The little ancestor of the family

"what's up?"

Concubine Qi asked.

Concubine Shu: "In a few days it will be March 3rd. According to past custom, the emperor will go out for an outing and hunting. What you need to do is to persuade the emperor to participate in this year's outing."

Noble Lady Qi: "I am just a small noble lady. Isn't it that Noble Lady Shu's words are more effective?"

Concubine Shu looked at her and said, "Don't pretend to be ignorant. You know why I asked you to go.

Don't think that everything will be fine if you can get close to the emperor.

Your life is never in your own hands."

"I'm just trying to persuade the emperor to go hunting. Isn't Shu Guifei taking it too seriously?" Guiren Qi said with a smile, "Besides, going outing is something the emperor does every year.

I will tell the Emperor."

Seeing that Concubine Qi was so obedient, Concubine Shu nodded with satisfaction.

Guess she knows the truth.

However, this was also due to the foresight of Imperial Doctor Huo, who chose Concubine Qi as a chess piece many years ago. Otherwise, who knows how to break this game today!

When Concubine Qi left Concubine Shu's courtyard and walked back, she looked up at the sky.

Since entering the harem, she rarely looked up at the sky.

I can't get out anyway, so what's the point of sitting in a well and looking at the world!

But things are different now.

After all, this courtyard could not hold her, and her days in the palace were finally coming to an end.

Even if she turned into a butterfly after death, she could still fly out of these high walls.

Concubine Qi felt relieved.

When she returned to Jiaoshu Palace, the newly arrived maids were already lined up, waiting for her.

"My lord, the bath water is ready. Please take a bath and change your clothes."

"it is good!"

Concubine Qi followed the maid's instructions and went to the bathroom, only to find that the queen's bathroom was bigger than her original bedroom.

The huge pool was filled with hot water, and flower petals were sprinkled on the water surface. The whole bathroom was filled with mist and fragrance.

The maids helped her change her clothes and then helped her into the pool.

The water in the pool is not deep, just up to a person's waist. Sitting on the steps inside, one can expose his neck and above.

The right water temperature can calm people's mood.

Only then did Concubine Qi think about the purpose of Concubine Shu asking her to persuade the Emperor to go for an outing.

Going outing was a habit of Emperor Yongfeng.

The more prey you harvest during an outing, the better the harvest will be today.

Therefore, every time the Imperial Guards would prepare the prey in advance so that the emperor could return with a full load.

Emperor Yongfeng didn't want to go this year, it must be because of his poor health and he didn't want to go through the trouble.

But why did those people insist on letting him go?

Concubine Qi had some guesses in her mind.

Imperial Physician Huo and the Third Prince are both in prison now. They could die at any time with just the Emperor's order.

At this time, Concubine Qi did not plead for the Third Prince, but secretly instigated the Emperor to go hunting.

There is only one possibility: they prepared something during the hunting trip, and the emperor is likely to be in danger.

"How pitiful!"

Concubine Qi buried her head in the water and sighed in her heart.

The emperor is the supreme ruler and can decide the life and death of others with just one word.

He should have been a person admired by everyone and feared by everyone.

But now, everyone around him wants to harm him and wants him dead.

How is this not considered a skill!

Concubine Qi held her breath in the water, and her hair floated gently on the water like seaweed.

The maids waited for a while, and when they saw that she still hadn't raised her head above the water, they immediately rushed forward and called out anxiously, "My dear lady, my dear lady!"

Concubine Qi suddenly raised her head from the water and wiped the water off her face with her hand: "Why are you shouting? It's so noisy!"

"Are you all right, my lord?"

The maids were still in shock and didn't dare to think about how they would explain themselves if something happened to Concubine Qi here.

"Ok!"

Concubine Qi nodded slightly, "Come and help me comb my hair."

Upon hearing this, the maid immediately stepped forward to help Concubine Qi comb her hair, applied bath beads on her hair, and massaged it gently.

This was the first time that Concubine Qi enjoyed such treatment since entering the palace.

Thinking back to the time when she was forced to enter the palace, she was not interested in anything going on there.

Even when it came to the emperor's favor, she was half-hearted and always reluctant.

Later, when something happened to the Xiao family, in order to avenge the Xiao family and her sister, she took the initiative to cut off contact with her parents at home, thinking that this would reassure the emperor and that her parents would not be implicated in case she failed.

Who could have thought that the two elders could not bear the successive blows and both fell ill in bed. In the end, they even refused to allow her to visit them and passed away.

If she had focused all her attention on the emperor at that time, would her current situation be different?

Concubine Qi closed her eyes and thought.

Everything is irreversible.

She believed that even if she had the chance to do it all over again, she would still make the same choice.

Now, Xiao Huaian has returned to the palace.

As long as the little grandson succeeds to the throne, the Xiao family will be avenged.

That's why she wouldn't help Concubine Shu.

What she had to do was to stabilize the emperor first and hope that what she had done would not be discovered before the little grandson succeeded to the throne.

……

Washing up takes a long time.

But no matter how long it takes, it will always end.

When she walked out of the hot spring pool and put on a thin gauze dress, the thing she had to face finally came.

The eunuch led the people to the emperor's bedroom.

Concubine Qi could only sit obediently on the bed and wait for the emperor's visit.

The hall was so quiet that even the sounds of the maids and eunuchs' footsteps seemed particularly clear.

Concubine Qi suddenly felt a little regretful.

Why should I come forward to help that woman?

That woman is Xiao Huaian's wife, she should be jealous.

Now that I have helped her, she still doesn't appreciate it.

I have to fall into such an embarrassing situation!

"After all these years, nothing has changed at all!"

Concubine Qi sighed.

It seemed that whenever she encountered anything related to Xiao Huaian, she would lose her mind.

But think about it, that man doesn't even remember me.

After meeting, he didn't even look at me!

Is all this she did really worth it?

When Emperor Yongfeng returned to his bedroom at night, facing Concubine Qi, who was as beautiful as a lotus emerging from the water, the long-lost passion in his heart was ignited.

Eunuch Su was outside listening to the noise inside with trepidation, fearing that the Emperor might make another mistake if he wasn't paying attention.

But he soon realized that he was worrying too much.

Not only did nothing happen to the emperor, he even asked for water. After three incense sticks of time, the bedroom finally quieted down.

Concubine Qi leaned her head on Emperor Yongfeng's chest and praised him against her will, "Your Majesty is still as majestic as ever. I never thought that after so many years, I still can't stand up to you."

Emperor Yongfeng reached out and touched her hair, feeling somewhat proud of the compliment.

"With such a beauty in front of me, how can I not be moved?"

Concubine Qi snuggled into Emperor Yongfeng's arms again and said, "Your Majesty, you are too kind. There are many young and beautiful concubines in the palace. It is not my turn anyway."

"How can they compare with you?" Emperor Yongfeng said seriously, "What they like is only my status and power. Only you truly like me.

You have been willing to pray for me for so many years, and your beauty is unmatched by any of them."

Concubine Qi said softly, "As the emperor's bedfellow, these are what I should do."

"I want to reward you!"

Emperor Yongfeng seemed to have thought it through long ago, and said, "The position of empress has been vacant for many years, and I have not found a suitable candidate.

Now, I want you to take that position.

I want to pass the throne to the fourth brother. I heard that you have always loved him very much, so you are the most suitable person for this position!"

Concubine Qi's heart skipped a beat.

He never imagined that the emperor would eventually pass the throne to the fourth prince.

What about Chang'an?

Didn’t everyone say that the Emperor was going to pass the throne to this little grandson?

Why did you suddenly change your mind?

The thought in her mind was fleeting. Concubine Qi concealed her panic and knelt down:

"Your Majesty, you are embarrassing me! I am of low status and have no support from my family. How can I take on such a great responsibility?"

Concubine Qi deliberately mentioned her low social status and the fact that she had no family background.

For the Fourth Prince, someone like her is the most suitable to be the Queen.

Without a supportive queen, there would be no ability for the harem to interfere in government affairs.

Sure enough, after hearing what Concubine Qi said, the emperor immediately said, "If I say it's suitable, then it's suitable. It's cold at night, so don't catch a cold."

After saying that, he reached out and touched the two soft breasts of Concubine Qi and pulled her to his side.

With the beauty in his arms, Emperor Yongfeng enjoyed himself and felt secretly proud.

No one could have imagined that the heir he really chose was the fourth son.

He saw clearly the plans of Prince Rui and Xiao Huaian's group.

They wanted to push the prince's son to the throne and use this opportunity to completely turn the Xiao family around.

But the surname in Jiangshan is Chen, so the Chen family should have the final say.

This absolute right cannot fall into the hands of outsiders.

Therefore, he is now just using Prince Rui to clip the wings of the Third Prince's party and pave the way for the Fourth Prince.

When the time is right, he only needs to remove King Rui's military power, and they will no longer have the capital to resist.

By then, the fourth brother will be able to succeed to the throne smoothly.

Although the fourth child is a little stupid, he is obedient and steady.

Handing the country over to him can at least ensure that the country still belongs to the Chen family.

As for Chang'an...

Emperor Yongfeng thought: This child was born with a hard life. Wouldn't it be more carefree if I gave him a fiefdom and let him live a comfortable life there?

"Your Majesty~"

The emperor hadn't made any move for a long time. Concubine Qi deliberately moaned and asked with a slight breath, "March 3 is coming soon. Does the emperor plan to announce the succession before this, or after?"

"What does it matter?"

Emperor Yongfeng played with the soft thing in his hand and continued, "We can't talk about the succession yet.

I mentioned this to you because I trust you.

It's okay for you to have heard it, but don't tell it to outsiders.

Please give more advice to the fourth brother.

As for hunting, I had no intention of going this year.”

"Your Majesty, please think twice about hunting!" Concubine Qi quickly advised.

Originally, she had no intention of persuading the emperor to go hunting.

But since the emperor does not want to pass the throne to Chang'an, it is not a good thing to let the emperor stay safely in the palace.

It would be better to fulfill Concubine Shu's wish and let the Emperor go for an outing.

She will find another opportunity to pass the message to Xiao Huaian.

No matter what Shu Guifei and the others do at that time, Xiao Huaian will be prepared in advance and take advantage of the chaos to seize the initiative.