Chapter 14 refreshes the understanding of "how much the emperor loves the ninth princess"

Xie Ruizhu was demoted from a concubine to a talented woman.

Xie Ruizhu vomited blood on the spot when she received the decree.

"Thank you, talented lady. The emperor asked me to come here to help you move to the palace." Wei An, the little eunuch who was slapped by her last time, spoke with a forced smile.

She was no longer a concubine and could no longer live in Changchun Palace, nor could she have so many palace maids and eunuchs serving her.

"How could the emperor treat me like this?" Xie Ruizhu's eyes were blurred by tears.

In less than a month, she fell from the first person in the harem to the lowest-ranking talent. The Xie family fell from power, the emperor no longer favored her, and without anyone to support her, Xie Ruizhu decided to die.

Wei An smiled coldly: "The emperor has said that when Xie Cairen finishes copying the scriptures, she can leave the palace. If you dare to disobey the order again, you will be killed without mercy."

Xie Ruizhu seemed to lose all her strength, her legs went limp, and she fell to the ground in disbelief.

In the end, she was carried out of Changchun Palace by the eunuchs.

The concubines in the harem could no longer sit still. They could see that after this confrontation, Xie Ruizhu would never be able to turn things around.

We must seize the time to curry favor with Xia Shuyi.

Concubines from various palaces wanted to visit Xia Shuyi and her daughter in Weiyang Palace, but she rejected them one by one.

The princess was frightened and would not see any guests for the time being. She would see the ladies again at the full moon banquet.

Anyway, ever since the Empress passed away, there has been no custom of paying respects in the harem, so she is not afraid of being rejected.

Everyone had to stop worrying and focus on preparing gifts for Lu Li's full-moon banquet.

As of today, Lu Li is 28 days old.

Her full-month banquet will be held on the 36th day.

Lu Yanshi knew that Xia Shuyi had to take care of two children and probably had no time to prepare for the full-month banquet, so he asked Concubine De, Concubine Shu, and Concubine Xian to jointly organize the full-month banquet.

"I want this banquet to be lively and exciting. Nothing can go wrong. Do you understand?" Lu Yanshi stared at his three concubines with a very serious tone.

"I understand." The three of them agreed in unison, saying that they would definitely organize this banquet well.

This decree caused outrage among everyone in the harem.

They once again refreshed their understanding of "how much the emperor dotes on the Ninth Princess".

Even the eldest prince at that time could not match this treatment.

Although Xie Ruizhu was in a side hall, she also learned the news a day later.

Her face was pale, her heart was broken, and she leaned against the door foolishly, tears streaming down her face.

"She is just a daughter, how could she be favored by the emperor so much?"

She muttered to herself and walked towards her room like a zombie.

This is a side hall, completely different from the magnificent bedroom she had lived in before.

It was dark, dilapidated and damp here, an environment she had never experienced before.

Whether at home or in the palace, she has always been the center of attention.

She sat on the bed and reached out to touch it. Her slender, white fingers were covered with dust.

She shouted angrily, but no one paid any attention to her. Her only maid, Hemerocallis, was busy fetching silver charcoal.

Winter is coming soon, and we can't survive without charcoal.

What's the point of living on a day like this?

Xie Ruizhu looked at the beam in a daze, found the bed sheet, tied it to the beam, tied a knot, and planned to die.

She stepped onto the chair, put her head in it, closed her eyes, and was ready to end her short life.

Daylily returned empty-handed. Just as she was about to cry to the empress about how she had been treated so coldly today, she saw her preparing to hang herself.

She rushed over with a shout: "My Lady, what are you doing? Please don't be stupid."

Her push was so powerful that it directly overturned the stool.

Xie Ruizhu was caught off guard, her feet were hanging in the air, and her neck was stuck. She tried to struggle, but her feet were off the ground and she had no foothold, so she couldn't get away at all.

She wanted to ask Daylily for help, but Daylily was so frightened that she couldn't move.

It's over. She caused the queen to hang herself.

This was all she could think of.

A moment later, before she could come to her senses, she discovered that Xie Ruizhu, who had been struggling, had stopped moving.

"My queen?" Hemerocallis called out tentatively.

"Empress?!" she screamed, finally coming to her senses.

"The queen hanged herself, the queen hanged herself." Daylily stumbled out, shouting and screaming.

…

When Lu Yanshi learned that Xie Ruizhu had committed suicide, he paused while reading the memorials.

"Prepare her remains and let the Second Prince see her for the last time."

"Yes." Cao Dehai immediately took people to find the second prince.

Lu Yan's personal maid was massaging his knees. Although his father had someone add soft cushions for him, it was still not comfortable to kneel for so many hours a day.

He rubbed his sore wrist and cursed Xia Shuyi and her daughter in his heart.

"Second Prince, the emperor has ordered me to take you to see Xie Cairen for the last time." Cao Dehai came and went straight to the point.

Lu Yan was stunned for a moment, then asked stupidly, "What do you mean by the last meeting?"

"Xie Cairen is gone." Cao Dehai looked at him with a hint of sympathy.

This person should have a bright future.

But now his grandparents are committing suicide, his mother is also dead, and he will definitely have no chance of inheriting the throne in the future.

"Gone? What does gone mean?" Lu Yan stood up suddenly and questioned Cao Dehai.

But he had been kneeling for too long, and when he stood up, he could not bear it at all. He stumbled and fell forward.

Cao Dehai was quick to act and quickly supported him.

"Impossible, impossible." Lu Yan shook off his hand and rushed to the side hall like crazy.

His mother was still pleading for him a few days ago, how could he just die?

He staggered to the side hall and saw his mother lying on the bed with her eyes closed. She no longer had her usual arrogance and domineering look.

"Mother, wake up, don't scare me." Lu Yan shook her hand hard, trying to wake her up.

But the person in front of him would never respond to him again.

"Mother, please wake up. I will be obedient from now on. I will study if you ask me to and I will do anything you ask me to do. Please wake up!" He cried heartbreakingly, but his mother still did not open her eyes.

He cried in front of his mother's corpse until he fainted.

When he woke up again, he had returned to his bedroom.

Lu Yan thought about what happened today and clenched his hands into fists.

His mother died, killed by Xia Zhaoyi and her daughter. If they had not taken away his father's favor, his mother would not have hanged herself.

He hated them.

But he would no longer be as impulsive as before. His mother's death made him grow up.

Lu Yan decided to take it slow and try to kill them with one strike in the future, so that the mother and daughter could pay for their mother's life.

…

Someone has died in the palace. Can the little princess' full-month banquet be held?

The three concubines were a little undecided for a while.

So, among the three, the oldest Concubine De Jiang Man, as a representative, went to find Lu Yanshi and asked his opinion.