This explanation was pale and powerless to Xue Qingshang.
These weren't the words she came here to hear. She just didn't know what to do, and she didn't know who to hate!
Ajie almost sacrificed half her life to have this child. She never knew that a person could bleed so much. It was like water overflowing, flowing out from under Ajie's body. She couldn't stop it with her hands.
When Xue Qingshang thought of her elder sister lying on the bed sobbing in agony and the pink and tender baby boy that could fit in her two hands, she immediately broke down and cried. She squatted down and burst into tears, repeating with sobs, "That was a baby boy. He should have been alive! He should have been alive!"
Yu Jiao's emotions were extremely complicated at this moment. She felt a little guilty and even began to doubt herself. Was the decision she made last night wrong? As a doctor, she shouldn't watch someone die without saving him. Just as Xue Qingshang said, she was too timid. Although it was human instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, as a doctor, she didn't have the most basic kindness...
Just as Yu Jiao fell into self-denial, a hand was placed on her shoulder. Yu Jiao barely came back to her senses and looked over.
Yu Qizhe got off the carriage at some point and walked to her side.
His palm rested on Yu Jiao's shoulder, as if supporting her.
He didn't say anything to Yu Jiao, but looked at Xue Qingshang who was squatting on the ground crying, and said in a cold voice: "You shouldn't have come to Yu Jiao. The imperial doctors in the palace are not for show. The county lady should think about why Concubine Xue's child can't be born safely? Concubine Xue has been imprisoned in Changle Palace. If the county lady can't wake up and be independent, and think of a way to keep the honor and favor of the Jingyuan Earl's Mansion, then Concubine Xue will have no hope for the rest of her life. The county lady should know who to go to now, instead of complaining here about the innocent people involved."
Xue Qingshang was not stupid. She also knew that all the honor and favor of the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion depended on her elder sister, and her father was a hopeless person who was selfish and only cared about himself.
When the elder sister was favored, he relied on her honor and favor to act domineeringly. When he learned that the elder sister had stabbed the emperor with a hairpin after losing the royal heir last night, he was so scared that he scolded the elder sister and went to the palace to apologize to the emperor, for fear that his title would be stripped.
She was just... just too scared, too panicked, and didn't know who to ask for help or what to do, so she came here to blame Liu Yujiao and find an outlet to vent about what happened last night.
What happened in the palace last night was beyond what she could bear, and her knowledge and vision were simply not enough to resolve the situation.
She had always known that she had been well protected by her elder sister since she was a child, but it was not until her elder sister's umbrella fell that she truly realized what her elder sister's protection meant to her.
She was able to grow up carefree, with the honor of a county lady, and she could get anything she wanted effortlessly. She was envied by everyone, all because of her elder sister's favor.
But my sister stabbed the emperor last night, causing him to be furious. He ordered that my sister be imprisoned in Changle Palace, and no one in Changle Palace is allowed to step out of the palace again. This is tantamount to locking my sister up in the cold palace!
She pleaded for mercy on behalf of her elder sister, but was forcibly driven out of the palace and was almost imprisoned in Changle Palace.
My elder sister fell out of favor and even stabbed the emperor.
At this moment, Xue Qingshang realized very clearly that the big umbrella that her elder sister always held above her head had fallen down.
How could the wolves and tigers who secretly disliked the Jingyuan Marquis's mansion not add insult to injury? The concubines in the harem who were jealous of my sister's favor and blocked their way would try to trip her up? And the deposed Zhu Yu, he had always regarded my sister as a thorn in his side...
Thinking of this, Xue Qingshang gradually calmed down after crying bitterly. At this time, she shouldn't cry and just resent and blame others. It was her elder sister who protected her in the past, but now she should be sober and independent to protect her elder sister.
Otherwise, who can I rely on?
Xue Qingshang raised her head, her eyes, red and swollen from tears, looked straight at Yu Qizhe, asking for his advice: "You are right, Lord Yu, please tell me, who can help my sister?"
Yu Qizhe saw this scene, and then he spoke: "The county lady shouldn't ask me. The reason why Concubine Xue has been able to stand firm in the harem for so many years is not just because of the emperor's favor. The county lady should know better than me who the Xue family is close to."
Xue Qingshang's eyes lit up. She had already thought of who to find. Although Yu Qizhe did not say it explicitly, the only one who could help her sister was Prime Minister Shen.
Faced with such a sudden change, she really lost her mind. Instead of going to Prime Minister Shen for help, she ran here to cry and make accusations.
But... Xue Qingshang clutched the handkerchief in her hand, feeling somewhat uneasy. What happened in the palace last night was known to Yu Qizhe, a junior official of Dali Temple. Shen Tiangui, as the chief minister of the cabinet, could not possibly not know that something had happened to her elder sister, so why didn't he make any statement?
After witnessing Emperor Mingzheng's ruthlessness in the palace last night, Xue Qingshang really had no confidence.
She looked at Yu Qizhe as if grasping at a life-saving straw: "Master Yu, will he help my sister?"
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