Chapter 1027 Dragon Seed (5)
Aunt Tao refused to stand up.
After a moment, Empress Xian De sighed and said, "Forget it. Lu Jing doesn't know she's pregnant. I know Lu Jing's personality very well. If she were pregnant, she would never dare to use the child in her belly to frame me. She would only protect her 'dragon seed' well and wouldn't let anything happen to the child."
"But it's a fact that Concubine Jing is pregnant." Aunt Tao raised her head: "Your Majesty, you have to think about yourself too!"
Shen Miao finally stopped being silent. She said, "Aunt Tao is right. Concubine Jing's matter needs to be carefully considered. It's not just for the Empress Dowager's sake. Even with the current situation of the Lu family, for His Majesty, the Empress Dowager can't just stand by and watch."
Empress Xian De glanced at her in surprise, as if she had not expected Shen Miao to speak at this juncture, but she soon smiled in relief and said, “It seems Jing Xing has told you a lot.”
"Get up, Qiushui." Empress Xiande said to Aunt Tao, "I don't want to say it a second time."
This sentence was already in the tone of an order. Aunt Tao hesitated for a moment and finally stood up.
Empress Xian De looked at Shen Miao and said, "I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself. Qiu Shui is someone close to me and is wholeheartedly concerned about me. She may have been a little hasty in her words, but her heart is good." She sighed and said, "In fact, I used to think Lu Jing was stupid and I didn't want to compete with her. Now it seems that I was wrong. Lu Jing does have some skills. She was able to avoid the contraceptive soup and conceive the emperor's child."
Contraceptive soup, Shen Miao's heart moved, Empress Xian De told her the secrets of the palace just like that, in fact, the more you know, the more dangerous it is. Those who know the private affairs of the palace will eventually become fertilizer for the flowers in the palace. But for some reason, she felt that Empress Xian De told her these things just because she wanted to tell her, and she would not be on guard against her because she knew too much.
"You're a clever person. You must have noticed that the Emperor's lack of children in the palace isn't due to the concubines or the Emperor himself, but rather because they all drank contraceptive soup. Lu Jing drank it before, too, but somehow, she must have used some method to become pregnant. This is probably the first in the palace." Then, a thought occurred to her, and she smiled, "Perhaps not the first. I once had a child, but it was a miscarriage."
When Aunt Tao heard this, her eyes turned red.
Shen Miao’s hand holding the teacup trembled, and she remained silent.
“The Emperor always thinks you’re not good because he thinks Jingxing is the best. Even if an ordinary girl is a fairy, she’s probably not worth mentioning in his eyes. When Jingxing said he wanted to marry a girl from Mingqi, the Emperor asked someone to find out a lot about you. After hearing what happened, he told me that you have a cruel heart.” Empress Xian De suddenly changed the subject and looked at Shen Miao, saying, “But now, I think you’re quite kind.”
Shen Miao was puzzled, only to hear Empress Xian De continue, "You clearly wanted to ask me about my miscarriage, but you were afraid of causing me sadness, so you held back."
Shen Miao said softly, “This subject-wife simply doesn’t dare.”
"You're so candid. Jingxing has found an interesting wife, and I like you even more," Empress Xiande said with a smile. "Actually, it happened a long time ago, and I've let it go. When I was pregnant, Lu Jing added cold herbs to the imperial chef's pastries. Just a little bit, and my child died. At that time, Lu Jing had just entered the palace and was in high favor. The Lu family saw this, and His Majesty could only give her a minor punishment and a major warning. I felt that I was not meant to have a child, so I let it go."
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