The queen said: "Yes, but you must first be a good queen and a good wife before you can think of yourself as a woman. No matter when, women always put themselves last. In fact, I envy Concubine Hui. What does she want?" , she will use all means to fight for it. Even if she ends up miserable now, she has gained the emperor's love after all, and the rest may not be important."
Leng Xiao shook her head, "Mother, do you know what Concubine Hui really wants? I'm afraid it's not the emperor's love."
"How is it possible? How could the concubine not seek the emperor's love?" The queen was stunned.
"She begged, but she was asking for the honor and power behind this favor, and even a lower position. Therefore, she never got what she wanted."
The queen felt incredible and murmured: "If there is the emperor's love, who would care to be a queen?"
Leng Xiao said: "I can only say that everyone has his own ambitions."
The queen wiped away her tears and smiled reluctantly, "You don't need to take it to heart what I just said. It was just a momentary sentiment. Even if Ayi does get a new favorite in the future, he will definitely remember your kindness."
Leng Xiao felt that the queen was very contradictory. On the one hand, she did not believe that a man could love a woman forever, but she also longed for the emperor's love.
Perhaps, this is an expression of love that cannot be achieved.
After comforting the queen for a few words, she left. She had no part in dealing with those people's affairs, and she didn't want to see it.
She had no power to save them, but she could choose not to witness it.
After Leng Xiao left, the queen went to meet the emperor with a heavy heart.
The emperor returned to the palace, was half drunk, smashed everything in the palace, and drove all the people who were waiting far away.
When the queen entered, she saw the place was in a mess, and the smell of alcohol was so bad that it made people nauseous.
The emperor sat on the cushions, raised his scarlet eyes, and looked at her sadly, "Has the investigation been clear?"
The voice was already very hoarse.
The queen was heartbroken and quickly walked over to help him up, "Your Majesty, why do you hurt yourself like this? It's not your fault."
"I was wrong, I was wrong because I loved her too much," the emperor said angrily, as if crying but also laughing, "How many things has she done overtly or covertly in these years? I turned a blind eye, but this time, What did she do? Did you see the stillborn fetus? Two of the four legs were bloody and bloody, and she wanted to cut them off so that I wouldn’t see them."
The queen sighed and made up her mind not to let the emperor know that the child was born alive but was muffled to death by Concubine Hui.
"Queen," the emperor held her hand carelessly, his eyes getting redder and redder, "I have really treated you badly these years, I can't help you."
The queen smoothly withdrew the hand held by him and patted his back gently, "The emperor treats me very well. I am very satisfied."
She told the princess that she had loved her, and she had loved her before, but after being heartbroken again and again, her love had faded a lot, and she didn't want to fall in love again.
She still felt sorry for him, but it was an ordinary relationship between husband and wife, and it was her duty as a queen.
The emperor seemed to have found a life-saving straw and hugged tightly this woman who had never caused him any harm, as if she was the only one who could give him a sense of security at this moment.
The Queen comforted him for a while before telling him the results of the investigation.
"I couldn't give birth, but I didn't know where I got a pill. The Crown Princess had seen this medicine and said it contained some powerful heavy metals. There were also many unstable medicines that could cause fetal malformations. According to her palace Someone said that she took this medicine for half a year to get pregnant, and after she became pregnant, she took it for another three months."
"If it hadn't been forcibly preserving the fetus and using many precious medicinal materials, the child probably wouldn't have been alive in the fetus. Therefore, it's not the emperor's fault that the child was born. It was her indiscriminate use of medicine that caused the fetus to become like that. If I hadn’t taken those medicines, it wouldn’t have been like this.”
