It's Hard to Be the Concubine of the Red Chamber

Chapter 32

After the emperor's eldest son's full moon banquet, Concubine An officially gave birth to her confinement, and it was justifiable to return to the harem fighting for favor.

But probably because she is a mother now, and the only son under her knees is not only young, but also weak and prone to illness. Although An Concubine still strives for favor, it is inevitable that she will not be favored in the end. Little thought was spent on the eldest son of the emperor.

If it were placed in the palace of the Empress Dowager, this change in attitude would of course not be noticed.But now the harem is empty, and although Concubine An is still competing for favor, she can still see that slackness, at least now she is still much inferior to the arrogance before she became pregnant and gave birth.

In this way, although taking advantage of the birth mother of the eldest son of the emperor, Concubine An's status is inevitably more valuable than before, and she lost her old rival Concubine Yi Jiang, but it is still difficult to completely attract the Queen's hatred.

Yuan Chun's enthusiasm fell to nothing.

Yuan Chun secretly saw it in his eyes and took it to heart, and he was inevitably a little irritable. Finally, after being turned over three times in ten days, he still took advantage of the menstruation to hide for another five or six days of leisure.

However, menstruation is not the same as being sick. There is always a rough time and day, and it is only five or six days at most. It is really just a tactic to delay the attack.

Five or six days is not long, and it can only slightly relieve Yuanchun's pressure.

But fortunately, in the past five or six days, a major event happened, which greatly shared the Queen's attention, but made Yuan Chunchang heave a sigh of relief.

Concubine Yi—now Jiang Cairen—was released from the cold palace by amnesty.

Jiang Cairen was degraded and sent to the cold palace because she plotted against Concubine An to frame Yuanchun. She thought that she would never have a chance to stand up again in this life, but she didn't expect that she would still... There is a day when you come out of the cold palace.However, this matter was not because of Tu Ming's sensuality and insensitivity, but because Jiang Cairen was a lucky person who was found pregnant at such a desperate time.

Don't say that now Tuming only has a son and a daughter who don't know if they can stand on their knees, and their blood is still very thin.As long as he was born in the royal family and sat in that position, he would be full of children and grandchildren like the Supreme Emperor, and they would all care about their bloodlines very much.

However, concubines who are pregnant are always more expensive than others. No matter what big mistakes Jiang Cairen made before, since she is pregnant now, it is naturally impossible to stay in the cold palace anymore.

——As for what to do after giving birth to the emperor's heir, that's another matter.

To be honest, Yuan Chun was not surprised that Jiang Cairen was found to be pregnant.After pondering for a while and then counting, I found that Jiang Cairen's pregnancy was three or four months later than in my dream. I was still surprised.

"My servant doesn't seem to be surprised when I see Jiang Cairen now?" Xiu Yan brought a cup of honey water to Yuan Chun. Although she was a little surprised when she saw Yuan Chun, she still looked calm as usual, and didn't seem to feel anything wrong. Surprised, he couldn't hide his curiosity and asked after all.

Yuan Chun took the honey water, just slightly touched his lips, then put it aside, casually looked at the ink fragrance that had just been released on the other side, and then turned his gaze back to the book in his hand.

However, she did not hide her thoughts.

"When the eldest son of the emperor was not born, it was rumored that Concubine An's child must be the prince. At that time, who in the palace was not jealous of Concubine An's good fortune? That's it. Surprised at first, six or seven months have passed in peace, except that nothing major has happened, so why did such a mess happen in July? No one in this palace is stupid, how come Jiang Then I thought of meddling in Concubine An's birth? Isn't it for profit." Afterwards, Zhuge Liang can do it, not to mention that Yuan Chun has carefully considered the temperament of this palace man with the advantage of the prophet in his dream. Naturally, he has the courage to point out Jiangshan, "The sage doesn't have a son, and the eldest son is the most precious. He is also a prince, and the eldest son is always more precious than the second son. And for many years before, Jiang Cairen was overwhelmed by Concubine An. , life is very expensive, and in the backyard, it is probably only a little weaker than the empress's concubine. Now that there are so many people on his head, how could Jiang Cairen be willing? Desperate."

It's a pity that the time is not right. If it is a year in the evening, when a newcomer enters the harem, it is impossible to say that this calculation will come true under the chaos of all parties. It is a pity that the structure of the harem is too simple now. After the meeting, all calculations are in vain.

"After all, good and evil are rewarded. Jiang Cairen was plotting in every possible way, and even wanted to frame the empress, but the empress won the trust of the sage, and let her suffer the consequences. She lost a complete defeat." Xiu Yan's temperament compared to Baoqin Mo Xiang is more lively, but it is very sweet.

Even with Yuan Chun's cautious temperament, he was in a good mood after hearing what Xiu Yan said.

Now that Jiang is suffering from the consequences of her own misfortune, there is nothing to be afraid of, but after all, she is still pregnant with the second prince in her womb, and with the eldest son of the emperor under the knee of Anpin Yang, she can still block Yuanchun from the Queen's sight of.

At least it can always drag the newcomer into the palace.

————Separation line of the conversion scene———

Yuan Chun felt that Jiang's side was already in decline, and there was nothing to fear, but Jiang Cairen himself was full of confidence and complacency.

After all, although the status of the second prince is not as precious as that of the eldest son of the emperor, it is not bad after all.Although I lost the upper hand with a bad move in chess before, and I was temporarily at a disadvantage, but as long as I can raise the little prince in my belly to be healthy, and compared with the crooked prince in Anpin, there is always a possibility of turning around. one day.

As for Concubine Xian Jia - an old woman who is nearly 30 years old, without any children, there will always be a bleak day in her later life. Although she has a good reputation now, she is not to be feared in the end.

With such beautiful fantasies in mind, Jiang Cairen began to raise his baby safely with his stomach in his arms.

It has to be said that Jiang Cairen is undoubtedly much more low-key now than when An Concubine was pregnant.

Firstly, she didn’t really want to be that rafter that rotted at the beginning, and secondly, she stayed in the cold palace before, and now she keeps a calm look, which also shows that she corrected when she knew her mistakes manner.

Jiang Cairen thought very well.

She still felt that her only opponent was Yuan Chun, as long as she could defeat Yuan Chun, she would be able to soar into the sky.

In fact, she is not stupid, she is quite clever.According to the rules in the harem, those below the rank of concubine cannot raise the emperor's heir, and now there are only four concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines and concubines who have enough positions in the palace.

Concubine Shu and Concubine An have their own children, so it is naturally impossible to raise her children.After all, the queen's status is different from other people's. If the prince who adopts a concubine can be counted as his son, it is naturally impossible to act rashly.

So Jiang Cairen calculated that as long as he could bring down Concubine Xian, no one would be able to snatch his own child, so with this prince, he would probably be able to rise to the top in the future.

Although Yuan Chun didn't know Jiang Cairen's specific thoughts, Yuan Chun still knew Jiang Cairen's general thinking.

In the inner garden of the palace, the pregnant concubines are always the most dangerous people - not only are they themselves in danger, but they themselves are also a victim.

There were not many people in Tu Ming's backyard, and the Queen He's ruled the palace very well before, so it seemed exceptionally quiet and peaceful.

Generally speaking, a calm atmosphere can easily breed a foolish temperament——Anpin and Jiang Cairen are the kind of people who have their own small thoughts, but those small thoughts are not clever at all.

But Yuan Chun was the one who spent ten years safely in the Empress Dowager's palace.

Compared with Tu Mingjun's backyard, which has not had time to fully transform, the Taishanghuang's harem is undoubtedly a true standard royal backyard-there are constant guns and dark arrows, and the concubines have a variety of intrigues and tricks.

In contrast, Jiang Cairen's small tricks are undoubtedly a bit too simple.

It's nothing more than taking advantage of the time when the status is precious to do some small tricks to frame Yuanchun and frame Yuanchun as planning to kill her or to kill the emperor's heir.

Although the idea is simpler, the idea is still correct-it's a pity that the method is too rough and simple.

Jiang Cairen originally lived in the main hall of Yongshou Palace, but after walking around in the cold palace for a while, he lost his original status and was not liked by Tu Mingjun, so he moved to Jianfu Palace nearby.

Jianfu Palace is located in the northwest of Kunning Palace, farther than Chuxiu Palace where Concubine Shu lived before.

The Fengzao Palace where Yuanchun lives is in the southwest of Kunning Palace. Although it is considered a secluded place, it is very close to the Hall of Mental Cultivation where Tu Mingxuan lives daily.

After asking An from the queen, the two should go in completely different directions. According to common sense, there shouldn't be any intersection, but Jiang Cairen just wants to find an excuse to walk a certain distance with Yuan Chun every day. .

——Unfortunately, Yuan Chun never wanted to promise her.

Knowing that the other party's comer is not good, there must be conspiracy and tricks, how stupid Yuan Chun is to throw himself into the trap and jump into the pit by himself.

As the saying goes, the first to attack is the strong, and the second to attack will suffer.In order to prevent the other party from really having something behind him that he didn't know he didn't notice, Yuan Chun finally decided to make some counterattacks against the other party's behavior.Therefore, after rejecting Jiang Cairen for the fifth and sixth times, Yuan Chun had enough reasons, and finally blatantly sued Tu Mingjun when he met him.

"Jiang Cairen's body is delicate, but my concubine dare not be alone with her. At the beginning, sister An was used as a scapegoat, but now I still have lingering fears." Yuan Chun didn't say anything hypocritical about caring for Jiang Cairen's body. The false words clearly stated his worries, "It's winter now, if Jiang Cairen accidentally falls if the snow is not swept away and there is ice or something, the concubine will not be able to wash herself off even if she jumps into the Yellow River." It's clear. It's just that he didn't fall and beat him. If Jiang Cairen caught wind and cold because of walking for a long time every day, and said that he was delayed outside because he was with his concubine, the concubine would be really wronged. .”

The thing about Concubine An's premature birth before was certainly due to Concubine An's own stupidity, and Jiang Cairen was definitely not innocent, and Yuan Chun suffered such an innocent disaster before, so I can't be too careful.

Although Tu Mingxun is still immature in political affairs, he grew up in the deep palace after all. Although he is not proficient in the twists and turns of the harem, he still knows it.

Originally, Yuan Chunsu came to pretend to be innocent and ignorant, but it is not a good thing to suddenly become scheming.Tu Mingxun was a little displeased at first, but thinking about the fact that she was calculated to almost take the blame for Anpin's premature birth, it is understandable to become a little suspicious.