Thanks to the Emperor, the Empress now feels a throbbing pain in her head whenever she hears the words "Imperial Garden".
The truth is that she hasn't forgotten the impact of the last Xia Qinglu incident on her.
The queen finally convinced herself to accept this matter, but she didn't expect that just a few days later, the emperor's old illness recurred.
Could it be that there is some bewitching monster in the imperial garden?
The queen spoke out everything that was on her mind in rapid succession, without any reservations at all.
But Nanny Chang still had some sanity left. She turned around and waved her hand, asking the palace maids and eunuchs who were serving in the hall to leave. Then she said, "Your Majesty, please be careful that there are ears behind the walls."
However, the Queen only sneered: "Our Emperor has already hit me in the face, how can I care so much?"
However, although the queen said this, her voice was lowered a little.
It can be seen that she took Nanny Chang's words to heart.
"My Lady, please don't be anxious. I always feel that there seems to be something strange about this matter."
"What?" The queen was stunned.
Ever since she heard the news, she has been so angry that she didn't notice if there was anything strange about this matter.
At this moment, after hearing what Nanny Chang said, she suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong.
Nanny Chang always tells the Queen everything she knows, so there is nothing to hide.
She looked at the Queen and said, "Your Majesty, the last time the Emperor married Concubine Xia, at the beginning, we heard that the Emperor fell in love with a maid who swept the Imperial Garden. This time..."
Having said this, she deliberately paused and saw that the queen looked thoughtful.
"Your Highness, tell me, the Emperor suddenly promoted a palace maid to a concubine today. Could it be that this maid was the one the Emperor truly fell for when he was drunk that day? Or was it just that Concubine Xia took advantage of her?"
The Queen's fingers gradually clenched, obviously she had taken Nanny Chang's words to heart.
"You're not without reason." The Queen paused and looked up at Nanny Chang. "Where is our newly appointed Concubine Yu?"
Hearing this, Nanny Chang's eyes were a little evasive. She opened her mouth, as if she didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Um?"
Nanny Chang closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, saying, "The Emperor has brought the person into Qingning Palace."
"What?"
At this moment, the queen completely lost the composure she had managed to maintain. She stood up and looked at Nanny Chang in disbelief. After confirming that she was not talking nonsense, she sat back down again.
"Qingning Palace is the emperor's bedroom. How could the emperor bring that woman to Qingning Palace?"
The queen, who had been trying to maintain her composure, now had a completely distorted expression on her face.
She couldn't describe how she felt in her heart, she just felt that the emperor's doting on a palace maid was a slap in her face.
At this point, Nanny Chang also lowered her head, not knowing what to say. After all, what the emperor did was indeed against the ancestral rules.
However, she waited for a long time and did not hear the queen's voice, and she couldn't help feeling suspicious.
She raised her head and saw the queen staring at a certain place with lifeless eyes, her eyes were unfocused, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Nanny Chang's heart tightened, fearing that the Queen might have done something wrong. She quickly asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty? Are you okay?"
However, the queen still sat there in a daze, without any reaction.
Nanny Chang was extremely nervous and worried. She completely ignored everything else and was about to call for the imperial physician, but the Queen held her arm tightly.
Nanny Chang felt pain in her hand, but she didn't say anything. She just turned around and looked at the queen.
The queen's eyes were red and her expression was extremely sad. There was a sense of sadness lingering around her whole body, and even she felt sour in her heart.
"Your Majesty..."
"I have lived with the Emperor since we were young. He once tried his best to make me the Empress and said that I was the only one he needed in his life. But now, look at me. There are so many women in the harem. It's really annoying to me."
In recent years, many new people have entered the emperor's harem. Even many ministers say that the emperor is becoming more and more powerful as he gets older, and he was probably not very smart when he was young.
"Your Majesty..." When Nanny Chang saw the Queen's appearance at the moment, she felt very uncomfortable.
She was an old woman close to the Queen, so she naturally knew what had happened between the Emperor and the Queen in the past.
At the beginning, in order to help the empress ascend to the position of empress, the emperor even did not hesitate to attack his own empress. Such deep affection even moved her, a self-combed nanny.
But I didn’t expect that men are men after all. Their hearts have changed before they even grow old.
Nanny Chang wanted to comfort the Queen, but she didn't know where to start.
However, before she could open her mouth, the queen raised her hand to stop her.
"Mammy, you don't have to say anything."
Nanny Chang still felt a little bit sorry, so she turned her attention to Yu Shu again.
"Your Majesty, would you like me, Concubine Xuan Yu, to come and pay my respects to you? Let's see what kind of person she is. She was so easily able to seduce the Emperor into making her a concubine and even bringing her into Qingning Palace."
After all, Xia Qinglu was a daughter of an official, and she was found to have physical contact with the emperor in public. If the emperor did not make a statement, it would be difficult to stop the gossip in the court, and even Xia Qinghe might have second thoughts about the emperor.
But what is the basis for this jade book?
It was so strange that a mere palace maid was promoted several levels and became the mistress of a palace after only meeting the emperor once.
However, at this moment, the queen no longer had the desire to explore those things.
She waved her hand wearily.
"Forget it. The whole world belongs to the emperor. It is none of our business if he appoints a maid as a concubine. I am tired. Mammy, help me to sleep for a while."
In the Qingning Palace, the emperor was sitting on the dragon throne, looking at the woman who was huddled together like a frightened little rabbit, and a smile emerged in his heart.
"Just now in the Imperial Garden, you seemed quite brave, even daring to peek at me. Why are you shaking again now?"
"I don't have any."
When Yu Shu heard him say that she had peeked at him, she immediately retorted, but after she finished her retort, she remembered that the person in front of her was the emperor.
He puffed up his cheeks again and lowered his head angrily, obviously unwilling to accept the result but not having the courage to do so.
The emperor was amused by her, but he still said with a stern face, "Wrong."
"Yes, I know I was wrong."
"It's still wrong."
Yu Shu looked up blankly, looking at the emperor with some confusion, "What?"
The emperor stood up from the dragon throne and slowly walked to Yushu's side. He lifted her chin with one finger and said with a smile: "I have already made you Yupin, you should call yourself a concubine."
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