Chapter 219 The Building is about to collapse

Song Zhao stared at Xiao Jingheng's smiling eyes for a long while and was speechless for a moment.

It was Concubine Yao who smiled and said,

"Sister, are you too happy? You even forgot to thank me?"

Song Zhao came back to his senses and shook his head:

"Your Majesty... I have only been in the palace for a short time and have little experience. How can I be one of the four concubines? It would be better for me to..."

"No problem."

Before she could finish her excuse, Xiao Jingheng waved his hand to interrupt her.

"I said you deserve it, so you deserve it."

Then he pointed at Concubine Yao and said, "You are close to Concubine Yao, why don't you ask her?"

Yaopin was jealous, envious and sad.

But she still had a bright smile on her face and kept on giving compliments.

"Sister has contributed greatly to the birth of a noble son, and is greatly loved by the Emperor. She is worthy of being ranked among the Four Consorts."

Song Zhao lowered her eyebrows and pursed her lips, murmuring in a tender voice: "Even my sister makes fun of me..."

Xiao Jingheng held her in his arms, "It is now the end of September. Chengyu will celebrate his full moon next month. November 15th is an auspicious day, so I want to schedule your enthronement ceremony on that day. I will ask the people from the Imperial Household Department to tailor your clothes. Your enthronement ceremony must be held in a grand manner."

The clothes of ordinary concubines were basically made by the Sizhifang.

The Imperial Household Department was generally only responsible for the clothing of the emperor, the empress dowager, the empress, and the imperial concubines.

Even if she was to be canonized, Song Zhao was only given the title of a concubine. At this time, Xiao Jingheng asked the people in the Imperial Household Department to do everything for her personally, which showed his favor to Song Zhao.

Song Zhao knew that the key to resisting was to welcome it.

She had already rejected Jamel Xiao once, and if she rejected him again, it would only spoil his mood.

So she nodded shyly, snuggled in Xiao Jingheng's arms, and said softly:

"Everything is subject to the emperor's arrangements."

Yaopin said from the side: "Actually, if we want to talk about a good day, isn't the seventh day of October just right?"

She counted on her fingers and said, "That day is a lucky day in an auspicious year. If we can promote Sister Song to the position of imperial concubine at that time, and then hold the full moon ceremony for the noble son, Sister can attend as an imperial concubine, which is even better."

"That day has already been taken." Xiao Jingheng's expression was indifferent, and he just uttered a sentence as usual.

"I plan to officially enthrone Consort Chen as Imperial Consort on the seventh day of October."

As soon as these words were spoken, Concubine Yao's face suddenly became stiff and she remained silent.

Song Zhao still smiled as usual, "Congratulations to Her Majesty the Concubine."

In the past, the Imperial Household Department had tailored clothes for Concubine Chen, and the empress only guessed that Xiao Jingheng might be planning to promote her to Imperial Concubine.

But now the date of the enthronement has been set. In the afternoon of that day, the imperial edict to enthrone Concubine Chen as Imperial Concubine was also sent to Yonghe Palace. This has become a foregone conclusion.

When the concubines received this "good news", they did not dare to complain openly, but they were somewhat unhappy in their hearts.

When the Concubine Chen was still a concubine, she was already the most favored in the palace and was used to being domineering.

Now she has become a royal concubine, is pregnant with an heir, and holds the power to manage the six palaces.

I'm afraid she will be more glorious than the queen in the future...

The more successful she is, the harder life becomes for others.

However, this kind of scenery did not last for a few days.

On the third day of October, a major event occurred in the previous dynasty.

After Xiao Fuzi got the news, she immediately rushed back to the palace and told Song Zhao about it.

"My queen, a big incident happened today!"

Song Zhao could not tell from his tone that there was any emergency, but instead heard a tone of gloating.

She asked: "The country is peaceful and the people are safe, what could possibly go wrong?"

Xiao Fuzi took two steps forward, smiled softly and said:

"Prince Rui and Concubine Chen's brother Ning Xiuqi had a conflict after court today for unknown reasons. The two of them actually fought on the long steps outside the Jinluan Palace!

Ning Xiuqi has been fighting on the battlefield with Ning Baichuan for many years, and has developed a strong body. How can King Rui be his opponent? I heard that the fight was so fierce that King Rui's arm was broken..."

"This..." Yunshan was surprised, "In the Imperial Forbidden Courtyard, under the feet of the Emperor, Prince Rui is a prince after all, is the brother of Concubine Chen really so arrogant?"

On the other hand, Song Zhao did not show any surprise, but just asked calmly,

"Have you found out? What did the palace maids say? Who started it first?"

Xiao Fuzi said, "It was Prince Rui who started it first."

The feud between Prince Rui and the Ning family did not just start in the past few days. (Chapters 139 and 140)

Earlier, Xiao Jingheng asked the Queen to deal with the peach trees at the Locust Gate because Song Zhao was allergic to peach pollen.

It happened that the Concubine Chen was assisting in managing the six palaces at that time, so the Queen deliberately threw this task to the Concubine Chen.

The Concubine Chen was so reckless that she ordered people to cut down all the peach trees.

The peach trees planted at the Zhisi Gate were planted by the late emperor himself for the mother of Prince Rui, Concubine Yu.

Concubine Yu was already weak and sickly. When she heard about this, she became so angry that her blood rushed to her head and she was angered to death.

After Xiao Jingheng learned about this, he just said it was an accident and asked people to bury Concubine Yu properly, but did not punish Concubine Chen.

But the hatred for killing one's mother is irreconcilable, and Prince Rui has always been an impulsive and vengeful person. How could he let the Ning family go easily?

When the enemies met today, their eyes were full of jealousy. They couldn't even exchange a few words before they started fighting.

Xiao Fuzi said that Xiao Jingheng was dealing with this matter at the moment, and he added with a gloating tone,

"The Concubine Chen is about to be named a noble concubine, but at this moment her brother has injured the Prince of Rui in the palace. If a minister attacks a prince, it is an offense to the Emperor's grace, which is a serious crime! I am afraid that the matter of conferring the title of a noble concubine will have to be postponed..."

"I don't think so."

Song Zhao lowered her head and continued to embroider pearls on Cheng Yu's tiger-head shoes.

"If you ask me, the emperor will not only not postpone the ceremony of conferring the title of Princess Chen, but he may even give their Ning family more glory."

Xiao Fuzi and Yunshan looked at each other, scratched their heads, and felt a little puzzled.

Song Zhao paused her sewing, raised her eyebrows and smiled coldly.

"Let me ask you, Prince Rui doesn't often attend court, and Ning Xiuqi is often away on military campaigns, so he doesn't come back to Beijing to report on his duties very often. Why did these two people who don't often go to court bump into each other in the front court today?"

Xiao Fuzi pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes flashed, "Madam, what you mean is..."

Before he could express his guess, Song Zhao nodded slightly and said:

"When the world is in turmoil, the generals who conquer the four corners of the country for the king become heroes. But if the world is peaceful, then the former heroes will naturally become the biggest threat to the king.

If I'm not mistaken, the emperor's recent series of actions are intended to push the Ning family's power to the peak.

When a building is about to collapse, it must be erected high up, so that it can be completely destroyed in one fell swoop, leaving not even a tile or a grain of sand behind.