Chapter 133 Chapter 133 Human hearts can be so evil...
Just when the atmosphere was tense, only Qingyao could see the hidden complacency beneath Li Shuyao's stern face.
Seeing her trying so hard to stifle laughter that her fingers holding the tea cups were covered in knots, Qingyao patted Li Shuyao with her round fan with a helpless expression, "Alright, stop it."
"Didn't you see that several sisters were frightened by you?"
Li Shuyao finally laughed out loud, "Hahaha, all my reading of the novels was worth it."
She walked back to the Imperial Concubine's side, teacup in hand, and with a smile, she placed her fair, beautiful face in front of Imperial Concubine Tong. "Isn't it scary, Imperial Concubine?"
Concubine Tong: “…”
She and the others simultaneously let out a long sigh. Finally, she glared at Li Shuyao fiercely, "Did you read all that you just said from a storybook?"
Li Shuyao nodded with a smile on her face.
She didn't lie, it was indeed a storybook.
It’s just a “storybook” based on the entire dynasty she lives in.
A book that no one here will ever see.
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Concubine Hesheli originally had a good idea.
However, she had not expected that the children in the Forbidden City, even if they were only one or two years old, were so smart and sharp that she could not fool them easily.
Ever since she was rejected by the Sixth Prince that day, the younger princes and princesses seemed to have known her whereabouts long ago. No matter how she wandered around the Imperial Garden, she could not easily run into any of them.
In desperation, Hesheli had to change her position. Just as Li Shuyao had guessed, she ran directly to the vicinity of the Cining Palace and waited.
However, the pomp and circumstance of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's travels was always grand, far beyond the reach of a concubine like her who had not yet been canonized.
After meeting the prince from afar twice, when Concubine Hesheli wanted to go to the vicinity of Cining Palace again, she was surprised to find that several teams of patrolling guards had appeared there at some point.
So the plan of waiting in ambush failed again.
Concubine Hesheli pondered the whole night, and finally gritted her teeth and began to work hard in the Qianqing Palace every day.
However, for some unknown reason, the concubines in the harem who had been living peacefully seemed to have seen through her purpose. They changed their usual behavior and used various means to compete for favor with her, the new concubine.
She was dancing under the moon in the imperial garden, while someone else was "sitting leisurely under the bright moon, playing the zither". [1]
——He is good at poetry and playing the piano, and his realm is many times higher than hers.
When she sent health-preserving tea to the Qianqing Palace, someone in the harem sent her a "fruit ice bowl" that she had carefully developed.
As soon as she gave away the underwear she had embroidered herself, someone else gave her a necklace with a willow-leaf pattern.
Perhaps it was because those people entered the palace earlier than her, and the gifts they brought were naturally more to the emperor's liking. She had been spreading her feathers like a peacock for so long, but she was never summoned by the emperor once.
Instead...
Lingpin of Changchun Palace, who had done nothing wrong, was summoned by the emperor five times in just half a month!
Concubine Hesheli was so jealous that her eyes almost turned red.
If Li Shuyao knew where Concubine Hesheli's jealousy of her came from, she would probably sigh:
God is like gold!
Why did the emperor invite her to accompany him in the imperial study?
Isn’t it because the investigation outside the palace has yielded results?
——Thanks to Matron Liu’s advice, the people the emperor sent out of the palace to investigate were finally able to avoid many detours.
After several days of investigation, a vague figure finally emerged from the water.
That person was the concubine sister of Prince Chun's wife.
Logically speaking, as Prince Chun's wife's father was the son-in-law of the emperor and married a princess, he should not have had so many concubines.
However, Princess Heshun was in poor health and had no more children after giving birth to Prince Chun's wife. Feeling guilty, she simply turned a blind eye to her husband's behavior of taking a concubine. As long as her husband did not make too much trouble and had no intention of favoring the concubine over his wife, Princess Heshun was too lazy to pursue those trivial matters.
The result of repeated indulgence is that there are countless illegitimate sons and daughters in the family.
Later, Princess Heshun finally got tired of it, so she moved back to the Princess Mansion with Prince Chun's wife, which was considered as living separately from her husband's residence.
Without the support of Princess Heshun, and because the prince consort was arrogant and extravagant, everyone in the prince consort's mansion had to save money on food, clothing and other expenses. In the end, they were reduced to selling embroidery for a living.
All of Prince Chun's concubines suffered a lot when they were young.
On the other hand, as the wife of Prince Chun was the legitimate daughter of a princess, she had been in and out of the palace since she was a child, and was always surrounded by people wherever she went. How could those concubines not be jealous?
But no matter how jealous they were, they dared not show even a trace of it in front of Prince Chun's wife. Instead, they tried their best to pursue him.
As time goes by, it is inevitable that some people will become psychologically distorted.
At this time, news came out that the current emperor had bestowed upon her the title of Prince Chun as his wife.
For a moment, the concubines were all jealous and cursed at home for several days.
Fortunately, Prince Chun was not in good health, so the idea that supported them became: What if I marry Prince Chun? I will still be a widow in the future, right?
The royal family has never allowed divorces, and the emperor will not allow Prince Chun's widow to remarry. Therefore, Prince Chun's wife will probably have to spend the rest of her life under the green lamp and ancient Buddha, with no end in sight. How can this not be considered retribution?
However, fate was so unfair. Seeing Prince Chun's body failing day by day, until finally no medicine could cure him, on the eve of his wish coming true, news suddenly came that Prince Chun's wife was pregnant.
For those concubine sisters, it was like a bolt from the blue.
After being cruelly manipulated and tortured by fate several times, someone finally developed a vicious heart.
——What if Prince Chun’s wife couldn’t keep this baby?
What if Prince Chun's wife had kept the baby, but the child inherited Prince Chun's physical weakness?
Even if the child is born healthy and well, what if an accident occurs?
Just as a few people were daydreaming, someone came up with a new idea.
Since the current emperor and the two ancestors attach so much importance to the continuation of Prince Chun's bloodline, even if Prince Chun's wife's children cannot survive, the emperor and the ancestors will most likely adopt one or two children from other branches of the royal family to be the children of Prince Chun's wife, so as to avoid no one to carry on his worship for many years after Prince Chun's death.
In other words, their dark wishes are destined not to come true.
Unless... Prince Chun's wife does not believe in the royal family, but only in her mother's family. Even if she wants to adopt other children to inherit Prince Chun's title and incense one day, she is unwilling to choose from the children of the royal family, but only from the children of her mother's family, those illegitimate sons and sisters.
——The above idea came from a concubine’s sister who also married into the royal family as a princess.
She actually knew very well that even if Prince Chun's wife was stubborn and insisted on choosing a child for adoption from her mother's family, His Majesty and the ancestors would most likely not agree.
The only way to have the best of both worlds is to adopt her child.
In order to fulfill this "great" wish, several people have visited Prince Chun's mansion one after another since Prince Chun's wife became pregnant.
They often use the opportunity of chatting and telling anecdotes to secretly brainwash people.
Brainwashing alone was not enough. Even the fabrics they gave to Prince Chun's wife to embroider children's clothes were basically tampered with.
Those fabrics were fumigated for several days with spices from the Western Regions that could make people sleepless and mentally confused.
This is why Prince Chun’s wife is so paranoid and crazy today.
After listening to Liang Jiugong's statement, Li Shuyao felt a chill all over her body.
Qingyao and Concubine Tong, who were called in to listen to the truth, couldn't help but raise their hands and rub their arms.
Li Shuyao clenched her handkerchief and stammered, "Just because of these reasons, they just...just..."
She really couldn't imagine that human hearts could be so evil.
The tall man beside her saw that she was so scared that she couldn't speak clearly. He felt a little worried, so he walked up behind her and gently embraced her in his arms, "If you are afraid, then what's next..."
"No, no, I don't want to go back. I want to stay here and listen to what happens to them."
Li Shuyao didn't give the emperor any time to explain. She twisted her waist and retreated from the emperor's arms. Then she ran to Concubine Tong's side, as if seeking help. She raised her hand and held Concubine Tong's fragrant arm. Then she wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction at the emperor and said, "Don't even think of sending me back until I finish telling you what happened to them!"
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