I was a concubine in Legend of Zhen Huan

Chapter 57 An Lingrong (57)

After the order from Concubine Jin was delivered perfectly, Group Chairman Yi Xiu dragged the real rider, Concubine Qi, to Jingren Palace to interrogate her.

"Kneel down! I didn't keep anyone around because I wanted to save your face. Otherwise, if the news gets out, you will be killed without a burial place." The queen spoke first.

Concubine Qi played dumb: "What is the Queen talking about? I don't understand."

The Queen did not call her here to see a fool playing dumb: "Don't you understand? What good things did you put in the plate of jujube paste cake you sent to Concubine Jin?"

Concubine Qi was still forcing herself to argue: "Hasn't the Queen found out everything? It was Concubine Xia who was jealous of Concubine Jin, so she put oleander pollen and juice in the date paste cake."

The Queen pretended to be angry and said, "If I hadn't said that, would you still be able to stay in Jingren Palace peacefully now?"

Seeing that the truth had already been revealed, Concubine Qi quickly begged for mercy and flattered the Queen: "I knew that Your Majesty always loved me the most. Thank you for saving my life. I am so lucky to have a mistress like Your Majesty..."

"Okay," these were the only few words she repeated over and over again. Yixiu was no longer impatient to listen to Concubine Qi's flattering words that hadn't changed in the past few decades.

"If this matter today gets out, how can the Third Prince have a future with a mother like you? If I didn't feel sorry for the Third Prince, why would I bother to cover it up for you? Don't be so confused in the future, so as not to implicate the Third Prince."

This was the truth. Three pregnant women suddenly appeared in the palace some time ago. Yixiu felt that the emperor could still have children. In order to prevent the situation that the late emperor had with the biological prince Zhuang's father from happening to her adopted son, she thought that she could adopt a child later. Therefore, the queen had no intention of taking the third prince for herself at the moment.

She did this purely to occupy the moral high ground and give Concubine Qi a hard time. Concubine Qi's brain was really not suitable for harming others. If her own people hadn't secretly reminded her to bring Xia Dongchun with her, her faction would have lost a concubine.

After giving Concubine Qi a warning and asking her to behave herself and not do anything tricky, the Queen let her go.

Although the order that Bi promised had not been delivered, it had not rained outside the palace for two months and many places were suffering from drought. The emperor and the empress had to go to the Temple of Heaven to pray for rain and then stay in Ganlu Temple for a few days.

The empress was going out, but the harem could not be without someone in charge for a day. The emperor therefore promoted Concubine Jing to Concubine Jing, and Concubine Jia, Concubine Wan, and Concubine Cao to Concubine Jia, Concubine Wan, and Concubine Xiang respectively. After the emperor and the empress left the palace, the affairs of the harem would be handed over to Concubine Jing to take care of, and Concubine Hua would still assist her.

The emperor made the decision himself and told the empress about this matter. The emperor had his own considerations for doing this. Concubine Hua was weak now and naturally had no energy to take care of the palace affairs. Concubine Jing had always been non-competitive and tolerant. With her taking care of the palace affairs, there would be no trouble.

Bi Ying's status is too low after all. Even if she gave birth to a prince, she could only be made a concubine at most. Without special permission, she could not raise the child herself. Considering that Concubine Wan had just lost a child, she would wait for Bi Ying's child to be given to her so that she could get some comfort. It happened that Bi Ying was also in Sui Yuxuan, so the child would not have to endure the pain of separation from her biological mother.

But after promoting Concubine Wan, the Emperor was afraid that she would cause trouble and Concubine Jing would not be able to control her. In the end, he was afraid that the Imperial Concubine would be wronged, so he also promoted An Lingrong and Cao Qinmo.

The reason why Cao Qinmo was promoted to a higher position was because Concubine Li was too stupid and now was not favored by the Emperor, so the Emperor did not want to make her a concubine; and Cao Qinmo was also a veteran in Concubine Hua's team, and she also had a son, Wen Yi.

The reason for promoting An Lingrong's position was, firstly, that the emperor had some affection for An Lingrong; secondly, if there were three concubines in Concubine Hua's team, as well as the nominal power of the Concubine to assist in managing the six palaces, there would be no need to worry about someone being blind and offending Shilan and Hongchang.

Of course, the most important thing is that, excluding the Queen, this promotion just creates a three-way balance in the harem, which is exactly the balance that the Emperor likes most.

Although the queen was very unhappy, she would not let the matter change. After the hasty ceremony of conferring the title, the emperor and the queen left the palace.

Most people were happy while the emperor and empress were away from the palace.

Concubine Hua claimed to be ill and could not go out. Given Concubine Jing's personality, she certainly could not ask people to pay respects to her every day. Everyone was essentially on vacation for many days at once. Concubine Jing was promoted and gained new power in the palace. She was willing and enthusiastic to work hard for her new job.

An Lingrong was also very happy. Now that she was a concubine, it was not appropriate for her to live in the side hall of Yanxi Palace. But there was already a noble lady named Jin living in the main hall of Yanxi Palace. She had just lost her child and was in such a miserable state recently. Besides, it was a bit humiliating to ask her to move out of the main hall for no reason. So before the emperor left the palace, he asked An Lingrong to move to the main hall of Yongshou Palace and Concubine Xiang to move to Chuxiu Palace.

Getting promoted and moving into a bigger house is naturally a happy thing. Before moving, An Lingrong took one last look at the palace that had trapped her for her entire life, and said goodbye silently in her heart: Goodbye, Yanxi Palace.

In addition to An Lingrong, Xiangpin was also happily moving. Now that she had become the master of a concubine, she could finally keep Wen Yi by her side with good reason! God knows how long she had been waiting for this day. She and Jiapin had discussed it before, thinking that the emperor would not allow her and Jiapin to be promoted for another ten or eight years. In the end, they had underestimated the status of the no-threat Red Rose in the emperor's heart!

But there are happy and unhappy things in everything. The happy ones are as mentioned above, and the unhappy ones are as follows:

Although Zhen Huan was promoted, she was not happy because her plan to split the Hua Guifei team did not work and made the emperor think she was restless. For this reason, he promoted two people from the Hua Guifei team, which made her feel like she was losing more than she gained.

What? You asked how Zhen Huan judged that the emperor seemed dissatisfied with her?

Is there any need to say more? Just look at their promotion decrees. After Jingpin was promoted to imperial concubine, the first person to be promoted to imperial concubine was Jia Guiren instead of herself. In the past, she was always the most favored person in front of the emperor. The pair of Shu brocade jade shoes was the best evidence. Moreover, the person who was given the title of imperial concubine to Jia Guiren was a cabinet scholar, and she was one level lower than him. This was very telling!

Being inferior to others in every way, how could Zhen Huan, who has always been noble and proud, be happy?

Concubine Wan was not happy about her promotion, and when Concubine Xin was here, she simply did not get promoted.

Comparing yourself with others will make you feel nauseous. Compared with Concubine Xiang, who also gave birth to a daughter, Concubine Cao, no, now she has a daughter, it would be a miracle if she could be happy compared with Concubine Xiang!

She almost gave birth to the emperor's first son after he ascended the throne, but unfortunately she had an unexpected miscarriage at that time.

It was also her fault that she was not kind enough in her speech and that there were too many people who held grudges against her, which was why the Emperor had to appoint her as a minor concubine in order to appease the resentment of the people in the harem when he first ascended the throne.

Even this time, the promotion was considered a pork prize that almost everyone could get, but I didn't even get one.

During the days when Xin Changzai had not been promoted, she reflected on the mistakes she had made and her own shortcomings.

She only hated that God didn't give her another chance.

If she could do it again, she would never be so overly mean again.