Chapter 89 A Freak Was Born
Upon hearing this, Consort Wu sat up in pain, crying and pleading, "Your Majesty, don't you know best whether the Empress was wronged back then?"
Now that the Empress is dead, even if she was wronged, the Emperor will not admit it, because then he will not be able to sit comfortably in the harem as he does now.
Now, unless the Empress comes back to life.
But it was impossible, Consort Wu thought to herself, when she felt another sharp pain in her stomach.
She screamed.
The palace maids were all anxious. "Imperial Physician, come quickly and see Her Majesty!"
The imperial physicians examined the concubines one by one, and then reported to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine is about to give birth."
Upon hearing this, the Emperor frowned and waved his hand at the imperial physicians, saying, "So be it, if we can't save him, we can't save him!"
Hearing the Emperor say this, Consort Wu felt even more distressed. She couldn't hold her breath and exerted herself.
Just then, the midwife arrived, looked inside, and exclaimed, "Oh! The baby's head is out!"
Upon hearing this, the emperor immediately left and went to a side hall.
Screams then came from inside the house, and soon after, the baby was born.
However, there was no sound of a baby crying.
The emperor outside the palace, hearing no child crying, probably knew what had happened.
The old woman stared at the child in her arms, dumbfounded, her expression one of utter shock.
Despite the pain, Consort Wu opened her eyes slightly and weakly asked, "How is my child?"
The nanny knelt down, holding the child, and said, "Your Majesty, this child is far too small; he was already dead at birth."
Consort Wu's pale face became empty and lifeless as she listened. After a long while, she asked the old nanny again, "Is it a prince or a princess?"
Ever since she became pregnant, she had been taking a formula to conceive a prince, and she was absolutely certain that it would be a prince, so even now that she was no longer pregnant, she still wanted to know the answer.
However, the old woman's face turned extremely ugly. "Your Highness, please don't ask."
Consort Wu sensed something was wrong. "Why can't I ask?"
The old woman pulled back a corner of the swaddling blanket, frowning as she said, "I don't know if this child is a prince or a princess!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the emperor, who was standing nearby, heard it and quickly took the child to look at him.
Upon seeing the child's androgynous features, she was startled and quickly handed the child to the imperial physician beside her, exclaiming, "What happened?!"
The imperial physician had just examined the child and sighed, replying, "Your Majesty, this child is likely affected by medication, which is why he is neither male nor female."
Hearing this, Consort Wu immediately seized the opportunity and said, "Your Majesty, look! Someone is trying to harm me! Your Majesty!"
The emperor was genuinely moved by what he heard.
However, the imperial physician beside him soon said, "Your Majesty, this child should have been a princess, but because of the medicine, she has become neither male nor female. As far as I know, there is a rumor that there is a kind of medicine that can turn a princess into a prince. If I am not mistaken, the Imperial Noble Consort should have taken this special medicine, which is why the child has become like this."
The Emperor frowned, glared angrily at Consort Wu, and snapped at her, "Tell me, did you take this kind of medicine?"
Seeing that her secret was about to be exposed, Consort Wu immediately kept quiet and said, "Your Majesty, no, I didn't eat it! Someone must be trying to harm me!"
The Emperor waved his hand and asked the maid beside him, "Tell me, has the Imperial Concubine taken this medicine?"
The young palace maid glanced furtively at Consort Wu, gritted her teeth, and replied with a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, Her Highness did not eat."
The Emperor calmed his anger slightly and ordered the eunuch behind him, "Go, send people to investigate and find out who in the palace has recently bought this prescription and who secretly brought these medicines into the palace!"
The eunuch quickly replied, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Consort Wu watched the eunuch's departing figure, her heart pounding with fear, silently praying that the Emperor would not find out.
The Emperor looked at Consort Wu with disgust, got up, and left impatiently, unwilling to stay any longer.
Consort Wu collapsed onto the bed, still bleeding from the tension she had just been under.
The nanny standing nearby was extremely anxious. While trying to stop Consort Wu's bleeding, she instructed the palace maids to feed her medicine.
Consort Wu lay on the bed, looking at her flattened belly, her heart filled with resentment. She had originally hoped to rely on the child in her womb to secure her position, but now even that child was gone.
She grew angrier the more she thought about it, and slammed her fist on the bed a few times before cursing at the palace maids.
The entire hall became lively.
The news of the Imperial Concubine's pregnancy spread like wildfire throughout the capital, even reaching Zhou Feng, who had just arrived in the capital.
Upon arriving in the capital, Zhou Feng, led by Young Master Fang, went to the most bustling North Street in the city.
North Street was lined with all sorts of shops and passersby. Unlike the ordinary people in Cheng'an County, the people walking around here were all officials dressed in fine silks and satins.
There were quite a few young men and women there.
Looking at the familiar place in front of him, Zhou Feng was filled with emotion. Then, relying on his memory, he bought a shop in a very good location under the guidance of Young Master Fang.
In less than ten days, Zhoujiaxiang Shop was opened.
On the first day of the incense shop's opening, Zhou Feng welcomed the shop's first customer, Han Yan'er, the eldest daughter of General Han.
She was about the same age as Zhou Feng, and from the moment she stepped into the incense shop, she was completely captivated by the young shopkeeper.
Although his skin wasn't fair and he had some black moles on his face, his bright eyes were so captivating that it was hard to look away.
"I've never seen you before. Where are you from?" Han Yan'er walked in, picked up a bottle of perfume, and asked him.
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