That night, Concubine Rong suddenly woke up from the bed, sweating profusely on her back.
She groped tremblingly to the edge of the bed.
"Xiaohong, Xiaohong..." Her voice was low and hoarse.
Fortunately, since she became pregnant, the maids were more alert than usual, never sleeping while waiting outside, and hurried in as soon as they heard her voice.
Seeing her propped up beside the bed, I quickly went to help her.
"Why are you up, Madam? If you have anything to do, just ask the servants of the branch. It's so late at night, what if we bump into each other?"
Concubine Rong pointed to the table with one hand and shouted: "Water, water, bring me some water."
The maid quickly poured a cup of tea and placed it in Concubine Rong's hand.
I saw her holding the teacup and drinking "gudu" and "gudu" for several long times before she stopped.
After stopping, he couldn't help but laugh bitterly: "I'm just pregnant, but now I look like a disabled person."
"Where are you talking about, ma'am?"
The maid comforted her at the side: "It's the little prince Jin Gui. It's always better to be careful."
When the maid touched her clothes, they were soaked again.
"Is your Majesty having a nightmare again?"
Concubine Rong Gui put the tea cup in the maid's hand: "Isn't it like this these days? How many times do you wake up in the night?"
When the maid saw her like this, she couldn't help but feel worried. Even if they were ordinary people, they wouldn't be able to endure it all day long, let alone someone like the empress who is pregnant with a child.
Look at her lingering on the couch all day long, but when she sleeps one night, she is even more tired than if she hadn't slept. Her eye sockets are getting sunken day by day, and she has lost a lot of weight.
I don’t know how many supplements the hospital has sent these days.
Bird's nest, donkey-hide gelatin, and ginseng are all like mud cows drowning in the sea, they have no effect at all.
The Taiyuan Hospital said that the empress’ illness was probably due to a heart disease.
The maid did not dare to say these words in front of Concubine Rong, it was just because she was anxious.
But Concubine Rong sighed quietly and said, "Xiaohong, I'm afraid it won't work."
One sentence frightened the maid to death: "Mother, why do you talk such nonsense?"
Nonsense?
But why doesn’t she know her own body clearly?
"I have been dreaming about the dead Jade Concubine these days," she said.
"She said she was very lonely down there and wanted to come and talk to me."
They all said depressing words, but the palace was lonely and the royal family was cold. What I thought was so glorious at first turned around and it turned out to be nothing more than a sweet dream.
It's funny to say that when Concubine Rong first entered the palace, she was competing with Concubine Yu and wanted to overpower her at every turn.
Now, I actually feel a sense of sympathy for her.
"I feel that living in this palace is really boring." She couldn't help but sigh as she thought about it.
"The imperial family is the most ruthless, and now I have realized that."
Concubine Rong's words frightened the maid to death: "Your Majesty, you can't say such things casually. It would be bad if someone listened to you."
However, Concubine Rong ignored her and sneered: "Now that I have become like this, why are you afraid of being heard by someone?
I have been pregnant for so long, how many times have you seen Your Majesty come to see me?"
Speaking of this, the bitterness in his eyes could not be suppressed: "At first, my heart was as high as the sky, and I wanted to enter this palace. I thought that based on my status and ability, which of the concubines would be my opponent?
When the time comes, if you earn a post and give birth to a prince, your life in this world will not be in vain.
Now all the original wishes have come true.
Concubine Jade is dead, I have become the main one in the palace, and I am pregnant, but why do I miss the days when I was a concubine?
If I haven’t entered the palace yet, and if my parents are still around at this time, how can I see me being so wronged?”
She suddenly spoke from the bottom of her heart, but the maid was frightened when she heard it.
Saying these words suddenly does not seem like a good omen.
"Empress..."
The maid was about to say something else when she suddenly heard a song outside the palace.
"The Emperor has arrived..."
Concubine Rong was shocked. She didn't even listen to the rest of the words. She just turned around and asked the maid.
"What time is it now? Why is the emperor coming?"
"It's time to return to the Queen's house now."
Is it just Haishi?
Realizing this, she felt bitter in her heart. This night was too long for her.
"What's wrong with this? I haven't dressed up yet?"
As soon as Concubine Rong finished speaking, she saw Shen Muchi and his party had come in from outside.
Concubine Rong was startled and quickly stood up to salute: "I am here to see Your Majesty..."
But as soon as he got up, his body went limp and he was about to fall down.
Fortunately, someone with quick eyesight and quick hands rushed in from outside the door and helped her.
Concubine Rong thought it was Shen Muchi and was about to say thank you: "Thank you, Your Majesty..."
But when he raised his eyes, he choked on the next half of the sentence. His eyes widened as if he had seen something extremely frightening.
Not caring about anything else, he screamed "Ah" and stepped back.
"How...how could it be you? Why are you here?"
Mu Qingchao stood there, looking at Concubine Rong with a strange look on his face: "Look what Concubine Rong said? The Ai family heard that you were in poor health, so they took the emperor with them to visit you.
What's wrong with you? Why do you feel like you've seen a ghost? Are you afraid that the Aijia will eat you?"
Didn't she see a ghost? Ever since Mu Qingchao came that day, she couldn't sleep all day long and was frightened.
What kind of kindness can she have? I don’t know what will happen this time?
"Go! Go! I don't want to see you!"
Now Concubine Rong had a stress reaction when she saw Mu Qingchao, and it almost became her nightmare.
But Mu Qingchao pretended to be weak and covered his chest with one hand: "Oh, Your Majesty, these concubines of yours are getting more and more amazing."
"No matter what, Ai Jia is still the Queen Mother of Nanming, right? Ai Jia has no self-respect of her own identity and helps her out of kindness, but she doesn't accept any kindness at all.
Now that I am treating the Ai family like this just because I am pregnant, I am afraid that if I have a prince in the future, I will be the one to top the Ai family."
One sentence made Concubine Rong's heart skip a beat.
Mu Qingchao has a very good mouth. She was clearly the one who provoked him before, but now she has become a pet peeve.
Concubine Rong Gui looked at Shen Muchi's face and saw that he had a gloomy face and looked unhappy.
She was exhausted mentally and physically for a long time and couldn't say a word, but Xiaohong next to her was alert and knelt down first.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me, and the Queen Mother, please forgive me. It was my wife who had been having nightmares these days and was in a trance. She was confused for a moment, and that's why she bumped into the Queen Mother.
I beg the Queen Mother to spare her this time for the sake of seeing how difficult it is for her to become pregnant."
When Mu Qingchao heard this, he still smiled in a friendly manner.
"That's how it is."
"What the maid said was unfortunate. It's too late for the Ai family to feel sorry for the imperial concubine. How can we really punish her?
Didn’t the Ai family hear that the concubine was in poor health, so they asked for an imperial doctor who specialized in prenatal care, and called in the concubine in the middle of the night to take her pulse?"