Chapter 157 She Wants to Be an Accomplice

After Xu An left, the palace maids came over to pay their respects and express their gratitude.

Yunqin asked Rongxin to give out some reward money.

After everyone left, the joy on Yun Qin and Rong Xin's faces faded.

Rong Xin helped Yun Qin sit down and poured her a glass of water. She glanced out the gauze partition and the window to make sure no one was around before she whispered to Yun Qin, "What on earth does the Queen Mother mean by this?"

The Queen Mother disliked Yun Qin the most, but she personally issued an imperial decree to confer her a title and a promise. It was weird no matter how you looked at it.

"Sister, moisten your throat too." Yun Qin also poured a glass of water for Rong Xin, and then said in a calm voice: "The Queen Mother returned to the palace, and it turned out not only for the Queen."

She touched the pattern on the back of the imperial edict, her eyes gleaming with a dark light, "The first meaning. I am now a maid in front of the emperor, and my master is the emperor. Even if she wants to teach me and discipline me, she can't go beyond the emperor."

"But it's different now that I've been canonized as a concubine. I'm a concubine. If she wants to see me, she has to go see her. If she wants to punish me, she has ten thousand ways to punish me. She's the empress dowager, the emperor's biological mother. Even if the emperor is unhappy, he won't make things awkward with her."

"And I..." Yun Qin sneered, "I have already taken the punishment, and I can only swallow the bitter water in my stomach."

Rong Xin frowned and couldn't help but ask, "Is this just the first level of meaning?"

Yun Qin sneered again, put the imperial edict in her hand on the low table, picked up the teacup and blew gently on the tea leaves floating on the water. "Since the Queen Mother has taken action, it will not be so simple."

"If you really just want to control me, wouldn't it be better to be a concubine? Why must I agree?" She took a sip of tea and continued, "Speaking of agreement, who is the first person you think of in this palace?"

"Shen promised?" Rong Xin raised her eyebrows slightly.

Yun Qin nodded, "It's Shen Daying, and who is behind Shen Daying?"

"General Shen!"

Yun Qin nodded again, "Yes, it was General Shen and the Shen family. They made me the Dan Ying, wasn't it just to make me compete with Shen Dan Ying? Judging from the emperor's behavior, he will naturally favor me. Do you think the Shen family will be unhappy about this, and will they have a grudge against the emperor?"

She didn't wait for Rong Xin to answer and continued:

"General Shen is now in the west, searching for property and dirt. It is the right time for him to work hand in hand with the emperor. This little rift may make the emperor's entire plan fail."

"This is the Queen Mother's real purpose!"

Rong Xin was shocked when she heard this and couldn't help asking, "Didn't the emperor think of this? Why did he personally add a title? Wouldn't this make the Shen family even more unhappy?"

Yun Qin lowered her eyes and glanced at the imperial edict on the table, and said slowly: "This is also the emperor's way to break the deadlock."

"Shen Daying and I are of equal rank, which gives people the feeling of a competition. But if the emperor's favoritism is exposed, it will be the Shen family and me competing, so naturally I will be half a head shorter. I don't even have time to save face for Shen Daying in front of the emperor, so how can there be any gap between us?"

only……

Yun Qin's eyes darkened slightly, and the Shen family's resentment was about to be directed at her.

The moment she decided to stay in the palace, she had thought that there might be such a day when she and Shen Danying would meet each other, but she never expected that she would be pushed into it like this.

Rong Xin thought for a while before coming to her senses. However, she did not dare to object to the emperor's decision. She was just a little worried, "How much of the emperor's sincerity is behind this title?"

Yun Qin glanced at her and smiled slightly, "I understand what you mean, sister. The emperor treats me well. But if it were me, I wouldn't be polite when it comes to killing two birds with one stone."

Seeing that she didn't care, Rong Xin became more worried, "But..."

Rong Xin found it difficult to say the following words. She certainly hoped that the emperor would not take so much advantage of Yun Qin.

Although she didn't say it out loud, Yun Qin already understood what she meant. Looking at the tea leaves floating in the cup, she smiled softly again, "Sister, don't you think it's better to be an accomplice who can be used than to be a concubine who may fall out of favor at any time?"

"Take General Shen as an example. The emperor is very good to his subordinates. Maybe I won't end up like Zhao Zhaoyi."

Hearing her cold tone, Rong Xin felt a slight pain in her heart, "Aqin, maybe you don't have to be so pessimistic."

"I don't have any." Yun Qin smiled and patted the back of Rong Xin's hand. "No matter how you look at it, this is a good thing. Sister should be happy."

"The Queen Mother's personal decree is also a signal. Maybe she wants to pull me in a little bit."

Rong Xin couldn't tell much from her expression. She just held her hand and smiled, whispering, "You always say that we will live a good life. I believe you."

"Well, we will definitely live a good life."

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When the news reached the harem, needless to say, everyone was astonished.

The most obvious thing about the imperial decree was that the empress dowager acknowledged Yun Qin's identity, which was not what they thought. The empress dowager would definitely deal with Yun Qin when she returned to the palace.

Moreover, it was a response that came with a title.

He hadn't even shown his face yet, but he was already much taller than them. They were so angry that they were almost speechless.

Later, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother brought some gifts from the palace and sent them to Yu.

Even if it was just a routine reward, it was a signal to the harem that Yun Qin was no longer a maid who could be discussed by them, but had to be treated as a sister by Xi Dan.

There is no need to express anything to those who are of lower status than Yunqin.

But we had to send some gifts to Lady Liu and Concubine De.

Concubine Liu has been in poor health ever since she was poisoned last time. She is also pregnant, so she keeps a low profile and rarely leaves the palace.

She was not surprised at all when she got the news. After all, the scene where Yun Qin asked the emperor to leave Yukang Palace was still clearly remembered in her mind.

There were so many twists and turns, all because of that jerk Su Yiyan.

When she thought of Su Yiyan, she felt a dull pain in her stomach. She hurriedly called Doctor Yu and instructed the palace maid to pick some things and send them to Yunqin.

As for Concubine De.

There wasn't any noise of crashing and banging like in other palaces, only the eldest prince seemed to be making a fuss.

Then several palace maids came out of the palace holding several trays and delivered them to Yu.

Facing the things sent by the palaces, Yun Qin just took a look and said to Rong Xin: "Send them to the side hall for now." Then she lowered her voice and said: "Don't touch them. Wait for me to find an excuse and let Xu An take people to check it out."

This is a predicament, and they may not dare to send any "dirty" things over, but we have to be on guard.

There have been several poisoning incidents in the palace, so she must be careful.

Rong Xin looked at these things with a bit of indifference, "I'm not careless."