Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 169 The Concubine Is a Shield 15

Rong Xuan said to Nie Xian with relief: "It is not in vain that I can ask my father to meet with my mother. Father, you must prepare a generous gift to the Qin family to thank him. Duankang, what do you think?"

Yin Zhi seemed to have seen his future in Nie Xian. He wanted to shirk Nie Xian, but he saw Nie Jiuan again. He came here and wanted to appease Nie Jiuan, and asked him to handle government affairs more. Nie Xian's little matter was simply not worthy of justice.

So he smiled and said, "Xuan'er is right. It's time for him to thank him very much. By the way, my grandfather's health is getting better? When Xuan'er heard that her grandfather's old illness relapsed, she was so anxious that she was about to come back immediately. We brought all the best medicinal herbs in the palace and hoped that her grandfather would recover as soon as possible."

Rong Xuan immediately said, "Let's go see your mother together. I didn't leave a single painting. I miss Duan Kang very much?"

"Okay." Yin Zhi responded indifferently. The imperial concubine spoke, who dared to say no? Nie Xian heard that Shishi was not very good in the palace, so he dared not be arrogant. He could only respectfully lead them to his room.

Rong Xuan asked Yin Zhi to worship her mother with her, and asked someone to put on the stage to offer sacrifices and incense. The bedroom became solemn in an instant, but it was even more depressing for Nie Xian, making him unable to breathe.

Then Rong Xuan went to the yard where she lived when she was not married. Nie Jiuan, Nie Xian and Nie Feng accompanied Yin Zhi. Nie Xian couldn't wait to ask about the relocation of the poems to the palace. He really didn't know which daughter Yin Zhi liked. How sincere is he to the poems? He could only tempt him: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Concubine Jie was promoted to Zhaoyi and moved to Liyun Palace. But did he disturb the Empress in the back hall of Yongxiu Palace before?"

This is true. For others, the father cares about his daughter, and is afraid that a palace maid will ride on his daughter. For the emperor, the insider, it can be understood as worrying about Shishi and Nie Rongxuan. No one offended him, but neither he nor Yin Zhi knew that the fact that Shishi's surname was Nie was no longer a secret, so as soon as he spoke, Nie Jiuan and Nie Feng's faces looked much ugly.

When Yin Zhi saw him, he thought they were thinking of what he was nervous about Shishi and made Rong Xuan angry a while ago, and he was suspicious of his sincerity towards Rong Xuan. He hurriedly expressed, "Xuan'er is weak and shouldn't have taken care of her. She fell down and got angry again, and she needed to take care of her carefully. Now there is an empress dowager in Liyun Palace, and I think it's okay. Seeing Xuan'er's complexion gets better every day, I regret not ordering her to move to the palace earlier."

The whole sentence shows that he values ​​Rong Xuan and does not take Shishi to heart. Especially the word "should be" further reflects that he has never asked about Liyun Palace at all, knows nothing about it, and does not care about it at all. Instead, Rong Xuan's "a day is better" and naturally he can only notice it when he meets every day.

This time, Nie Xian's turn was ugly. The only word "unhealth" in his words was to tell him that Shishi was fine. But how could he feel at ease? He could not believe Yin Zhi's feelings. Seeing that Yin Zhi was the emperor at the age of ten, and after more than ten years of being Nie Jiuan's expression, he could not be optimistic.

It seems that he was taken care of by Nie Jiuan for a lifetime, so what if he killed Qin? The Nie family will inherit Qin's son from the future. The Nie family will still do their best to protect Qin's daughter, allowing his beloved woman and daughter to suffer all the hardships and grievances. Now, it's like a cycle, Yin Zhi is repeating the same thing. Is that the end of Shishi and her mother?!

Nie Xian realized this and could no longer sit still. He found an excuse to retreat and immediately went to Rong Xuan's yard to ask for a meeting.

Rong Xuan's sister-in-law tentatively said: "Empress, dad... do you know something inappropriate? The one in the same palace has some relationship."

Rong Xuan raised her hand, "I know everything. My sister-in-law is at ease. I will be filial to my grandfather with my brother and be close to the Qin family."

The sister-in-law breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, my grandfather is healthy, my uncle and aunt are also very kind. A few days ago, my wife went to the Qin family to have a banquet. If you have the chance in the future, my wife will take her cousin's wife and I will come to the palace to pay homage to the queen."

"Okay, you can avoid it first, let me hear what this father wants to say." Rong Xuan smiled and fiddled with the teacup beside her. Her sister-in-law and others left silently. Soon, Nie Xian walked into the hall, with anxiety in his steps.

He was about to speak when Luluo scolded, "Bold! You can't treat the empress when you see it?"

Nie Xian was stunned and subconsciously looked at Rong Xuan. Nie Rongxuan was waiting for his family and relatives. He never asked someone to salute him when there was no outsider present. These two times Rong Xuan returned to her parents' home, and they were even more reluctant to salute him. Why did a servant come to scold him now?

Luluo's parents were working as a manager in the Nie family. Her mother happened to find an opportunity to come to see her. When she saw that she dared to scold Nie Xian like this, she was shocked and kept winking at Luluo. Luluo almost couldn't stop her expression, so she had to take two steps forward to avoid her mother's sight and shouted again: "Mr. Nie has forgotten the etiquette rules? Come and teach Mr. Nie to salute!"

Rong Xuan tasted flower tea with her eyes down without any intention of blocking her.

Nie Xian was furious and scolded this unfilial daughter in his heart, but rules were rules. In front of everyone, he had to grit his teeth and salute respectfully, and said loudly with a steady voice: "I wish you a visit to Concubine De, and the empress is blessed with great blessings!"

Rong Xuan slowly put down the teacup and raised her eyes, "No gift. I don't know what my father is asking for a meeting at this time?"

Nie Xian put the words all the way into his mouth. Seeing Rong Xuan's attitude, he couldn't say it directly. He changed his reasons and said, "Just heard from the emperor that the young prince who has not yet been born is a little... I was so angry that the young prince is the second son of the queen. It is crucial. Can you take the left and right away?"

Rong Xuan glanced at Luluo, and Luluo ordered Chunyue. Xia Yue took everyone out of the room. She and Zi Su were with Rong Xuan on the left and right. They were Rong Xuan's confidants, and Nie Xian knew it. When the others left, they advised with a serious expression: "Forgive me, I shouldn't have let the Empress Dowager move Shishi away. Shishi and the Empress grew up together, so that she would do her best to help the Empress. Now that she has granted Zhaoyi, it is also a great help to the Empress, so that the Empress will not be alone and weak when dealing with the concubines.

More importantly, the little prince, who is born with the empress dowager, may be raised by the empress dowager. Wouldn't the empress' plan to want two children to be with her ruin?"

Rong Xuan said lightly: "I never need children by my side. It was because of my father's repeated persuasion that Shishi had a child. I really don't know why my father valued his children so much. Looking back on the past twenty years, my brothers and sisters have not experienced too much deep fatherly love."

Nie Xian's expression changed slightly and he sighed, "It's my fault, it's me who is too immersed in the memories of your mother and neglected your brother and sister. Therefore, I want to make up for it now, want to plan more for the Empress and think carefully. I also want to respect your grandfather and let the Nie family have the prince and the little prince as their backers, so that your grandfather can feel more at ease, relax, and take good care of his health."

He always knew Nie Rongxuan's feelings for Nie Jiuan, and the importance of the Nie family to Nie Rongxuan. He deliberately said this to make Rong Xuan soft-hearted. At the same time, he kept thinking about what went wrong, why did Rong Xuan's attitude towards him change drastically, and why did Shishi move out of Yongxiu Palace.

Rong Xuan just didn't want him to figure it out, and chuckled and said, "My father has been free for many years and is not good at thinking about these things, so don't worry. This palace is the backer of the Nie family. If you have this palace for one day, even the emperor will be polite to the Nie family. As for dealing with the concubines, haha, the empress dowager can't do anything to me, let alone them, they don't need the unfaithful person to help me."

"The unfaithful person" obviously refers to Shishi. Nie Xian was shocked and heard Luluo say unhappy: "That Empress Zhaoyi is very arrogant. She relies on raising His Royal Highness himself and relying on her generous Empress to become more and more presumptuous. If she doesn't move to the palace, she will be the master of the entire Yongxiu Palace."

Nie Xian hurriedly said, "How is this possible? Don't talk nonsense, it upsets the Empress. With the emperor's favor for the Empress, Zhaoyi would never dare to do this."

Zi Su stepped forward, "Mr. Nie has little contact with Zhaoyi, but I grew up with her. This person is narrow-minded, sinister and cunning, and is best at disguising her. In the past, she pleased the Empress just to ask for some food, jewelry, clothes, and the Empress is kind-hearted. She is different from her scruples, and I am different from her general knowledge. Let her take advantage of it.

But since she raised the prince and got pregnant with the little prince, the lowly sign of her bones was revealed. Now who in the palace knows what she is? It was just that the empress dowager wanted to fight with our empress, so she deliberately promoted her to Zhaoyi. When the empress dowager found that she was useless, she would deal with her."

Luluo smiled and said, "Anyway, such unfaithful and unrighteous things will definitely not end well!"

Nie Xian opened his mouth and wanted to speak for Shishi again, but found that nothing was appropriate. How could he, a father, know his daughter's maid better than them? They all said this, how could he say a little good thing about Shishi? This made Nie Xian feel embarrassed and suddenly realized that he was sorry for Shishi for not working hard for the years. Now he has no choice but to protect Shishi.

He was also a little panicked, afraid that Rong Xuan would know Shishi's true identity and Yin Zhi's feelings for Shishi. However, based on his understanding of Nie Rongxuan, if he knew these things, he would definitely make a big fuss. It would be impossible to be like this. Seeing that when he was outside just now, Rong Xuan was not alienated from him? It means that Rong Xuan was just blamed for the fact that he proposed to have a child and caused so much trouble, and he didn't know anything.

But no matter how much he convinced himself, Nie Xian still felt uneasy. He had always seen the ghost of Qin for several days and could not sleep. Now he was upset, which made him feel even more uncomfortable.

Nie Rongxuan said hatefully in the sea of ​​consciousness: [Not enough! Not enough! This man...he deserves to die!]

[Take it slowly, don't be anxious.] Rong Xuan smiled and said, [Otherwise, before you learn how to control people's hearts, I will settle everything. How do you be reborn?]

The most important thing is never to make a counterattack, but to teach the client to control his life in this process. Otherwise, if you help them counterattack ten thousand times, they will still fail. Therefore, Rong Xuan is not in a hurry, and also teach Nie Rongxuan to keep calm and live a long life, and to take it step by step.

Rong Xuan took another sip of tea and stopped giving Nie Xian a chance to speak. She stood up and took everyone to the front to look for Yin Zhi and the others. She walked to Yin Zhi and asked him if he had a good conversation with his grandfather. In fact, she was asking him whether he persuaded his grandfather to do his best to help. Yin Zhi regretfully said that his grandfather was in poor health and he would send an imperial physician to come and take a look when he went back.

At this time, Rong Xuan proposed to talk to his grandfather alone, and Yin Zhi naturally wanted it. He knew that as long as he was willing to coax Rong Xuan, Rong Xuan could make the entire Nie family use it for him, and Nie Jiuan could also expose the previous incident.

So Rong Xuan went to the study with Nie Jiuan openly.

Nie Jiuan thought for a moment and said in surprise: "Xuan'er, are you going to the backyard on purpose and letting the emperor hit a wall with me? Then, naturally, you will have a secret conversation with me?"

Rong Xuan sat down with him and said with a smile: "You can't always use the same excuses to change the method so that he won't be suspicious. Nie Xian came to me just now and wanted Nie Shishi to be my helper and let me protect the little prince's birth."

Nie Jiuan snorted coldly, "That rebellious son! I won't recognize the outer girl he brought back. No matter how noble Zhaoyi is in the future, it has nothing to do with my Nie family!"

"Don't worry, grandfather, she won't be noble for long with me." Rong Xuan mentioned another thing, "It's time for the empress dowager's family to cause trouble, from small to large, and becoming more unlucky. Grandfather might as well go around the Liang family more, without avoiding the emperor, just be a sympathy between capable ministers and one more friend."

Nie Jiuan hesitated and said, "Do you really want the eldest prince to be the prince, and we both have the help of each other?"

"No. The toxins in my body have been completely eliminated. Now I am no different from ordinary people. Do you want the prince and don't give birth to yourself?" Rong Xuan suddenly said this, but Nie Jiuan didn't react.

Rong Xuan continued, "What is my grandfather thinking? Of course, I didn't have a birth with the emperor. Isn't there so many young talents in the royal family? My grandfather helped me find someone who looks good, has a good personality, is clean and will pamper me. In this way, when the emperor changes, I can be my favorite concubine and let my real son be the crown prince."

If Nie Jiuan was surprised just now, he was shocked, so he suddenly stood up, stared at Rong Xuan with wide eyes, pointed at her and couldn't say the complete words, "You...you, you..."

Rong Xuan stood up and said, "Grandfather thinks I am ruthless, but is it too outrageous? He can betray me and can privately meet my maid in every way. Why can't I betray the tooth for an eye for an eye? This is the best ending, right? I just have to work hard on my grandfather and brother, and hold the Nie family for another ten years. When my son is ten years old, I will definitely make him the new emperor!"

"You! Stop the sound quickly!" Nie Jiuan's expression changed drastically. He went to the doors and windows nervously before coming back to scold, "You can say this casually? You, alas!"

Nie Jiuan didn't know what to teach Rong Xuan, so he walked around anxiously with his hands behind his back. Rong Xuan sat back again, took a sip of tea and smiled, "Grandfather, think about it, what's wrong? The most difficult thing is to find a royal family that meets my requirements. I'll ask my grandfather to worry too much."

Nie Jiuan paused and was so angry that he stared at him, "What is the most difficult thing to find a man? It is not difficult to depose the emperor and establish a new emperor together? It is not difficult to appease the court? It is not difficult to cultivate an outstanding prince to succeed to the throne in the future? It is the most difficult to find a man who spoils you?"

"Yes." Rong Xuan said naturally, "Grandfather, you are a man. Are you thinking it's hard to find a man in this world who will spoil me to the core and will never betray me for the rest of my life? I'm not so generous to him to expand his harem. If he dares, he might as well lie in the imperial tomb and let me become the queen mother and raise a male spoil."

"You, what are you saying?" Nie Jiuan pressed his forehead, and the more he heard it, the more outrageous it became. Rong Xuan's attitude made people unable to blame him, and he also felt that what she said was very reasonable.

Nie Jiuan waved his hand and said, "Let me think about it. It is important and not so easy to decide. Don't do anything randomly. Although I am not powerful, I can't fight with the royal family. I may not be able to protect you." He was afraid that his granddaughter would be fascinated by revenge, be confused, and end up harming others and himself.

Rong Xuan smiled and said, "I can trust my grandfather. What did Nie Xian have no energy to do during this period? Everything should go smoothly, right?"

Nie Jiuan was stunned and his heart moved, "Could it be that the paintings you sent Nie Xian deliberately disturbed his mind and made him have no time to care for him so that I could do so many things? I thought... you just wanted to anger him."

Rong Xuan walked to the window and looked out the window, "You have both, and you can pave the way for what I have to do in some time. In short, I am venting my anger for myself and my mother, hoping that my grandfather will not interfere."

Rong Xuan paused and said, "Nie Xian is abolished, but the Nie family still has me, my brother and our children. I will raise my son personally and grow up. He will not regard the Nie family as a thorn in his side. Of course, the Nie family should also take the initiative to give military power. My son will become the next emperor, and he will definitely get along with the monarch and ministers with his nephew, and will protect the prosperity of the Nie family for three generations."

Rong Xuan's tone was plain, but Nie Jiuan looked at her back and listened to her words, but felt a confident and determined momentum of controlling everything. He didn't know why, but at this moment, the anxiety in his heart dissipated a lot. Perhaps the path Rong Xuan mentioned was really the most correct one, and it really allowed them to go smoothly, right?

Nie Jiuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Okay."

The two of them said nothing, and walked out of the study like that, as if the person who had just made the decision against the will was not them.

According to Rong Xuan's intention, Nie Jiuan came out and became a little more enthusiastic about Yin Zhi, saying that with the best medicinal materials sent by the emperor, it would definitely cure the disease. He would do his best to do his best to help the emperor. He also mentioned two government affairs that were difficult to solve recently. Nie Jiuan stated that he would send a student with outstanding ability to solve the problem, which made Yin Zhi relieved.

On the way back to the palace, Yin Zhi was happy about the problems of government affairs, but was angry that the court still relied on the Nie family. He didn't understand that everything had developed well before, and his power gradually penetrated into the Nie family with the help of Nie Xian. Why did he not do anything smoothly recently? His people were all fine, but no one of them was hindered everywhere.

Now that Nie Jiuan is helping to manage the government, he can also have the energy to find out what happened. He has developed such a large force openly and secretly, but he must not have any problems. Thinking of this, he hated the Nie family even more, and also hated Rong Xuan, who was born in the Nie family. He didn't want to see her at all, so he casually found an excuse and went back to his bedroom.

Rong Xuan didn't care. She went back and took a break. After getting up, she ordered someone to dress her up properly and ordered her, "Take the prince with you and see Nie Zhaoyi. After all, the one I went back today is her parents' home. I guess she must want to know what happened."

The prince was very happy to know that he was going to see his real mother. He could see it very excited. At this time, Rong Xuan glanced at him and said lightly: "What about your dignity as the prince? You are the son of this palace and the dignified prince. Nie Zhaoyi also salutes you when you see you. You have not stepped out of Yongxiu Palace yet, so how can you look like a prince?"

The prince glared at her viciously, "When I see my mother, I will never come back!"

Rong Xuan smiled, "Okay, you can ask your mother if she wants it. Without this palace, you are nothing." She bent down slightly and stared at the prince's eyes slowly, "Remember your identity, remember the rules of the etiquette palace, remember the superiors and inferiors, if you are wrong, I will ask you to go to the small Buddhist temple to recite scriptures. From now on, I will never see your mother again."

The prince shivered. The small Buddhist temple was the most terrifying place. Because such a powerful concubine De almost vomited blood and died when she entered the small Buddhist temple, let alone him. And how could she never see her mother again? He also had to deal with this bad woman with his mother, reunite with his mother, brother and father!

The prince was honest. Although he still had the unruly look in his eyes, Rong Xuan didn't care. She just wanted the prince to be obedient on this day.

The group went to Liyun Palace, and early on, a palace servant ran over to inform Shishi to dress up and pick him up. The empress dowager noticed. The nanny asked the empress dowager worriedly if she wanted to go over and take a look. The empress dowager was so disgusted when she remembered them, so she directly asked the nanny to send the palace servant to watch him, and called her if something happened.

Shishi was so angry that she was so angry that she had not eaten the food and smashed a room of porcelain. Finally, she was so tired that she felt panting in the bed and felt uncomfortable for a long time before she fell asleep. However, she was called out by Lily of the Valley when she fell asleep, saying that Rong Xuan was coming and she had to get up to pick her up.

Shishi didn't react at first, and when Rong Xuan came, she needed her to pick her up. When she was doing it at first, Nie Rongxuan said that they were as affectionate as sisters and did not need these false gifts. She had forgotten that Rong Xuan was a concubine of higher rank than her, or a concubine who was favored by the queen mother in the harem, and even the queen mother had to avoid her sharp edge. She had to pick her up respectfully.

The people in the palace were anxious to dress up and change her clothes. Shishi was served by so many people but felt very humiliated because all of this was because she had to endure dressing up to salute Rong Xuan and bow to the woman she hated the most. This was the humiliation that Rong Xuan brought to her!

Shishi was helped to the door early to wait. With the yelling "The Empress De Concubine arrived - His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived -", Shishi saluted with the people of the palace. Even if she had a big belly, she could not slacken at all, and could not even raise her head.

Shishi heard the sound of Rong Xuan and the prince getting out of the carriage and was full of excitement. She finally saw her son! She thought the prince would have come over and hugged her, afraid that she would be tired and told her not to salute her, but she just waited until Rong Xuan and the prince stood in front of her.

Rong Xuan asked with a smile: "Young son, do you still recognize the person in front of you?"

The prince gritted his teeth and said, "Go back to the mother, I recognize that this is Nie Zhaoyi, the concubine who once took care of the son."

The sound of "Mother" pierced into Shishi's heart like a sharp knife. She raised her head in disbelief and saw the cold prince and Rong Xuan's smile.

Only then did she realize that the humiliation she was going to suffer had just begun.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next