The Virtuous Concubine

But before she had the chance to do this, she was shocked by the Empress' next surprising move and couldn't sleep all night.

The queen actually asked Doctor Rong for a bottle of highly poisonous medicine and a bottle of fake death medicine.

Bai Xia and Bai Fu were so scared that they immediately knelt on the ground, begging the queen to take back her order. No matter what the queen was thinking, this medicine would never be a good thing no matter who it was given to!

Malu personally took the two bottles of medicine and carefully put them in her dressing table.

This dressing box was the only item she didn't allow anyone else to touch. Inside it was the imperial purple jade bracelet that Wen Xian eventually returned to her, the Pisces pendant that Nalan gave her, and the broken hairpin that was originally Lu Yuchan's dowry but was now smashed to pieces.

On the lower level, there are the 18-piece pendant carefully made for her by the Fourth Prince, the white jade hand-held pendant given by Emperor Kangxi, and two rouge bottles that once contained elixirs but are now empty.

Malu looked at the box quietly, with an inexplicable emotion welling up in her heart, as if this dressing box could really summarize her life in the Qing Dynasty.

Each item here carries a story that cannot be told to others. The jade bracelet inspired her ambition, the Pisces pendant was her first transgression, and the broken hairpin showed her giving up. The eighteen beads and the white jade hand represent the complicated relationship between her and two generations of emperors. And the two empty rouge bottles seem to remind her that she still has a mission to accomplish.

There were two pills of poison. She decided to use one on Kangxi, and the other one would be given to the Fourth Prince if necessary depending on the situation.

If Kangxi died, the crown prince would quickly lose power, and the fourth prince would surely win. But if Yinzhen was unwilling to let him leave the palace, then he could only say sorry to this strange yet familiar son.

If Kangxi had not died, Yinzhen would have found a way to sow discord between Kangxi and the prince, and the prince would eventually fail, succumbing to Kangxi's suspicion and Yinzhen's ruthlessness.

She took one pill of the fake death drug for herself and left the other for the prince.

If Yinzhen won, she could escape successfully, but she was unwilling to let the prince be imprisoned in that small mansion for the rest of his life and become a Prince Limi who would never see the light of day.

She gently closed the dressing box and turned to look at the two maids kneeling on the ground: "In another year, another group of palace maids can be released from the palace. This is your chance to leave this place of trouble. I will arrange a way out for you. I have no choice in this palace, but you still have the opportunity to choose. When the time is right, you can fly away and live a free life."

The two maids were in tears. They knew the queen's painstaking efforts. Bai Fu choked up and said, "My queen, how can we abandon you at this time? Isn't everything going well? I think these medicines are completely useless!"

Malu smiled brightly: "I won't use these things unless I have to. But you have followed me for many years, and it's time to think about your future."

Having said that, he gave them each five thousand taels of silver as a living allowance without giving them a chance to refuse, and then told them to go back and think about what they wanted to do outside the palace in the future.

Bai Xia and Bai Fu were in tears, but they did not dare to disobey Malu's order and left her alone in the inner room.

Seeing Bai Xia looking back every step of the way, Malu couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm not trying to trick you into leaving. If I were to die, it wouldn't be today. Look, I haven't even dressed up yet. Go!"

After Bai Fu and Bai Xia left, she opened the dressing box again and stared blankly.

The cold wind from the window blew into the room, causing Malu to shudder. Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind, and she put the fake death drug in her dressing box into the sachet she carried with her.

When she changed into simple and light clothes and went out, Bai Xia Baifu at the door breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was in good spirits.

Both of them were afraid that their master would be upset and swallow the medicine if they had a disagreement!

Malu looked at their nervous expressions, and a warm feeling welled up in her heart. She smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything stupid easily. The situation is still unclear, and we still have a lot to do."

Bai Xia and Bai Fu nodded, but their worries were not completely gone. The master's every move now made Bai Fu and Bai Xia very worried. Even if they laughed, they both felt that the master had other plans in mind.

And to be honest, the two of them didn't want to leave the palace.

They are different from Malu. They are attached to the day-to-day life in Yonghe Palace and feel safe in this repetition. This is a place they are familiar with. They are at a loss when facing the outside world.

And Malu had long been fed up with Kangxi's suspicion, his son's exploitation, and these strange rules that did not treat people as human beings.

Her desire for freedom and yearning for the outside world were always stirring in her heart, far surpassing her desire for power and wealth.

When she was climbing up from being a palace maid, she relied entirely on her desire to survive and her last breath. If she didn't climb up, she would die and live a life of poverty.

Later, she became Defei, and her life couldn't be that bad. She felt that she had completed her historical mission, and she was somewhat disappointed in her heart. However, either by chance or by accident, she became Dezhao Guifei.

Originally, life could have been lived like this. She only needed to endure until the battle for the throne was over, and then communicate with the Fourth Prince that she did not want to be the Queen Mother, and that Yinzuo or the Fourteenth Prince would take her out of the palace to take care of her.

But the Fourth Prince's methods in this life were even more ruthless. The last time he knelt for himself, the Fourth Prince, and the Crown Prince, Malu heard the crisp cracking sound of the string in his heart that represented his endurance of all this.

She didn't want to kneel anymore.

From the moment Kangxi deliberately prevented her from getting up, threatened her and became suspicious of her, the fire of resistance in Malu's heart was completely ignited.

She began to re-examine her situation and no longer passively waited for fate to decide. After thinking it over again and again, she asked Rong Ji for the two medicines.

In this way, she can act according to circumstances and take everyone into consideration while achieving her own goals.

Malu was waiting quietly, but his rhythm was disrupted by the news brought by the Nalan family.

Nalan's letter was full of shame, but these two things were indeed things he could not and dared not hide from Malu.

The Nalan family had been betting on both sides, with one foot openly on the side of the eldest prince and the other foot secretly on the boat of Yonghe Palace. In the end, their behavior backfired.

Seeing that the prince seemed to be able to get away with it, the eldest prince forced the prime minister to join forces with some officials to continue impeaching the prince. As Soetu gradually gained power, he naturally fought back.

The final result was that both sides suffered losses. For the sake of the crown prince, Kangxi chose to protect Suo Etu and demote Nalan Mingzhu!

And Lu Yuchan is pregnant, the baby is his.