Dongfang Yinzhang decided not to meet Gu Yunshu before the wedding, worried that Feng Yanzhi would have other means to separate him and his junior sister.
Arrange Bai Yi to send more people to secretly protect Gu Yunshu.
The Gu Mansion was heavily guarded, and the spies that Li Haiying had planted in the mansion were unable to find an opportunity to strike.
A few days later, Gu Yunshu did not notice that Feng Yanzhi had attacked her, but she did not take it lightly.
Instead, he felt that his defense was too tight and he couldn't find an opportunity to attack.
"Nanyin, go make the arrangements..."
At dinner two days later, Nan Yin, with a slightly unnatural look on her face, led several other maids to deliver Gu Yunshu's dinner.
Gu Yunshu glanced at Nanyin, and her eyes quickly locked on the pot of ginseng chicken soup on the table. She quickly took it in front of her and sniffed it gently.
As expected, she guessed right. Feng Yanzhi wanted her to have no descendants and didn't want his senior brother to have a son.
His worries were unnecessary. How could her child with her senior brother compete with Ayi for the throne?
Gu Yunshu took a sip of the chicken soup, and Nan Yin's face turned pale. The young lady really dared to drink it. "You all should leave. I don't need you to serve me."
Comforted by Gu Yunshu's gaze, Nan Yin left the room with her maid.
Gu Yunshu quickly stood up and walked to the flower bed. She put her finger into her mouth and tried to vomit out the chicken soup she had drunk. She then poured the entire can of chicken soup into the flower bed.
At night, a figure avoided the sight of the secret guards guarding outside the Gu Mansion, slipped out of the Gu Mansion and went to Li Haiying's house outside the palace.
The next day.
When Emperor Qianyuan returned from court, Li Haiying told him that Gu Yunshu had drunk chicken soup laced with a drug that could cause her to become infertile.
"Are you sure she drank it all?"
"She drank it all. Bai Ying disguised herself as a maid sweeping the second-class main house in Gu Yunshu's courtyard and took a closer look. Gu Yunshu took a sip... When the bowls, chopsticks and plates were brought out, there wasn't a drop of chicken soup left in the chicken soup pot."
Although Bai Ying was a secret guard maid trained by Emperor Qianyuan himself, he was not afraid that Bai Ying would fail, but he was afraid that Gu Yunshu would find out.
"How many times do I need to drink it to be completely sterilized?"
"A large packet of the infertility medicine will do, but don't put too much in the broth at once. Gu Yunshu has already drunk 41% of it, so she needs to drink the broth three more times."
"Well, let her finish the drink as soon as possible, and remember not to reveal your identity."
"yes."
After seven days of intermittent drinking, Gu Yunshu drank the entire packet of the infertility medicine as expected by Emperor Qianyuan.
Emperor Qianyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and was in a good mood. Since he could not interfere with Feng Yulin's marriage and prevent him from having a son, he did it!
In the following days, Gu Yunshu did not see any soup with added ingredients at the dinner table, and her tense nerves relaxed a little.
"Nanyin, is that person still there?"
When Bai Ying disguised herself as a second-class maid and made her move for the third time, Nan Yin discovered her abnormality, especially her eyes, which were completely different from those of the usual maid Bei Tao. They were very sharp and a little cold.
"He's gone. He was incredibly skilled, especially in Qinggong. Nan Song didn't catch up to him. He only knew that he disappeared east of the palace."
"Okay, I understand. Next, we must strengthen the defense, especially the master's yard."
Under Gu Yunshu's strict precautions, the days passed unnoticed, and in the blink of an eye, it was two days before Xiao Lingyu's due date.
Shangguan Lan, mother and son were afraid that something might happen to Xiao Lingyu, so they rushed into the Eastern Palace.
Baili Qingluan and Su Ning'an, mother and son, stayed by Xiao Lingyu's side every step of the way.
Su Ningjie and Su Ningwen had no intention of studying in the Imperial College, so they took leave early and stayed in the Eastern Palace.
"Second brother, do you want to invite Sister Yao'er into the palace? She said she wants to experience more of the birthing scene so she won't be afraid and won't be frightened by the memory of what happened back then, causing her old illness to relapse?"
Su Ningjie remembered that the last time Lu Yuan gave birth, his second sister fainted, and he didn't want Lu Yao to go through this again when she entered the palace.
"It's better not to ask my second sister to come to the palace. She was lucky that her old illness didn't relapse last time. What if she not only fainted this time, but also had a relapse of her old illness?"
That's not recognizing people!
Xiao Xi'er didn't insist on this matter. "Then don't let Sister Yao'er enter the palace. Let's go in and talk to mother."
On the second day, Meng Zihe took a day off and asked Lu Yao to go boating on the lake. After lunch in the afternoon, she learned from Meng Zihe that Xiao Lingyu was about to give birth, and she became anxious.
"I want to go to the palace and guard the Crown Princess with my second brother."
Meng Zihe said: "Sister Yao'er, you don't have a badge to enter the palace, so you can't enter the palace for the time being."
Meng Zihe knew that she had been stupid for so many years because she had witnessed the murder of the eldest lady of the Lu family.
He was worried that if she entered the palace and witnessed the Crown Princess giving birth, it would remind her of what happened in the past and would upset her.
"Let's go to the palace gate and ask around first. The Crown Princess has done a great favor to our Lu family. Her childbirth is such a big event, I must stay with my second brother no matter what."
Seeing that she was determined to go, Meng Zihe agreed to her wishes and protected her to go to the palace gate to inquire.
When the two arrived at the palace gate, the second wife of the Xiao family, Liang, helped the old lady Xiao get out of the carriage.
Lu Yao was delighted and hurried over. "Old Madam Xiao, Second Madam Xiao, you are here to visit the Crown Princess as well, right? Can I go in with you? The Crown Princess is giving birth, and I want to be with her."
Mrs. Xiao was very pleased that Lu Yao could come to visit Yu'er, "Okay, okay, let's go in together."
"Sister Yao'er."
Meng Zihe had originally planned to ask the palace guard to reject Lu Yao's request to enter the palace, but he didn't expect to meet the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Xiao family.
"Brother Zihe, don't worry. I'm not easily provoked. I'm all right now. The Crown Princess has completely cured me. The bad guys have received the punishment they deserve. That scene back then won't irritate me anymore. You have to believe me."
"I believe you." Meng Zihe looked at Lu Yao and nodded blankly.
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Then I'll go in, you can go back too."
Only after Lu Yao entered the palace did Meng Zihe come to his senses.
How could he let Sister Yaoer in without worrying about it?
What if she gets scared?
"You have to trust me."
Lu Yao's words echoed in her ears again.
Yes, he had to believe her.
Sister Yaoer will definitely not be stimulated.
Even though he convinced himself in this way, Meng Zihe was still worried and wanted to go in to look after his sister Yaoer.
He whispered a few words to the guard general.
Half an incense stick later, Su Ningjie rushed over and brought Meng Zihe into the East Palace.
Everyone was leaning against Xiao Lingyu, their eyes full of anticipation.
He was also worried that Xiao Lingyu might encounter danger during childbirth.
Only Emperor Qianyuan was in a state of confusion in the imperial study and did not concentrate on reading any memorials.
He didn't expect that time would pass so quickly. Once the little prince was born, it meant that he would lose his chance to become emperor in just one month.
He wanted the little prince to be born safely, but he also didn't want him to be born!
He is very contradictory!
He was reluctant to give up the throne he had sat on for more than 20 years.
He is now in his prime, strong and healthy. He is forced to abdicate when he is doing his best as an emperor!
He was unwilling, but he could do nothing about it!
Who can understand his suffering!
At the same time, a scream of pain resounded throughout the East Palace.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Princess has launched an attack."
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