Chapter 257 She is pregnant (asking for monthly ticket)
After all, she was a palace maid serving Hu Qizi, so You didn't ask any more questions.
"The Empress Dowager has something to ask you, so she sent this servant to invite you to Ganquan Palace."
Hu Qizi felt a little uneasy. She was worried that someone would report her and tell the Empress Dowager about what happened today.
She stuffed a piece of gold into You's arms and asked tentatively, "What does the Empress Dowager want to see me about?"
"I don't know about this. You will know when you go there." You quickly took a step back and pushed the gold back.
Seeing that You refused to accept it, she became more suspicious.
Hu Qizi felt a tightness in her chest, and her hands unconsciously clenched her sleeves. She didn't think she had done anything wrong. If the empress dowager wanted to reprimand her, she could only blame herself for smashing the book, and she could make up thousands of excuses to deal with it.
She concealed her worries and followed him to Ganquan Palace.
As soon as she came in, she was called to the Empress Dowager's front. Seeing that the Empress Dowager was in a good mood, the dark cloud in Hu Qizi's heart finally dissipated, and she smiled as usual, "I greet the Empress Dowager."
"No need to be so polite. I asked you to come here today because I have something to discuss with you."
Hu Qizi was feeling guilty, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He just agreed, "Whatever the Empress Dowager tells me to do, I'll do it!"
"Listen to me before you agree. I plan to dismiss some of the concubines from the Great King's harem, and you shouldn't be among them. But if you are willing to give up your title as the Seventh Son and stay with me for a while, it's up to you whether to go or stay. If you ever find someone you like, I will prepare a generous dowry for you."
Zhao Yuanxi asked with a smile: "What do you think?"
Hu Qizi looked flustered and bit her lip, "But I am already the king's!"
"That's fine. You just need to answer whether you're willing or not. I'll take care of the rest."
Ying Zheng didn't have to have her. It had been two months and he hadn't been to the harem many times. If he really liked her, he wouldn't have just given her the title of the Seventh Son.
Hu Qizi fell to her knees on the ground, and after struggling for a moment, she pulled Zhao Yuanxi's skirt with tears streaming down her face, "I don't want to do this. I truly love the king."
Now that things have come to this, how can I make her turn back? Besides, how can those ordinary people be worthy of me? The only one in this world who can satisfy her heart is the King of Qin.
Although he had expected this, Zhao Yuanxi was still a little disappointed when he heard this answer.
She sighed and pulled him up. "In that case, then it's up to you."
Hu Qizi thought that she had to cry and make a fuss before the empress dowager would give up the idea, but she didn't expect the empress dowager to agree so easily. She suddenly felt a little flustered and felt as if she had done something wrong.
"Empress Dowager, I..." Hu Qizi opened his mouth and then took back his words, his face blank. Suddenly, everything went dark in front of his eyes and he almost fell to the ground.
Zhao Yuanxi reacted quickly, reaching out to support her from the front. Seeing that her eyes were tightly closed, he quickly laid her on the couch and shouted, "Go call the imperial physician."
Hu Qizi felt severe stomach pain. Although he was clearly conscious, he couldn't open his eyes.
Yu Jiao hurried over and was about to salute——
"Stop wasting time and come and save people."
oh.
Yu Jiao took her pulse and after a moment, he withdrew his hand. "Congratulations, Queen Mother. Qizi is pregnant. She just had a miscarriage, which caused her to faint. I will prescribe a few prescriptions to nurse her back to health."
"What do you mean she's pregnant?" Zhao Yuanxi couldn't believe his ears!
How could she get pregnant? No, how could she get pregnant?
Zhao Yuanxi remembered something and his expression changed again and again.
Ying Zheng currently has fifteen sons. If the newborn child is included, he already has sixteen sons. Currently, there are three pregnant concubines. Zhao Yuanxi guessed that the three concubines were pregnant with the eighteenth prince of Qin, that is, the second emperor of Qin, Hu Hai, so he has been keeping people under surveillance.
Unexpectedly, there would be another pregnant concubine around her, and now the number of suspects increased from three to four.
Even though Zhao Yuanxi didn't want to think too much about it, Hu Qizi's surname Hu made her feel uneasy. The child in her belly was obviously the most suspicious. Thinking of what was recorded in history books, she suddenly felt murderous.
When Hu Qizi woke up, she met the Queen Mother's displeased gaze and her heart trembled. She had heard what the imperial physician had just said: she was pregnant!
Did the Queen Mother not want her to keep the child? Was it because she wanted her to leave the palace that she couldn't bear to have the child?
No, no! She had worked so hard just to have a child, even if the Queen Mother punished her, she had to keep the child.
Hu Qizi regretted coming to Ganquan Palace rashly. He had obviously got what he wanted, so why bother coming to Ganquan Palace to show off and curry favor with the Empress Dowager?
Now that the Queen Mother wants to harm her child, doesn't she have anywhere to hide?
Hu Qizi's body trembled slightly, and he protected his belly with both hands. "Empress Dowager, is this the king's child in my belly?"
She was reminding the Queen Mother that this was the King of Qin's child.
But Zhao Yuanxi just felt that it was wrong for her to be pregnant with the King of Qin's child! If it was a princess, it would be fine, but if it was a prince, and that Hu Hai, she really didn't know how to treat him.
She rubbed her temples and replied, "Yes, you are pregnant."
"Doesn't the Empress Dowager like this child?" Hu Qizi asked in a wronged tone.
"It's not that I don't like it." It was just an embryo. She was just taking her anger out on the unborn child because of Hu Hai's affairs.
"Go back peacefully and have a good rest these days. You don't need to come to Ganquan Palace again!"
Hearing that the Queen Mother was willing to let him go, Hu Qizi felt secretly delighted, but he couldn't help but think that he was overthinking it. The Queen Mother was the King's biological mother, and he treated her very close. How could she want to harm their child?
The Queen Mother was probably angry because she was disobedient. Thinking of this, she felt relieved. Anyway, now that she had the King of Qin's child, wealth and glory would be within her reach.
"Yuzu, send someone to take her back."
After everyone left, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't help himself and kicked over the table in front of him. He was so angry that he walked around the room with his hands on his hips.
The lists of people she had compiled were scattered all over the floor, and she had no time to take care of them.
When Madam Mi came in, she saw the Queen Mother's face full of anger. She asked curiously, "Who offended you? Why are you so angry?"
The room was also in a mess, with a mess on the floor, which showed that he was really angry.
When Zhao Yuanxi saw her coming, he simply sat on the ground angrily, "Hu Qizi is pregnant!"
Madam Mi paused while picking up the things and looked up at the Queen Mother. "Isn't this a good thing?"
Yes! Any normal person would think this is a good thing.
But if they knew that the other party would be someone like Hu Hai, I guess any parents in later generations would not be able to help but strangle him to death first.
Being stupid is not scary, what is scary is being both stupid and bad.
If he just failed to defend the Qin Kingdom, Zhao Yuanxi would not think there was anything wrong. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, only Ying Zheng could keep the situation under control, and no other prince of the Qin State could do it.
But how could he kill all his brothers and sisters?
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