Chapter 313 Wei Yanwan 53
After finishing the business, Wei Yanwan stood up with a tactful look, intending to leave. However, Jin Bao walked in and said that Lady Chu's maid Liuyun was outside asking to see her.
Hongli was obviously impatient, but still let her in.
Liuyun walked in and found that the imperial concubine was also there. She hurriedly saluted them and said, "Your servant greets the emperor and the imperial concubine."
"Get up, why did Concubine Chu send you here?"
Liuyun glanced at the imperial concubine and gritted her teeth before saying, "Our master has been feeling depressed lately because of the loss of her child. She also feels ashamed to face the emperor. I'm afraid the emperor will also be sad about the child, so I personally made purple ginseng and black chicken soup and asked this servant to bring it to you."
"Lady Chu is thoughtful. Please put down the soup."
Hongli waved his hand casually, clearly unmoved. Wei Yanwan, who was standing by, did speak up for Concubine Chu, but only briefly. Seeing that Hongli clearly didn't want to pay attention, she bowed and left.
After coming out of the Yangxin Palace, Liuyun fell dejectedly behind the imperial concubine, his mind full of how to tell his master in order not to make her more sad. He did not pay attention to the threshold under his feet and was almost knocked down.
Fortunately, Lan Cui was nearby and quickly reached out to help. She cursed, "You're courting death! You dare not even look where you're going at the entrance to the Yangxin Palace? I'll see what you'll do if you bump into the Imperial Concubine."
"Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
Liuyun quickly knelt down and was about to kowtow. Yanwan waved her hand and asked Chunlei to help her up. "Alright, alright, you're so frightened. Lan Cui is just good at talking. I won't bother with a little maid like you. Go back and take care of your Concubine Chu."
After saying that, she asked Chunlei to take out a handful of candy for her, and then left in the sedan chair without waiting for her to thank her.
Liuyun stood there holding the candy, the wind still carrying the conversation between the master and servant to his ears:
"Your Majesty is always so gentle, and she's not afraid of those little villains getting ahead of her."
"I don't think that child is that kind of person. Besides, Concubine Chu is also a pitiful person. Alas... It's not easy for anyone in this palace. Concubine Yu has made a big mistake..."
The sedan chair moved very fast, and soon she could no longer hear it. Liuyun's eyes turned red, and she hurriedly lowered her head to pick up a piece of honey.
“Hmm…”
I thought it was just ordinary cane sugar, but it tasted like a faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.
“It’s delicious.”
The little girl wrapped the remaining candies in a handkerchief, put them carefully into her plain purse, and hurried back to Chuxiu Palace.
As soon as she entered Concubine Chu's bedroom, she was greeted by a strong, bitter aroma. Liuyun carefully pierced the curtains, only to see the once lively and graceful beauty on the bed reduced to a skeleton, her pale face shrunken, and her once endearing deer eyes now frighteningly large.
Seeing her come in and kneel beside the bed, Concubine Chu quickly held her hand and asked, "Have you invited the emperor?"
"This servant is useless..."
Before Liuyun could finish her words, Concubine Chu already understood what she meant and immediately fell back onto the bed. "I am useless and cannot protect the child. The Emperor naturally does not want to see me in this ugly state. My child is no match for the Empress's auspicious appearance."
"Master, please don't be like this. The Emperor is simply busy with government affairs... Even the Imperial Concubine didn't stay in the Yangxin Palace for long."
"Noble Concubine? The Noble Concubine is blessed, Jiapin is also blessed, and the Queen is the most blessed. Ha, the people around her can't harm the piece of meat in her belly. She is really lucky."
Concubine Chu sighed and returned to her previous self-pitying look, waving her hand to let Liuyun leave.
Liuyun knelt beside the bed, feeling extremely anxious. Their mistress had been refusing to eat or drink since her miscarriage, and only today had she finally mustered the courage to ask the Emperor back. And then there was the matter of Concubine Yu... Concubine Yu!
Got it!
Liuyun suddenly remembered what he had just heard and quickly leaned over to Concubine Chu and whispered, "My dear, please cheer up, otherwise how can you avenge the young prince?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"On the way back, I heard the Imperial Concubine chatting with her maid. She mentioned that the Emperor's punishment for Concubine Yu was just confinement, and she didn't even have her rank demoted."
"How is this possible? She was practicing the art of warding off evil in the palace, and the Emperor just let her go like that?"
Liuyun also felt that this punishment was too lenient, but seeing that his master was in high spirits, he naturally said whatever came to his mind: "Master, think about it, it is precisely because Concubine Yu did such a shameful thing, would the emperor want others to know about it?"
"Besides, after all, she didn't succeed. Plus, the Empress kept pleading. Now, the entire harem combined can't match the Empress's position in the Emperor's heart. Once she pleads, even the Imperial Concubine can't do anything."
"Queen, I really don't know what she's thinking. If this happened to me, I would tear her into pieces to relieve my hatred!"
Concubine Chu gritted her teeth, wishing she could pounce on Concubine Yu and bite this evil woman to death.
"That's right. If Concubine Yu hadn't done such a shameful thing, there wouldn't have been any disturbance in the palace. The Empress and the others wouldn't have started a fight on the same day, and you wouldn't have lost your child because of your caution."
"Concubine Yu, I will never let her go!"
The listless air on Concubine Chu disappeared, and her overly pale face actually glowed with a bright red glow. Her entire temperament seemed to have undergone a huge change.
Not long after, Ruyi, who had just learned that Concubine Yu was only under house arrest, had not yet breathed a sigh of relief when she suddenly heard that the Empress Dowager had ordered people to slap Concubine Yu every day and also forbade the imperial physician to treat her.
"Why is the Queen Mother suddenly so angry with Hai Lan?"
"Your Majesty, you don't know that it was Concubine Chu who went to the Cining Palace and somehow asked the Empress Dowager to intervene. The Emperor was also overwhelmed by Concubine Jia's annoyance and could only turn a blind eye and let them do what they wanted."
After Rong Pei finished speaking, she saw Ruyi frowning and quickly comforted her, "Your Majesty, please don't worry. Although Concubine Yu was humiliated, she saved her life. When you give birth to a prince, are you still afraid that there will be no future?"
"I understand, but I'm afraid of wronging her."
Ruyi always felt that there was something fishy about this matter, but her mother now lived in the palace to look after her, and with the emperor's attention to her, she really couldn't act rashly for the time being.
But Rong Pei was right, nothing was more important than life, she would definitely find a way to rescue Hai Lan, just like she had rescued herself from the cold palace before.
Ruyi touched her belly, her smile weak but full of determination.
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