Xue Rong smiled faintly and said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, you may not know that I have been feeling unwell recently. Today, Miss Liu San was summoned to the palace to check my pulse. Miss Liu San just gave me a medicinal diet recipe to nourish my pregnancy before I left the palace..."
Seeing that Emperor Mingzheng's face had darkened, Xue Rong gritted her teeth and continued, "It's not that I don't want to. It's my blessing to be able to accompany Your Majesty and listen to the teachings of Taoism. It's just that..." She covered her face and cried, "It's just that I was injured before. Miss Liu San said that if I don't take good care of myself after giving birth, my life might be in danger. I was afraid that Your Majesty would worry, so I kept it a secret and never told you."
Emperor Mingzheng's eyes flashed with a dark light. He glanced at Taixu, then stretched out his arms to embrace Xue Rong, and patiently coaxed her, "The girl from the Liu family was raised in the countryside since she was a child. How can her medical skills compare with those of the imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital? Didn't the Imperial Hospital's Lu Yuanpan often go to your palace to take your pulse? Every time he replied to me, he said that the baby in your belly is very stable. Rongrong, don't listen to the alarmist words of the girl from the Liu family."
"But..." Before Xue Rong could finish her words, she was interrupted by Emperor Mingzheng. His tone was already a little impatient: "Rongrong, even if you don't believe in Lu Yuanpan's medical skills, with Immortal Taixu here, are you still worried about any accidents? My supreme golden elixir will be refined in a few days. Immortal Taixu said that you are pregnant with my lucky star, so you should think that you came to Fengtianzhai these days to pray for my golden elixir. Don't you want me to live forever?"
Emperor Mingzheng's eyes became fierce. Having said that, Xue Rong knew she was in a difficult situation. If she continued to refuse, she would probably anger Emperor Mingzheng.
She could only pretend to be considerate and gentle: "If Your Majesty can live forever and attain the Tao, let alone asking me to come to Fengtianzhai to listen to the Taoism, you can even ask me to kneel in front of the Three Pure Ones every day to pray to Your Majesty. I will come tomorrow, but I still need to drink medicinal food every day. I hope Your Majesty will allow Yu Shu to accompany me."
Xue Rong really disliked the smoky and mysterious Fengtianzhai. The jade comb had been with her for many years and could handle things on her own. If she could follow it into the incense hall, she could also be prepared for any eventuality.
Emperor Mingzheng agreed immediately: "It will be easy to leave someone to serve you."
After Xue Rong left Fengtianzhai, her face looked very unhappy. In the past, Taixu believed that women were of the yin element and did not allow women in the harem to set foot in Fengtianzhai. But now, he asked her to go to the Xiangdian every day, and the emperor even allowed her to bring a jade comb easily, and did not care at all that the woman had a strong yin energy.
Yu Shu noticed something was wrong, but she kept silent all the way. When she returned to Changle Palace, she asked, "Madam, why do you look so unhappy? What did the emperor say?"
Xue Rong had been wondering all along why Taixu wanted her to go to Fengtianzhai to listen to the teachings. If it was just because she was pregnant with a lucky star and could pray for the emperor, it would be fine, but the fear was...
Xue Rong's hand, which was stroking her abdomen, paused slightly. She would be giving birth in three months, and nothing could go wrong at this time.
Xue Rong grabbed Yu Suo's hand with some force. She had always trusted Yu Suo. They had been dependent on each other in the palace over the years. Xue Rong seldom pretended in front of her and directly revealed her worries.
"That thief Taoist priest Taixu wants me to go to Fengtianzhai every day to listen to him preach Taoism. I refused several times, which made His Majesty unhappy. His Majesty said that the Supreme Golden Elixir will be refined soon. I am pregnant with a lucky star, and he wants me to go to Fengtianzhai to pray for the golden elixir. I have to agree, but I always feel that this matter is weird. In the past, His Majesty did not allow the women in the harem to go to the incense hall of Fengtianzhai. Even my most favored sister, Meishu, has never been in and out of Fengtianzhai. I don’t know what the thief Taoist priest Taixu is planning. I will be giving birth in three months, and now is the critical moment. I am afraid that the thief Taoist priest is going to harm the child in my belly!"
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