Chapter 17: New Love, Old Love

The emperor went on a southern tour, this time the emperor went out of the palace without taking the palace's favorite concubine, I heard that this time it was to Jiangnan, there are many beauties in Jiangnan, where are these calculating women in the palace rare!

In view of the fact that the concubine has been doing well recently, the Queen Mother has not had anything wrong. After so long, you should also remember the lesson of this time, the Queen Mother issued a decree to promote the noble concubine as Zhaoyi. The Empress Dowager's decree soon dawned on the six palaces, and many people expressed great dissatisfaction with this matter, especially Yu Guifei, who was in the position of a noble concubine, she felt that people like Xian Guifei should be given death, but now she has been promoted.

It was another brand new morning, and all the concubines gathered in the palace of the Jade Guifei again, Xian Zhaoyi said to Chenxi: "Sister Zhen, you are so favored, and you are a relative of the Queen Mother, and I haven't seen the emperor take you on a slight tour of the south this time!" It's not like we are locked up in this deep palace! ”

Chenxi said indifferently: "What if you take me, what if you don't take me?" I think that Sister Xian was the most favored in this palace, wasn't she snubbed by the emperor? I don't care about this, besides, it's not new for the emperor to see us, so it's better to go out and walk around. It's always a few of us who take turns to serve the emperor, and we're tired of it. ”

Concubine Yu took a sip of tea and said, "Everyone knows that Sister Zhen is a roundworm in the emperor's stomach, and even she said so." It seems that our palace should be lively again, and the emperor is going to have a new love of his own, and we can be regarded as old loves at most. ”

Ying Guiren smiled and said, "Yes! When the new sister enters the palace, some people should be left out in the cold, what's the use of having a backer? Isn't it the same as us? Seeing that everyone was about to quarrel, Concubine Yu said, "The younger sisters have also greeted each other in the palace. Let's all go back to our palace, the palace is going to rest. Everyone was willing to give up this time, and said angrily: "The concubine retires." After everyone left, Concubine Yu said to Orchid: "Orchid, do you hear what Ying Guiren means?" She's talking about Zhen Zhaoyi. ”

Orchid nodded and said, "The slave maid naturally saw it, she just deliberately said it to Zhen Zhaoyi." Saying this, Zhen Zhaoyi can't say anything about her. The slave maid seemed to see the shadow of Concubine Qian from the body of the Ying noble, and the slave and the maid had a feeling that the Ying nobleman would not live long in the harem. Now Xian Zhaoyi is making a comeback, Ying Guiren thought that Xian Zhaoyi would treat him like before, but she was wrong, in her previous life because Xian Zhaoyi was in trouble, and now she has won the favor of the Queen Mother, she is delusional. ”

After listening to Lan Xin's words, Yugui nodded and said, "Lan Xin, this palace has found that you have become a lot smarter, much stronger than before. It's very insidious in the harem, so you have to be smarter than others. ”

As soon as Chenxi walked out of the palace gate of the Jade Guifei, the grandmother in the Queen Mother's palace came to find Chenxi, "Zhaoyi Niangniang stays, the Empress Dowager Niangniang invites you to go to Cining Palace, and the Empress Dowager said that she has something to say to Zhaoyi Niangniang." Chenxi's heart was full of doubts, why did her aunt want to see her? What important things do you have to say to yourself? Why did my aunt crown the Wulanala clan as Zhaoyi?

Chenxi can go to see the Queen Mother, and want to ask this matter clearly, so as to clear the doubts in his heart.

When Chenxi arrived at Cining Palace, the Queen Mother was reading "Mencius", and when the Queen Mother saw Chenxi coming, she put down the book in her hand, "Xi'er, you are here, sit down." The mourners have called you because they have something to say to you. Do you really want to know, why did the mourning family crown the Wulanala clan as Zhaoyi? ”

Chenxi was guessed by the Queen Mother, nodded and said, "The concubine really wants to know, can the Queen Mother tell the concubine?" It is good to get in touch with the questions in the hearts of the concubines. "You know what? People generally make mistakes when they are most proud, and they often make a big mistake, and the mourning family is prompting her to make mistakes. Once she makes a mistake, the emperor will definitely be furious, and it is possible to kill her at that time, so why not mourn the family? ”

The emperor stayed in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River for five days, and on the penultimate day when the emperor was about to return to Beijing, the local officials invited some girls to provide for the emperor and his entourage. There was a girl named Suo Rong'er who was very popular with the emperor, and the emperor decided to take her into the palace when he returned to Beijing. Suo Rong'er is also a girl with a lively temperament, and she chatted with the emperor very happily.

The emperor went to Wuzhen accompanied by Suo Rong'er and tasted a lot of delicacies and snacks. Suo Rong'er asked the emperor: "Are you going to take me into Beijing?" The emperor nodded and said, "Well, I'll be ready to return to Beijing tomorrow." ”

Early the next morning, the emperor took Suo Rong'er back to the capital. The two of them chatted happily in the carriage. The emperor said to Suo Rong'er: "If you return to the palace with me, many people may be dissatisfied." You don't want to be like them, don't be like them, if you have any suffering, you can tell Yu Guifei or Zhen Zhaoyi. ”

Suo Rong'er asked suspiciously, "Zhen Zhaoyi?" Is it called Niu Hulu Chenxi? The emperor nodded, it turned out that Chenxi had been to Jiangnan before and met Suo Rong'er, and they became good friends. They had been in contact by letter for several years, but they did not expect that they would meet her in the palace.

Concubine Yu learned that Suo Rong'er had entered the palace, "Orchid, come here." Help the palace do something, you take the newcomer's entry into the palace to the ears of the preacher Xian Zhaoyi, and the palace wants to see what she does. ”

Orchid passed the matter to a little maid beside Xian Zhaoyi, and the little maid quickly conveyed the news to Xian Zhaoyi.

Xian Zhaoyi really fell for the trick, Xian Zhaoyi said to a little maid: "This girl from Jiangnan must be delicate and lovely, otherwise how could she seduce the emperor." Since she is beautiful and lovely, the palace will help her disfigure, and you will set fire to her bedroom at night. ”

At night, there was really action, and the little maid bought off a little eunuch who had just entered the palace, and asked the little eunuch to set fire to Suo Rong'er's bedroom at night.

Suo Rong'er and Chenxi used to be good friends, and Suo Rong'er went to Yikun Palace to visit Chenxi as soon as she entered the palace. Chenxi saw that the person who entered the palace with the emperor turned out to be Suo Rong'er, and Chenxi said to Suo Rong'er: "Rong'er, why are you here?" You have to be more careful in the future when this harem is sinister, I have been in the palace for almost a year, and I am always calculated, and you are the emperor's new favorite, so you must be more careful. ”

Suo Rong'er nodded and said, "I know, Xi'er, you can rest assured." You are Zhaoyi now, and my emperor hasn't given me a title yet, I don't know what kind of turmoil will happen after the emperor gives me a name. ”

It stands to reason that tonight is the wedding night of the emperor and Suo Rong'er, and the emperor should go to Chuxiu Palace, where Suo Rong'er lives, but he still misses Chenxi and wants to talk about the good scenery of Jiangnan with Chenxi. The emperor sat on the chair in the imperial study and walked with a struggle, whether to blame the new love, or choose the old love?

The emperor couldn't choose, he thought about how free the days with Chenxi were, and how happy the days with Suo Rong'er were. Just when the emperor was struggling left and right, the father-in-law of the suitable room also came in, knelt down and said: "Please ask the emperor to turn over the card, the queen mother gave an edict, saying that Suo Rong'er has no name, so she can't sleep tonight." Will the emperor go to Zhen Zhaoyi's palace tonight or choose someone else? The Queen Mother also said that if the emperor went to see Miss Suo Rong'er tonight, then Miss Suo Rong'er could only be regarded as a palace maid who served the emperor overnight, and the Queen Mother would make her an official woman tomorrow. ”

Suo Rong'er is indeed a very good girl, it would be a pity if she was just an official woman, and in the end the emperor chose to go to Yikun Palace.

After Suo Rong'er returned to Chuxiu Palace, she was very angry when she learned that the emperor didn't come here tonight, and after hearing that the emperor went to Yikun Palace, Suo Rong'er already hated Chenxi from her heart. Mian'er next to Suo Rong'er said: "Mian'er, why does Chenxi have everything, and she still wants to rob me of the emperor tonight?" The emperor should come to accompany me tonight, why did you go to Yikun Palace, why is this? ”

Mian'er also snorted angrily and said: "You regard her as a friend, but she still wants to be strong with you, which shows that she doesn't regard you as her friend at all." There are no friends in the harem, and if you are a friend now, you will be an enemy tomorrow, and you should not treat her as a friend. ”

After listening to Mian'er's words, Suo Rong'er thought about it carefully, what about her friends? It's not about robbing a man with yourself!

When Suo Rong'er was about to fall asleep, the smoke suddenly rose, and Mian'er woke up and saw that it was on fire, so she picked up Suo Rong'er and ran out. The emperor and Chenxi were also awakened, and Li Dequan came in to report and said: "Your Majesty, the fire is in the direction of Chuxiu Palace, and the servants have already arranged for someone to extinguish the fire, please rest assured that the emperor and Zhaoyi Niangniang." The emperor and Chenxi changed their clothes as quickly as possible and hurried to Chuxiu Palace.

Outside the side hall of Chuxiu Palace, Suo Rong'er was standing on the side, looking at the billowing smoke, Chenxi walked up to Suo Rong'er and asked, "Rong'er, how are you?" Didn't burn you, did you? Suo Rong'er said very indifferently: "I'm okay at all, you let people set the fire yourself, you don't know if you succeed?" Alas! The people you sent were so useless that they ran away, but they didn't succeed. ”

After hearing Suo Rong'er's words, the emperor asked, "Do you know who set the fire?!" Tell me about it! Suo Rong'er pointed to Chenxi and said, "It's her, it's her who let people set the fire." She didn't let the emperor come to see me, so it was more convenient to set the fire, and the emperor was the master of me. ”

The emperor reprimanded: "It was really decided to visit Zhen Zhaoyi, it has nothing to do with Chenxi, and it is really voluntary to go to Yikun Palace." No one said I had to come with you tonight! Suo Rong'er cried and said, "Your Majesty, you told me. You will protect me, you will protect me in everything. Why is the emperor still protecting the person who wants to kill me in the future? She was afraid that the emperor would no longer love her, so she did it. ”

The emperor looked at Chenxi and said, "Chenxi, she won't do this, I will definitely find out about this matter, and come to give Chenxi a clean slate and give you justice." After speaking, the emperor turned around and left Chuxiu Palace.