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Xue Liuhua was startled for a moment, and asked, "How long has it been since the emperor last visited Consort Fu?"

The palace maid's gaze was slightly contemptuous as she said with a smile: "It's been several months. In the end, those who come from Qi Nation are all concubines from other nations that don't receive much love from the emperor."

"Is that so?" Xue Liuhua calmed down a little, "Does Your Majesty not like the Consort Fu?"

"Of course," the palace maid answered, "The person sent by the Qi Nation must be some sort of meticulous worker, and the prince he gave birth to also has the blood of another country. This marriage originally involved the sending out of an unfavoured princess to do the deed, so who would really take her to heart."

Xue Liuhua tidied up her clothes indifferently, "That's true, may the heavens bless me from giving birth to a princess, if not I would not be willing to let my daughter marry and go to another country."

The palace maid softly said, "The Empress need not worry, even a princess needs to be extremely favored. The Emperor will definitely not send the Empress's daughter out. Besides, the Empress will definitely give birth to a prince in the future, so how could it be a princess?"

Xue Liuhua felt very comfortable listening to her, "That's fine, the Queen has always disliked me, and now that her prince has passed away and my prince is about to descend, she will definitely die from anger.

"The empress also knows that the empress relied on her son and daughter to give looks to the imperial harem. With the empress having a prince, there's no need to care about the empress anymore."

"The empress is already old and perverted, so it would be a bit difficult to manage her harem, so there should be a new batch of people helping her," Xue Liuhua said as she narrowed her eyes, "After I give birth to the dragon child, I will go and have a good meeting with the empress in the Changchun Palace."

"The Empress has an extremely high possibility of giving birth to a dragon. Back then, the Noble Consort Kang had the right to associate the harem."

"After all, Noble Consort Kang's strength is limited and she was unable to achieve much," Xue Liuhua laughed proudly. "If I have the power of understanding harem, I would definitely not be an empty shell of an existence."

The palace maid said with a face full of smiles, "With one look, Empress isn't someone from the pond. She can definitely brighten the emperor's eyes."

Xue Liuhua's lips curled up into a smile, and said: "Has the Queen not woken up yet?"

"The crown prince passed away, and the empress passed out miserably several times. She had just woken up when she fainted again."

"Sigh, the pain of losing her son is probably due to the loss of a few strands of hair," Xue Liuhua used her fingers to twine her hair, "The princess is currently accompanying the empress, then what about the emperor, has he ever gone to the Changchun Palace to comfort the empress?"

"The emperor only went once. Seeing the empress's grief-stricken look, he felt bad, but he hasn't gone there since."

Xue Liuhua's heart moved, "I keep having the feeling that the emperor doesn't love the crown prince that much. But when I saw that it was true, the emperor had not stepped foot onto the gates of Changchun Palace during the three days the crown prince was unconscious."

The palace maid said faintly, "The crown prince is really … Ordinary. "

"Even the mediocre of a crown prince can make me a wise prince in the future," Xue Liuhua felt a little fortunate amidst her sadness and said, "At least we know each other. Help me go to the East Palace and burn some incense."

"The Empress is kind," the palace maid said with a smile. "The Emperor is currently in the Imperial Study, so would the Empress send someone to deliver some ginseng soup?"

"You reminded me," Xue Liuhua did not want to miss this opportunity, "There are still no movements from the Consort Fu.

Li Xiuse saw Shouxiang return to the Palace with a depressed face, and anxiously asked: "Have you sent the ginseng soup that I told you to send?"

Shouxiang shook her head in disappointment, "When I went there, the Consort Hua's servant girl was already there. The Emperor first received the Consort Hua's ginseng soup and said that she couldn't drink anymore, so she asked me to send the Empress's bowl over to the Princess Poyang."

Li Xiuse's eyes dimmed, and spoke in a hoarse voice: "Consort Hua has to be a step faster than her in everything."

Ru Yan sighed and wrote in her book, "Your servant is at fault."

Li Xiuse said with a smile. "It's already very good that you can think of it, but in the end, it's still best to let the emperor know of my intentions. It's also very good that I can send over the Changchun Palace to the princess."

Seeing the sadness in the Consort Fu's eyes, Shouxiang immediately comforted, "Empress said that the Princess Poyang has always been doted upon by the Emperor, and would even thank the Empress in front of the Emperor."

Li Xiuse laughed silently and asked, "Is the Queen still not awake?"

"No, the empress's too sad. I'm afraid it'll take a long time to calm down."

Li Xiuse was also a little sad, "Children are the flesh and blood of their parents, but now that the flesh and blood in their hearts have been gouged out, how can their hearts not ache?"

"Actually, the empress still has a princess by her side, and she has not lost all her reliance," Shouxiang said as she stole a glance at Consort Fu. You still have to think about your future more or less. "

Li Xiuse was startled, she raised her bitter smile: "How can this child have something like that?"

"Empress," Ru Yan poked her shoulder and suddenly wrote, "Do you know clearly in your heart why the Emperor has not come to the Joyous Union Palace for such a long time?"

Li Xiuse looked back at her, and nodded after a moment of silence.

Shouxiang replied anxiously, "It is still not Consort Hua. If Consort Hua is not here, the emperor will have to come to the Empress's side every day."

"That's not it, even if there weren't any Consort Hua s, the emperor wouldn't come to my place," Li Xiuse felt even more sour, "In the end, it's someone from the Qi Nation, the emperor is still worried about his identity, afraid that I'm a spy from the Qi Nation."

Shouxiang opened her mouth in shock, "How could that be? The Empress is the related princess, how could the Emperor suspect that the Empress is a spy?"

"The so-called Marriage Princess is merely the daughter born of a few lowly concubines," Li Xiuse's heart was as clear as a mirror, "Furthermore, I am not an honest princess, I am only one of the many daughters of the Prince of Great Qi."

Ru Yan looked at Shouxiang seriously, and wrote, "I don't care about the details, my identity as a foreign country, the crux of my problem."

"There is no way to change the fact that I am a person of the Qi Nation," Li Xiuse sighed in disappointment. "Even the Emperor probably won't let me give birth to his prince."

Seeing Consort Fu's ashen face, Shouxiang also became sad, "Empress, what should we do? What chance do we have in the future?"

Ru Yan pondered for a while, before writing "Why did you cut off the tongue?".

"I'm also curious. Are you going to tell me?"

Ru Yan's brush paused on the paper, and started writing as if she was free.

Shouxiang took the paper and presented it to Li Xiuse. She looked up in shock.

Ru Yan nodded with tears in her eyes and wrote another line of "Queen's business".

Li Xiuse finally understood in her heart. It turned out that the empress was always on her guard against the concubines of the imperial harem in case they got restless.

Shouxiang said anxiously: "There shouldn't be anyone from the Queen in our palace right?"

Ru Yan shook her head decisively. "The Queen knows."

Li Xiuse immediately understood. "The empress also knows that the emperor doesn't come to the Acacia Hall often, so she doesn't have any precautions against me."

Ru Yan continued to write: "Opportunity."

Shouxiang also understood, "Empress, Ru Yan said that taking advantage of the Queen's pain, when the Consort Hua is in labor, we have a chance."

Ru Yan wrote "Consort Hua".

Li Xiuse didn't manage to react at all, "Didn't you tell me to approach the Emperor in your chance? Why are you bringing up the Consort Hua again?"

Ru Yan wrote a few words on the paper and presented it. After carefully reading it, Li Xiuse raised his head in disbelief, "How can you let me harm the child of Consort Hua?

Ru Yan shrugged her shoulders expressionlessly, "It's not for the Empress."

Li Xiuse flatly rejected her suggestion, and spoke with righteousness: "Even if he is not my child, I still would not do such a thing, if not, wouldn't he be the same as the Consort Hua who cut your tongue."

Ru Yan sighed slightly, and wrote "Empress".

"Even if she is the Empress, she would not harm the Imperial Bloodline," Li Xiuse looked at her suspiciously. "You aren't thinking of borrowing my power to take revenge against the Consort Hua for you, right?"

Ru Yan's heart stopped as she hurriedly knelt down, looking at her with pleading eyes and could not help but shake her head.

Li Xiuse was only suddenly suspicious and did not want to question it to the end, "Get up, stop talking about this matter, I will definitely not hurt the innocent children in Consort Hua, do you have any other ideas?"

Ru Yan was silent for a long time before she put down the brush. It was as if she had only thought of this idea.

Shouxiang was a little discouraged, "If you still don't have an idea, the emperor will have to go to another palace to seek comfort."

Li Xiuse lowered her eyes and stared at her sleeves that were embroidered with patterns. The Cheng Huan Palace was no different from a cold palace after losing the Emperor's Yu Lu. She only had the title of a concubine.

"Forget it, winter is about to come. Let's think about how to get through the winter."

Shouxiang was still unresigned, "Could it be that the Empress is truly willing to lower herself to a person?"

Li Xiuse smiled and shook her head, "I just want to let nature take its course."

The Crab Claw Chrysanthemum in the Changchun Palace stood proudly in the cool autumn wind. Presumably, in this cold autumn of "I will kill flowers after spending a lot of effort", only such a tenacious flower like the chrysanthemum could emit such a dazzling brilliance in this desolate autumn scene.

Chu Lingyun casually picked a Crab Kylin and pinned it to her clothes. In the entire palace, there was only Prince Duan who could look so proud and at the same time, be like this chrysanthemum flower.

Not knowing why, when she returned to the Qin Nation after three years of separation, she felt as if the Prince Duan had become a different person, as she had never seen any shrewdness or gall. In these three years, the only things she heard from the Chiron were the news of his serious illness and his recovery, and she didn't know what happened to him during that time, which allowed him to be reborn.

Forget it, since a Prince Jin came to visit a Prince Duan, now that the Royal Brother had also left, only Prince Duan remained. However, in the end, it was unknown who would be the person who would bring the Golden Armour throughout the city. Chu Lingyun's lips curved into an extremely meaningful smile.

After instructing the imperial physicians and palace maids to take care of the empress, she returned to her own Bedchamber.

Xianghe had not seen her since the day the crown prince was poisoned and he was somewhat happy, "Princess, you're back?"

"I have already understood my place in the mother's heart," Chu Lingyun said as she gave her a bland glance. "It isn't good to always remain at the Changchun Palace to hinder the relationship between mother and son."

Xianghe lowered her head and said, "Princess, don't be sad. The only princess is the empress now."

"In a little while, mother will probably show me her deep love for a mother and daughter," Chu Lingyun coldly smirked, "It doesn't matter, I also need to rely on the Queen's backing."

"After the crown prince passed away, the empress's heart was entirely with the princess."

Chu Lingyun did not have much to be proud of, she suddenly smiled sweetly: The Crown Prince has passed away, is it heaven's will or is it man's?

Xianghe paused for a moment, then replied solemnly: "It's all in the sky, it's all planned by the people."

Chu Lingyun clapped her hands and laughed, "Good answer, that's exactly what I want."