Chapter 31: Miscarriage
Since the last time I secretly sent a congratulatory gift to Shangfu without telling my father and mother, the relationship between Shangfu and Zhoufu has completely fallen to the bottom. For this reason, Lord Shangshu also specially recruited a few courtiers to visit his father in front of the emperor, saying that it was the revenge of Zhou Fuji's divorce to deliberately sabotage the Shang family's wedding, and even used the identity of Ruyi Gege Royal to slander Zhou Fu for disrespecting the royal family, and wanted to take the opportunity to step on Zhou Fu. But he never thought that Li Yu, who originally loved Ruyi Gege, unexpectedly rejected Lord Shangshu's appeal, and for a while, the Shang family could only swallow the bitter fruit alone.
Even so, my father and my mother were not willing to blame me in the end, and I heard Sandalwood say that my father also secretly gave Ling Qi a reward, which was regarded as acquiescing in my behavior. Anyway, the matter between me and the Shang family is over.
As the days went by, my sister's body gradually became heavier, and I was idle and bored, so I followed my mother to sew clothes for this unborn nephew every day.
But reality doesn't favor you, fate keeps turning, and the last thing I want to see happens.
In the spring of 964, less than three months before my sister gave birth, my mother and I were embroidering and sewing this box of clothes and sending someone to send them over, when news suddenly came from the palace. The queen mother mistook the decoction and miscarried, and the evidence of the concubine Niangniang's cruelty to the imperial heir was conclusive, and she was given a cane to death.
In order to take care of my sister's mood, the emperor and the queen mother specially called the prince to come to the Zhou Mansion to announce that I and my mother would enter the palace to accompany them.
When the procession reached the palace gate, it happened to bump into Concubine Xian's coffin and was carried out of the palace.
"This is Concubine Xian's coffin, her mother's house came to pick it up today, Mrs. and the second lady should avoid it, so as not to be contaminated with bad luck." Seeing this, the prince who was traveling with him stopped and reminded in a low voice.
"No need, this palace has always been a place of blood, so how can this coffin be said to be unlucky." I rejected the prince's offer before my mother could speak, and moved on.
The prince didn't say anything, but quickened his pace to follow, and continued to bow his head and lead the way before me.
I watched the coffin approach me step by step, but I didn't expect that the last time I met at Anshou Palace, I was still a fresh and proud person, and now I see you again.
"Wait." As the coffin passed by, I shouted to stop the eunuch who was carrying the coffin.
"Do you have any commands?" The accompanying palace maid was Concubine Xian's maid Xiaowei, and when she saw me shouting to stop, she asked me suspiciously.
"I don't dare to say it, I just want to send Concubine Xian Niangniang."
"The girl knows my mother?"
"Well, it's an old man." After saying that, I knelt down in front of the coffin without paying attention to everyone's eyes.
I knew it was wrong, but I just wanted to do it, and after the three kowtows, Xiaowei came over to help me up.
"My sister had a miscarriage, but your mother was victimized." Taking advantage of the gap to help me, I took Xiaowei's hand and asked softly.
Maybe I didn't expect me to ask like this suddenly, Xiaowei was stunned for a while, and after helping me up, she quickly stepped back and lowered her head, not answering me at all.
"Min'er, let's go quickly, don't miss the hour." After a stalemate for a while, my mother suddenly shouted at me.
"Okay, I'll do it now." I stared at Xiaowei again, that's it, the master of the family just died, this question is indeed abrupt for me to ask, I retracted my gaze and turned to walk towards my mother.
"Girl, wait." Just as our group was about to leave, Xiao Wei suddenly called out to me, took a deep breath, shook her head at me as if she had made a lot of determination, and then led the eunuch who carried the coffin to walk quickly outside the palace gate.
Shaking the head means, my sister is not the victim of Concubine Xian?
I stared at the back of the coffin leaving, and for a while I chose to believe in my heart that the harem dispute was like this, and the sudden death of Concubine Xian Niangniang was enough to show all this, and the thing may not be so simple behind it.
Entering the Yaoguang Palace, my sister was sitting in front of the window with a pale face, completely devoid of her previous life. Liuli said that her sister has been like this all day, and since she knew that the little brother was not saved, she began to sit there and look out the window, not eating, drinking or paying attention to anyone.
"What about the emperor?" According to Li Yu's love for his sister in the past, there shouldn't be no one at this time.
"Second Miss, don't ask, remember not to mention the emperor in front of the queen mother these days." Ruri stared in her sister's direction, then whispered to me.
"Why?"
"The slave doesn't know, I only know that the queen mother kicked the emperor out as soon as she woke up in the morning, and no one in the Yaoguang Palace was allowed to mention the emperor, no, everything in the room has been changed."
"Niangniang quarreled with the emperor?"
"This maid doesn't know, but after the queen woke up this morning and knew that the little brother was gone, she made a big noise and smashed everything in the room in front of the emperor, and drove the emperor out. After that, the emperor decreed that in order to ensure the rest of the mother, the palaces were not allowed to visit, and he himself did not come again. ”
"Aren't you allowed to come to the palace?" How does this sound more like captivity in disguise.
"Yes, I said that I wanted to ensure that my mother rested. The second lady asked what this does? ”
"It's nothing, just asking."
It turns out that this is the case, it seems that my sister's miscarriage must be related to the emperor or the queen mother, I understand my sister and Li Yu, if it weren't for the matter of the little brother, he would definitely not be in the current situation.
I didn't plan to go in, but I just watched my sister go back to bed under the comfort of my mother, it seems that Shangwen's incident, I still haven't let go after all.
But I couldn't figure it out. Why did Shang Wen make a promise to help me rise to the back two years ago? Did he and his sister know something? Or what are they planning?
"Liuli, when Mrs. Hui asks, you will say that I went to the Queen Mother's Anshou Palace, so that she doesn't have to worry and just take care of her sister."
"Yes."
After sitting in the courtyard for a while, I still decided to go to Anshou Palace, because I always felt that my sister's miscarriage this time was not like a simple harem dispute, after all, no one in the entire harem would be stupid enough to drug Zhenggong Niangniang so openly.
"Second Miss, the palace has not been peaceful recently, you must be careful." Just as I was about to leave, Sandalwood suddenly stopped me and said this to me with a worried face.
"Got it, you go in, I'll be careful." After I returned to Liuli, I walked out of Yaoguang Hall in the direction of Anshou Palace.
I'm not sure, but I think the Queen Mother should have the answer I want......