The queen also felt that she drank too much water, but it seemed that all of it was drunk by Feng Zhaolian. She just held it in her hand to pretend, and when it got cold, Fang Yi replaced it with hot water. In total, she only drank two or three sips. Who would have thought that Feng Zhaolian was so honest?
She said helplessly: "Who told you to drink so much?"
Feng Zhaolian slapped her thigh and said, "I say, your Queen's words are really interesting. You asked me to sit here with you in the middle of the night, and you didn't give me anything except tea. What else can I do if I don't drink tea? At least you can give me some snacks. Besides, I will be sleepy even if I don't drink tea! You have something on your mind and can't sleep, but I am open-minded!"
The queen felt a little overwhelmed. Feng Zhaolian looked like a woman, a beautiful fairy, many times more beautiful than the Feng Chenyu from the Feng family. But this person is not a real woman after all. When she is deliberately pretending, she can pretend to be very similar, but when there are no outsiders, her true colors are exposed! The way she patted her thigh just now was really... too manly.
"Are you really open-minded?" Although she was complaining in her heart, the Queen did not discuss Feng Zhaolian's personal image with him in the middle of the night. She just asked him: "If you are really open-minded, why do you still stay in my Jingci Palace?"
With Feng Zhaolian's efforts, Fangyi actually brought him a lot of snacks. He was also very hungry. While eating, he said, "Whether I leave or not has nothing to do with being open or not. My affairs have been delayed for so many years that I'm used to it. So it doesn't really cause me much trouble. At most, I will occasionally wonder why that person hasn't come to find you? Or I may look around in Jingci Palace to see if the person who is looking for you has come, but is just hiding and not showing up."
"Have you found it?" The queen was not interested in this at all and asked just to get by.
Feng Zhaolian shook his head with a look of regret: "Don't worry, there really is nothing in Jingci Palace, but as for places outside of Jingci Palace, I haven't had the chance to check in detail."
The Queen laughed, "Why should I worry? It's fate whether they come or not. Sometimes I hope they can act faster, so that this matter can be exposed and resolved sooner, and I won't have to worry all day and be threatened by others."
"That person can't threaten you now, right?" Feng Zhaolian said with a smile, "He climbed up fast and high, and in the blink of an eye he climbed onto the dragon bed, but what about you? My queen, you haven't tasted rain and dew for decades, right?"
The queen blushed at what he said, but she had no way to refute it, so she just said, "Then let her keep climbing. I want to see if she will climb over me one day."
The two servants sat opposite each other like this from dusk till dawn, until Feng Zhaolian could no longer bear it and fell asleep. Then the Queen asked people to carry him back to his bedroom, but she herself still sat there without moving.
Fang Yi knew what the Queen was thinking, and could not help but advise her: "Your Majesty, think more positively. It is normal for the Emperor to favor any concubine. Even if there is no Concubine Yuan Shu today, didn't there still be Concubine Yun in the past? In my opinion, it is a good thing for the Emperor to share more of his love. If he only cares about Concubine Yun, then there will be no room for anyone else in his heart! Maybe Concubine Yuan Shu has started a precedent, and from now on, the harem will return to normal as it was more than 20 years ago."
The queen smiled bitterly after hearing this, "Restored to normal? How is that possible? I know him too well. Now even he is not normal, how can we expect the harem to be normal?"
Fang Yi was startled, then said: "Your Majesty means..."
"Empress Yuan Shu used special means to ascend to the throne. The emperor's current favor towards her is not from the heart." She said confidently, "Although I don't know what the special means are, whether it was drugging or something else, I can say for sure that the emperor must have been tricked by Concubine Yuan Shu." After she finished speaking, she stood up and said tiredly, "No more talking. Wash and dress for me. I'll take a nap."
She said she was going to sleep, but how could she sleep lying on the phoenix couch? It had been more than 20 years! The man she loved finally broke the peace of more than 20 years at this time. Finally, another concubine spent the night in Zhaohe Palace. Unfortunately, it was not her, nor Concubine Yun.
Everyone knew that the Empress of the Central Palace was the best partner of Emperor Tianwu. Over the years, she had played one scene after another with him, with such tacit understanding and without fail. She once thought that such days would continue until one day that person came to her, and then Emperor Tianwu would follow her clues and catch all the remnants, and then turn around and drive her out of the position of Empress. Her life would end.
No matter why the old emperor let her stay in the position of empress, whether he really felt that the cooperation was pleasant, that she was good at managing the harem, or that he just used her as bait, she accepted it. She loved that man so much that she was willing to do everything for him, even willingly accompanying Emperor Tianwu to "fish". Unfortunately, all this balance was finally broken within one day and one night.
The queen closed her eyes, her mind filled with the image of Concubine Yuan Shu enjoying the favor in Zhaohe Palace, which troubled her so much that her heart was torn and her head was splitting.
Speaking of splitting headaches, besides the Queen, there is another person outside the palace, and that is Concubine Yun.
The beauty slept until 15:30. When she sat up, she felt a headache as if someone was squeezing it hard. She covered her head in pain and wailed a few times. Immediately, a servant lifted the curtain and whispered, "Madam, are you awake?"
Concubine Yun was stunned and subconsciously asked, "What do you call me?" She looked up at the maid who was talking. Uh... she was not from Yuehan Palace, but she was not unfamiliar. She had served her before. She thought about it again... Ouch! Isn't this the maid from Prince Chun's Mansion? "What? Hua'er entered the palace?"
The girl said quickly, "Madam, it's not His Highness the Seventh Prince who is entering the palace, it's you who is leaving. His Highness said that it's not appropriate to use the palace titles in the palace, so we should still follow the old rules and call you Madam."
"Oh." Concubine Yun nodded in a daze. Thinking about it again, it seemed that it was her Ming'er and Ah Heng who entered the palace last night. They also said that they would take her out of the palace and send her to Prince Chun's residence. But how did she get out? Why did she have no memory of leaving the palace at all? "Go and call Hua'er for me." Since they didn't need to address her in the palace, that would be better. It would also save her from having to call her "this palace" all the time, which was annoying.
The little girl was very obedient and immediately went to call Xuan Tianhua over. When Xuan Tianhua entered the room, Concubine Yun was still sitting on the bed, looking confused. He sent the servants out, stepped forward quickly, and took the initiative to say: "How much wine did mother drink yesterday? When Ming'er and my sister-in-law sent you to the mansion, you were drunk and unconscious."
"Hmm?" Yun Fei looked at him and tilted her head to think for a moment, "Drank a lot of wine? Oh, yes, I drank a lot of wine, but that kind of wine is not very intoxicating. Will I die?"
Xuan Tianhua nodded seriously, "She was indeed unconscious, so Ming'er and his sister-in-law had to go through a lot of trouble to sneak her out of the palace."
"Since you insist on using this reason to explain, I guess I'll just listen to it! But Hua'er, let me tell you, I'm not so confused that I can't write anymore. I know exactly how much I drank last night. I can even remember that I suddenly fainted after returning to my bedroom in Yuehan Palace. Can you explain to me what sudden coma means?"
Xuan Tianhua felt bitter in his heart, but he said, "I just got drunk suddenly and passed out."
"Tsk." Yun Fei rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say! Anyway, I can't control you kids any more. You guys are bullying me because I'm old and hiding everything from me."
"Mother is not old at all." Xuan Tianhua was telling the truth, "It's just that the palace has been a bit unstable recently. Although we can't predict what will happen, I feel uneasy letting mother stay in the palace. You can just stay here and rest assured. If the emperor asks about it, Ming'er and I will take care of it."
"Don't worry, the old man won't ask me again." Yun Fei shrugged, a hint of sarcasm on the corner of her lips, "He has people serving him, he is very happy! How can he care about me. If I had known that there would be such a day, I would have left the palace twenty years ago, but..." After she finished speaking, she sighed again, "If I wasn't in the palace, you and Ming'er would have a hard time, so later I thought about it and decided to stay in the palace. At worst, I won't see him. Hua'er, do you think that because I don't see him all the time, he... changed his mind?" As Yun Fei spoke, she fell into memories in a trance, thinking of the days when they lived in the mountains, and then the more than 20 years in the palace, then she shook her head and said to herself, "No, it's impossible for him to change his mind like this."
Xuan Tianhua felt sad. He held Concubine Yun's hand, wanting to comfort her. But when he opened his mouth, he didn't know what to say. Concubine Yun and Emperor Tianwu had been together for so many years. Whether it was love or hate, or quarrels, it was all between the two of them. But now there was a Concubine Yuan Shu out of nowhere. How could Concubine Yun feel good? This woman refused to see Tianwu for more than 20 years, but as a son, he knew that Concubine Yun had Emperor Tianwu in her heart, but her temper was a little awkward. Now...
"Ming'er and I analyzed this matter and found that there is something fishy. I'm afraid that Father was coerced by Concubine Yuan Shu and the Eighth Elder." He said truthfully: "Although we can't find out where this coercion comes from, we can be sure that it exists. Mother, please don't think too much. This matter can no longer be judged from a personal perspective. I'm afraid it will develop into a disaster for Dashun. We must be extremely cautious."
Concubine Yun thought deeply and temporarily put away the thoughts that she shouldn't have. She knew that what Xuan Tianhua said was right. The political situation was turbulent and the harem was restless. Dashun seemed calm on the surface, but in fact it was full of crises. She still had two sons, and she couldn't let them fall behind at this time.
"I know." Concubine Yun spoke again and said to Xuan Tianhua, "Just go and do your own things. I will stay in this mansion and not go anywhere."
Because the Eighth Prince was suddenly pardoned, the capital was in turmoil for a while...
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