His Royal Highness, he is plotting against me

When the palace servants came to report that it was Concubine Wan asking to see him, Chen Fulin froze for a moment before realizing who Concubine Wan was.

It has been ten months since I moved to the palace in August last year.

Except for the indispensible morning and evening appointments every month, Concubine Wan stayed at home like she did when she was in the East Palace, and never stepped into Yanxi Palace alone.

Unlike Concubine Hui, who came to Yanxi Palace from time to time to see Princess Xihe and the little prince.

Even Concubine Hu and Concubine Lin got Yanxi Palace to show their faces every once in a while and show their courtesy, for fear that because they became transparent, the inner palace would start to deprive them of their status.

To say that the imperial concubine Yihuang is in charge of the harem is also good, that is, the palace people are very well behaved.

Concubine Yihuang said, as long as everyone in the harem keeps themselves safe and abides by the rules, then everyone will naturally love you and me.

Whenever someone breaks the rules...

The crowd shook their heads.

They don't want to experience the majesty of Concubine Yihuang like those people.

"Please come in."

Chen Fulin regained his senses and asked Jin Yun to invite people in.

A lake-blue figure approached, Concubine Wan's expression was calm, with an indifference to everything around her, making her in a trance for a moment.

It was as if he had seen the side concubine Cui back then.

When they met at the fork in the road outside the Changting Hall that year, Concubine Cui was also dressed in light blue clothes, which matched her temperament very well, and she was simply two extremes with Concubine Yang.

"The concubine has seen the imperial concubine and empress."

Concubine Wan lowered her eyes and bowed her knees to salute.

Chen Fulin only found his voice after being reminded by Jin Yun:

"Sister Wan, don't be too polite..."

Concubine Wan thanked her, and said: "Thank you for your love, but you don't need to be called 'sister' anymore. You are the imperial concubine now, and your mother calls me Cui Wan."

Chen Fulin smiled, but didn't listen to her: "My sister is a rare guest in my palace."

Concubine Wan smiled bitterly after sitting down: "It's because of my karma that I don't have the face to come to see you, and now I have the cheek to feel that the remaining evils on my body have disappeared, so I dare to come to see the imperial concubine."

Chen Fulin didn't speak. She knew that sister Cui might not need her to say too much when she came today.

Sure enough, Cui Wan said to herself:

"Time flies so fast. After all, this year is already the tenth year that the empress has entered the palace, right? I still remember when you were young, you were soft like dough, and you looked so irritating." There is a desire to bully."

Chen Fulin also felt that time flies so fast, ten years is like a flick of a finger.

Qin Xu is eight years old.

He did not follow the path of the puppet emperor in his previous life, and he would die of poisoning at a young age.

The prince also succeeded in ascending the throne, and he did not die young.

She sincerely said to Sister Cui: "Those two years, thanks to my sister's care."

Without Concubine Cui, her life in the palace would not have been so smooth, especially during her pregnancy.

How can there be any quiet time?
It's just someone standing in front of you, sheltering you from the wind and rain.

At this time, it is not important to think about Sister Cui's state of mind at that time, whether it was voluntary or forced.

Cui Wan could naturally hear the sincerity in her tone, and laughed at herself:
"My lady's thanks, I really can't bear it, and I don't have the face to accept it."

"Back then, I couldn't escape the demons of happiness. If I took that step, I betrayed my mother's trust. Because the Cui family, His Majesty did not punish me, but I couldn't pass the hurdle in my heart. Since then, I have no face. Appear in front of the empress."

As she said that, she also admitted frankly,
"Now that I dare to appear in front of my empress, I think that my empress has both sons and daughters, is favored by your majesty, and her position is as stable as Mount Tai. Everything in the past is like a passing cloud, and you have a deep heart. I owe my empress many years of apology. I think you don't." Will care."

Chen Fulin listened silently, and only smiled in relief when she finished speaking.

"Actually...if my sister hadn't recognized it, I wouldn't have known about it."

Although since she was pregnant with Qin Xu and Qin Xi, rumors about them have been flying everywhere in the palace. Some say that she is ungrateful and destroys the bridge by crossing the river, and some say that the side concubine Cui is trying to grab the child in her stomach with the crown princess.

But at that time, she never doubted Sister Cui.

In Chen Fulin's eyes, Cui Wan has a noble character and kindness, and she can't do the things those people say.

At least that's what she really thought before she asked to close the door at Changting Hall and Concubine Cui ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha's sins to make amends.

Until later, she belatedly asked Eunuch Jing.

Only then did they realize that among the people who stopped them from going out to find Hu Zheng for help that day, there was someone from Concubine Cui.

His Majesty had previously kept this from her, but when she asked, Jing Huai could only tell her.

She had been in a very complicated mood for a while, and since then, she didn't know how she should face Sister Cui.

Slowly, the two became strangers.

"If you want people not to know, unless you do nothing about it yourself, where is the wall through which the wind comes from in this world?"

Cui Wan smashed the jar, "Even if you didn't know it at the time, later on there were people in this palace who let you know."

The people in this palace are all arrogant and depressing.

Once she was down and out, no one cared about her.

However, because His Royal Highness, who is about to enthroned, summoned him once, there were frequent visits.

"What happened back then was indeed because of my sinister thoughts. Fortunately, you and the eldest prince and princess are safe, otherwise I will fall into the abyss of self-blame and regret for the rest of my life, and I will not be able to forgive myself."

Her entire soul was torn in two at that time.

Half of them are encouraging her, as long as Chen Liangdi dies, between him and the Crown Princess, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely hand over the child to her to be raised.

The eldest son of the prince, coupled with her identity and the status of the Cui family, this is likely to be the future prince.

In this way, even if the grandfather retires, their Cui family will not have to lie dormant for a generation, waiting for her brother or even her nephew to rise again.

The prestige of the descendant clan is a temptation that all aristocratic families cannot escape.

Cui Wan was born in a family, she has her own will, but she can't get rid of the same thinking as the empress and queen dowager back then, that is to think about the family at all times.

In contrast, the crown princess who cheated the whole family for the crown prince's favor was an outlier.

The other half kept reminding her that the person who was going through life and death used to be her sister, and she trusted herself so much.

Therefore, Concubine Cui, who was in conflict, did send someone to stop the person Jiang Fuxuan sent out, but she didn't really want to stop it.

Otherwise, with their Cui clan not losing to the Wang clan at all, it is impossible to stop even a eunuch going to Changxin Palace.

Chen Fulin looked at Sister Cui, who was no longer young, and smiled in relief:
"It's all in the past. I've forgotten it long ago. As Sister Cui said, Qin Xu and Qin Xi are safe and sound. I will always remember how my sister took care of me back then."

The two sat there and chatted for a long time without knowing it, and they seemed to be back in the past without knowing it.

Although the identity has changed, some things seem to have not changed much.