Chapter 366 The Queen Mother Returns to the Palace
After the banquet was over, the emperor left Jin Zhaoyi to enjoy the dance.
Something big happened the next day.
It turned out that the emperor was drunk and favored Jin Zhaoyi, and now he made Jin Zhaoyi his concubine.
"I have only been in the palace for a few days, and now I have been given the title of concubine!?" Concubine De was so shocked that she almost dropped the Buddhist beads in her hand. She turned to Concubine Li in shock and asked, "Is this absolutely true?"
"Is there still a lie?" The look on Li Fei's face was also wonderful. It's not like she couldn't dance. She had spent so much time thinking about the emperor over the years. When had she caught the emperor's eye?
"How many people have seen the concubine come out of the emperor's palace with their own eyes?" Concubine Li said coldly with a stern face: "I specially sent people to inquire. The emperor consecrated the concubine this morning. Wang Chengxiang revealed that the emperor was drunk last night.
, then..."
"The emperor has never been drunk before, why did he make such a fuss this time?" Concubine De didn't feel jealous at all, only full of disgust.
"Does the Queen know about this?" Concubine De asked worriedly.
"I didn't know earlier, but now I know it." Li Fei said silently.
"It's not good, it's not good! The queen will give the concubine to... to..." The little eunuch who broke into the house had a trembling voice, as if he was frightened and couldn't understand.
Concubine De and Concubine Li kept asking with trembling hearts, "What's wrong with the Queen?"
The little eunuch said with a mournful face: "The queen hung the concubine at the entrance of Fengwu Palace. When I went to see it, the concubine was almost beaten to death!"
Concubine De and Concubine Li took a deep breath when they heard this, and hurried towards Fengwu Palace without any more words.
When we arrived at the entrance of Fengwu Palace, we were dizzy by the overwhelming smell of blood.
Yi Bin was covered in blood and was hung with her hands tied at the entrance of Fengwu Palace. The ground was covered with bright red blood. This scene was really horrifying. For a moment, people couldn't tell where the blood on Yi Bin's body was.
Is it your own or someone else's.
Concubine De's face turned pale, and she asked someone to ask about the situation tremblingly.
Only then did I learn that this was the chicken blood that the Queen had someone pour on her, just to mock the pheasant who wanted to become a phoenix.
So he humiliated her in this way, but in reality he just whipped her twice, not beating her to death.
"Si Ningchi! Do you really think I have to be you!" The emperor's roar shocked everyone in the palace and their expressions changed.
Before he could hear what the emperor and empress were arguing about, he saw Zhao Zongheng opening the door and walking out with an angry face. He waved his sleeves extremely angrily and said: "The queen seems to be crazy! From now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave Fengwu Palace.
!Don’t disturb the queen’s treatment!”
Zhao Zongheng's face was tense and he ordered the imperial doctor next to him: "Treat the queen well and make sure that the emperor's son in the queen's belly is fine."
"Come here! Surround Fengwu Palace!" Following Zhao Zongheng's order, Concubine De and the others were blocked outside the palace gate without even seeing the queen.
"Your Majesty, please wait!" Concubine De and the others hurriedly came forward to plead for Siningchi: "Please calm down your Majesty, the Queen may also be angry for a moment..."
"The Queen and the Emperor have been in love for many years, and now they are pregnant with an heir. Please think twice!"
"Humph!" Zhao Zongheng's expression remained unchanged, he looked at Concubine De and the others and said, "I just pampered her too much, which is why she is doing whatever she wants now."
"You don't need to say more, I am doing this for the Queen's benefit."
Zhao Zongheng didn't listen to another word, so he waved his hand to have the gate of Fengwu Palace closed, and then took the concubine away in person.
Concubine De and others felt their hearts tremble when they saw the mess on the ground and the day when the guards surrounded the gate of Fengwu Palace.
Concubine Li even murmured: "In the past, I always felt that our emperor was so devoted that he could not look down upon any of the concubines in the Sixth Courtyard of the Palace, and he showed all kinds of favors to the Queen..."
"It's only been a few years now." Li Fei said with a complex expression: "Sure enough, any man can change his heart, but he just hasn't met the person who makes him change his heart."
"The Queen...is the most pitiful one."
This statement is indeed true. Whether it is a concubine of virtue or a concubine of Shu, she has never been favored by the emperor, and naturally she has not fallen in love with the emperor.
But the queen is different. Those who have gained and lost are the ones who suffer the most.
Concubine De tightened her sleeves and stood for a while before turning around and leading everyone away.
As the gate of Fengwu Palace was closed, no one knew what the queen's current situation was. However, because of this incident, everyone in the palace saw clearly that the emperor and empress were separated from each other, and the concubine suddenly became the most important person in the palace.
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The day of mourning for the late Emperor is approaching.
Some ministers in the court came forward and said that the late emperor's blessing was needed for important matters involving the emperor's heir.
The implication behind the words is that there may be something wrong with the ancestral tomb due to the thinness of the emperor's heirs.
Therefore, we strongly discouraged the emperor from going to the imperial mausoleum in person to worship the late emperor and seek the blessings of his ancestors in the hope of giving birth to a legitimate son as soon as possible and continuing the royal bloodline.
At first, Zhao Zongheng didn't take these words to heart, but then, for some unknown reason, the courtiers made comments one after another, and even made a fuss about the queen's eldest prince who had died young, which completely angered the emperor, and he finally agreed to the matter.
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"I finally waited until today." Si Ningchi seemed to be under lockdown, but in fact he was well aware of the movements in the DPRK.
"It's not in vain for me to do this scene." Si Ningchi smiled happily.
Her guess was indeed correct. Although Mrs. Cui left the capital, she was indispensable in the palace and court.
The seemingly useless Queen Mother can firmly hold the position of successor, but is she really a fool?
Great wisdom is like foolishness.
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Si Ningchi calmly caressed his bulging belly and smiled very gently.
The trip to the imperial mausoleum was extremely smooth. When the emperor was worshiping the late emperor, Cui Taiwen actually showed up. She was extremely haggard and had lost a lot of energy. The imperial mausoleum was spotless and the incense candles were bright. Someone came out to cry and complained that the empress dowager treated her so harshly for the emperor. It was really shocking.
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He also talked about the Queen Mother's feelings for the late Emperor, and someone asked the Emperor to ask the Queen Mother to return to the palace and enjoy her old age in peace.
Zhao Zongheng pretended to show a somewhat complicated expression and allowed Cui to return to the palace.
However, Zhao Zongheng did not make any big announcement, and only sent someone to pick up Empress Dowager Cui one ordinary afternoon.
"Every day is like a year." Ci'an Palace returned to its usual bustle. Empress Dowager Cui stood in front of the palace gate, looking up at the majestic and gorgeous palace in front of her. Her eyes were full of greed and joy, and her face was a little frosty.
It seems that this trip out of the palace has caused her to suffer a lot.
Empress Dowager Cui stepped into the palace, sat on the phoenix chair, caressed the pattern on the armrest at her hand, and sighed with great relief: "The Ai family is back again."
The palace servants around Queen Mother Cui stood with their heads bowed and did not dare to say anything.
"Is the palace okay while the Ai family is away?" Mrs. Cui raised her hand, picked up the tea cup and took a sip and asked quietly.