Fu Yijing looked at Shangguan Xu in silence, not choosing to sow discord again. Shangguan Xu followed Lu Jinshu's instructions and admitted his fault, not making a scene. It seemed he wasn't completely clueless.
However, while Fu Yijing was able to accept all of this calmly, Xue Wu was completely unable to remain calm. Zhu Ye was beaten to death, and he had originally thought that Shangguan Xu would also experience the severity of the caning, but now, Shangguan Xu was only confined to his house without any pain.
Xue Wu looked at Ling Shumo with tears in his eyes.
Ling Shumo gently stroked the top of his head with pity, "I will go to Yuehua Palace to accompany you today. Also, your rank should be promoted."
Xue Wu wiped the tears from his eyes and threw himself into Ling Shumo's arms, "Your Highness, my child is gone. I am so sad!"
Ling Shumo hugged him tightly and said soothingly, "Tomorrow I will find a highly respected Taoist priest in the imperial capital to perform a ritual for our unborn child, so that he can be reincarnated as soon as possible. If fate allows, he will definitely be reborn in your belly and become our child once again."
Fu Yijing smiled at Xue Wu and said, "Xuanming Fairy is currently in the imperial capital. There's no need to trouble Your Highness to go to the Lingyin Taoist Temple to invite the Taoist priest. I will write a letter and have someone deliver it to the Fairy, asking her to pray for the reincarnation of your deceased child."
Ling Shumo looked at Fu Yijing with great satisfaction, "Fortunately, this family has the Crown Princess to take care of it. I don't know how much trouble it has saved me." She then said to Xue Wu, "Why don't you thank the Crown Princess quickly?"
Xue Wu knelt and saluted Fu Yijing, his face filled with gratitude, yet he couldn't reveal the pain in his heart to Ling Shumo. And what was he saying, "Hurry up and thank the Lady Crown Princess?" What did he need to thank Fu Yijing for? For killing his child?
Fu Yijing smiled and comforted Xue Wu a few more words, and then Xue Wu and Ling Shumo returned to Yuehua Palace together.
As Ling Shumo left Changqiu Palace, the pity on Fu Yijing's face vanished. He glared at Lu Jinshu, "Lord Lu Xian came here today to disrupt my plans. It seems you intend to make me your enemy, huh?"
Lu Jinshu looked at him without the slightest fear, "Your Highness, the Princess Royal, didn't intend to get along well with this minister, did you?"
Fu Yijing's eyes flashed with disgust. Lu Jinshu was not only pregnant, but also always favored by the Crown Princess. He wanted to get rid of someone as overly clever as Lu Jinshu, so naturally, he never thought of getting along with Lu Jinshu.
Lu Jinshu knew this, so he chose to save Shangguan Xu. Fu Yijing, the princess, was so powerful that he had to find someone with a strong background to support him, and Shangguan Xu was the best choice.
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The Chinese New Year is coming in the blink of an eye.
Over the past few months, the rank of the attendants in the Eastern Palace's harem has undergone some changes. Shangguan Xu was demoted to the third rank of Dejun, Xue Wu was promoted to the rank of Liangjun, one of the four rank of Jun, and Lu Jinshu was promoted from Xianjun to Concubine of the Crown Princess.
Because Ling Shumo had a compensatory mentality, the ceremony for Xue Wu to be conferred the title of Liang Jun was held in a grand manner.
As Lu Jinshu's health worsened, his formal enthronement ceremony would be postponed until after he finished his confinement.
March of the eleventh year of Zhaoping.
On this sunny afternoon, Lu Jinshu's pregnancy began. Chenyou Palace had already prepared the delivery staff and supplies when he was early in his pregnancy, and he was immediately rushed to the delivery room as soon as he showed any signs of labor.
There's a curtain between them.
Ling Shumo heard the heart-wrenching screams from inside the house, and then heard the attendant Lu Jinshu trying his best to endure, saving his energy for childbirth. But the heart-wrenching pain in his body made Lu Jinshu unable to care about anything else. He almost wanted to kill himself to end this tormenting pain.
Ling Shumo felt a chill down her spine from the inhuman screams, and her body couldn't help but shiver.
Lu Jinshu's birth was extremely difficult. He screamed for two hours. By the end, his voice was hoarse and torn, but he still couldn't stop groaning in pain.
Ling Shumo's scalp tingled at first, but she gradually grew accustomed to the screams emanating from the delivery room. Ling Shumo had never given birth in her previous life, but the night before her wedding, her mother had told her everything about sex and childbirth. Ling Shumo knew how women gave birth, and she was now deeply curious about where men took the baby out of the womb. She longed to see it for herself, but delivery rooms and men giving birth were considered unlucky, and as a woman, she couldn't go in and get stained by the blood.
Fu Yijing clasped his hands together, lowered his head, and kept muttering to himself.
Ling Shumo thought he was praying for a safe delivery, but in fact, ever since Fu Yijing learned that Lu Jinshu was pregnant, he had often prayed like this that Lu Jinshu would give birth to a son.
When Lu Jinshu was pushed into the delivery room, it was lunch time. Now when he looked out the window, it was already getting dark.
Zhiqi stepped forward and whispered to Fu Yijing, "Your Highness, the Princess, the food has been delivered by the Food Bureau."
Fu Yijing turned around and looked at Ling Shumo, "Your Highness, please go and have dinner first. I will be here to guard Lord Lu for you."
Ling Shumo thought for a moment and said, "I will try to come back as soon as possible, and then it will be your turn to have dinner."
The dining table is next door.
When the servants saw Ling Shumo coming, they quickly removed the cover on the food.
Ling Shumo sat down and asked the servant to serve her a bowl of mushroom, chicken, and vegetable porridge. She had just finished half of it when she heard the servant outside excitedly shouting, "Congratulations, Your Highness, the Consort has given birth to a prince, and it's a prince!" (A daughter is named a prince, and a son is called a grandson of the emperor.)
Ling Shumo immediately put down the bowl in her hand, stood up and walked out.
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