Chapter 113 - I had a bold idea!

Chapter 113 I had a bold idea!

“If it is my biological child, I’ll be still very happy even though I do everything for it and give the best things to it to the best of my ability.” Nobel Consort Gui looked at Yun Fenghuang, “Jie Yu Mao, you have never been pregnant so far, but as far as I know, you are also loved by your parents since childhood. Presumably you can understand me, right?”

Yun Fenghuang replied cautiously, “My Lady, you are full of love for your child, but you encounter such a…”

“It has become a foregone thing, so don’t mention it again.” Noble Consort Gui shook her head slightly and said calmly, “Although I am in the Imperial Harem, I don’t want to be a complainant. Since there is no clue about this thing, I’ll investigate it slowly… Let’s talk about the serious thing. Well, it’s impossible for this child to be the next Emperor. In order not to be sad and hurt again, I will not give birth to children for His Majesty. But both my family and me have already taken part in the game, so it is impossible for me to do nothing.”

She was silent for a second and asked abruptly, “What do you think of His Majesty’s future?”

“My Lady, I don’t know.” Yun Fenghuang said immediately, “I come from an ordinary family and I am young, so I really don’t dare to discuss such an important thing.”

Nobel Consort Gui said, “You don’t dare to discuss it. In fact, how dare my uncle and me be sure of it? Therefore, we have to make all kinds of preparations… If His Majesty will be powerful in the future, hold all powers in his hands, and reproduce the scene during the reign of Emperor Shenzong, do you think who can be proud among the hostesses in the Imperial Harem today?”

She didn’t need Yun Fenghuang to answer this question, so before Yun Fenghuang opened her mouth, she continued, “The successors of Emperor Shenzong, Emperor Xiaozong and His Majesty, have lived a very unhappy life. Emperor Xiaozong had fought with Ji’s Family for a lifetime, and supported my uncle and Prince Regent to be powerful. If Wei Changkong hadn’t broken faith with Emperor Xiaozong halfway, he would have probably been another powerful official… But how about the result?”

“Emperor Xiaozong did not have any heir till his death. He wanted to set up a Huang Tai Di but failed. The heir was a nephew who he had never met at all when he was alive…”

“His Majesty was enthroned when he was 15 years old. He obtains the opportunity of going to the Imperial Court and listening to the government affairs through various forms after so many years. It is not known how long this opportunity will last.”

“I don’t dare to compare myself to His Majesty, but as the saying goes, a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. With the examples of these two dynasties, no matter who from Gongxiang’s Family holds the power, will he let his heir repeat the life of Emperor Xiaozong and His Majesty?”

Noble Consort Gui sneered, “At that time, the tacit agreement that concubines born in a normal family in the Imperial Harem are not allowed to be a consort must be broken… Unless His Majesty has no choice, any prince with a noble biological mother or even a foster mother must be ruled out of the choice of the heir by His Majesty first!”

She was silent when she said this. Then she looked at Yun Fenghuang with complicated eyes, “Therefore, Jie Yu Mao, when I noticed your plan, I had both the emotions of admiration and grief. Even if I would make you unhappy, I can’t help participating in it… Of course, I won’t get profits from you for free. As for Noble Consort Shu, I promise you that I will kill her!”

Yun Fenghuang pondered.

Adopting Yun Qingman’s son was what Yun Fenghuang had planned since she just joined the Imperial Harem.

However, Yun Fenghuang didn’t know the truth about the real reason for her joining the Imperial Harem at that time, so she planned to use a gentle and kind method… Anyway, Duke Yi’s Mansion hadn’t planned to let Yun Qingman survive in the Imperial Harem by relying on herself. There was no big difference for Yun Qingman between relying on her legitimate sister, Nobel Consort Shu, to live and relying on Yun Fenghuang to live.

To say something unpleasant, although there was no blood relationship between Yun Fenghuang and Yun Qingman, the time they got along was more than that between Noble Consort Shu and Yun Qingman, wasn’t it?

Yun Fenghuang would also be nice to Yun Qingman and her child!

… If it must be said that this was Yun Fenghuang’s far-fetched excuse, she didn’t care.

Since Yun’s Family could put her into the list of cordial invitation without telling her, why couldn’t she hold the prince from Yun’s Family to threaten Duke Yi’s Mansion?!

After hearing that Yun Qike had secret love for her and even wanted to marry her from Miao Cai during the summer banquet, Yun Fenghuang felt that the reason why she joined the Imperial Harem was not so simple. She decided at that time to take this opportunity to bring Yun Qingman to her own palace. In this way, it would be more logical to adopt Yun Qingman’s child in the future.

Therefore, Yun Fenghuang was happy to see that Yun Qingman was degraded to a level because of the matter of Happier.

After all, despite the tacit understanding in the Imperial Harem that a third daughter of Yun’s Family couldn’t be promoted to a consort when there were two daughters being Nobel Consort and Jie Yu, Yun Qingman had been a Pin. If she was pregnant and even gave birth to a son under such situation, it was very unreasonable if she was not promoted to a consort. In particular, the Emperor didn’t even have a daughter.

Without the “sincerity” of Noble Consort Gui this time, Yun Fenghuang also planned to frame Yun Qingman with a few things to degrade Yun Qingman after she rested for a few days.

She would at least ensure that Yun Qingman still couldn’t reach the threshold of being promoted to a consort after Yun Qingman gave birth to a child.

In this way, she could naturally adopt the imperial heir with the bloodline of Yun’s Family, and forcibly bind Duke Yi’s Mansion with her as the foster mother. In this way, Yun’s Family could not only be her support in the Imperial Harem, but also provide various convenience for her biological family, Xie’s Family, to help it develop and grow.

After all, the people of Xie’s Family were her biological families standing the same side with her.

Although Xie’s Family was not the top big clan among the northern clans, with the preference of Yun Fenghuang and Yun’s Family, it would not be difficult for it to become the leader after the alliance of those clans… When her family developed, Yun Fenghuang could be relieved slightly, because whether the Emperor would succeed to be in power or not in the future, when she had strength, there was room for negotiation.

She fully believed in the morality of the Emperor and Yun’s Family. The two sides did not have the hatred of killing fathers or forcibly occupying wives. Therefore, in the face of actual interests, they wouldn’t insist on fighting with each other.

Xie’s Family was just a big clan in the local area. Because of Xie Fenghuan’s affair, everyone in Xie’s Family hated Chao’s Family’s guts.

But this time, they would still cooperate with Chao Jingyou… Yun Fenghuang believed that since Xie’s Family could teach the truth to their children, both the Emperor and Yun’s Family could understand it clearer.

She didn’t know when this plan was noticed by Noble Consort Gui, but Noble Consort Gui was right. If she wanted to maximize the importance of the heir born by Yun Qingman, and to threaten Duke Yi’s Mansion to the full extent, Noble Consort Shu must die.

If Noble Consort Shu didn’t die, with the legitimate daughter in the Imperial Harem, the daughter of the concubine and her children were not so important.

Besides, with current foundation and forces, it was almost impossible for Yun Fenghuang to kill Noble Consort Shu quietly…

Of course, Yun Qingman hadn’t been pregnant yet, so there was no need to deal with her immediately.

But now that Noble Consort Gui came to her in person…

Yun Fenghuang thought about it carefully, and then raised her head, “My Lady, since you have such an ambition, I think it is not secure enough to merely kill Noble Consort Shu!”

Noble Consort Gui motioned her to continue.

Yun Fenghuang smiled slightly, “When I just joined the Imperial Harem, Noble Consort Shu once told me in person that it was my blessing to substitute for Qingman and face Jie Yu Yue in Hu Zhu Palace directly. I would never forget this kind of affection! Therefore, I have an idea. How good it will be if I can substitute for Noble Consort Shu one day? After all, Noble Consort Shu is so compassionate to me, so I can’t only solve problems for Qingman.”

She smiled happily with her eyebrows curved, “We are both the daughters of Yun’s Family. Since Yun Shuangyu can be Noble Consort Shu, why can’t I get the grade, right?”

“… What you said makes sense.” Nobel Consort Gui didn’t have any objection to her ambition, but nodded in satisfaction. She was not afraid that Yun Fenghuang made ambitious requests, but she was afraid that this young Jie Yu dealt with her courteously without sincerity. After all, Noble Consort Gui was sincere to form an alliance. “Although there is no other daughter in the great Yun’s clan who is suitable to join the Imperial Harem except Noble Consort Shu and Rong Hua Yun, Yun’s Family must trust more their biological daughter than you, an outsider. If Nobel Consort Shu really dies in the future, and they send other biological daughters into the Imperial Harem again… you must be in trouble if your grade is too low.”

It should be known that there were three reasons why Yun Qingman’s grade had not been promoted so far. The first reason was that she joined the Imperial Harem not too long, the second was that the Imperial Harem must keep the reward of her promotion for her pregnancy and the birth of her child, and the third was that Yun Fenghuang impeded her promotion.

Otherwise, with her background, being promoted to a consort was a matter of course.

The representative of Yun’s Family in the Imperial Harem was Noble Consort Shu. Once Noble Consort Shu died, as long as Duke Yi’s Mansion didn’t fall, the daughter of Yun’s Family would inevitably gain an exceptional promotion.

It was afraid that Yun Fenghuang was still a Jie Yu at that time. If so, Yun’s Family sent a high-ranked consort who was promoted immediately to scramble for the prince with bloodline of Yun’s Family that she got difficultly.

Therefore, Noble Consort Gui said, “The promotion of concubines in the Imperial Harem is decided by Ji’s Family, so I can’t speak for you directly. Otherwise, bad things will happen. But if you need me, I can help you.”

“Not only my grade in the Imperial Harem needs to be promoted,” Yun Fenghuang said, “but also my biological family outside the Imperial Harem, Xie’s Family I mean, should come to Dijing City.”

Nobel Consort Gui didn’t promise to her this time. It was easy to promote Yun Fenghuang’s grade in the Imperial Harem. Anyway, she couldn’t directly make the decision. Besides, she was Noble Consort Gui now, and she couldn’t be promoted anymore, so it didn’t matter who got the grade below hers. The Imperial Harem would not easily allow three consorts from Yun’s Family. Similarly, it was impossible for Noble Consort Gui’s party to have another daughter who became one of the four noble consorts.

Then it was good to help her secret ally, Yun Fenghuang, be the one.

But Yun Fenghuang wanted her biological family to come to Dijing City… Since she said so, her family definitely wouldn’t simply come to Dijing City just for a normal position.

Did she imply to let Zheng’s Family distribute certain powers or official positions to support Xie’s Family?

Nobel Consort Gui was a little hesitant, “I’m not very clear about the things outside the Imperial Harem, so I have to find an opportunity to discuss it with my family.”

In the end, Nobel Consort Gui thought she still underestimated Yun Fenghuang’s ambitions and the difficulties to deal with her. Before coming, she thought that everything could be solved within the Imperial Harem. But she didn’t expect that Yun Fenghuang began to think about helping her natal family after she only joined the Imperial Harem for a few days.

After all, Noble Consort Gui relied on her natal family. She couldn’t decide such a thing involving the Imperial Court without agreement of her father, brothers and uncles at home.

“My Lady, the reason why you came here at late night was that you obviously didn’t want to let others know.” Hearing this, Yun Fenghuang said while shaking her head, “In this case, how can you conceal this thing to others if you help my family obviously? Besides, my father and brothers always stay in the north, and they can’t come to Dijing City for the time being. My Lady, I mean that this matter will be done by Yun’s Family in the future. After all, I am the adopted daughter of Yun’s Family, so it’s a matter of course that Yun’s Family takes care of Xie’s Family for appreciating that Xie’s Family cultivates a good girl for them, right?”

“Then, when Yun’s Family is cultivating Xie’s Family, something bad or unexpected will happen on the offspring of Yun’s Family. Anyway, they can’t continue to finish some important missions, so they have to hand them over to the offspring of Xie’s Family… It can only be said that Yun’s Family is unlucky and is doomed to do things hard for Xie’s Family, right?”

How bad Yun Shuangyu’s fate was?

Why didn’t she frame anyone else but Yun Fenghuang?

Noble Consort Gui sighed in her heart. No matter how polite and courteous these offspring of imperial clans or noble families were, they all had the defects of being ignorant and looking down upon women even more.

Now the retribution came. Yun’s Family only framed Yun Fenghuang alone before. Now Yun Fenghuang made up her mind to suck the lifeblood of Yun’s Family and use it thoroughly, making it the stepping-stone of her and her family in both the Imperial Court and the Imperial Harem.

Fortunately, Zheng’s Family was already wealthy when Noble Consort Gui was born. It was not accepted by mainstream noble clans because it was founded by her uncle, a powerful eunuch. Because of this, the people of Zheng’s Family knew that there were also heroes in normal families and women might be better than men, and they had no bad habit of judging a person by the family background. Noble Consort Gui secretly rejoiced and settled down, “Such being the case, I promise you in behalf of my uncle!”

Anyway, Zheng’s Family had a struggle with Duke Yi’s Mansion, so it was a thing that without difficulty. Besides, she could win the favor of Yun Fenghuang and increase the friendship between them. Why didn’t she do it?

After two requirements were consecutively promised, the smile on Yun Fenghuang’s face was also more sincere, “My Lady, you are really generous, so I don’t dare to be mean. In the future, if there is anything that I can do for you, please tell me without concerns!”

“I don’t need you to do anything for me at present.” Noble Consort Gui smiled. “On the contrary, you can sometimes make trouble for me to win the trust of Her Highness.”

In this way, when Yun Fenghuang wanted to raise the heir born by Yun Qingman, the Empress would not only not object, but help her achieve the goal… Yun Fenghuang understood it, “My Lady, I’ll act as your wishes.”

She seemed to think of something, “But… Her Highness wants me to kill Jie Yu Yue in person.”

“There are so many people who hate Jie Yu Yue. Jie Yu Mao, you have joined the Imperial Harem for a short time, so can you kill her before so many people?” Nobel Consort Gui was calm and smiled slightly, “Her Highness is really so anxious that she loses her senses. Now that I can’t protect my child, is it possible for Yuan Lianniang to do it? Can she get that blessing? I think both she and her child will die this time!”