noffsinger Chapter 954: Palace Maids and Concubines 7
Chapter 954: Palace Maids and Concubines 7
Three years passed quickly and the emperor had four more princesses but no princes.
Concubine Jing also stayed in the cold palace for three years. According to the original owner's timeline, the empress dowager has passed away and Concubine Jing is about to come out of the cold palace.
But now the Queen Mother is still alive and well, and this is naturally thanks to Jiang Chunxi.
Two years ago, when the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, the concubines in the harem took turns to attend to her. Jiang Chunxi used her own blood as medicine, which not only cured the Empress Dowager's illness but also restored her health.
In response to this, the Empress Dowager did not express admiration for Jiang Chunxi's filial piety when she recovered from her illness, but became suspicious. However, after much investigation, she could not find any suspicious points about Jiang Chunxi.
Later, with the guidance of the master of the royal temple, it was learned that Jiang Chunxi had a special fate and was extremely lucky for the empress dowager. Therefore, her blood had such a great effect on the empress dowager and could save her from danger.
In addition, she often summoned Jiang Chunxi to accompany her, and the empress dowager's health became healthier day by day. This made the empress dowager more convinced that Jiang Chunxi was indeed bringing good luck to her, and she liked Jiang Chunxi even more.
So now Jiang Chunxi has become a concubine, and no concubine in the harem dares to target Jiang Chunxi openly. At least on the surface, they are all polite to Jiang Chunxi. After all, the empress dowager openly protects Jiang Chunxi, so who would dare to go against the empress dowager?
That day, after Jiang Chunxi paid her respects to the Queen, she accompanied the Queen Mother to the Imperial Garden to appreciate the flowers.
Jiang Chunxi placed a peony flower on the empress dowager's bun and said with a smile, "Flowers go well with beauties. The empress dowager looks even more elegant and graceful after wearing the flower."
"You little girl, you only know how to make fun of me," the Queen Mother also said with a smile, "I am already old, and I still want flowers to go with beauties, that is, you little girl. If it were someone else who said this, I would definitely punish them severely. After all, shouldn't they punish me for insulting me like this?"
"I'm not insulting the Empress Dowager," Jiang Chunxi said affectionately, taking her arm. "Who says one must be young and beautiful to be called a beauty? A woman's youth, at every stage of her life, has its own beauty."
"The Empress Dowager's beauty is the kind that has been precipitated over the years. This kind of beauty gives people a sense of tranquility and peace, and this is the most attractive beauty, because the Empress Dowager's beauty attracts people of all ages, regardless of gender." As she spoke, Jiang Chunxi looked at Grandma Gao, "Grandma Gao, tell me, am I right?"
"That's absolutely right," Grandma Gao also said with a smile, "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, it's not that I want to speak for Concubine Min, but Concubine Min's words are not exaggerated. I sincerely think that Concubine Min's words are absolutely right."
As the empress dowager's confidant, Grandma Gao naturally likes Jiang Chunxi very much because she can make the empress dowager healthy. After all, for a loyal servant, the person who can save his master's life is the great benefactor in his heart.
"You old thing," the Queen Mother said, glaring at Grandma Gao with a smile, "you're imitating this little girl's unruly behavior."
"What's so unruly? I'm just telling the truth," Jiang Chunxi said as she let go of the Empress Dowager's arm and supported hers instead. "Empress Dowager, the sun is getting quite strong now. Let's go to the pavilion over there to avoid the sun."
When Jiang Chunxi helped the queen mother to the pavilion and sat down, the people below had already prepared tea and snacks.
The Queen Mother drank a sip of tea comfortably, then looked at Jiang Chunxi and asked with concern: "How is your health recuperating? The Emperor still has no prince. If possible, I hope that the eldest prince will be born by you."
The empress dowager got angry when she talked about this matter. Since Jiang Chunxi brought good luck to her life, the empress dowager naturally would not allow the emperor to abuse Jiang Chunxi anymore. She decided to stop the contraceptive medicine given by the emperor and asked the imperial physician to take care of Jiang Chunxi's body.
But unexpectedly, the imperial physician said that the contraceptive medicine given by the emperor was extremely harmful to the body and had already hurt Chunxi's body. If Chunxi wanted to get pregnant, she had to take good care of her body. Fortunately, the contraceptive medicine was stopped in time, otherwise, Chunxi would have lost her fertility later.
Jiang Chunxi touched her belly bitterly: "The imperial physician said that my body has recovered, but I don't really want to bear a child for the emperor."
As she spoke, Jiang Chunxi's eyes reddened: "Empress Dowager, you know that the Emperor has no feelings for me at all, and he's still thinking about Concubine Jing in the cold palace."
The Queen Mother's face darkened. "I didn't expect that after all these years, the Emperor is still obsessed with Concubine Jing! Originally, I didn't intend to intervene in the matter of the Emperor sending someone to secretly go to the cold palace to take care of Concubine Jing. I just pretended I didn't know."
"But now it seems that Concubine Jing really can't be kept."
The Empress Dowager had already learned from Jiang Chunxi that Concubine Jing had forced her to have an affair with a eunuch. The reason why she betrayed Concubine Jing was not only because Concubine Jing was a bad person, but also because the Queen had threatened her family, so Chunxi had no choice but to betray Concubine Jing.
Therefore, Jiang Chunxi's character had long been completely cleared in the eyes of the empress dowager, and it also made the empress dowager feel distressed for her, so naturally she hated Concubine Jing even more.
"Empress Dowager, this is absolutely unacceptable," Jiang Chunxi said quickly. "Jing Fei is the Emperor's favorite. If you execute Jing Fei, the Emperor will definitely hate you."
The empress dowager frowned slightly. As a mother, she naturally didn't want to become enemies with her son, but if Concubine Jing was not eliminated, the empress dowager was really worried.
"Empress Dowager, this is what I think," Jiang Chunxi continued, "Rather than letting Concubine Jing stay in the cold palace and let the emperor miss her all the time, it would be better to release Concubine Jing from the cold palace."
"This guy! The more he can't get something, the more he thinks about it, and the more he thinks about it, the more likely he is to become possessed. As the saying goes, it's better to loosen than to block. Instead of letting the emperor think about Concubine Jing all the time, why not release her from the cold palace? Maybe by letting the emperor get what he wants, his feelings for her will fade."
"The Emperor has long understood that Concubine Jing's love for him is not that pure. Those who claim to love only the Emperor are merely vying for his favor. It's only because Concubine Jing was imprisoned in the cold palace that the Emperor is so obsessed with her. Otherwise, if Concubine Jing hadn't been imprisoned in the cold palace, his love for her might have faded long ago."
"You know, as the ruler of a country, the emperor hates being deceived the most. In fact, not to mention the emperor, any ordinary man cannot accept being deceived by a woman."
"Well! What you said makes sense," the Queen Mother nodded and said, "In that case, let Jing agree to come out of the cold palace!"
"Jing agreed..." Jiang Chunxi looked confused.
The Queen Mother sneered, "Fang Jing's agreement to leave the cold palace is already a great blessing for her. Could it be that she still dreams of staying in the position of concubine?"