"I'm glad you like it, sisters. Today's incident has caused such a stir." Ye Bingshang put down the teacup and smiled a friendly smile from her previous life. "Today's incident has really frightened me. I didn't expect the Queen to be this kind of person."

Once she started talking, the people below started chatting freely.

"Anpin is so lucky. She can still get pregnant after drinking cold medicine for so many years." Mipin looked at An Lingrong's belly and said sourly, "I never thought that the queen is so kind to others on weekdays, but has such a dirty heart behind her back!"

Concubine Qi cried out "Ouch!" and patted Concubine Mi's arm, saying excitedly, "You don't know, when I was in the palace, I saw that she was ruthless and had powerful means."

"..."

Everyone looked at Concubine Qi with indescribable expressions. How can you, a lackey of the Queen for so many years, have the nerve to say such things now?

When Concubine Qi saw that everyone didn't believe her, she immediately became anxious: "It's true, I can see it!"

"I don't know how Sister Qi Fei saw this. If the sisters hadn't spoken frankly today and connected the dots, I would never have noticed the Queen's strangeness."

Ye Bingshang smiled softly and deliberately praised Concubine Qi, with a tone of seduction in her voice.

"Yes, I only know that the Queen ordered someone to send me some cold medicine, and I really can't see anything else." An Lingrong interjected.

"You are young, of course you can't see it."

If Concubine Qi had a tail, it would be sticking up high now.

Concubine Qi pretended to wait for a while, but when no one responded, she coughed twice awkwardly before saying, "Alas, you all know that the emperor misses Empress Chunyuan, the current empress's elder sister."

"When I entered the palace, although Queen Chunyuan had passed away for many years, there were still many servants in the palace who were grateful for Queen Chunyuan's kindness when she was alive, and lamented that good people do not live long."

"What does this have to do with the current queen?" Concubine Qi interrupted and asked impatiently.

"Tsk." Concubine Qi glanced at Noble Lady Qi, "Listen to what I have to say. Those servants secretly said that the reason why Queen Chunyuan died in childbirth was because of the current queen who was trying to protect her pregnancy."

The last sentence was deliberately spoken in a low voice to sound mysterious.

Ye Bingshang heard what she wanted to hear, and the corners of her mouth raised a little higher, "Empress Chunyuan and the current queen are sisters, how could they kill each other."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Qi immediately gave Ye Bingshang a look that said, "Oh, you don't understand, do you?" She raised her chin proudly and said, "Sisters are also divided into wives and concubines after entering the palace. The Emperor and Empress Chunyuan have a long-lasting love, and the difference between them is as great as heaven and earth."

"Moreover, on the day when Queen Chunyuan was diagnosed with pregnancy, the eldest son of the current queen died. Those servants said that the current queen cried all night, knelt all night, and begged all night in the rain, but she didn't get a single word of concern from the emperor."

"Ah? The emperor is too..." Concubine Qi covered her mouth in time and said with an embarrassed look, "The emperor likes Queen Chunyuan too much."

It was a close call. I almost cursed out what was in my heart. No wonder the Queen wanted to murder the Emperor's offspring.

Thinking of this, Concubine Qi touched her belly. If the Queen didn't harm her, she wouldn't mind. This was how the concubines in the palace fought for favor.

Ye Bingshang glanced at Fang Zhi who was standing beside her, and sighed distressedly while holding her chest: "I think it must be hard for the emperor to lose his eldest son, so he can only shift his attention to Queen Chunyuan's fetus."

"...Yes, yes, yes, I think so too. The emperor must be sad for the eldest prince." Concubine Qi felt vaguely that it was a bit strange, but now she had decided to join Ye Bingshang, so naturally she would say whatever Ye Bingshang said.

Ye Bingshang comforted everyone with a few more words, then said that she was not feeling well and asked everyone to go back.

On the second day, three imperial edicts came down in succession.

The queen was deposed as a concubine and imprisoned in Jingren Palace. The queen mother's condition worsened and she was confined to the palace to recuperate. The sixth prince was made the crown prince, the Shen family was given the surname Shen Jia, and Ye Bingshang was made queen.

The real reason why the queen was deposed was not made public. It was only said that the queen's hair condition was getting worse and worse, and she had already behaved insanely, making her unfit to be the mother of a country and a role model for the world.

The previous dynasty did not object much to the Sixth Prince being made the Crown Prince and Ye Bingshang being crowned the Queen. After all, there had long been rumors that the Emperor would have trouble having offspring, and he only had a few princes.

The Third Prince is too stupid, the Fifth Prince is too sickly, and the Fourth Prince is dead, so there is only the Sixth Prince left.

The prince's maternal family has always been from the Manchu military flag, and the Shen family and Ye Bingshang raising the flag to crown the queen will also make the young Sixth Prince more legitimate.

"I thank the Lord for his grace." Ye Bingshang took the imperial edict, her face calm and unhurried.

She had been working on it for years and was finally so close to taking control of her own destiny, except for... the last step.

Because she was the next empress, and because of the constant gossip in the palace, the ceremony of crowning the empress was held in a very conventional manner, but Ye Bingshang didn't mind at all. With the power of Fengyi Palace in her hands, why should she care about these things?

It would be better to leave the money in the national treasury to her son.

The Queen Mother was put under house arrest in disguise, and the remaining smart concubines in the palace had secretly joined Ye Bingshang. It seemed that the power was distributed, but in fact, she monopolized all the power.

When the concubines first came to Yongshou Palace to pay their respects to Ye Bingshang, Ye Bingshang announced: "From now on, you sisters can come to pay your respects every five or ten days, you don't have to come every day."

"In addition, I will arrange for the Imperial Hospital to check the pulse of all the sisters on the first day of every month. Those who need treatment should do so. If you are lucky enough to become pregnant like Sister Anpin, it will be more beneficial to nourish the fetus if you find out earlier."

Concubines: "Thank you, Queen, for your grace!"

The first thing is to allow everyone to have more rest time so that they don't have to get up early every day to attend meaningless parties. The second thing is to give everyone a possible hope by leveraging the psychological trauma that everyone has suffered from the conspiracy and poisoning of the deposed queen.

After arranging these two things, Ye Bingshang successfully stepped on the reputation of the deposed queen and established her own reputation and image as a virtuous queen.

Yinzhen was very satisfied when he found out, and he praised Ye Bingshang greatly. This was what he imagined a virtuous queen to be like, not the disgusting one who spoke in a venomous way.

Selectively ignoring the reasons why the abandoned queen has become like this.

One night, Ye Bingshang met Aunt Zhuxi who was beside the Queen Mother.

Zhu Xi's attitude towards her was no different from before. "I am here to see Her Majesty the Queen. I am here to tell you on behalf of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother has been in poor health recently and wants to see you again."

"How could that be? How is the Queen Mother?" Ye Bingshang's eyes were filled with worry. She eagerly pulled Zhu Xi's arm and said, "Okay, don't worry, Auntie. I'll change my clothes and go with you to see the Queen Mother."

Zhu Xi looked at Ye Bingshang's anxious back and felt relieved. She and the Queen Mother were right. Even though Concubine Lan became the Queen, she was still kind and gentle and had not forgotten her past kindness.

Ye Bingshang was not in a hurry after returning to the bedroom. She changed into clothes that would not be easily noticed in an orderly manner, and took out two custom-made slender daggers from the secret compartment and hid them in her sleeves.

(Similar to a scalpel.)

If she didn't need the Queen Mother's help, she would never go. The Queen Mother's love for her was simply vulnerable in the face of family interests.

"Let's go to Shoukang Palace."

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