At the end of July, Mo Binwei arrived in the southwest and began to gather the remaining soldiers and plan to rescue Shengjia.
About the same time, the imperial concubine Shan had a miscarriage.
At this time, Shan had been pregnant for six months, and the baby had taken shape. It was indeed a boy. Concubine Shan had never made any announcement about her pregnancy. She could not hide it, so she relied on her love to blatantly guard against Queen Qiu and Liu Gong. Concubine, all she had to do was to have the words "suspecting someone plotting to murder the emperor's heir" engraved on her face.
Despite being so careful, they still lost the child. Everyone inside and outside the palace was ready to receive the news that Concubine Shan would cause trouble in the palace.
But what's strange is that after Shan Guifei cried bitterly, she didn't make a fuss and quietly began to nurse herself back to health.
She was so calm and airy that she didn't look like a mother who had just lost her child - this anomaly would inevitably make people suspicious.
Li Meiren, who was also pregnant, asked someone to send a letter out of the palace in panic, asking the Shen family for help.
"What is Li Meiren afraid of? Firstly, she was not as domineering as the Shan family before; secondly, she is only pregnant with a princess." Wei Changying told the visitor, "As long as she keeps her peace, Concubine Shan will not be pregnant. How can there be bad news coming out one after another?"
After hearing these words, Li Meiren felt at ease. But when I thought about it carefully, I felt confused again: "Are you telling me not to offend Queen Qiu? Could it be that the Queen is responsible for the concubine's pregnancy? How could the Queen be so bold?!"
Li Meiren was born as a servant. Because of her good looks, her parents decided to become wealthy early on. Judging from her appearance, she was born in elementary school. I've seen a lot of facial expressions, and I'm a little more accurate at reading people.
How could Queen Qiu have such courage? !
If it wasn't the Queen who did it, then who was it? Concubine Shan received a lot of help from the Duanmu family, and she was favored by the Sixth Palace... Li Meiren had been thinking about it for a while, but Concubine Zhao and Yu Jieyu came to see her together.
Both of these two were of higher rank than Li Meiren. When they heard that they were coming, Li Meiren hurried out to greet them: "Are the two sisters here?"
"Don't be so polite. Now that you are pregnant, just sit back and wait for us to come in. The emperor's heir is the most important thing." Zhao Concubine, who was sent to the palace by the Jiangnan Song family, was seventeen years old. She was a typical Jiangnan woman. Beauty, she is not tall, petite and exquisite, and her face is not very beautiful, her facial features are just delicate, but her skin is more delicate and white than many concubines. If she walks under this summer sun, she looks like a jade statue.
At the moment, she was wearing a primrose-colored blouse embroidered with folded branches and mandala patterns, with wide sleeves and a green skirt. The emerald fairy skirt was tied all the way to her armpits. The pomegranate red tie was tied in a wishful knot on the chest, with long tassels hanging down, revealing a delicate look. Pretty and cute - but her two greetings were actually not very appropriate - the third-grade Jieyu was one level higher than the concubine from the third-grade, so these words should actually be said by Yu Jieyu.
Even though the three of them entered the palace at the same time and are of similar age, they are relatively indifferent to each other. They all refer to each other as sisters and rarely mention their status... But it is not good to not take their status seriously.
Li Meiren couldn't help but glance at Yu Jieyu - this Yu Jieyu is actually no worse than Shan Guifei in terms of appearance, but her temperament is far less domineering than Shan Jieyu. She is a beautiful and gentle woman. She is one year older than Zhao Bi, and is eighteen this year. Wearing a lotus-colored palace dress, she held a silk fan with an ivory handle in her hand. There were pictures of beauties dressing up on the fan. An emerald gourd hanging from the fan and a bunch of bright red palace tassels were scattered around her wrists. Wrists like snow.
Being robbed by Zhao Concubine was what she said, but Yu Jieyu just smiled without any dissatisfaction.
Li Meiren murmured in her heart about the purpose of these two people's visit, and let them all the way into the inner room, where she sat down on the brocade couch and ordered someone to bring them black plum drink to relieve the heat.
Zhao Bin took a few sips and drank the black plum drink and said: "The black plum drink here is still delicious, but the black plum drink here is not right!"
Li Meiren smiled and said: "Then I will ask the cook here to serve at my sister's place for a while?"
"No!" Concubine Zhao waved her hand, "You have a body now! I feel ashamed that I can't give you anything, so why would I want someone from you?" Then she smiled slightly, "Besides, it's the end of summer now. In early autumn, even if it is still a little hot, I can’t drink this black plum drink for more than a few days.”
Li Meiren said casually: "Yes, in autumn we still drink lotus drink and lemongrass drink to suit the occasion..." Halfway through her words, she saw Zhao Bin frowning slightly and realized that what Zhao Pin really wanted to say was not Yin Zi - after all, Li Meiren was also drinking wine. People who have been trained to cling to wealth naturally have the ability to be obedient. After thinking for a while, it suddenly dawned on them and he tentatively said, "Sister Zhao is right, the black plum drink... drinking it now is no longer interesting. That's me. I’m lazy and didn’t remove it.”
Seeing that she understood the key point of her sentence, Zhao Concubine smiled again: "The so-called preparation for a rainy day, has Sister Li thought about autumn?"
"Can you please give me some advice from Sister Zhao?" Li Meiren saw that Yu Jieyu remained silent and focused on picking up the fruit on the plate. She understood that the two of them had probably made an agreement long ago and now they came together to convince her. I was too lazy to use my brain and just asked for advice.
Concubine Zhao smiled gently: "We have always called ourselves sisters, so I won't beat around the bush: Your concubine has had a miscarriage this time, do you know the reason?"
Li Meiren felt awe-struck and subconsciously touched her belly before saying, "It is said that she fell accidentally."
"That one relies on his favor, and all he has to do is express his suspicion that the queen will murder her. How could he be so careful that he accidentally falls and even has a miscarriage?" Zhao Bin sneered, "That one is in excellent health. Yes! As for what will happen if she falls? Besides, she is already six months old, and her fetal image is already stable!"
"What does sister mean...?"
"Before King Ning left the capital, the one who listened to the wind and made a fuss over it ran to the Queen and made a fuss." Concubine Zhao picked up a date but did not eat it. She just turned it around in her hand and played with it. He raised his head and said with a smile, "Usually she doesn't make trouble like this once or twice! We all know the Queen's temperament, and there is nothing we can do against her. But that time she hit a snag! She was scolded by a girl in front of the Queen and became disgraced. He resigned from Weiyang Palace, and even returned to his own palace with a pale face! "
Li Meiren's time in the palace was short, and she was a tribute from the Shen family. In order to avoid taboos, the Shen family kept telling her not to stretch her hands too far. Since becoming pregnant, she has been focusing more and more on the care of the fetus, to the point where she has become completely oblivious to what is happening outside the window. Therefore, she is not very well informed about the palace. This happened two months ago, but she still only knows an outline. This person would be surprised and ask: "Where did my aunt come from that is so powerful?"
"It is said that the Queen's Eunuch Sun recommended her from outside the palace. She was a wife from a wealthy family. Six of her relatives died during the war. She had no one to rely on, so she asked someone to follow Eunuch Sun. She was originally a tutor for Princess Xian'an. "Zhao Concubine said calmly, "As a result, she is now serving the Queen - who knows where she came from?"
Yu Jieyu didn't speak until now and said: "Concubine Shan did not make a sound during her miscarriage. So we are very worried about you."
Li Meiren couldn't help but hold her sleeves hard, and then said: "What I'm pregnant with is just a princess..."
"But some people don't think so." Zhao Bin reminded, "You have been hiding here and don't come out. Come to think of it, you don't know what rumors are out there? About your pregnancy!"
Li Meiren was shocked: "What?!"
"Everyone outside said that there is a good chance that your pregnancy will be a prince!" said Concubine Zhao, "I was just afraid that she would disappear inexplicably like Concubine Shan, so I deliberately said she was a princess!"
"How is this possible!? This is the result of several imperial doctors' diagnosis!" Li Meiren said anxiously.
Zhao Bin said: "There is a reason for this. If we had not made good friends with you and knew that you would not lie to us, we would all believe this - you think you were sent to the palace by the Shen family, the only descendant of Doctor Ji." , Miss Duanmu’s eighth daughter is the adopted daughter of the Shen family! With Miss Duanmu’s medical skills, how can it be difficult to mislead the imperial doctor?”
Then he sneered and glanced in the direction of Yongxin Palace, "Speaking of which, that one is not unrelated to Miss Duanmuba. It's just that the one behind her came from a side branch and was very disrespectful to our sect. So Miss Duanmuba annoyed them, We don’t interact with each other normally, but we can’t rely on this appearance!”
Li Meiren changed her expression and said: "There is no such thing! It's not like the two sisters don't know that although the Shen family sent me to the palace, they usually don't pay much attention to me. Please ask Miss Duanmuba to help me cover up the unborn heir." Now that I am a boy, I will never be able to ask Miss Duanmuba for treatment in person!"
She frowned and said, "Concubine Shan has just had a miscarriage. If something happens to me, are there really no people in this palace who are afraid?"
"You misunderstood. We are worried about more than just your birth." Yu Jieyu shook her head and said softly, "It's because Concubine Shan didn't make a fuss this time - what do you think she was thinking?"
Li Meiren was startled.
Concubine Zhao reminded from the side: "Concubine Shan has a rich palace. Her child is gone. Now that His Majesty is not in the palace, if she makes trouble again, the child will not come back. Secondly, she will have nothing to do with the Queen - will Your Majesty still let her go?" I don't care about the big things in the southwest, why don't I come back and give her an explanation? So if she doesn't make a fuss now, is she going to save her energy and wait for His Majesty to come back so that she can file a complaint?"
Li Meiren was shocked and angry: "Does she doubt me?! I haven't even been to her Yongxin Palace twice!"
"One complaint is filed, and the other is complaining. Concubine Shan has lost her own child. Will she target you?!" Zhao Bin said sternly, "I have nothing to do these days to read the palace regulations - this dynasty The palace rules are all inherited from the former Wei Dynasty. Did you know that one of them is that those above the third rank can be the main position...the most important difference between the main position and the non-main position? "
Li Meiren felt something ominous in her heart and took a deep breath before asking: "What is it?"
"If you are not the chief, then you are not qualified to raise the emperor's heir! No matter if you are a prince or a princess!" Zhao Concubine looked at her swollen belly with pity and sighed, "Now the chief in the palace, except for the queen, is Concubine Shan, Concubine Deng Shu and Sister Yu!”
Li Meiren was stunned for a moment and looked at Yu Jieyu!
But Yu Jieyu shook her head and said: "Sister Li, don't get me wrong, we definitely don't want to steal your child!" (To be continued)