zChapter 1049 - You Are An Evil Concubine Who Will Bring Ruin To The Country (1/2)
“Your Majesty!” Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui was not satisfied, speaking unhappily as she sat next to the Emperor: “Times have changed, so many years have passed since it happened, how can it still count? In addition, you are the Emperor, whether a promise counts or not is dependent on you.”
“Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui!” The Left Prime Minister Lu Song said loudly: “What Your Highness Imperial Concubine Gui means that Da Shun’s court is child’s play? His Majesty’s words are a joke? That they can be changed and modified as desired?”
The Right Prime Minister also said: “Your Highness Imperial Concubine Gui! The harem should not interfere in politics, this was a rule set by the founding Emperor when Da Shun was formed. Could it be that in this era and generation, this rule is going to be ruined in Your Highness Imperial Concubine Gui’s hands?”
“That’s right! Imperial Concubine Gui has sat in the seat meant for the Empress, it is fine if your ambition has expended to the whole imperial harem, but if you intended to spread your influence to the court, then you are an evil concubine who will bring ruin to the country, Imperial Concubine Gui should think twice.” The one who said this was King Wenxuan Xuanmou. This only younger brother of the Emperor usually did not like to speak out, but said these words coldly at this moment, causing Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui to break out into cold sweat on her back.
She hid behind the Emperor on reflex, looking pitiful. Unfortunately, if it was more than 20 years ago, once she acted pitiful, a few people would still sympathise with her, but acting like this at this age would only make the people watching feel irritated. Especially the people on the Ninth Prince’s side, they only felt annoyed seeing her like this.
But the Emperor did not feel irritated, he held her hand and advised her softly: “Beloved concubine, do not be afraid, they are only being intimidating.” Then he looked at King Wenxuan unhappily, saying: “Xuanmo, why are you trying to pick a fight with a woman?”
King Wenxuan shook his head, saying: “Imperial Brother, This Younger Brother is not picking a fight with a woman, but discussing Da Shun’s rules. Da Shun’s ancestors are watching from the skies! I hope that Imperial Brother can have your own opinion and not be influenced by a woman in the harem.”
“What do you mean?” The Emperor flared up, turning against his younger brother for the first time, “You’re saying that We are biased towards women and do not care about the court?”
“Whether that is the case or not will be based on one decision made by Imperial Brother.” Today, King Wenxuan came because he was angered by the matter with his own royal concubine and after entering the palace, he saw this scene and could not tolerate it anymore, choosing to challenge the Emperor. He stared at Imperial Concubine Yuan Shu and said: “His Majesty’s words are valuable, he has said it, yet you wish to take it back in front of everyone. Imperial Concubine Gui, what intentions do you have?”
Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui jolted and wanted to rebuke on reflex, but the Eighth Prince quickly interjected. He brought his hands together in a greeting and bowed: “Imperial Uncle, please do not blame her, my Imperial Concubine Mother just felt that this is during an imperial banquet and it is the New Year Imperial Banquet. The atmosphere is not that serious and the court ministers have also brought their wives and children into the palace. In the end, this is just a family banquet, so she said a few more sentences, I hope that Imperial Uncle can calm your anger. If Imperial Uncle is unhappy, Imperial Concubine Mother will not longer mention it.” After saying this, he turned and told Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui: “Imperial Concubine Mother should take care of your body and do not be too anxious about This Son’s affairs. It is only a secondary wife and is not that important.” After saying this, he gave a look to Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui which only both of them understood.
Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui did not say any more, but the Emperor was very unhappy, looking towards King Wenxuan coldly, anger showing on his face. Being unable to decide for his own son to marry a secondary wife caused him to feel bad for Xuan Tianmo, so he simply said: “How about Mo-er chooses another person, see which family’s daughter is good, We will decide and have you marry one to bring back to your palace.” After saying this, he looked at those people who stood up to remind him about what he promised and asked in a low tone: “The daughters in your family, We did not give them any special privileges? Hm?”
When he said this, the first one to react was Feng Tianyu, who trembled. She had a bad feeling and only prayed that this unlucky situation better not be thrown in her direction.
But she just had to get what she did not want, hearing the Emperor say: “Prime Minister Feng, We remember that your family’s first daughter has not been betrothed to anyone, why not marry into Sheng Palace as a secondary wife, what do you think?”
The Right Prime Minister only felt humiliated, his body trembling in anger. His first daughter from the prestigious Right Prime Minister family, married to a prince as a secondary wife? How was he supposed to face others from now on? Ignoring that the Eighth Prince was not the crown prince now, even if he was a crown prince, there had been no examples of a first rank official’s daughter going to become a secondary wife. But the Emperor was clearly finding a way to step down gracefully from an awkward situation, and wanted to cause them trouble, how was he supposed to reply? Reject? He had no reason to reject the Emperor’s marriage appointment.
For a while, the atmosphere stilled and it was very awkward.
Xuan Tianmo looked towards the Right Prime Minister Feng Qing with interest, then looked at Feng Tianyu who was at the same table as Feng Yuheng, pondering. Having the Right Prime Minister’s daughter as a secondary wife was not bad as well.
As he was thinking this, he planned to speak and taunt the Right Prime Minister, but unexpectedly, at this moment, he suddenly felt that his lower body was extremely itchy. And that itch expanded outwards from within, as if it started itching from his bones. It was also at that awkward area. He was standing in the middle of the main hall, he could not scratch, but he could not leave it alone either. With the strange itch, his legs clamped together and occasionally rubbed them together to try and ease the itch. But after rubbing a few times, he discovered that it had no effect and the itch grew even worse.
Xuan Tianmo felt so uncomfortable that he was sweating. Standing on the spot, he was in a dilemma and also felt very embarrassed. He vaguely felt that this situation was strange. If it was a normal itch, moving a few times will make the itch go away, but this feeling which came from the inside was straight from the heart and he could not get rid of it at all. He suddenly wish for this imperial banquet to end quickly. His instinct told him that something had gone wrong with his body, because he had such situations recently but they were not serious, he just had to scratch a few times at most for it to go away, but he did not think that in this Jade Hall today, this condition actually flared up so seriously, and it took all his control to withstand this strange itch.