Harem for a living

Chapter 141

Before Chen Manrou could react, Lidong hurried in again: "Madam, I don't know who spread the news that the eldest prince was poisoned to Yongshou Palace. When no one could stop her, later, during the collision, the empress became popular."

In an instant, so many things happened, Chen Manrou felt that her brain was almost exhausted.

"How is the empress now?" Standing up, Chen Manrou's heart sank a little, and she asked after a moment of silence. Lidong shook his head: "I don't know, the emperor has already rushed over when the servant came, and Li Yuyi has also been announced. After leaving the palace, Imperial Physician Cheng has also gone, and Concubine Yang Gui is also rushing to Yongshou Palace."

Li Yuyi followed Xiaosi out of the palace that day, and reported to the emperor within a few days, saying that the fourth prince's condition was under control, and it was enough for the imperial doctor sent to take care of him from time to time. He himself continued to come to the imperial hospital to check in, so Only now can we catch up in time.

"Where is Concubine Shu?" Chen Manrou has not forgotten the ultimate mastermind of this matter, and Lidong is also a little puzzled: "There is no movement in Yikun Palace. Normally, Yikun Palace is much closer to Yongshou Palace than our Zhongcui Palace. It should be Yikun Palace." Gong received the news before us, but the slaves have not heard anything about Concubine Shu."

"What about Empress Dowager Ci Ning?" Chen Manrou continued to ask, Lidong pursed his lips, frowned and said, "There was no movement from Empress Dowager Ci Ning, but Empress Dowager Ci'an came out, and she has already gone to Yongshou Palace. "

In other words, of the three giants in the palace, except for Empress Dowager Ci Ning, the remaining two are all in Yongshou Palace.Even Concubine Yang Gui has already rushed over, so do you want to go over here?Chen Manrou was a little hesitant, let's go, there is still no movement from Concubine Shu, and his Zhongcui Palace has been closed recently, so he will definitely not get the news one step earlier than Concubine Shu.

But don't go, in the past, the relationship between myself and the queen was the best.

After thinking about it, Chen Manrou gritted her teeth and ordered: "Lichun, go and get that sky blue plain double-breasted regular dress, and we'll go to Yongshou Palace."

Several people in Lichun hurriedly washed and dressed Chen Manrou, and all the ornaments on her body and head jewelry had to be replaced. Although the news of the eldest prince's death had been obtained, the safety of the queen had not yet been determined, so Chen Manrou brought another silver hairpin, The rest are all made of white jade.

After all the preparations were complete, a car was called immediately, and the group headed for Yongshou Palace.Arriving at the gate of Yongshou Palace, without any surprise, Chen Manrou found that the atmosphere here was so tense that it was about to condense into substance, as if anyone could cut through the air with just a touch.

Two guards blocked Chen Manrou's way, but Chen Manrou didn't force her way in, she just poked her head in and looked inside, then stood aside and waited with her lips pursed.The guard was a little surprised, hesitated for a while, and went in to report.

Not long after, a little maid with red eyes came out. Chen Manrou recognized that she was Dongxiang, the second-class maid next to the empress.

"How is the empress? Is the imperial doctor still inside?" Chen Manrou hurriedly asked without waiting for the little maid to salute. The little maid rubbed her eyes before replying: "The imperial doctor is still inside, they said , Your Majesty, Your Majesty's situation is more critical, at that time someone bumped into your Empress Empress..."

"Damn it!" Chen Manrou froze for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Is the emperor in there? Did you arrest the guards who were guarding the Yongshou Palace first? And the eldest prince, how did you deal with it?"

"The emperor is inside, the imperial concubine should go back first. The emperor said that this matter must be thoroughly investigated." The little maid did not reveal the news this time, but only saluted Chen Manrou and said: "The emperor also said that the imperial concubine is heavy. These things don’t bother you.”

In fact, the emperor is worried that the Yongshou Palace does not know if there is any hidden trick.Chen Manrou is also pregnant at the moment, if there is another accident...

Chen Manrou hesitated: "I want to see the empress."

The little maid shook her head and said nothing, Chen Manrou thought for a while and said: "Then I want to see the eldest princess, you tell the eldest princess that I have something important to tell her, which concerns the life of the empress."

At this moment, something happened to the eldest prince, and the queen's life and death are unknown, so the eldest princess must be guarding the Yongshou Palace.The little maid hesitated for a moment, then turned and went in to inform Chen Manrou.Not long after, the eldest princess came out.

The eldest princess's eyes were red, and there was a bit of hatred on her face. When she saw Chen Manrou, she only hurriedly saluted: "I have met Concubine Chen, what is important for Concubine Chen?"

"Eldest princess, you can go directly to the empress's room later, and just ask the empress, if she goes, how will you live? There will be another woman who will be the empress in the future. Will that person treat you kindly?" Chen Manrou Leaning close to the eldest princess's ear, she whispered: "The more miserable you say about yourself, the better. You must make the Empress think of you and cannot let it go. Only when you hold on to your heart can the Empress survive."

The eldest princess pursed her lips, with a hesitant expression on her face. She was just a girl in her teens. If the queen and Chen Manrou were not relatively close on weekdays, she would not have come out to see Chen Manrou this time.

Seeing Chen Manrou giving her advice now, she felt a little hesitant in her heart. On the one hand, she felt that what Chen Manrou said was reasonable, and on the other hand, she also felt that everyone was suspected of killing her mother, and she didn't trust anyone.

"Eldest princess, being a mother is strong. Just listen to me and let the empress remember that she still has a daughter waiting for her to make decisions." Chen Manrou looked at the expression of the eldest princess and sighed secretly in her heart. If the empress really If you can't make it through, the eldest princess' situation is embarrassing.

Although she felt a little guilty towards the queen in her heart, if the matter were to be repeated, she would still choose this way.Only when something happened to the empress and the eldest prince, the situation in the harem changed, and she and Xiao Si would have a day in the early days.

It's not that he didn't think about it before, the relationship between Xiaosi and the eldest prince is so good, even if Xiaosi becomes a virtuous king in the future, it will definitely not be considered a grievance.However, she doesn't only have Xiao Si as a child, she might give birth to a prince in the future, when the time comes, will the queen be able to accommodate her?

Also, behind her, there is a Chen family standing.Now the eldest prince has a deep brotherly love for Xiao Si, when Xiao Si grows up, will the eldest prince not take advantage of Xiao Si who was born in a general from his grandfather's family?Chen Manrou didn't even dare to think about what the result would be after using it.

Not only did she want to keep Xiaosi, she also wanted to keep the Chen family.The former is her goal after entering the palace, and the latter is the reason for her entering the palace.She will not forget her original intention because of the temporary release of goodwill from the Queen and the First Prince.

What's more, the queen doesn't really trust her, does she?Otherwise, the children of the branch of the Zhu family would not be allowed to go to the border.

The next thing is to fight for acting skills. Whoever has excellent acting skills will get the first chance.Chen Manrou reached out and rubbed the head of the eldest princess, her eye circles were already red when she came over, she didn't need to pretend now, although she didn't cry, she couldn't hide her true feelings: "Princess, you remember what I said, if you The Empress is unconscious, so you keep calling her in her ear."

The eldest princess bit her lip and nodded, turned around and walked inside. Chen Manrou was not in a hurry to leave, she just stood at the gate of the palace and waited.Li Qiu and the others were afraid that she would be tired, so they quickly moved to Xiudun, and she didn't sit down, so she poked her head inside from time to time.

Then Concubine De came over, Concubine Liu, Concubine Wei, Concubine Fu, Cheng Zhaoyi, Song Zhaoyi, Wang Zhaoyi, Han Wanyi, Wang Wanyi, Cui Wanyi, etc., and even the pregnant Meng Xiaoyi came over.

"Why didn't Sister Concubine Shu come here?" Concubine De asked first, Meng Xiaoyi's face was a little pale, and she forced a smile: "Sister Concubine Shu, please come back, when I was about to enter the house, my foot slipped and fell off the steps , right now the imperial doctor is setting the bones of Concubine Shu, and he probably will be here in a while."

Concubine De snorted coldly and did not speak. Sure enough, after a while, Concubine Shu came over in a sedan chair. When Concubine Shu came out, everyone also noticed that her walking posture was very unnatural, and there were two court ladies supporting her. Thinking, guessing, the legs and feet were really injured.

If there were so many people gathered together on weekdays, they would definitely be talking lively, you satirized me and I laughed at you, everyone came and went and verbally fought.But today, all the guards standing outside Yongshou Palace had their weapons on. The gloomy light emitted by these weapons alone was enough to make everyone shut up.

At this moment, Chen Manrou had the highest status, she only glanced at Concubine Shu, then turned her head and said, "Go and bring two embroidered piers to Concubine Shu and Meng Xiaoyi."

Li Qiu responded, turned around and went to a nearby palace, and brought back two embroidered piers not long after.Concubine Shu said that the queen was suffering inside, and she dared not sit down.Meng Xiaoyi timidly followed Concubine Shu not daring to make a sound.

Chen Manrou didn't force it, anyway, she didn't even sit down yet, if others want to stand, they should follow suit.

After waiting for about half an hour, Liu Cheng came out and bowed to Chen Manrou: "Chen Guifei, the emperor has ordered you and all the ladies to go back separately, and no one should come out until summoned."

Chen Manrou nodded: "I'm sorry to trouble you, father-in-law, I'll go back now."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and got into the car to leave.Concubine Shu lowered her head, looked at Liu Cheng, turned around and left.Others look at me and you, and they don't know who is giving who what look, let alone who is giving whom a code word. Anyway, some walk together with a tacit understanding, and some go separately without paying attention to each other.

Chen Manrou went back to Zhongcui Palace, and sorted out the whole thing again, she couldn't miss any place, otherwise, she and Xiao Si would be in danger.First of all, this matter must have been done jointly by Concubine Shu and Ci Ning, and then, who is the leader and who is the assistant has not been clarified for the time being.

Today the eldest prince died, but the second prince just fell into a coma, the third prince had no accident, and the fifth prince had no accident either.Concubine Shu is really willing to send her own son out to do a play.

However, why didn't the fifth prince have an accident?According to Ci Ning's thinking, it must be wishing that all the emperor's princes died, Xiao Si sent out of the palace one step ahead of time, and spread the news that Xiao Si had smallpox.In this way, Ci Ning will feel that Xiao Si doesn't need to do anything.

The third prince is sick and weak, so he definitely has no hope of inheriting the throne, so he can be ruled out.Then the fifth prince, is Cheng Zhaoyi too smart, or is Ci Ning deliberately left behind?Or, is it the candidate left behind by Concubine Shu?
Chen Manrou thought over and over again, gathering all the things and all the doubts together, not letting go of any details.

He didn't even have lunch and just took a mouthful. While waiting for the news from Yongshou Palace, he calculated the reaction of everyone in the palace.

When it was Shenshi, Liqiu hurried in again: "Your Majesty, the Yongshou Palace has hung a white cloth."

(End of this chapter)