The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Yanzhang Palace.

The palace maids who served the Fourth Princess were already kneeling on the ground.

The little palace maid who went to get lunch was beaten with a stick. Her originally clean dress was now covered in blood. Liu Shuyi had a cold face and a bitter smell of herbs floated in the room. The fourth princess was tired of crying and was whispering that she wanted to find Aunt Jia.

Liu Shuyi was so distressed that she wanted to reach out and hug her, but the Fourth Princess slapped her mother's hand away and said, "I want a nanny! I want a nanny!"

Liu Shuyi was anxious and angry. After she came back, she resented Aunt Jia for exposing her past self in front of the emperor that day and for waiting in the cold wind despite the fact that the Fourth Princess was catching a cold. She was also afraid that the palace maids who followed the Fourth Princess to Kunning Palace would be bribed by the Queen, so she sent them all away shortly after she took her daughter back.

Who would have thought that after the old ones left, the new ones were not chosen well, and they were all useless. After such a long time, they couldn't even figure out and remember the Fourth Princess's daily preferences and food taboos, causing her daughter to suffer this time for nothing!

Silently repeating in her heart that she was not the same person as the cruel "Liu Luohua" before, Liu Shuyi suppressed the thought of beating all the palace servants who served her daughter to death: "Mammy has gone home, can you let mother come and hug Baohui?"

"I want a nanny!" The fourth princess was only four or five years old. She had just learned to be unreasonable and was the most noisy. Her persistence in finding a servant made Liu Shuyi feel lost.

After sighing heavily, she no longer insisted on hugging her daughter, but turned to ask the new personal maid: "Is His Majesty not here yet?"

Fang Fei lowered her head and answered nervously, "…In reply to your Majesty, Your Majesty said that the previous dynasty was busy with government affairs, so Eunuch Li was sent here. Just now, Eunuch Li asked the people in the imperial kitchen and they said that the palace maid who made the drinks went to Shouning Palace, so Eunuch Li Zong went there in person to look for her."

Liu Shuyi frowned.

She also knew that during this period, the court was busy with the preparations for the imperial examination, and the emperor only came to the harem at night every day. But this time her daughter really had eaten something bad, and he refused to take the time to take a look at her, but instead sent a eunuch over... Liu Shuyi couldn't help but feel resentful.

She actually knew that the Fourth Princess's illness had been exploited too many times by another "self" in the past, so that everyone's first reaction when they heard that the Fourth Princess was ill was that "Liu Shuyi" was going to toss the child to win favor again...

This made her feel wronged.

She hadn't avenged her mother yet, and Concubine Xu, her mother's murderer, had repeatedly obstructed her on her way to her favor. Now that her daughter had finally recovered from her illness, something like this had happened again... All these things piled up, making Liu Shuyi increasingly uneasy: "Go there in person?"

"She's just a concubine!" Liu Shuyi slammed the table. "She's the chief eunuch beside His Majesty after all, but she's so servile and fawning on a concubine. I..."

The fourth princess was so frightened by her slamming the table that she started crying sharply. The girl's shrill cry interrupted Liu Shuyi's anger. She felt sorry for her daughter, but she couldn't help but become more depressed by the child who kept crying and was unwilling to get close to her.

"It's mother's fault. It's mother's fault. It won't happen again. Baohui, be good and don't be afraid."

Just when she was coaxing the child.

Xie Yuzhen brought Tong Yu into Yanzhang Palace.

Listening to the crying of the little girl getting closer and closer, Xie Yuzhen frowned: "The fourth princess has been suffering for so long, didn't you ask the imperial physician to boil the medicine for her to drink first?"

Li Zong followed her with a bitter face and replied, "Your Majesty, when I came here, the imperial physician had already prescribed the medicine and quickly boiled it for the Fourth Princess to drink... But the medicine smelled bad and tasted bitter, the Fourth Princess didn't want to take it, and Liu Shuyi... just asked the imperial physicians to prescribe a new prescription that she could take, and they are boiling the medicine again."

"Oh? I never realized that Liu Shuyi was such a doting person on her children." Xie Yuzhen raised his eyebrows sarcastically.

In the past, she put winning favor first and ignored her daughter's feelings many times for the sake of pleasing the emperor. Now, for the sake of her daughter's satisfaction, she just indulges her, no matter whether she is good or bad... I just don't know, if her daughter conflicts with the emperor's favor again, which side will Liu Shuyi choose?

"Drowning a child is the same as killing him." Xie Yuzhen sighed and asked the eunuch guarding the gate to go in and report. Then, without waiting for a reply, he led everyone straight into the main hall of Yanzhang Palace.

She quickly put on a worried expression and, under the guidance of the astonished palace maid, entered the inner hall. Looking up, she saw Liu Shuyi sitting on a small couch, where the fourth princess was sobbing. Several palace maids gathered around her, holding medicine bowls, spoons, or candied fruits.

Several people coaxed the fourth princess into eating medicine in soft voices. She took a sip of the medicine with a small silver spoon and swallowed it, then howled at the top of her lungs. Then the palace servant next to her would immediately present her with a candied fruit, and after she ate it, they would feed her another spoonful of medicine.

This scene shocked Xie Yuzhen greatly.

Nowadays, imperial doctors mostly use herbal medicines to treat diseases, and the effects of herbal medicines are mostly in conflict with candied fruits. The fourth princess already has a weak stomach, and if she takes a sip of medicine and a sip of candied fruit, I'm afraid her illness will not only not be cured, but will become more serious.

Looking at the mother, Liu Shuyi, she was looking at her daughter who was finally willing to take the medicine with a relieved look on her face. As soon as the fourth princess showed some reluctance to take the medicine, she immediately asked the palace servants to feed her a candied fruit...

"Greetings to Empress Shuyi." Xie Yuzhen slightly bent his knees, and before Liu Shuyi could speak, he pointed out the inappropriateness of her method of feeding medicine, "Empress, I'm afraid the Fourth Princess' stomach can't digest so many fruits."

When Liu Shuyi saw that it was her who came, her expression immediately became cold and distant: "Zhao Guipin is not in Shouning Palace to take care of the fifth princess, but has the leisure to instruct others here. My daughter Baohui is much older than the fifth princess. Even if she needs to be instructed, it should be..."

Just this one sentence made Xie Yuzhen confirm that although Liu Shuyi had changed, she was still the same Liu Shuyi in essence. She was probably just having an adventure and had come back to put all her IQ into seducing the emperor. So... although he still envied her magic, he was increasingly afraid to rashly practice it through the art of dream-making.

Why isn't there any movement in the world consciousness yet? Why not try offering a few pig heads tonight?

Xie Yuzhen's thoughts wandered for a moment, but she quickly pulled him back. He interrupted Liu Shuyi disrespectfully, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you have forgotten that my Dalang has grown up safely and healthily to the age of five, and Yuanjun has never been sick since she was born."

Hearing her say this, Liu Shuyi's face suddenly turned ugly: "I won't talk to you about this. Where is the palace maid who deliberately murdered my daughter?"