Chapter 3162 Harem 24

Empress Liu saw that Empress Dowager Yu was causing trouble for her, and as expected, she really didn't dare to cause trouble for Empress Dowager Yu - because at this moment, Empress Liu was already in trouble, and she was not in the mood to confront Empress Dowager Yu. .

It turned out that the emperor heard that Empress Liu had imprisoned An Ran. Although he did not dare to say anything due to the power of Liu Shoufu, he was obviously angry because he knew that Empress Liu was up to her old tricks again. As long as he favored her, She would cause trouble for any concubine.

If An Ran hadn't come from a background with the Queen Mother, given how favored she was, she would have been beaten to death by Empress Liu on charges of misconduct in front of the emperor.

It's just that Yu Anran is the niece of the Empress Dowager. Empress Liu didn't dare to be so simple and rude, but she didn't want to see Anran continue to be favored, so she found a reason to lock Anran up, thinking that after being separated from her for a long time, he would If you don’t like Yu Anran anymore, you won’t be favored by Anran in the future.

——The emperor guessed that they were inseparable. Empress Liu really felt that if they were separated, the emperor would lose interest in An Ran over time.

It's just that Empress Liu misguessed the reason why the emperor loved An Ran, so it would not be useful to open the door again. On the contrary, it would arouse the emperor's rebellious psychology. The more he expressed his love for An Ran, the more he wanted to express his love for An Ran, in order to irritate Empress Liu. .

In addition, the emperor was right. If An Ran was not the niece of Queen Mother Yu, but a concubine raised from a commoner woman, she would have been beaten to death by Queen Liu.

In the past, the emperor felt that he wanted to support a commoner woman to rise to power. A commoner woman had no background and could only rely on his favor, so she would definitely be loyal to him and more reliable.

As a result, every time, before he could express his love for the other party, Queen Liu would find a reason to physically eliminate him.

So this time, he changed his approach and supported Yu Anran, who had a background, to rise to power. It turned out to be really useful. Although he could not guarantee that the other party would be loyal to him, at least he was not dead yet.

The emperor was angry with Empress Liu for what she did, but he didn't dare to say anything to her. He could only use the excuse of being busy with state affairs and stopped coming to her palace, not even on the customary days like the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. .

The emperor didn't blame her for anything, but he just ignored her. This made Empress Liu, who had been going smoothly in the palace and even the emperor wanted to give in to her, began to feel uncomfortable and even anxious.

But she couldn't let her father put pressure on the emperor to come to her palace.

Although if she really asks her father to do this, the emperor may really come, but what she wants is not that the emperor is forced to come to her palace by her father, but to come to her palace voluntarily. Because of feelings, even if the emperor is forced by her father She was forced to come, but she couldn't do anything if they ignored her. And this was not what she wanted to see. She didn't want to be disgusted by the emperor.

When Empress Liu was anxious, she was naturally not in the mood to care about whether the Queen Mother Yu would cause trouble for her. After all, she had more important things to solve here, so she couldn't care less about making trouble for the Queen Mother Yu over there.

In order to ease the conflict with the emperor, Empress Liu also went to the emperor specifically and asked aggrievedly if she had imprisoned An Ran. The emperor was unhappy.

The emperor naturally said no. After all, if she wanted to say yes, Empress Liu would definitely give a lot of reasons. He was too lazy to listen, so naturally he would not be stupid enough to say yes.

But even if he didn't say it was because of this, Empress Liu knew that the emperor was unhappy because of this, so she still said the same words to the Empress Dowager Yu again. She was just telling the emperor to discipline An Ran. She was justified in confining her because she was incompetent.

After hearing this, the emperor said impatiently: "I told you that it has nothing to do with Zhaoyi. It's just that I have too many things to do and I don't have time to go to you. Why are you so worried about it?"

The emperor said this and looked impatient. Empress Liu was at a loss and immediately wanted to release An Ran so that she could repair the relationship with the emperor. Although doing so was actually a slap in the face and made the palace people laugh. , but in order to repair the relationship with the emperor, she could only do this.

In the end, the emperor said: "You handled it right. There is no need to release it, just keep it there like that."

She didn't know that the emperor usually didn't want to go to her place, but he couldn't find a suitable excuse not to go. He was afraid that not going would offend Liu Shoufu. Now that Queen Liu had locked An Ran up in confinement, he had an excuse to pretend to be angry and not go - - Putting his beloved concubine in solitary confinement, he got angry and stopped going to the queen. It was normal.

Besides, the emperor did not want to agree with Queen Liu's words, lest it appear that he was angry because An Ran was imprisoned, so he naturally would not agree with her words.

In addition, the emperor also wanted to teach Empress Liu a lesson - don't you like to confine people? Lock him up, lock him up once, and I won’t kill you that time. Even if you regret it and are willing to release him, I won’t let you go. I’ll see if you dare to lock him up again in the future.

In fact, the emperor did not hate Empress Liu so much from the beginning. At the very beginning, he made an appointment with Liu Shoufu. After Liu Shoufu helped him ascend to the throne, he would marry Liu Shoufu's daughter and let Liu Shoufu be his first assistant.

After Liu Shoufu helped him, the emperor kept his promise, made Liu Shoufu the chief minister, and married Liu Shoufu's daughter as the queen. After doing this, the emperor felt that his character was very good. After all, I don't know how many people, after taking office, Don't remember the promise.

As a result, he had good character and kept his promise, but the Liu family felt that he was good and could be bullied.

Liu Shoufu became more and more self-inflated in the previous dynasty. When he wanted to do something, Liu Shoufu would always object. Some things Liu Shoufu did were not good for him and he raised objections, but Liu Shoufu never listened. He acted as if he was the one who supported him. Yes, he has no ability at all. What qualifications do he have to express his opinion? The emperor is getting more and more angry.

Liu Shoufu was like this in the previous dynasty, and Empress Liu was like this in the harem.

She felt that her father had supported her in coming to power and she would not take her seriously. If he was a little nicer to anyone, she would kill them. This made the emperor feel that Empress Liu was too domineering.

What he couldn't accept even more was that the Liu family's father and daughter still discussed that the prince must be the son of Empress Liu, and the next generation of emperor must come from the Liu family.

Although this should be the case, he can give favors, but the Liu family and his daughter cannot ask for them.

In fact, he also planned to do this even if the Liu family and his daughter didn't say anything.

However, when the Liu family's father and daughter asked him to do this, he felt extremely uncomfortable. He felt like a tool of the Liu family's superiors, and began to worry that Queen Liu had given birth to a son and they had an heir. It will kill yourself.

After all, it is obviously better for the Liu family to assist a child to become the emperor than to assist an adult like himself to become the emperor.

When I think about this, no one can sit still when their own life safety is involved.

So slowly, the emperor became more and more disgusted with Empress Liu. At the same time, he was also afraid of Empress Liu and his daughter. He was afraid that if Empress Liu gave birth to a son, his life would be in danger.