Chapter 149 Soon, a son and a daughter will be born.
The crowd thought this made sense. "That's right, we should sell as many as we can. We can't afford to lose every single penny."
"That's right, it just so happens that the Nuanxiang Pavilion in Qingzhou Prefecture needs girls."
"It's just that Madam Sun is old, so she probably won't fetch much money."
"Even if it sells for a few dozen coins, that would be fine."
The bandits quickly agreed, lifted Madam Sun up, and before she woke up, put her in a carriage and prepared to go to Qingzhou Prefecture.
The bandits thought the young girl who was with Madam Sun was too young and too cruel to sell, so they didn't sell her. Instead, they found a deserted path and threw her down there, which saved her life.
When Madam Sun woke up again, he was already in Nuanxiang Tower.
The bandits initially thought that Madam Sun was too old to fetch a good price, but the madam in the building saw her, smiled, and offered fifty taels of silver, saying that some customers had a particular fondness for this kind of thing.
The bandits were delighted to hear this, took the silver, and left.
Not long after waking up, Madam Sun was carried to the table.
Because of Zheng Zhifu's meddling, the Sun family's rouge shop, which had been operating for several years, went bankrupt overnight.
Prefect Zheng also discovered many young women at the place where the Sun family made rouge.
These women were left here to collect blood. When Prefect Zheng was taking their statements, he was so angry that he almost broke several pens. It can only be said that the Sun family deserved to die.
As the Sun family's rouge shop closed down, Consort Wu also learned of the trouble that had befallen the Sun family.
"What? Master Sun is dead?" Consort Wu sat up abruptly.
She quickly got up and went to her dressing table, rummaging through it. "Rouge? My rouge is almost gone!"
A palace maid standing nearby advised, "Your Highness, it's okay that the rouge is gone. It's a good thing. With that person from the Sun family dead, no one will have any leverage against you anymore."
Consort Wu's complexion gradually improved, but she quickly became anxious again, saying, "But without rouge, my face is ruined!"
The palace maid advised, "Your Highness, this rouge isn't actually as useful as you think; you just came up with the idea yourself."
Consort Wu was considered to be quite beautiful, but she was not favored by the emperor in her early years. Later, she gained the emperor's favor after using rouge from the Sun family.
Therefore, she always believed that it was because of the Sun family's rouge that she was favored by the emperor.
Now the palace maids all say that she came up with the idea herself, how could she possibly believe it? "No, you must leave the palace now and see where you can still buy Sun's rouge."
The palace maid had no choice but to reply, "Yes, Your Highness."
As soon as the young palace maid left, Consort Wu asked another palace maid, "How is His Majesty doing lately?"
The palace maid replied, "His Majesty is still staying in the Empress's palace these days."
Consort Wu was furious and slammed her hand on the table. "He would rather guard a dead man than come here!"
Perhaps because of her anger, her face looked extremely pale.
The young palace maid had a strange feeling that Consort Wu looked much uglier than usual.
She quickly lowered her head, not daring to look any further.
Meanwhile, the emperor found a fortune teller from the common people, wanting to calculate whether his deceased empress had been reincarnated.
To his surprise, the fortune teller told him, "Your Majesty, judging from this person's birth date and time, her lifespan has not yet ended."
"What do you mean?" The emperor was stunned.
The fortune teller continued, "Your Majesty, the Empress is still alive."
The emperor was startled, and then gave Zhou Ruiyuan's birth date and time to the fortune teller.
The fortune teller counted on his fingers and said, "This man's lifespan is not yet over, and I can also tell that he will soon have a son and a daughter."
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