Chapter 43 Heartbroken Aunt Zhu

That night, Emperor Chunjia originally wanted to stay in Ningbi Hall to accompany Concubine Yue, but at worst, he would go back to the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Ji and Empress Dowager Yuan to receive a lesson. However, as he was coaxing Yuan Niang in a gentle manner, Aunt Zhu was in front of her. After dismissing Yun Fenghuang, he went back to the back hall and looked at it. He was shocked: "The palace door is almost locked. Why hasn't your Majesty gone to Yanlan Palace yet?"

"...Mother Neem is feeling a little uncomfortable." The two of us were startled. Emperor Chunjia subconsciously wanted to cover it up for Concubine Yue, "I'm worried."

"Your Majesty, don't worry." Aunt Zhu smiled, but with a murderous look in her eyes, she said softly, "There are so many maidservants, can't they serve the empress well? Besides, if the empress is really uncomfortable, she , then you can’t stay even more, what if you get over the illness?”

Emperor Chunjia smiled apologetically and said, "Aunt Zhu, just tonight, I will go to Yanlan Palace tomorrow morning, okay?"

He was adopted by the Empress Dowager Yuan as soon as he was born. He had no idea of ​​his life experience until he grew up. He thought he was Empress Dowager Yuan's biological child. He regarded the Yuan family in Fuyang as his direct relatives and was no stranger to Aunt Zhu.

Now he was the emperor, and he still made such a cautious request, which made Aunt Zhu feel a little weak.

Of course, this weakness was purely for Emperor Chunjia, but she also hated Concubine Yue a little bit more.

"To put it bluntly, Aunt Zhu has watched you two grow up. If possible, why would Aunt Zhu be willing to cause trouble for you?" Aunt Zhu pondered for a moment, then sighed with a look of sadness, "It's just the Emperor. The Queen Mother usually never interferes in the affairs of the harem, but this time she opened her mouth for Yanlan Palace, and Her Majesty is still procrastinating. What will the Queen Mother think? After all, the imperial concubine is just His Majesty's concubine, but the Hussars The general has defended the imperial capital for these years, and has worked hard even without merit. Your Majesty, please do not let your ministers feel cold!"

Seeing Chunjia's hesitation, he glanced at Concubine Yue with a cold gaze, "Is your Majesty really unwell? If so, it's not safe to just have Your Majesty accompany you. Why don't I go out and ask the imperial doctor to take a look?"

"..." Concubine Yue looked at her for a moment, and finally lowered her head in frustration and pushed Emperor Chunjia, "Let's go!"

Emperor Chunjia hesitated for a moment, and under Aunt Zhu's almost pleading gaze, he finally stood up slowly and walked out. When he went out, he whispered in a low voice: "Aunt Zhu, I want to stay with Niang Niang. It’s none of Niang Niang’s business.”

Aunt Zhu said softly: "My maid understands that I have served the Yuan family for three generations, and those who are born to the Yuan family will be the Yuan family's ghosts when they die. What else does your majesty have to worry about?"

Then as soon as Emperor Chunjia left, her face changed towards Concubine Yue, "You bastard! How many times have I told you?! Stop being so pretentious! Don't openly confront the concubines again... I promised you in person." Yes, it’s as if you didn’t hear anything after that! What do you think we are in now? Is it a time when we are free to act?! I, the Yuan family of Fuyang..."

"It's the Yuan family of Fuyang again!" Concubine Yue interrupted irritably and said loudly, "You only have the wealth and honor of the Yuan family of Fuyang in your hearts. When have you ever considered my ideas?!"

"..." Aunt Zhu suddenly became quiet. The cold look she looked at Concubine Yue made her a little panicked, and she said word by word, "Without Fuyang Yuan Family, who are you!?"

Before Concubine Yue could answer, she rolled her sleeves, turned and left the inner hall.

Just as she closed the palace door behind her back, she heard the sound of breaking porcelain inside. She thought it was Concubine Yue throwing things to vent her anger.

Aunt Zhu sighed, walked forward, found a palace maid, and told her in a low voice that she should go to the kitchen and say: "His Majesty just said that your Majesty has not been feeling well these past two days. I'm afraid she will have to lie down." Some days.”

The palace maid understood what she meant, so she pondered: "But the empress was sick before and didn't like to take medicine. Her majesty always came to coax her and feed her. There have been many things in the past two days. What if your majesty has been here with us all the time?"

"Whether she likes to drink or not." Aunt Zhu said coldly, "Just watch it and don't let His Majesty know about it, right? Anyway, we are still under lockdown and no one can go out. If we don't tell, how will the outside world know? Even if the Queen and the others know about it, Now, are you going to tell His Majesty specifically?"

She was so angry with Concubine Yue that she didn't even want to use the dinner specially reserved by the palace staff after telling her about this, and went to freshen up and get settled.

As a result, not long after she fell asleep, she was woken up by someone - she thought something had happened to Concubine Yue again. Before she got up, a wave of anger emerged first, but the person below whispered: "Yes The people from Xi Xingxuan came and said that the Yungui people had a nightmare."

"She had a nightmare?" Aunt Zhu sneered, "I believe that other concubines would panic because of a nightmare, but this Yungui...is he such a timid person?"

He didn't bother to get up and just waved his hands in the tent, "If she wants someone to comfort her, she can go to Yanlan Palace and invite His Majesty. Just don't use the name of our Huzhu Palace. Anyway, Yun Gui is also famous in the palace now, so there is no need to mention it." Our queen, it’s impossible that the people in Yanlan Palace don’t know her! If you want diagnosis and treatment, you can go get someone after dawn. After all, the palace door is locked now, and it’s not allowed to go in or out according to the rules.”

The maid who came to deliver the message hesitated: "She said she dreamed of Xinqing..."

This is not the point, the point is, "I dreamed that Xinqing came to our Ningbi Palace!"

"..." Aunt Zhu suddenly sat up and said, "You bitch!"

After a while, Aunt Zhu saw the palace maid from Xi Xingxuan who came to report in the side hall. She had fair complexion and delicate eyebrows, and looked very respectful with her low eyebrows.

But Aunt Zhu didn't dare to neglect: "I seem to have seen this girl in Yanfu Palace?"

"My maid was indeed serving in the Yanfu Palace before. On the orders of the Queen, I am now serving the noble Yun of Xixingxuan." Send your maid over to report."

Aunt Zhu chuckled: "The good intentions of the Yungui people are appreciated by everyone in the Ningbi Palace. It's just as the saying goes, what you think about every day is what you dream about at night. Presumably the Yungui people are also worried about Xinqing, so they have such nightmares. But Xinqing Qing has nothing to do with our Ningbi Palace, even if there is some evil soul, why would he come to disturb the empress?"

Xile said quietly: "My maid has written down what my aunt said, and I will go back and report it to you."

Saying it was a blessing, he resigned, but there was no entanglement.

She came unexpectedly and left decisively, all of which didn't cost Aunt Zhu much time... How could it be possible!

After Xile left, Aunt Zhu couldn't sleep at all. She immediately picked up a few of her people and closed the door to speculate on Yun Fenghuang's purpose.

"It's better for your Majesty to be peaceful these past two days." The palace maid who had just been told to go to the kitchen to deliver a message was the first to say, "Otherwise, might that wretched maid just be spreading the news that our Majesty fell ill after being harassed by an innocent spirit?"

Aunt Zhu nodded solemnly: "I'll think of other ways to persuade you."

"Could it be just to torment us?" A chambermaid in green clothes said hesitantly, "This Yungui woman is quite vindictive. Maybe she can't sleep, so she made up a lie so that we can't settle her?"

"It's possible that she has such a temperament..." Aunt Zhu pondered, "But we must be careful! After all, our queen's reputation has been ruined in recent years. This kind of thing, ugh..."

Mentioning Concubine Yue's reputation, Aunt Zhu couldn't help but sigh.

You are already at a disadvantage. Not to mention enduring the humiliation and managing a virtuous name, at least don't be so ruthless!

Because she was betrothed to Emperor Chunjia at a young age, the Yuan family in Fuyang was indeed extra indulgent and doting on Concubine Yue, but she also taught everyone what a lady should be taught, and Queen Mother Yuan also reminded her from time to time, how did this person grow up to be what she is? Like this?

Aunt Zhu really couldn't figure it out.

"It would be great if the flower and bird envoy came back now." The former palace maid said regretfully, "Xiao Yun has been promoted several levels since she entered the palace. If someone with a top cylinder comes in now, she will be sent out just in time."

The flower and bird envoys brought back all the children of good families from poor families. Even though these women were beautiful, they were mostly timid and meek and had no family background to rely on. They were easy to bully and easy to govern. They were most suitable for a head like Concubine Yue who had no brains and liked to take out her anger on those under her.

They discussed back and forth for a whole night, and finally decided... to wait until the next day to see how Yun Fenghuang would make a move before making any plans.

Early the next morning, Yun Fenghuang got up energetically, asked Xile to take care of his makeup, and went to Yanfu Palace to pay his respects as usual.

Today when she walked into the side hall, although a group of concubines still looked at her, no one dared to offend her.

Even Wei Hengyan, who had the highest position, waved to her and asked her to come sit next to him quickly.

"How did you sleep last night?" Wei Hengyan put thick powder on her face, but she could barely hide her haggard look. She whispered, "I had a nightmare last night... It was really scary. Dead! I made a special trip this morning and exited Yijia Palace through another door."

The palace gate she used to enter and exit happened to be not far from Xinqing's corpse room.

"Don't mention it!" Yun Fenghuang looked at her for a while, feeling that he couldn't act like Wei Hengyan if he was full of energy, so he could only sigh with regret, "I woke up with a fright when I fell asleep. I dreamed of Xinqing. Entered Huzhu Palace..."

Wei Hengyan immediately shrank back, as if he was worried that Xinqing would not infect Yun Fenghuang at this moment so that he wouldn't be infected.

"Then he went straight to the Ningbi Palace!" Yun Fenghuang didn't care and continued, "I woke up with a fright. I tossed and turned for a long time and finally couldn't feel relieved. I asked Xile to go to the Ningbi Palace to report the news, but the aunt over there She doesn't seem to care much, and I don't know how Concubine Yue is doing right now? She has to come over to say hello in the morning and I don't have time to ask any more questions. I thought I would go and say hello myself when I get back."

"I hope that Concubine Yue is safe and sound." Wei Hengyan agreed, picked up the tea bowl and drank tea, and said thankfully, "Fortunately, we don't have high status, so we stayed behind when saying goodbye... Otherwise, I would be really afraid of the Queen. The empress or the queen mother saw this and felt that we were discourteous."

Yun Fenghuang said: "How could it be possible? Both ladies are extremely kind and generous. If they knew what happened, they would only feel sorry for us. How could they blame us?"

Wei Hengyan choked and had to agree: "You are right."

Then she sat back upright, looking at her nose and heart, not wanting to talk to Yun Fenghuang anymore.

Yun Fenghuang was so happy that he closed his eyes and thought about what he wanted to tell the queen today.

Time gradually passed, and the side hall became more and more lively. Soon someone from the palace came to inform that it was almost dawn, and it was time for the palace concubines to go to the main hall to wait.

Going to the main hall and waiting means that the concubines have almost arrived, but the queen has not come out yet but will come out soon.

When Yun Fenghuang entered, he saw Concubine Shu already sitting on her seat and talking to Concubine Xin, who was sitting next to her. He couldn't hear the conversation because of the distance.

It's just that Concubine Xin looked cold and seemed to be still angry that Chengyue Palace found Xinqing's hairpin. I don't know if Concubine Shu was comforting her. Yun Qingman, who was standing behind Concubine Shu, noticed Yun Fenghuang's gaze, spoke to Concubine Shu's maid, then walked over and asked quietly: "Feng Huang, is there something wrong?"

Yun Fenghuang nodded towards her and quietly pursed his lips towards Concubine Xin: "What is Concubine Shu saying to her?"

Yun Qingman whispered: "After talking about the family members entering the palace in the past two days... I made an agreement with my sister yesterday that my mother will bring my aunt with her when she comes with my sister-in-law."

"..." Yun Fenghuang had forgotten that high-ranking concubines could invite their mothers-in-law to the palace every two months, and he never expected that Yun Qingman would help get Mrs. Yi Guogong to take Xie with her.

She was silent for a moment before saying thank you.

Yun Qingman was embarrassed: "It was my family that got you involved...otherwise you are still outside the palace and can see your aunt whenever you want."

Yun Fenghuang smiled and did not answer the words, and only said: "The Queen is about to come out, please go back quickly."