Shen Ruoxi realized belatedly that the person she met in the Imperial Garden was the pregnant Concubine An. She was no longer in the mood to take a bath. She was worried that something might happen. She hurriedly changed her clothes and rushed to the Imperial Garden. Just then, she saw Concubine An throwing herself into the arms of the King of Jin. She paused.
The King of Jin didn't like the smell of powder, but when he saw her bulging belly, he thought that she was pregnant with his child, and was about to reach out to hold her shoulders to prevent her from falling into his arms, and to prevent her from falling and hurting the baby in her belly. At this time, he saw Shen Ruoxi's figure from the corner of his eye, and he was so scared that he retracted his hand and dodged directly, and said to the eunuch behind him: "Protect her!"
The King of Jin suddenly jumped away, leaving the eunuch behind him stunned.
Seeing Concubine An rushing towards him, the eunuch widened his eyes. How could he dare to touch the concubines in the harem? Just when he was about to hide, he heard the emperor speak.
The eunuch dared not move after hearing this, so Concubine An pounced on the eunuch!
Lady An: “…”
After being held tightly by the eunuch, Lady An stood firm and pushed him away. She was about to slap him, but she didn't dare to because he was the eunuch beside the emperor. She turned her head with red eyes and looked at the King of Jin on the side, with a face full of grievances, and I felt pity for her: "Your Majesty!"
The King of Jin walked right past her and came to Shen Ruoxi, holding her shoulders, and seeing that her hair was wet, he reached out and touched it and frowned: “Why is your hair so wet?”
All the clothes were wet!
An Meiren, who was ignored, said: "..."
Shen Ruoxi was both angry and amused by the King of Jin's jumping away. She was jealous when he helped a pregnant woman, not to mention that Lady An was pregnant with his child. She shook her head: "It's okay. There was a poisonous bee in the imperial garden just now. I was scared and ran back and jumped into the bath. Lady An is pregnant, and I don't know if she was stung by a poisonous bee or had a miscarriage."
Poisonous bee? The King of Jin's face changed. He held her face and looked left and right. He then pulled up her hand and rolled up her sleeves to check: "Have you been stung by a poisonous bee?"
Shen Ruoxi shook her head: "I'm fine, I ran fast. They seem to be in trouble! It's all my fault that I asked Xiao Linzi to cut the peony flowers and plant them back, which attracted the poisonous bees. An Guiren, have you been stung by a poisonous bee?"
Lady An was too scared just now, and she was too surprised to see the King of Jin. Seeing that the King of Jin was protecting Shen Ruoxi and ignoring herself, she felt wronged. At this time, she heard Shen Ruoxi's words and felt a little pain in her stomach. She covered her abdomen and said, "Your Majesty, I have a stomachache."
Concubine Li didn't want to be completely ignored, so one of them ran very fast, and the other hid under her skirt. What could happen? She was the one in trouble! She covered her face and cried, "Your Majesty, I was protecting Concubine An and was stung by a poisonous bee! It hurts! Woo woo..."
What she meant was that she was stung by a poisonous bee while trying to protect the dragon seed in Concubine An's belly, so the emperor shouldn't ignore her!
The King of Jin turned his head and glanced at Concubine An with a scrutinizing look in his eyes. He saw her rushing towards him so briskly just now, and she didn't look like she had a stomachache at all.
But seeing that her face was indeed a little pale at the moment, she was pregnant with his child after all. The King of Jin said to the eunuch beside him: "Call the imperial physician!"
Then he said to the palace maids and eunuchs behind An Guiren: "Why don't you send your master back?"
"Yes!" The palace maid beside Concubine An immediately stepped forward to help her leave.
An Guiren, however, reached out her hand to the King of Jin, tears in her eyes, and said in a coquettish voice: "Your Majesty~"
Shen Ruoxi got goosebumps when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Concubine An might have a miscarriage, please send her back!"
Concubine An looked at the King of Jin with anticipation.
The King of Jin said: "I am not the imperial physician. I have palace maids and eunuchs to take her. Just call the imperial physician."
Lady An: "..."
So the palace maids immediately helped Concubine An leave.
Lady An left, looking back every few steps.
The King of Jin hugged Shen Ruoxi: “Let’s go back to Kunning Palace too, our clothes are all wet and we won’t catch a cold.”
Shen Ruoxi glanced at Concubine Li and the other palace maids and eunuchs who were completely ignored: "Your Majesty, please send the imperial physician to them as well!"
The King of Jin looked around and found that although these eunuchs and palace maids lowered their heads, they all had large and small lumps on their faces. "Don't worry, Little Li knows what to do."
The eunuchs around him would not be so incompetent. Even if he didn't tell them, they would know what to do.
If he was required to explain everything, twenty-four hours a day would not be enough.
And he specifically said that it was that person's honor!
This honor is only possible because Concubine An is carrying his child in her belly.
In fact, in the heart of the King of Jin, he had no feelings for the concubines in the harem.
In his eyes, the relationship between them and him was a mutually beneficial one. He needed to have an heir, and they entered the palace to become concubines because they needed power for their families. That was all!
He had no feelings for them, and what they wanted from him was not actually affection.
The King of Jin never felt that he owed them anything, because he had compensated them in the court and they got what they deserved.
Moreover, he did not want to take in so many concubines in the harem. Instead, the ministers would propose a beauty contest every three years and take the initiative to send girls from their families to the palace. He only took them into the palace to satisfy some ministers.
He treated all the concubines who entered the palace equally, whether they were favored or not, whether they had children or not, and whether their family members had been promoted to certain degrees!
So in the eyes of the King of Jin, this was just a deal where both sides got what they wanted! He never owed them anything.
But how could there be poisonous bees in the imperial garden? The King of Jin looked at the black poisonous bees that were slapped to death on the ground.
He thought of the fact that Shen Ruoxi would come to the Imperial Garden every day and liked to cut some fresh flowers to put in a vase. The King of Jin, who grew up in various palace fights, had to suspect that someone did it on purpose.
After all, the flowers in the Imperial Garden are carefully taken care of every day, so how could there not be a beehive
The King of Jin did not pursue the matter for the time being. Shen Ruoxi had never experienced palace fighting, and did not know that there were many ways to fight in the palace. There was no need to scare her. He hugged Shen Ruoxi and said, "Go back!"
So Shen Ruoxi left with the King of Jin.
Concubine Li watched the King of Jin escort Shen Ruoxi away. From beginning to end, she didn't even glance at herself. She covered her aching face, lowered her eyes, and turned away.
In fact, she had discovered some time ago that there were occasionally a few black bees flying around in the Imperial Garden, and she guessed that some black bees must have built a nest in the Imperial Garden, but she did not make it public. She just asked someone to find them when they were enjoying the flowers.
The eunuch in charge of this patch of peonies happened to be her man, so the beehive was left behind.
She originally wanted to use this beehive to deal with the pregnant Concubine An, but she didn't expect that the emperor would actually bring back a queen, and this queen just happened to like to visit the imperial garden and cut flowers to take home.
She saw that the peony bush where the beehive was was in full bloom today. She thought that the queen would probably cut the flowers near the beehive in the next few days, which would alarm the black bees and sting them. In panic, she would bump into Concubine An, killing two birds with one stone.
Things went smoothly, but I didn't expect that both of them were fine and I was the only one injured.
But she won't give up!
The Queen Mother was her aunt. When she was alive, she loved her the most and intended to make her the Crown Princess. Now that the Queen Mother was gone, she failed to become the Crown Princess and became the Emperor's concubine. Then she was the only one qualified to sit on the position of Queen!