Chapter 401 What will happen if I go there?
"Send the princess's people away properly, and tell her that they are all women and there is no need to be embarrassed. They can just make do with it tonight. I don't have many here, so I'll send some over tomorrow."
"Here is a particularly good prescription for pain relief. This palace also drinks it in advance every month. You can also make some for the princess when you go back. You can ask the palace servants to go to the Imperial Hospital to get the herbs."
"Send the girl out properly. The Princess Regent is a guest of Beining and must not be neglected."
The palace maid understood immediately when she heard it. The Regent Princess might have suddenly had her period and was not prepared but was too embarrassed to tell her, so she asked someone to ask the Queen for those things.
After Guo Lu left, the queen did not sleep all night until dawn when she heard the palace maids' reports one after another.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Zhang gave birth to a stillborn baby, severely damaging her vitality. She will never have children again. When the Emperor heard it was a boy, he vomited blood on the spot. He has now been carried back to his bedroom."
"Also, last night someone sneaked into the Regent Princess's palace and tried to assassinate her, but was killed instead. And... it was a woman."
The Queen frowned. The Regent Princess was now one of their own, so nothing could happen to her.
"Who is it? How dare they assassinate the Regent Princess in the palace? Has the whole family had enough?"
The Queen's personal maid knelt on the ground, not daring to look up. "It's... it's Gu Lingxiu from the Gu family. Right now, Madam Gu is blocking the Regent Princess in the palace, crying and demanding that the Regent Princess pay for her daughter's life."
The Queen snorted softly, "How shameless of her to raise such a shameless and calculating creature and yet she dares to ask the Princess Regent to pay with her life. If the Princess gets serious about this, she might not even be able to save her own life."
The senior palace maid hesitated for a moment: "Your Majesty, there is... one more thing."
"Speaking of which, it's quite lively this early in the morning. I'd like to hear if there's anything else going on."
"That's right... the fire in Luoyang Palace wouldn't go out no matter how hard we tried. It burned all night, until dawn, when Luoyang Palace was completely burned to ashes, and then it slowly died out on its own."
The head maid swallowed and continued, "After the fire was extinguished, the palace servants went in to check and found that everyone in Luoyang Palace was dead inside."
"And... and there are two bodies in Concubine Rou's bedroom. They were still entangled when they died. It's obvious that they were... in..."
"I'm afraid it was because these two people were too careless that they failed to discover the fire in time and lost their lives."
The Queen was stunned. Didn't Lu'er say yesterday that Concubine Rou's lover had been rescued? So one of the two bodies now must be Concubine Rou's, and the other... was probably the Princess's masterpiece.
But since the road has been paved, she should just keep going. Otherwise, wouldn't her role as queen be in vain?
"Does the Emperor know about this?"
The head maid shook her head and said, "The emperor doesn't know yet. When I came here, the head of the Imperial Hospital had just finished giving the emperor an acupuncture treatment. He said he wouldn't wake up for an hour."
The Queen stood up and put on her phoenix robe: "Let's go, let's go to the Regent Princess first. The Princess is a guest, and we must not let anyone bump into her."
The senior palace maid hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you go see the Emperor first? If the Emperor wakes up and finds that Your Majesty is not here, will he..."
The Queen took the hand of the palace maid and walked towards the palace where Buruo was temporarily staying. "What will happen if I go there? Can I really revive the child in Concubine Zhang's belly?"
The palace maid stopped talking. She noticed that there seemed to be something different about their queen today. The queen hadn't been involved in the affairs of the harem for a long time. As long as it didn't come to her sight, she would pretend not to see it.
But today... why does she feel that her master is full of fighting spirit and passion?
When the queen arrived at the gate of the palace where Buruo was temporarily staying, she did not ask anyone to announce it, but... she started to eavesdrop.
The head maid was the queen's dowry. Seeing that her master's face had the expression of childhood again, her mouth opened slightly. Her queen... has she figured it out?
She had been with her master since she was a child. Her master had never been truly happy in all the years since she entered the palace. Outside, she always had the demeanor and a proper smile of a queen on her face. Only when it was late at night and everyone was asleep would she stand in front of the window and look at the sky, wondering what she was thinking.
In the palace, Bu Ruo sat on a chair in the corridor with her legs crossed and eating melon seeds, while Madam Gu sat on the ground crying like a shrew.
"You are the Regent Princess of the Great Zhou, not from our Beining. Why are you so arrogant?"
"You cut off the tongues of officials and their wives at a palace banquet, and poured scalding tea on my face and my daughter's face. Even if you are the princess, you can't take human life lightly."
"My daughter stayed in the palace with the Imperial Concubine last night. She felt that her words at the palace banquet were inappropriate, so she came to apologize to you, Princess. I didn't expect you to be so narrow-minded and not only would you not forgive her, you would even kill her!"
"Today...if you don't return my daughter to me, I...I..."
Bu Ruo raised her chin slightly: "What are you doing? Are you going to die here? Do you think this princess will be afraid?"
"But I'm in a good mood today. Look, your daughter is under the big tree over there. I'm giving her back to you. Take her away~"
Mrs. Gu actually just heard that Bu Ruo killed Gu Lingxiu, but she didn't believe it in her heart. She thought Gu Lingxiu had successfully climbed into the Regent's bed, and Bu Ruo was angry and locked the person up and shouted for his death. After all, this was the Beining Palace, and she didn't believe that the other party would have the courage to kill people here.
But when she turned around and saw the body lying on its back under the big tree, she was instantly stunned with fear.
"No... no no no... this is not true. You just locked Lingxiu up. You didn't actually kill her, right?"
"This is the Beining Imperial Palace. You can't do this... You wouldn't dare..."
"This isn't Lingxiu... This definitely isn't Lingxiu. She just looks like Lingxiu. No, no, it definitely isn't her."
Bu Ruo lazily leaned back in the chair: "Madam Gu, are you still asleep so early in the morning? How come you can't even recognize your own daughter?"
"Oh, I understand. You're quite clever. You want to distance yourself from Gu Lingxiu, right? After all, Gu Lingxiu sneaked into my palace last night with the intention of assassinating me. If I insist on pursuing this, I'm afraid your Gu family will be in trouble."
"Impossible!" Madam Gu yelled, "My Lingxiu only came to apologize to the princess, how could she assassinate you? There must be a misunderstanding!"
"Let's take a step back and say, even if it's really Lingxiu who wants to assassinate you, you can leave it to the Queen to handle. You are the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty. What right do you have to take the life of my Beining official wife in the harem?"
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