Chapter 69 The Iron Queen

"Your Majesty, you haven't eaten for a day. I beg you to eat a little, or else Concubine Zhen will wake up and you will fall down again."

Wang Dequan knelt at the feet of Emperor Xuanwu with a meal in his hand: "If Concubine Zhen wakes up and sees this, you will scold me for being careless."

He is indeed the most useful eunuch beside Emperor Xuanwu. Now Concubine Zhen has been called.

Wang Dequan saw it clearly. When Concubine Li Gui was seriously injured and unconscious, the emperor was extremely anxious and stayed up all night. She ate and drank as needed, and did not delay the memorials to be processed.

Even after leaving Changxin Palace, he was still concerned about whether Master Zhen had been wronged in the cold palace, and hinted that he should go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to explain and not neglect Master Zhen.

When the Emperor banished Lady Zhen to the cold palace, he was actually protecting her in his own way!

Otherwise, look at what happened today...

Lady Zhen fell into the water and fainted, but the Emperor, without even investigating, concluded that Concubine Shu and the Empress Dowager had colluded to murder Lady Zhen, forcing Lady Shu to commit suicide to prove her innocence.

Even so, the Emperor had no sympathy for Lady Shu, and even asked her to go back to her own palace to treat her injuries.

The King could all imagine that if Concubine Shu did not commit suicide, she would probably not end up well.

It seems that the Emperor was more hypocritical towards the concubines in the harem, but Lady Zhen was an exception.

Oh no...

He was the Emperor's eunuch, and it shouldn't be said that the Emperor was hypocritical, because he was very sincere towards Lady Zhen.

“I can’t eat.”

Emperor Xuanwu held Jiang Xinyue’s cold little hand, his eyes bloodshot: “She climbed ashore to ask for help by herself. The maid who saved her said…she said that before Zhen Zhaoyi fainted, she pointed to the water and said someone was pulling her feet. How scared do you think she was at that time? She trusted me so much, but I let her down again and again and put her in danger. I could obviously protect her.”

Wang Dequan didn’t know how to answer. He couldn’t say that it was because you, the emperor, were heartless and didn’t care which concubine lived and which died in the harem!

Anyway, now that he has Master Zhen, the emperor will definitely not be willing to let Master Zhen die, so he is not too heartless.

He saw Master Zhen’s affection for the emperor, and this is what Master Zhen deserves.

A eunuch with light steps ran in from outside the Hexi Palace, knelt on the ground and replied to Emperor Xuanwu: "Your Majesty, the bleeding of Concubine Shu's wound has stopped. The doctor said that she should rest well. Concubine Shu... is pregnant."

A pin drop could be heard in the bedroom. Emperor Xuanwu slowly turned his head and looked at him: "What did you say?"

The eunuch broke out in a cold sweat. He felt that the emperor did not seem very happy, and said in a lower voice: "The Queen... The Queen... The Queen Mother sent a servant to announce the good news, saying... that the Concubine Shu is already a month pregnant, but her emotions were too volatile just now, and she was injured so badly, so she has seen some spotting. The imperial physician said that she needs to rest well, otherwise she is afraid... afraid of miscarriage. "

Emperor Xuanwu closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Wang Dequan, go to the Imperial Hospital to get some supplements and send them to Jingren Palace."

If he didn't say anything, the Queen Mother would blame Zhen Zhaoyi again.

Today she was pushed into the lake and almost drowned, what about tomorrow?

As a master of palace fighting in the previous generation, and finally became the Queen Mother's woman, her scheming and tactics can't be bad.

He can't let Zhen Zhaoyi take risks again.

Jiang Xinyue was in a coma for three days. Emperor Xuanwu stayed in Hexi Palace except for attending court. Even when the Empress Dowager held a banquet to celebrate Concubine Shu's pregnancy, she sent people to invite the emperor but failed.

The concubines finally understood that Concubine Shu had completely lost favor.

The emperor blamed her for hurting Zhen Zhaoyi... No... She was already a formal Concubine Zhen two days ago.

The emperor asked Wang Dequan to read out the imperial edict, and no one could object.

Originally, Concubine Shu's pregnancy was also a happy event, but the Empress Dowager broke another shocking news the next day.

Lan Cainu, who had been living in the remote Yanxi Palace far away from the six palaces in the east and west, gave birth to a little prince.

Inside the Hexi Palace, Empress Zhu held the child and explained to Emperor Xuanwu, "I only found out about it a few days ago. It happened that Concubine Zhen fell into the water and fainted, and I didn't have time to tell you, Your Majesty. Then they said that Lan Cainu was about to give birth, so I could only arrange for a midwife to deliver the baby. As soon as the baby was born, I immediately sent someone to bring the little prince here. Lan Cainu had a miserable life. She died after giving birth to the child. I feel really sorry for her, so I came to ask Your Majesty for a favor."

Emperor Xuanwu asked knowingly, "What favor?"

Empress Zhu knelt on the ground with a "thump" and said, "Your Majesty, I beg Your Majesty to hand over the fifth prince to me for upbringing."

Although the Zhu family was not the leader of the civil officials compared to the Song family, the Zhu family to which Empress Zhu belonged was not weaker than the Song and Pei families. Otherwise, it would not have been Empress Zhu who won the battle for the harem that year.

The reason why Concubine Li Guifei has been dissatisfied with the Empress for so many years is that the two families are equally matched. They have been competing with each other before they got married. In terms of beauty, Concubine Li Guifei is better, but in terms of etiquette and talent, Empress Zhu is more popular.

If Empress Zhu has a legitimate son, who knows how crazy Concubine Li Guifei will be.

Jiang Xinyue only felt a pain in her nose and throat. When Empress Zhu mentioned Lan Cainu of Yanxi Palace, she woke up from her drowsy consciousness.

But she did not open her eyes immediately, and her mind was still a mess. If she opened her eyes at this time, she would definitely be involved in the fight between the emperor and the empress.

As a favorite concubine who always considers the emperor, she must make trouble to make the emperor give birth to something that the emperor does not want. She thinks that Concubine Zhen is one of her own.

But she doesn't want to.

One reason was that her head still hurt, and she was afraid that what she said later would offend Empress Zhu. Another reason was that she didn’t want to break up with the Empress so early and stand on the opposite side.

Jiang Xinyue could imagine how much the Empress valued the legitimate son even with her eyes closed.

Ye Baolin was not the Empress’s person!!

No!

It should be said that only Ye Baolin herself thought that she was the Empress’s person.

In this way, it was not Empress Zhu who asked Ye Baolin to borrow her womb to bear a child, but Ye Baolin took the initiative to go to the Empress and was willing to be her vanguard.

However, Ye Baolin herself did not expect that she was attracting firepower in front, so that Concubine Li Gui did not have so much energy to stare at the Yikun Palace. Empress Zhu had already had her eyes on a belly, hiding it from everyone, and killed the mother and kept the child.

Empress Zhu’s false move deceived everyone, including Jiang Xinyue.

It is true that concubines come and go but the empress remains forever. She has her reasons for standing on the top of the mountain.

The voice of Empress Zhu continued in his ear: "Your Majesty, my eldest and second sons have been gone for many years, and the pain in my heart has never healed. The ministers in the court all forced me to abdicate because I have no children. Please give me a chance to live!"

This was a threat to the emperor's life.

But Empress Zhu cried miserably, and Emperor Xuanwu could not get angry. Thinking of the two legitimate sons who died young, he felt bad.