Countless eyes fell on Concubine Xian's face.
Concubine Xian's thoughts stopped at that moment, with a perfect smile on her lips.
After a while, her face turned pale little by little, and finally became completely bloodless.
"Your Majesty, what did you say?"
The Queen sighed and advised, "Sister Xianfei, think more positively. Princess Qi is still young. She will have children when she recovers."
"How could she have a miscarriage? Princess Qi was fine at the family dinner yesterday!" Concubine Xian was unwilling to believe this fact and asked.
The Queen frowned slightly and said, "Princess Qi accidentally fell off the carriage after leaving the palace..."
Concubine Xian moved her lips and swallowed the word "impossible" that was about to come out of her mouth, and her hands on her knees were shaking violently.
Princess Qi was always so calm, how could she fall down when getting on the carriage? She would never believe it, someone must have done something wrong!
But these words can only be thought in the heart and cannot be shouted out loud.
Concubine Xian knew very well that these women in the palace loved to take advantage of the powerful and make fun of others. What if she said it out? She would not get any sympathy at all.
Besides, the baby in Princess Qi’s belly is gone, so what’s the point of sympathizing with her?
At this moment, Concubine Xian felt a bit resentful towards Princess Qi.
She had long since exempted Princess Qi from paying respects, fearing that something might happen to the baby at such a young age. Although the New Year's Eve family dinner was important, no one would say anything if the fourth daughter-in-law didn't attend. If the seventh daughter-in-law had been pregnant for a little over a month, she was sure that the seventh daughter-in-law would definitely not come to the family dinner.
Concubine Xian had been in the palace for so many years that she had some skills in cultivating her Qi. After the initial shock, she quickly regained her composure and said with a wry smile, "Thank you, Her Majesty, for telling me this. I will ask Prince Qi to come to the palace and ask about Princess Qi's health."
“That’s right.”
Concubine Xian nodded slightly and said no more. The handkerchief in her hand was almost torn.
The Queen looked at the concubines and said, "There is nothing to do today, you can all go away."
The concubines saluted the empress again, and when the empress was helped away by the palace maids, they all looked at Concubine Xian.
Amidst countless inexplicable gazes, Concubine Xian shook her handkerchief expressionlessly and walked away quickly.
Whispering sounds were heard behind me.
"Concubine Xian is really patient. She accepted the news so quickly after hearing that Princess Qi was pregnant."
"Hehe, so what if you don't accept it? Wouldn't it be more embarrassing to cry and wail..." A concubine said, bumping her shoulder against the young concubine who had previously flattered Concubine Xian, sneering, "Some people don't even know how to flatter. It's really ridiculous."
The young concubine did not have the ability to cultivate her qi like the virtuous concubine. Her face turned red and white, and she was very embarrassed.
Receiving the contemptuous stares, the young concubine left Kunning Palace with a red face.
Unlike the young concubine who showed her embarrassment outwardly, Concubine Xian was in pain in her heart. She forced herself to return to Yuquan Palace and kicked a small rosewood stool far away.
Hearing the sound of the small stool falling to the ground, Concubine Xian sat down on the chair and slammed the table heavily.
The teacup on the table trembled, and the lid fell off and shattered at my feet.
Concubine Xian stared at the shattered enamel tea lid without blinking.
It is so easy to destroy something. Sometimes it only takes a moment, like this broken tea lid, or the unborn child of the fourth son's wife...
Thinking of the child, Concubine Xian felt very upset.
This child came at the perfect time, just when the Fourth Prince was competing with Prince Jin for the position of Crown Prince, giving the Fourth Prince a great advantage.
But I didn't keep it.
If you can't keep it, you might as well not come...
Concubine Xian immediately ordered the eunuchs, "Please invite Prince Qi to the palace."
Prince Qi, who had not slept much the night before, quickly rushed to Yuquan Palace.
"Greetings to my mother."
"Don't talk about greetings now. Let me ask you, what happened to your wife's miscarriage?" After sending the servants away, Concubine Xian asked directly.
The Prince of Qi raised his head and met the gaze of Concubine Xian, his eyes were full of bloodshot, and his voice became even hoarse: "There is oil on the car floor..."
Concubine Xian stood up with one hand on the table: "Is there oil on the car floor?"
King Qi nodded heavily and slammed the table heavily: "It must be King Jin's doing!"
Concubine Xian stood for a while, then sat down slowly without even questioning him. She said coldly, "Who else could it be if not him? I've already told your wife to be careful and not to come to pay respects. If she had stayed in the palace all along, how could she have been taken advantage of..."
The King of Qi's face turned dark when he heard this.
After complaining, Concubine Xian said coldly: "You and King Jin were originally evenly matched, each with their own advantages. This child gave you the upper hand, but now the child is not saved, the situation is not as good as before..."
The Prince of Qi had been childless, and his wife finally became pregnant but had an aborted labor. This inevitably made some people think that the Prince of Qi was unlucky and that God was not on his side.
You know, the emperor is the son chosen by heaven, and there is almost no emperor who does not like strange phenomena and auspicious signs. In fact, this is to prove this statement.
People at that time still cared a lot about these things.
King Qi didn't know this, and said angrily: "The third brother attacked an unborn child, he is no different from a beast!"
Concubine Xian sneered, "Why not use an unborn child to turn the tables?"
There was a fierce look in the eyes of the King of Qi, and he did not hide it from Concubine Xian: "He can win a game with his child, and his son can do the same!"
Concubine Xian raised her eyebrows: "Are you going to take action against Fu Ge'er?"
Fu Ge'er is the only son of King Jin, and also the legitimate son, so there is no need to say much about his nobleness.
"This is inappropriate." Concubine Xian shook her head. "Your wife had a miscarriage, and then Brother Fu got into trouble. This is too obvious. Your father is not stupid, he will definitely think too much."
King Qi sneered and said, "Of course my son will not attack Brother Fu."
"So what do you want to do?"
King Qi narrowed his eyes and coldly spat out a name: "Chun Ge'er."
Concubine Xian was startled: "You want to attack the son of the deposed crown prince?"
"It was not my son who attacked the son of the deposed prince, but I induced the third son to attack the son of the deposed prince!" The eyes of the Prince of Qi were full of hatred, and he explained, "Didn't my mother realize that my father still had feelings for the deposed prince? The fact that the fifth son beat the deposed prince a few days ago and was demoted is proof of this."
Concubine Xian nodded slowly, with a sneer on her face: "The Emperor has never forgotten Empress Yuan, so he naturally loves her son as well."
The phrase "Love the house and love the dog" made Concubine Xian grit her teeth.
If you ask the women in the harem who they envy the most, it’s not the current queen, nor the queen mother, but the short-lived empress!
A woman who was the queen and was still obsessed with the emperor. Her son had been the crown prince for more than 20 years, and all the good things in the world were taken by this woman.
Of course, with the crown prince being deposed, the women in the harem felt a little more balanced.
"How do you plan to trick the King of Jin into taking action against the son of the deposed Crown Prince?"