The ceremony of conferring the title of princess requires getting up early in the morning to prepare.

Before going to bed, Baojuan carefully reminded Baoque to remember to boil some medicine for An Lingrong in the morning to warm her body so that she could prepare for the process of becoming a concubine during the day.

Baoque was deeply moved, thinking that Baojuan and An Lingrong valued him, so he got up before dawn and boiled the medicine with high morale.

Not much, just a small bowl. Otherwise, too much would be detrimental to the conscription of a concubine and would easily make you look bad in the middle of the process.

After this day, Concubine An was officially promoted to Concubine Liang. Compared with Concubine Li in the original story, she was incomparably more noble and was even more renowned for her virtue and kindness.

An Lingrong went to visit Zhen Huan.

Now that Zhen Huan has been released from confinement, she is no longer favored. When An Lingrong enters Yongshou Palace wearing the luxurious uniform that only concubines can wear, Huanbi looks at An Lingrong with indignant and implicit disdain, and as before, she has no respect for her at all.

why?

It is obvious that I am the master. Even before entering the palace, I was the eldest daughter of the family. Why do you, a servant born in the family, always feel that you are more noble than me?

An Lingrong had been wondering about this, but she had long since given up demanding an answer. She looked at Huanbi calmly. Baojuan suddenly had an idea and took a step forward. She slapped Huanbi in the face twice and scolded her:

"How dare you, a slut! How dare you disrespect Her Majesty the Concubine Liang!"

An Lingrong covered her lips with a handkerchief, but a smile still appeared in her eyes.

Baojuan hit Huanbi hard, and the two slaps were loud. Huanbi's mouth was broken, and a line of blood flowed out in an instant. It seemed that she did not expect to be hit. Huanbi was stunned for a moment, and then she reacted. The pain spread from the corner of her mouth. Huanbi covered her face in disbelief:

"Why do you hit me!"

Zhen Huan encountered an unexpected change, and Huanbi seemed to have not recovered from her former glory. She still thought of herself as a servant of the former favorite concubine, and An Lingrong as a concubine who was easy to bully.

"You dare to talk back? Your crime is even more serious." Baojuan scowled coldly, showing her triumphant attitude to the fullest, "It seems that two slaps can't teach you how to respect the emperor's concubine.

"Your Majesty," Baojuan looked at An Lingrong and said with a smile, "What do you think of the punishment?"

An Lingrong pretended to be troubled and thought for a moment before calmly ordering, "Send her to the Ministry of Punishment and have Matron Jingqi teach her a lesson about etiquette."

"Yes, your Majesty." The young eunuch received the master's order and hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and responded.

Two eunuchs held Huanbi down, unable to break free. She could only shout for help from her elder sister, "My Lady, My Lady, save me."

Her cries for help faded away.

Inside the house, Zhen Huan originally wanted to put on a bad face and deliberately did not come out to greet Concubine Liang after hearing the eunuch's announcement. However, she didn't expect that she heard a quarrel outside a short while later. She hurried out and just saw the back of Huanbi being pressed away.

Zhen Huan suppressed her anger and said:

"Why did Concubine Liang treat my maid like this? How did she offend you? Are you dissatisfied with me and want to vent your anger on a little maid?"

An Lingrong looked at Zhen Huan's face filled with anger. She must have suffered too much of a blow. The heavy makeup she used to wear every day was gone today. Only a faint paleness remained, which added a bit of pitiful beauty to her face.

An Lingrong thought back to the past with Zhen Huan, and finally focused on Zhen Huan's ridicule of her. She sighed in her heart that she could never go back to the past, and fortunately she had Baojuan now.

"Xipin, you misunderstood. That maid was disrespectful to me, and I only gave her a small punishment. How could I be targeting Xipin?"

An Lingrong raised her eyebrows and said proudly, "Why don't you greet me when you see me? Do you also need to learn some etiquette?"

In the past, even when Zhen Huan was at her lowest point, An Lingrong was no match for Zhen Huan.

Now that An Lingrong is pregnant and still favored by the emperor, she can finally suppress Zhen Huan.

Her obsession with suppressing Zhen Huan was even stronger than her obsession with becoming the Queen Mother. Therefore, after she was sure that Zhen Huan could not turn the situation around, she could not wait to find her.

As for dealing with Huanbi, it was an easy task.

"Your servant greets Her Majesty Liang." Zhen Huan suppressed her anger and performed a standard salute. She then continued, "Huanbi is my maidservant and has always been well-behaved. How could she be disrespectful to Her Majesty? I think Her Majesty has misunderstood something."

"You mean my queen has wronged that slave girl." Baojuan raised her eyebrows and looked at Zhen Huan with a sarcastic tone, imitating Huanbi's disrespect towards An Lingrong completely.

Zhen Huan instantly felt the same frustration as An Lingrong. She glared at Bao Juan, looking furious but not daring to talk back. "I'll go get Huanbi tomorrow, okay?"

"One day is not enough. It will take at least three days for learning to show results." An Lingrong walked in front, looking at every brick and tile of Yongshou Palace, all of which were extremely gorgeous.

Perhaps because there has been a lack of maintenance in the past two months, spider webs have appeared in some places.

The magnificent palace added to the atmosphere of decadence.

When Zhen Huan saw An Lingrong looking at her, she couldn't help but recall the little things she had experienced together with Shen Meiyu in Yongshou Palace. She and Sister Meiyu had admired every flower and every blade of grass together. How could things have changed so much?

Zhen Huan's eyes became red again, but because of the presence of the person she disliked, she forced herself to hold back the tears.

This time she lost the emperor's favor, and her two children were not around. For the sake of her children and her family far away in Ningguta, she did not stay depressed for too long. She forced herself to cheer up and try hard to dress herself up, not allowing herself to become ugly due to exhaustion. She hoped that when the emperor calmed down, she could seek his favor again.

On the other hand, Huanbi, who was dragged to the Ministry of Punishment, was unconvinced at first, but after being scolded by Nanny Jingqi, she learned the rules obediently.

An Lingrong sat directly on the main seat in Yongshou Palace, and Zhen Huan sat on the other side.

Everyone in the palace knew that Concubine Xi of Yongshou Palace had lost the emperor's favor. Except for Concubine Jing and Concubine Duan, everyone wanted to step on her. As a result, Yongshou Palace had been deserted for two months, and the tea served was only aged tea.

Seeing the tea brought up by the palace maid, An Lingrong lowered her eyes and smiled, saying, "It's really shameless for Xipin to bring up all the bad things to serve to others."

Zhen Huan's cheeks flushed and she wanted to yell at him, but then she remembered that Huanbi was still in the Ministry of Punishment. She couldn't offend An Lingrong again and implicate Huanbi because of a momentary impulse, so she could only suppress her anger and say:

"Now that Concubine Liang is in unparalleled favor, whose palace's tea can compare with yours? Especially my Yongshou Palace."

"Alright, I didn't come here to listen to your compliments. Did you know that Shen Meizhuang was demoted to a commoner and the daughter she gave birth to died young?"

An Lingrong can almost be described as a villain who has succeeded in her career. She just wants to make fun of Zhen Huan and poke her in the heart.

Seeing that Zhen Huan was unhappy, she felt very happy.

As for the fact that Wen Shichu was dead, there was no need to tell Zhen Huan. Zhen Huan would turn to Brother Shichu when she had problems and to Doctor Wen when she had nothing to do. It seemed that she would not care about Wen Shichu's life or death, let alone poke her lungs.

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