Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 108 Daily Summary

Ji Anni didn't want to convince Concubine An, she just thought that it was unfair for her to be regarded as a thorn in the side.

Concubine An did not say anything else, but just walked forward silently.

Imaginary enemy? Who knows?

Even if Ji Anni herself had no intention of competing for the throne, she could not forget the four words "no choice". Especially since she had a prince Ming, and now the prince Ming was the emperor's only heir.

The existence of Prince Ming will inevitably drag Ji Anni into the huge vortex of the struggle for the throne. This is an unavoidable fact.

Although the scenery in the Imperial Garden was beautiful, with flowers in full bloom and orioles singing, Ji Anni was preoccupied and did not enjoy the view to her heart's content. She only hoped that the Queen Mother would end the tour quickly so that she could return to the right courtyard to check on Die'er's injuries.

Walking among the flowers, Ji Anni let out low sighs from time to time.

At this moment, I suddenly smelled a strong floral fragrance. I looked up and saw a garden of peonies competing for beauty. The peonies were as big as a bowl, with plump petals and delicate stamens. The red, pink, yellow and white were densely arranged, showing an almost suffocating majestic atmosphere. Each flower was blooming so hard, looking up brightly, welcoming the beautiful scenery.

Lian Ji Anni couldn't help but be attracted by the beautiful scenery before her and took a deep breath.

At this time, the Queen Mother's voice was heard not far ahead. The Queen Mother lingered among the flowers and said to the Emperor casually, "My son, do you remember the last time you accompanied me to appreciate flowers?"

The emperor thought for a moment and answered very accurately, "Ten days ago."

The Queen Mother's fingertips gently touched the peony petals, a faint smile flashed across her lips, and she said with some emotion: "It has been exactly ten days... Ten days ago, I found that my son was absent-minded when he was appreciating the flowers, and I thought you were missing Zhao Ji, so I allowed you to bring Zhao Ji and Prince Ming into the palace. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, ten days have passed, and Zhao Ji is already your imperial consort."

The emperor didn't quite understand what the empress dowager really wanted to say, so he had to lower his head and not answer.

When Ji Anni heard the empress dowager's topic shift from flower viewing to herself, she couldn't help but prick up her ears nervously.

At this time, the Queen Mother said, "My son, Zhao Ji has only been in the palace for ten days, and you can't wait to make her an imperial concubine. I really want to know, when do you plan to make her a noble concubine?"

The Queen Mother's voice was extremely cold when she said this, with a hint of warning and threat.

The Emperor had not obtained the Empress Dowager's permission when he appointed Zhao Ji as the Imperial Concubine. To put it bluntly, he had acted first and asked for permission later. The Empress Dowager was a little angry when she found out, but after all, the Emperor never joked about his words, and the imperial decree could not be taken back once it was announced, so she had to endure it this time. But now, the Empress Dowager specially invited the Emperor and Ji Anni to the Imperial Garden, intending to demonstrate to Ji Anni.

As expected, after the Queen Mother asked that question, the Emperor had no choice but to say, "Next time before I appoint someone as a concubine, I will definitely consult your opinion."

Upon hearing this, the Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction.

She turned her head and glanced at Ji Anni who was not far behind her. Her eyes were full of warning and contempt, as if to say: Zhao Ji, don't think that you can sit firmly on the throne of queen just because you have charmed the emperor. The emperor has to get my approval before he can appoint anyone as a concubine. This time I let you slip away from my sight and become a royal concubine, but it won't be so easy to be promoted to a noble concubine next time, let alone dream of becoming a queen.

Retracting her gaze, the Queen Mother said to the Emperor, "My son, I told you here ten days ago that if Zhao Ji is both talented and virtuous, I would not object to you making her the Empress. But Your Majesty, what has Zhao Ji done in the ten days since she entered the palace? I don't need me to explain in detail, you should know it, right?"

The emperor pleaded for Ji Anni, "Please forgive her misbehavior, mother, for Zhao Ji is new to the palace and does not know the rules."

The Queen Mother said, "I will not pursue her actions for the past ten days, but from now on, she is no longer a concubine who has just entered the palace, but a royal concubine appointed by the emperor himself. If she dares to make mistakes again, don't blame me for punishing her severely. If anyone pleads for her on the grounds that she is 'new to the palace', don't blame me for being ruthless."

The emperor sighed silently, turned his head slightly, and looked at Ji Anni worriedly.

Ji Anni's eyes wandered around the flowers uncomfortably. She thought it was no wonder that the Queen Mother invited her to appreciate the flowers together, it turned out to be a warning to her.

Ten days ago, it was among these peony flowers that the Queen Mother agreed to the Emperor sending someone to welcome Zhao Ji into the palace.

It was also ten days ago that Ji Anni came into this world.

It was just ten days, but it seemed as long as ten years.

On the first morning, she was still at her grandfather's place in her hometown. On the way to the archery field for practice, she encountered the strange phenomenon of the red moon covering the sun. Surrounded by the red moonlight, she traveled to the world of the Tianyou Holy Dynasty and possessed a woman named "Zhao Ji". Zhao Ji was the wife of the current emperor in distress and had a five-year-old child, Prince Ming. In order to find a way to return to her original world, Ji Anni followed the national teacher Yun Zhen into the palace under the name of Zhao Ji. That night, she attended the banquet prepared for her by the Queen Mother and met the four concubines Bao, An, Gan, and Kang, as well as the Queen Mother's only daughter, Princess Tianning. Due to Tianning's provocation, Ji Anni turned the banquet upside down. After returning to the Concubine Palace in a depressed mood, she met her neighbor, Su Yizhen, the daughter of the county magistrate of Nanhu County.

The next day, the etiquette training for concubines entering the palace officially began. Princess Tianning deliberately made trouble and punished Ji Anni to hold the teacup until dark. She met Hua Rong, a not-so-simple palace maid.

On the third day, Princess Tianning came to the Renhe Hall to make trouble again. This time, she scalded Yizhen with hot tea. Ji Anni finally got angry and beat Tianning with a bamboo whip. That night, both Ji Anni and Tianning were punished to kneel in the Renhe Hall square for a long time.

On the fourth day, Ji Anni was allowed a day off by her aunt because she was caught in the rain the night before and Yizhen had a head burn. Ji Anni brought Yizhen to the West Palace to visit Baogui Concubine, who enthusiastically gave them a pair of pearl hairpins.

On the fifth day, during the training in Renhe Hall, Liu Yingying from the West Concubine Hall picked a fight and bullied Yizhen. Fortunately, Shui Furong stepped in to teach Liu Yingying a lesson. Then the Queen Mother appeared and announced that from now on, all 30 concubines from the East and West Concubines Halls would be under the supervision of Yanniang. Yanniang used to be the Queen Mother's personal maid, but after leaving the palace three years ago, she ran a brothel in the capital. Zhaoji was taken in by Yanniang before she entered the palace.

On the sixth day, Shui Furong asked Yanniang to move into a room that was once haunted. Yanniang took her to meet the Queen Mother, and the etiquette training was temporarily cancelled. On the way to Xianke Pavilion to find Yunzhen to discuss how to deal with Yanniang, Ji Anni heard two secrets about Baogui Concubine from Lai De. Later, she asked Yunzhen for some demon-removing incense to ward off evil spirits, but she couldn't get used to the strange smell of the incense.

On the seventh day, Ji Anni was dragged by Princess Tianning to participate in a hunting meeting, and was shot in the shoulder. When she woke up, she found herself lying in the emperor's bedroom. In the end, she lied that she was poisoned and lost part of her memory, and finally got away with it.

On the eighth day, Ji Anni went to the Imperial Horse Courtyard to investigate the truth about the poisoned arrow. She found a poisonous stinger under the hoof of the black horse Wunie, which was about to be killed. She impulsively ran to the East Palace to warn Concubine An not to play dirty tricks. After returning to the Concubine Palace, she saw Princess Tianning actually giving her medicine.

On the ninth day, Tian Ning came early in the morning to announce that the palace maids had been replaced and that Ji Anni would be given two days of special etiquette training.

On the tenth day, Ji Anni successfully escaped Princess Tianning's devilish training with a deck of homemade playing cards, but she was unable to attend the dinner held in Xuantian Palace that night because she was looking for a name tag. But even if she didn't hand in a name tag, she was still named by the emperor and taken to the bedroom.

On the eleventh day, she was named imperial concubine when she woke up and moved to the right courtyard. However, she had a big fight with Concubine An because of Die'er. Fortunately, the matter finally came to an end.

Looking back on my experience over the past ten days, it was truly a turbulent time with tears and laughter, bitterness and sweetness.

But the future is longer, Ji Anni took a deep breath, told herself not to be afraid, and to keep going with her head held high.

Looking at the beautiful peonies blooming in full bloom in the garden, the image of the withering peonies in autumn somehow emerged in my mind.

These peonies only have a few short months left in their blooming season, and in autumn they will all wither away.

I guess by then, the broken petals in this peony garden will cover the entire ground, right?

After the autumn is established, the autumn flowers will fall - it always feels like a bad sign.