Queen Mother Jiang waved her hand and Cuizhu retreated.
Imperial Concubine Jiang, who was sitting at the bottom of the table, hesitated to speak, but Empress Dowager Jiang did not hide the truth from her and directly said, "Just now, news came that the treasure of the previous dynasty has been found?"
"Really?" Concubine Jiang was surprised. "Who found it?"
The fact that the emperor had snatched the treasure map but was fooled by someone else had now spread to all the civil and military officials in the court. It was such a disgrace that the emperor was extremely embarrassed.
Concubine Jiang looked down upon Emperor Rongxian's cowardice.
Although no one would say anything openly, the powerful and influential people knew exactly how many people were mocking Emperor Rong Xian in private.
As an emperor, he behaved like this, and Concubine Jiang felt ashamed of herself, and it was embarrassing to stand next to him.
If her aunt hadn't been keeping an eye on her, she wouldn't have been willing to flatter the emperor.
"Prince Jing!" Queen Mother Jiang looked unhappy.
Imperial Concubine Jiang noticed that her aunt looked a little strange, and spoke tentatively, "Aunt, Prince Jing has been so popular lately, and it seems that he has been blessed with all the good things. On the contrary, Prince Wu seems to have been unlucky recently, and has failed in everything he does. He has even been imprisoned now."
"Sometimes I can't help but wonder if some things are destined by God?" As she said the last sentence, she kept observing the expression on her aunt's face.
Seeing that the other party's expression was getting more and more gloomy, Concubine Jiang wisely changed the subject immediately, "But my niece thinks that there is a saying that goes, man can conquer nature. My father often repeats this sentence at home, and I don't know why."
Queen Mother Jiang looked at her with sharp eyes. Concubine Jiang immediately realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said. She was a little flustered and quickly knelt down to apologize, "Aunt, niece..."
Queen Mother Jiang raised her hand to stop her from saying anything else, and called out, "Li Dehai, send the imperial concubine back to the palace. Please ask the two maids to take good care of her. She is pregnant, so she needs to be taken good care of. Don't go out unless necessary, just stay in the palace and take good care of her. Tell the imperial kitchen to take care of the imperial concubine. If anything happens to the imperial concubine, I will hold them responsible."
Eunuch Li responded respectfully, "Yes."
He turned his head and smiled respectfully, "My Lady, I will take you back."
Concubine Jiang did not dare to refute the decision made by her aunt. In the entire Jiang family, not to mention her, even her father, the head of the Jiang family, had to obey her aunt. No one dared to go against her wishes.
Concubine Jiang bowed and followed Eunuch Li out of the Cining Palace.
Queen Mother Jiang frowned and put her finger on her forehead. When Eunuch Li came back, she ordered, "Go tell the emperor that I have a headache."
“Yes.”
Within the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, Emperor Rongxian had already arrived at the Cining Palace.
When the palace maids and eunuchs of the Cining Palace saw the emperor, they knelt on the ground, and Eunuch Li welcomed them into the inner palace.
"How is mother? Have you called the imperial physician? What did the imperial physician say?" Emperor Rong Xian asked with concern. He looked like a filial son who was worried about his mother, but the coldness in his eyes truly revealed his feelings.
Eunuch Li replied in a businesslike manner: "President Zhou has examined it. It is an old illness and needs to be taken care of. You must not worry too much recently and you must not get angry."
When Emperor Rongxian heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he roughly understood what was going on.
After entering the inner hall, Emperor Rong Xian went straight to the bed and saw Liuli holding a medicine bowl and feeding him medicine. He took the medicine bowl from Liuli and fed him the medicine himself.
After finishing a bowl of bitter medicine, Emperor Rong Xian kindly fed him some candied fruit.
"Child, let the subordinates do these rough work. You are the emperor, and your hands should be reviewing memorials, not doing these trivial matters." Queen Mother Jiang held his hand and patted it gently with a look of satisfaction.
Emperor Rong Xian smiled and said, "Mother, what are you talking about? Being filial to your mother is not a small matter. It is the greatest matter in the world."
Queen Mother Jiang seemed very satisfied with his words. "I am glad that you have this intention. I know that you are the most filial."
Emperor Rongxian didn't want to speak, but under the repeated caressing of Empress Dowager Jiang, he could only bite the bullet and ask with concern, "What is troubling you, mother?"
"Nothing." Queen Mother Jiang said this, but sighed softly.
Emperor Rong Xian could not turn a blind eye and continued to ask with concern, "Mother, is there anything you cannot tell my son?"
Queen Mother Jiang saw that he was angry, so she reluctantly said, "Mother is worried about you."
Emperor Rong Xian had a face full of question marks.
"Mother, what do you mean by that? But is there anyone who is talking nonsense in front of you? I am in good health."
Queen Mother Jiang shook her head, "That's not it."
"What is that?"
"Master Guichen has been living in the Buddhist temple for some time. My mother often listens to Master Guichen's lectures and has gained a lot from them. But that day, Master Guichen said something that made my mother feel uneasy."
"What's the matter?" Emperor Rong Xian couldn't guess what she was up to.
"Master Guichen asserted that the Purple Star will shift and a new Emperor Star will rise."
Emperor Rong Xian was shocked. What did this mean? Wasn't it clear that he was going to die? Or was he going to be kicked off the throne?
Is the Jiang family planning to kick him out so as to support the bastard in Concubine Jiang's belly to take the throne?
No, if that were the case, she wouldn't have said that to herself.
Then the new emperor star she mentioned might be someone else.
"Master Guichen, do you know where the Emperor Star is?" Emperor Rong Xian's face turned gloomy.
"Northwest corner outside the palace."
Northwest corner?
There are the residences of Prince Jing and Prince Yun there, which means that the new emperor star will be either Prince Jing or Prince Yun.
Who of these two people is most likely to become the Emperor Star? I'm afraid it's the former.
All the treasures of the previous dynasty were found by Prince Jing, and all the talented people, no matter how amazing, gathered on Prince Jing's side, as if fate was on Prince Jing's side, helping him reach the top step by step.
At this moment, Emperor Rongxian doubted what Queen Mother Jiang said, but reason told him that Queen Mother Jiang might have selfish motives, but she was probably not lying about this matter. She had no need to lie.
Once Prince Jing ascends the throne, it will not be a good thing for him; for the Jiang family, it will be a disaster.
Prince Jing will definitely not allow the Jiang family to dominate the market anymore, and he will definitely not be controlled by the Jiang family. The fate of the Jiang family is foreseeable.
No wonder the Jiang family panicked and asked Concubine Jiang to give birth to a bastard to confuse the royal bloodline.
She should have known about this a long time ago, but she kept it to herself. I'm afraid she wanted to push the bastard onto the throne before Prince Jing ascended to the throne, so that he, the worthless emperor, could abdicate and let others take over.
If they were to say it now, they might know that Prince Jing had obtained the treasures of the previous dynasty, and they might be afraid that all the officials in the court would turn against Prince Jing, and the Jiang family would have no chance of winning.
This is to prepare to pull ourselves together and form a united front with them.
In just a few breaths, Emperor Rong Xian figured out the key and roughly guessed the cause of her headache.
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