"She deserves to die!" The queen said angrily with bloodshot eyes.
"Why is it that my Chengxuan is gone, but she keeps giving birth to children one after another? Your Majesty, you watched our Chengxuan grow up. He was so well-behaved and outstanding. Have you ever thought about him after he died?"
"No, you won't. Even if Chengxuan is gone, you still have other children who can replace him. When you and Concubine Yi lived a peaceful and happy life, with a loving father and a filial son, did you ever think of my Chengxuan?"
Gu Qilan frowned and looked at her, "Chengxuan's death had nothing to do with Imperial Concubine Yi, yet you place all your hatred on her. As the legal wife and mother, you are jealous of Imperial Concubine Yi and her child, and want to get rid of them as soon as possible. Do you still have the decency to be a mother of a country? You really disappoint me!"
After saying this, the emperor looked at Song Qu and asked, "What are you standing there for? Didn't you hear what I just said?"
Song Qu was startled and quickly retreated.
Seeing this, the queen panicked. She rushed to the emperor, tightly grasped his clothes and cried, "No, Your Majesty, those things were all done by me alone. It has nothing to do with my mother's family. I am willing to be punished. Please don't blame my mother's family..."
The queen's appearance was disheveled and tears were streaming down her face. She was completely different from the graceful and elegant look she had just had. Gu Qilan looked at her indifferently with his hands behind his back.
He hadn't originally intended to touch the Chu family. Now was not the time to do so. He said that just to let the queen take the blame.
After a while, he turned away and said, "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place."
The emperor ordered the empress to be imprisoned in Fengluan Palace and was not allowed to leave without the emperor's order. All the people in the palace were dispersed, and only someone delivered meals to her every day. There were guards guarding the door, which was almost the same as the cold palace.
Originally, the emperor wanted to depose the queen, but was opposed by many court officials. Deposing the queen was related to state affairs and could not be done easily, and the Chu family of Marquis Wu'an had not yet fallen. The stalemate lasted for several days until Ning Yuxi woke up, and the emperor compromised and only imprisoned her.
Ning Yuxi woke up on the tenth day. After waking up, she was not too shocked when she heard about the emperor's decision. The Marquis of Wu'an had deep roots and as long as the mansion stood, the queen's position would never be abolished.
She designed this scene just to achieve the effect she has today.
Yes, she designed all of this herself, including the injuries and poisoning.
She deliberately acted arrogant in front of the Queen, making the Queen think that she felt she had the leverage over Cui Yu and was sure to win, so she didn't take the Queen seriously, making the Queen even more murderous.
She had been waiting for the Queen's action and sent a message home to ask her brother to keep an eye on the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion. The Queen did not disappoint her and quickly arranged for her to leave the palace to pray for blessings.
At that time, she deliberately went for a walk in the yard to give the killers an opportunity. Her brother Ning Chen had already ambushed nearby, and she was injured on her own initiative.
The assassin's sword was actually non-toxic. She had deliberately poisoned it herself. In modern times, she had seen a prescription for a drug similar to a suspended animation drug. This drug would not make her look dead, but like a vegetable unable to wake up.
She originally only wanted to make herself unconscious for three or four days, but because she forgot the specific ratio of the prescription, she took too much medicine and ended up in a coma for ten days.
Fortunately, she was able to eat some soup while unconscious, otherwise she would have starved to death...
Although the queen has not been deposed, it is no different from being deposed. She is in name only. Fengluan Palace is now almost the same as the cold palace. Moreover, the emperor has already known the queen's true face and it is impossible for him to let her come back for any reason.
It was worth it that she was hungry for ten days!
Ning Yuxi was just about to order someone to serve the food and start eating when she heard someone outside the house announcing that the emperor had arrived.
Gu Qilan looked at her with distressed eyes, "You have suffered. After all, the Queen is from the Wu'an Marquis Mansion. I can't..."
Ning Yuxi knew what the emperor meant, and she smiled gently despite her hunger, "As long as the emperor is by my side, I won't feel any hardship."
Gu Qilan's eyes were filled with pity, and he raised his hand to gently stroke her cheek. "I'm sorry for wronging you. From now on, all matters in the palace will be yours. I've already ordered the renovation of Weiyang Palace. You can move in when you're well."
Ning Yuxi was stunned. What's going on? I don't want to be the housekeeper, and I don't want to move. I live well in Shuqing Palace and don't really want to move.
But she just thought that the emperor was compensating her.
In the harem of the Great Jin Dynasty, below the Queen were two Imperial Concubines, below the Imperial Concubines were four Concubines and six Imperial Concubines. These twelve Imperial Concubines could occupy the main position in a palace.
Changle Palace and Weiyang Palace were for concubines to live in. Concubine Liu used to live in Changle Palace, but no one had ever lived in Weiyang Palace.
These two palaces are much larger than ordinary palaces, and their interior decorations are more exquisite and luxurious, only slightly inferior to the Queen's Fengluan Palace. Her Shuqing Palace and Weiyang Palace are like high-end residential areas and high-end villas.
When she was conferred the title of Imperial Concubine, the Emperor asked her to move there, but she declined as she was used to living in her own doghouse and was too lazy to move.
But this time, the emperor gave her the power to manage the harem as compensation. In order to have this style, she naturally had to live in a bigger and better courtyard. Forget it, just move.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ning Yuxi thanked him softly.
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Spring goes and autumn comes, time flies, and six years have passed in the blink of an eye.
It was spring, and in the main hall of Weiyang Palace, Ning Yuxi watched the gradually setting sun, the worry between her brows becoming more and more obvious.
"Why haven't Shu Yun and the others returned yet? The palace gates are almost closed."
Ruyi smiled and comforted, "Master, don't worry, the prince is with us, nothing will happen."
As he was speaking, a silver bell-like laughter was heard from far away outside Weiyang Palace, "Mother, we are back!"
Ning Yuxi heard the sound and walked out of the door, and saw a group of four people walking towards her in the yard under the afterglow of the setting sun.
Shu Xuan, dressed in a bright red dress and with lively eyes and a bright look, ran towards Ning Yuxi at the door, "Mother, we are back. Did you miss me?"
Next to Shu Yu, Cheng Yao, who was wearing a royal blue brocade robe and had a handsome face, looked at Shu Yu with disdain and said contemptuously, "You are so old, but you are not steady at all."
Upon hearing this, Shu Xuan stopped and looked at Cheng Yao with disdain. "You are a steady person. Just now at the horse farm, I don't know who was like a happy rabbit, and insisted on asking your uncle to teach you difficult horsemanship. When your uncle refused, you held onto his legs and refused to get up. Eh, aren't you ashamed?"
"You..." Cheng Yao was furious. "You are still the same. You pestered your uncle to teach you how to ride a horse and even hugged his arm to act like a spoiled child."
"I'm a girl, so what's wrong with being a spoiled child? If you have the guts, go and act like a spoiled child too."
"Be a man, I don't want to act like a spoiled child!"
"You're more like a manly tofu than a manly tofu. You can't even beat me."
"You! I'm just being accommodating, okay? You're the one who's being a big tofu!"
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