Splendid Abandoned Wife

Chapter 544: Virtuous Concubine ([-]st update)
Imperial Palace, Yong'an Palace,

A palace concubine with a beautiful face and kind eyes is half-leaning on the imperial concubine's couch and reading a book. Her posture is elegant, chaste and peaceful, like a beautiful painting of a lady.The concubine is not young, and her facial features are not extremely beautiful, but she has a calm and uncontested temperament.

If one ignores the old woman sitting not far from her who is sighing, complaining and requesting, and the elegant but sad young woman next to the old woman, such a picture is quite pleasing to the eye.

The old woman kept mumbling for a while, and finally couldn't help it anymore: "My dear, please say something, the Li family can't stand all this trouble." Is it time to read a book now?She didn't believe that Zhen'er could still read books at this time. Unfortunately, she never knew what her daughter was really thinking.

Yes, these three women are the mistress of Yong'an Palace, Concubine De, her mother, Mrs. Li, and her only daughter, Princess Fuyun.

Both the Li family and De Fei have always kept a low profile.The Li family can be considered a big family that started to prosper from the previous dynasty. The past two or three generations were not outstanding, but they were not very inferior either. However, they gave birth to the Concubine De and married the eldest princess Fuyun, which allowed the Li family to maintain some prestige. .Although it is not as valued by the emperor as the British government, it is still stable and peaceful.

However, I don’t know if I have offended some Bodhisattva. The Li family, which has always been stable and peaceful, has been very uneasy recently.First, the concubine Li Haowei, who had been raised by Mrs. Li since he was a child, had nightmares for almost a month, which made him afraid to close his eyes and sleep. After a lot of trouble, he became so thin that he lost his shape, as if he had aged more than ten years. .Although Li Haowei is a concubine, he is also the most promising concubine in the Li family. Because he was raised in front of his aunt, he is also filial and considerate to his aunt, Mrs. Li. He is very popular with Mrs. Li. How could Mrs. Li not be so tormented suddenly by this? Worry.

Immediately afterwards, the second grandson who was in charge of the family business also seemed to have bad luck. A series of problems had caused the Li family to lose a lot of money. However, the reason could not be found. It seemed that it could only be explained by bad luck.

Although she asked a senior monk to do it, she still didn't believe what Li Haowei said about Yin Zhao's spirit in heaven warning them.Those of them who were born and lived in big families have never seen any nasty things.The higher the power of the family, the more dirty things happen. If there were so many spirits in heaven, the sky would be full.

She would rather believe that someone is secretly dealing with the Li family, or is dealing with the Li family to achieve the purpose of dealing with Concubine De.reason?Didn't Nanny Lu say that a man in black poisoned her nephew's family and warned her to leave Lin Rong?
De Fei put down the book in her hand and said helplessly: "What do you want me to say? Haowei just thinks too much and feels guilty. Otherwise, he thinks about things day by day and dreams about things at night. As for Sanlang, in the business world When did he stop calculating? I'm afraid he was preconceived and influenced by Haowei, became suspicious, and thought about bad luck in everything without looking for the reasons, wouldn't it make things more wrong and everything not going well? "

Mrs. Li said displeasedly: "Then what do you mean, nothing happened, it's just that we thought too much?"

"That's not the case," Concubine De frowned, "It's strange that Lu Tao'er suddenly gave up. I'm afraid someone guessed our purpose of sending Lu Tao'er to the Lin family. You guys, you take it for granted. , how could Lin Rong be allowed to fall into miscarriage under the nose of Lu Taoer? How can such a palace lady not make people suspicious? Do you want to tell people that a person who has stayed in the palace for more than ten years has achieved six years of success? Is the palace maid in charge of affairs not as good as a concubine in the Shangshu Mansion, or does this palace maid not care about Lin Rong at all, and is just a decoration around Lin Rong, destroying her reputation?" Princess Fuyun: "..." She knew that, The mother-in-law blames them for taking matters into their own hands.The mother-in-law has always been like this. When she is angry, she will not shout loudly like others, but will be terrifyingly quiet, just like she did just now.No matter how long they talked around her, she just read her book.

Mrs. Li: "...I am also thinking of putting some pressure on the Lin family first, so that they can put more effort into it." The idea came from her, and she did not discuss it with the empress.People outside are saying that Grandma Lu is unreliable, but I am thinking about my nephew and grandson, please tell me and leave early. It is not cheap to hire a palace maid, and it is not just for decoration.

"Let's do this for now," Concubine De sighed, "You want people to keep an eye on Lu Tao'er, but don't push her too hard, lest she jumps over the wall. As for the rest, I have to think about it carefully and wait until I see Yin at the palace banquet. Girl, let's decide what to do." Now more people are eyeing Yin Zhiruo. If the Li family wants to achieve their goals, they will have to put in more effort and even more costs. She wants to see if it's worth it first.

Princess Fuyun was surprised: "What the mother-in-law means is that Lu Taoer is not telling the truth. There is no man in black threatening her, but what kind of deal did she make with others to betray us?"

"It's not necessarily betrayal," Concubine De shook her head, "It should be that they gave her some excuse to make her retreat. I don't know if it's people from the Yin family, people from the Lin family, or other people who are eyeing Yin Zhiruo?" Ordinarily, neither the Yin family nor the Lin family have such sensitive and shrewd people, and they can't find anything to do with Lu Tao'er. After all, Lu Tao'er has only been out of the palace for how long?Those who have the handle are also in the palace.Then, they are also targeting Yin Zhiruo and don't want her and the Li family to interfere with each other through Mrs. Lin.Concubine Qi?Or the prince?
"If I had known this, we would have asked Mrs. Lin to take action earlier." Princess Fuyun said sadly.They had set their sights on Yin Zhiruo before their father summoned Yin Zhiruo's siblings to Beijing for the palace banquet. If they had made the decision earlier, they wouldn't have to worry about others snatching her away now.They all blamed the so-called talkative women of the Lin family for spreading the news about her sending Lin Rong off as a nanny, but they also spread it together with the Yin family's kindness to the Lin family. How could they take action at that time?Alas, the bad thing is that many things are difficult to do if Yin Zhiruo is not in his filial piety period.

"That's all, we didn't know that much earlier," Concubine De waved her hand, "Now if Yin Zhi is not out of filial piety, no one can do anything. Moreover, the emperor has begun to pay attention to their siblings recently. I heard that he treated Yin Zhi on the day of the hunt. The two brothers are extremely satisfied, let’s see what the emperor wants to do first.”

Princess Fuyun was stunned and nodded quickly.Yes, it doesn't matter if the father doesn't care about it. Once the father pays attention to it, his attitude is not clear. Who dares to act rashly?Compared with the mother and concubine, the father is an even more unpredictable existence.

At this time, the eldest palace maid Qing Xi who was guarding outside the palace came in. Qing Xi was the most trusted palace maid around De Fei. Even Princess Fuyun respectfully called her Aunt Xi.

"Empress," Qing Xi came in to reply, "Concubine Qi sent a message asking you to go to her palace to enjoy the osmanthus. She said that the Queen Mother rewarded her with a new cook, and the osmanthus cake she made is extremely delicious."

(End of this chapter)