Chapter 546 Good News
The emperor feels that his luck has been bad recently, and nothing he can do can be accomplished!
The old lady of the Duke of Cheng’s Mansion has been seriously ill for almost a month, but now she is still alive and well, and no one knows when she will die!
General Xu has resigned, but isn’t there another Xu Rui? Don’t think that he doesn’t know how people at the border evaluate the father and son just because he is in the capital. They say they are soldiers
and generals of Dayong, but they are actually shouting the Xu family! The soldiers in the barracks only know Duke Cheng and the prince, not the emperor!
They all forgot that no matter how good the generals are, they are all subjects!
The emperor did not doubt whether his plan was known to Duke Cheng, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was impossible. He only sent his confidants to handle these things, and it is absolutely impossible for his confidants to betray him and join the Duke of Cheng’s Mansion.
So in the end he could only attribute it to the good luck of the Chengguo Mansion, which allowed them to escape one after another.
But the more this happened, the more resentful he became.
Could it be that even God was helping the Chengguo Mansion and thought he had done something wrong?
No, he was not wrong! It was the Chengguo Duke who was too successful and frightened the emperor! It was they who did not take him, the emperor, seriously!
Dayong had been free of war for many years, and as a general, he should have taken the initiative to hand over the military power. But the Chengguo Duke and his son held on to the military power tightly. What else could this be if not having two minds?
Since he had two minds, he could not be blamed!
The secret guard was still kneeling on the ground. It was unknown how long it had passed before the emperor said, "You step down first and clean up the mess!"
After the secret guard left, the emperor thought about it and was still worried. He called out another secret guard and asked, "Is there anything unusual about Duke Cheng today?"
The secret guard answered honestly, "No."
The emperor would not suspect anyone, and he would not suspect Xu Muhua. In his mind, a woman could not accomplish anything great. In addition, Xu Muhua had not done anything suspicious after entering the East Palace. She was as simple and innocent as ever. The emperor did not take her seriously at all.
Xu Muhua's greatest use to the emperor was to act as a chess piece. The best thing would be to compete with the Crown Princess for favor and draw the Chengguo Mansion into the drama of seizing power. This way, there would be a chance to get rid of the Chengguo Mansion in a logical way.
But what Xu Muhua did during the days since she entered the East Palace once made the emperor doubt whether he had made a wrong move. He wanted her to compete with the Crown Princess for favor, and it would be best if they fought to the point of bloodshed, but he didn't let her and the Crown Princess be as close as sisters!
If it wasn't for the fact that Xu Muhua only knew how to play with some small animals all day and had no one around her, the emperor would have suspected whether she had noticed something.
So even if the emperor had doubts about what happened tonight, he would not have suspected Xu Muhua.
"Where is the prince of Duke Cheng?"
"The prince is the same as usual. Today he is the groom and is much happier than usual. But everything is normal, just like any other married man."
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the Duke Cheng's Mansion, the emperor had to believe that the person he found was too unreliable. He went to a brothel at a critical moment and died instantly on a brothel girl, ruining his plans!
I'm afraid there won't be any suitable opportunities next time!
The emperor had thought about letting the old lady die without anyone knowing, but after the old lady fell ill, it was difficult for the wife of Duke Cheng to do everything herself.
He waved his hand to let the secret guards retreat, but he refused to give up and started to think about it.
The next day, Xu Muhua received the news from the little intelligence agent when he got up early in the morning, and learned that the emperor was furious in his bedroom last night.
"This old man, he still wants to attack my grandmother!"
Xu Muhua snorted coldly, "In his eyes, other people's lives are not lives, they can be destroyed at will. You have to help me keep a close eye on him, and don't let him hurt my grandmother."
In fact, my grandmother's body has almost recovered now, but it is still hidden from the outside world, saying that there is no significant improvement. As for the imperial physician in the palace, tut tut, what's the difficulty.
Not reporting the truth to the emperor is indeed very risky. If the emperor finds out, the imperial physician will inevitably lose his life. But the emperor is in the palace. As long as the imperial physician himself doesn't say it, and the people in the Chengguo Mansion don't say it, how can the emperor know the old lady's condition?
Who doesn't have some secrets that can't be seen in the light, and the imperial physician is no exception!
If she didn't listen to them and helped conceal the old lady's illness, she would immediately send the imperial physician's handle to the palace. In this way, the imperial physician would have no chance of survival.
The imperial physician himself knew best which choice had a greater chance of survival.
She also knew that the imperial physician was innocent, but weren't the people from the Chengguo Mansion innocent? Since everyone was innocent, why not cooperate and help each other? They had no grudge against the imperial physician, and they didn't want the imperial physician to die, right?
His soft spot was held by someone, and the imperial physician who came to see the patient could only go along with it.
Except for the first time he returned to the palace and lied to the emperor, the imperial physician was so nervous that sweats were pouring down his face. Slowly, the imperial physician himself became numb, and it was more and more natural.
The emperor really didn't expect that the imperial physician he sent to investigate would dare to betray him, so that he was kept in the dark and thought that the old lady was really seriously ill!
Everyone in the Chengguo Mansion had already discussed that after Xu Rui got married, the old lady would get better slowly, and then say that Xu Rui's marriage was a success. No one dared to pat their chests and say that such a mysterious thing would not work. It's not that they said it, how could outsiders believe it?
When the newlyweds came to meet their parents-in-law, Xu Muhua, the married sister-in-law, also came to join in the fun, sat aside and gave gifts. She didn't leave until the sun was high in the sky to return to the East Palace.
Unexpectedly, she heard good news as soon as she returned to the East Palace!
"Arong, are you serious, are you really pregnant?"
Xu Muhua was overjoyed.
Pei Shaorong could not hide her shyness and expectation on her face, "Well, I asked the imperial physician to check last night, but it hasn't been long, so the pulse is not very obvious. But the imperial physician also said that it is basically certain that you are pregnant."
Xu Muhua clapped her hands happily, "This is good news! No wonder you have been complaining about not feeling well and having no appetite recently, so that's why!"
"I didn't expect that you would suddenly get pregnant."
She herself thought that she had stomach discomfort recently, but she never thought that she was pregnant
. It was not until the prince came back to have dinner with her last night and saw that she looked listless that he insisted on asking the imperial physician to find out.
She herself was a little upset. If she had known earlier, she should have asked the imperial physician as soon as possible. Instead of thinking that she was just feeling uncomfortable and would be fine in two days.
Fortunately, Pei Zhen's problem has been resolved, otherwise if something went wrong, she would really regret it for the rest of her life.