After confirming that Concubine Rong and everyone in the Duke of Jin's mansion were doomed to die, Bai Yuzhi no longer paid much attention to this matter. She was now pregnant with two children and began to be forced to take care of the pregnancy again.
Later, Jin Tai brought up the matter, saying that Concubine Rong and the deposed Queen Su were burned to death for arson, Pei Sheng was beheaded, Duke Jin and his eldest son Yue Chengliu were both sentenced to death by slow slicing, and the rest of the implicated people were mostly beheaded in public.
In short, all the people in this group are dead, and they will definitely not have any impact on Bai Yuzhi's mission.
When she was in the fifth month of pregnancy, Emperor Qin Huan found that her belly was rounder than when she was pregnant with Hu An. He was worried and asked Doctor Xu to come and check. Finally, he found out that she was pregnant with two babies.
When the news reached the Queen Mother, she cried with joy and kept praying that it was the Buddha's blessing.
Bai Yuzhi's status in the harem was already unrivaled, and now it is even more stable.
This time, without the intervention of Rong Fei and others, Bai Yuzhi's pregnancy went very smoothly without any reaction, and she reached the eighth month.
Because they were twins, Doctor Xu said that they must walk more so that the delivery would be easier. So this time Bai Yuzhi did not cancel the morning and evening visits like she did when she was pregnant with Hu'an, but just postponed the time. She still went to Shoukang Palace to sit every day.
But early that morning, just as Bai Yuzhi was about to get up and go to Shoukang Palace to pay his respects, he suddenly heard the news that the empress dowager had fallen ill.
This was indeed a bit sudden. Bai Yuzhi was a little shocked. She waited until noon to ask Doctor Xu who came to take her pulse.
Doctor Xu said, "The Empress Dowager has long been showing signs of a stroke. As she ages, she can no longer tolerate extreme joy or sorrow. She wasn't feeling well when she fainted in front of the Purple Palace, and now..."
Bai Yuzhi suddenly realized that when the fire broke out in the Purple Palace, the empress dowager fainted because she could not bear the shock of Hu An's disappearance. Although she did not reveal anything in front of her these days, she probably concealed it deliberately because she was worried that she was pregnant. In fact, her body had been exhausted for a long time.
Later, he was so happy about the news of his twins that his body couldn't bear the excitement. It was only at this time that he fell completely ill.
As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain falling, and passes like a thread being pulled out. At the Queen Mother's age, once the mountain falls, the thread cannot be pulled out. From that day on, Emperor Qin Huan ordered Bai Yuzhi not to go to Shoukang Palace again, so as not to disturb the child.
However, the Empress Dowager's illness was lingering and she was on the verge of death. She could only be kept alive by various precious medicinal herbs.
That day, Emperor Qin Huan suddenly relented and asked Bai Yuzhi to go to Shoukang Palace. Bai Yuzhi then understood that the Queen Mother might only live for a day or two.
She entered Shoukang Palace. The whole hall was filled with the bitter and unpleasant smell of traditional Chinese medicine. The light was dim because she didn't dare to open the window. The empress dowager lying on the bed was barely breathing, and the whole environment was dead and gloomy.
"Queen, are you here?"
The Queen Mother couldn't open her eyes and could only call for help weakly.
Bai Yuzhi stepped forward and said, "It's you, the Empress Dowager. What does the Empress Dowager want to say to you?"
The Queen Mother was already terminally ill at this time. Bai Yuzhi could tell at a glance that she probably would not survive the night. As the saying goes, a dying man speaks good words. She also wanted to know what the Queen Mother was going to say.
The Queen Mother mustered all her strength and spoke: "Queen, I was wronged by you back then. I know you are a smart person, so I certainly couldn't hide this from you. I was possessed by the devil when I drank the poisoned wine..."
"Over the years, I've watched Hu'an grow up slowly, and I was content. But I never expected you to get pregnant. I'm really unwilling to accept that you can't hold on any longer, and I haven't seen the birth of my next grandchild yet..."
Bai Yuzhi's face was expressionless, but when he spoke, he softly offered comfort: "Queen Dowager, don't take what happened back then to heart."
Of course, don't take it to heart. She's almost dead. Do you really think she's as pure as jade and needs this non-apology from her? You're doing this because you can't see the child being born.
After she finished speaking, the Queen Mother's already not optimistic physical condition became even worse. She seemed to be having trouble breathing, and her breathing was strangely slow and heavy.
"Queen, please come here, come to my bedside."
Bai Yuzhi walked over slowly. She knew what the Queen Mother was going to do. The Queen Mother was stupid and vicious, but she was 100% sincere to her children. She knew that she would not be blessed enough to see the birth of twins, so she wanted to touch Bai Yuzhi's belly before she died.
But Bai Yuzhi didn't want her to get what she wanted.
You could say Bai Yuzhi was cruel or vindictive, but the reason she didn't care about the cup of poisoned wine was, firstly, because her position was unstable at that time, and secondly, it would be good for Hu'an if the Queen Mother was alive.
But things are different now. With Hu An's level of favor, he doesn't need a royal grandmother who has no real power and has an average relationship with Emperor Qin Huan. So why should Bai Yuzhi be so generous?
We can't just pretend that the poisoned wine doesn't exist just because the task didn't get done.
"Empress Dowager, the imperial physician said that my pregnancy was not stable and I was not allowed to come in." So I can't get close to you anymore.
That's what I mean.
After hearing this, the Queen Mother started to shed a line of turbid tears from the corners of her tightly closed eyes. She raised her hand, which trembled like a dead tree. She fumbled in the air twice but didn't touch the white jade. She froze for two seconds and suddenly slammed it down on the bed with no strength.
The empress dowager, who made Bai Yuzhi sigh that she was stupid and evil, passed away with regret on an extremely ordinary day.
The funeral of the empress dowager should naturally be a grand occasion, but Emperor Qin Huan exempted Bai Yuzhi from mourning and crying on the grounds that she was about to give birth. Emperor Qin Huan himself was of course sad, but because he did not have a deep relationship with the empress dowager, this sadness was soon diluted by the birth of the twins, a boy and a girl.
The day the twins were born was the beginning of spring. Emperor Qin Huan still did not attend the morning court and stood outside the renovated Zichen Hall waiting.
By the time the midwife came out holding the two children and said congratulations to His Majesty on the birth of twins, a boy and a girl, the once moody tyrant had grown into a father who doted on his children.
The older twin was named Cheng'an, and the younger daughter was named Taiyao. Compared with Cheng'an, the daughter's name seemed to be more domineering. Emperor Qin Huan explained that as a girl, the princess must have a resounding name so that she would not be bullied in the future.
In fact, before Emperor Qin Huan attacked Goryeo, he had decided to make his daughter the King of Goryeo after Hu An ascended the throne. He wanted Tai Yao to be a female emperor who was no less capable than her brother, so he deliberately named her this way.
After having these two children, Emperor Qin Huan was extremely happy. He issued a general amnesty and announced to the world that he had a pair of sons, a dragon and a phoenix. All the civil and military officials in the court and the people of the world were moved. Who would have thought that Emperor Qin Huan, who had been childless for the previous twenty years, would have three in four years.
Everything was settled, and the long-lost system sound rang again in Bai Yuzhi's mind.
[Beep - Detected that the host's mission has been completed to 100%. Do you want to proceed to the next mission?]
Bai Yuzhi hesitated for a moment, looked at the two children sleeping beside him, and finally decided to stay for a while.
It was not until eighteen years later, when both Hu An and the other two were able to stand on their own, that Bai Yuzhi poked the system again.
"It's time, let's go."
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