I drank the medicine and lay lazily on the embroidered couch, looking out the window at the falling leaves of the sycamore trees and the wild geese flying south.
On the day I received the order, I had been ill for more than half a year. I drank enough concoction to fill the lotus pond in the garden, but my health still hadn't improved.
My father and eldest brother hired several famous doctors to treat me. The Queen Mother in the palace heard about it and specially pointed out an imperial doctor who was stationed at my Ye family to treat me.
But all the doctors said that I had a heart disease. As the saying goes, "Heart disease requires heart medicine." The doctors all prescribed me some nourishing and recuperating prescriptions. At the end, they always told me, "Don't think too much."
Alas, I "think too much". In the past six months, I just don't understand. The ladies who are willing to marry into the royal family are like crucian carp crossing the river. There is no shortage of me, Ye Rong. Why is it only me, Ye Rong?
The autumn wind rolled up layers of yellow leaves like fluttering butterflies. I sighed softly: "Alas, the boat is done. No matter how dandy Xue Ming is, I must marry him in this life..."
If nothing happened later, I would just be an ordinary lady waiting to get married, waiting for my hairpins to come out, choose an auspicious day, and marry Xue E, and become the concubine of an idle prince. I don’t seek to be in love with my husband, but just respect each other as a guest, and live in a normal way.
Live a life.
However, it is true to the old saying - "God's calculation is better than man's calculation."
[The lady is coming]
The heavy fur curtain was lifted, and a wisp of cold wind suddenly rushed into the embroidery room. I couldn't help but shiver.
The girl Qingqing's cheeks were slightly red and her eyes were tear-stained. She knelt down at my feet and said, "Miss."
I was very surprised: "Qingqing?"
That year, she had a fight with Wang Xiaoer in the kitchen, and half of her hair was pulled out, without even crying. What happened this time... Huh, who dared to bully me, Ye Rong? Look at me
Don't peel off a layer of his skin!
Qingqing said with a tearful voice: "Miss, the eldest prince has gone."
The eldest prince Xue Chan, the unofficial crown prince, passed away on the third day of October.
A bone-chilling cold suddenly entered my heart. The eldest prince passed away, leaving behind the fetus that was not yet full-term in the belly of the eldest prince's concubine. If the eldest prince's concubine gave birth to a little princess, the third prince Xue Yi... Xue Yi would be the only heir to the throne.
The future emperor of the dynasty, then I...
If I enter the harem, won't I slap Emperor Ren in the mouth?
The royal family values face the most. In order to save face, they will do anything to kill people and exterminate the family. Besides, my Ye family has great achievements and a prominent reputation. Maybe the emperor will use this excuse to accuse my Ye family of some crime, and my Ye family will never be able to turn around.
.
I carefully thought about it and found that there are only two options left for my Ye family:
First, my father took the initiative to withdraw from the engagement. But in this way, the royal family’s face was saved, but my Ye family was charged with defying the imperial decree and disrespecting the emperor. Even though the Holy Spirit cared about my father’s kindness and holy will, there were quite a few among the courtiers.
If a shameless person who dislikes my Ye family takes advantage of this situation to add insult to injury, my Ye family will also be punished a lot. There are more than a hundred members of my Ye family, so this risk cannot be taken at all;
The second is that I, Ye Rong, should no longer be the prince's concubine. The reason can only be found in the seven rules. I have not yet married Xue Yi, and I am "disobedient to my parents", "childless", "jealous" and "talkative".
There is no way to talk about the four items, and "prostitution" and "theft" will ruin the face of the royal family and the Ye family. Only the remaining item - "having a serious illness" can be discussed.
If Ye Rong, the young lady of the Zhongyong family, was terminally ill and died soon, or worse, Ye Rong died before she got married, the dilemma of the royal family and the Ye family would be easily solved.
But one thing I know very well is that in this life, if I, Ye Rongru, cannot marry Xue Yu, I will become an abandoned wife of the royal family, and I will never be able to marry anyone else.
An unbearable bitterness in my chest and abdomen suddenly hit my throat, and with a whoosh, I vomited out all the medicine I had just drank...
[The lady is coming]
On October 13th, less than half a month after the death of the eldest prince, the eldest prince's concubine gave birth to a little grandson who was less than a month old.
In the capital, the coffin of the eldest prince Xue Chan has not yet been placed, and the matter of establishing an heir has stirred up trouble again.
Among the courtiers, the majority headed by Mr. Cui Ge believed that the third prince Xue Yi was too incompetent and could never succeed to the throne. Now that the emperor was in his prime, he should educate his newly born little grandson as a candidate for the crown prince; and the queen mother.
The emperor and the empress had always loved the third prince, and their attitude towards the establishment of an heir was ambiguous. Some villains in the court who presumed to speculate on the holy will secretly contacted each other privately, and wrote to the emperor and grandson in the name of his young age to request the establishment of the third prince.
