"Yes." The palace maid nodded, then bit her lip and said, "At that time, the slave was cleaning leaves in the yard of the late emperor. When the emperor saw the slave, he called the slave over and asked the slave to take one. .”
"Have you taken that pill too??" Ye Qiqi looked at her in surprise.
"After the slave took the pill, the late emperor asked the slave how she felt after taking the pill, and then asked the slave to continue cleaning." The palace maid knelt on the ground and said to Ye Qiqi with trembling fingers: "It's over. Not two days later, the late emperor suddenly brought many bottles of cardamom beauty pills to his slaves and asked them to find a way to deliver them to the empresses of the palaces above the concubines. He also told them that these pills were rumored in the world to maintain youth forever. Drugs cost a lot of money to buy.”
"The slave followed the late emperor's instructions and first spread some news in the palace, and then secretly went to deliver pills to the empresses above the concubines."
"After doing these things, the late emperor sent his slave to the Queen Mother, telling the slave to watch the Queen Mother and never let her take this medicine."
Mo Hanqing listened to the words of the palace maid, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked the palace maid: "Is it because the late emperor was afraid that after Concubine Yue gave birth to the child in her belly, the mother would be more valuable than the child, and the emperor would be punished by the emperor at that time? Depose the queen and establish a new queen?"
"This... the late emperor's meaning... I don't dare to speculate..." The maid quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and then continued: "It's just that during that time, almost every concubine above the concubine rank in the harem , are all proud that they can buy a large amount of Cardamom Beauty Pills..."
"Later, Concubine Yue's belly got bigger and bigger, and the Emperor knew that she was pregnant. After Concubine Yue became pregnant, special people took care of her daily life and food. Concubine Yue never took any food from her slaves again. Cardamom Beauty Pill. But for some reason, not long after Concubine Yue gave birth to the child, she heard that the child... died... "
The palace maid raised her head and looked at Ye Qiqi with some fear: "After the child died, the Supreme Emperor was furious and ordered people to find out what happened. Later, the imperial doctor said that Concubine Yue might have eaten some during her early pregnancy. The strange medicine caused the fetus to be abnormal, so... But after checking, the Emperor found that most of the concubines in the palace were taking the pill, and the other concubines did not show any symptoms of discomfort, so It was nothing more... But after that, Concubine Yue became seriously ill and died not long after... "
"After the death of Concubine Yue, the Supreme Emperor ignored the other concubines in the palace. The late Emperor often quarreled with the Supreme Emperor. However, one day, the Supreme Emperor and the late Emperor had a particularly serious quarrel, and later the late Emperor left alone. After leaving the palace... slave, this is all I know."
After the palace maid stammered these things, she kowtowed to Ye Qiqi vigorously and said, "I beg the emperor to let me go. At that time... I really didn't know that the pill would cause Concubine Yue's pregnancy. The child died in infancy... The slave thought it was the late emperor who had developed some new pills, just for fun... "
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