Chapter 254 The Imperial Concubine 1 (Bonus Chapter for Donations)
The Emperor favored Consort Gui, and she became the most favored concubine in the harem.
However, she was too arrogant and offended many people.
However, she enjoys the emperor's favor and her position is very secure.
Three years later, the concubine's father was executed along with his entire family for treason.
The court officials petitioned the emperor to banish the imperial concubine to the cold palace. The emperor disagreed, but the officials threatened suicide in court. In the end, the imperial concubine was banished to the cold palace and died not long after.
Did you think the matter ended there?
No.
Before entering the palace, the imperial concubine had a sweetheart, and the two were about to get married, but she was summoned to the palace by an imperial decree from the emperor.
She was arrogant because she couldn't defy the emperor's orders, so she became a master at abortion for his women, eliminating any pregnant woman in the harem.
Later, she got tired of having abortions and felt stupid. What was the point of dealing with those women?
Even if this wave ends, there will be another one.
We can just take care of that dog emperor directly.
So she gave the emperor a drug that would prevent him from having children, and from then on, no one in the palace ever had any good news.
But she didn't expect that the emperor's feigned affection for her was actually aimed at destroying her family.
Even before he ascended the throne, he had women and children outside the palace. He didn't like the children born to the concubines in the palace, so the imperial concubine conveniently became his free scapegoat.
After the death of the Imperial Concubine, her fiancé Yang Mo secretly entered the palace and became a eunuch by the side of the new Empress, who was also the Emperor's true love.
But he wasn't a real eunuch; he bribed people to get into the palace, and his body was still intact.
However, his physical abnormality was discovered. After being captured, Yang Mo kept looking at the Empress with adoring eyes, but said nothing.
The emperor suspected that he had an affair with the empress, and that the child might not even be his. Therefore, Yang Mo was ordered by the emperor to be executed by slow slicing.
After his death, even the emperor's beloved didn't fare well; she was banished to the cold palace by the emperor.
Unfortunately, Yang Mo was unable to take the child away because he resembled the emperor.
The original owner was unwilling to accept it. Her soul watched Yang Mo die tragically while the emperor was still alive and well, and her resentment soared to the heavens!
Then Ning Yan arrived.
When she arrived, the original owner of this body had already been in the palace for three months.
What the outside world doesn't know is that the original owner of this body was actually the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, who commanded an army of 300,000.
Everyone assumed that the original owner was the Ning family's biological daughter because the Dingyuan Marquis's family doted on this youngest daughter so much.
Marquis Dingyuan, the great general praised by everyone, even went so far as to personally storm the Prime Minister's residence and beat the Prime Minister's eldest son half to death because the Prime Minister's son made a few disrespectful remarks to the original owner of the body.
The next morning at court, he was impeached for failing to properly educate his son, which resulted in the prime minister being demoted to the northwest as an inspector. As a result, no one in the capital dared to provoke the original owner.
It was precisely because she was favored that the emperor had the idea of taking the original owner into the palace.
When the imperial edict was issued, the Dingyuan Marquis's family had just found their biological son, who had been switched at birth with their adopted daughter. That person was Yang Mo.
However, Marquis Dingyuan was very clever. He knew that his high position and power had aroused the emperor's suspicion, so he did not acknowledge his son back. Instead, he arranged for his son to be engaged to the original owner of the body, and then married off his daughter in February of the following year.
As a result, the imperial edict bestowing the title of imperial concubine arrived at the General's Mansion on the frontier at this time.
Originally, the Marquis of Dingyuan intended to defy the imperial decree, but the crime of defying the decree was too serious. Grateful for her parents' nurturing kindness, the original owner resolutely decided to enter the palace as a concubine. However, she knew that the emperor was eyeing the Marquis of Dingyuan's mansion covetously, so she started causing all sorts of trouble after entering the palace, with the main theme being: "If the emperor doesn't let me have a good life, I won't let him have a good life either."
But in the end, the Marquis of Dingyuan's mansion did not escape the emperor's clutches. Not only did she die in the cold palace, but the last remaining son of the Ning family also died at the hands of the treacherous emperor.
Ning Yan understood the original owner's resentment and planned to help the original owner's family take some small revenge.
The emperor stayed in her palace last night and has now gone to the morning court. After dismissing the concubines who came to pay their respects, she instructed her personal maid to send a message home, asking her mother to come to the palace today.
At this time, Zhao Cheng's harem did not yet have an empress, so she, as a concubine, was the highest-ranking one. Anyway, she was used to being arrogant, and if she just wanted to see her family, who could stop her?
An hour later, Lady Dingyuan hurriedly entered the palace.
After dismissing the palace servants, Ning Yan pulled her mother into the inner room. "Mother, that bastard Zhao Cheng wants my father's military power and even tried to give me a poison that would kill my fertility."
Lady Dingyuan was so angry that her lips trembled. Suppressing her anger, she cursed, "The Dingyuan Marquis's family has been loyal for generations. How dare he!"
"No, let your father give him the tiger tally, but you have to be taken out of the palace first."
The fourth son, after only a few meetings, fell deeply in love with his daughter and refused to marry, insisting on waiting for her.
Let them get married.
"Mother, you're dreaming. If we hand over the military tally, our whole family will die even faster. What the Emperor wants is the lives of our entire family!"
"You, he said it himself?"
"Does he even need to say that? As long as Father is alive, as long as one of the Ning family's men is alive, the 300,000-strong army in the Northern Frontier will bear the Ning surname. If you were the Emperor, would you feel at ease just handing over the military tally?"
"Then what do you suggest we do?"
Ning Yan whispered something in Madam Ning's ear.
"Isn't this...isn't this too dangerous?"
"Don't worry, I didn't drink the medicine since I found out about it beforehand."
Our Dingyuan Marquis family has been loyal for generations, and we almost lost our lineage several times while guarding the frontier, but what have we gotten in return?
Since Zhao Cheng doesn't like being emperor, then let's find someone else.
As for who should be the emperor, Ning Yan actually prefers a member of the Ning family.
However, Marquis Dingyuan is a rather stubborn person, making it difficult for him to rebel.
Madam Ning didn't feel at all that her daughter's personality had changed. After all, the person who asked her to prepare all sorts of poisons as soon as she received the imperial decree to make her a concubine was certainly not a kind person.
If others have already plotted against you, it would be foolish to just wait obediently without fighting back.
Moreover, her daughter entered the palace to protect her family, and she felt that whatever her daughter did was right.
"Okay, Mother understands. I'll make arrangements when I get back."
In his previous life, Yang Mo entered the palace unharmed and became a eunuch. In this life, the Ning family is still around, and Ning Yan is the most powerful woman in the harem, so this matter will naturally not cause any surprises.
After Madam Ning left, Ning Yan summoned Gui Ling, wrote down what she wanted on a piece of paper, and asked her to go out of the palace to buy it herself.
Guiling accepted the order and left, only returning hastily before the palace gates were locked.
Ning Yan checked the talisman paper and cinnabar she had bought. The quality was a little poor, but it was still usable.
That night she drew more than a hundred talismans, each with a different function.
Three days later, Yang Mo appeared at the Moyang Palace dressed as a eunuch.
The Ning family members all have upright appearances and regular features. Yang Mo was suspected of having a different background because he looked too much like a member of the Ning family, which led to his successful reunion with his relatives.
The Ning family men, having spent years in the military camp, were all tanned, while Yang Mo, whose family had always supported his education, had fair skin and looked like a pretty boy.
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