Therefore, if you want to do something about the prince's marriage, you have to pass her first.

Empress Dowager Liu was not in a hurry, but some people couldn't hold back their shots. That is the abandoned Cui family who lives in the nameless courtyard in Qianxi.

Cui was the queen personally selected by the former emperor Chen Huaishen for Chen Jianjun before his death. Cui's father's official position is not obvious, but his uncle Sun Bo named Huai Ninghou, and the reason for the title of marquis is that he once saved Chen Huaishen's life in the rebellion, which is very trustworthy to Chen Huaishen.

Choi and Chen Jianjun were only sixteen years old when they got married. She has a dignified and beautiful appearance and generous manners, which is very liked by the Empress Dowager Liu, and is also praised by everyone in the Chen clan.

But Chen Jianjun only wanted to set up Jin Ling'er as the queen, and was reprimanded by Empress Dowager Liu, and after being suppressed by the edict of the first emperor, he reluctantly married Cui's family. Chen Jianjun was very unwilling in his heart, and he snubbed the queen in every way, and only messed with Jin Ling'er.

Jin Ling'er was naturally even more unwilling. On the one hand, she showed all kinds of forbearance and grievances in front of the little emperor Chen Jianjun, and on the other hand, she spoke disrespectfully and maliciously in front of the queen Cui.

Jin Ling'er was not a concubine at that time, and her identity was just the palace maid next to Chen Jianjun. Cui Shi didn't expect a palace maid to dare to provoke her like this. Although she has been well educated since she was a child, after all, she is young, only sixteen years old, where is the opponent of Jin Ling'er, who is Chinese New Year's Eve and has four at the time? Provoked, according to the palace rules, the staff of Jin Ling'er twenty.

After Chen Jianjun returned to the palace from the previous dynasty, he saw Jin Ling'er lying on the bed, scarred, and was furious, threatening to abolish the queen.

Since he was a child, he has seen a lot of people close to him being killed by his uncle's staff, he was too young at the time to even protect himself, let alone protect others. I can only watch those who have washed their faces, served tea, and accompanied themselves to bow and throw pots, and they have died one by one with blood splashed in front of their eyes. Now that he is the emperor, there are still people who dare to scold him? Or the people closest to him! He even has the heart to kill the queen!

Just after the wedding was about to be abolished, Empress Dowager Liu naturally did not allow it. At that time, the first emperor's wife, Empress Dowager Qian, was still alive, and she also tried her best to dissuade her. But Chen Jianjun's eyes were red and manic, and he looked like he would be burned if he was not allowed to abolish the queen.

That was the first time Empress Dowager Liu saw her son in a state of madness.

She was extremely distressed, not because of Chen Jianjun's ignorance, but because she could feel that behind Chen Jianjun's madness for Jin Ling'er was the difficulty of relying on Jin Ling'er when he was begging for a living in the hands of his uncle Chen Huaijue.

She didn't stop Chen Jianjun from abolishing the queen, but helped him subdue Queen Qian and the ministers. As a result, Empress Dowager Liu also fell into the notoriety of fierceness and disrespect.

Cui was only the queen for a month, and was immediately deposed. Her father and mother were also implicated and collapsed. Even the title of his uncle Sun Bo was not kept.

Although the Cui family was deposed, Jin Ling'er could not be the queen either. The last quiet woman, Yu, was made the new queen.

Jin Ling'er naturally challenged Yu repeatedly. However, Yu's is taciturn, forbearant and evasive, and even the emperor can't find fault with her, so she has been in the name of the queen for many years.

Among Chen Jianjun's concubines, the real leader is naturally Jin Ling'er, who was later named a concubine.

Cui took her cronies, palace maids and eunuchs to retreat to Qianxi, closed the courtyard door, and looked like they were in a state of seclusion and seclusion.

In fact, where can there really be no quarrel with the world? She was already standing at the peak of the Forbidden City, but overnight, she was pulled down and fell into the dust. Her family, which had received many rewards and supreme glory because of her canonization, was now shattered because of her.

How many nights did she sit alone in the darkness until dawn with tears in her heart. She hates it! Jin Ling'er, that old woman, she can't wait to eat her flesh and sleep on her skin!

She had conceived various methods, such as swallowing gold, hitting a pillar, or going on a hunger strike, to protest and end this great humiliation. But Jin Ling'er, the old woman is not dead yet, why should she die? She's going to live. She wanted revenge, she wanted the old woman's femme fatale to be exposed, so that she would not die well.

But how can we get revenge? She lived in seclusion in Qianxi, far away from power, the emperor hated her, and although the queen mother of the two palaces privately cared for her, she never summoned her.

But she wasn't willing to stop there. Although her range of activities can only be in the vicinity of Qianxi, she still ordered her henchmen to try their best to inquire about the news, maintain an understanding of the situation in the palace, and wait for an opportunity to move.

There is an important source of Cui's news, that is, it is set up in the inner peace hall near the left of Qianxi.

The palace of the Great Yan Dynasty was a hollow-shaped city structure, the outer city was called the Imperial City, and the inner city was called the Forbidden City. The emperor's family lived in the Forbidden City, and the palace maids and eunuchs who served close also followed their respective masters and scattered in various palaces, so that they could be sent away at any time. But there are still a large number of rough eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial city, such as more than 1,000 cooks alone, not to mention those palace people who are responsible for cleaning, cleaning, and building. It is impossible for these people to live in the inner garden at night, they live outside the Forbidden City, inside the imperial city, enter the palace in the morning and take turns in the palace, and go out of the palace at night to rest and sleep.

There are two peace halls in the imperial city. The so-called Anle Hall is a place for sick eunuchs and palace maids to recuperate. If you raise it, you will continue to go back to serve, and if you can't raise it well, you will pull it out of the palace and burn it. The Outer Anle Hall is near the north gate of the imperial city, and it is a place where the rough envoys and eunuchs go. The Inner Anle Hall is located in the northwest of the Forbidden City, close to the palace wall, and is mainly a place for the palace maids and eunuchs who live in the inner garden to recuperate.

Nei'an Le Hall, which is only a few dozen steps away from Qianxi, has become a place where Cui's palace people often walk around in private. The palace people who served in the Inner Anle Hall were all unambitious people, and they were also very good at talking to the people under the Cui family. Anle Hall is often visited by palace people of various identities and positions, and it is a place where news gathers.

Cui learned a lot of secrets from An Le Tang, but most of them were of little use to her. Until one day, she discovered a big secret - secretly raised a child in the inner peace hall!

She immediately asked her confidants to inquire about the origin of the child, and she herself secretly observed the child. From the moment she saw the child, she understood that this was Chen Jianjun's child.

She hadn't actually met Chen Jianjun a few times. After the wedding, Chen Jianjun will not meet her unless on important occasions. But Chen Jianjun's face, she will never forget.

His numb, gloomy face at the time of the wedding, the face distorted by anger when he was abolished, she used to remember it over and over again in the dark night, with blood and tears. Therefore, every small feature of him is deeply engraved in her heart.

This child's eyebrows and eyes are similar to Chen Jianjun, but they are more handsome and comfortable than Chen Jianjun. Because the child's mother is a woman as gentle and beautiful as water.

Chen Jianjun has been childless for many years.

God opened his eyes, and the son born to Jin Ling'er died in less than 100 days. The children of the other concubines, some were stillborn, and some died soon after birth, in short, none of them could stand.

Cui Shi knew that this was Jin Ling'er's handiwork. Her own children did not survive, and she did not allow the children of other concubines to live, and whenever she heard the news that a palace concubine was pregnant, she had a big fight with Chen Jianjun. On the one hand, Chen Jianjun hopes for a healthy child to be born, but on the other hand, he is afraid of Jin Ling'er's anger, so he secretly pampers the concubine, and on the other hand, after Jin Ling'er is angry, he resigns herself to her cruelty to the palace concubine, and repeatedly covers her up in front of the queen mother.

This child is the result of Chen Jianjun secretly sowing seeds in the harem.

The child's mother is named Ji Lingyun, and she is the palace maid in charge of the emperor's inner palace. When the emperor went to the private treasury to inspect his property, he saw Ji Lingyun, he liked her smartness and agility, and pampered her in private. This time the favor was not recorded in the "Living Note", so the news did not spread, and she was not given a title.

Ji Lingyun is a tranquil character, although she has the emperor's blue eyes, she doesn't want to use this to compete for power. After being favored, he never mentioned it to others, and even when the emperor came to inspect the private treasury again, he would quietly hide and let others go to flatter and flatter. She only did her part, and that night, let it be buried under the ashes of time.

But reality doesn't allow her to stay out of it. It didn't take long for her to find out she was pregnant. She knew what would await her if the news of her pregnancy broke, so she cut back on her diet and tried her best to cover it up with loose clothes. But her lower abdomen is still getting bigger day by day.

Jin Ling'er kept a close eye on the harem through the eyeliner of her subordinates. The palace maid who holds the key to the emperor's inner palace has inexplicably become bigger, and this matter is not trivial, and someone secretly reported it to Jin Ling'er.

Jin Ling'er ordered Tian Ying, a senior grandmother of the Shang Palace Bureau, to check on Ji Lingyun's situation. If you are pregnant, come back immediately and report it.

This grandmother is an old person before the Empress Dowager Sun, and she has been in the palace for many years. Because he is also from the palace of the Empress Dowager Sun, he is usually very trusted by Jin Ling'er. Tian Ying has been in the palace for decades, tired of seeing the bloody cruelty under the beaded curtain embroidered curtain, and in the past few years, he has witnessed Jin Ling'er killing those pregnant women and fetuses who are powerless more than once. This time, she didn't want to be her accomplice again.

She found Ji Lingyun. The young girl stood with her head bowed, her hands folded on her lower abdomen, trying to maintain a dignified calm, waiting for the imminent judgment of fate.

Tian Ying looked Ji Lingyun up and down, and gently pressed her abdomen with her hand, and said to her: "Since you are so sick and the lumps in your stomach have grown so big, don't hold on to the errand." Let's go to the inner peace hall and raise it. ”

Ji Lingyun suddenly raised her head and looked at Tian Ying with incredible eyes. Tian Ying sighed and nodded at her.

Ji Lingyun's tears wet her eyelashes, and she was deeply blessed by Tian Ying, and replied, "Yes." ”

Tian Ying turned around and walked out. walked quickly to the door, turned around again, and stuffed a purse into Ji Lingyun's hand: "Take it and let the little eunuch of Anle Hall get you some good supplements." Human life is at stake, live well. ”

Ji Lingyun's tears poured out uncontrollably, and she had to hold her mouth with her hand so that her cry would not leak out, and she nodded vigorously at Tian Ying.