The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Xie Yi shook his head: "Tan Nu hasn't figured out how to talk to the princess."

Xie Yuzhen knew what he meant. It was not that he didn't know how to talk to the princess, but that he didn't know what attitude to use to treat a princess.

"It's okay, just take your time." She touched the top of the kid's head, and they wandered around in the imperial garden for a while before returning to Shouning Palace.

As soon as he stepped into Jinghua Building, Xie Yuzhen saw Chunfen standing at the door with a serious face. She walked up to him quickly and said, "My lady is finally back."

"What's going on?" Xie Yuzhen asked with a frown.

Chunfen bowed hastily and said, "The concubine of the king had a miscarriage. I don't know how it happened in Baosi Pavilion... There was a commotion just now. Fortunately, my wife was not here, otherwise I'm afraid she would be involved in trouble too."

"Why would Concubine Wang come to Baosi Pavilion? She and Wen Baolin have never had any friendship." Xie Yuzhen thought of Shen Xiaoyi almost instantly. It seemed that the failure of her attack on Xu Ronghua last time was a big blow to her.

Baosi Pavilion is not far from Shouning Palace. Such a major event as the concubine's miscarriage happened there, and it is not possible to avoid questioning by just saying that you were not there. After thinking for a while, Xie Yuzhen decisively saved the file, and then asked Xiazhi to continue to take care of Xie Yi, Xiaoxi also stayed, and Chunfen followed him.

Then she asked the two eunuchs who stayed in the palace to guard the door whether any outsiders had come in.

The two young eunuchs were both about seventeen or eighteen years old. One was called Baoxi and the other was called Baolu. They shook their heads when they heard this and said, "We two servants have been guarding here the whole time. No strangers have come in or out. Only Sister Su Ruo has come in and out once."

Su Ruo was one of the maids assigned by the Shang Gong Bureau. She immediately came out and knelt down to salute, saying, "I went to the imperial kitchen to get today's snacks. No one spoke to me on the way, and I didn't stop."

When I asked her about the time she went out and came back, they both matched.

Xie Yuzhen looked at the palace servants for a while and said nothing more. Instead, he waved his hand and told them to return to their posts.

In the past, when Xie Yu went out for a walk or paid respects at the Cining Palace, she would either bring the Spring Equinox or the Summer Solstice, and would bring two palace maids. She did not like to bring eunuchs because among the two young eunuchs, Baoxi had done something unusual during the first few days after he arrived, while Baolu had a godfather serving him in the imperial study.

There are people behind the two young eunuchs, so Xie Yuzhen can't help but be wary of them. However, the two of them did nothing wrong in their duties, and Xie Yuzhen didn't want to get angry with his subordinates casually. You know, throughout history, many figures have fallen because of their harsh criticism of the people around them... It's true that she likes to throw tantrums, but people who lose their temper for no reason are not liked wherever they go.

"Everyone, be alert. Although Concubine Wang didn't have a miscarriage in our Jinghua Building, Baosi Pavilion is next to Shouning Palace. When His Majesty and His Majesty arrive, they will inevitably ask us about it. If someone has bad intentions at this critical moment--" This was the first time that Chunfen acted as Xie Yuzhen's mouthpiece in front of everyone. She was a little excited and imitated Xiazhi to put on a serious attitude. "Even if you don't care about your own life, think more about your family and friends. Are they enough to be implicated by you!"

They had checked the family backgrounds of the palace ladies early in the morning. Except for Aunt Xiaoxi who worked in the imperial kitchen and Baolu who was an orphan who had found a godfather, all the others had someone else at home. Their household registration clearly stated that they were all from the suburbs of Beijing, living in a certain village, with parents, brothers and sisters all at home. If something happened, their families would inevitably be implicated. If someone threatened or bribed them and there was any unusual movement, it would be easy to discover and investigate.

If the emperor wants to pay attention to a concubine, he can protect her strictly in all aspects. If a concubine is obviously favored but is repeatedly schemed against by others, it can only mean that the emperor does not care about women that much.

Even though he had lost one concubine who pleased him, there were still thousands and thousands of women who hoped to be favored by the emperor and were waiting for his favor.

This is where Xie Yuzhen's rock-hard distrust of the emperor came from.

She did not believe that the emperor's favor for her was so important at the moment that she was not afraid of any calculations, and some of the things she observed about the death of the fourth prince made Xie Yuzhen even more certain of this.

The emperor is the chosen one of heaven and the ruler of a country.

To put it bluntly, what are concubines and princes? They are only valuable if they are pampered and loved by him. If he doesn't care, you will lose everything with a hundred times more injustice than Dou E, and you can only accept it.

After giving the servants a heads-up, Xie Yuzhen sat in the main hall and waited.

Sure enough, not long after, Gao Sheng, the eunuch supervisor of the queen, came to ask her to go to Baosi Pavilion.

"Don't worry, my lady. Baosi Pavilion has already been searched and cleaned. Her Majesty summoned you just to ask some simple questions." Gao Sheng was tall and thin, but his back was a little hunched due to years of hunching. At this moment, he introduced the whole story to Xie Yuzhen with a smile on his face.

It turned out that after several arguments between Shen Xiaoyi and Wen Baolin, the tension between the sisters became increasingly intense.

Wen Baolin was a calm and patient person, and was quite tolerant towards Shen Xiaoyi. However, after Shen Xiaoyi made two embarrassing mistakes, she became even more extreme.

Not long ago, she and Wen Baolin met again in the Imperial Garden and had another argument. This scene was seen by Wang Xianshi, who had just returned from paying her respects to the Queen. She spoke up to persuade them.

Unexpectedly, Shen Xiaoyi, who had been as stubborn as a donkey before, immediately stopped talking and remained silent after being persuaded by Concubine Wang.

Since then, the relationship between the two sisters of the Shen family has gradually eased, and Shen Xiaoyi has gradually become close to Wang Xuanshi. Finally, today, Wang Xuanshi was invited to Baosi Pavilion to learn how to make a pastry that is a tradition of the Shen family. Originally, several concubines were talking in the small kitchen while directing the palace servants to make snacks.

When the snacks were ready and they sat down, Lady Wang suddenly fainted and bled profusely.

Wen Baolin urgently summoned the imperial physician to take her pulse, and only then did he realize that she had a miscarriage.

"The Queen Consort was lucky enough to have been with him once, and I think she got pregnant at that time." Xie Yu was shocked, "What a pity, so pitiful."

Gao Sheng said: "I shouldn't have told this horrible thing to the talented lady..."

"It's okay, Your Majesty knows that I'm brave." Xie Yuzhen waved his hand nonchalantly.

Gao Sheng showed a helpless expression: "The imperial physician did say that the baby is about two to three months old, but for some reason, Concubine Wang didn't report it."

The Queen's ancestor was adopted by the founding emperor of the Great Sheng Dynasty and was given the title of King of Dongxiang. However, King of Dongxiang actually still had relatives still alive, and they were the lineage from which Concubine Wang came.

So she could be said to be a distant relative of the Queen, but the two branches were too far apart. Wang Xianshi wanted to please the Queen very much, and since entering the palace, she often went to Kunning Palace to seek an audience. However, the Queen was too busy, and she could only meet her once in five times, so the two were not very close.

As for why Wang Xianshi did not report her pregnancy... Xie Yuzhen guessed that either Wang Xianshi was too young to know about pregnancy, and did not know to ask the imperial physician to check her pulse before her period came; or, she knew she was pregnant but kept it a secret.