Seeing this, Ning Yuxi immediately turned over the mattress. Sure enough, this was not the slightly hard mattress she usually slept on.
This mattress feels thicker and softer, and the pattern of the fabric on the outside is exactly the same as the one she usually uses.
Seeing this, Ruyi and Luoying were also shocked. It was just as their master said, the mattress had been replaced!
Ning Yuxi suppressed her chaotic thoughts and carefully examined the mattress. After a while, she didn't find anything wrong. She even smelled the smell, but there was nothing unusual.
She frowned unconsciously. Was she making a fuss out of nothing?
Ning Yuxi didn't believe it, so she took a pair of scissors and cut open the outer layer of the mattress, but found that the ice silk inside, which should have been as white as snow, was slightly yellow.
"..." It's not that she is dirty. These things are cleaned and replaced regularly. Although they will turn yellow after being used for a long time, as she is a favored concubine, who would dare to neglect them? These things will be thrown away and replaced with new ones before they turn yellow.
So she was sure that there must be something strange about the strange color of the ice silk!
She couldn't figure out what was strange, so Ning Yuxi asked Ruyi to go to the Imperial Hospital to invite the imperial physician for a check. The imperial physician was very surprised to see that Concubine Yi actually asked him to check the core in the bedding.
But as he examined her for a longer time, his frown deepened. Suddenly, Doctor Li threw away the quilt in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, this quilt has traces of being soaked in medicine."
As expected, Ning Yuxi pressed the issue, "Doctor Li, can you tell what this medicine is?"
Doctor Li stroked his long beard, frowned, and thought, "If I'm not mistaken, this medicine contains cold and yin substances, and also has ingredients that can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis."
Ning Yuxi's heart sank. Isn't this an abortion weapon that will directly cause miscarriage!
As if thinking of what Ning Yuxi was thinking, Doctor Li said, "It's just that the content is very small. If you want it to work, you need a trigger."
"Introduction?"
"Yes, this trigger can be some kind of medicine, or it can be in a special environment. It will only take effect after the body reaches a certain level."
In other words, simply coming into contact with the medicine in the mattress will not cause a miscarriage or something. There needs to be a trigger, and what is this trigger?
She must have been exposed to it, because she was indeed born prematurely, so what was she exposed to during that period?
Doctor Li obviously thought of her inexplicable premature birth a few days ago and looked at her in shock: "Your Majesty, this..."
Ning Yuxi didn't say anything, but looked back at Doctor Li with deep eyes. After a while, Doctor Li sighed deeply. The flashing of swords and the fighting of sabers were common in the harem. He was just thankful that Concubine Yi had survived the premature and difficult labor.
"This medicine is colorless and tasteless. If I hadn't seen it before, I wouldn't have recognized it!"
Colorless and odorless? No wonder she didn't notice anything unusual just now. If she hadn't cut open the mattress, she wouldn't have discovered the abnormality of the mattress core.
Doctor Li had been gone for a long time, and Ning Yuxi couldn't think of anything different that she had come into contact with. Ruyi and Luoying also said that they had checked everything about her pregnancy repeatedly.
Since she couldn't think of what it had touched, she decided to think about when the mattress had been replaced. Ning Yuxi noticed the difference about half a month before she gave birth, and at that time...
At that time, Cheng Zhao was infected with a cold by the Second Prince and fell ill. She hurried to Chonghua Palace to see Cheng Zhao. Only then did she have the opportunity to change her mattress. After all, her bedroom did not allow others to enter and leave at will. She usually only took one of Ruyi or Luoying with her when she went out, and left the other one to look after her.
That day, she ran to Chonghua Palace in a hurry, and Ruyi and Luoying followed her out of worry. The mattress must have been changed at that time.
Thinking of this, Ning Yuxi suddenly had an epiphany. She had never understood why the Queen would let the Second Prince get sick and infect Cheng Zhao. Now it seemed that there must be something fishy about the cold.
The fact that Cheng Zhao still had chills after so many days of recovery showed that the cold was definitely not an ordinary cold. She guessed that the Queen's infection of Cheng Zhao was secondary, and the main reason was that the disease was transmitted to her through Cheng Zhao!
And this disease is probably the cause mentioned by the imperial physician!
What a good plan!
The baby she was pregnant with was unstable to begin with, and the Queen's action caused her to give birth prematurely and encounter a difficult labor, which made it very likely that she would not survive. The best outcome would be the death of both mother and child. At worst, as long as she died, the child would be born without a problem. A child without a mother would be at her mercy.
This plan was a chain reaction. If she hadn't bumped into the Second Prince when she went to Chonghua Palace to see Cheng Zhao, she wouldn't have known that his illness hadn't healed and had infected Cheng Zhao. If she hadn't thought about changing to a softer mattress today, she wouldn't have known that there was something wrong with the previous mattress...
Then, even if she escaped difficult labor and premature birth, she would still be kept in the dark forever.
It is true that there is a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but you cannot be on guard against thieves for a thousand days. She was so careful and cautious but still fell into someone's trap. Fortunately, she was lucky enough not to die on the day of giving birth.
Queen!
"Master, let's go and tell the emperor now that the queen is cruel and intends to murder you and the royal heir. The emperor will definitely not forgive her!" Ruyi's face was full of anger and she wanted to eat people.
Luoying, who was always calm, was furious. "Yes, Master, the Queen is so vicious. If the Emperor knew about this, he would definitely take care of you."
Ning Yuxi shook her head slightly. This matter alone could not bring down the queen. After all, she was fine now, and the royal heir was also fine. Even if the emperor was angry, he could not directly depose the queen.
After all, the Queen has the Chu family behind her. The Chu family is an old and aristocratic family in the capital with deep roots. There are nearly a hundred children of the family serving as officials in the court, not to mention some of the Chu family's relatives and old friends.
If she and the child were dead this time, the emperor would probably depose the queen directly, and the Chu family would have nothing to say. But now she and the child are still fine, and the Chu family will not agree to the emperor deposing the queen.
If you want to overthrow the queen, you must either wait for the Chu family to fall, or the queen must have committed more serious crimes.
The Chu family has always acted cautiously and would not do anything too extreme. Otherwise, they would not have been so peaceful for so many years. It would be impossible to wait for their downfall.
Then, it’s only the latter!
Thinking of this, Ning Yuxi called Ruyi and Luoying over and gave them detailed instructions.
…
More than two months passed in the blink of an eye. Ning Yuxi was injured during the childbirth, so she stayed in confinement for two days at the request of the emperor and the imperial physician.
Not long after she came out of confinement, Concubine Xian came to visit with the third princess.
At that time, Ning Yuxi was in a pavilion in the backyard, teasing the seventh prince in his cradle.
It was an autumn evening, the sunset was warm but not hot, accompanied by a gentle autumn breeze, and the innocent laughter of babies was in my ears. It was truly a peaceful time, which made people feel happy and at ease.
"You'll enjoy it."
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