The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 1151 Competing for the rear position (8)
Qingchen lowered his eyes and said: "Actually, I'm sorry for him, Shu Xuan's matter, I shouldn't hide it from him, since I was young, I never had any secrets from him. But Yun Lan, I dare not say it, because Shu Xuan Xuan Zeng belonged to Xiao Jue, and I was afraid that the emperor would not tolerate them. After all, I have been away from the palace for two years, and he is angry. I am afraid that he will misunderstand. Letting him know about this at this time will only add fuel to the fire. I can't tell."

Yun Lan comforted: "Things will be smooth when things are slow. When there is a suitable opportunity in the future, the empress will explain to the emperor slowly."

Qingchen nodded, and then ordered: "It's not appropriate for me to come forward about Mr. Su's matter. You ask Xiao Xiangzi to go out of the palace tomorrow to find Mr. Mu. He knows what to do."

"Yes, the maidservant knows, so don't worry, empress." Seeing that it was getting late and the room was getting dark gradually, Yun Lan lit the lamp, and when she heard the sound of food being set outside, she reminded: "The emperor is probably coming down soon, Ma'am, get ready for dinner."

Qingchen got up and walked out, "I don't know if the emperor still has an appetite for dinner tonight."

Out of the Xinuang Pavilion, in the small flower hall, Qingchen was surprised to find that Xiao Jun had arrived at some time and was standing at the table tasting the dishes. He is the emperor, and this appearance is really unreasonable.But no one dared to remind him, so he just stood there and ate mouthful after mouthful.

"Is the emperor hungry?" Qingchen was busy serving porridge, and ordered someone to bring water to serve him to clean his hands.

The emperor sat down and said, "I thought you were asleep again, so no one disturbed you. I was so busy in the afternoon that I didn't even bother to drink tea, and I was already hungry."

Qingchen sat beside him, secretly paying attention to the emperor's expression and asked, "Is it because of the Suning family?"

While eating the porridge in the bowl, the emperor said without raising his head, "You know it quickly."

Qingchen said lightly: "The concubine doesn't ask about anything these days, how could she get the news so quickly? Concubine Jing came to discuss matters with the concubine. On the way, she met Concubine Ning and went to the imperial study. Seeing her expression was different, she stopped by to inquire. After a while, I found out that Miss Su's family has passed away."

Qinxue knelt down in front of the emperor holding the golden basin painted with peony patterns. Xiao Jun rolled up her sleeves and cleaned her hands, and said, "This third son of the Ning family is really ugly. He looks like a gentleman. It was so unbearable when he came, and he was blinded by his good looks, and even I couldn't listen to it anymore. Da Su was so angry that he wanted to fight him desperately several times, and the two of them started fighting in the imperial study room, and several of them couldn't hold back. Fighting several times in front of me, completely ignoring me, I will be pissed off by them."

"But the concubine looked at the emperor, and she didn't seem to be annoyed." Where was he annoyed, he was obviously very happy.However, Qingchen really did not expect that the two of them would fight so fiercely, fighting in front of the emperor in the imperial study, so disrespectful, it can be seen that Mr. Su was really angry.

"Oh? Is that so?" The emperor turned his head and looked over with secretiveness, his eyes gleaming with an indescribable brilliance.

Qingchen's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly added: "Isn't there still Concubine Ning? She must have mediated and helped the emperor resolve this matter, right? I just don't know how the emperor made the decision?"

"How else can you decide?" The emperor sat down, took her new bowl of porridge and said, "No matter what, the Ning family will not allow Miss Su's spiritual tablet to enter the ancestral hall. How can I force such a thing, so I have no choice but to agree. As for Mr. Su, I promised to call off the marriage, but he just kept complaining, so I asked Dali Temple to help investigate the matter thoroughly, if I can really clean up the stigma for Miss Su, right now I can only make such a decision."

Qing Chen smiled slightly, calmly serving the emperor, "Yes, that's the only way to go." But he knew in his heart that even if this case was entrusted to someone to investigate, it would only be vague.No matter how unintelligent a person is, he would not offend the emperor and lose his love for the sake of the Su family.What's more, they may not know which step they dare to find out.

However, the emperor seemed to be very interested, and asked again: "What is Concubine Jing looking for you to discuss?"

Qingchen curled his lips coldly, and said with a smirk: "It is said that Yilanxuan is haunted by ghosts, and Concubine Li came to seek revenge. What she said is true. Concubine Jing is afraid that something will happen to Concubine Yu, so she wants to add more patrols near her bedroom Soldiers, what is the Emperor's opinion?"

The emperor said disapprovingly: "It's nonsense, how long has Concubine Li been dead, she has come here long ago to seek revenge, why wait until now? Concubine Yu is acting more and more fiercely now, not so much that Concubine Li came back to seek revenge. Enmity, it's better to say that she has ghosts in her heart."

Qingchen understood that the emperor killed Zizhu because he was dissatisfied with the jade concubine stick. If he really knew the deeper reason, maybe he would not spare Zizhu's life. I can only suffer from this dumb loss.

So Qingchen understood this truth a long time ago, the affairs of the harem can only be borne by the people in the harem, and the emperor may not be reliable in everything, since he is not strong enough, it is useless to rely on anyone.

Seeing that she was silent, Xiao Jun said again: "That's right, if someone is really playing tricks, that's all. If there are ghosts in his heart, it's useless to dispatch more guards."

Qingchen replied peacefully: "Yes, the concubine will give orders later."

Yilanxuan doubled the number of guards patrolling at night, causing the concubines in the palace to talk a lot. These days, the jade concubine could not hear the sound of that ghost crying, but the people in her palace became more and more panicked. Because even if there are more guards on guard, the ghost will still show up at midnight.

Ye Hanyu knew that the emperor was most annoyed by ghosts and gods, so she didn't dare to cry and complained, so she had to go to Concubine Jing again.Concubine Jing had no choice but to strictly order the patrolling soldiers to catch that pretender.

That night, Qingchen went to bed earlier, woke up thirsty in the middle of the night, and asked Jinxiu for tea.

Jinxiu waited for her to rinse her mouth, drank tea, and was about to help her fall asleep when she heard a "click" from the yard, followed by Xiao Xiangzi's shout, "Who, who's there?"

Qingchen was taken aback, Jinxiu hurriedly woke Qinxue up and said, "You stay with your mother, I'll go out and have a look."

Qingchen stood up in his clothes, followed him out, and asked, "What happened?"

Xiao Xiangzi looked outside the courtyard wall and said: "The servant saw a figure passing by the palace wall just now, and thought he was delusional, but he heard the sound of someone falling to the ground, so he dared to speak out. I went out to chase, the empress should go into the house and wait, the wind is cold outside, be careful of the wind and cold."

Ever since she was pregnant, the servants of Qifeng Palace were on duty at night, they were on shifts in two shifts and no one dared to close their eyes. What they were afraid of was that, like before, if something happened to someone who sneaked into the palace, it would be a crime of losing their heads.Anyway, it's only been ten months, so everyone is fully alert to prevent outsiders from taking any chances. Unexpectedly, they really found the unexpected guest tonight.

(End of this chapter)