The rain never stopped, and the huge raindrops smashed on the windows, making a crackling sound.

Empress Dowager Cui's leg disease is committed again, and the pain is terrible. frowned all day long, and the minions in the Changle Hall were also scared.

When Lingxi came back from Qingle Palace, he was drenched in rain and had some fever, so he took leave and lay down in his room for a day.

Mama An asked cautiously when she rubbed Empress Dowager Cui's legs, "Let her go?" ”

Empress Dowager Cui was anxious by the pain in her legs, and replied with a frown, "If she can't figure it out herself, no matter how much the mourning family is trained, it's useless?" If she is sick, let her get better. Left and right, when the mourning family Bai felt sorry for her once! If she dies, the mourning family will reward her with a three-foot coffin! ”

Mama An was so frightened by the Empress Dowager Cui that she didn't dare to ask anything more.

The next day, Lingxi returned to the Changle Hall to wait. behaves as before, and will change the law to please the Empress Dowager Cui.

Empress Dowager Cui ate the pear juice made by Lingxi, pointed to Lingxi and said, "If you are confused again, you will clean up and leave the mourning family!" ”

Lingxi knelt at the feet of the Empress Dowager Cui and choked up, "The slave maid was stupid for a while, and it will not be like this in the future." ”

On June 24, the 19th year of Yonghe, the princelings led by Zhu Xian, the right Shangshu, began to buy and sell official positions from the 11th year of Yonghe, and their dirty silver amounted to hundreds of thousands of taels of gold.

Zuo Shangshu Zhu Xian angrily reprimanded Ge Zhongqiu for spraying people with blood on the Jinluan Palace, and when he returned to the court, Ge Zhongqiu accepted bribes from officials.

In the end, Ge Zhongqiu pointed out that Zhu Xian had deceived the people, occupied land, embezzled the river and silver, and bought and sold officials.

The crown prince Li Chenyi was annoyed and ashamed, and pulled out his sword and stabbed Ge Zhongqiu.

Ge Zhongqiu was extremely sad, knelt on top of the Jinluan Palace, cried at Emperor Yonghe, and asked to resign and return to the countryside.

Emperor Yonghe was furious and ordered Li Chenyi, the crown prince, to be detained in the prince's mansion. And when the court shouted Zhu Xian, he ordered him to think about it behind closed doors at home, and not to see any ministers of the court and the central government in private, until the matter was found out.

As soon as the news of the prince's detention returned to the harem, the queen's heart was immediately disturbed.

She knows very well that the prince has done things over the years, and if Emperor Yonghe really doesn't miss the relationship between father and son, then the prince's position may not be guaranteed. At this moment, where can she still care about the battle between the concubines, and her heart is all on the prince.

The crown prince was detained, Zhu Xian, the left Shangshu, was placed under house arrest, and Ge Zhongqiu, the right Shangshu, began to investigate the prince's ** buying and selling officials under the instruction of Emperor Yonghe.

Emperor Yonghe had a total of fourteen princes, except for the crown prince Li Chenyi, only Li Chenyun, the king of Ping, was a general. Looking further down, only King Rui, the idle prince, still has a bit of an imperial appearance.

Princess Rui Ge Yuhe is the second daughter of Ge Zhongqiu, if the crown prince falls, then it may be Rui King Li Chenfeng. Therefore, the ministers who have a lot of ears and thoughts in the court and the central government have already started the idea of Rui Wangfu.

The outer court is in full swing, and there is no peace in the harem.

First of all, Zhu Jieyu became crazy, and sprang nonsense all day long, saying that the dead Jimei people came to ask her for her life.

The queen selflessly cares about the affairs of the harem, so she can only be the good concubine of the head of the concubines. When Concubine Liang hurried to the palace where Zhu Jieyu lived, Zhu Jieyu couldn't tell who it was.

He only knelt down and cried to Concubine Liang, "Queen Mother, spare the concubine." The concubine really doesn't know anything, it's all what the Jimei people said to the concubine. ”

After listening to these nonsense, Concubine Liang thought about it for a long time. In the end, he crossed the queen and directly invited the Empress Dowager Cui to the Tingyin Pavilion of the Forgotten Palace.

When Empress Dowager Cui came to the Palace of Forgetting Worries from Yongshou Palace in a phoenix, the imperial doctor invited by Concubine Liang also arrived.

Empress Dowager Cui was in the outer hall, and after listening to Zhu Jieyu's nonsense for a while, she asked Imperial Doctor Yang, who was proficient in hysteria, to come forward to diagnose and treat.

Imperial Physician Yang entered the inner hall for a moment, and when he came out, he said to the Empress Dowager Cui, "Empress Dowager Qi, Zhu Jieyu is scared!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyebrows suspiciously, "I live in the palace every day with delicious food and drink, accompanied by the palace maid, why did I scare her?" ”

As he spoke, he called all the people in the palace who were waiting for Zhu Jieyu in to ask.

The big palace maid in front of Zhu Jieyu knelt on the ground and said to the Empress Dowager Cui, "The slave maid follows Jieyu every day, and Jieyu has not been to any unclean places. Last night, Jieyu slept unsteadily and screamed a few times. When the slave woke Jieyu up, Jieyu was covered in sweat and said that she was very thirsty. The slave and maid poured her a cup of warm tea, and she drank it and fell asleep. In the second half of the night, it was not the slave and maid who were on duty, and when the slave and maid came back to the palace, Jieyu was already like this......"

Empress Dowager Cui looked up at Imperial Physician Yang again, and Imperial Physician Yang arched her hand and said, "Empress Dowager, Zhu Jieyu was scared by herself. After waking up, I took another sip of herbal tea and blinded my mind. ”

Empress Dowager Cui waved her hand to Imperial Physician Yang and said, "You can understand the mourning family, can Zhu Jieyu's illness be cured or not?" ”

Imperial Physician Yang groaned and replied, "When Weichen her human acupoint with a silver needle, Jieyu feels the pain, and maybe she will understand......

"Get out of here, all of you!" Halfway through Imperial Physician Yang's words, Zhu Jieyu suddenly shouted and scolded in the dormitory, "It's not me who strangled you, what did you do to me!" You go to the queen, you go to the queen! Then there was a cry in his voice, "Queen Mother, the concubine really doesn't know anything!" Cui Guifei...... I don't know......"

Empress Dowager Cui hurriedly shouted to Qiaodie, "It's really crazy, why don't you shut up your master?!" ”

Qiaodie hurriedly got up with the two palace maids and ran into the dormitory to cover Zhu Jieyu's mouth. A layer of cold sweat broke out on Imperial Physician Yang's back, and he took the medicine box and entered the dormitory.

Concubine Liang glanced at the face of the Empress Dowager Cui, her face was terrified, and said, "Empress Dowager, Sister Zhu is really crazy, why do you still have the Empress Dowager and Concubine Cui Guifei in these words, how unlucky!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui took the teacup handed by Lingxi, frowned and said, "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as a dumb person!" ”

After hearing this, Concubine Liang's silver teeth clenched, and she held her breath in her stomach.

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhu Jieyu slowly woke up from her crazy state. Seeing that Empress Dowager Cui and others were sitting in the hall, she cried loudly as if she understood what was coming.

Empress Dowager Cui pointed at Zhu Jieyu and asked Imperial Doctor Yang, "Is she okay?" ”

Imperial Physician Yang replied respectfully, "Back to the Empress Dowager's words, Zhu Jieyu's body is no longer in serious trouble, Weichen prescribes a prescription, eats two, and carefully recuperates for a few days to heal." ”

Empress Dowager Cui got up from the chair, swung her wide sleeves back, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Since it's okay, then Imperial Doctor Yang will go back." ”

Hearing this, Imperial Physician Yang dared to prescribe any prescription for recuperation, and hurriedly left the Tingyin Pavilion with the medicine boy.

"Zhu Jieyu is weak, so let's go back to the Yongshou Palace with the mourning family to recuperate for a while," she said, handing her hand to Mama An who was standing aside.

Lingxi walked outside the hall and sang loudly, "The Queen Mother drove back to the palace!" ”

Zhu Jieyu's crazy words are like a jumping wire on top of Ayaluo. With a slight pull, he pulled out all kinds of filth hidden in the cracks of the cloth.

Queen Wang calculated in every way, but she didn't calculate that she would eventually be knocked down by Empress Dowager Cui under the pretense of Zhu Jieyu's hand.

How seamless she did it, she was afraid that the birth of the child in Cui Guifei's womb would be unfavorable to the prince, so she ordered those nurses to do things in Cui Guifei's diet. After the child was born, he specially told Wen Po that the child's month was not enough, and found someone to make a false certificate to get rid of Cui Guifei. and used a cat from Shangguan Yan'er as an introduction to get rid of the thoughtful Dong Concubine.

What a great way to kill two birds with one stone! Looking at the harem, who could have come up with such a plan?

But she never expected that Empress Dowager Cui knew too much, and her methods were more ruthless than her. Empress Dowager Cui was so ruthless that she sacrificed the child in Concubine Mei's belly, and deliberately led her to jump off the pre-designed full set.

When the abolished holy decree was issued to Weiyang Palace, Queen Wang knew that she had lost, and she had lost completely! When she walked to the cold palace in plain clothes, the only comfort in her heart was that the prince's affairs had finally taken a turn for the better under her full efforts.

As long as the prince ascends the throne in the future, she, the Wang family, will still be the person who laughs the longest in this Dashun harem!

It's a pity that the queen's wishful thinking was played too early.

On July 20 of the 19th year of Yonghe, the 14th prince, who was born only 76 days ago, died. The imperial doctor diagnosed that the residual poison in the body was difficult to clear, and the internal organs of the little prince had already been damaged.

Concubine Mei held the body of the fourteenth prince and knelt in front of the Taihe Palace, not crying or making trouble, and her eyes lost all color. Emperor Yonghe was heartbroken! The tenth princess fell to death with his own hands, and he was so remorseful that his liver and intestines were broken, and now the fourteenth prince died again......

Emperor Yonghe's hatred for the queen at this time has reached an unstoppable level, even if he decrees that he will give a cup of poisoned wine......

On the first day of the eighth month of the 19th year of Yonghe, the detention of the crown prince Li Chenyi was released. Although he is still the crown prince, his situation is not the same as before. Except for his father-in-law Zhu Xian, who was still loyal to him, the ministers in the court subconsciously leaned towards Ge Zhongqiu**.

In the Changle Hall of Yongshou Palace, Empress Dowager Cui was in a particularly cheerful mood, holding a pair of flower scissors to repair the branches and leaves of a camellia. When the pruning was almost done, he pointed to the camellia and said to Lingxi, "Ling'er, this flower repair, the technique must be neat, and you must not drag mud and water, let alone be emotional." Otherwise, it will not only affect the aesthetics, but also waste your mental energy. ”

Lingxi was blessed, and said respectfully, "Slaves and maids are taught!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui looked at the pot of camellia and nodded with satisfaction, and said to Mama An, "The more I look at it, the more comfortable it becomes." ”

Mama An took the flower scissors and said with a smile, "That's the Queen Mother's craftsmanship!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui looked at the tender yellow chrysanthemums outside the hall and chuckled, "Concubine Cui's favorite is tender yellow, Ling'er, you go to the garden and pick a few pots of bright blooms and put them in the Tilting Cloud Palace." It won't be long before the chrysanthemum admirers come back......"

On the tenth day of August in the 19th year of Yonghe, Emperor Yonghe issued an order to receive Cui Guifei, who was praying for the royal heirs, to return to the palace and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival together. and restored the position of Dong Guifei and lifted the grounding.

Emperor Yonghe remembered the loss of his beloved son and made an exception to seal Mei Concubine as a third-grade Mei concubine.

On the day the holy decree was issued, Concubine Mei held the decree and wept bitterly, just like holding her fourteen princes who had lived for more than 70 days.

After crying, Mei Guifei put the third-grade hairpin on her head, and looked at herself in the water mirror in a silent daze. She couldn't figure out what else she could lose and what she could gain in this harem.