In the west side hall of Chuxiu Palace, another whole set of tea cups were broken.

Ah Ruo, who had become Shen's concubine, had a ferocious look on her face: "Bitch! They are all bitches! First it was Concubine Shu, then Concubine Wei, all of them came to compete with me for the emperor's favor, why don't you just die!"

In fact, the emperor had never favored her. When he first summoned her to sleep with him, he made her kneel at the head of the bed all night. But later, for some reason, he never summoned her again.

She wanted to take action against Ruyi, and she stubbornly believed that as long as Ruyi died, the emperor would truly accept her. But the Yikun Palace was like a solid wall, and she failed after trying several times, and gradually she dared not to take action again.

She was out of favor and no one in the palace took her seriously. If it weren't for the dedication of a few servants around her, her life would be worse than being a maid beside Ruyi.

There was another sound of things being thrown, accompanied by a series of words like "bitch". Concubine Jia, who lived in the east wing of Chuxiu Palace, was extremely annoyed.

Concubine Jia: "You are going crazy again. You don't even look at yourself in the mirror. Li Xin, go and teach Shen Ying the rules. Don't scare the little prince."

Naturally, Li Xin did not dare to do anything to A Ruo, because Hongli often asked Li Yu to send some rewards to A Ruo. She could only use kindness and verbal threats to make A Ruo behave herself for the time being.

The reward was also Yixiu's idea for Hongli. Just make sure the person is alive. Wasn't Ruyi also a favorite concubine in the beginning? It didn't matter if she was framed.

……

"Your concubine pays her respects to the Empress Dowager. May the Empress Dowager be healthy and healthy." Yixiu said respectfully. In the past few years, she and Zhen Huan had not found any evidence against each other and they had been living in peace. She didn't know why Zhen Huan suddenly called her here today.

Zhen Huan smiled and said, "The Emperor has few children. I am afraid I can't rest. Since Concubine Jia and Concubine Chun gave birth, there has been no crying of babies in the palace for a long time. What do you think, Queen?"

Yixiu's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zhen Huan was going to find a new partner for Hongli again. "I am also very worried about the emperor's offspring. I wonder if the Empress Dowager has any solution?"

Zhen Huan looked at Yi Xiu and was inexplicably reminded of her by her dignified and virtuous demeanor. Disgust flashed in her eyes. She thought that she was virtuous in public but scheming behind the scenes.

Zhen Huan: "What can I do? After all, the emperor has few children. People will only say that the queen is not virtuous. The queen still needs to worry more."

Yixiu laughed. She had heard these words from her aunt Wu Ya Chengbi several times. She didn't expect that Zhen Huan would behave in the same way after becoming the Queen Mother.

Yixiu tried hard to suppress the corners of her mouth that were rising, and said readily: "Thank you very much for your advice, Your Majesty. How about I ask the Imperial Hospital to prescribe a dose of pregnancy-maintaining medicine to all the concubines in the palace? What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Zhen Huan nodded: "Since the Queen has an idea in mind, let's do it."

What's the use of taking more pregnancy-preserving medicine? Yihuan has been taking it for so long but still can't get pregnant. She's just doing this to make it sound better.

After sending Yi Xiu away, Zhen Huan snorted coldly, "I knew that the Queen would also be someone who couldn't stand seeing a concubine give birth to a child. She's exactly the same as the one in Jingren Palace back then!"

Fu Jia: "The Queen Mother means that the Queen did something, but our people didn't find any evidence."

"Just because she didn't find out doesn't mean she didn't do anything. Hongli is not like the previous emperor. He was nostalgic for the harem. And when they were in the palace, the queen and Concubine Chun had no problems getting pregnant and giving birth to children. Why is it that in the palace, either the fetuses are stillborn or are born weak?"

Zhen Huan said quietly that in fact, she didn't care about Hongli's children at all. She would rather they all died. She just wanted to find something to hold against the Queen to drive a wedge between the Emperor and the Queen so that she could profit from it.

She has only two daughters now. Hengchui married far away in Mongolia, and Hengti is not married yet. They still need her support and charity!

To be honest, there had been no newborns in the palace for a long time, and not only Hongli was anxious, but Yixiu was also speechless.

Now Hongli has only three princes, the eldest son Yonglian, the second son Yongzhang, and the third son Yongsheng, who is frail and sickly, and not much better than Yinzhen was at the beginning.

Yixiu was puzzled. Hongli had selected new wives over the years, and there were many official women kept in the backyard of the Qianqing Palace. Why was there not one pregnant?

Except for Hai Lan who herself does not want to have children and has already started to retire, Gao Xiyue and Ruyi may be affected by Linglingxiang, Jia Guiren and Wei Yanwan were manipulated by her, and Shu Guiren was not allowed to have children by Hongli, there is no problem with everyone else.

She only targeted the favorite concubines and a few ambitious ones. Yixiu thought she was already very merciful. As for Yinzhen's offspring, she aimed to kill all but one, Hongshi.

The Mongolian concubines selected in the selection last year were also favored for a period of time, but they were all so unlucky. Yixiu suspected that the aphrodisiac she gave to Wei Yanwan and the young ladies was too strong, so that Hongli was already empty inside, which was why he was so unpromising.

Two years later, Korchin came to ask for the marriage of his legitimate princess. Fucha Langya also fell into the water and died during that eastern tour. Fucha Langya had no idea what happened after that.

Yixiu didn't like this feeling very much. She didn't expect Zhen Huan's accident at the beginning, which led to her losing everything. Therefore, she wanted to take advantage of the marriage of Princess Hengti to intensify the conflict between Zhen Huan and Hongli, and use them to make them both lose.

"My queen, something happened to the man in the back hall of Yikun Palace!"

Yixiu raised her eyebrows, and the corners of her mouth slightly curled up in a mocking angle, "She finally couldn't bear it anymore. I thought she was going to die in there."

Love is enough to satisfy one's hunger and thirst. Because Ruyi could express her love to Hongli through letters every day, she stayed in the back hall obediently and did not urge Hongli to investigate the cinnabar case as soon as possible.

Of course, in terms of material wealth, Hongli would not forget his childhood sweetheart, whom he loved more and more because they could not meet, and secretly sent countless rewards to her. Yixiu's nail said that Ruyi even kept more than a dozen pots of roses in there.

When Yixiu and her men rushed to Yiku Palace, Hongli and the imperial physician had already arrived. They diagnosed that Ruyi had been poisoned by cinnabar, but there was no sign of panic on Hongli's face.

Yixiu immediately understood that this was a play that the two of them had planned in order to allow Ruyi to lift the house arrest in a reasonable way. Yixiu then looked at A'ruo, who was late and had a panicked look on her face. Tsk, she really put a lot of effort into this.

Hongli said in an exaggerated and sorrowful tone: "I never thought that someone in my harem would use cinnabar to harm my offspring and concubines time and time again. It really frightens me!"

"Could it be that Concubine Xian was unwilling to be confined for life, so she poisoned herself with cinnabar, trying to mislead us into thinking that someone else poisoned her." Gao Xiyue was heartless and spoke without thinking, causing Hongli, who was originally immersed in his own emotions, to glare at her fiercely.

"Nonsense!" Hongli shouted, pointing his right hand in the air at the back hall, "Who would joke about their own life?"

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