" Lady Xiang!" Exclamations rang out in the Weiyang Palace. In the inner hall, the Empress heard the noise outside before she sat down. She frowned and asked, "What happened?"
A servant rushed in and reported anxiously, "Your Majesty, Lady Xiang fainted outside the palace."
The Empress was surprised and suddenly turned around asking, "Yes?"
Although she didn't like Lady Xiang, it didn't mean that she wished something bad to happen to her in her palace. Moreover, Lady Xiang was pregnant now. If anything happened to her, she would not be able to explain it. What's more, she herself was in a very bad situation now.
The Empress turned around and walked out of the palace. She found Lady Xiang looked pale, with beads of sweat on her forehead. Her brows knitted tightly as if she was in great pain.
"Why are you still standing there? Call the imperial physicians now! " the Empress's voice was sharp and slightly changed.
Hearing this, the stunned servants hurried out of the hall. The Empress calmed down a little, and said to Qian Xin, who was holding Lady Xiang in her arms, "Take her into the inner hall."
Qian Xin was also panic. She nodded and carried Ning Qian into the inner hall. The madam beside the Empress had already made a quilt on the couch. Qian Xin quickly lay Ning Qian on the quilt.
Looking at Ning Qian's bloodless face, the Empress snorted coldly, "You are pregnant, but you don't know how to take care of yourself. Why do you still run around in such a situation?" Actually, her mind was in a mess.
The imperial physician were still on the way. All the people in the palace had been waiting for a long time. The Empress couldn't wait any longer. She stood up and said, "The imperial hospital is only a quarter of an hour's walk away from the Weiyang Palace. Almost an hour has passed. Why hasn't the imperial physician come yet? Madam, go and check it yourself to see what's going on?"
The madam obeyed and left the inner hall.
After a while, the madam came back, but there was no imperial physician following her. "Your Majesty, the imperial physician said that his majesty had ordered him to report the matter of Lady Xiang as soon as possible and he had gone to the Taiji Palace."
"Isn't his Majesty in the morning court now? The imperial physician cannot even see his majesty at this time! Why are those old bastards in the Imperial Hospital so ignorant of priority? " The Empress looked very angry. Just then, she heard a eunuch singing voice from outside. "His Majesty is here!"
The Empress's face twisted, with a flash of disbelief in her eyes. She turned her head and looked at the door, her hand holding the brocade handkerchief trembling slightly. Then she turned around and looked at Lady Xiang's beautiful face, and fell silent. 'Does his majesty care about this woman so much?'
the Empress thought to herself. Her throat tightened. After a long time, she swallowed saliva. Footsteps came from the outer hall. The Empress bit her lips and turned around again. The bead curtain was suddenly lifted, and Xia Huanyu walked in quickly from the outside. The Empress bowed in a hurry, but she noticed that Xia Huanyu didn't seem to see her at all. As soon as he entered the hall, he rushed to the soft couch and fixed his eyes on the woman lying there.
The Empress didn't come to her senses yet, but she saw Xia Huanyu bent down and picked up the woman on the couch. He then went straight to the bedside and lay her down gently.
The Empress grabbed the brocade handkerchief in her hand tightly, as if her neck was strangled. That was her bed, the Phoenix carved bed of the Empress. Now there was another woman lying on her bed, and it was held by her husband himself.
"Imperial physician!" Xia Huanyu called coldly.
The imperial physician following behind Xia Huanyu hurriedly responded and rushed to the bed. He put a silk handkerchief on Ning Qian's hand and took her pulse carefully.
After a long time, the imperial physician hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Lady Xiang has been frightened and the baby might be hurt and very dangerous. I'm afraid it's difficult to keep it."
"Try your best to keep it! Otherwise, you will die," Xia Huanyu's voice was even colder now.
The imperial physician trembled and kowtowed, "Yes, your Majesty."
The imperial physician took Lady Xiang's pulse again. Xia Huanyu turned his head and looked at the Empress standing aside. He frowned and said with uncontrollable anger in his eyes, "Your majesty, go out and explain to me why Lady Xiang fainted in your palace. All the others go out. Liu Wenan, leave two maids in the inner hall to serve Lady Xiang. " Then he waved his sleeves and walked out of the inner hall.
Only then did the Empress find that Xia Huanyu, who had always been followed only by eunuchs, had brought two maids with him for the first time.
Qian Xin hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I have been taking care of Lady Xiang the time. Please let me serve her in the inner hall."
However, Xia Huanyu didn't have the patience to listen to her. He said coldly, "Leave."
Qian Xin had no choice but to obey.
No one saw Ning Qian lying on the bed, her eyelashes trembling slightly.
"Kneel down," Xia Huanyu sat on the host seat and ordered coldly.
The Empress was stunned. A bitter smile suddenly appeared at the corners of her mouth, and she slowly knelt down. "I didn't expect that your Majesty would also be so merciless to me. There is no evidence, or even no investigation, and you are angry at me," murmured the Empress.
Xia Huanyu's eyes were full of coldness, "Evidence? Your majesty has been in the imperial household for so many years, so you should know how to destroy the evidence. From the moment your majesty entered the palace till now, there have been many pregnant ladies, but few of them can successfully give birth to babies. If it is the birth of a prince, fewer of them can be raised up. Why? I think your majesty knows it very well."
The Empress trembled and asked in disbelief, "Your Majesty, is this how you think of me?"
"Even if you don't have any reaction after smelling it, it doesn't mean that others will be fine after smelling it," Xia Huanyu didn't want to talk to her anymore. He just quietly lowered his head and looked at the jade ring on his thumb.
After a long time, the bead curtain was lifted. The imperial physician's face was a little pale. He hurried to kneel down in front of Xia Huanyu and said softly, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have tried my best. The baby in Lady Xiang's belly has not been saved."
A maid in the palace brought out a few pots of blood and hurried out of the palace.
Blue veins stood out on Xia Huanyu's forehead. After a long time, he slammed the table and kicked the imperial physician, who was kneeling in front of him. The imperial physician fell to the ground, his face full of pain. "Guards, pull this quack down."
The guards outside hurried into the hall and pulled the imperial physician out of the main hall.
Xia Huanyu stood up, lifted the bead curtain and entered the inner hall. The others had already left. There was a faint smell of blood in the hall. Ning Qian was lying on the bed, her face still very pale, but she had already woken up, as if she was in a daze.
Xia Huanyu walked to the bedside and sat down. Both of them kept silent for a long time before Xia Huanyu said slowly, "Our baby is gone."
Ning Qian turned to look at Xia Huanyu calmly. After a while, she opened her mouth and asked, "Why?"
However, Xia Huanyu didn't answer her question. He just said lightly, "You are still young. You will have another child in the future."
Ning Qian only smiled slightly, but her voice was somewhat calm. "Your Majesty, I have been awake just now."
Xia Huanyu paused and a murderous look flashed through his eyes. Then he slowly looked up at Ning Qian and said, "Lady Xiang, do you know what you are talking about?"
Ning Qian also raised her head and looked at Xia Huanyu, "Your Majesty, I think you must have heard it clearly. I was awake just now. What? Do you want to send me to the Cold Palace?"
Xia Huanyu struggled in his mind for a long time before he said coldly, "I don't like people who think themselves smart."
Ning Qian lowered her head and smiled, "I don't like to be smart, either. I just want to ask your majesty, why?1
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Translator: Jean
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