Rong Fei is not honored

Huipin took a deep breath, suppressed the anger and worry in her heart, and said:

"I want to do that, but I just can't change it. If it weren't for this, Your Majesty wouldn't have sent Yinzhen to the Southern Third Prison. He's just worried that I might lead Yinzhen astray."

Even the Empress Dowager didn't know what to say at this moment.

Huipin's reaction is like calling someone shameless and the other person saying nonchalantly, "Yes, I am shameless and I can't change."

What could the Empress Dowager do? She could only let Nara clan go for the time being and let Nianhulu clan and Nara clan rise first.

After returning to her seat, Huipin wanted to thank Rongfei. If it weren't for her, she would have suffered a lot today. Although the two were allies, when she asked herself, it was indeed Rongfei who helped her more.

Huipin leaned towards Rongfei and was about to say something, but she saw that Rongfei's face was grim and her hand was covering her heart. Huipin's heart couldn't help but beat wildly, "Are you okay?"

Ji Nai responded with a look that said, "Aren't you talking nonsense?" She felt very uncomfortable and didn't want to talk to Huipin.

If Huipin's reaction had not been so strange, Ji Nai would have suspected that there was something fishy going on. She didn't even want to help Huipin get off the hook, and would have simply asked the Empress Dowager to beat this troublemaker to death.

"No, don't tell me that your heart disease and poor health are real." Huipin thought that these were smokescreens released by Rongfei to confuse everyone.

"Who do you think I am to be able to deceive all the doctors in the palace?"

"So, are you active or passive?" Huipin was very curious.

If it was the former, then Rong Fei was truly a ruthless person, willing to do such a cruel thing to herself. If it was the latter, then who in the palace could have plotted against Rong Fei to such an extent? Even Hesheli Shi back then didn't have the ability to do that.

Suddenly, an idea emerged in Huipin's mind, and her eyes unconsciously drifted to the Empress Dowager sitting on the high seat.

Ji Nai: "..."

How could Ji Nai answer this question? She was not stupid enough to hand over her own secrets to others.

Ji Nai was just thinking about what words to use to appease Huipin when he heard some movement at the palace gate. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the person coming was Liang Jiugong.

Ji Nai took a special look at Huipin and found that there was no trace of surprise or doubt on her face, which was in sharp contrast to the others.

So, was Huipin's "bravery" today ordered by Kangxi, just to target the Borjigit family, or was it aimed at the Empress Dowager?

When Liang Jiugong came in, he saluted the masters first, and then apologized to the Empress Dowager, who looked unhappy:

"Your Majesty has been so busy these days that he didn't even know that Princess Borjigit had entered the palace. It was our fault for neglecting to remind Your Majesty.

Because of this, all the palace maids in the Qianqing Palace were punished, and even after I report this, I will not escape being beaten. I only ask the Empress Dowager and the princesses to calm down and not let this matter make them sick."

Whether they truly forgot or pretended to forget, they could only assume it was true. The Grand Empress Dowager rebuked them, "Since you are servants of the Emperor, you should think a little more and not delay your master's affairs."

Liang Jiugong nodded and bowed repeatedly. Seeing his humble attitude, the Empress Dowager knew that this represented Kangxi's intention. Then a smile appeared on her face again, and she changed the subject with satisfaction, not dwelling on the matter anymore.

"No matter how busy your Majesty is, please take care of your health."

The concubines were no longer able to listen to the conversation that followed, as their attention was focused on the calm and composed Concubine Rong.

His Majesty...actually, Rong Fei had guessed it right. So, was this Rong Fei being too clever, or was it just tacit understanding? Thinking of the latter possibility, everyone couldn't help but feel jealous.

Especially Concubine Tongjia and Concubine Yi, although they had heard about Concubine Rong's favor a long time ago, they had never seen it with their own eyes.

On the second day after Tong Jia entered the palace, Ma Jia was put under house arrest, and then seemed to be completely forgotten in the harem. Except for the time when she withheld the share of Zhong Cui Palace, Liang Jiugong stepped in. Her cousin actually ignored Rong Fei herself.

After Ma Jia gave birth, not only did her cousin not express any opinion, he even had someone else choose the name of Yinzhi. No one even asked about Yinzhi's third-day bath ceremony or full-moon banquet.

Tong Jia naturally felt that the title of so-called favorite concubine was not worthy of her reputation, and Liang Jiugong's care for Zhongcui Palace was only because her cousin valued the royal heir.

After all, even the order to lift the house arrest was issued by the Grand Empress Dowager. It is hard not to think that this was done by the Grand Empress Dowager to avoid embarrassing Ma Jia.

But now...

Originally, they could have ignored Rong Fei's casualness when she mentioned His Majesty and the intimacy revealed in her words, and regarded it as Rong Fei's self-conceit.

But now, what Liang Jiugong said was highly consistent with Rong Fei's guess. If the two had not discussed it in advance, then... Rong Fei would definitely be a strong rival.

Even though it was the first time she saw Rong Fei's true face and felt the shock of her appearance up close, Yi Shu Fei had never been so vigilant.

Because she knew very well that no matter how beautiful a face was, it could not withstand the ravages of time. In this deep palace, beauty was indeed a kind of capital, but it was the most basic and cheapest capital.

Since Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong were sitting so close to each other, naturally some of the glances from Concubine Tongjia and Concubine Yi would fall on her.

Huipin gave Rongfei a look, as if mocking her, and said, "Look, you're being targeted again."

Ji Nai just smiled as if he didn't care at all, but in fact he was already complaining to Yuan Xu in his heart.

[Even in this state, I'm still being watched.]

Yuan Xu was happily eating the melon, his eyes fixed on Borjigit, whose face was almost distorted. He only replied perfunctorily, "Isn't a sick beauty still a beauty?"

Ji Nai was about to retort, but Tong Jia and Guo Luoluo looked at her with such deep hostility, and it was not just because of her appearance, but she noticed that Yuan Xu was absent-minded.

【What are you looking at? 】

"As for the Borjigit family, why is she so irritable? The Empress Dowager has calmed down, but she's still angry?"

[Has a bad temper? She's obviously a very good person. She didn't lose her composure even when we treated her like that.]

"spoil?"

Isn't that insulting? Why did Huipin deliberately bring up the inappropriate seating arrangement? Wasn't the implication that she wasn't worthy enough?

As for what I said just now when I was trying to smooth things over, you don't think that I was really trying to give her a way out?

If you don't believe me, think about how you would feel if you were Borjigit and heard what I said.

What kind of mood can I have?

Yuan Xu's thoughts wandered for a moment. What if she managed to get admission to the best university, and then, after entering, she found out that she didn't have a student status, and someone deliberately said in front of her that she shouldn't be there?

Then someone spoke up for her, saying that she might not have a student status because the principal was too busy and forgot she even existed. Well, being forgotten, isn't that a disguised humiliation in itself?

"No, if it's not a good thing, then why did the Empress Dowager take it that way and even acknowledge the possibility that Kangxi had forgotten?"

[Because it looks better on the face. If it wasn't an accidental forgetfulness, then Kangxi did it on purpose. Doesn't that mean that Kangxi was dissatisfied with Borjigit entering the palace and was unwilling to acknowledge her as his concubine?

The incident has already happened, and all the Empress Dowager can do is to minimize its impact. Since it can be covered up with a nice word, she must calm down, otherwise it will only make the situation worse.

No matter how angry she was, she had to hold it in. The Empress Dowager was a very capable person, and for the sake of the greater good, she would swallow her anger with a smile, even if it meant breaking her teeth and swallowing her blood.

As for Borjigit, she probably knew what was right and wrong, but she was still young and couldn't reach the level of the Grand Empress Dowager. She was also the one being humiliated, so her expression was natural...

"But isn't Liang Jiugong here to apologize now? Even if the excuse is lame, it means she's no longer an awkward existence without a name."