Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Fawning

After Zeng Huan knew about this, he scolded Hongli for being stupid in front of Fujia.

Hongli also knew that he was in the wrong, so he took the initiative to go to the Cining Palace to apologize the next morning.

"Emperor, you are so confused. How could you believe the nonsense of the Imperial Observatory? In my opinion, you should not send the Tenth Prince out of the palace. He is so young, how can he leave his mother?" Zeng Huan looked at Hongli with a look of disappointment and scolded him.

Hongli stood there motionless, listening to the scolding.

"Your Majesty, it's true that the Tenth Prince is frail. The Imperial Observatory was right about all of this. I was terrified, afraid of hurting the Tenth Prince, so I sent him to Prince Zhen's residence. Your Majesty, I believe Prince Zhen's wife will take good care of the Tenth Prince. Wasn't Sister Hengti also raised by his wife since she was a child?"

"How can this be the same?" Zeng Huan said angrily, "If Shu Fei knew, how would she bear it?"

"Don't worry, Empress Dowager. Shu Fei is very understanding and will understand my good intentions." Hongli looked out the window and saw that the sky was dark and it looked like it was going to rain. He said slowly, "The sky is dark, I'm afraid it will rain. I have things to do, so I won't disturb Empress Dowager's rest."

Zeng Huan watched Hongli leave, unable to do anything about it, and could only sigh.

"Fujia, you see the emperor is becoming more and more out of character."

Fujia's eyes dodged, her lips twitched slightly, and finally she said slowly, "Empress Dowager, this servant has investigated something that I didn't want to tell you, but I really can't bear to see the Emperor treat Shu Fei and her son like this."

Zeng Huan frowned and said, "What's the matter? Tell me."

Fu Jia: "Actually, the Tenth Prince is not ill. The Emperor secretly had someone put a drug in the wet nurse's food. The adults are fine after eating it, but the newborn baby has a weak spleen and stomach and is very prone to illness. After this happened, I went to the Imperial Observatory, and he immediately confessed, saying that the Emperor deliberately made him say this in front of Shu Fei."

Zeng Huan looked at Fuga meaningfully for a few seconds, as if she was not expecting it, but then she changed her mind and realized that Hongli was a suspicious person by nature. Yihuan was recommended by her and was a descendant of Yehenara. He was greedy for beauty but also cautious. This was her "good son".

It's just a pity for Yihuan's deep affection. If she knew Hongli's plan in the future, she would probably not even have the courage to live.

"Empress Dowager, should we tell Shu Fei about this?" Fuga asked.

Zeng Huan waved her hand. "Never mind. Yihuan is a strong-willed woman. If she knew what Hongli did, the harem would be in turmoil again. Although the emperor sent the tenth prince out of the palace, at least he is still alive. Yihuan can still see him every year. It's better to let the emperor leave a good impression on her."

After learning that the Tenth Prince was sent out of the palace overnight, Yihuan fainted due to lack of energy.

After waking up, he immediately asked Xihe to prepare a sedan chair and wanted to rush to see Hongli.

Hongli had anticipated her coming and had kept the door closed to avoid her. Yihuan was distracted and ran to the Cining Palace to ask for Zeng Huan's help.

But Zeng Huan had no intention of seeing her and kept claiming to be sick.

Yihuan was so angry that she collapsed at the gate of Cining Palace.

When Yihuan woke up, only Lanqi and Yanwan were by her side.

Yihuan grabbed Lan Qi's hand like a lifeline and said, "Lan Qi, help me. I know you and the Queen Mother are close relatives. Please ask her to send the Tenth Prince back. He's still so young..."

Lan Qi was a little embarrassed.

It was not easy for her to take action in this matter. Although she was also close to Zeng Huan, if the emperor knew that she had secretly asked Zeng Huan for help, he would definitely be suspicious of her, and then everything she had done before would be in vain.

"Sister, the Queen Mother is hiding herself. I'm afraid she doesn't want to get involved in this matter at all. I know you love the Emperor and his children, but since the Imperial Observatory said that the Tenth Prince and the Emperor's horoscopes conflict, and the father and son are incompatible, although the hexagram's theory is not credible, are you willing to risk the life of the Tenth Prince or the Emperor?" Yan Wan said it all.

At the critical moment, Yan Wan still saw clearly.

Yan Wan's words made Yi Huan speechless, and she could only accept her fate.

In the blink of an eye, Ruyi, who was confined to the Yiku Palace, was five months pregnant.

However, she had not eaten any meat for many days and had only lived on vegetables in the yard. Her originally round and plump face had become sunken, and her five-month-old belly should have bulged out long ago, but now she looked like she was not pregnant.

The Yiku Palace was deserted, with only the rustling sound of people sweeping fallen leaves in the courtyard.

Ruyi was sitting on a lounge chair basking in the sun.

Rong Pei came over with a bowl of vegetable soup, "Empress, please eat something. You look so thin."

Ruyi felt nauseous when she saw the vegetable soup.

She is the empress, but in order to give birth to a legitimate son for the emperor, she actually ignored the delicious food in the imperial kitchen and hid here to drink vegetable soup?

However, all this is the fault of惢心 and Ling Yunche.

After leaving the palace,惢心 and Li Yu disappeared, but Ling Yunche was hanging around her all day long. In order to vent her anger, Ruyi would beat Ling Yunche every day, but Ling Yunche was like a dog-skin plaster and could not be shaken off no matter how hard she tried.

Ling Yunche even felt that Ruyi was doing this for his own good, deliberately humiliating him in order to get him to leave Yikun Palace.

Just when Yihuan was still immersed in the pain of losing her beloved son, a major event happened in the Forbidden City.

At the beginning, Hengchu went to the Junggar tribe for marriage alliance with the Qing Dynasty. Not long ago, the Dawachi tribe raided and killed Hengchu's husband with a single knife.

Hengchu wrote a letter back to the Qing Dynasty, begging Hongli to send troops to fight against Dawachi.

However, Hongli had some concerns and was unwilling to send troops easily, which caused disputes in the court.

Just when the previous dynasty was at a stalemate, the leader of Dawachi sent a letter asking to marry Princess Hengchu.

On one side is his own sister, and on the other side is the possibility of quelling the war without spending a single soldier. Hongli could not make a decision.

So he decided to listen to Zeng Huan's ideas.

Zeng Huan loved her daughter dearly. She had experienced everything in her life. Hengchui was not raised by her parents since she was a child. As soon as she reached the age of marriage, she was betrothed to the Junggar prince by the late emperor. At that time, Zeng Huan was only a noble concubine. For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, she had to choose to sacrifice Hengchui.

But now she is the empress dowager, and Dawachi killed Hengchu's husband. How can she have the face to ask to marry Hengchu?

Zeng Huan naturally disagreed.

"Then what does the Empress Dowager want her son to do?" Hongli lowered his eyes and asked in a stern voice.

Zeng Huan couldn't help showing his anger and said anxiously, "Of course we should send troops to attack Dawaqi and take back Hengchui."

Thinking of this, Zeng Huan became furious.

She felt sad when she thought that she hadn't seen Hengchui for almost twenty years, and she wished she could rush to the front line immediately to bring Hengchui back to the Forbidden City.

But Hongli didn't think so. He asked tentatively, "But Empress Dowager, if war breaks out, how many people will be displaced? Is this the consequence you want to see?"

"People? Emperor, are you confused? A general's success is built on the bones of thousands of soldiers. Now that you, the Emperor, have firmly established your throne, have you ever looked at your feet? How many skeletons paved the way for you?"

Now it was Hongli's turn to remain silent.