Wei Ning'er noticed something strange about the Queen, and suddenly felt a little confused. She couldn't let the Queen misunderstand. [ ]

After Wei Ning'er finished drinking the medicine, Wu Shulai, who was standing by, said: "To inform the emperor, the Hubei government has come to report that Mr. Ertai passed away from illness at noon today."

The emperor paused for a moment after hearing the words, and then nodded and said, "I understand. You can let Ening return to E Mansion for the funeral."

"Yes!" Wu Shulai responded, followed the order and left.

"Ning'er, you take good care of yourself. I'll come see you another day!" After the emperor said that, he stood up and left Zuixin Garden.

"Your Majesty..." Wei Ning'er saw the emperor leaving and struggled to sit up.

"Lie down quickly!" At this time, the queen was in panic. Seeing the emperor treating Wei Ning'er like this, she was afraid like never before. But seeing Wei Ning'er in such pain, she couldn't help but feel bad.

"Empress, concubines and the emperor..."

"Stop talking, it's important to recuperate. I've been out for a long time. I'm afraid the princess wants to find me. I'll go back first and come back to see you another day!" After the queen said that, she covered Wei Ning'er with a quilt and hurriedly went out.

Looking at the somewhat embarrassed Queen, Wei Ning'er felt a pain in her heart. She didn't know what the Queen was worried about.

The empress had previously advised her to serve the emperor well, but this time she was only slightly attentive to the emperor, but the empress was unhappy again, perhaps because she was afraid that she would really take away the emperor's favor!

But now, where should she go?

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Wei Ning'er had not seen the emperor for three days in a row. For some reason, she felt a little uneasy in her heart.

"Drink the medicine!" Lu Yunxi said with a smile.

"Thank you, sister!" Wei Ning'er nodded slightly, took the medicine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

"Sister, do you know what the emperor is busy with these days?" After pondering for a moment, Wei Ning'er finally couldn't hold it back and asked in a low voice.

Lu Yunxi looked at her in surprise, and after a while he calmed down and said: "Ertai passed away due to a serious illness. The emperor came to the Hubei Mansion in person to pay his respects. In addition to being busy with government affairs, he stayed in Qingyan's dormitory in Jiuzhou for the past two days."

Ertai, Tian Wenjing, and Li Wei are also known as the three confidants of Emperor Yongzheng. In the third year of Yongzheng's reign, he moved to Guangxi and was transferred to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou in the following year, and also had jurisdiction over Guangxi. In Yunnan, he implemented the reform of native land and returned it to local people, and established various ethnic groups in the southwest.

In prefectures and counties, chieftains were changed to exiled officials to strengthen the court's rule over local areas. He later served as minister of military aircraft. After Yongzheng's death, he was ordered to assist the government with Zhang Tingyu, and the prime minister's affairs were added to the Taibao. In March of this year, he was dismissed due to illness. After his death,

, the emperor came to the E Mansion in person to express his condolences, and was given the posthumous title Wenduan. He was entitled to enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple and be enshrined in the Xianliang Temple of the Capital.

After Wei Ning'er heard what Lu Yunxi said, she breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, her originally agitated heart slowly calmed down.

Soon after Lu Yunxi left, the emperor came one after another.

"Your Majesty..." Wei Ning'er was slightly surprised and was about to stand up to salute, but was stopped by the Emperor.

"I asked the imperial doctor. Your injury is not healed yet, so you should lie down and rest!" The emperor smiled, but there was a hint of exhaustion in his smile.

"Your Majesty, you are so tired, why don't you rest in the palace!" Wei Ning'er said with a tremor.

"I haven't seen you for three days, so I'm a little worried. I came here to have a look. I saw that you were in good spirits, and I was relieved!" The emperor patted her hand and smiled.

"My concubine is not in the way, but the Emperor must be extremely tired. Your eyes are a little red and swollen. Please return to the palace to rest as soon as possible!" Wei Ning'er said worriedly.

"Are Ning'er worried about me?" the emperor said with a smile.

Wei Ning'er's pretty face turned red and she shook her head. Seeing the emperor's face change slightly, she nodded again and said coquettishly: "Your Majesty, do you want to go back and rest?"

The emperor seemed very happy. He hugged her and smiled and said, "Ning'er, Yongyong is proud, Rugui Ruzhang, what's the last sentence?"

Wei Ning'er had studied poetry in the Fucha Mansion and knew that this was a verse from the "Book of Songs? Daya? Volume A". She didn't know what the emperor meant, so she looked at him blankly and subconsciously responded: "I heard it, and I am looking forward to it.

"

Hearing this, the emperor smiled and said: "That's good. I heard that Wu Shu came to deliver the edict. The noble Wei family has a pure nature and serves the palace diligently and obediently. She has been granted the title of imperial concubine and an auspicious day has been chosen for the canonization ceremony."

"Yes, I obey the order!" Wu Shulai was ecstatic in his heart, but his face didn't show anything strange at all.

Wei Ning'er was stunned, grabbed the emperor, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, this can't be done. Not long after I was granted the title of noble, I am now a concubine. I am extremely frightened. Please take back your order!"

But the emperor pinched her face and smiled: "I will do it as I say. You can recover from your injuries. When you recover, I will take you to Mulan Paddock."

"Your Majesty!" Wei Ning'er was anxious, but she had no choice but to watch the emperor leave.

The news that Wei Ning'er was promoted to the imperial concubine spread throughout the world in a short time, and all the masters and ladies also knew about it.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... it happened faster than I expected!" The Queen murmured to herself while sitting on the soft couch.

"Don't you hope that your concubine will be favored by the emperor? Now it seems that everything is as she wishes, and she should be happy!" Chu Xia said respectfully.

After hearing the words, the queen cried for a while and said: "Yes, Ning'er is Xueying's daughter. She is not an outsider. She is loyal to me. There has never been any quarrel between me and her. She is my own."

Man, I should be happy that she is favored by her, but why...why am I so heartbroken?"

"Empress!" Chu Xia looked at the Queen with some worry, not knowing what to do.

"Early summer... Ning'er was just born as a palace maid, but the emperor went beyond the ancestral system for her again and again. Before she could do anything, the emperor made her a concubine and became the head of the first palace. I will never

I have never seen the emperor doting so much on the people in the harem, and caring so much. Have you seen it? She was injured, and the emperor seemed to have hurt himself. He was so heartbroken, no... According to me, the emperor wanted to

Suffering for Ning'er, Chu Xia... all this is beyond my expectation. Ning'er becoming a concubine was originally an accident, but now this accident has become a stumbling block for me!" The queen was heartbroken, with a trace of unwillingness in her words.

Hate.

"Your Majesty, it seems to me that your concubine has no such thoughts. She has never slept with him in the past few months!" Chu Xia said tremblingly. Her master was angry, so she had no choice but to comfort her, but she did not want to slander Wei Ning'er.

The queen said with some despair: "This is the most terrifying thing. She doesn't go to bed, and the emperor still treats her like this. If she serves the emperor wholeheartedly in the future, then what position does this palace have in the emperor's heart? Early summer...

I am thirty-three this year, and I am already very old. I originally thought that if Ning'er became a concubine, she would also belong to me. I also hoped that she would give birth to a prince in the future, and my aunt did the same thing.

Don't worry, but now...she has become the head of the first palace, and even if there is a prince, the emperor will not raise it for me."

"Empress!" Chu Xia looked at the Queen and was horrified. She never thought that the Queen was so kind to Wei Ning'er so that she could raise the children Wei Ning'er gave birth to in the future.

When the queen said this, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, and she said after a while: "Of course, I will not treat her badly. As long as her child is raised by me, he will be his legitimate son. If the child is lucky enough to become a Dabao in the future, so will she.

The Queen Mother of the Holy Mother, remembering that the Empress Xiao Duanwen of Emperor Taizong helped her

After Emperor Shunzhi ascended the throne, she was revered as the mother empress dowager. Emperor Shunzhi's biological mother, empress dowager Xiaozhuang, was revered as the mother empress dowager. She was famous throughout the Qing Dynasty. Although they were aunts and nephews, I had no regard for Ning'er at all.

Yayu is like my niece, but why are things like this now?"

Chu Xia didn't know that the queen had such profound thoughts. She looked at her in astonishment and said after a while: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being bold. My concubine has always been loyal to you and treats her as her only relative in this palace.

, the empress can tolerate the emperor being kind to other empresses, why can’t she tolerate the emperor being kind to the concubine? No matter how favored the concubine is, she is still loyal to the empress."

"Yes, I know that, but I am worried when I see how different the emperor is with her now... But I can't hate her. If I want to deal with her, I will also

It can't be done, Chu Xia, do you know that in the seventeen years since I married the emperor, I have never been so afraid of losing the emperor as I am now!" the queen said in a trembling voice.

"Your Majesty, I have been by your side for many years. Your Majesty, no one cares as much for you as I do for you. You are the Emperor's legitimate wife and the one he loves. No one can shake your position in His Majesty's heart. Your Majesty, you are the only one who cares for me.

This is all you need to remember, so why worry about unnecessary things." Chu Xia sighed.

The queen felt a little relieved after hearing this, but she was still uneasy because nothing like this had ever happened in so many years. This caught her off guard and she felt an unprecedented crisis, and this crisis was brought about by one of her own people.

It was hard for her to accept.

The days flew by and came to May 24th, the birthdays of Princess Gu Lun and Princess Jing. Wei Ning'er was almost recovered, so she went to the clear water and sky where the Queen was to congratulate the princess on her birthday.

The queen had visited Wei Ning'er a few days ago, and when she saw her coming, she immediately beamed with joy.

Although the queen has never let go of the knot in her heart during these days, Wei Ning'er remained as submissive to her as ever, and she couldn't hate him even if she wanted to.

In addition, the emperor had been treating her well as always in recent days, so she was a little suspicious of whether she was worrying too much.

Although the canonization ceremony for Wei Ning'er's imperial concubine has not yet been held, everyone has already called her the imperial concubine because the emperor has already made a decree and informed the Sixth Palace.

On the princess's birthday, the eldest brother and Balzhuer would naturally come. Wei Ning'er couldn't help but be startled when she saw them, then she looked away and said hello to the emperor and empress.

"Concubine, I respectfully invite you to your Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Peace, and your Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Majesty's Peace!"

"My concubine is exempt from the ceremony." The emperor laughed loudly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wei Ning'er felt blessed, and then she was led by the eunuch to sit next to Concubine Yu, with Concubine Shu sitting below her.

At this time, Wei Ning'er, although she had not been officially canonized as a concubine, was already ranked first among the concubines, ahead of concubines Shu, Yehenala and Yibin, who had advantages over her in terms of family background and qualifications.
Chapter completed!