Transmigrated into a Prosperous Farm Wife, Pampered, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Prime Minister

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Shengjing, the Imperial Palace.

A woman dressed in a scarlet palace gown entered the imperial study carrying an exquisite little food box.

At this moment, Xuan Yuan Hongye, dressed in a bright yellow casual robe and with a tall and imposing figure, was reviewing memorials with a vermilion brush when he noticed someone entering and put down his brush.

Xuanyuan Hongye was around forty years old. Time had left its mark on his face, but his eyes were sharp and deep, and a single glance from him carried an innate sense of authority.

"Your Majesty, Consort Lan has arrived."

Grand Steward Wei Ninghai led the man before Xuan Yuan Hongye and then bowed as he withdrew.

Consort Lan placed the food box on the small table beside her and said coquettishly, "Your Majesty, you have worked hard. I have made you some ginseng soup. Please have a taste."

"Leave that aside, let's get down to business."

Xuanyuan Hongye showed no expression on his face, and didn't even glance at Consort Lan.

Upon hearing this, Consort Lan's eyes flashed for a moment, she stopped what she was doing, and spoke in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, I went to the Guan family again, but my sister is still the same. She would rather be a Buddhist monk than remarry. I have tried every method to persuade her."

Consort Lan thought the Emperor would be angry like last time, but she only heard a cold laugh from above.

"Ha, she has no choice. Even if she dies, she will still marry into the Zhang family."

The eldest son of the Zhang family, blinded by lust, exchanged the imperial edict for Guan Suyi. Without the imperial edict, the entire Zhang family would be like a toothless tiger, and one day he would uproot them completely.

Guan Suyi, Guan Suyi.

Thinking of that woman with cloud-like hair and a face as beautiful as a fairy, even Emperor Xuanyuan Hongye was momentarily dazed.

If he hadn't already had an empress back then, he probably would have taken such a woman into his harem as well.

She later married General Chang Sheng, a story that became a legend. However, life is unpredictable, and Chang Sheng died in battle. His only son, Chang Tian, ​​also disappeared.

Seeing that the Emperor did not get angry, Consort Lan carefully stepped forward and said softly, "Is Your Majesty tired? I have been learning acupressure points for several years. May I give Your Majesty a massage?"

"You may leave. I am busy."

After speaking, Xuanyuan Hongye lowered his head and began reviewing the memorials again.

With the ever-victorious general defeated and killed, morale at the border is low. If the enemy were to invade at this time, the border might not be able to hold.

While Xuanyuan Hongye was having a terrible headache, he hadn't set foot in the harem for a long time and had no time to deal with the women there.

A hint of resentment flashed in Consort Lan's eyes, but she still dared not voice any objections and retreated with her head down.

"Your Highness, please take care."

Wei Ninghai greeted them with a smile at the door.

Consort Lan's expression turned unusually grim when she reached the deserted palace path.

Her former palace maid whispered soothingly, "Your Majesty, please calm down. The Emperor will see your goodness sooner or later."

In an effort to persuade the general's wife to remarry, the empress repeatedly returned to the Guan family, enduring scornful looks. As lunchtime approached, the emperor refused to even have lunch with her.

"Sooner or later, I've been waiting for almost ten years and it still hasn't come."

The thought that Guan Lanzhi had never been touched by the Emperor filled her with resentment and hatred to the extreme.

Her mother came from a lowly background. After she was born, she and her mother suffered scorn and neglect in the back courtyard of the general's mansion because she had slept with the drunken General Guan.

When she was seven years old, her mother, who was originally a maid, died of illness.

When she finally reached marriageable age, the men the Guan family chose for her were either poor scholars or burly soldiers, with the highest-ranking official being only a sixth-rank official.

Why is it that Guan Suying is showered with love and married to the dream man of countless young women in the capital, while she is only worthy of poor scholars and burly men?

How could she be willing to accept this? She went to great lengths to take advantage of Guan Suyi's kindness in order to enter the palace and become a concubine.

But all these years, the emperor has never touched her.

Consort Lan clenched her fists to suppress the anger in her heart. "Enough, I almost lost my temper."

"Success depends on fate, but planning depends on man. Even someone like Chang Sheng died on the battlefield, trampled into mud by horses, and his body was never recovered. I'm not in a hurry."

The personal maid breathed a sigh of relief. "Your Majesty is right."

As the two walked, a sedan chair came towards them.

On the palanquin carried by six men sat a beautiful woman of great poise, dressed in a slightly yellow palace gown, exuding an arrogant air.

Consort Lan adopted her usual gentle and tender demeanor, bowing slightly. "Isn't this Consort Xian? This concubine greets Consort Xian. Is Consort Xian on her way to see the Emperor?"

"It would be unlucky for Consort Gui to go now. The Emperor is reviewing memorials and probably won't see anyone."

On the palanquin, Consort Xian lazily raised her phoenix eyes and said, "Consort Lan, you are not the Emperor. When did you become someone who can make decisions for the Emperor?"

Consort Lan lowered her head and said softly, "What the Noble Consort says is true. It was I who spoke out of turn."

"laugh."

Consort Xian chuckled, and the sedan chair continued forward.

The head palace maid, Bihu, whispered, "Your Highness, Consort Lan left the palace again last night. She probably went to the Guan family as an intermediary."

"Who cares what she does?" Consort Xian curled her lips in disdain. "I find her annoying. She's so hypocritical. There's no woman in the harem more fake than her. I don't know what the Emperor saw in her. Making someone like her a consort makes the title worthless."

The head palace maid, Bihu, looked around and, seeing that no one was there, breathed a sigh of relief. She whispered, "Your Highness, you should at least be more discreet. Don't let outsiders overhear. Who can predict the future? What if Consort Lan has some good fortune?"

The fact that Consort Lan, a concubine's daughter who was not favored by the Guan family, could climb to the rank of consort shows that she had some ability and shrewdness.

Consort Xian didn't take it to heart. "The future is the future, and the present is the present. At least I am now the Consort in charge of the affairs of the six palaces. As long as I remain in this position, she will have to be mindful of my feelings."

"Go, bring me an ice basin to cool me down, otherwise I'll be dying of heat by the time we get to the Imperial Study."

Bihu hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Study is not far from here. Please bear with it. It would be bad if the Emperor saw that you were living too extravagantly."

"His Majesty loves my extravagance, hurry up."

Bihu had no choice but to tell the people next to him to hurry up and get the ice.

Upon arriving at the Imperial Study, the chief eunuch jogged up to greet her from afar, saying, "This servant pays respects to the Imperial Concubine."

The sedan chair stopped, and Consort Xian, with Bihu's help, got off. "Eunuch Wei, please rise. Is His Majesty busy right now?"

Wei Ninghai smiled obsequiously, "Now that Your Majesty has arrived, the Emperor is no longer busy."

Consort Xian smiled radiantly, "Eunuch Wei, you really know how to talk. I feel so happy when I hear you speak. You should all learn from him."

Bihu hurriedly stuffed a large purse into Wei Ninghai's hand, and Wei Ninghai smiled even more broadly, jogging to announce the news.

"I have met the emperor."

Consort Xian entered the Imperial Study and bowed.

Seeing this, Xuanyuan Hongye got up from the dragon throne and reached out to pull her up. "It's such a hot sun. My dear consort, you must have had a hard time coming all this way."

Consort Xian said tenderly, "As long as I see Your Majesty, I feel no hardship. My heart is instantly filled with both coldness and sweetness."