One of the palace maids shrank back, gritted her teeth and said, "Except for the first two times, you actually didn't visit Concubine Yue for a period of time afterwards..."
"Your Majesty, do you believe me?" Haoyue knelt upright, without any panic on her face, as if the Yuepin the palace maid was talking about was not her.
The emperor looked down at the golden needle trembling on his chest. How could he not believe her? If he didn't believe her, if he didn't believe her...
"Someone..."
"I have evidence!" The palace maid knew that something was wrong and interrupted the emperor disrespectfully. She was originally Eunuch Lai Fu's person. If Concubine Yue had not threatened her with the man who had been waiting for her outside the palace for many years, how could she be used by Concubine Yue? It was obvious that she only needed to endure one more year to leave the palace. They even secretly agreed on a wedding date, but now they would never meet again. Since she knew that she could not escape death, she would also make Concubine Yue die!
"Your last visit to the Empress was on the ninth day of the eleventh month. According to the time calculation, the Empress should have been six months pregnant. However, the Empress knew she was pregnant that day. She secretly took a medicine to preserve the pregnancy before having sex with you. In fact, the Empress has been pregnant for more than seven months. Divine Doctor Yu knew it with just one examination."
The hall was as silent as death, and everyone's eyes were on Haoyue. What he said was so specific, could it be...
The emperor suddenly smiled and said, "I remember it was Lord Fang who checked on Concubine Yue for her pulse."
All the officials of the Imperial Hospital were led by the chief physician to kneel in a corner. The imperial physician Fang, who was named, was pale and had cold sweat on his forehead. He knelt down and crawled on the ground.
"Please ask Lord Fang to tell me how many months pregnant Concubine Yue is."
"Your humble servant, your humble servant will die!"
"Why do I need you to die? Just go and take the pulse of Concubine Yue. Isn't that part of your job?"
Imperial Physician Fang lost his composure and fell to the ground. He quickly knelt down using his hands and feet, but he could not hold on for a breath and fell down again, revealing his ugly appearance.
The emperor closed his eyes and lay back. Lai Fu was serving by his side with his sick body. Seeing this, he quickly stretched out his hands to support the emperor's head, fearing that the emperor would be in pain.
The emperor turned his head and saw Lai Fu, who was so skinny that his bones were visible. He couldn't see him for a moment. Yes, he hadn't seen this old guy for a long time. "Are you going to go underground to continue serving me?"
Lai Fu's eyes immediately turned red. He had been sad and resentful because of the emperor's lack of trust in him, but this was also the master he had served for his entire life, from his youth to now, decades had passed leisurely. Who would have thought that the life of the ambitious prince would end like this.
The Queen Mother calculated the time in her heart, but she couldn't help but tell the confused emperor, "Do you think Lai Fu is really sick? He was plotted against and poisoned. I heard that Haoyue didn't like him and never let him enter her Ruyue Palace. If he had always been by your side, how could you have come to this point? Emperor, you can not believe me, Yan Xi, or anyone else, but you should also believe that Lai Fu is loyal to you. Where else can he go except to be loyal to you? Who else does he have besides you?"
But... is it so
The emperor's eyes fell on the void, his expression was indifferent, "Haoyue, do you have anything to say?"
"The loyalty of this concubine to the emperor is evident to all heaven and earth!"
"Where's the fourth one?"
The fourth prince swallowed his saliva and said in a firm voice: "I am loyal to my father."
The emperor laughed with his head thrown back, his chest heaving, and the golden needle seemed to be about to fall. When he woke up from the dream, he realized how foolish he had been.
That was his own son. It was clear at a glance what was true and what was false without much argument. The most ridiculous thing was that he had been blinded and deceived by such shameless tricks, and had become estranged from his nephew who had always treated him sincerely.
If he knew that he had taken elixirs, he would have made sure that the Heavenly Master would never be seen again in the capital. If he knew that he had listened to the greedy words and drank human blood to eat his beloved, he would have killed Haoyue first even if he knew he would be sent to the guillotine.
That was his thousand-mile horse, which was now thousands of miles away, driving away the enemies for him and protecting the people for him.
"Dr. Yu, thank you for your help."
Doctor Yu sighed in his heart, bowed slightly and walked towards Concubine Yue who was being held down.
Haoyue, who had always been very tough, suddenly struggled hard at this moment, "Your Majesty, why don't you believe me? You said you would always believe me!"
"I believe you, so when you said that Hua Zhi secretly formed a clique for personal gain and formed such a network of relationships for foul purposes, I believed it. When you said that she felt sorry for the Hua family and designed Yan Xi to fall in love with her, I also believed it. When you said that Yan Xi's loyalty has been questionable since then, I also listened to your setting up of these traps to test him. When you said that Xiao Liu'er is now fully grown and has the intention of treason, and deliberately set up a trap to force him to abdicate, I really forced him to bring all the ministers into the palace." The emperor smiled sadly, "Haoyue, don't I trust you enough?"
"Then please trust me once more, for the last time!"
"If you are really as innocent as you say, why should you be afraid of taking my pulse?" The emperor waved his hand, and two palace servants came forward to help hold Haoyue down.
Doctor Yu shook his head slightly, squatted down helplessly, and pinched Yuepin's wrist. After this matter was over, he would never enter the palace again in his life!
“Oh, it hurts, it hurts so much…” Haoyue screamed and struggled to break free from the people who were holding her and hugged her belly. Just when everyone thought she was faking it, her lower garment turned red, she really had her period.
"Your Majesty, my stomach hurts so much..." Haoyue raised her head, revealing a sweaty face, which was full of dependence and trust at this moment, just like the little girl's attitude she usually showed in front of the emperor.
Unfortunately, the emperor at this time was no longer the same as before. He did not even look at Haoyue, but just asked, "Divine Doctor Yu, have you diagnosed the disease?"
"It has been more than seven months, I think."
"Doctor, go take a look."
The chief physician took the order and stepped forward, forcibly holding down Yuepin's wrist and taking her pulse. After feeling her pulse, he said in a trembling voice, "It seems to me that it is just as the divine doctor Yu said."
As if all his energy and spirit had dissipated, the emperor looked dejected. Hearing Haoyue still calling out, he said coldly, "Shut her mouth."
The love based on deception faded away, and the pity was gone too. Haoyue's facial features were distorted with pain. For the first time, she personally experienced the emperor's ruthlessness. She thought, if only the child could be aborted earlier, she would not have fallen into such a dilemma.
But she couldn't bear to do so. In her previous life, she was unable to get pregnant until the very end, and could only watch him favor her one after another, watch him be ecstatic over the birth of his eldest son out of wedlock, and become increasingly cold towards her because she couldn't give birth to a legitimate son. This time, she unexpectedly got pregnant so easily. Even though it came at the wrong time, she was still ecstatic. It wasn't because she loved him that much, but the unwillingness of her previous life was finally made up in this life. This sense of satisfaction was too strong, and therefore she was even more reluctant to do so. She was afraid that after losing this one, she would never have it again.
"Ugh..." A sharp pain came, and Haoyue subconsciously exerted force, and his lower body felt hot. Then the pain that could make people want to live but not die finally eased.
The experienced nanny stepped forward, lifted her skirt and took a look. She screamed and took two steps back. She quickly realized where this place was. She quickly covered her mouth and used her body to block the bright moon. She looked at Yuxiang and shook her head anxiously at her.