I had planned to ask about it the next day when I took her pulse, but that afternoon Heyue suddenly experienced excruciating abdominal pain, rolling around on the bed in agony, covered in cold sweat.
Hailan and Chun Ya were in a panic, but Wang Mama calmly sent someone to fetch the best doctor in the capital while holding Heyue and comforting her, "Princess, please bear with it, the doctor will be here soon."
Heyue gritted her teeth and endured it, then noticed something flowing down her body. She tightly grasped Wang Mama's hand, her voice trembling, "Mama, my child..."
"Princess, don't be afraid. Granny is here. The child will be alright. Be strong, Princess..." Granny Wang cried with heartache, calling out the name she used to use for Heyue.
The doctor arrived in less than half an hour.
The doctor, around sixty years old with a full head of white hair, took Heyue's pulse through a handkerchief. Hailan, Chun Ya, and Granny Wang watched nervously, their eyes fixed on the doctor's expression.
Suddenly, the doctor's expression changed drastically, and his brows furrowed into a knot.
Granny Wang's heart skipped a beat, and she asked anxiously, "Doctor, how is he?"
"Pen and ink." The doctor gestured to the two maids, and Hailan quickly went to fetch them.
The doctor got up and walked to the table in the main room. He quickly wrote down a prescription and handed it to Hailan: "Miss, please prepare a medicine to help the princess prevent miscarriage according to this prescription. Be quick."
Hailan said "Oh, oh" twice and hurriedly ran out.
"Doctor, what exactly happened?" Granny Wang could tell from the doctor's expression that something was amiss, and her hands were clenched so tightly they were sweating.
The doctor sighed and explained, "The princess consort ingested a small amount of safflower. Safflower is extremely harmful to the fetus. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have miscarried by now. Fortunately, the princess consort is healthy and the fetus has a very strong will, so she is safe. However, I am not sure if it will affect the fetus. You must take good care of the pregnancy in the future and make sure there are no more accidents."
Granny Wang nearly fell over. After a wave of fear, she sat on the edge of the bed, closed her eyes, put her hands together, and murmured "Amitabha." She prayed repeatedly, "May the Bodhisattva protect you, may the princess have great fortune and a long life, and may the little prince and princess be safe and healthy."
With Wang Mama's help, Heyue leaned against a pillow and drank the medicine that Hailan brought her to help with the pregnancy. In less than a quarter of an hour, the pain on her forehead, which had been making her sweat, gradually subsided, and she relaxed and fell into a deep sleep.
Thirteen returned to the mansion and, upon hearing the servants' report, hurriedly went to the main room. He found Heyue asleep, her face pale and weak. He carefully lowered the brocade curtain and went to the main hall. With a livid face, he sternly questioned the trembling Hailan and Chunya: "How could the Princess Consort have mistakenly eaten safflower? What were you doing?"
Hailan and Chun Ya knelt down with a thud, sweating profusely: "Master, the food that the Fujin eats is always personally supervised by us servants, there is absolutely no reason for it to go wrong, we servants do not know what happened."
"Tell me, where did the Princess Consort go yesterday and today? What did she eat?" Thirteen asked coldly, extremely annoyed.
That night, when Heyue woke up, Shisan was holding her. He immediately noticed and hurriedly asked, "You're awake? Is there anything else that's bothering you?"
Heyue placed her hands on her lower abdomen, which was still swollen, and instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
Noticing her movement, in the dim light, Thirteen kissed her temple and softly comforted her, "Don't worry, the baby is strong and is still here."
Upon hearing this, He Yue almost burst into tears. She had never felt that she was dependent on her child before, but now that she had almost lost him, she realized how afraid she was of losing him.
Over so many days and nights, feeling him (or her) grow little by little inside my belly, and later being able to clearly feel the fetal movements, the feelings in my heart were nothing short of miraculous.
If she were to truly lose it, Heyue really didn't know if she would go crazy.
Thinking of the reason why she almost miscarried, He Yue's eyes suddenly turned cold.
She will never let anyone who dares to harm her child get away with it!
This time, Heyue experienced a miscarriage, which, although not serious, greatly depleted her vital energy, and she can only rest and recuperate in her room for the time being.
After the morning court session, the thirteenth prince left the Qianqing Palace with Prince Yong and stood on the steps of the palace.
"I heard that Heyue had a miscarriage yesterday, is she alright?" Prince Yong asked.
"It was a false alarm, nothing serious." Despite saying this, he looked worried.
Prince Yong noticed his unusual mood and patted him on the shoulder: "Is it because the women in the manor are causing trouble? If so, get rid of one or two."
Thirteen smiled wryly: "This time it really isn't a problem with the manor."
"Oh?" Prince Yong asked, puzzled.
Thirteen looked back and saw Twelfth Prince walking out slowly. His eyes flashed and he said to Prince Yong, "Fourth Brother, you go back first. I have something to discuss with Twelfth Brother."
Having said that, he strode towards the Twelfth Prince.
Prince Yong held the sandalwood prayer beads in his left hand, looking in that direction with a slight surprise in his eyes.
"Twelfth Brother," Thirteen called out.
The Twelfth Prince looked at the Thirteenth Prince approaching with surprise, paused in his steps, and asked with a smile when the other prince reached him: "Thirteenth Brother, is there something you need?"
"It's been a long time since we brothers sat down for a proper chat. How about we visit Twelfth Brother's residence this afternoon?" Thirteen asked with a smile.
The Twelfth Prince looked at him seriously, then smiled calmly: "Why not?"
At the hour of Shen (3-5 PM), after leaving the palace, two sedan chairs stopped in front of the Twelfth Prince's residence.
Thirteen and Twelfth Prince came out one after the other. Twelfth Prince invited Thirteen into the mansion. The two went to the stone table in the four-corner pavilion in the back garden. Twelfth Prince instructed the servants to prepare tea.
Pinggu served tea to the two of them and then respectfully withdrew.
Thirteen watched Pinggu's retreating figure, his eyes flashing, and asked with a smile, "Twelfth Brother, Pinggu has been with you for many years, I didn't expect her to still be serving you. Haven't you thought about finding her a marriage? Or is it that she herself is unwilling?"
The Twelfth Prince glanced at the Thirteenth Prince with a questioning look and chuckled: "Why are you suddenly interested in her?" He then gave an explanation: "Ping Gu used to serve by Granny Su Ma's side. Under her influence, she also became very devout in Buddhism and was very indifferent to worldly feelings. Later, she came to serve me wholeheartedly."
Granny Su said that if she hadn't come to live with me, she probably would have already spent her life as a Buddhist nun. How could I bear to force her? Fortunately, she can live a peaceful life by my side, so why shouldn't I be happy with that?"
"Twelfth Brother is indeed kind-hearted, but I wonder what Pinggu's past is like?" Thirteenth Brother asked again.
“I didn’t ask about her past in detail. I only heard from Granny Su that Granny Su met Pinggu on the way to Mount Wutai when she accompanied the Empress Dowager. At that time, Pinggu was young, had no parents, and had nowhere to go. Granny Su took her in out of kindness. She stayed by Granny Su’s side from then on. She was intelligent from a young age and was highly valued by Granny Su.”
The Twelfth Prince suddenly paused, looked at him with a half-smile, and said, "You don't seem to have come here for tea today? What? Are you interested in Aunt Ping? She's much older than you, so don't try anything with her."
"Twelfth Brother, don't talk nonsense!" Thirteen's face flushed red, and he was furious with embarrassment.
The Twelfth Prince pressed his fist to his lips, suppressing a laugh: "Then why did you ask about her?"
"I'm just curious what grudge she has against Heyue that she would drug Heyue," Thirteen told it frankly, without hiding anything from it.
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