EBE Chapter 166: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Call me Empress Dowager! (16)
Chapter 166: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Call me Empress Dowager! (16)
"Do you still remember? You asked me how I got to where I am today and what my difficulties were?" Lin Qinghe squatted down and looked Ruyi in the eye.
She raised her hand with a fierce momentum and slapped Ruyi in the face. Ruyi was completely unprepared and was hit by the slap, causing her body to suddenly turn to the side, and her face also tilted to the side.
"I'm telling you now, I went through so much trouble to get a job taking care of the eldest prince, but I didn't expect that your good sister saw the emperor questioning me, and turned around and told Concubine Chun that I seduced the emperor!"
When she said this, Lin Qinghe's eyes flickered, and she whispered in Ruyi's ear, "Don't worry, I won't let you be too lonely down there."
She had no intention of letting Jia Fei, Hai Lan and others go.
Ruyi stared at Lin Qinghe and said defensively, "Hai Lan didn't mean it. How can you blame her?"
"You didn't mean it?" Lin Qinghe suddenly smiled at him, and before Ruyi could react, she slapped her on the left cheek, which was symmetrical with her right cheek.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit you, it's just that my hands want to hit bitches when I see them." Lin Qinghe changed the subject, "You won't blame me, will you?"
Ruyi covered her face with disbelief in her eyes. She raised her hand with exquisite armor and pointed at Lin Qinghe, "You did it on purpose!"
"Hai Lan definitely didn't mean it... Even if Hai Lan wrongly accused you, it wouldn't have a big impact on you. You'd just be a maid in another place."
Ruyi said in a hoarse voice.
"Pa!" Lin Qinghe slapped her again, "Sorry, I didn't mean it."
She did it on purpose!
"Because of what she said, I was sent to the flower room to do hard labor every day. Not only did the money I saved for several years go down the drain, my future was also cut short, and I even suffered countless abuses and insults in there."
"Why did you wear a dress with a Yaohuang peony pattern to contradict the Queen when I was carrying the Yaohuang peony to the Queen's palace?" Lin Qinghe looked at Ruyi coldly.
"The Queen knew you were favored and couldn't punish you, so she took out all her anger on me. I was banished to Qixiang Palace. Concubine Jia had a personal grudge against you, so she made me the lowest-ranking maid, and everyone could bully me. In the past five years, I have lived a life worse than death. Do you know these hardships?"
"All the sufferings I've endured are caused by you. Aren't you getting retribution for what you said? Don't you deserve it?" Lin Qinghe asked coldly.
Looking at Ruyi in front of her, who was in a miserable state and had a bruised face from being beaten, her eyes were filled with indifference. She only brought it upon herself.
Ruyi was shocked by Lin Qinghe's cold eyes. She crawled back a distance unconsciously, "Then...then I also tried to rescue you."
"Rescue?" Lin Qinghe smiled contemptuously, "You haven't saved me in five years. Is this what you mean by rescue?"
The only way to overcome all the sufferings is to save yourself.
"What a hypocritical person, so disgusting." After leaving these last words, Lin Qinghe took Chunchan and left Yikun Palace.
Chunchan looked at Lin Qinghe cautiously, "Master..."
"Everything you saw today must be kept secret. Let Jinzhong apply the ointment I gave to Concubine Xian and then feed her the wine." Lin Qinghe ordered in a cold voice.
"Yes, master." Chunchan replied in a low voice.
As they walked further away, Yikun Palace gradually disappeared from sight.
As Lin Qinghe had expected, the Yikun Palace turned out to be just as it had been. After the scandal of a concubine having an affair with a guard broke out, Hongli blocked the news and purged the palace maids and eunuchs in a short period of time.
Others who knew about this matter kept their mouths shut.
The news that Ruyi was demoted to a commoner and given dove wine spread like wildfire in the palace. The empress dowager naturally learned the whole story from the emperor, so she acted quickly to stabilize the situation in the harem.
After Ruyi died, people in the palace buried her in a hasty manner.
After the death of her good sister, Hai Lan became crazy, especially when she heard from the palace people that it was Lin Qinghe who brought the emperor to Yikun Palace that day.
Although she didn't know what happened that day, Hai Lan directly regarded Lin Qinghe as the person who harmed Ruyi.
Therefore, Lin Qinghe has been targeted everywhere in recent days.
Yongcong, who used to crawl around on the bed, has now grown into a plump and fair boy, which is quite different from his frail appearance before.
Lin Qinghe was afraid that he would get hurt while crawling around, so she asked the servants to lay a thick and clean carpet in the room so that Yongcong could play more comfortably.
Children are like this, they are active.
When she raised her hand to touch Yongcong's smooth little face, she paused, "Chunchan, are my nails a little long? Please trim them for me."
"Hey, your majesty, I'll help you trim it right away." Chunchan responded and went to get the scissors.
Lin Qinghe bent down and picked up Yongcong, who was still babbling on the ground, and said, "It has become heavier."
Yongcong looked at Lin Qinghe with his big round eyes. He stretched out his chubby little hands and grabbed Lin Qinghe's collar, "Aiya~"
"Hmm~" Lin Qinghe nodded in response.
Yongcong is now a little over one year old. She holds him in her arms and begins to repeat what she does every day, "Come, mother."
Lin Qinghe pointed at herself and said, "Mother."
Yongcong rolled his round eyes and recited incoherently, "Woo-Lang..."
"Wrong, e, the second tone, mother."
"hungry."
"..." What a little foodie! Lin Qinghe rolled her eyes and kept repeating to him, "It's mother, little idiot."
Unexpectedly, little Yongcong also rolled his eyes and tilted his head to look at Lin Qinghe with clear eyes.
Lin Qinghe raised her hand and touched the cloth on Yongcong's little arm, "Yuchan, are the clothes for the seventh prince ready for the winter? It looks like he has grown a lot, so make it bigger."
Yong Cong is really growing taller now. Lin Qinghe is afraid that the winter clothes he made will not fit him after a few weeks of wearing them, so she reminded him, "It doesn't matter if you make more. The money will come from my account."
Chunchan had already come with a pair of scissors. After she helped her cut the longer nails on her hands, Lin Qinghe raised her cleanly trimmed hands and pinched Yongcong's little face with confidence.
Seeing Yongcong putting his face close to her intimately, she smiled mischievously, reached out her hand to Yongcong's neck and armpits and began to scratch them.
Little Yongcong was very ticklish, and he immediately opened his mouth and laughed non-stop.
"The Queen always knows how to tease the little prince!" Yuchan laughed with Chunchan on the side.
Everyone in the room was amused by Yongcong.
"What's the matter? Why are you laughing so happily?" Hongli lifted the curtain and walked into the room.
Seeing Lin Qinghe holding Yongcong and playing with him, this heartwarming scene made Hongli's originally frowning face relax.
"Why is the emperor here? It's cold outside, come in quickly." Lin Qinghe was about to put Yongcong down in her arms, but was interrupted by Hongli.
"Well, I'll warm myself up here. When I'm warm, I'll hug Yongcong." Hongli sat on the chair and did not extend his hand to Yongcong and Lin Qinghe.
"It's getting colder outside. If you need anything, just tell me." Hongli said after warming himself up for a while.
Lin Qinghe nodded. In fact, it was just the beginning of winter. Hongli felt cold because it was obvious that he was weak.
Her medicine is slowly taking effect.
"I will sit here with you for a while, and then I will go to the Queen Mother to sit." Hongli stretched out his hand and pinched Yongcong's little face, "You have taken good care of Yongcong."