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Chapter 40: The Shocking Change of the Court

The bedroom is warm, especially when the two of them drank again.Afterwards, I still feel unbearably hot.After doing it for a while, Zhuo Yun helped the person to wash it behind the screen, and imitated the mandarin ducks playing in the warm water.

This night, they had dinner first, sat and talked with each other for a long time, from the Shenyun Courtyard to the Yulin Palace, they drank and "cured the disease", and after they finished their work, they still had a lot of tossing about.Zhuo Yichen was already very sleepy, as soon as the warm water poured up, the chaotic thoughts in his head gradually faded away.He lay on the edge of the bathtub, closed his eyelids and wanted to rest.Then Zhuo Yun hugged him back, and he turned over and fell asleep with his pillow on the other's arm.If it was on weekdays, he would rest in his courtyard at night.But ever since he discovered that an unfaithful person had entered the courtyard, Zhuo Yun justifiably kept him and said that he would not be allowed to go back at night.But even if they sleep together every night these days, they don't do it every night.Although the two of them are young and full of vigor, they are not middle-aged people who are vigorous and vigorous. It is really too much to toss Zhuo Yichen every night.Moreover, it is enough to worry about each other performing their duties during the day.What's more, the emperor began to let Zhuo Yun handle political affairs and listen to politics before the emperor.Whenever there was an urgent report on political matters, he would have to discuss with those civil servants in the Chuigong Hall or the upper study room until very late before returning to the palace.When he came back, Zhuo Yichen had already fallen asleep.Sometimes returning early, the two had a leisurely dinner and went to the small garden to enjoy plum blossoms together.The days of co-sleeping continued until Shen Yunyuan's servants finally changed.Zhuo Yichen is not aggressive, but she is by no means someone who can be easily played around with.Put eyeliner on him in Shen Yun's courtyard, but in the blink of an eye, he removed all the people in the courtyard and replaced them with trustworthy people without leaving a single gap.Needles can only be inserted when there is a seam. Now that it is so tidy, it is impossible for outsiders to get in.

When the eldest prince heard about this, he was once so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Probably under the influence of Zhuo Yichen's calm and indifferent attitude, the two brothers don't seem to take the initiative to fight, and they also need to.Zhuo Yichen does not seek glory and wealth, but focuses on living his life well.And Zhuo Yun's position is justifiable, born of the empress, the eldest son, with good morals and talents, his position is very stable.Both were impeccable.

According to Zhuo Yichen, "If we don't fight, we just fight. There's no need to fight those people. We just need to see the tricks. They're trying to figure it out, and sooner or later they'll put themselves in it."

Under the peaceful general situation, there is still an undercurrent surging, which may lead to a shocking change.This seemingly peaceful day didn't last long, and things that should come still have to come.

In the evening of that day, Zhuo Yichen returned to Shenyun Courtyard from the dining room, and several servants worked with him in the back kitchen.Concubine Zhuang sent her maid named Zhuyu to look for her.This time, it was about the servants in the Empress's Palace who were forced to fall ill because they ate the food from the general dining room, and they wanted Shen Yunyuan to plead guilty on their own.

Those dishes were tested for poison by Zhuo Yichen, and then tried by supervisor Yinzhen and tasted by himself.Zhuo Yichen's scope of responsibility is guaranteed to the supervisor. Once the dishes are delivered out of the supervisor's hands, it is not his scope of responsibility.Zhuyu used the excuse of eating and drinking to put the blame on him, and let him go to Concubine Zhuang's palace.Arrogantly accusing him, saying that he is just a servant, but because of the holy family's title of heir, he should have kowtowed to the empress long ago!

Seeing this situation, one of the elder brothers wiped his hands and took the initiative to step forward to help the Patriarch, "It is inconvenient for our Patriarch to leave at this time. If the girl does not dislike it, I will go to the Empress Palace to have a look. If it is really the Patriarch's responsibility, it will not be too late to ask the crime." .I still know some medical skills, but the Patriarch doesn’t know any medical skills at all.”

The temperament of the servant follows the head of the family.The maids in Concubine Zhuang's palace were so big that they bullied others, she almost wanted to scold them without even thinking about it.

Zhuo Yichen rushed in front of her to stop her, and said, "It's the servant girl in the empress's palace who is sick, so let me go and see, it's really due to a lack of etiquette. And this is going to spread, outsiders don't know how to gossip Gen, the empress's reputation in the palace is not good, don't you think?"

The servant girl was at a loss for words for a moment, and her arrogant face froze.

After Zhuo Yichen finished speaking, he ignored him, turned around and walked back, and the servants immediately followed.

But that maid didn't give up so easily, she hated Zhuo Yichen's soft and stubborn temper so much that she couldn't do it again and again!Since you can't bring back the real master, let's bring a slave back for now!

"Stop," she muffled, and pointed impatiently at the servant on the far right, "Just you, follow me!"

Zhuo Yichen didn't want to let him go, but that brother told him not to worry, "Don't worry, Patriarch, I have been practicing medicine since I was a child, let's see what kind of tricks they play, and expose their tricks on the spot. If the people from Shen Yunyuan don't Go to one, they won't let it go. And I think that maid brought a few guards over, afraid that she might cause trouble in our place, at worst, I'll follow to see if it's all right."

After hearing these words, Zhuo Yichen stopped his brother even more resolutely, "You are right, if I don't go, she will still make trouble for our Shen Yunyuan."

Zhuo Yichen put down the utensils in his hands, and walked away with those people neatly and frankly.Seeing this, the entourage sent from Yulin Palace knew that it was necessary to perform the duty of protecting the Lord, so he immediately followed Zhuo Yichen, and the master and servant went together.

When they came to Concubine Zhuang's palace, the attendants looked around quietly, and suddenly they had a bottom line.Concubine Zhuang's palace looks magnificent, but the decoration and orientation of the objects are all against the feng shui here, which is a sign of exhaustion.If things go on like this, those with a good life will be ruined by Sheng Sheng.Ordinarily, isn't this concubine Zhuang very favored?When the people from the Ministry of Rites arranged the palace, how could they forget the crucial principle of Feng Shui?I'm afraid it was done on purpose by someone's order.

Moreover, the burning incense in this temple has a very special smell.No wonder Concubine Zhuang has never been able to conceive, it seems that this is doomed long ago.

Zhuo Yichen walked up to Concubine Zhuang, bowed neither humble nor overbearing, "Dare to ask Madam, where is that maidservant?"

Concubine Zhuang was leaning lazily on the imperial concubine couch, she was very close to the incense burner, and she seemed to like the smell very much.

"I just want Mr. Zhuo to come in and talk with you, but no matter how much I send people to ask, you refuse to come. This is too disrespectful to me."

"I'm a man, so it's inconvenient to come here."

Concubine Zhuang lifted her rouge-thick eyelids, carefully sizing up the person in front of her, her gaze became more and more gloomy, she only felt that Zhuo Yichen's appearance was particularly obtrusive.

"I heard that all the slaves in Shen Yun's Courtyard are Prince Jing's pampers? It really is true that birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups."

This sentence made people feel very responsive, Zhuo Yichen frowned in his heart, and replied calmly: "They are just servants."

Zhuang Concubine cast a dark and resentful gaze at him, it was simply unbelievable!There is obviously no injustice or enmity, why is there such resentment?Could it be that he should be hacked into pieces just because of the momentary grace and Dong Gong's reliance? !But the resentment in the deep palace is usually like this.

"Since you're here, tell me about it. What method did you use to seduce the man? Actually, I don't want to be your enemy, but I just can't see it... That's all, I don't want to talk about it. Just tell me what kind of technique you have, why don't you give it to me too? I can ignore the past..."

Zhuo Yichen felt that it was extremely ridiculous!

Concubine Zhuang, who was able to tell such nonsense, was already stunned by the robbing of her favor. She first imagined some kind of vicious tricks, resenting and delusional about what happened to her.Afterwards, time and time again, Zhuo Yichen tried to force Zhuo Yichen to come to her, but Zhuo Yichen avoided it in order to seek peace, but she became more and more sure of her own imagination and resentment, and insisted on forcing her to meet people.

Zhuo Yichen stood up slowly, and said calmly: "My lady's illness is not in her body, but in her own heart."

Concubine Zhuang's face froze, "What do you mean?"

Zhuo Yichen just said, "Since there is no accident in the empress's palace, then the villain will leave." After saying that, he took his family and left together.

Concubine Zhuang gave her subordinates a cold wink, and the servant girl Zhuyu was instructed to block the way aggressively.Two guards behind him immediately jumped up and grabbed the man's arm.But Zhuo Yichen's entourage is not a low-browed and helpless slave, they have all led the army with Zhuo Yun before.Seeing that this momentum is forcing his master to do something, the attendant immediately counterattacked, Zhuang Concubine's bodyguard strode forward to arrest him, but was smashed by a porcelain bottle that the other party picked up unexpectedly. When he came back to his senses, it was already a piece of debris on the ground, and there were still drops of blood dripping from his forehead.These two guards were sent by Concubine Zhuang secretly against the palace rules, but they were knocked unconscious by Shen Yunyuan's attendants several times.

No one in the hall made a sound, and Zhuo Yichen retreated with his entourage.

Concubine Zhuang secretly molesting the bodyguards was exposed, and the Holy One was furious, and under heavy responsibility, he deprived Feng's power and demoted him three ranks in a row.The gloating palace people were sensitively aware that Concubine Zhuang was about to be in a dangerous situation, and fled the magnificent palace one after another.This incident is just the beginning and temptation of a great change.Among the government and the opposition, the direction of the wind has also begun to change.The party members of the Zhuang family switched to other forces one after another, hiding and dispersing.The emperor reckoned that the time was almost up, and if he still dared to rely on the Zhuang family to oppose the imperial court, all of them would be executed for treason.But in these few days, General Zhuo's secret report came from the Jiwei outside the capital, that the Zhuang family's military power had been cut off from the Tongzhou camp.Shengyan Joy.

Shen Yunyuan also got clean for a while.

Concubine Zhuang, who was left out in the cold, gritted her teeth with hatred when she mentioned Zhuo Yichen, resentment and anger alternately appeared in her eyes.She said to Zhuyu, the only remaining maid, how could he be so exquisite in the palace?Ben Gong wants to fight him to the death!

But Concubine Zhuang's fighting method is undoubtedly clumsy and irrational.Just as stupid as she sent eunuchs to kill people outside the palace.Concubine Zhuang sent her servant Zhuyu to bring Zhuo Yichen a bowl of bird's nest soup, under the pretext that she was making amends for the past incident.

But unfortunately, Zhuyu didn't meet Zhuo Yichen when she went to Shenyunyuan, she only saw His Royal Highness the crown prince.If it was Zhuo Yichen, she might not be so miserable.

Zhuo Yun took the bowl of bird's nest soup and inspected it a few times. His face was extremely cold, and the chill and undisguised hostility in his eyes made people feel uneasy.

Zhuyu knelt down heavily, lowering her head and not daring to lift it up.

Zhuo Yun said lightly: "I reward you with this bowl of bird's nest."

Zhuyu knelt on the ground, shaking like a sieve.She thanked her tremblingly, stepped aside and drank the whole bowl of bird's nest.The palace maids watched helplessly as Zhuyu knocked on the flower bed screaming within ten steps, a puddle of black blood spewed out of her mouth.

Zhuo Yun stood on the steps and witnessed the whole process of Zhuyu's death from poisoning. His expression seemed calm, and someone came forward to ask how to deal with Zhuyu who died of poisoning.

Zhuo Yun said: "What's the point? Send her back to Concubine Zhuang." Immediately, someone hurriedly carried away Zhuyu.

When Zhuo Yichen returned, Shen Yunyuan had already recovered his original calm, and he didn't even know about the poisoning.Concubine Zhuang's people didn't bother him anymore, and the others didn't dare to bother him.This kind of calm might make Zhuo Yichen think that Concubine Zhuang and her maid have repented.But the truth is, they would rather die than repent.

And that incident was just a detail of His Royal Highness's debut in the palace.

The ending of Concubine Zhuang's confinement in the cold palace was expected by all the palace people who were watching the show.Deliberately making things difficult, jealousy, and poisoning were not enough to cause her final tragedy. Perhaps the emperor remembered his old love and couldn't bear to be cruel.Her tragedy is that she touched Zhuo Yun's bottom line.

After the decree of breaking into the cold palace came down, the originally magnificent and magnificent palace left only scattered sundries and paper notes all over the place overnight, and the palace people hurriedly packed up the boxes and prepared to go their separate ways.That is, one day, the eunuchs found a paulownia man nailed full of iron nails under Concubine Zhuang's couch!This evil thing used to threaten Zhuo Yichen ended up killing herself.The eunuchs obeyed the order of the Eastern Palace, and reported to the emperor the news that Zhuang Concubine was addicted to cult witchcraft. The emperor was furious and sent several guards to Zhuang Concubine Palace to search for evidence. They found all the evidence in a dark hall: White porcelain incense burner, clear water, rice wine, livestock blood, and skeletons.

These criminal evidences were confronted in front of Concubine Zhuang, and the emaciated Concubine Zhuang struggled to get up from the couch, overturned the incense burner containing the blood of the livestock to the ground, and slapped the leading eunuch hard on the face .

The guards took her down immediately.

Concubine Zhuang screamed like crazy, even scratched her face in anger, she smeared blood on the robes of the eunuchs and guards, and shouted hoarsely, using this to ask the prince for credit Reward it!

The disaster of Zhuang's extinction came in response.

The emperor's decree to abolish the concubine caused an uproar inside and outside the palace.The imperial decree said that Concubine Zhuang violated women's morality and women's training, plotted to poison people with doves, and promoted heresy and witchcraft.Concubine Zhuang died, and all nine clans of the Zhuang family were expelled from the jade certificate, exiled to Lingnan, never to return, this is my honor.

This really foretells the downfall of Zhuang's forces.The emperor no longer shy away from the little bit of military power in Zhuang's hands.If you can't persuade them to surrender, you can force them to surrender, and if you can't force them to surrender, you can't kill them all!

When the court and the public applauded the emperor's wisdom, His Royal Highness retreated quietly as if he had never participated in it. This court battle was unstoppable like a torrential storm, and the power of the court and the public was reshuffled.Zhuang's tragic end made all ambitious people have to restrain themselves, including the two princes who were eyeing him.

The weather in the palace was very smooth for a while.

Now it's the beginning of January, Zhuo Yun took his elder brother out of the palace in a chariot and chariot at night.They wanted to go to see their parents, but Zhuo's father was still stationed in the outer city with troops and did not return.Their former farm house should be unoccupied.Zhuo Yun said that his hometown was too far away from Tianyi Pavilion, so he decided to find a nearby inn in the market to stay.But Zhuo Yichen said that he really wanted to go and didn't bother, so Zhuo Yun smiled and agreed.

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