20demayo Chapter 963: Palace Maids and Concubines 6
Chapter 963: Palace Maids and Concubines 6
"I am terrified." Jing agreed with a humble and frightened look.
"Min Fei, you'd better not scare Jing Ying'er," Li Fei said, stroking her belly. "Look at how you've frightened Jing Ying'er. But honestly, you, Min Fei, are really good at torturing people. Look at Jing Ying'er now. He doesn't have any of his former noble spirit anymore."
"Bitches are just pretentious," Jiang Chunxi said with a sneer. "To deal with a pretentious bitch like Jing Cheng, you have to use thundering methods. If you don't scare her off, she'll just keep jumping around and disgusting others. Haven't the sisters present here experienced Jing Cheng's ability to disgust people in the past?"
"That's true," this was Concubine Ruan's voice. "Looking at Jing's current state, and thinking about her disgusting aloofness in the past, I feel like I've finally let out a sigh of relief. You know, I was disgusted by Jing's promise many times before."
"That's right," this was the voice of a maid, "I was practicing a piece of music in the Imperial Garden before, intending to sing it to His Majesty when I was serving Him. But Jing Mingren criticized my tactics for winning favor as being too disgraceful. She also said that even if I told her about my tactics, she wouldn't bother to learn them, because her true love for the Emperor didn't require any tactics."
"And what's more, if even she uses these tactics to win the emperor's favor, then what's the difference between her and others? If even she becomes a pawn manipulated by desire, then the emperor doesn't even have a single person who truly loves him."
"Standing at the pinnacle of power, yet without even a concubine who truly loves him, the emperor is truly pitiful," said Chang Zai, her expression growing more disgusted the more she spoke. "I just can't understand why the emperor is pitiful. He possesses supreme power, and there are so many concubines in the harem, so how can he be pitiful? It seems that in Jing Da Ying's eyes, the emperor would be pitiful if he didn't have Jing Da Ying's love!"
"Haha!" Cui Changzai laughed, "Stop talking now, or I'll die of laughter."
As Cui Changzai finished speaking, the others also laughed.
But Jiang Chunxi spoke up at this time: "You don't understand this. Jing Ying used to use this high-profile and disgusting method to make the emperor fall in love with her. After all, there is no other concubine in the harem who can compare with a woman as unique as Jing Ying. So how can the emperor not fall in love with Jing Ying?"
Jiang Chunxi's words made everyone look at Jing Da Ying with even more disgust. It turned out that Jing Da Ying had always tried to win favor by disgusting others in the past.
"The Empress is here."
Just then the queen came out, and after she sat down, everyone immediately stood up and saluted her.
"Everyone, please sit down!" the Queen said. After everyone was seated, she continued, "This morning, when the Imperial Physician came to check my pulse, he diagnosed that I am over a month pregnant. So starting tomorrow, you can come here to pay your respects on the first and fifteenth day of each month. You sisters don't need to come here every day to pay your respects to me."
The queen attached great importance to her belly. Every time she became pregnant, she would cancel her daily greetings and even hand over the palace affairs to others.
The Queen looked at Concubine Li and said, "When I was pregnant, the palace affairs were managed jointly by Concubine De and Concubine Li. But now that Concubine Li is also pregnant with the heir, it's natural not to overwork Concubine Li."
As she spoke, the Queen looked at Jiang Chunxi and said, "This time, the palace affairs will be handed over to Concubine Min and Concubine De..."
"Don't," Jiang Chunxi quickly interrupted the Queen, "Your Majesty, please don't count me in. I know my own limitations. Asking me to manage palace affairs is just a deliberate attempt to embarrass me, isn't it?"
"So, Your Majesty, please find someone else to handle the palace affairs! I don't have the ability to manage the palace affairs for Your Majesty anyway."
The Queen's eyes darkened: "In that case, let Concubine He and Concubine De jointly take charge of the palace affairs!"
"I will obey your command," Hepin immediately stood up and said excitedly, "Your Majesty, rest assured, I will not let you down."
Defei rolled her eyes and was speechless at Hepin's petty-mindedness. It was just taking charge of the palace affairs, but was it worth Hepin being so excited?
In fact, when the Queen was pregnant for the first time, Concubine De was very excited when she helped the Queen to manage the palace affairs. She wanted to show off her abilities and let the Emperor and the Queen Mother see that she was no worse than the Queen in managing the palace affairs, and could even do better than the Queen.
But what was the result? No matter how well she did, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager did not treat her any differently.
What's even more infuriating is that after the queen gave birth to the child, she immediately took back the power of the palace. It seems that she worked so hard to help the queen manage the power of the palace, but she was just a free housekeeper.
Of course, although she was very unhappy about being treated as a free housekeeper by the Queen, Defei did not expect to give up the palace power she had obtained.
The Queen was pregnant again, and the Emperor and the Queen Mother were naturally very happy. A large number of rewards were sent to Kuntai Palace, which made Concubine Li very angry.
However, Concubine Li only dared to secretly curse the Queen in her own palace and did not dare to have any bad thoughts. She could only pray that she was pregnant with a prince and that the Queen would give birth to a daughter again.
The queen attached more importance to this pregnancy than the previous two. After all, she had already given birth to two daughters, and the inner pressure can be imagined. Therefore, she naturally attached great importance to this pregnancy.
After Jing agreed to serve the emperor in bed, she did not receive the so-called favor. Although the emperor still turned over her green card from time to time, Jiang Chunxi was still the most favored. Others wanted to see her and Jiang Chunxi fighting each other, which was simply wishful thinking.
Jiang Chunxi was still the most favored one. Not only was the favor Jing agreed to receive not enough, but he was also pinned to the ground and tortured to death by Jiang Chunxi. He had no power to resist at all. Everyone was really disappointed.
As for Jing Da Ying, who was tortured by Jiang Chunxi, she felt like she was going crazy. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't think of a way to rescue herself from this predicament.
When the Queen was four months pregnant, news of Jiang Chunxi's pregnancy also came out. Naturally, this caused Jiang Chunxi to suffer another wave of resentment, especially from the Queen, who felt like she was facing a formidable enemy.
She even wanted to take action against Jiang Chunxi, but the empress dowager attached great importance to Jiang Chunxi's pregnancy, which forced the queen to give up her thoughts and could only hope that Jiang Chunxi was pregnant with a princess.
Another person who was ready to make a move was Concubine Li, but she was not a brainless person after all, so she could only secretly curse Jiang Chunxi as usual, and did not dare to do anything.
Jing agreed and was about to collapse.
God is so unfair. Why does she have to suffer so much torture at the hands of that bitch Jiang Chunxi, while that bitch Jiang Chunxi is so lucky to be pregnant with a dragon fetus?