An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

"The Emperor is the Son of Heaven, and I am also the Son of Heaven, why do you all want to betray me!"

"Nonsense." The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows in displeasure as she listened to the Emperor's slightly crazy tone. "Your Majesty is no longer a child. How can you rely on hearsay to slander me?"

The emperor was stunned for a moment when he saw the empress dowager's quibbling look. He looked at the empress dowager in silence for a long time before he sighed.

He had no intention of learning the truth from the Empress Dowager. If she was truly worthy of the Emperor, she would not have done such a shameful thing with Longkodo.

Longkodo was a clique-based person who even secretly kept the royal jade edict. There was no way he could be kept.

"Madam, are you aware of the fact that Longkodo secretly kept the jade book?"

"Privately keeping the Imperial Edict?" The Queen Mother raised her eyes slightly, her face full of disbelief, "The Imperial Edict records the succession of the throne. He is a minister, how could he copy it privately and keep it for himself.

This is a crime of great disrespect, and he should know that he would never do it. "

"The blood drop has taken the things back." The emperor did not argue with the queen mother. His emotions have calmed down. "The right and wrong have been clearly distinguished."

The Queen Mother also understood at this time that the Emperor came here today not because he had questions that he wanted to be explained, but because he had an imperial decree that he wanted to give direct instructions.

"I am the Queen Mother, and even more so your mother. Your honor and disgrace are my honor and disgrace."

The Queen Mother has always seen through her children's private affairs. The only thing she can't figure out is which of her two sons, the fourth son or the fourteenth son, is more important.

If the emperor was not so capable and resourceful, the empress dowager might even want the fourteenth prince to sit on the throne.

"Forming a clique for personal gain, hoarding the imperial edict, and allowing Tong Xuan to rule the country, Empress Dowager, each of these is a serious crime." The emperor's tone was heavy, as if he was about to issue an order to kill Longkodo.

The Queen Mother's breathing became heavy, but soon calmed down because she heard the Emperor say, "After all, he is my uncle."

"Your Majesty, as a ruler, you should not be bound by so-called family ties."

"As a mother, you shouldn't be bound by childhood sweethearts." The emperor left no room for the empress dowager, "Madam, I don't want the matter of Uncle Longkodo to be known to everyone in the court and the country.

If you can help, I think the conflict can be eliminated. Empress Dowager, are you willing to help me with this?"

During the long night, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager sat opposite each other, staring at each other without saying a word for a long time.

Three days later, the emperor issued an edict, announcing 41 major crimes of Longkodo on the grounds that he formed a clique for personal gain and hoarded the imperial edict privately. He was sentenced to permanent imprisonment in a small house near Changchun Garden in the court.

The empress dowager quietly went to Changchun Garden late one night, sat opposite Longkodo, and drank all night.

No one knows what the Empress Dowager and Longkodo talked about. All we know is that the sky was clear that night, and the Emperor stood in the Old Summer Palace and said vaguely that his father was the Son of Heaven after all.

In the spring of the following year, Longkodo died of illness in Changchun Garden. At the same time, the empress dowager's health deteriorated day by day. One day, she even fainted in Shoukang Palace. The imperial doctors tried their best to save her all night before she woke up.

The concubines didn't know what was going on, so they just thought that the empress dowager was seriously ill. Under the arrangement of Concubine Jing, they took turns to serve the empress dowager in groups of three or four.

"Coincidentally", Lingrong, Concubine Tian and Xia Dongchun were serving the Empress Dowager together. However, because of what happened in the past, Aunt Zhuxi was still very wary of Lingrong and was not willing to let her serve the Empress Dowager.

Therefore, she allowed only Concubine Xia in, on the grounds that Lingrong and Concubine Tian both had royal heirs in the palace and the empress dowager was afraid that the disease would be passed on to the children.

Lingrong and Concubine Tian went to the Buddhist temple in the Empress Dowager's palace, lit incense and chanted scriptures in front of the Buddha, praying for the Empress Dowager.

Lingrong did not believe in Buddha. She knelt quietly in front of the Buddha for a while, then sat aside with Concubine Tian. Zhaoshui and Sang'er were guarding outside the door, so they did not have to worry about being discovered by the people in the Empress Dowager's palace.

"It's hard to believe that the Queen Mother is actually ill."

"What do you not believe?" Concubine Tian approached Ling Rong, the two of them were very close, with a cautious look on her face, "Do you not believe that the Queen Mother has deep feelings for Longkodo, or do you not believe that I can make the Queen Mother seriously ill?"

"Of course..." Ling Rong stretched out her tone and glanced at Concubine Tian intentionally, "...the former."

"Mystifying." Concubine Tian snorted and finally sat up straight. She stared at the door, not daring to relax for a moment. "I haven't done anything yet, and the Queen Mother fell ill. It seems that the rumors among the people are true. There is indeed something unclear between Longkodo and the Queen Mother. No wonder Li Si'er looks so much like the Queen Mother."

"Li Si'er? So she is the concubine of Lord Longkodo's father-in-law."

"You know a lot. Her identity is indeed as you said." Concubine Tian snorted and laughed. Li Si'er did not have a good reputation. After arriving at Longkodo's mansion, she did all kinds of evil things.

But she was indeed beautiful, and she even relied on her beauty to escape when Longkodo fell.

"Now that Li Si'er is still alive, I would like to give her a chance to enter the palace. What do you think?"

Enter the palace? Ling Rong was quite surprised. Why did they ask Li Sier to enter the palace? To seize the position of the empress dowager and take it herself?

But although Li Si'er is also old, he is younger than the empress dowager after all, so this method will not work no matter how you think about it.

But according to Concubine Tian's idea... Lingrong suddenly had an idea. She couldn't be thinking of asking Li Si'er to tell the story of her and Longkodo's love affair and make the Empress Dowager angry to death.

"Yeah, I do think so."

"......" Ling Rong was speechless. She thought for a while and said, "Please think of some useful ideas."

"Why, is this method not good?" Concubine Tian did not feel that there were any omissions in her plan. "We don't even need to do it ourselves, and there will be no traces left. What a perfect plan."

Ling Rong was speechless. She was even choked for a long time before she finally spoke out her doubts. "How are you going to explain the sudden appearance of this person in the Empress Dowager's palace?"

"It's already been prepared. Just say that she is a famous doctor in Jianghu, and she will enter the palace with other famous doctors tomorrow."

Well, well, you've actually done this secretly. It seems like you're not here to discuss things today, but to remind me to be mentally prepared.

Lingrong could hardly show any other emotions except helplessness. She even began to think about how to help Concubine Tian complete her plan.

Do you want to use that kind of hypnotic incense?

This kind of Xiang Lingrong was used on the emperor once, and the things that the emperor had not seen were imprinted in the emperor's mind through the effect of the incense.

This time it can also be used on the Empress Dowager, giving Li Si'er a real chance to "anger the Empress Dowager to death".

"Since you've made up your mind, just do it."

"It seems that my method this time is really good. Even someone as picky as you didn't stop me."

...There's nothing good about it. I just found some ways to help you get this done this time.

Ling Rong had a lot of things to say in her heart, but she still had a gentle smile on her face, "After all, Concubine Tian is going to be the queen, so how can she not have some means to be praised by others?"

"Huh, that's natural."

"My lady, Aunt Zhuxi is here."

Zhaoshui outside the door whispered a reminder, and Lingrong and Concubine Tian immediately stopped chatting, knelt on the futon and pretended to pray for the Empress Dowager.

Zhuxi came over and kept saying that he was thanking the Empress for her hard work, and even made a big gesture, asking Lingrong and Concubine Tian to go and see the Empress Dowager before leaving.

The Queen Mother is still drowsy. She wakes up occasionally to take some medicine and food, then falls into deep sleep again.

Xia Dongchun had been serving for a long time and was already a little tired. Seeing Ling Rong and the other person coming over, she thought she could take a break for a while, but she didn't expect that they just took a look and turned away.

"No...Aunt Zhuxi, don't Concubine Sheng and Concubine Tian need to serve the Empress Dowager?"

"Lady Xia, the Queen Mother is worried that her illness will be passed on to the heirs, so she issued an imperial decree asking the two ladies to pray for them.

But you have indeed worked hard, Lady Xia. From now on, I will let the servants take care of the Empress Dowager."

Xia Dongchun was really tired. When he heard that he could walk, he immediately said "um" and went out.

Mingyu obviously didn't expect that her master wouldn't even refuse. She widened her eyes, thinking about how to explain to Aunt Zhuxi and restore her master's image.

"Don't worry, Mingyu." Aunt Zhuxi saw her embarrassment, but she didn't mean to embarrass her. "Lady Xia has been busy all morning and is tired. She deserves a rest.

Don't delay here, go and take care of Lady Xia."

Mingyu responded, thanked Aunt Zhuxi, and then hurried out to look for Xia Dongchun.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of Shoukang Palace, he saw the three masters gathered together talking and laughing. Mingyu's heart finally settled down and he slowly followed them.

In the afternoon, Xia Dongchun went to Shoukang Palace to serve the empress dowager again, but this time Lingrong made an excuse that she had to take care of Youning and did not go, leaving Concubine Tian alone to pray in the Buddhist temple.

It's just that Lingrong was not trying to be lazy, but to make perfume for Concubine Tian so that her plan of "angering the Empress Dowager to death" could go smoothly.

However, if this incense is to be more effective, it needs more authentic medicinal materials. If one wants to get them in the deep palace without leaving any trace, he can only ask Wei Lin to deliver them.

Fortunately, it was very easy for the imperial physician to get medicine from outside the palace. Ling Rong waited for another three or five days before the medicinal materials were finally available.

But making incense is not easy. Lingrong has to go out from time to time to pray for the empress dowager and assist in the affairs of the six palaces. So the incense can only be made slowly at night.

It was not until seven or eight days later that the ointment was finally made. In order to cover up the medicinal smell, Ling Rong added some mint into it, completely disguising it as menthol oil.

However, although the incense was made, Ling Rong still couldn't think of a better solution. After all, she herself could not enter the Empress Dowager's bedroom. She could only give the perfume to He Anming and ask him to pass it on to Concubine Tian.

"This is?"

"I spent a lot of money to find a folk spice. I hope it can help Concubine Tian."

Ling Rong made up the lie without blushing or beating her heart. She watched He Anming pick out some ointment and apply it to see its effect, without even a trace of worry on her face.

Although He Anming was prepared that this was not an ordinary ointment, he still felt dizzy after smelling it. He soon felt a pain in his forehead and almost fell down.

"What's wrong? Doctor He."

Lingrong still pretended to be ignorant, and even asked with great concern whether she was too tired and thus felt uncomfortable.

"I am not feeling unwell," He Anming hurriedly covered the ointment. Although he only smelled it for a while, he could already identify several medicinal ingredients. "It's just that the effect of this ointment is too strong. I almost got hurt."

"Is it really so powerful?" Ling Rong was about to take it, but He Anming took the ointment and avoided her.

"If you don't know the efficacy of the medicine, don't try it lightly."

"After using it, Doctor He should know how to use this ointment." Ling Rong did not intend to say anything more, but handed a piece of paper to He Anming, "This is what the itinerant doctor wrote about its effects, you can take a look.

I have been there and there is no problem, so I will give it to Concubine Tian for me. She knows who to give it to."

"Yes, Concubine Sheng." He Anming did not ask any more questions, but just put away the ointment, "Since I am here, I will take the pulse of Princess Youning and the Eighth Prince."

"Zhaoshui, please go with Doctor He." Lingrong did not refuse his request. After all, it was a good thing for Youning and Hongyu.

After the ointment was delivered, Concubine Tian arranged for Li Si'er to enter the palace. Every time she went in to treat the Empress Dowager, she would use the ointment to hypnotize the Empress Dowager before telling her about what happened between herself and Longkodo.

They even maliciously fabricated many of Longkodo's slanderous remarks against the Empress Dowager, causing her to become depressed and vomit blood in her sleep, and her health became even worse.

Lingrong didn't make too much ointment, and it was used up in about five days. During this period, Li Si'er not only told the empress dowager those words, but also disobeyed Concubine Tian's orders and brought silver needles to prick the empress dowager's body.

The reason why she knew acupuncture was very simple. In order to make her look more like a traveling doctor, Concubine Tian asked He Anming to teach her for a few days.

Li Si'er couldn't remember too much, so he deliberately learned the major acupoints that could cause pain all over the body after acupuncture.

He was so cruel because her appearance was ruined. After all, the emperor could not tolerate a woman who looked like the empress dowager and was entangled with Longkodo.

It’s just that Concubine Tian was smart and blamed the Empress Dowager for what the Emperor did.

"You are jealous of my beauty, and you are also jealous of Longkodo's favor towards me." Li Si'er grinned and stabbed a silver needle into the Queen Mother's body. "You are an old woman, and you are unwilling to live in emptiness and seduce someone else's husband. Are you worthy of being the Queen Mother?!"

While unconscious, the empress dowager cried out in pain. Zhuxi heard it clearly and wanted to rush in immediately, but was stopped by Li Si'er.

"I am currently giving acupuncture to the Queen Mother. This reaction proves that she will wake up soon. Aunt, please don't come in and disturb her at will. If the Queen Mother is hit by the wind, I'm afraid all our efforts will be wasted!"