The Grand Empress Dowager and Aunt Qiu were both stunned when they heard this. They looked at each other, undecided, "This..."
"I know that Aunt Qiu is a capable person by the Empress's side, but it is precisely because of this that you show how much you value the Empress Dowager, right? With Aunt Qiu watching over her, those evil spirits will naturally be docile. The Empress Dowager will see your sincerity and will naturally only be close to you in the future, both she and Little Dragon Son."
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager was slightly startled, and then she came to her senses.
He Qing's words were certainly a suggestion for solving the problem, but they were also a disguised reminder to her: although the court was important, Empress Dowager Zhang and the baby in her belly were more important.
This child wasn't just born and done; she had to watch over him until he grew up and hand over the Chu Empire to him. Children couldn't live without their mothers, and if Empress Dowager Zhang was constantly afraid of her, the child would inevitably be affected. If she wasn't close to him, what was the point of all her hard work?
Empress Dowager Zhang was a weak character with no opinions of her own. She had no say in matters of the court, so it was easy to win her over, and there would be no harm in it.
After figuring this out, she couldn't help but pat He Qing's hand on the table and sighed, "I've been very busy recently, focusing on the present and not the future, and inevitably neglecting many things. Fortunately, you reminded me, otherwise I would really..."
She paused, then made the decision, "Then Aunt Qiu should pack up and go to Kunhua Palace to serve tomorrow. The Empress Dowager and the little prince are of great importance and cannot be neglected."
"Yes." Aunt Qiu nodded quickly in response.
Although she didn't want to leave the Grand Empress Dowager's side, she was also afraid of losing her favor. But following the Empress Dowager and the little prince was also for the Grand Empress Dowager. It was an important matter, so she didn't have to worry about being ignored. Besides...
To be frank, the Empress Dowager was now the head of the harem, holding authority never before held by any woman in the harem since the founding of the nation. Ultimately, however, these powers would eventually be handed back to the young emperor, and serving that master might even offer her a better future.
The Grand Empress Dowager's move naturally wouldn't just target Aunt Qiu. The next day, when He Qing arrived at Kunhua Palace, he saw the place filled with items, all sent there by the Grand Empress Dowager's order. Aunt Qiu led several palace servants in inventorying and sorting, while Empress Dowager Zhang sat nearby, her expression relaxed. It was clear that Aunt Qiu's methods were extraordinary.
And the person holding incense had been pushed into a corner, quiet and invisible unless you looked carefully.
Upon seeing her, Empress Dowager Zhang stood up, a look of familiarity on her face. "Master, please take a seat. I was just talking about you with Aunt Qiu."
She should have been a daughter of a wealthy family, a favored daughter of heaven.
However, she was born at the wrong time. Her mother, a low-ranking concubine, died during childbirth. Soon after her birth, her father, Emperor Hui, fell ill and passed away the following year. With the change of power, the palace and the court were filled with grief, and a princess who had not yet grown up was naturally forgotten.
After his elder brother ascended the throne, he was arrogant, extravagant, dissolute, incompetent and ruthless. He only knew how to have fun but not how to govern the country. He neglected the affairs of state, so that the former dynasty and the harem were controlled by eunuchs and treacherous eunuchs. He Qing had the status of the eldest princess but did not have the status that matched her status. She was manipulated by the maids around her and had no opinions of her own.
When she was sixteen, her elder brother, Emperor Ling, passed away. Her fourteen-year-old nephew, Yuji, ascended the throne. He sat on the throne for only two short years before falling from his horse and passing away suddenly. He became Emperor Xian. Emperor Xian had no children, and the imperial court and the harem were locked in a fierce dispute over who would succeed him. Upon his ascension, the new emperor launched a massive purge of the imperial harem and the court. He Qing, the eldest princess who had served four dynasties, was married off as soon as her mourning period ended.
At that time, He Qing thought that this was the beginning of a new life, but unexpectedly it was the first step into hell.
The emperor paid no attention to her, and the palace maids were naturally perfunctory. He Buping, the eunuch in charge of choosing a husband for her, accepted bribes and conspired with others to deceive his superiors and subordinates, marrying her off to a dying consumptive.
Using the golden branches and jade leaves of the imperial family to bring good luck, I am afraid there has never been a more ridiculous joke than this throughout history.
The one who dared to deceive the royal family into marriage fraud was indeed not an ordinary family. His courage was so great that ordinary people could not imagine it. The groom vomited blood and died on the wedding night. Her parents-in-law and several brothers-in-law teamed up and strangled her to death in the bridal chamber, burying her with the short-lived ghost.
It's pitiful, ridiculous and lamentable.
He Qing felt that she was perhaps the most unlucky princess in history, a disgrace to all her colleagues. She had been born in obscurity and died in humiliation.
These fragments of memories flashed through his mind quickly, and then quickly faded away. He Qing traveled a long distance in the darkness, and gradually developed some obsessions that came from nowhere. These obsessions rose and fell in his mind, converging into thin thoughts.
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