Concubine Jing saw Mu Fengqie's inquisitive look. She whispered a few words in Mu Fengqie's ear and then left with her entourage.
Mu Fengqie didn't get up to see Concubine Jing off. Instead, she slowly digested what Concubine Jing had just said. This Grand Empress Dowager was a tough one! With her own efforts, she had disrupted a plan that someone had been planning for months. Brilliant!
After pretending to have a stomachache, Concubine Hua secretly had a bowl of labor - inducing medicine sent in and drank it. Everything had been going smoothly at first, but the problem arose with the Grand Empress Dowager.
Concubine Hua lay on the bed, clutching her belly in pain, waiting for the emperor to send someone to help with the delivery. But after waiting for a long time, the only one who came was the Grand Empress Dowager. Moreover, the Grand Empress Dowager sent people to surround her quarters tightly.
When Concubine Hua found out, she was so angry that her face turned green. This old hag! She was more of a hindrance than a help. Why didn't she just die!
No matter how crazy Concubine Hua was, there was nothing she could do. She could only be held down on the bed to give birth. But the situation had happened so suddenly that all the midwives in the palace had gone to Mu Xingrou's place. So the Grand Empress Dowager had to find someone in a hurry.
Concubine Hua struggled to follow the midwife's instructions, but soon she ran out of strength. The midwife checked and said that the baby couldn't be born yet. Had all her efforts been in vain?
Concubine Hua lay on the bed weakly, sipping the ginseng soup brought by the servants to regain her strength quickly.
Maybe it was because Concubine Hua had eaten too well on weekdays, but the baby's head was too big and got stuck in the birth canal. Concubine Hua was already rolling her eyes.
After the midwife told the Grand Empress Dowager about this, the Grand Empress Dowager hesitated for just a moment and then made a decision. "Save the child for me. As for whether the mother can survive, do your best."
What she wanted was the child. There were plenty of women. As for the child's birth mother, with her as the Grand Empress Dowager, who in the palace would dare to bully the child! So whether the birth mother was around or not didn't matter.
Concubine Hua, who was about to faint, gritted her teeth secretly after hearing the conversation outside. Relying on her strong will, she managed to give birth to the child.
"Congratulations, Grand Empress Dowager! Concubine Hua has given birth to a little princess. Since the emperor has just had a son, it's just a perfect match."
The midwife carried the baby out, hoping to say something auspicious to get some rewards. But when she saw the Grand Empress Dowager's face fall after hearing it was a girl, she silently shut up. Sure enough, the royal family's thoughts were the hardest to guess.
Just now, the Grand Empress Dowager had told her to save the child, but now she was unhappy.
"Take this child away. Don't let it get in my way." What a useless wretch! She couldn't even give birth to a son, and she was a princess of a country!
When Yuan Yuchuan heard that Concubine Hua had given birth to a daughter, he felt a bit better. He sent a lot of things to her quarters, saying it was because the concubine had worked hard and should replenish her body.
When Concubine Hua woke up and found out about this, she smashed all the things in the room. Looking at the baby lying on the bed, she grabbed the baby's neck and said viciously,
"You little slut! Why couldn't you be a boy? Why do you have to be a girl!" Concubine Hua had just given birth, and her face was as white as a sheet. Anger made the veins on her face bulge. She looked like a ghost, which was really scary.
Fortunately, a maid came in and saw this scene. Otherwise, the baby in Concubine Hua's hands would have been strangled to death. After the maid snatched the baby from Concubine Hua's hands, she carried it to the emperor.
She told the emperor what had just happened in detail. At that time, the emperor was discussing Mu Xingrou's title and the matter of the child in Concubine Jing's quarters.
"Your Majesty, I have a humble request." Concubine Jing looked at the emperor expectantly after hearing what the maid said.
"Concubine Jing, please speak." Yuan Yuchuan's mood was neither good nor bad. After all, this was his own child. Even if it were to die, it should be his decision, not someone else's.
"Your Majesty, since Concubine Hua doesn't like this child, why not adopt it under my name? I really like children." Anyway, she would never have a child of her own in this life.
Although her body had been greatly improved by Fengqie's treatment, she would never give birth to a child for this scumbag. So she was destined to have no children of her own. She had thought she would spend her life alone and helpless, but unexpectedly, Concubine Hua had given her such a big gift.
Yuan Yuchuan thought for a while and decided that this was a feasible solution. It didn't matter whose side the child was raised on, but it was absolutely impossible to let the child stay with Concubine Hua. Who knew if that woman would instill some disrespectful ideas into the child.
"I approve. There's no need to take the child back. Let it be raised here with you. I'll send someone to inform Concubine Hua later." This would just solve his problem.
In this way, Concubine Hua would have no child by her side. No matter how much she stirred up trouble, it wouldn't cause much of a stir. After that, they just had to be careful not to let Concubine Hua get pregnant.
"Alright, that's settled about Rou'er." Although Yuan Yuchuan had come to Concubine Jing's quarters to discuss Mu Xingrou's matter, in fact, it was mostly Yuan Yuchuan talking and Concubine Jing listening.
Now that Yuan Yuchuan wanted to make Mu Xingrou a noble lady, Concubine Jing had no objections. She had even prepared herself for Mu Xingrou to be made a concubine, but unexpectedly, the emperor was so stingy and didn't promote her.
One thing after another happened in the palace, and it was also restless outside the palace.
An'er studied with the master that Mu Fengqie had found for her every day outside the palace and helped in the herbal medicine shop. Today, she went to the shop as usual.
But today, she accidentally bumped into someone on the street. She had planned to just pretend nothing had happened, but the woman who bumped into her refused to let it go.
"I said, why are you so blind? Can't you just go around on such a wide road?" Miss Zheng had planned to go out for a stroll, but she didn't expect to be so unlucky. She had just gone out and been bumped into.
"Sorry." An'er, thinking that it was better to avoid trouble, thought that apologizing would solve the problem. But when Miss Zheng saw An'er's face, she decided not to let her go.
She was very familiar with this face. This was the person who had caused trouble on the day when the Prince of Wen got married. She must have been the Prince of Wen's mistress before.
"Oh~ I wondered who it was. It's you!"