After celebrating Cheng Zhao's birthday with great fanfare, the emperor naturally stayed behind. Ning Yuxi was just about to undress him and give him a bath.
At this moment, the two were quite close. Ning Yuxi was unbuckling his belt, her face almost touching Gu Qilan. She clearly smelled a slightly familiar fragrance on Gu Qilan.
After sniffing carefully, she remembered that it was the same strange fragrance she had smelled on Concubine Rong before. Did the emperor just meet Concubine Rong?
Ning Yuxi recalled that the emperor had spent most of his time at Rong Fei's place over the past month. She asked calmly, "What kind of fragrance is the emperor wearing? It's different from before."
Gu Qilan lowered his head and sniffed. He didn't smell anything, but thinking about his contact with Rong Fei before coming here, he thought it must have been contracted there. He said indifferently:
"There's no incense. Before dinner, Concubine Rong went to the Qingyan Palace to bring me some food. I'm afraid it got contaminated by the incense she was wearing."
It was indeed from Concubine Rong. Ning Yuxi continued, "This scent smells quite strange to me. I have never smelled it before. I wonder if Your Majesty could ask Concubine Rong for some on my behalf. I really like this scent."
Gu Qilan raised his eyebrows, as if to ask why you don’t go and ask for it yourself.
Ning Yuxi frowned and said softly, "Your Majesty, there was some disagreement between me and Concubine Rong. I am really embarrassed to ask her for anything. Oh, Your Majesty, please help me~"
It was rare for Gu Qilan to see Ning Yuxi acting like a spoiled child. He curled his lips slightly and said, "Okay, let's see how you perform tonight."
Ning Yuxi: “…”
Okay, she endured it.
The two had just had a fight, and when Gu Qilan was about to have another fight, Song Qu's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, something happened to Concubine Rong."
Gu Qilan's expression instantly darkened. He suppressed his anger and asked, "What happened?"
Song Qu clearly heard the anger in the emperor's words. He said cautiously, "Your Majesty, after dinner, Concubine Xin suddenly brought people into Concubine Rong's bedroom. Without saying a word, they started beating Concubine Rong, accusing her of plotting to murder the Second Prince."
"What? What happened to the second prince?" Gu Qilan immediately grasped the key point.
"Your Majesty, the situation is this: after dinner, the Second Prince suddenly had severe abdominal pain. The imperial physician examined him and said it was due to eating something unclean. Finally, they found out that the problem was with the ginseng that Concubine Rong had given to Concubine Xin.
The Second Prince has been feeling unwell recently, so Concubine Xin prepared some ginseng soup for him to nourish him. However, after drinking it, the Second Prince developed severe abdominal pain.
Hearing this, Gu Qilan began to put on his clothes while asking, "How is the Second Prince now?"
Ning Yuxi also stood up and helped the emperor put on his clothes and then put them on herself.
Song Qu replied, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The Second Prince is stable now. However, Concubine Xin is convinced that Concubine Rong is plotting to murder her Second Prince, and is currently causing a scene in Concubine Rong's Yuejinxuan."
Gu Qilan walked towards Yuejinxuan with a gloomy face, and Ning Yuxi followed him.
If you want to have fun, don't watch the bastards.
As soon as the group arrived at the door of Yuejinxuan, they met the Queen and her group coming from the other direction. Now that the power to manage the harem has returned to the hands of the Queen, she naturally came to take a look.
Ning Yuxi hasn't seen the queen for some time. The queen has been busy taking care of the eldest prince recently and her presence is not very noticeable.
The eldest prince has been much weaker since he recovered from his last illness and needs careful care. The queen worries about everything for him and naturally doesn't have much time to focus on the harem.
Her face was slightly tired as she saluted the emperor: "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you."
Gu Qilan kept walking: "No need to be polite."
Seeing this, the Queen hurriedly followed the Emperor in, not paying any attention to Ning Yuxi who was standing beside her. Ning Yuxi was happy to be free, so she paid her respects to the Queen and followed him in.
The main hall of Yuejinxuan was brightly lit at this moment. Before she entered, Ning Yuxi heard bursts of crisp slaps and women's painful screams coming from inside.
Concubine Rong and the palace maids around her were pinned to the ground by a group of people brought by Concubine Xin. Concubine Xin raised her hand high and slammed it hard on Concubine Rong's delicate face: "Bitch, you dare to murder my second prince? I will beat you to death!"
Rong Fei was forced to kneel on the ground by several burly maids, unable to resist. Her cheeks were swollen and red from being beaten. She struggled desperately:
"Let me go, let me go, you lowly slaves... Concubine Xin, if you dare to hit me, I will tell the Emperor and I will make you pay..."
Concubine Xin, however, did not take it seriously: "You are plotting to murder the heir to the throne. Even if you tell the emperor, it will be useless. Chenghui is my life. If you dare to harm him, I will make you suffer a fate worse than death!"
As he spoke, there was another burst of slapping sounds.
Until a eunuch shouted, "The Emperor has arrived, the Empress has arrived!"
The hall suddenly became quiet. Rong Fei, whose mouth was covered in blood after being beaten, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw when she heard this. She struggled desperately again. This time, the palace people were busy paying their respects to the emperor and empress, which allowed her to break free.
She staggered towards Gu Qilan, tears falling from her eyes like pear blossoms in the rain. She threw herself into Gu Qilan's arms with a face full of grievance:
"Your Majesty, you are finally here, wuwuwu, if you don't come soon, Concubine Xin will beat me to death, you have to make the decision for me, wuwuwu..."
Normally, she would have looked so shaky and tearful that people would have felt sorry for her, but now her cheeks were swollen from being beaten, her mouth was full of blood, and she looked completely unattractive.
But she was still unaware of it, and was crying and acting coquettishly.
Disgust flashed in Gu Qilan's eyes. He calmly pushed Rong Fei away and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on? What are you making such a fuss about in the middle of the night?"
At this time, Concubine Xin also came over. Her expression was no longer arrogant, but she looked aggrieved. With red eyes, she said:
"Your Majesty, please help me. Concubine Rong is so vicious that she put something unclean in the ginseng she sent to Chenghui. She wants to murder my Chenghui..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Concubine Rong immediately retorted: "You are talking nonsense, Your Majesty, I have never done such a thing. Please understand..."
Gu Qilan patiently asked, "How is Chenghui now?"
Hearing this, Concubine Xin cried and said, "Your Majesty, it's a good thing that I discovered it in time and called in the imperial physician, otherwise Chenghui would be... I'm afraid... wuwuwu..."
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