Emperor Mu asked with concern: "How is Rong Cang recovering from his injury?"
Chu Yunfei replied: "Your Majesty is a military general with strong bones. He has been able to get out of bed and move around in the past few days, but he cannot stand for long periods of time. My daughter-in-law is worried that he will suffer from sequelae that will affect his ability to go to the battlefield in the future."
Emperor Mu laughed: "The sequelae are not serious. Although Rong Cang is a bit of a bastard, he is my son after all. Can I really beat him to death? It's just a flesh wound. I'll give you an explanation."
Chu Yunfei knelt down and said, "My father is kind and tolerant, but my daughter-in-law is ashamed."
"It's a trivial matter for a daughter's family to be jealous, so don't worry about it." The emperor was in a good mood because she was pregnant, and he always spoke gently, "If you have nothing to do, go back and rest early. I will send an imperial doctor to check your pulse later. She is carrying Rong Cang’s first child, so you can’t be careless.”
Chu Yunfei bent her knees and saluted: "Yes, my daughter-in-law is resigning."
After bowing to the emperor and the imperial concubine, she calmly left Zhaochen Palace.
Escaped unscathed.
"Prince Zhan has a good temper." Emperor Mu watched her step out of the palace, and then looked at the imperial concubine with a smile, "Although she is not of high birth and her family background is not good, she has a true temperament, calm demeanor, and is quite calm about honor and disgrace. "
Concubine Gu sneered in her heart, she looked like a little family guy who couldn't stand up to the public eye, with a low background and big airs, but he still behaved calmly and had a real temperament?
The emperor really knows how to tell lies with his eyes open.
But of course Gu Guifei would not go against him. She just smiled and nodded when she heard this: "I didn't know she was pregnant before. I just thought she was still angry with Cang'er, so I didn't go to Zhao's house for the banquet. Today I want to give her a Call her over and ask her, I want her to stop acting so arrogant, or it will really annoy Cang'er, which will be bad."
"My beloved concubine has good intentions, she will understand." Emperor Mu said, turning to look at Rong Jinyue, and gave a stern warning, "In the future, change your temper like a little princess, and let me know what you mean to me. Which royal sister-in-law is rude, I will never forgive you!"
Rong Jinyue was dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to refute. She just blamed Chu Yunfei for everything.
"Let Princess Chen accompany you tomorrow, and Jin Yue will go to Prince Zhan's Mansion in person to make a good apology to your wife." Concubine Gu took the initiative and said, "It happens that Princess Zhan is pregnant, so I should reward her with something. , let Jin Yue and the palace attendants take her there, what does the emperor think?"
Emperor Mu thought for a while and nodded slowly: "That's not bad. The reward is given and the apology is made. It kills two birds with one stone."
Concubine Gu smiled and glanced at Princess Chen calmly.
Princess Chen nodded her head carefully, lowered her eyes, and covered up the strange luster in her eyes.
…
Chu Yunfei walked out of Zhaochen Palace and saw a middle-aged eunuch waiting outside the palace gate. She nodded slightly: "Eunuch Yang."
This person's name is Yang Dexi, the chief steward of the imperial family. Rong Cang took her to a palace banquet years ago, and the person serving the emperor was Eunuch Yang.
"Princess Zhan." Yang Dexi saluted respectfully, "The emperor ordered this old slave to lead you."
Chu Yunfei returned the greeting: "Thank you, Eunuch Yang."
"Don't dare."
Chu Yunfei followed Yang Dexi, and after walking for a while, she suddenly realized that the way Yang Dexi took her was not the way out of the palace.
She was suspicious, but didn't say anything.
Eunuch Yang was the chief steward around the emperor. Everyone in the palace and the eunuchs knew him. It was impossible for him to have any other agenda in broad daylight.
This is obviously what the emperor meant.
But Chu Yunfei never expected that Yang Dexi would bring her to Shuhuang Palace.
Looking up at the words "Shuhuang Palace" on the plaque above the palace gate, Chu Yunfei looked at Yang Dechang in confusion: "Eunuch Yang, this is..."
"The emperor wanted to talk to the princess alone about something, but for the sake of the princess's reputation, he came here." Yang Dexi explained, "The emperor will be here later."
Emperor Mu was a man and Chu Yunfei's father-in-law.
In the court, the monarch and his ministers are father and son. Before a woman leaves the court, her father will usually accompany her to the court, and after she gets married, her husband will be present.
Historically, the emperor rarely summoned his daughter-in-law to speak alone. In order to avoid suspicion, he chose to do so in the Queen's Palace.
Chu Yunfei understood, and then frowned: "But the Queen has not done anything for many years, will coming here disturb the Queen?"
"No." Yang Dexi smiled, "The emperor has to go to the queen's palace to have dinner every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. There is still no problem with the relationship between the emperor and the empress."
Chu Yunfei hummed and said nothing, but she knew in her heart that this was not the case.
The emperor may think that their relationship with the empress is fine, but the empress lost a child that year. Since then, her health has been suffering from illnesses, making it difficult to conceive again, and the place where the child's accident occurred was the harem.
A queen who was devoted to the world could not even protect her own children. Did she really have no resentment towards the emperor?
Chu Yunfei asked herself, if this kind of loss happened to her, it would be impossible for her not to complain at all.
In her previous life, her child left her before it was born, and she suffered a broken heart, but something happened to the queen's child during delivery...
The palace door suddenly opened in front of me.
A woman in her twenties or seventies came out and saluted to Chu Yunfei and Eunuch Yang: "Eunuch Yang, the Queen, please come in and talk to Princess Zhan."
"Yes." Yang Dexi looked at Chu Yunfei, "Princess Zhan, please."
Chu Yunfei gathered her emotions and stepped into the palace gate. Shengxia and Mo Xue followed her quietly without saying a word.
Compared with Zhaochen Palace, Shuhuang Palace has a noble status, but because the queen has been silent for many years, it always has an aura of loneliness and desolation.
The people in the palace did things quietly and saluted quietly.
Aunt Cai from Shuhuang Palace led Chu Yunfei to the main hall and gently bent her knees: "The Queen is reciting sutras. Please sit down for a moment."
Chu Yunfei returned the greeting: "Thank you, aunt. I'll just stand and wait."
Aunt Cai didn't persuade her any more and just stayed with her.
The time when the Queen's chanting ended was almost the same as the time when the Emperor arrived at Shuhuang Palace. He probably had already figured out when the Queen's chanting would end, so he came here in time.
"My concubine is here to see you, Your Majesty." The queen in plain robes stepped forward to meet him, "I apologize for being too far away to greet you, Your Majesty."
Chu Yunfei knelt a few steps behind the queen.
"Quickly get back on your feet." The emperor stepped forward and personally helped the queen up. "The war princess is also exempt from the courtesy."
"Thank you, Father."
The emperor took the queen and sat down on the throne: "I asked Yang Dexi to bring Princess Zhan to the queen's palace. If you disturb the queen's peace, please forgive me."
"Your Majesty, please don't ruin my reputation in front of juniors." The Queen laughed and raised her hand to signal Chu Yunfei to sit down and talk, "This palace is not lively enough. Princess Zhan has never been here before, so she may not be used to it."
Chu Yunfei looked at the queen in a daze.
Not because of her gentle tone, nor because of the faint lingering loneliness between her brows and eyes, but because the outline of her facial features made her feel vaguely familiar, as if she had seen her before.
But today was clearly her first time meeting the queen.
Even at the palace banquet he attended last year, the queen did not show up because of poor health. So when had he seen the queen?
"Princess Zhan." The queen looked at her in surprise, "Is there anything wrong with my face?"
Chu Yunfei came to her senses and quickly knelt down to apologize: "My daughter-in-law was rude because my mother was so beautiful and I lost my mind for a moment. I beg my mother to forgive me."
This is not true.
Before Queen Xie entered the palace, she was famous as the most beautiful woman in the capital. She had outstanding talents and was good at all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Although she has been in the palace for so many years, there are a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes, but her graceful and elegant demeanor is even better than before, and she is much more beautiful than the ever-favored Concubine Gu.
It is hard to say whether Concubine Gu would be in the position she is today if she had not been silent for many years.
"It's okay." The Queen smiled gently, "Sit down."
Chu Yunfei thanked him respectfully, and then sat down on the chair on the left.
Aunt Cai took the tea tray from the tea serving maid, presented the tea cups and snacks one by one to the empress and Chu Yunfei, and then led several palace attendants out.
"Princess Zhan is pregnant." The emperor told the queen, and then turned to Chu Yunfei, "Have you called the imperial doctor to check your pulse?"
Chu Yunfei slowly shook his head, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Before, we only called in doctors from outside for diagnosis. Before I could share the joy with the prince, something happened."
"Something happened?" The queen was confused and turned to look at the emperor, "What happened?"
"It's not that bastard Rong Cang." The emperor was dissatisfied. "Suddenly he went crazy. He was clamoring to divorce his wife, and he also fell in love with the concubine of the Chu Shilang family. He is simply a demon."
The Queen frowned: "The King of War used to seem quite stable, and he doesn't seem to be such a random person."
"He admitted it himself." The emperor became angrier as he spoke. "After he was impeached by the Minister of Chu that day, I summoned him to the palace. He himself made it clear that this was indeed the case."
The queen had not heard about outside matters for a long time and did not know how to comment at this time. She only said: "I happen to have a medical woman with superb medical skills here. Please check Princess Zhan's pulse."
Chu Yunfei stood up, knelt down and saluted: "Thank you, Queen Mother."
"Don't be too formal." The queen waved her hand, motioning for her to sit down, and called the medical girl to come in.
The medical woman was about the same age as Liu Qingxi. She came in and saluted the emperor and empress, then knelt down in front of Chu Yunfei and motioned for her to rest her wrist on the case.
Chu Yunfei followed the instructions silently.
The doctor girl's fingertips rested on her wrist. After a moment, she turned around and knelt down towards the emperor: "The princess has been pregnant for more than two months."
