Seizing the throne, abolishing the adopted son, the imperial concubine rose to prominence

Gu Youning felt pain, but she didn't show it on her face. She just looked up as the emperor grabbed her wrist and said, "I don't know what's wrong with those clothes, but I know that the emperor is in a bad mood."

"Ever since the Emperor saw those clothes, his brows have been furrowed."

"I don't want to see the emperor in pain."

Gu Youning stretched out his hand to stroke the emperor's brow, but forgot that his wrist was still in the emperor's hand.

hiss!

She seemed to feel the pain only at this moment.

"I'm sorry, I was too rough."

The emperor quickly let go of his hand and gently stroked the red wrist, but he was shocked.

He didn't expect Ning'er to be so thoughtful, especially when she knew that there was something wrong with the clothes. Ning'er should be very worried about Zheng'er, but she still noticed his expression.

In fact, he didn't even realize that he was frowning.

He pretended to be calm and handled these things. Others only saw his anger and majesty. Only Ning'er noticed that he was feeling uncomfortable.

After the queen left, she immediately thought of asking Cao Zhong to burn all the clothes.

"It's okay, it just hurt a little bit."

Gu Youning gently withdrew his hand and continued to lean in the emperor's arms.

"Ning'er, I am so lucky to have you and Zheng'er by my side."

The emperor hugged the person in his arms emotionally.

"My concubine and I are lucky to have the Emperor's protection."

What Gu Youning said was not false. It was indeed her luck to be sent to the Eastern Palace.

Although the harem is dangerous, given her stepmother's personality, it would be difficult for her to have a good marriage even if she didn't enter the Eastern Palace.

At least, with this man, she has the opportunity to choose power and the chance to rise to the top.

Her mother has now become her father's legitimate wife.

"So Your Majesty, please don't feel bad anymore. No matter what happens, this concubine and I will stay by your side."

Gu Youning grabbed the emperor's hand and said coquettishly.

The emperor looked into those clear and warm eyes and almost wanted to speak out the secret in his heart, but in the end, the words just rolled in his throat and retreated into his stomach.

Seeing the emperor's struggling expression, Gu Youning thought that he had made the right bet again this time. There might be another hidden story behind what happened back then, and this hidden story was a pain that the emperor could not forget to this day.

But she also had some doubts in her heart.

Back then, the first person the Cui family sent into the palace was the eldest sister of the current empress dowager. Rumor has it that she was a gentle woman, deeply favored by the late emperor. Soon after entering the palace, she was named a noble concubine. Originally, the late emperor wanted to directly make her the empress.

But she politely declined.

If someone else said this, everyone would definitely call her hypocritical, but at that time, no one, from the emperor to the palace servants, thought that she was playing hard to get.

Because Concubine Cui really had a heart of a bodhisattva, otherwise her son and her own life would not have been killed by her younger sister.

When Concubine Cui's son died, the emperor was only five years old and should not have been involved in this matter.

Perhaps it was because the emperor had a good relationship with the eldest prince at the time, and it was easy for a good brother to be killed by a mother who disliked him to leave a deep emotional pain.

However, Gu Youning had no intention of curing the emperor's mental illness. Mental illness is difficult to cure, and if the person is not cured, he might get himself into trouble. But it is still possible to comfort the emperor by pretending to know nothing.

"it is good."

The emperor responded in a low voice.

He has a kind and beautiful woman like Ning'er who cares about him. I wonder if God does not blame him for standing idly by and watching his elder brother's death.

If my elder brother is still alive in heaven, I believe he has forgiven my cowardice and incompetence in my childhood.

The emperor felt his eyes suddenly warm, and he quickly closed his eyes for fear that the woman in his arms would see him.

Gu Youning leaned on the emperor's chest and naturally noticed the emperor's mood changes. She did not look up, but reached out again and hugged the emperor tightly.

"Okay, get up quickly, Zheng'er is still waiting behind."

It took a full cup of tea for the emperor to calm down.

In order to prevent the woman from noticing, he deliberately used his usual teasing tone.

Gu Youning secretly rolled her eyes in her heart. If it wasn't for the emperor, she wouldn't have to stay leaning sideways for so long. The posture looked affectionate, but her waist was almost stiff.

"Then the Queen Mother..."

Gu Youning didn't want his son to suffer in front of the Queen Mother, especially since the Queen Mother was emotionally unstable due to her people. It would not be worth it if Zheng'er was hurt.

"You and Zheng'er can stay in the back hall. There's no need to come to the front."

Gu Youning's words reminded the emperor of the queen's thoughts. He now believed that the queen wanted to use the incident of the past to make Ning'er and his mother offend the queen mother.

Even the incident in which Yun An scared his mother to faint might have been planned by the Queen, just to allow Zheng'er to return to Ci'an Palace.

Yes, the queen is also a member of the Cui family. Even if she is not on the same page with her mother, she may not be without manpower in Ci'an Palace. If Ning'er and her son were in Ci'an Palace, she would have too many opportunities to take action.

He couldn't let Ning'er and her son get hurt again.

"I asked Cao Zhong to assign two more maids to take care of you and Zheng'er."

The emperor thought about it carefully and said.

"I will follow the emperor's arrangements."

Gu Youning happily agreed. The person specially appointed by the emperor, not to mention having a clean background, must have some other abilities.

Naturally, she would never have too few capable people, especially now that she had just been promoted to Zhaoyi. The Queen and Concubine Zheng were probably quite wary of her and Zheng'er, and there were countless people in the palace who were keeping an eye on her.

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The emperor and Gu Youning went to the rear hall to see their son and had lunch together before returning to Qianming Palace.

In the front hall, watching the palace maids helping the empress dowager take medicine, the empress held Zhichun's hand and walked out of the main hall filled with the strong smell of medicine.

"Your Majesty has been working hard all morning and hasn't even had lunch yet. I have specially asked the Imperial Food Bureau to prepare some nourishing medicinal food."

Seeing his master's face gloomy, Zhichun whispered, "Master, you have been drinking bitter medicine for the past two or three years to recuperate. You can't let your efforts go to waste now."

"Put the lunch in the side hall."

Queen said.

Zhichun was right. Even if the image she had painstakingly built up over the years collapsed in the emperor's heart, she was still the queen and the mother of a country, and she didn't have to be so hard on herself.

"How's things going at Cheng'an Palace lately?"

"Just now, when the Empress came out of the side hall, this servant sent someone to investigate. Strangely enough, according to the secret agents in Cheng'an Palace, Concubine Zheng smashed a lot of porcelain on the first day, but she stopped doing that from the second day on."

Holding the Spring Road.

"I also had someone secretly investigate the Sizhi Office. Caiyi must have been pushed into the well by Xu Sizhi's men."

"I don't want to listen to these useless words."

The queen looked stern.