help?" Ran Yunpo asked Xi Honglei straight to the point.
"How did the emperor know?" Xi Honglei raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise.
"Stop pretending to me! Tell me clearly what's going on!"
Ran Yunpo was furious, and Xi Honglei had to tell him everything. After finishing speaking, Xi Honglei did not forget to add another sentence to add jealousy: "It seems that although the emperor is in power personally, this palace
, but it’s not the emperor who has the final say.”
"Your words can totally make me chop off your head."
"Then the Emperor might as well just chop it off. It will save me a lot of trouble in the future."
As long as you are a human being, you will not like to be manipulated. Even if it is your own mother, after more than 20 years, she is still secretly planning every step of Ran Yunpo. Deep down in Ran Yunpo's heart, there must be thoughts of resistance.
Yes. He is not the kind of meek person who can listen to others' mercy for the rest of his life. He has clear tears in his eyes.
"You don't have to worry about this anymore." Ran Yunpo said in a low voice, "You are not allowed to carry out this plan anymore. Otherwise, if I find out, I will never let you off lightly!"
"The Emperor is clearly trying to embarrass Honglei." Xi Honglei said without any sign of weakness: "How can I reply to the Queen Mother?"
"You are so smart, how many ways can you think of? I don't care what you do, but this plan is not allowed to be carried out anymore, do you understand?"
"Understood." Xi Honglei lowered his head and replied to Ran Yunpo with a sigh. "But if the Queen Mother asks me about the choice of queen, I can't say that none of the three thousand beauties in the harem is suitable to be the queen, right?
Your Majesty, you are a good person who will do your best to send Buddha to the West. How about... help me?"
"Are you trying to take advantage of me?" Ran Yunpo heard something was wrong in Xi Honglei's words and asked coldly.
"Your Majesty, don't speak so harshly. This matter has been resolved. It's good for Your Majesty and it's good for me too. Why not?" Xi Honglei raised his head slightly and looked at the change of expression on Ran Yunpo's face. He saw that Ran Yunpo didn't want to stop him.
As she continued talking, Xi Honglei continued: "The Queen Mother seems to be very anxious about this matter, but I think compared with killing Mu Yunmeng, this matter can be postponed. I am not the Emperor's person.
I look down on them, but there is really no one who can fight against Mu Yunmeng and Yang Xiang. If I only focus on choosing a queen for the emperor, I will naturally have less time to deal with Mu Yunmeng. I don’t expect too much, I just want to be here
When the Queen Mother is angry, it will be enough to ask the Emperor to block the Queen Mother's anger for me. Can that be done?"
Ran Yunpo lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then nodded. "You should hide the truth from the Queen Mother first, and I will figure out the rest later."
"According to the decree."
Xi Honglei had a smile on her lips and was in a good mood. In this way, she could pretend to work for Shu Rumei and wander around the palace, but she also didn't have to perform that annoying task and had a lot of time to do her own things.
. Kill two birds with one stone, how can you not be happy?
Xi Honglei carefully concealed her pleasure. After Ran Yunpo asked her a few more questions and wanted to send her away, Xi Honglei asked: "Your Majesty, when will Prince Nanjun enter the palace these days?"
"You have something to do with him?" Ran Yunpo asked curiously after hearing Xi Honglei call Ran Yunhao by name.
"It's just a personal matter with Prince Nanjun." Xi Honglei answered Ran Yunpo vaguely, making Ran Yunpo feel a little irritable for no reason.
Ran Yunpo waved his hand and asked Xi Honglei to leave. Xi Honglei walked out of Ran Yunpo's palace and sighed heavily.
Mu Yunmeng was right, in terms of scheming, Ran Yunpo was not as good as Ran Yunhao.
The reason why Xi Honglei didn't kill Mu Yunmeng in the first place, or whether he became suspicious, or why he left Mu Yunmeng and went to the palace to look for Ran Yunpo, was just because of Jin Yu's words.
When Jin Yu was supposed to meet Ran Yunhao for the first time, she accidentally said something that shocked Xi Honglei.
Jinyu said that it turned out that he was the prince of Xuanxuan Kingdom.
After Xi Honglei asked again and again, she found out that Jin Yu had met Ran Yunhao a long time ago. Moreover, it was in Xixi Kingdom with Qiu Shitian.
How did Ran Yunhao meet Qiu Shitian? They had only one common goal, and that was Mu Yunmeng. So Xi Honglei had to doubt this matter.
It is impossible for Ran Yunhao and others to know the entrance to Fengyun Villa, but Qiu Shitian may know it. The valley where Qiu Shitian lives is so close to Fengyun Villa. Qiu Shitian's martial arts are unpredictable, and he has been tracking Mu Yunmeng for so many years.
Even if you know Mu Yunmeng's hiding place, it's not impossible, isn't it? Qiu Shitian can be regarded as an old-timer in the world, and he may have studied the gossip about the maze, right...?