mtlumby2d Chapter 535 The Queen Goes to Qiankun Palace
Chapter 535 The Queen Goes to Qiankun Palace
Hongye's words brought the queen back to her senses. Only then did she realize that she was too excited. She also thought that the news that her son had a princess and a child must not be revealed to anyone, not even to the emperor.
So the queen waved her hand and said to Hongye, "Forget it, I won't go."
"Oh, wait a minute, let's go."
As she spoke, the queen, supported by Hongye, walked out of the palace and got on the sedan chair.
Sitting in the queen's exclusive sedan chair, the queen once again became the queen who combined dignity, gentleness and elegance.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the sedan chair stopped. As soon as the queen got out of the sedan chair, the eunuch guarding the door of Qiankun Hall came forward to pay her respects.
"Your servant pays respect to the Queen. May the Queen live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."
"Stand up, I want to see the emperor."
"Your Majesty, I will report this to you right away. Please wait a moment."
Soon the eunuch who had gone to report came out, but instead of immediately inviting the queen in, he said with an embarrassed look on his face, "Queen, the emperor said he won't see you."
"Okay, tell the emperor that I have something important to tell him today. Don't regret it if you don't want to hear it."
The eunuch on duty thought that the Queen was speaking in anger and wanted to go into the palace to report to the Emperor.
After the queen left, Concubine Rou, who was staying in Qiankun Palace, came out.
"What did the Queen say before she left?"
"Reporting to Concubine Rou, she said that she has something important to tell the emperor, so that he will not regret it."
"Understood, back off."
"Yes."
After the young eunuch left, Concubine Rou, supported by her personal maid, walked into the Qiankun Hall again.
Arriving at the inner hall of Qiankun Palace, Concubine Rou instantly became as gentle as water, and said to Emperor Wu Wen in a tender voice: "Your Majesty, why did you get up? You are weak now, you should lie in bed and rest more."
"Why are you lying down? Licking you every day, lying down every night. If you keep lying down, my bones will fall apart." Emperor Wu Wen said impatiently.
"Oh, my emperor, if I tell you to rest more, it's the imperial physician who said so. If you don't believe me, you should at least believe the imperial physician."
"I think the doctors in the Imperial Hospital are all good-for-nothings. After such a long time, they still haven't helped me recover. What's the point of keeping them?"
Emperor Wu Wen said this, but Concubine Rou did not continue the conversation and instead changed the subject.
"Your Majesty, I just went out to pick up the Queen, but she's gone."
"What did you say? The queen is gone. Did she leave any words?"
"Stayed."
"What did the Queen say?"
"I just said one thing, just don't let the emperor regret it."
"Humph! I regret it. What do I regret? Didn't I not go to Kunning Palace? The Queen didn't let me in. Can this be blamed on me?"
Concubine Rou, who was sitting beside the bed, felt mixed emotions when she heard what the emperor said.
She served the emperor every day without taking off her clothes, but what did she get in the end? She never received a good word from the emperor. That was fine, as a royal concubine, serving the emperor was her job.
But why, why can the Queen win the Emperor's true heart without doing anything?
Even though the Queen gave the Emperor the cold shoulder and refused to let him enter Kunning Palace, the Emperor did not do anything to the Queen. He just got too angry sometimes and said a few words, but the Queen continued to do what she wanted and lived her life as usual.
How could she be content with this? How could she not have any thoughts in her mind?
That would be fine, the eldest prince she gave birth to is also the emperor's son. Why is it that her son has not received any love from the emperor since he was a child, and has always been treated with the cold shoulder? In her memory, the emperor has never hugged the eldest prince once.
Why? Is it because the eldest prince was born to her? If so, what about the second prince? The second prince Xie Ruihong was born to Concubine Sheng, and he received the same treatment as her son, the eldest prince.
Among the four princes, only the third prince was truly favored by the emperor.
Although the emperor had sent the third prince to the northern border and entered the military camp early, they all knew that the emperor did so in order to protect the third prince, so that the third prince could take control of the military power as soon as possible, gain military merit, and lay a good foundation for making the third prince the crown prince in the future.
The emperor's good intentions made her very jealous, and she was almost going crazy with jealousy.
She knew very well that neither she nor Concubine Sheng could interfere in the relationship between the emperor and the empress, and even if both of them gave birth to princes for the emperor, nothing would change.
On the contrary, the emperor would think that the princes born to the two of them blocked the path of the third prince and became a stumbling block for the third prince to become the crown prince smoothly.
Although the Emperor did not suppress the eldest and second princes openly, it is true that he did not take them seriously. The reason why the second son, the eldest and second princes had the power they have today was all thanks to himself and his mother's family.
Anyway, she knew in her heart that once you enter the palace, it would be like entering a deep sea. Even if she was unwilling, for the sake of her future life and family, she had to find ways to help her son get to that position.
Since the emperor doesn't care about them and has never considered making the eldest prince the crown prince, why does she still worry so much?
Thinking of the medicine her father had secretly sent into the palace some time ago, she asked her to put it in the emperor's food.
It is easier said than done. The emperor's three meals a day are all prepared by the imperial kitchen, and all the food is of the best quality. Someone will test for poison before the emperor eats, so it is impossible to put drugs in the food.
But she knew that the matter could not be delayed any longer, because her son, the Second Prince, came to the palace and told her that all the assassins she had sent out had died and none of them had returned.
She knew what this meant, and all the problems had been solved by the third brother.
The killer did not kill the third brother, and his disaster relief work in Qingshan Prefecture was going very smoothly. It wouldn't be long before all the refugees would be properly resettled.
That would have been fine, but I don’t know what the third brother has done so madly that he actually started building water conservancy projects throughout the city.
It’s not that no one has ever proposed building water conservancy projects in the past, but they would require hundreds of thousands of people, and the manpower and material resources consumed should not be underestimated, even if the emperor made the decision casually.
But the third prince actually did it, and he did it so successfully. He did not ask the court to allocate a penny or a pound of grain, but let the refugees spontaneously build reservoirs and dig rivers.
This move of the Third Prince not only won the hearts of the local people in Qingshan Prefecture, but even the refugees also highly respected the Third Prince. When people in other prefectures heard about the construction of the water conservancy project, they also praised the Third Prince.
Needless to say, this situation is very unfavorable to them.
You should know that the reason why the third prince stayed in Qingshan Prefecture to provide disaster relief was because the emperor issued such an imperial decree. As long as the third prince successfully completed the disaster relief mission, he would be promoted to the crown prince when he returned to the capital.
How could they tolerate this? They were still making preparations and thinking about fighting with the Third Prince.
But the Third Prince holds the imperial edict in his hand. They know very well that as long as the Third Prince returns from Qingshan Prefecture, the position of Crown Prince will belong to the Third Prince. By then, the fate of her, the First Prince and the Jiang family can be imagined.
No, she would never allow this to happen. The position of crown prince must belong to the eldest prince.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling she was and how much feelings she had for the emperor, she had to take action against him.