The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 25
After Ye Junyan came down to court, he summoned several important ministers to discuss how to deal with the current situation.An eunuch hurriedly came to the Hall of Qinzheng to announce the emperor's oral order to Gu Xining: "The disaster in Zhongnan is serious, I want to go to inspect it in person, and let Concubine Ning accompany me, and I will leave soon."

"My concubine complies with the decree, long live the emperor." Gu Xinning thanked Wan En, and was supported by Nian Se to get up.

The eunuch passed the decree and said: "Concubine Ning will prepare the necessary items to bring, maybe in a few days, the holy driver will leave."

Gu Xinning nodded and said softly: "My father-in-law, I've made a note of it, Nianse."

Hearing the words, he tactfully took out two ingots of silver from his bosom and handed them to the father-in-law who delivered the decree. The father-in-law smiled and bowed and left.

Back in the room, he said: "The emperor really takes good care of your empress. You don't take anyone with you, just take your empress."

Gu Xinning snorted coldly and said: "Hmph, he didn't have any good intentions in reassuring. There are many concubines in the palace, and all the favors are directed at me. It's nothing more than making me a target of public criticism."

Nian Se smiled and said: "I think the empress is just being overwhelmed. The empress is born with such a natural beauty, and the emperor doesn't take care of her. That's not normal."

Gu Xinning smiled helplessly and said: "You little girl has learned to be glib at some point, you go and see what you need to bring and tidy up."

"Yes."

While talking, suddenly another eunuch rushed to Qinzheng Palace to look for Gu Xinning. After seeing Gu Xinning, he delivered an order: "The Queen Mother Yizhi, please come to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to see her."

Arriving at the Palace of Compassion and Ning, Gu Xinning felt that the atmosphere was more serious than usual. The Empress Dowager sat on the throne, not angry but pretentious.

Gu Xinning stepped forward to salute, the Empress Dowager saw Gu Xinning collapsed, and said angrily, "Concubine Ning, you are really good at it!"

Gu Xinning said with a look of panic: "Empress Dowager Mingjian, I don't know what the Empress Dowager said, whether it is about Concubine Yun's sister, I persuaded the emperor that time, but..."

The empress dowager scolded angrily: "Shut up, did the Ai family mention Concubine Yun? You have seduced the emperor and want to implicate her, come on, slap your mouth!"

Hearing that a nun next to the Empress Dowager stepped forward and raised her hand, she received dozens of heavy slaps. Apart from serving the master in the palace, these nuns are best at punishing slaves who do wrong. Played with experience and strength.

Even though Gu Xinning was strong in martial arts, she still had delicate skin and tender flesh. Gu Xinning's face was swollen and blood oozes from the corners of her mouth when she was slapped down by these dozen or so slaps.

Gu Xinning knelt on the ground and said as if crying: "The Empress Dowager Mingjian, she has indeed persuaded the emperor personally, and she did not deliberately charm the emperor."

The empress dowager continued with a serious expression: "You still dare to argue, the emperor is out on patrol, why did you only take you there alone? Still dare to deny it, with such a hard mouth, it seems that you haven't hit enough, Mother Fang, hit me!" Inside, this is the place where the news spreads the fastest. The emperor's end just finished delivering the decree, and the empress dowager's end knows it.

Nanny Fang seemed to be unable to fight at first, as if she had been waiting for this order for a long time, when she heard the empress dowager's words, she immediately smiled grinningly and said, "I obey the order." Yes, she walked towards Gu Xinning again, moving her wrists as she walked, as if she was afraid of hitting her lightly.

Gu Xinning prostrated on the ground, her eyes gradually showing a cold and stern look, and her hands were already lightly clenched. At this moment, she suddenly heard a voice from outside the hall, "The emperor is here, please greet the Lord Long Live."

Hearing the sound of the report, Gu Xinning slowly let go of her palms, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that once Ye Junyan came, she would be able to retreat completely, so there was no need to expose herself.

Nanny Fang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the Empress Dowager, who frowned, and reluctantly turned her head to signal her to back down.

As soon as Nanny Fang stepped aside, Ye Junyan walked in, glanced at Gu Xinning who was kneeling on the ground, and saluted the Empress Dowager: "I send my respects to the Empress Dowager."

After Ye Jun said hello to the Empress Dowager, the servants and servants in the room also greeted Ye Jun with words and deeds.

After both parties had finished asking for peace, the Empress Dowager said: "The Emperor has not been to my Compassionate Palace for some time, why don't you have to worry about flooding today?"

Ye Junyan saw that the Empress Dowager had no good words when she opened her mouth, and said with a smile: "After returning to my mother, my son has already set out to go out of Beijing tomorrow, and I have come here to report to my mother. , let her hurry up and prepare the accompanying items."

The Empress Dowager heard that Ye Junyan came here just for Concubine Ning to get away, and she was very displeased and said: "I heard that the Emperor only brought Concubine Ning to go? Are the other concubines serving the Emperor badly?"

Ye Jun said: "The queen mother is overwhelmed. The sons and ministers are going out this time to observe the disaster situation, not to play. It is not suitable to bring too many palace relatives. Concubine Ning enters the palace for a short period of time. She is more familiar with the outside world, which may be helpful. Son."

While talking, Ye Junyan looked at Gu Xinning who was still kneeling on the ground and said, "Concubine Ning, hurry back to the palace and prepare things, don't panic and throw things away tomorrow."

Gu Xinning felt relieved, and said to the emperor: "My concubine obeys the order." On the other hand, she said to the Empress Dowager: "My son, I will leave."

Seeing Gu Xinning leave, the Empress Dowager was full of displeasure and said, "The emperor is such a good husband, with state affairs on his shoulders, he still doesn't forget to come and rescue Concubine Ning."

Ye Jun said that he was not born to the empress dowager. The former emperor had four sons and six daughters. In the 16th year of Tianyuan, Concubine Ran was the first to give birth to Longer, who was the eldest son. On the day of birth, she was canonized as the prince. The mother is poor and the son is expensive. Therefore, Concubine Ran was canonized as a queen, and she was deeply loved by Emperor Tianyuan. The prince was originally clever, but died young.

In the 24th year of Tianyuan, the day when the former crown prince died was the day when the second son of the first emperor, Ye Junyan, was born. In order to make up for the grief of Empress Ran, Emperor Tianyuan ordered Concubine Xue to adopt Ye Junyan to Empress Ran, but Empress Ran did not agree. She liked this stepson because she always felt that her son's death was taken away by Concubine Xue's son Ye Junyan who was born on the day the prince died.

Therefore, during the several years of raising Ye Junyan, she insulted and beat her from time to time, and Concubine Xue was heartbroken, and asked to return Ye Junyan to be raised, and was willing to give up Ye Junyan's mother's identity, as long as she could take care of Ye Junyan. The queen didn't like Lord Ye's words at all, but when the third son of Emperor Tianyuan came to the world, Empress Ran asked the emperor to raise the third son as her adoptive son, determined to teach the third prince well, hoping that Emperor Tianyuan would make the third son emperor in the future.

The third son of the clinker died again, but seeing Ye Junyan grow up healthily and grow up year by year, the resentment in his heart deepened, and he tried to harm him several times, but all failed. Emperor Tianyuan feared that the fourth son would die again, so he rejected Queen Ran's request. In the 28th year of Emperor Tianyuan, the young fourth prince became obsessed with martial arts. He first invited a martial artist to teach him in the palace. , In order to improve martial arts, he asked to leave the palace and set foot in the rivers and lakes to practice.

Emperor Tianyuan saw that the fourth prince had no intention of political affairs, and the second prince was courageous and capable, so he did not force him to stop him and allowed him to leave the palace. A few years later, Emperor Tianyuan died, and he ordered the second prince, Ye Junyan, to ascend the throne as emperor, and Empress Ran followed suit. Became the empress dowager.

But the empress dowager's jealousy of Ye Junyan has not diminished for a day, and she has always wanted to harm Ye Junyan, but except for the fourth prince who is only obsessed with martial arts and can't find anyone, there is only Ye Junyan left in the royal family. Sitting on the throne, even if the Empress Dowager wanted to harm Ye Junyan, she had to wait until Ye Junyan had an heir, otherwise, if Ye Junyan died, the world would be divided, and she would be a sinner through the ages.

Ye Junyan naturally understood the empress dowager's thoughts, so since Ran Yunmo entered the palace for nearly two years, no matter how beautiful she was, how charming she was, Ye Junyan never gave her a chance. Other than concubine, there is no favor.

So when Gu Xinning was around again, Ye Junyan still gave some respect to the empress dowager, watching Gu Xinning leave, Ye Junyan's tone also changed: "Concubine Ning is my person, of course I have to be careful not to be harmed for no reason. The affairs of the harem have always been taken care of by the empress mother, and the ministers didn't intend to intervene, but this time Concubine Ning was injured and left. In order to prevent more serious things from happening, I will decree that Concubine Ning can ignore the Palace of Compassion any subpoena."

The empress dowager slapped the table in anger, stood up abruptly and said: "Ai's family has the final say on the affairs of the harem, and the emperor can manage the government well."

Ye Junyan didn't take it seriously, and said coldly as usual: "The empress dowager is biased in handling the harem affairs. I am the emperor and rule the world. Isn't the harem part of my world?"

The Empress Dowager also said coldly: "Your Majesty is clearly making use of the topic."

Ye Jun said: "So what."

"You!" The empress dowager finally couldn't suppress her anger, and as the voice fell, she raised her hand suddenly, and Ye Junyan raised her hand and grabbed her wrist before she could make any other movements. Ye Junyan said coldly: "I have grown up now As a grown-up, I am no longer the child who is allowed to be insulted and beaten by my mother at will, and it is best for my mother not to force me."

Seeing Ye Junyan's piercing eyes and frightening aura, and listening to Ye Junyan's cold and ruthless words, the Empress Dowager couldn't help being shocked by his aura, she stared blankly at Ye Junyan, but couldn't say a word.

Ye Junyan saw that the Empress Dowager's momentum was exhausted, she shook off the Empress Dowager's right hand raised in mid-air, turned around and left with a flick of her sleeve.

The empress dowager softened and sat back on the seat. The mother Fang, who had been frightened and lost her soul for a long time, realized it at this time, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and said: "The emperor has never spoken so fiercely to the empress dowager. However, I never thought that the emperor would actually do it just for Zhao Yuning."

The empress dowager calmed down her emotions and said: "He is not only for Zhao Yuning, he has always hated and mourned his family, and even broods over his mother's death. Zhao Yuning is just an excuse to make him explode."

Nanny Fang began to beat the Empress Dowager's back, and said, "Zhao Yuning will no longer be summoned by the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility. It seems that it will be very difficult to deal with her in the future."

After the empress dowager snorted, she said coldly: "In the future? This time when I leave the palace, the Ai family will make her never come back. There will be no future for the dead."

When Mother Fang heard the words, she also smiled grimly and said, "It's still the Empress Dowager who is smart enough to let Concubine Ning die outside the palace, so naturally she won't find trouble in the harem."

The Empress Dowager stopped talking, just closed her eyes and meditated. After a long time, she ordered someone to fetch a pen and paper, and wrote a secret letter to an eunuch beside her, saying: "Go out of the palace and give this letter to Prime Minister Ran. Ask him to look over it, and you must hand it over to him, do you hear me?"

The eunuch bowed and accepted the secret message: "Empress Dowager, don't worry, the slave will be handed over to the Prime Minister in person."

"Go." The Empress Dowager nodded.

(End of this chapter)