Chapter 1923: Chapter 1861: A Deposed Empress Needs a Reason

In winter, night fell quickly, and the food sent to Kunning Palace was still cold and hard.

The trusted Palace Matron of Empress Song brought the food box into the bedchamber and saw Empress Song standing and copying scriptures, feeling a pang in her heart.

"Your Majesty, the meal has arrived." The Palace Matron placed the food box on the small table beside the charcoal brazier, thinking that it might at least become somewhat warm.

Empress Song walked over and took a look, her face instantly darkened. The vegetable leaves were all dry, interspersed with a few thin shreds of meat, and when she used chopsticks to poke at the coarse flour bun, it was so hard they couldn’t penetrate.

Crash.

Empress Song threw the food to the ground in anger: "These fools, they go too far."

She was merely under house arrest, but as the days passed, the Emperor showed no intention of lifting the restriction, and the meals they sent became increasingly worse.

Now, there were only coarse, hard buns and a few dry leaves.

This was outrageous. She was the rightful empress, even if confined, she still held the Gold Phoenix Seal, and wasn’t deposed and sent to the Cold Palace.

How dare they, how dare they treat her like this!

Seeing Empress Song’s fury, the Palace Matron cautiously said, "Your Majesty, the small kitchen has also run out of fresh fruits and vegetables."

In other words, if she overthrew the food and didn’t eat, she would have to go hungry.

It wasn’t hard to understand, in this deep palace, the last thing that was lacking were people who followed the trend.

Empress Song gave her a cold look and said, "Go get two pieces of gold ornaments, and let the people guarding outside trade for some fresh meat and vegetables for me. Let’s cook on our own." She glanced at the brazier, touched her arm, and said, "Tell them to bring more silver wire charcoal, it’s too cold in this hall."

Consort Lan and Consort Xian, those two lowly women, dared to withhold Kunning Palace’s allowances in their glee, were they so sure she wouldn’t rise again?

Lowly women, when she rises again, she’ll make those two look good!

Empress Song gritted her teeth, asking, "Isn’t it almost the first day of the month?"

The Palace Matron replied, "Tomorrow is the first day."

Empress Song took a deep breath, enduring it for now. She touched her abdomen, turned back slowly to the desk, and resumed copying the Heart Sutra.

...

Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Mo listened to Nanny Shui talk about the situation in Kunning Palace, saying nothing for a long time.

Nanny Shui couldn’t fathom her thoughts for the moment, and dared not say anything more.

"The women in this palace are all pitiful," Empress Dowager Mo said, removing the armor cover from her fingers, and fiddling with the incense burning in a gilded, red-jeweled Peony Incense Burner on the small table, "The harem is like the battlefield, sometimes even more brutal than a battlefield. Who wins and who loses depends on whose strategy is superior, who holds the advantage. If one loses, there’s nothing to pity, all it means is their skills were inferior."

"Your Majesty, will the Empress just be confined forever? Will she be let go?" Nanny Shui asked.

Empress Dowager Mo shook her head: "Don’t you know what kind of person the Emperor is? How could he allow himself to be played for a fool by others? He could harden his heart even towards his three-year-old son, let alone a mere Empress?"

Besides, that Empress was the mother of the child he killed, and she clearly wanted revenge, would he let her go out of guilt?

Impossible!

"But the Emperor hasn’t deposed her..."

Empress Dowager Mo lifted her head and said, "Deposing an Empress requires a reason, and what reasons are there now that can justify it?"

Nanny Shui’s heart shuddered a little, naturally, there wasn’t any. Killing a child and disgracing a mother, no Emperor would dare admit or confess such a thing.

"Just wait." Empress Dowager Mo lowered her eyes, the Emperor would eventually find a suitable and rightful reason.

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