Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 57: Past Events

The Empress Dowager was a woman with an extremely insightful mind, otherwise she would not have lived to see the day of becoming the Empress Dowager and would have died in the first few episodes of the palace fight.

How could she not understand the son she had raised since he was a child? This son was both passionate and devoted.

When he was young, he didn't understand love. He listened to her when it came to marrying wives and concubines, and treated everyone equally. But no one could leave any mark on his heart. He was very ruthless. Until he met Yun Fei, there was no room for anyone else in his heart anymore.

During these two years, the women in the harem tried every trick in the book to prevent him from ever setting foot in their palaces. The Empress Dowager felt that her son was so ruthless that he would not even blink an eye even if the concubines died in front of him.

In order to keep Yun Fei, he actually gambled with his own life, betting on a life-or-death situation. Didn't he think about losing the bet? Of course he did, and then he would rather die. He was so devoted to her, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

Come to think of it, Yun Fei is as pure and clean as an elf, as cool and elegant as a fairy, and she is naturally beautiful and untainted by the mundane world.

With such a fairy-like woman, who would be willing to pay any attention to those vulgar women?

And that little thing is as pretty and cute as the boy under the seat of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and very intelligent. If she doesn't see him for a day, she will miss him so much that she gets sick.

What can I do? Just protect him.

The Queen Mother holds the entire harem in her hands, controlling all the concubines and preventing them from committing suicide, which is also a way to protect them.

If Yun Fei was harmed by someone in the palace, there would be a river of blood in the palace, and no one would be left alive, regardless of the innocent. He knew his own son well. For Yun Fei, he could even kill himself, let alone others.

When the Queen Mother was chatting with Yun Fei, she intentionally or unintentionally tried to persuade Yun Fei by telling her how much Yu Linghuan loved her, how much she liked this daughter-in-law and this grandson, and how she couldn't live a day without them, and how much Yu Jingyan loved his father and grandmother, and how sad Yu Jingyan would be if he left them.

In short, it's PUA every day. Yun Fei has lived in a simple environment like Yunmeng Lake since she was a child. How can she compete with the final winner of this palace fight? Not only is she trapped in the love net woven by Yu Linghuan, but she is also tied up tightly by the family net woven by the Empress Dowager.

It's just that the Empress Dowager, like Yu Linghuan, was genuine in her favor to her. There was no pretense at all. It was real favor. A smart person like the Empress Dowager knew that only sincerity could be rewarded with sincerity.

The mother and son never regarded themselves as the emperor and the empress dowager, and they spoke to each other in "you you and me" ways, never saying "I" and "I". To Yun Fei and Yu Jingyan, they were just the mother-in-law and husband, grandmother and father of an ordinary family.

The Queen is in charge of the harem, but that does not include the Yunxiao Palace. She can do whatever she wants with the other concubines, but that is limited to the harem. They must stay away from wherever the Emperor is.

The Empress Dowager only allows them to pay their respects here on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, bringing the princes and princesses with them from chenshi to sishi. They are not allowed to come here at other times because those times belong to Yun Fei and Yu Jingyan.

During the eleven years, Yun Fei lived comfortably in the palace and was free to leave the palace. She did a lot of good deeds and made a close friend like Wen Xi who shared the same mind with her.

In the twelfth year of Yong'an, the empress dowager passed away.

Before, because the empress dowager couldn't leave Yu Jingyan, she always let him stay by her side. Yu Jingyan's martial arts were taught by her and A Zi, but their women's martial arts are mostly light and agile. It was thanks to Wen Xi who taught him some martial arts of the Langshan School that Yu Jingyan's martial arts foundation was avoided to be too weak. Yun Fei's father and grandfather wrote to her many times asking her to send Yu Jingyan to Yunmeng Lake and teach him the peerless martial arts of the Yun family men, but she refused.

Because the Queen Mother doesn't have much time left, she might not be able to bear it without seeing Yu Jingyan.

After the Queen Mother passed away, she sent Yu Jingyan back to Yunmeng Lake and only came back twice, in February and September. Wen Xi also never kept her appointment. She only cared about Yu Linghuan, so she was freer. She opened charity halls, women's academies, and relief centers in many places outside the capital.

Wherever there are disaster victims, there will be Concubine Yun’s porridge stall. In recent years, Dayan has suffered from natural disasters frequently, and Concubine Yun has spent almost all her money to help the disaster victims.

When Yu Jingyan left, Yu Linghuan asked Yun Fei: "Fei'er, if you miss home, go back and have a look."

Yun Fei sighed and replied after a long while: "As a concubine, how can I have the face to go back to Yunmeng Lake to see my sisters?"

This sentence hurt Yu Linghuan all over. It was his fault, but he couldn't let her go. Without her, how could he live in this cold imperial city? Now that his mother had passed away, he only had her, and he couldn't let her go. He could only hug Yun Fei and say sorry over and over again, asking for forgiveness over and over again.

After the death of the Empress Dowager, the Empress no longer had someone to suppress her. She gradually became arrogant, and her slowly growing ambition clouded her mind. The high Yunxiao Palace was like a thorn that pierced her heart deeply. Ever since Yun Fei came into her life, she rarely even saw the Emperor. Sometimes she would be driven away even if she looked at him from afar. They spent New Year's Eve separately, and he had never held a palace banquet with the Empress.

Four years ago, the emperor led his generals on an autumn hunt, intending to remind his subjects not to forget that their kingdom of Dayan was won by war. The autumn hunt lasted for five days in total.

The Queen felt that her chance to get rid of Yun Fei had come. The next day, Concubine Liu in the palace died, and all the evidence pointed to Yunxiao Palace. The Queen ordered three thousand imperial guards to surround Yunxiao Palace and then break down the palace gate by force.

Yun Fei didn't wait for them to break down the door. She opened the gate of Yunxiao Palace herself, stood under the plaque in the clouds, and casually threw out a handful of medicine powder. Three thousand royal guards, including the queen and her eunuchs and female officials, all fell to the ground. Only their eyes could see, their ears could hear, and their mouths could speak. The rest of their bodies could not move.

Yun Fei ordered the queen to be hanged on the big tree at the gate. The queen cursed, "You bitch..." After saying only these four words, Yun Fei flicked her fingertips, and the queen could no longer speak.

The other guards in the palace who wanted to rescue people would fall to the ground as soon as they walked within 50 meters of Yunxiao Palace, with the same symptoms as the 3,000 imperial guards.

In this way, the gate of Yunxiao Palace was open, the imperial guards were lying down, and the queen was hanging. After three days, the emperor returned to the palace.

The emperor came to Yunxiao Palace to apologize without even taking off his armor. Yun Fei saw the emperor coming and ordered the palace gate to be closed. At the moment the palace gate was about to close, Ah Zhu dropped a porcelain bottle to the ground. The porcelain bottle shattered and fine smoke and dust scattered. After a few breaths, the royal guards lying on the ground climbed up one after another. Everything was fine.

Only the Queen remained speechless.

The emperor ordered that the queen be confined to Kunning Palace and never step out of the palace. If she steps out of the palace, she will be beheaded. This is because most of the men in her mother's family died on the battlefield, sacrificing their lives to protect the land of Dayan, and they have been a family of meritorious service for generations, so she was spared.

The gate of Yunxiao Palace remained closed for four years, and no matter how the emperor begged at the door every day, it was of no avail.

But the imperial concubine was in the palace. Sometimes he could hear her playing the piano, sometimes he could hear her talking and laughing. Twice a year, when Yu Jingyan came back, Yu Linghuan could also see her.

Yu Linghuan ordered that as long as the Yunxiao Palace was closed, all the concubines would reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors. From then on, they would not receive any monthly allowances, and if they wanted to eat, they had to provide for themselves. If they did not want to, they could leave the palace and go home at any time.

From then on, the harem of the Emperor of the Great Yan Kingdom began a miserable life where everyone had to embroider handkerchiefs to survive.

For four years, a full four years, Yu Linghuan had not entered Yunxiao Palace. It was only with the return of Yu Jingyan and the help of his good son that he was able to go in a few times. Just when his relationship with Yun Fei was about to be broken, he was tricked back into the old society by his good eldest son and good second son.

Yu Linghuan never blamed Yun Fei for not being able to enter Yunxiao Palace. What reason did he have to blame her? It was his fault from the beginning. No one could stop her from leaving. The fact that she was willing to stay in this square sky and live in Yunxiao Palace was a great comfort to him. As long as she could still guard him and accompany him, it didn't matter whether he saw her or not.

Anyway, he knew she was there.