"You have such a weak body, I don't want you to run away too much." Si Ningchi looked at Concubine Shu while drinking the soup and said, "I heard that in the early years, the Mei family had some contacts with the Cui family, and you have no feelings for Empress Dowager Cui.
Do you know anything about it?"
Concubine Shu was stunned for a while when she heard Si Ningchi's question.
She frowned slightly and said in a low voice: "The Queen is unaware of something. The Mei family and the Cui family are just neighbors, and there is no such thing as any correspondence."
Moreover, the original Mei family was not as good as the Cui family, so there was even less contact.
"As for Queen Mother Cui..." Concubine Shu paused and said softly, "I only met Queen Mother Cui after I entered the palace."
"How did Ms. Cui enter the palace?" Si Ningchi narrowed his eyes and asked quietly.
Upon hearing this, Concubine Shu glanced at Si Ningchi. Although she was ill, she did not know anything about the news in the palace.
Jin Zhaoyi also knew about that. Originally, Concubine Shu didn't take this person to heart. After so many years in the palace, the emperor's attitude towards the queen has remained the same. She didn't think that Jin Zhaoyi could shake the queen's status at all.
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But the development of things seemed to be completely different from what she expected.
The emperor actually treats Jin Zhaoyi differently?
But the empress, who has always had her own way of doing things, is actually helpless with a little Zhaoyi, and now she needs to summon herself to ask about Cui's origin...
There is something wrong with this scene.
"I know very little about this concubine." Concubine Shu pondered for a moment and lowered her eyes and said, "It's just that Cui's mother had a friendship with the late empress. Cui's mother died young when she was young, and the late empress seemed to have taken care of the Cui family, so we just became friends.
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"So, when it was said that the late empress wanted to marry Cui to the emperor who was the crown prince at that time, this happened?" Si Ningchi asked with raised eyebrows.
"Yes." Concubine Shu closed her eyes and nodded in response. This matter has not been spread out. Concubine Shu will know because the Mei family and the Cui family are adjacent, and they inevitably meet. By chance, she heard her mother talk about this matter in a vague way, and she said everything in her mouth.
It's the envy of the Cui family.
"When my mother talked about the eldest daughter of the Cui family, she was full of praise for her gentleness, sweetness, and intellectual generosity." Concubine Shu said with a slight frown.
Although she had never met the Cui family's eldest daughter back then, she had already sketched out her appearance from the praise of people around her.
It’s just that Concubine Shu never expected that things would change in the palace overnight. In the end, the good-looking ‘Crown Princess Candidate’ suddenly became a concubine in the palace, and she became a successor not long after...
"So, the Emperor and the Cui family did have a friendship back then?" Si Ningchi sneered and said softly.
"..." Concubine Shu's heart skipped a beat as she lowered her head and replied, "I don't know."
"You have just recovered from your serious illness. You should go back and have a good life." Si Ningchi waved his hand to Concubine Shu and said, "You don't need to pay attention to the rumors in the palace recently. Those who can't do anything about it can clean themselves up."
"Besides, I see that the Emperor has no intention of waiting for you these days." The smile on Si Ningchi's lips was somewhat sarcastic.
Concubine Shu walked out of the gate of Fengwu Palace, still feeling a little confused.
He turned around and summoned Xiuqin to ask carefully about what happened in the palace recently and who Jin Zhaoyi was.
Xiuqin didn't dare to delay and quickly sent someone to inquire.
In Yuhua Palace, Concubine Shu had just drank a cup of tea when the inquiring little eunuch came back.
"Then Jin Zhaoyi is really similar to Mrs. Cui?" Concubine Shu asked with a frown.
"Rather than being similar to Queen Mother Cui, it is better to say that she is exactly the same as Queen Mother Cui when she was still young..." As soon as these words came out, Concubine Shu couldn't help but change her face.
They didn't know what happened in the palace back then, let alone whether there was any friendship between Queen Mother Cui and the emperor.
But now looking at the emperor's attitude towards Jin Zhaoyi, something seems wrong.
"This matter is not simple." Concubine Shu pondered for a moment and said, "I want to see Concubine De."
She was a little undecided. On the one hand, she felt that this happened too suddenly. How did Jin Zhaoyi enter the capital and enter the palace?
At the same time, I felt that the emperor's attitude changed too quickly. The empress was pregnant. The emperor should not call the empress too worried at this juncture. There were too many flaws. Could this be the handiwork of Empress Dowager Cui?
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Concubine Shu has not yet reached a conclusion, and there is trouble again on the emperor's side.
"Have you summoned Jin Zhaoyi again?" Concubine De was also shocked when she heard this.
"Usually the emperor goes to accompany the empress when dining, but now he actually turns around and summons Jin Zhaoyi to accompany him to eat..." Concubine Li said with a strange look on her face: "Why do I look at this scene so familiar?"
"The emperor granted permission for Jin Zhaoyi to use her own small kitchen. Isn't this exactly the same as the empress did at the time?"
The expression on Concubine De's face changed again and again, and she was filled with confusion.
But the emperor's change was not groundless, and the reward sent to Shu Yuxuan was not fake. How many times had Jin Zhaoyi been summoned in just a few days?
While Concubine De and the others were talking, they suddenly saw the little eunuch rushing in.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is in serious trouble! Your Majesty, the Queen, had fetal force and fainted!" The little eunuch hurriedly entered and kowtowed.
"What!?" Everyone in the palace was shocked. They did not dare to hesitate at the moment and hurried towards Fengwu Palace.
When Concubine De and others arrived at Fengwu Palace, they saw the imperial doctor coming out with a medicine box. He bowed to Zhao Zongheng with a solemn look on his face and said, "Your Majesty, the empress's fetal image was not stable. She was so angry that she moved the fetus.
gas."
Zhao Zongheng frowned, and the expression on his face was not good-looking. He heard the imperial doctor continue: "At the moment, the Queen still needs to rest peacefully. She must not be angry anymore, and she must not be tired..."
Zhao Zongheng waved his hands after hearing this, and after being silent for a while, he turned to look at Concubine De and said: "The queen needs to rest, so the affairs of the palace will be left to Concubine De for the time being, and Concubine Shu will assist from the side. I hope you two can help the queen with all your heart."
Share worries."
Hearing this, Concubine De and Concubine He Shu panicked and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, it is my great honor that I can share the worries of the Empress. However, this matter is not a trivial matter. I thought it would be better to wait until the Empress wakes up."
It’s better to make better arrangements.”
"No need." Zhao Zongheng turned his head and said softly: "The queen has a fetal movement this time. It is not suitable for her to have any major movements. She should rest peacefully in the palace to recuperate."
"...Yes." Concubine De lowered her eyes and responded in a low voice, but her heart was beating. If the empress woke up and knew that she had been deprived of power, I don't know how angry she would be.
In the past, Concubine De would have been happy to be in power, but now she is not happy at all.
She was even a little angry for the queen. The emperor's attitude was a bit too cold.