Xiangfeng Palace.

"Concubine Niangniang, the general asks to see you."

When the lady lady got up from a nap and was feeding the fish next to the fish pond in the garden, a palace maid came over and whispered respectfully.

"Invite him to come here, and no one is allowed to go even half a step near the garden during the conversation with the Great General in this palace! Otherwise, there will be no mercy! Do you understand? ”

Concubine Niangniang's eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't wait to say.

And in a tone of unquestionable admonition.

"Yes! Lady Niangniang. Slave Maid Ming...... I see! ”

The palace maid replied with a little trembling involuntarily.

After finishing speaking, he also cautiously took three steps back before quickly turning around and leaving in a hurry.

It seems that if you leave later, you can't save your life.

It is enough to see that these palace maids are also walking on thin ice when serving the concubines on weekdays, and they dare not make any mistakes.

The reason why Concubine Shuniang would also lose her mind, and when she heard that the general was coming, she was so impatient, because after she learned the news that A Xiyan had actually entered the palace, she became a little uneasy, as if something bad for her was about to happen.

For a long time, Concubine Shu's personality is still extremely calm, and she always does everything without leakage, even if it is a hurtful thing, she does it seamlessly under her control, and no one can find out that she is the mastermind behind the scenes.

So over the years, she has become more and more confident and fearless, plus after the queen died, the emperor favored her alone in the harem, and she was not afraid of anyone.

I can say that I never felt the feeling of fear and worry again.

Concubine Niangniang thought that if she did whatever she wanted like this, the peaceful days under one person and above ten thousand people would last.

At least for a long time to come, no one will have the ability and qualifications to break the status quo with which she is very satisfied.

But today's appearance of Ah Xiyan made her smell an indescribable crisis, and her intuition told her that it was very likely that the days when everything under control that made her obsessed with her would come to an end.

This is by no means a feeling she can bear, and she is not willing to lose everything she has, so she is not going to sit still, she wants to strike first, and still hold everything firmly in the palm of her hand.

Although Ah Xiyan is a related niece to her, if Ah Xiyan's appearance makes her lose control of everything she has, and even threatens her future plans, then she will still ruthlessly get rid of Ah Xiyan.

Just like seventeen years ago, in order to prevent Ah Xiyan, who was born with a poisonous body, from ruining her reputation and letting herself fall out of favor with the emperor, she did not hesitate to coerce and lure the general, and then decisively sent someone to send an infant baby into the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons and let it fend for itself.

It is her kind of ruthless nature that makes her the concubine and mother envied and feared by everyone in today's harem.

Seventeen years ago, there were two other people in this world who knew about this incident besides her, one was her confidant and the killer Ah Kui who was loyal to her, that is, the masked man who personally sent Ah Xiyan into the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons.

And the other is the general A Hongfei, that is, A Xiyan's biological father.

Both of these people are trustworthy in the minds of the concubine, and she knows that these two people will keep this secret forever like her.

Because that henchman Akui is a lover who grew up with a childhood sweetheart, but Shufei Niangniang is too ambitious, although she likes Akui, she also understands that Akui can't give her the life she wants.

So bluntly told Aqua that she wanted to enter the palace draft and live the life she wanted, and persuaded Aqua to die for her and find another good girl to live the ordinary life of a male farmer and a female weaver he wanted.

As a result, after trying to persuade Concubine Shuniang to no avail, Akui used the extreme method of self-destruction to express his determination not to marry Concubine Shuniang in this life.

And would rather wear a mask and secretly guard the lady from now on, and never be tempted by another woman.

And over the years, it was Akui who secretly helped her get rid of the thorn in the side of the harem and the previous dynasty by any means, and completely disregarded her own life to protect her, which made Concubine Shuniang the first person in the harem today.

And Aqua also said that as long as he still has a breath of air, he will definitely do his best to help Concubine Shuniang finally realize her wish to become the queen's mother.

Because of this, Concubine Shuniang trusts Ah Kui so much, and she is also convinced that Ah Kui will not spread the scandal of her sending Ah Xiyan into the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons.

And although the general was coerced and lured by Concubine Shu, he was confused for a while before secretly cooperating with Concubine Shuniang and sending Ah Xiyan into the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons.

But at this point, the general will instinctively keep this secret.

As soon as he was already in the same boat as Concubine Shuniang, once this matter was said, he and Concubine Shuniang would be ruined, and neither of them would end well.

Second, after all, this matter was secretly done behind the back of the eldest lady, and the general loved the eldest lady deeply, if the eldest lady knew that the general and others sent his daughter to the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons to fend for herself, then the eldest lady would never forgive him for the rest of her life.

Therefore, Concubine Shuniang is also sure that the general will never betray her.

During the distraction next to the fish pond, Concubine Shuniang was also thinking about how to deal with Ah Xiyan's return next.

Now that Ah Xiyan actually returned to the imperial city from the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons alive and entered the palace, it was quite surprising to Concubine Shu, and she also thought of two ways to deal with it.

The first is to have a deep talk with the general first, so that he can recognize the father-daughter relationship with A Xiyan at the right opportunity, and find out how much Ah Xiyan knows about the events of seventeen years ago?

If Ah Xiyan didn't know anything about this, and she had already cured her natural poison body, she wouldn't damage the general and her reputation, and wouldn't cause her to fall out of favor by the emperor, then she would be willing to act as if nothing had happened, and recognize Ah Xiyan, her niece.

and continue to cover up the truth of seventeen years ago forever, and will never let A Xiyan know until she dies.

But if the purpose of Ah Xiyan's return to the imperial city this time is to find out the truth about sending her to the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons back then, and to swear to the death to reveal that she was ruthlessly sent to the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons as soon as she was born, and even seek justice for herself, so that the emperor can severely punish the mastermind behind sending her to the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons back then, then it threatens her plan to become the queen mother in the future.

Then she will once again not hesitate to use the second way of dealing with it, that is, to send Akui to completely get rid of Axi Yan in order to prevent future troubles.

Or, although Ah Xiyan no longer tracks down the truth about the abandoned Ten Thousand Poison Valley seventeen years ago, and just wants to return to her parents to live this life, if she is still born with a special physique of poisonous body, then Concubine Niangniang will still secretly get rid of Ah Xiyan before Ah Xiyan's poisonous body is known to everyone in the world.

Because only in this way can she sit back and relax and continue to work hard to fulfill her queen mother's wish, otherwise once Ah Xiyan's natural poison body is known to the world, she will still fall out of favor with the emperor.

After all, Ah Xiyan is her niece and a blood relative.

So after such a scandal, even if she gives birth to a prince in the future, she will not be able to become the supreme queen of the harem.

Because since ancient times, the queen mother is the symbol of the mother's world, and she is the most perfect woman in the world.

This is by no means an ending that the lady can accept.

Therefore, whether A Xiyan lives or dies depends entirely on her own thoughts and physical condition.

And all this, Concubine Shuniang can't find out directly in person, she can only help her do this through the general.

So at this moment, when I heard the palace maid's report that the general asked to see me, I naturally couldn't wait to invite him in.

Since the next conversation between the two of them was about Ah Xiyan's life and death, it was obviously inconvenient for anyone to hear, which was why she ordered no one to go half a step close to the garden.

"See the lady lady."

Not long after the palace maid left in a panic, the general Ah Hong flew in and respectfully greeted Andao.

"Well, General A, excuse me, you came just in time, this palace is about to come to you to discuss the tricky matter of Ah Xiyan. Let's sit down and talk, shall we? ”

Concubine Niangniang pretended to reply calmly, and pointed to a chair beside General A and motioned for him to sit down and speak slowly.

"Concubine Xie."

General A said respectfully again.

After finishing speaking, he sat down, and after organizing his speech in his heart a little, he said: "Weichen came here this time for Ah Xiyan's matter. Here's the thing......"

General A spoke for about a quarter of an hour before he fully told the story of meeting A Xiyan in the imperial study and the military crisis at the border pass.

also included the process of recognizing A Xiyan on the spot through Ah Xiyan's appearance and the style of the red rope hanging around her neck.

It's just that she only concealed that Ah Xiyan also recognized him as her biological father, and that she had also recognized the eldest lady as her biological mother before.

As for the appointment of Ah Xiyan to go to the General's Mansion in the evening to discuss the details of tomorrow's trip to the border pass, and the matter of him personally leading the soldiers to escort A Xiyan to the border pass early tomorrow morning, he also told Concubine Shuniang the truth.

At the end, he respectfully asked Concubine Shuniang whether he should recognize Ah Xiyan next, and when should he recognize each other.

When Concubine Shuniang listened to General A's military report in great detail and humbly asked for her opinion, she did not reply immediately, but was silent for a long time before she asked: "Is Ah Xiyan's poisonous body still there?" ”

"It's completely good, because in the imperial study before, Wei Chen saw A Xiyan personally put the antidote in the palm of Dou Chengxiang's hand, and also helped Dou Chengxiang to sit down and take the medicine, and he didn't shy away from touching Dou Chengxiang's arm. If she were still poisonous, she would deliberately keep her distance from people. ”

General Ah replied with great confidence.

After listening to General A's answer, Concubine Shuniang was completely relieved.

In her heart, she has already thought about the next step......