"Queen Mother, why do you only see a belly, but there is no swelling elsewhere, it really makes the concubines envious."

I walked to the gazebo where Zhang Yan was sitting, and after eight months of pregnancy, my feet were so swollen that I could barely walk. But I wanted to come and see her.

"The queen mother takes more nourishing decoctions, and her body naturally recuperates." Zhang Yan has a very smart palace maid by her side, if I remember correctly, she served Lu Pheasant.

"Oh? It turned out that the queen looked slender, but she didn't expect it to be much better than the concubine's body bones. ”

"That's natural, the queen mother is deeply favored by the queen mother and the emperor......"

I put down the teacup and shouted, "What are you talking to the queen in this palace!" ”

She was obviously frightened by my sudden reprimand, and hurriedly pleaded guilty. I looked down at Zhang Yan, who was still unmoved, quietly holding the teacup.

I had so many questions I wanted to ask her, but I couldn't get them out.

"Shujun is good, otherwise my uncle won't take you to play next time."

"Uncle loves Shujun the most, and he won't ignore Shujun, right?"

Liu Ying didn't notice the change in this niece, because she was still very good at being coquettish to Liu Ying, and even in front of Liu Ying, she was a sister to me, as if everything was the same as usual.

But after a long time, even I can't tell whether her current indifference is disguised, or the former Zhang Yan who laughed with me is disguised.

At the end of October, the snow was falling, and the sky suddenly became sad, and I reached out to touch the bone-crushing coldness, and my heart was indescribably dull.

During this time, I had a good life, and there was no mistake in eating and dressing in every detail. I was not at ease with this terrible calm, as if even the snow falling quietly in the sky was hinting at the darkness to come......

"Your Majesty, the concubines are approaching, and the emperor must accompany the concubines."

Liu Ying took me into her arms and agreed with a smile. But I never felt at ease, and finally on that day, Liu Ying went out of the palace to take care of the border, and then he never came back for four days in a row.

Liu Ying has no real power, and Lu Pheasant never gave him a chance to interfere in the government, let alone let Liu Ying go to the border alone, this must be a trap, maybe he just wants to pull Liu Ying away from me.

I looked at the window, and even I didn't know what Lu Dao was watching, but I hoped that Liu Ying would come back soon, and I hoped that all my worries were superfluous. I've never been so depressed, obviously about to welcome the birth of a child, but I did smell the death asking, and it was an uneasiness that almost suffocated me.

There was heavy snow in the sky again, and the thick white covered the entire Zhaoyang Palace, and I saw that those palace maids were playing in the snow, but their hearts were empty. Until her figure appeared on the other side of the temple gate.

Zhang Yan had a belly as big as mine, and was carried by the palace maids from the other side of the snow. This is the first time in the past few months that Zhang Yan has taken the initiative to come to me.

"Chang Meiren, how are you doing?"

I was slightly stunned, a little chilled by Zhang Yan's decent and unfamiliar title, and I replied with a smile: "The concubine has been doing well lately, and the queen is worried." ”

I looked at her belly, almost seeing through the soft pillow beneath her shirt, and there was no baby's scent.

"You are about to give birth, this palace is here to remind you to pay more attention to your body, the emperor is not in the palace, everything has its own destiny, I hope Chang Meiren pays more attention to proportion, so that the prince can give birth safely, you just take care of the fetus, and the rest of the palace will deal with it."

I almost didn't know Zhang Yan anymore, and when she said this, she was calm and composed, without any childishness.

It's just that......

I smiled and nodded slightly.

It's just that Zhang Yan's words are not an article, and there are many loopholes. Zhang Yan didn't sit long, took a sip of tea and then braved the heavy snow to return to the Jiaofang Palace.

I quietly analyzed her code words, and I could only understand one of her meanings, that is, I was in danger, and it was indeed not a coincidence that Liu Ying was not there, it was all arranged by Lu Pheasant. So something is bound to happen when I give birth.

What I don't understand is that since Zhang Yan knows about Lu Pheasant's actions, why can she only tell me in secret words, is she Zhang Yan joining forces with Lu Pheasant? Or was she just forced? If she was forced, why did I never see her struggle like a child?

"Why did you change the palace maid?"

I held my stomach and asked Mama Su, who came to Zhaoyang Hall early in the morning, she was Lu Pheasant's confidant, and she was also ruthless, and she actually replaced my personal maid in the palace, so I was very uneasy.

Mama Su gave a gift: "Chang Meiren, the Queen Mother ordered, the official doctor said that the time of delivery would be tonight, so she deliberately replaced it with a palace maid who served properly, after all, this production is a woman's major event, but you can't be sloppy, the palace maid next to Chang Meiren is too tender, I am afraid that it will be out of order." ”

"No, you don't! Hongu orders you to exchange them back at once. ”

"Chang Meiren laughed, this is not the old slave's final say, what the Queen Mother ordered, who in the palace dares to say no?"

I sat on the chair in a distraction, and sure enough, Liu Ying was supported for this purpose. What does Lu Pheasant want? Kill me? Or kill this soon-to-be-born prince?

My stomach has been aching since noon, I have barely the strength to speak, and the midwife said that I can give birth when the pain is the most. I stayed on my bed until the night, and finally it was time to give birth.

I screamed, the pain I had never tried before made me very conscious, and I could see the white snow through the window, not just hallucinatory or psychological, the snow I saw, not white, but dazzling red.

It seemed to soak the whole world, and it covered the roof of the Zhaoyang Hall in horror, enveloping me all around.

"It's a boy!"

The midwife took my child, and I was about to stretch out my hand, but I was hugged to the other side by Mama Su: "This handsome prince was born to the queen's mother." ”

The moment I collapsed on the bed, I finally understood what I couldn't figure out when I was pregnant, it turned out that Lu Pheasant didn't want to eradicate my child at all, and she didn't want to get rid of the rumors at all when she let Zhang Yan fake pregnant.

Lu Pheasant is looking for a replacement!

She wants to snatch her son and kill her mother, and completely send me into a hell from which she will never recover, and then entrust my child to be born to the queen, so that everything will be perfect, and her Lu Pheasant's world will be able to sleep in peace!

"Hehe......"

It turns out that I have really become a victim of the government a long time ago, Liu Ying is too, and so am my children and me.

It's just that I'm not a puppet, I'm just a pawn brutally destroyed by Lu Pheasant, she devours me with her carefully designed expectations, tears me up, and destroys all my soul and body!