The little dark guard who travels between two lives

The Queen was so angry at Shen Yining that she laughed, "A quick mouth? A mistake? Imperial Concubine, you are from a noble family, you should be respectful and polite. Such vicious words, spoken in front of a mother, were spoken in a moment of quick mouth? No matter how fast or slow your mouth is, Imperial Concubine, can you use the deceased child of another family as a topic of conversation? You are also a mother, how can you say such things?"

Although Shen Yining knelt down to apologize, the arrogance and indulgence in her bones could not be eliminated by copying Buddhist scriptures for a few days. What's more, her so-called house arrest was only confinement in the Empress Dowager's palace. She didn't suffer any hardship at all. What effect would it have on her?

In her opinion, she, Shen Yining, was still the lofty imperial concubine in the palace, with a prince by her side, the empress dowager's support, and a father with omnipotent power. How could a childless and unfavorable queen accuse her of this?

Shen Yining thought that if she admitted her mistake today and was scolded by the Queen, she would probably be looked down upon by others in the palace in the future. This was something that Shen Yining, who had always been arrogant, could not tolerate.

Thinking of this, Shen Yining was even more speechless: "Your Majesty, you have never given birth to a child, so you don't know that there are dangers when a woman gives birth to a child. It's just that a child died, such an ordinary thing can't even be mentioned. Madam Qin is too delicate."

Shen Yining lost her temper and spoke without restraint. In one sentence, she accused Ji Wanran of being delicate and insinuated that the queen could not have children. Everyone in the palace was really shocked. This imperial concubine was really bold!

Concubine Xi raised her sleeves to cover her face and laughed secretly. This imperial concubine was really unrepentant. House arrest was really of no use to her. Instead, the Queen Mother's protection made her fearless. How could the Shen family raise such a brainless idiot?

Xibin was wondering why she had thought of seeking the protection of the imperial concubine. If it were not for the protection of the empress dowager, such a foolish person would have been drowned in the deep palace long ago.

It was because I was smart that I saw through the imperial concubine's incompetence and stupidity early on and found new helpers. As long as I and my son had enough patience, one day we would achieve everything we wanted.

The prince had been watching everything in the palace with a frown on his face, and it was not appropriate for him to intervene in the disputes between the concubines. However, now that the imperial concubine had insinuated that the queen was infertile, the prince could not tolerate it.

The prince knew that his mother had given up the opportunity to be a mother for him, and that his father and he felt guilty that his mother could not have their own children. Although his mother never talked about this, seeing how much she loved Xinhe and Nan'er, the prince felt both relieved and sad.

The prince was relieved that a good child like Xin He could comfort his mother and bring her warmth and joy. However, seeing his mother's love for Xin He, the prince felt uncomfortable. How could a woman not like a child? How could a woman easily give up the opportunity to be a mother? But his mother resolutely gave up for him, carefully raised him up, and spent her days in the lonely palace.

I have grown up and must protect my mother. Now, the imperial concubine actually ridiculed the queen mother in this way. The prince was so angry that he stepped forward and glared at the imperial concubine: "Please be careful with your words, my queen! You must not be rude to my mother."

When the fourth prince's mother spoke evil words, he looked up in surprise and looked at his mother. He couldn't believe that his mother could say such words. Fatty felt ashamed when he heard his mother's words. He was powerless to stop his mother, so he could only kneel down in front of the queen and plead for her with a crying voice: "Mother, please forgive my sins. Jingyu will apologize to Madam Qin on my behalf, and Jingyu is willing to bear the punishment on my behalf."

The queen looked at the fat, always laughing, boy kneeling in front of her, her eyes filled with tears, and finally sighed: "My noble concubine, you are worse than a child. Forget it, for Jingyu's sake, you apologize to Madam Qin, and I will not punish you for your rude words today."

If Shen Yining was smart, the Queen would have given her a way out, and she would have just let it go and admitted her fault. But the arrogant Shen Yining felt extremely wronged because she had been swallowing her anger and keeping a low profile in recent days.

Today, the Queen asked her to apologize to Ji Wanran in front of all the concubines. Shen Yining felt that this was extremely embarrassing. She looked at the concubines looking at her, with hints of ridicule and gloating, and felt angry. She couldn't lower her head no matter what, otherwise she would have no face in this palace in the future.

She ignored the Queen's concession, raised her head proudly, and without even looking at Ji Wanran, she replied stubbornly to the Queen: "I am not wrong. I am an incompetent woman who can't even protect my own child. Why do you want me to apologize so arrogantly here?"

"This is the Queen's order!" An angry shout came from the palace gate, and then the emperor walked in with a furious look on his face. Qin Mingxuan followed behind him.

The emperor finished discussing things with Qin Mingxuan in the imperial study room today. He looked at Qin Mingxuan and asked him with a smile, "My dear, what else do you want to say?"

Qin Mingxuan replied: "Today the Queen summoned my wife and two children to the palace. I want to take my wife and children home."

The emperor knew about this and smiled at Qin Mingxuan: "Why, my dear, are you still afraid that my queen will neglect your wife and children? Don't worry, the queen is the most considerate and will definitely send your wife home safely."

Qin Mingxuan didn't mind giving the imperial concubine a slap in the face at this time: "I'm not worried about the queen, I'm afraid of the imperial concubine..." Speaking of the imperial concubine, the emperor touched his nose awkwardly and defended his imperial concubine: "Well, although the imperial concubine is a little arrogant, she has changed a lot since the last confinement. Yesterday, the queen even praised the imperial concubine in front of me."

Qin Mingxuan said nothing, looking at the emperor, his face full of distrust. The emperor smiled helplessly: "Forget it, it just so happens that I also want to go to the queen to see your baby son. Xinhe praised your son to the sky in front of me, I have to see how cute he is!"

Qin Mingxuan thought of his daughter praising Nan'er to everyone she met, and couldn't help but smile. He followed the emperor who stood up and went to the Queen's Kunning Palace.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the gate of Kunning Palace, he heard Nan'er's earth-shaking cry from inside. The emperor even turned around and teased Qin Mingxuan: "Listening to the crying, your son is really extraordinary!"

Qin Mingxuan smiled, "Nan'er rarely cries so loudly. Maybe she is a little shy in a new place." He smiled at the emperor and said, "When I went out this morning, Xin'er told Nan'er to behave well in the palace and not to cry. It seems that her advice was in vain."

The emperor laughed again: "Xin'er still has to explain, how old is Nan'er, can she understand? The fat girl is really worried!"

The emperor and his minister continued walking inside. Before the palace maids and eunuchs guarding the door could bow and report, they heard the Concubine Shu scolding the Imperial Concubine. The emperor's face darkened, and he signaled the palace maids and eunuchs to keep quiet and stood at the door to listen to the noise inside.

The more the emperor listened, the uglier his expression became. Qin Mingxuan's expression was also gloomy as he listened to the imperial concubine accusing his wife word by word and talking about his wife's saddest things over and over again. If the emperor had not been here, he would have rushed in long ago.

The emperor did not expect to be slapped in the face so quickly. He had just praised his concubine in front of his ministers for having repented, but he did not expect that she was still like this. She had no intention of repenting at all, and even secretly insinuated and mocked the queen for not having given birth to a child.

The emperor could no longer bear to listen, so he shouted angrily, walked in, and without waiting for the concubines to salute, he sat down beside the queen angrily.

When Ji Wanran saw her husband come in, the tears she had been holding back for a long time finally burst out. When Nan'er saw her father come in, she quickly stretched out her hands to him and asked him to hold her aggrievedly.

Qin Mingxuan bowed to the queen, walked to Ji Wanran, picked up Nan'er, sat next to his wife, patted his wife's back soothingly, and signaled her not to worry. Xinhe also snuggled into her mother's arms and gently hugged her mother.

The emperor looked at the fourth prince kneeling on the ground, his expression eased a little, and he said softly: "Jingyu, you stand up and stand with your brother, the crown prince."

The fourth prince tearfully glanced at his mother, then looked at his father's angry face and knelt on the ground, "Father, my mother was confused today. I beg you to forgive me."

Shen Yining knew that she had hit a nail on the wall again today since the emperor came in. Only now did she regret that she shouldn't have done that today. However, she couldn't help herself when she saw Ji Wanran's smug look. It was too late to regret now. She could only kneel down and apologize.

The emperor looked at his fourth prince kneeling on the ground begging, sighed, and looked at Shen Yining: "The queen is right, you are worse than a child."

The emperor turned to the crown prince and said, "Crown prince, go and help your fourth brother up and take good care of him." The crown prince bowed and agreed. He walked over to pull up the tearful fourth prince, brought him to his side, wiped the tears from his face, and comforted him softly, "Fourth brother, don't cry, and see how father will deal with him." After saying that, the crown prince couldn't help but sigh. The fourth brother was a good child, why did he have such a mother.

The third prince also patted the fourth prince's head in a soothing manner, and used his eyes to signal him not to be sad. The second prince stood aside silently, without saying a word. He glanced at Concubine Xi and saw that Concubine Xi shook her head slightly at him calmly. He stopped talking and stood aside, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

The emperor felt a headache when he saw Concubine Shen kneeling on the ground. He thought about how the bright and innocent girl who had just entered the palace had become like this in the blink of an eye. Could it be that he really spoiled her too much?

He looked at Qin Mingxuan's family, and remembered that Qin Mingxuan's child died because he sent Qin Mingxuan out of Beijing on business, which made Qin Mingxuan unable to take care of Madam Qin at home, and eventually the accident happened. And his favorite concubine was here, constantly accusing Madam Qin of being incompetent and spoiled, which really made him, the emperor, lose face.

He looked at Concubine Shen with a gloomy face: "Concubine, you really don't change despite repeated admonitions. You don't take the Queen Mother's teachings to heart and have not made any progress. I think the Queen's punishment last time was too light."

Shen Yining was still unconvinced. She looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I didn't do anything. I just talked about a child who died young. Who knew that Madam Qin was so sensitive? Could it be that she couldn't say anything?"

The emperor said in a deep voice: "When Madam Qin was giving birth, I sent Qin Aiqing out of the capital on official business, which caused me to miss the date of Madam Qin's birth. As a result, an accident occurred, causing Qin Aiqing and his wife to lose a child. You accuse Madam Qin of being incompetent, are you accusing me?"

Shen Yining dared not take the blame, she quickly bowed her head and apologized: "How dare I blame the emperor. This is just a trivial matter between women, Madam Qin is taking it too seriously."

The queen was angry: "Even now, you still don't know your mistakes, and you keep saying that it's other people's fault. How can you, a noble concubine, be so mean? Your words are like ice in winter, and every word pierces my heart and lungs. It really loses the dignity of a noble concubine."

The emperor continued, "I think she is no longer worthy of being a concubine. Zhang Dequan, pass down the decree: The concubine does not abide by the palace rules, is arrogant and rude, and repeatedly offends the queen. She is to be stripped of her title of concubine and demoted to Shenpin. She is also to be confined to the palace for one month to reflect on her mistakes."

Shen Yining looked at the emperor in disbelief. The emperor actually demoted her to a concubine without even a title. She was even worse than Concubine Xi. The emperor was too ruthless.

Shen Yining was so shocked that she couldn't speak. The emperor looked at her coldly and continued, "Send the fourth prince to the Queen Mother's palace for education, and report to the Queen Mother in detail why the concubine was demoted."

Zhang Dequan took the order and took the fourth prince to the Queen Mother's palace. Everyone knew that the emperor was really angry this time, and he punished the imperial concubine directly without going through the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother could no longer intervene in the affairs of the imperial concubine.

Concubine Xi almost couldn't help laughing out loud. Concubine Shen, she's not as good as a concubine with a title like me! Shen Yining, she's really courting death! Thinking of how Concubine Shen usually acted arrogantly in the palace, Concubine Xi secretly felt happy.

Shen Yining looked at the concubines in the palace and no one spoke up for her. Although they said nothing, they were laughing at her in their hearts! Shen Yining cast a resentful look at Ji Wanran who was still crying. It was all this bitch's fault. It was all her fault.

Xin He saw Shen Yining's vicious eyes, twisted her body and stood in front of her mother, blocking Shen Yining's vicious eyes. Qin Mingxuan stretched out his hand and hugged his daughter in his arms, looking at Shen Yining coldly, his eyes as sharp as a blade piercing Shen Yining.

Shen Yining looked at Qin Mingxuan protecting Ji Wanran, and her heart bled secretly. This was the white moonlight that she admired with all her heart, but his eyes had never been on her. In his eyes, there was only that bitch Ji Wanran.

If she hadn't been in love with Qin Mingxuan, how could she have made such a stupid move that ended up hurting herself from entering the palace. If she hadn't been upset and lost her composure every time she saw Ji Wanran, how could she have been repeatedly confined to her house and even lost her position as a noble concubine.

The more Shen Yining thought about it, the sadder she became. She couldn't cry, but laughed out loud. She pointed at Ji Wanran like a madman: "Ji Wanran, you hurt me, you hurt me. Your retribution is waiting for you!" Just wait, your daughter will come back, just wait! Being tortured by your own daughter at that time, that would be a tragedy in the world.

Seeing that Shen Yining was becoming increasingly unwell, the Queen quickly signaled to several palace maids to help Shen Yining up and send her back to her own palace.

Ji Wanran was protected by her daughter and husband and did not see the vicious look in her eyes, but Shen Yining's words still frightened Ji Wanran. She finally couldn't hold on any longer, and fainted in Qin Mingxuan's arms with a palpitation.

Kunning Palace was in a turmoil again. The Queen quickly ordered people to help Ji Wanran to the back hall and invited the imperial physician to treat her. The Emperor was not in a good position to stay here, so he told the Queen to take good care of Madam Qin and went to the Queen Mother's Palace. Since Shen Yining was severely punished, he had to go and explain it to the Queen Mother.