[Comprehensive] The Concubine's Counterattack Manual

Facing the main entrance, Lang Hua's eyes grew colder. Hearing the "boom bang" knock on the door, the wooden peg was cracked in a short while. But when it was knocked open, there was still a loud bang, and the dust sticking to the door was floating in the air. Countless eunuchs wearing black gauze hats and patchwork uniforms flooded into the silent West Palace.

Langhua's face was cold, with a seven-point solemnity, "What are you doing?"

There are only five words in this cold sentence, but it carries an intimidating majesty.

The leading eunuch clicked his tongue secretly, this Wu family has been abolished for so long, why is he still so full of aura?Thinking about what I have to do today, I am still a little scared, this is the master who dares to beat even Wan Guifei!

He bent over, with a eunuch's unique feminine smile on his face, but when he smiled, his wrinkled face turned into a devastated chrysanthemum, which made people panic!The eunuch said: "This servant is Jiang Shoukang, the leader of the Zhaode Palace, who ordered the order of the imperial concubine to search the West Palace."

"The imperial concubine is such a big battle. Although my palace has been abolished, she wants to search my palace..." Langhua was calm and composed, staring at the eunuch with a half-smile, then slowly walked in front of him, his voice resonant: " Bring the queen mother's warrant!"

Jiang Shoukang was taken aback for a moment, thinking that even if she was trapped in the cold palace for eight years, she was not so easy to fool.But he is supported by Concubine Wan Gui, how can he be afraid of a waste empress?Jiang Shoukang casually dusted off his robe, but with a flattering smile on his face, he said, "Of course there will be a warrant from the Empress Dowager, and it will be delivered to your empress later. Now, please don't hinder the slave We carry out the orders of the imperial concubine."

Langhua only wanted to procrastinate as long as he could. At this time, Zhang Min had already told Zhu Jianshen about Zhu Youtang, and there was Queen Mother Zhou in Qianqing Palace. Even if Zhu Jianshen didn't want Zhu Youtang's son, Zhou The Empress Dowager will never allow the Wan family to kill another prince!Otherwise, Daming's country will really have no successors!

"Then you go back and tell Wan Shi that I don't know why Wan Shi wants to search my palace, but the state has state laws, and the palace has palace rules. Although her rank is higher than mine, she will never surpass my status in her life! She can search the West Palace if she wants, and now the Queen Mother holds the phoenix seal, if you want to search the palace, first bring the Queen Mother's warrant!"

Jiang Shoukang's expression changed. It is true that Wu is Zhu Jianshen's original spouse. Even if she is abolished, her status is still higher than Wan Guifei who is a concubine.In addition, the Empress Dowager Zhou has recently started to regret the deposed empress, and her attitude towards Wu has improved a lot. Although Wu's life in the West Palace is extremely simple, her salary is comparable to that of a noble concubine.

Thinking of the series of edicts issued by the Empress Dowager Zhou, the emperor didn't say much, Jiang Shoukang felt a little uneasy, and tried to be as pleasant as possible and said: "Your Majesty probably doesn't know that yesterday, the imperial concubine had an unbearable headache, and the imperial physicians in the palace took turns to diagnose and treat However, no illness could be seen. The Emperor Enzhun found a Taoist priest with strong Taoism from the people. The Taoist priest said that someone in the palace was practicing witchcraft against the noble concubine. No, the whole palace was full of trouble early in the morning. Get out of the way, don't make it difficult for the slaves."

Although the Ming Dynasty did not explicitly ban witchcraft, the influence of witchcraft was huge, so it was recognized as a forbidden technique in the Ming Dynasty. Once found in the palace, it would definitely be severely punished.

Full house?

Lang Hua asked blankly: "Have you searched the palace of Concubine Xian, Concubine Chen and Concubine De?"

"That's not it, so let's get out of the way, your majesty, the emperor agrees with this matter."

As soon as Jiang Shoukang's words fell, the little eunuch who was following him sniffed, his expression changed, and he shouted, "It smells like burning, something is burning inside!"

Jiang Shoukang's complexion changed, he bypassed Langhua and wanted to rush in, and the people behind him also wanted to rush in, Langhua blocked the door first, and shouted angrily: "Wan Guifei's people are so unruly, I want to ask the Queen Mother, who is in charge of the Phoenix Seal in this palace?! It is said that the emperor has allowed the search of the palace, but what is the emperor's will?"

"Didn't your lady smell it? Something is burning inside, what if it's on fire, you go outside and stay there, the servant will help you put out the fire." Jiang Shoukang winked at his apprentice while talking, they There were a lot of people brought along, some of them blocked Langhua, and another group of people rushed in directly.

Hearing the cry of a child from inside, Langhua's expression changed suddenly, he threw off the hands of the others and rushed in, only to see two inner eunuchs pinning Zhu Youtang to the ground, it should be the inner eunuch The supervisor used too much strength, and Zhu Youtang cried out in pain.

Lang Hua stepped forward and broke the hands of the two eunuchs, hugged the crying Zhu Youtang into his arms, pushed the two young eunuchs away, and said angrily, "What are you doing!"

Jiang Shoukang walked in front of her slowly, raised his eyebrows, and asked in a sharp voice: "Mistress Wu, who is this child?"

Lang Hua didn't answer, but patted Zhu Youtang's back comfortingly. Zhu Youtang's face was buried in her arms, his small body trembled slightly, and Langhua could still hear his sobs.

A little eunuch was watching from the small inner hall. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, he bent down and lay down on the ground, took out a white object from under the bed, and handed it to Jiang Shoukang as if offering a treasure, and looked at it. His face was full of joy, and when he spoke, he gave Lang Hua a disdainful glance: "Eunuch Jiang, look!"

Jiang Shoukang took out the things, held them up for Langhua to see, and said in a strange tone, "Your Majesty, what is this?"

Lang Hua fixed his eyebrows and saw that the puppet's hands and hair had been burned off, and some of Wan's birthday was written on the middle belly, and some of it was also burned off. It should be burnt forever, so only a little bit was burned when the burnt smell came out.Fortunately, Zhu Youtang poured tea on the puppet just now, and the writing ink turned into black blotches, little by little, and it was almost impossible to see what was written on it.

"Okay, tell me to go out, you don't need to look for it anymore, give this thing to the Taoist priest, I think the concubine's illness will recover soon." Jiang Shoukang winked at the eunuchs, and the eunuchs came up and thought To separate them.

"Go away!" Lang Hua blocked their hands, "You don't deserve to touch him!"

Jiang Shoukang knew the identity of that child, and Concubine Wan Gui's goal today was also that child. Although the prince's status is precious, he is still a shameful person. Why would he not dare!

Jiang Shoukang sneered twice, and said: "Oh! What a big tone. The empress should not have been pregnant when she was deposed. Why did such a big child suddenly appear? This child looks to be five or six years old. Why didn't you report it? Could it be that you did something shameful to dare to tell the existence of this child!"

Lang Hua blushed, the eunuch actually said that she was having trouble with others!

She let go of Zhu Youtang, stood up slowly, and protected Zhu Youtang behind her, walked forward slowly a few steps, raised her hand and slapped Jiang Shoukang heavily, such a slap caught off guard, the slap Everyone in the hall was taken aback.

Jiang Shoukang's little apprentice was startled, and called out "Master!" and ran to Jiang Shoukang's side to ask him how he was.

Lang Hua hit hard, and she could tell from the sudden redness on Jiang Shoukang's face. Although her palms were also numb with pain, she felt very happy!

Jiang Shoukang touched half of his face that was so painful that he was almost unconscious, and exhaled two puffs of air heavily from his nose. He wanted to hit Lang Hua with his backhand, and Lang Hua subconsciously stretched out his hand.

"Bold! Dare to be rude to the second prince and the empress, don't you want to live!"

Before Jiang Shoukang's slap fell, he was frightened by the voice and stopped his hands. Lang Hua followed everyone's gaze and looked back, who knew that it was Zhou Deli who was beside the queen mother with a serious face come over.

Zhou Deli is the chief eunuch in the Empress Dowager's Palace, his seniority is higher than the eunuchs around the emperor, no one in the palace calls him "Grandpa Zhou".

Jiang Shoukang smiled obsequiously at Zhou Deli and said, "Grandpa Zhou, why are you here?"

Zhou Deli didn't even look at him, walked up to Langhua without looking aside, and said respectfully: "Slave Zhou Deli pays his respects to the empress, and to the second prince."

His words "Second Prince" startled everyone. Is this justifying the child's name?

Jiang Shoukang licked his lower lip hesitantly, and asked with a blank face: "Grandpa Zhou, this... is this the prince?"

Zhou Deli snorted coldly, and said to the inner eunuchs in the hall: "You can see clearly, this is His Royal Highness the Second Prince! Come here, bring them all to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and hand them over to the Queen Mother!"

No matter how the group of people begged, the people brought by Zhou Deli managed to drag them down one by one, and Zhou Deli respectfully said to Lang Hua: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is waiting for you and the Second Prince at the Palace of Compassion. "

Langhua led Zhu Youtang into the sedan chair and drove all the way to Empress Dowager Zhou's Compassionate Palace.

When they arrived, it seemed that the Compassionate Ning Palace was very lively, large and small sedan chairs were set up in a courtyard, and Langhua led Zhu Youtang in with a calm expression. Sure enough, all the concubines in the palace were there. Sitting on the first seat with the Empress Dowager Zhou, the imperial concubine Wan Zhen'er and the other concubines sat in an orderly manner according to their positions.

"Greetings to the Empress Dowager." Lang Hua said.

Langhua's status is a bit embarrassing here. Although he is a deposed empress, but according to the salary regulations of noble concubines, it is fine to pay respects to the queen mother, but to pay respects to the queen...

One is the original spouse, and the other is the stepmother. It is a question of whether you can do it or not, but Queen Wang has obviously suffered a lot from Wan's anger over the years. Faced with such an embarrassing situation, she smiled lightly, stood up and called Lang Hua called her sister, and pulled Lang Hua to sit on the phoenix seat together.

The Empress Dowager Zhou's attention was obviously not on this, she stared blankly at the boy led by Langhua, with tears in her eyes, Langhua slightly shook Zhu Youtang's hand, Zhu Youtang bowed to the Empress Dowager Zhou, He whispered: "God bless, please greet grandma."

The Empress Dowager Zhou let out a contented "Hey", hugged Zhu Youtang in her arms, and yelled "heart and heart" all the time. The concubines looked at each other and talked a lot of persuasion, and the Empress Dowager Zhou calmed down. He asked, "Your name is Tianyou?"

Zhu Youtang nodded, "Ms. Wu said, it was my mother who gave me the name."

The Empress Dowager turned her head and asked Lang Hua, "Who is his mother?"

"It's Ji Nushi from Zangshu Pavilion."

"Then why isn't she here?" The Queen Mother Zhou asked tentatively, "Is it dystocia?"

Lang Hua shook his head: "The concubine doesn't know much about it. I just heard that the noble concubine called, and the Ji clan went and never came back."

All the concubines and concubines present here know that she is a rare talented woman. Zhu Jianshen only goes to Zangshu Pavilion occasionally when she is busy with government affairs. At that time, I heard that the emperor had been talking about it for a while, but Concubine Wan Gui had a lot of tricks and there were so many women in the palace. Gradually, the emperor stopped talking about Mrs. Ji, and all the concubines thought that it was her favor that made Concubine Wan Gui jealous. , was dealt with by Concubine Wan Gui unconsciously, who would have thought that she was pregnant with Emperor Chunfeng for a time, and even went to the West Palace to give birth to a son!But Ji's fortune is not good, so he left like this, it would be cheaper to abolish Empress Wu.

The Empress Dowager Zhou turned her head to look at Wan Zhen'er, and said coldly, "Is this the case, imperial concubine?"

"Queen Mother, the concubine did summon Ji Nushi back then, but she was sent back after only asking a few words, why? Didn't she go back that day?" Wan Zhen'er looked innocent.

"Then why did she go to the An Le Hall with her stomach full?" Queen Mother Zhou asked.

Wan Zhen'er's face suddenly became serious: "Ms. Ji has been serving the bed for a few days, and she is so proud of being favored that she doesn't pay attention to me. I just punished her to go to the Anle Hall to meditate on her past! I don't know why Mrs. Ji is pregnant but refuses to tell it, but let the little prince suffer for so many years in vain."

The Empress Dowager Zhou snorted coldly, obviously she didn't believe Wan Zhen'er's words.

Zhu Youtang clenched his fists tightly. He absolutely did not believe that his mother was such a person. He heard from Niang Niang and Aunt Yi'an that his mother had always been kind to others.Wan Shi has ruined his mother's reputation like this now, and he will definitely pay it back ten times and a hundred times in the future!

Wan's eyes slowly shifted to Lang Hua, her expression became sad, she said with a choked voice, "So, is this the reason why Sister Wu practiced witchcraft on her younger sister? I thought my younger sister was The murderer who killed Sister Ji."

Lang Hua met her eyes calmly, his expression did not change a bit, "I have never performed any witchcraft on you, so don't make false accusations, please show evidence before speaking."

Wan Zhen'er took out a handkerchief from her bosom to wipe her tears, and the maid beside her was holding a tray, and presented it respectfully to the Empress Dowager Zhou and everyone, and on the tray, wasn't that puppet just now?

"This is the puppet that practiced witchcraft? How did it burn like this?" A soft female voice in the hall spoke, Lang Hua raised his eyebrows and swept it away, the speaker had a big belly, who else could it be if it wasn't the virtuous concubine Bai Shi!

But Zhu Youtang, who was listening quietly, said: "This is a puppet I secretly made for Miss Wu. It doesn't look good, so I want to burn it."

"But many people rushed in. I was afraid, so I put out the fire with water, but they grabbed me and refused to let me go." Zhu Youtang said, his body trembling, and recalling the scene at that time, he felt lingering fear.

Empress Dowager Zhou hugged Zhu Youtang into her arms distressedly, patted him, and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Wan Zhen'er's expression froze, and she said aggressively: "The prince said that you made it? Why did the prince make a puppet? The prince is so young and knows how to sew so finely? Why does the prince write on the puppet? What are the words written?"

Zhu Youtang stood in front of her with his head held high and his chest held high: "My life is not as good as yours, so I have to do everything by myself. When my clothes are torn, I sew them by myself. There is no problem in making a puppet. As for the above That's the birthday message I wrote to Miss Wu. I don't know what witchcraft you are talking about, but I did it, so you don't need to slander Miss Wu and my mother!"

Wan Shi choked, and immediately realized that he was trembling with anger, this kid!She will never let him go!

"Your Highness, Second Prince, you should call me Mistress Wan."

Zhu Youtang closed her lips, and the queen mother said: "Okay, don't yell if you don't want to. The noble concubine and the second prince have said that he made the puppet, so your business has nothing to do with Mrs. Wu, you don't want to yell again." Talk too much!"

"Queen..." Concubine Wan Gui opened her mouth unwillingly.

At this time, an inner eunuch came in and said with a smile: "Reporting to the Queen Mother, the servants found a puppet full of silver needles in the soil beside the palace wall of the concubine Xian."

As soon as the words fell, all eyes in the hall shifted to Concubine Bai Xian who was sitting leisurely watching the play.

Concubine Bai Xian's complexion changed drastically, she knelt firmly on the ground with a big belly, and stammered, "The Empress Dowager is clearly aware, this concubine really doesn't know what's going on!"

Even Wan Zhen'er was stunned by such a change. It was Bai's suggestion to use witchcraft to get Wu and that little bastard away together, but it turned out that Bai himself was the unlucky one!She caught a glimpse of Langhua's expressionless expression, and felt for a moment that Mrs. Wu might have known about their plan, and then shook her head, denying this guess. The guards in Xianfei Palace are no less loose than her Zhaode Palace. Well, even if Mrs. Wu knows, how can she put the puppet in it? The people of Mrs. Wu were all solved by her when she was abolished.

Concubine Bai also thought of this, she glanced at Langhua again.Although the Wu family was abolished and moved to the Leng Palace for eight years, Concubine Bai Xian always thought that she would be old and haggard by the cold wind in the Leng Palace, but seeing her now, she seemed to look better than she did eight years ago. Even if Wu Shi didn't do it, she wouldn't be alive today!

Immediately, Concubine Bai Xian pointed at Langhua and shouted: "It's Mrs. Wu, it must be Mrs. Wu who framed me!"

"Concubine Xian, you haven't changed your old problem. It's still the same old saying. Even if you frame someone, you have to show evidence!"

This was when Wu and Concubine Xian were running for the position of queen. Concubine Xian accused a lady in the same room of making it because her jewelry was missing. The noble lady was dismissed because of this incident, but it turned out that the lady was indeed wronged.

Hearing what Lang Hua said, Concubine Bai Xian's face turned green and then pale, so exciting.

"The Emperor is here—"

Zhu Jianshen came back from the morning court and hurried to the Palace of Compassion and Ning. He has reached his thirties, but he doesn't even have a son and a half daughter. During this time, someone in the court has proposed drafting to fill the harem. I hope someone can soon The emperor's heir was born.But Zhu Jianshen was very distressed, there was no shortage of women in the palace, and there were quite a few pregnant women these years, but none of them were able to give birth properly.

Now all the palaces are focusing on Concubine Bai Xian's belly, and Zhu Jianshen has already named the child. As long as Concubine Xian can give birth to the prince safely, he will train the child to be the crown prince.

He never expected that at this stall, he would find that he had a six-year-old son.

The Empress Dowager Zhou pushed Zhu Youtang, and Zhu Youtang stepped forward and said, "God bless, please greet my father."

Zhu Jianshen stroked his soft fetal hair in a daze, Langhua stepped forward and explained: "Return to the emperor, this is Tianyou's fetal hair. After the prince is born, the fetal hair must be cut by the queen mother in a ceremony to cut the fetal hair, so the concubine Can't act rashly."

Zhu Jianshen almost burst into tears, and said repeatedly: "Okay!"

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the child doesn't have a name yet, it's just called by the baby name Tianyou Tianyou. After all, it's not a proper name. The Emperor should choose a good name."

Zhu Jianshen hugged his son who had come out of the blue, at a loss, "Name, I've already thought of the name, it's called Youtang."

Zhu Jianshen immediately said: "Master Ji has meritorious service in giving birth to a son, so I chase after Concubine Shu."

The Empress Dowager Zhou wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said: "You father and son are reunited, but I want to thank Mrs. Wu."

Zhu Jian said deeply: "The Wu family is also a great contributor to raising the prince, and he is named..."

Lang Hua interrupted him: "Back to the emperor, the concubine doesn't care about these titles. The concubine has already fulfilled the concubine Ji Shu's entrustment to the concubine. Please allow the concubine to go back to live in the West Palace."

The Empress Dowager Zhou sighed, in this situation, it is not appropriate for the Wu family to confer rewards. Could it be that she, the original spouse, is placed on the sidelines?

"I have wronged you. The Ai family will issue an order to restore your mother's first-rank order."

After thinking deeply, Zhu Jian also said: "Your father and brother will also be reinstated."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager, thank you, Your Majesty. It's just that there's no need to return to the original position. My father is old, and I'm afraid he can no longer work on political affairs. Let him relax at home. As long as the Empress Dowager can restore the innocence of the Wu family, it will be right." The best reward for a concubine."

Received the help-seeking gaze from Concubine Xian, Wan Zhen'er stuck to Zhu Jianshen's side, wrapped Zhu Jianshen's hand with her frail and boneless jade arm, and said in a seductive voice, "Your Majesty, Concubine Xian is still kneeling! I think she is pregnant with the prince." For sake, let her get up first."

Zhu Jianshen wanted to agree in a flash, and the Queen Mother Zhou said first: "Until the matter is clarified, Concubine Xian will go back to the palace and restrain her feet, and the rest will be discussed after the birth of the child."

In the middle of the night, the hustle and bustle of the day faded away from the Zhaode Palace, and everything returned to calm. Wan Zhen'er lay flat on the bed alone and fell into a deep sleep.

"Concubine Wan Gui, Concubine Wan Gui—"

A gloomy female voice sounded in the hall, and there was an echo in the empty bedroom.

Wan Zhen'er slowly opened her eyes, and the female voice shouted again: "Mr. Wan, Wan Zhen'er—"

Wan Shi slowly got up from the bed, stared at the inner hall with a pair of phoenix eyes, forced himself to remain calm, and said: "Who are you? Don't play tricks in front of me, I am not afraid of you!"

"Wan Zhen'er, I died so unjustly, the dry well is so cold, I want you to taste the taste of the bones exposed to the cold wind!" The female ghost spoke again, and she didn't know where to speak when she spoke. A gust of cold air blew, making Wan Zhen'er feel cold from head to soles of feet.

"You are Ji!"