Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

Sure enough, a few days later, a maidservant beside the queen hanged herself in her room.

On the cloth used to hang the beam, there was a blood letter written, accusing the Queen of having murdered Jing Zhaoyi and many other concubines and royal bloodlines. It even mentioned the Seventh Princess's mother, Concubine Chen.

The queen was therefore confined to her home, and the emperor ordered a thorough investigation of her, which was even more intense than before.

Ling Qiqi felt that things were becoming more and more interesting.

The informant turned out to be someone in the palace of the person being reported.

If he was a confidant, he wouldn't betray easily. If he wasn't a confidant, he wouldn't know these secrets easily, and he knows so many.

Besides, if you really want to report someone, why would you commit suicide? Even if you want to report someone by suicide, do you have to choose the territory of the person being reported? Are you afraid that the person being reported won't know about it in the first place? Don't you know what it means to destroy the body and cover up all traces?

What's more, the person being reported is the queen, who has the most power in the harem. It would be easier for her to cover up something than for anyone else.

So Ling Qiqi thinks there will be a twist in this matter.

Sure enough, a few days later, the truth came to light again.

The culprit was not the queen, but the arrogant and domineering Concubine Shu.

Shu Fei's grandfather had the merit of following the emperor, and was named General of the State by the previous emperor. The title was hereditary to his descendants. After Shu Fei's grandfather passed away, her father and brother took over the power of 400,000 troops and stationed them at the western border all year round.

Shu Fei wanted to give birth to a prince to consolidate her family's position in the court. However, she had been in the palace for many years and had not been able to give birth to a child. Seeing that Jing Zhaoyi was pregnant, she was so angry that she ordered someone to poison her secretly. After repeated thorough investigations in the harem, Shu Fei was worried that she could not hide the truth, so she bribed a maid in the queen's palace and threatened her family's life. She put all the blame on the queen for Jing Zhaoyi's miscarriage and the accidents of the concubines and the heirs before, intending to replace her and kill two birds with one stone. The reason why she had to commit suicide was actually to silence her.

Now that the truth had been revealed, Shu Fei was stripped of her title and sentenced to death, her entire family was investigated and executed, and her military power was taken back by the emperor.

The queen was cleared of all charges and released from house arrest, but as the master of the harem she was still responsible for negligence and mismanagement, and was ordered by the emperor to reflect on herself.

The matter finally came to an end, everyone in the palace became more law-abiding, and the harem gradually returned to its former tranquility.

But Ling Qiqi thought that the matter was not handled perfectly. Although the disaster was caused by man and the crime was man-made, how could we know that man-made disasters were not God's will? Therefore, the rumors that the royal family was punished by God were not completely eliminated, but no one dared to discuss it anymore.

And was it really done by Concubine Shu?

Ling Qiqi doesn't think so.

Even if Shu Fei really wanted to harm Jing Zhaoyi, Jing Zhaoyi was well protected by the Queen at the time, so how could an outsider easily poison her?

Although poison was indeed found in Shu Fei's place later, it was considered as catching the person red-handed. But I heard that the poison found was chronic. Although chronic is not easy to be detected, it is not easy to be fatal. In other words, in order to exert the effect of the drug, it must reach a certain amount, either a small amount multiple times, or a large amount at a time. Both of these operations are too risky.

Besides, Shu Fei was really stubborn. Since she was worried that the truth would be revealed and she had already thought of putting the blame on others, she still insisted on keeping the evidence with her.

If this is true, then Shu Fei is either stupid or wronged. The latter is more likely. She has always been favored and has the support of her family. She has been spoiled in the palace and inevitably aroused jealousy.

Ling Qiqi couldn't be sure who was behind all these operations. But judging from the results:

Although the emperor lost a prince, he regained the power of 400,000 troops.

Although the Queen lost her favor temporarily, she eliminated the threats posed by Shu Fei and Jing Zhaoyi.

But there was one thing she couldn't understand: why her mother was involved in this matter.

Was her mother murdered during her lifetime or was she exploited after her death?

Ling Qiqi also heard that she was not born full-term, so she wondered if she was also plotted against at that time.

Ling Qiqi suddenly felt that she was lucky to be alive until now. If she was not a princess but a prince, she would not even know how she was killed. For the first time since she traveled through time, she was glad that she was a girl.

After being ordered to reflect on herself, the queen may have been overthinking and fell ill. So she asked the emperor to allow Concubine De and Jiang Shuyi to assist in the management of the harem, while she herself rested in the palace.

The first thing Defei and Jiang Shuyi did after taking over the harem was to re-check the palace servants. Those who should be released from the palace were released, and those who should be transferred to other jobs were transferred to other jobs. The palace was bustling with activity again.

Fortunately, no matter how lively the harem is, it will not affect Deoksugung Palace, and no one dares to interfere with the personnel changes in Deoksugung Palace.

Deokshou Palace is filled with elderly people who have served the Empress Dowager for many years and know her inside out.

The person who takes care of Ling Qiqi has never changed, it is still the maid who led the way and the woman who held her.

After such a long time, Ling Qiqi had some idea about their background.

The maid who led the way was called Yu'er. She entered the palace as a maid at the age of ten. The Empress Dowager saw that she was young and pretty, so she stayed in Deokshou Palace. Now she is nineteen years old, and in a few years she will be old enough to leave the palace. After Yu'er was assigned to take care of Ling Qiqi, she took great care of her.

When Ling Qiqi was still in her infancy, Yu'er would occasionally talk to herself when they were alone. From her fragmentary words, Ling Qiqi knew that her mother must have done her a favor, but Yu'er never mentioned what it was. As Ling Qiqi grew up, Yu'er no longer had any words about her mother.

However, on the day her mother passed away, Ling Qiqi saw Yu'er secretly wiping away tears.

The woman who held her before was her wet nurse Liu, who was selected into the palace before her mother gave birth. There were two other wet nurses who were selected with her, but when they heard that they were to serve the concubines in the cold palace, they all ran away. Only Liu was willing to stay.

Liu was already the mother of three children. She cruelly abandoned her youngest son at home when he was just one year old. They were separated by the palace walls and could not see each other.

After all, Liu was older than Yu'er, she was calm and steady, and she was tight-lipped, so Ling Qiqi knew very little about her affairs.

Maybe she transferred all her longing and guilt for her young son onto Ling Qiqi, and Liu's care for her could be said to be meticulous, like her own mother.

Although she still knew a lot about the two of them, Ling Qiqi felt that at least for now they could still be trusted.

After experiencing these things, everyone's attention was indeed diverted away from Ling Qiqi.

The emperor and the empress were now too busy to care about the seventh princess, and they just told their subordinates to serve her well. Defei and Jiang Shuyi were worried about the harem all day long, and the other concubines were busy vying for favors and forming cliques. Everyone should have figured it out, what's the point of pleasing a princess? If you have that time, you might as well please the emperor, the princess's father, and pass on the emperor's family line.

Deoksugung Palace also returned to its former tranquility.

As the youngest person in the palace, Ling Qiqi has a more thorough understanding of the intrigues in the harem. Therefore, she is more determined to follow her low-key and wealthy path.

You should experience all the happiness you didn't enjoy, all the evil deeds you didn't do, and all the beats you didn't drop in your previous life. Otherwise, it would be a shame to experience such an unrealistic, unconventional, and ridiculous thing as time travel.

Sometimes when I think about time travel, it's just like sleeping. You close your eyes and open them again, and you travel through time. If you close your eyes and struggle again, you may travel back through time, haha.

So before long, the low-key Seventh Princess returned to her former obscure status, and her heroic deeds of sleeping on the emperor's shoulder gradually became one of the many legends in the palace.

Time suddenly passed so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another three years had passed and Ling Qiqi was already six years old.