Astute Princess: Married to be the Empress Novel - Chapter 221

Chapter 221 Persuade Empress Dowager Xiao

After saying that, The palace maids’ faces turned pale. His kneeling body began to tremble, The palace maids and eunuchs were the least valuable in this palace. The masters were happy and would be grateful if they could give a small gift. However, once the master was unhappy or something unexpected happened, it was the maids and eunuchs who suffered. Their lives were often only within the masters’ minds.

Of course, Fu Yingran was not such a master. Her body was filled with a soul from the 21st century. She had received an equal education from childhood, so she would not vent her anger on others innocently. However, she would also not condone it. What she should knock on was to knock on the palace maids. When she saw their uneasy expressions, she calmly said,

“Get up! You can’t be blamed for this, I also know that, If the Empress Dowager insisted, There’s nothing you can do, Take good care of the Empress Dowager in the future, Ben Gong said the same thing, A person’s loyalty is very important. I can tolerate your laziness, greed, and stupidity, but I absolutely cannot tolerate your betrayal at all. As long as you don’t serve the Empress Dowager well, I and the Emperor will definitely not treat you badly. But if I find out that you have no ulterior motives, don’t blame me for being ruthless at that time. Do you understand? ”

“Your Highness, this servant understands. I definitely do not dare to have the slightest bit of dissent.”

“That’s good. Everyone, go down. I’ll send a steward nanny over later. You guys should learn from her how to be a slave. Before the Empress Dowager wakes up, I’ll personally serve you here. You guys can wait outside.”

After this, Fu Yingran suddenly realized, After returning this time, She had only been paying attention to herself and the people beside Huyan Mingshuo. He actually ignored the people beside the Empress Dowager. Under normal circumstances, if the palace maids discovered that something was wrong with their master, they should have sent people to inform him immediately before following his master. No matter what, they should have tried to rescue his master after the incident.

Apparently none of them did, Until after the accident, the first to report to them was actually Little Yizi. When she and Huyan Mingshuo arrived, these people only knelt on the ground and cried indifferently. Although there was no explicit rule that they had to sacrifice their lives to save their master, it was clear that they were not qualified as slaves.

The palace maids heard that they were going to send another steward nanny. They knew that the Empress was very dissatisfied with their performance today, so they quickly replied, “It’s the Empress. This servant will retire.”

After saying that, they stumbled out. Although the Empress did not punish them, none of them dared to be careless. In fact, these palace maids were all old people in the palace. It would not be impossible for them to be sent to serve the Empress Dowager.

However, they weren’t the maids who had always served the Empress Dowager, When the Emperor ascended to the throne, After clearing out quite a few people in the palace, Especially the people beside the Empress Dowager, It was originally the spies that the various powers had placed beside her, So the emperor ordered that everything else be replaced, These people were all drawn from the various palaces, and they were also running against each other. They were only perfunctory towards the Empress Dowager. It was only because the Empress Dowager was known throughout the Ye Lan Palace for her good temper and would never punish her servants for no reason, that they began to be unscrupulous.

In addition, during this period of time, the Emperor and the Empress had openly and secretly suppressed the Youxian Palace. They had begun to act in accordance with the wind and wanted to deliberately neglect the Empress Dowager in order to please the Empress. After all, the Empress always had the final say in this palace.

But at this moment, she was beaten up by the Empress, Only then did they realize how powerful they were. The empress dowager is the empress dowager, No matter how good his temper was, he was still the empress dowager, is the birth mother of the present emperor, She was also the Empress’ mother-in-law, No matter how the Emperor fought against the Youxian Palace, the Empress Dowager’s identity would not change in the slightest. It was definitely not for the maids of the palace to neglect her. After thinking about this, the maids’ faces turned pale with fear. When they heard the Empress call for them to leave, they got up and went out in a panic.

Afterwards, Fu Yingran instructed Little Zhengzi, “Go to the Internal Affairs Manor later and ask Little Yizi to send a reliable steward nanny over to beat up these palace maids and eunuchs in the Empress Dowager’s Palace. Otherwise, everyone will be going to heaven soon, and it will be impossible to tell who is the master and who is the slave.”

“It’s the Empress. This servant will be there soon. At this moment, the Internal Affairs Department probably won’t be able to find the head steward.” At this moment, the Northern Garden was in a mess. As the chief eunuch of the palace and the personal eunuch of the Emperor, Little Yizi was naturally still busy in the Northern Garden.

“Cough … cough … cough …” After Fu Yingran dismissed the palace maid, The moment she sat down, she heard the sound of clothes coming from inside. She immediately walked in. The Empress Dowager had already awakened. Thinking that she was choking on smoke, she must be feeling uncomfortable. She quickly poured a glass of water and walked to the bedside to help Empress Dowager Xiao up. After serving her and drinking water, she blushed and said, “How do you feel, Mother? Is it better?”

Empress Dowager Xiao drank some water and her throat became more comfortable. Seeing Fu Yingran ask, she cleared her throat and said, “I’m fine, I’m much better.”

Seeing that she was so weak, Fu Yingran’s eyes turned red and he said, “Mother, why are you here? Is there anything that can’t be solved? Why are you so obsessed? If something happens to you, how can Ming Shuo and I live? And Hao Ze, he wants to see the Royal Grandmother. How sad would it be if he doesn’t come back to see you?”

Daughter-in-law knows that you’re doing this for our sake, but it’s not worth it, Mother. We all hope that you’ll be fine. Haoze will be back soon. At that time, our grandchildren will be able to live together for three generations. There won’t be any more troubles disturbing you. Why can’t you let it go so easily?

You don’t know yet, Now that all the countries had gone to Tianshui Nation to seek refuge in Haoze, “The Emperor has already sent Mu Hai to deal with it. Bring Hao Ze back. At that time, no one will be able to shake his position as Crown Prince, and the court will be safe. I just hope that Mother will not blame your daughter-in-law for poaching your precious son’s corners. After all, these countries were originally subservient to your precious son.”

Hearing that, Empress Dowager Xiao weakly waved her hand and smiled, “You ghost. Isn’t the son of the Ai Clan your husband? Everyone says that his closest relative is husband and wife. Isn’t his husband yours?” You are willing to give it to Hao Ze yourself. Could it be that the Ai Clan’s grandmother would still object? As long as you are all fine, what else can the Ai Clan not let go of? “Mother just doesn’t want to see Ming Shuo in such a difficult situation. I know Ming Shuo’s temperament. From childhood until now, he has always attached great importance to kinship. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have fallen into such a dilemma.”

After a couple of years, how could Fu Yingran not understand? His husband was good at everything, and he was smart and decisive in everything he did. Only when facing his relatives would he be indecisive and not be able to do anything ruthless. However, this also officially extended Mingshuo’s preciousness.

So Fu Yingran said, “Isn’t that so?” The Empress Mother also knew that in Ming Shuo’s heart, kinship was the most important thing, and you were his Empress Mother. Concubine Ni was in charge of the palace earlier, and life was difficult. He had been dependent on you since childhood. Naturally, no one could compare to this feeling. If you really had something good or bad, how painful would he be? “So please take care of yourself, mother, so that we can honor you properly, so that you won’t be wasting your hard work for the rest of your life.”

With Huyan Mingshuo’s temper, If something really happened to the Empress Dowager this time, she was afraid that the entire imperial capital would be enraged. At that time, it would be impossible for her to finish. Of course, she did not dare to tell Empress Dowager Xiao just how ruthless Huyan Mingshuo was on the battlefield. Those who did not personally see him would not believe it. That was why there were so many people who were not afraid of death, challenging his patience again and again.

Empress Dowager Xiao stretched out her hand and weakly patted the back of Fu Yingran’s hand twice. “Alright, the Ai Clan knows. It won’t be hard for you to think about it in the future. You should also go over there and take a look. Don’t let anyone grab onto the handle. Just patting someone back and notify the Ai Clan of the result.”

Empress Dowager Xiao woke up in her own bedroom. Seeing Fu Yingran personally take care of her here, she didn’t say anything about the situation in the Northern Garden. She was probably seven or eight times more clear in her heart. In addition, she had just experienced a life and death situation, so she was really tired.

“Alright, Mother, rest well. Daughter-in-law will be back soon. Oh, right. Daughter-in-law saw that the servants in the palace were too lazy just now. So Daughter-in-law will ask Little Yizi to arrange a capable nanny to help clean them up later. I hope Mother-in-law won’t be too worried.” As Fu Yingran spoke, he helped her lie down and covered her with the blanket before telling her what happened just now.

It was said that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were the most difficult to get along with, and a single carelessness would be self-defeating. Therefore, Fu Yingran felt that it was better to talk about this matter first, so as not to cause conflicts in the future.

Fortunately, Empress Dowager Xiao was not confused. She also knew that Fu Yingran was right. She also knew that she had good intentions and did not really want to put in spies by her side. Besides, these servants in her palace were indeed a bit unreasonable. Therefore, she nodded and replied, “Well, you can do it as you please. There is no one else in this palace right now. With our family, can’t the Ai family trust you?”

Fu Yingran felt much more relieved to be able to gain the trust of his mother-in-law. “Thank you, Mother. Then my daughter-in-law will go out first and greet you later.”

“Yes, go.”

Fu Yingran tucked her in and walked out. Before leaving, he left Xia He and Qiu Ju to serve her. He told them to tell him immediately if they had anything to do.

After Fu Yingran closed the door, Empress Dowager Xiao opened her eyes again and wet the pillow with a teardrop. If the couple of decades hadn’t had no choice but to force them, how could she have made such a move? At this point, There can only be one Emperor in Ye Lan, If they had to choose between father and son, Empress Dowager Xiao would undoubtedly choose her son. This was also the only thing she could do for her son. If there was destined to be someone to bear the blame, then it would be up to this old woman. In any case, she was already old and did not have many years to live.

Fu Yingran left the Empress Dowager’s dormitory and rushed all the way to the Northern Garden. When she arrived, the fire was already gradually diminishing. However, Huyan Mingshuo stood there like a statue and watched the palace maids and eunuchs do their aftermath numbly.

Fu Yingran gently walked to his side. He removed the fingers that were clenching his fists one by one, Then, she clasped her fingers together and slowly said, “Mother’s imperial physician has already gone to see her. Fortunately, she was rescued in time, but she fainted from the smoke. She is fine. Now that she has woken up, Mother told me to come over and see how things are. I left Xia He and Qiu Ju to serve there. If there is anything, they will come and report it.”