The Love of Passerby A

Chapter 137 The Little Transparent in the Princess and Prince Consort Story (2)

The queen originally did not take Concubine Rou seriously. In her opinion, she was just a low-ranking concubine who was only favored by the emperor, and at most just a substitute with a relatively high degree of similarity.

The first thing that really made her start to be wary of Concubine Rou was that the emperor actually let Rou live in Chenyou Palace and hosted a banquet there for the direct descendants of the Cui family in the capital. It was said to be a family banquet, but she, who was actually related to the Cui family, was not invited to attend.

Chenyou Palace was the emperor's residence before he moved into the East Palace. There are many memories of him and Cui Lanzhi there. Although it has been vacant for so many years, someone has always cleaned it carefully, and everything that was there cannot be changed.

Now, Concubine Rou not only moved in, but also hosted a grand banquet there. How could the Queen not be wary of her?

The second thing was that she became pregnant in the winter of her first year as Concubine Rou.

Moreover, after she was four months pregnant, rumors spread that she was most likely pregnant with a boy.

Faced with this situation, the Queen could only plan to kill Concubine Rou while she was giving birth, hoping to kill both her and her children.

What the queen didn't expect was that Shufei was even more cruel than her. She attacked Roupin when she was eight months pregnant.

What the queen didn't expect was that the emperor actually assigned secret guards to Concubine Rou, and Concubine Shu's men didn't even touch the corner of her clothes before they were dragged to the secret guard hall.

When a servant made a mistake, he would be sent to the Ministry of Punishment. There had never been a precedent of him being locked up in the Palace of Dark Guards. Once he was sent there, he would basically have only one thought - to die quickly.

In less than two days, Concubine Shu's people told the whole story.

This time she was caught completely, because in order to avoid being discovered, Concubine Shu used secret contacts that she basically didn't contact, and as a result, all of them were uprooted.

The emperor was furious and began a thorough investigation. The queen also lost a lot of manpower, and Concubine Shu was directly imprisoned in the cold palace.

After this operation, Concubine Rou's rank went up, but most of the people in front of her went down.

More than a month later, Concubine Rou gave birth. The Queen did not intervene, but she was very satisfied with the result because the fifth princess was born. Moreover, Concubine Rou suffered heavy bleeding and was injured so that she could no longer give birth.

This happy day did not last long. The emperor began to allow the eldest prince and Concubine Rou to have frequent contact, and the queen began to panic again.

She didn't understand what was so good about this Concubine Rou? Was it because of her face that looked like Cui Lanzhi?

Seeing that the registration of the eldest prince was going smoothly, Concubine Rou directly rejected the emperor's arrangement, saying she was unwilling to do anything and even started a cold war with the emperor for this.

When the cold war began, everyone in the palace was excited and they all came close to the emperor, hoping to gain his favor.

The emperor also enjoyed it and began to miss the harem, but the empress knew it. He did nothing but eat and sleep, and the concubines dared not say a word about it.

The queen was going mad with hatred.

As an emperor, rich as a tycoon and with three thousand beauties in his harem, why would he want to marry a crude double?

However, Concubine Rou's life was not too difficult. She continued to live a secluded life raising her children. She would pay her respects to the empress on time and would occasionally meet the emperor, but apart from paying her respects, she did nothing else.

Compared to her calmness, the emperor seemed to be getting more and more irritable.

The empress saw it clearly, but there were also many people who were seeking death. Once, when Concubine Rou was taking a rare walk in the imperial garden, she was pushed into a pond by a beauty. The emperor finally couldn't bear it anymore.

He severely punished the beauty and began to favor Concubine Rou again.

Unfortunately, this favor only lasted for three years. During a royal hunting trip, Concubine Rou died under the assassin's knife in order to block the knife for the emperor, leaving behind the fifth princess, Li Handan, who was only four years old.

The death of Concubine Rou was a great blow to the emperor. The person he loved died again in front of his eyes and in his arms. The nightmare of many years was repeated again.

He was so furious that he ordered the captured assassin to be executed by slow slicing, and even stopped attending court for three days out of excessive grief.

Finally, it was the Queen who knocked on the palace door holding Li Handan. The Emperor saw that she looked like Concubine Rou, or the daughter of Cui Lanzhi, and immediately issued an edict to grant her the title of "Princess Rui'an" and posthumously conferred the title of "Empress Huici" on Concubine Rou.

At this point, "Princess Rui'an" Li Handan became the youngest princess in the palace, but the only legitimate princess with a title.

She was four years old this year.

The Chenyou Palace was sealed again, and no one lived there again during the reign of Emperor Zhaohui.