Chapter 017: The Harem of Intrigues

When Ah Xiyan followed the eldest princess's carriage slowly in the splendid palace, it was also an eye-opener to know that there was such a beautiful and extraordinary place in this world.

The palace here shimmers golden in the sunlight and is unusually dazzling.

And the tall walls on both sides of the aisle need to be looked up to see the top.

For her, who grew up in the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons, which is full of poisonous insects, it is a paradise on earth that she can't imagine, and she belongs to the existence of a paradise.

In her eyes, the people who can live here must be well-fed, worry-free, and happy every day.

She really couldn't imagine that the people who lived here would be like the villagers in the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons, who would be sad all day long, and even die of illness and poison and die prematurely.

She subjectively thinks that the people here must be people with smiles on their faces and never know what sadness is.

But to Ah Xiyan's surprise, since she walked into the palace, she found that the palace maids around her who were originally relaxed had become nervous, and they looked like they were sincerely afraid, as if they would be doomed if they took a slight wrong step.

And the palace maids, eunuchs, and royal guards in the other palaces that I saw along the way were also pale and hurried, and when they saw the eldest princess's carriage coming, they knelt down from a distance, and did not dare to raise their heads, and did not dare to get up until the carriage was far away.

During this period, a passing palace maid was nervous when she saw the carriage of the eldest princess, and when she knelt down, she accidentally broke a vase in the tray in her hand.

And the sound of the vase shattering also disturbed the horses of the carriage, so that the carriage also shook a little.

When she heard the eldest princess's complaint in the carriage, she was immediately rushed to the palace maid by a eunuch who seemed to be in charge, slapped her twice on the spot, and ordered her to be dragged to a place where the vase was full of broken pieces, and forced her to kneel on it.

Suddenly, red blood oozed from the palace maid's knees and calves.

In order to prevent her screaming in pain from disturbing the eldest princess, one of the eunuchs also covered her mouth with his hand, allowing the palace maid to kneel on the ground in pain and struggle silently.

After witnessing this scene with her own eyes, Ah Xiyan also felt deeply sorry for the palace maid, but she couldn't do anything.

This can't help but make the sharp-minded A Xiyan realize that this palace seems to be full of flowers, but there is an unknown side to it, and it is not as beautiful as she imagined before.

Maybe it's just a gorgeous cage.

Thinking of this, she also secretly reminded herself in her heart that after getting the sachet in the Four Emperors' Palace, she would still find a way to decline the eldest princess's kindness to recommend her to stay in the palace and leave here as soon as possible.

She no longer intends to be an errand boy in this so-called gorgeous palace.

Perhaps because of the plummeting impression of the palace, the palace in Ah Xiyan's eyes is no longer as beautiful as before, and her mood has become heavy.

I didn't have the heart to admire the palaces on both sides, so I just kept my head and continued to walk forward.

While walking, I was thinking about how to support myself in the imperial city in the future, and to find out my own background, and I fell into contemplation for a while.

When she saw the carriage stop, she suddenly came to her senses and found that she had come to the gate of a palace that looked very large.

And the plaque above the entrance of the palace is engraved - Xingsheng Palace.

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Xingsheng Palace.

Xingsheng Palace is a large palace area where the princes and princesses in the palace live, which are full of large and small palaces, in addition to the young princes and princesses, there are also adults, but after adulthood, the princess will move out of the palace on the day of the wedding, and live in the Horse Mansion.

And after the prince is given the title of prince by the emperor, he will also leave the palace and live in his own palace.

On weekdays, except for the princes and princesses, who serve them, the palace maids who serve them, even the concubines who gave birth to them hardly come, let alone the emperor.

Because the concubines who gave birth to these princes and princesses would send someone to pick them up and take them to their palace when they wanted to see them, there was no need to come here to meet them.

But today is completely different, at this moment here is extremely lively, in addition to all the imperial doctors in the entire Tai Hospital, the major concubines have come here in person, even the emperor and the queen mother have been here before.

The reason why it is so abnormal is because after the fourth prince suddenly lost his mind in the early morning, he was diagnosed as a poisoning incident by the imperial doctor, which caused Long Yan to be furious, so that these concubines who usually rarely come here came here in person.

First, they came to visit the four princes who were seriously ill and unconscious, and secondly, they were worried that their children would be poisoned, so they came to take a look at it to feel at ease.

Of course, there are almost no of these concubines who really come to visit the four princes, and they even hope that the four princes will die like this.

Because it is rumored in private that the emperor has the intention to make the fourth prince the crown prince, but it has not been officially announced to the world.

After all, there can only be one prince who will inherit the throne in the future, and who doesn't want their children to become candidates for the crown prince?

Even those concubines who have not given birth to an heir, or who have only given birth to a princess, still hold the hope that one day they will give birth to a prince, and do not want to see the four princes really get better.

And the empress, the biological mother of the four princes, died a few years ago when she blocked the assassin assassination for the emperor, so except for the emperor and the queen mother, who really cared about the life and death of the four princes, no one really cared about him.

Since the death of the queen mother, the emperor has never established a queen, so the current harem is controlled by the queen mother except for the queen mother.

For the most favored concubine Niangniang by the emperor at present, she is also looking forward to being able to conceive a dragon fetus again, so once she gives birth to a prince, he may become a new queen with her son.

If the fourth prince is unable to escape this time, then she will be one step closer to the queen's throne.

Therefore, after the queen mother left, the concubine still led the concubines to stay there, waiting for the final diagnosis and treatment results.

They seem to be concerned about the condition of the four princes, but in fact, they just want to confirm that the four princes are incurable, and then they can sit back and relax.

This is the indifference of the court, and it is also the most sinister true portrayal of the intriguing royal family.

Although the emperor previously issued a reward for the famous folk doctors who could cure the diseases of the four princes, so far, many famous doctors recommended by the medical hall have entered the palace for diagnosis and treatment, but without exception, they came in with confidence and left dejectedly.

So gradually, the imperial doctors waiting outside the dormitory did not have the confidence to find the so-called famous doctors who healed the four princes.

It is even more believed that no one can be fortunate enough to obtain the title of chief imperial physician from the emperor himself through this opportunity.

And this result is also what the concubines and concubines who pretended to be worried outside wanted, so when they saw the last famous folk doctor sigh and leave, they all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

They all agreed that the four princes were destined to be more auspicious this time.

Just when Concubine Shuniang was about to take the concubines out of Xingsheng Palace, she saw a carriage coming to the door and stopped, this carriage she was very familiar with, it was her daughter Chu Yuyao who rode every time she entered the palace, so she temporarily dispelled the idea of leaving.

When the other concubines saw a carriage coming, they thought that someone else recommended a famous doctor to enter the palace to treat the four princes, and they also waited curiously, wanting to see who was so undead and wanted to heal the four princes.

When the eldest princess's carriage stopped at the gate of Xingsheng Palace, Chu Yuyao helped Ye Qingli to slowly get out of the carriage.

Since among the two rows of palace maids who accompanied the carriage, only the first two Chu Yuyao's personal palace maids could follow her into Xingsheng Palace, so Ah Xiyan, who was at the back of the queue at the moment, could only stay where she was and was not qualified to enter Xingsheng Palace.

In this regard, Ah Xiyan was also quite helpless and anxious.

She was also thinking quickly in her heart about how to enter the Xingsheng Palace to meet the four princes, and then unknowingly get the sachet.

Thinking about it, she thought of someone, that is, Aunt Chang, who was unconscious in order to save her, was still lying in the carriage of the eldest princess.

If she can wake up Aunt Chang, Aunt Chang will be able to enter the Xingsheng Palace with her.

Since this is the case, Ah Xiyan didn't want to wait stupidly, and after seeing that Chu Yuyao was about to help Ye Qingli into Xingsheng Palace, she hurriedly rushed to Chu Yuyao and knelt down, and respectfully asked: "Eldest princess, the slave maid estimated that Aunt Chang was about to wake up after taking medicine at the hour, and the slave maid wanted to stay by Aunt Chang's side, so as not to wake up and no one would be around to serve her." Please also ask for the eldest princess's permission. ”

"Well, go ahead. Take care of Aunt Chang for the good life of the palace, you know? ”

Chu Yuyao said without objection.

"Thank you, Eldest Princess. The slave and the maid obeyed. ”

Ah Xiyan replied with joy.

Then, he got up and came to the carriage, quickly got into the carriage, stayed by Aunt Chang's side, and continued to help her massage her head.

"The eldest princess has arrived!"

Just when Chu Yuyao was about to walk into the gate of Xingsheng Palace with Ye Qingli in hand, the eunuch at the gate of Xingsheng Palace shouted.

When they heard the name of the eunuch shouting, and saw the eldest princess Chu Yuyao walking in with Ye Qingli in her arms, the concubines also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was not good that someone recommended a famous doctor.

And when Concubine Shuniang saw her daughter pick up her sister Ye Qingli, she hurriedly walked up and took Ye Qingli's hand and said, "Qingli, it's windy today, your body is not good, why did you still enter the palace?" Why are your hands so cold? ”

"The daughter has seen the mother. It was the daughter who specially picked up her aunt to visit the fourth brother. My aunt has always loved the fourth brother very much, doesn't the fourth brother often go to the General's Mansion to play with his cousin Xichen? So thinking that my aunt must not be worried about the fourth brother, I hurriedly brought her here. As for her cold, it was because of ....... ”

Chu Yuyao helped Ye Qingli answer, and planned to take the opportunity to tell Concubine Shuniang about the people in the general's mansion who had snubbed Ye Qingli, but before she could say it, she was interrupted by Ye Qingli.

"Sister, I'm fine, it's no one else's business that I'm cold. I came on my own. By the way, what's wrong with this kid? If Yu Yao hadn't come to tell me today, I wouldn't have known that he was sick. ”

Ye Qingli was afraid that Chu Yuyao would sue in front of Concubine Shu, so she hurriedly opened her mouth to stop her.

When Chu Yuyao saw Ye Qingli say this, she also understood that her aunt wanted to defend those subordinates in the General's Mansion, so she had no choice but to give up.

Subsequently, accompanied by Concubine Shuniang, they walked together to the palace of the four princes.

At this time, Aunt Chang in the carriage finally woke up under Ah Xiyan's massage......