The Three-Life Stone

In Kunning Palace, the Empress was lying on the couch and fainted. The Emperor heard the palace maid calling him and hurried over. Concubine An, Concubine Shu and others were already standing by anxiously, and when they saw the Emperor coming, they all made way.

After Lin Mo checked on Hua Xiaoyao, he shouted angrily: "Where is the imperial physician? Why hasn't the imperial physician come yet?"

At this time, an old doctor had just arrived at the door. Hearing the emperor's rage, he hurried in. Just as he was about to salute, the emperor waved his hand and said, "Forget it. Come and check on the queen. She was fine when I left this morning. How could she suddenly faint so soon?"

"Your Majesty, I obey your command." The imperial physician responded tremblingly, took out a handkerchief and placed it on Hua Xiaoyao's wrist to carefully feel her pulse. However, his brows were furrowed deeper and deeper, and he took a breath and exhaled from time to time, which was heartbreaking to see.

Lin Mo watched this scene impatiently: "What's going on? Instead of pretending, why not just speak out directly?"

“I dare not, Your Majesty. The Queen has been in poor health for some time. I’m afraid the situation is not good.” The old doctor knelt on the ground, feeling extremely unlucky.

Lin Mo slammed his hand on the table: "It has been a while, why did you tell me only today? Don't you all take me seriously?"

The concubines all knelt down. As the leader of the other concubines, Shu Guifei naturally set an example. She looked up with concern in her eyes and made an explanation: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty had previously consulted the imperial physician, and the imperial physician just said that Your Majesty was a little weak after giving birth and was already recuperating. Later..."

"What happened later? When the Queen said she was fine, did you really take it for granted? The Queen has such a deep relationship with you sisters, how could you not notice that she was not feeling well? I was wondering why the Queen went to the Qianqing Palace less often now. I thought she was accompanying her children and sisters to play with cats and appreciate flowers. I was wrong too. I neglected it." The Emperor was indignant at first and then regretful. Everyone was stunned.

What could the emperor do wrong? Hearing this, the imperial physicians and concubines were all horrified. They kowtowed and admitted their mistakes, saying that the emperor was not wrong and it was their negligence.

Lin Mo smiled, and after a while he returned to his usual indifference and asked the imperial physician: "Is there any way to remedy the Queen's condition?"

The imperial physician looked solemn and didn't know how to start. He was afraid that if he didn't say it well, his head and body would be separated. He hesitated: "Your Majesty, the queen has taken good care of it, a little, a little..."

"Is the imperial physician stuttering? It seems that the Imperial Medical Bureau has neglected its duties. Now even the most senior imperial physician..." The emperor didn't want to listen to high-sounding words and narrowed his eyes.

The emperor's threat was self-evident, and the imperial physician's stuttering immediately stopped: "Your Majesty, please spend more time with the Empress when you have time. This old minister will work with the Imperial Hospital to do our utmost to protect the Empress and prolong her life."

Lin Mo showed a grim smile, and the entire Kunning Palace dared not breathe. Lin Mo's laughter was particularly creepy. Some concubines who had never seen the world had long lost their strength in their legs. Concubine An couldn't stand it and muttered in a low voice: "Even if the queen is fine, she will be scared by this scene and dare not wake up."

Concubine An thought that her voice was so soft that no one could hear it, but she didn't know that the emperor's hearing was different from that of others. The emperor gradually calmed down and glanced at Concubine An. Concubine An felt a little guilty.

The days that followed were not much different from usual. Lin Mo spent more and more time in the harem. He often accompanied Hua Xiaoyao in the imperial garden to bask in the sun, and carried Hua Xiaoyao to the pavilion to accompany her in the warm breeze.

Lin Mo also took Hua Xiaoyao out of the palace, and Lin Mo walked on the street with Hua Xiaoyao on his back.

"Xiaoyao, Mo Yuan said he would take you to see all the prosperity in this world. Don't sleep. Isn't Mo Yuan taking you to see it?"

Hua Xiaoyao forced her eyelids open. There were bandits robbing houses ahead. Lin Mo was furious: "Xiaoyao, don't let those people pollute your eyes. Mo Yuan will send more people to prevent this from happening. Let's go somewhere else."

Before Lin Mo could turn around, two figures flew over. The man first used a barrier to stop the villain's actions, and then hit the villain with a scabbard and he fainted. The man was heroic and the woman was sweet and lovely. They both wore black clothes and looked like they were out of touch with this world. After they finished their work in one go, the man chuckled and said, "Just take the man to the government office." Then he put his arm around the woman's waist and flew away.

There were no childish remarks this time. The two of them only looked at each other, not outsiders.

Hua Xiaoyao stared at this scene in a daze and murmured, "Is this the training system?"

Lin Mo asked curiously, "What is the development system?"

Hua Xiaoyao continued to lie on Lin Mo's back: "I don't know either. Do you still remember them? Gu Qing and Nian Nian."

"If you're talking about this name, I definitely don't know it. If you're talking about the two idiots we met before, I can still remember a few of them." Lin Mo joked, "Why, these two are the same two young boys back then? I can't tell that they've changed a lot."

Hua Xiaoyao laughed out loud: "It's more than just a big change. If it weren't for that boy using the barrier, the girl's excited and admiring expression would be impossible to connect at all."

Lin Mo also laughed out loud: "That's not the case. If there is less than one coincidence, I can't recognize it."

Lin Mo wanted to say something, but Hua Xiaoyao had already fallen into a deep sleep. He could only nag at himself: "Xiaoyao, don't sleep all the time. Are you so tired every day? Our children will have their birthdays in two days. What kind of birthday party are you going to hold for them then?"

As he was talking, Lin Mo walked silently on the street with Hua Xiaoyao on his back. He did not say a word until the sedan chair from the palace came to look for someone to return to the palace.

On the second birthday of the princes and princesses, they all blinked their eyes, curious why their mother did not celebrate for them, but only their familiar uncles and aunts celebrated their birthdays.

The day before the prince and princess' birthday, the queen passed away. In order not to make the prince and princess sad, everyone concealed the news. Before leaving, the queen entrusted the prince to Concubine Shu and the princess to Concubine An.

One month after the Queen left, Concubine Shu was promoted to Imperial Concubine and temporarily assisted the Queen in managing the six palaces. Concubine An was promoted to Noble Concubine An. From then on, Duanmu Zhi was temporarily the Imperial Concubine in the harem, and An Nan was promoted from Concubine An to Noble Concubine An to assist the Imperial Concubine in managing the harem.

Not long after that, news spread from the harem that Su Zhaoyi was using witchcraft. Su Zhaoyi tried hard to refute it, but the evidence was irrefutable. After the imperial concubine interrogated her, Su Zhaoyi accepted her fate and said that she was jealous of the empress and had made a vampire to vent her anger. She only hoped not to implicate her mother's family and was willing to die to apologize.

Since then, the emperor seldom came to the harem. The Imperial Concubine and the Li Concubine would occasionally bring the princes and princesses to see the emperor, and the emperor treated the princes and princesses as usual.

Another month passed and the princess was still feeling unwell, and the prince was also a little dazed. The monk came and said that the queen had passed away and was worried about the little princess and prince, so the best way was to go to a temple outside the city to eat vegetarian food for several days and pray for the queen, so that she could be at ease and reincarnate sooner.

The Imperial Concubine naturally refused: "Your Majesty, the prince is still young, how can he experience all this? It is the same for me and the prince to burn incense and pray for the Queen in the palace. The Queen is kind and kind, as long as we pray sincerely, she will definitely hear us."

Unexpectedly, the emperor had made up his mind.

Concubine An volunteered to go with the prince and princess, and the emperor agreed. The imperial concubine stayed in the harem because she needed to take care of palace affairs.