Hua Shu had already sensed the murderous intent in him, and she couldn't help but be shocked. She didn't expect that he cared about the queen more than he seemed.

After thinking for a moment, she looked up before Emperor Wu Ren spoke, looked at him with tearful eyes, and her voice trembled slightly.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I am guilty. I shouldn't have believed those unfounded rumors."

After saying this, she stroked Emperor Wu Ren's knee with her slender hands, tears streaming down her cheeks, making people want to hold her in their arms and coax her.

Emperor Wu Ren looked at her coldly without any emotion on his face. He wanted to punish Hua Shu, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that this matter was not simple.

He had issued an edict prohibiting anyone from mentioning the rumor she mentioned in his early years, and Hua Shu had just entered the palace not long ago, so she shouldn't have known about these rumors.

After thinking about it, he asked in a deep voice: "Where did you hear these rumors from?"

Hua Shu pursed her lips and said softly, "Your Majesty, it was my concubine's honeysuckle who heard it from outside."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Wu Ren had Ren Dong called in. When she came in, he asked in a deep voice, "Where did you hear those things you told Concubine Rou?"

As he spoke, he exuded the solemn and murderous aura that was unique to an emperor.

Honeysuckle lowered her head, her body trembling, her voice trembling a little: "Your Majesty, that rumor came from when I passed by Lanyue Pavilion... I heard Concubine Hui and Concubine Yun..."

"How dare you!" Emperor Wu Ren interrupted her harshly, "Not only did you spread rumors, you also implicated Huipin and Yuncai. Someone, drag her away and execute her immediately!"

Hua Shu tightened her hands in her sleeves, gritted her teeth and was about to say something.

However, Ren Dong knelt before her and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I did not bring up Concubine Hui and Concubine Yun. I really heard it. If you don't believe me, you can ask someone to check. It was not only me who passed by Lan Yue Xuan that day."

After saying that, she put her head on the back of her hands and couldn't help shaking all over.

Emperor Wu Ren glanced at her, then looked at Hua Shu, who was looking at him with tears in her eyes and pitiful expression.

After thinking for a moment, he asked He Zhong to investigate the matter personally and make sure to get to the bottom of it.

"Yes." He Zhong responded, glanced at Hua Shu, and then walked out.

For a moment, the room fell into deathly silence. Emperor Wu Ren did not let Hua Shu get up, but just let her kneel like that.

Rendong looked at Hua Shu with some concern, because she found that her master looked very pale and the slap mark on her face was particularly obvious.

She hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and was about to say something, but saw Hua Shu making a quiet gesture to her.

Seeing this, Honeysuckle withdrew her gaze and didn't look at her again.

Hua Shu hadn't kneeled like this for a long time. She felt the pain in her knees, but she held back and didn't make a sound.

About an hour later, just when Hua Shu's legs had lost feeling, He Zhong walked in from outside.

He glanced at Hua Shu, whose face was pale, and then walked to Emperor Wu Ren and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, I have found out that the rumors about Concubine Wang in the palace did come from Lan Yue Xuan."

Emperor Wu Ren's expression instantly turned ugly, and his hands tightened, but he did not speak.

He Zhong glanced at Hua Shu again, hesitated for a moment, and reminded him, "Your Majesty, Concubine Rou's face looks a little bad. Do you want to ask the imperial physician to come and take a look?"

Hearing this, Emperor Wu Ren looked at Hua Shu and saw that her face was pale and the slap mark was particularly obvious.

When he saw her hand on her belly, he remembered that Hua Shu was pregnant.

"Get up."

He Zhong saw this and stepped forward to help Hua Shu up: "My lady, be careful."

Hua Shu gave him a grateful look, then looked at Emperor Wu Ren: "Your Majesty, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have believed the rumors. I beg Your Majesty to punish me."

Emperor Wu Ren looked at her red eyes, and after a long silence, he waved to her.

Hua Shu walked towards him, but perhaps because she had been kneeling for too long, she took half a step when her legs went weak and she fell to the ground.

He Zhong, who was standing by, saw this and quickly supported her: "My lady, are you okay?"

Hua Shu stretched out his hand and rubbed his temple, and said weakly: "It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy."

He Zhong subconsciously looked at Emperor Wu Ren, wanting to ask him if he wanted to ask the imperial physician to come and take a look, but the words hadn't come out of his mouth yet.

Emperor Wu Ren spoke first: "Help Concubine Rou sit down."

After Hua Shu thanked him, He Zhong and Ren Dong helped her sit next to Emperor Wu Ren.

Emperor Wu Ren glanced at Rendong, then asked her and He Zhong to leave.

After they all left, he looked at Hua Shu and said in a softer voice, "It hurt."

As soon as these words were spoken, Hua Shu, who had been trying hard to hold back her tears, instantly burst into tears like a river bursting its dam.

If someone had cried like this in front of him at other times, Emperor Wu Ren would have just thrown his sleeves and left, but seeing the crying girl with raindrops on her face, he just felt heartbroken.

He reached out and held Hua Shu's hand and said, "But you feel uncomfortable somewhere."

Hua Shu knew that if she continued crying he would be disgusted, so she looked up at him with tears in her eyes, her voice sounding a little aggrieved.

"I'm not feeling uncomfortable anywhere, but... I haven't heard such caring words for a long time, and I couldn't hold it in for a moment."

Emperor Wu Ren reached out his hand to wipe the tears from her face, sighed softly and said: "Don't pay attention to these unfounded rumors in the future."

After saying this, he suddenly remembered something and said with a serious look, "Take good care of the people around you and don't spread these things anymore."

"Yes." Hua Shu nodded obediently. She knew that Emperor Wu Ren didn't want this rumor to affect the Queen.

But it was too late. This so-called rumor had not only affected the Queen, but also involved Concubine Qi Hui and Concubine Yun.

Emperor Wu Ren talked to her for a while and then asked her if she felt unwell anywhere and whether she wanted the imperial physician to come and see her.

Hua Shu gently shook her head and said that she was fine, her legs were just a little weak from kneeling for too long.

Hearing this, Emperor Wu Ren didn't say anything else. After they talked for a while, it was time for dinner.

He Zhong and his men brought the food up, and Wu Rendi and Hua Shu walked to the table and sat down.

Hua Shu was not in a hurry to eat, but served Emperor Wu Ren his meal.

After eating a few bites, Emperor Wu Ren glanced at Hua Shu who had been serving him dishes and said, "Leave the serving to them."

Hua Shu responded and started eating as well, but she didn't have much appetite. She put down her chopsticks after drinking two bowls of fish soup.

After Emperor Wu Ren put down his chopsticks, Hua Shu stood up and walked to his side, saying softly: "Your Majesty, do you want to go for a walk in the Imperial Garden and relax..."

Before she could finish her words, she held her stomach with a look of pain on her face.

Emperor Wu Ren frowned and was about to ask He Zhong to find the imperial physician, but before he could say anything, he heard Caiyue exclaim.

"Blood, blood, Your Majesty, the Queen is bleeding."

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