Chapter 6 Loyalty
"Cuiwei, please take a seat."
Cuiwei helped Nanny Qin sit on a chair and served her a cup of tea.
"Aunt Qin, can you tell me in detail what happened back then?"
Nanny Qin looked at Li Yueyao anxiously and asked, "Why did His Highness return to the palace? Is there something wrong with His Majesty?"
After hearing this, Li Yueyao turned to look at Nanny Qin and said, "I'm going back to the palace. Why do you think His Majesty is inappropriate?"
Nanny Qin said neither servile nor arrogant:
"Your Highness has not returned to the palace for seven years. There must be a reason for your sudden return. Your Highness is most concerned about the safety of His Majesty in this palace.
That is why I ask this question, and I hope Your Highness will tell you the truth."
Li Yueyao nodded after hearing this. This Nanny Qin had been serving in Kunning Palace since she was a child. She had served under two queens and was very familiar with both herself and His Majesty.
"Yes, Your Majesty has been unwell for over two months and has not recovered. I am very worried and have returned to the palace to check on him."
After hearing this, Nanny Qin's expression gradually became serious: "But he was poisoned?"
Li Yueyao suddenly looked up at Nanny Qin: "Madam, why do you make this inference?"
"It seems that my guess is correct."
As Qin Mama spoke, tears began to fall, and she murmured:
"Your Highness, I failed to live up to your trust. I let you, the witch, succeed. Your Highness, I'm so sorry..."
Nanny Qin cried for a long time, and Li Yueyao sighed and said:
"Aunt Qin, please don't let the Queen Mother down. Tell me first. Otherwise, if something really happens, you'll cry and say you're sorry to me again."
Nanny Qin was interrupted by Li Yueyao. She wiped her tears, looked up at Li Yueyao and said:
"Your Highness, this is a long story."
"Then take your time. I'm not in a hurry."
Li Yueyao crossed her arms and spoke calmly.
"When the Imperial Concubine was first promoted to the rank of Concubine, she was pregnant. Because it was her first child and she was weak, Your Majesty sent this servant to take care of her fetus.
At first, the servants did not notice anything unusual.
Some time later, I felt dizzy after getting up early one day, but I didn't take it seriously at the time.
But for three consecutive months, on the seventeenth day, I would feel dizzy when I woke up.
This servant sensed something was not right, so on the sixteenth day of the fourth month, I paid attention.
That day, the imperial concubine gave me a bowl of soup. I pretended to drink it and then went to sleep.
In the middle of the night, I heard a man talking in the yard, so I quietly got up and followed him out.
Seeing a man in black entering the imperial concubine's bedroom, I stood outside the window and eavesdropped.
But I heard the man say that the child could not be kept, because if he stayed, people would be aware of it.
The imperial concubine was silent for a while and then said, "I understand."
Seeing that the imperial concubine was unhappy, the man reached out and hugged her in his arms.
The imperial concubine started crying and said: I didn’t want to enter the palace back then, but I had to because of that man.
Over the years, many people have sent messages asking that person when she can go back.
The man coaxed the imperial concubine, saying that things were going smoothly and asked the imperial concubine to be patient for a while.
The man pulled out a small bottle from his bosom and asked the imperial concubine to quietly put the medicine in the bottle into your majesty's food."
"When I heard this, I was extremely nervous. Just then, a eunuch came in from outside for patrol and pushed the door open with a creaking sound.
I was startled and when I turned around, the hairpin on my head hit the window, startling the two people in the room.
The servant quickly turned around, ran back to the room, and lay down on the bed to take a nap.
The next day, the imperial concubine said that one of her bracelets was lost, and she searched the whole palace for the thief, calling in all the servants in Fanghua Garden one by one for questioning.
When I was asked about this, I pretended to be dizzy and the imperial concubine didn't notice anything unusual.
Later, the imperial concubine tried several times to test me, but I didn't reveal anything. However, accidents started to happen to me in Fanghua Garden.
I know that this is the imperial concubine indiscriminately eliminating suspicious people.
Finally, one day the imperial concubine called me to serve in the palace. When she was going out, she asked me to support her, but she deliberately fell at the door and ended up having a miscarriage.
When His Majesty came, the imperial concubine kept crying and complaining that it was the servant who deliberately caused her to miscarry.
Everyone around was speaking in favor of the imperial concubine, and I had no way to defend myself.
His Majesty was very angry and immediately ordered the servant to be demoted to the laundry department.
I had wanted to find an opportunity to tell His Majesty what I had heard, but His Majesty was furious and refused to listen to my explanation.
The people in Fanghua Garden, under the orders of the Imperial Concubine, wanted to push me into the lotus pond and drown me, but they didn't know that I could swim.
Later, the eunuch chased after me and tried to cut my throat with a dagger. I dodged quickly and the knife cut my face.
At this critical moment, Concubine Rong and Concubine Xiang happened to pass by and scared the man away.
In this way, I escaped the disaster and went to the laundry department.
There were many old acquaintances in the laundry bureau. They were divided into two factions at the time, checking and balancing each other to maintain the delicate balance of the laundry bureau.
The appearance of slaves broke this balance.
Because the two leaders had both received the grace of the late queen, they were quite caring towards the servants.
Over time, the laundry department has become an integrated whole.
The imperial concubine tried to kill me several times, but with the help of the people in the laundry department, I escaped death every time.
During this time, I also thought about revealing the news to His Majesty, but I cannot see His Majesty."
Li Yueyao frowned when she heard this: "Sun Fu won't help you pass the message?"
"It's not the Grand Eunuch Sun's fault, but these little brats below are so picky that I can't even see Sun Fu."
Li Yueyao snorted coldly after hearing this: "There really is something wrong with this Sun Fu."
Then he asked Nanny Qin: "Go on, what happened next?"
"Later, I asked the laundry staff to quietly pass this news to the Queen, but after waiting for a long time, there was no response from the Queen.
This servant is extremely surprised. If the Queen had something to hold against the Imperial Concubine, how could she not take any action?
Li Yueyao shook her head and said, "To catch the thief and seize the stolen goods, it's not the Queen who didn't take action, but the Imperial Concubine who didn't take action.
The man in black changed his method of contacting the Imperial Concubine, and the Queen failed to catch her.
Nanny Qin nodded and said, "Yes, that's right. I made the same inference."
"Later, I met Your Majesty again in the Imperial Garden and told him everything I knew.
Who would have thought that Your Majesty would not believe me, which made me very desperate.
I have informed Her Royal Highness the Grand Princess of this matter, and I hope that Her Royal Highness can persuade His Majesty.
The Imperial Concubine harbors evil intentions and is definitely not a good person. It is best for Your Majesty to stay away from her."
Li Yueyao looked at the nanny in front of her who had been respectable all her life. She was first framed, hunted, and disfigured by the imperial concubine, and then demoted by the emperor to do hard labor in the laundry department.
After her silly nephew knew the truth, he chose not to believe her, but she never gave up protecting the emperor.
Nanny Qin, even if the emperor has abused me a thousand times, I still treat him as if I were meeting him for the first time.
The foolish nephew ignored such a loyal nanny and chose to believe in a woman who cheated on him.
This operation is unique, there must be something wrong with his brain.
Li Yueyao suddenly thought of the novels she had read before. The silly nephew seemed like the kind of incompetent emperor specially prepared to help the protagonist counterattack.
If this is true, then who is the protagonist of the counterattack?
Could it be the man in black in the imperial concubine's palace?
But who is that man in black?
Li Yueyao felt for a moment that the water was very deep.
I originally thought I was getting a script about a time-traveling girl saving the country, but it turned out to be a script about a time-traveling girl fighting against the male protagonist of the novel.
What the hell is this?
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