I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Although Liu Zhirou had left the palace, she still had some channels to find out the news in the palace. One day, just after she paid her respects to the empress dowager and was about to sit down and chat with her to relieve her boredom, an old nanny who looked very steady came in with a happy face.

"Congratulations to the Queen Mother, congratulations to the Queen Mother, the Concubine in the Palace, and Miss Shen, they are all pregnant!"

After hearing this, Liu Zhirou also quickly stood up to congratulate them. The Queen Mother said several good words and ordered people to quickly prepare rewards to entertain these two meritorious officials.

After a period of chaos, the palace finally calmed down. The Queen Mother asked Liu Zhirou to sit next to her, patted her hands gently, and said slowly: "Including the previous Concubine Chen, there are already three concubines in this palace who are pregnant with dragon fetuses. This kind of happy event has never happened since Your Majesty ascended the throne."

"Your Majesty and the Queen Mother are blessed with great fortune. What does this matter? More princes and grandchildren will be born in the world in the future." Liu Zhirou said a few flattering words and made the Queen Mother laugh.

"But since there is such a happy event, I have to get pregnant. I know you are a filial child, so please accompany me to be a vegetarian for a few days and worship Buddha."

The Queen Mother gave the order in a nonchalant manner.

Liu Zhirou felt uneasy, but couldn't think of a reason to refuse, so she had to agree softly.

She felt a little relieved when she thought of her new skills. Even if the Buddha statue really had some fascinating abilities, it wouldn't necessarily affect her. If that was the case and the Queen Mother was willing, she might as well try to imitate it. Maybe she could find some flaws when she got in close contact with the statue.

Liu Zhirou stayed away from the palace struggles and lived a pretty good life, but Ai Ziyi, who stayed in the palace, did not have such a good life.

Ai Ziyi is not a proud person, but she used to think that she was a good person. However, it was not until now that she realized that she did not seem to be as smart, brave, and determined as she imagined, nor could she remain calm about the unpredictable situation in the palace.

If Ai Ziyi could barely suppress his negative emotions and force out a flattering smile and a few words of compliment regarding Concubine Xian's pregnancy, then Shen Baolin's pregnancy made him feel very uncomfortable and difficult to accept.

No, now she should be called Shen Meiren. This girl was originally just a servant of her good friend Liu Zhirou. Somehow, she got lucky and won the emperor's favor. She became the emperor's concubine, was given the title of beauty, and enjoyed the treatment of a concubine. She was even on an equal footing with her former master.

Since Concubine Shen became pregnant, the emperor has favored her more than Concubine Xian and Concubine Chen, who were also pregnant.

Ai Ziyi had always hoped that the arrogant Chen Fei would stop forbearing and come out to give this guy a good beating, but in the end she did not get her wish.

If Liu Zhirou's status in the palace was considered relatively low, and she was therefore suppressed and excluded by many orthodox young ladies from aristocratic families, then this Concubine Shen was an existence that had no place to stay in the palace at all.

The fact that she was born a slave has already set her upper limit. Even if she really gains favor through all kinds of strange means, in the end, she will just be a palace maid who will die of old age. In future history books, even the existence of such a lowly person will not be recorded.

But such a lowly person who was looked down upon by everyone, relied on one opportunity to be favored and became pregnant with a child. She was also favored by the emperor and was promoted to a beauty.

What's even more terrifying is that there was a rumor that this guy was not an ordinary slave, but the descendant of a real criminal.

After receiving the emperor's favor, the daughter of a guilty minister did not settle down and become a qualified reproductive machine. Instead, she became even more excited and tried to persuade the emperor to clear the name of her father and brother.

This would touch upon the taboos of most of the ministers. When the Shen family fell, many nobles were involved. Even Ai Ziyi's father had been ordered to kill many members of the Shen family.

If this woman really gave birth to a prince and inherited the throne, these people might all be retaliated against.

It was precisely because of this that the women in the palace were united in their hatred of the enemy and were trying their best to trip up this seemingly insignificant girl.

Just a few days after she announced her pregnancy, a large batch of medicinal herbs were inexplicably lost from the Imperial Hospital, and each of them was extremely harmful to pregnant women.

But even so, she still miraculously kept her child and even gained the emperor's favor, allowing her to no longer have to pay respects to the empress.

As a result, many methods against her became ineffective. After moving into her own palace, Lady Shen refused to accept visits from anyone and focused on taking care of her baby, which made many conspiracies against her go awry.

Ai Ziyi was not used to the practice of harming other people's offspring in the palace, but when facing this matter, she still hoped that Concubine Shen could learn a lesson instead of allowing her to continue to be so rampant.

She also wrote a letter to her good friend Liu Zhirou, hinting that she was not optimistic about the matter, but Liu Zhirou did not give her any positive response. Instead, she advised her to rest quietly and not get involved in the right and wrong in the palace.

Ai Ziyi also hoped that she could calm down and recuperate, or at least take good care of her body, but all kinds of things in the palace still kept coming to her ears.

She sadly discovered that after experiencing the miscarriage, she became suspicious and dared not trust anyone, including the Concubine Xian, whom she had always relied on.

At this time, she had to admire her good friend Liu Zhirou's psychological quality. Even though she had lost a child, Liu Zhirou was still very calm when facing the things in the palace. She was neither overly suspicious nor easily believed. It was a pity that Liu Zhirou was not in the palace now. She was serving the Queen Mother. In any case, there was no reason for her to re-enter the chaos of the harem. At least she had to wait until the emperor allowed her to be brought back to the palace before she could help Ai Ziyi.

Although Ai Ziyi harbored great ill will towards Concubine Shen, she was unwilling to be used as a target for other concubines in the public eye, so she waited patiently, ready to wait for a possible opportunity.

But she could wait, but Biyun couldn't.