readytorunbook Chapter 615 The Tragic Palace Maid 8
Chapter 615 The Tragic Palace Maid 8
After the concubines left, the queen stood on the steps, looking down at Concubine Zhen who was kneeling below, and said, "My dear, just kneel here for two hours and then go back! You don't need to come in to thank me."
The Queen deliberately tried to disgust Zhenfei. Besides, there was nothing wrong with her words. After all, as the Queen, the punishment for concubines was also a reward. After Zhenfei knelt down, she needed to thank the Queen. Wasn't that normal?
It's just a pity that it's really difficult to disgust Zhenfei. After all, her spiritual methods are not something that ordinary people can understand. So it's naturally a waste of effort for the Queen to disgust Zhenfei.
Seeing the queen walk into the palace, Jiang Chunxi's eyes rolled, and then she cried to Zhen Fei again, "Master, it really can't work if you continue to kneel like this. Can you please allow me to go find the emperor?"
"Chunxi, I have already told you not to go to the emperor. Why didn't you listen to me at all?" Even though she wished Chunxi would go to the emperor as soon as possible, Zhenfei still wanted to continue her hypocrisy.
At the same time, he was very dissatisfied. What happened to Chunxi today? Why was she still talking nonsense instead of running to the emperor without caring about anything?
"Master, I'm sorry I can't listen to you. I really can't bear to see you kneeling any longer. Please wait, I will go find the emperor right away." As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Chunxi ran away.
As soon as Jiang Chunxi left the Queen's palace, someone immediately went to report to the Queen.
"Your Majesty, should we send someone to stop the maidservant of the precious lady?" Yulin, the head maidservant beside the queen, looked at the queen and said:
"No need," the Queen said indifferently, "Even if the maid of Concubine Zhen meets the Emperor, what does it matter? Do you think that the Emperor will be willing to see Concubine Zhen based on the current situation?"
"Your Majesty, why is it that the Emperor's favor for Concubine Zhen is so confusing?" This was the voice of Yu Shu, another of the Empress's senior maids. "You can say that the Emperor favors Concubine Zhen, but he didn't give Concubine Zhen any good things, and he didn't show any special favor to her."
"You can't say that the emperor doesn't love Guigui! For what Guigui did last night, it wouldn't be too much to sentence her to death, but the emperor left Guigui's palace angrily without saying a word of punishment to her."
"I don't understand, it's really hard to understand," Yu Shu shook her head and said in confusion, "So does the emperor love his precious people? Or does he not love them?"
"I don't care whether the emperor's love for Guihuiren is real or not," the queen sneered, "If it is possible, I would like to have more concubines like Guihuiren, so that I can be more comfortable as the queen."
"Oh, right, have someone stop giving the pregnancy-preserving medicine!" The Queen showed a look of disgust. "Whenever I think of the fact that the Emperor was shit all over by someone precious last night, I feel extremely sick. But I don't want to see the Emperor at all, let alone do that kind of thing with him."
"Besides, I think what happened last night has had a profound impact on the emperor. He may not want to enter the harem again in the short term."
The queen has already given birth to her eldest daughter, and the princess is only eight months old.
Logically speaking, the Queen's current condition is not suitable for her to have a child in a hurry, but who can make the Queen so eager to give birth to a legitimate son?
Let me ask you this: among all the concubines in the harem, is the queen the only one who gave birth to a child?
Of course, before the queen gave birth to a legitimate son, she would never allow anyone to give birth to a prince.
So the queen used the secret medicine given by her family, which was a contraceptive, and its traceability was impossible to detect. When the concubines in the harem came to pay their respects to the queen every day, the queen would have someone put the medicine in their tea.
When Jiang Chunxi came to Yongtai Palace to ask for an audience with the emperor, she naturally could not see him. After all, the emperor didn't even want to see Zhenfei now, so how could he be willing to see Zhenfei's maid?
When Jiang Chunxi was told that the emperor refused to see her, she did not stay for long. After all, she came here just for show and had no expectation of seeing the emperor, nor did she really intend to ask the emperor to help Zhenfei out.
So as soon as Jiang Chunxi left Yongtai Palace, she went directly to the Imperial Garden and found a secluded place to rest, planning to go to the Queen's Palace when the time was right.
In ancient times, two hours was equal to four hours. If Jiang Chunxi didn't find an excuse to slip away, would she have to accompany Zhenfei in the Queen's Palace to bask in the sun for four hours? You have to know that it is summer now and the sun is very scorching.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Zhen's maid has left." The emperor's chief eunuch Liu Fu reported with a hunched back.
The emperor looked particularly unhappy: "From now on, if anyone from Concubine Zhen's palace comes to Yongtai Palace, they don't have to come in to report to me. Send them all away. In short, if there is anything about Concubine Zhen, don't bring it to me."
What happened last night had a huge impact on the emperor. Now whenever he thinks of Concubine Zhen, he can't help but feel nauseous.
Now, the emperor feels like vomiting again.
"Your Majesty," Liu Fu looked embarrassed, but he still chose to tell the story of Concubine Zhen, "The Queen Mother demoted Concubine Zhen to a noble lady, but now Concubine Zhen is already a precious lady."
"Also, the Queen punished Guigui when she was paying respects this morning. I heard that Guigui was disrespectful to the Queen, so she slapped him in the face and made him kneel down."
Liu Fu didn't speak up for Zhenfei because he received any benefits from her, but he knew too well how the emperor treated Zhenfei.
Even though the emperor is so disgusted with Zhenfei now, Liu Fu is sure that as long as the emperor forgets what happened last night after a while, he will remember Zhenfei's kindness again.
Although in Liu Fu's eyes, Concubine Zhen had no good qualities, but who made the emperor think that Concubine Zhen was good?
Of course, this is not a good thing. Just look at how the emperor treated Zhenfei. The so-called love for Zhenfei means that he would wrong her and treat her harshly. He was unwilling to give Zhenfei any of the respect that a favorite concubine should have.
For example, every time the emperor and Concubine Zhen were at odds, the Imperial Household Department would deduct Concubine Zhen's share of the palace, and the emperor knew about this.
But what did the emperor do? He just scolded the servants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs a few times, and that was all.
So Liu Fu came to a conclusion, that is, the so-called true love of the emperor is poisonous. As long as you are favored by the emperor in the name of true love, you will be in big trouble!
After all, not everyone has an abnormal brain like Zhenfei. Even though she was treated so harshly by the emperor, she actually thought that it was a manifestation of the emperor's special favor for her. Apart from her, no other concubine in the harem could receive such special favor from the emperor.
When the emperor heard how miserable Zhenfei was, how she was demoted, slapped in the face, and forced to kneel, he couldn't help but show a look of heartache on his face.
But when I thought about what happened last night, the pain I felt for Zhenfei immediately disappeared.