Traveling through the Tang Dynasty: The Concubine Goes to War

On the way to Xingqing Palace, Yunxi kept thinking about how to plead with the emperor for Ye Ling'er. You know, serving the emperor is like serving a tiger! Even if you are a minister, if the emperor orders you to die, you have to obey. What's more, it's a fetus that has not yet been born?

She knew that if she wanted to successfully plead for mercy, she had to first understand the whole story. So she kept imagining what the emperor's motives were.

Not long after, she arrived at the gate of Xingqing Palace. After the eunuch chief, Eunuch Chen, informed her as usual, Yunxi stepped into the palace and saw the emperor buried in reviewing a mountain of memorials.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!" Yunxi said softly while bowing.

"No need for formalities!" The emperor did not even raise his head and continued to look at the mountain of memorials in front of him.

"Your Majesty, Ling'er's condition is not good!" Yunxi took a deep breath and decided to tell the emperor about this matter. However, he was afraid that saying it directly would make the emperor unhappy, so he cleverly changed the way to get to the point.

"Oh? What's wrong with her?" Sure enough, upon hearing about Ling'er, the emperor immediately stopped the red pen in his hand that was marking memorials, looked up, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes.

"She has been absent-minded lately, can't sleep well at night, and often has nightmares." Yunxi said as she carefully observed the emperor's expression. Seeing that he was not angry, she felt relieved.

"Is it a reaction caused by pregnancy? Don't you know medicine? Just prescribe some tranquilizers for her." The emperor's tone was calm, as if he was accustomed to this situation.

"Your Majesty, Ling'er's problem... is a heart disease. As the saying goes, heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine. And she is pregnant now, so it is really not suitable for her to take medicine." Yunxi gritted her teeth and decided to tell the emperor the truth.

The emperor frowned and looked at Yunxi: "Heart disease? What is the cause of it?"

Yunxi lowered her head and remained silent, secretly thinking about how to answer the emperor's question.

She knew that if she told the truth, it might cause the emperor's dissatisfaction; but if she didn't tell the truth, Ling'er's illness would not be properly treated.

After thinking for a while, she finally mustered up the courage to speak: "Your Majesty, Ling'er...she was actually frightened. The previous palace maid poisoned and the palace caught fire..."

"Oh, the palace people who committed crimes have been dealt with." The emperor said calmly.

Seeing the emperor like this, Yunxi finally couldn't help but said, "Your Majesty, please spare Ye Ling'er and her unborn baby!"

"Yunxi, do you know everything?" asked the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I really can't understand why you let Lian'er poison Ye Ling'er's fetus. He is also your prince!" Yunxi said puzzledly.

"Ye Ling'er is truly vicious. I don't want her to have any offspring." The emperor said harshly.

"I dare to ask, Ye Ling'er is guilty. She was bewitched by Princess Rui before, but she has sincerely repented now..." Yunxi said.

"Yunxi, you are too kind after all. Do you know what else she did to me besides colluding with Princess Rui?" The emperor's eyes were filled with anger.

"Ah! Did she do something unforgivable to the emperor?" Yunxi said in surprise.

"Before, I always felt weak. Didn't you help me check my body and say that there was something strange in my body... You also warned me that excessive indulgence would damage my dragon body..." The emperor was very angry.

"Ah! Could it be that Ling'er is..." Yunxi exclaimed again.

"Yes..., when I heard your reminder, I recalled carefully that during that period of time, Ye Ling'er always tried every means to let me stay in her palace... and then she made various nourishing soups for me, saying that they were to nourish my body, and also told me that she wanted to have my child..." The emperor paused and continued, "Every time I drank the nourishing soup, I always had an impulsive feeling for her..."

"Ye Ling'er gave the emperor an aphrodisiac!" Yunxi, who was proficient in medicine, blurted out.

"Thanks to you, otherwise I don't know how long she would deceive me." The emperor said with lingering fear.

"It turns out that Ye Ling'er did such a rebellious thing to the emperor. No wonder you are so angry." Yunxi said with mixed feelings.

"I don't want her to keep this dragon fetus, but I'm worried about another thing. After all, she got pregnant because she gave me an aphrodisiac, and I don't know if it will have an impact on the fetus. So after thinking it over again and again, I asked Lian Zhaoyi to help solve the problem... This way it won't be made public. I didn't expect you to plead for her again and again. You even helped her investigate..." The emperor said with a heavy heart.

"It's all my fault for being stupid!" Yunxi knelt on the ground with a plop and said in a trembling voice.

"But, I have also experienced the pain of losing a child! Back then, my first son died in my womb before he was born... To this day, this is still an indelible pain in my heart! Ye Ling'er is my sister after all, and I really can't bear to see Ling'er repeat my mistakes..." Yunxi burst into tears and couldn't speak. The scenes of the past flooded into her mind like a tide...

The emperor couldn't help but be affected by Yunxi's emotions. Yes! If he hadn't asked Zhang Chongrong to abort Yunxi's first son, perhaps Yunxi wouldn't have been so disheartened and asked to be demoted to a commoner and leave the palace... At this moment, she should still be his favorite concubine, and maybe they would have already conceived several princes or princesses...

Thinking of this, the emperor sighed deeply and said slowly: "Forget it, let Ye Ling'er's baby go. I will not ask about it anymore. If she can give birth to the baby safely, it will be her blessing."

"On behalf of Ling'er, I would like to thank the emperor for his great kindness!" Yunxi said with tears of gratitude.

"Is the emperor in good health now?" Yunxi took a deep breath and tried to make her voice sound calmer, but she couldn't hide her concern. She stared at the emperor with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

The emperor felt Yunxi's gaze, smiled slightly, and said gently: "Thank you for your concern, my beloved concubine. My health has improved a lot. Thanks to your careful care and the prescriptions you prescribed, I was able to recover so quickly."

Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief, a gratified smile appeared on her face, and she said softly: "This is what I should do. As long as the emperor is healthy, I will be relieved."

The emperor nodded, and suddenly noticed that Yunxi seemed to have something else to say, so he asked, "My beloved concubine, is there anything else you want to share with me?"

Yunxi hesitated for a moment, then smiled mysteriously and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother recently asked me to do something. I wonder if Your Majesty is interested in knowing it?"

The emperor's eyes lit up and he immediately asked, "Oh? What is it? The matter entrusted by the empress dowager must be important. Tell me quickly." His curiosity was completely aroused, and he couldn't wait to know what special task the empress dowager had assigned to Yunxi.

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