Su Jing's departure made Concubine Xu panic and at a loss. She anxiously wrote a letter to her family. She didn't know what to do next.
She was afraid of angering the emperor and disappointing her father.
She was pregnant, and this should have been the happiest time of her life, but her father's attitude made her extremely anxious.
She still longed for the emperor's love, but she also knew that without her father's blessing, she might become more and more distant from the one she loved.
Therefore, she did not want to offend the emperor, nor did she dare to disappoint her father. She wrote to her father hoping that he would understand her situation. However, she did not expect that all her hopes would be torn apart the moment she received her father's reply.
The father's reply was just one sentence: "If you can't even defeat a princess without support, don't even dream of becoming the queen."
Concubine Xu looked at the letter in her hand with trembling hands. She felt like thunder ringing in her ears and was completely stunned.
She knew that her father was angry.
But what should she do? What should she do to satisfy her father? If she satisfied her father, would the emperor be angry
Concubine Xu didn't know what to do, but she knew very well that the emperor was angry. After he left that day, he didn't come to her bedroom for five days.
There were even rumors in the palace that she couldn't keep the emperor's heart even if she was pregnant.
These words pierced Concubine Xu's heart like needles. She wrote to her father anxiously, but her father never replied.
Her father's attitude made her realize that she needed to do something to please him.
But what can she do
After tossing and turning for several days, Concubine Xu finally came up with a solution. After eating a bland breakfast, she suddenly felt severe abdominal pain.
"Go and call the emperor over quickly, and tell him that I'm feeling unwell and the child may not be saved." Concubine Xu reluctantly ordered the maid beside her.
When Su Jing rushed to Concubine Xu's bedroom, the tearing pain had stopped. Concubine Xu was lying weakly on the bed. Seeing Su Jing coming in, she got up with difficulty, threw herself into Su Jing's arms and started crying, sobbing and saying that she almost never saw the emperor again.
"Your Majesty, I don't know the reason, but I had severe abdominal pain. It's getting better now." As Concubine Xu spoke, her brows frowned again. She stroked her belly gently, and when she looked up at Su Jing, her face was as pale as paper.
"Your Majesty, I, your concubine... our child, our child..."
Concubine Xu stroked her belly and looked at Su Jing in pain, her pale and painful face full of helplessness.
"Don't worry, our child will be fine." Su Jing said as he ordered the imperial doctors to check Concubine Xu quickly.
"Your Majesty, the fetus in the queen's belly is fine. It must be that she ate something bad."
After the examination, the imperial physician knelt tremblingly in front of Su Jing to report. As soon as he finished speaking, Concubine Xu tightly grasped Su Jing's hand. Su Jing looked down at her. She forced a smile on her pale face and said softly, "Your Majesty, as long as our child is fine, I am fine. There is no problem with eating. There is really no problem."
"Who is in charge of the palace meals?"
"Your Majesty, according to palace rules, the Imperial Concubine's meals are all served in the Imperial Kitchen."
The imperial kitchen is now also managed by Ah Man. After what happened last time, Concubine Xu has become a lot smarter. She no longer specifically mentions Ah Man's problem, but only talks about the imperial kitchen.
If there were any problems in the imperial kitchen, it was because of Ah Man's poor management.
I thought something was wrong with Concubine Xu's health, but I didn't expect it to be like this...
Su Jing looked at Concubine Xu, who was weak but still holding his hand, and suddenly smiled. He said to the maid who was kneeling on the ground to report, "Since Concubine Xu can't eat the food in the imperial kitchen, let's change to the Xu family's food. Concubine Xu has been in the Xu family for more than ten years, and she must miss the taste of home food."
Concubine Xu and everyone in the palace were stunned. What did the emperor mean by this? Why did he suddenly...
(End of this chapter)