Chapter 690: The opposite: if someone else becomes the emperor
Yingchun and Sizhu looked at each other, both of them feeling discouraged.
What the empress says makes sense. No matter how urgent it is, the empress cannot suddenly become pregnant, otherwise it would be the crime of deceiving the emperor.
But if you think more optimistically, the emperor is responsible for everything. After all, the emperor is the culprit of spreading rumors. Even if everyone knows the truth, it is still the emperor's own business. What does it have to do with the empress?
The queen is also innocent.
Even though they think so, Sizhu and Yingchun still can't muster the energy to do things, for fear that the fire will get stronger and stronger.
There are so many masters in the harem who want to get rid of the empress. This is a perfect opportunity. It is strange that those people would let it go so easily.
Mu Ci is not as complicated as the two palace ladies thought.
She thought, since it was Dugu Liancheng who wanted her to "get pregnant", then Dugu Liancheng should have a way to deal with the imperial doctors at the imperial hospital, right?
Dugu Liancheng is the lord of the world, who dares to disobey the emperor?
But precisely because Dugu Liancheng was the emperor, it was unlikely that he would put pressure on the imperial doctors on this matter.
Next, this matter should not only cause trouble in the harem, but also the previous court will definitely react. Next, Yan Guan will put pressure on Dugu Liancheng?
The next day, what Mu Ci expected did indeed happen.
All the officials jointly launched a memorial, praising Mu Ci as a concubine who came out of the cold palace and lied about being pregnant by any means. Everyone would kill such a witchy concubine.
Dugu Liancheng sat on the dragon throne, his crown blocking his cold sight.
If it were said that there were no concubines in the harem to contribute to today's joint memorial, he would not believe it.
He had known that all those women were not simple, but they dared to so blatantly force him as the emperor, which really opened his eyes.
"An Qing, do you believe that Mu Xiuyi had a false pregnancy?" Dugu Liancheng suddenly named An Guogong.
Duke An Guo never expected that the Holy Emperor would mention his name. He hesitated to step out of the procession, with his eyelids drooping, not daring to look the Emperor in the face: "I don't dare to speak nonsense."
"You mean you don't dare to discuss my harem matters?" A playful smile appeared on Dugu Liancheng's lips.
Duke An Guo didn't know what the Holy Emperor meant and didn't dare to answer the question casually.
"If you don't say anything, I will treat you as acquiescing to my words." As Dugu Liancheng spoke, he glanced at the civil and military officials in the Jinluan Palace: "That day, I said that there was a wedding in the harem and that I needed you to come with me. You were all willing to go with me.
I went to Chenxiang Palace. You personally welcomed Mu Xiuyi out of Chenxiang Palace that day. She was pregnant with the imperial heir that you have been talking about every day. How come you now have an imperial heir and you call it a false pregnancy for Mu Xiuyi? You question Mu Xiuyi.
By practicing false pregnancies, you are questioning this emperor and yourselves!"
"Your Majesty, the rumors should stop with the facts. It is not difficult to stop everyone in the world from talking. All you have to do is ask the imperial physician to diagnose Xiu Yi's pulse." An Guogong still lowered his head, feeling that this was the fundamental way to solve the problem, and this was also
The original intention of the memorial was jointly signed by all the officials.
"If you let someone diagnose Mu Xiuyi's pulse just for a random rumor, do I seem to be such a weak-minded emperor? This matter ends here, no further discussion, and we must withdraw from the court!" Dugu Liancheng was impatient to deal with this group of troublesome ministers anymore.
Shoot the case and leave.
The ministers exited the Jinluan Palace one by one. Ningchang Hou and An Guogong walked side by side. Ningchang Hou said: "The emperor is becoming more and more like a coward. In order to manipulate a woman, he does not distinguish between right and wrong..."
Anguo Gong's expression changed after hearing this: "Please lower your voice, can you talk about this kind of thing casually?"
"This is a fact. The emperor did become unreasonable for a woman. If another person were to be the emperor, it would never be like this-"
Duke An Guo stopped and looked at Ningchang Hou in disbelief: "You are crazy!"
After he finished speaking, he walked away without looking back, still saying the word "crazy" in his mouth.
Ningchang Hou looked at An Guogong's back, his eyes flickered, and then he walked away with his hands behind his back...
Mu Ci also heard about what happened in the court.
In the past, she just pretended not to know about this matter, but this time Dugu Liancheng fought against the ministers to protect her. Due to both emotion and reason, she went to Yanfu Palace to express her gratitude.
Even so, Mu Ci couldn't help but ask him when he saw Dugu Liancheng: "Why don't you just let the imperial doctor examine me? He just said that the imperial doctor detected something wrong last time and that I had a false pregnancy.
I can silence everyone, and you don’t have to make things difficult because of me.”
Dugu Liancheng took Mu Ci's hand and asked her to sit on his lap: "I can protect you, but I don't like the court officials to interfere with my harem affairs. Today is the first time, and they will get worse in the future. Some
No one can tolerate it."
Mu Ci felt that what she said was reasonable.
"If you have to have your own harem dictated by courtiers, then this emperor is really cowardly."
She understood Dugu Liancheng's mood very well.
As an emperor, on the surface, he seems to have unlimited glory, but in fact there are many obstacles. I believe that no emperor wants to be restrained in everything. Even the decision of which woman to be a concubine depends on the face of the courtiers.
"So you should know that harem affairs are also state affairs. If they stuff people into the harem at will and I accept them all, then wouldn't my harem all belong to them?" Dugu Liancheng held Mu Ci's soft hand and said softly.
He said: "In my opinion, you are the simplest and easiest woman to understand, because you don't want much."
"Who said I don't want much?" Mu Ci sneered.
She wants the rear position, is that enough?
"You don't have a complicated family background behind you, you don't have so many interests involved, and you are a very simple person." Dugu Liancheng tapped Mu Ci's forehead: "I want to review the book, please step aside."
"Then let go." Mu Ci pointed to his other hand that was tightly around her waist.
Dugu Liancheng laughed and loosened his grip on Mu Ci: "You have to be more ambitious."
He said and pointed at her belly.
Mu Ci did not argue with him about this matter. She went to sit aside and fell asleep after not reading for long this time.
Seeing this, Sizhu quickly found something to cover Mu Ci.
Not long after she woke up, the empress fell asleep again. Recently, she has become more and more sleepy.
Mu Ci fell asleep and didn't wake up until lunch time.
Dugu Liancheng was also a little surprised: "Why are you sleeping so hard?"
He remembered that Mu Ci was not so lazy in the past.
"Yeah, just for the past two days, I feel like I haven't had enough sleep." Mu Ci said lazily.
"Are you feeling unwell? Do you want Zhang Aiqing to check your pulse?" Dugu Liancheng asked.
Mu Ci shook his head: "I eat well, sleep well, have a good appetite, and there's nothing wrong with me."
She knows her own body.
"It's better to ask the imperial doctor to take a look at it." Dugu Liancheng was still worried.
"Have you forgotten that I know medicine? Really, there is no need to bother." Mu Ci was stubborn.
Since wearing the rouge button, her health has been very good, and even poison can't do anything to her, let alone other factors.
