Chapter 379: Some Potential of a Tyrant
Everything went smoothly, and within ten days, Chen Ning and Xiao Nanchen arrived in Beijing.
For Yu Chen Ning, it was just a matter of closing her eyes and opening them again, but she knew that two full years had passed since then. Looking at the capital city that was more prosperous than she remembered, she even felt a sense of homesickness.
There were many people she wanted to meet, but she didn't know how to explain her resurrection. Xiao Nanchen said that Yuan Yue was still in the imperial tomb and he had sent someone to pass on the message.
I don’t know if those children will be scared.
The palace still looked the same as I remembered, but it seemed a little colder than before.
The concubines of the previous emperor have now become concubines dowagers and rarely go out. In the two years since Xiao Nanchen ascended the throne, the harem has been empty.
In the first year, a minister requested a beauty pageant, but after he nearly lost his head, no one dared to bring it up again.
Your Majesty is good in every way, except that you cannot touch that sensitive spot. Now that the ministers have learned their lesson, both the emperor and his ministers can live in peace.
Xie Yunqing accompanied the old lady of the Xie family to the south of the Yangtze River, one to accompany his old mother, and the other to relieve his own emotions.
Shen Ning followed Xiao Nanchen back to the palace and lived with him in the Qianqing Palace.
The next day, the news spread throughout the capital: His Majesty had brought back a woman with the same name and surname as the late queen during a secret visit, and had settled her in the Qianqing Palace.
That is exactly the same treatment as the late queen.
Everyone was shocked. After all, His Majesty's feelings for the late Queen were well known. When the late Queen passed away, His Majesty also fell seriously ill and almost didn't accompany the late Queen. In the past two years, he had paralyzed himself with state affairs, and his bedroom was full of the late Queen's portraits.
But it is said that after this woman with the same name and surname as the late queen was brought back, His Majesty immediately ordered all the portraits of the late queen in the bedroom to be removed... Not a single one was left!
Even when he went to the imperial study to handle government affairs, he brought the woman with him.
It is said that the woman is indeed beautiful, and seems to bear some resemblance to the late queen, so... is this the substitute that His Majesty has found?
Within two days, something even more terrifying happened: His Majesty wanted to make the woman he brought back from outside the queen.
The court officials were in an uproar, but no one raised any objections. After all, no matter who became the queen, it was much better than leaving the throne vacant and the harem empty.
It is commendable for ordinary people to be aloof from women and remain loyal, but the emperor is the son of heaven and has the responsibility to expand his family and stabilize the government.
Besides, the fact that this woman entered the palace as a substitute today means that His Majesty is gradually coming out of the pain of the late Queen's departure.
If you have a substitute, you can have a second one. As time goes by... your harem will become fuller.
But not everyone did not react. The first one to come out was the late queen's brother, the current Censor of the Censorate, Shen Chengxi.
Shen Chengxi is a stubborn person who dares to say anything. It is suitable for him to be an imperial censor. In addition, with the influence of the late queen, he has a certain status in the court: he dares to confront anyone, so everyone is afraid of him.
But I didn't expect that this stubborn person would not even give face to Your Majesty.
After learning that Xiao Nanchen had brought a woman back from outside and immediately removed the portraits of the former queen from the entire palace, Shen Chengxi's eyes turned red with anger. He ignored his wife's dissuasion and went straight to see the emperor.
When he saw Xiao Nanchen, he gritted his teeth and spoke in a sarcastic tone, and finally explained his purpose: to get his sister's portrait back.
"Your Majesty now has a new wife. Keeping my sister's portraits will displease the new queen, and Your Majesty cannot tolerate such dead things. Please, for the sake of my sister's past friendship, hand over those portraits to me. I will take good care of them so as not to offend Your Majesty and the new queen."
Xiao Nanchen looked at Shen Chengxi, who was glaring at him, the emperor, like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, and laughed angrily: "If it weren't for Ning Ning, your disrespect to me today would be a capital crime."
Shen Chengxi stiffened his neck and said, "Then please, Your Majesty, just kill me directly, so that I won't feel sad for my sister because she is gone and forgotten."
Xiao Nanchen was helpless: "Ningning, you come and talk to him yourself."
Shen Chengxi looked up and saw a figure walking out from behind the screen.
Shen Ning felt a little complicated. After a pause, she said, "Brother..."
Before he could finish his words, he met Shen Chengxi’s cold gaze, and he said in a hard tone: “I don’t deserve it!”
Shen Ning was helpless: "Brother, I am Shen Ning."
Shen Chengxi sneered: "So what if the names are the same, and the appearance is a little similar, your Majesty is now the new queen, I dare not..."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Chengxi suddenly realized the other party's implied meaning, and his whole body froze suddenly, and his eyes looking at Shen Ning became extremely horrified.
Thinking of Xiao Nanchen's unbearable grief after his sister's death, and his deep love for him that no one could mention in the past two years, Shen Chengxi suddenly had an idea that even he himself thought was absurd.
But how is that possible?
How is this possible!
Chen Ning sighed: "I don't know how to explain it, brother, just think of it as me borrowing your body to revive your soul..."
Borrowing a body to revive the soul! ?
These should have been creepy words, but Shen Chengxi didn't care about those things at the moment. Instead, he asked Shen Ning with suspicion and vigilance: "How do you prove it?"
Before Shen Ning could speak, Xiao Nanchen said coldly: "She doesn't need to prove it to you."
Shen Ning: ...
She ignored the two people who had been at odds with each other, and instead said to Shen Chengxi, "The day before I got married, the golden phoenix flowers on the windowsill were placed there by my brother, right?"
With one sentence, Shen Chengxi froze.
He had indeed obtained that golden phoenix flower by climbing 9,900 stone steps to the Laojun Temple, because the Laojun Temple was very powerful and he wanted to pray for immortality for his sister.
He placed the flower on Chen Ning's windowsill and never told anyone.
Shen Chengxi's heart was pounding, and he looked at Shen Ning in disbelief...
"I know it's hard to believe, but it happened."
Chen Ning said, "I had the portraits taken away before, but that's all in the past. Now that I look like this, it always feels a bit weird to have those portraits hanging on my head..."
Shen Chengxi's mind was already spinning, and he just agreed blankly: "Yes, it shouldn't be hung anymore."
He looked at Shen Ning: "So, you are really my sister Ning Ning?"
Shen Ning nodded.
Shen Chengxi was aggressive when he came, and was confused when he left.
My sister is back, with a new face and a new body...but she is still my sister!
Coming back to his senses, Shen Chengxi began to get nervous again, fearing that his sister would be mistaken for a monster or something.
The next day he hurried back to the palace and told Chen Ning and Xiao Nanchen to keep it a secret from others, otherwise what if others said Chen Ning was a monster?
As he spoke, he secretly looked at Xiao Nanchen's expression.
Shen Chengxi was afraid that Xiao Nanchen was overwhelmed by his momentary happiness. What would happen if he thought his sister was some evil creature when he realized it later?
After all, the emperor hates supernatural powers the most.
But Xiao Nanchen had no intention of hiding anything. He remained calm, "Ningning is a goddess gifted by heaven to the Daxuan Dynasty. The goddess's favor upon Daxuan and her return is a sign of good fortune... Why hide it? I want everyone to know that she is my first wife, Ningning, and no one else."
Shen Chengxi: …
Why does this guy seem to have the potential to be a tyrant?
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