She always plays cards out of the ordinary

Jianqiu massaged the queen's legs while explaining, "The queen also said that they grew up outside the palace, how can they compare with the carefully educated Third Prince. Moreover, Hongli's birth mother was ugly and disliked by the emperor. She is now dead. Hongzhou's mother Geng was just a little palace maid in the garden. How could such a lowly person give birth to a good thing?"

The queen's face suddenly darkened. "How dare you! Our queen mother was once a maid! How can you put the emperor in such a position?"

Jianqiu immediately realized that she had violated a taboo, and quickly knelt in front of the queen, "Your Majesty, please forgive me, it is my fault for speaking without restraint, I deserve to die."

After Jianqiu finished speaking, she started slapping herself in the face. The sound of the slaps was particularly clear in the quiet room.

The queen waited until Jianqiu slapped her a dozen times before she calmly shouted, "That's enough! Get up!"

She reached out her hand to pull Jianqiu up, looked at Jianqiu and sighed, "Jianqiu, you have to understand that my position as the queen is not stable. There are too many people in this palace who want to pull me down. I can't make any mistakes."

Jianqiu stood up with the help of the Queen, "Your Majesty, the Emperor still respects you very much..."

The queen laughed, "Oh, respect? I'm his wife, but he only respects me. Isn't this ridiculous? If my sister was the queen now, do you think he would let Concubine Hua ride on her head?"

"But Concubine Hua is infertile?" Jianqiu's voice suddenly lowered when she said this.

The queen asked back, "So what? I am the queen of this palace. No one can surpass me, and I will not allow anyone to surpass me."

Jian Qiu sighed, "But not only is Concubine Hua favored, the Nian family cannot be underestimated, and the Emperor still wants to use Nian Gengyao. Just based on this, Concubine Hua will be able to stand firm."

The Queen leaned back on the couch, "I know this too, but God has helped me by sending me Zhen Huan. With the Emperor's regard for my sister, this Zhen Huan will surely be favored. Then let's see whether Queen Chun Yuan is more important or Nian Shi Lan is more important."

Jianqiu was a little worried, "But the emperor punished Zhen Huan on the first day?"

"Don't worry, I will make her favored. Arrange some useful people to go to the prince's residence. I want to know everything about the prince's residence."

"But although we have a lot of manpower, the more useful ones are all distributed in various palaces. If we rashly transfer them out, we will not be able to accurately control the harem."

The Queen drank a sip of tea and shook her head gently, "They are just some concubines who have just entered the palace. Let them fight with Concubine Hua. The most important thing now is the previous dynasty. As long as Hongshi does not fall, I will be safe. Since I am the Queen, I must be the Queen Mother, and the only Queen Mother."

The Queen, the biggest troublemaker in the harem, is busy with other important matters, so the palace has been exceptionally quiet these days.

In addition, except for Fucha Xinyun, none of the people currently serving in the emperor's bedchamber have been promoted or given titles, so her treatment has been quite good during this period.

Except for paying respects, Hua Fei and others would make fun of her, but it didn't have much of an impact.

Just when Fucha Xinyun thought that things in the palace were just like that, something happened in the palace, and it wasn't a good thing.

Ever since Xia Dongchun heard about what Concubine Hua did last time, she wanted to meet Concubine Hua. After all, she was so domineering. And it just so happened that Xia Dongchun was the one who slept with her last night. She showed off in Jingren Palace early in the morning, but because the Queen was present, she restrained herself a lot.

Even so, the other concubines rolled their eyes, and Concubine Qi couldn't help but complain, "It's as if no one has ever slept with him before. It's not a promotion, why are you making such a big fuss about it? You have no sense!"

"You!" Xia Dongchun wanted to fight back, but when she saw the queen's expression, she didn't dare to say anything.

Fu Cha Xinyun saw Xia Dongchun's behavior and remembered that as soon as the eunuch came to convey the imperial edict yesterday, Xia Dongchun started making a fuss in the Yanxi Palace.

One moment she sent someone to ask for rose petals for bathing, the next moment she complained that the tea was not tasty enough, and then she asked for some spices to fumigate her clothes, making her palace maids run around in circles.

Even Baojuan, who was about to go to the kitchen to pick up dinner from An Lingrong, was stopped by Xia Dongchun and asked to run errands. It can be said that Xia Dongchun made the entire Yanxi Palace a mess by herself.

After she was finally picked up and had some quiet time, she came back to show off again today. It was really a headache.

As usual, there were boring and noisy greetings, mixed with a few sarcastic remarks, either you were sarcastic about me or I was sarcastic about you. If the emperor suddenly walked in and saw that the concubines, who were usually chaste and virtuous and behaved elegantly in front of him, turned into women with sarcastic faces and unreasonableness, I wonder if he would be so scared that he couldn't sleep.

Finally, when the greetings were over, Fucha Xinyun, with the help of Yutong and Xiao Mingzi, quickly returned to the Yanxi Palace. But just as she sat down, An Lingrong came over.

Fu Cha Xinyun raised her eyebrows. Although she and An Lingrong seemed to get along well, it seemed that they were not very familiar with each other. "Sister An, what's wrong? Why do you look so pale?"

An Lingrong quickly wiped her forehead with a handkerchief and said without bothering to exchange pleasantries, "Sister, when I returned to the palace just now, I saw Concubine Xia and Concubine Hua talking on the side of the road. They seemed to be arguing! Concubine Hua is not someone Concubine Xia can mess with..."

Fu Cha Xinyun smiled. What did the dispute between Concubine Xia and Concubine Hua have to do with her? Was An Lingrong here to gossip?

"Sister, please be careful with your words. It's just a few words. There's no need to argue. But Lady Hua is very magnanimous. I don't think she will bother with Lady Xia."

When An Lingrong saw Concubine Zhao's expression, she knew that she was too impatient. She shouldn't say anything even if she saw such a thing.

"Sister, you are right. The tea here is very fragrant. Just a small sip will leave a lingering fragrance on your teeth."

Fu Cha Xinyun saw that An Lingrong understood what she meant, "Sister, if you like to drink, come to my place often. We can taste tea together, which can be considered as a pastime."

"Lingrong is naturally willing to be taken care of by Sister Meng."

In fact, both of them knew that their relationship was not that serious and they would definitely not visit each other unless necessary.

We are just people who are there for the occasion, and we are in the same palace. Even though we know that some of the things we say are false, we still have to say them.

But today there really was no peace. The two people in the room were chatting casually when Xiao Mingzi ran into the room quickly, "My lady, Concubine Hua gave Concubine Xia a hundred lashes of scarlet. Now she is covered in blood and has long been unconscious."