"...Since then, several times, I have heard strange noises in my wife's house, and I have also seen a figure floating out of the house, as fast as lightning."
The palace servant turned pale and kowtowed: "I dare not tell you, but Xiu'er was executed by the empress' order for no apparent reason, and the palace servants who were friends with her also disappeared one after another.
I am afraid that one day I will never wake up again, and I will die anyway, so why not report this matter to His Majesty, maybe I can get a chance of survival."
Zhao Xing's hands hidden in his sleeves trembled violently.
He really didn't want to admit that this was true. After all, before Empress Zou became pregnant, it was during the period when she fell ill and returned to her favor.
He did perform the conjugal ceremony with her, this was in the deep palace, but, but...
This is the palace where the Mupai Party from Qi State is rampant and full of loopholes.
Those wooden gangsters can kill people and change people, and of course they can also appear in Queen Zou's palace.
Some long-standing things appeared uncontrollably in his mind.
When he was in Qi State, he was very ill and was about to die. He had no money for medical treatment and was desperate.
Zou Qingwan would carry him behind her back many times, dress up and go out, and bring him food, money and medicinal materials when she came back.
One of the attendants who followed them was his wet nurse. She had tactfully mentioned it to him several times, saying that Zou Qingwan had come from a wrong source.
He thought that he was incompetent, and she was a delicate woman at home, with no finger to touch the beauty of the world. It was very pitiful to follow him to the country and leave home, and to come to this foreign country to suffer hardships.
And it was really not easy for her to take care of him and support these attendants. Even if she did something, he was incompetent, so she couldn't blame her.
So he strictly forbade his attendants to mention the matter again, but it was inevitable that he would feel pain in his heart.
It was Zou Qingwan who discovered something was wrong with him. She carefully and gently explained to him that she had not done anything sorry for him, but that she was going to visit the wives of powerful people, as well as the queen and princess of Qi.
She also told him how these people made things difficult for her. One of them was that the eldest princess of Qi hated Zhao so much because her consort died in the battle between Qi and Zhao. She threw gold and silver on the ground in public and asked her to crawl to pick it up.
Zou Qingwan cried and said, I thought that the scholar could be killed but not humiliated, so I might as well die, but I was not willing to die in such an obscure, humiliating, and weak way.
I don’t even want His Highness to die because I can’t bear it anymore, and I don’t want those who support His Highness and the Queen Mother to feel sad because of His Highness’s shortcomings.
She said, no matter how difficult or rotten it is, let me do it. Your Highness just needs to be the Prince of Zhao in peace.
So he always felt that he owed her, even if he had seen her flirting with the prince of Qi, he pretended that he didn't know.
Because she was really good to him, and he really wanted to live, and he also wanted to return to Qi one day to take revenge.
But at this moment, he really became suspicious, and even suspected that the child in her belly was not his.
He was so jealous that he wanted to rush to the palace immediately to catch Zou Qingwan and ask him.
The palace servants were still chattering: "The palace has been under purge recently, and I have never seen that figure again. The queen has been in a state of mind all day long..."
"Shut up!" Zhao Xing couldn't bear it anymore and hissed: "Pull it down."
Eunuch Jin had already come to the rescue several times. When he heard the sound, he jumped sharply, gagged the palace man, dragged him down, and executed him on the spot.