In Yongxin Palace, Concubine Rong was serving the emperor for dinner.

"Cousin, you've worked hard during this time, this is the ginseng soup I specially boiled, you can drink it." Tonight's table of dishes was made by Concubine Rong herself, and she didn't let anyone help her. Her cooking skills have always been good, although she is not as good as the imperial chef, but she has the taste of home.

Before she became the emperor's concubine, she often cooked with the empress dowager for the emperor and the emperor. Her cooking skills were learned from the Empress Dowager, and although she learned home-cooked food, both the Emperor and the Emperor liked to eat it.

After Concubine Rong became the emperor's concubine, she would personally cook for the emperor or make soup from time to time. Since the death of the Empress Dowager, the emperor likes the food cooked by Concubine Rong even more, because the food she cooks has the taste of the Empress Dowager, after all, her cooking skills are learned from the Empress Dowager.

The emperor took a few sips of ginseng soup and praised it without hesitation, "It tastes good."

Concubine Rong, who was praised, said with a smile on her face: "I started boiling this ginseng soup this morning, and I boiled the essence of more than 100 years of ginseng into the soup, and drinking it is a great tonic for the body, cousin, you drink more."

The emperor said, "Since it is a great supplement for your body, you should also drink more."

Hearing the emperor say this, Concubine Rong was very moved in her heart.

"Then I'll drink more with my cousin."

"Okay."

Concubine Rong accompanied the emperor to drink ginseng soup while talking about what happened when they were children. At that time, the first emperor and the first queen mother were there, and as long as their family was there, they would sit together to eat and chat.

Speaking of what happened when they were children, the emperor and Concubine Rong both showed a nostalgic look on their faces. Then, talking about the bad things that their children had done when they were young, the two couldn't help laughing.

Once the emperor was chased and bitten by a dog, and the Marquis of Xuanping stood in front of the emperor, and then the buttocks were bitten off a piece of meat by the dog, and a lot of blood was shed at that time, which scared them a lot.

When they were children, the Xuanping Marquis brothers and sisters liked to play behind the emperor the most. The emperor was naughty again, and often took them around to run around, teasing chickens and dogs. Every time something happened, Marquis Xuanping would stand in front of the emperor very righteously, and he would also take the initiative to admit his mistakes, so that the emperor would suffer a lot less.

Later, when he grew up, the Marquis of Xuanping followed the emperor to fight everywhere. Every time the emperor was in danger, he would also rush to the front. Although Xuanping Hou's ability to march and fight is not very good, he is a qualified junior brother by the emperor's side, and everything is based on the emperor's horse.

Today, the Marquis of Xuanping has a noble status and supports his own nephew as the king, but he is still loyal to the emperor.

"Cousin, you know my brother, he will never dare and will never rebel." Concubine Rong said so many things when she was a child, in order to remind the emperor of what Marquis Xuanping did for him when he was a child. "My brother will never recruit troops in Annam. As for forging weapons, it was to sell them to the Annan people and make money from the Annan people, and he did not smuggle the weapons back to Da Zhou, so please ask his cousin Mingjian."

The emperor listened quietly to Concubine Rong speak, and when she finished speaking, he intimately served her vegetables: "The food is not delicious when it is cold, hurry up and eat it."

"Cousin~~~," Concubine Rong exclaimed coquettishly.

"Eat first, don't waste your good dishes." After the emperor finished speaking, he stopped speaking, and ate quietly and earnestly.

Seeing this, Concubine Rong wanted to say anything more, but it was difficult to say more, so she could only eat obediently.

This meal, Concubine Rong ate tasteless. When the emperor finished eating, she put down the dishes and chopsticks, she also quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand, and then poured a cup of tea for the emperor and asked the emperor to rinse his mouth.

When the emperor finished drinking the tea and put down the teacup in her hand, she couldn't wait to say again, "Cousin, my brother ......."

As soon as she spoke, she was interrupted by the emperor, who said in a joking tone, "In your brother's heart, I am afraid that the second child is more important than me."

Concubine Rong was frightened by the emperor's words, she quickly shook her head and said, "No, cousin, in my brother's heart, naturally you are the most important."

"Are you sure?" The emperor held his chin in his hand and looked at Concubine Rong with an anxious face, "I'm afraid that now in your heart, the second child is more important than me, after all, I am an old pearl."

Concubine Rong couldn't figure out for a moment whether the emperor was joking or serious. She was frightened

He knelt on the ground, raised his hand and made an oath and said, "Cousin, in my heart, you are always the most important, and no one in this world is more important than you." This is Concubine Rong's true words. Although her son is also important, the emperor is even more important, because she has put a heart on the emperor since she was a child.

The emperor stretched out his hand and helped Rong Guifei up, "I'm joking with you, what are you doing when you kneel."

Concubine Rong reached out and gently pinched the back of the emperor's hand, glaring at him coquettishly: "Cousin, your joke just now scared me to death."

"When did you become so daring?"

"Cousin, don't you know what I mean for you, do you want me to take out my heart and show you?"

"That's not necessary, it's scary."

Concubine Rong twisted the meat from the emperor's waist, "Cousin, you are bad again."

The emperor grabbed Concubine Rong's hand and patted it gently, "Who is making it bad?"

"Cousin...... Just spare my brother."

The Emperor took a deep look at Concubine Rong and asked with a smile, "I ask you, if after investigation, your brother is really recruiting troops and forging weapons in Annan, what will you do?"

Seeing the emperor's serious face, Concubine Rong's heart couldn't help but tighten, and the coquettish smile on her face froze.

The Emperor asked again, "What if your brother really wants to help the second brother rebel?"

The palace maid standing on the side heard the emperor ask Concubine Rong like this, and her back was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. Sun Kui was very calm.

Concubine Rong was silent and replied, "Cousin, my brother and the acting king will never do such a rebellious thing."

"What if it does."

Concubine Rong raised her eyes and looked directly into the emperor's eyes, and said in a very solemn tone, "If I do it, I will definitely kill them."

When the emperor saw the seriousness in Concubine Rong's eyes, he knew that what she said was true and that she was not lying to him.

"That's enough for you."

When Concubine Rong heard this, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. She cautiously opened her mouth and asked tentatively, "Cousin, what about my ......brother?"

"Just like you said, he forged weapons in Annan and didn't transport them back to Da Zhou, then he won't die for his crimes, and I won't kill him."

The big stone that had been hanging in Rong Guifei's heart could finally fall. She said to the emperor with a grateful face, "Cousin Xie, cousin, you are the best."

"Alright, don't fool me with sweet words."

"Cousin, how can you say that about me, what I say is what I say from my heart, how can I say sweet words." Concubine Rong looked at the emperor with silky eyes.

The emperor pretended not to see it, stood up and said to Concubine Rong, "I still have a bunch of twists and turns that have not been approved, go back to the imperial study first, you go to bed early tonight, don't wait for me." With that, he left.

"Cousin......" Concubine Rong couldn't believe that the emperor had left like this. She hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the emperor's hand, and looked at the emperor with a sad look in her eyes, "Cousin, you really can't bear to leave me."

The emperor raised his hand and patted Concubine Rong on the shoulder, and gently comforted her: "I am really busy, I will come to accompany you after two days when I am not busy."

Concubine Rong said aggrievedly, "Really?"

"Really, when did I lie to you?" The Emperor added, "I am satisfied with the meal you have made tonight."

A smile appeared on Concubine Rong's face again, "Cousin, then you won't be busy in two days, but you have to compensate me."

"Okay, I'll make it up to you then." The Emperor smiled, "No need to send me."

"I'd better send my cousin out."

Concubine Rong went out from the emperor, and she didn't return to the palace until she couldn't see the emperor's back. The smile on her face immediately turned into a terrible haze.

"Niangniang, the slave maid feels that the emperor is really busy, not dissatisfied with you, don't think about it." Jin Mei comforted Concubine Rong and said, "It's not like the emperor hasn't left with dinner before, and the slave guesses that the emperor has taken the time to come to have dinner with you tonight."

Hearing Jin Mei say this, Concubine Rong felt much better, but she was still a little apprehensive in her heart.

"You really think

Is the emperor really busy?"

"Niangniang, didn't the emperor tell you before he left that he would come to compensate you if he was not busy in two days, when did the emperor break his promise to you." Jin Mei brought a cup of tea to Concubine Rong, "Niangniang, don't think about it."

Concubine Rong took the teacup, bowed her head and took a few sips of tea, and the uneasiness in her heart decreased a lot.

"I'm afraid that my cousin will not be satisfied with me, so I will intercede for my brother."

"You are the sister of Xuanping Hou, shouldn't you help Hou Ye intercede, if you don't help Hou Ye intercede, this is strange."

"Do you think the emperor will really let my brother go?"

"The emperor has said so, he will definitely spare the Hou Ye, Niangniang, you can relax."

Concubine Rong's face sank again for a moment: "They actually hid it from me about recruiting troops and forging weapons in Annan, if it wasn't for Princess Annan to poke it out, I'm afraid they would hide it from me for the rest of my life."

"Niangniang, the slave maid thinks that the prince and the marquis are not really trying to rebel, but to prevent trouble."

"Of course I know that they don't want to rebel, but they have offended the emperor's rebellion by doing this." For her son and brother hiding from her, Concubine Rong was angry and hateful in her heart. "Now this palace has to wipe their butts for them."

"Niangniang, doesn't the Zhenguo Mansion do the same?"

"It's all a bunch of fools, digging their own graves." Concubine Rong followed the emperor and more or less understood the emperor's temperament. "If the emperor is furious about this, then this matter will be fine. And now, the emperor asked He Xiang to strictly investigate them, which shows that the emperor is really angry. The more angry the emperor's temperament is, the calmer he appears to be."

"The slave is in a good mood when she looks at the emperor."

Concubine Rong sighed lightly and said, "The more angry you are, the more you laugh."

"Niangniang, didn't the emperor say that he would spare the life of the marquis, so don't worry."

"I'm afraid that the title of the Marquis of Xuanping Mansion will not be kept."

"The emperor shouldn't revoke the title of the marquis." Jin Mei said, "Even if the emperor really revokes the title of the marquis, but with you, sooner or later the emperor will restore the title of the marquis."

These words spoke to Concubine Rong's heart, "You're right, as long as I'm still here, the title of the Marquis of Xuanping Mansion will not disappear forever."

"Niangniang, did you say that the emperor would let go of the Zhenguo Mansion and the Anyang Mansion?"

"It's hard to say about the Zhenguo Mansion, but the Anyang Mansion can't escape this time." Concubine Rong sneered, "Concubine Shu's brute son did such an intolerable thing, how could the emperor let go of the Anyang Mansion."

"Niangniang, the slave maid can't figure out why the emperor would let the concubine go." Jin Mei asked puzzledly, "As for those things that King Zheng did before, the slave maid didn't believe that the concubine didn't know about it. The concubine must know, and she also helped the former King Zheng to cover up."

"The emperor has already decreed to cut off the head of that beast, if he sends the concubine into the cold palace again, won't the world scold him for being cold-blooded and ruthless." Concubine Rong understood that the emperor did not have the intention of severely punishing the concubine, "Anyway, that beast is the emperor's biological son, as the saying goes, tigers are poisonous and do not eat children, and the emperor ordered to kill his own son, which will be said to be cruel by the world, even if this son has done a lot of things that anger and resentment of the heavens."

"The former King Zheng did so many things that careless of people's lives, the emperor is a Ming monarch, how can he spare him from dying." Jin Mei felt that there was nothing wrong with the emperor ordering the killing of the former King Zheng.

"Therefore, the concubine is very smart, she takes all the fault on herself, and does not let the emperor bear the slightest charge of bad teaching." Although Concubine Rong Guifei doesn't like concubines, she has to admit that this woman is very smart, "She doesn't help her son intercede, nor does she help Duke Anyang intercede, she is bent on asking the emperor to punish the crime, which is to retreat as advance."

"The concubine is really a woman." After listening to Concubine Rong's words, Jin Mei finally understood why the emperor didn't send the concubine into the cold palace.

"She's smart, not as stupid as Concubine Liang. The wise will live, but the stupid will die." Concubine Rong sighed in her heart: I hope that my son and brother will not be stupid again in the future. She can help them wipe their butts this time, but not necessarily next time. My cousin can spare them once, but he will never spare them a second time.

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