Chapter 147 Chapter 147
[Chapter 147]
Concubine Xian didn't look at all relieved when she heard Yinli's words.
In the bronze mirror, her eyes were filled with sorrow. If it weren't for what happened before, Concubine Xian would be happy because of Yinli's words.
"Yesterday..." Concubine Xian could not forget the emperor's cold eyes, and the way he protected Concubine Ying Gui and reprimanded her to return to the palace.
Concubine Xian's hands were shaking, tears were all over her face, "The Emperor asked me to bring Song'er with me today. It's obvious that he is angry about what happened yesterday. Even if I go to serve the emperor, I still don't have the Emperor's favor. What's the use of knowing this?"
The palace maids didn't dare to look any further after hearing this. Yinli gave a signal and everyone left.
Yinli gritted her teeth and knelt beside Concubine Xian. She was sent by the Queen Mother to be by Concubine Xian's side, and she knew exactly what Concubine Xian should do.
Touching the back of Concubine Xian's hand, Yinli wiped away her tears, "Your Majesty is wrong."
Concubine Xian looked at Yinli with tears in her eyes, just waiting for Yinli to say the rest of the words.
"Your Majesty's honor, if the Emperor is willing to give you this face, then what is the real situation, what does it matter?"
Concubine Xian's lips moved, "But are these enough?"
Before she accompanied the Empress Dowager to Mount Putuo, she had thought the same. As long as she could enter the Emperor's harem and become his concubine, it would not be impossible even if she did not receive honors or favors.
But now, she has become even more greedy.
Yinli looked at Concubine Xian's expression and knew what she was thinking.
Shaking the queen's hand, he said more sternly, "Your Majesty, please think about yourself, and even more so, the Queen Mother's plan. You have finally sat on the throne of a concubine, how can you give this position to someone else?"
"My lady, please don't get entangled with others anymore."
Concubine Xian lowered her eyes and looked at Yinli. When she entered the palace, her aunt asked Yinli to stay by her side.
Yinli belongs to her aunt, she will consider her aunt, and if her aunt wants something, Yinli will persuade her without reservation, just like now.
She knew that there were other girls of the right age in Ruoming's family, so it would never be her turn to enter the palace.
It was a pity that the Ming family was not prosperous and began to go downhill, so she became her aunt's only hope.
Her aunt wanted the Ming family to prosper and to preserve the glory of her mother's family, but she had to be sacrificed.
An ambiguous smile appeared on Concubine Xian's lips. If she was not the daughter of the Ming family, would today be different from before?
For the first time, she actually hated herself so much for being the daughter of the Ming family.
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When Concubine Xian brought the Second Prince to the Zichen Palace, her expression no longer resembled what it had just been.
The pride in her bones made her unable to tolerate others laughing at her. At this moment, she was bright and gentle, and she was the high and mighty Concubine Xian.
Wei Maoyuan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Emperor is already waiting for you inside."
After listening to Wei Maoyuan's words, Concubine Xian held the Second Prince's hand much tighter than before.
She said in a gentle voice, "Thank you, Uncle Lao."
Wei Maoyuan looked at the Second Prince calmly. The Second Prince was held tighter by Concubine Xian, and he shouted in dissatisfaction, "Mother, you hurt me!"
Concubine Xian quickly released her hand and said softly, "It was mother who forgot, Song'er, don't worry."
The second prince kicked his legs and hurried to the inner hall. He seldom came to the Zichen Palace, and now seeing the palace in front of him, he was naturally very curious.
Wei Maoyuan supported Qiao Shiguan and said from behind, "Second Prince, please slow down."
But the second prince is used to being domineering, so how could he listen to Wei Maoyuan at this time?
As soon as he stepped into the inner hall, Yan Shiyu frowned and looked at the Second Prince. The Second Prince, who had been indifferent just now, suddenly calmed down.
He remembered last night's events very clearly, but his mother said that his father's majesty should not be angered, so he could not do that in front of his father.
Concubine Xian followed him into the hall and saw the Second Prince standing in front of the hall. The Emperor was sitting lazily on the dragon throne, his dark eyes glaring. Just one glance was enough to shock people.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me." Concubine Xian pulled the second prince to her side, "It was I who didn't take good care of Song'er."
As she spoke, Concubine Xian wanted to lead the Second Prince to kneel down, but the Second Prince was unwilling to do so. He tried to break free from Concubine Xian's arms and almost hurt her.
Yan Shiyu looked at the palace maid behind Concubine Xian with a cold look in his eyes, "If she is not helpful, then replace her."
Everyone was panicked and rushed forward to support the queen, while the wet nurse hurriedly held the second prince in her arms.
The second prince burst into tears, "Father!"
Wei Maoyuan's eyes twitched at the sudden noise. He really didn't understand what was wrong with this little ancestor in front of him.
Feeling the emperor's increasingly gloomy gaze, Wei Maoyuan walked to the side of the second prince and said kindly: "May I take you to the side hall? There are many toys there."
The Second Prince was still a child at heart. Upon hearing this, he clapped his hands and said, "Okay! I'll go!"
Most of the things in the side hall were left by the Third Prince. However, under the current circumstances, he had no choice but to let the Second Prince play with them first and then order others to replenish them when the time came.
Wei Maoyuan hunched over, took the second prince's hand and left.
Yan Shiyu looked at Concubine Xian's palace maids and said in a sharp voice, "All of you, go away."
Then he strode directly to the table without paying any attention to Concubine Xian.
Concubine Xian stood there blankly, her fingertips embedded in her palms, feeling extremely embarrassed.
She took a few deep breaths, walked to the table, and placed the handkerchief in the emperor's hand. "Your Highness, I will serve you."
Yan Shiyu took the handkerchief and unfolded it without looking at Concubine Xian. He just said, "Sit down."
Concubine Xian was a little excited, but she quickly suppressed it. "A concubine cannot sit down to serve the emperor. I will serve the emperor."
Taking the jade chopsticks from the palace maid, Concubine Xian placed the fish sashimi on the emperor's plate and looked at him expectantly.
Yan Shiyu paused, and when the handkerchief fell on the support, the first person he thought of was Ruan Yun.
Among the concubines in the harem, she was the only one who had sat on the chair in front of her.
Every time she said she was serving food, she was so coquettish that she couldn't stand for even a quarter of an hour and would just sit down.
When she arrived at the back, she even sat down before him. She was supposed to be served the meal, but she was there to enjoy it.
Without forcing Concubine Xian to sit down, he moved his long fingers slightly and put the fish sashimi into her mouth.
Concubine Xian just looked at it, her heart rippled with joy, and she put the rest on the emperor's plate.
Seeing that the emperor had eaten it all, Concubine Xian's smile just rose, but it fell again because of the emperor's words.
"The Second Prince is young but has a big temper. He is not even two years old yet, and he has become like this."
The jade chopsticks in Concubine Xian's hand were not held firmly and fell directly to the ground.
The clear voice reached Concubine Xian's ears, but she acted as if she couldn't hear it. "Your Majesty..."
Yan Shiyu stood up, and the untouched meal on the table was cleared away by the palace servants.
Sitting on the couch at this moment, Yan Shiyu's eyes sank slightly, and he could still hear the voice made by the Second Prince in the side hall.
Concubine Xian bit her lower lip and said, "The Second Prince is the Emperor's son after all. I don't want to wrong him."
Yan Shiyu raised his hand to stop Concubine Xian from speaking, and said in a low voice, "It was I who neglected the Second Prince. It was you and I who neglected the same."
Concubine Xian suddenly knelt down in front of Yan Shiyu, "The Second Prince has been by my side since he was young. Your Majesty... Your Majesty will not favor me. The Second Prince is my only hope. He is still young and doesn't know anything. Is Your Majesty going to listen to one person?"
Yan Shiyu held the edge of the teacup and looked at Concubine Xian, only to find that she was very different from before.
"He is young, don't you understand?"
"Song'er is still young, but he has been blinded by the wealth and luxury in the palace. His loving mother has spoiled him."
Concubine Xian was stunned in her place, and she stepped forward in disbelief and grabbed the emperor's dragon robe:
"No... Your Majesty, Song'er has been with me since she was young. I cannot lose Song'er! Your Majesty!"
Yan Shiyu just looked at Concubine Xian and spoke without saying a word. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment.
Suddenly, the sound of the second prince crying and yelling came from the side hall, breaking the silence in the inner hall:
"Get down on your knees, you slave dog! Carry me away! If you don't agree, I'll chop off your head!"
Little Mu Zi knelt in front of the second prince in panic. When Wei Maoyuan saw Little Mu Zi's look, his face also looked very unhappy.
He is his disciple after all. The Second Prince is really too overbearing to be like this.
At this moment, the second prince held a wooden sword in his hand, waving it and clapping his hands, saying, "Faster! Faster!"
Beads of sweat appeared on little Mu Zi's forehead, but he did not dare to slow down while squeezing the Second Prince.
There was a cold look in Yan Shiyu's brows, and Concubine Xian closed her eyes, knowing that everything was over.
Her hands loosened and slid to the ground helplessly, and she fell to the ground with them.
Yan Shiyu didn't say anything for a long time, just looked at Concubine Xian quietly.
Concubine Xian spoke in a hoarse voice, "When I knew I could raise the Second Prince, I was extremely happy. When I returned to the palace, I was also full of anticipation, thinking about meeting the Emperor again, and wondering if the Emperor would suddenly remember my kindness again."
Concubine Xian's tears fell suddenly, and she wiped them away with her hands. "But after I returned to the palace, it would be good if the emperor could come to my palace once a month. I know that the emperor still hasn't thought of me, so I can only put all my expectations on the second prince. I think that with the second prince, the emperor will always come."
"The days in the palace are lonely. Song'er is my only hope. Although he is not my biological child, I have placed all my heart on him. But today, the emperor's words made me realize that I was wrong."
The crying that had been suppressed for a long time could no longer be suppressed. This was the first time that Concubine Xian lost her composure in front of Yan Shiyu.
Yan Shiyu placed his hand in front of Concubine Xian, but Concubine Xian just stared at the emperor's big hand.
Maybe I used to feel a little happy, but now when I think about it, all I have left is sadness.
Concubine Xian said in a hoarse voice: "My hands are dirty."
Yan Shiyu bent down and held Concubine Xian's hand: "I said, I am also responsible for Song'er's current condition."
He used some strength to pull Concubine Xian up from the ground. Concubine Xian could only follow the emperor's actions and could not do anything else.
Yan Shiyu listened to the second prince's domineering voice, thought of the woman who was wronged and pitiful and curled up in his arms, and started to move.
But every word and sentence contained the suffering she had endured.
The late emperor doted on Concubine Tao and wanted to make the baby in her womb the crown prince.
At that time, he also resented and hated the late emperor. Although his later methods were cruel and dishonorable, he was still able to sit on the dragon throne.
But now, he roughly understood why the late emperor acted like that.
He and the late emperor had the same blood, and were no different.
He didn't want to embarrass Ruan Yun, and he didn't want to see her sad.
He wants to pave a way for movement himself.
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