"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Concubine Shu is pregnant."

For a moment, everyone present was shocked. Concubine Shu is pregnant? !

Wu Ren's face lit up with joy, and he quickly asked, "Are you sure you didn't take the wrong pulse?"

Doctor Liang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I am sure that I have made no mistake in my diagnosis. Madam Shufei is indeed pregnant."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Wu Ren said several good words repeatedly. After so many years, there were three thousand beauties in the harem, but he only had five sons and two daughters. Now that Concubine Shu was pregnant again, he happily rewarded the six harems.

Empress Liu led the crowd in expressing her gratitude: "I thank the emperor for his grace."

Concubine Li Shu was also touching her belly with a look of joy. She was pregnant again. Although she already had a son, who in the royal family would complain about having too many children?

Several concubines nearby all looked at Concubine Li with envy, but Concubine Lin did not have any special reaction.

Empress Liu was the opposite of them. She had a strange look on her face and her eyes were fixed on the jade bracelet on Concubine Li's wrist.

Logically, she couldn't be pregnant. What went wrong?

After taking a look at Hua Shu, Emperor Wu Ren took Concubine Li Shu back to his bedroom to rest, and also took Imperial Physician Liang with him.

Hua Shu and the others bowed to Emperor Wu Ren and said, "Your Highness, I respectfully send you off."

Concubine Li Shu originally wanted Emperor Wu Ren to severely punish Hua Shu, but then she changed her mind and thought that now that she was pregnant, there would be plenty of ways to deal with her in the future.

But when she thought of the look in Emperor Wu Ren's eyes when he looked at Hua Shu just now, she still felt very uncomfortable, and she turned around and looked at Hua Shu.

Just in time to meet her meaningful gaze, Concubine Li Shu frowned, and when she looked again, Hua Shu had already lowered his head.

Concubine Li Shu thought she had seen it wrong, so she didn't think much about it and followed Emperor Wu Ren and disappeared from everyone's sight.

After they left, Concubine Lin and the other concubines also left one after another.

Hua Shu also bowed to Queen Liu and left with Caiyue. Queen Liu looked at Hua Shu's leaving back, a smile flashed in her eyes. She turned around and whispered something to the people around her, then left.

……

Back at "Xiaoyuexuan", when Hua Shu was trying to find a way to get some medicine for Caiyue, the voice of a little palace maid was heard at the door.

"My beauty, Doctor Li is here."

Hua Shu frowned and looked at Caiyue. There was a hint of confusion in her eyes. Why did Doctor Li come here?

Did the emperor ask him to come?

Out of curiosity, Hua Shu said, "Please let him in."

After Doctor Li came in, he bowed to Hua Shu.

Hua Shu looked at him curiously: "Doctor Li, why are you here?"

Doctor Li said respectfully, "My lady, it was the Queen who asked me to come and check your pulse."

Upon hearing this, Hua Shu understood immediately. It must be that Empress Liu saw that Concubine Li was pregnant, so she wanted her to sleep with him as soon as possible.

Although Concubine Li Shufei was Empress Liu's person, she gave birth to the fifth prince Chu Yunyang after all, and was also a threat to the crown prince, so she asked Imperial Doctor Li to come.

Hua Shu hid the sneer in her eyes and stretched out her hand: "Then I'll have to trouble Doctor Li."

"This is my humble duty." Doctor Li placed his hand on her wrist and took it away after a moment.

Hua Shu withdrew his hand and asked, "Doctor Li, is there anything wrong with my body?"

Doctor Li lowered his head and said, "My lady, you are in good health and there is nothing wrong." After saying that, he took out a bottle of medicine from the medicine box and placed it on the table.

Hua Shu looked at him in confusion: "Didn't Doctor Li say that I'm in good health? What is this medicine?"

Doctor Li smiled and said, "My lady, this is something that the Queen specially asked me to bring to you, Miss Caiyue."

Hua Shu glanced at the medicine bottle on the table, thanked him with a smile, and asked Caiyue to see him out personally.

Watching Doctor Li's back disappear at the door, Hua Shu picked up the medicine bottle on the table and sneered.

Empress Liu is good at winning people's hearts. She even takes Caiyue, who is beside her, into consideration. She truly deserves to be the mistress of the six palaces.

Caiyue came back and saw her holding the medicine bottle. She hesitated for a moment before walking forward and whispered, "Miss, I always feel that the Queen will not be so kind as to let the imperial physician take your pulse."

After all, when her young lady fell into the water, she went to ask the queen for help, but she did not see her, nor did she ask the imperial physician to come.

Now that the imperial physician was suddenly called over, she couldn't help but suspect that the queen was plotting something against her young lady.

Hua Shu pulled her to sit next to him, and said as he opened the medicine bottle, "Don't worry about her. I'll apply the medicine for you first."

Although Empress Liu had ulterior motives, this medicine did help with the wounds on Caiyue's face.

Looking at Caiyue's red and swollen face, Hua Shu's eyes were frighteningly cold as she applied the medicine on her.

She put down the medicine bottle and said solemnly, "Sooner or later, I will make you pay back this slap with your own hands."

Caiyue smiled and said, "Miss, as long as you are okay, I won't be in the way."

Hua Shu held her hand without saying anything. Since her mother died, the closest person to her besides her brother Hua Jingxuan was only Caiyue. No matter what she said, she would not let her get this slap in vain.

Thinking of Concubine Li Shu being pregnant, Caiyue looked at Hua Shu with some worry: "Miss, Concubine Li Shu already dislikes you, and now that she is pregnant, won't our lives be even more difficult in the future."

Hua Shu stretched out his hand and rubbed her frowning brows and said, "Don't worry, she doesn't have the energy to cause trouble to us these days."

Caiyue didn't understand why she was so sure, but she didn't ask any more questions. She believed whatever her young lady said.

……

at dusk.

Chonghua Palace.

Empress Liu looked at Doctor Li with a gloomy face without saying a word. After Concubine Li Shu gave birth to the fifth prince Chu Yunyang.

She asked Doctor Li to give her a sterilizing drug. Now that she was suddenly pregnant, she suspected that Doctor Li had betrayed his master.

Doctor Li's back was already wet with sweat, and even his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

After a long while, Empress Liu finally spoke up: "Doctor Li, didn't you promise me that Concubine Shu would never get pregnant in her lifetime? How come she is found to be pregnant now?"

Doctor Li knelt down with a plop. He lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, I did give her medicine at the beginning. Now I don't know what's going on."

Empress Liu's eyes turned cold: "You did it, and you told me you didn't know?"

Doctor Li didn't know how to explain it for a moment. He did give Concubine Li Shu medicine at the beginning, so it shouldn't be possible for her to be pregnant. But now...

Just when Empress Liu was about to get angry, the eunuch's voice was heard at the door.

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince is here."

Empress Liu glanced at Doctor Li, put away the coldness in her eyes, and said, "Let him in."

The prince came in and bowed to Empress Liu, then looked at Doctor Li and said, "Doctor Li, you can go back first."

Doctor Li breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Empress Liu and the Crown Prince, and then retreated as if escaping.

For a moment, mother and son were the only ones left in the hall.

Empress Liu looked at the prince and asked, "Cheng'er, you came to the palace because of Concubine Shu's pregnancy."

The prince nodded and said, "This son of yours is indeed why I came here."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and his frown relaxed: "By the way, mother, I heard on the way here that father summoned Lady Hua to sleep with him in the Yangxin Palace tonight."

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