The Empress of Zhen Huan Reborn

The Queen Mother looked at the Emperor calmly, took a long breath, and after calming down, she looked at the Emperor with the same mockery and said, "Your Majesty, if you get rid of me, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to stop the people from complaining?"

The emperor looked at the queen mother and said calmly, "Don't worry about that. Oh, there's something I forgot to tell you."

Without waiting for the empress dowager to reply, the emperor continued, "I have issued an edict today to posthumously confer the title of Empress Dowager Xiaoyiren on Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia, and to bury her with the late emperor. As for you, after your death, I will bury you in the concubine's mausoleum, and you will never see the late emperor again in your lifetime."

After the emperor finished speaking, he admired the empress dowager's gradually desperate expression with great satisfaction, and was in no hurry to leave.

The Queen Mother suddenly remembered something and said bitterly: "The Emperor has been in the high position for too long and has forgotten what he did in the past?"

The emperor looked at the empress dowager, and a dark gleam of ambiguous meaning flashed across his eyes.

Seeing that the emperor was silent, the queen mother said sarcastically, "If the queen knew that her previous child was murdered by you, and that the emperor personally mixed musk in the Huan Yi incense for the queen, how would the queen feel?"

The emperor looked at the empress dowager with an increasingly cold gaze, as if he was looking at a dying person, and said in a tone that brooked no argument: "Do you think you still have a chance to tell the queen? After today, not even a fly can fly out of your Shoukang Palace, and the servants who served you will all be buried with you when you die!"

When the Queen Mother heard the Emperor's words, her blood surged up and she spat out blood again. She raised her hand with great effort and pointed at the Emperor, "You...you..."

The emperor said without any concern, "Well, since the queen mother is in such poor health, she should rest well. The queen is still waiting for me. I will leave first. When the queen mother passes away, I will take some time to see you off."

After saying this, the emperor took a step and walked out of the bedroom in Shoukang Palace.

As for Nian Shilan, since the emperor asked her to leave first, she has been hiding outside the door of the bedroom, wanting to see what the emperor would say to the empress dowager. If it is related to the Nian family, she can make plans early.

Su Peisheng naturally followed Nian Shilan out, but seeing Nian Shilan standing behind the screen at the door, he didn't know how to stop her, so he had to let Nian Shilan eavesdrop there.

Nian Shilan had known all these trivial matters for a long time, so when she heard the Queen Mother mention her unborn child and Huan Yixiang, she did not take it seriously.

What Su Peisheng saw was that the Queen Mother really loved the Emperor deeply, and she did not doubt the Emperor at all even in the face of provocations from people with ulterior motives.

(Su Peisheng: Big Fat Orange, have you seen Hua Duidui's sincerity towards you? You schemed against her like that before, don't you feel guilty?

Emperor: Hehehe, of course I know that my Lan'er loves me the most. Do I need you to tell me? If you dare to call me Fatty Orange, drag me away and give me fifty lashes.

Nian Shilan: Oh! Love you? I'd rather love your concubines than you, at least they are beautiful, what do you have!

Nian Shilan listened halfway and realized that the emperor's patience with the empress dowager was running out and he was about to come out, so she quietly moved her steps and waited in the main hall.

So when the emperor walked out of the bedroom of Shoukang Palace, what he saw was Nian Shilan looking around the decoration of Shoukang Palace without much concern.

The emperor strode to Nian Shilan's side, took her hand, and said, "Lan'er, let's go back."

Nian Shilan took the emperor's arm, looked at him with concern and said, "Okay, Your Majesty, let's go back together."

When the emperor and Nian Shilan returned from Shoukang Palace, they did not ride in a sedan chair. It was Nian Shilan who suggested that she accompany the emperor for a walk. Seeing that Nian Shilan was in high spirits, the emperor let her drag him for a stroll on the tree-lined paths in the palace.

After walking for a while, Nian Shilan raised her head and looked at the emperor, and asked softly, "Your Majesty, are you feeling sad?"

The emperor naturally understood what Nian Shilan was referring to. Without stopping, he looked into the distance and said slowly, "The Queen Mother has done many evil things and should have been punished long ago. She also killed my biological mother. I just feel that everything now is not enough!"

Nian Shilan nodded when she heard the emperor's words, and pretended to agree casually: "Yes, if someone hurt my family, I would want to cut him into pieces. The Queen Mother's fate is indeed too light."

When the emperor heard what Nian Shilan said, he was shocked and looked at the expression on Nian Shilan's face sharply. He saw that Nian Shilan seemed to be just speaking casually. His eyes were fixed on the same place with a calm look and no expression on his face.

The emperor was worried that Nian Shilan might know something. When he was about to speak to test her, he saw Nian Shilan suddenly tug at his sleeves and said with a tone full of joy: "Your Majesty, look, it's Xiyan."

The emperor looked in the direction of Nian Shilan's finger and saw white flowers blooming in the bushes, which indeed looked a unique sight.

The emperor thought about what Nian Shilan had just said about Xi Yan, and asked in confusion: "Xi Yan flower? How come I have never heard of it before?"

Nian Shilan smiled at the emperor and explained, "It's natural that your emperor doesn't know the evening primrose. The evening primrose flower is not as beautiful as ordinary flowers. Moreover, the evening primrose flower only blooms at dusk and withers the next morning. Many people think it is unlucky, so few people plant it on weekdays, so it is naturally rare."

The emperor listened to Nian Shilan's explanation and frowned in displeasure, saying, "The blooming period is too short, which is really not good."

Nian Shilan didn't care and continued to smile: "I think this flower is very good, just like the Epiphyllum, the beauty of the moment when the Epiphyllum blooms can be remembered for a lifetime, and the Evening Bloom only blooms at dusk for the loved one. Although it only blooms for a few hours, it also blooms its own beauty."

The emperor turned to look at Nian Shilan, stroked her cheek, and said softly: "I remember that Lan'er's favorite flower was peony. She often said that people should be as colorful as peonies, and live a grand life!"

When Nian Shilan heard this, hatred flashed across her eyes, but she quickly lowered her head and pretended to be shy, "I am just a willow, how can I compare to the magnificent peony flower."

Nian Shilan's movements were extremely fast, so the emperor naturally did not notice her abnormality, so the emperor just smiled and shook his head slightly, "In my eyes, Lan'er is better than all the flowers in this world."

Nian Shilan sneered in her heart but did not show it on her face. She just leaned softly against the emperor.