Soon, an old woman roared from outside the palace: "Empress Chen, how dare you not let me enter the palace? My son just did a small thing wrong, and you are taking revenge on me like this!"
Li Guiji hadn't seen Wu Ying for a long time and felt guilty, so she asked someone to pass a letter to Madam Fengsheng in advance, asking her to come to the palace no matter what. Normally, Madam Fengsheng would always ask for this and that when she came to the palace, causing other concubines to laugh at her in private. Li Guiji, for the sake of face, seldom asked her mother to come to Yunguang Palace, but now she could not care less.
As soon as Lady Fengsheng entered the palace, she heard that Li Guiji was demoted to a noble lady by Concubine Chen because she framed the eldest prince. Madam Fengsheng was confused. Her son had only spread some gossip about the Concubine Chen. What did it have to do with the eldest prince? Besides, who among the people hadn't gossiped about others in private?
At first the old lady really didn't think it was a big deal, but her son's rank was demoted, so she wanted to argue with Concubine Chen, but she avoided her. As the emperor's wet nurse, she was turned away. Old lady Li felt very humiliated, and cried and howled. She took out a yellow rosewood longevity crutch, which was originally given by the empress dowager on her birthday. Old lady Li usually had to use it to show her power, but now she swung it and hit the eunuchs who would not let her enter the palace.
The unlucky eunuchs dared not offend either the Concubine Chen or the old lady, and thus suffered several beatings in vain.
Inside the palace, Wang Xingren whispered, "Master, Madam Fengsheng is the emperor's wet nurse after all, and she is old..."
Mu Ci glanced at him and said, "Move a chair out and call two doctors over to keep an eye on it."
Wang Xingren: “…”
The implication is that it was Madam Fengsheng who was making a fuss outside, and as long as the imperial physician kept an eye on it, nothing would go wrong.
Mu Ci always kept his word, and Wang Xingren was worried that he would offend Madam Fengsheng and displease the emperor, so he personally carried out a mahogany chair and a few cushions, and said with a smile: "The master is busy, if you are tired, please take a rest first."
He also had good intentions. It is said that you should not hit someone who smiles at you. But who would have thought that Old Lady Li would slap him in the face: "This lady was personally appointed by the Emperor. The Concubine Chen is just a concubine. How dare you not take this lady seriously! How dare you, a slave without any roots, come close to this lady!"
Wang Xingren followed the emperor and the concubine, and was also a well-known figure among the eunuchs in the harem. He was slapped unexpectedly and felt quite angry. He said coldly, "I dare not jump in front of Madam, but my master is the head of the harem and is in charge of the six palaces. Madam is old, so don't be too impulsive. This is the imperial palace, and making a fuss will not be good for Madam's reputation."
Wang Xingren signaled with his eyes, and the eunuchs helped Old Madam Li to sit on the chair. Old Madam Li spat and cursed like a shrew. Wang Xingren blushed a little when he heard it. He asked the imperial physician to wait by the side and went back to serve his master.
Old lady Li howled for a long time but no one paid any attention to her. She slid down from the chair and knelt on the ground. When the eunuch wanted to help her, she started crying and shouting, saying that if anyone dared to touch her, she would bite her tongue to commit suicide. The eunuch was so worried that he did not dare to approach her easily.
A noisy voice came in, and Mu Ci just said calmly: "Let her go, calm down and talk."
After all, Old Lady Li was old, and after crying and scolding for two times, she had little strength left. Mu Ci then left the hall and asked the eunuch to read out the palace rules that Li Guiji had violated.
Mrs. Li's hair was disheveled, several hairpins had fallen off, and she looked dusty and couldn't believe it: "You lied to me, how could my son be like this?"
When Mu Ci confronted Li Guiji, a eunuch recorded Li Guiji's confession. Mu Ci ordered someone to hand the record to Old Lady Li, who shook her head and said, "I can't read."
Mu Ci asked someone to read it, but Old Lady Li still said stubbornly, "It's impossible. You must be jealous and framed me!"
Wang Xingren, who was standing by, was almost laughing out of anger and couldn't help but said, "The master is above the four concubines and is deeply favored by the emperor. Is it worth it to be jealous of him?"
Old Mrs. Li's eyes rolled. She was sure that the eunuch was holding evidence that was unfavorable to her son. She took advantage of the eunuch's unpreparedness, snatched the confession, rolled it up, stuffed it into her mouth, and swallowed it.
Old Mrs. Li shouted, "You have no evidence, it's just slander!"
Mu Ci: “…”
The corners of Mu Ci's lips twitched, and he ordered someone to bring a few more confessions. Such an important thing would definitely not be given to anyone without keeping a copy.
Mu Ci raised his eyebrows and seemed to be asking, what?
When old lady Li saw this, she tried to snatch it again. This time the eunuchs were smart and the old lady couldn’t snatch it. She could only gasp and glare at Mu Ci angrily.
Li Guiji was demoted to a noble lady. All of Li Guiji's belongings in Yunguang Palace were checked and moved out of the palace. Mu Ci ordered people to close the palace door and wanted to return to Zhaoyang Palace. Old Lady Li shouted at the top of her lungs: "I am the Empress Fengsheng appointed by the Emperor himself. I want to ask the Emperor to make the decision. Concubine Chen, you wait for me..."
Mu Ci glanced at her indifferently and said, "I will follow the palace rules. Madam Fengsheng, please do as you please."
When Mu Ci was about to leave, Ye An arrived and killed him. Although old lady Li was old, her eyesight was still very good. When she saw the black dragon robe floating over, she suddenly had the energy to cry and wailed. She kowtowed like crazy, with tears and snot streaming down her face.
"Your Majesty, I have never been humiliated like this before. Please forgive me for not being able to serve you anymore..."
Ye An felt a little embarrassed. What Old Lady Li said made it sound as if he was still drinking someone else's milk.
Ye An's head hurt from the howling. He rubbed his forehead and asked Li Yao to help old lady Li up, wipe her face and comb her hair. Seeing the imperial physician beside him, he asked the physician to come over and take her pulse. The physician whispered to him that although the old lady looked as if she was about to die of rage, she was actually in very good health. Ye An also knew that.
After Li Yao's beating, Old Lady Li thought she had won. She glared at Mu Ci fiercely and said to Ye An, "I beg the Emperor to make a decision for me and my son!"
Ye An found it funny that the old woman actually dared not mention the rumor spread by Li Guiji.
Oh, I heard that you have been demoted to a noble? Just surrender if you want. It's not too much to banish him to the cold palace for daring to harm Brother Aci and Doudou. Does Mrs. Li really want him to make the decision?
Ye An said solemnly, "Madam Fengsheng, I already knew before I came here that Concubine Li was demoted because she framed the eldest son of the emperor. The evidence is irrefutable. You came to me crying for your son and begged me to make a decision. But my son was smeared for no reason. Who should I ask to make a decision?"
Old Madam Li shrank back and said, "Your Majesty, he didn't mean it. Isn't the eldest prince fine? Besides, I have said bad things about people in private before, so this is nothing..."
As time went on, her voice became lower and lower, which also showed that she was not very confident.
"It's nothing?" Ye An sneered, "I can tell Madam Fengsheng that I want to make the eldest son the crown prince. He is the future king. Since Madam Fengsheng thinks that framing the prince is nothing, then framing the king must be something."
Old Mrs. Li rolled her eyes and almost fainted. Did the emperor mean that her son was deceiving the emperor?
Old Lady Li boasted that she could understand the emperor's temper very well. Relying on the fact that she had nursed the young emperor for a few days, she had brought benefits to her family over the years. She even begged the empress dowager to send her son to the palace. She still dreams that her son might become the queen. Although she would visit the emperor from time to time to remind him not to forget his kindness, she actually knew very well in her heart that everything she had was given by the emperor and she must not anger him.
Therefore, Ye An's face sank, and Mrs. Li immediately became timid, fearing that the emperor would kick her son out of the palace, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if my son really made a mistake, I won't say anything, but the concubine humiliated me, and also humiliated you, Your Majesty..."
Old Lady Li felt that the wet nurse was after all a mother, and the emperor should protect her. The reason why she did not make the decision for her son was because her son was asking for trouble. It was not good to gossip about others about the future crown prince. The emperor and the crown prince could not afford to offend them. However, the concubine Chen was just a concubine, and in an ordinary family she would be just a concubine. Who would upset his mother because of a concubine?
Old Mrs. Li thought that she could save some face by concentrating on filing a complaint against the Concubine Chen.
Ye An glanced at Mu Ci and asked, "How did he humiliate you?"
Old Mrs. Li choked and lied, "He, he pushed me to the ground..."
Wang Xingren complained to his master, angrily saying, "Your Majesty, what Madam Fengsheng said is untrue. The eunuchs outside the Yunguang Palace and the imperial physician can all testify to this. The master was a good thirty feet away from Madam Fengsheng, and he only said two or three words to her. There were a bunch of eunuchs in between, so how could he possibly push her! Not only did he not push her, the master even specially ordered the servants to bring a chair to Madam Fengsheng, because Madam Fengsheng had been making a scene, and he was afraid that she would get tired out."
Ye An couldn't help but laugh. Mu Ci glanced at him with his dark eyes, and Ye An immediately tightened his abdomen and lifted his hips.
The eunuchs and the imperial physicians all echoed the sentiment. Ye An also knew that Old Madam Li was in good health. He coughed lightly and refuted the clumsy lie himself: "Madam Fengsheng, you probably don't know that my beloved concubine is a skilled martial artist. If she really pushed you, I guess your old bones wouldn't last until I come."
Ye An suddenly came up with an idea and found a new nickname for Brother A Ci, "Beloved Concubine". Feeling a little itchy, he couldn't help but cast a wink at him, but Mu Ci ruthlessly glared at him.
Ye Xiaoan, what the hell is my beloved concubine!
Old Madam Li was unwilling to give in and said, "Your Majesty, maybe I remembered it wrongly, but it is true that he sent people to stop me from entering the Yunguang Palace!"
Ye An asked Mu Ci in a pretentious manner: "Concubine Chen, why don't you let her enter the palace?"
When Ye An heard that Mu Ci stopped the old lady, he guessed that Mu Ci was prepared.
Mu Ci explained the whole story in one sentence: "Madam Fengsheng did not hand over the card today."
Old Madam Li shouted, "I'm coming to my son's territory, do I need your permission?!"
Normally, she goes wherever she wants, right?
Old Mrs. Li didn't know, mainly because the Empress Dowager didn't pursue the matter because she was old and was the emperor's wet nurse. However, if she didn't hand over the card, the Empress Dowager would definitely not see her. Old Mrs. Li ran back and forth several times in vain, and she didn't even react.
Mu Ci smiled and said, "Madam Fengsheng, please be careful with your words. Do you know that the whole world belongs to the king?"
The entire palace belongs to the emperor. Saying in front of the emperor that Yunguang Palace is his son's territory is probably because he is afraid that Concubine Li has not lowered herself low enough.
Old Madam Li said, "Empress Chen, please stop talking so much. I don't understand you. You're contemptuous of the Emperor by trapping me outside!"
"...Enough!" Ye An could not allow her to slander Mu Ci, and said angrily, "The Concubine Chen followed the rules and did nothing wrong. But you, Madam Fengsheng, you disregard the palace rules and act recklessly in the palace, which is a contempt for me."
"Your Majesty!" Old Lady Li exclaimed, "How could you ..."
How can you speak for a concubine? !
Ye An said, "Madam Li, I conferred the title on you out of gratitude for your kindness in raising me, not to allow you to cause trouble. Now it seems that I have indulged you too much. Today I will take back the title I gave you, as a punishment for forgetting your duty. I hope you understand that it is not that I am ungrateful, but that you have gone too far."
"Take it back?"
The emperor said a lot, but Old Lady Li only heard two words clearly. She suddenly felt that the world was spinning. Could it be that she would lose the title of Madam Fengsheng?
"Your Majesty, you——"
The old lady opened her mouth to howl, and Ye An immediately said, "I haven't finished speaking yet, shut her mouth."
Wang Xingren hurried forward and blocked the blockage with swift hands and feet. He had wanted to do this for a long time.
Ye An said: "I will still allocate money for your family's food and clothing every month, and I won't make your life too difficult. But you don't have to come to the palace anymore, and you don't have to ask for this or that. I won't make decisions for you anymore, you can do whatever you want."
Ye An finished speaking and motioned Wang Xingren to let go. Old Lady Li just cried out, and Ye An said impatiently: "If you cry one more time, I will deduct a year's salary."
When the old lady heard that the title was gone and the money was gone too, she quickly covered her mouth and shed tears silently.
She had been poor for the first half of her life, and she couldn't be without money. After all, she still had a son in the palace. If she couldn't rely on the emperor, she could still rely on her son...
Ye An waved his sleeves and said to Li Yao, "Send the old lady out of the palace."
Li Yao obeyed the order. At this time, the eunuch of Changle Palace came running to convey the Queen Mother's order. Old Mrs. Li stopped crying immediately, and her eyes flashed with hope. The Queen Mother must have come to save her!
But as soon as the Empress Dowager's decree came out, the old lady collapsed to the ground.
The Concubine Chen only demoted Li Guiji to a noble lady, and the Empress Dowager then demoted Li Guiren to a commoner. Commoners are nothing and have no place in the palace. Considering that Li is the emperor's wet nurse and misses her son dearly, she can take her son back.
Now she had no hope even for her son. Old Mrs. Li was really anxious and fainted with a "bang".
In Changle Palace, the Queen Mother personally held a piece of vegetarian dessert and kept teasing the little prince who was lying on the carpet. Doudou failed countless times but finally got the direction right. Using his hands and feet, he bravely crawled over and grabbed the dessert in his mouth.
The Queen Mother hugged her chubby grandson and snorted in her heart: Whoever dares to harm my Doudou, I will make him pay for it!
Ye An chased after Mu Ci and wanted to explain what "beloved concubine" meant. It should be "my beloved concubine" instead of "my most beloved concubine". The difference of one word has a different meaning. Mu Ci felt that Ye Xiaoan was too shameless to make love with him in broad daylight, and wanted to pretend to ignore him, but when Ye An wasn't noticing, he secretly raised his lips.
But the next moment, he showed a look of worry. Li Guiji had been dealt with, but when he ordered a search of the Yunguang Palace, the eunuchs did not find a single golden bead.
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Tomorrow is Children's Day. I will give red envelopes to those who comment on this chapter. Let's celebrate the festival together with Doudou!
It's almost the climax, I'm a little nervous QAQ
After this article is finished and before I start writing Toffee, I want to write a short story about a parallel world with less than 30,000 words. It will include nipple stickers, Xiao An and many other characters. I will probably write a special collection of stories. I won’t be v-ed. I wonder if anyone will read it QAQ~
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