The Queen sealed her heart and locked up her love, and the Emperor was trapped in the crematorium

"My lady, how are you today..."

Nanny Fang hesitated to speak.

She had served the Empress for many years. More than ten years had passed in a flash, and now she found it difficult to understand the Empress.

Hearing this, Xie Yaoqing, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes, with a hint of profound meaning in his eyes.

"Madam, do you think I did something wrong?"

Nanny Fang quickly shook her head and said, "The Queen is now acting more calmly and reservedly, with the dignity and demeanor of a harem mistress."

Thinking back to the Empress's various actions in the past... Well, it's better not to mention it.

Xie Yaoqing raised the corners of her mouth slightly and smiled gently: "I am just doing my job well. Since I am the queen, I must naturally fulfill the duties of the queen and manage the harem well."

After all, being a queen is just a position, and one has to do one's job. If one spends all day indulging in love affairs and romantic pursuits, it would seem a bit redundant.

But she never understood this truth until her death in her previous life.

As long as she doesn't make those fatal mistakes again, doesn't repeat the mistakes of her past life, and doesn't become insane and paranoid because of her deep love for Xiao Chengxu, and becomes the Poison Queen hated and despised by everyone, then she will be able to sit firmly on the throne of Queen.

Even if Concubine Qi was unwilling and jealous, what could she do? After all, she was just a concubine, at most a concubine with a slightly higher status.

If she could become a highly praised virtuous queen, then if something really happened in the marquis's mansion in the future, she would still have the opportunity to make suggestions and appeal, and plead for her natal family. It would not be so difficult to meet Xiao Chengxu.

However, Xie Yaoqing firmly believed that his father and brother would never break the law or engage in corruption or bribery.

In the previous life, the Yongchang Marquis Mansion was confiscated because the Qi family reported it and submitted so-called evidence of guilt, but this was most likely a trap set by the Qi family.

In the eighth year of Xihe, Qi Ruhui, the youngest son of the Qi family, raped a woman in the street. His second brother stepped forward to stop him, and then joined the victim's family to submit a lawsuit to Shuntian Prefecture, accusing Qi Ruhui of bullying men and women, injuring and killing people. However, facing such powerful people as the Qi family and the Marquis' Mansion, Shuntian Prefecture was unable to make a ruling. In a dilemma, it had to report the matter to Xiao Chengxu, asking him to personally decide this "hot potato".

As the evidence is irrefutable, Qi Ruhui raped dozens of women, and many women were brutally abused, injured, disabled, or even killed.

With both witnesses and physical evidence available, the case caused an uproar once it was exposed. Not only was the court shocked, but the public was also in an uproar.

Although the Qi family tried their best to save Qi Ruhui's life, it was ultimately in vain. Qi Ruhui was eventually sentenced to death by hanging and publicly displayed at Caishikou.

His father Qi Shi'an was also forced to resign and retire because of his poor education of his son. Since then, the Yongchang Marquisate and the Qi family have had a deep hatred.

If the Qi family gains power and encounters a suitable opportunity, it would not be surprising that they would take the opportunity to retaliate against the Marquis' Mansion.

And this opportunity may be that the Marquis's achievements are so great that they threaten the master.

Her father and brothers were both pillars of the court. Her father was the Minister of Revenue, in charge of national finances; her eldest brother was the Chief Academician of the Imperial College, shouldering the important task of educating people; her second brother was sent to a local area as a prefect, pleading for the people; and her third brother was ordered to go to war in the ninth year of Xihe, leading the army to fight against the Huns, and returned with a great victory. The prestige of the Marquisate among the people grew day by day, which naturally aroused the emperor's suspicion.

After sitting on the dragon throne for so long, Xiao Chengxu might have long forgotten that when he attempted to fight for the throne, the Marquis' Mansion had spared no effort to serve him and given him countless support.

If he didn't have the help of the Marquis' Mansion, how could he be qualified to compete for the throne with only the Qi family, which was short of talents and only a third-class family?

Later, when he was in power, he pulled out the planks after crossing the bridge, killed the donkey after it had done its job, and put away the bow after the bird was killed.

It really is true that the most heartless and ungrateful person in the world is none other than the emperor.

Just as Xie Yaoqing was lost in thought, Zhiyu walked in, holding a tray with a bowl of steaming medicine on it.

"Your Majesty, today's pregnancy-maintaining medicine has been prepared. Would you like to take it now?" Zhiyu asked softly.

Xie Yaoqing raised his eyes and glanced at him, a barely perceptible sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth.

She stretched out her slender hand and gently grasped the lustrous white spoon, as if she was playing with a precious antique, but her movements seemed somewhat casual, even a little careless.

Then, Xie Yaoqing stood up leisurely, her posture as graceful as a fairy descending to earth.

Before Nanny Fang and Zhiyu could react, she poured the bowl of black medicine in her hand into the soil of the potted plant without hesitation, her movements smooth and seamless.

Watching the potion flow into the soil and disappear without a trace, Nanny Fang and Zhiyu couldn't help but widen their eyes, faces full of astonishment.

The two looked at each other and read the same shock and confusion in each other's eyes.

After a moment, Zhiyu came to his senses, silently picked up the empty medicine bowl and left the room.

At this moment, only Xie Yaoqing and Nanny Fang were left in the room.

Thinking of the incident of delivering a letter to the Marquis' Mansion a few days ago, Nanny Fang suddenly felt a little alert.

She stared at Xie Yaoqing's calm and indifferent face, and keenly caught something strange.

There was no one else in the room at this time. Nanny Fang's face became extremely serious. She lowered her voice and asked, "Does your Majesty think there is something wrong with this pregnancy-maintaining medicine?"

Xie Yaoqing did not answer immediately, but turned to look out the window, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

After a moment of silence, she slowly turned her head and looked at Nanny Fang, asking, "What do you think, Nanny? I have been drinking this pregnancy-maintaining medicine for more than four or five years. Have I ever received any good news?"

Nanny Fang was shocked, and she obviously realized the seriousness of the matter. Her eyes flickered slightly, and her face instantly became extremely ugly, as if she had thought of some unbelievable possibility.

The pregnancy medicine that the queen drank was prescribed by the imperial physician Zhu, and the queen's body has always been taken care of by the imperial physician Zhu. If something went wrong, who would be the mastermind behind it?

There is no doubt that only His Majesty the Emperor, the most respected person in the world and the ruler of a country, can issue such an order.

The Empress has not given birth to a legitimate son yet, and the current Emperor has no children either. I thought it was just that the Empress was not destined to have children yet, but now it seems that there may be other reasons, perhaps she was framed by someone.

"How could he treat the Queen like this, knowing clearly that the Queen..."

Nanny Fang could not continue speaking halfway through. When she turned to look at Xie Yaoqing, her eyes were filled with unspeakable pity.

Xie Yaoqing shook his head slightly and sneered, "The heart of an emperor has always been unfathomable and strange. It's the same no matter who sits in that position."

In her previous life, in order to have a child with Xiao Chengxu, she drank countless bitter and unbearable soups and juices. She tried all the secret recipes of quack doctors and the prescriptions of imperial doctors in the palace, and worshipped Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, devoutly every day, but there was still no sign of pregnancy.

Because she had been unable to give birth to a child, the ministers of the previous dynasty submitted more and more memorials to impeach her.

However, just before she was deposed as queen, Xiao Chengxu never blamed her for not having children. Instead, he kept comforting her that she would have children sooner or later.

At that time, she was immersed in emotion. If Xiao Chengxu didn't have her in his heart, how could he not attach importance to offspring.

It was not until she was banished to the cold palace and Concubine Qi came to show off, provoke, mock and ridicule her that she was poured a bucket of cold water and realized that the bowls of so-called pregnancy-maintaining medicines were actually sterilization drugs.

Doctor Zhu, the imperial physician specially assigned to her by Xiao Chengxu, was said to be an expert in gynecology. His reputation was well-deserved. The prescriptions he prescribed were so extraordinary that she had been deceived for so long.

Thinking back to the past, Xie Yaoqing couldn't help but feel chilled and angry...

Seeing how much he had paid for having a child, Xiao Chengxu must have found it extremely funny in his heart, watching him struggle in vain, expecting a child that would never come.

It's ridiculous that she is still dreaming of having both a son and a daughter, a large house with many grandchildren, and a happy family.

Presumably, after her death, Concubine Qi gave birth to many children for Xiao Chengxu.

With this jealous woman standing in the way, the fact that the emperor had no heir was all the fault of the empress. What did it have to do with him, Xiao Chengxu? As long as she died, Xiao Chengxu would have nothing to worry about. He wouldn't have to worry about this madman doing something to the concubines who were pregnant with the dragon fetus. He could just have a bunch of children with his concubines.

It was hard for Xiao Chengxu to pretend for so many years. He saw that the children of the royal family of his age were running around, but he himself did not have any children and yet he could still sit still.

Xie Yaoqing loved children very much and always wanted to have her own child. If she had had a child soon after getting married, the child would have been four or five years old by now, and would be old enough to go to school and learn to read.

As the queen of a country, she urgently needs a child of her own... This is not only to consolidate her position in the harem, but also to prove to the world that she is not an infertile and sick queen. In this deep palace, the stability of the queen's position is often closely related to her offspring.

If she had a child, Xiao Chengxu would have to think twice and give more consideration before eliminating the Marquis' Mansion for the sake of the child.

In addition, as an ordinary woman, she also longs to have a child of her own deep in her heart.

This wish was never fulfilled in her previous life until her death. Now that she has a new life, Xie Yaoqing only hopes that it is not too late and that she can take some measures to make up for it, and that she can be blessed by God and have a child.

That afternoon, Xie Yaoqing met with the women of the Yongchang Marquis' Mansion in Kunning Palace.

The wife of the Marquis's mansion, Xie Yaoqing's biological mother, had passed away many years ago. Over the years, it had been the wife of the second room, Xie Yaoqing's second aunt, Mrs. Xie Er, who had been in charge of the internal affairs of the Marquis's mansion.

After Madam Xie left the palace, a maid named Rendong appeared in Kunning Palace.