The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 165 The Battle of the Harem
"It's snowing again?"

Seeing the white catkins drifting by the small half-open window, Yun Ruochen leaned on the soft couch in the lake pavilion of Yanyu Lake and yawned a little.

The smoked cage steamed with a warm fragrance, and the heat made people drowsy.

Before winter came, Yun Ruochen asked people to renovate the Huxin Pavilion and make it a warm pavilion. In a few months, she spent more than half of her time here.

Others only think that Princess Huarong loves the beautiful scenery of Yanyu Lake, but they don't know that Yun Ruochen's real intention is not to look at the scenery at all, but to absorb spiritual energy.

When she entered the palace for the first time, she noticed that Yanyu Lake was a rare spiritual acupoint, full of vitality, and what's more, it was very compatible with the vitality in her body.

Breathing and meditating on this eye spirit point is of great benefit to her practice.

After more than a year of recuperation and training, Yun Ruochen has basically recovered to the peak of his strength back then.

At this time, she was in the mood to start studying the ancient books left by her late mother Lianqing.

She has transported all the ancient books in the Wangxing Building in the other courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing to the Chonghua Palace.At present, she is only in the preliminary arrangement, and has not started to practice systematically.

On the edge of the pages of many ancient books, there are lines of annotations added in beautiful small characters.Judging from the ink blots, the time is not too long, it must have been left within ten years.

Presumably these are Liang Lianqing's cultivation experience, which was specially written down and passed on to future generations.

Mother's hard work was not in vain, she got a best heir.

And Yun Ruochen chose Ji Jianing as his successor.

"Princess, please use some snacks."

Her eldest maid, Xia Hong, led two young maids over with food boxes, and spread out a few plates of delicate dots on the tea table.

Yun Ruochen casually picked up a plate and ate it slowly. It was her favorite crystal jujube cake.

The craftsmanship of Yuchu is still good, the date paste is very delicate, but not too sweet.Wen Wen's pastries tasted so good, Yun Ruochen was in a good mood, and asked Xia Hong to reward those royal chefs with some silver later.

There is a water heater under the food box, so that the small snacks in it are well kept warm, even if they are carried all the way from the imperial dining room, they will not be cold.

Even Princess Huarong can make the imperial dining room always bring her snacks outside the main meals, other concubines dare not do this.

Who made Princess Huarong the emperor's darling?Even the eldest prince Yun Yao is not as favored as her.

Speaking of the eldest prince, it stands to reason that since he lost his biological mother, he was usually sent to be raised in the queen's palace.

After all, he is the eldest son of the royal family, so he can't let those concubines take care of him, right?

If there is a queen mother in the palace, and the queen mother is so energetic that she wants to educate her herself, that's fine.

However, several empresses of the first emperor died young, and the few concubines left behind all went to the cold palace for the elderly.

The imperial concubine Duan was lucky and escaped back to the capital from the Chunshou Rebellion.The emperor treated her well, not letting her move out of Tsinghua Palace where she used to live, this is already a great kindness.

Concubine Duan knew that she was a little bit late, so she was more cautious in her life, she didn't care about the affairs of the palace, she just ate fast and recited Buddha's name every day, and occasionally talked to Yun Ruochen.

Empress Chen originally thought that the eldest prince should be brought up by herself. Although she didn't necessarily like the eldest son, she did a good job of saving face. Even the house was tidied up and the manpower was properly arranged.

Unexpectedly, Princess Huarong told the emperor that her younger brother is used to living with her, so let her take care of Yun Yao!
Empress Chen immediately felt ill.

She didn't want to raise Yunyao because she regarded Yunyao as a competitor for her son who might be born in the future to inherit the throne—well, even though she hadn't even been pregnant, it didn't mean she wouldn't have one in the future!
Moreover, recently the emperor stayed in his palace for half a month. Empress Chen firmly believed that she would be the first pregnant woman in the harem.

She didn't know that the emperor was a lazy person, and he didn't have much interest in women. She chose to sleep in the queen's palace entirely from the perspective of wanting to have children.

Anyway, those concubines looked the same to him, there was no difference...

But Empress Chen herself may not want to raise Yun Yao, but she thinks that Yun Ruochen's objection to her raising Yun Yao is an insult to her.

What, do you, Princess Huarong, think that this palace will not be able to raise this child well?
Or do you think in your heart that Ben Gong is a vicious person who will intentionally kill this child?
This is clearly slapping myself in the face!

At that time, Yun Ruochen turned a blind eye to the empress's increasingly livid face, but gently begged his father to allow him to live with Yun Yao.

Yun Yao also hugged his sister tightly, and said childishly, "Xing'er wants to be with her sister! Xing'er wants her sister!"

Empress Chen was so angry that the corners of her mouth were crooked, but the emperor laughed out loud, thinking that it was a good thing that his sons and daughters had a good relationship—sure!
After Yun Ruochen thanked him, he took Yun Yao away directly, not saving empress Chen any face.

Apart from watching Yun Ruochen and his brother leave, what can Empress Chen do?
She is said to be the lord of the harem, but she is easy to talk about other things. Once the emperor's support is lost, she has nothing to do.

It is not unreasonable for Daqing to choose empresses and concubines who are from low-ranking good families.Without the support of foreign forces, these concubines want to make trouble in the harem, it depends on whether they can please the queen mother and emperor.

Emperor Yongjia was quite good-tempered. He saw that the Empress was depressed, so he explained: "Empress, since Xing'er was as young as he was, he clings to his elder sister, and the siblings have been wandering around each other for so long, so they are naturally reluctant to part..."

Speaking of "wandering outside", the emperor's eyes turned red again.

The version that Yun Ruochen told the emperor was: that day she hugged her younger brother to hide from the pursuers in the deep mountains, and met Gu Che, and all of them fled to a place with few people indiscriminately, and ended up getting farther and farther away from the capital. .

They didn't dare to go back to the capital, Yun Ruochen suddenly "remembered" that Nie Shen, her manager who returned home from illness, lived near the capital, so they went to find Nie Shen.

In short, she talked nonsense about the disappearance of this year, and didn't say anything about Zhao Xuan's original relationship with them.

If he had said so, the emperor would definitely hate Zhao Xuan for not reporting to him the news that Yun Ruochen and Yun Yao were still safe.

Because he felt sorry for his daughter who had suffered a lot outside—even though most of it was made up by Emperor Yongjia himself, Emperor Yongjia almost wanted his daughter whatever he wanted.Don't you just want to live with your brother so that you can take care of him?

Besides, since she doesn't need to take care of it herself, doesn't the palace even have people to take care of a prince?

So the matter was so happily decided.Yun Ruochen lived in the main hall of Chonghua Palace, and Yun Yao lived in the side hall.This kind of arrangement was at least unprecedented in the Daqing Dynasty.

But after all, it is the internal affairs of the palace, and the foreign ministers have no right to talk about it, so the siblings can only live together.

After Concubine Duan heard the news, she smiled lightly and said nothing, bowed her head and continued to chant the Buddha.

The little girl is becoming more and more shrewd. If Empress Chen wants to be the master in the harem, she must bow to her sooner or later.

After all, the emperor was a man, so he couldn't understand the fighting in the harem.After this incident, who in the harem doesn't know that Princess Huarong is the real powerful person?

Whoever wants to have a good life in the harem in the future still has to please this proud girl of heaven.

In the past, the princesses in the palace kept a low profile. That was because the Qing Dynasty princess had no status.

Princess Huarong is different.

Among other things, just her extremely grand canonization ceremony, which princess can compare with it in these years?

When Princess Huarong raised her prestige, just watch, the direction of the harem is about to change.It seems that my wife still has a good life.

Today's Concubine Duan is very fortunate. She deliberately flattered Jinshang and Princess Huarong back then, and it finally paid off.

Princess Huarong was indifferent to everyone in the palace, but she was quite submissive to Concubine Duan, which made Concubine Duan's life a lot easier invisibly.At least the Tsinghua Palace will not be deprived of what they should receive, and all they get are the best things.

Yun Ruochen wanted Yun Yao to live with him, the main purpose was to take good care of him.

Before Nie Shen left, the innate cold poison in Yun Yao's body was almost eliminated.

But Yun Yao is still physically weaker than ordinary children.

The mother's womb was damaged, and she was forced to wander outside when she was just one year old. Not long ago, she had a serious illness.It is considered very lucky that Yun Yao survived safely.

That's why Yun Ruochen didn't feel at ease about putting her little brother, who had managed to save her, in a place where no one could be trusted.

What about the Queen?
The current Yun Ruochen is no longer the little princess in Prince Jing's mansion, and needs to be cautious in order to protect his father and the people in the mansion.

She is not only the emperor's favorite princess, but more importantly, she has recovered her peak strength and no longer needs to be afraid of anyone.

That being the case, why did she wrong her younger brother for the sake of Queen Quan's dignity?
Of course, she did mean to beat Empress Chen.

This empress Chen is only a few years older than her, and she has just passed eighteen, but she is depressed.

To put it nicely is prudent, but to put it badly is rigid, and I don't know how the queen was chosen.Could this be the legendary "Zhen Jing Xian Shu"?
In the few days since Yun Ruochen returned to the palace, Empress Chen was busy setting up rules for her in the name of caring for her, and even dared to pick on Ji Jianing she brought back for being unruly.

My people, also can you be picky?
Yun Ruochen was very defensive and arrogant.In the past, due to the situation, I had to pretend to be a little white rabbit, but now it is not necessary, and the fangs will naturally no longer hide.

"Just to step on your arrogance and bite me?"

Well, she is such a spoiled and arrogant princess.It feels so good to be bullied.

After several months, Yun Ruochen had some "small interactions" with Empress Chen on various occasions, which made Empress Chen understand what she meant.

That is——in this palace, Her Highness the princess is the biggest, so please bear with me, the queen, and just take care of the little ones!
Empress Chen was so angry that her teeth were broken, and finally she had to pinch her nose to admit it.

While Yun Ruochen was enjoying the snow while eating snacks, suddenly Xia Hong came to report that Mr. Gu Che came.

"Eh, Gu Che entered the palace today?"

Yun Ruochen put down his snacks, took a sip of tea, and heard Gu Che's hurried footsteps.

(End of this chapter)