I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

After the emperor arrived at Changning Palace, he had just finished having dinner with the queen when he couldn't wait to ask to see the eldest princess.

When the queen saw this, she ordered someone to bring the eldest princess out. The eldest princess was originally irritable, but when she saw the emperor, she suddenly calmed down and ran into the emperor's arms.

The emperor was also very kind to the eldest princess and teased her for a while. Not long after, Eunuch Lu came in with a sad face and reported to the queen that Lady Qian was making a scene because the cosmetics she was given were of poor quality, causing unrest in the entire palace.

Seeing this, the Queen first looked at the Emperor with an inquiring look. After all, this beautiful lady Qian had been the Emperor's favorite for a while. However, the Emperor obviously didn't care and just waved his hand to signal her to go down and handle it herself.

The queen also put her mind at ease, but she was still somewhat worried. As for Lady Qian, the queen had been dissatisfied with her for a long time.

When Lady Qian was in favor, she was quite ignorant of etiquette. She often lived as a person from the countryside, calling herself a savage. She didn't know the rules and was even unwilling to come and pay her respects to the queen.

However, the Queen, for the sake of her virtuous image, was afraid of upsetting the Emperor, so she never dared to do anything to her. Later, Lady Qian had grown up a little, and understood some of the palace rules, so she threw herself directly into the arms of Concubine Chen, and regarded herself as Concubine Chen's running dog, and had always been a loyal fan of Concubine Chen. Under such circumstances, the Queen certainly couldn't like such a person. Now that her old master, Concubine Chen, had fallen, Lady Qian still dared to clamor like this, and the Queen had made up her mind to teach her a small lesson.

As soon as the queen left, the emperor immediately pulled the princess to his side, put his hands together, and gently touched the princess's forehead with his index finger. In an instant, the princess's original dull puppet-like image gradually faded, and her lifeless eyes became deep.

"What happened again? Didn't I tell you that I'm recovering from my injuries recently and that you shouldn't come to me unless it's something serious?"

The emperor quickly told the eldest princess everything he had experienced, and the eldest princess fell into deep thought.

"You've been deceived."

The princess made a conclusion without hesitation, but soon she frowned again: "No, it's still not right. There is something wrong. There must be something wrong."

The eldest princess fell into her own thoughts. The emperor felt a little anxious, but in the end he did not dare to urge her.

When the queen arrived at the side hall, she found that her bronze ornaments had been pushed to the ground, several porcelain bottles were smashed to pieces, and a palace maid on duty was crying with a red and swollen face.

The Queen was very unhappy when she saw this and asked what happened. The palace maids quickly told her story. In short, Concubine Qian did not get a good solution. The Queen was dining with the Emperor and was reluctant to see her. So she was angry and destroyed the side hall of Changning Palace and beat up the Queen's people.

When the queen heard about this, she was extremely displeased, but she was still worried about her husband and daughter in the main hall. It would be inappropriate for her to inflict any bloody punishment on Lady Qian at this time.

She had no choice but to send two old maids to Concubine Qian to announce the imperial decree, ordering her to be confined to her room for a year and not allowed to go out. At the same time, she asked Eunuch Lu to remove Concubine Qian's green card so that she could not sleep with him.

The Queen had a very good idea. Although the Emperor now showed that he could deal with Concubine Qian as he pleased, if Concubine Qian ran to the Emperor again one day, crying and acting pitiful, and the Emperor softened his heart again, then she, as the Queen, would be in a difficult position.

Instead of doing this, it is better to give Concubine Qian a little punishment, give her a warning, and then remove her from the emperor's life. After a year or so, the emperor will have almost forgotten about this person, and then she can do whatever she wants to Concubine Qian.

When Lady Qian first entered the palace, she was favored because of her unconventional character, which was different from those ladies from wealthy families. But she had to pay a price for her character in the end.

The queen felt that there was nothing wrong with her plan. She was about to go back to the main hall when suddenly a young eunuch ran in, bent over and told her that Du Baolin wanted to see her.

The Queen's first reaction was that Du Baolin had heard from somewhere that the Emperor was here, so he wanted to rush up and get close to him shamelessly. After all, it was not the first time that Du Baolin had done such a thing.

Just as she was about to find an excuse to send Du Baolin away, the little eunuch came forward in a panic and reported that Du Baolin did not come by herself, and that she was holding a baby in her arms whose origins were unknown.

The queen was immediately shocked when she heard this, and quickly led people out to see Du Baolin. The appearance of a baby in the palace seemed to point to an obvious result, either a palace maid could not stand the loneliness and ended up having an affair with a guard, accidentally causing a death and giving birth to a child herself.

In this situation, there is absolutely no way that the child would be reported to her as the mother of a country. In all likelihood, the child would be disposed of in a dry well or an old tree. Of course, many other palace maids were found to have done shameless things before they could even give birth, and were thus severely punished.

The fact that Du Baolin could run to Changning Palace with the child in his arms in such a swagger shows that Du Baolin had some understanding of the child's origins.

This led to another result, that is, the emperor favored a concubine, and after the concubine became pregnant, she suspected that someone in the palace wanted to harm her, so she gave birth to the child secretly without telling anyone.

The queen couldn't help but complain when she thought of this. Was she like an intolerant queen? You know, she wanted to have a child more than most people in the palace, because only after her husband's throne had a confirmed heir, her daughter could smoothly become the eldest princess from a princess and have a relatively stable future.

If any other branch of the family had ascended to the throne, who knows what attitude they would have towards her daughter, a demented and insane princess of the previous emperor? Wouldn't her daughter be the one who would be in trouble?

But now is not the time to think about these issues. No matter what her reputation is like and whether it will be affected by this incident, the key is to see what is going on with this child and whether it is the emperor's flesh and blood. Thinking of this, the queen hurried out and even forgot to ask someone to report the matter to the emperor.