Chapter 304 Heart disease, she will have a better future
As soon as the Queen and Nanny Xu entered the hall, they saw the body of Concubine An covered with a white cloth.
"Your Majesty, please don't look at it, or it will pollute your eyes." Aunt Xu was worried that Concubine An's body would scare the Queen, so she stopped her from going over and then she bravely went forward to check.
The person under the white cloth was indeed Lady An.
However, the face looked even more terrifying against the backdrop of the zombie spots.
With just one glance, she hurriedly put down the white cloth.
The queen looked around the palace and found that there was no one here except the body of Concubine An.
There wasn't even a little maid to serve her.
She remembered that ever since the Emperor appointed Concubine An to the Yilan Palace, he had only arranged for Nanny Zhang to serve her. Later, she took Beigong You away, and Nanny Zhang returned to her hometown to live out her days. Now there was no one else in the Yilan Palace.
Remembering that An Meiren often went in and out of the cold palace during her lifetime, she decided to go next door and take a look, perhaps she could find some clues.
When Aunt Xu learned that she was going to the cold palace, she was full of disapproval, "Madam, it's unlucky there, it's not a place for you to go, let's go back."
Seeing that the queen was not giving up, Madam Xu advised again: "Why do you need to go there in person? If you want to ask anything, just call someone to Ganquan Palace. You haven't slept all night, you should go back and rest. You forgot that Princess Ning is still in confinement."
This sentence reminded the queen.
She stroked her swollen forehead and suppressed her tiredness.
Now that I’m getting older, my body is becoming less and less useful. I feel uncomfortable all over after just one night’s sleep.
Miaoyin still needs her care, so she really should go back.
Seeing that the Queen no longer insisted, Nanny Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief. She glanced calmly in the direction of the cold palace, then carefully helped the people around her out.
After the queen left, the men behind the walls of the cold palace also relaxed a little.
Xu Zheng was right, he couldn't see her.
After the queen returned to Ganquan Palace, she was very sleepy and went to bed to rest with the help of the palace maids.
But she lay on the couch for a long time, tossing and turning and unable to fall asleep. Her mind could not calm down for a long time, and the figure she had just seen in Yilan Palace was all in her mind.
She seemed to have seen Jiang He just now, both his back and his profile looked like him.
But...how is that possible?
The queen pressed her forehead and closed her eyes. She must have been too tired recently. Her eyes were always hazy and she couldn't see clearly. She either mistook people for him or had hallucinations for no reason.
If this continues, she will probably get sick.
Maybe it’s not right to say this, that person has always been a thorn in her side.
The queen looked at the gray tent ceiling, and memories of the past came to her mind all at once.
Back then, when she was still a young lady of the Chen family, she had been passionately in love with a young man. The two families lived next door to each other, and they were childhood sweethearts. Although neither of them had ever expressed their love, it did not prevent them from being in tune with each other and having eyes only for each other.
On the day of her coming of age, the young man gave her a white jade hairpin, intending to express his feelings to her. However, a phoenix hairpin sent from the palace suppressed the boy's joy and the love that was on the tip of his tongue back into his heart.
He had known for a long time that she was a noble lady carefully nurtured by the Chen family, and that she would enter the imperial palace and become the queen in the future.
She also understands her mission.
She didn't want to let him down, but she also couldn't let down her family's years of nurturing and cultivation.
Their friendship became powerless under the imperial power.
But she still decided to fight for herself, so she escaped from Chen's house, went to Jiang's house to find him, and asked him to elope with her.
This was probably the bravest thing she had ever done in her life.
She trusted him so much and trusted his friendship towards her, but she never expected that he would secretly surrender to the Chen family. He then teamed up with the Chen family to trick her into getting into a bridal sedan and sending her to the palace.
She didn't believe he would treat her like this until she heard that the Chen family had found a job for him. Only then did she completely give up.
He abandoned her for his future.
Haha... future is indeed a good thing. As long as she wants, she will have a better future.
At that time, she had just entered the palace. Because of her resistance to Emperor Ming, her situation in the palace was not good. Even some concubines dared to turn their backs on her, the queen. She sent a letter to the Chen family to cry, but the Chen family not only did not comfort her, but also accused her of being petty and wasting all her years of education as a lady from an aristocratic family.
Every time she was wronged, she resented Jiang He more and more.
She believed that all her misfortunes were caused by Jiang He. If he had taken her away at that time, how could she have become a resentful woman in the deep palace?
Later, news came that he was engaged.
That night, she looked at the mandarin duck purse she had embroidered with her own hands and finally felt disheartened. But when she heard the eunuch reporting to Emperor Ming, she suddenly felt a new hope.
She wanted to live well in this cold palace with her hatred for him.
She doesn't want anyone who betrayed her.
After that night, she completely threw herself into Emperor Ming's arms, and soon became pregnant.
The queen subconsciously touched her flat belly, sadness welling up in her eyes. Although she knew that people in the deep palace were unpredictable, she was only sixteen years old at that time, too naive, and thought everything was too beautiful, ignoring the dangers of the harem.
What she didn't expect was that Emperor Ming had no intention of letting her give birth to children from the beginning to the end.
At only eight months old, her belly was as big as a ball, even bigger than that of an average full-term woman. Everyone in Ganquan Palace was worried that she would suffer during childbirth.
Unexpectedly, the accident happened before she was due to delivery. She was frightened and went into labor prematurely, and didn't give birth for two whole days.
Until now the queen dared not recall how she survived those two days and two nights. She only remembered that the labor took too long and the child was suffocated to death in the birth canal. As a result, she could no longer give birth and became a useless person in the eyes of the Chen family.
The queen curled her lips in self-mockery.
It was clearly them who forced her to become the queen, but in the end they thought she was useless.
These memories were too heavy and painful. It was the first time in so many years that the Queen recalled those things. But even after so many years, she couldn't help trembling all over when she recalled them, feeling resentful and unwilling.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?" Nanny Xu, who was guarding outside, was the first to notice that something was wrong with the people in the tent and spoke out with concern.
Her concerned voice suddenly pulled the queen out of her past memories.
The queen drew aside the bed curtain and looked at the concerned faces of several people. The resentment lingering in her heart gradually dissipated.
"It's nothing. You've been tired all night. Go and rest. You don't have to stay here." She looked at the dark circles under Aunt Xu's eyes and gave the order. They are all older now and are not as good as they used to be.
The Queen lay down again.
Back then, she was devastated by the birth of a stillborn baby and her pregnancy. She was then abandoned by the Chen family. She became devastated and locked herself in Ganquan Palace all day, refusing to see anyone.
In addition, after Jiang He got engaged, she deliberately ignored him and never heard from him again.
The next time I heard this name was three years later, when something happened to the Jiang family.
The Jiang family colluded with the enemy and committed treason. All 130 members of the family, except the married women, were killed. Jiang He escaped the disaster because he sent his sister to marry far away. It is said that he never came back after that.
So many years have passed, and she has never heard a word about him. Even his name has become blurred in her mind.
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