Madam Hou

Chapter 138

At that time, she did not form an alliance with the queen, so the queen helped her this time, so she naturally asked for something in return.What she wants in return is naturally not her work as a cow, but her loyalty and the son she will give birth to in the future.

Times have changed, and the plum blossom is still the same plum blossom at that time, but the person is no longer the person of the past.She was no longer the helpless little beauty back then, but a concubine who favored the sixth palace and gave birth to a pair of children for the emperor.

Yanniang shook her head, shaking off the memories that appeared in her mind.Looking up at the plum blossom buds that had just formed, he reached out and picked one off and chewed it in his mouth. It was astringent, not the same as the taste in memory.Back then she was so hungry that she thought plum blossoms were sweet even when she ate them, but now she is used to delicacies from mountains and seas, so she can't stand the astringent taste of plum blossoms.

Caitao watched Yanniang picking plum blossoms and eating them from behind, and hurriedly stopped her, "Your Majesty, why are you eating this stuff, the plum blossoms are so dirty!"

Yanniang smiled and shook her head, perhaps because of the cold, her face was a little pale.

Painted Tao exhaled, and then a white mist appeared in the air.Caitao persuaded Yanniang, "Your Majesty, it's cold outside, let's go back to the palace."

Yanniang glanced at the plum blossom tree again, then nodded.

Caitao stepped forward to support Yanniang, turned around, but before he could take a step, two figures at the entrance of the cold palace suddenly came into view.

The one standing in front was wearing a bright yellow coat, with a majestic face, looking at Yanniang with eyes colder than the ice and snow on the ground, it was the emperor, and the one standing behind the emperor was Eunuch Li.It seemed that the two had been standing here for a while.

Yanniang stepped forward, looked at the emperor face to face for a while, then bowed her knees and saluted him: "Kowtow to the emperor, the emperor is safe!"

The emperor didn't shout, and looked at Yinniang blankly, as if he wanted to see two holes in her body.Yanniang bowed her head and did not move, letting her look at her.The emperor's expression finally softened, and he sighed inwardly, not knowing whether it was for himself or for Yanniang.

The emperor said: "Get up!"

Yanniang stood up, the emperor wanted to stretch out his hand to grab Yanniang's hand, but when Yanniang dodged, the emperor's hand was lost, the emperor's expression became ice and snow again, and he almost stared at Yanniang as if he wanted to tear someone.Yanniang didn't seem to notice, she continued to lower her head, and she didn't see her trembling and frightened.

But the eunuch Li behind the emperor saw it, his heart trembled, and he pleaded with his eyes: Concubine Jing, I beg you, please don't annoy the emperor anymore, this old slave can't stand the emperor's kick.You are doing it for your own good, so don't put on airs too much, the emperor puts down his body and takes the initiative to show his kindness, and you can just reconcile with the emperor.In case you annoy the emperor again, don't take such a long way from Lanhe Palace to Lenggong to see the plum blossoms every day, maybe the emperor will let you live here.

Although the emperor's face was angry, he did not reprimand him. Instead, he seemed to be competing with Yanniang, and he squeezed her hand again with a little more strength.Yanniang originally wanted to pull out her hand again, but she failed to pull it out a few times, so she didn't fight anymore.

The emperor held Yanniang's hand tightly, and the bone-piercing feeling was transmitted from her hand to his, as if he was holding a block of snow, but there was no heat in her hand.The anger in the emperor's heart dissipated immediately, and instead he asked nervously, "Why are your hands so cold?" Then he looked at her face, it was as pale as white paper, without any blood.He touched her face and forehead with his hands, but it was as hot as an oven.The emperor frowned and said, "Are you sick?"

Yan Niang looked at the emperor's appearance, and said coldly: "Since he intends to neglect me, why should the emperor take care of his concubines!"

"Let's not talk about that, I will take you back to the palace to announce the imperial physician first." After speaking, she was about to reach out to hug her, but Yanniang pushed the emperor's hand away forcefully, then looked at the emperor, and said word by word: "I heard that someone said to the emperor that the concubine has selfishness with others, which makes the emperor feel ashamed?"

As if something shameful had been torn apart by someone, the emperor looked a little unhappy, and looked at Yanniang, after a while, he suppressed the feeling in his heart, and said to Yanniang: "I don't believe this!"

"No, the emperor believes, the emperor has always believed!"

The emperor's face turned green, but Yan Niang felt that the emperor's face was not ugly enough, and continued: "Actually, the concubine also wants to tell the emperor that what they said is true. Before the concubine enters the palace, not only with other men I had an affair, and I even made a private decision for life, giving and receiving privately. The concubine didn't want to enter the palace at all. Mrs. Lin Tai used my family to force me back then. In order to resist her, I even threatened her with death After my concubine entered the palace, I never forgot the man with whom I had a private life, my concubine did not love the emperor, and never had any feelings for the emperor..."

"Enough, Chen Yanniang,"

Yan Niang fell to her knees at the emperor's roar.The emperor's expression became colder and colder, and even the veins on his face were about to pop out.Hearing what Yanniang said, Eunuch Li was in a cold sweat. Seeing the emperor getting angry, he rushed over and knelt on the ground, and said repeatedly: "The emperor calms down, the emperor calms down!"

But the emperor kicked Eunuch Li away. Seeing that Yan Niang was kneeling on the ground without any sign of regret, he couldn't help getting angrier, and when he was very angry, he smiled and said, "Okay, very good, very good, Do you think I can’t do without you, Chen Yanniang? Do you think that no matter what you do, I will indulge you unconditionally? Tell you Chen Yanniang, there are many beauties, and I have no shortage of beauties. A woman who is exactly like you, as long as I want to, I can dig out a few of her, but you, think about it for yourself, what will happen to you without my love."

Yanniang raised her head to look at the emperor, and said: "The concubine naturally knows that there is a beauty who looks like a concubine beside the emperor. As for the end, going to the cold palace, or dying, as long as the emperor gives an order , the concubine dare not refuse. Anyway, it is not that the concubine has never lived in the cold palace, and if I live in it again, I will get used to it quickly."

"Very well, it seems that I have really wronged you by making you the imperial concubine!"

The emperor almost tore her heart apart, but he never said something like "Since you don't care about being a concubine, then stay in the cold palace for the rest of your life".Looking around, seeing Eunuch Li kneeling at his feet, he was so angry that he kicked him again, and then left in a hurry.

Eunuch Li gasped in pain, stood up from the snow, saw Yan Niang kneeling on the ground, pointed at her mouth that had been open for a long time but did not say a word, then let out a disappointed "Hi!" Rolling and crawling to catch up with the emperor.

Painted pottery was also trembling with fright from the emperor's anger, and it wasn't until the emperor walked away that she stood up tremblingly, and then helped Yan Niang.Caitao said: "Your Majesty, just now the Emperor clearly expressed his intention to show his favor, why didn't your Empress take advantage of the situation to reconcile with the Emperor?"

Yan Niang said indifferently: "Don't worry about it, I have my own intentions." But she thought in her heart, it would be impossible to reconcile according to the emperor's wishes just now, but the emperor did not show his friendship because he believed her. If there is no doubt, this will always leave a rift in the emperor's heart. This kind of rift will slowly wear away the emperor's feelings for her. When the confidante's favor is broken, this is the reason why the emperor angered her.But now, she took the initiative to detonate the emperor's emotions, and what is needed next is to eliminate the emperor's misunderstanding of her through another thing.

Caitao said: "Your Majesty, let's go back."

Yanniang nodded, and the master and servant slowly walked towards Lanhe Palace.

The emperor hurried back to the imperial study, walked to the imperial case, saw the chair inside, and kicked it to the ground, thinking of what Yanniang said just now, the emperor slapped the table with one hand, cursing to himself Said: "White-eyed wolf, an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!" With so many women in the harem, which one does he give as much favor as her.Even if he knew that she was on the empress' side, for the sake of balance in the previous court, he was never willing to deliberately neglect her.In the end, the woman he had doted on for five years dared to tell him that he had never had feelings for him, whether it was a white-eyed wolf or something.

The eunuchs in the imperial study had been frightened for a long time and did not even dare to speak out, they all stood aside tremblingly, wishing that they were transparent, the emperor would never see him at this moment.

Eunuch Li, who followed the emperor, had served the emperor for many years, after all, he was a bit bolder than the other eunuchs. He went up to lift the chair up and said to the emperor, "Your majesty calm down, it's not worth it to be so angry!"

After the emperor had this attack, his anger finally subsided a little. He sat in front of the imperial case, neither reading the memorial nor the book, and he didn't know what he was thinking.After a while, the emperor turned his head and asked Eunuch Li: "Is there an imperial doctor on duty in the imperial hospital?"

This is a bit of a knowing question. The imperial doctors in the imperial hospital all serve the royal family. The royal family does not choose the time when they get sick. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, four o'clock and five seasons, it is twelve hours a day, even if it is like the Chinese New Year now. All hospitals have doctors on duty.

Although the emperor asked knowingly, eunuch Li had to answer, and quickly replied: "Go back to the emperor, of course." Then he asked tentatively: "Your majesty, do you want to announce the imperial physician to Lanhe Palace?"

The emperor's eyes bulged, and he said angrily: "Don't go, a white-eyed wolf who doesn't know good or bad, should make her sick and deserve what she deserves."

Eunuch Li lowered his head and said: "Yes." He thought that the emperor asked the imperial doctor because he was concerned about the illness of the imperial concubine.

Immediately it was quiet in the imperial study, Eunuch Li lowered his head and did not speak.After a while, the emperor finally sighed.He said again: "You send people to Lanhe Palace to see if Concubine Jing came back to see if there was an imperial physician announced. If not, an imperial physician was sent there. I remember that Mrs. Du in the imperial hospital is very good at treating wind, cold and high fever."

Eunuch Li lowered his head again and said: "Yes." Then he exited the imperial study.

(End of this chapter)