The Queen of the TV Series: Take turns to sit in my house this year

Qingying finally gave the gold leaf away.

But the news the guard brought was not what she wanted. "The Ulanara family's residence is already full of white banners. Lord Narbu has indeed passed away. Please accept my condolences."

"No, how could it be? Amma, Amma!"

Qingying stamped her feet and began to act out the famous bear-rubbing-against-a-tree scene. When her emotions were almost brewing, she pleaded, "Brother Guard, could you please bring me some more things? I want to pay my respects to my father."

"No, no, no, don't hurt me!" The guard waved his hands and retreated as if he had seen a flood.

There was only one piece of gold leaf, and he had to show respect to his superiors and thank the brothers who took shifts with him. In the end, the little he got was not worth sacrificing his future for.

After all, this former noble lady had a criminal record. She was caught by the empress dowager for holding a memorial service for the guard Ling Yunche, who was implicated by her. And the girl惢心 who helped her smuggle paper money and yellow paper was directly expelled from the palace.

"Hey! Don't run." Qingying lay in the crack of the door and stretched out her hand to the outside, but the guard stood far away and ignored her shouts.

Qingying refused to give up and kept shouting until her voice became hoarse and her throat was swollen and sore.

Walking back into the house, Qingying took out the paper money and fire sticks left over from the last memorial service for Ling Yunche from under the bed, and secretly burned them in the house.

Ah Ruo came out under the cover of night and lay in front of Qingying's door to peek in. Seeing that she still dared to burn paper money for the dead in the cold palace, she was overjoyed.

The next day, the Queen Mother came to the cold palace again, but this time Qingying learned her lesson.

What Qingying burned was not paper money for the dead but Buddhist scriptures to pray for the late emperor and the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother curled her lips and secretly glared at A Ruo. At this moment, a figure rushed out from in front of the Queen Mother, shouting "Zhen Huan, give me your life!"

Everyone only felt a flash of cold light, and Zhen Huan watched the dagger stabbing towards her heart. At that moment, her heart jumped into her throat.

"Pfft-"

"Uh!"

"Ah!" Everyone exclaimed.

"A Ruo?" Qingying was unwilling and surprised. A Ruo actually risked her life to save the empress dowager at the critical moment.

After failing to hit her once, Concubine Ji wanted to strike again, but was caught by the guards. Her eyes were full of resentment. She was so close to taking revenge...

Because A Ruo had made great contributions in saving the emperor, the empress dowager took her back to the Cining Palace and prepared to train her before placing her in the harem.

The Queen Mother intended to match her with the Emperor, and A Ruo was very happy. Since she saved the Queen Mother, every time Hongli came to pay his respects to the Queen Mother, Zhen Huan would ask A Ruo to come out and serve.

As for Qingying, since no evidence could be found, Zhen Huan could only spare her life temporarily, but she also rewarded her by copying a volume of Buddhist scriptures every day to offer to her ancestors.

On March 27th of the first year of the Qianlong reign, Huang Qiying gave birth prematurely, but fortunately both mother and daughter were safe.

The little princess was brought out to meet her father, the queen, and Hongli issued an imperial decree to promote Concubine Yi to Consort Yi.

Huang Qiying breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally gotten the position of a concubine. Then, how far would the position of a noble concubine be?

A grand celebration was held when Xiaoliu was one month old. After all, this was the first princess since the emperor ascended the throne, so all the necessary specifications had to be met.

However, a few days after the princess's full moon, A Ruo transformed herself into the emperor's concubine Shen Changzai and was quite loved by the emperor.

The Queen Mother privately asked her to work harder to have a boy. Even if she could not raise the child herself in the future, the Queen Mother promised to give the child to her after he was born, and it would not be impossible for him to hold that position in the future.

A Ruo was moved but helpless. She didn't know whether the emperor was not able to do it or didn't like her. Faced with such a beautiful woman like her, he could resist his desire and only asked her to be a bedside table!

Life was not going well for A Ruo, so she didn't want Qing Ying to have an easy time, so she deliberately had someone reveal to Qing Ying how much favor she enjoyed with the Emperor.

When Qingying found out, she complained in her heart: "Brother Hongli, have you forgotten that it was Ah Ruo who caused me to be sent to the cold palace? How could you favor a villain like her who is so coquettish and treacherous?!"

While complaining, he threw away the food that A Ruo had sent to him.

A Ruo mentioned this matter in front of the emperor, saying that she had fallen into the trap of a villain and mistakenly believed that her master had really harmed someone. She was also frightened by the atmosphere of the three-court trial, so she gave up Qingying and unknowingly caused her master to be sent to the cold palace. She felt guilty, so she wanted to help her live a better life.

Hongli was skeptical about this, but he was happy to see her showing warmth to Qingying. After all, he felt sorry for his lover suffering in the cold palace.

But Qingying hated A Ruo so much now, how could she accept A Ruo's help? She was born into a wealthy family, so she wouldn't accept such charity!

In August of that year, a Mid-Autumn Festival dinner was held in the palace. Without Qingying and her followers adding to the bad luck, the dinner was a joyful occasion and everyone enjoyed themselves very much.

But something unexpected happened to Mei on her way back! A few wild cats appeared out of nowhere and disturbed her carriage, causing her to go into premature labor.

When the incident happened, everyone was still awake. When they heard that something had happened to her, the emperor and the empress rushed to the Yanx Palace to watch over her. They didn't even bother to rest and ran to watch the excitement.

However, Jin Yuyan did not go. It was not known whether it was because her belly was now big and she was afraid of disturbing the fetus or because she felt guilty.

Bai Ruiji wailed for almost two hours, and finally gave birth to a deformed fetus covered in black purple. The wet nurse was shaking like a sieve and took the child out to show the emperor.

When Hongli saw the wet nurse's expression, his heart sank. When he opened the swaddling clothes and saw the child's true face, his face turned dark!

Fu Cha Langya thought something was wrong and went over to take a look, then staggered in fright.

Only after being supported by Huang Qiying did he come to his senses. "The heir of the royal family must not be a freak!" After careful consideration, Langhua spoke carefully, "Your Majesty, it was Mei's little prince who was unlucky and died at birth. You must mourn for him!"

Hongli closed his eyes, approved the Queen's decision, waved his hand, and asked Wang Qin to stay and bury the child.

But the child was clearly still breathing...

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They had all heard the little prince's cries just now, though they had heard them somewhat strangely and eerie. How could he have passed away so quickly? And if it was just a simple death, why were the emperor and empress's expressions so grim?

"what!"

Ah Ruo screamed in shock. Hongli turned around impatiently and was about to scold her, but she pointed at the child in Wang Qin's arms and trembled, "Your Majesty, Mei promised that her child was killed by someone."

It turned out that when Wang Qin was carrying the child down, he did not see the road clearly and almost slipped on the blood that had been left on the ground at some point. Although he was finally supported by the little eunuch behind him, the child's true face was revealed from the cradle, allowing A Ruo to see it clearly.

"A Ruo, do you know what you are talking about?"

Ah Ruo knelt down and said in fear, "I dare not speak rashly, but the little prince looks exactly like the child Jiang Yubin once described: the child born after a pregnant woman accidentally ingested cinnabar. I dare to ask the emperor to have the imperial physician diagnose the little prince!"

She and Bai Ruiji were one in the open and one in the dark. Although the emperor didn't know, they were both the empress dowager's people and naturally had to be of the same blood. So after A Ruo was favored, she became very close to Bai Ruiji.

Everyone thought it was normal that she stood up for Bai Ruiji and her son.

Moreover, Hongli knew that Jiang Yubin and惢心 had married after leaving the palace, and he had even personally seen the wedding gifts that A Ruo had prepared for them. Therefore, Hongli believed A Ruo's words.

Huang Qiying lowered her eyes slightly. It was not Jiang Yebin who told A Ruo about the cinnabar poisoning.

Even though A-ruo pretended to be on good terms with惢心 in front of the emperor, in reality, A-ruo had always been ostracizing and bullying her. After Qingying was sent to the cold palace,惢心's heart turned cold towards A-ruo. How could Jiang Yubin, who was so close to惢心, tell A-ruo all this?

But the emperor didn't know! He originally thought that it was God's punishment for him to let Bai Ruiji give birth to a monster, but now he found that this was probably a woman competing for favor, and he was suddenly filled with joy and anger.

What makes me happy is that this child is not a punishment from heaven, but what makes me angry is that someone in the harem is so bold as to murder the royal heir!

"Wang Qin, take the child and have him examined carefully by the imperial physician!"

"Wait a minute," Huang Qiying stopped Wang Qin and said to Hongli, "Your Majesty, if Miss Mei was really murdered, would Imperial Physician Lin, who was helping her with her pregnancy, be unaware of it?

In my humble opinion, whether Imperial Doctor Lin has ulterior motives or his medical skills are inadequate, we should not listen to him anymore."

After these words fell, there was a moment of silence. Su Lujun didn't know why her heart tightened. "What's going on? Why am I so anxious? What Mei promised has nothing to do with me?"

Hongli was silent for a moment, then quickly said, "My beloved concubine is right. I was angry and neglected it." He then said to Jinzhong, "Go to the Imperial Hospital and call all the doctors on duty tonight to come and see Mei and her son."

"Slave, you obey!"

Jinzhong was agile and the imperial physicians arrived quickly. The back of Imperial Physician Lin, who was kneeling below the emperor, was soaked with sweat, and one could tell at a glance that he had something to hide.

Hongli's eyes were chillingly cold, and he didn't look at him as if he were a living person.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager Mei and the young prince have indeed been poisoned by cinnabar. Your servants have observed their pulses and I'm afraid that Concubine Mei has been exposed to cinnabar frequently since she became pregnant."

"Bastard!"

"Snapped--"

"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!"

Hongli smashed a cup down, and Doctor Lin was so frightened that he kowtowed and apologized.

"Spare my life? Tell me! Who gave you the courage to murder the prince? Tell me the truth, and I will spare your life. Otherwise? Humph!"

"Your Majesty, I am a guilty subject, a guilty subject..."

Doctor Lin's lips trembled as he said in despair, "I, the guilty minister, don't know!"

"I don't know?" Hongli was amused by his anger. "You dare to help murder Long Si without knowing who it is? Do you believe what you said?!"