After killing four concubines, the queen was sentenced to death and reborn

Nanny Yu came in and bowed, "Greetings to the Queen."

"Madam Yu, please don't be so polite. It's so late. I wonder if the Queen Mother has any important instructions for you?" Zheng Xiyan said in a gentle voice.

Seeing that half of the food on the table had been cleared away, Nanny Yu asked, "Has the Queen already had dinner?"

Zheng Xiyan lowered her eyes and smiled, placed her hands on her stomach, and replied with a smile: "Yes! Now that my stomach is big, I am always hungry, so I had dinner early today."

Nanny Yu smiled and replied, "The Queen Mother ordered me to come and ask the Queen to go to Shoukang Palace."

"It's so late, is there something important?" Zheng Xiyan asked in a deep voice with her pupils shrinking slightly.

Yu Ma explained, "The Queen is pregnant and is concentrating on taking care of her baby. I don't think she knows what happened in the harem today."

"Madame Yu, what happened?" Zheng Xiyan's expression was filled with worry, and she pretended to be worried.

"Yi Chongrong sang Kunqu Opera in the Imperial Garden this afternoon."

"What? This kind of thing actually happened. This... This, I didn't even know about it." Zheng Xiyan pretended to be shocked, and the next second she blamed herself, "As the Empress, I am responsible for not disciplining Yi Chongrong and disturbing my mother's peace. It's all my fault."

Yu Ma Ma hurriedly said, "The Imperial Garden is far from Weiyang Palace, and the queen is pregnant now, so all palace affairs have been handed over to the Queen Consort Xian. The queen has been concentrating on her pregnancy, so even if the palace servants knew about it, they dared not come to disturb her. It is understandable that the queen did not know about it, and the queen does not need to blame herself."

"Having said that, I didn't even know this had happened. I feel really ashamed towards my mother and His Majesty." The more Zheng Xiyan spoke, the more she blamed herself, with guilt written all over her face.

Biluo helped her up and said, "There is no time to lose. Let's get someone to prepare a sedan chair and go to Shoukang Palace."

"Yes!"

Shoukang Palace

Yi Chongrong had already knelt before the Empress Dowager. She looked aggrieved and sobbed, without any sense of propriety at all.

The Queen Mother scolded, "These days, I asked you to copy Buddhist scriptures, and the Emperor ordered you to copy palace rules. I never thought that you would not reflect on yourself at all, and now you have done something so disgraceful, you..."

"Empress Dowager, I just wanted to sing for Your Majesty and make him happy. I didn't know..." Yi Chongrong said crying.

"Shut up! How dare you quibble?" The Queen Mother's face turned red with anger.

At this time, Zheng Xiyan walked in and said, "Your son pays respects to the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother calmed down and said coldly, "You don't have to be so polite, Queen."

"Thank you, Queen Mother."

Biluo helped her sit down beside the Queen Mother, and then advised: "Don't be angry, Queen Mother. Yi Chongrong has been in the palace for a short time. I don't think she is..."

The Queen Mother glared coldly. So many things had happened in the palace these days. In the final analysis, it was her, the Queen, who had failed to do her job. "Queen! You are too kind to the concubines."

Zheng Xiyan was really shocked by the Queen Mother's expression, and her heart tightened, "Mother, I just feel that..."

"So many things have happened in the harem these days. As the Empress, you cannot escape the blame." The Empress Dowager said this in a serious tone, and it was also a reminder to her.

Zheng Xiyan lowered her eyes slightly, not daring to refute, "It is my son's fault. Please punish me, mother!" After saying that, Zheng Xiyan stood up and knelt awkwardly on the ground.

The Queen Mother would not really punish her, so she said coldly, "The Queen is pregnant, get up first!"

"Yes, thank you mother!" Zheng Xiyan stood up and stood aside with Biluo's support.

The Queen Mother looked at Yi Chongrong fiercely and said, "Yi Chongrong is a concubine who does not abide by the palace rules and has no remorse for doing such immoral things. She will be stripped of her title and demoted to a talented person."

"Empress Dowager!" Yi Chongrong panicked instantly.

"What? Is Concubine Zhao dissatisfied?" the Queen Mother asked coldly.

Zhao Cairen was dumbfounded. She had finally become a concubine and was ranked among the nine concubines, but now she was demoted back to a talented person?

"Come here, send Concubine Zhao back to Yihua Palace. Without my order, she is not allowed to step out of Yihua Palace."

"Yes!"

Two palace maids came up and dragged Zhao Cairen away. Zhao Cairen shouted, "Please forgive me, Queen Mother. I will never do it again. Please calm down and forgive me this time!"

After Concubine Zhao left Shoukang Palace, the palace became quiet. The Queen Mother turned her head and looked at her, saying in a cold voice: "The Queen is pregnant now, so it is inevitable that she will not pay attention to the affairs of the harem, but as the master of the harem, you must not be biased in doing things. Wrong is wrong, right is right. Here are the palace rules, rewards and punishments are clear, you must not deal with it arbitrarily."

"Your son will remember your mother's teachings and will never make the same mistake again." Zheng Xiyan knelt down and saluted.

The Queen Mother stared at her. Too many things had happened in the past few days. She often wondered if she had any hand in these things...

"Okay, go back and rest early!" said the Queen Mother in a deep voice.

"Yes! My son, please retire."

Biluo helped her leave. After leaving Shoukang Palace, Zheng Xiyan's tense heart finally relaxed. She sat on the sedan chair and Biluo said, "Get up!"

"I'm afraid the Queen Mother has already suspected me." Zheng Xiyan said in a deep voice.

Biluo's eyes changed, "Then..."

"But it doesn't matter. It's just suspicion now. I will find a way to dispel the Queen Mother's suspicion in the future."

"Yes!"

When Zheng Xiyan returned to Weiyang Palace, she saw the imperial carriage parked outside the palace and knew that Xiao Xuanchen had arrived.

Entering the main hall, Xiao Xuanchen was sitting on the couch with a book in his hands.

"Your Majesty is here, I give you..." Zheng Xiyan walked forward with a smile, and just as she was about to salute, Xiao Xuanchen stood up and stopped her, "I've told you so many times, don't be so polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"I just went to Shoukang Palace. Does Your Majesty know about it?" Zheng Xiyan asked.

Xiao Xuanchen said in a deep voice: "Of course I know, how did the Queen Mother punish Yi Chongrong?"

Zheng Xiyan replied: "My mother demoted her to a talented lady, stripped her of her title, and confined her to Yihua Palace."

Xiao Xuanchen didn't react at all, and said, "That's good too. It's a warning to the concubines in the harem, and it can be regarded as killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

Zheng Xiyan smiled slightly, "I thought Your Majesty would protect Concubine Zhao. Didn't Your Majesty like her very much? Why don't you like her now?"

Xiao Xuanchen helped her sit down, took her hands, and said, "I used to think she was simple-minded and different from the women in the palace, but now it seems that she is no different."