For attempting to harm the concubines, it is not an exaggeration to demote them to the position of imperial concubines, and it is not considered a hardship to punish them by copying the palace rules a hundred times.

She was unwilling to give up, so she used her leg injury as an excuse to have her mother brought into the palace.

Fan Qing was still in jail because he flirted with many girls. The Fan family had hoped that Fan Lianrong would rise to a higher position and rescue their precious son, but she was demoted instead of being promoted.

So instead of taking good care of the child, Mrs. Fan went back home angrily.

Commander-in-Chief Fan Zhan is a daughter slave. When he heard that Fan Lianrong injured her leg and was punished, especially that she had not met Chu Younan many times until now, he immediately had other ideas.

His power alone was limited, so he found Jiang Bai.

"Prime Minister Jiang, I heard that your daughter was demoted to a concubine and was locked up in the palace?" Fan Zhan was a straightforward man and got straight to the point.

If he couldn't beat him, Jiang Bai really wanted to beat him up. Don't hit someone in the face, don't expose someone's shortcomings when you scold them, doesn't he know this simple truth? "I heard that your daughter was also demoted to a concubine, it's the same for us!" Jiang Bai said sarcastically.

Fan Zhan really beat him, and he could beat him anyway.

After the fight, Fan Zhan panted and explained his purpose, "I'm not here to mock you. Your daughter is in the temporary palace, so it's nothing to follow her into the cold palace..."

"Shut up!" Jiang Bai glared at him with a line of blood dripping from his nose. If this wasn't a mockery, what was it? Fan Zhan wasn't the kind of person who would shut up just because he was told to. He continued, "It's no different from being sent to the cold palace..."

Bang! Jiang Bai picked up the vase next to him and threw it over.

Fan Zhan managed to escape, but he was furious, so he fought with Jiang Bai again.

This time Jiang Bai had two lines of nosebleed.

Fan Zhan finally finished his words, "Instead of this, why don't we go see the queen together and bring our daughter home."

Jiang Bai's brain started to work at high speed. Jiang Ruijin was imprisoned in the palace, and her life was ruined. It would be better to bring her back. No matter which family she was married to, it would not be a wasted move.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Jiang Bai looked at him with two lines of blood flowing from his nose.

Fan Zhan also glared at him, "You didn't let me say it! Anyway, if this is successful, you have to help me with my son's matter!"

Jiang Bai agreed, and the two of them tidied themselves up and entered the palace together.

Although Jiang Bai changed his clothes, the bruise on his nose was still faintly visible, which made Su Bei want to laugh.

The two's proposal was actually what she wanted, but she couldn't agree so easily. So she deliberately made a bitter face and said, "You were the ones who proposed this talent show, and you were also the ones who proposed taking me back. Tell me, how can you be so fickle!"

Jiang Bai spoke eloquently, "We didn't want the talent show in the first place, it was just the Queen Mother who put pressure on us..." Since the Queen Mother was not around, he could just push it around.

But Su Bei knew that his words were half true and half false.

Ruan Tianyao had made the proposal, but these ministers were very enthusiastic and all wanted their daughters to become imperial consorts, and some even wanted her to become the queen.

She still remembered that after Jiang Rujin was named Concubine Jin, Jiang Bai's old face almost smiled like a chrysanthemum.

She hated this old guy from the bottom of her heart! But she remained calm, "My mother is just going to recuperate. She will come back eventually. If she knows that I sent the concubine back home, I'm afraid she will punish me."

"I will take care of it! I will take care of it!"

Jiang Bai and Fan Zhan pretended to kneel.

Su Bei didn't want to have uncles or grandfathers kneel down to him, for fear of shortening his life.

"Okay, okay, I agree, but..." She pretended to be innocent, "We have to write a written agreement to avoid the Queen Mother not believing it."

Jiang Bai and Fan Zhan were in a difficult situation and had no choice but to agree.

However, after the written agreement was completed, Su Bei did not release her. Instead, he said, "How about this? You can ask around to see if there is anyone who wants to take their daughter back. Don't come every other day. I will be busy with this all day."

Jiang Bai pretended to agree.

With Chu Younan away, Chu Youyang was forced to do the job again and had to get up early every day to preside over the morning court.

After the morning court session, Jiang Bai deliberately asked the cabinet minister Yin Ruqing, who knew that the other party was full of surprise, "Can you really take her home?"

"Alas! It's been so long, and the emperor hasn't summoned any of them. It's better to take her home!" Jiang Bai sighed. His daughter is home. What if Yin Ruqing's daughter can have any success? In the future, won't he be suppressed by Yin Ruqing? Yin Ruqing learned the good news and immediately told his friends about it. As a result, the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and the news spread throughout the capital.

At first, half of them wanted to take their daughters back. Later, some of those who did not want to take their daughters back also planned to take their daughters back because they were afraid that people would accuse them of selling their daughters for fame and fortune. Later, the few who really wanted to sell their daughters for fame and fortune found that this approach was not feasible and thought they should find another way.

Su Bei received a large stack of women's books that day, and the entire palace seemed to be hosting a grand event with a lot of people talking and chatting.

Almost all the concubines had been taken away. Needless to say, Bei Yanming was still on the way, so naturally no one came to pick up Bei Danzhu.

But the second branch of the Ruan family was unwilling to take people in, which made Su Bei very puzzled.

Poor Ruan Qingyue, she had to watch other people’s families reunite but she could only stay in this huge cage.

"Or... I'll send someone to your house to ask? Maybe they have something wrong..." Su Bei looked at her sympathetically.

Ruan Qingyue knelt down in front of her and said, "Please forgive me, Madam!"

"This... means you don't want to leave the palace?" Su Bei's mouth twitched. He really didn't realize that this guy who didn't dare to say a word even after being hit was actually the most meticulous one.

Ruan Qingyue quickly shook her head like a rattle, "No, no, no! You misunderstood! It's not like that!"

"Your Highness... No, I guess this decision should be made jointly by the three branches of the Ruan family. After all, the Queen Mother is from the Ruan family, so the Ruan family may want the Ruan family to have another imperial concubine..."

In fact, according to Ruan Qingyue's guess, the Ruan family should want a queen, but she didn't dare to say it.

Although she didn't dare to say it, Su Bei thought of it.

It seems that many palace fighting dramas are played out like this, where the empress dowager insists on making her own woman the queen, after all, the queen holds all the power.

This is a bit difficult.

Ruan Qingyue hurriedly said, "I know that the emperor loves you so much that I dare not have any improper thoughts, so I ask to enter the nunnery and stay there forever!"

This is a bit too cruel...

She is also a pure and innocent girl!

Su Bei scratched his head, and after a moment he said, "You should stay in the palace first, and we'll talk about it after the emperor comes back."

Ruan Qingyue agreed.

Su Bei suddenly remembered another thing. It seemed that he hadn’t seen Ruan Ningyun for a long time, and no one came to pick her up today. Could it be that this person had secretly run away from the palace?

She naturally didn't know that Ruan Ningyun was still staying in the palace as a dancer.

Ruan Ningyun originally planned to find an opportunity to return to the palace, but it was not that easy. She had lived there for so long, doing hard labor, and finally figured out the way to leave the palace.

After leaving the palace, she headed all the way to the capital, thinking only of going to Chu Younan, competing for his favor, becoming his concubine, giving birth to a prince, and becoming the queen...

But as soon as she entered the capital, she was targeted by Fan Qing who had just come out.