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

Lu Zhaolin still couldn't see this portrait. Jiang Shiying was about to bring him the list of beautiful girls when she saw Ping An push the door open and come in.

"My son has met his father, the emperor, and his mother and concubine."

Ping An saluted solemnly.

He is still young, with a somewhat sickly look on his face. His eyebrows are quite similar to Jiang Shiying's, but the lower half of his face is exactly the same as Lu Zhaolin's.

Originally, because he was Jiang Shiying's son and he was born prematurely due to his own fault, Lu Zhaolin was a little more partial to him. After that, looking at this face that looked both like Aying and myself, my preference grew more and more unknowingly.

Lu Zhaolin shouted, and Jiang Shiying called him to his side.

After touching his palms, which were warm, and seeing that there was no sweat on his face, I felt relieved.

Lu Zhaolin asked him gently: "What did you do just now?"

Ping An said: "I made bamboo leaf cake in the small kitchen today. I remembered that my tenth brother loved this snack, so I took some and sent them to Changxin Palace. After that, I stayed in Changxin Palace with my tenth brother. I just came back after playing for a while.”

Lu Zhaolin already knew that he was close to the tenth prince, so he nodded when he heard this: "Good boy, I can't help you eat a snack while I'm still thinking of your tenth brother."

Ping An smiled and said matter-of-factly: "My son is an elder brother, so of course he must miss his younger brother."

"Oh?" Lu Zhaolin raised his eyebrows in a funny way: "Brother Ping An seems to be a bit biased."

Ping An tilted his head and looked at him in confusion.

Lu Zhaolin said: "Why do I only see you caring about your tenth brother, but not your ninth brother?"

Hearing him ask this, Ping An didn't think anything was wrong, but Jiang Shiying felt a little bored. Their Majesty, when he was the prince, did not necessarily have a harmonious relationship with all his brothers. Now that I am a father, I hope that all my sons can be brothers and sisters.

I was thinking this in my heart, but I couldn't bring it out in my face at all. If Ping An wants to sit in that position, he still has to act like a good son and brother in front of his father.

"My son, I also miss my ninth brother, but——"

"Just what?"

"It's just that every time I go to see my ninth brother, it seems to be very unlucky. My ninth brother is either asleep or not in the palace. After a long time, I don't want to go."

Lu Zhaolin thought to himself, where could there be so many mishaps? Most likely, it was Xue Guibin who didn't want Ping An to see the Ninth Prince.

Thinking of this, he felt dissatisfied with Xue Guibin. But when facing Ping An, he still looked gentle: "In two days, my father will ask your ninth brother to come to Jingyang Palace to find you, okay?"

"Really?" Ping An looked at him with surprise and blinked.

Lu Zhaolin nodded: "Of course it's true."

Ping An said: "Then Ping An will invite Sister Funing over. Ping An can occasionally see Ninth Brother. Sister Funing said that except for the big banquets in the palace, she almost never sees Ninth Brother."

Lu Zhaolin stroked the top of his head and said softly "Okay".

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The next day, after Lu Zhaolin finished his morning court, he went to Xue Guibi's Broken Qiongxuan to tighten the strings for her.

At the same time, in Fengyi Palace, which had been closed for a long time, the queen also received news that her cousin had signed up for the draft.

Just after Huaping finished speaking, the queen spat out a mouthful of blood with a pop.

"Empress!" Huaping's face suddenly turned pale.

The queen shook her head: "I have nothing to do with you."

Since she was imprisoned in Fengyi Palace to recuperate a few years ago, she has been lingering on the sick bed and has never gotten better.

He vomited blood or something, once or twice, it was terrifying. As time went by, even the queen herself got used to it.

Only Hua Ping really couldn't see this and was constantly worried about her.

"Slave, go get the pills." As he spoke, Huaping was about to walk into the back hall.

The Queen stopped her: "Wait a minute."

"Empress." Huaping looked sideways at her, waiting for her instructions.

"Xinchan came to the palace for the queen's position." The queen said slowly.

She looked out the window and looked far away: "I have occupied this seat and been trapped in Fengyi Palace for a long enough time."

What she said was really ominous. Huaping's heart trembled when she heard it: "Mother."

The queen said: "After I leave, you will go to Xinchan Palace to serve me."

Huaping shook his head: "My Lady, please don't say such things. I'm not going anywhere, I'm just guarding you."

After saying that, she didn't want to hear these depressing words from the queen anymore, so she went directly to the back hall to get medicine for the queen.

The queen smiled and said nothing more.

Huaping felt that her words were ominous, but it was a relief for herself.

First of all, this kind of lingering life is really boring. If the Song family hadn't needed a queen, she wouldn't have wanted to continue.

Secondly, it was her impulsive actions a few years ago that brought her to this point, and also caused the Song and Deng families to take a step back in the court. When her cousin entered the palace, she died cleanly and gave up the queen's position, which was regarded as repaying the family's upbringing.

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Two days later, Xue Guibi brought the Ninth Prince to Jingyang Palace.

After seeing the ceremony, Jiang Shiying gave her a seat, and then asked someone to take the Ninth Prince to Xinuang Pavilion.

"Fu Ning arrived early in the morning, and now he and Ping An are waiting in the Xinuang Pavilion."

Although she had already expected it, when she heard the word "Fu Ning", Xue Guibi subconsciously held the Ninth Prince's hand tightly.

When the Ninth Prince was brought to her, he was still an infant and had no memory. In the past few years, she had put all her efforts into raising the Ninth Prince as if he were her own.

Precisely because of this, the Ninth Prince was afraid that his biological mother was someone else, so he kept strict guard against everyone else in the palace.

It's hard for Ping An to see the Ninth Prince, let alone Princess Funing, the biological sister of the Ninth Prince's mother.

"Concubine?" The Ninth Prince called her as his hand hurt.

Only then did Xue Guibi react, squatting down and blowing on him distressedly. Then he carefully warned the nanny of the Ninth Prince, and then asked him to follow Qiu Yu to Xinuang Pavilion.

Jiang Shiying looked at it and felt that Concubine Xue Gui had stayed here, but Hun'er seemed to have followed the Ninth Prince.

Not long after, the tenth prince also arrived, but Concubine De did not come, so the wet nurse had to send him over.

"My son, I have met the imperial concubine's mother, and I have met Empress Xue."

Xue Guibi thought to herself that the son of such a noble person as Concubine De was actually a flattering one. When he saw the powerful imperial concubine, he would call her mother, and when he saw his little concubine, he would call her empress Xue. At a young age, I know how to watch people order food.

She didn't know that the reason why the tenth prince called Jiang Shiying his concubine was because he played well with Ping An and often came to Jingyang Palace, so he was already familiar with Jiang Shiying. On the contrary, she, Empress Xue, had only met her once at a palace banquet during festivals, so naturally she was very unfamiliar with her, so she just followed the palace rules and called her Empress Xue.