In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

After three years of hard work, Zhen Huan finally persuaded the emperor to pardon Zhen Yuandao's exile, so that she could take Zhen's mother and Zhen Yurao back to Beijing to enjoy her old age. Now she is devoted to arranging people to take the three Zhen family members back to Beijing, and has no other thoughts about the emperor's new favorite Ye Lanyi.

During these three years, Concubine Jing did not mention anything about Prince Guo to Lingrong. However, every time Lingrong took Hongche to play in the Imperial Garden, she would always meet Concubine Jing. Gradually, Lingrong understood that Concubine Jing missed her child through Hongche. For this reason, Lingrong temporarily gave up the idea of ​​getting rid of Concubine Jing.

What Lingrong didn't know was that after the emperor fell ill at the beginning of the year, the imperial physician looked unwell when he took the emperor's pulse. Su Peisheng, who was standing by, noticed the doctor's unwell complexion and after asking about it, the doctor looked as if he had something to hide, so Su Peisheng kept it in mind.

After the emperor woke up, Su Peisheng did not dare to hide the truth and told him the truth. The emperor was also worried that he might have some hidden illness, so he did not even keep Su Peisheng, and only left the imperial physician to take his pulse. The emperor learned from the imperial physician that Su Peisheng had lost his fertility due to old age.

The emperor was unwilling to accept it and asked the imperial physician if there was a chance of cure. After receiving the imperial physician's reply that the chance was slim, he had no choice but to let the physician keep his mouth shut and let him go. From then on, the emperor finally began to have the awareness to examine his four princes.

However, the emperor was still unwilling to give up easily, so he found a Taoist priest and started taking elixirs to "strengthen the body". In order to cultivate his body and mind, he reduced the time he spent in the harem.

Concubines like Lingrong, Concubine Jing and Concubine Qi, who no longer relied on the emperor's favor to maintain their status, did not care at all about this. However, concubines like Zhen Huan and Concubine Fucha, who still needed the emperor's favor or wanted to give birth to an heir, cared more about it.

Unfortunately, the emperor was determined, and there was nothing Zhen Huan and the others could do. As a newcomer to the palace, they had to agree to her promise. Ye Lan'yi took it very well that the emperor was not coming. She went to the tree to pick flowers every day to maintain her inner purity.

It's just that Prince Guo can no longer easily enter the palace now. On the one hand, it was because the Queen Mother was gone, and Prince Guo had no reason to pay his respects to her. On the other hand, he knew that Hongche was his child, and he was afraid that Hongche looked like him, and if he entered the palace too often, others would find out. For this reason, after Hongche was born, except for palace banquets and summons from the Emperor, Prince Guo hardly ever entered the palace again, and even if he did, he dared not stay there for long.

Lingrong and Prince Guo have been maintaining their relationship through letters. Lingrong is very satisfied with the preparations that Prince Guo has made outside the palace to pave the way for Hongche. Not only does she encourage Prince Guo in various ways in her letters, she also gets jealous from time to time and asks Prince Guo to promise not to fall in love with another woman.

Ling Rong made Prince Guo willingly fight for Hong Che alone. Seeing that Prince Guo had no intention of getting married yet, the emperor gradually stopped being wary of him. After all, he was not worried at all about having a brother without offspring. On the contrary, he began to value Prince Guo. He not only promoted Yunli's title to Prince Guo, but also assigned him many tasks.

While waiting for the three members of the Zhen family to return to Beijing, Zhen Huan began to actively win over the imperial physician. She thought that the reason why she had been favored but not pregnant was because she had suffered a miscarriage and was injured by musk. Thinking of the fact that Concubine Hua and Concubine Jing, who had not been pregnant for many years, both became pregnant when they were nearly thirty, Zhen Huan was filled with confidence.

When Shen Meizhuang came to find Zhen Huan, Zhen Huan had just finished seeing the imperial physician and had a few words with him about the precautions for conditioning her body. The imperial physician mentioned: "Your Majesty is fine now. Your long period of infertility may be related to your mood. If your mood is open, perhaps good news will come naturally."

After the imperial physician left, Shen Meizhuang couldn't help but suggest: "Huan'er, what the imperial physician said makes sense. Why don't you ask the emperor to let Aunt Zhen and Yu Rao come to the palace to see them? It has been nearly six years since you and I were selected to enter the palace..."

Shen Meizhuang's words touched Zhen Huan's heart. She really missed her mother and sister very much, especially since her mother and the others had just returned from Ningguta. She couldn't feel at ease unless she saw her mother with her own eyes to see how her mother was doing.

When the emperor came to Sui Yuxuan, Zhen Huan couldn't help but bring up this point. The emperor pondered for a moment, felt that Zhen Huan's request was not a big deal, and nodded in agreement.

On the day when the mother and daughter of the Zhen family entered the palace, the emperor, in order to express his favor to Zhen Huan, specially came to Sui Yuxuan to meet Zhen Huan's mother and sister. However, he did not expect that upon meeting her, Zhen Yurao, who looked more like Chun Yuan than Zhen Huan, caught the emperor's attention.

When the time came, Madam Zhen took Zhen Yurao out of the palace. The emperor returned to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity and could not stop thinking about Zhen Yurao. After all, Zhen Yurao's personality and appearance were like a combination of Chun Yuan and Concubine Hua, two women the emperor had loved successively, which made it impossible for the emperor to give up.

Zhen Huan had a bad premonition as early as the day when Zhen's mother and others entered the palace and knew that the emperor was coming. After the emperor came, he kept staring at Yu Rao. Zhen Huan's bad premonition became stronger, so after Yu Rao went home, Zhen Huan thought again and again and decided to write a letter home to remind Zhen Yuandao to marry Zhen Yu Rao off this morning.

Unexpectedly, Zhen Yuandao had other ideas in his mind. He wanted to return to officialdom, but now Zhen Huan's favor was not as great as before, so the emperor could only pardon his crime of exile and did not reinstate him. Now, what was mentioned in Zhen Huan's letter made Zhen Yuandao realize that the emperor had set his eyes on Yu Rao. Zhen Yuandao did not want to miss this opportunity, so he did not arrange a marriage for Zhen Yu Rao as Zhen Huan had imagined.

When the emperor finally made up his mind and issued an edict to appoint Zhen Yurao as Rou Chang and summon her to the palace, Zhen Yurao had no reason to disobey the order. Although she was reluctant, she still had to ride in a sedan chair into the harem.

After Zhen Yurao entered the palace, the emperor arranged her to live in Yongshou Palace and used the treatment given to Zhen Huan in the plot, such as dragon and phoenix candles, spread curtains, and pepper walls.

It's just that Zhen Yurao really looked down on such an old emperor and kept a straight face without smiling the whole time. But the emperor loved her character and doted on her extremely. Even Zhen Huan couldn't get the emperor's attention.

Seeing that the emperor fell in love again, he not only ignored his eldest son Hongshi, Hongli and Hongzhou who should have been married long ago, but also rarely saw Hongche, who had always been favored. Hongche was a little sad and ran to ask Lingrong. Lingrong did not save face for the emperor. Not only did she tell Hongche everything, she also pinched Hongche's face and made Hongche promise very seriously: "Hongche, remember, don't become a person like your royal father in the future, understand?"

Hongche, whose face was pinched, sighed helplessly and promised, "I know, mother, Hongche will never become a man like Huang Ama in the future."

Lingrong was satisfied with Hongche's assurance. Although the emperor was very diligent in handling state affairs, his private life and matters between men and women really disgusted Lingrong.