Chapter 220
Generosity Yingrong and Yingyue helped Xie Wanruo into Cao Muxue's room, placed Xie Wanruo on the soft couch, and asked Doctor Chen to treat her.
"What happened to Wanruo?" Yu Chengjun was anxious and tried to get up regardless of his own injuries.
Cao Muxue stepped forward to stop him, but was pushed away angrily by Yu Cheng.
With Cao Muxue's attitude towards Xie Wanruo over the years, Yu Cheng knew that Xie Wanruo's fainting was related to her.
"Mother." Cao Muxue looked at the queen anxiously for help.
The queen hurriedly stepped forward to push Yu Cheng back, and said slowly: "Doctor Chen is watching, you will only cause trouble if you get up, just lie down."
"Father." Yu Haolin got off the emperor and ran towards Yu Cheng on his short legs.
"Lin'er, sit up." Yu Cheng asked Yu Haolin to sit on the edge of the bed. The father and son looked at Xie Wanruo on the couch with a worried look.
The emperor and the empress sat on the chairs beside them, and Cao Muxue stood beside the empress, all waiting for Chen Taiyi's diagnosis.
To ensure that everything was foolproof, Chen Taiyi examined the patient carefully twice before he stood up and bowed to Yu Cheng.
"Congratulations, His Royal Highness, Concubine Xie is pregnant."
Hearing this, the expressions of the people in the room were different.
The empress and Cao Muxue flashed a hint of resentment in their eyes and clenched their hands.
The emperor smiled faintly, pleased to hear it.
As for Yu Cheng, he was naturally overjoyed, and asked with a bit of heartache: "Why did she faint? Is she weak?"
Xie Wanruo had excessive bleeding when she gave birth to Yu Haolin, and her body was greatly weakened. After years of careful care, she finally got pregnant again.
But because of this, Yu Cheng was also worried that her body could not bear it.
Doctor Chen said: "From the pulse, Concubine Xie is weak and out of breath, and her pulse is weak. But the fetus is stable, and it doesn't seem to be a deficiency."
"What's going on? Cough cough..." Yu Cheng supported his body on his side and coughed anxiously.
"Your Highness, I know." Yingrong knelt down and kowtowed, choking with sobs: "Since I heard that Your Highness was injured yesterday, Your Majesty has been worried, but I can't visit you. I was so anxious that I couldn't eat or sleep."
Doctor Chen suddenly realized: "That's right, Concubine Xie fainted because of fatigue and hunger. She will be fine after having some porridge and a good sleep."
"Come on, go get some porridge." The Queen spoke at the right time.
It doesn't matter what you think in your heart, you have to look good on the surface so that no one can find fault with you.
Yu Cheng was relieved to know that Xie Wanru was not seriously injured, but he knew that she was worried that she fainted due to fatigue and hunger, and he felt very distressed.
Yu Cheng immediately said, "Father, mother, I want to go to Wanruo's courtyard to recuperate. Otherwise, Wanruo will be worried about me, and I will be worried about her too, so it will be difficult for me to recover in peace."
"Your Highness." Cao Muxue was anxious.
It was not easy for her to get the chance to keep Yu Cheng in her courtyard.
However, the queen favored Cao Muxue and was worried about Yu Cheng's health, so she agreed immediately.
She agreed, and the emperor naturally had no objection.
"Mother." Cao Muxue was unwilling.
The queen said with a little displeasure, "Cheng'er's health is important. You are the crown princess, so you should be more aware of the overall situation and be more magnanimous."
Magnanimous? How else can she be magnanimous?
Except for the first and fifteenth day of every month, Yu Cheng stayed in Xie Wanruo's courtyard almost every day, and occasionally went to the other concubines' rooms to stay overnight symbolically.
Everyone in the East Palace knows that Xie Wanruo is the only one favored. She, the Crown Princess, is just an empty title!
Now Xie Wanruo is pregnant, and she has to give Yu Cheng to him. How can she be willing to do this!
But no matter how unwilling she is, the Queen has already agreed, and Cao Muxue can do nothing about it.
Doctor Chen pinched Xie Wanruo's philtrum, and put a wake-up drug in front of Xie Wanruo's nose to urge her to wake up. Xie Wanruo finally woke up.
"Wanruo, cough cough..." Seeing Xie Wanruo wake up, Yu Cheng was overjoyed, and he coughed again in excitement.
"Your Highness." Xie Wanruo's voice was anxious.
Yu Cheng took a deep breath and said, "I'm fine."
Yu Haolin ran to the couch, grabbed Xie Wanruo's hand and said, "Mother, the Empress Dowager has agreed to let my father go back with us."
Xie Wanruo was very surprised when she heard this, and she stood up to thank the Empress.
"Okay, take good care of yourself now that you are pregnant. It's not easy for you to be pregnant." The Empress waved her hand to let her off the hook.
Xie Wanruo raised her hand and gently touched her belly, a little surprised and unbelievable: "I'm pregnant?"
"Yes, just now the Imperial Physician Chen diagnosed that the Empress is pregnant." Yingrong Yingyue cried with joy.
No wonder the Empress agreed to let Yu Cheng go to her courtyard to be recuperated.
Xie Wanruo was very thoughtful and understood everything at once.
After three years, she was finally pregnant again.
Cao Muxue stared at Xie Wanruo with resentful eyes, her heart full of hatred.
This bastard, just by chance fainted in front of her, and even lay on her soft couch to diagnose the pregnancy pulse, and wanted to take Yu Cheng away forcibly, which was really too much!
Knowing that Cao Muxue didn't like Xie Wanruo, Yu Cheng ordered: "Yingrong Yingyue, help the concubine go back first, I will come later."
"Yes." Yingrong Yingyue helped Xie Wanruo, bowed to the emperor and empress and Cao Muxue, and left.
Yu Haolin followed behind sensibly.
The emperor gave Yu Cheng a few instructions to take care of him, stood up and said: "I'm going to take care of something, and I'll be back to Yongning Palace at lunch time."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The queen knew it well and didn't ask any more questions.
"Farewell, father." Cao Muxue bowed.
When the emperor reached the gate of the courtyard, he saw He Lan still kneeling, and frowned and said, "Come here, take this slave girl down and give her twenty strokes of the cane. If she dares to do it again, she will be caned to death."
The maidservants who came with the Cao family as a dowry were also disgusting to look at.
The emperor gave the order himself, and no one could save her. He Lan knelt on the ground, trembling in panic.
After the emperor left, Yu Cheng called the palace guards and carried him to Xie Wanruo's courtyard in a sedan chair.
The lively room suddenly became cold, with only the empress and Cao Muxue left.
"Aunt." Without outsiders, Cao Muxue changed her name and knelt on the empress, crying in grievance.
The empress had no daughters, and she treated Cao Muxue as her own daughter since she was born.
Seeing Cao Muxue crying on her knees, she felt distressed. She patted Cao Muxue's head and comforted her, "Okay, there's a long way to go."
"Xie Wanruo is pregnant and can't sleep with him for a long time. When Cheng'er recovers from his injury, won't your chance come?"
Cao Muxue felt better when she heard it.
The queen said, "You have a son and a daughter. Compared with me, you are much luckier."
Cao Muxue has been married to Yu Cheng for seven years and has a son and a daughter. Because of the relationship between cousins, Yu Cheng always has some pity for her. Her life is much better than that of the queen.
As a woman of the king, it is very good to have such a thing. Don't be too greedy.
"Aunt is right. I am ignorant." Cao Muxue got up and sat next to the queen, wiping her tears with a silk handkerchief.
After she calmed down, the queen said earnestly: "No one in the East Palace can shake your position. The one you should really worry about is Princess Jing."
Cao Muxue understood immediately after hearing this.
Among the five princes, the only one who can threaten Yu Cheng is Yu Zheng.
Although Yu Zheng marrying Jiang Shu is equivalent to cutting off his own arm, if Jiang Shu gives birth to a boy, Yu Zheng will have an heir. With the emperor's preference and the support of court officials, Yu Zheng still has the ability to compete for the throne.
"What does my aunt want me to do?" Cao Muxue asked.
The queen said profoundly: "It doesn't matter how to do it, the important thing is to do it cleanly."
Cao Muxue frowned, thinking.