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Chapter 29 Yixiu 13
Shen Meizhuang finally heard it clearly this time. Her head was buzzing and she felt like her whole body was about to break.
"Sister Mei, Sister Mei,"
Zhen Huan was so distressed that she quickly hugged Shen Meiyu in her arms to comfort her. She felt sorry for provoking Concubine Hua too much, which made her want revenge. She deliberately chose this time to expose Cai Xing's death and hurt her sister Meiyu's heart.
And there is Concubine Xi. Although it was she who saved Sister Mei tonight, Zhen Huan had a hunch that Concubine Xi had bad intentions!
It’s possible that Sister Mei’s accident today was a conspiracy between Concubine Xi and Concubine Hua!
The frail Shen Meizhuang could not bear the death of Caixing, the maid who grew up with her.
Fortunately, the imperial physician had foreseen this and had someone prepare a calming soup in advance. Zhen Huan carefully coaxed Shen Meiyu into drinking it. After the frightened and heartbroken Shen Meiyu fell asleep again, Zhen Huan was able to free up her hands to fight with Concubine Hua.
While the two of them were exchanging sharp words, Yixiu sat quietly on the Diaoyutai, watching the show calmly.
Concubine Hua kept holding on to the fact that Caiyue had caused her master to fall into the water due to improper service, and Zhen Huan took advantage of the fact that the patrol guards near Yikun Palace did not rescue her in time. Because of Fat Ju's favoritism, Concubine Hua's Yikun Palace was eventually replaced with a new group of patrol guards, and Caiyue was fined half a year's salary as a minor punishment and a major warning.
It seemed that Concubine Hua was one step behind, but after the incident, the emperor was abducted by Concubine Hua to her Yiku Palace, and Concubine Xi was also rewarded by Concubine Yixiu and the emperor.
The most important thing is that the bowl of calming soup that Zhen Huan personally fed to Shen Meizhuang was enough to make Shen Meizhuang infertile for many years!
Rong Zheng had gone to great lengths to set up the scheme, not to help Concubine Hua win temporary favor tonight, nor to gain a few words of praise or rewards from Yixiu and the Emperor.
What she wanted was that Shen Meizhuang would not be disabled, and that after Zhen Huan was defeated in the future, she would find out that she had contributed to her good sister's infertility!
Not only do we cut off his arms, we also want to destroy his heart!
Even Yixiu, who considered herself a vicious woman, had to praise her vicious mind!
Looking at Zhen Huan who stayed behind to take care of Shen Meizhuang, Yixiu finally left a sentence: "Noble Lady Xi saved Noble Lady Shen's life, but unfortunately Noble Lady Shen is frightened and it may be difficult for her to take care of her for the time being. Noble Lady Wan, you and Noble Lady Shen are like sisters. You should thank Noble Lady Xi."
She believed that Zhen Huan would understand.
Fat Ju knew the reason why Shen Meiyu fell into the water. Although he knew that Concubine Hua was so domineering, he couldn't punish her now because of Nian Gengyao's face.
Besides, Concubine Hua just wanted to give Zhen Huan a warning and didn't want anything to really happen to Shen Meiyu, right?
As for the dead Caixing, she was just a servant, and Pangju couldn't see her at all.
In order to quell the resentment and jealousy of the beauties in the six palaces towards Zhen Huan, after Shen Meiyu fell into the water, Pang Ju first favored Concubine Hua for two days to calm her down and prevent her from being jealous again and causing trouble. Then he went to see Rong Zheng who had saved people, and then favored Sun Miaoqing who had not yet slept with him for two days.
Finally, he went to see Shen Meizhuang, who was already in much better health.
Although Shen Meizhuang was not as beautiful as Zhen Huan, she had a unique talent. Pang Ju admired her talent and, knowing that she loved chrysanthemums, he personally brought the plaque of Cunju Hall to replace her original palace plaque.
After Shen Meizhuang became favored, Zhen Huan felt a little bitter, but the two sisters understood each other, and soon they gathered together to talk about their inner conflicts and serve the emperor together.
During this period, Xia Dongchun and An Lingrong were favored one after another, but neither of them could shake the glory of Shen Zhen and the other.
Concubine Hua became increasingly dissatisfied and repeatedly picked on Shen Meiyu and Zhen Huan. However, she was not smart enough and seven or eight out of ten times the problems were cleverly resolved by Zhen Huan.
With Yixiu's suppression, the two sides never dared to fight too hard, and soon reached a stalemate after fighting back and forth.
Unable to determine the winner in the competition for favor, Rong Zheng can only find another way - getting pregnant and having a baby!
Therefore, Yiku Palace, Rong Zheng and Shen Meizhuang quickly prepared the medicine for pregnancy.
Although Zhen Huan was able to be patient and did not drink the pregnancy-maintaining medicine, she was influenced by Shen Meiyu and asked the imperial physician to prescribe some tonic medicine, thinking that whether she wanted to get pregnant or not, it was always good to have a healthy body.
But the pregnancy medicine had not yet taken effect, but the good news came from the second prince Hongyu in the South Third Office: his concubine Borjigit Yaruo was pregnant.
Yixiu was in a good mood, and she announced the good news when the concubines came to pay their respects, and encouraged everyone present to work harder and have more children for the royal family as soon as possible.
After paying their respects, Zhen Huan, Shen Meizhuang and An Lingrong gathered together, feeling emotional.
After all, the Second Prince's concubine and they were in the same batch of beauties during the selection. But now, the other party was already a concubine listed in the imperial genealogy, and she got pregnant before the main wife did.
Zhen Huan thought about how much Prince Yong valued the Second Prince, and how the Queen loved the Second Prince's mother and concubines. If Prince Yong could successfully ascend the throne, it seemed that Concubine Yaruo would inevitably become a Prince's Concubine in the future.
However, Zhen Huan unconsciously caressed her belly. "The Emperor lived a long life, reigning for 61 years. Wasn't his legitimate son, Prince Limi, Yinreng, also favored by the Emperor for many years? Yet, it was Silang who ultimately ascended the throne."
Shi Lang is now in the prime of his life...'
"Huan'er?"
"Ah, Sister Mei," Zhen Huan woke up with a start and said calmly, "What were you talking about just now?"
Ambition suddenly arose and then disappeared in an instant, so quickly that Zhen Huan herself was not sure what she had just thought. However, An Lingrong was keenly aware of her emotional fluctuations, recalling Zhen Huan's unnatural expression just now, and thinking carefully.
Concubine Yaruo's pregnancy not only gave Zhen Huan a momentary ambition, but also made Cao Qinmo, who had been exhausted by Concubine Hua in recent times, come up with a vicious plan.
Like Rong Zheng, she was still targeting Shen Meizhuang.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Shen is so eager to have a child. Your Majesty is kind-hearted. Why don't you grant her wish and be the fertility queen for once?"
Concubine Hua was very quick, and Rong Zheng was even more daring. With her joining in, she allowed Shen Meiyu to diagnose her pregnancy in front of all the royal family members at the New Year's Eve palace banquet.
Fat Ju was overjoyed and bestowed the title of Hui on the spot. He also hinted that Shen Meizhuang would be given a concubine after the baby was born. Concubine Hua was jealous, and Zhen Huan was proud of it.
Unfortunately, Shen Meizhuang's joy was in vain. Just after the Lantern Festival in the third year of Yongzheng's reign, the winter snow had not yet melted. The news of Shen Meizhuang's fake pregnancy shocked the harem.
Fat Orange was embarrassed in front of his relatives, and his anger can be imagined.
If it weren't for Zhen Huan's pleading, Shen Meizhuang would have been directly sent to the cold palace.
But even with Chun Yuan's substitute to save her, Shen Meizhuang was still disliked by the emperor. Not only was her title stripped away, she was also demoted to a court lady and confined to Cunju Hall.
Hua Fei and the others were so happy that they were almost out of their minds, especially Nian Shilan, who was so proud of herself that she seemed afraid that others would not realize that she was the one who harmed Shen Meiyu.
She is the one who is said to be overjoyed. In this life, thanks to Yixiu and Honghui, mother and son, who took precautions in advance, there was no epidemic in the capital this spring. Nian Shilan naturally could not achieve any success with her plague prescription.
After Zhen Huan caught the imperial physician Liu Bin and the medical officer Jiang Qi (another imperial medical officer secretly bribed by Hua Fei) who were working for Concubine Hua in March, Nian Shilan was severely beaten, stripped of her title, demoted to Concubine Nian, and given the power to assist in the six western palaces. She was punished to copy the palace rules a hundred times and was confined to the Yiku Palace for reflection.
The renovation of the Western Six Palaces was entrusted to Concubine Xian Song Yinsu and Concubine Qi Li Jingyan for assistance.
When the Nian family learned about it, Nian Gengyao, who was far away at the border, became anxious and angry. He traveled thousands of miles, even killing six fast horses, and wrote a letter to the emperor to plead for his sister.
Fat Ju ignored all of them and was even unwilling to take Concubine Nian with him for summer vacation. Instead, he was busy preparing a birthday party for his beloved figurine - Zhen Huan, who was promoted to concubine because she exposed Nian Shilan's frame-up of Shen Meiyu's fake pregnancy.
Nian Shilan was so angry that she gnashed her teeth and forced Cao Qinmo and Niu Hulu Rong Zheng to find a way to make the emperor calm down and take her to the Old Summer Palace to escape the summer heat and regain his favor. However, Rong Zheng was not sincere in her loyalty to Concubine Hua, so she just kept refusing and perfunctorily didn't want to cause trouble for the emperor.
Even though Wen Yi could control Cao Qinmo, Nian Shilan had fallen out of favor and Cao Qinmo was unable to handle the situation alone. Zhen Huan and Rong Zheng were lining up to pressure her, making her dare not take action, not to mention that Cao Qinmo herself had her own little thoughts.
Seeing that everyone was about to set off, the emperor still refused to give in. In anger, Nian Shilan asked Songzhi to take Wen Yi to Yiku Palace. Not long after Wen Yi was taken away, Cao Qinmo heard that Yiku Palace had invited Doctor Jiang.
Cao Qinmo panicked and ignored Zhen Huan and Rong Zheng's nagging. She hurried to Yiku Palace to pay her respects to Nian Shilan.
Fortunately, at the gate of Yiku Palace, she met Jia Shengchen, the imperial physician who was the confidant of Jianqiu and Yixiu.
An incense stick later, Cao Qinmo fearfully carried Wen Yi and followed Jianqiu to Kunning Palace. Inside Kunning Palace were Pang Ju and Yixiu, who were worried after hearing that Yikun Palace had sent an imperial physician for Princess Wen Yi.
"I pay my respects to the Emperor and the Empress."
"Wen Yi pays respects to the Emperor and Empress~"
"Hurry up and get up! Yikun Palace has called in the imperial physician, but what's wrong with Wen Yi?"
Cao Qinmo understood Yixiu's intention, but she was afraid that Nian Shilan would come back to trouble her, so she didn't dare to speak immediately. Jianqiu stepped forward and replied:
"Your Highness, the princess is fine. When I left, the imperial physician was treating Concubine Nian. He said she had been worried and unable to sleep recently. Perhaps I misspoke and saw the princess in the Yikun Palace, so I thought Concubine Nian was the imperial physician she had hired."
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Yes." Cao Qinmo lowered her head and acknowledged Jianqiu's words.
Yixiu looked at the emperor again. The emperor curled his lips, realizing what Hua Fei was up to. He was unhappy that she was using Wen Yi to threaten Cao Qinmo to do things for her, so he said a little stiffly, "Nian Fei is not in good health. As her biological mother, you should work harder. Don't let Wen Yi disturb her rest."
"Yes, yes. Wen Yi and I will obey the emperor." Cao Qinmo nodded hesitantly, not daring to say a word more.
Three days later, everyone set off for the Old Summer Palace. After they left, Nian Shilan smashed everything in the bedroom. The empress dowager, who was recuperating in the harem, ignored it.
April 17th was Zhen Huan's birthday. Prince Guo, who had received the emperor's instructions early on, prepared a pond full of blooming lotus flowers and kites flying in the sky for Zhen Huan on this day, making everyone envious.
Rong Zheng was upset, and after returning, she began to plan to make Nian Shilan regain the emperor's favor.
With her and Cao Qinmo's cooperation, the two successfully persuaded Pangju to bring Concubine Hua to the Old Summer Palace for a reunion before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Concubine Hua came here in high spirits, but she didn't know that her departure would bring ruin to the entire Nian family!
【To be continued...】