When Chen Yuwei delivered the list of people leaving the palace to the eastern tour group, Consort Jia's illness was already quite obvious.
She was practically unable to get out of bed. Even if others didn't know what was going on, they could deduce something from her by paying attention to her condition.
What can we deduce? That Consort Jia is dying and will most likely never be able to return to the palace.
"Oh dear, I thought the first one to be in trouble would be our Empress, but I didn't expect Consort Jia to be in such a serious condition. I didn't notice it before."
Consort Chun patted her chest while gloating over Consort Jia's illness.
Anyway, Consort Jia and she didn't get along well; back then, Consort Jia even threatened her to get the secret formula for having a child.
snort!
Consort Chun thought to herself that she would remember this grudge for the rest of her life, unless Consort Jia was killed off.
Consort Xian, who was forced to listen to Consort Chun's complaints, was speechless.
Why is it that Consort Chun always seems to be causing trouble everywhere? Didn't she think there was something wrong with her side a few days ago, and that the Empress was trying to frame Yongrong? Why is she now gossiping about Consort Jia, who has nothing to do with this?
Consort Xian couldn't understand Consort Chun's thought process, but that didn't stop Consort Xian from disliking Consort Chun.
He told Consort Chun to be more careful with her words and not to say anything ambiguous, as it would not do her any good if others overheard it.
Consort Chun: ...
Consort Chun curled her lip and thought to herself that Consort Xian liked this kind of pretentious thing. Earlier when she was speaking, Consort Xian did not listen very carefully, but now she was starting to talk about her problems again.
snort!
If you ask Consort Chun, they shouldn't worry too much about this or that, since the Emperor can't hear them anyway.
“The Emperor may not hear, but he will see,” Consort Xian was furious at Consort Chun’s dismissive attitude. She glared at her and then turned to talk about Yongrong’s situation.
Although Yongrong unfortunately fell ill during his eastern tour, his condition gradually improved, and he slowly recovered his health under the care of the imperial physicians.
Consort Xian intended to take this opportunity to purge some of the servants around Yongrong.
This can be seen as Consort Xian taking the lead in yielding, since it was Consort Xian who proposed the cleanup, so it's only natural that more of Consort Xian's people would leave than Consort Chun's.
With one side gaining at the expense of the other, this matter is definitely in the best interest of Consort Chun.
Consort Chun had no objection, but she asked, "Wouldn't it be inappropriate for us to change people on the road?"
The main problem was that there was no one to replace them on the road; they couldn't just pick people from the palaces and villas they passed by.
That would certainly provide enough manpower, and we wouldn't be afraid that the selected people would be spies for someone else, but some rules and regulations would definitely be quite different.
Consort Chun was quite fussy in this regard, and she didn't want her own child to suffer any loss easily.
Yongrong's status dictates that she should be a servant in the Forbidden City; she doesn't want anything better outside.
Consort Xian: ...She's really spoiled. She doesn't know her own worth after having a son.
Sure enough, we still need to get rid of this troublesome mother and son as soon as possible.
Consort Xian had already decided to have her own child, especially since the Empress's health condition gave her hope of rising to the throne.
The fact that the emperor allowed the empress to give birth at an advanced age must be because he longed for a legitimate son.
In that case, as long as she becomes empress, the emperor will make her bear children.
When she has her own child, Consort Xian will not care about an adopted son who already has a biological mother.
While Consort Chun openly wants to eliminate the servants around Yongrong, Consort Xian intends to erase her own traces little by little.
She couldn't be too obvious, nor could she remain inactive; Consort Xian had to probe slowly and leave herself an escape route as much as possible.
"Consort Chun, do you really want Yongrong to continue to fall ill and suffer on the road because of those servants?"
"Don't you understand why Yongrong managed to escape death this time?"
Is Yongrong's physical safety more important, or are other so-called face-saving matters?
Consort Xian felt that Consort Chun sometimes couldn't distinguish these things, which was why she always suffered losses.
Consort Xian had warned Consort Chun before that this kind of mentality was completely unacceptable, fearing that she would suffer a great loss if she tried to gain a small advantage.
Unfortunately, Consort Chun was stubborn and inflexible, and quite clueless.
No matter whether Consort Xian gave subtle hints or directly reminded her, Consort Chun was able to ignore them and focus on herself.
Later, Consort Xian simply ignored Consort Chun and resigned herself to her fate, thinking that as long as it didn't affect her, she would just go along with whatever the other party wanted.
Looking back now, Consort Xian felt deep regret. She should have acted sooner to bring the person back, otherwise there wouldn't be so many troublesome problems now.
Consort Chun had no idea that in just a few words, she had become a prime example of wrongdoing in Consort Xian's mind.
Consort Chun was still pondering Consort Xian's suggestion to replace him. Of course, she didn't want her own son to continue suffering; he was her own son, connected by blood.
Yongrong's illness this time almost scared Consort Chun half to death.
If it happened again, Consort Chun couldn't even imagine whether she could sleep peacefully again.
Finally, after being reminded by Consort Xian, Consort Chun reluctantly agreed to replace some of the servants around Yongrong.
However, Consort Chun agreed reluctantly, and Consort Xian handled the matter rather poorly.
After all, this whole affair was originally Consort Xian's way of trying to curry favor with Consort Jia, but the latter not only showed no gratitude, but also appeared extremely unwilling.
Tsk, this makes it seem like Consort Xian is quite impatient.
Fortunately, the final result was good; the servants around Yongrong, especially those of Consort Xian, were successfully removed.
To appease these people, Consort Xian gave them a considerable sum of money as severance pay and handled the aftermath of the matter very well.
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