The Empress of the Qing Dynasty is from the Northeast

In the small garden, Gu Gege was pretending to tease Hongmin and Hongchen, and whispering to Xiaofang and Xiaoqi, but she caught a glimpse of a large group of people out of the corner of her eye. She was so frightened that her legs went weak and she forced herself to remain calm.

"Mother!" Hongmin Hongchen threw himself into Changning's arms like little birds.

Chang Ning patted their heads and asked with a smile, "What are you doing here?"

Hongmin pointed at Gu Gege who knelt down hurriedly: "She pulled us and performed a magic trick."

Chang Ning sneered and looked at Gu: "Mrs. Gu, huh? Can you do magic?"

For some reason, Gu Gege was so frightened that she couldn't utter a word and her legs went weak. It wasn't that she had to kneel, but she couldn't stand up.

But she still pretended to be calm and said, "Yes, I learned a little at home before."

Changning clenched her fists, wishing she could knock her teeth out, but considering that her two sons were still present, she let Nanny Zhang take them both back first.

When Hongmin and Hongchen heard Nanny Zhang say that she would take them to slide, they immediately followed her happily.

Looking at the child's back as he walked away, Changning prepared to deal with him.

She looked down at Gu Gege, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling, and asked with interest, "Weren't you very talkative just now? What are you afraid of?"

"Ah, no, no..." Gu Gege was so scared that she was incoherent. God knows, she really didn't do anything! Just after she said a few words, Mrs. Chun came over.

Changning, supported by Zhao Fuhai, walked forward slowly. The bottom of the flowerpot stepped on Gu Gege's hand as she lay on the ground, causing her to scream in pain.

"Does it hurt?"

"pain……"

Chang Ning used more force, and his voice suddenly rose: "You dare to provoke me even though it hurts? You really don't know your place. Do you think people like you dare to touch my Fu Cha family? Zhao Fuhai!"

"The slave is here!"

"It seems that pulling out Niuhulu's tongue last time was not enough. Tell me, what should we do with this?"

Gu Gege was so scared that cold sweat was dripping down!

Zhao Fuhai made a sinister face and said with an apologetic smile, "There are many punishments. Gu Gege, do you prefer amputation, cutting off a pair of feet? Or burning with fire, climbing on a charcoal-burning copper pillar? Or beheading, being torn into pieces by five horses? Or being chopped into meat paste?"

Every time Zhao Fuhai mentioned a type of punishment, Gu Gege would tremble, and in the end she was reduced to a pulp, she was so frightened that she became incontinent.

Zhao Fuhai smiled, as if he was really thinking for her: "Girl Gu is a loyal protector of her master. She may not care about these kinds of punishments. Why not use the punishments from the Tang Dynasty? Jade Girl Climbing the Ladder will surely be a good match for Princess Gu."

At this point, he kindly explained: "This punishment is to take off all your clothes first. Then, use shackles to lock your hands, feet, and neck. Next, you need to step onto a very high wooden platform one by one. And this platform from low to high is covered with sharp barbed wooden sticks.

"When you walk, you must not struggle! If you struggle, the shackles on your hands, feet and neck will automatically tighten. You will be strangled to death by the ropes."

At this point, Gu Gege fainted from fright.

Chang Ning sneered, his tone was sarcastic: "She dares to be someone's spy, but she is so timid. The master behind her really made a mistake."

After she finished speaking, she gave Zhao Fuhai a look. Zhao Fuhai nodded and waved his sleeves. The four eunuchs who followed him carried the unconscious Gu Gege away.

And he looked at Xiaofang and Xiaoqi who were huddled aside with a smile.

"Girls, what kind of punishment do you like? Gu Gege is unlucky and fainted, so we will naturally choose a good place for her. What about you?"

Xiao Fang and Xiao Qi looked at each other, kowtowed hurriedly, and blurted out everything like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.

"Master, spare my life! I don't know who is behind this, but at home, my parents and brothers all obey that person. I am a nobody and my words are not taken seriously, so I dare not disobey!"

"So do I! There is no one else in my family except my brother. He asked me to contact Gu Gege. I don't know anything about the others!"

Xiao Fang and Xiao Qi rushed to open their mouths, fearing that if they were a second late, they would be the ones to suffer the inhuman punishment!

Chang Ning looked at the two people with tears on their faces, and he was not touched at all: "Whatever difficulties you encounter, you can tell me. Would I treat you unfairly? Don't say that you don't think this is ungrateful, it's just a message, but if this information is used by someone with ulterior motives to make a fuss, can you bear the consequences?"

Chang Ning was too lazy to waste words with them: "I have already said that Qingzhiyuan will not tolerate people who betray their master. Zhao Fuhai, they have signed a death contract, regardless of life or death."

Zhao Fuhai nodded hurriedly: "Master, rest assured, I will not leave anyone alive."

Xiao Fang and Xiao Qi widened their eyes in disbelief.

When Yinzhen came back in the evening, he heard about this incident, but his face did not look very good.

"What's wrong?" Chang Ning couldn't help asking when he saw that he looked bad.

Yinzhen sighed and took Changning's hand: "Those two people were cleaned up behind the scenes. The only connection is with Guo Luoluo."

Concubine Yi again?

Chang Ning frowned: "Is this Concubine Yi so powerful? She has connections everywhere?"

Isn't she just a concubine? The Guo Luoluo clan behind her isn't that powerful!

Changning didn't believe it. If we talk about the harem, Concubine Yi's ability is beyond doubt. She has been a favorite concubine for many years, one of the four concubines, and has two adult princes.

But outside the palace, she was definitely not so fierce.

Yinzhen also thought so: "Old Nine is also on good terms with Old Eight and Old Ten. Among these people's maternal families, the Niuhulu clan is very capable of doing this. However, I always feel that there are other people stirring up trouble. The water in the capital is becoming more and more muddy."

Although Changning knew that the final result would be Yinzhen's ascension to the throne, and that the battle for the throne among the nine dragons was very dangerous, the feeling was different from being in the middle of it.

Especially nowadays, many things are different from those in the Qing Dynasty in history.

The crown prince was deposed twice, and the eighteenth prince died young. But now the eighteenth prince has grown up, and Kangxi no longer takes him with him when he goes to the Rehe Palace, and always asks the imperial physician to check his pulse.

Could Yinzhen still successfully ascend the throne as in history?

Changning couldn't guarantee it.

But is there any way?

There is no other way.

The fight for the throne is an extremely dangerous one and cannot be avoided by just being an idle wanderer.

If someone else ascends the throne, will he still be able to use the Fucha family? Will his eldest brother, second brother, and third brother have a place to display their ambitions?

How could his own children not be exploited? Living on others' backs and struggling to survive was something that the arrogant Hong Yan could not do.

And Hutuli, with her outstanding abilities, if her father was not the emperor, she would probably have been sent to Fumeng or arranged to marry someone randomly. Where would she be able to display her talents?

So, no matter what, Changning and Yinzhen are on the same front.