Extra 3 Competition
In the imperial study, Jing Feng watched the beauty leave without any regrets. He turned around to meet the new emperor's teasing eyes and shamelessly recommended himself: "I am old and have no wife. Your Majesty, can you have pity on me and help me get in touch with Tang Zhangshi?"
Yuan Jian didn't expect that the second brother Tang was so popular: "Jing Qing, haven't you heard that Fu Chen accompanied Tang Ying back to his hometown to worship his father and brother? Why do you have to interfere?"
Jing Feng said cunningly, "Even before the wedding, Tang has the opportunity to regret. Lord Fu is so cold, how can I understand and understand? I think it's better for you to marry me than to marry Lord Fu. Why don't you ask Your Majesty to persuade Tang again, so as to give me a chance to compete?"
Yuan Jian was in a dilemma when he suddenly heard the eunuch outside come to report: "Your Majesty, Master Fu wants to see you." He hurriedly said, "Please come in quickly."
Fu Chen went to the palace to see the emperor. When he heard Jing Feng's unreasonable request, he almost exploded with anger: "How can Master Jing think that Fu is not good?"
Jing Feng said shamelessly: "Everyone in the capital knows that Master Fu is a living devil. Don't think that he has changed his personality after two years in Qingzhou. It seems to me that it is extremely difficult. Besides, I think I have a cheerful personality. If Tang Zhuanshi marries Jing, she will be smiling all the time. For Tang Zhuanshi, Master Fu should not selfishly stay with her and hinder her path to happiness."
Fu Chen's eyes wanted to shoot through Bing Lingzi and stab Jing Feng to death, but Jing Feng was even more resolute when he saw this: "Look, Master Fu has been in the Forbidden Cavalry Division for a long time, and his vicious nature has not changed. If there is a dispute between the couple in the future, then we must use force to subdue Tang, and both sides will suffer." He boasted to himself: "I am different. I am a scholar who is powerless. If Tang marries me, if there is a dispute between the couple, Tang will definitely be the one to use force, and I will definitely be the one to suffer. But Jing is happy to do it!"
Fu Chen was so angry that he almost exploded: "Jing, you covet your colleague's wife, you have a despicable character!"
Jing Feng: "A daughter of one family is sought after by hundreds of families. Besides, I haven't heard that Manager Tang and Master Fu are engaged, so how can there be a saying of 'a colleague's wife'?"
Fu Chen: "You..."
When it comes to sharp tongue and unreasonable arguments, Lord Xiaojing is much more capable than Lord Fu.
Just as the standoff was at an impasse, the queen's personal maid came to ask for an audience: "Tang's attendant ordered this servant to come and ask for an imperial decree, asking His Majesty to allow her to accompany the queen to Shoukang Palace to ask the Grand Emperor to hand over the palace seal, so that the queen mother can live out her days in peace and the queen can handle palace affairs."
Yuan Jian grew up in the deep palace and is familiar with the affairs of the harem. Yang Huniu has a rough and unrestrained personality, and may not be the best candidate to be the queen. First of all, she is incapable of handling palace affairs. But she is his original wife and they have a special relationship, so he confers her as the queen despite the pressure from court officials. As for the power in the palace - he is really waiting for Tang Ying to come back to help.
Tang Ying is protective of her friends and would definitely not stand by and watch her good sister being bullied.
He was not blind to the Queen's predicament. Although Yang Huniu understood her husband, he had already had a plan, but the time had not yet come.
The palace servant came in and just solved the current dilemma. Thinking that the Grand Emperor would not be able to get any advantage from Tang Ying, he could not help but be very happy and ordered the eunuch to bring out the imperial edict that had been written long ago: "Go and pass on the order, and let the princess temporarily assist in the affairs of the palace."
This is what it means to delegate power to Tang Ying.
Tang Ying has the secret guards of the Imperial Cavalry Division. These people are not like the old maids in the palace who are all just pretending to be powerful. Instead, they have their own strong abilities and can resist assassins with knives, let alone those palace servants who have no martial arts skills at all.
After sending away the palace maids from Kunning Palace, the new emperor was in a good mood. He turned to the two ministers and said, "You two ministers have seen that recently, the princess must stay in the palace to manage the palace affairs for the queen. As for her marriage, I have to listen to the princess's opinion. I can't grant a marriage rashly. Please go back, you two ministers."
Fu Chen was dumbfounded.
Jingfeng was very proud.
Yuan Jian sent the two young ministers away and happily went straight to Shoukang Palace, ready to clean up the mess and help his wife seize power.
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In Shoukang Palace, the Empress Dowager was so angry that she felt dizzy when she heard that the two old maids she had sent out were actually sent to the Imperial Cavalry Prison by Tang Ying.
Just as he was resting against the bed, he suddenly heard the queen coming to pay her respects. He also heard that she brought a few imperial doctors with her. He angrily threw the teacup on the bedside table and said, "Did she rush here to make trouble because she saw that I'm not dead?"
Yang Huniu and Tang Ying were almost hit by a teacup as soon as they stepped into Shoukang Palace.
Tang Ying didn't even raise an eyebrow as she greeted the Empress Dowager respectfully. She also winked at Yang Huniu, asking her to pay her respects as well.
The imperial physicians behind him knelt on the ground, fearing that the emperor would be angry with them.
After Tang Ying finished her greetings, she stood up with Yang Huniu without waiting for the Empress Dowager to call her. She approached the bed and asked with concern, "I wonder why the Empress Dowager is angry?" She said with great sorrow, "I just entered the palace today and heard that the Empress Dowager was not feeling well. The Empress Dowager actually ignored the Empress Dowager's health and slacked off, leaving all the palace affairs to the Empress Dowager. This is so unfilial! I have the responsibility to advise and cannot let the Empress Dowager slack off. That's why I accompanied the Empress to ask the Empress Dowager for the palace seal!"
The Queen Mother: “…” Is this a blatant robbery?
She had spent most of her life in the palace. As a Crown Princess, she was suppressed by her mother-in-law. After she finally became the Queen, she lived a peaceful life for a few years, but then Lady Wan rose to prominence and put pressure on her again. She had lived a cautious life for most of her life and finally made it to the position of Empress Dowager. Especially since she was the wife of a concubine's son and a girl from the frontier who didn't know any etiquette. Now she could finally hold her head high. She often complained about Yang Huniu's lack of etiquette and acted like a mother-in-law for several months. Unexpectedly, after only a few days of good life, she ran into a scoundrel like Tang Ying. She was so angry that she couldn't say a word and could only stare blankly.
Tang Ying didn't care how angry the Empress Dowager was. She turned around and gave Yang Huniu a wink.
The two of them had a tacit understanding. Yang Huniu quickly knelt in front of the Queen Mother's bed, took two steps on her knees, and tightly held the Queen Mother's hand, almost crying: "It's all my fault that I didn't think it through, I was lazy and treacherously cheated, and made the Queen Mother suffer, and she also had to handle palace affairs for my daughter-in-law. My daughter-in-law has listened to the advice of Lord Tang, and from now on I will change my ways, and I will definitely handle palace affairs well, so that the Queen Mother can live out her days in peace!"
The Queen Mother: “You you…” It turned out that this wild girl from the border was holding her hand tightly and would not let go, like an iron clamp, and she couldn’t get it free. Outsiders thought it was a loving relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but only she knew that she was boiling with rage, and she wanted to spit at this dead girl in the face, but she had no way of saying it because a group of imperial doctors were kneeling below.
Seeing this, Tang Ying hurriedly called the Imperial Physician Zheng to come forward and said, "I see that the Empress Dowager doesn't look well. Sir, come and take the pulse of the Empress Dowager."
As expected, the Imperial Physician came forward to feel the Empress Dowager's pulse, and then said a lot of things, which could be summed up in one sentence: The Empress Dowager needs to rest and must not overwork herself, otherwise her life will be in danger!
The Queen Mother had worked tirelessly over the years and worried a lot about her children and grandchildren, but then both of them passed away. She had endured most of her life, but in the end, it was all in vain. It was only thanks to her strong character that she did not fall, and was able to get up after the new emperor ascended the throne and hold on to the power of the palace and refused to let go.
She had no children or grandchildren, but she still had family members outside the palace who needed to be promoted. Just by virtue of her power in the palace, she could bargain with the emperor and empress.
I didn't expect to run into a scoundrel like Tang Ying, who came up and wanted to grab power without saying anything.
Tang Ying urged several other imperial doctors to take the empress dowager's pulse one by one. They all said the same thing and discussed prescribing medicine.
She said hypocritically: "The Empress Dowager has a kind heart towards the Empress, but the Empress cannot ignore the Empress Dowager's health and let her work hard." Then she asked the Empress Dowager for the palace seal. Unexpectedly, even at this time, the Empress Dowager still did not want to give up power and never gave in to return the palace seal.
Tang Ying was probably a bandit in his previous life, and he immediately said, "I understand, the Empress Dowager is too tired to give orders, so where can we get the palace seal and other matters?"
The palace maids in the Empress Dowager's palace refused to move, but a secret guard from the Imperial Cavalry Division came out and said to her, "We obey your orders." Soon five or six secret guards went to the inner room to get something, and the palace maids around the Empress Dowager were so frightened that they rushed over to defend her rights, but after entering the inner room, they never came out again.
The secret guards quickly came out with things in their hands and came to report.
Tang Ying waved her hand and said, "Move them all to the Queen's Kunning Palace."
The Queen Mother was so angry that she yelled, "Traitor! Thanks to the kindness of the late Emperor, you actually treat me like this!"
Tang Ying was very surprised: "Have you gone mad, Your Majesty? It is because the late emperor treated me so kindly that I cannot bear to see Your Majesty work any more. Your Majesty is young and strong, and should take on this responsibility. Why is Your Majesty doing this?"
The Queen Mother wished she could get up and scratch her smug face.
The Imperial Medical Bureau was now eating at the hands of the new emperor, so it was even more cautious in what it said and did. It knew very well that the two palaces were fighting for power, but it pretended not to see it, and took a group of imperial doctors to write prescriptions, and then took the medicine away on the pretext of something.
The maidservant beside the empress dowager went into the inner room to check and ran out in panic: "Your Majesty, Madam Du and the others..."
"What happened?" Her face was pale. She knew that the people in the Forbidden Cavalry Division were cruel and ruthless, especially Tang Ying, who was notorious for her viciousness. She immediately spoke in a straight voice: "Are they dead?"
Little palace maid: "She was knocked unconscious."
The Queen Mother closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she finally realized the reality: "It's okay if I fainted. I'm not dead."
She felt cold in her heart, knowing that the situation was hopeless. Yang Huniu was indeed an ignorant country girl, but Tang Ying was different. She was a man of many means in the Imperial Cavalry Division and would not have any scruples towards the late emperor's widow, and would kill her.
Tang Ying likes people who know the times the most. Moreover, the empress dowager is old and shrewd. She was able to endure many years of hardship under Concubine Wan, and watched her son and husband die, and her grandson was forced to abdicate and seize power, but she still had the determination to fight for the power in the palace. It has to be said that her character is tenacious and few in the world can match her.
She clapped her hands and smiled, "It's best if Your Majesty thinks it through. You should live out your remaining years in Shoukang Palace. The Empress is kind-hearted, and so is His Majesty. The Empress Dowager need not worry." She was just worried about being alone in her old age. These two people would not let her go without a bite of food. As for other plans, she should forget about them.
When the new emperor came, Tang Ying had already cleaned up the battlefield, arranged everything properly, and sent people to drag away the restless palace maids in the Empress Dowager's palace. She replaced them with young palace maids. As for the new palace maids, she was not worried - the new emperor withdrew the spies from the ministers' houses, but the secret guards in the harem did not withdraw, and still stayed behind according to the old rules.
The secret guards who stayed in Shoukang Palace were the Queen's eyes and ears.
Yuan Jian came over and repeatedly apologized to the Empress Dowager, saying that he and his wife were unfilial and had never been considerate of the Empress Dowager, causing the Empress Dowager to drag her sick body to work on palace affairs. He apologized in every way and confessed his sins sincerely.
Not only that, on the next morning court session, he repeatedly confessed in front of his ministers his negligence as a son, causing the Empress Dowager to work so hard at the palace affairs that she fell ill. From then on, he would never dare to trouble the Empress Dowager again.
——The Queen Mother was so angry that she was bedridden, which was consistent with her image of being "ill due to palace affairs."
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Fu Chen and Tang Ying had been together day and night for several months, and originally thought that they would continue their love affair after returning to Beijing. However, the new emperor whipped up a demonic wind and took her into the harem and never let her out again, even giving her the euphemistic name of assisting the empress in handling palace affairs.
I don’t know how much torment I’m in.
Tang Ying was indeed decisive and resolute. She sat in Kunning Palace and spent half a month helping the empress to remove the old people from various places and to examine, evaluate and promote the new people. The atmosphere in the palace changed drastically, and everyone became obedient to the empress. No one dared to neglect the new empress by relying on the empress dowager's power.
Seeing that the secret guards were easy to use, Yang Huniu begged her to keep a few for herself.
Tang Ying sought the consent of the secret guards and left a group of people for her. These people had been in the Forbidden Cavalry Division for too long, and it would be difficult for them to become ordinary people. Staying with the Queen would be a good opportunity for them to display their strengths.
It was a month later when Fu Chen and Tang Ying met again after they returned to Beijing.
As she came out of the palace, she was stopped by two people.
Fu Chen and Jing Feng were like enemies in their previous lives, both blocking the palace gate to welcome people, with the same purpose, which was to please the beauty.
Master Fu was not very good at sweet talk, but Master Xiao Jing was thick-skinned and spoke very considerately: "The princess must be tired in the palace. I wait at the palace gate every day, just in case it is cloudy or rainy when the princess leaves the palace. It will be inconvenient."
Fu Chen: “…” What a shameless villain!
Tang Ying: "Master Xiao Jing, what's going on here?"
Jing Feng lifted the curtain of the carriage and said, "Princess, please get on the carriage. I will take you back. There are cakes and pastries on the carriage to fill your stomach." When the curtain was lifted, the decoration inside was revealed, which was extremely luxurious.
Lord Fu, with a stern face, pinched Tang Ying's slender waist and pulled her onto the horse's back. Without saying a word, he jumped on the horse, kicked the horse's belly, and the two of them disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Jing Feng: “…” This is shameless!
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Fu Chen's handsome face immediately turned pale with anger: "How can Jing be so shameless? He knows that you and I are engaged, but he dares to challenge us openly. Does he think I am dead?"
Tang Ying suppressed her laughter and said seriously, "Master Xiao Jing is laughing at you, Master Fu, for not being considerate enough. He is demonstrating to you."
Fu Chen tapped her on the head: "How dare you laugh at me?"
Tang Ying: "Master Xiao Jing seems to be very considerate and will probably obey his wife in everything."
Fu Chen hurriedly rubbed the place where he had been tapped twice: "Does it hurt? I only tapped it lightly." There was infinite resentment in his voice.
Tang Ying: "Master Xiao Jing must not be willing to use violence. I took a quick glance and saw that there were flowers in his carriage."
That evening, Tang Ying received a carriage full of flowers from Lord Fu.
Xiong Yu led his men to move the flowers to the mansion. Zhang Qing suppressed her smile and asked, "Master Fu sent a cart of gorgeous flowers. Where should I put them? How about putting them all in the corridor of your courtyard so that you can see them when you get up?"
Tang Ying stood in the corridor, watching people carrying flowers in with a smile, and was in a very good mood.
After Xiong Yu and his men finished their work, he asked her if she had anything to say to Fu Chen. Unexpectedly, Tang Ying tilted her head and thought: "I have to get up early to go to the office tomorrow. I want to eat Liu Po Po's meat biscuits for breakfast. If Master Fu can bring me breakfast, I will be very grateful."
Xiong Yu: “…” I don’t see how you are grateful. You are clearly finding ways to order my master around.
He went back and conveyed the original words. A faint smile appeared on Lord Fu's lips, as if he had heard some good news.
It is true that men and women will become stupid when they fall in love, and no matter how wise and powerful you are, you cannot escape this disaster.
