Chapter 112: Concubine Lin

+++

date="2021-02-15"

title="Chapter 112: Concubine Lin "

weight="127209"

series = ["The Times Spent in Pretense"]

mode = "manual"

+++

"Are you here?" Emperor Changlong saw Concubine Lin and pointed to the chair in the room: "Sit down and talk." After speaking, he told the other palace servants in the room to retreat.

The chair was cushioned, but when Concubine Lin sat down, she felt a little stiff and awkward.

"Do you know why I call you?"

Upon hearing this, Concubine Lin bowed her head and said: "My concubine doesn't know."

Back then, she tried her best to enter the palace and became an imperial concubine. She thought that by virtue of her beauty, she would dominate the harem, but although her Majesty was kind to her, she did not favor any woman in the harem.

"In fact, I don't want to see you tonight." Emperor Changlong looked at the woman in front of him. He had known Concubine Lin for more than 20 years and didn't want to end with an embarrassing ending.

Concubine Lin's heart trembled, she raised her head to look at Emperor Changlong, pursing her lips and not speaking.

What she did... Your Majesty knew about it?

"I treat you badly?" Emperor Changlong looked at Concubine Lin, with disappointment and regrets in his eyes, and they all turned into peace in the end: "Concubine Lin, I have chosen the title for Prince Qichen, and I am sincere. This child has one I think that sincerity is very suitable for him."

Sincerity is a good word, Concubine Lin stood up and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Since your majesty is willing to make her son king, and carefully choose the title, it shows that your majesty did not abandon Qichen, and did not know what she did in private.

What did your majesty tell her to do? Could it be that several other women in the palace framed her behind?

"You don't have to thank me. I am Qichen's father. It is my father's responsibility to consider his future." Emperor Changlong tried to see the slightest guilt or fear on Concubine Lin's face, but her face was only perfect. Smile.

"I remember that when I met Lin Aiqing outside the palace, you said that you were pleased with me and insisted on following me into the palace." Concubine Lin was only an 18-year-old girl, even though I learned that there were other people in his palace. Concubine, also wronged myself to become a concubine in the palace.

It was his fault. If he didn't agree to her request back then, maybe she was still the talented woman back then. Instead of being buried by endless ambition like it is now.

"Because your Majesty, you don't know how handsome you are." Concubine Lin curled her lips, "Among so many scholars, you are the most special existence."

For so many years, what she is most proud of is that she recognized her Majesty's identity back then, took the opportunity to get close to him, and asked him to agree to admit herself into the palace.

If she didn't enter the palace, maybe she would be like a sister-in-law, marrying a gentleman with two sleeves and living a life stretched.

"In these years, have you been living well in the palace?" Emperor Changlong looked at Concubine Lin's beautiful eyes, "I am not a gentle and considerate man. I have wronged you these years."

"No, your majesty has always been very good to your concubines." Although Concubine Lin resented Emperor Changlong for his preference for the prince, she had to admit that her majesty was very good to the concubines in the harem.

He is not a lecherous emperor. The number of concubines in the harem is the smallest among the emperors in Jin Country, but he is a responsible husband.

"I thought you had a grudge against me, so you would do these things." Emperor Changlong put the things he found out in front of Concubine Lin, "Concubine Lin, what do you want?"

Concubine Lin shook her hands and picked up the information. She was flustered after only reading the top few pages. Her brain buzzed, and it took a long time to find her own voice: "Since your Majesty already knows, there is nothing to say about my concubine."

"I regret it."

"Your Majesty regrets letting me into the palace?" Concubine Lin asked mockingly.

"Yes." Emperor Changlong nodded slowly, "I regret letting you into the palace back then and making you a woman in the harem."

"Ha." Concubine Lin laughed at herself, her most proud thing has become the last thing the other party regrets, is she a joke in her life?

"Although you were born in a poor family, but you have read poems and books, you are a knowledgeable woman." Emperor Changlong sighed, "If I hadn't let you into the palace back then, you wouldn't have so much ambition, nor would you embark on this. road."

Concubine Lin was startled, she felt uncomfortable for the first time looking at this man who had never loved her. This uncomfortable thing is like a net that covers her densely. She wants to cry, but can't cry.

"You have been gentle and considerate in front of me these years. No matter what I do, you will say yes." Emperor Changlong stood up, walked to the window and stood still, facing Concubine Lin, "I will take good care of Qi. Chen, in the future you will stay in the palace, don't come out again, and don't touch Qichen."

"Your Majesty wants to confine me?" Concubine Lin regained her senses. She looked at Emperor Changlong's back, her tears falling down her cheeks, "Your Majesty, my concubine knows that I was wrong, please forgive my concubine this time. Our Qichen has not yet married. , I haven’t left the palace to build a mansion. For the sake of our children, please spare my concubine this time."

If she cried like this in the past, Your Majesty would always feel soft on her.

But this time, Emperor Changlong did not look back at her.

"Concubine Lin, before you do these things, if you can take care of Kai Chen for half a minute, I won't treat you like this." Emperor Changlong's voice was tired, "You, step back."

Concubine Lin knew that with this retreat, she would no longer be the Concubine Lin who was aloof.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Concubine Lin knelt and walked to Emperor Changlong, hugging his leg and crying, "Your Majesty, don't do this to me."

Emperor Changlong closed his eyes, not looking at her embarrassed and pitiful appearance: "Concubine Lin, I treat every concubine in the harem well, but my bottom line is my child."

Seeing Emperor Changlong unmoved, Concubine Lin's heart gradually sank. She knew that His Majesty was a gentle but not indecisive man. He could tolerate the small mistakes of children, concubines and even courtiers, but when he made up his mind, no one could change it.

No, someone once asked him to change his mind, and that was the prince.

Knowing that she could no longer let Her Majesty take her life back, Concubine Lin suddenly calmed down. She wiped away the tears on her face, and her voice calmly said: "In your Majesty's heart, I still prefer Concubine Hui more."

Emperor Changlong did not speak.

"I entered the palace in the same year as Concubine Hui, her son became a prince, and my child is still an untitled prince." Concubine Lin sneered, "Your Majesty cannot tolerate my ambition, or can't tolerate my concubine as a prince. ?"

"The prince was so petty by you that he was rude to the ministers and changed the officials of Eastern Palace at will. Not only did you not blame him, but instead picked him Hua Yingting's daughter as the prince." Concubine Lin suddenly lost control of emotion. She asked loudly, "None of us are the Queen of the Palace, so why do you let Concubine Hui's son be the prince?"

"You said you don't favor anyone, but you actually gave her the title, but what about me?" Concubine Lin pointed to his chest, "I and her were both born in unfamiliar families. You gave her the title, and I just gave her the title. The surname is the first name, should I be born lower than her?!"

Emperor Changlong opened his eyes and looked at Concubine Lin, who was unwilling to resent him. After a long time, he said: "I remember that when we first met, you said that Lin was a noble gift given to you by your father, and I believed in you."

Hum.

Concubine Lin felt that something was rumbling in her mind, she staggered a few steps, and slumped weakly on the ground. In order to attract your majesty's attention, she forgot what she said, how could she remember what she said casually?

"You are lying to me!" Concubine Lin shouted hoarsely, "You are lying to me!"

Standing outside the hall, Zhao Sancai heard Concubine Lin's roar, waved the whisk in his hand, shook his head and sighed.

Good days, but why bother to have to toss so many things?

Concubine Lin never felt that there was anything wrong with her calculations for the children. His Majesty favored Concubine Hui. Even if she died, she preferred her son most. If she doesn't calculate, how can there be any place for her in the whole harem?

She was unwilling to be just a concubine, nor was she reconciled to her son being a prince without status.

They are all the sons of your majesty, so why is Ji Yuan so superior?

"Impossible, your Majesty, you are obviously favoring Concubine Hui..." It seems that only by proving that your Majesty favored Concubine Hui who died, will she feel that everything she has done is not wrong.

Concubine Lin's unwilling roar came from the empty hall, and no one spoke.

Concubine Lin gradually calmed down. She wiped away the tears on her face and looked at Emperor Changlong: "Your Majesty...what are you going to do with me?"

Emperor Changlong sighed.

This sigh was like a knife, piercing Concubine Lin's heart directly.

Looking at your majesty's back, she suddenly recalled the first meeting with your majesty that year. He wore a light-colored brocade robe and smiled like an April sky in the world.

She was so brilliant that she couldn't help but look more.

She remembered that at that time, her heartbeat was a few beats slower at that moment.

Everyone wants to look at him like that.

"You go back." Emperor Changlong waved his hand wearily, "A couple hundred days of grace, I don't want to kill you. You are sick and need to heal, and I will send someone to take good care of you."

"Good." Concubine Lin shook her head towards Emperor Changlong with a trembling voice: "Concubine, leave."

Emperor Changlong turned his back to her, and the moonlight shone on him, casting a long shadow behind him.

This shadow continued to spread and spread to Concubine Lin.

She suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, when the concubine gave birth to Qichen, he can't speak or cry, have you ever abandoned me?

"Never."

The black shadow moved, but its owner still did not look back.

"I have never complained about you, nor have I disliked the child. He is my child, a gift from heaven to me. As a father, how can he dislike his arrival?"

"Concubine, I understand." Concubine Lin stood up desperately and staggered out of the door.

The hall door opened with a creak, and bright lights hung outside. She looked back at Emperor Changlong's back and suddenly asked: "Your Majesty..."

What she wanted to say, suddenly realized that she had nothing to say.

After crossing the high threshold, Concubine Lin left the hall.

"Respectfully send the Concubine Lin."

Concubine Lin stopped, glanced at the palace people outside the main hall of Chenyang Palace, suddenly laughed, turned and disappeared into the night.

Emperor Changlong stood in front of the window, without moving for a long time, Zhao Sancai bowed and closed the hall door, but sighed worriedly in his heart.

didn't expect that the concubine Lin, who seemed to be the most knowledgeable, would use such a dirty harem technique. Intimidating the palace maid to frame the prince, and deliberately picking a palace maid who is somewhat similar to Fushou Princess.

If this matter is successful, it will not only harm the prince, but also the Lord Fushou.

When such a thing happens, the most sad one is probably your Majesty.

Zhao Sancai stood by the door for a while, and then came over with a box in his arms, walking briskly and smiling, as if he didn't know what had just happened.

"His Royal Highness." Zhao Sancai greeted him.

"Zhao Sancai, why are you at the door, where's father?"

"Your Majesty is in the hall, you..." Before Zhao Sancai finished speaking, he saw His Royal Highness push open the hall door and walked in.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty is in a bad mood, don't bump it up.

It's a pity that the prince couldn't hear Zhao Sancai's heart. He saw Emperor Changlong standing by the window and stepped forward and said: "Father, my son brought you a good thing."

"What good thing?" Emperor Changlong's voice was a little hoarse, he turned his head to look at the prince, his face seemed calm.

"Just now, Erchen took Princess Fushou and his fourth brother to watch the stars on the observation deck. Suddenly he felt hungry in his stomach, so he took the two of them to the Eastern Palace small kitchen and made some food by himself." The prince opened the box, inside. There were a few ugly snacks that looked like animals, but Emperor Changlong couldn't help it. What kind of animals are these.

They have one thing in common, that is ugliness.

"You did it yourself?" Emperor Changlong walked to the chair and sat down, looking at these snacks, he couldn't do anything.

"Ugly is ugly, but it tastes good." The prince took a silver chopsticks and fed it to Emperor Changlong. "I heard that you didn't eat anything tonight, so I must have been hungry."

Emperor Changlong hesitated for a moment, but still ate the snack.

To be honest, he felt that his two sons and the future three daughters-in-law had no talent in cooking.

Although this dessert is not to the point of being overwhelmed, there is no other taste except sweetness. His tongue is accustomed to the craftsmanship of the imperial cook, and cannot bear this kind of grievance.

"It's not refreshing to just eat dim sum, and Erchen also brought soup." The prince took out a large bowl of soup on the lower level of the food box, divided it into small bowls, and sat down with Emperor Changlong to drink the soup.

The soup is rich in flavor, and you know it has been boiled for several hours. Emperor Changlong glanced at the prince who was holding a small mouthful of the bowl, and stretched out his hand to stop him: "It is not advisable to eat more at night. You just ate something, why are you still eating?"

"Erchen is not full."

Emperor Changlong laughed: "I know that you want to make my appetite better, so I came to use it with me." He picked up the bowl and drank two mouthfuls: "I will make good use of the rice, so don't hold on."

The prince put down the bowl immediately, rubbing his stomach and said with a bitter face: "You know your son, the emperor, too. In order to make your future daughter-in-law happy, the son has eaten up all the ugly snacks she made. Erchen did it with the fourth brother."

Emperor Changlong twisted a piece of dim sum and swallowed it, with a smile on his face: "I look at these dim sums, they are not very good."

"The appearance is not important, what is important is the mind." The crown prince coaxed Emperor Changlong to drink soup and snacks, and then said, "I can't sleep after eating, but I will walk with you in the yard."

"Great."

Zhao Sancai, who was guarding outside, felt relieved when he saw that His Royal Highness had taken soup with His Majesty and went for a walk.

Fortunately, with the presence of His Royal Highness, His Majesty's mood can slowly improve.

There were a lot of stars in the sky, and Emperor Changlong listened to the prince's various words to please him, and suddenly smiled: "Yuan Su, I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

"What's the worry?" The prince turned his head, his face was puzzled, "Erchen just came here to deliver snacks."

Emperor Changlong smiled: "Come here early tomorrow to help me deal with the memorial."

"Great."

"There have been many things in these two days, so don't leave the palace." Emperor Changlong continued, "There are several files in Dali Temple, you can take a look."

"Yes." Although the prince grumbled, he still agreed.

Emperor Changlong smiled and shook his head. How could the prince be so obedient?

It seems that she knew that something was wrong with Concubine Lin and came here to make him happy.

Early the next morning, Hua Liuli, who was staying in the Shoukang Palace, heard a bit of shocking news. The birth mother of the fourth prince, the concubine Lin was seriously ill, and while she was recuperating, she was not allowed to visit.

In the palace, those who are not allowed to visit because of serious illness are all excuses for whitewashing peace.

Concubine Lin had an accident.

Hua Liuli frowned, thinking of the palace lady who framed the prince at the Hundred Nations Banquet. Could it be that Concubine Lin did that...?

However, the four princes do not occupy the protagonist or the chieftain. By doing this, Concubine Lin will benefit the British king the most, not the four princes.

The imperial decree said that no one could visit, but Hua Liuli, as the future princess, could not be regarded as something that had never happened, so Iris was given a gift and went to Concubine Lin's palace.

At this time, the most important thing is the visit process.

As soon as she entered the palace gate, Hua Liuli heard the concubine Xian's high-pitched voice.

"Did you lead me to the apse that night?!"

Concubine Lin's voice was extremely indifferent, unlike before.

"not me."

The author has something to say: Xianfei: I knew that someone in the palace must have harmed my palace.