Chapter 700 The Tragic Concubine 7
Chapter 700 The Tragic Concubine 7
Since the Queen said so, the Queen Mother was naturally happy and asked someone to bring a can of tea for the Queen to take away.
When the queen returned to her palace, her face darkened.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Yichun asked in confusion, "I'm just asking you to hand over half of your power in the palace. You shouldn't be so angry."
"That old pious woman, the Queen Mother, is really nice. She actually dared to drug me," the Queen said coldly as she sat down on the couch. "Send a message home and tell my father that we can start the backup plan."
The Queen was the carefully nurtured daughter of the family. Her father was a very ambitious man. He had started making preparations long before he surrendered to the late emperor. Therefore, everything the Queen had learned since she was a child was in preparation for entering the palace, and she was especially proficient in pharmacology.
As soon as the Queen tasted the tea in the Queen Mother's Palace, she immediately tasted that the tea contained sterilization drugs.
The queen's family is a prominent family. When her father trained her, he never thought of letting her become the queen. After all, the late emperor was still alive and well. But who would have thought that the late emperor would suddenly die of illness?
Therefore, the Queen's father had the ambition to make his daughter the Queen. Of course, the Queen's father also thought about the consequences of doing so. He was afraid that it would cause the Emperor's fear and dissatisfaction and would destroy the Queen's fertility, so he had a backup plan.
That is to select one of the concubines in the family, pretend to be dead, and send her to the home of a confidant, and then participate in the selection and enter the palace in the name of the confidant's daughter. In short, the next emperor must be of the bloodline of the queen's family.
For a lady like the Queen, who was carefully nurtured by her family, it is natural that she puts the interests of the family first. Therefore, she does not feel averse to the backup plan set by the family. Instead, she will fully cooperate with it.
"Your Highness," Chun Tao said with a surprised expression, "The Queen Mother only asked you to hand over half of your power in the palace, why did Your Highness..."
"Oh!" The Queen's sneer interrupted Chun Tao's voice, "I just tasted the tea I drank in the Queen Mother's Palace and found that it was drugged. It seems that the Queen Mother and the Emperor are not only afraid of Concubine Jiang, but also very afraid of me!"
"It's fortunate that the family has a backup plan, otherwise I would have entered the palace in vain. After all, what's the use of just having the title of queen? The Shen family must have a prince of the Shen family bloodline."
The queen's maiden name was Shen.
"Why are the Queen Mother and the Emperor suddenly wary of the Queen?" Chun Yi frowned and said, "If the Queen Mother and the Emperor wanted to end the Queen's fertility, they should have done it a long time ago. Why did they do it only now?"
"Could it be because of Imperial Concubine Jiang?" Chun Yi said as if she had thought of something. "The Emperor left Imperial Concubine Jiang's palace yesterday and went to the Empress Dowager's palace. But today, the Empress Dowager not only asked the Empress to hand over half of her power in the palace, but also drugged her. If you say Imperial Concubine Jiang didn't interfere, I don't believe it."
"That bitch, Concubine Jiang," the Queen said with a gnashing expression, "I felt sorry for her and thought I wouldn't kill her in the future, but I didn't expect her to be so determined to die. Don't blame me for fighting her to the death."
If possible, the Queen would never be willing to give the child to her half-sister. It would be best if she could give birth to the child herself. But now, because of that bitch Jiang Chunxi, she cannot give birth to her own child. How can the Queen not hate her?
In fact, it's not that the Queen has no way to reverse the medicine that the Queen Mother gave her. After all, as a member of a noble family, she is not like the Queen Mother, the legitimate daughter of a county magistrate. She has secret medicines and prescriptions that others can hardly imagine. It's just a sterilization drug, how can she not reverse it?
But since the Empress Dowager and the Emperor didn't want her to give birth to a child, the Queen couldn't get pregnant. Couldn't the Queen not understand this common sense? This made her hate that bitch Concubine Jiang even more.
Chengpin received the order from the Queen Mother and took action immediately the next day.
Just after paying his respects to the Queen, he immediately returned to his palace to prepare medicine to preserve the pregnancy.
"Master, are we really going to send the medicine to Imperial Concubine Jiang so carelessly?" Ruyan put the freshly prepared abortion-preserving medicine into the box, her hands trembling slightly, "Should we think of a more appropriate solution? After all, if Imperial Concubine Jiang drinks the abortion-preserving medicine and gets a miscarriage, I'm afraid..."
"What are you afraid of?" Chengpin said disdainfully, "It's easy to fool that idiot Jiang Chunxi. How can I be afraid that this idiot will turn the tables in my hands?"
"Let's go!" Chengpin stroked the hairpin on her head and said, "This pregnancy-preserving medicine has just been boiled. You have to drink it while it's hot. Otherwise, if the medicine gets cold, it will not be effective enough. That would be bad."
As Chengpin finished speaking, the master and servant rushed to Jiang Chunxi's palace.
"Sister, I am here to bother you again," Chengpin came to Jiang Chunxi and sat down next to her as soon as she entered her palace. "Sister, how do you feel today? Do you feel unwell?"
"I feel a little tired today," Jiang Chunxi said, looking exhausted, "but the doctor also said that this is normal, so there is nothing to worry about."
"That's true," Chengpin nodded and said, "My sister knew that my sister would be in such a situation, so she ordered people to find the best prescription for pregnancy-preserving medicine early on. Isn't it..."
Chengpin looked at Ruyan and asked her to present the pregnancy-preserving medicine. "As soon as I got the pregnancy-preserving medicine prescription from my mother's family last night, I immediately went to the Imperial Hospital to get the medicine. This morning, after paying my respects to the Empress, I immediately went back to make the pregnancy-preserving medicine for you. As soon as the medicine was ready, I quickly sent it to you. You must drink the medicine, and don't let your kindness down."
Jiang Chunxi frowned, looking disgusted: "I appreciate your kindness, but I really can't drink this pregnancy-preserving medicine. After all, I have been afraid of bitterness since I was a child. Sister knows this."
"Sister," Chengpin said with a stern face, "Good medicine tastes bitter, not to mention for the sake of the child in your belly, can't you even bear this little bitterness?"
As she spoke, Chengpin took the pregnancy-preserving medicine from Ruyan's hand, scooped out a spoonful of the medicine with a spoon, put it to her lips and blew on it: "Besides, this is the pregnancy-preserving medicine that I worked so hard to make for you. Even if you consider how hard I worked, you should drink it obediently."
"Empress Cheng, let's let the imperial physician take a look at this pregnancy-preserving medicine first!" Yuanzhu couldn't help but speak up. "After all, no matter how good the pregnancy-preserving medicine is, it may not be suitable for my queen, so let's summon the imperial physician to take a look and decide whether to let my queen take it."
As she spoke, Ruyan was about to take the medicine bowl from Chengpin's hand.
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