In the depths of the palace, the old madame finally understood why she and her grandson had been placed under house arrest.
Was he planning to deal with her son? Because he'd beaten the enemy back to their homeland, his reputation in the capital had risen as well. His achievements had truly overshadowed his master's.
She'd originally planned to make her son hand over his military power and become an idle Prince once he returned. She hadn't expected him to start so early.
She circled the room a few times with her grandson in her arms. After a while, the old servant she'd sent out to investigate returned. She whispered, "Old Madame, Miss Lin … there seems to be something wrong with Noble Lady Qian. There are several imperial physicians present, but they can't figure out what the problem is."
"Has the sachet been sent in?"
"Yes. I had a servant place it directly under Noble Lady Qian's bed.
But why is Madame Xiu doing this? "
"Call her Madame. That child is willing to do so much for my son. We can't treat her unfairly."
"Yes. Does Madame have any special intentions for doing this?"
"I don't know either. Since she's arranged it this way, she's doing it in hopes of finding Heng 'er's whereabouts."
"Wah wah …" Long Lin opened his small hands and asked for the sachet in the old madame's hands. Bai Xiangxiu had made a total of two sachets, one of which she hoped they'd keep well.
"What, do you miss your mother?"
The old madame looked at her grandson. Although his looks seemed to have been plucked from Bai Xiangxiu's face at first, she'd always lamented that this brat would be a disaster when he grew up. How many girls would he charm!
Who would've thought that after two months, he'd already begun to look like Long Heng?
Although she couldn't tell which part of the resemblance, if an outsider saw him, they'd immediately recognize him as a descendant of the Long family.
This was blood relations. Otherwise, why would her heart melt the moment she saw him?
Even if she couldn't escape this calamity, she had to protect him. That way, she'd be able to see her dead husband.
Putting aside their worries, Bai Xiangxiu had been eavesdropping in her room the entire night.
Although Huo Er had narrated the story, she had a rough idea of what was going on.
After knowing all this, she felt terrible. She felt that this world was really too chaotic. The female lead was really pitiful and made people speechless.
Why did he say that? Because the female lead, Lin Qianzi, was pregnant.
After entering the palace for less than a month, she was already two months pregnant. When the Emperor found out about this, he was naturally very angry, so he personally forced a bowl of abortion medicine down her throat.
Bai Xiangxiu knew this because the cactus thorn sachet she made was left in Lin Qianzi's room.
The reason why she knew everything was because the Emperor was in that room at the time.
Huo Er imitated the emperor's voice and said: "Lin Qianzi, the five imperial physicians have already seen through it. What else do you want to hide?
Could it be that she wants to give birth to a prince of the enemy country, and then take over my vast territory? "
"No, why would I think that? I just want to protect my child."
Moreover, he might not necessarily be Commander Lu's child. After all, he had only done her a few times before throwing her to his subordinates.
However, she couldn't tell him these things. No man would like his woman to be tainted by so many people, so this was an eternal secret.
"Unfortunately, it's not my child. I don't like raising other people's children.
If you want to keep this child, then go to the Cold Palace and don't come out for the rest of your life. If you give birth to this child, you'll still be my beloved concubine.
What do you choose? "
"No, Your Majesty, please spare this child!"
"Someone, bring the medicine to me."
"Your Majesty, why don't you let this servant persuade Noble Lady?"
Bai Xiangxiu was listening. She asked curiously: "Who is this?"
"A woman wearing a veil," Huo Er explained.
Could it really be Su Yun wearing a veil?
"Speak."
This was what the Emperor had said. She didn't expect the ruler of a country to listen to a palace maid. Something was wrong.
As she was thinking, Huo Er continued to narrate the conversation between the two women.
"Noble Lady, His Majesty dotes on you so much. Are you afraid that you won't have a child?
You have to think for His Majesty. After all, this is the child of an enemy country. "
"But … …"
"Where there's life, there's hope. Don't you remember what happened before?"
"I remember. I'll just drink the medicine."
"Very good, zhen will personally feed you."
This should be the Emperor's words. Because Huo Er was speaking in the same voice, she had to analyze who was speaking as she listened.
Fortunately, Huo Er's voice was different, so it was easy to distinguish.
There was a brief moment of confusion. Something about a stomachache, something about a doctor, something about dragging all the doctors out and killing them, and so on.
However, in the end, she only heard a despairing voice: "Long Heng, I definitely won't let you adulterous couple have a good time. It hurts … … my child."
Damn, was this considered lying down? What did it have to do with them that you were aborted?
It seemed that she wouldn't be able to hear anything about them tonight. How about sleeping to find out?
However, Long Heng was definitely locked up in a place without cacti. It seemed impossible to find out where he was.
There was no other way. Who told this world to have so few cacti?
She didn't know if it was because Huo Er was tired or because she was tired. In short, she fell asleep after a while.
The next morning, she thought of a way to find out about Long Heng from Lin Qianzi. However, she was recuperating and was sad.
Other than expressing how much she hated Long Heng and Bai Xiangxiu to another maidservant, who might be Su Yun, there was almost nothing else to talk about.
However, Bai Xiangxiu could tell that it was probably Su Yun's maidservant who was constantly provoking Lin Qianzi's hatred, making her hate them to the bone.
What a woman with bad intentions. At this time, Song Jiaoyue also found out from the Lin Family.
It was said that Lin Qianzi had been sent to a temple to cultivate by Minister Lin. Not long after, she came back with a mysterious woman whose face was covered with a veil.
It was said that she was rescued from behind the temple. Her body was covered in wounds and her face was disfigured.
"It really is Su Yun. It's really heaven's will for these two women to meet!"
Bai Xiangxiu knew that one of them wouldn't let Long Heng off the hook, while the other wouldn't let her off the hook. The morbid hatred between the two women was enough to drive them crazy. That was why they'd done everything they could to seduce their biggest boss, the emperor, and then come up with a plan to deal with Long Heng!
However, she didn't expect that the emperor would actually listen to their instigation. Could it be that he truly loved Lin Qianzi?
If it was true love, why did he ignore her objections and insist on feeding her abortion medicine? Could it be that this was the type of sadistic love?
She was extremely depressed. Her rule for reading novels for so many years was that she would rather read a sweet and serious drama than read a sadistic love story for the sake of sadism, especially one that was both sadistic and sadistic.
Wasn't this kind of drama playing out in the palace right now?
Thinking about it, she felt that Lin Qianzi was pitiful. Although most of the reason was because she brought it on herself. She didn't want to be a good young miss and was instead coaxed around by a man.