Chapter 76: Self-destruction
The maid helped her sit up from the bed. She felt as if all the bones in her body were about to fall apart when she moved.
"Hiss~ Ouch... My waist is about to break, quickly go find me a doctor!"
The maidservant exclaimed, "Your Majesty, you can't do that! You absolutely cannot call the imperial physician. The young ladies and ladies outside are waiting to go to the temple with Your Majesty to worship Buddha and chant scriptures..."
Concubine Shu said with displeasure: "It's enough for them to go. I'm so unwell that I can't get out of bed! Go and tell them to go on their own. The Third Princess can take my place! Go find the imperial physician! I'm in so much pain all over my body!"
The maid looked embarrassed. What on earth was going on with her mistress? Calling the imperial physician at this hour was clearly telling him she was having an affair in Jing'an Temple. If the emperor heard about this, she would be beheaded!
Even the palace maids and guards who came with them cannot escape responsibility!
The maid hesitated for a moment, then knelt before the bed: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty must not seek medical advice, otherwise you will be exposed..."
Concubine Shu frowned and looked at the maid in confusion: "Exposed what? What did you do to expose it by calling the imperial physician?"
The maid desperately shook her head: "Your Majesty is not a servant, it is... it is..."
Concubine Shu was impatient: "You've been hesitating for so long but haven't gotten to the point. I think you're doing this on purpose, right?"
The maid closed her eyes, with an expression of being ready to die, and then reached out and lifted the quilt.
The naked body covered with red marks was exposed in front of her eyes. Concubine Shu felt a chill on her body. She looked down and before she could utter the word "bold"
Then he exclaimed "Ah..."
Seeing this, the maid hurriedly reminded: "Madam, there are people outside, don't shout!"
Concubine Shu's scalp tingled as the scene of last night surfaced in her mind. She initially thought she was imagining things, but the discomfort and marks on her body, the messy bed, and the torn clothes scattered on the floor all seemed to tell her that what happened last night was real...
As her mind became clearer, her memory became clearer. Last night, she was actually...
She just couldn't remember the man's face, but the voice was very familiar. The more she thought about it, the more disgusted she felt, and the angrier she became.
Who on earth had the audacity to come into her room...were all her guards and the royal guards they brought with them dead?
In addition to the palace maids who served her, the emperor also specially sent a group of imperial guards to protect everyone's safety. They were stationed around Jing'an Temple, and some were stationed around her courtyard. There were also patrols at night...
But who could have drugged her without her knowing, put someone in her bed, and then taken the person away afterwards?
Concubine Shu sat on the bed with a gloomy face. She looked up at the maid in front of the bed and asked, "Did anyone enter my room before I went to bed last night?"
The maid recalled carefully and then shook her head: "No one has ever come into the Madam's room."
"Is there any movement in that room?"
The maid also shook her head and said, "Your Majesty, there was no movement. Last night, this servant and another maid were guarding the door, along with four guards. They can all testify that we heard nothing last night, and no one came!"
Concubine Shu was furious and grabbed the quilt on the bed and threw it to the ground.
The maid said quickly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. What should we do now? The ladies and young ladies are still waiting outside the door."
"Go get some water and come and wipe my body!"
Concubine Shu said coldly that she was now sticky all over and smelled bad. She didn't want to go out like this and chant Buddhist scriptures with the ladies.
But after this incident, she was afraid that if she didn't show up, people would gossip about her and speculate about her. She had asked the emperor for permission to pray for the blessing, and she was the organizer. If she didn't show up and the emperor heard about it, and he was investigating behind her back... then...
This result was not something she could bear, so in order to avoid being criticized, she had to endure it in front of everyone even if it hurt like hell.
After a while, the maid came in with a basin of water, and behind her came another maid holding clothes.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. When I went out just now, I had already comforted the ladies outside the door. I said there was a problem with your clothes, and I changed into a new one and will be out soon!"
"Well, well done!"
The ladies outside the door had been waiting impatiently for a long time. They had not had a drop of water or breakfast since they got up. They had been standing here waiting for almost half an hour. However, due to their status, they could not say anything. But in their hearts, they had already cursed the ancestors of Concubine Shu for eighteen generations.
She is just a concubine. It's ok for her to put on airs at ordinary times. But she is still putting on airs when she comes to pray. She is really not up to the standard. She is not as good as the queen. She does not do things properly at all.
Because there are several imperial consorts among these ladies, and they all have ranks, so they look down on the behavior of the concubine from the bottom of their hearts.
Prince Duan has never been favored, and it was his bad luck that he got married to the second daughter of the Xiangfu, and the position of the Concubine Shu also rose. Otherwise, they really didn't take Concubine Shu seriously. This time when they came to pray, none of the first-rank imperial consorts came.
At this time, the third princess and Yun Wei also arrived. Seeing that everyone was standing in the yard, they saluted her.
"Meet the Third Princess!"
"Stand up!"
Just as Helian Xue was about to speak, Wei Sisi hurriedly said, "Third Princess, the time for worshipping Buddha is about to come, and the Concubine Shu hasn't come out yet. Please go in and take a look. I hope nothing is wrong..."
"Yes, Third Princess, go and see Concubine Shu!"
Helian Xue frowned and glanced at everyone. Seeing that everyone was looking at her and asked her to go in, she didn't say anything and walked towards the door.
Just as she was about to open the door, Concubine Shu came out from inside.
"I've met Mother. They said she hasn't been out for a long time, so they asked their daughter to come in and see her."
Concubine Shu curled her lips and said, "Mother, everything is fine. Let's go! Don't miss the time."
Concubine Shu was supported by two maids. Every step she took felt like she was walking on needles. The pain made her bite her back teeth. If she didn't let the maids support her, she would not be able to walk steadily. She had just wiped her body casually and didn't clean it at all. In addition, she was wearing so many clothes. After just a few steps, she was sticky again...
Everyone followed her, and some people noticed that something was wrong with her. For example, in this June weather, the clothes that Concubine Shu wore covered her whole body tightly, which was very different from what she wore yesterday. Isn't she hot?
Also, her walking posture is a bit weird if you look closely. She almost leans on the palace maid after every step, as if she has no strength all over.
Many inquiring eyes were looking at Concubine Shu's back, but everyone was muttering in their hearts and did not dare to discuss or ask in private.
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