GBP Chapter 145: Soul Traveling Through Summer, Winter, and Spring (Provision Version) 2
Chapter 145: Soul Traveling Through Summer, Winter, and Spring (Provision Version) 2
In Zhongcui Palace, Xia Dongchun reluctantly sent Princess Wen Yi to Xianfu Palace, and she even acted very arrogantly in Xianfu Palace before she was willing to leave. Fortunately, Concubine Jing was kind-hearted and did not bother with her.
For a time, the rumor in the palace was that Concubine Min was domineering and had inherited the true skills from Concubine Hua. Pang Ju was unhappy to hear this and felt that Xia Dongchun was too ignorant.
The Queen was pleased to see this happen. "After all, Concubine Min is young and will be sensible in the future. I also hope that she will be more stable and can help me share my worries."
Fat Orange frowned, "Humph! With her personality, it's good enough that she doesn't cause trouble! What big deal can she take?"
The Queen smiled awkwardly, as if she had said something wrong. But she felt relieved in her heart, after all, the Queen Mother had intended for Xia Dongchun to learn how to manage palace affairs.
Yixiu doesn't mind keeping a younger version of Concubine Qi, but the premise is that Xia Dongchun can't interfere with the palace power. Now it's good. Without Concubine Hua, Xia Dongchun is nothing to be afraid of. She can kill her at any time.
As compensation, Concubine Duan, who lost her adopted daughter, was appointed as a noble concubine by the emperor, but the newly appointed noble concubine was not happy.
"Min Fei, Jing Fei, good, really good, poof—"
"Ah! Madam! Too..."
"No!" Qi Yuebin grabbed Jixiang in time, wiped the blood with a handkerchief, and panted, "The emperor has appointed me as a concubine. This is a happy event. How can we disturb the imperial physician?"
"Empress~" Jixiang felt distressed.
"Go, burn this handkerchief so no one can see it."
"Yes."
Qi Yuebin knew she didn't have long to live, but her enemies weren't completely wiped out, and she wasn't willing to accept that, to close her eyes like this.
Before Qi Yuebin died, Zhen Yuandao was in great trouble.
Xia Dongchun deliberately revealed Huanbi's identity as an illegitimate daughter to Guaerjia Wenyuan. Not long after, Guaerjia Emin impeached Zhen Yuandao in the court for having an affair with the daughter of a criminal official, using her as a maid, and deceiving the emperor!
After the incident, Zhen Huan knelt in front of the Yangxin Palace to plead for mercy. After Xia Dongchun got the news, she quickly sent someone to carry her to the Yangxin Palace to watch the joke. On the way, she met Concubine Qi and invited her to go with her. Concubine Qi happily agreed.
The two concubines in the harem who were generally recognized as brainless rushed to the Yangxin Palace and started to ridicule Zhen Huan.
Guarjia Wenyuan: Hey~ Look who's this? It's Consort Wan. Why are you kneeling here? It's really embarrassing for the Emperor!
Xia Dongchun: What a turn of events! Wasn't Concubine Wan very proud when she heard Concubine Hua kneeling here and begging the Emperor for forgiveness? I never thought that you, Concubine Wan, would end up like this!
Guarjia Wenyuan: What goes around comes around~
Su Peisheng: ...You two are really not afraid of death!
Huanbi glared at the two of them, and Zhen Huan also looked at them with a very unfriendly look.
Xia Dongchun: What are you looking at? Is what I said wrong?
Guaerjia Wenyuan: Exactly! Especially you! Huanbi, haha, Sister Min, what do you think Zhen Yuandao was thinking? He cheated on his wife and gave birth to a bastard. No, it would have been fine if he had given birth to an illegitimate daughter, but he didn't dare let her recognize her ancestral roots and instead took her back to be a slave to the legitimate daughter, and even gave her such a humiliating name. Huanbi, Huanbi, be a slave~
Xia Dongchun: Sister Qi is smart! I didn't even notice it until you told me. This Zhen Yuandao is really good at naming. Hahahaha~
"You!" Even a calm person like Zhen Huan turned pale with anger after hearing this. "Noble Qi, please watch your mouth! You dare to speak such dirty words in front of the emperor, aren't you afraid?" Before she finished speaking, Zhen Huan rolled her eyes and fainted.
This frightened the two of them, "Hey, she fainted on her own, it has nothing to do with me!"
Xia Dongchun felt guilty and turned around to leave after making excuses. Guaerjia Wenyuan also hurriedly followed. By the time Su Peisheng informed Pangju, the two had already fled.
Fat Orange: You're so cowardly yet you still dare to stir up trouble everywhere. What were you thinking? Why did I choose these two idiots in the first place?
After the imperial physician examined Zhen Huan's pulse, he beamed with joy: "Your Majesty, great news! Concubine Wan is pregnant."
Zhen Huan's birth came just in time, saving the Zhen family and Huanbi's life. For the sake of the child, Zhen Yuandao was dismissed from his post and confined to his home, while Huanbi was beaten with the cane twenty times and sent home.
Xia Dongchun and Guaerjia Wenyuan, who had caused trouble, were confined to their rooms for three days by the Emperor and were punished to copy the palace rules ten times because of their bad words that made Zhen Huan faint.
Xia Dongchun: No, Your Majesty! I really didn't mean to make Concubine Wan faint on purpose! Please, Heaven, tell me the difference between loyalty and treachery!
The confined Guarjia Wenyuan hated Xia Dongchun to death! "It's all Concubine Min's fault! If she hadn't instigated me, how could I have provoked Zhen Huan? Humph! Such a troublemaker!"
So after the ban was lifted, Xia Dongchun found that Guarjia Wenyuan was no longer willing to play with her.
Xia Dongchun: Humph! If you don't want to play, then don't play! There are plenty of people who want to play with me!
It just so happened that the birthday of the eldest princess, Concubine Xin, was approaching, and Xia Dongchun felt that she had found a place to show her talents. She ran to the Yangxin Palace and told the emperor that she wanted to hold a grand birthday banquet for Princess Shuhe.
It just so happened that the Emperor was drafting an imperial edict to confer the title of Concubine on Concubine Wan. When Xia Dongchun saw this, her lips were so pouty that she could hang a bottle of oil on it. She tugged at the Emperor's sleeve and said, "Your Majesty is partial! Your Majesty, please look at us! Concubine Xin has served you for many years and even gave birth to your eldest princess, but she is still just a concubine~"
Fat Orange: Oh, yes! How could I have forgotten her? He then drafted an imperial decree, appointing Jin Xinchang as a noble lady and asking Xia Dongchun to help organize Princess Shuhe's birthday banquet.
Empress: The Emperor truly cares for Concubine Wan. He's just diagnosed her with pregnancy, and he's already eager to make her a concubine. Will he make her a concubine after the baby is born? And Concubine Min is also a worry! She's actually learned how to win people over. However, Concubine Xin isn't so easily won over. Don't let this end up in vain.
Xia Dongchun was busy celebrating the princess' birthday and had no time to make trouble, but Guaerjia Wenyuan was unwilling to let Zhen Huan go.
Soon, Zhen Yuandao, who was idle at home, was accused by Guwalgiya Emin of secretly storing the poetry collection of the traitor Qian Mingshi.
Fat Ju knew full well that Zhen Yuandao might dislike his exploitation of Nian Gengyao's former subordinates to implicate court officials, but he certainly wouldn't go so far as to secretly hoard a collection of traitorous poems praising Nian Gengyao. He was deeply displeased with Guargiya Emin's erratic behavior, but he still needed him to deal with Longkodo. So, it wasn't a good time to expose him.
So Zhen Yuandao was imprisoned again.
Zhen Huan, who was already pregnant, had to hold her belly high to plead for her father, "Your Majesty! My father was wrongly accused. I beg Your Majesty to see through this!"
The Emperor did not see her and only asked Su Peisheng to persuade her to go back. Zhen Huan left the Yangxin Palace disappointed. But in fact, Zhen Huan was willing to leave so happily because Su Peisheng slipped a note into her palm when he helped her up.
Half a month later, Zhen Yuandao was exiled to Ningguta, accompanied by his family. Publicly, the emperor simply gave the Zhen family's women a modest carriage and the convenience of not having to be slaves to armored men, but secretly, he sent Prince Guo to escort them all the way.
Therefore, although Guarjia Emin sent people to rob and kill along the way, the four members of the Zhen family arrived in Ningguta safely. On the contrary, he himself revealed many flaws, which were caught by Prince Guo one by one.
Ten months of pregnancy, one day of birth. Zhen Huan gave the Emperor a lovely little princess. Fat Ju laughed like a 200-pound fat man, "Concubine Wan has contributed greatly to childbirth, and she deserves to be made a consort. The princess will be named Longyue. Huanhuan, what do you think?"
Zhen Huan: "I obey your order and thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."
Noble Lady Qi was dissatisfied: "Wanpin is the daughter of a criminal minister. It is a favor from the emperor that she is honored as a concubine. If she is promoted again, won't it cause criticism from the court and the public?"
Xia Dongchun echoed: "That's right! That's right!"
Fat Orange was unhappy: "Hanhuan is my beloved concubine and the biological mother of Princess Longyue. I confer a title on the princess's biological mother. This is a family matter. Who dares to interfere?!"
Xia Dongchun immediately backed off: "I dare not, Your Majesty is wise."
Concubine Qi glared at Xia Dongchun: (╬▔皿▔)Traitor!
Yixiu disdains: Two useless idiots!
Longkodo has passed away, Zhen Huan gave birth safely, Pangju finally had time to settle accounts with Guwalgiya Emin, and Yixiu finally got to use Chunyuan's old clothes.
The final result was that both Concubine Qi and Zhen Huan suffered losses. Guarjia Emin was executed by slow slicing, Concubine Qi was demoted to the rank of Concubine Qi, and Zhen Huan was publicly reprimanded by the Emperor at her consort ceremony and forced to remove her ceremonial attire and return to Yongshou Palace, a humiliating act.
What made her even more heartbroken was that the emperor had always treated her as a substitute for Queen Chunyuan.
"Wanwan Leiqing, Your Majesty, do you have any heart? All these years of love and time have been wasted!"
"How dare you! Wanpin has been acting crazy and is now confined to Yongshou Palace. She is not allowed to leave without being summoned. Princess Longyue will be handed over to the Empress for her upbringing."
Yixiu, who received Longyue's call, smiled strangely. "Look, how pitiful she is. She's already been dragged down by her mother at such a young age. What will she do in the future? Alas! I'm really afraid that she will follow the same path as Princess Chaogui. After all, it was Wanpin who suggested Princess Chaogui get married."
Jianqiu felt a flicker of pity. Princess Chaogui had been widowed just a month after marrying the old Junggar Khan. The grassland tribes had always had the unjust custom of levirate marriage. Poor Princess Chaogui had become a stepson's concubine, dying of depression at a young age, in a foreign land. The Queen...
Jianqiu's reluctance was only for a moment, and she ultimately had to prioritize the Queen's wishes and interests. However, the Queen's malicious intent was successfully received by Concubine Duan Qi Yuebin, who was hiding in the dark.
Late at night, Yongshou Palace welcomed a giant Buddha.
"Ahem. Wanpin, you are so distraught. Have you completely given up on the Emperor? You are so self-destructive. Have you ever thought about Longyue's future? And your parents and your two sisters, do you not care about them anymore?"
"Hazy Moon?"
"Marriage between Manchus and Mongols is an ancestral rule. If you don't establish yourself, Princess Chaogui's life will be Longyue's life!"
"No! No! My Lady, what do you want me to do by helping you?"
"I want you to kill the queen."
"what?"
"The death of Queen Chunyuan was not an accident."
"You mean, the Queen?"
[The next chapter of Xia Dongchun will be completed, and updates on Noble Lady Fucha will resume next week.]