However, at this time, in the Golden Wind and Jade Dew Hall, Concubine Jade looked at the bowl of soup in front of her crazily. It was made by Honghua herself. She hesitated whether to drink it. Watching the tonic soup change from hot to cold, she Neither had made up their mind.
After half a month of living in the cold palace, these days are much harder than living in a nunnery. At least there is enough food to eat in the nunnery and a quilt to cover you. When it gets cold, you can collect firewood to keep warm. Although the food is not oily or watery, it is still fresh. .
But she was humiliated on the first day in the cold palace. Her quilt was robbed, her bed was crawled by sleeping mice, she drank water from a chipped bowl, and even the well water in the cold palace was dirty, with shoe soles floating on it. …
But that's the only source of water. If you don't drink it, you'll die of thirst.
She went on a hunger strike for three days, not wanting to compromise, but the feeling of hunger was too overwhelming. Every moment she felt hungry, she was gradually compromising.
When she couldn't stand it any longer, she crawled to drink water and ate the food that was brought to her. At that moment, all her energy was gone, and all she had was the instinctive desire to survive.
She competed with the madman for food, but was beaten severely by the madman. She had to wait until all the food was taken away before she could step forward to get some of the remaining soup. Occasionally, she could secretly eat the food left by others. When she was discovered, she naturally She was beaten, but she didn't care about that. She didn't want to go hungry anymore.
But the pain in her shoulder caused her will to collapse, and she lost the courage to die.
After the first half of a month, she realized that her period had not come for nearly two months. She used all the jewelry on her body to get an opportunity and asked the food delivery man to send a message to the people in front of the emperor that she was pregnant. .
It was Huang Wanshun who brought the imperial doctor over to confirm that she was pregnant, and then he was able to return to this palace.
The familiar environment, which she once thought was a prison, at this moment, made Concubine Yu feel how happy she was to live like this.
She never wanted to go back to the cold palace again. That place was like a hell on earth, where she could neither survive nor die.
But she knew very well that she had made too many enemies and had lost her Sacred Heart. If she wanted to live, she had to be cruel to herself, win back the emperor's heart, and deal with the women in the harem.
From this moment on, she had no way out.
She put safflower on this bowl of soup. This was what she had planned to give to Concubine De. It was not found. She did not expect to use it on herself. It was only a small amount. As long as she was treated in time, the child would be fine. Even if something happened, she would be fine. The child will not die in vain.
With this thought in mind, she decided to drink it all in one gulp. After finishing the drink, she immediately got up and knocked on the door to call for help.
The guard outside looked at the knocking on the door and could only ask, "What's wrong with you?"
"I have a stomachache, please call the imperial doctor quickly. I am pregnant with a dragon seed. If anything happens to the dragon seed, you will all have to sit together!"
When the guard heard this, his expression suddenly became panicked, and he quickly sent someone to ask the emperor for instructions.
However, the emperor's expression was not very good at the moment.
He sent someone to check Gao Mingyao's previous records of entering the palace. It was true that he entered the palace on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. But on that day, he did arrive late. The records of the palace gate showed that he entered the palace in the morning and at noon. Then they went to the imperial study to apologize, and had a banquet together in the evening.
In other words, he was in the palace for half the day, but he was nowhere to be found.
In the Qianqing Palace, the emperor's expression was cold. Huang Wanshun who was standing aside did not dare to speak. He was so frightened by his expression that he stood aside without daring to speak.
At this time, a palace servant came in from outside the palace and conveyed a message, "Your Majesty, Concubine Jade has been suffering from abdominal pain just now. Please ask Doctor Xuan. I'm here to ask for permission from the Emperor. Can Doctor Xuan go?"
The emperor frowned immediately when he heard this, "Do you still need to ask for permission on these matters? Of course, the body of the jade concubine is the most important thing, and there is nothing that can be seen."
When the palace people heard this, they quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.
The emperor immediately got up and took the imperial doctor to the Golden Wind and Jade Dew Hall. Concubine Yu was lying on the bed holding her belly, with a look of pain on her face. When she heard that the emperor was coming, she quickly got out of bed and knelt down. He stood down, not daring to raise his head, as if asking for forgiveness.
The emperor glanced at her, his expression did not change much, and said to the palace attendant, "Hold her up."
The one who came today is a newly promoted imperial doctor. He is considered to be very senior in the imperial hospital. His ancestors were from a medical family for three generations. The emperor could not trust anyone else, so he promoted him.
Dr. Wen checked her pulse and looked a little nervous. He hurriedly induced vomiting and then had someone give her some unknown medicine. She vomited violently again and used an acupuncture to draw out some blood.
The emperor frowned at this scene. After Dr. Wen finished doing this, he hurried to the emperor and replied, "Your Majesty, Concubine Jade drank safflower soup. It promotes blood circulation and stimulates menstruation. Pregnant women must not touch it. Fortunately, I induced vomiting in time and induced the poison to bleed out, which stabilized the fetal gas."
When the emperor heard this, he looked at Concubine Jade and was a little angry, "You had an abortion privately?"
Hearing this, Concubine Yu quickly stood up, climbed down, knelt on the ground, and cried, "I don't dare. This child is also my own flesh and blood. How can I give up? I just drank a bowl of tonic soup sent from the kitchen, and then I just have a stomachache, Your Majesty, I know that I have sinned deeply and am not worthy of Your Majesty’s love, but now that this child is here, there is absolutely no reason to reject it.”
These words made him frown and start to think about how much sincerity there was in her words.
"I'm locked up in this room. I can't see anyone, and I can't get out. How could I get these abortion tools? Someone must have wanted to kill me because I didn't want to see her pregnant." Then, she knelt forward, grabbed the hem of his clothes, and looked at him pitifully.
Isn't it Concubine De who is the only one who has the ability to touch her food?
The emperor's expression remained unchanged, wondering if she was acting.
In the past, she acted so well that he didn't notice that her heart was not with him.
Seeing this, Concubine Jade sobbed again, "I know that the emperor hates me so much. I know that I am wrong, so I will not ask the emperor for forgiveness. I just want our child to be born, and I will die to apologize."
These words touched him a little. He looked at Doctor Wen and asked, "How long has Concubine Yu been pregnant?"
Hearing this, Concubine Jade was confused and asked what he meant. Then she heard Doctor Wen say, "More than one month, less than two months."
These words made the emperor relax, and the time was no longer right.
Then, he waved his hand and asked everyone to go out.
After everyone left, he looked at Concubine Jade and asked, "How many times have you seen him since you entered the palace?"
When Concubine Yu heard this, her heart was in confusion. She immediately understood that he suspected that the child was Gao Mingyao, and she quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, I was a confused concubine before, but I have never been sorry to the Emperor."
Hearing this, his brows widened, but he did not let go, "What about the Mid-Autumn Festival? What are you doing?"
These words made her panic. She raised her eyes and looked at the emperor's cold eyes. Her heart felt cold, guessing that he knew that she had met Gao Mingyao in private.
"My concubine was grounded by the Emperor. Doesn't the Emperor remember?" She looked at him with a hurt expression.
He also really had no evidence to prove that Gao Mingyao had ever entered the harem.
"Since Concubine Jade is so steadfast in her oath, how about I bring Gao Mingyao here and confront you on the spot?"
