C104

Chapter 104 - Intimidation

"I hope that the beauty can give birth to a prince or princess for me." Emperor Ming closed his eyes and said slowly.

Qin Luofei remembered that in her previous life, he had said the same thing to her, but he had let her down.

"Your Majesty, chenqie will take her leave."

Qin Luofei put on her clothes and followed Xiao Linzi out of the imperial study.

Emperor Ming slowly opened his eyes after a long time, returning to his usual coldness.

Not long after, the concubine s of the palace all knew that the emperor was fond of the cold and detached Concubine Qin.

Du Qingcheng gave a lot of ginseng that nourished the body to Qin Luofei.

For several consecutive days, the Emperor did not enter the imperial harem, and they heard that the war ahead was even more unsatisfactory. The State of Yue had already breached the outer cities.

As the empress dowager's body became unwell, Du Qingcheng brought his two personal maidservants, Jin Lan and Jin Mei, to the empress dowager's palace.

The empress dowager had always doted on the Prince Xi, and now that life and death of the Prince Xi was uncertain, the empress dowager had suffered consecutive blows and could no longer hold on.

Du Qingcheng had dressed up well today, the golden phoenix robe was embroidered with patterns of flowers, her hair was erect, and made into a Spirit Serpent Hair Comb. On her hair, a hairpin was embroidered with a dragon and phoenix hairpin that only empress could wear.

Even today, she was still considered rather awkward. The emperor didn't like her, so she became the palace's decoration.

When they arrived at the palace of the empress dowager, they saw that the palace was cold and empty. Only the empress dowager was half reclining on the bed.

Du Qingcheng waved away the palace maids by his side and walked over to the empress dowager's side.

The empress dowager slowly opened her eyes and looked at Du Qingcheng.

"You are finally willing to come to This Dowager's side."

Du Qingcheng saw that the empress dowager's words didn't carry a hint of displeasure, and quickly smiled. "Aunt, Qingcheng wanted to see Aunt a long time ago, but she was afraid of disturbing your rest."

The empress dowager gave a cold snort and sat up. Du Qingcheng quickly took Ju Hua's pillow and leaned it against the empress dowager's chest.

The empress dowager said, "I thought you wanted to be the empress wholeheartedly."

Du Qingcheng's face showed awkwardness.

"Aunt, what are you talking about?"

The empress dowager gave Du Qingcheng a cold glance, and said, "You also know that it's best if you're the daughter of the Du Family. You're not afraid of being blinded by something."

"Aunty, Qingcheng doesn't know how to." Du Qingcheng was afraid that the Empress Dowager's eyes would see through her.

"You can't keep the child in Consort Mo. You have to remove her from This Dowager's belly."

Although the Empress Dowager rarely left the palace after returning to the palace, she was still a threat in the empress dowager's heart. Furthermore, she had a son who held military power in his hands.

Du Qingcheng nodded his head, and said: "Your niece knows, and will definitely not let Consort Mo give birth to her child."

"I heard that the Emperor wants to be personally led by the emperor, but that's true." The empress dowager had never liked her son, and the ones she doted on the most were her second and seventh sons.

Du Qingcheng nodded his head, and said coldly: "The Emperor does have such plans, but he has not discussed it with the ministers."

"If he wants to go, then let him go." The Empress Dowager said coldly.

"Aunt." Du Qingcheng never thought that the empress dowager would hate the emperor so much that she would agree to let the emperor drive.

"This Dowager recommends that you stop focusing on the Emperor. It's time for you to properly clean up concubines in the palace, and take advantage of the fact that the Emperor isn't around to remove all of the things that you can remove as soon as possible."

The empress dowager couldn't see her niece and couldn't show her face at all.

Du Qingcheng nodded.

How could she not want to settle the both of them? But it was still too late for her to enter the palace, so she had to be careful in everything she did.

"Especially that Huan Beauty. Take advantage of the fact that the Emperor still hasn't paid attention to her and remove her first."

The empress dowager was so old that she didn't want to make a move herself, but Du Qingcheng was too lenient, and couldn't even get rid of a single Consort Shu.

When Du Qingcheng came out of the empress dowager's palace, he ran into Second Princess.

Second Princess had been living on the west side of the empress dowager's palace the entire time. After not seeing his for so long, her complexion had improved and it was impossible to tell that she had been imprisoned.

"Greetings, esteemed empress." Seeing Du Qingcheng looking at her, the Second Princess immediately went up to greet him.

"No need for formalities." Du Qingcheng looked at Second Princess. He almost reached his position but unfortunately, she had been delusional enough to think about it for his entire life.

"Aunt is inside alone, Second Princess will go in! Accompany your aunt well. "

Du Qingcheng turned and led his palace maids away, the Second Princess stared at Du Qingcheng's golden phoenix robe, a haze flashed past his eyes.

The matter of Du Qingcheng going to the empress dowager was quickly discussed with Qin Luo Fei by the maid.

It was easy to use money, but Qin Luofei gradually used it to bribe many palace maids and eunuchs at the bottom.

Normally, none of these palace maids and eunuchs cared about what was going on in the palace. Qin Luofei didn't use much strength to make them submit to her.

In the past, Qin Luofei wanted the Second Prince to overthrow the Emperor, but now, she changed her mind.

The Second Prince probably had the support of the empress dowager and had always dreamed of ascending the throne to the throne. The Emperor personally leading the army might be his best chance. She wanted to destroy his beautiful dreams.

In the wide hall, Emperor Ming was dressed in dragon robes, with Xiao Linzi standing beside him.

Emperor Ming's eyes swept across the officials standing with a cold gaze.

"I, I, am preparing to take the lead in personal battle. My beloved officials, what do you think?"

As soon as Emperor Ming finished speaking, the officials were all stunned.

"Your Majesty, you mustn't." Prime Minister Mo took the initiative to step forward.

The situation in the imperial court was complicated. If the Emperor were to personally lead the army, then there would be many unforeseen events. Even though his son held the military power, he was still inferior to the Du Family.

"This subject also agrees with Prime Minister Mo that the Emperor cannot personally go to war." Prime Minister Du stood out as well, and the other officials all objected.

"I have made up my mind. There is no need to persuade me, my lieutenants. "Prime Minister Du, please accompany me this time in my personal expedition!"

When Prime Minister Mo heard Emperor Ming's words, his heart immediately skipped a beat. As long as this old man leaves, the rest of the Du Family would not even need to fear him.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Although Prime Minister Du was shocked, he reacted quickly.

"The Ministry of Government and the Ministry of War have coordinated with each other to allocate military salaries and provisions. We must gather a hundred thousand buckets as soon as possible. There can be no mistake." Emperor Ming had given the order, how could the Ministry of Government and the Ministry of War dare to disobey?

"Withdraw." Emperor Ming turned and left, only leaving behind a group of servants staring at each other.

The late emperor was personally led by the emperor, so he was assassinated. Now that the emperor was about to step on the throne, how could he not worry those ministers?

A few days later, it was fifteen. According to the rules, all the concubines had to pay respects to the empress dowager and empress.

"Miss, what do you think we should do if the Emperor were to personally lead the army?" Dusk chrysanthemum was even more anxious than her concubine.

Looking at the copper mirror, Qin Luofei picked up the Ruyi hairpin from the dressing table and stuck it to her temples. Then, she placed two strands of pear blossom inlaid with gemstones to her temples and shook them. Seeing that the girl in the mirror had taken on a more beautiful appearance, he then stood up in satisfaction.

Daihua took out a chrysanthemum colored shirt from the wardrobe and put it on Qin Luofei, then used a ribbon to wrap her slender waist.

"There are so many concubine s who are not afraid, what is your young miss afraid of?"

Xi Hua originally wanted to say that all the concubine s were pregnant, but Miss, you didn't have anything?

"Miss, you must take advantage of the Emperor's presence to seduce the Emperor more." Daffodil Daydream was very worried for the Miss.

Qin Luofei faintly smiled, reached out her hand to pinch Ju Ju's cheek, and said: "Girl, you just like to think too much, don't worry! After the Emperor goes out to war, the bitter days of the pregnant concubine will soon come. Don't tell me you also want your young miss to die faster? "

Xi Ling was stunned.

Since the emperor wasn't here, Du Qingcheng and the empress dowager should be making their moves now! She went to see a joke.

However, she was destined to have a hard time watching this joke.

Qin Luofei walked out of the room with Dusk Blossom. She went over to Luo Ziyan's place first.

Before Luo Ziyan entered the palace, he had also brought two servants with him, and took good care of her.

Qin Luofei opened the curtain and saw Luo Ziyan packing her clothes. It seemed that she was going to pay respects to the empress, so Qin Luofei's heart sank a little, but she was not in a position to tell him the reason.

When Luo Ziyan saw her, she asked her with a smile, "Little sister, why are you here so early?"

"I saw that my sister wasn't feeling well, so I came to take a look. You're much better now, sister. Why are you wearing clothes?" Qin Luofei pretended not to know as she walked to Luo Ziyan's side.

Luo Ziyan smeared rouge on his face to cover his pale face and said, "Today is fifteen, no matter how unwell I am, I must pay my respects to the Empress."

"Elder sister, you just need to rest. It's not a big deal to pay respects to the empress." Qin Luofei pulled Luo Ziyan's hand to the edge of the bed.

The palace maid who was serving Luo Ziyan laughed by the side: "I was advising my Young Miss, but she refused to listen. Concubine Qin, you better advise my Young Miss, how can she go out like this."

Qin Luo Fei, who was holding Luo Ziyan's hand, felt very cold. She forcefully supported Luo Ziyan up and laid down on the bed, covering her with a blanket before saying, "Today, big sister will listen to little sister and won't go. How could your body get exposed to the wind?"

"Brightmoon, you go out first." Luo Ziyan said to the palace maid beside him. Seeing that Luo Ziyan had something to talk about with her, Qin Luofei also shot a look at Xi Hua.

"Elder sister." Qin Luofei held Luo Ziyan's hand, and saw her body slightly tremble.

Luo Ziyan half lifted her eyes. She had only been in the palace for half a year, but she looked much more haggard. She was no longer the carefree and carefree character of the past.

"Little sister, I know you have some medical skills. Tell me the truth, what happened to my body?"

Qin Luofei didn't want to hide it from Luo Ziyan, but what if such a thing happens again in the future? He had to be careful.

"Elder sister, you didn't come to see Yuexin, but you came from a small family."

Although Luo Ziyan had guessed it, she was still stunned.

Qin Luofei held onto Luo Ziyan's finger with all her might and spoke with a suppressed voice, "Big sis, the imperial physicians you usually see are most likely the people of the Imperial Consort Leng and Empress. Big sis should be careful, we should change our imperial physicians instead. "You're pregnant, and you don't know it, but those people already knew about it in advance. They even tried to harm your older sister to make you disappear without a trace, and they even wanted to destroy your body so that you would never be pregnant again."

"In the end, I was careless." Luo Ziyan had also grown up in a big clan, and had seen many dirty things, how could she not know, it was just that her personality was different from that of a scheming girl.