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Chapter 630 The Tricky Queen (1)

The Evil Ghost King disappeared suddenly in the middle of time and space. At that time, Jiang Muxue was stunned for a moment. After realizing it, the faint sense of loss in her heart suddenly became stronger.Fortunately, her psychological quality is not bad, and she quickly adjusted. When she arrived at the scene, she was immediately attracted by the low-key and luxurious decoration in front of her.

Not to mention the majestic red pillars, on which golden phoenixes flying in the air are carved with gilt, but only the two rows of lotus palace lanterns, which are unique and exquisite, with tall golden candles inside. It illuminates the entire hall with magnificence.

When Jiang Muxue arrived, her body was slumped on the rug in a daze. In front of her was a small red clay stove with a height of half a person, rose-flavored spices were burning.

However, Jiang Muxue has never liked such a rich smell, and was raising her hand to order someone to replace the spice, when a 28-year-old servant came in with her head down, her footsteps hurried, "My empress, Li Rongpin just passed away .”

Dead right away?Jiang Muxue couldn't help clenching her fists and frowning. She took a special look at the servant and the maid next to her, and found that her reaction was quite normal.

She didn't speak for a while, she was sorting out the memories in her mind.

Just as Sun Dejin, the head of the inner palace, said, Jiang Muxue possessed a queen named Xiao Yu'er this time.

Xiao Yu'er was born in the direct branch of the Xiao family, a prominent family in the dynasty. The Xiao family's prominence was not only because their ancestors had accompanied the emperor to earn the world, but also because the Xiao family was a world-famous family of relatives.Daqi has gone through seven dynasties so far, the Xiao family has produced five queens, and Xiao Yu'er is the fifth.

She is the next-door niece of the Empress Dowager Xiao, with a tall figure and elegant appearance.

At the beginning, after the new dynasty was stabilized, Empress Dowager Xiao made the decision to marry Xiao Yuer to Emperor Wude Liu Jing. Due to the power of Empress Dowager Xiao and her relatives Xiao's family, a few years before Xiao Yuer was canonized as empress, Liu Jing was still very supportive. like her.At least on the surface, although it can't be said that there is a lot of love, there are many things and face that should be given.

In the second year after Xiao Yuer entered the palace, she gave birth to Liu Ji, the eldest son of the emperor, for Liu Jing.

Liu Ji was canonized as the crown prince when he was three years old. For this reason, Xiao Yu'er, who was always worried, secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

But before she could catch her breath, Xia Zhenji, the youngest daughter of Lord Zhongyi, the upstart of the imperial city, entered the palace. From then on, Xiao Yuer's nightmare began.

Xia Zhenji was born bright and charming, with a petite figure, which is completely different from Xiao Yuer. However, Liu Jing, who is tall and burly, seems to prefer petite styles, so Xia Zhenji was named a concubine as soon as she entered the palace, second only to her status. Yu Sifei.

At that time, the noble, virtuous and virtuous concubine was short of two, and Liu Jing wanted to mention Xia Zhenji to the vacant position of concubine or concubine Shu, but he was afraid of the courtiers' comments, and even more afraid of the dissatisfaction of the Empress Dowager Xiao, so he had to wrong her to be a concubine first.Of course, Xiao Yu'er only found out about this news later.

Although Xia Zhenji's position was not high at the beginning, she was especially favored by Liu Jing, and she was favored by the Sixth Palace within half a year after entering the palace.A year later, Xia Zhenji was pregnant, and in October she gave birth to Liu Jing's third son, Liu Xi.Thanks to the meritorious service in giving birth to a child, and the meritorious service of Xia Zhenji's elder brother Xia Houqi in fighting the Beidi invasion in the frontier, Xia Zhenji was promoted to the head of the four concubines, and was given the title of Qi, and the palace people called her Qi noble concubine.

From then on, Xiao Yu'er embarked on a decade-long struggle for favor with Xia Zhenji.

When Empress Dowager Xiao was still alive, Xia Zhenji didn't dare to jump around, at most she used Liu Jing's love for her to make Xiao Yu'er jealous, or acted like a coquettish in front of Liu Jing, which was not very compliant, but harmless thing.However, in the third year of Xia Zhenji's entry into the palace, Empress Dowager Xiao suddenly suffered a stroke and passed away. In the harem, although Xiao Yu'er could not be said to be single and weak, the big backer behind her was indeed down.

In the past seven or eight years of being a queen, she did not have enough means to win over a few people. On weekdays, most of the concubines who made friends with her wholeheartedly looked at the Empress Dowager Xiao's face. The forces obviously suffered a lot, but secretly, Liu Jing resorted to some means to suppress the old ministers and the old ministries, and the Xiao family's performance in the court was worsened day by day.

Half a year later, Xiao Yu'er's cousin, Xiao Ke, was caught taking bribes. At that time, Liu Jing was on the cusp of rectifying the bureaucracy, and then the entire Xiao family was implicated. In this round of fighting, Liu Jing took the opportunity to take back Xiao Ke. Most of the military power of the family, the Xiao family only reacted, but it was too late.

Since then, Xiao Yu'er's life in the palace has become even more difficult.

And Xia Zhenji became more and more confused, and this year she was pregnant again, and she was pregnant with twins. Liu Jing was overjoyed and made an exception to promote Xia Zhenji as imperial concubine.

According to the rules of previous dynasties, when there is a queen in the middle palace, the emperor will not confer any concubine as imperial concubine, for the sake of harmony in the harem.

The noble concubine is already very honorable, and if there is another imperial concubine, isn't this clearly against the queen?

Therefore, since Xia Zhenji was promoted to imperial concubine, Xiao Yu'er walked on thin ice every day, for fear that one day Liu Jing would abolish her and let Xia Zhenji take her place.

The more she behaved like this, the more submissive and vacillating her behavior became. At first Liu Jing didn't like her, but after seeing her like this, she became more and more dissatisfied.

In this way, a vicious circle formed and intensified. Later, Liu Jing planned to abolish the empress.

However, the Empress of the Central Palace is not to be abolished just because of slander. The Empress did not make any major mistakes, nor did the Empress’s family make any major mistakes.

Although Liu Jing did not really decree to abolish the empress, but the news spread quietly in the harem, Xiao Yu'er was helpless when she heard it except hated and annoyed.

Just when she was devastated by this matter, Prince Liu Ji suddenly fell ill, with a high fever that persisted. No matter how many precious medicinal materials, state-of-the-art prescriptions were used, the effect was minimal.Later, the fever subsided, but because of the severity of the fever, Liu Ji became a fool, not to mention being a prince, and he didn't even know his own parents.

Therefore, Liu Ji gave up the crown prince logically, and Xiao Yu'er was abolished by Liu Jing for not taking good care of the crown prince. She feared with trembling for many days that the situation would still happen.

The queen was demoted to a noble concubine, and moved out of Kunning Palace with the deposed prince Liu Ji to the most remote palace in the north corner of the palace, Qingxin Palace.

The Xiao family couldn't bear this bad breath. In addition to Liu Jing's suppression of the Xiao family for many years, they had long held grudges. This time, they took advantage of the excuse of abolishing the prince and abolishing the empress to take the risk.

However, due to insufficient preparation and news leaked on the day of the coup, the Xiao family was defeated in the end. There were more than 300 members of the family, the male was beheaded, and the female was sent to the frontier for exile.

Xiao Yu'er had nothing to love in life, and she lingered on for the sake of her demented son.When Liu Ji was ten years old, he accidentally fell into the water. When Xiao Yuer heard the news, she passed out and never woke up again.

PS: Today's second update, I will continue to write tomorrow's, and it will be sent on time tomorrow, (*￣3)(ε￣*)
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