Chapter 108: Iron Bucket Protection
After sending off Queen Zhu and the three, the magpie pouted: "Our grounding is just to have a good baby, this is good, everything that should be known and what should not be known is known, will you still have a safe life in the future?" β
Jiang Xinyue smiled, looking less concerned: "Where did the permanent secret come from in the palace?" Originally, I didn't expect to be able to prevent the news from spreading, but the palace was guarding against the calculations of low-ranking concubines. β
People in high positions especially dare not risk their lives, for fear of taking a wrong step and losing the whole game.
Even if they knew that Jiang Xinyue was pregnant, none of them dared to act rashly.
Especially today, she showed Mama Li, a big killer, even if she had the heart, she was powerless.
But they don't dare to do it themselves, it doesn't mean that they don't dare to instigate others to do it, if those low-ranking concubines get any benefits, they dare to give it a go.
Jiang Xinyue's defense is them.
was grounded, and those low-ranking concubines who had no friendship with her couldn't enter her Hexi Palace.
With Mama Li and Mama Xiang here, it is impossible for those people to do harm to the people around her.
Now the palace people of Hexi Palace have to go through a strict full-body inspection when they go out and come in, just because they are afraid that they will bring in unclean things from outside, which will cause Jiang Xinyue's children to be in danger.
They are the people given by the emperor, and they are equivalent to the emperor's eyeliner, Jiang Xinyue trusted, but still kept a heart, how uncomfortable she was in front of the emperor before, and how uncomfortable she is now.
Emperor Xuanwu was so protected by an iron bucket, and the most delicious thing was Concubine Shu.
Kunning Palaceββ
Empress Dowager Wu listened to the sound of mirrors shattering from inside the side hall, and quickly got up in shock: "What's the matter?" Which one put a mirror in the concubine's room? β
Mama Gui helped the Queen Mother: "It's not someone else, it's Ronggui Concubine Niangniang, who said that she was a new recipient of the diora given by the emperor, and she didn't dare to enjoy it alone, so she sent it to honor the Queen Mother, but when she was sent in, she was seen by Concubine Rong, thinking that it was given to her by Ronggui Concubine, and asked someone to carry it to the side hall." β
Empress Dowager Wu's face was gloomy: "The mourning family said that Concubine Rong and the mourning family are not of the same mind, she has been jealous of Concubine Shu for a long time, how could she let go of this good opportunity to hit Concubine Shu?" It is fake to give it to the mourning family, but it is true to make Concubine Shu sad. The emperor made her a noble concubine, and she felt that her wings were stiff, and if she didn't teach her a lesson, she didn't know what her surname was. β
beckoned, Empress Dowager Wu instructed her chief eunuch to whisper a few words, and even Mama Gui didn't hear it clearly.
"How can the person in this mirror be Hongu? This is not this palace, you guys get out of this palace! β
The shattered mirror was on the ground, clearly reflecting a fat face with a double chin, and the once weak and elegant concubine was fat into a ball.
At first, Concubine Shu was forced to eat food that she couldn't eat, and she felt that she had spit it out after eating it, and there shouldn't be any big problems.
But while eating, her appetite has grown, she used to only need to eat half a bowl of rice to be full, after coming out of Concubine Li, half a bowl of rice is not enough for her to stuff between her teeth, often have to eat two bowls of fragrant rice at each meal to feel comfortable.
I am accustomed to the heavy taste food of oil and salt in the palace of Concubine Li, and I feel that I have lost my appetite for the dishes with clear soup and little water in the past.
Unconsciously, Concubine Shu asked the imperial dining room to improve the dishes for her, and there was too much heavy oil.
She was pregnant herself, and she couldn't see her own changes, but she felt that her belly was growing day by day, thinking that it was a natural physical change for pregnant women.
But later, the mirrors in her room were taken away by Empress Dowager Wu, and she faintly noticed that something was wrong.
Until today, when she saw herself in the mirror, she was about to collapse.
How could that big fat man be her?
The slender beauty of the weak willow Fufeng that the emperor likes, she has become like this, how can she grasp the emperor's heart?
Although Empress Dowager Wu comforted her that when she gave birth, she lost weight, and she could lose weight back to her former appearance and figure by controlling her appetite, but she still couldn't accept her current self.
I heard my sister say that now the most favored in the palace is the also pregnant concubine, and the emperor has to accompany the concubine for half a day every day, which is said to tell stories to the child in the belly of the concubine.
Not only that, in order to let Concubine Zhen raise the fetus with peace of mind, the emperor also sent Mama Li to Hexi Palace to take care of Concubine Zhenhe's pregnant belly.
In this palace, who has had this treatment when they are pregnant?
I am afraid that only when the queen was pregnant with the deceased Prince Duanhui, because she was the eldest son of the emperor, the emperor cherished and liked it very much, so she let Mama Li take care of it for a while.
Jiang Xinyue, why does she enjoy the same treatment as the queen?
With this in her belly, she always had an ominous premonition that she might not be able to give birth, because the doctors always tactfully asked her to eat less and exercise more, so as not to have a difficult birth.
She was pregnant three months earlier than Concubine Zhen, and now she is six months old, but her belly is so big that she is about to give birth.
The child had a difficult birth......
Her belly is already too big now.
This kid ...... I can't ask for it.
She was afraid that she would have a difficult birth when she gave birth, if it was in the past, she was not afraid that the emperor would protect the small and abandon the big. But she has this dignity now, I'm afraid...... He is more than lucky.
Concubine Shu touched her stomach and pulled her hand tightly, her eyes were cold, and she said to the palace maid beside her: "Lianxin, prepare to take steps, this palace is going to Changxin Palace." β
She can't do anything with Concubine Zhen, but her child can't come to this world for nothing, and she must pay the price for making her such a culprit.
"Mother's ......"
Lian Xin's face was full of pity: "Concubine Li is arrogant, why do you bother to ...... again"
"There is something important in this palace that has fallen in Changxin Palace, and it is a token of love between this palace and the emperor."
Concubine Shu said quickly: "You go and invite the emperor to go to Changxin Palace, be quick!" β
Before going, Concubine Shu also took a piece of century-old ginseng and put it in her mouth.
At the same time, Jiang Yankun and Jiang Hewei, the secretary of the ministry, took Jiang Yanxi together and counted dozens of charges against Song Shoufu and Song Chengxiang in the imperial study.
Including buying and selling official positions, cheating in imperial examinations, killing officials, intercepting concerts, and bullying the monarch, etc., each of which is a major crime of stealing the family and exterminating the clan.
After three months of strict investigation, several officials of the Song faction were found to be unclean, and they were all suppressed by the Song family when they committed crimes, and they had no chance to present them to the emperor.
"Smack!"
The inkstone on the desk in the imperial study flew down and smashed heavily on Prime Minister Song's forehead: "Song Jiangming, I see that your Song family wants to rebel, and it is damn to have betrayed my trust so much!" β
The black ink was mixed with blood and water, and it was the first time that the famous Prime Minister Song Cheng showed people in such an embarrassed posture.
But he didn't have the heart to maintain his image at all, so he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, the minister has not done these things, this is all a crime to be added, Your Majesty, it must be ...... Someone must have wronged the ministers and begged the emperor to see it. β
He meant something, and he was talking about Jiang Yankun and Jiang Hewei.