Chapter 102: Fake Pregnancy Medicine
After a lot of tossing and turning, Jiang Yingli was held limply in Xiao Chenglan's arms.
Xiao Chenglan kissed her tearful eyelashes, his voice lazy and satisfied.
Thinking of the Queen Mother, he sighed:
"My Li'er is getting bolder and bolder."
Jiang Yingli was a little confused. Xiao Chenglan's tone was no different from the one he used when praising her in the past, but... she was planning to assassinate the Queen Mother.
"Your Majesty, are you praising me?" Jiang Yingli asked uncertainly, looking up.
Xiao Chenglan smiled and gently scratched the tip of her nose, "Of course."
"Your Majesty, don't you think I'm being reckless?" Jiang Yingli worried. "If something gets exposed, wouldn't it bring trouble to Your Majesty?"
"No, no matter what you do, I only care about the results. If Xue is dead, I will give her a grand funeral. If she is not dead, I will never let her find out anything."
Jiang Yingli was completely relieved. She looked up at Xiao Chenglan again and rubbed her cheek against his chest.
"I would like to ask, Your Majesty, how do you know everything?"
"I have many eyes and ears, so I naturally know everything."
Jiang Yingli felt a surge of fear, and a look of regret flashed across her face.
"Then... Your Majesty also knows that I fed Concubine Liang drugs, tied her up and tortured her?"
Xiao Chenglan smiled faintly and nodded.
Jiang Yingli was dejected for a while, then she took the initiative to move closer to Xiao Chenglan's arms, her eyes full of smiles, and asked in a soft voice:
"I have become a bad woman. Does Your Majesty still love me as much as before?"
Bad woman? Is this what a bad woman is?
Jiang Yingli's cute and innocent look made Xiao Chenglan chuckle. He pressed her into his arms and touched her head.
"This isn't getting worse, this is getting better. In the past, in Prince Su's Mansion, our world was very small. The palace's pavilions, towers, gates and walls were enough to shelter us. Now it's different. Although I will protect you, you must ultimately have your own edge."
"Sharpness? What is sharpness?" Jiang Yingli murmured again. She thought for a while and her eyes lit up.
"Your Majesty means that I can stay under your wings, but I also need wings of my own. When your Majesty is not around, I can fly myself, right?"
Xiao Chenglan did not hide the admiration in his eyes, "My Li'er is so smart."
Jiang Yingli was so flattered by the praise that she swayed back and forth while hugging Xiao Chenglan.
But almost at the same moment, she recalled what she had just said and became sad again in an instant.
"Pah, pah, pah, how could His Majesty not be here! Your Majesty and I will be together for the rest of our lives."
Xiao Chenglan soothed softly: "Yes, why wouldn't I be here?"
This time, Jiang Yingli rested her head on Xiao Chenglan's shoulder, feeling completely at ease, and gradually fell into a deep sleep.
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In Qixiang Palace, Su Qingrong had nothing to do, so she played with a pair of rabbits that the empress dowager had sent over.
After she stopped feeling sad about love, her days became more relaxed. However, she had not yet completely recovered from the shadow of Lan Xiang's death.
Once she had rested, she should think carefully about what she would do next.
She now sees clearly that she cannot underestimate Jiang Yingli, but she cannot attack her rashly either.
Therefore, she wanted to remove the obstacles on her road to becoming the queen. Jiang Yingli could be put aside for now, and Song Wanyan and Shen Zhuxin were the ones she had to step on first.
Especially Chen Zhuxin.
Your Majesty went to Roufu Palace probably to save face for the Song family, but Chen Zhuxin's family background was neither high nor low, and her appearance was not outstanding. Your Majesty went to Jiangxuexuan several times, perhaps because he really had some feelings for her.
This guy surnamed Shen is probably a formidable opponent.
Moreover, she already knew that the sisters Yun Sheng and Yun Shu had gone to Jiang Xue Xuan to work. Therefore, when His Majesty suddenly summoned her to question her that night, it must have been Chen Zhuxin who had interfered and ruined her plan.
She caused her to lose Lan Xiang, and she must avenge herself.
Su Qingrong's heavy thoughts were disturbed by the restless rabbit in the cage.
The rabbit, which had been eating grass quietly just now, suddenly started behaving strangely and began to bite its own fur anxiously.
"Qinglian! Qinglian!" Su Qingrong was startled and quickly called Qinglian over.
"What's wrong, Madam?"
Su Qingrong stepped back, two steps away from the cage, pointed at the rabbit that had suddenly gone mad, and said fearfully: "Take a look at it, it looks like it has contracted some strange disease, don't let it infect me!"
Qinglian took a closer look at the rabbit behaving strangely and found that it was indeed a female rabbit.
"Don't be afraid, my lady. This is a false pregnancy in the female rabbit, not a strange disease. Rabbits are livestock after all, and this happens when they are in heat."
Su Qingrong breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that it's not some strange disease. But they look scary. Let's throw them away. I don't want to see them anymore."
Qinglian responded and moved the rabbit cage outside the hall.
Su Qingrong looked at the rabbit hair left on the place where the cage was placed just now, and something suddenly occurred to her mind.
False pregnancy?
She murmured to herself, "Fake pregnancy..."
Su Qingrong's mind flashed back to what she heard when her aunt summoned her mother to the palace for a chat.
She was still young at that time, and her aunt and mother did not avoid her when talking to her, but in fact she could already understand.
My aunt said that she and Concubine Hui wanted to use a fake pregnancy to frame the favored Concubine Fang, but they didn't expect the fake pregnancy to come true and Concubine Fang really gave birth to a child.
The Concubine Hui mentioned by my aunt is the current Empress Dowager Xue.
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Empress Dowager Xue was not surprised by Su Qingrong's sudden visit.
Su Qingrong's eyes were now full of calculations. It was obvious that she had come up with a brilliant idea and was eager to implement it.
Queen Mother Xue knew that she had used the rabbit to hint at the fake pregnancy to Su Qingrong, and Su Qingrong had successfully taken the bait.
Su Qingrong came to Wanshou Palace to get the medicine that could make people fake pregnancy from Empress Dowager Xue.
My aunt once said that Concubine Hui's medicine was almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
Not only can it turn a person's pulse into a pregnancy pulse, it can also prevent menstruation for two months, and can also induce obvious symptoms such as nausea and loss of appetite.
But if a person is actually pregnant, then this medicine becomes a tonic that can relieve various uncomfortable symptoms of pregnancy.
Therefore, Su Qingrong had enough reasons to ask Empress Dowager Xue for medicine.
"I took my pulse today, and the imperial physician said that my constitution would make pregnancy very difficult. I was terrified, but then I remembered what my aunt had said, saying that the Empress Dowager had helped her with her pregnancy and had a very good medicine. I wanted to ask if the Empress Dowager could give it to me."
Empress Dowager Xue smiled kindly, "It's always hard for a woman to be pregnant. You're young, so it's normal for you to be afraid. But I don't know if I still have the pregnancy-maintaining medicine. Madam Xia, go look for it in the storehouse."
"Hey." Nanny Xia responded.
Empress Dowager Xue gently waved her feather fan, and her gaze towards Su Qingrong was very gentle.
Whether Su Qingrong wanted to give this medicine to herself and then frame another concubine to cause her to have a miscarriage, or give it to someone else and then expose their fake pregnancy, for her, it was a strategy that killed two birds with one stone.
After a while, Nanny Xia rushed back to the palace and said happily, "Empress Zhaoyi, there is exactly one pill left."
Empress Dowager Xue smiled and said, "Even one pill is good. Hurry and give it to Rong'er. This medicine is more effective than other medicines. If you really get pregnant in the future and your pregnancy is difficult, take it immediately."
Su Qingrong suppressed the excitement in her eyes and said, "Thank you, Queen Mother, for the medicine."
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