Xiao Shushen waved her hand and was about to dismiss everyone and take a rest. After talking with them for a while, she felt really tired.
The eunuch consul came in hurriedly, dusted off his whisk, and reported: "Your Majesty, someone from the Imperial Garden has come to report that the Empress Defei has fainted in the garden. Your Majesty, please go and take a look. This..."
As soon as the consul eunuch finished his report, he saw unfamiliar faces around him, but he seemed to have seen them somewhere.
After a while, the eunuch finally remembered, "Aren't you people from the palace of Concubine De?"
Xianglian nodded, wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, and looked aggrieved. "I am indeed from the palace of Concubine De. Concubine De suddenly fell down in the Imperial Garden. I was terrified and hurried to report to the Empress."
The eunuch consul seemed extremely anxious, and tapped her forehead with the handle of his whisk a few times, "How foolish! Your queen fell down, and you should have gone to ask the imperial physician first! What's the point of asking the queen? The queen can't heal!"
Xianglian cried out with red eyes, "But the most important thing is not that the queen was injured, but that I saw that my queen fell down on purpose!"
Hsiao Shu-shen was leisurely tidying up her outer robe, and for a moment, no one paid any attention to her.
"What did you say? Did the queen fall down by herself? Why?"
"I don't know. I helped the queen to the side of the stairs. It was originally a smooth path, but the queen suddenly pushed me away and fell down the stairs. I was so scared that I didn't care about anything else for a moment. I just hurried to report to the queen!"
The consul eunuch was also a little confused, but Xiao Shushen finally dressed up, holding the hand of the palace consul maid, and walked out leisurely, "She just came too, I'll go and see what tricks Concubine De is trying to play. The emperor was away from the palace for only two days, and she dared to deliberately fall down the stairs. In two days, the prince will ascend the throne, and she might change the dynasty!"
The eunuch consul watched with fear, but since even the consul's maid had left the palace, he could not leave and could only stay in the palace.
As soon as she left the palace, Xiao Shushen raised her lips and said, "Not bad, my efforts in teaching you were not in vain. You must remember this when you go to the Defei Palace later. That's it."
Xianglian nodded repeatedly and followed Xiao Shushen slowly.
Li Ruotong watched the female doctors carrying out basins of blood and felt terrified. She clenched her handkerchief tightly and dared not make a sound to disturb them.
Just looking at the blood, Zhao Yuanrong’s situation in there wouldn’t be very good, and the child might be in danger.
"The Queen is here!"
Li Ruotong was still struggling, but when she heard that Hsiao Shushen had arrived, she finally felt relieved.
She was guarding here alone, feeling uneasy. Although she didn't want to say much about what Xiao Shushen had done these days, the situation was so critical now. If she was guarding here alone, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to find anyone if she needed to make a decision later.
"What's going on in there?" The female doctor was still pouring out blood in basins. Xiao Shushen covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief and took a look inside, but the room was blocked by layers of curtains and she couldn't see clearly.
"Your Majesty, the patient's life or death is unknown, and the child might be in danger." An imperial physician wiped his sweat, walked out of the inner room, and reported with a fist salute.
Li Ruotong was a little excited for a moment. She wanted to go in but didn't dare. "How could she be dead or alive? She just fell down. The baby in my sister's belly has always been healthy. How could this happen?"
The imperial physician wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Xiao Shushen glanced at him and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. I am here, what is there to be afraid of?"
"Yes, reporting to the Queen, this fall did directly lead to the possibility of premature death of the little prince in the womb. However, on weekdays, the Queen Consort De also consumed a lot of things that are harmful to the fetus, which caused the little prince to be so weak. After a fall..."
At this time, another imperial physician also hurried out from the inner room, prostrated himself on the ground, and cried bitterly, "I am incompetent and failed to save the little prince. The little prince is gone!"
Suddenly, everyone in the room burst into tears, and all of them sighed for the little prince.
Xiao Shushen's expression changed immediately. She frowned and looked extremely sad. She took two deep breaths and said, "Since the little prince is gone, then as the head of the harem, I have to find out why the little prince died in the womb."
Before Li Ruotong understood what Xiao Shushen was saying, she saw her striding into the inner room. Li Ruotong subconsciously raised her legs and followed her.
The smell of blood was still in the room. Even Li Ruotong felt uncomfortable after smelling it, not to mention Xiao Shushen. She should feel even more uncomfortable than herself.
But when he looked up, there was even a hint of joy on Hsiao Shushen's face
Did she see it wrong? Could it be that... Suddenly, I was startled.
When Li Ruotong looked at it carefully, that trace of joy disappeared without a trace.
Zhao Yuanrong had just been told that the little prince had died in the womb and was taken away by several female doctors. He pounded on the edge of the bed and cried, "My son, it was my mother who failed to protect you, my son! Why didn't you come to this world and leave me like this?"
Li Ruotong had never experienced the pain of losing a child, but she could truly feel Zhao Yuanrong's grief at the moment. She wanted to say a few words of comfort, but she heard Xiao Shushen speak first: "De Fei, are you going to tell me how you had a miscarriage? I heard that you fell in the imperial garden, is that true?"
The little prince was gone, and she had no strength left at the moment. But she still had to do it for Xiao Shushen's sake, so she nodded and sobbed softly.
Xiao Shushen nodded, "Come on, Concubine De deliberately murdered the heir to the throne. Confess everything. Take her to the Heavenly Prison. Let the Ministry of Punishment interrogate me thoroughly. Who ordered this to happen?"
Zhao Yuanrong hurriedly shook his head when he heard this, his voice a little weak, "Empress, I am innocent! Someone tripped me and I fell down. I did not intend to murder the heir to the throne. Please investigate!"
Xiao Shushen narrowed her eyes and looked down at her, "Okay, since you still want to quibble, I will bring the person here and let you quibble to your heart's content. Let's confront each other face to face and see what you have to deny."
Xianglian knelt before Zhao Yuanrong's bed and kowtowed twice, "My Lady Defei, you want to murder the heir to the throne and implicate all nine clans. I have no choice but to say this. Please, My Lady Defei, spare my family!
I saw it clearly at that time. The road was smooth, but suddenly Concubine De pushed me away and rolled down. I was so scared that I didn't know what to do. I had to report it to the Empress. I hope the Empress can see clearly!"
When Xiao Shushen heard this, she looked at Zhao Yuanrong with a look of disappointment, "Tell me, do you have anything else to quibble about?"
Zhao Yuanrong shook her head repeatedly, "Your Majesty, this slave girl is slandering me, Your Majesty, you must not listen to one side and believe it!"