The Empress of Zhen Huan Reborn

Early in the morning at the Nian Mansion, as soon as Nian Gengyao entered the house, he was pulled aside by his wife and talked about the matters and rules that needed to be paid attention to when entering the palace.

"Oh, Madam, I have been to the palace so many times, how could I not know?" Nian Gengyao said with a slightly helpless tone.

Nian Gengyao and his wife always had a good relationship, and Su was his second wife.

Nian Gengyao's first wife, Nalan, was unlucky. She died of illness just a few years after marrying her and before she had any children.

His second wife, Su, was the great-granddaughter of Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the daughter of Su Yan, the then Duke of Fuguo.

Nian Gengyao often fought on the battlefield, and Su Shi had to take care of all matters in the Nian Mansion. He often felt that he owed something to his wife, who gave birth to two sons for him. So he doted on his wife very much, and there was only one principal wife in the Nian Mansion, and no concubines.

"Husband, I know, but what I want to say this time is that after you enter the palace, you must be careful with your words when speaking to the emperor. He is the monarch and you are the minister. Do not lose your duty as a minister and make the emperor afraid of you." Madam Nian advised slowly.

When Nian Gengyao heard that the emperor was afraid of him, he became unhappy. "Since I entered the court as an official, I have made outstanding military achievements and made contributions to the Qing Dynasty. Shilan has also been favored in the harem and assisted the queen in managing the six palaces. How could the emperor be suspicious of me?"

Madam Su spoke up again, "But the Qing dynasty is ultimately the domain of the Aisin-Gioro clan. The beauties in the harem are inseparable from the previous dynasty. If we show our strength, the people in the harem will try to frame Shilan along with their own family. Shilan is pure-hearted and has been protected so well by us. How do you expect her to scheme in the harem to protect herself?"

After hearing what his wife said, Nian Gengyao was silent for a long time. Nian Shilan was his most beloved sister, and she loved the emperor deeply. He certainly did not want to make things difficult for him, so he decided to listen to his wife.

Just as Nian Gengyao and his wife were preparing to enter the palace, in the Yangxin Palace.

On his way back to Yangxin Palace, Su Peisheng ran into the man he had sent to investigate a case a few days ago. After hearing his report, Su Peisheng was very entangled along the way. Thinking that he couldn't escape, he walked into the palace with an embarrassed look on his face: "Your Majesty, the matter you asked me to investigate a few days ago has a result."

A while ago, Nian Shilan brought Wen Shichu to the Yangxin Palace and said that musk was dug out under the crabapple tree in Suiyuxuan. The emperor instructed Su Peisheng to investigate the matter thoroughly.

The emperor had some guesses in his heart, and seeing the embarrassment on his face, he said to Su Peisheng, "Tell the truth."

After hearing what the emperor said, Su Peisheng knelt on the ground and bowed his head and said, "It's been a while since I last saw the Empress. I sent people to inquire about many maids and asked the guards at the palace gate. Eight months ago, Cai'er, a maid beside the Empress, left the palace on the pretext of doing something for the Empress. When she returned to the palace, she acted sneakily and refused the guards' search on the grounds that what she brought back were the personal belongings that the Empress requested to buy. Later, she bribed the maid beside Concubine Fang at the time, and secretly buried the things under the crabapple tree when the concubines went to pay their respects to the Empress."

The emperor understood what Su Peisheng said. If that was true, who else in the harem could sneak into Sui Yu Xuan without anyone noticing and was proficient in pharmacology except the queen? This queen was really too much. She killed two birds with one stone. Not only did she get rid of Concubine Fang's child, but she also made Concubine Fang hate Concubine Hua and watched the fight from the sidelines.

Just as the emperor was thinking about how to punish the queen, Su Peisheng's apprentice Xiao Xiazi's voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, General Nian and his wife have come to the palace to pay their respects to you."

When the emperor heard this, he sent someone to call Nian Gengyao into the palace.

It was not appropriate for ladies outside the imperial court to meet the emperor without a valid request. Knowing that Nian Shilan missed her family, the emperor asked a palace maid to take Madam Nian to the Yikun Palace.

Su knew that the emperor would not see her, but she still went to the Yangxin Palace with her husband to pay her respects to the emperor. It was the emperor's business whether to see her or not, but if she did not come and went directly to the Yikun Palace, she didn't know what people would say about the Nian family's lack of etiquette.

Su took Yun'er for a walk and arrived at Yikun Palace. From a distance, she saw Nian Shilan and Songzhi waiting at the door. When she saw her, Nian Shilan quickly came to greet her with a happy face.

"Your Highness pays respect to Her Majesty the Concubine Hua." Madam Nian knelt hurriedly to pay her respects.

Nian Shilan did not stop Su from performing the ceremony. After all, this was on a small path in the palace with many palace servants coming and going. If she did not allow Madam Nian to perform the ceremony for her, rumors would spread throughout the palace in a short while that Nian Gengyao's family was rude and disrespectful to the emperor.

Empress Hua waited until Madam Nian finished her greetings before helping her up. She said with a smile on her face, "Sister-in-law, please get up and follow me back to the palace."

After saying that, he took Madam Nian's hand and walked into the main hall of Yikun Palace.