Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Huayi still did not respond immediately. She turned to look at Xiao Qingyuan: "My Lord, look..."

Xiao Qingyuan looked down at her belly and said to Shen Wantang, "Huayi is pregnant now and is weak. I think there is no need for her to kneel down and pay respect! Just let her offer you a cup of tea as a token of her appreciation!"

Shen Wantang looked at him calmly: "Since you are unwilling to perform the ceremony, then forget about the matter of being promoted to concubine."

"What?! Shen Wantang, how can you just let it go of such a big matter? I will promote Huayi as my aunt!"

"I don't think the prince took this matter too seriously, otherwise, why would he not even let the maid perform the ceremony?"

Xiao Qingyuan looked at Hua Yi and whispered, "How about you go and pay your respects to her?"

Huayi thought so too. Being Xiao Qingyuan's concubine was something she had always dreamed of. Now that the position of concubine was within reach, she was unwilling to miss it.

But just as she was about to nod, she heard Shen Wantang say coldly, "Today is not a good day to carry the concubine. A maid died in the mansion, and it is not auspicious for Huayi to be carried on this day. When you think of this day in the future, you will surely feel unlucky. Let's put aside the matter of carrying the concubine. Now, we should first find out the cause of Chundie's death."

Xiao Qingyuan hesitated for a moment and whispered, "It seems to make sense, Huayi, why don't we do it another day? We have to choose an auspicious day for you. Today... is really unlucky, and it's not suitable for you to be my concubine."

Huayi was extremely reluctant and even a little annoyed. She felt that Shen Wantang was deliberately teasing her!

First, she said that she would be promoted to be a concubine, which raised her expectations and made her extremely happy. But just when she was thinking with joy that she was going to be a concubine, Shen Wantang suddenly grabbed her and refused to let go of the concubine's etiquette. In an instant, her face changed and she said that the promotion to be a concubine should be forgotten for the time being!

How can this be let go?!

It would be fine if she didn't get the chance to be promoted, but the opportunity was right before her eyes, how could she be willing to give it up? !

She didn't care if there were any maidservants who died today. She was just afraid that if she missed today, she wouldn't know when she would be promoted to a concubine. If she had known this, she shouldn't have kneeled down to Shen Wantang.

Xiao Qingyuan's mind always changes quickly. Maybe today he loves her and wants to make her his concubine, but in two days, he may not want to make her his concubine anymore.

This kind of thing has happened before. The last time he was locked up in the woodshed, he said with his own mouth that he would respect her, but when he came out of the woodshed, he completely forgot about it.

She waited for so many days, and finally because she was pregnant, she had the chance to be promoted to a concubine.

She grasped Xiao Qingyuan's hand and stroked it in his palm: "Sir, Huayi doesn't care about auspicious days. As long as I can be your concubine, even the most unlucky days are good days. Let's take today. I think it's good."

Xiao Qingyuan had been very fond of her tricks before, but after looking at Shen Wantang's cold face, he shook his head at Hua Yi and said, "Forget it, let's do it another day. There's no rush."

"But……"

"Alright, there's no buts. It's no small matter for you to be promoted to a concubine. You can't choose such an unlucky day."

While the two of them were talking, Shen Wantang didn't listen at all. She called Xia Chan forward to question her, asking her to explain clearly what she and Chundie had eaten and drunk yesterday.

Xia Chan naturally did not dare to hide anything and told everything in detail.

When she finished, Madam Chai stepped forward and said, "Princess, the food prepared for the servants in the mansion yesterday was what Xia Chan mentioned. The maids in Xinghe Courtyard and other courtyards eat exactly the same food, and the water they drink is also boiled uniformly in the mansion."

Shen Wantang nodded: "It seems that the problem is not with the food in the mansion. Xia Chan and Chun Die, did you eat the food brought back from outside the mansion yesterday?"

Xia Chan's eyes were red as she shook her head: "Reporting to the Crown Princess, Chundie has a seriously ill mother at home. Since she entered the mansion, she has sent all the monthly allowance back home. She has not kept a penny for herself. She has no money to buy food outside. She eats everything in the mansion."

"Just because she doesn't have money to buy it doesn't mean she doesn't eat outside food."

Xia Chan raised her head in confusion: "What does the Crown Prince's Consort mean?"

"Describe to me again in detail the symptoms Chundie had last night."

"She complained of stomachaches at night, and then she started having diarrhea. She went to the bathroom about a dozen times, but she stopped in the second half of the night. I thought she was fine, so I didn't ask any more questions. Who would have thought that she..."

Xia Chan said this and sobbed softly.

One of the maids who were bought into the mansion together with her suddenly died. She was very anxious and even felt a fear of being mourned by others.

She actually suspected Huayi, because Chundie started to have stomachache after she came back from being called away by Huayi.

But she didn't dare say it in front of Huayi and Xiao Qingyuan, otherwise after returning to Xingheyuan, she would be the next one to die.

But she didn't say anything. Shen Wantang still looked at Xiao Qingyuan and Huayi. She asked calmly, "The prince said yesterday that Huayi wanted to eat lychees. I wonder if you bought them for her?"

Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "Shen Wantang, why are you asking this? I bought lychees for Huayi, what does it have to do with Chundie's death? I didn't buy them for Chundie!"

"I'm just asking, why is the prince so excited? Why didn't the prince buy lychees for Huayi?"

"Of course I bought it!"

"How much did you buy?"

Xiao Qingyuan opened his mouth but no words came out.

He really didn't have the face to say in front of so many people that he only bought a lychee for Huayi.

No, I didn’t buy them. They were given to me for free by Qingyunlou. They were rotten lychees that were half black and half red.

"Why didn't the prince answer? How much did you buy for Huayi? How much did she eat? Are the lychees fresh? Are there any left?"

A series of questions made Xiao Qingyuan angry and embarrassed. He shouted, "Shen Wantang, you really suspect that I killed Chundie! I can tell you with certainty that Chundie's death has nothing to do with the lychees I bought! I only gave the lychees I bought to Huayi and not to anyone else!"

"is it?"

Shen Wantang ignored his anger. She looked at Huayi and asked, "How many lychees did the prince buy for you? How many did you eat? How many were left? Where are the rest?"

Huayi lowered her head and did not answer. She shrank behind Xiao Qingyuan, seeming to be very afraid of Shen Wantang.

Xiao Qingyuan immediately blocked her behind him: "Shen Wantang, after you suspected me, you now suspect Huayi? Don't make false accusations here. Do you want to kill Huayi because she's pregnant with my child?!"

"Huayi is the most gentle and kind-hearted woman in the world. She would never harm anyone! I can guarantee with my character that Chundie's death could be related to anyone, but it definitely has nothing to do with Huayi!"

"I am going to take Huayi back now. If you want to interrogate others, that's up to you! But Huayi is mine, you have no right to interrogate her!"