Chapter 746 – Love and Hate

Xu Qi’an handed the filly over to the feathered guards and went straight into the palace, heading to the forbidden part of the palace, the Harem, in a dignified manner.

Harem used to be a forbidden place for men, that is, the palace guards can not get close to, can be active in the harem only women and eunuchs.

But now, the harem was a place for Xu Qi’an to enter and leave whenever she wanted, and she didn’t have to be afraid of the next emperor’s anger.

The next emperor, even if he was angry, was angry for another reason.

“Then again, with a phenomenon like this frequent change of emperors, the harem would more than likely turn chaotic as well, it’s a good thing that Emperor Yongxing has only been emperor for less than three months, and Huaiqing is a woman again.”

Thinking of the beautiful warblers and swallows in the harem, Xu Qi’an thought of this problem for no reason.

It could be said responsibly that if the world was at peace after Emperor Yongxing ascended to the throne, then it wouldn’t take long for those concubines left behind by Yuan Jing to become Yongxing’s playthings.

It’s even become.

When the cause of the case of Fu Fei, is not Yongxing drink a little wine, and then was Fu Fei Palace of the little palace girl invited over “guest”, which has been followed by the case of Fu Fei.

To say that Yongxing had no thoughts about this father’s consort, Xu Qi’an did not believe it.

In the Harem, probably only the Empress Dowager and Noble Consort Chen, two beings of supreme status, could be spared from such a fate.

And if the one who ascends to the throne this time is not Huaiqing, but the fourth prince, then the consorts in Yongxing’s harem, the young and beautiful ones, will surely have a hard time escaping from the mold and become the new ruler’s toys.

Similar examples in history books are not uncommon. It is commonplace for an emperor to rob his daughter-in-law, his brother-in-law, his sister-in-law, his father’s woman, and so on.

Soon arriving at Jingxiu Palace, the old eunuch guarding the door trembled and said with a trembling voice line:

“Xu, Xu Yinluo please go to the inner hall for a moment, slave, slave girl to inform the imperial consort ……..”

When this Transcendent Martial Man nodded his head, the eunuch lowered his head and didn’t dare to breathe as he led the way ahead.

Xu Qi’an entered the inner hall and had just sat down when the eunuch went and returned, groveling:

“The Crown Princess invited Xu Yinluo to speak in the house.”

Xu Qi’an immediately got up without letting the eunuchs lead the way, breezing around the front yard and arriving at the elegant little courtyard where Dowager Consort Chen lived.

The yard wasn’t that big, with a few bare trees planted on the south side, flower beds by the trees, a small pond with turtles and koi carp on the west side, and an overall red-painted two-story building on the north side.

The courtyard was empty, no palace maid or eunuch was busy.

Xu Qi’an crossed the small courtyard, stepped over the threshold, and saw the mother and daughter sitting on the soft collapse in the parlor.

There was no one else in the room except for one of Lin An’s personal courtesans.

Chen Taifei is as beautiful as ever, complicated hair buns, inserted with gorgeous headdresses, wearing well-tailored and finely crafted brocade clothes, more than forty years old, the corners of the eyes have shallow crow’s feet, but does not detract from the posture.

Instead, it has a special, indescribable charm.

It is because of this face value that the inner charming and sentimental Lin’an was born, and Yongxing’s appearance is also good.

Lin An is dressed in a red dress with embroidered gold threads, gorgeous and reserved, her goose egg face is dignified, but her peach blossom eyes are charming and sentimental, and she is dressed exquisitely and gorgeously, and the room is full of splendor.

Both mother and daughter had red eyes and seemed to cry profusely.

Seeing Xu Qi’an come in, hatred flashed in Tai Concubine Chen’s eyes, while Lin’an was aggravated and pained, softly glancing at him with moist eyes as she looked away.

“Greetings to the Dowager Consort.”

Xu Qi’an made a bow.

“I dare not!” Crown Princess Chen took a deep breath, and with a cold face, she faintly said:

“Xu Yinluo proud of the Central Plains, a word can dominate the imperial power change, this official is just a woman, can not afford to Xu Yinluo such a great gift.”

“What does the Dowager Consort want with me?” Xu Qi’an asked bluntly.

Crown Princess Chen didn’t say anything and glanced at Lin An.

Prosper pursed his lips and said nothing.

Chen Taifei’s eyes suddenly sharp, viciously glaring at her, Lin An tears “swish” gushed out, sobbing:

“Ning Banquet, you, why are you doing this to Emperor Brother.”

Teardrops snapped and rolled down.

She was like a little girl who had been betrayed and abandoned by the one she loved, with nothing to do but cry helplessly, soft and pitiful.

Crown Princess Chen followed suit, pinching her handkerchief and wiping her tears as she cried:

“When you were still a gong back then, Lin An treated you with her heart and lungs, pleading with the late emperor on your behalf, gold and silver pills, not skimping on what she could give, and this palace still remembers when she begged the late emperor for dan to heal your wounds.

“Who would have thought that, in the blink of an eye, you would treat her like this, your Xu family was also in a difficult time, and now that you’ve made a name for yourself, you’re abandoning the people who treated you with sincerity in the first place as if they were worn out. Your heart is not iron stone?”

As soon as Lin An heard this, he became more and more distressed.

Crown Princess Chen cried:

“This palace knows that Yongxing has lost his power, and does not ask for anything, but only remembers that you will let us, mother and son, leave for the sake of Lin’an. This palace knows that you will say that you can watch over Yongxing and save his life.

“But Huaiqing has been holding back for many years and is ruthless and will definitely not let Yongxing go, and it’s not like you’ll be staying in the capital from time to time. Even if she secretly kills Yongxing, what can you do?”

Said the man, crying out:

“I have only one son, and if he dies, I won’t live.”

She wasn’t crying for Xu Qi’an, she was crying for Lin An.

This move is useless to Xu Qi’an, but to Lin’an, it can be described as a blow through the heart, after all, the love of flesh and blood can not be cut off, looking at the usual status of noble mother so lowly, Lin’an tearful eyes look at Xu Qi’an:

“I, I know I’m useless and can’t compare to Huaiqing, but Xu Ningyan, can you spare the Emperor’s brother for the sake of previous love?”

Xu Qi’an looked at Lin An’s face, at the eyes that were filled with tears, and asked:

“What if I don’t say yes!”

The light in Lin An’s eyes went out, she didn’t speak, didn’t overreact emotionally, just lowered her head.

The palace maid by her side had never seen Her Highness so humble before, indignantly glaring at Xu Qi’an before wiping a tear from her heart.

His Highness has fed his heart to the dogs.

Xu Qi’an continued:

“If Da Feng is left in Yong Xing’s hands, it will perish sooner or later, and if I tell you that once Da Feng perishes, I will follow in death. Would you still let me release Yongxing.”

Advent looked up in consternation.

She was unaware of the fact that the Great Feng had perished and Xu Qi’an had been martyred.

Crown Princess Chen saw the needles and sobbed:

“Now that he is no longer the Emperor, why do you still refuse to show mercy.”

Xu Qi’an kindly laughed:

“Take Yongxing and leave the capital, then call for armies from all over the country to rebel in the name of eradicating the rebel party, that’s what Taffy Chen is playing at, isn’t it?”

Crown Princess Chen’s flowery face lost its color, quickly recovered, and cried:

“Lin An, he’s trying to put your brother to death.”

“Enough!” Xu Qi’an frowned and chided:

“Mrs. Chen, do you think that I won’t kill you with Lin An around? I can even kill Jeanne d’Arc, let alone you. Originally, I wanted to save some face for you in front of Lin An, but since you gave your face away.

“Then I don’t have to worry about anything.”

He whirled around to look at Prosperity and spoke softly:

“Do you want to know your mother’s true colors?”

Advent froze.

“Tai Consort Chen, the case of Concubine Fu was masterminded by you, using the Crown Prince as a bitter trick to draw out the absurdities of the State Uncle’s year, with the ostensible aim of bringing down the Empress Dowager. But the real goal was actually to make Wei Yuan and Yuan Jing tear their faces apart.

“Once Yuan Jing moves the Empress Dowager, Wei Yuan will definitely not sit back and watch. If two tigers fight, one will be injured, no matter who wins or loses, it’s all good for someone.

“This is not a ploy you can come up with, what is your relationship with Xu Pingfeng?”

Hearing the words “Xu Pingfeng” from his mouth, Mrs. Chen’s face changed drastically.

She quickly calmed down and put on a pathetic front:

“What Xu Pingfeng, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Xu Pingfeng is one of the leaders of the chaotic party in Yunzhou, and Taffy Chen colluded with the chaotic party, this is to be lynched.” Xu Qi’an said quietly.

Crown Princess Chen pointedly said:

“Nonsense, Xu Yinluo forced my son to abdicate, and now even my old body is going to drive me to extinction.”

Xu Qi’an, however, ignored her and looked at Lin An, explaining:

“When I first investigated this case, Jingxiu Palace district a palace girl, will be able to in my qi lookout technique of art to muddle through, because she has a shielding qi number of magic weapons.

“Surely the Divine Constabulary wouldn’t have given this kind of magic weapon to your mother, so where did the magic weapon on the little courtesan of Jingxiu Palace come from?

“And then when you think about the target that the case of Concubine Fu is really pointing at, Lin An, you think about it, Wei Yuan and Yuan Jing are breaking up, no matter who wins or loses, who will benefit? The Yunzhou rebels are happy to see it happen.”

Prosper looked at his mother in consternation.

Crown Princess Chen said angrily:

“Don’t believe him, it’s not enough for him to harm your brother, he even wants to deal with me, Lin An, my daughter, why is your life so bitter.”

Xu Qi’an sneered:

“I haven’t finished yet, Ji Yuan has already explained that during the peace talks, you had privately sent people to contact him, hoping that he would be magnanimous. He thus extracted quite a bit of information from you about the royal family, about me and Lin An.

“What makes you, a dowager princess who lives deep in the harem, think that the Yunzhou Mission will give you a few moments?”

He was almost certain that Taffy Chen was Xu Pingfeng’s undercover agent, but after all, he didn’t have 100% proof yet, so he didn’t say anything.

A mature shutterbug would never put out a guess, because if it goes wrong, it instead allows the offender to feel your depth and make a misdirection.

“The answer is already clear as day, is there any point in your sophistry, needing me to say it in front of Lin An?” Xu Qi’an looked as if she held the truth in her hands.

As he said this, he silently unleashed the power of his heart compulsion to influence Tai Consort Chen’s emotions, tickling her desire to confess, vent and tell.

With his current heart compulsion cultivation, guiding the mind of an ordinary woman was without difficulty.

“Mother consort, is he, is he telling the truth?” Lin An looked at his mother incredulously.

Affected by the heart compulsion, Mrs. Chen’s face changed and suddenly screamed:

“Shut up!

“None of the men in your Xu family are good.

“Your father swore to me back then that he would not marry me, and twisted his head to encourage my father to send me to the palace.

“Over the years, he viewed me as a pawn, and after draining me of all value, he rose up in Yunzhou to seize my son’s throne.”

…….. Xu Qi’an’s expression froze for a moment, briefly actually not knowing what expression to use in response.

He thought that Taffy Chen was Xu Pingfeng’s undercover agent, and this guess was correct, but he did not realize that there was a layer of identity beyond the undercover agent.

Prosper forgot to cry as well, and froze as she looked at her mother.

“And you!”

Dowager Consort Chen gritted her teeth, ”You bitchy bastard of Xu Pingfeng, your father has wronged me, and now you’re coming to wrong my daughter. If it weren’t for His Majesty’s need to rely on you, would I have agreed to marry Lin An to you?

“Now that you’ve forced Yongxing to abdicate, you won’t be able to marry Lin’an as long as this palace is alive.”

“Mother, mother consort what did you say ah ……..” Lin An choked:

“How did this happen, how did ……”

She never expected her mother to be an old flame of her fiancé’s father.

Xu Pingfeng left the capital twenty one years ago and decided to regicide, before that, Lin An had already been born, and at that time, Yuan Jing was almost at the node of cultivation …….. Xu Qi An sank in his heart and did not move:

“Lin An was born to you and Xu Pingfeng?”

Back then, with Xu Pingfeng’s cultivation means, the possibility of success was extremely high if he wanted to cheat with Dowager Consort Chen. The Supervisor Zheng might not care about this crap either, of course, if Emperor Yongxing was Xu Pingfeng’s seed, then the Supervisor Zheng could not possibly let him become the Crown Prince.

So while Emperor Yongxing is definitely of royal blood, Lin’an is not, as she is a princess and has no business being on the throne.

And although Lin’an is burdened with purple qi, qi is something that is both innate and brought about later in life.

If a rash person claims to be an emperor, then he is a purple qi plus body, similarly, Lin An has been a princess for more than twenty years, even if she is not a royal bloodline, she is also a purple qi plus body.

Therefore, qigong can only look at the number of chi and cannot do paternity tests.

Crown Princess Chen let out a “bah”:

“And he deserves it?”

Whew, that s good that s good ……… Xu Qi An was relieved, and he saw that Lin An was also relieved.

“How did you contact him.” Xu Qi’an asked.

“There was someone he arranged in Jingxiu Palace, but I drowned her after learning of Yunzhou’s rebellion.” Tai Consort Chen viciously said.

At this time, the effects of the heart compulsion passed, and Dowager Concubine Chen revealed a flash of bewilderment.

–What did I say?

“Advent, come with me.”

Xu Qi’an grabbed Little Red Dress’s hand and pulled her outside.

The little red dress followed suit, with mixed feelings.

“You can’t take her. …….”

Tai Concubine Chen rose up in a prancing manner and attempted to stop it, but two chakras struck her knees in a subtle manner.

Both knees weakened, followed by severe pain, and Taffy Chen fell to the ground.

She screamed, “Xu Qi’an, don’t even think about marrying my daughter, I will not agree to your marriage even if I die.”

Prosper subconsciously turned around and cried out:

“Mother Consort ……..”

Xu Qi’an forcefully pulled her away.

After leaving the Jingxiu Palace, Lin An broke away from his hand, keeping a more distant distance from him, and walked in silence through the deep inner court of the palace.

Xu Qi’an said softly after a slight pause:

“I told you that my father was a second grade warlock who stole the Great Feng’s national fortune through the Battle of Shanhaiguan and hid it in me.

“But I didn’t tell you that I am linked to the fate of Da Feng, and if the country is destroyed, I will die. So I must save Da Feng, both for the sake of the people and the people’s lives, and for self-preservation.

“Yongxing’s virtue is not worthy of his position, and in his hands, Daewong is doomed to perish ……….”

He glanced at Lin An, saw that she was cold as ice, detached and indifferent, and smiled bitterly:

“Forget it.

“I still have things to take care of, so I won’t send Your Highness back to Shaoyin Palace.”

Advent still didn’t respond.

Xu Qi’an took a step back and disappeared into shadows.

As soon as he left, Lin An’s body immediately went limp, stumbled, and slowly shriveled up holding onto the wall, she leaned her back against the red wall, hugged her knees, and bawled her eyes out.

………..

Jingxiu Palace.

Crown Princess Chen sat paralyzed on the soft collapse, gritting her teeth and holding onto the coffee table as she muttered:

“You’ll never marry Lin An, never; you wouldn’t dare to kill me, just as you wouldn’t kill Yong Xing, and I won’t let you as long as I’m around.”

She would never let Prosper marry the man who forced her son to abdicate.

She was unable to do anything about Xu Qi An, but Lin An was her daughter, she was too familiar with her, and there were ways to get back at Xu Qi An through Lin An.

At that moment, there were heckling sounds from outside the courtyard:

“Who are you people that dare to trespass on Jingxiu Palace ……..”

The chortling immediately turned into screams of misery.

Tai Concubine Chen sat up holding the coffee table and looked out of the room, and at that exact moment, an old eunuch walked in.

“It’s you!”

Crown Princess Chen recognized this as a eunuch from Fengqi Palace at a glance and faintly said:

“What are you doing here, strutting your stuff for your master?”

The old eunuch shook his head and said respectfully:

“The old slave was ordered by the Eldest Princess to come over to serve Mrs. Chen.

“Her Highness the Eldest Princess has asked the old slave to bring some gifts over.”

He shrilled:

“Bring it up.”

Two small eunuchs stepped into the room, each holding a tray with two items in it:

White damask and a jug of wine.

The old eunuch laughed:

“Her Highness the Eldest Princess said that she hadn’t thought of which of these two things to bestow, and that they existed in Jingxiu Palace first.

“The day the Dowager Princess makes a scene and has no more attachment to the world of men, she will choose one from here and leave in a decent manner.”

Tai Fei Chen looked at the white silk and hemlock, her face pale.

Xu Qi’an wouldn’t kill him, but Huaiqing would.

………..

By the palace wall, Lin An tired of crying, holding the wall to get up, unexpectedly feet numb, a stumble, almost fell.

Luckily, someone rushed to hold on.

She had thought it was a personal palace maid, and when she turned her head, she saw Xu Qi’an, who had gone and returned.

He wore azure colored fancy clothes, his handsome face had little expression, but there was helplessness and pain in his eyes.

Advent looked away.

The next moment, she was picked up in a cross-armed hug, his soft laughter ringing in her ears:

“Where we come from, this is called a princess hug, in name only.”

Prosper buried his face in his chest and choked out a sob:

“I hate you.”

“Hate it! The more you hate me, the less you’ll leave me.”

A gust of wind blew, the green and red dresses inspired with the wind, and the two of them walked along the long and quiet palace wall, fading away.

………

PS: 4800 words as compensation for the late shift. Typos will be corrected tomorrow.