The Return of An Lingrong in Legend of Zhen Huan

When Concubine Qi revealed that Zhen Huan was having an affair with Prince Guo, Zhen Huan's face turned pale and she subconsciously looked at Cui Jinxi. Her eyes seemed to indicate that Cui Jinxi must have betrayed her.

Ye Lan Yi, on the other hand, subconsciously looked at Zhen Huan.

"Bold!" The emperor slapped Concubine Qi again, and this time the left and right sides of her face were symmetrical.

"what!"

"Qi Concubine is really interesting. Just now she said that the person she had an affair with Concubine Xi was Wen Shichu, but now it has become Prince Guo."

When Concubine Yun saw that her good sister looked strange, she began to mock Concubine Qi, and at the same time reminded Ye Lan'yi to pay attention to her expression.

Ye Lanyi also came back to her senses: "That's right, now it's Wen Shichu and then Prince Guo, didn't you investigate it clearly before reporting Concubine Xi? Prince Guo is a member of the royal family, how dare you slander him?"

Concubine Qi's cheeks were red and swollen, and her eyes were firm as she said, "I have evidence to prove that Concubine Xi and Prince Guo had an affair with the intention of confusing the royal bloodline. The twins are both born to Zhen Huan and Prince Guo."

The emperor looked at Concubine Qi as if he was looking at a dead person: "You know what you are talking about."

"If the emperor does not believe it, you can summon the nun from Ganlu Temple to question her. The person is already in the palace." When Concubine Qi said this, her voice trembled a little, but when she thought of the solid evidence, her eyes became more determined.

Although the Queen didn't know what Concubine Qi wanted to do, she could only take one step at a time in the current situation: "Whether to pass it on or not, please let the Emperor decide."

"Call!" After saying that, the emperor walked to his seat and sat down, while Jianqiu quickly moved a bench aside for the queen.

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At Yongshou Palace, after Yu Rao made sure that the small kitchen had prepared snacks and tea, she walked towards the palace gate, with Liu Zhu by her side.

"Miss San, go slower. Be careful not to fall."

"Sister Liuzhu, hurry up. I haven't seen my mother for several months. I miss her so much."

As a result, when he turned the corner, he ran into Prince Shen who was coming to the palace to pay his respects to the Queen Mother.

"What's the matter, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Your Highness, please forgive me. I am being rude. My mother will be entering the palace soon. I will go to the palace gate to meet her now."

"Then go quickly, girl." Beile Shen looked at Yu Rao's receding figure and thought that after paying his respects to the Empress Dowager, he would go and see his mother.

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Meanwhile, Jingbai, who had been summoned, also entered Jingren Palace: "I am Jingbai from Ganlu Temple, and I am honored to meet the Emperor and the Empress." She finally saw Zhen Huan and bowed to her: "How is Concubine Xi? It's been a long time since we last met. Does Concubine Xi still remember me?"

In this life, Zhen Huan returned to the palace from the Old Summer Palace, and did not start from Ganlu Temple like in her previous life, so Jingbai is still the abbot of Ganlu Temple in this life.

"Master Jingbai, long time no see." Zhen Huan looked at the person in front of her coldly.

"Master Jingbai, if you have anything to say, please reply as soon as possible, so as not to delay your meditation."

"Yes."

"When Empress Xi first came to Ganlu Temple, she ignored everyone, so we had to keep our distance. At that time, there was often a eunuch and an imperial physician from the palace who came to visit the Empress.

"After a while, Concubine Xi was busy in the main hall when she was suddenly called away by a strange man. She came back an entire hour later with a scroll and a bundle in her hands."

Jing Bai continued, "In the following days, Concubine Xi locked herself in her room. I don't know what she was doing. One day, I accidentally saw Concubine Xi making some clothes for a child. It seemed that the child was about one year old. The materials were all the finest Yang satin and sea dragon skin (the fur of sea sloths)."

Hearing what Jingbai said, the emperor's face changed instantly. He knew that Zhen Huan had made clothes for Longyue, but what he also knew was that it was An Lingrong who helped her at that time. However, An Lingrong was a concubine at that time and was not qualified to use Yang satin or sea dragon skin.

In the past, the Empress Dowager could use sea dragon skin, but the Empress Dowager did not send anyone to visit Zhen Huan. The only time was when Zhen Huan had just left the palace. At that time, the tribute of sea dragon skin was more than usual, so the Empress Dowager rewarded it to Prince Guo.

But at Princess Longyue's first birthday party, the clothes that Prince Guo gave to Princess Longyue were all made of Yang satin and sea dragon skin. At that time, she even laughed at him and said that Prince Guo gave all the sea dragon skin that the Empress Dowager gave to his niece.

Now it seems...

Jing Bai continued, "And since then, the Empress has had more valuable items around her, like bird's nests. Since only the abbot and I in the temple could get one tael, Empress Xi had so many all of a sudden, a full ten taels. I was curious, so I just asked a question, but was scolded back by the Empress."

At this time, the emperor's face looked very unhappy. The bird's nest in the palace has always been supplied only to the empress, the queen mother, the imperial concubine and above. Most of the bird's nest that An Lingrong ate on a daily basis came from Shilan and the reward given to her by himself, but he would only give her five taels at most.

According to Jing Bai, Zhen Huan could get 10 taels of bird's nest at once, and she would get them after eating them, so it was obviously not given by An Lingrong. Besides herself and the Empress Dowager, the only one who could get so much bird's nest and give it to others was the prince.

Jingbai saw that the emperor's face was getting worse and worse, so she closed her mouth and dared not say anything.

"go on!"

The emperor's voice was clearly angry, so Jingbai had no choice but to continue: "Since then, the queen often went to the river to wash clothes, and she didn't let anyone accompany her. She would be gone for a long time. Every time, in addition to the clothes she took away, she could actually bring back a lot of things. Sometimes, the servants around the strange man would often go to the temple to give the queen things."

"Later, to avoid rumors in the temple, the queen moved out of Ganlu Temple on the pretext of illness, and lived alone with her maid at Lingyun Peak. I have no idea what happened to her after that."

Seeing the emperor's face turn so dark, Concubine Qi was secretly delighted: "Your Majesty, Prince Guo often sends gifts to Concubine Xi. I think that Eunuch Meng and Doctor Wen who are beside Concubine Rou may have seen it sometimes. I just don't know why they didn't say anything."

When An Lingrong heard this, she glared at him with a murderous aura, and the aura made Concubine Qi tremble in her heart.

"Your people, do you know?"

Hearing the emperor's question, An Lingrong smiled and said, "It happened a few times, but at that time he and Doctor Wen were both helping my sister fetch water, so we didn't pay much attention."

An Lingrong knew that if the emperor really wanted to investigate, he would definitely find out that Xiao Mengzi had indeed met Prince Guo, so she could not deny it and could only try her best to clear Xiao Mengzi.

"Your Majesty, you can also call Wen Shichu in to ask him. Just because Concubine Rou's people can't see it doesn't mean that others can't see it."

"It just so happened that Wen Shichu returned to Beijing a few days ago. Pass it on." This time, the emperor agreed immediately after hearing what Concubine Qi said.

An Lingrong looked at Concubine Qi with a bad expression. If she dared to touch anyone around her, she would make sure that Concubine Qi died miserably.