Chapter 25 Neither of These Brothers Are Good People!

"Empress, you must not fall into the trap of the empress dowager!" Yun Fenghuang raised his head and said aggrievedly, "I am helpless in this palace. Only the empress can uphold justice. If even the empress is disgusted, Take this concubine, that...that concubine..."

As he spoke, he started wiping away tears.

Empress Ji was unmoved and hummed: "You are so young, you can be double-dealing! Just now you have thanked your mother repeatedly for your love, but now your mother has turned against you before Fengchaan has gone far, and you still want to do this pitiful thing." What are you doing? You think I don’t know what you are planning in your mind!"

"Your Majesty's words have really unjustly accused me of death!" Yun Fenghuang took a few steps forward on his knees and shouted, "The Empress Dowager, the loving mother, is the direct aunt of Concubine Yue, and Concubine Yue personally dislikes me. How could they, the aunt and nephew, be of the same mind and have a good impression of me? It would be great if the empress dowager, the loving mother, did not help Concubine Yue to kill me, let alone ask for promotion for me? Although I am stupid, it is so simple. How can you not understand the truth?"

Empress Ji muttered: "The empress dowager, a loving mother, has always lived in seclusion. Since entering the palace, she has hardly spoken to me. It is rare that I have said a few words, but you have been promoted to a higher level, and you have made a mistake in this promotion?"

"I dare to say it bluntly. Although a beauty is one level above a talented person, in the eyes of the empress dowager, a loving mother, or in the eyes of empress Yue, what's the difference?" Yun Fenghuang wiped his face and choked. , "They are just concubines anyway! It's hard for me to serve you carefully in the Ningbi Palace when I am Baolin. Now that I have become a beauty, and Concubine Yue summons me, can I stop serving her? But the empress dowager, a loving mother, does this." , not only did the Sixth Palace divert the attention of the Sixth Palace from Jiang Lan to Concubine, but the Empress also stopped caring about Concubine!"

She raised her face and begged, "I beg you to take back your life. Not long after I entered the palace, I have already been promoted to one level. Now it is absolutely impossible to be promoted to two levels in a row. It is better to let me be the concubine! If the concubine is I must give you a reward, just give me some clothes and jewelry!"

"You are such a talkative person." Empress Ji squinted her eyes. Of course she knew that Yun Fenghuang was trying to dispel her intention of knocking, but the words "They are all concubines anyway" made the empress feel at ease. A little more.

The queen had planned to push Yun Fenghuang down, but she felt that the concubine was not docile enough, and her promotion too quickly would easily lead to unruly behavior. At this moment, she made a mental calculation. She was only a fifth-grade beauty, and she was still four levels away from the third-grade Jieyu who could preside over the first palace. Even if you include the two levels of pregnancy and giving birth to an imperial heir, you are still a fourth-grade Rong Hua... And from pregnancy to birth, it takes more than half a year... This is still a situation where you can give birth. If she can't give birth... there is no heir in this palace so far. Before, Concubine Shu and Concubine Yue needed status, birth, background, and backers, so it was not a waste of joy...

The queen thought for a few times before she softened her tone and said, "Well, the Empress Dowager is the elder after all. Since I have agreed, there is no reason to regret it. Besides, the empress dowager and Concubine Yue don't take her seriously. Here, why am I still arguing with you?"

Yun Fenghuang sobbed and refused: "If the queen is displeased because of my promotion, I don't want to be a beauty!"

"I just spared you once, but you are having sex with me?" Empress Ji was a little bit dumbfounded. "I don't like a willful master. If you really don't want it, I don't care about a spring trip." Nong Gong, I apologize to my loving mother, the Queen Mother!"

Yun Fenghuangxin said that I just wanted it, so I couldn't take it now. She wiped her face and said firmly: "I only want my concubine as a reward from you, and I don't want other people's concubines!"

"Then you should be a talented person." Empress Ji held up her face and turned to the maid next to her, "I can't blame the palace for saying that Chenggui is so courageous. She has only met me a few times, and she is just like me Get Joe up.”

The palace maid smiled and said, "Isn't it because you are so generous, my dear wife? Yun Chenggui is only close to you and not afraid of you?"

"That's all." Queen Ji also laughed after hearing this, and asked Yun Fenghuang to stand up and speak, "Looking at you crying miserably, those who didn't know thought I was bullying you... I suffered a lot last night. Now, let’s go back to Xi Xingxuan and clean up. I’ll ask someone to handle the reward later, and it will be yours.”

Yun Fenghuang then broke down in tears and smiled, kowtowed to her and stood up: "I express my gratitude to you, empress."

After resigning from Yanfu Palace and going back to Xixinxuan, Yun Fenghuang felt a little uneasy. He thought to himself: Could the queen really seize the beauty who promised Empress Dowager Yuan and give him a talented person?

This is not okay. It would have been fine if the Empress Dowager Yuan had not opened her mouth. Since the Empress Dowager has spoken in person, why should she let go of the meat on her lips?

Yun Fenghuang began to think about what Empress Ji would do if she really only promoted talented people to herself... Well, why not just try Empress Dowager Yuan's career?

Although she had just kept saying in front of the Queen that Queen Mother Yuan was Concubine Yue's biological aunt and that she and Concubine Yue must be of the same mind, these words were only said to the Queen.

In fact, in Yun Fenghuang's view, Empress Dowager Yuan may really dote on Concubine Yue as her niece, otherwise she would not have arranged for Concubine Yue to marry Chunjia since she was a child. But in the Queen Mother's mind, which one is Concubine Yue or Chunjia? More importantly... I am afraid that Chunjia is more valued by Empress Dowager Yuan.

The reason is very simple. First of all, Chunjia is the child of Empress Dowager Yuan. Even if it is an adopted son, Empress Dowager Yuan has nothing to do. The bastard son raised by her own hands is no different from her own son. Not to mention that Chunjia is also very attached to her aunt mother, more than her biological mother. Empress Dowager Qu's niece, Concubine Yue, is just a niece after all. Secondly, Empress Dowager Yuan's current status is based on Chunjia being the emperor, but has nothing to do with Concubine Yue.

Even for the sake of her own standard of living in her later years, her treatment after a long life, and her family's future, Queen Mother Yuan must pay more attention to Chunjia.

So for a restless new palace concubine like Yun Fenghuang, a mature and prudent person like Empress Dowager Yuan would naturally not be like Concubine Yue, who would cause trouble without saying a word, even if Yun Fenghuang and Concubine Yue were already at odds. In the eyes of Queen Mother Yuan, the two sides may not be at a life-or-death situation, and there is a possibility of making peace with each other - of course, maybe the Queen Mother is such a protective person, or she does not feel that Yun Fenghuang is qualified to make her compromise.

But judging from the interaction between Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Ji just now, Chunjia's direct descendants really don't have the qualifications to be willful at the moment. It would be easy for Empress Dowager Yuan and the others to kill Yun Fenghuang. The problem is how to deal with the Ji family, Quan Huan, the regent, and others afterwards. Were these forces used as excuses by the previous dynasty?

They have endured it for so many years, are they going to fall short because of a concubine Yue?

It wasn't that Yun Fenghuang looked down on Concubine Yue, but she really didn't think Yuan Yuniang had such weight.

For example, her status in the Xie family was not low back then, and she was recognized as the apple of his eye. However, when it came to the family's reputation, why not just sacrifice? If her own mother, Mrs. Jiang, didn't really care about her and had enough ability to suppress her objections, she would have been sent to the family temple or hastily married off like those cousins ​​of similar age.

The status of girls in this world is generally like this... She still made no mistakes herself, she was purely affected by her concubine, and this is still the case, but what about Yuan Yuniang? Looking at that temper, it must have been a hindrance to Chunjia's family.

Well, why not find a chance to test and see if Empress Dowager Yuan just pushed her out to top the vat in order to divert the discussion in the Sixth Palace about the replacement of Chunjia's personal attendant, or did she intend to kill two birds with one stone and extend an olive branch in a tactful way?

After thinking about it, they had already returned to Xi Xing Pavilion. Xin Qing and the chamberlain came out to greet her, with a somewhat uneasy look on their faces: "Cheng Gui is back!"

Xinqing whispered again: "Your Majesty came over last evening, and the servants couldn't find Chenggui. Later, your Majesty rested and left this morning..."

"Your Majesty rested here last night?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows and snorted, "Your Majesty is really affectionate and loyal to me."

She didn't believe that Emperor Chunjia stayed at Xi Xingxuan last night for his own sake, and most definitely for his secret meeting with Qingmei, who was banned from the house!

Yun Fenghuang snorted coldly in his heart. While I was fighting with Gong Xiangxiao in a battle of wits and courage, this guy was holding Concubine Yue in his arms. It was so unreasonable!

At this moment, she felt a little regretful. If she had known it earlier, she would have just given the emperor a cuckold. Anyway, Gong Xiang Xiao was pretty good-looking... Of course, just thinking about it, neither of the Gong Xiang brothers were good people!

For a naive and ignorant little concubine like me, this palace is really too difficult!

No one is a good person!

Her face changed for a while, and when she saw Xinqing and the chamberlain standing with their hands folded, not daring to say anything, she composed herself: "Where is Nianxuan?"

"Nianxuan?" Both palace attendants were a little confused, "Miss Nianxuan followed Chenggui out!"

So it's still in the hands of the emperor?

Yun Fenghuang frowned slightly, it would be better if he was only in the emperor's hands... It would be dangerous if Chunjia handed it over to Concubine Yue to vent her anger...

Although he usually dislikes Nian Xuan, she is the maid she grew up with after all, and she is also loyal to him...

"Is it time for dinner?" Yun Fenghuang raised his head, "Which one of you is going to get the meal?"

"Huh?" Xinqing and the waiter were both startled.

Yun Fenghuang said calmly: "Go early and come back early."

"...Yes!" The two palace men looked at each other, and the chamberlain came out, bowed, and hurried away.

Yun Fenghuang asked Xinqing to make tea again, and finally took the tea and tasted it slowly, as if he had never asked Nianxuan at all.

After a while, the chambermaid came back with lunch. She ate and drank enough, rinsed her mouth and washed her face, and asked Xinqing and the others to clean up and go to the inner room to rest.

In the middle of the afternoon, Yun Fenghuang got up in high spirits and asked Xinqing to fetch water to help her wash up. While she was washing up, someone came from outside. It was an envoy from the Central Palace, bringing the promotion decree... Queen Ji's background , even if she didn't like that the empress dowager broke her plan, she still couldn't do anything like reneging on her word for a mere trivial matter, and still promoted Yun Fenghuang to a beauty.

Yun Fenghuang respectfully accepted the order, presented the silver collar that he had prepared long ago, and asked if it was a good time to go and thank the queen.

The visitor said: "Your Majesty is a little tired in the afternoon, so the beauty does not have to go to thank you today. If you have anything to say, I will say it tomorrow when I say hello."

Yun Fenghuang's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said "yes" with a smile.

She personally escorted the palace man out, and said goodbye at the door: "Speaking of it, I lived in Xiao Penglai for some reason, so I didn't come back all night. I didn't expect that the maid who accompanied me into the palace was even worse than me. I’m so ignorant that I’m nowhere to be seen at this moment.”

"Where did you think you were delayed?" The palace man smiled, "If the beauty is worried, just wait until tomorrow to ask your Majesty to ask for help."

Yun Fenghuang said yes with a smile, exchanged greetings with her again, and then waved goodbye.

After the other party walked away, he turned around and returned to Xi Xingxuan. The smile on Yun Fenghuang's face instantly disappeared!