After having sex with a fake eunuch, I became the queen

When Ji Ning was in his mother's womb, he was already a rare treasure. Empress Xiao ordered people to protect him in all aspects. He was never short of people to take care of him since he was born. He was surrounded by wet nurses, palace maids and eunuchs since he was a child.

But because of Empress Xiao, anyone who could be called close to him could not stay for long. For example, the wet nurse who had fed him and the palace maid who liked to play games with him were all expelled from the palace after being held accountable by Xiao Qian for unfounded crimes. The reason was simple: the person closest to the young crown prince could only be his grandmother, and there could be no other person.

Therefore, the palace maids and eunuchs who served Ji Ning were very tactful and kept a distance from him. They just performed their duties as servants respectfully and never dared to overstep their boundaries and "compete for favor" with the empress dowager.

As a grandmother, Xiao Qian spends all her time thinking about how to secure her throne and how to scheme and calculate. How could she have the time to care about whether her grandson had an unhappy childhood or whether he had someone to accompany him?
In her opinion, passing on the painstakingly earned imperial power to this heir was the highest form of favor to him.

Therefore, since Ji Ning was a child, he has been surrounded by only a few respectful palace maids and the empress dowager who was busy with state affairs and rarely seen. Deep in his young heart, there has always been a desire to be close to people that he had no place to place.

Even though I later made several playmates in Shangshu Hall and had the company of people of my age, the feeling of loss became even stronger because my classmates often mentioned their parents in their conversations.

"The sweet-scented osmanthus cake I ate yesterday was too sweet. Mom said she accidentally sprinkled too much sweet-scented osmanthus sugar on it."

"Let me see what's embroidered on your new handkerchief?" "Oh, what a beautiful little koi fish!" "Isn't it pretty? My mother embroidered it for me!"

"On the Qingming Festival, my father took me for an outing. I saw a kite flying in the sky that looked like a giant reptile. It was so huge!"

"The Dragon Boat Festival is coming up in a few days. My father said he would take us brothers to the viewing platform to watch the dragon boat race that day."

Every time Ji Ning heard such talk, she was so angry that she wanted to cover her ears - you guys are doing this on purpose, right? You are showing off that you have a father and a mother in front of me, right?

In addition to being angry, he also felt a sense of inferiority: Even though he was born with royal power and status, and even though those children were all subject to him, why did he feel that he was inferior to any of them!
But the young crown prince Ji Ning was still very cultured. He would always "swallow his anger" calmly and not bother with these ignorant little ministers, because the Taifu had said that sages value tolerance and magnanimity - as a future king, he must have the magnanimity and cultivation of a king and not be petty.

One day during the break, the young master of the Honglu Temple was talking about all sorts of topics, not caring at all about the feelings of the young crown prince Ji Ning under the "cat ban order": "Yesterday was my birthday, and my mother gave me a hydrangea dog as a birthday gift. The dog is very well-behaved and cute. When it runs on the ground, it looks like a furry hydrangea rolling. When you hold it in your arms, it's as soft as a cotton ball, and it can also keep you warm!"

Ji Ning had neither a father nor a mother, and the Empress Dowager did not allow him to keep cats or dogs. Naturally, he was very angry when he heard this, and thought angrily in his heart: If my mother were still alive, she would definitely give me a cute kitten.

Perhaps it was because he thought about it during the day and dreamed about it at night. After he had such an idea during the day, he had a related dream that night - Ji Ning dreamed that his mother gave him a little black cat, saying that it was to congratulate him on his ascension to the throne and becoming the new king. The little black cat looked exactly like the "Crown Princess".

My mother in the dream had a kind smile on her face. She looked at me with gentle eyes, and her voice was as sweet as singing.

It was not the first time that Ji Ning had dreamed of his mother, but the face of his mother that appeared in his dreams in the past was always different. Her eyes, nose, and eyebrows were like the lines in a meticulous painting, very flat and without any three-dimensional sense.

Perhaps it was because the appearance of his mother in his mind was only imagined based on a few portraits he had seen. The facial features in those portraits were only depicted with a few strokes and were very thin, unable to support him in imagining a face with flesh and blood.

However, the face of my mother that appeared in my dream yesterday was clear, three-dimensional, and lifelike. That face belonged to no one else but the palace maid who gave him the title of "Crown Princess".

Perhaps it was because the woman once gave him a kitten, which coincided with his imagination of his mother, and he had such an association, but he felt that this association was not abrupt, but rather appropriate - the woman had a picturesque face, and when she spoke to him she always had a calm and gentle smile on her face, and her face was full of kindness, which was exactly the face of his mother that he had been trying hard to sketch in his mind, but could never draw.

From then on, Ji Ning's imagination of his mother was no longer vague and weak, but flesh and blood, vivid and specific, and turned into Qiao Wan'er's voice, appearance and smile. Even the mother who appeared in his dreams looked like Qiao Wan'er.

Qiao Wan'er had become the incarnation of his mother in his eyes.

He regretted that he forgot to ask the maid who gave him the kitten that day, and he didn't even know which police station she was from. So, he didn't know how to find such a woman in such a big palace, and he just hoped that he would have a chance to meet her again.

Later, whenever a strange palace maid appeared, he would pay close attention to see if he could run into her again. Even at his own coronation ceremony, he stared at the palace maids with wide eyes, but he never ran into this woman again.

It was not until that day when he used a telescope on the city wall to clearly see the face of the female prisoner on the guillotine - the Qiao Wan'er who killed Xu Shixin turned out to be the incarnation of his mother, whom he had always hoped to see again and who often appeared in his dreams.

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Empress Dowager Xiao Qian is fifty-four years old this year. She pays great attention to maintenance and nourishment on weekdays. Although her complexion is fair and rosy, the wrinkles on her face that show "working hard for the country" make her look like a person nearly seventy years old. She was also a beautiful and elegant woman when she was young. After years of hardships, the malice born out of greed in her heart has not only been inflicted on many innocent people, but also imprinted on her own face like scratches.

Inside the Mingxin Hall of Emperor Qizhen, the wrinkled-faced Empress Dowager was sitting upright on a dragon-head chair. She wore a phoenix crown with auspicious clouds on her head and a specially made bright yellow court dress with a phoenix pattern inlaid with gold and jade. The phoenix pattern on the dress was embroidered with gold thread, and the pattern was very peculiar. No matter how you looked at it, it gave the feeling of a coiled dragon - women in the harem did not have court dresses originally. Empress Dowager Xiao not only made a special court dress for herself, but also ordered people to embroider the phoenix dancing on the dress to look like a flying dragon, as if she regarded herself as the emperor.

"Wuuu, wuuu, I don't want to withdraw the order to withdraw the execution. No, no means no! Wuuu!" The little emperor Ji Ning, who was originally sitting on a chair listening to his grandmother's lecture, began to cry and howl as he listened. Finally, he simply gave up the chair and sat on the floor to protest against his grandmother's request for him to withdraw the order to withdraw the execution.

Xiao Qian looked at his grandson who was crying and dancing in front of him. His brows were twisted into a "small hill" and his face was as gloomy as the dark clouds before a storm. He did not say anything for a long time.

Seeing this, the palace maids around were all afraid to breathe - if the person making trouble was not the Empress Dowager's beloved grandson, she would not have been able to suppress it for so long without exploding. If the old woman exploded, who would be the one to suffer the next second?

Finally, the old eunuch Yu Fu, who was beside Ji Ning, walked up to the young emperor and comforted him with a few words, then tried to help him up. But the little guy probably had no intention of getting up because his goal had not been achieved. He put all his strength into hanging himself like a weight and refused to leave the ground.

Yu Fu was afraid of hurting the dragon's body, so he naturally didn't dare to use too much force. When he saw that he couldn't help him up, he stopped and could only stand by the side helplessly. When he saw that the little emperor was crying so hard that snot bubbles came out of his nose, he quickly took out a silk handkerchief to wipe his nose. After wiping the snot, he felt that the tears also needed to be wiped, so he continued to wipe them with one of his sleeves.

It turned out that the Empress Dowager had been worried about the rebellion in Wangyang for a whole day, and before she could come to her senses, she was shocked by a piece of news that made her frown - the little grandson of the emperor pardoned the palace maid who killed Xu Shixin, brought her back to Mingxin Palace from the execution ground, and wanted to make her the chief maid in front of the palace.

The shock this news brought to Empress Xiao was no less than the urgent news of rebellion.

Although Xiao Qian himself was a murderer by nature, he found it extremely unbelievable that a palace maid could secretly possess a weapon and kill someone. This was probably what is meant by "the officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps." What's more, this woman committed treason and killed the chief eunuch.

She had been in power for many years, and her obsession with power was unmatched. What she could not tolerate most was someone daring to challenge her authority. So in her opinion, even if this palace maid named Qiao Wan'er had a million reasons to do this, it was absolutely unforgivable and must be punished with death.

But the reason why he was later sentenced to beheading was due to the strong advocacy of Fan Mingchu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Xu Shixin was in charge of the Inner Court Office, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, he was spoiled and arrogant, and liked to take advantage of his seniority. He never took Fan Mingchu, the superior, seriously, and would bypass him and report directly to Empress Xiao. Fan Mingchu had always disliked him and was also resentful of his misconduct, but because Empress Xiao protected him, she could not deal with him. Now this man finally shot himself in the foot, and Lord Fan was naturally very happy, so he took the opportunity to advise Empress Xiao to "leniency" in dealing with the murderer.

In the end, Empress Xiao adopted Fan Mingchu's suggestion of "using less death penalty in the palace and practicing benevolent policies to seek stability in this life and blessings in the next life", compromised her original idea, and approved the beheading order for the murderer.

But who would have thought that this palace maid, who in her opinion deserved no pity to die, was actually pardoned on the spot by Ji Ning, who was there to watch the execution, and was even brought back to Mingxin Palace.

How can such a person stay with the little grandson of the emperor!

(End of this chapter)