frightfiction Chapter 695 The Tragic Concubine 2
Chapter 695 The Tragic Concubine 2
"Your Majesty, have you made up your mind about the baby in the imperial concubine's belly?" The empress dowager looked at the emperor with a serious face and said, "The baby in the imperial concubine's belly is already more than six months old. If you don't make up your mind quickly, are you going to force the imperial concubine to give birth to the baby in her belly?"
"You should know that the imperial physician has determined that the baby in the imperial concubine's belly is a boy. This one will be your eldest son when he is born," the empress dowager sighed and continued, "Since ancient times, the eldest son of the emperor has a different meaning. I know that the Jiang family has always been loyal."
"You can sit firmly on the throne, which is inseparable from the full support of the Jiang family, but people's hearts are fickle! The Jiang family is loyal, but if the Jiang family has an eldest son, who can guarantee that the Jiang family will not breed ambitions?"
"You know, the reason why the previous dynasty fell was due to the calamity of foreign relatives. If Concubine Jiang gives birth to the baby in her belly, who can guarantee that the Jiang family will not become a calamity of foreign relatives in the future? After all, the Jiang family has a grandson of the eldest prince, so they will definitely not let the throne fall into the hands of other princes."
"In short! If Concubine Jiang gives birth to the baby in her belly, it will bring endless disasters!"
No mother would like a seductive woman who seduces her son. The empress dowager didn't like Jiang Chunxi in the first place. On the one hand, she looked down on Jiang Chunxi's background. After all, Jiang's father was a peasant. If he hadn't followed the late emperor in rebellion, he would have been a pariah. How could the daughter of a pariah be worthy of her son?
The empress dowager's father was a county governor in the previous dynasty. When the late emperor led his troops to attack the county town where the empress dowager's father was, the empress dowager's father surrendered directly and married his daughter to the late emperor.
It was also because of this that the Empress Dowager looked down on the untouchables from the bottom of her heart. Not to mention Jiang's father, who was born into a peasant family, even the late emperor was looked down upon by the Empress Dowager from the bottom of her heart.
But the Queen Mother was not stupid after all, so she always did a good job on the surface. In the eyes of the late emperor, she was a good wife, and in the eyes of Jiang's father, she was a good sister-in-law.
So even though she looked down upon Jiang's father very much, when the late emperor arranged a marriage between her son and Jiang's daughter, the empress dowager was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood, but on the surface she still looked extremely happy. She even acted very fond of Jiang Chunxi, as if she couldn't wait for her son to marry her home.
Of course, if that were all, the Queen Mother would not be so cruel as to get rid of the baby in Jiang Chunxi's belly. After all, that baby was still her grandson!
But as she just said, people's hearts are fickle! The Jiang family is loyal, but if Jiang Chunxi gave birth to the eldest son, it would be difficult to guarantee that Jiang's father would not develop ambitions.
You know, Father Jiang holds the military power!
If the grandson of the eldest prince of the Jiang family develops ambitions, it will be a disaster for the entire court.
Therefore, the child in Concubine Jiang's belly must not be born and must be eliminated with all courage.
"Mother," the emperor said with a troubled look on his face, "that's also my child, and my first child. I really..."
"How can you be so soft-hearted as an emperor? Your Majesty, you really disappoint me. You should know that you are responsible for the whole world. You cannot afford to be soft-hearted."
As she spoke, the Queen Mother wiped away her tears and said, "You think you are the only one who can't bear to part with that child? Can't I bear to part with him? You know, he is my grandson. I have been looking forward to having him. How can I bear to give up the grandson I have waited so long for?"
"But for the sake of the overall situation, I have to be cruel no matter how reluctant I am," the Queen Mother glared at the Emperor. "I am a woman and a child, but I can make a decision. But you are the king of a country, but you are still so indecisive. Are you worthy of the people of this world and the expectations of your late emperor?"
The emperor closed his eyes in pain, and when he opened them again, he had a determined look on his face: "Then let's do as my mother wishes! Just assume that I have no fate with that child."
The Queen Mother finally smiled: "Is that right? If you had made up your mind earlier, you wouldn't have to wait until the child was six months old in Concubine Jiang's belly. After all, the bigger the fetus is in the mother's womb, the more harm it would cause to the mother."
"But this is also good. When Concubine Jiang has an abortion, we can also kill her fertility. Then we can let the imperial physician say that Concubine Jiang has suffered from the abortion and will not be able to bear children in the future. Then Concubine Jiang will not suspect anything."
The emperor opened his mouth to say something, but in the end no words came out.
He loves Chunxi and wants to have a child with her, but...
Forget it, forget it. Just assume that he and Chunxi are not destined to have children in this life. At worst, he can compensate Chunxi in the next life.
Jiang Chunxi had no idea what the Dog Emperor was thinking at the moment, otherwise she would have probably been disgusted to the point of vomiting.
"Sister Jiang, your belly seems to have grown bigger," Chengpin said while touching Jiang Chunxi's belly. "It's really strange! Ever since your baby was five months old, my belly seems to have grown like the wind."
"Who said it wasn't?" Jiang Chunxi smiled gently and said, "I'm a little worried now. I'm afraid that the baby in my belly will grow too fast and burst my stomach."
"Sister Jiang is really good at joking," Chengpin took her hand away from Jiang Chunxi's belly, "By the way, Sister Jiang, has the emperor chosen a name for the baby in your belly? This is the emperor's first child, and the relationship between you and the emperor is so special. You are the one that the emperor holds in his heart, so the emperor must have chosen a name for the child long ago!"
"Not yet?" Jiang Chunxi said with a sweet smile, "The Emperor has thought of a few names, but he is still not satisfied, so he has not decided on the name of the child yet."
"You have no idea how much the emperor struggled to name his child," Jiang Chunxi laughed happily, "I just can't understand it. It's just a name, but why is the emperor so conflicted, as if no name is suitable for his precious son."
A gleam of jealousy flashed across Chengpin's eyes, but it was only for a moment. "Of course, this is the emperor's first child, and it is also the child born to the emperor by Sister Jiang. The emperor must consider the name again and again."
"Alas!" Chengpin sighed, "I just don't know when my sister will be blessed enough to conceive a heir to the throne. After all, my sister is still thinking that our sisterhood can continue to the next generation."