The palace maids could be heard talking: "The emperor has woken up."
The concubines who originally wanted to go home to wash up stopped and forced themselves to see Zhao Chen.
"Now that I'm here, I have to see the emperor. I was delayed by not seeing him last night. Now is a good time to go and apologize to the emperor."
A crowd of people rushed into the bedroom. Lin Zhiya went to the small kitchen to get medicine and hurriedly followed them.
Zhao Chen had just changed the medicine and hadn't even fastened his belt when he was blocked in the bathroom. A group of noisy concubines surrounded him. Zhao Chen couldn't help but hold his forehead and searched for Lin Zhiya in the crowd with dark eyes.
Last night he got up and saw that there was no one beside him. He called out to the person on the couch several times but he pretended not to hear him.
If his leg hadn't been injured, he would have been brought here long ago.
Zhao Chen saw Lin Zhiya's stone-blue sleeves in the gap of the last row and raised her lips. He knew that Lin Zhiya would be there too.
One of the young concubines said in a tender voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself. I wish I could hurt myself. Please let me stay and take care of your Majesty."
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Zhao Chen heard her inner voice: [The emperor and I are alone, and he will definitely lose control. I just don’t know if the emperor can still… after being injured like this…]
The next second, Zhao Chen's cold eyes fell on her head: "I just noticed that you are particularly bloated today. Why don't you eat less and control your weight."
The concubine's face turned pale, she felt like she was struck by lightning, and everything in her sight started spinning.
Another more calm concubine asked, "Your Majesty should not go on the autumn hunt this year. Let the princes do it for you, so as not to affect your recovery."
This sentence does make sense. Zhao Chen remembered that she was one of the first people to enter the palace and she has always been law-abiding. Just as he was about to answer, he heard her inner voice.
[Let me put it in a nice way. Your Majesty should promote my position this year, right? Your Majesty, it would be better if you cut off both of your legs, so that you can stay in the harem for a long time. ]
Zhao Chen smiled grimly: "I might as well give you three feet of white silk, and you won't bother me anymore."
The concubines hunched their shoulders, like geese with their necks strangled, not daring to utter a word. They wondered fearfully, why did the emperor become like this again?
Fortunately, there are not many people coming. Those who came frequently would have been poisoned to death by the emperor!
Fortunately, I was obsessed with drinking tea all night yesterday!
Zhao Chen looked at them with boredom and waved his hand: "Go away, I don't need you to serve me."
At this moment, a voice came from the back, with hesitation and surprise: [Really? ]
It was Lin Zhiya's. In order to show her deep affection, Lin Zhiya had been carrying the medicine for a long time, and her hands were sore. At that moment, she felt like joy had come from heaven.
Zhao Chen changed his words: "Princess Wan stays. I cannot live without her."
A group of sour eyes fell on Lin Zhiya, and seeing that Lin Zhiya was still holding the medicine, there was a little admiration mixed in with the sourness.
Zhao Chen was also surprised. He frowned and thought deeply. He grabbed Lin Zhiya's trembling wrist and held it in his hand: "I didn't see you this morning. It turned out that you went to make medicine for me. Why didn't you tell me?"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Lin Zhiya had no choice but to admit it and replied, "I was afraid of disturbing the emperor."
Zhao Chen said with pity: "I'm afraid I'll make you sick from exhaustion."
A sour and rotten smell filled the whole room. The concubines could no longer bear it and rushed out of the bedroom with gritted teeth.
Because of a bowl of medicine, Lin Zhiya found that Zhao Chen was suddenly very nice to her. She snuggled up to Zhao Chen and had breakfast with him.
Although Lin Zhiya usually eats well, there is still a certain gap between her and Zhao Chen. She was very satisfied with this meal.
After eating and drinking, she yawned and Zhao Chen asked her to go back to sleep and come back in the evening.
[Come back in the evening... in the evening? ]
Lin Zhiya stood at the door in a daze.
As soon as Lin Zhiya left, Zhao Chen found the second volume of "The Battle of Jianghu" on the bedside, and a warm current flowed in his heart.
Wanpin was the one who was concerned about him. Knowing that he was bored while recuperating from his injury, she brought the second volume for him to read and quietly placed it on the bedside, not daring to give it to him in person.
Zhao Chen forgot about the fact that the teacher she hired caused Zhao Chen to break his leg. After all, how could Lin Zhiya have predicted this? This matter had nothing to do with Lin Zhiya.
Just a few minutes after leaving, Zhao Chen began to miss Lin Zhiya again.
He said to Lai Xi: "I think no one else can be the queen except Wanpin."
Lai Xi loudly agreed: "Your Majesty has decided to establish a queen? Prime Minister Liu would cry in the imperial mausoleum if he knew. I congratulate your Majesty."
Zhao Chen opened "Jianghu Zhengba" with satisfaction, and casually said, "It's just that Wanpin was promoted not long ago, and it's inevitable that people will be dissatisfied with her being crowned as the queen. We need to wait for an opportunity."
Lai Xi: "Empress Wan is no longer the same as before. I am just waiting and watching. Empress Wan is quite majestic in the harem, and few people dare to say bad things about her in public."
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Lin Zhiya walked out of the bedroom, and Ma Cainü was waiting for her at the corner.
Lin Zhiya saw that her face turned pale: "Why are you here? What's the matter that's so urgent?"
Ma Cainu: "I have something to tell you after thinking about it. The imperial physician went out of the palace to see a patient yesterday. Do you know who he saw?"
Lin Zhiya was puzzled. She had relaxed her vigilance a lot during this period and had not paid any attention to the imperial physician at all.
Lin Zhiya: "Maybe it's for a concubine outside the palace... or a minister who is sick, it's not uncommon for the imperial physician to leave the palace."
All these speculations were denied by Ma Cainv. "It was the imperial physician called for Chi Rong, the second daughter of the Chi family. They are the Chi family of the Empress Dowager's mother's family."
Lin Zhiya's breathing tightened, and her neck felt cold: "Isn't Chi Rong dead?"
When the empress dowager was reborn, she once looked for a queen for Zhao Chen, and that queen was Chi Rong. She was the only daughter of the Chi family in this generation, and a truly favored daughter of heaven.
Before Chi Rong married Zhao Chen, she was overwhelmed.
The Chi family sent her to the countryside to recuperate, and there was no news from her since then. Even the Chi family said she was dead.
Am I dreaming? Lin Zhiya thought blankly.
Ma Cainv was anxious: "Madam Wanpin, Chi Rong is not dead. That was just to cover up the truth. There are too many people who know the inside story. Chi Rong ran away."
Lin Zhiya looked at her in surprise, "...Tell me in detail."
Ma Cainu: "I don't know where Chi Rong heard this nonsense from, saying that the position of empress will bring bad luck to people, and people without good fate will die if they sit on it. So she ran away the day before entering the palace, with a businessman."
"They found her within a few days. Chi Rong fell on the road and was almost paralyzed. The merchant had already fled. It was impossible for her to enter the palace again. In order to cover up the scandal, the emperor personally carved a tombstone for her, saying that she died of illness."
Ma Cainu: "The emperor could have sent her to the countryside and never let her come back, but he still took her into consideration. Now she has started to make trouble again. Concubine Wan, you should know about this."
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