Harem for a living

Chapter 225

The Empress Dowager Ci'an opened her eyes, her eyes were very confused, and her eyes were also very cloudy. After staring at the bed curtain for a long time, her eyes slowly became clear, she turned her neck slightly, and shifted her gaze to a group of people beside the bed.

The one standing at the front was naturally the emperor, followed by Chen Manrou, and then the eldest princess.Further back, the second prince led a group of younger brothers, and the second princess led a group of younger sisters. These people surrounded the bed tightly.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an frowned and stretched out her hand. The emperor hurriedly grabbed the Empress Dowager's hand and sat down beside the bed: "Mother, how do you feel? Is there something uncomfortable in your body?"

Chen Manrou smiled and said: "Your majesty, you are too impatient. The empress dowager has been in a coma for a few days, and she hasn't had a drop of water. Now I should feed the empress dowager a cup of tea." white water.

The emperor smiled and nodded at Chen Manrou, took the teacup, helped the empress dowager to sit up, and then put the teacup to the empress dowager's mouth.The Empress Dowager Ci'an drank half a glass of water, then raised her head, and asked with a puzzled look: "What's wrong with Aijia?"

"The queen mother is poisoned." The emperor put the teacup back in Chen Manrou's hands, helped the queen mother to lie down again, and then began to tell.Chen Manrou didn't bother the mother and son, she turned around and told Nanny Ping to prepare some porridge for the queen mother.

Although the Empress Dowager lay in bed for a few days with no illness or pain, but after all, there was no dripping water or grains of rice, so some meals were still unavailable, and she could only eat some porridge.

The emperor's narration was selective. For example, it only said that the empress dowager immediately went to the imperial doctor to check her pulse after she fainted, and then someone gave a performance in the court, and did not mention anything about Chen Manrou and Tang Wan'er at all.

I didn't mention Chen Manrou because the Queen Mother didn't have a good impression of Chen Manrou, and she always didn't like Chen Manrou.If it was known that Tang Wan'er had framed her, then it must be Tang Wan'er who took advantage of the opportunity to confirm the Queen's crime.

Tang Wan'er was not mentioned because the emperor also felt that this matter probably had something to do with Tang Wan'er.After all, when something happened, it was Tang Wan'er who started making trouble. If Tang Wan'er didn't know something, then she would be a little too prophetic.

But there is no evidence at the moment, that is to say, the Queen Mother probably doesn't believe it, and maybe Tang Wan'er must be asked to serve her at her bedside.Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, the emperor did not mention Chen Manrou and Tang Wan'er much.

Anyway, Tang Wan'er is also injured right now, it's best not to move around, so the emperor is not worried that Tang Wan'er will come to complain.Of course, the guards still had to be guarded, so Tang Wan'er wouldn't make any troubles.

The Empress Dowager was just recovering from a serious illness, and when she heard that Tang Wan'er was injured because of saving herself, she only ordered Tang Wan'er to take care of herself quickly and leave nothing else.Then, because of lack of energy, he fell asleep again.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and led Chen Manrou and others to evacuate from Ci'an Palace.

"Yi'an, you haven't returned to Xie's mansion these two days. I think the son-in-law should be in a hurry. Let's go back today." The emperor stretched out his hand and rubbed the eldest princess's head, and said with a smile. The eldest princess was also relieved. The emperor's behavior, it is obvious that he did not accuse himself of the crime, but still believes that he is innocent.

"Father, the imperial grandmother has just woken up and is weak. My daughter should stay in the palace to take care of the imperial grandmother for a few days?" The eldest princess said with a smile, holding the emperor's arm and shaking it, acting like a coquettish little daughter.

The emperor shook his head: "No need, you have been guarding for two days. The emperor knows that you are a filial man. It's just that you are already married as a woman, so you should give priority to Xie's family. Your imperial grandmother has your younger brothers and sisters here. Patient."

The eldest princess hesitated for a moment, and Chen Manrou also smiled and said, "Go back, eldest princess, if you don't go back, the eldest son-in-law will think that we have detained the eldest princess, maybe you have to enter the palace to please someone."

The eldest princess blushed, lowered her head and said nothing, the emperor laughed out loud, patted the eldest princess on the shoulder, and directly ordered people to send the eldest princess out of the palace.

"Rou'er, I have gone back to Qianqing Palace first, but I haven't eaten the crispy duck in Rou'er Palace for a long time, I wonder if I have the good fortune tonight." The emperor saw that the eldest princess had left, and then signaled to the other princes and princesses. After we separated, we turned around and said to Chen Manrou.

Chen Manrou smiled and nodded: "The emperor wants to eat, of course there is, and the concubine will let people prepare it earlier."

After seeing off the emperor, Chen Manrou breathed a sigh of relief. She turned her head and saw Xiao Si, Xiao Wu and Xiao Ba who should be following behind her, and she felt better again. Follow up: "Let's go, today the queen mother will cook in person and cook some delicious food for you."

Xiao Ba immediately clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, I like to eat the mille-feuille from the mother the most."

Xiao Wu was still a little worried: "Mother, is this incident over? What is Father's plan? Will Tang Zhaorong come out in the future? Is there any way to prevent Tang Zhaorong from making any mistakes in the future."

"Don't worry, Tang Zhaorong probably won't get any benefits this time. Even if your grandmother is protecting you, the emperor probably won't tolerate it. At most, he will save Tang Zhaorong's life." Chen Manrou said with a smile, and paused , looked into the Yongshou Palace, and then continued: "Besides, Tang Zhaorong also violated your father's bottom line in this matter."

"For one thing, she shouldn't use your imperial grandmother's body as a raft. Although your father occasionally contradicts your imperial grandmother, he is still very filial to your imperial grandmother in his heart, so this is the most wrong thing Tang Zhaorong did. If you want to trip me up, as long as she stands behind the queen mother, I can't touch her, but she is too impatient."

"Secondly, she shouldn't bring things up in the court. The harem is not stable, which is the most taboo of your father. Think about it, from your father's ascension to the present, even what happened to Empress Dowager Ci Ning, the emperor They didn't make a fuss in the court, after the death of the first empress, the Empress Dowager Ci Ning still lived in the Ci Ning Palace. But this time, Tang Zhaorong contacted people from the Tang family and gave the emperor an embarrassment in the court."

"This kind of thing, a discerning person can tell at a glance that it is a trick played by the harem. If your father is more partial, Tang Zhaorong may be able to achieve some goals. It's just that your father is not partial, so Tang Zhaorong's plan fell through. gone."

"You also have to remember that if there is any trouble in the house in the future, don't bring it to the court, your father doesn't like this kind of thing." Chen Manrou said, rubbing the heads of Xiao Si and Xiao Ba.

As for Xiao Wu, there is no need to worry, she is a princess, if anything happens in the back house, she will report it to her.Besides, concubines are never allowed to take concubines, and probably nothing will happen to the back house of the Princess Mansion.

Only little four and little eight are princes, and they will start a mansion in the future. When there are more women in the back house, they will be used by others if they don't disclose the matter in the back house. At that time, maybe they will Stabbed to the emperor.

Xiao Si and Xiao Ba quickly nodded, expressing that they would definitely not bother the emperor with such things in the future.

After educating the children, Chen Manrou immediately remembered another thing, and turned to look at Xiaoba: "Xiaoba, did you burn my picture of plum appreciation?"

Xiao Ba rolled his eyes, looked at Xiao Si and then at Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu hurriedly smiled and said: "Mother, you were blamed on the eighth brother, this is the daughter's idea, when I heard about this before, my daughter I was very worried, for fear that Tang Zhaorong would make some dirty tricks, so it is better to act first."

"You're very thoughtful. The queen mother didn't want to scold Xiaoba, but to praise you." Chen Manrou said with a smile: "Even if you don't know how to search the palace, your approach is very good. In case Tang Zhaorong has any tricks, we You can also take precautions in advance.”

Only then did Xiao Ba show joy on his face, and he swore with his fists: "Mother, I will become very powerful in the future, and no one can bully my mother!"

"Okay, the queen mother trusts Xiaoba." Chen Manrou replied with a smile, talked to the children for a while, and after comforting them, Chen Manrou went to cook and prepare dinner herself. With a happy expression on his face, he pouted and looked at Xiao Si unhappily: "Fourth brother, should we just forget about it?"

"Of course I won't forget it like this." Xiaosi held the teacup, smiled gently, and then reached out to touch Xiaoba's head: "However, you are still young, so you don't care about these things, otherwise, the emperor will find out Yes, but there are good fruits for you to eat."

"Then fourth brother can do it?" Xiao Ba was quite unconvinced, and Xiao Si nodded: "That's natural, I can go out of the palace occasionally, to go to my grandfather's house, or to watch it at the Ministry of Punishment It is all right to try the case, after all, the mother is our own mother, it is normal for us to worry about the mother and pay attention to the progress of the case."

"It's just this matter, I can't help much, but I can still do other things." Xiao Si put down his teacup and smiled gently, Xiao Wu was a little curious: "Fourth brother, what are you going to do? "

Xiaosi smiled and said nothing, and Xiaoba rolled on him like a twist: "Fourth brother, fourth brother, just tell me, I'm very curious, I swear, I will never tell anyone, fourth brother just tell me .”

Xiao Wu hurriedly beat Xiao Si's shoulders and squeezed his neck to please Xiao Si. Anyway, she was taken care of by Xiao Si since she was a child. It's nothing to serve her brother once, and she won't suffer.

After a long time, seeing that Xiao Ba was about to get annoyed, and Xiao Wu was about to get angry, Xiao Si said with a smile: "You are not curious, why Tang Zhaorong thinks that after getting rid of her mother, she is very likely to be Is it the queen?"

Xiao Wu and Xiao Ba were stunned for a moment, and then they nodded their heads like a rattle.

"Recently, there have been a lot of good things at Brother Second Emperor's place. It is said that Tang Zhaorong made them all by himself." Xiaosi smiled, flicked his clothes, and dropped the bomb calmly.

Xiao Wu was stunned for a long time, he couldn't believe it: "You mean, Brother Erhuang and Tang Zhaorong?"

"One doesn't have a mother in the harem, and the other doesn't have a son. These two are a perfect match." Xiaosi said with a smile. The second prince is now the de facto eldest son, and one day in the future, it is very likely that he will get that position. of.

And Tang Zhaorong is the empress dowager's own niece, and everyone has noticed the empress dowager's protection of Tang Wan'er these years.Concubine Hui and Concubine De were not favored even though they had high status. It was enough for the emperor to go there for one or two days a month.

It is normal for one to choose the eldest son who is likely to succeed to the throne, and the other to choose the concubine who is still powerful in the harem. It is normal for these two to mix together.

(End of this chapter)