diskusbooks Chapter 504 [The Legend of Zhen Huan 39]
Chapter 504 [The Legend of Zhen Huan 39]
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
On this day, the ministers began to urge them to return to the palace, so Youyou and Yinzhen had to pack their bags and prepare to return to the Forbidden City.
Youyou was a little reluctant to leave. She held Yinzhen's hand tightly, shook it coquettishly, and said softly: "Husband, how about I return to the palace later, and you go back to handle government affairs first."
Yinzhen frowned, shook his head gently, and said in a firm tone: "No! Don't you miss me, Qingqing? Besides, I will be anxious and confused if I don't see you for a day. Can you bear to let me stay in the palace alone?" As he said this, he deliberately put on an aggrieved look, with a glimmer of tears in his eyes, because he knew very well that Youyou had the softest heart.
Youyou sighed helplessly, nodded, and compromised: "Okay, but you have to promise me that you will take me out of the palace to play once in a while, otherwise I will be too depressed to bear it."
Yinzhen nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I will do whatever you say. Can you come back to the palace with me now?"
Youyou smiled and nodded, then went back to the palace hand in hand with Yinzhen.
In the palace, the concubines were very happy to know that the emperor was coming back. This month was really boring. Since Shen Meizhuang and Zhen Huan broke up, there was no more drama to watch. Concubine Hua was very depressed. While eating melon seeds, she complained to Song Zhi: "The emperor is not in the palace. I am almost sick from boredom!"
Songzhi said cautiously: "Your Majesty, please calm down. The Emperor will be back soon."
Concubine Hua glared at her and said, "I know! But life in this palace is becoming more and more boring. Apart from the concubines in the harem, who else can accompany me to relieve my boredom?"
Songzhi thought about it and suggested, "Your Majesty, why don't we go to the Imperial Garden for a stroll? Maybe we can run into other ladies."
Hua Fei rolled her eyes at her and said, "What's so good about those vixens? But since the emperor is not here, I don't want to bother with them. Let's go out and get some fresh air."
So, Hua Fei brought Song Zhi to the Imperial Garden. Along the way, she saw many palace maids and eunuchs busy preparing to welcome the emperor back to the palace, and she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
As they were walking, Concubine Hua suddenly heard a burst of laughter. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of palace maids playing skipping rope, led by Liuzhu, a maidservant beside Zhen Huan.
Hua Fei's heart moved, and she said to Song Zhi, "Let's go and take a look."
When Liuzhu and others saw Concubine Hua coming, they stopped what they were doing and knelt down to pay their respects.
Hua Fei sneered: "You servants are quite happy, is it because the emperor is coming back?"
Liuzhu replied tremblingly: "Madam Hua, we are just having fun in our spare time. We have no other intentions."
Hua Fei sneered, "Huh, is that so? I remember that you were a maidservant beside Zhen Changzai. Why did Zhen Changzai teach you like this? What is the Imperial Garden? Is it the place where you jump rope?"
When Liuzhu heard this, she turned pale with fear and quickly knelt down to beg for mercy, "I deserve to die! Please forgive me, Your Majesty. It's all my fault. It has nothing to do with the other palace maids. Please don't take your anger out on them."
Concubine Hua raised a smug smile and said, "You are a good person, but good people don't live long in this palace. You should pray that one day Zhen Changzai will not push you out to take the blame. Songzhi, you go and announce the decree. Zhen Changzai has no discipline and indulged the servants to make noise in the imperial garden, disrupting the order of the harem. From now on, she will be confined to her house for three months and punished to copy the palace rules 500 times as a punishment."
When Liuzhu heard this, she cried anxiously and said, "My lady, this is all my fault. It has nothing to do with you, young lady. If you want to blame someone, blame me."
Concubine Hua sneered, "Hmph, do you think I will listen to you?" Then she turned and left, leaving Liuzhu crying there.
In the Sui Yu Xuan, Zhen Huan was so angry that she stamped her feet after learning about this. She felt that she was really wronged! This was clearly an unprovoked disaster! It was Liuzhu who led a group of palace maids to skip rope in the imperial garden, but she ended up taking the blame. This is really a case of sitting at home and having troubles come from the sky! The more Zhen Huan thought about it, the angrier she became, and she couldn't help but blame Liuzhu: "It was all caused by that little bitch. What does it have to do with me? Why should I bear the responsibility?" She cursed secretly in her heart, thinking that this was too unfair to her.
At this moment, Zhen Huan felt a little disgusted with Liu Zhu. If it weren't for Liu Zhu, she wouldn't have been confined for three months. Now that she was trapped here, how could she fight for favor? Zhen Huan couldn't help but complain: "Liu Zhu, this ignorant girl, deserves to die!" She thought to herself, if Concubine Hua could have arrested Liu Zhu and punished her severely, maybe things could have turned around. But now, Liu Zhu is fine, but she is the one who is in trouble.
Zhen Huan was filled with grievances and resentment, but she had nowhere to vent. She could only sulk alone, and at the same time began to think about how to get out of the current predicament. After all, in this deep palace, if you want to survive, you have to learn to be patient and wait for the opportunity. And the most important thing at the moment is to find a way to regain your freedom first...
After returning to the palace, Youyou and Fanghua talked about Zhen Huan. Fanghua told Youyou that Zhen Huan had lost her best friend and no longer trusted even her most loyal maid. Now, the only person she could trust was Huanbi, but Zhen Huan didn't know that this concubine sister was not on the same page with her. This concubine sister was arrogant and wanted to climb up the social ladder.
After Yinzhen returned to the palace, although he had three thousand beauties in the harem, he only went to Kunning Palace and ignored the other concubines.
This made the concubines feel dissatisfied, so they discussed going to Kunning Palace together to pay their respects to Youyou, hoping that Youyou could persuade the emperor to treat everyone equally. After all, as the queen, Youyou should be generous and not petty.
However, Youyou didn't want to get up early. Ever since she met the concubines in the harem the last time she returned to the palace, she didn't want to see them again.
Now that she knew that the concubines in the harem had made an appointment to come and pay their respects to her, Youyou felt helpless and annoyed.
So she asked Fanghua to tell everyone that she had accidentally caught a cold recently and was unable to meet with everyone. They would meet again after she recovered.
In this way, Youyou successfully avoided the greeting and avoided unnecessary trouble.
The concubines in the harem had no choice but to leave.