One of De Concubine's masters and servants was deprived of her position, demoted to a commoner and thrown into the cold palace, and the other was beaten to death with a stick. All eyes were focused on the furious Xuanzong, and De Concubine's master and servant.
But Wu Chongyuan, who was sitting at the banquet, clenched her hands into fists under her wide sleeves and looked very strange.
Her appearance was not noticed by others, but it fell in Li Sixu's eyes.
Li Sixu moved the corners of her mouth without any trace, and lowered her eyes with a sneer.
Wait!
Pulling out one of her secrets is just the beginning.
Just when the concubines were silent, a childish voice sounded: "Is this the emperor's cat?"
Li Sixu looked at the Prince Qing who came out from behind the flowers with his cat in his arms. Compared with the slug who only knew how to cry at the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, he entered the palace this time clean and tidy, and he was a refreshing little shot. .
Li Sixu was not confused by his innocent look. Her eyes fell on the cat he was holding, and she was sure that only people who often raise cats can hug cats so skillfully.
Moreover, the fourth emperor brother gave her this cat, which has always hated strangers, but it was so comfortable in the arms of the Qing prince who had just entered the palace for a banquet. This was a bit interesting.
The cat that Concubine De asked the Fourth Emperor to give her was found by Grandma Zhang, right?
So where did Grandma Zhang get her cat?
But Li Sixu pretended not to know anything and took the cat he handed over with a smile: "Thank you very much, Brother Qing. This cat got into trouble and ran away. Fortunately, Brother Qing brought the cat back."
"Father, my son rarely sees the Qing Emperor's younger brother in the palace?"
Li Sixu calmed down Xuanzong's anger with a soft voice: "The emperor's younger brother has been in Prince Ning's Mansion. I think he misses his father and Wu Chongyuan very much."
Xuanzong knew her little princess well, but he was very moved after hearing her words.
Because of the queen, this child doesn't seem to like Wu Chongyuan, but even if Qing'er is the daughter of Wu Chongyuan, his little princess still has no selfish motives.
Because Qing'er sent back the cat that got into trouble, Xiao Shi would still worry that he was being kept in Prince Ning's Mansion and would rarely have the opportunity to see his father and his mother and concubine.
The master and servant of Concubine De were so vicious that Huangfu Xiuyi almost died in childbirth today. It was his Xiao Shi who turned the tide at the critical moment and allowed her little princess to be born smoothly.
Xuanzong only felt that there was no one more agreeable to her than her in the entire palace.
"Your imperial brother has indeed been raised in your uncle's house for a long time."
Xuanzong stretched out his hand to rub her little head, and said kindly: "I have my own arrangements for taking your imperial brother back to the palace. I rescued Huangfu Xiuyi today. You are too tired. Please rest early after returning to Ganlu Palace."
Because Wu Chongyuan had lost one of her most important secrets, she lost her composure and clenched her hand under her wide sleeves. When she heard that the emperor had relented to take her Qing'er back to the palace, she immediately felt that the secret was abandoned and abandoned it.
Finally, today's work was not in vain.
But her ally, Concubine Shu, didn't see it that way.
When she heard that Xuanzong personally agreed to take the Qing prince back to the palace, her face turned dark as water. She wanted to ask Xuanzong to change his mind. With Concubine De as a warning, she really didn't dare to bring trouble to Xuanzong again by having a lunch banquet today.
Seeing Wu Chongyuan's eager and excited eyes, Shu Fei was extremely angry and tried her best to hold back the surging emotions in her heart.
Concubine Shu dug her fingers into her flesh and finally felt a little more relaxed as she watched the dragon boat commanded by the prince take the lead and rush towards the red silk beside the Dragon Head Pond.
Ever since the one from Nanxun Palace was thrown into the cold palace, the prince had been avoiding her.
Concubine Shu whispered to the palace maid Han Xiang beside her: "Go and tell the prince that I want to see him!"
The dragon boat commanded by the prince was far ahead, breaking through the red silk beside the Dragon Head Pool, and won the first place in today's dragon boat race, receiving a reward from Xuanzong. When the courtiers gathered around the prince to congratulate him, Xue Xi winked at him.
The prince bowed his hands to the ministers surrounding him and walked to Xue Xi's side.
Xue Xi lowered his voice: "The palace maid Han Xiang next to Concubine Shu came just now and said that the empress was waiting for His Highness at the Bingjing Terrace."
"What does she want to do?"
The prince looked impatient: "She even drove her mother to the cold palace and got the right to temporarily manage the sixth palace. Isn't she satisfied?"
"Your Highness, be careful what you say!"
Xue Xiu reminded him that walls have ears!
The prince knew that if he didn't go to see the woman, she would definitely not stop, and he didn't know what dangerous things she would do again.
But if he went there rashly, he might fall into someone else's scheme, so he simply took Xue Xiu and took a detour to Bingjing Terrace.
When he arrived at Bingjing Terrace, he saw Concubine Shu who had dismissed her entourage. The prince got straight to the point and said, "I wonder what important matter Concubine Concubine has summoned her son to do?"
When the prince standing in front of her spoke, his tone was full of boredom. Concubine Shu felt chilled by the fact that the mother and son had reached this point.
"Do you have to talk to me like this?"
Concubine Shu, who was irritated by his attitude and wanted to have a good chat with him, suddenly said in a sharper tone: "Are you satisfied that I have to be banned from the Qingfeng Palace? You feel sorry for the empress being relegated to the cold palace. , why didn’t you think about my situation? Don’t forget that it was me who worked hard to raise you..."
Before Concubine Shu finished her words, she was interrupted by the prince: "If the concubine called me here to talk about this, I have important things to do today, so I forgive you for not accompanying me."
Concubine Shu was so angry that her heart and liver ached!
She stopped the prince and said in a cold voice: "I called you here to inform you that the imperial sister you love most is uncharacteristically helping Wu Chongyuan today, inciting your father to recruit your Qing emperor's younger brother. In the palace.”
"You have seen Wu Chongyuan's methods. On the surface, she is subordinate to me and used by me, but she is an ambitious woman."
Concubine Shu reminded the prince: "Wu Chongyuan is your father's favorite person. If the Qing prince is taken back to the palace, under your father's nose, your position as prince may not be secure."
Concubine Shu wanted to continue talking, but was interrupted by the impatient prince: "Concubine Mother always talks about guarding against this and guarding against that. As a prince, I should look at the whole world. Could it be that the arrangement of the prince is just a trivial matter in the harem? Are you in a fight? Does the mother-in-law want the courtiers in the world to know that the son-in-law is a person who plots everything and murders his legitimate mother? "
"Also, you said that the little imperial sister did this to deal with Er Chen? Er Chen thinks that mother and concubine should not push others aside. Mother and concubine, you want to fight all day long, but Er Chen's imperial sister is not so narrow-minded. , a person without a pattern.”
The prince argued with reason: "The little imperial sister is very harmonious with her brothers and sisters in the palace. Is it because the mother concubine called her son to come to Bingjing Terrace just to instigate feelings between the son and the emperor's sister? Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
What's to tell her not to push others too far?
Isn't his imperial sister a narrow-minded person with no structure?
Does this mean that she only knows how to calculate all day long, and is a narrow-minded person with no pattern?
Concubine Shu was about to be furious!
