Chu Hongyun returned to sit next to Qiu Yinong. Qiu Yinong glanced at him, and the latter raised her eyebrows. Qiu Yinong continued to watch the dance leisurely.
Now it was the turn of the young ladies from the major families to perform. Qiu Yinong leaned over, approached Chu Hongyun, and whispered, "This young lady has a nice figure and a very soft waist."
"Try this, you will probably like it." Chu Hongyun did not agree, but picked up some food for her and then started peeling shrimps.
Qiu Yinong's eyes were full of smiles. She ate the dishes happily while watching the dance.
Chen Xianghe sat opposite them, staring at them, the hatred in his eyes almost overflowing, and one hand was tightly clenched in his palm.
He must get her!
"Oh no, Your Majesty, oh no! I saw that the Third Prince had drunk too much, so I placed him in a side hall to rest. But when I made some sobering soup and returned, I heard the sounds of pleasure coming from that side hall... Third, Third Prince, why are you here?"
The young eunuch stumbled in, knelt on the ground to report, and the moment he looked up, he saw Chu Hongyun's face.
Chu Hongyun waved at him playfully, and the little eunuch was so scared that his face turned pale.
Then he sat down on the ground and looked at the empress dowager with horror.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager's face turned ashen, Emperor Jinglong could not allow her to retreat.
"What's going on? Who is that person in the side hall? This is Zongzheng Hall, how can you be so absurd!"
Having said that, Emperor Jinglong stood up from his seat and walked towards the side hall.
The Queen Mother's body softened and she slumped in her seat, no longer looking as graceful and elegant as before, as if she had everything under control.
Chu Jinyao glanced at her as she stood up, and asked, "Mother, aren't you going to take a look? You are the one who respects our ancestral family rules the most. Now someone dares to do such a dirty thing in the side hall."
"The Queen Mother should punish her severely."
The Queen Mother glared at Chu Jinyao fiercely, and finally stood up and walked towards the side hall.
"Rong Fei!" The Queen Mother called Yang Bijun, and Yang Bijun turned and looked at her.
The Queen Mother grabbed Yang Bijun's wrist and said, "Remember, no matter what you see, slander the Queen and her brother."
"Oh, Your Majesty, this is such slander! Besides, I wasn't involved in this matter. Why did you get myself involved? How can I serve you if I get myself into trouble?"
After hearing what Yang Bijun said, the empress dowager thought about it and felt that it was true.
Then he said, "You are right. You are not involved. You should stay away to avoid being implicated."
"You are my most important chess piece, you have to be taken out!" After the Queen Mother said this, she rushed to the side hall.
Concubine Rong watched her hurriedly leaving from behind and couldn't help but sneer.
Old hag, are you still dreaming?
When Concubine Rong arrived, the door had already been kicked open by Emperor Jinglong.
Not long after, the two people in the house were pulled out, their bodies barely covered by something.
"What should I do? What should I do? Why is it not the Third Prince, but the Right Prime Minister? Ah... Wuuuuu... Mother..."
The Miss Zuo was crying like a tearful person, and the Prime Minister on the Right also looked pale.
Emperor Jinglong angrily kicked the Right Prime Minister and said, "Right Prime Minister, look at what good things you have done!"
"Old minister, I don't know either. I was resting well here. This woman ran in on her own. Then, I don't know what happened, but I followed her, followed her..."
The right prime minister's face flushed red, and he was too embarrassed to continue.
Emperor Jinglong looked at Miss Zuo and scolded, "Do you know where this is?"
Miss Zuo was so frightened that her whole body trembled. Her parents were also silent, kneeling there trembling, not daring to say a word.
"Your Majesty, yes, it's the Zongzheng Palace." Miss Zuo finally spoke tremblingly.
Emperor Jinglong was completely displeased and growled angrily, "Since you knew this was Zongzheng Hall, how dare you walk into this side hall? Also, what did you just say? What does this have to do with the Emperor's uncle?"
Miss Zuo was so frightened that she was trembling all over. She glanced at the Queen Mother secretly, but saw that the Queen Mother was staring at her sternly and then quickly looked away.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me. I did not mean to do that. I was greedy and thought the Third Prince was resting inside, so I bravely went in, hoping to gain a position."
"The Third Prince is so handsome. I really have no choice but to marry him." Miss Zuo looked at Chu Hongyun infatuatedly, while Chu Hongyun stood aside with a cold face.
Qiu Yinong didn't react at all, neither angry nor speaking.
Emperor Jinglong looked towards Lord Zuo and scolded him in a low voice: "Lord Zuo!"
"Your humble servant, your humble servant is here..." Lord Zuo crawled to the front of Emperor Jinglong and kowtowed continuously.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life. Your Majesty, please spare my life. It is all because of me that I have not taught this wicked girl well. Please, Your Majesty, spare my life."
Emperor Jinglong was furious and shouted, "What you mean is that I am a murderous tyrant?"
"Your Majesty, you didn't, your Majesty, you didn't..." Lord Zuo was panicked and kept shaking his head.
"Well, Emperor, although they have done such a filthy thing here, they have made great contributions to the Western Rong."
"Zuo Qing, today I am the one who decides to marry your daughter to You Xiang as his equal wife. Are you willing?"
When Lord Zuo heard this, his eyes lit up instantly and he kowtowed in thanks: "Thank you, Empress Dowager, thank you, Empress Dowager."
"I am willing, I am willing."
The Right Prime Minister looked at Miss Zuo beside him and felt satisfied.
He is over sixty years old. What is there for him to be dissatisfied with marrying a seventeen-year-old girl as his concubine?
Emperor Jinglong raised his hand, and the Empress Dowager looked at him with dissatisfaction: "What? Emperor, now I am even planning to marry into the Xu family, are you going to stop me?"
"Empress, although you have given birth to many children for the royal family, you cannot enjoy the emperor's favor alone."
"I think there are some very nice ladies here today. Are the Meng family's daughter, the Cheng family's daughter, the Han family's daughter, and the Xu family's daughter here?"
"Your servants are here." The four people whose names were called responded quickly and stepped out.
The Empress Dowager ignored the slight change in expression on Emperor Jinglong and his wife's faces and said proudly, "Your Majesty, royal offspring are important. In my opinion, today is also a happy occasion, so I will promote Concubine Rong to Noble Concubine."
"These four noble ladies will enter the palace and become the Four Concubines!"
Emperor Jinglong refused to agree. The Queen Mother was about to get angry, but Emperor Jinglong spoke first: "Daughter of the Zuo family, I will only give you one chance. Who allowed you to break into the side hall on a day like this and do such a thing?"
"It was really me... uh... Your Majesty, it was the Empress Dowager who ordered me to come to the side hall."
"That Xiao Anzi also knew about it. He was the one who took me there. Before that, the Right Prime Minister had also put drugs in the wine glass for the Third Prince, but I don't know why he ended up being the one who took the drugs."
"Later, when I went in, I didn't notice the change because it was dark and the aphrodisiac incense was on."
"How dare you!" The Queen Mother angrily waved her sleeves.
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