"Medicine?" The emperor frowned. "What medicine?"
Qin Zhaochuan answered truthfully, "Your Majesty was eager to have a child, so she ordered the Imperial Hospital to prepare a pregnancy-enhancing medicine. Originally, the medicine did help your Majesty conceive, but Your Majesty, it seems, secretly increased the dosage, which had the opposite effect and damaged your body."
Zhao Yuancheng sighed towards Concubine Shu after hearing this, "You can't force a child, so why ruin your body?"
At this time, everyone in the room had left, leaving only the emperor and his concubine. Concubine Shu was sad because her happiness was in vain, and when she heard the emperor say this, she felt even more aggrieved.
"Your Majesty, please tell me how long it has been since you last came to visit me. If Mo Xiang hadn't invited you, would you have planned to stay in my Changxin Palace for the rest of your life? After all, I'm still your cousin. You weren't like this when we were little."
In the past, no matter when and where, Concubine Shu would always pretend to be Old Chen. Zhao Yuancheng hadn't seen such cute and lovely complaints for a long time.
It was new to her now, so she managed to coax him patiently: "You said I wasn't like this when I was little. You were so well-behaved and obedient when you were little. How did you become like this when you grew up? Think about it yourself, why didn't I come to you?"
Concubine Shu cried until her eyes were red, and she sobbed and said with a pout, "After all, isn't it because you hate me?"
"I never said that."
Zhao Yuancheng patted his cousin's hand and said seriously, "Tell me about you. How many troubles have you caused since entering the palace?"
"I……"
Concubine Shu tried to defend herself, but Zhao Yuancheng cut her off, "I know you were framed, but if you had stayed in Changsheng Palace, they wouldn't have been so bold as to use you. Ultimately, your current situation is your own fault."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Shu shook off the emperor's hand and said angrily, "Since you know I was wrongly accused, why did you still confine me?"
At this moment, Zhao Yuancheng's face turned cold, and he said solemnly: "If I hadn't confined you to your room and hadn't had anyone watching you, do you think you would still be able to speak to me in peace?"
Concubine Shu was stunned. Zhao Yuancheng was unwilling to tell her the dark story behind this. He only held Concubine Shu's hand and said sincerely: "Yaoyao, just be a good Concubine Shu and uphold your dignity. No one will dare to bully you. But if you don't respect yourself and give others an opportunity to take advantage of you, even if I am the emperor, there will be a day when I can't protect you. Do you understand?"
The palace was very quiet. After staring at each other for a moment, Concubine Shu gradually calmed down and asked in confusion, "But why did you only make Concubine Xi a Noble Concubine during this grand ceremony of appointing concubines to the six palaces, but not me?"
Zhao Yuancheng laughed: "You did those ridiculous things in the past. If I promote you to the rank of Imperial Concubine now, how can I convince them?"
Concubine Shu lost her confidence and her body softened again. She said weakly, "Forget it, forget it. You are the emperor. I can't think like you. Whatever you say is what it is."
Seeing his cousin's increasingly rude words, Zhao Yuancheng couldn't help but raise his hand and pat her forehead, scolding her: "You have no respect for your elders."
Although they said so, the relationship between the two of them had invisibly returned to the intimacy of brother and sister they once had.
Knowing that Concubine Shu was fine, Zhao Yuancheng sat for a while before preparing to return to Zichen Palace to continue reading memorials. Before leaving, he instructed his cousin: "The Queen is the Queen. You are a concubine, so you must respect her."
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When Mo Xiang came in, Concubine Shu was still sitting on the couch in a daze, with a gloomy expression on her face. She didn't dare to step forward and say anything. After all, she was half responsible for her master's current condition.
Just as she was about to leave, she heard Concubine Shu ask her, "Besides the Queen, who else has been to the Purple Palace today?"
Mo Xiang thought for a moment and whispered, "I heard that Concubine Ping offended the Empress and later went to the Purple Palace to apologize, but the Emperor did not see her."
Concubine Shu took a deep breath, wiped her tears, and said with resentment in her tone: "I knew it must be her cousin who instigated it."
Mo Xiang had no idea what the emperor and his concubine had said in the room just now.
But looking at her master's expression, it was not difficult to see that the emperor must have said something that made her unhappy.
Before Mo Xiang could speak to persuade her, Concubine Shu spoke again, but her tone was a little more lazy than before, as if she had figured it out first.
"Forget it. My cousin said that as long as I stay in Changsheng Palace and uphold the dignity that my concubine deserves, he will definitely not treat me unfairly. It doesn't matter if I can't be canonized as a noble concubine right now. I'm still so young, there will always be opportunities in the future."
No matter what, as long as the master is open-minded, Mo Xiang will be happy no matter what.
Zhao Yuancheng, for the sake of face, ordered the imperial physician not to make public the misunderstanding that occurred in Changxin Palace, but there is no wall that is completely airtight in this world.
Within two days, everyone in the palace knew about this matter, but because of the emperor, no one would speak out about it. In private, they still laughed at Concubine Shu and said that she was unlucky.
Late that night, just after midnight, a woman in a black cloak walked in from the back corner door of Changxin Palace. A palace maid, holding a lamp, led her all the way to the inner hall.
When the woman came out again, it was already an hour later.
As the end of the year approaches, there are more and more things to do in the palace. Although Concubine Lian and Concubine Hui are helping to take care of them, Fu Qianyu still feels that there is not enough time in the day.
In the previous life, he was a capitalist's ox and horse. Now that he has come into the world, he still cannot escape the fate of being an ox and a horse.
On this day, the Empress Dowager's leg pain eased a little, and the concubines came to Ci'an Palace to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother held the teacup in her hand and glanced at the people in the hall. She couldn't help but sigh, "There are fewer and fewer people in this palace."
After the words were spoken, no one spoke.
At present, apart from Concubine Xi, Concubine Shu, and Concubine Lian, the only one who can show her face in front of the emperor is Concubine Hui.
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