The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

"I have no idea why a pregnancy-maintaining medicine turned into a contraceptive medicine." Zhang Heng grabbed Zuo Tang's hand and stared at him with a wronged look as usual.

Zuo Tang must never know those things.

Although Zuo Tang didn't know many things, he knew that he had accepted bribes. What's more, he still needed Zuo Xiang's help. These things were not big deal, as long as Zuo Xiang was willing to save him and plead for him.

It is impossible to ask Zuo Xiang directly for help, so we can only start with Zuo Tang.

Zhang Heng knew that Zuo Tang was simple-minded and easily deceived. He grabbed Zuo Tang's hand and changed the subject, "Tangtang, think carefully. Have you offended someone recently? Did the servants in the mansion replace the pregnancy-maintaining medicine with contraceptive medicine?"

"Tangtang, you have to believe me. I will never harm you. The pregnancy-maintaining medicine you are taking was obtained from a famous doctor with great difficulty. If you don't believe me, I swear to you that if I want to harm you, let me be struck by lightning, okay?" Zhang Heng stared at Zuo Tang seriously.

If swearing was useful, what would the government be for? Heavenly thunder would have killed countless scumbags. It would probably tire the heavenly thunder out to death. After all, men swear easily.

A trace of confusion appeared on Zuo Tang's face.

It was obvious that Zuo Tang had already begun to hesitate about his words, and he only needed to add some exaggeration to make Zuo Tang believe it.

Zuo Tang stared at the man in front of her hesitantly. She didn't know whether she should believe Zhang Heng's words. After all, Zhang Heng had done many evil things without telling her. "But I have never offended anyone in the mansion. I have been extremely kind to even the servants in the mansion. They probably wouldn't replace the pregnancy-maintaining medicine with contraceptive medicine to harm me. Besides, the people around me were all brought here from the Prime Minister's Mansion. As for the medicine I drank, they also helped to prepare it. There shouldn't be any mistakes."

Zuo Tang has been spoiled by Zhang Heng in recent years and has become obsessed with love, but she can still analyze things in a very clear and organized manner. Otherwise, she would not remember the medicinal food written by Ruan Shi so clearly.

[It seems that Zuo Tang has been willing to be deceived by Zhang Heng all these years. Otherwise, she would have doubted Zhang Heng's excuses at any time.]

【Depend on.】

【Those ladies really guessed it right.】

Xie Qingzhi had just been sitting next to the Queen, and she heard the ladies chirping and eating melons behind her. So, was Zhang Heng giving Zuo Tang contraceptive medicine really not just to please Ruan?

I always thought Zhang Heng gave Zuo Tang the contraceptive medicine because of Ruan Shi, fearing she would expose him. It turns out it wasn't for Ruan Shi, and even Ruan Shi was completely deceived by Zhang Heng.

Before Zhang Heng met Ruan, he had a love interest. That love interest was his cousin from his hometown. They were secretly together, unknown to anyone. Later, due to an accident, his cousin became pregnant. Both of them were terrified, so Zhang Heng hid her, hoping to wait until the child was born. Even if Zhang Heng had planned to marry his cousin, he couldn't let anyone know about her pregnancy. In their village, unmarried pregnancy was a major taboo; if the village chief found out, the person would be thrown into a pond and drowned.

[Where is the old custom, dragging people to the pond and drowning them?]

Zhang Heng found a place in the mountains and hid his cousin there, waiting for her to give birth. Besides studying daily, Zhang Heng would go up the mountain to bring his cousin food. It was while doing so that he accidentally ran into Ruan, who then pestered him, claiming she had saved his life. Zhang Heng had originally planned to explain everything to Ruan, but that day happened to be the day his cousin was giving birth, and Ruan was skilled in medicine. Fearing something might happen to his cousin, Zhang Heng brought Ruan up the mountain.

Zhang Heng lied to Ruan, saying his cousin had been tricked into getting pregnant by a scumbag. Fearing the villagers would find out, he had drowned her in a pond and then hid her in this place to give birth. After the birth, he brought her back and made up a random excuse to fool the villagers.

Ruan Shi didn't doubt Zhang Heng's words and immediately helped her cousin deliver the baby. However, the baby was too large and in an awkward position. During delivery, she suffered heavy bleeding and ultimately died of hemorrhage. Zhang Heng was heartbroken. Ruan Shi comforted him for a long time. They quietly buried her body in the mountains. Zhang Heng then considered taking the child in. After all, the child was his and her cousin's only blood. Ruan Shi felt sorry for Zhang Heng and his child, who had lost their mother at birth, so she decided to help him raise the child.

Zhang Heng also had his own selfish motives. He wasn't particularly fond of Ruan, and the reason he was with her was simply because he wanted someone who could help him take care of his children. He couldn't just stay home all day to take care of the children, and Ruan was the best choice.

[Not only did Ruan know the child's origins, but the key was that she was soft-hearted and liked him, making her the perfect scapegoat.]

[Ruan was merely someone he had brought in to help raise the child. As for Zuo Tang, he was of noble status. By being with him, he could leverage Zuo Tang's influence to continuously rise to the top. He had been hitting the abacus beads so hard that they were about to break in someone's face.]

The best thing was the cousin who died in childbirth. She became his beloved white moonlight, a place that always remained in Zhang Heng's heart, and he could not forget her. It was precisely because she was his white moonlight that she could not be used by Zhang Heng. Otherwise, she would have become a pawn in his pursuit.

Zhang Heng didn't allow Zuo Tang to get pregnant because of his and his cousin's child. He wanted to support their child to ascend to the throne and become the only legitimate son in the mansion. He wouldn't allow anyone to compete with this child for position or inheritance.

Zhang Heng schemed to force Zuo Tang to take contraceptive pills constantly, preventing her from getting pregnant. He also stated that he would not take concubines, causing Zuo Tang and the Zuo family to feel guilty about him. Later, he would take the child in, claiming it was from a branch of the clan, and that he wanted to raise it by his side and take care of it until the end of their lives. At that time, the Zuo family, feeling guilty about Zuo Tang's infertility, would not do anything to the child, and might even provide him with extensive care.

Zhang Heng's abacus beads were really good.

Ruan Shi did not object to Zhang Heng's decision. After all, she had raised the child for several years and had developed feelings for him. Naturally, she also hoped that the child would have a better and more promising future, and Zuo Xiang's support was the best option.

Ruan Shi was no better than Zuo Tang. She was also completely deceived by Zhang Heng without realizing it, and even had to help Zhang Heng and the child with their schemes. Ultimately, both of them were pitiful women, believing that Zhang Heng loved them deeply. In reality, Zhang Heng loved no one but himself, and his so-called "white moonlight" was nothing more than a result of deep guilt.