A hint of mockery flashed in Qingyu's eyes, but it quickly disappeared. "Is that so? Has Your Majesty forgotten what happened after Empress Dowager Li left...?"
She deliberately left her words unfinished, wanting to save him some face.
After Consort Li left, Hongli's life was not easy. He was often bullied in the Prince's quarters and was even forced to crawl between the legs of a eunuch. That's why he wanted to quickly find a mother to avoid such humiliation.
Only by experiencing it yourself can you truly empathize.
But Qingyu underestimated Hongli's heart of stone. He said arrogantly, "It doesn't matter. There are plenty of women in the harem to be his mothers."
"You..." Qingyu didn't expect him to answer like that, and her face turned red with anger.
"Protect my life!" Qingyu didn't want to talk to Hongli anymore, so she spoke directly to the midwife.
During this time, she secretly gave Rong Yun a wink, and Rong Yun understood and disappeared from her side without her noticing.
"Ulanara Qingyu, are you going to oppose me again?" Hongli's face was extremely ugly, his eyes staring at Qingyu with venomous intent, wishing he could tear her to pieces immediately.
He hated Qingyu's personality the most. He thought she had recovered, but it turned out that it was just a temporary change.
The midwife was so frightened that she dared not move, and for a moment she didn't know who to listen to.
Qingyu was not to be outdone. She said, "Your Majesty, I dare not. I only wish to ask you to think twice. If you were to give birth, would you rather save your life and have another child later, or give birth to this child and let others bully you?"
"Outrageous! Is that how you make a comparison?" Hongli shouted angrily.
"You won't know the pain until you're hit on the head. Only by using this analogy can Your Majesty understand," Qingyu said coldly, showing no fear.
"Hmph!" Hongli snorted coldly, trying his best to calm himself down. "I am the emperor, and everyone in the world must listen to me. If I want to protect the child, I will protect the child. It is none of your business to stop me."
After saying that, he looked at the midwife and said, "Hurry up and go inside."
The midwife nodded in agreement and was about to get up and go inside when she heard a baby crying.
It turns out that the look he gave Rong Yun earlier was a signal for her to sneak into the palace and tell the people inside to save the baby.
The baby's cries had already begun, but Rong Yun still hadn't come out. Qingyu couldn't help but feel uneasy, thinking: Had they been discovered?
Just as she was hesitating whether to go in and check on the situation, another midwife inside ran out in a panic.
"Your Majesty, Consort Shu, she..." The midwife was so frightened that her teeth were chattering, and she couldn't utter a single word.
Just then, it started snowing. The white snowflakes fluttered down and landed on everyone.
But no one pays attention to the beautiful scenery at this moment.
Wei Yanqing, unaware of the situation inside, thought it was her dream come true. She smiled first, then squeezed out two tears from somewhere and said to Hongli, "My sister Shufei has passed away. I hope Your Majesty can accept this loss with compassion."
“No…” The midwife shook her head. “Consort Shu is fine.”
"What?" Wei Yanqing exclaimed in shock, incredulous. "Where's the child?"
"The baby is fine," the midwife replied.
"Since mother and child are safe, why are you looking like this?" Wei Yanqing frowned. Wasn't this just playing a trick on her?
But the midwife wouldn't dare to mess with Wei Yanqing, since she wasn't Qingyu's person.
The midwife continued, "That's because Consort Shu gave birth to a monster."
"What monster? What nonsense are you spouting?" Hongli shouted angrily.
"This servant wouldn't dare to speak nonsense. If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can see for yourself!" the midwife cried, regretting that she should have pretended to be sick and not come to deliver the baby today.
"Bring him up," Hongli ordered.
Immediately, a nanny brought the child to Hongli, who glanced at him and then took several steps back.
He looked frightened.
Qingyu wasn't afraid, so she went forward to take a look, but she was stunned as soon as she saw it.
"This is albinism!" she muttered to herself.
The child's facial features were normal, but his skin, hair, and eyelashes were all white. It wasn't actually that scary; it was Hongli's limited knowledge that frightened him.
It's because the two are cousins, and their close blood relationship led to the birth of this unusual child.
"A monster! This is a monster!" Wei Yanqing was startled at first, but then she realized what was happening and quickly grabbed Hongli's sleeve. "Burn him! He'll be a menace if we leave him alive."
She thought she was bound to be punished today, but unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better.
"It's so noisy!"
Hearing Wei Yanqing's screams, Qingyu became very annoyed and couldn't help but raise her hand and slap it in the face.
"You hit me?" Wei Yanqing covered her face, her eyes filled with tears.
"I'll hit you if I want. I'm your wife, and you're my concubine. It's only natural." Qingyu said, biting her lip. "If you dare to say another word, I'll definitely hit you again."
Wei Yanqing was speechless and could only look pitifully at Hongli, "Your Majesty, you must do something for me..."
But before she could finish speaking, Hongli glared at her and said, "Shut up, or go back inside."
Upon hearing this, Wei Yanqing obediently shut her mouth.
Hongli naturally didn't care why his child was like this; what he worried about was that if the world found out, he would be laughed at to death.
He pondered for a long time before finally saying in a deep voice, "Take them away and burn them. As for those present, anyone who dares to leak even the slightest information will be killed without mercy!"
Upon hearing Hongli's instructions, everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, saying they understood.
Qingyu coldly observed Hongli's indifference. This was his own flesh and blood, and when he said to burn her to death, not a trace of reluctance appeared in his eyes.
"No...no!" a weak female voice cried out, "Your Majesty, please spare our child."
Qingyu looked up at the sound and saw a woman dressed in thin clothes with a pale face walking over. She was about thirty years old and had a beautiful face, even more beautiful than Wei Yanqing.
This is Consort Shu, Ziyan, who escaped death.
Despite her weakness from childbirth, she knelt on the cold ground, begging Hongli to spare the child. She said she didn't want anything, including the position of Consort Shu that Hongli had promised her.
But Hongli just shook his head; he was determined to kill this child! He wouldn't allow himself to have a monster child.
Looking at the situation before her, Qingyu felt a slight pain in her heart. The stupidity of the feudal era was truly harmful. Just because of albinism, she was to be burned to death.
That's a newborn baby.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, as if it were crying for the child.
Then, a thought flashed through her mind: she had a way to save the child.
Seeing that the child was about to be taken away by the eunuchs, Qingyu quickly said, "Wait!"
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