Chapter 159: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Wei Yanwan. 79
Chapter 159: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Wei Yanwan. 79
Hongli punished Yongzhang and purged everyone around him, replacing them all with his own people. Perhaps because of Hongli's harshness, Yongzhang gradually became indifferent to fame and fortune, and spent his days indulging in poetry and books as comfort.
Wei Yanwan didn't say much after she found out. Yongqi had just beaten Yongzhang up after his injury had healed. Yongzhang then recuperated for a while, and winter had already come.
Wei Yanwan held Qiongyu and sat on the kang, watching Yongqi talking to Jingxuan. She smiled and said, "Jingxuan is over one year old and still can't speak. But you are different. You can already call me mother before you are even one year old."
Yongqi's eyes curved, and he hugged Jingxuan and said with a smile: "Mother, please don't make up stories about Jingxuan like this, or Jingxuan will ignore you."
Wei Yanwan shook her head slightly. There were not many concubines in the palace this year. Apart from a Mongolian concubine who came in, there was no one else.
She proposed a great title, and Hongli nodded in agreement. He asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to draw up a title and then let Hongli choose one from among them.
Then, Wei Yanwan was allowed to decide the positions and scores herself, and it was entirely up to her to decide which ones she liked and which ones she didn't like. Whether or not to promote her was entirely up to her.
Wei Yanwan laughed. Except for the few people who offended her, Wei Yanwan was promoted to a higher level. Qingying was still a noble lady, and Jin Yuyan also remained committed and there was no change.
In the 21st year, Wei Yanwan became pregnant again, and unexpectedly it was twins. Hongli was happy and worried. Raising one child was already so difficult, so one could imagine how difficult it would be to raise twins.
In these years, the concubines in the harem became more and more indifferent. Not to mention Yihuan, who was only thinking about the emperor. They were happy and often wrote poems in the palace to express their deep love for Hongli.
After being scolded again and again by Hongli, Concubine Meng finally regained some rationality. Especially since the emperor had been fighting wars all over the world in recent years, the Mongolian tribes no longer had such a tough attitude. It can be seen that the emperor really wanted to clean up the Mongolian tribes.
Wei Yanwan gave birth to twins in the spring of 22, and Hongli named them Yonglu and Jingyun. Not only Hongli was happy, but also the -year-old Yongqi and the -year-old Jingyun, who loved the twins.
Hongli was very happy and gave the two children grand full-month gifts.
The Queen Mother rarely attended the event. She also had two children. Looking at the twins, she felt that Wei Yanwan was indeed a capable person.
In recent years, she has become more and more reclusive, only worshiping Buddha in her own Cining Palace. She has killed many people in her life and has been tortured by many people. Now that she has become the empress dowager, she understands why people like Buddhism when they get older.
I'm afraid the empress dowager at that time was in the same mood as me, just as lonely and miserable, struggling to survive for her two children.
The Queen Wei Yanwan overshadowed all the concubines in the harem, and the Emperor now only focused on taking care of the Queen.
At first, the ministers in the court tried to persuade her, but who could have thought that the emperor would protect her so much and that the queen could actually give birth.
Later, as Yongqi grew up, the emperor used him more and more. Now the civil and military officials in the court didn't care anymore. Let him do whatever he wanted. They had seen clearly that the emperor wanted only the empress. Now they didn't say anything, as long as the emperor didn't openly disband the harem.
Jin Yuyan was bullied every day, and now she had to agree. The people under her knew that she would never have the chance to go out in her life, so they were always rude to her and she had to do many things by herself.
Jin Yuyan could still bear it at first, but after a while, she couldn't smile anymore when she looked at herself in the mirror.
Is this person in the mirror who looks like a withered skeleton really her?
At the beginning, before Wei Yanwan appeared, she was also a rare beauty in the harem, but now, she was suppressed by Wei Yanwan and it was difficult for her to turn things around!
She overturned her dressing table in anger. The bored maid outside said, "This Jin Ying is really unlucky. If it wasn't for Eunuch Jinzhong's order, I wouldn't have been willing to come."
"Yes, but I think it's okay. After all, Eunuch Jinzhong gave us extra money. If she's crazy, then she's crazy. We just need to watch her."
"makes sense."
But no one expected that Jin Yuyan would die within a few days. When the palace servant reported it, Jinzhong was stunned for a moment. He never thought that she would die so easily.
"Okay, since she's dead, we'll arrange a new job for you."
"Thank you, father-in-law! Thank you, father-in-law!!"
After Jinzhong and other ministers left, he went in and reported: "Your Majesty, Jin promised to die."
"If she's dead, she'll be buried. For Yongsheng's sake, let's arrange the funeral rites according to the rules for a concubine."
"Well, I'll do it right away."
Hongli took the newly written imperial edict and placed it in front of Wei Yanwan with a flattering face, dangling it for a while. Wei Yanwan laughed at him secretly, but also gave him great face.
Hongli hugged her contentedly and said with a smile: "Yongqi is capable of taking on the great responsibility. I have long thought of passing on the throne, and now it has finally been settled."
"I would like to thank you, Your Majesty."
Wei Yanwan handed over the funeral ceremony of Jin Yuyan to Concubine Wan. Qingying was now in a close relationship with the guard, but it was soon revealed that she had an affair with the guard.
When she heard the news, she rushed over and found Qingying kneeling there. Wei Yanwan looked at the chaos in the hall and said to Hongli, "Your Majesty, this is..."
Hongli held out his hand, and Wei Yanwan stepped forward to take it, "Noble Lady Xian had an affair with a guard, and was seen by Concubine Ying."
Qingying was still in a daze. She really didn't know how to react. Now she could only play dumb.
Yingpin showed Hongli what she had found, "Noble Lady Xian was very close to this guard. She not only made him shoes, but also embroidered a pillow for him. Now he uses it as a pillow every day. A bunch of hair was found inside. Your Majesty, I don't know if this hair has a different name in our Qing Dynasty."
How else can we put it? They are married and in love with each other.
Hongli had almost no hesitation and beat the guard Jiang Jingcheng to death with a stick. Qingying... He had a complicated look in his eyes, but such a person should not live in this world.
"Qingying was unfaithful and dishonest, having an affair with a guard. The evidence is solid and her crime is unforgivable. She is ordered to commit suicide."
"For the sake of our friendship over the years, I will let you end your life on your own."
Wei Yanwan thought that she would have to spend more time talking this time, but she didn't expect Hongli to be so powerful and directly convicted the person.
At this time, Qingying finally learned to seek justice. She looked at Hongli blankly and said, "I am innocent..."
However, no one listened to her. Hongli asked someone to carry her down. Wei Yanwan looked at Qingying, closed her eyes slightly and smiled in her heart.
Afterwards, Wei Yanwan still went to see Qingying, and Jinzhong followed behind her with a glass of wine.
"Qingying, did you ever think this day would come?"
Wei Yanwan smiled and sat down beside Qingying, looking at her heartbroken appearance, as if she was an old person who was going to die today.
"Wei Yanwan, I lost to you." Qingying said after looking at her for a while.
Wei Yanwan smiled and shook her head: "No, you didn't lose to me, because I never considered you as my opponent, and you have never been my opponent."
"The Queen Mother could confine you to the palace, A Ruo and Jin Yuyan could send you to the cold palace, and even the former Queen could make you lose your pregnancy. Qingying, who have you ever defeated in your life?"
Qingying trembled her lips, and then turned her face away: "What do you want to say?"
I was rejected by her like this, by someone I had always looked down upon.
Wei Yanwan smiled at her and said, "Look, what you always thought was special and that the emperor valued you, all disappeared after I came here. It shows that your so-called love between you and your childhood sweethearts is nothing more than that."
"What do you know?!" Qingying was still stubborn at this time. When she looked at her, Qingying said, "You don't know anything. At the beginning, it was the emperor who begged me to participate in the selection and begged me to be his legitimate wife!"
"If the late emperor hadn't stopped me that day, I would have been the emperor's legitimate wife long ago!"
Wei Yanwan smiled and said nothing, looking at her with a trace of warmth in her eyes: "Then it is the emperor who has banished you to the cold palace, and it is he who wants your life today!"
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