An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

After dealing with Zhen Huan's affairs, the group returned to the palace. The emperor handed over the instructions for Lingrong to Concubine Jing, and sent Fangruo to Ganlu Temple.

Fang Ruo is considered an old hand in the palace, and has some understanding of Queen Chun Yuan. He sent her to Ganlu Temple to serve Zhen Huan. I really don't know if the emperor was planning to train someone who would be more like Queen Chun Yuan.

However, Zhen Huan already looks 70% similar to her. With Fang Ruo's training, I'm afraid she will look 100% similar.

When I return to the palace tomorrow, I am afraid that there will be another bloody storm.

But this kind of thing must be prevented in advance. However, Fang Ruo was the emperor's person, and the person sent by Ling Rong only had a brief contact with her before being sternly rejected by Fang Ruo.

She stated that she would only listen to the emperor and would never murder Concubine Xu.

Originally, Lingrong didn't want to bribe her to murder Zhen Huan, so she didn't care much about Fangruo's refusal.

What's more, Ganlu Temple is outside the palace after all. As the saying goes, the emperor is far away, so even if Fanghua died one day, it would be a very normal thing.

But Lingrong really wanted to see whether Zhen Huan would grab hold of her youth as a life-saving straw and find a way to escape from Ganlu Temple or return to the palace that she once desperately wanted to escape from.

But now that Shen Meizhuang and Wen Shichu were no longer working for her in the palace, and she only had Fang Ruo to rely on. Ling Rong really didn't believe that Zhen Huan had a way to return to the palace.

So did she really want to escape from Ganlu Temple? Lingrong took the letter sent back by Ye Lanyi and learned that the Shen family had really started to plan for Zhen Huan. They must be worried that Zhen Huan would tell the emperor that Shen Meizhuang was still alive, which would bring disaster to the Shen family.

In order to monitor Shen Meizhuang, Ye Lan'yi actually stopped in Jeju and sent messages to Ling Rong from time to time to report Shen Meizhuang's movements.

The most recent letters also mentioned the kitten Tuanrong she had adopted, how much fatter he had become, and that she had fallen in love with the neighbor's kitten.

"Lan Yi's life is happy. The letter I asked her to deliver to my father a while ago should have been delivered."

"It's about the same time," Zhaoshui calculated the time, "Master always needs the Empress to remind him about major issues so that he won't make big mistakes.

Since entering the palace, Your Majesty has always been reminded to write back and knock on the door. Now, several years have passed, but it is still... "

Zhaoshui naturally didn't dare to say that An Bihuai had not made any progress. After all, he was the master's father, and he couldn't judge or slander him at will.

“If my father didn’t understand politics and didn’t listen to advice, how could he have secretly gotten involved with Lord Fucha?

This caused the emperor to suspect me and Hongyu.

If Youning had not been favored by Prince Yi and had not received the longevity lock from him, I am afraid that the emperor would have ignored Youning as well. "

Ling Rong took the black ink on the table and drew her eyebrows. She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed for a long time, "Next year, Ling Lang will dare to take part in the provincial examination this year."

"Yes, Madam. You will take part in the provincial examination in August this year. If you pass, you will take part in the metropolitan examination in March next year. After the metropolitan examination, it will be the palace examination."

"You remember it clearly. If he could do so well in the exam, then once he passes, then..." Let the father have a good rest.

Ling Rong did not finish the rest of her words. She could not let the people serving her know that she even schemed against her own father. How could she expect the people around her to trust her and work for her?

"The most important thing now is to take good care of your body. I've always been worried that you haven't recovered well since returning from Shoukang Palace."

"It's been more than a month, and the queen still has to murmur from time to time." Zhaoshui also looked at Lingrong in the mirror, "Doctor He's medicine has cured all of my illnesses. Now I feel like I can knock a cow away with three punches."

"Zhaoshui, you are getting more and more exaggerated," Lingrong was amused by Zhaoshui. She finally got herself ready, "Bring the medicinal food with you. The emperor has been in a bad mood since he came back from Ganlu Temple.

It has lasted for so long, and I don’t know when it will end.”

What was even more disgusting was that the emperor often asked her to sing and chat, just for the voice that sounded extremely like Queen Chunyuan.

Fortunately, the queen in her previous life had sent someone to help train Lingrong's voice. Now Lingrong can switch between Queen Chunyuan's voice and her own voice freely, and she will no longer suffer from the unbearable hoarseness of her voice due to frequent use of that voice.

Seeing how much the Emperor missed Queen Chunyuan, even to the point of summoning her to accompany him all day long, Ling Rong felt that it was only a matter of time before the Emperor brought Zhen Huan back to the palace.

By August, the Emperor seemed to have given up missing Empress Chunyuan and no longer summoned Lingrong to sleep with him as frequently as before.

At the same time, the provincial examination held every three years finally began. Even though she was trapped in the deep palace, Ling Rong couldn't help but feel worried, and even her sleep was a little uneasily.

But before the news of his brother's exam came the news that the emperor had left the palace again and quietly went to Ganlu Temple.

It was just as Lingrong guessed, a similar voice was not enough, and a woman with a similar appearance and personality was needed.

And in the palace, there was no other candidate except Zhen Huan.

Lingrong knew that once the emperor made up his mind, no matter what excuses he used to stop him, he would find a way to welcome Zhen Huan into the palace. Unless Zhen Huan died, she could only watch her enter the palace.

The one who was most anxious about this was Concubine Tian. As soon as she learned that the emperor went to Ganlu Temple, she ran to find Lingrong. She wanted Lingrong to think of a way to win back the emperor's heart.

"When you investigated the death of Queen Chunyuan, you must have learned a lot. The emperor loved Queen Chunyuan very much, and was willing to beg the late emperor for her, and to ruin the marriage arranged for Queen Chunyuan and remarry her to Prince Yong's palace.

The late emperor was furious and asked the emperor, who was still Prince Yong, whether he would give up the throne for this woman. Guess what the emperor answered?"

Concubine Tian's face darkened. She didn't want to hear about the ups and downs of the love story between the emperor and Queen Chunyuan. She just wanted to know how to make the emperor stop thinking about Zhen Huan outside the palace and put his heart in the palace.

"It's simple. If Zhen Huan is killed, the emperor will no longer want to see her. Then find a woman like Queen Chun Yuan to enter the palace for the emperor, and the emperor's mind will be put back into the palace."

"Wouldn't that mean we are training a favorite concubine to oppose us? Life in the palace will become even more difficult."

Concubine Tian did not find it difficult to kill Zhen Huan. She gave the order to Sang'er in front of Ling Rong and was not worried at all that Ling Rong would report her.

"If it weren't for torturing this damned woman, I would have sent her to hell long ago. Who would have thought that even though she was so ugly, she could still seduce the emperor out of the palace.

I’m afraid if I don’t take action, she will follow the emperor back to the palace.”

Unfortunately, the people sent by Concubine Tian failed to kill Zhen Huan, and were almost discovered by the Emperor's men, exposing her intentions.

However, the Emperor did not bring Zhen Huan back to the palace as Ling Rong had expected. After resting for a night in the thatched cottage on Lingyun Peak, he hurried back to the palace, as if he had really gone to Ganlu Temple to pray for the Empress Dowager.

Ling Rong initially thought that the emperor just couldn't think of a good excuse, but three to five months passed, and the emperor only left the palace a few times, rested for a night at Lingyun Peak, and returned to the palace immediately the next day.

Because Zhen Huan had ruined her body in the palace a long time ago, she was unable to get pregnant even with the Emperor staying overnight. She could only be watched even more strictly than before, and was not allowed to go out of the shabby thatched hut on Lingyun Peak.

It turns out that from the very beginning, Fang Ruo was not there to serve Zhen Huan. Her purpose was to eat at the same table and sleep on the same bed with Zhen Huan, and to keep a close eye on this restless woman.

Then, under the pretext of helping Zhen Huan regain favor, she was trained to be more like Queen Chun Yuan, so that the Emperor would be reminded of her from time to time and she would completely become a substitute for Queen Chun Yuan.

It was also because of Zhen Huan that the emperor no longer needed to ask Lingrong to sing for him, nor did he need Lingrong to run to the Yangxin Palace from time to time to make the emperor happy.

Although Lingrong didn't care about how the emperor doted on Zhen Huan in Ganlu Temple, Concubine Tian cared a lot. She was mainly worried that Zhen Huan looked too much like Queen Chunyuan, and that one day she would drug the emperor with a love potion and bring her to the palace to be the queen.

It’s a pity that now Zhen Huan is surrounded by the emperor’s people, and Concubine Tian and Ling Rong are unable to insert anyone in, and they don’t even know Zhen Huan’s current situation.

The reason why Lingrong was not in a hurry was very simple, because she already had evidence of Zhen Huan's dealings with the Shen family, including the fact that she knew about and even covered up Shen Meizhuang's escape from the palace.

Even Lingrong already knew where Shen Meiyu lived. As long as Zhen Huan wanted to return to the palace, she could just hand over the evidence to the emperor.

The only pity was that Xiaomai was very stubborn. As expected of the Zhen family's servant, no information could be extracted from him no matter how much threats or inducements were used. But in order not to alert the Zhen family and make them prepared, Xiaomai could only be pushed into the river and drowned, pretending that he had accidentally fallen into the water.

"Another life has been lost. Sometimes I really feel that it is not worth it to keep my hands stained with blood because of her."

Ling Rong lay on the beauty's chair and watched the rain falling in the pond. She walked to the imperial garden and was trapped in the pavilion by the sudden rainstorm. Looking at the ripples in the pond, she was inexplicably filled with sorrow.

"It's raining and your Majesty is feeling even more sad. Is it because the Emperor is also going to Ganlu Temple today?"

"You are going there in the heavy rain. I wonder if the emperor is worried that Zhen Huan will be scared by the thunder in the night, or if he wants to reminisce about the old days of Queen Chun Yuan with Zhen Huan."

Ling Rong murmured, and when she raised her eyes, she saw the Fifth Prince running in the rain. She had no idea where this boy was going, and there was no one around him. He stumbled and almost fell into the water.

"Why is this child running in the rain? Look for the water. Please take the trouble to tell him to come in and take shelter from the rain for the time being. Don't go out, or you will get wet."

Zhao Shui responded, and tried his best to avoid the rain blown in by the wind in the corridor, and walked towards the Fifth Prince as much as possible.

"Fifth Prince! Fifth Prince!"

Zhaoshui called out several times in a row, and the Fifth Prince finally heard the call. He stood in the rain and refused to move. He didn't run in until he saw Zhaoshui was about to go into the rain to pick him up. Then he ran in with a stern face.

When he saw that the maid was looking at the water, he knew who the person in the pavilion was, and his pace slowed down.

Who would have thought that when they walked into the pavilion, Ling Rong didn't ask anything, nor did she say anything to him. She just took out a handkerchief and slowly wiped the rain off the Fifth Prince's head and face.

But the handkerchief was small after all, and it was already soaked after just wiping the water off his face. The Fifth Prince's body was still wet, and there was even a lot of water under his feet.

"No matter how urgent the matter is, take a rest in the pavilion. It's raining so hard, be careful not to catch a cold or get seriously ill."

"I just came back from the Yangxin Palace. My mother is seriously ill, so I went to ask the Emperor to bring her into the palace to recuperate. But the Emperor seemed anxious to leave, and I only said two sentences before he interrupted me.

The Emperor ordered Eunuch Su to send the imperial physician to treat my mother, but the rain was so heavy that we didn’t know when he would be able to leave the palace.”

Lingrong just hummed. She didn't feel any sympathy for Concubine Yu. After all, the two of them had no friendship at all.

If the Fifth Prince in front of her was seriously ill, Lingrong would still be able to show a little worry.

"My mother's health is getting worse, and I don't know how long she has left to live. But my influence is insignificant, and the emperor is unwilling to take my mother back to the palace."

The Fifth Prince's meaning was obvious. He was hinting at Lingrong to lend a hand and plead with the Emperor.

It's a pity that Lingrong felt that if Yupin really died of illness, it would be more helpful to her plan, so she was unwilling to help plead for mercy.

"Your Majesty has a reason for doing this. Fifth Prince, just wait patiently for good news."

"But, I have begged the Emperor many times, but he would rather send me out of the palace than bring my mother back." Seeing Ling Rong pretending to be stupid, the Fifth Prince simply suggested, "Empress Sheng, can you ask the Emperor for mercy on my behalf and bring my mother back to the palace?"

"Fifth Prince, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's because I am even more insignificant and my words have little influence. I'm afraid the emperor is unwilling to listen to me."

One is a concubine, the other is a prince, and both of them say that they have little influence. This situation is really funny.

Seeing that Fifth Prince was frowning, Ling Rong smiled and said, "When the Emperor returns to the palace, I will go to the Yangxin Palace. As for whether I can convince the Emperor, Fifth Prince, please don't hold out hope.

After all, we have advised the Emperor about the matter of Concubine Yu, but we did not get the answer we wanted."

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and faint thunder coming from above the clouds was really deafening.

The Fifth Prince didn't know whether he was frightened by the thunder or angry because he knew he couldn't bring his mother back to the palace. His face became darker and darker. "Why doesn't the Emperor want to bring our mother back to the palace? Concubine Xin gave birth to a daughter during the Emperor's mourning period, which led to the Emperor's unwillingness to promote her.

But what has my mother done wrong that the emperor is still unwilling to bring her back to the palace?"