Chapter 28: A bastard and a dog forever
A flash of fear flashed across the Princess Chen's deer-like eyes for a moment.
It seemed that no one had expected that on the day of the Empress Dowager's birthday, her previous miscarriage would be re-investigated.
She looked at the emperor with grievance and shame: "Your Majesty, losing our baby is already the greatest punishment for me, why are you re-investigating this matter?"
A tear hangs on the eye curtain, about to fall.
The sound of watching a play instantly appeared in everyone's ears.
[It is not enough to just shed a tear, you also have to look up at the sky at a 45-degree angle to highlight your fragility.]
[Well, then she said that everything was her fault, she felt so wronged that she didn’t want the child anymore, and then she shed tears, perfect! ]
The voice of the heart is too overbearing, and people cannot help but listen.
Those who were brave and curious looked up and saw the Concubine Chen grabbing the emperor's sleeve, slightly tilting her head to reveal her fair and beautiful chin line.
"Your Majesty, please don't punish me like this. I don't want our child anymore."
The tears finally slid down from her eye sockets, leaving a shattered beauty on her fair cheeks.
Everyone: “…”
[I really got it right? Do all these young ladies have training classes, or do men just fall for this kind of trick? ]
The sound of doubt once again appeared in everyone's ears.
The emperor closed his eyes at the sound.
He recalled the times he had been with Concubine Chen. She seemed to... have been crying like this all the time, and from time to time she would pull him to look at her with eyes of love and admiration.
The queen had a wooden expression on her face. She was not pierced through by Lu Xinran's inner thoughts. She was still able to deceive herself and maintain the last dignity that belonged to the queen.
Now, she feels that her past twenty years have been a joke.
Life is a long dream, and there will always be a time to wake up.
At this moment, she found it extremely ridiculous to see the Emperor and the Concubine struggling in such a mess in front of all the ministers.
She stood up and knelt before the Queen Mother.
"Mother, today is your birthday. I have prepared a birthday gift for you. Would you like to take a look at it?"
She didn't need the Queen Mother to help her clear her name because it was meaningless.
If it weren't for her father and brother, she would just want to go to the imperial mausoleum on her own initiative.
The Queen Mother bent down, squeezed her shoulders tightly, tears in her eyes.
"Yunxia, why are you doing this?"
The queen raised her head and smiled with relief.
She couldn't let the little girl down for her high evaluation. She, Zhang Yunxia, had lived a clean life and never bothered to do anything private.
She used to care about the emperor's thoughts and would be saddened by his accusations, but... even her breathing had become a problem, so why should she torture herself anymore?
"Please grant me your blessing, Mother."
"good……"
"check!"
Before the Queen Mother could finish her sigh, the Emperor interrupted their conversation.
"I want to know the truth today!"
He wanted to know if he was as blind as that little girl said in her heart...
Facing the incredulous gaze of Concubine Chen, his eyes gradually turned cold.
"If the queen caused you to lose your son, I will depose her today and send her to the imperial mausoleum, where she will never be allowed to return. If it's someone else..."
Under his sharp gaze, Concubine Chen's face turned pale and her body trembled like chaff.
"If you frame the queen, I will abolish your position and banish you to the cold palace."
The Concubine Chen's body softened and she slid to the ground.
Tears fell like beads from a broken string, his eyes were full of grievance and the desire to die to prove his integrity.
"Someone, help Concubine Chen up."
The emperor lifted his skirt, turned around and sat back in his seat.
"Go to the Imperial Hospital to look for Concubine Chen's pulse records for the past six months."
[What can be revealed from the pulse? The Concubine Chen is so meticulous, how could she possibly tamper with the pulse? The Imperial Doctor He who regularly checks her pulse has long been subjugated by her.]
[It was Doctor He who diagnosed her with pregnancy and it was also he who said she was having a miscarriage.]
[If we want to investigate, we need to ask the chief physician of the Imperial Hospital to come with a few upright old doctors.]
[Yes, there are medicinal residues under the mulberry tree in the Chenfei Courtyard, which are used to make soups and medicines to fake pregnancy and miscarriage.]
[The medicine was obtained by Doctor He from Renhetang, and the prescription is still in the secret compartment of Doctor He's study.]
emperor:"……"
You are so capable, why don't you judge this matter?
Lu Xinran was still browsing the melon-eating system. Her heart was entirely on the Empress. She wanted to see if Concubine Chen had framed the Empress again over the years.
【It actually exists! 】
[In the eleventh year of Jinghe, Concubine Chen was still a concubine. She plotted to make Concubine Wang miscarry, and framed Concubine Shu for the crime.]
[In the spring of the twelfth year of Jinghe, she planned to help Liu Zhaoyi give birth.]
[In the autumn of the twelfth year of Jinghe, she schemed to make the queen give birth! ]
[At the time, so many clues pointed to her, but the emperor was happy to see it happen, so he just had someone send supplements to the empress and lightly covered the matter.]
The more Lu Xinran watched, the more frustrated he became. [Ahhh, I'm so angry. Men are really all idiots. With such a good queen, the prince she raised must be excellent. How could the emperor be so cruel?]
She wanted to curse again, "A bastard deserves to be with a dog forever," but Lu Xinlan at the side pulled her back suddenly.
Her thoughts were interrupted and Lu Xinran tilted her head in confusion, not understanding why her good sister always pulled her arm for no reason.
The Queen's body was swaying. She had been unable to understand all these years why she had a miscarriage despite being so careful. It turned out... her child's appearance was just a mistake.
The emperor never thought that the secret kept for so many years would be revealed again and again by Lu Xinran. He never cared about the pregnancies of concubines in the harem. After all, he had no shortage of princes and princesses.
As for the Empress, she could not allow the Zhang family to become too powerful, and her Crown Prince could not have such an in-law family.
So when the queen gave birth, he was relieved.
However, when he saw the queen staggering and gritting her teeth to prevent herself from falling, he felt regretful for the first time.
Although that voice made him embarrassed and angry, it was right.
With such a magnanimous queen, how outstanding the prince she raised must be!
The Concubine Chen, who was pressed on the chair by the eunuchs on both sides, was still shedding tears of grievance. She lowered her head slightly, the pearl hairpins on her head swayed slightly, and her neck was so slender and white that one wanted to hold it in the palm of one's hand and crush it.
"Go, call the hospital director and a few old doctors, and call He Youyi as well."
Eunuch Fu took the order and left quickly. The emperor thought about it and called his confidant to come close and whisper a few words to him.
Chen Fei, who had no idea how the situation had developed to this point, could no longer cry. She bit her lower lip tightly and felt a chill down her spine.
She felt that since they arrived at Ronghuiyuan, everything was out of her control.
She had arranged everything and erased all traces. Even if the emperor wanted to investigate, he would not be able to find out the truth.
Thinking of this, her heart calmed down again.
Tears hang the eye curtain again.
Lu Xinran leaned forward and lowered his head, feeling very unhappy.
Although I have eaten a lot of melons, this kind of melon is really annoying. It is too unfriendly to certain glands on the chest.
"Tongzi, if I eat too much of this melon and get a terminal illness, will you be responsible for treating it?"
The system was speechless. "Why are you so emotional? What does it have to do with you?"
"How can it be none of my business? Times are tough, and we girls should help each other. Unfortunately, I can't help the queen. Oh, it would be great if I could just let her fake her death and leave the palace. The rubbish emperor is not worthy of her at all."