The silly magpie successfully tricked Ji Chenhai and his son Ji Fengming into giving him a long explanation. Only after much urging and admonition did the father and son return home, leaving behind a comforting message: "Don't worry, you might have it when you return from the Summer Palace."
Ji Fengyao felt utterly hopeless throughout the entire day.
However, such explosive news is easy to explain to family members, but what about those outside...?
"What?! That bandit actually has one?!"
With a crash, the cups and bowls in Dianxiang Pavilion shattered on the floor once again.
"Heaven is truly blind! How could the prince have fallen into the hands of that crude bandit, and even have an heir!"
With a loud crash, all the fragile items in the third wife's room had to be replaced the next day.
The one who was furious the most was not the four women in the Prince's mansion, but Consort Qin of Zitong Palace.
Consort Qin heard this earth-shattering news from a purchasing eunuch who returned from outside the palace after the palace gates were locked. It is said that the entire capital was in an uproar over this news.
Now everyone in the capital knows that the Ninth Prince not only slept with that bandit, but also got that bandit to bear him a child!
"He must have wanted to use that bandit to humiliate me. Knowing this would happen, why did he put on that cruel, coy act in the first place?" Qin Weiyang clenched her exquisitely manicured hand at the base of her thumb, the long nail piercing her delicate white wrist as if she didn't feel it. Between her clenched teeth, she spat out words that were deadly poison: "I cannot bear him a child in this life, nor will I allow anyone in this world to bear him a child. She will die along with her unborn child!"
Aunt She carefully pried open Qin Weiyang's hand, meticulously wiped away the bloodstains on her wrist, and then summoned her trusted palace maid Qixuan to apply medicine and bandage Qin Weiyang.
Aunt She whispered to her, "Your Majesty, there's no need to get angry so quickly. Others may not know what kind of person the Ninth Prince is, but don't you know him well? This is probably just another rumor. In any case, we'll have to meet those bandits on our way to the Summer Palace. Whether this is true or not, we'll know when we see them. It's not too late to make plans after we've reached a conclusion."
"Then I will heed my aunt's advice, but I still have to make the necessary preparations." Although Qin Weiyang suppressed her anger, her fierce temper remained undiminished.
Upon hearing this, another personal maid, Qiying, as usual, took out a tray of more than a dozen small jade boxes from a box locked with eight locks in the inner room.
Looking through the crystal-clear jade box at the strange and disgusting Gu worms inside, Qin Weiyang immediately revealed a motherly expression, especially when her gaze fell on the largest fleshy worm among them, she showed unprecedented tenderness.
She used her nail guard to pry open the lid of the jade box, pulled out the insect, and placed it on her other, undamaged wrist.
The flesh worms were covered in strange spots, and upon closer inspection, they resembled terrifying skull faces.
Smelling the familiar scent of a living person, the flesh worm's two sharp pincers pierced Qin Weiyang's delicate skin and began greedily sucking her blood. With each swallow, rings of bright red blood slid from the worm's head down to its tail.
In the deep palace, there are beautiful concubines and eerie, blood-sucking worms.
The scene was terrifying no matter how you looked at it, yet this was almost a daily occurrence in Zitong Palace.
At least regarding Qin Weiyang's use of blood to subdue Gu, Aunt She, Qixuan, and Qiying were already used to it and had become accustomed to it.
We're setting off for the Summer Palace tomorrow, and there's a lot to take care of.
By the time Shang Xiye finished dealing with everything, it was already late at night, with the candles low and the moon high in the sky.
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