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The Taishi Bureau was in turmoil due to the rebellion of Shi Jianhou. Although it has been quelled, it still makes people panic.
Li Lie'ao was furious and slammed the table and stood up: "How dare you, a madman, assassinate the royal family!"
Xue Lian also had a gloomy expression and hugged Li Xin and Li Ziyin tightly.
Chen Yun calmed down. She walked forward, looked at Shi Jianhou and sneered, "Is there someone behind your actions?"
Shi Jianhou snorted coldly and did not answer.
At this moment, Li Lin hurried over and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Chen Yun was safe. He looked at Shi Jianhou and said, "Even if you don't tell me, I can find out. Drag him away and torture him severely!" Then, Li Lin turned to Chen Yun and whispered, "I'm glad you're okay. The people in this palace are treacherous. You must be careful from now on."
Chen Yun nodded. She secretly thought, "Liang Di is a high-ranking concubine. Now that she's brought a child into the palace, she's been granted this position. I understand people are jealous of her, but I didn't expect them to reject me so much."
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside the hall. It turned out that Lan Xixi, Chen Youyou, and Li Zi heard the commotion inside the hall and ran over to check on the situation. Lan Xixi asked with concern, "Sister, what happened? Are you okay?"
Chen Yun watched as these women arrived at the perfect moment, and couldn't help but wonder if they were lying in wait. But Chen Yun calmed down and said calmly, "Thank you for your concern. I'm fine."
Chen Youyou's beautiful eyes flickered as she took in everyone's expressions. A hint of sarcasm curled up the corner of her mouth, and she chuckled softly, her laughter tinged with sharpness. "Hmph, it seems some people really attract attention because they're so big. I've only just entered the palace, and already people are looking down on me."
Li Zi also echoed, "Youyou, even if we did something hateful, we are still people around the prince, and we must not harm the harmony of the Eastern Palace."
Lan Xixi quickly glared at them and said, "You two, stop making sarcastic remarks here. My sister just went through something like this. It's fine if you don't want to comfort her, but you're saying these sarcastic remarks. That's too much."
Chen Yan waved her hand: "Forget it, my sisters are just concerned about me."
Li Lie'ao looked at these women and thought to himself, "It seems the harem struggle has already begun. How will you, who came from a poor family, deal with this?"
A few days after Chen Yun entered the palace, she received training from Nanny Lan. Then, during her free time, Chen Yun learned that the two concubines were busy assisting Li Lin in handling palace politics and harem affairs.
Elsewhere, Lan Xixi came to the door of Li Lin's study, and the guard Zifeng came out.
"Lan Liangdi, His Highness is still busy, please go back."
"He still won't forgive me." Lan Xixi sighed, lost in thought. Zifeng waved his hand in front of her, bringing her back to reality. "Then please, Brother Zifeng, please help deliver the food to His Highness so he can share it with Chen Yun and Chen Liangdi." After handing over the food, she turned and slowly left.
At this time, Li Lin opened the door but did not come out.
Zifeng said, "Your Highness, perhaps Concubine Lan Liangdi has realized her mistake."
"But I have no intention of forgiving her. If she truly recognizes her mistakes, she will voluntarily withdraw from the competition for the position of consort."
"Your Highness, please don't be so stubborn. She can voluntarily withdraw. The power of her family will not tolerate her. You are still looking for a good match for Lan Liangdi, and..."
Li Lin glanced at Zifeng, and Zifeng had to shut up.
Elsewhere, Chen Youyou made an appointment with Chen Yan for a tea party.
"Sister, the little princess and the little prince are so adorable. I wonder how you take such good care of them?"
"It's just that people are born and raised in a rough way. Being too pampered will only lead to more illnesses."
Chen Youyou drank a cup of tea and then said, "I remember that my sister was from the Imperial Medical Bureau. I wonder why she went to such lengths to hide her identity and infiltrate?"
Chen Yun stared at Chen Youyou with wide eyes. She had never expected the news of her working in the Imperial Medical Bureau as a man to spread. It seemed that the speed of information transmission in the palace was quite fast. So she asked, "How did my sister know that I was working in the Imperial Medical Bureau under a hidden identity?"
Chen Youyou hid her sleeves and laughed, "Haha! Sister, you don't know, do you? Everyone in the palace knows that you disguised yourself as a man and entered the Imperial Medical Bureau. If you weren't blessed with the golden medal of immunity from death as the Emperor's heir, Sister would have lost several heads. So I admire you very much."
At this moment, Chen Qing looked up at the sky as if his soul had left his body.
"From now on...won't you be able to go there as a man?"
Chen Youyou looked at the person in front of her in surprise. It was hard to imagine that she was the one who gave birth to an heir to climb the royal family. But when she saw the two children, jealousy suddenly made her question it again.
"You can't deceive me, Chen Yun." Thinking of this, Chen Youyou asked tentatively, "Sister, I wonder...why did you decide to enter the palace? After all, you made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince run around for you for months, but to no avail."
Chen Yan gathered his thoughts and stared at the quiet and flowing water pool beside him, seemingly lost in thought. "Between the persuasion of the two families and the growth of the child, I still have to make a clear choice."
"If that's the case, why not give the child to someone else in the palace? Then you can be free outside the palace and choose the man you love to spend your life with. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Chen Yan smiled slightly, her smile reflecting Chen Youyou's subtle thoughts. She then stood up and said, "I promised the Crown Prince that I would always support him. Okay, it's time to go out in the sun with my son, Xin Yin."
Chen Youyou said, "I've heard recently that the flowers in the garden are blooming beautifully. I've been wanting to go see them. Could you please accompany me?"
Chen Yun agreed, and the two of them walked together in the back garden, accompanied by the palace maids. Although there were flowers and green leaves along the way, the two did not talk much.
The two of them suddenly came to a patch of flowers. The sunlight and autumn breeze rustled, and the fragrance of yellow and purple flowers in the grass filled their air. The breeze played with the hair of the two beauties. Chen Youyou reached for a flower in the bush, but while her hand extended, her body seemed to be lingering in the spot, unable to move closer.
Chen Yun asked curiously, "Youyou, why don't you take another step forward? It's okay to just touch the flower mud a little!"
Chen Youyou said, "Sister, I'm allergic to forget-me-nots, but I love roses."
But Chen Youyou gave up. She came to Chen Yan and said, "Sister, since we have the same last name, can you help me pick the blue flowers?"
Chen Ying handed the child to Yangyang and Yueyue, then without saying a word, walked through the flowers and picked the blue flowers from them.
Chen Youyou watched Chen Yan picking flowers, thinking to herself, "Chen Yan, your mistake was fighting for the position of Crown Princess. Your mistake was giving birth to an imperial heir." Then, Chen Youyou saw the guards passing by in the distance, and her eyes narrowed. "Everything has been planned out. You should think about how to get a divorce, sister."
Chen Yan came to Chen Youyou and handed her the flowers, but Chen Youyou took a few steps back and shouted, "Sister, if you don't like Youyou, you can't do this, right?"
Chen Yan felt very strange looking at Chen Youyou's frightened eyes. She had just sought his help, but now she was contrary to her usual behavior and seemed to be giving in to him.
"What did you say? Pick up the phone quickly."
Chen Youyou took it with tears in her eyes. The next second, she smelled it and then collapsed to the ground.
Chen Youyou's maid immediately shouted, "Help! Help!"
At this time, Queen Xue Lian and Emperor Li Lieo heard the news and rushed to the scene with a group of people.
When Li Lieo saw the flowers in Chen Youyou's hand, he picked them off and threw them away.
Xue Lian and the palace maid helped Chen Youyou up, and Xue Lian was the first to ask, "Who put the forget-me-not flower in Chen Liangdi's hand?"
"What? Isn't this a rose?" Hearing Chen Yun's surprised reaction, everyone thought it was Chen Yun's doing.
A guard said, "Your Majesty, just now from a distance I saw this master stuffing a blue flower into this lady's hand. It seemed as if he was being forced."
Chen Yun looked at the guard in surprise. She couldn't believe how coincidental it all was. She even suspected that the guard was trying to trick her.
Li Lie'ao asked: "Everyone in the palace knows that forget-me-nots can cause Chen Youyou to be poisoned. You..."
At this moment, Chen Youyou's face was covered in rashes, and she was vomiting. Her breathing also became rapid.
Chen Yun immediately knelt and said, "Your Majesty, I simply fulfilled Chen Liangdi's wish by picking the flowers she requested. She was the one who requested flowers of this color. As for whether she was poisoned by plants, I have no idea! At least, I don't even know the names of the flowers, let alone their characteristics."
Ling Ma said, "It seems that she is of humble origin and cannot even match the elegance of a lady from a noble family!"
Chen Youyou's hair fell down and her head was lowered. At that moment, Chen Yan noticed that there was still a barely perceptible smug smile on the corner of her mouth.
Chen Youyou half-closed her eyes and said sickly, "The palace doesn't need two Chen Liangdi, right? So you want to get rid of me? Not only did my sister's two servants steal my sister's dowry, but they also hurt me like this. Father, it would be better for you to help Youyou and let you leave the palace."
Yangyang and Yueyue immediately knelt down to explain: "We didn't know! We didn't steal Chen Liangdi's dowry!"
Xue Lian asked gently, "Youyou, do you have any evidence?"
"My Queen Mother, all my dowry is inscribed with the name Chen. Now... it is in the hands of two servants."
Xue Lian signaled to Eunuch Lin and Nanny Ling, and they immediately walked up to Yangyang and Yueyue. Nanny Ling took the two children, and Eunuch Lin raised Yangyang and Yueyue's hands and found that there was indeed a pair of bracelets on each of their hands. When Eunuch Lin examined the bracelets, he did find the word "Chen" on them.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the word 'Chen' is indeed engraved on this bracelet."
Chen Yun immediately questioned, "Did you two steal anything? Tell the truth!"
Yueyue explained, "Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, I truly do not know! I purchased this bracelet from a royal merchant named Guo for one hundred taels. I do not know anything else. Please have mercy!"
At this moment, all the evidence pointed to Chen Yan, and countless pairs of eyes were fixed on her. She suppressed her anger and faced the analysis calmly.
Xue Lian questioned again, "Ying'er, the Guo family's imperial merchant is served by your Chen family. Why do they have Youyou's dowry?"
Chen Yun said calmly, "Let's talk about this from two perspectives. Do you think I know how to identify flowers? If I didn't, how could I have poisoned Chen Youyou? As the saying goes, ignorance is not a crime. And since everyone in the palace knew about this, why would I have been so foolish as to not know? Why would I have risked knowingly committing a crime by doing something so obviously stupid?"
Li Lie'ao disagreed. He kicked Chen Yun to the ground and said, "I never like sophistry. If you make a mistake, you must admit it. Do you really want me to revoke your title and expel you from the palace? Chen Yun, do you admit your guilt?"
"Qing'er, I wanted to provide you with the conditions so that you could strive for success. But now nothing has changed. It seems that even if you were born poor and change your environment, you still can't achieve great things."
Chen Yun refused to accept the news. She clenched her fists, her brow furrowed, and she insisted she was innocent. However, she dared not disobey the emperor. She knelt again and replied, "Your son will accept this punishment. However, I will not admit it was my fault. As for the servants, it was due to your poor discipline, and I beg to share in their punishment."
"Master!"
"Yangyang, Yueyue, don't scream. I trust you."
Xue Lian said, "Chen Liangdi harmed someone in the Eastern Palace and refused to repent. Two of her personal maids stole from the concubines. As this is a first offense, all three will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane! Chen Liangdi will also be punished by copying the "Female Commandments" a hundred times!"
Chen Yun stood up and said, "Thank you, Father and Mother. However, I still recommend arranging for a royal physician to treat Chen Liangdi as soon as possible. She is allergic to the sap of the forget-me-not flower, and usually a reaction occurs when crushing it."
Ling Mama defended herself, "Nonsense! What's an allergy? It's clearly poisoning from touching the flowers."
Chen Yun said calmly, "Let me explain once more. The surface of most flowers doesn't contain allergens. The real culprits are the plant's sap, fruit, and pollen. Pollen allergies typically only affect the skin of the nose and throat. While they may cause chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and rashes, the exposure you experienced in such a short time wasn't enough. Therefore, the current level of damage can basically be attributed to an allergy to the sap."
Ling Ma Ma also chimed in, "You still want to talk?"
Chen Yun looked at Chen Youyou, then said calmly, "I have already made some concessions. I hope you won't force me any further in the future. I hope you don't know what backlash means."
After saying this, Chen Yan saluted and turned to leave, while Chen Youyou raised the corner of his mouth in triumph. But Chen Yan was thinking differently: "He's testing the law with his own body, a ruthless person. His style of doing things is an open conspiracy. I understand."
At this moment, Chen Yun's mouth corners also raised slightly.
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