1053 Take it back, the emperor is really shameless
"stop!"
The emperor strode over, and the first thing he did was not to ask everyone to excuse themselves, but to angrily ask: "How dare you! Who gave the order to hit Concubine Su?"
The Emperor cast a pair of sharp eyes towards Imperial Noble Concubine Xie. He knew that Concubine Su was on good terms with the Queen, and that Concubine Su had often spoken well of the Queen. The Queen also took good care of Concubine Su, so it was definitely not the Queen who wanted to hit anyone.
Imperial Concubine Xie smiled bitterly, lowered her head and said nothing, stroking her belly with her left hand, her heart was cold...
The first person the emperor suspected was not her. This is the emperor. Being the emperor's woman is extremely sad, considering that she is pregnant with the emperor's child.
The queen was secretly happy in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She said with a worried look on her face: "Your Majesty, it was the concubine who gave the order."
"You?" The emperor wrongly accused Imperial Noble Consort Xie, but he showed no apology. He immediately glared at the empress: "What did Concubine Su do wrong? You actually ordered her to be beaten."
"In reply to the emperor, Concubine Su offended Feng Qingchen, and I had no choice but to punish her." The queen looked aggrieved and lowered her head so that no one could see what she was thinking.
In fact, which woman in the harem is not wronged? The emperor dotes on Concubine Su to the sky, and other women are nothing but dirt in front of the emperor. No matter whether they are right or wrong, as long as they are related to Concubine Su, the unlucky ones will be the other concubines. Otherwise, the queen would not have been so cruel to abolish Concubine Su when she knew that Concubine Su had helped her a lot.
Given the emperor's fondness for Concubine Su, it would soon threaten the queen's status and dignity. The queen really couldn't tolerate Concubine Su...
"Have you offended Feng Qingchen? Who is Feng Qingchen? How precious is she? What does it mean to offend? It would be as easy as killing an ant for my beloved concubine to take her life." With just one sentence, the queen diverted the blame. If Feng Qingchen had not been kneeling far away, the emperor would have kicked her.
Imperial Noble Consort Xie sighed softly, fearing that the Emperor would take his anger out on Feng Qingchen, she quickly stepped forward to persuade him, "Your Majesty, Concubine Su is weak. Do you want to ask the imperial physician to see Concubine Su first?"
After Noble Consort Xie mentioned this, the Emperor remembered that Concubine Su was still lying there, and he hurriedly ordered, "Why are you still standing there? Send Concubine Su back quickly. Summon the imperial physician, and ask the chief envoy of the Imperial Hospital to see Concubine Su. If anything happens to Concubine Su, I will bury you with her."
The emperor felt heartbroken when he saw Concubine Su covered in blood and lifeless.
Because of the Hu Ji incident, the emperor fell into a trap when it came to women, so that for a long time, the emperor was not kind to the women in the harem and did not take any beauties in.
Now, with great difficulty, he has met a concubine, Concubine Su, who is well-behaved and sensible, and whom the emperor likes. However, he is afraid that she will melt if he holds her in his mouth, or fly away if he holds her in his hands. Usually, if Concubine Su frowns, the emperor has to coax her for a long time, not to mention beating her.
Imperial Concubine Xie's advice not only failed to calm the emperor, but made him even angrier. The emperor strode to Feng Qingchen and raised his foot to kick her...
"Your Majesty, please calm down." Feng Qingchen had been on guard against the emperor for a long time. He stood up when the emperor came forward. The emperor stepped on empty air. If the eunuch had not been smart, he would have fallen to the ground and lost all face.
"Your Majesty..." The Queen exclaimed, and hurried forward to support the Emperor. The Emperor was very pleased to see that the Queen cared so much about him, and said in a gentle tone: "Don't worry, Queen, I'm fine."
"I'm glad that your Majesty is alright. I was really scared." The Queen covered her chest with her hands, looking frightened. After confirming that the Emperor was alright, she turned to Feng Qingchen and said, "Feng Qingchen, you are so bold. Who told you to get up? How dare you be so presumptuous in front of the Emperor?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I know I was wrong." Feng Qingchen admitted his mistake readily but did not kneel down.
If she didn't have the phoenix hairpin, she would have knelt there and let the emperor kick her, just like when the emperor threw the memorial at her and she knew she would get hurt but had no choice but to endure it.
Thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from the emperor. She has to accept whatever the emperor gives or does not give, whether it is good or bad. Even if she is dissatisfied in her heart, she cannot let the emperor catch her fault in public.
"You know you're wrong?" The emperor sneered, looking at Feng Qingchen as if he was looking at a dead person: "Feng Qingchen, since you know you're wrong, I'm too lazy to put you in jail anymore. Someone, drag you out and chop you off."
"Your Majesty, no..." Noble Consort Xie was anxious and hurried forward, causing the emperor to look at her with a cold and ruthless look: "No, my dear concubine, Feng Qingchen bumped into me, why can't I chop her off? Could it be that I am the emperor and cannot kill a person?"
"Your Majesty, that's not what I meant. Feng Qingchen, Feng Qingchen she..." Imperial Noble Concubine Xie was so anxious that she couldn't find any words for a while. Feng Qingchen knew that Imperial Noble Concubine Xie was willing to help her, so she took over the conversation.
"Your Majesty, Qingchen did not mean to offend you. It was because Qingchen was wearing the phoenix hairpin bestowed by the late emperor, so she had to avoid it." In other words, if the emperor kicked Feng Qingchen, it would be disrespectful to the late emperor. She avoided it for the emperor's sake.
The emperor's disrespect for the late emperor can be a big or small matter. After all, the late emperor is gone and the emperor is in power now. But if the court officials knew about it, there would definitely be a lot of people writing memorials to accuse the emperor of being unfilial, and then even the emperor would be in trouble.
"Phoenix hairpin?" The emperor understood as soon as Feng Qingchen said it.
The only thing of the previous emperor that could make him, the emperor, feel fearful was the phoenix hairpin, because it had a different meaning.
"To reply to the emperor, it is the phoenix hairpin." Feng Qingchen took off the phoenix hairpin again, placed it in the palm of his hand, and held it in front of the emperor.
As soon as the emperor saw the phoenix hairpin, he understood why the queen said that Concubine Su had offended Feng Qingchen. In fact, Concubine Su did not offend Feng Qingchen, but this phoenix hairpin, a dead object that even he had to give some face to.
"Feng Qingchen, you are very good... You even wore a phoenix hairpin when you entered the palace." The emperor was so angry. The phoenix hairpin was a pain in the emperor's heart. The phoenix hairpin not only represented that the mother of the Ninth Prince was special in the heart of the late emperor, but also represented that the Ninth Prince was different from others.
"Qingchen was afraid of losing the holy object bestowed by the late emperor, so she had to keep it close to her." Feng Qingchen was of course aware of the sarcasm in the emperor's words, but it had nothing to do with her.
The conflict between the Ninth Prince and the Emperor is becoming more and more intense. She has been labeled as a member of the Ninth Prince's party, and there is no way to wash it off. It is useless even if this group clung to the Emperor.
Anyway, as long as she doesn't make any mistakes openly, it won't be easy for the emperor to kill her.
"You are thoughtful." The emperor gritted his teeth and stared at the phoenix hairpin, but he was thinking in his heart how to get the phoenix hairpin back.
This phoenix hairpin would be a trouble no matter whether it remained in the hands of the Ninth Prince or in the hands of Feng Qingchen. Without the phoenix hairpin, Feng Qingchen would feel less confident.
As for Concubine Su’s account, I’m afraid I won’t be able to settle it with Feng Qingchen today, since Concubine Su was the one who made the mistake first.
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. I am unworthy of it." Feng Qingchen remained calm and thanked him in a serious manner. People who didn't know the truth would really think that the emperor was praising her.
"I'm not praising you." The emperor disliked Feng Qingchen's calm look. The more he looked at him, the more he looked like the Ninth Prince.
"Qingchen is stupid and failed to understand the emperor's will. Please forgive me, Your Majesty." Feng Qingchen refused to take any loss and was very serious, not giving the emperor a chance to find fault...
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