A hundred kinds of red and purple compete in fragrance (above)

  The news of Xi Guifei was one step late, and in the Jingyang Palace, Lu Chang was still unconscious after drinking a bowl of black chicken soup. When the servants reported back to Yu Fei and asked for the imperial physician to rush over, she had already miscarried her five-month-old fetus.

  He is a young master.

  Yongzheng was furious after hearing this, and scolded Yu Fei for not taking good care of things before asking Su Taishi: "Lu Chang's pulse was fine when he came to pay his respects the other day, how did he suddenly become unconscious and miscarry? Could there be something wrong with the chicken soup?"

  Yu Fei Ge's heart was filled with resentment, and she had already ordered people to check the ingredients that entered Jingyang Palace. What other problems could there be? Lu Chang was always causing trouble, and if he were to disappear, it would eliminate one of Hong Li's potential rivals and also deal a blow to herself and Hong Yu. This kind of killing three birds with one stone was clearly the work of someone else. Moreover, who else besides Xi Guifei could have reached into her territory?

  Dr. Su was famous for his expertise in gynecology at Tai Hospital, but he was also skilled in other subjects. He had already examined the chicken soup and reported, "Your Majesty, this chicken soup is fine, please allow me to examine it further."

  The food and ingredients in the small kitchen of Jingyang Palace are all right. Finally, it turned to Lu Chang's clothes, incense, rouge and powder in his house...

  "Your Majesty, this lip balm seems to have a faint scent of jasmine... I dare not make a conclusion, may I ask Dr. Sun to confirm?"

  Yongzheng nodded and asked: "Doesn't this jasmine flower seem to contain poison?"

  "Yes." Dr. Su replied with a bow, "This jasmine likes to grow in warm and humid places, is slightly cold-tolerant, has green leaves and fragrant flowers, the flowers are very beautiful, and the flowering period is long. Many places in the palace have been planted with it. The stem, leaves, and flowers are all toxic, the leaf and stem skin are highly toxic, can be used to make medicine by decoction or grinding into powder, can be used for heart strengthening, asthma relief, epilepsy and other symptoms, but must be used with caution."

  At this time, Sun Taizhen had arrived with the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict. After listening to Yongzheng's words, he took over the small box of lip balm and carefully smelled it for a while before reporting: "Your Majesty, this box of lip balm indeed contains a small amount of Oleander flower extract. Because other floral scents are mixed in, people with less sensitive senses of smell would find it difficult to detect. Judging from the quantity used, it's not something that's applied frequently. On ordinary days, after applying the lip balm, she wouldn't immediately drink soup, so the effect was slow to manifest. This time, however, she used chicken soup, and the toxins in the lip balm were ingested along with the food... The rest of the words didn't need to be said.

  "Good, good." Yongzheng sneered coldly. "This lip balm is a special product made for the imperial harem, and yet someone has managed to secretly mix in these poisonous substances... What are the officials of the Imperial Household Department doing? Investigate this for me, I want to know who has the audacity to plot against the imperial descendants."

  The Empress Dowager sat in the Chongqing Palace, not celebrating, after learning that High Concubine had already taken action. She decisively ordered her to clean up the aftermath. At this time, knowing that Dong E's miscarriage was a male fetus, the little regret in her heart also disappeared.

  Yongzheng was not completely unaware, and during this time, Xi Guifei Nian Xialu secretly made things difficult for three pregnant palace maids. In his opinion, it was normal to struggle in the palace where he grew up from a young age. He wouldn't naively think that he could have a peaceful harem, and what's called "no waves" or "peaceful" is just under strict control and discipline. He didn't want his offspring to die again due to the infighting among women for favor, but he also understood that if their mothers couldn't protect them while they were still in the womb, how could they hope for a safe birth and growth?!

  He will provide some protection and convenience, but pregnant concubines also need to have their own means of self-protection! After being the emperor for over a decade, Yongzheng gradually understood this principle. It was precisely because of this that he watched his son grow up slowly through continuous tempering, and thus understood why eagles push their young off cliffs during training, one time after another. If not, how would the young eagles learn to spread their wings and eventually become the masters of the sky? Everything requires a gradual process, too long a trial drives people crazy, while too short a trial leaves them immature. His imperial father Kangxi over-indulged his sons, resulting in intense struggles for succession in his later years, severely impacting court politics. Meanwhile, Yongzheng himself almost went to the other extreme of doing everything for his son...

  The Nian Gengyao family will not be surprised to see him take action, and he won't let others sleep soundly by his side. How can he tolerate threats to his power and position? It's only natural that he would eliminate them in their infancy. Who wouldn't do the same?! However, if this kind of thing happens too many times, he will start to dislike it, especially since his offspring are scarce. The women in the imperial palace - no, I should say the women in the imperial harem - never understand one thing: although there is a saying that "a child brings honor to its mother and a mother brings honor to her child," they always separate children from women in their eyes. He will promote Nian Gengyao to be a noble consort because he values Hongli, but he won't tolerate it indefinitely without limits, just like the deceased empress dowager. And his son is forever his son, with the blood of the Aixinjueluo family flowing through his veins.

  This time's crackdown, Xi Guifei's power that had been greatly developed in her hands over the past two years was largely cut off.

  Hongli and Yunzhu returned to the palace and heard about this matter. Hongli silently sighed, he didn't know how his birth mother could come up with such a foolish move. The emperor was over fifty years old, and he himself had grown in power, even if there were concubines who gave birth to another imperial son, what could they do? Ten or more years later when they grew up, they still wouldn't be his match, why provoke the emperor's dislike for no reason.

  After all, she wasn't born into a noble family, her vision and tolerance weren't broad enough. In the past, with Empress Dowager Chongqing in front of her and Emperor Yongzheng secretly protecting her, it didn't show. Now that she is the highest-ranking concubine in the harem and holds great power in the palace, she can't help but reveal a few flaws... Compared to Yunzhu's widespread praise during the Beijing earthquake in the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, the difference between them is clear.

  Unfortunately, even if Yunzhu was such a good daughter-in-law, Empress Dowager would not be willing to rely on her. On the contrary, she would dislike Yunzhu even more because of this gap. Thinking of this, Hongli felt depressed. Although he hadn't been raised in front of his mother since childhood, he still had filial piety. After all, she was his own birth mother. However, the "motherly love and filial piety" beautiful longing he had for his mother was gradually eroding his feelings.

  Alas.

  "Why don't you go and apologize to the Emperor instead?" Yunzhu covered his hand with hers, smiling as she looked at him. "It's not just you who's troubled, the Emperor is also feeling unwell, and the child in Empress Lu's womb is almost six months old, and it's said to be a prince."

  Hongli also had some power in the palace, but in recent years he has put most of his energy into external affairs and official business. The forces within the palace were still those that Yongzheng had handed over to him at the beginning, so it can be said that he was able to use a portion of Yongzheng's power in the palace, but his own core strength did not develop or expand. This behavior of his conformed to Yongzheng's expectations. If something happened to Lu Chang, it would obviously involve someone taking action - how could they not investigate? Neither Yongzheng nor Hongli would be able to allow other forces to exist in the palace if Xi Guifei had not taken action.

  It's a good thing that there are no other forces in the palace, but as a result of the investigation, although there is no evidence, they are certain that it was done by Xi Guifei, which also brings up a faint sense of disappointment in their hearts.

  Hongli's investigation did not hide Yunzhu, what she knew was also known. But would Yongzheng be unclear about the facts they could know?

  Hongli nodded and held her hand.

  His Empress Dowager, his mother the Empress Dowager Ula Nara, the former Dunsu Huang Guifei, his mother Xi Guifei... These women, whether gentle and kind or dignified and virtuous, or talented and beautiful, or obedient and warm... However, in the inner palace's struggle for power and position, they slowly lost their luster, becoming indistinct. He truly feared that one day, even Yunzhu, whom he wanted to hold tightly in his arms for a lifetime, would also change.

  Sometimes, as long as there is mutual trust, candor will not only not hurt but also bring people closer together, such as the case of Yongzheng and Hongli who went to apologize.

  His "please punish" was also straightforward, done by Xi Guifei. As a son, he couldn't blame his mother, so he came to apologize, "...I'm sorry, Imperial Mother."

  "Get up, your mother is your mother, you are you, how can what she did be blamed on you?" said Yongzheng.

  In fact, there have been countless cases of guilt by association throughout history, especially in royal families.

  The father and son understood each other, but as soon as Hongli came, Yongzheng also knew that Hongli would not take this to heart. Sometimes words are not important, what's important is action. Intuition, a deeper emotion than trust, rationality, clarity to the point of coldness, they can better understand each other's mentality. At this moment, Hongli suddenly became extremely clear, even if his mother had done something heinous, the emperor would not abandon him as his son. Before, he only had a vague feeling about it, but now he was fully convinced.

  This strange feeling made him a little excited, and his eyes were slightly moist. The father who was initially intimidating, cold, gloomy and even somewhat cruel, like a rich tapestry, slowly allowed him to savor many moving contents, while the birth mother he had thought was loving, like a porcelain vase, could not withstand the test of time, making him feel many flaws, gradually becoming somewhat disappointed.

  If there were other crossers, Yunzhu didn't know if that person was also like her, in the depths of their soul, as if there was another self standing on the wind, extremely cold and clear.