Gu Qilan frowned tightly and interrupted Concubine Liu: "Enough! Come, pass on my decree. Concubine Liu is demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace!"
Concubine Liu looked like she was going crazy. She burst into laughter: "Hahahaha...it's all your fault...hahahaha..."
Concubine Liu was dragged away, her figure getting farther and farther away, until the moment she disappeared, the sound of a baby crying was heard in the room.
Hearing the child's loud and powerful cry, Gu Qilan's frown finally relaxed slightly.
After a while, another cry was heard.
The midwife came out with a happy face and announced the good news: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, Miss Ning has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Both mother and child are doing well."
After hearing what the midwife said, Gu Qilan's tense face relaxed. He couldn't wait to go in and take a look, but the midwife stopped him: "Your Majesty, you can't. Everything inside is not cleaned up yet."
Ning Chen was relieved to hear that his sister had safely given birth. He said, "Your Majesty, the place inside hasn't been cleaned up yet, and my sister must be exhausted from giving birth. Why don't we go in later?"
Gu Qilan nodded: "Okay."
At this time, the midwife had already washed the children and wrapped them in a soft and thick quilt. Gu Qilan looked at the two red and wrinkled babies without a trace of disgust in his heart.
This is his first pair of twin boys and girls, and it will probably be his only pair, after all, twin boys and girls are rare.
He ordered, "Song Qu, have the Ministry of Internal Affairs select a few wet nurses to take care of the fifth prince and the fifth princess."
Song Qu smiled and responded: "I obey your order."
He looked at the child for a while and then left Shuqing Palace. After all, a palace coup had just occurred. Although all the people involved had been cleared out, there were still many things to do afterwards.
Inside the house, Ning Yuxi, having given birth to her children, forced herself to clean up the mess, then looked at her two children before falling asleep from exhaustion.
When she woke up, it was already dark. Ruyi and Luoying had already prepared nourishing meals and were about to serve them to her.
She didn't rush to eat, but called the two people over and asked, "How are your injuries?"
At that time, Concubine Liu rushed in with her men, and Ruyi and Luoying were badly beaten by the two guards in order to protect her.
The two of them felt warm in their hearts when they saw their master waking up and the first thing he did was to show concern for them. Luoying smiled and said, "Don't worry, master, we are fine. We just have some bruises and have already applied medicine."
Ruyi also said: "Yes, master, don't worry about us. You have just given birth and you are weak. Come and have your meal." As she spoke, Ruyi fed her a spoonful of rice.
Ning Yu had no choice but to eat her meal first. Thinking about what happened today, she still didn't quite understand, so she asked, "What happened today?"
Luo Ying replied, "It was General Liu who rebelled. He was rescued from prison by his men and joined forces with them to force the palace to rebel. However, the Emperor seemed to have anticipated his actions and secretly released General Ning from prison.
He and a group of imperial guards disguised themselves as imperial guards and ambushed the palace, while the Duke of Yu led his men to ambush outside the palace, and when General Liu and his men broke into the palace, they attacked from both inside and outside.
"The Emperor ordered General Liu to be executed by slow slicing. All the men in the Liu family were beheaded, and the women were cast into slavery. The Emperor also demoted Concubine Liu to a commoner and banished her to the cold palace."
Listening to Luoying's narration, Ning Yuxi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The emperor had been reluctant to punish General Liu before. It seemed that he was waiting for him, waiting for him to lose patience and rebel.
What kind of place is a prison? Without the Emperor's deliberate action, how could anyone rescue General Liu at will?
But the emperor deliberately gave him the opportunity to rebel? What was the emperor's purpose in doing this?
She suddenly thought of a possibility. The emperor did this just to make public opinion condemn General Liu and prevent people from saying that he was being abandoned.
General Liu supported the emperor all the way to the throne, and the emperor also gave him the highest honor. However, his achievements were too great and frightened the emperor. In addition, General Liu kept making various moves in private, and the emperor was afraid that he had long wanted to kill him.
But if he killed him rashly, people would inevitably think that he was being unkind and killing the donkey after it had served its purpose, so he made General Liu bear the crime of forcing the emperor to abdicate and rebelling before killing him, which was justified!
Emperors are indeed cold-blooded and heartless. When they kill someone, they want the world to think that the person deserves to die and that they have done nothing wrong.
Indeed, Gu Qilan is such a cold-blooded person. Think about it, she gave birth to Cheng Zhao for him before, and the relationship between the two was harmonious after Cheng Zhao was born, but no matter what happened, he still coldly abolished her position.
Ning Yuxi frowned slightly when she thought of this. Although Concubine Liu and the Liu family had fallen, her charges had not been cleared yet. The emperor might move her to the cold palace at any time.
Even if the emperor doesn't remember this, there are plenty of people in the harem who will make him remember it.
Sure enough, when the emperor and the empress came to visit the twins and her the next day, someone couldn't hold back anymore.
Ning Yuxi was really surprised at the scene in front of her. It would be fine if the Queen accompanied the Emperor, after all, the Queen was the principal wife, and it was normal for her to visit the children born to concubines.
But the other concubines also came, and after some condolences, things got back to business.
The first person to speak was Qinpin, who had nothing to do with her. She spoke as if unintentionally:
"Sister Ning is so blessed. First she had the third prince whom the emperor cherished, and now she has safely given birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
This blessing is really enviable. I saw the third prince at the Queen Mother's place a few days ago. He was so white and plump, so attractive."
Ning Yuxi's heart skipped a beat when she heard her words. Mentioning Cheng Zhao for no reason only reminded her of why the Emperor took Cheng Zhao away from her and gave him to the Empress Dowager to raise.
Sure enough, as soon as these words were spoken, the emperor's expression turned cold.
Jingpin (formerly Zhou Changzai) beside her immediately said:
"Haha, it's definitely better for the Third Prince to be raised by the Queen Mother than by the Ning family. Who knows what Ning family will come up with to poison the Third Prince to win his favor?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the bedroom became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The matter was made clear, and the Queen could no longer play dumb. She spoke out, "Your Majesty, now that Ning has given birth to a prince, should she still be moved to the cold palace?"
Gu Qilan remained silent with a sullen face. Ning Yuxi leaned against the bed and said calmly, "Your Majesty, I swear I was framed. I beg Your Majesty to conduct a rigorous investigation of the people around Liu in the cold palace to clear my name."
The confidants around Concubine Liu must have known about this. Now that Concubine Liu has lost power and been banished to the cold palace, everyone around her has been punished and sent to the Xinzheku. As long as they are strictly interrogated, they will definitely be able to find out the truth.
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