C209 (1/2)

The palace maid s of the Imperial Consort Lan Palace and the eunuchs of the inner palace met directly the Empress Dowager Li s who went to exchange books with the Qin'an Hall during their private meeting on the Gonghou Garden. The Empress Dowager Li was furious and immediately called the empress over.

Imperial Consort Lan knelt inside the Qixiang Palace, crying with heartfelt grief. ”Empress, your concubine is truly not aware of the situation.”

”I know you don't know. Get up.” When she came back, she didn't have any ears to calm down. When she got someone to help her up, she asked them to bring hot water to clean her face, and then applied some makeup again, ”It's normal that you don't know that this is a lie, but you are already an imperial concubine now, and amongst all the imperial concubines, you are the only one who has given birth to His Majesty. You should be the one to stand up.” Otherwise, I wouldn't use you as a raft.

How could Imperial Consort Lan not know of this as well? She used a handkerchief to pull her face away, and with a blink of her eyes, two streams of hot tears fell down once more. Even though she had carried a child twice, she did not stay and had no children. In this imperial harem, it was not right for people to degrade her.

”If you think like this, there are so many people without any children in this palace, their positions are not even as good as yours. Do you think they won't live?” Wang Rong He seemed to see through her thoughts as he said, ”You must let your temper come out alive.”

”Alright, you can go back first. I still have to finish what I need to do next.” Wang Rong sighed, ”Don't scare yourself, I won't vent my anger on you.”

”Many thanks, Empress.” The Imperial Consort Lan said, ”If it wasn't for my useless palace, we wouldn't have let the Empress suffer a beating from the Esteemed Empress Dowager.”

”If Esteemed Empress Dowager wants to talk about me, I don't need anyone to say it.” Wang Rong He was so shocked that he fell to the ground.

”Empress, then what about Dew her?” Imperial Consort Lan still wanted to ask about the palace maid that was hit right in the middle. At that time, she went down to the Discipline Hall with that eunuch.

”Could it be that you want to plead on her behalf?” Wang Rong asked.

Although I do not know why she would do such a thing, I do know that such a thing cannot be tolerated in the palace. I do not wish for her to return to attend to me, I only hope that she can still leave the palace with her life and live her life. ”

The Imperial Consort Lan looked at Wang Rong She with an earnest expression. The Empress had never been one to be killed, so she would definitely be able to keep her little life, right?

”That's not to say she didn't serve you for nothing.” Wang Rong He said that she would definitely prefer to have human feelings towards the empress dowager than to protect herself. ”If I happen to be run over by her, I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything good. I can only do my best to protect her little life.”

After the Imperial Consort Lan went out, Palace Manager Cui came in, and she had been waiting outside for a long time. She knew that once these things happened, the Empress would summon her.

”Did Palace Tzu An tell you which one to investigate?” Wang Rong asked.

Palace Manager Cui's heart trembled. She almost thought that the empress knew of her relationship with the Empress Dowager Li, but when she looked again with a sinking heart, she could see that the empress had only asked this question without any other intentions.

After all, the Empress Dowager Li had been in charge of the palace for a long time. Even though she was not in charge of the palace now, it was only right for the empress dowager to ask him about the palace's situation.

empress had never suspected her.

As Palace Manager Cui thought of this, she felt a bit bitter in her heart. If only she had not taken over the Esteemed Empress Dowager's Gui Zhi and came all the way to the Empress's palace, with her whole heart and soul, she would have been the Empress.

But at that time, if she had not already become a Palace Manager, she probably would not have left a mark in the Empress's eyes, much less be of use to the Empress.

”The Empress said to investigate thoroughly.” Palace Manager Cui lowered her head and said.

”It's easy to investigate.” Wang Rong said bitterly, ”Only the things that are hidden in this palace city are completely exposed under the sun, does mother really want to see it?” How long has she been in charge of the palace? It's definitely not as long as the palace in Empress Dowager Li, if you count all the things that are hidden in the darkness of the palace on the Empress's shoulders, I'm afraid they're unjustifiable.

”You can start with palace maid.” Wang Rong sighed, ”As for the eunuch, I'll ask Chen Ju to take care of it.”

When Palace Manager Cui came out, she looked back at the Qixiang Palace. The Esteemed Empress Dowager only wanted to thoroughly investigate the body of the, the Empress Dowager suspected that the reason the did not go to the harem at the Qixiang Palace was because the empress used someone to hug him. But in her opinion, there shouldn't be such a palace maid in the Qixiang Palace.

Then why is the Esteemed Empress Dowager suspicious?

The Esteemed Empress Dowager stirred such a huge vat of water to verify. If the desired result was not obtained, then what the Empress said about the empress being separated from the Emperor for a period of time would be true.

She saw that since empress did not do anything, she had become increasingly useless in this harem that she had ruled for so many years. How could the Esteemed Empress Dowager endure this? She was becoming more and more impatient with the empress, and only she could not help herself and explain.

Before Chen Ju came, Wang Rong He called out to Gu Yanxi and Yan Qing, ”You also know about what happened today at Gonghou Garden. The Esteemed Empress Dowager wanted to thoroughly investigate what the heck happened. There was no reason for Qixiang Palace to stay out of this matter, sooner or later they would investigate all this and find out all about me. If you serve me once, I won't let you lose your dignity. ”

”Yan Xi, go and ask if there's any news from the outside of the palace.”

”Yanqing, go ask the palace maid of Qixiang Palace. Small and large, you can't even miss out on little palace maid, ask them all carefully and don't hide anything from them. Otherwise, if they find out, not only will they lose their dignity, even I won't be able to protect them.”