coobybook Chapter 230 Feng Ruozhao 12
Chapter 230 Feng Ruozhao 12
Zhen Huan stood in front of the window listening to the noise outside, but Feng Ruozhao didn't care.
The noise outside the palace was getting louder and louder. Zhen Huan turned around and said to Feng Ruozhao, "Sister, please send a palace maid to invite the emperor."
Feng Ruozhao nodded and signaled Hanzhu to make the arrangements.
After Xuan Ling arrived, the hall became quiet.
At this time, Feng Ruozhao and Zhen Huan walked out.
As soon as Zhen Huan knelt down, she was helped up by Xuan Ling.
Feng Ruozhao performed the full ceremony and then stood aside.
When Concubine Hua saw Zhen Huan coming out of the main hall, her expression changed slightly and she asked, "Why is Concubine Jieyu here?"
After Zhen Huan and Cui Jinxi finished their show, Xuan Ling questioned Concubine Hua.
Feng Ruozhao came out to speak: "Your Majesty, Concubine Hua has always been very decisive in her actions. She must have come here only because she had evidence. We should investigate this matter in Cunju Hall so that Concubine Hua will not make a wasted trip and the matter can be explained. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Zhen Huan followed closely behind, kneeling down and saying, "Mrs. Shen dare not disobey the imperial decree. I beg the emperor to order a thorough investigation to clear Mrs. Shen's name."
Xuan Ling couldn't bear to see Zhen Huan kneeling, so he helped her up and said, "Captain Li, take a few young eunuchs to investigate."
Li Chang accepted the order and took people into Cun Ju Tang to investigate.
After just two cups of tea, Li Chang came back and said, "Your Majesty, there are only Shen Changzai and her personal maid in Cunju Chang."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Hua quickly apologized. Xuan Ling frowned and said, "I thought you had changed your ways and wanted to restore your authority as the assistant to the six palaces, but you ignored my wishes and insisted on searching the palace."
Concubine Hua looked up at Xuan Ling, her eyes full of surprise.
Then, Concubine Hua turned around and stared at Zhen Huan with fierce eyes.
Zhen Huan looked back at Concubine Hua without showing any weakness, with a smug look in her eyes.
Xuan Ling continued, "Go back and don't cause any more trouble in the future."
Hua Fei knelt down and said, "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty."
Before leaving, Xuan Ling said to Concubine Hua: "Don't go to see Princess Wen Yi again in the future."
Concubine Hua's face was filled with grievance and anger, Zhen Huan looked pleased, and Feng Ruozhao lowered his head with a normal expression.
Xuan Ling took Zhen Huan away. Feng Ruozhao did not ask the emperor to withdraw half of the guards. He knelt down and saw the emperor off.
At night, Zhen Huan put on the clothes of a palace maid and sneaked to Cunju Hall with Cui Jinxi.
Fang Ruo gave the guard a knockout drug, and Zhen Huan went into the inner room to visit Shen Meizhuang.
Feng Ruozhao pretended not to know anything and went to bed early.
When Zhen Huan returned, she boarded Qinghe Prince Xuanqing's boat.
The two of them sat in the small boat and had a pleasant conversation. Zhen Huan lamented that the emperor doted on her but did not love her, but Xuan Qing said that doting on her but not loving her was the greatest disrespect to a woman.
When Feng Ruozhao saw this chapter, he was very confused.
Why does Zhen Huan insist on getting the emperor's only love? She is still not satisfied with the emperor's favor and high position. What is Zhen Huan's basis?
Even in an ordinary family with some money, a man would not have only one woman. Why is Zhen Huan so obsessed with being with one person for the rest of her life?
Knowing that the emperor could not have only one woman, why didn't she try to fail in the selection?
Zhen Huan picked up Xuan Qing's purse on the boat and found the petals of a Duruo flower and a small portrait of Zhen Huan inside.
However, Zhen Huan did not take out her own portrait, but put it back together and returned it to Xuan Qing.
Xuanqing took the Jinying and said that it contained the belongings of her loved one. When Zhen Huan heard Xuanqing's confession, she was both moved and sad.
She could only sigh in her heart that she was the emperor's woman, and Xuanqing was the emperor's brother.
In autumn, Xuan Ling rewarded Zhen Huan with Shu brocade jade shoes.
It takes one hundred women in Shu three years to embroider one piece of Shu brocade, and it is so precious that one inch is worth one bushel of gold.
It was very difficult for the concubines in the palace to even see it, but the emperor used it to make shoes for Zhen Huan.
The toes of each shoe are embellished with finger-sized Hepu pearls, the uppers are embroidered with gemstones and rice beads into a mandarin duck pattern, and the lining is filled with all kinds of precious spices.