After my mother read my mind, my whole family rebelled

Shen Yuyao put away her sword and lowered her skirt. "My Great Xia Emperor's harem doesn't lack a former princess like you to serve me..."

Shen Yuyao turned sideways and said to the Black Dragon Guard who had followed him, "Capture him! Hand him over to the Emperor for his fate."

"The prince has arrived!"

A handsome young man dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe was walking quickly towards the gate.

It’s His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

Anaj was about to pick up the dagger to commit suicide, but when she looked up and saw the person coming, she stood there in a daze!

"It's you?"

Anaj asked in a trembling voice.

"Are you the current crown prince?"

"Bold traitor!"

The eunuch behind the prince shouted, "Why don't you kneel down when you see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

......

Prince and Anaj.

The two clearly knew each other!

Shen Yuyao saw it all.

When the prince saw Anaj, he was also surprised at first.

Then, the prince nodded slightly to Anaji and walked towards Shen Yuyao.

"Your Highness, I respectfully welcome you, Crown Prince. May your Highness be well!"

Just as Shen Yuyao was about to bow, the prince hurriedly helped her up: "Princess Ning, please get up quickly. The Crown Princess is having a difficult delivery. Please move to the backyard!"

Shen Yuyao's expression was stern, "Quick, take me there!"

He quickly picked up Xia Xiaoxian, who was still clapping on the steps, and followed the prince to the inner courtyard.

Shen Yuyao didn't lie!

The Crown Princess really had a difficult delivery!

Anaj felt dizzy, staggered a few steps, and then fell to one knee.

The Black Dragon Guards swarmed over her, with two Embroidered Spring Swords at her neck.

......

In the bedroom of the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace.

Shen Yuyao was sitting in front of the Crown Princess's couch, applying golden needles to her.

Fine beads of sweat kept oozing out of Shen Yuyao's forehead, and a few drops even flowed into the corners of her eyes. There was a smart palace maid beside her, who was busy wiping them away from time to time.

The Crown Princess had already given birth to a son and two daughters for the Crown Prince, so it shouldn't have been a difficult delivery.

Shen Yuyao had just found out from taking the Crown Princess' pulse that it was weak, and it was like the pulse of someone who had been poisoned by a chronic poison for many years.

[The Crown Prince's wife, Chang, was poisoned by the concubine, Lu, and has long since died.]

[The golden needles used by the mother could only suppress the sudden onset of poison and help the crown princess give birth to the emperor's grandson.]

[Even if the mother uses her own blood to detoxify, she can only extend the life of the Crown Princess for ten days! ]

[Concubine Lu also used labor-inducing drugs and gave birth to a little grandson prematurely. ]

[Little Mundun, you are so pitiful...]

[Concubine Lu is really calculating every step of the way! ]

Listening to Xia Xiaoxian's inner thoughts at this moment, Shen Yuyao's eyes turned red and her body trembled slightly.

She and Crown Princess Chang shared the same fate, and she was saved because of Xia Xiaoxian.

But the Crown Princess didn't!

Outside the bedroom of the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace.

The prince paced anxiously outside the door. Shen had been inside for half an hour. She saw the palace maids busy in and out of the room, but she could not hear the baby crying...

The prince was in a state of confusion.

He and the Crown Princess had known each other since childhood. The Crown Princess was named Chang and her maiden name was Meirong.

Chang Meiyong is well-educated, virtuous and kind.

Her father had followed his father in starting an uprising, fought against the enemy in hundreds of battles, and was extremely brave. He was named King of Kaiping, and later died on the battlefield for the Great Xia. Chang Meirong's uncle was a god of war admired by everyone in the Great Xia Dynasty!

Therefore, his marriage to the Crown Princess was arranged by their elders and they were childhood sweethearts. After they got married, they were very much in love.

The emperor also issued an edict at the ceremony of conferring the title of Crown Princess, saying: "In the past, those who ruled the world must have attached great importance to their descendants. For the sake of democracy, they all selected chaste and virtuous women from families to be their equals..."

The emperor used Chang Meirong to select concubines for all the princes of the Great Xia Dynasty and set the standard. It can be seen that the emperor was extremely satisfied with this princess.

Although the emperor later took a concubine for the prince, Chang Meiyong was still the prince's favorite.

This was Chang Meiyong's fourth birth, but she never expected to encounter a difficult delivery.

The prince's eyes were bloodshot. He couldn't bear to think about losing Chang Meirong!

"Congratulations, Prince! Congratulations, Prince!"

"The Concubine gave birth to a little grandson for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The prince was wondering why he didn't hear the baby crying, but then a eunuch came to report good news. It turned out that the concubine Lu had given birth prematurely.

"Got it. Go report the good news to the Qianqing Palace."

The prince was a bit indifferent, and he married Lu because the Lu family was a century-old aristocratic family with wealth that could rival a country and hundreds of years of connections in the Central Plains.

He had to marry because of his father's order.

He didn't like Lu very much, so when he heard that Lu had given birth to the second grandson, he still stood guard outside the Crown Princess's bedroom and did not move to the concubine's bedroom.

"Wow......"

A loud baby cry finally sounded...

The chief eunuch from the Crown Princess's bedroom came running to announce the good news.

"Congratulations, His Royal Highness, your Highness, your Royal Highness, your wife has given birth to a grandson for you!"

“Reward! Reward! Reward!”

The prince cried with joy, shouted "reward" three times, and was about to enter the Crown Princess's bedroom.

"Your Highness, the house is filthy and has not been cleaned yet. Please stay for a while."

The old woman at the palace gate stopped the prince.

"Okay, tell the Crown Princess right away that I will be waiting here. Please clean up quickly."

"Slave, you obey!"

In the sleeping hall.

The Crown Princess slowly opened her eyes, saw Shen Yuyao, smiled weakly and asked, "You're here? Yaoyao."

"Yes," Shen Yuyao replied softly, "Congratulations, Crown Princess, on giving birth to the little grandson."

"Bring it here for me to see," the Crown Princess tried to prop herself up, "Yaoyao, there's no one else here, so don't call me Your Majesty, just call me Meirong."

Shen Yuyao's eyes flushed. She picked up the baby in the cradle and handed it to the Crown Princess: "Mei Rong, look, this is your second son. He looks a lot like the Crown Prince."

Shen Yuyao's father and the Crown Princess's father were originally from the same hometown. They joined the emperor in the rebellion, and one was made a king and the other a marquis.

The two families had close contacts in the past, and the children of the two families were good friends since childhood.

Later, when Chang Meiyong's father died, she was brought into the palace and raised by the queen.

Also, because the emperor was suspicious, at the beginning of the establishment of the Great Xia Dynasty, the original meritorious families stopped communicating with each other in order to avoid suspicion, so the children of the two families rarely saw each other again.

It was not until Chang Meirong was officially canonized as the Crown Princess by the Emperor that Shen Yuyao's father personally reminded her that when she met Chang Meirong, she must observe the etiquette of a monarch and a subject and must not address her by her maiden name.

Shen Yuyao obeyed her father's orders and no longer stayed close to Chang Meirong.

The fact that the two had known each other since childhood was no longer known to outsiders.

Shen Yuyao almost felt heartbroken when she heard the word "Yaoyao" just now.

When Chang Meirong learned that it was Shen Yuyao who saved her with acupuncture, she wanted to pay her respects to Shen Yuyao, but Shen Yuyao hurriedly helped her lie down.

"Meiyong, lie down for a while. I have something else to tell you." Shen Yuyao endured the heartache and was about to tell her that Chang Meiyong was poisoned.

"Mother, Madam, I want to see my brother."

Xia Xiaoxian ran in at this time.

Seeing that she was extremely sleepy, he asked the palace maid to take her to the side room to rest.

After a while, he woke up again to see his brother.