Hearing this, Su Jin was shocked and stared at the palace maid with an expression of disbelief.
But Queen Mother Zhou seemed to have known it for a long time, and the smile on her face did not diminish.
"How many months has it been possible to tell?" Queen Mother Zhou asked again.
"About three months." Shen Ning said.
The palace maid fell to her knees with a plop and kowtowed to the Queen Mother Zhou, but was speechless.
Her whole body was shaking like chaff, obviously she was extremely scared.
"I beg the Queen Mother for mercy, please beg the Queen Mother for mercy!"
Empress Dowager Zhou, however, looked very calm, without any trace of anger, and said to Su Jin: "Hurry up and help her up. She is pregnant now. Give her a seat."
Su Jin looked surprised and moved an embroidered pier to the palace maid, but the palace maid hesitated and did not dare to sit on it.
It was a serious sin for a palace maid to be pregnant. Su Jin wondered why the Queen Mother Zhou did not punish the palace maid and was still kind to her.
"Tell me, what's going on with your pregnancy?" Queen Mother Zhou asked the palace maid.
The maid's knees weakened and she fell to her knees again.
Empress Dowager Zhou said, "Sit down and talk." Her tone was majestic.
The palace maid was helped by Su Jin to sit down, but she looked like she was sitting on pins and needles, her lips were trembling and she didn't dare to speak.
"You answer whatever the Queen Mother asks. How dare you do it but not admit it?" Su Jin whispered.
The palace maid's lips trembled for a few times before she finally spoke, but her voice was as thin as a mosquito.
"I beg the Queen Mother to forgive me, slave... I know I was wrong... I was just confused for a moment..."
It could be seen that her legs were shaking all the time.
Shen Ning couldn't help but look at her sympathetically. The palace maid was pregnant, so she probably had the child of a guard, because there were no other men in the palace except the guards, but she didn't know which guard was so bold that even the palace maid would dare to If you touch your fingers, you will get dark knots in the bead body.
"The Ai family doesn't blame you. You can safely say, whose child is it?" Queen Mother Zhou asked again.
The palace maid quickly raised her eyes, her face flushed, and her eyes filled with tears: "Yes... yes..."
She lowered her head and whispered four words: "It belongs to the emperor."
These four words were like a thunder, shaking Su Jin's body, and even Shen Ning's expression suddenly changed.
There was silence in the room, except for the soft sobs of the palace maid.
Sujin's mouth opened wide, her face full of disbelief.
She stared at the maid carefully and said in surprise: "Aren't you the maid responsible for cleaning the emperor's bedroom? How could it be... And the emperor was ill three months ago, so it shouldn't be possible..."
There was doubt in her face.
The maid said shyly: "That night, my slave was responsible for lighting the lamp. The emperor was thirsty in the middle of the night, so I poured tea for him. However, the emperor was so sick that he was in a daze. He grabbed the slave and refused to let go. Later..." Her Tears fell down, and it was a bit touching and pitiful, "I didn't dare to disclose this matter, but I didn't expect that... I would become pregnant because of this."
Sujin was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Shen Ning's face turned pale, and her lips lost color.
More than three months ago… More than three months ago…
She had not returned to the capital at that time, and it was still winter. She was with the devil in white. On a snowy day, she sat in a wheelchair and watched the snowflakes falling. He was playing the flute, and the sound of the flute was melodious and soul-stirring.
She shuddered violently.
So cold!
A cold air rose from the bottom of my heart.
She lowered her eyes and suppressed the emotions stirring in her heart, because she noticed that Queen Mother Zhou's eyes were falling on her.