Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3540

The season is late autumn, the lotus in the lotus pond has long since withered, and the lotus leaves are also in ruins.

Lin Lin stands tall in the pond, and in places where the moonlight cannot reach, there are patches of black shadows.

Like a ghost hand protruding from the abyss, Empress Xiao Han couldn't help but think of the three-year-old Twelfth Prince who drowned in this lotus pond during the Puppet Emperor's Rebellion last year...

After the Twelve Princes drowned, Concubine Hui went crazy.

At that time, the nanny who brought the twelve princes to play also committed suicide in fear of crime. In fact, the nanny didn't put on the rope by herself, it was Empress Xiaohan who asked her to put it on.

Because she bought that nanny, a nanny who has a handle on her, must die!
"It's okay for me, let's go back to the palace first!" Empress Xiao Han said in a deep voice, she sat down again, her hands tightly grasped the handrails on both sides of the phoenix chariot, her joints were pale and distinct.

The two young eunuchs also seemed to be pardoned, they quickly got up and lifted the phoenix chariot again, and carefully left the lotus pond.

It was not until the lotus pond was left far behind and the sound of the water could no longer be heard that Empress Xiaohan finally came to her senses.

Only then did I realize that my forehead and the palms of my hands were already covered in cold sweat.

Fengchao enters Fengzao Palace, and Grandma Rong, who is waiting in the palace, immediately greets her with a group of maids.

Empress Xiaohan also had no time to talk to them, and went straight into the bedroom.

Nanny Rong was surprised, so she pulled a maid who was serving close to her earlier to ask, and when she learned that the empress was frightened by the lotus pond, Nanny Rong's eyes flashed, and she knew it in her heart.

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Aromatherapy can calm the mind and soothe the frightened mind.

After taking a bath, Empress Xiaohan wrapped herself in a bathrobe and went back to the phoenix bed in the bedroom and sat down. From the four-legged phoenix cage next to the bed, a faint fragrance came out gradually.

Empress Xiaohan sat by the bed, with a trace of paleness remaining on her face.

After removing her heavy makeup and her costume, she looked like a young woman in her early twenties, youthful and beautiful.

With the queen's attire on her body, she seemed to be ten years older.

"Your Majesty, come, have a drink of soothing soup."

Grandma Rong came to Feng's bed, holding a bowl of soup in her hand.

Empress Xiaohan raised her head, looked at Rongmao and said, "Mama, I passed the lotus pond on the way back earlier, and I seemed to see the figure of the Twelve Princes..."

Nanny Rong's expression changed, and she quickly lowered her voice: "Mother, it's your eyesight..."

"No, I'm not dazzled, I really saw it." Empress Xiaohan said anxiously,

"That kid, he's hiding under a fallen lotus leaf, making faces at me..."

As Empress Xiao Han said, she was frightened again, her hands hugged her shoulders tightly, and her body couldn't help shaking slightly again.

Seeing this, Grandma Rong quickly put the soup in her hand on the table beside her, leaned over and hugged Empress Xiao Han gently.

Just like when she was a child, her nurse held her gently in her arms.

"Huan'er is not afraid, the nurse is here, not afraid, not afraid..."

Nanny Rong couldn't help calling out Empress Xiao Han's baby name softly.

Empress Xiaohan's body gradually calmed down, and her emotions recovered a little bit. Nanny Rong just let her go, picked up the soup and handed it to Empress Xiaohan again.

"Your Majesty must have been hallucinating due to the exhaustion of being busy choosing concubines for His Royal Highness these days. Come on, drink this bowl of calming soup and sleep well, and you will be fine." Rong Rong said softly.

Empress Xiaohan nodded, took the soup and took a few mouthfuls, then held the bowl in her hand in a daze.

"If it wasn't forced by the situation, I would never have killed a three-year-old child," Empress Xiaohan murmured.

"I'm not that bad, I'm really not a bad woman, I used to be the kindest lady in the eyes of all the maids and servants in Han Taishi's mansion,"

"Although my biological mother is just an aunt in the Grand Master's Mansion, no matter how others slander me and look down on my origin, I still have good thoughts about everything."

"I really never thought that after entering the palace, I would become what I am now, not even letting go of a three-year-old child?"

"Mommy, will I have retribution? I'm really scared..."

Hearing this, Nanny Rong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I don't blame you for this."

"Last year, there was a great chaos in Helanzhou, and the imperial conquest by the emperor himself. The harem was in chaos even without the emperor, and all kinds of things happened." Rong Rong said.

She moved closer, and said in a low voice: "Could it be that the empress has forgotten that concubine Hui bribed the eunuch in the imperial dining room, and tried to put arsenic in the meal of the empress?"

"A servant girl brought into the palace from the grand master's mansion by the empress ate the food by mistake, and became the dead ghost of the empress!"

When this matter was mentioned, Empress Xiaohan's body stopped shaking, her pupils contracted and her hands clenched into fists.

"I can bear others bullying and humiliating me. Anyway, when I was in the Grand Master's Mansion, I was also a dog in front of my aunt. I am not afraid of being humiliated!" Empress Xiao Han said through gritted teeth.

"What I hate is that Concubine Hui didn't even give me a way to live. She is so favored by the Holy One and gave birth to the Twelve Princes,"

"Why can't she allow me to survive? She insists on poisoning me? Why, Mammy?"

Looking at the blue veins protruding from Empress Xiao Han's forehead, Nanny Rong was also angry and distressed.

She lovingly caressed Empress Xiaohan's forehead, and said: "This is the way of the world, whether it is the former Grand Master's Mansion or the current palace, it is a place where the strong survive and the weak prey on the strong."

"Especially the women in the harem, each of them kills without blinking an eye."

"Whether it's Concubine Hui, Concubine Zhuang, or the former Empress of Dahan, your half-sister, it's all the same!"

"Everyone just thinks that they can climb up, step on others, or step on other people's corpses to climb up."

"Your Majesty, don't worry about what happened in the past, you should look back."

"Look backward?" Empress Xiaohan looked confused.

"To be honest, Mammy, I've been sitting in the queen's position for more than half a year, but I'm still confused. I don't understand why the emperor chose me to be the queen?"

Grandma Rong was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly.

"My silly lady, this old servant really admires you. The emperor chose you as his queen because there are two main considerations,"

"One reason is that although the Han family was involved in the turmoil of the false emperor's rebellion, the Han family has deep roots, and the master is a grand teacher, and he was also a senior member of the cabinet back then."

"When the Han family was at its most glorious, the disciples were all over the court. Even the current sage was once the master's student in the past."

"Although after the chaos of the false emperor, the vitality of the Han family has been greatly improved, it is not as good as before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the influence of the Han family in the court, the Holy One still has to consider."

(End of this chapter)