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Luo Ninghai indifferently swept a glance at Su Rushuang's flushed cheeks, and smiled at Consort Xian: "Elder sister, don't be anxious, I have long treated this elder sister as one of my own."

Meng Qianzhong smiled and said: "The two of you live in Zhongcui Palace together, so your relationship is closer than sisters. We are very pleased, too."

Luo Ninghai gave a shallow smile and pulled Consort Xian's hand: "Brother, when you enter the palace, you will definitely bring some things outside the palace. Let Big Sister Consort Xian and I take a look together."

Consort Xian paused for a moment, then gently shook her head, "Sister, seeing you in the General Luo makes me feel awkward as an outsider."

Meng Qianzhong helped her: "After all, she isn't Consort Xian's family, you can see for yourself. Later, you can pick out some fine items from among those and give it to her."

When Su Rushuang saw that they had already mentioned the General Luo, it was as if the matter was stuck in his throat.

"Imperial Concubine Wan," she covered her mouth and laughed, "Although your heart is kind and benevolent, as long as you are not blood-related sisters, you should pay attention to your limits."

When Luo Ninghai saw Su Rushuang's wide opened eyes filled with excitement, she knew that she was about to tell him the whole story. She hurriedly pretended to be confused and asked: "Is the Empress blaming me?"

Su Rushuang sighed lightly, and patted her shoulders, "It's not your fault, it's just that your brother General Luo and Consort Xian have matters to attend to."

Consort Xian looked at Su Rushuang in a daze, and her face immediately turned pale white.

Luo Ninghai was puzzled: "Big Brother Concubine has always been good to others, how could she have relations with big sister's maternal family?"

"Alright," Meng Qianzhong impatiently interrupted their conversation, "Don't bring up the past anymore, we didn't come to Huayang Palace to listen to the Noble Consort's story."

Su Rushuang looked at Consort Xian with a smile, the conversation continued and there was a question buried in Imperial Concubine Wan's heart, she wanted to see how Consort Xian would explain it to her.

"Your majesty." Chen Wanqian rushed over from outside the palace, bent over and said a few words to Meng Qianzhong.

Meng Qianzhong raised his head suspiciously, he looked at Su Rushuang and asked: "Why did the palace maids beside you enter the Consort Xian?"

When Su Rushuang rushed over to the Zhongcui Palace with a burning heart, Chen Xiang had already been beaten to a pulp, his head lowered as if he was on the verge of death.

Su Rushuang's eyes suddenly reddened, and she looked at Meng Qianzhong with teary eyes. "Your Majesty, things have not been clarified yet, why are you starting to use torture?"

Meng Qianzhong glanced at her coldly, "You secretly ran to Consort Xian's Bedchamber but you still can't punish yourself?"

Then, Luo Ninghai rushed over and covered her mouth in shock, "Isn't this Chen Xiang?" She anxiously looked at Su Rushuang, "Empress Noble Consort, why did the palace maids by your side come to the Zhongcui Palace?"

Su Rushuang glared at her fiercely. She wanted to say something, but the emperor stopped him.

Meng Qianzhong asked: "What is this palace maid doing in the Consort Xian's Bedchamber?"

Chen Wanqian replied respectfully: "Miss Chen Xiang said that Consort Xian had set up a secret room in the palace and was discovered by her."

"Oh?" Meng Qianzhong raised a smile, "When did we ever give the palace maids by the side of the Noble Consort the responsibility to clean up the palace of concubines?"

Su Rushuang immediately kneeled down upon hearing this, "Chenqie doesn't dare."

Meng Qianzhong raised his chin, "Why does Consort Xian have a private secret room?"

Chen Wanqian took out a painting from his sleeves and placed it in front of everyone, "It seems that the Consort Xian Empress is paying her respects to this person in the secret room."

Luo Ninghai curiously looked at the drawing. It depicted a woman wearing armor, with a bit of a man's look on her face.

Meng Qianzhong suddenly froze, and his trembling hands took the painting from Chen Wanqian's hands. Consort Xian worships her in the palace? "

Su Rushuang was so shocked that her eyes were wide open. It turned out that the Consort Xian had secretly set up this secret room to worship Mu Langhua. She gritted her teeth as she swallowed a mouthful of air. She actually dared to pay her respects to a vile woman who had messed with the palace.

"Your Majesty," Su Rushuang bit her lips, "Why does the Consort Xian have the portrait of the former Empress in the palace and we even frequently pay our respects to her?"

Meng Qianzhong closed his eyes tightly, "Where is Consort Xian?"

Chen Wanqian pursed his lips, only then did four or five servants carry the palanquin to the side of the Zhongcui Palace. Consort Xian, whose face was pale white, staggered out of the palanquin and forcefully bowed to the Emperor, which Luo Ninghai promptly helped her up.

"Stop bowing," Meng Qianzhong threw the painting in front of her, "What exactly happened here?"

The Consort Xian gently pushed away the Imperial Concubine Wan's hand, and a bitter smile appeared on her lips. "Your majesty has set up a tablet at the Donghua Palace, so why can't chenqie hang a portrait at the Bedchamber?"

A ball of anger rose from Su Rushuang's heart as she knitted her brows and said angrily: "Consort Xian, you're presumptuous. How the emperor does it is the emperor's business. You privately set up a secret room to pay respects to the sinners, that is violating the palace rules and looking down on the emperor."

The Consort Xian coldly laughed, "The words of the Noble Consort's Empress are too much. Why would the concubine be a sinner if she was hung in the palace, and the emperor was the former Empress if he was in the Donghua Palace?"

Su Rushuang was momentarily at a loss for words, and said with hatred: "Consort Xian, do not rely on your pregnancy to violate the palace rules, and do not put this palace and the Emperor in your eyes."

"The Noble Consort thought that she was going to tear apart Su Rushuang, the weakness in her body all disappeared, and instead, became more unperturbed," The Noble Consort Empress completely disregards the Emperor. It seems that the Empress views the Emperor in her eyes, but the concubine places the Emperor in her heart.

"Big sister Consort Xian has such sharp tongue today, it seems that she is usually reserved," Su Rushuang's eyes moved around as she smiled charmingly, "Looks like I met with a special matter. I think it must be very hard for her to endure in front of Imperial Concubine Wan."

Consort Xian was startled and immediately turned to look at Luo Ninghai, "Imperial Concubine Wan, don't listen …"

Su Rushuang immediately interrupted: "Imperial Concubine Wan, do you know that your brother is the enemy of Consort Xian's father?"

Luo Ninghai knew that this was the critical time to abandon the Consort Xian and immediately replied in surprise: "Ah? Concubine … I don't know at all! "

"No wonder the Consort Xian dared to set up a secret room in the Bedchamber and hang a portrait of the sinner there as his own sacrifice. So she actually had some ulterior motives," Su Rushuang's eyes flashed with a trace of maliciousness, "The Consort Xian is willing to live with the enemy who killed her father, Imperial Concubine Wan.

Consort Xian knelt down weakly and said with a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, chenqie doesn't have any, chenqie doesn't have any ulterior motives!"

Su Rushuang embellished another sentence, "When big sister Consort Xian was paying her respects to the sinners, what did she say?"

Consort Xian lowered her head and replied softly, "I only hope that the former Empress can rest in peace."

"So it's like that," Su Rushuang sneered, "It can't be something like 'Big Sis will wait for you to come back,' or something like that, right?"

Meng Qianzhong looked at Su Rushuang with a headache, his eyes completely bloodshot. "We handed over to Noble Consort the power to manage the harem, and now we even have to take away our authority to interrogate them?"

Su Rushuang bit her lips. She had already said what she needed to say, so she no longer needed to say it.

The Consort Xian dropped a line of tears. "Your Majesty, there must be something fishy going on that year. Your Majesty must …"

"What happened that year, I know very well, there's no need for you to worry about me," Meng Qianzhong said as he looked at Chen Wanqian, "Consort Xian had set up a secret room, to be demoted to a genius, and she would be given the careful title, to let her understand what being cautious means and what is meant by being cautious."

Su Rushuang heaved a sigh of relief, she would always be confused if she met with anything related to Mu Langhua.

Meng Qianzhong then swept her with his cold eyes, "That palace maid, her staff is dead!"

Su Rushuang anxiously looked at Chen Xiang, but she had long been dragged down.

"Your Majesty, it was Chen Xiang who discovered the Consort Xian's secret room.

"If Noble Consort speaks any more, I will think that you are deliberately looking for trouble."

Su Rushuang stared blankly at her, and could only shut her mouth bitterly.

Luo Ninghai watched on coldly from the sidelines as all of this happened, a faint smile on her lips. She was indeed the Great General's younger sister, only she could come up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

"Your majesty," She who had been reduced to a cautious talent looked at Meng Qianzhong with tears in his eyes, "Chenqie has no second thoughts, your chenqie's father does not either, and the Mu’s Army that died in the battlefield has even less!"

Meng Qianzhong clenched his fists tightly, his crimson eyes staring straight at the person in front of him, "Don't speak nonsense."

"Your majesty, are you speaking nonsense or are you just doing random things? The previous Empress, Mu Langhua, had to bear the responsibility of causing the destruction of the harem, so she died a horrible death. You …"

"Someone come," Meng Qianzhong bellowed angrily, "Shut the wise man inside his Zhongcui Palace, he is not allowed to come out without our order!" He gritted his teeth and said, "If not for the fact that you broke the dragon embryo, I would have long since executed you."

"Even if the emperor hadn't executed me, my heart would have died on the battlefield along with Mu’s Army," the cautious person laughed hopelessly, "Your majesty, do you know how many times you called out for Mu Langhua when you came back from your dreams at midnight?"

When she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and fainted.

Chen Wanqian quickly helped her up, and tried to push her a few times, but no sound came out. When he looked down, he saw that her clothes were dyed red with fresh blood.

Luo Ninghai caressed the black cat gently with her hand, and asked coldly: "How is Jing Cai?"

Qing Ning replied respectfully: "The child is gone, her vitality is greatly injured, and she is unable to see the light of day. When the sky had just begun to brighten, she had already left."

Luo Ninghai was relieved, "That's good."

"Empress," Qing Ning said in confusion, "Why did the Empress want to get rid of her?"

"I don't like people who are related to that scoundrel Mu Langhua. When the emperor saw her, he couldn't help but think of Mu Langhua, and he also had a dilemma in his heart, so it would be better to get rid of him as soon as possible," Luo Ninghai said as a smile appeared on her lips.

"Esteemed wangfei's trick is really too ruthless, expecting Su Rushuang to use us, she struck first and allowed this servant to return to Zhongcui Palace, luring Chen Xiang to the secret room."

"From the scouts that she sent, I can see that Chen Xiang is someone who is eager for quick results. If she sees what the cautious person is doing in the secret room, she can go and claim credit from Su Rushuang, but unfortunately, I'm still a bit better."

"Empress, then you and Su Rushuang are the only ones in the palace from now on."

"In the near future, I should be able to rise to the position of Consort," Luo Ninghai pursed her lips and smiled, "At that time, a new batch of concubines will come in from the palace, and Su Rushuang and I won't be the only ones."

"After the Empress ascends to the position of Consort, there will no longer be a need to live in the Zhongcui Palace."

"The Zhongcui Palace is really unlucky, and I don't want to stay any longer. Right now, the storage palace is pretty good, let's stay here for now, we'll talk about it in the future."

Qing Ning said with a smile, "If the Empress can become the Empress in the future, then we can live in the Donghua Palace."

"Donghua Palace?" Luo Ninghai laughed contemptuously, "I do not care about the place that Sin Woman lives, furthermore, the Emperor has already ordered us to stop setting her up here. I don't know if I can break this rule." When she thought again, she realized that there would be more concubines fighting in the palace. If she met one or two strong enemies, it would probably be difficult for her to become a Noble Consort.

"Qing Ning, do you think we can stop the Emperor from choosing talents? I don't want the Emperor to choose too many women."

Qing Ning rolled her eyes, and laughed: "When this servant was at the Chiron, I often heard that the emperor and the two nations of the Qi Qin were to be betrothed.

Luo Ninghai thought for a moment, then clapped her hands and praised: "This idea is not bad."