"Later, I don't know why I had unbearable abdominal pain. After drinking the brown sugar water that Shen Rouci sent, my stomach pain stopped and my period came. So I didn't take it seriously."
"Could it be that I have unknowingly lost a child?"
When the Empress spoke of this, her voice trembled slightly.
“What’s done is done. There’s no way to investigate it now.” Mi Shan looked at her deeply. “After your period that time, did you bleed more each time than before?”
"yes."
Mi Shan didn't say anything more.
Her silence only confirmed the Empress's suspicions.
"What a cunning and ruthless woman! She was plotting to harm me back then!"
"What grudge do I have against her that she would use such a vicious scheme to make me unable to conceive for the rest of my life? My poor unborn child, completely disregarded by this foolish mother..."
Empress Ru choked back a sob before regaining her composure, a flame of hatred igniting in her eyes.
"If I hadn't summoned Shen Rouci to the Prince's residence back then, she wouldn't be where she is today!"
"She was just a lowly maid who cooked and tended the fire, taking care of the wet nurse's food and drink,"
"Taking advantage of the opportunity to have contact with the eldest prince, they began to show him care and concern from when he was still an infant,"
"And by using the eldest prince, he got close to and took care of the emperor who had just lost Consort Lou."
"I was too careless at the time. I never expected that the Emperor would take a fancy to a maid who does rough work."
He repeatedly favored her until she became pregnant, at which point she was made a concubine.
"And then she gave birth to the current Crown Prince, securing her position as Empress."
At this point, Consort Ru clutched her chest and pounded on the armrest of her chair. "What I hate most is that I misjudged people and let someone like her into the palace!"
"Sister just said that the Empress was just a lowly maid. How could she have risen to the position of Crown Princess and now Empress? Doesn't anyone question that?"
As a concubine's daughter, Mi Shan was well aware of the true colors of these powerful people.
They would never allow someone of such low status to sit in such a high position.
This only made Mi Shan more curious about the Empress's methods.
"At that time, Empress Dowager Shen Xi was still alive. Shen Rouci got close to this Empress Dowager by relying on the eldest prince. She won the favor of the Empress Dowager."
"She was included in the Shen family genealogy, and the emperor even changed her name, changing her original name Jiang Zi to Shen Zi, and bestowing upon her the title of Rou Ci."
"That's how she came to be the illegitimate and unjustly named Empress Rouci."
I see.
Upon hearing this, Mi Shan felt that she understood the Empress even better.
It seems that her rise to power was a calculated and ambitious one.
"In this harem, it's hard to judge right and wrong. Wasn't the Empress just as ruthless towards Qin Miaomiao, trying to take the life of the child in her womb?"
Upon hearing this...
Empress Ru's expression changed slightly, but she did not deny it, instead offering a disdainful sneer:
"What kind of status does Qin Miaomiao have that she dares to repeatedly step on my head and act so presumptuously? Last time when she paid her respects, she openly disrespected Qianzhong, which means she doesn't take me seriously."
"I am merely giving her a small punishment as a warning."
"I had that maid give her a slow-acting poison, but I didn't intend to kill her."
"Who knew that she looked so energetic and healthy, but was actually in such poor health that after this incident, she was completely unable to get pregnant."
Empress Ru frowned and sighed, "I have also suffered greatly in this regard. My only intention was not to let her give birth to a prince. She is still young. Who knew it would lead to such consequences?"
"So, you were the one who found that maid. But the Empress seized the opportunity and, under torture, made her change her testimony and shift the blame onto me."
After Mi Shan finished speaking,
Empress Ru nodded in deep agreement: "That's right, it's clear that the Empress really can't tolerate you. No wonder, sister, you are so favored by the Emperor, and you happen to look somewhat like Consort Lou."
"It's normal for her to feel a sense of crisis."
Empress Ru looked at her meaningfully.
Mi Shan met her gaze directly, trying to find a flaw in it, but found only envy, jealousy, and reminiscence of the past in her eyes.
"How did Consort Lou die? Do you know, sister?"
"According to the Emperor, she died suddenly from poor health and overwork. I didn't think much of it. She never liked going out and always locked herself in her room, drinking lots of soups and medicines to prolong her life."
What bad luck! It's not surprising he died suddenly.
Judging from the Empress's nonchalant tone, she didn't seem to have much of a feeling towards this concubine.
He still harbored more resentment towards the one sitting on the phoenix throne.
After all, he was being trampled on by a woman who was inferior to him in every way...
"If I had a child, how could she possibly sit on this throne!"
"So, little sister, you must help your older sister. I know you must have a way."
Mi Shan lowered her eyes for a moment, walked to the table, and wrote down a prescription.
He then handed her a medicine packet.
"Have someone you trust get the medicine according to this prescription, and add two qian of this ingredient when decocting it."
"Drink this for a month, and you will see results."
"I am deeply grateful to my younger sister for her kindness."
Empress Ru was also eager for a child. Upon hearing that there was hope, her eyes welled up with tears, and she thanked Mi Shan profusely.
They left the palace gates.
Empress Ru immediately instructed Rong Ting to take the medicine packet to check whether the prescription and medicine were safe.
If there are no problems, then decoct the medicine according to the prescription.
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Jingren Palace.
Empress Rouci was confined to the palace for three days. Upon learning the news, the eldest prince frequently visited his mother.
When Li Xuanche went there today, he found that the fruit displayed in the palace was less, and the flowers had withered yesterday.
A sudden, inexplicable fire ignited in his heart.
"You bastards! These lackeys dare to treat Mother so poorly just because she has temporarily lost power!"
"Watch me chop off their dog heads!"
"Che'er, don't be impulsive. Those servants are just doing what your father wants."
Empress Rouci coughed twice and spoke weakly.
"Now that the palace's food, clothing and daily necessities have been reduced by half, it's good to be more frugal."
"But I can't swallow this insult. Father and Mother have always had a harmonious relationship. Although you are not as favored as those wicked concubines, Father has always treated Mother with great kindness. Mother, even if you don't say it, I have already found out that it was Consort Mi Hui who harmed you like this, isn't that right?"
Anger flashed across Li Xuanche's cold, handsome face, and his hand silently rested on the hilt of his sword.
"Che'er, what do you want to do? You're not allowed to go!"
"Mother, why are you stopping your son? Don't worry, I won't do anything to Mi Shan. At most, I'll just scare her so she can't lay a hand on you again!"
"What Mother is worried about is not that, but that even you are no match for her," Empress Rouci said gently, narrowing her eyes.
"joke!"
Li Xuanche seemed to have never heard of such a fantastical tale before; a sarcastic and arrogant smile curled at the corner of his lips.
"How could I, a dignified general and a man of nine feet tall, be unable to deal with a weak woman who has no strength to even kill a chicken?"
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