"Your Majesty, the slave is guilty." Qin Liansheng slammed his head on the ground and begged for mercy repeatedly, "The slave knows that Your Majesty has a deep relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, thinking that Your Majesty has been in a bad mood recently, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can come to serve His Majesty, His Majesty will probably be happier." The slave and maid made their own opinions, and vainly speculated about the holy will, and the slave and maid were convicted of their crimes, and asked Your Majesty to punish ......"

This old eunuch still dares to speak tricks and nonsense?

"Presumptuous!" The emperor was originally angry, but at this time, hearing him sophistry, he suddenly became angry, raised his foot and kicked him hard, "Dare to quibble!" Are you quite close to Zhu Zhaocuo? Listen to the prince like this, why don't you go to the prince's side and serve? ”

This sentence almost didn't scare Qin Liansheng's courage, he immediately didn't care about quibbles, and kowtowed one after another.

"Your Majesty, the old slave knows his mistakes, and the old slave shouldn't accept their benefits......"

The emperor looked at Qin Liansheng's head full of blood with cold eyes, and the evil spirit in his heart finally calmed down. He didn't look at Qin Liansheng, nor did he call him to get up, so he left with a group of silent palace people.

Qin Liansheng knelt motionless on the bluestone slab, and he didn't dare to get up if no one called him.

The emperor led a group of people into the Zhongcui Palace in a rage.

In Zhongcui Palace, Ye Huiqiong was still waiting for the good news of Xingqing Palace, so naturally she didn't sleep.

During this time, she was still taking medicine and applying medicine every day in order to recover her body, and was pressed by the doctor. Although the body has recovered a lot, it is too painful, and people are getting older and older. is obviously not yet forty years old, standing with the emperor, but it seems to be an old woman who is more than fifteen years older than the emperor. The emperor is still handsome.

With this one face, Ye Huiqiong didn't even have the courage to invite pets.

She didn't dare to see people with her current body now, and the seduction methods that were hidden in the past were also put away. At this time, even if it is late at night, her face is covered with a thick layer of makeup. But even if the powder on her face can scrape out putty, it can't stop the cloudiness under her eyes.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why did you come here at this time?!" Ye Huiqiong was suddenly surprised to see the emperor, and Huo Di stood up suddenly.

Although her current body can't serve the emperor, Ye Huiqiong is still looking forward to him coming. Since the last time she was bumped into by the emperor in the scene where she smeared medicine with her face facing the sky, he had not entered Zhongcui Palace for more than a month.

The emperor came to this time, originally to reprimand her as a harem woman, and dared to meddle in the affairs of the previous dynasty. And she was so bold that she actually put her hand to his side. But as soon as he saw Ye Huiqiong's appearance, the evil fire in his heart was inexplicably extinguished.

At the beginning of the year, Ye Huiqiong still looked well-maintained. However, in just eight months, in order to save the twin stillbirths, she was stunned to toss into this old dragon clock. Thinking about it for so many years, Ye Huiqiong gave birth to three sons and one daughter for him, and she worked hard. The emperor is no longer close to people, and she is also a woman who has been with him for more than 20 years.

Now that people are like this, he can't help but soften his heart again.

Ye Huiqiong took in the several changes in the emperor's expression, and her heart sank heavily. She panicked and panicked uncontrollably. What does the emperor's look mean? Is it disgusting that she is old? Or do you think her look like a ghost is disgusting?

She wanted to throw herself into the emperor's arms and be coquettish like in the past, but when she turned her head and saw it in the mirror, she was startled, how dare she?

"Your Majesty, but what's going on?" Ye Huiqiong knows that her advantage is not there, and now her remaining capital is three sons and one daughter and the love of more than 20 years in the past. Fortunately, her voice is not bad, and she is still gentle as water.

The emperor looked at Ye Huiqiong silently for a long time, and dropped a sentence: 'You rest, stretch out your hand to me in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless.' Then he turned and left.

People come and go like a gust of wind.

After the group left, Ye Huiqiong suddenly became angry and swept all the makeup on the dresser to the ground. She grabbed a pair of scissors and slashed them in the face of the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground to apply medicine to her. A terrible scream pierced the sky, and a bright red blood mark on the face of such a young palace maid scratched from the eyebrow bone to the chin, ruining the entire face.

The other palace maids scattered in embarrassment, leaving the fourteen-year-old little palace maid to cover her face and fall to the ground, crying hoarsely.

Ye Huiqiong held the scissors and was about to scratch again, but was pressed by a personal palace maid: "Niangniang, Niangniang...... Don't be angry, if you can't get used to it, you can drive the little girl out. Don't move the scissors, save yourself from scratching yourself......"

The personal palace maid pressed her but didn't dare to press too hard, and was scratched on her arm by Ye Huiqiong with a backhand scissors. Blood splattered, flesh blurred.

"Are you dead? Didn't you see the lady scratching her hand? ”

There was a commotion in the house, but it was the grandmother who went to the back kitchen to decoct the medicine that came back to stop the farce.

But at this moment, four of the eight palace maids in the house were injured. One of the palace maid's faces was completely ruined, and the two were relatively lightly injured: one hurt his cheek, a hole was poked in his face, and the other ear had a cut off. There was also a wound in the arm. Mama scolded the frightened subordinates and quickly cleaned up. The room was full of blood, and it was ugly.

Turning his head and squatting down, he wiped Ye Huiqiong's hands carefully: "Niangniang, why are you ...... this?"

Mama is an old man who has followed Ye Huiqiong since the subterfuge, and her feelings are not ordinary. She opened her mouth, and Ye Huiqiong calmed down.

"Mama, Your Majesty dislikes me......" Ye Huiqiong knows better than anyone else that from now on, she is afraid that she will be reduced to a situation of no favor like Concubine De and Concubine Xian. The emperor's eyes, I'm afraid he didn't treat her as a woman anymore.

At this moment, Zhong Cui Palace was silent. No one dared to make a little movement at this time, for fear that the master would be angry again.

The farce of Zhongcui Palace did not affect Changle Palace in the slightest.

Yes, after the emperor finished a fire in Zhongcui Palace, he turned his head and came to Changle Palace. It was quite interesting for him to come today, and he was brought a bright red dress. didn't say anything else, just let the palace maid change it for Lu Li.

Lu Li had long been accustomed to being treated as a doll by the emperor, and let the palace maids change her clothes expressionlessly.

After changing, the skillful grandmother also put on her makeup at night.

Lu Li looked at the cold and noble face in the mirror, and found that this grandmother actually combed her into a bun for a girl who had not left the pavilion. The bright red clothes on her body made the cold and bright temperament in her eyebrows and eyes the highest. If it weren't for Lu Li pinching the flesh on the back of her hand, a pain hit her, she would have thought that the woman in the mirror was not herself, but another person.

The emperor asked her to change her clothes and didn't have to do anything, so he gave her a harp.

Lu Li lowered her head and looked at this piano coldly, she would be able to stroke the piano. In the early years in the boudoir, my brother was good at stroking the piano, and when he saw that she liked to listen, he taught her some. However, she is not as good as her brother Huigen, and her piano sound does not move anyone.

"Do you know how to play the piano?" The emperor asked him to set a pot of wine, and sat a foot away from Lu Li and poured himself a drink.

Lu Li had only touched the piano for one person, and she didn't want to stroke the piano for the emperor. But thinking that she needed a prince by her side, she struggled for a long time, and she lifted her lips coldly: "Yes." ”

"Hmm." The emperor poured himself a glass of wine, raised his head and drank it all, "Stroke it." ”

Lu Li's fingers were on the strings, and he couldn't get off this hand for a long time.

But after the emperor on the other side opened his mouth and ordered, the expression on his face was completely cold, as if he had changed into a different person. Lu Li knew that his attraction to the emperor was weakening day by day, and if he didn't make changes, he was afraid that he would soon become an outcast. She took a deep breath and told herself that this song was for her brother who was far away in Liangzhou, and that the wind would pass on her thoughts to his brother......

Lu Li's piano skills are really not very good, the emperor has heard a lot of piano sounds, but he has never heard such a time.

He frowned, but didn't say anything. Drink glass after drink.

Behind the emperor, there were many palace people.

Everyone did not dare to persuade them, so they watched the emperor get himself drunk. While he was drinking, Lu Li was playing the qin. He didn't say stop, and Lu Li couldn't stop. It wasn't until the dead of night that Lu Li's fingers were swollen, and the emperor raised his not very clear eyes to look at the woman in red who was caressing the qin under the moon: "Susu, as long as you say forgive me, I can ask for anyone." ”

This sentence was like a shock, which stunned everyone.

Lu Li, who was stroking the qin, also hooked the little finger with a pout, and stopped. She frowned and looked at the emperor who had fallen asleep on the table at some point, sat still, turned her head and asked softly, "Who is Susu?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the faces of everyone in Changle Palace turned pale for a moment, and no one dared to answer.

Lu Li didn't get an answer, but he also understood at this moment. This element is probably the key to her victory.

The palace people carefully helped the emperor into the inner hall, took off his clothes and shoes lightly, and waited for him to freshen up. Lu Li stood outside and struggled for a long time. Eventually, he followed.

On this night, the emperor finally stayed in Changle Palace.

Not to mention that the harem exploded after learning the news.

The false favor became real, and many people feared that the harem would change from now on. It is said that after Wang Ruyi received Wang Shu's letter, he happily rewarded everyone in Qingyue Pavilion. She was recorded in the genealogy of the royal family, although she was a righteous daughter.

Now that I have recognized Wang Shu's sister. She took advantage of the Wang family so much, and Wang Ruyi naturally reciprocated.

She checked the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the abortion before, and she also got a glimpse of some things inside. For example, the eunuchs in the Internal Affairs Office have really long hands. He even used the power of the palace to reach out to the merchants outside to ask for money.

Speaking of which, Wang Ruyi will know that these people also bumped into them themselves. There was a eunuch who didn't know who found out that she was a girl from the Wang family of the northwest running businessman, and she actually stammered to Qingyue Pavilion. stabbed Wang Ruyi when someone outside reached out to Wang's dart bureau and shops.

Although Wang Ruyi said that he was not capable in front of the palace concubines in the harem, for the eunuchs and palace maids outside, he was already a noble person who they needed to kneel on the ground and look up. Zhengsanpin Jieyu, who is still pregnant, has the grace of His Majesty.

They asked for money to go to Wang Jieyu's house, I'm afraid they didn't eat the bear's heart and leopard gall!

With Wang Ruyi's permission, several big eunuchs in the Internal Affairs Office were frightened into a cold sweat.

How much they swallowed the Wang family's shop in the past, only they knew in their hearts. In the future, if Wang Jieyu knows about the trouble that came to them, it will be worth her life. Some of the more timid were already wondering if they should take things back. Some of them are more daring, and they have the idea of pretending to be deaf and dumb. Thinking that it is enough to break off the relationship from now on, Wang Jieyu can still fight them one by one for that little thing?

Each has its own thoughts, but the great eunuchs all have a consensus. That is, to be worshiped by the royal family in the future, be careful.

Wang Ruyi hadn't noticed the change yet, and Chen Liangsheng from the Wang family's shop outside chewed out something was wrong.

He sent offerings to these big people in the capital on a monthly and quarterly basis to dredge up the relationship. Originally, he spent a lot of effort to ask for a meeting with a big eunuch in charge of procurement in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The great eunuch accepted all the good things he sent without saying a word, but he didn't give a word of accuracy. I thought that I couldn't make it without five thousand taels, but the big eunuch who was still ignorant in front of me suddenly agreed to see him.

The attitude is amazing. changed the arrogance of the past, and the earnest refusal as if it was yesterday was done by others.

Chen Liangsheng felt strange in his heart, but who didn't know how to receive that ready-made benefit? Since the great eunuch had changed his attitude towards him, he was happy to accept it. On the same day, the date and place of the meeting were finalized with the eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The date is set, and Chen Liangsheng has a bottom in his heart. When I was sent out, I asked casually.

The eunuch who sent people out had never spoken well, "I didn't know it yesterday, it turns out that your Wang family is Wang Jieyu's maiden family!" Look at you, shopkeeper Chen, this is not a family that the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple, and the family didn't recognize it! If you had said earlier that your Wang family was Wang Jieyu's maiden family, how could the miscellaneous family be ignorant? There have been many offences in the past, please bear with me more......"

Chen Liangsheng was stunned when he heard this, and he remained silent: "Wang Jieyu? ”

"Ang, Wang Jieyu is really capable. I was drafted into the palace in May this year, and now I am already a third-grade Jieyu! The eunuch looked at him puzzled, and also understood, "It's normal that you don't know, Wang Jieyu just had a miscarriage some time ago and is recuperating in the palace." I'm afraid I haven't contacted my mother's family. Now I just recuperate. According to His Majesty's grace to Jieyu, I am afraid that I will be able to conceive another ...... soon."

The blood on Chen Liangsheng's face faded in an instant.

He pursed the corners of his mouth for a long time before he pressed his throat and asked, "This Wang Jieyu...... The palace that was drafted in May this year? ”

"You don't know?" The eunuch saw that his face was strange, "Your Wang family's shop, isn't the main family in Liangzhou?" ”

“…… It is in Liangzhou. ”

"Isn't that it? Born as a businessman, the Wang family of Liangzhou. ”

As soon as the words fell, the cold sweat on Chen Liangsheng's body came out one by one.

Chapter Ninety-Eight

The emperor wanted to release the crown prince, and the courtiers below had to obey his wishes no matter how unwilling they were.

Following the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, the emperor was angry and walked away, and the emperor was not in a very good mood in the morning a few days later. often grasps a little thing, and scolds the people below. The courtiers were miserable, and in the end, a few old fritters who knew how to guess the holy will came up with a way. made a fuss about the death of the late Queen Mother, and the filial piety was greater than the sky, and the prince was released.

The first thing Xiao Chenghuan did when the ban was lifted was naturally to come to the emperor to confess. Xia Jiangnan poked such a big hole, which smeared the face of the imperial court and the emperor who tried his best to protect his position. Without repentance, the emperor's anger cannot be appeased.

This Xiao Chenghuan can't do anything else, and his ability to pretend is in the same vein as Ye Guifei.

The day after he came out, he came to the emperor with a thin face and a haggard look to confess his sins with tears in his eyes. Listed his mistakes word by word, and vowed never to make them again.

The emperor already favored his second son, and he had no anger in his heart for a long time. At this time, listening to him swear like this, the father and son reconciled as before.

However, there is a way that the king has no jokes, and the emperor stripped Xiao Chenghuan of his right to participate in politics and observe politics in anger, and now he naturally can't go back on his word. So no matter how Xiao Chenghuan assured that he had reformed himself, the emperor still did not let go.

Xiao Chenghuan was anxious, but he also knew that he was in a hurry, and the few months of grounding were enough for him to sober up a lot.

Even if he becomes a prince, it does not mean that he can do whatever he wants in the future.

Seeing that the emperor was impatient, Xiao Chenghuan could only keep his mouth shut, not daring to say any more. I'm afraid that talking too much will backfire.

Although the emperor has now lifted his ban, the punishment has not been completely exempted. Xiao Chenghuan found that he was still excluded from the central rights, and he told himself to endure it while feeling very difficult. People are like this, they really taste the benefits of power, and then they can't stand it when they go back to powerlessness. What's more, Xiao Chenghuan is a person with a strong desire for power.

After thinking about it, he didn't dare to go to the emperor by himself, so he pinned his hopes on his mother in the harem to help him.

From childhood to adulthood, Xiao Chenghuan doesn't know how many times he has done wrong things. Every time the concubine had a way to calm the emperor's anger for him. has been so many times that Xiao Chenghuan has now developed a fearless temperament. Do things without regard for the end and have no remorse. Anyway, even if he made a big mistake, his mother Concubine Ye Guifei would always have a way to settle it for him.

He went to Zhongcui Palace every once in a while, but he was more diligent than he had been in the past twenty years.

However, Zhong Cui Palace has not had a good time recently.

Ye Huiqiong naturally has the heart to help her son, but she may not have seen the emperor for a long time. The long-eyed concubine on the top of her head in Changle Palace seemed to have figured it out and was willing for the emperor to touch her. Now the emperor still maintains the frequency of entering the palace four to five days a month, and most of his favor is in Changle Palace. Occasionally, I can share a little bit on the newcomer's head, but I haven't been to Zhongcui Palace again.

The crown prince was anxious about this, but he couldn't force the emperor to go to Zhongcui Palace. In the past, Qin Liansheng could persuade him, but he only recently angered the emperor for the crown prince and was snubbed by the emperor. Naturally, he didn't dare to speak again.