The rebirth of a concubine: Gong Du will become the Queen Mother

Three days later, the matter came to light.

What happened to Du Wenpo back then was indeed not the fault of the Qin family.

But what is happening now between Sha Laoer and Cai Wenpo is Qin Zhaorong and her brother.

Before Lu Zhaolin could issue the order to punish him, Qin Zhaorong's grandfather, General Qin, went to the palace in person to plead guilty.

Lu Zhaolin finally spared the lives of Qin Zhaorong and her brother because the old general Qin was old and had made great contributions to the Jin Dynasty.

Qin Zhaorong was demoted to change clothes and was imprisoned in Yunjian Pavilion from then on. No one was allowed to enter without an imperial edict.

Qin Gengyi's brother was dismissed from office and could no longer serve as an official in the court.

The military power of the Qin family has since been returned to Lu Zhaolin's hands. I don’t know if exchanging military power for the lives of his grandchildren is a worthwhile deal for General Qin.

As for General Zhongwu who helped in this matter, he was removed from his position by Lu Zhaolin and was given a rating of "Wu Wu Zhong".

He climbed all the way up from a small soldier, but now he fell down and couldn't even become a small soldier, so he was taken to the west to do hard labor.

Cold palace.

The originally locked palace door suddenly opened. A series of palace people, led by Yao Xingde, followed him and poured into the palace door.

The little palace maid Jin Sui was sitting on the threshold doing some work. When she saw this, she opened her mouth wide, then got up and ran towards the house, shouting loudly: "Master, Eunuch Yao has brought people."

After a while, Tao Shuren came out of the house with Jin Sui.

"I've met Eunuch Yao." As she spoke, she was about to bow to Yao Xingdefu.

Yao Xingde quickly stopped her: "It's not appropriate, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"Empress?" Tao Shuren's face froze and he smiled bitterly: "I can't bear the title of Eunuch Yao. I have already been demoted to a commoner by Your Majesty."

Even before she was demoted, she was just a beauty and could only be called mistress.

Yao Xingde smiled broadly: "Your Majesty has found out that when the imperial concubine fell into the water, it was Qin Gengyi who pushed you from behind, which caused you to hit the imperial concubine. It was not your fault."

"Qin changes his clothes?" Tao Shuren said with surprise.

Yao Xingde said: "It's the original Qin Zhaorong. She made the big mistake of murdering the emperor's heir and has been demoted to changing clothes."

"That's it." Tao Shuren lowered his eyes and covered up the sarcasm in his eyes.

How funny, Qin Zhaorong's attempt to murder the emperor's heir was nothing more than being demoted to changing clothes.

As for her, who didn't know that the imperial concubine fell into the water, and she was just implicated? However, His Majesty still demoted her to a commoner and relegated her to the cold palace.

Yao Xingde didn't know what she was thinking, and said: "Your Majesty knows that you have been wronged and wronged, and has already made a decree to make you a Qing concubine and grant you a residence in the main hall of Chong'an Palace. Please be prepared to accept the decree." .”

The edict was read out quickly, and the Qing concubine respectfully took the edict with both hands: "I accept the edict and thank the Holy Grace."

No, she was not grateful for any divine grace.

If she really wanted to thank her, she would only thank Concubine Chen.

The main hall of Chong'an Palace had already been tidied up, and Yao Xingde personally sent the Qing concubines there before returning to the imperial palace.

The person accompanying him at the moment happened to be Jiang Shiying.

After listening to Yao Xingde's words, Jiang Shiying sighed and said: "Fortunately, this matter has been investigated to the bottom of the matter. Now, the Qing concubine can be considered to have finally come to the end of her hardships."

Lu Zhaolin played with her fingers and said as if unintentionally: "I heard that when Qing concubine was in the cold palace, Ah Ying often sent people to see her?"

Jiang Shiying knew in her heart that his suspicious habit had occurred again.

She only said: "After the imperial concubine fell into the water, every time I thought about it, I felt that the person behind it was not Qing Concubine. Qing Concubine's expression was sincere at that time, and she didn't seem to be hypocritical."

Lu Zhaolin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why don't you come to talk to me about this?"

Jiang Shiying smiled: "After careful review by the Shenxing Department, Your Majesty has issued an explicit edict. Even if Aying has some doubts, she will not refute His Majesty's edict just because she sympathizes with the Qing concubine. In Aying's case, In my heart, how can a pure concubine be compared with His Majesty?"

These words were very helpful to Lu Zhaolin. He lowered his head and played with Jiang Shiying's fingers, but there was a hint of joking in his tone: "You don't want to refute my will, so you secretly let someone take care of her?"

Jiang Shiying said: "Where did you secretly let someone take care of you? Ah Ying let Yu Chengyi go in an open and honest manner!"

Lu Zhaolin laughed out loud: "Okay, okay, you are not secretly looking after me, you are upright. Our grandma is a rare kind-hearted person in the harem."

Jiang Shiying spoke in a relaxed tone: "I'm not the only kind-hearted person in the harem."

Lu Zhaolin raised his eyes and looked at her: "Oh? Is there anyone else?"

Jiang Shiying said: "There is also the imperial concubine. Yu Chengyi said that when he went to visit the concubine, he bumped into people around the imperial concubine several times."

"The imperial concubine?" Lu Zhaolin was really surprised now: "The imperial concubine will ask someone to take care of the Qing concubine? Could it be that she is going to teach the Qing concubine a lesson?"

Jiang Shiying shook her head: "That's not true. The imperial concubine's people gave the Qing concubine a lot of food."

It's just that the Qing concubine was afraid that the imperial concubine had tampered with those things, so she didn't dare to touch them, so she put them all away.

Lu Zhaolin lowered his eyelids slightly. He had never heard of this matter. The person who wanted to come to the imperial concubine deliberately covered his tracks, but he was accidentally bumped into by Yu Chengyi.

This matter is somewhat inconsistent with the imperial concubine's temperament.

Even if the imperial concubine was smart, she guessed that the concubine Qing didn't mean to push her into the water. Based on the concubine's consistent behavior, she should be resentful and angry at the concubine Qing. How could she not only not care about her, but also take care of her?

Lu Zhaolin made a note of this in his mind, but was not prepared to delve into it further.

Early the next morning, in Fengyi Palace.

In today's greeting ceremony, the Qing concubines unsurprisingly became the center of attention.

Everyone from the Queen to Shun Cai congratulated her on being proved innocent and that her suffering was over.

The caring look in the Queen's brows was beyond words: "It's all over. From now on, good days are waiting for you."

Concubine Shu also said: "After staying in the cold palace for nearly a year, my sister must have suffered a lot, but she must take good care of herself."

The Queen nodded and said, "What Concubine Shu said is right."

She looked at the picture screen: "Go and get the wild ginseng that the mansion sent in a few days ago."

Not long after, Huaping came back with wild ginseng.

The Queen signaled her to hand the wild ginseng to Qing Concubine. Qing Concubine wanted to refuse, but the Queen pretended to be angry: "Why, as the Queen, I am not even qualified to reward you?"

The Qing concubine could only take the things, stood up and saluted: "I would like to thank the Queen for the reward."

After the greetings were dispersed and the Qing concubine returned to Chong'an Palace, someone from the palace sent word that it was Miss Xianyue from the imperial concubine's palace who wanted to see her.

Qing concubine said: "Please come in."