"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, summons: Bei Lingyao, the eldest daughter of Bei Chengye of Guanyun City in Jiangnan, has rendered meritorious service in rescuing the Emperor. She is hereby granted the rank of Fifth Rank Consort and is granted residence in the main hall of Yongshou Palace."
The former dynasty and the harem were thrown into chaos by the sudden decree to appoint a concubine.
It’s nothing for the emperor to appoint a concubine.
But after a little inquiry, it turned out that Concubine Bei was the third wife of the Yong'an Earl's Mansion who was divorced and abandoned. She was an abandoned woman who had been married before.
And she was divorced because she had no children after seven years.
In the harem, except for the first batch who entered the palace, all the later ones were sent into the palace because they were good at giving birth.
But a woman who was divorced by her husband's family after being married for seven years without having a child entered the palace and became Beipin.
She also moved into Yongshou Palace, which was the place the concubines most wanted to live in.
Closest to the emperor.
The concubines in the harem were very upset.
Some of those who were impatient had already gone to the Empress Dowager's palace.
The ministers of the previous dynasty wanted to object, but what else could they say when the imperial edict mentioned her merit in saving the emperor.
Saying that the emperor's life is not as important as a concubine's?
So what if she was divorced for having no children? As long as she had the merit of saving the emperor, it all depended on the emperor's willingness.
It was just a concubine position, not a consort, so the ministers didn't take it seriously and the censors remained silent.
As for the merit of saving the emperor, no one went into it. The emperor was assassinated outside the palace while on an incognito tour, so who would dare to investigate?
If you are targeted by the Black Xuan Guard, you will be skinned alive even if you don’t die.
In the Cining Palace, the empress dowager also heard that the emperor brought the abandoned woman of the Yong'an Earl's Mansion back to the palace to be appointed as a concubine.
But the empress dowager's focus was on the four words "meritorious service in saving the emperor."
My first reaction was that my son was injured.
Just as he was about to rush to the Yangxin Palace, he was blocked by a group of concubines, who were accompanied by his own niece, Concubine Shu.
The Queen Mother glared at Concubine Shu angrily, "Why are you so flustered? A concubine's position frightened you like this."
Even so, she still wanted to be the queen, and the position of concubine was given to her by the emperor out of his regard for her.
"aunt"
Concubine Shu looked at the Queen Mother aggrievedly, tears welling up in her eyes.
She was taken into the palace by her aunt when she was young and became a study partner of her princess cousin. She grew up with her emperor cousin and they were childhood sweethearts.
She thought the position of the emperor's cousin's wife was in her pocket, but she didn't expect that it would be taken away by the queen.
Even her aunt and cousin who was the emperor didn't help her.
Well, if she can’t be the queen, she can be the imperial concubine.
But she was not given the position of imperial concubine.
Not to mention that Yongshou Palace was the one she had set her eyes on from the beginning, but her cousin the emperor did not allow it and would not allow any concubine to move in.
If Concubine Shu can't get it, no one else can get it either, so she doesn't care anymore.
Now, an abandoned woman who was divorced for having no children moved in, even in the main hall.
Everyone knows that she has been eyeing Yongshou Palace for many years, and she wants to move in as soon as she is named a noble concubine, so that she can be closer to her cousin, the emperor.
Now she has become a laughing stock in the palace.
"Take people back to your palace. You lose your temper over a small matter. Look at the Queen, Noble Consort Jing, and the three Consorts Hui, Xian, and De. Are they like you?"
The Queen Mother waved her hand, ignored her niece, and left on the phoenix sedan chair.
Concubine Shu stamped her feet in anger. Her aunt was becoming more and more impatient with her, even though her aunt had clearly doted on her the most in the past.
It must have been that bitch Concubine Jing who sowed discord.
"Sister Shufei"
The concubines followed Concubine Shu to see the Empress Dowager, but now they were left outside the Cining Palace. The Empress Dowager left, but Concubine Shu was still there, distracted.
"You go back first. I will follow Aunt Dowager Empress to visit my cousin, the Emperor."
Concubine Shu got on her own sedan chair and had someone chase the empress dowager away.
The concubines who stayed behind looked at each other and then dispersed.
"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, and Consort Shu are heading towards the Yangxin Palace."
Bei Lingyao had just returned from Yongshou Palace, and when she heard that the queen mother had arrived, she was immediately treated to a meal.
Everything else is fine, but the Empress Dowager is Emperor Jiahe's biological mother, and the mother and son have a close relationship, so she has to be careful.
Fortunately, she took over Emperor Jiahe's memory when she entered his body, otherwise it would be very difficult to deal with.
"I'll lie down, you go out and welcome the Queen Mother."
Bei Lingyao immediately lay down on the dragon couch.
"emperor"
The Queen Mother came in a hurry.
"Why is the Queen Mother here? My son is not..."
Before Bei Lingyao could finish her words, a figure rushed over with a fragrant breeze, "Cousin, woo woo... Cousin, woo woo..."
"Ah-chu, Ah-chu!"
Bei Lingyao sneezed twice and was pricked by the butterfly hairpin on the visitor's head.
Bei Lingyao's face was filled with black lines, and the Queen Mother was already dissatisfied, "Shu Fei, where did you learn the rules?"
"Aunt, cousin."
Concubine Shu stood up and bowed towards Bei Lingyao with a loving look in her eyes.
Although he knew that he was the Emperor Jiahe now, Bei Lingyao got goosebumps when being looked at like this by a woman.
She looked at the Empress Dowager, then at Concubine Shu. Just like Concubine Liu and the Empress Dowager in the previous world, her niece looked like her aunt.
However, Emperor Shengwu and the Empress Dowager were not related by blood, while Emperor Jiahe and the Empress Dowager were mother and son.
No wonder Emperor Jiahe did not favor Concubine Shu. If he could favor a woman with a face that looked just like his own mother, he must be a pervert with Oedipus complex.
Obviously, Emperor Jiahe was not like that, and he was never in a good mood towards Concubine Shu.
"Shufei, go back. I have something to discuss with my mother."
Bei Lingyao directly drove her away. Emperor Jiahe always had a cold face towards Concubine Shu.
But Concubine Shu was obsessed with him and even committed suicide in order to enter the palace and become Emperor Jiahe's concubine.
The Empress Dowager had many nieces, but she only had one legitimate niece, Concubine Shu. Moreover, her brother from her natal family also tried hard to send Concubine Shu into the palace, so the Empress Dowager and the Emperor had no choice but to accept.
The Empress Dowager's family, the Yang family, made great efforts to ensure that the mother and son could maintain their status in the palace and ascend to the throne smoothly.
Both mother and son remembered the contributions of the Yang family, but were unwilling to see the Yang family produce another queen or empress dowager.
The Yang family is now the most prestigious family in Daxia, with two nobles in the family, and the grandfather-in-law was even the prime minister.
The Yang family is never satisfied.
"cousin"
Shufei was still reluctant to leave. After finally following her aunt in to see her cousin the emperor, she wanted to stay.
Bei Lingyao had never seen such a tactless person. The Queen Mother obviously noticed her son's impatience and said to Concubine Shu, "Go back."
"I'll take my leave."
Concubine Shu retreated with an unhappy look on her face, but put on a smile as soon as she left the Yangxin Palace.
Then he rushed towards Yongshou Palace angrily.
When Bei Lingyao's spiritual sense saw this, the corners of his mouth twitched. Let Emperor Jiahe go and face his good cousin directly.
"Emperor, are you injured?"
The Queen Mother looked concerned.
"Mother, my son is fine. Fortunately, Concubine Bei saved me."
Bei Lingyao made up a story for the Queen Mother, leaving the palace in disguise to go to Guanyin Temple to pray for a child, getting rid of Zhang De and the secret guards, but was drugged by bandits who wanted to kidnap him to be the husband of their eldest daughter.
"Luckily, Beipin took her maid to Guanyin Temple. Seeing her son being dragged away, she knocked the kidnapper unconscious. Even if her son took the effects of the drug, Beipin... could only be given a name."
The Queen Mother flew into a rage, "Damn bandits."
Bei Lingyao said, "Queen Mother, please calm down. I have already ordered the Black Xuan Guards to quell the bandits. However, please do not let anyone know about this."
The Queen Mother felt sorry for her son, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I won't tell you."
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