The empress dowager has been reorganizing the harem these days, and some concubines who spread rumors privately were singled out by the empress dowager as an example to others.
"As the head of the harem, the Queen should also take care of this. How can she wait for me to take action personally?"
"I know I was wrong." The queen knelt down and apologized.
She sneered in her heart. Since she was in charge of the empress dowager, why didn't she handle it herself?
Would the Queen Mother really trust her? She was deliberately trying to pressure her.
The queen understood clearly.
In the entire harem, only Xu Lingyi is the empress dowager's favorite.
She and the imperial concubine had also experienced this feeling in the past. They were pampered in the palm of the hand. The empress dowager took care of them in every possible way and always helped them guard against the emperor's other women.
Now she has become someone the Queen Mother is wary of.
The queen just felt it was ironic.
But in fact, the Queen Mother has been good to the Queen over the years, otherwise the Queen might have been deposed long ago for some of the things she did secretly over the years.
The more the Empress Dowager acted like this, the more determined the Empress became to get rid of Xu Lingyi.
Now that it's just a rumor, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor are already extremely distressed.
What would they do if Xu Lingyi had a miscarriage in the future?
Your Majesty must be feeling very uncomfortable, the Queen thought.
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"Mammy..." Xu Lingyi's face was pale, tears welling in her eyes. "Why did she say that just now... The baby in my belly is your Majesty's child, not..."
Seeing her sadness, the nanny quickly spoke to comfort her:
"Your Majesty, she is a deposed concubine who was just banished to the cold palace because of a crime. Now she is upset and talking nonsense. How can you believe the words of a madman? Please don't take it to heart."
Xu Lingyi shook her head. She gently wiped away the fake tears from the corners of her eyes, but her eyes were still hazy. "Mammy, don't lie to me. Are there any rumors about me out there? What are they talking about?"
The maids didn't dare to speak.
Xu Lingyi's eyes reddened slightly, and she said delicately, "Forget it. Even if you don't tell me, I can guess. Let's go back to the palace."
As soon as Xu Lingyi returned to her residence, she called the imperial physician.
The emperor and the empress dowager hurried over.
When they got the news, they rushed here. On the way, they heard the imperial concubine calling for the imperial physician, and the emperor became even more anxious.
He kicked Wang Bao.
"You little bitch, you're still able to escape from the cold palace. What's the point of me keeping you? If anything happens to the Imperial Concubine and the unborn prince... you don't need to live anymore."
Wang Bao quickly knelt down, sweating profusely.
He knew that what His Majesty said was true, and Wang Bao prayed desperately that nothing would happen to the Imperial Noble Consort.
The harem and the court all knew how much His Majesty cared about the Imperial Noble Consort's pregnancy.
"Yier, is there something wrong?" The emperor quickly leaned over and held her hand. As an emperor, he was always calm in the face of emergencies, but when faced with the matter of Xu Lingyi and the child, he became panicked at the slightest sign of trouble.
"Your Majesty, I'm fine." Xu Lingyi shook her head.
"Imperial Physician!" the emperor asked sternly.
The imperial physicians quickly replied, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine only suffered from abdominal pain caused by emotional fluctuations. I prescribed a medicine to maintain the pregnancy, and she is now fine."
The emperor had a gloomy face. Because Xu Lingyi was in front of him, he could only try hard to restrain the hostility on his face and the sinister look in his eyes.
"Step back and take good care of the Imperial Concubine in the future."
"Yier." The emperor held her hand tightly and said, "Promise me that you won't scare me again. My heart is about to burst."
Xu Lingyi's bright eyes moved slightly, and her red lips opened slightly: "Okay, it's all my fault..."
Before she could finish, the emperor covered her mouth and said, "Yier, what's wrong with you? This is the fault of the vicious person behind the scenes. I promise Yier that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future."
The pregnancy-maintaining medicine that Xu Lingyi drank had a sleeping effect. After watching Xu Lingyi fall asleep.
The gentleness on the emperor's face disappeared completely. His face was as gloomy as water, his expression was indifferent, and his voice was extremely cold.
"Behead that bitch with a stick and have all the concubines in the harem witness the execution."
Wang Bao nodded tremblingly. His Majesty was like an angry lion at this moment.
"Are the Empress and the Imperial Concubine going too?" Wang Bao asked cautiously.
"What do you think?" the emperor asked coldly.
Wang Bao quickly retreated to make arrangements: "I'll go right away."
After watching such a torture, many women in the harem were frightened. No matter how many dark thoughts they had, they could only suppress them at this moment and dared not spread any rumors.
But these people do not include the queen, there are other people who are extremely jealous of Xu Lingyi.
The queen's nurse helped her back to the palace. She said in a dazed voice, "Surprise, do you think Xu is a human or a demon?"
"How could a person give birth to such a beautiful woman, with a body that suits every man's desire, and she also happens to be able to give birth."
The Queen clenched the handkerchief in her hand. "Compared to her, I seem like a supporting character in a storybook. If she hadn't died, there would be no place for me in the harem. How could I be willing to accept this? I wanted to get rid of her, but I had no choice, just like I got rid of the Second Princess back then."
In fact, the nanny didn't think that what the queen did was right. If the imperial concubine gave birth to a prince, Princess Zhaoyang would have someone to rely on in the future.
But she didn't dare to persuade him.
The Queen's hands have been stained with a lot of blood over the years. Sometimes she kills people not to eliminate dissidents, but just for her own pleasure.
Even though she had been serving the Queen since she was a child, she did not dare to easily speak to her and advise her in the slightest.
She is also afraid of death.
The harem was calm for a few days, and this was all due to the Empress Dowager's daily watchful eye.
But the Queen Mother is old, lacking in energy, and her health is not good either.
One day, Xu Lingyi was having dinner when she heard the news that the empress dowager was ill.
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