Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 46

Early in the morning of the Wanshou Festival, Chen Yuanxiang sat in front of the dressing table and began to dress up.

Although the crown prince was imprisoned, her title has not been abolished. She is still the crown princess and enjoys the treatment of the prince's family members.Today, at the Wanshou Festival dinner, as the emperor's daughter-in-law, she will naturally attend. Without the support of the prince, she can only rely on the empress, her aunt.

Thinking of the treatment he received at the palace dinners a few times ago, Chen Yuanxiang made up his mind: today he must stay in the Jiaofang Palace, and when the dinner is held, he will accompany the empress to attend.

"Nurse, take out the set of jewelry my aunt gave me."

Chen Yuanxiang looked at the hairpin that Liu Gongren put on her head, and pushed it dissatisfied, "It's too simple."

Liu Gongren withdrew his hand, put the hairpin on the side table, nodded, and went down to get the set of jewellery.

Just as she was talking, Lan Zhen walked up to her with a set of apricot-yellow palace clothes to greet her. Seeing this, Chen Yuanxiang smiled and said to Lan Zhen gently: "Lan Zhen, you will be by my side tonight and serve me , I still like your service."

Lan Zhen was not surprised, and still responded with the same tone as usual.

Mei Zhen, who was standing next to Chen Yuanxiang to wash and wash for her, showed a little displeasure on her face when she heard the words.She was the court lady who was promoted to Chen Yuanxiang's side just after Lan Zhen was rejected by Chen Yuanxiang. She thought she could take Lan Zhen's place. It's Lan Zhen.

The more Mei Zhen thought about it, the more she felt uncomfortable, and she felt a little strength in her hand. With a hiss, Chen Yuanxiang snatched back her hair, and slapped Mei Zhen's face with a sharp hand. She gave Mei Zhen a disgusted look, and said: He reprimanded: "Useless things, you can't even comb your hair well."

Mei Zhen was startled, covered her face and quickly knelt on the ground to plead for herself.

"Young pestle is an eyesore here, so you don't need to look for the people below. You go to each courtyard and ask them not to come to pay their respects this morning."

After Chen Yuanxiang finished speaking to Mei Zhen with a stern face, he raised a smiling face and looked at Lan Zhen: "Come and comb my hair for me!"

"Yes."

Lan Zhen responded, walked to Chen Yuanxiang's side, and started the work that Mei Zhen had just done.

Mei Zhen felt uneasy when she was bumped into a position. When she looked up, she saw Lan Zhen glance at her with a half-smile. The mockery in her eyes made her shiver uncontrollably.Her heart trembled, and she didn't dare to stay, so she could only retreat respectfully.

When Liu Gong came over with the put away jewelry, she happened to see Mei Zhen leaving. She hesitated and persuaded Chen Yuanxiang, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to attend the dinner with the Empress Dowager!"

Although the crown princess is the queen's daughter-in-law, there is no big problem following the queen.It's just that the Crown Princess is not an ordinary daughter-in-law. The Crown Princess is the hostess of the Eastern Palace, so she should be the leader and bring the other concubines of the Prince to attend.

"There's something wrong."

Chen Yuanxiang didn't take it seriously, picked up the hairpin ring and put it on his head.

"Ye Liangdi and the others attend by themselves at night... Isn't it a bit inappropriate."

Liu Gongren said it tactfully, and hoped that Chen Yuanxiang would take her meaning back.

Chen Yuanxiang sneered when she heard the words, and replied: "Now I can't protect myself, and I still have time to take care of them? In the past, I only knew to be against me, but now something happened to the crown prince, all pointing at me, what a daydream!"

If she wants to maintain her demeanor as a princess, the prince must be there!
Chen Yuanxiang put on the luxurious hairpins and rings one by one, looked at himself in the mirror, and suddenly felt a distorted joy in his heart.Thinking of how panicked that bitch Ye Liangdi would be without her leading her tonight, and all the strange eyes that should have turned on them, she couldn't help but feel happy.

She tidied herself up properly, with apricot-yellow palace clothes, beautiful hairpin decorations, elegant and luxurious.This is enough to give up.

Liu Yuanxiang was served by the people of Liu Gong again. After eating the carefully matched breakfast, he adjusted his clothes in front of the mirror again, then walked outside the main hall, waved back the cloth chariot that he had prepared early in the morning, and faced Liu Gong in a good mood. Humanity: "It's rare for the sky to clear up today, let's just walk on the road."

Liu Gongren said yes with a smile.

A group of people walked to the gate of the East Palace, and when they were about to go out, a group of guards suddenly appeared and stopped them.

"What are you doing?"

Chen Yuanxiang's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that something happened to the prince again?
"There is an order in the palace, no travel is allowed."

The lead guard spoke concisely and vaguely.But on his solemn face, there was a hint of inhumanity.

"I'm just looking for the empress..."

The Crown Princess endured her heart palpitations, with a dignified smile on her face, and wanted to explain a few words, but the other party didn't say a word, didn't make a move, and just guarded the gate of the East Palace firmly.

What Chen Yuanxiang didn't know was that the leading guard had shown mercy to everyone in the East Palace.

In the Jiaofang Palace, the concubines who were also stopped at the gate of the Jiaofang Palace were driven back to the main hall of the Jiaofang Palace almost as if they were being chased away.Concubine Jin brought her personal maid and wanted to force her way out, but the personal maid was beheaded on the spot.

The ground was stained with red blood, and the group of spoiled harem women screamed in shock.The queen managed to hold her mind, and wanted to put on the queen's airs to call back the group of guards, but got no response, and all the people were surrounded in the hall.

"You are rebelling against the sky, are you planning to rebel!"

The queen clutched her chest, and cursed anxiously. She couldn't believe this nightmare scene. When the emperor walked out of his palace in the morning, he was still fine.What is the emperor doing here?
Her face was blank, but her heart was terrified.

And the emperor, who was suspected by the queen of what he was going to do, was really in dire straits at this time.

"Nizi, are you going to rebel?"

The emperor glared at the prince angrily, panting and pointing at the prince who appeared in front of him, eyes full of disbelief.

The prince's smile remained the same, his tone was gentle, but the words he said were cold and without a trace of emotion: "Father, I don't want to be charged with such a big crime of rebellion. You are old and confused. It is time to abdicate voluntarily." .”

"you……"

"My son has always wanted to be a filial son, but father, you don't give me this chance, so I can only fight for it myself!"

The prince looked at the emperor coldly, not as if he was looking at his own father, or even a person, but an object.

"Bastard, I... Even if I abdicate, I won't let you sit in this position!"

The emperor was furious and wanted to go forward to beat the prince, but the prince stood there calmly, watching the emperor with a blank expression as he was held back by his former guards in golden helmets and iron armor.

"If the father doesn't pass the throne to his son, who else can he give it to?" The prince sneered, and suddenly grabbed Prince Jing who was beside him, and asked, "Is it him?"

Prince Jing might as well be caught suddenly, startled and struggled repeatedly, but the crown prince drew the knife from the bodyguard beside him and put it on his neck.Prince Jing's hands were subdued by the guards, unable to struggle, he could only pretend to be calm and said: "Brother Emperor, what are you doing, stop now, Father Emperor can spare your life!"

"What a righteous prince respecting you! I don't know if you are also so righteous when you are secretly exchanging military salaries and disaster relief supplies."

The prince's hand holding the knife exerted a little force, and the sharp blade cut across Prince Jing's neck, leaving a bloodstain.Prince Jing was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat and his voice trembled: "Brother Huang, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"Don't worry, the time to settle accounts with you hasn't come yet!"

The prince seemed to comfort him not to panic, took back the knife in his hand, lightly brushed the blood on the blade with his finger, but walked up to Prince He.

"Brother Huang, younger brother..."

The prince shrank his neck, his face was full of pleading and cowardice, and let the guards obediently subdue his hands and feet without moving.

The prince's eyes slid past him bored, with a slight contempt in his expression, and the prince only felt that he had escaped a catastrophe, panting loudly.Standing next to the prince was Prince Duan. The prince walked slowly, but knocked on Prince Duan's heart step by step.

Prince Duan lowered his head, trembling and did not dare to look at the prince, but he could not say a word to beg for mercy. He thought the prince would take him for a knife, but who knew, the prince's gaze passed him, and then the eyes of the few behind him The position finally fell on Prince Rong.

"Brother..."

Prince Rong watched in disbelief as the prince put the knife on his neck, with a betrayed sadness on his face.

The prince sneered as the blade slowly slashed across his neck and landed on his face.

Prince Rong stared blankly at the blade with the cold light sliding slowly on his body, the expression on his face was terrified and somewhat funny.

"Tell me, if Gu Ruo cuts your face a few times, and then cuts off your legs and feet, you probably won't have any hope of becoming a great position in your life!" The prince said softly.

"Brother Huang, what did you say! I never thought about it..." Prince Rong's tone revealed sadness.

The prince suddenly exerted force on his hand, and the tip of the knife pierced into the skin of Prince Rong's face.A burst of pain spread from the wound to Prince Rong's nerves, and he felt warm blood flowing down his face.

"Brother Huang, I am your biological younger brother!"

Prince Rong screamed, trying to struggle.The hall was quiet, and everyone lowered their heads, not daring to watch this terrifying scene.

"You bastard, thanks to your brother pleading for you, you just treat him like this!"

The emperor scolded angrily.

The prince was still calm, and drew a deep and visible scar on Prince Rong's face, then dropped the knife in his hand, without looking at anyone, just looking at his hand, and said softly: "I want to let the lonely Come out and use it as a shield, I want to see Gu fight with the others and lose both sides, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman!"

"Sometimes I feel that you, your real brother, are really scary. How long ago did you start plotting against Gu? The river is flooded, how much money do you have in it? Counting against Gu was imprisoned, and now, you want to be a good person and let Gu treat you Thank you so much, I made my father feel that you are a friendly brother, and most importantly, I plan to charge forward for you alone, clearing away all obstacles to ascending to the big position! Good things, I can't let you take them all."

The prince gestured towards the guards who grabbed Prince Rong, and those guards pulled the struggling and howling Prince Rong down.

The wailing sound echoed in the hall, and everyone in the hall shuddered unknowingly.

The prince sneered and glanced at the other brothers who shrunk their necks to reduce their sense of presence, and then turned their gazes back to the emperor: "No wonder father would want to pass the throne to Zhao Qingli, he and father are carved out of the same mold, selfish , and so calculating.”

"When did I say that I would pass the throne to Li'er! I still want to take care of the relationship between father and son and lift your confinement. You treat me like this."

The emperor retorted with a trembling voice, looking at the prince's eyes, as if looking at a life-threatening ghost.

Hearing this, the prince's sneering curve deepened: "It is really a father-son relationship to lift the confinement of the sons and ministers. Isn't the father guilty when he said this? If it weren't for these sons of yours who are ready to move, you would think of letting the orphan out! "

"When the orphan is used up, you don't need it anymore. If you find a more obedient son, the orphan will be a waste..."

"That's how you miss me!" The emperor opened his mouth, wanting to defend himself.

The prince continued to sneer and said, "Why should the father argue with the sons and ministers?"

"Anyway, today, if you don't want to give this position to my son, it's up to you."

The crown prince walked towards the dragon chair on top step by step, and said slowly: "I will let my father witness with my own eyes how my son sits on your seat."

"Nizi, no one will recognize you!"

The emperor's eyes were almost red with anger, struggling to step forward and pull the prince down, but the guards grabbed him tightly, he could only watch the prince who had been at his mercy, approaching the dragon chair step by step, Then sat in his place.

"Don't admit it?!" The prince snorted coldly, "Then let the emperor see whether these ministers will admit Gu or not."

The emperor's blood-red eyes turned behind him, and he frantically looked at the minister behind him full of hope.

However, he saw that most of his courtiers, even those ministers whom he trusted the most and who had been single-handedly promoted to high positions, without the force of the guards, all respectfully knelt down in front of the prince sitting on the dragon chair, and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!"

And the few remaining ministers, under the sword of the guards, all trembled and bent their knees.

And the son standing next to him, the timid one, had already softened his feet and knelt on the ground, and the bold one, under the pressure of the guard's sword, was kicked on the knee and pressed to the ground.

"Father, in fact, you, the emperor, do not seem to be successful!"

The crown prince looked at the emperor mockingly, as if he was laughing at his arrogance, why all the courtiers he thought were sincere were bowing down to him at this moment
The emperor clutched his chest, gasping for breath with difficulty, only felt that he couldn't catch his breath, rolled his eyes, clutched his chest and fainted on the ground.

(End of this chapter)