Chapter 19: The Whisperer and the Deader Know Each Other
The bright lights of Tangli Palace could not dispel the cold chill in my heart. Wei Lin had been ordered to come to visit Meizhuang. At the same time, in order to facilitate the treatment of his husband, Wen Shichu was temporarily placed in the never-inhabited side of Tangli Palace.
Almost all the imperial doctors and Wen Po from the first palace were crowded into the brightly lit Tangli Palace.
The queen was not allowed to come, so she stayed in Zhaoyang Hall to clean up the mess with Concubine Duan. Concubine Jing and Hu Yunrong arranged for the concubines to return to the palace to rest, and accompanied Concubine Zhengui who was unwell due to fatigue. Jinxi and Huanbi took her with them.
The two princes are taking care of them in Rouyi Hall for the time being, taking care of all the unfinished matters.
It has been an hour since Meizhuang was sent to the inner hall. Apart from occasionally hearing a few painful groans, there was no movement at all. The water in Po Wen's hand was brought in basin after basin, and when it was brought out, it turned into basins of bloody water. I see
I was so frightened that I tried to rush in several times. Li Chang stopped me again and again and said, "Your Majesty, you can't go in. Dr. Wei is delivering the baby to Empress Shuyuan. It will be fine in a moment. It will be fine!" After that, he whispered: "Your Majesty, please take care of me."
Mirror." I discovered two dark purple fingerprints on my lower jaw. If Mei Zhuang saw them, it would inevitably frighten her again. So I had to suppress them and sit down and wait.
Caiyue Xuxu sobbed in her ears: "I chased Randong out of the Queen's palace. It seemed that the treasure magpie next to An Zhaoyuan followed and wanted to give it away, but the guards refused and started arguing in front of our palace gate. The words were startling.
The young lady was sleeping. When she woke up, she heard that everyone was still in the Queen's Palace. She was already feeling uneasy. Then she heard them quarreling, so she had to ask what was going on. But Bao Que almost let it slip, saying that Empress Zhaoyuan
I have a deep love for Sister Shu. Today, Empress Shu has suffered a lot of grievances and Zhaoyuan is trying her best to support her. Now she and Randong are just from the same hometown. Randong was kicked out of the palace and she just gave it away. The palace is so big today.
During the incident, Miss Huanbi hid the news from the young lady because she was afraid that the young lady might have fetal motility. Unexpectedly, the young lady heard it herself, became anxious and went to the Queen's Palace. As a result, the servant accompanied the Queen to the entrance of the palace.
I just met Dr. Wen... Dr. Wen..." Caiyue didn't dare to think about it. She covered her face in shock and cried: "The young lady was shocked at that time, and the servant was so frightened that she didn't come back to her senses for a long time. When she found out
Only then did I see that the young lady has already turned red. If I had known earlier, I would have stopped her and wouldn't let the young lady go out."
My heart felt cold, and I raised my head and stared at An Lingrong, who was standing next to the blue gauze cupboard with tears in her eyes, with eyes that seemed to bite people.
"What a coincidence!" I walked up to her and looked at her, "You clearly know that Meizhuang is pregnant and cannot be frightened, yet your girl happened to run into Tangli Palace and start a scene. Lingrong, you
Isn’t it too much of a coincidence?”
An Lingrong fell silent slightly, shook his head sadly, grabbed my arm and lamented: "I don't know! I don't know! Sister, don't blame me, I really didn't know this would happen."
I threw her hand away in disgust. She looked at Xuan Ling with a clear expression and said: "Your Majesty——"
Xuan Ling's mind was only focused on the inner hall. He shook his head at her impatiently and ignored her.
Seeing that Xuan Ling didn't care about her, she immediately put on a look of hopelessness and sadness, and cried sadly: "Sister, you have to believe me, Bao Que did it unintentionally. If I knew this would happen, I would rather suffer for Sister Mei myself!
She looked at me with a clear look on her face and said, "Sister, we have been in love for so many years, we entered the palace together and served the emperor together..."
I couldn't help the pain and anxiety in my heart, and slapped her hard on the face. When my palm came into contact with the delicate skin, I felt instinctive nausea in my heart. The loud slap made everyone in the main hall look back one by one.
Xuan Ling frowned and said: "Huan Huan..."
This palm exerted all my strength, and the shock made my wrists numb and my palms aching. Lingrong's bun was scattered, half of her black hair hung down on her cheeks, and there were five bright red fingerprints on her thin white skin, and the corners of her lips slowly showed a little.
Blood beads. My chest was heaving, and I pointed at her and said: "Whether it's maid's intention or your own intention, you know it in your heart! As long as Sister Mei and her son are safe, that's all. If there is the slightest difference, I will never let it go with you."
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The hatred in Ling Rong's eyes flashed like a shooting star. She glanced at Xuan Ling and slapped her face quickly. She struck hard, and the other cheek immediately swelled and turned red. She sobbed: "Sister, you hit me right!
It was Lingrong's poor discipline that led to this catastrophic disaster!" She called Bao Que in, and Bao Que slowly came in, and hurriedly knelt down to say hello.
Lingrong pointed at her and said bitterly: "You still have the nerve to pay your respects to me, but you have disturbed the safety of Empress Shuyuan and deliberately made me uneasy!" Before he could finish his words, Bao Que had already received a slap on his face.
Several times. Lingrong was wearing a set of coral rice beads and lucky gold armor on his hands, and he was even more merciless. However, Bao Que's cheeks were swollen after just a few blows, leaving more than a dozen bloody wounds. Bao Que's cheeks were swollen.
The magpie was so frightened that she didn't dare to protect her face, let alone beg for mercy. Baojuan came up and advised, "My queen, be careful of yourself."
Lingrong was so angry that she said with tears: "I have entered the palace with Sister Mei for many years. However, you are so ignorant that you shocked my sister's pregnancy. If anything goes wrong, I will go with my sister."
What else do you need to do with this body!" After saying that, he hit it hard with another palm. Lingrong had a ruler-long gold armband on his arm. With a strong hand, Bao Que's forehead was scraped out with a huge amount of blood.
There was a hole in the hole, blood suddenly flowed from his face, and he fainted from the pain.
I bit my lip and kept silent. After all, it was Xuan Ling who came up and took her hand, sighing: "I'm ignorant, you have to be careful! Concubine Shu was also angry, and she said something harsh to you."
His gaze was like a sharp blade scraping across the magpie, "This slave is ignorant, drag him out and beat him to death with sticks."
Lingrong stopped talking, pursed her lips and said, "That's what the emperor said." She glanced at Bao Que and never looked back.
After a while, Ge Ji, deputy director of the Taiyuan Hospital, came in and said: "Reporting to the emperor, Dr. Wen's bleeding has stopped and his life is not serious. But...but..." He hesitated for a moment, rubbed his hands and looked at me and me.
An Lingrong lowered his head in embarrassment.
I didn't care about avoiding suspicion and said: "You say it."
Ge Ji let out a sigh and said, "It's just like the prisoner in the palace, there is no hope for my son's future."
My heart felt cold, I held back the tears in my eyes, and waved my hand, "I understand, you can go down."
Bai Zhi brought the ginseng soup, and Xuan Ling drank it down in frustration, "Why is there still no movement?" Ling Rong picked up the silk and wiped the sweat from Xuan Ling's forehead, and said softly: "Your Majesty, don't worry."
I picked up the ginseng soup and pretended to take a few sips, covering up the two tears that fell into the soup. I didn't feel guilty and regretful, but it turned out to be true, it turned out to be me who had harmed you.
I don't know how much time passed, but Wei Lin was sweating profusely and took a deep breath, "Empress Shuyuan was frightened and gave birth prematurely, and she is no longer in good health at the moment. Weichen's medical skills are poor, and the empress's fetus has been taken care of by Dr. Wen. What's the matter with daily life?
I don’t know much about the situation, and I really can’t do anything about it.”
Xuan Ling's palms tightly grasped the Panlong Hanzhu armrest, and veins popped up on the back of his hands. He said for a long time: "Where is the child? How is the child?"
"My mother's bleeding is not only going to collapse, but she has not woken up. She has been bleeding too much and cannot use force, and the child's head has not come out. I tried to give her a solid soup, but it didn't work. I don't know what kind of constitution my mother has. I don't know.
Dare to abuse the hemostatic decoction, if Dr. Wen is here..."
There was a hint of regret on Xuan Ling's face, and he turned around in silence. Ge Ji quickly bowed his head and said, "Mr. Wen is already awake, but I'm afraid he is not in good health to go to the ground to deliver the baby."
Wei Lin said: "It doesn't matter if you can't go to the ground. You can carry her in on a stretcher first. Even if you can't help your mother to give birth smoothly, Imperial Physician Wen knows your mother's constitution, so we can decide what medicine to use together."
Xuan Ling pondered for a moment, and I said with tears in my eyes: "My concubine is not guilty, and Lord Wen is not guilty either. It is already a sin for Lord Wen to suffer innocently. How can he bear the burden if he drags down my sister and the prince again."
Xuan Ling nodded and said, "That's all, carry Wen Shichu in."
Wen Shichu's breath was as thin as a thin thread holding a kite, as if a gust of wind could cut it off. Wei Lin cut a ginseng slice and put it under his tongue, and whispered a few words in his ear. He was as pale as cotton.
Zhi's face turned a faint red. He struggled to stand up and coughed: "Shuyuan's heart qi reversed, which caused dystocia. She originally had a good-natured constitution. She first used wild ginseng to keep her spirits up, and then she took Shengzhi.
Make up the soup." His breath was already weak, and he would pause after speaking a few words. At this moment, he was extremely anxious and urged, "Quick, quick -"
Wei Lin prepared what he said and helped Wen Shichu go in. It took about a moment to touch a stick of incense. When Po Wen came out, her eyebrows were already two points wider. Fu Yifu said, "I have taken Master Wen's medicine, and my wife will bleed less."
Lord Wen said that we should also burn seven pieces of salt and plum into the powder, and then use one liang of Chen Sophora flowers and half a liang of Baicao Shuang to make the powder. We should burn the red wine with a scale and hammer to make the wine drinkable."
I was twisting a piece of silk tightly in my hand, and my fingers hurt after twisting it for a long time. Now I heard Po Wen say that Meizhuang is getting better, and I felt relieved, and then I felt the pain. I kept saying: "Go quickly! Go quickly!"
Lingrong recited a Buddhist line and said happily: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. My sister will definitely be a blessing to people and gods."
After a while, another Wen Po said: "Your Majesty has woken up, and she is relieved to see that Dr. Wen is by her side. Now she can exert her strength."
Xuan Ling's face brightened a little, and he said happily: "Go in and tell Mei'er. Pass on my decree, and Shuyuan will be made Concubine Hui immediately, so that she can give birth with peace of mind."
The Wen Po responded with joy and hurried in to return to her life. Xuan Ling shook my hand and said softly: "I owe my sister a lot. When she gives birth to the prince safely, I will promote her as a virtuous concubine.
Just like you. Our days are still long, and I will make it up to you."
I don’t know how long it took, I almost felt like I was frozen like a stone. I only heard a faint cry of a baby from the inner hall, as if I suddenly saw the rising sun at the beginning of the universe, instantly illuminating the hopeless waiting. Bai Zhi No. 1
She came out with the baby in her arms. She cried with joy, "Congratulations to the Emperor, Congratulations to Concubine Shu, Concubine Hui for giving birth to the prince."
My heart relaxed, as if all my strength had been exhausted, and I fell limply in the seat. I just said, "Okay! Okay! Okay!" Then I asked, "Is sister okay?"
Bai Zhi forced a smile and said, "I am very tired, and I don't have the strength to speak."
There was a smile on Xuan Ling's eyebrows. He took the child and looked at it again and again, and said: "Okay. This is my fourth son. I'm going to see Concubine Hui."
Bai Zhi hurriedly said: "My queen has just given birth and is very tired. Why not let her rest for a while."
I looked at Xuan Ling's eyes, which were all black and blue, and said: "After a whole day of turmoil, the emperor is tired. Go back and rest quickly. I will come to see my sister when she feels better." I said, "Your Majesty, please rest first."
I want to keep my sister here."
Xuan Ling yawned and felt really exhausted, so he had to say: "That's fine, but you should also take a good rest, don't get exhausted."
Lingrong followed Xuan Ling out. I held the child and took a closer look. Maybe it was due to the difficult delivery. The child was slightly green and smaller than other children. He was a little lighter in his arms and his cry was not loud.
.I was confused, looked at Bai Zhi and said: "How could this be so?"
Bai Zhi was silent, and Wei Lin happened to come out. I called him and asked him carefully. Wei Lin looked a little embarrassed and whispered in my ear, "The fourth prince's appearance can be said to be caused by dystocia, or... Wei Chen, look
It looks a bit pre-term, so the nanny must take good care of it. Otherwise..."
I was shocked and whispered: "Don't talk nonsense! My sister is only a few days away from giving birth. How can the baby be under term? It is obviously a difficult birth and it is congenital."
Wei Lin bowed and said, "Yes. The fourth prince is indeed born with deficiencies."
I handed the child into Bai Zhi's hands and was about to go in to take a look at Meizhuang. Suddenly I saw Cai Yue running out as if she had lost her soul. Her hands were covered with blood, and bright red blood beads were still dripping from her fingertips. She said in horror: "Empress Hui Fei is so red."
It’s—”
The inner hall of Yingxin Hall is still the same as before. The only difference is that there is a strong smell of blood in the room. Meizhuang lying in the lake blue marble gauze is like a dehydrated fish that has been ashore for too long, curled up lightly in the
Under the heavy brocade quilt, Meizhuang's face was as pale and transparent as fresh snow. It was a fragile feeling. The Meizhuang I knew had never felt as fragile as a chrysanthemum that had been watered black by the autumn rain.
, will be annihilated with the end of autumn in a blink of an eye.
I gently opened the brocade quilt, and the entire snow-white quilt was soaked with blood. A cool breeze came in from the cracks in the window, and the slight coolness was like a sharp knife stabbing my heart, but I didn't feel any pain yet.
All I knew was that my whole heart seemed to be frozen. I couldn't help but tremble, and the tremor immediately spread throughout my body.
Wen Shichu climbed up from the stretcher and struggled to lean on the footrest of the bed. The fingertips on Meizhuang's wrist could not help but tremble, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind. Wei Lin kept shouting, "Scatter the oysters!"
After a moment, Wen Shichu's hand on Meizhuang's wrist fell down feebly, and he said in a low voice: "No need -"
The air was as quiet as stagnant water, and everything around me seemed to be frozen in the twelfth lunar month of winter. Even my heart was frozen. My heart hurt so hard that I burst into tears, "Who said it's not necessary! Who said that!"
Go get the best medicine. If you can’t cure your sister, I will kill you all and bury you with her—"
The desperate cries of Caiyue and Bai Zhi wrapped around my neck like a rope, suffocating me. A pair of pearls and gold hairpins given by the emperor were inserted next to the messy bun of eyebrows, which made a pair of eyes lose their former luster.
Expression - She opened her eyes wide uncontrollably, with a dark and faint light that was completely opposite to her too pale complexion. Her crystal clear eyes looked at me steadily and softly called: "Huan'er..."
My feet went soft, and I lay on her pillow, crying: "Sister."
She stretched out her hand with difficulty, gently stroked my forehead, and said softly: "Stop crying. I want to talk to you for a while. You can ask them all to go out." I was about to give instructions when her voice became even lower.
, as if whispering, "Shi Chu stays."
I followed her instructions, leaving only Caiyue, Wen Shichu and me beside her. She stretched out her hands with great difficulty, "Hug, give me a hug."
I was afraid that she would be tired, so I comforted her: "You are feeling weak now. You can hug her when you feel better. The days are still long."
Mei Zhuang shook her head gently. She was weak after giving birth. The strength of shaking her head only caused the jasper silver leaf earrings on her ears to dangle slightly. She smiled as hard as she could and said, "I know, I'm going to die soon -"
I burst into tears, "Sister, don't say that, it will be fine soon."
Caiyue held back her tears and put the child in her hands. Mei Zhuang's hand holding the child was shaking a little. I gently held her hand and looked at each other with a smile. Mei Zhuang kissed the child's forehead affectionately, doting on her.
She was a little reluctant and said, "Look, he is so small and soft."
I quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes and said with a smile, "Yes. But they grow up very quickly. Look how fast Han'er and Lingxi grow up." I smiled and held her hand, "Sister, you are already a
Concubine Hui. The emperor said that as long as mother and son are safe, I will make you Concubine De."
Meizhuang seemed to have heard nothing, her eyes lingering on the child lovingly, as if she couldn't get enough of it. After a while, she looked at me and said, "Are you happy being a concubine?"
I was startled and shook my head slightly. She said calmly: "That's right. You, the beloved concubine of thousands of people, regard her as boring, so why should I care about such a virtuous concubine?"
I always knew how big her heart was, so I advised her: "Sister, I don't care about the position of a virtuous concubine, but the child is more valuable than the mother, and it is very important to the child's future."
"My child won't care about this." She responded lightly, turned to look at Wen Shichu, and said in a low voice: "Shichu, have you ever held a child?" Meizhuang's tone was rare warmth.