Bystander

Concubine Qi hugged the Eldest Prince and forced the Eldest Prince to look at him, "Respectfully, what Han Guiren has in his stomach is not his younger brother, but his enemy. With him, Father will no longer only love you alone like now, nor will he love you like now." I only teach you alone, that child will not only take away the father, but also take away your position, you are no longer the only noble prince, you know?"

"Father won't play with me anymore?"

"Yes, your father will hold your so-called younger brother in his arms every day, teach him to write, ride horses, shoot arrows, and play with him every day, while you can only watch from afar."

The eldest prince pushed Concubine Qi away, "No, I don't want my father to ignore me, I hate my brother, I hate him."

Concubine Qi pulled the eldest prince and hugged her in her arms, "Good boy, my concubine will not let him come into this world, for you and for me."

Seeing that Han Guiren was about to give birth, but Concubine Qi never found a suitable opportunity. The emperor and the noble concubine took good care of Han Guiren. I thought that I had worked so hard to give birth to the first prince carefully. After narrowly escaping several times, who in this palace has helped me, who has really cared for me, why Han Guiren was born as a court lady can enjoy it like this.

One day, Concubine Qi was wandering in the imperial garden and saw Xiao Shengzi hurrying around with a bowl of medicinal soup. Concubine Qi curiously stepped forward and asked, "Eunuch Sheng, why are you hurrying with the medicinal soup? Could it be that the emperor is ill?"

"Back to your mother, this is the anti-fetal medicine given to Han Guiren by the imperial doctor. It was supposed to be taken by the maid beside Han Guiren, but for some reason today, the child didn't take the medicine on time, and he was worried about handing it over to others. It happened that the slave I went to the imperial hospital to prescribe two doses of calming medicine, and the imperial physician asked the servant to deliver them, but the emperor is still waiting for the servant, so I must be in a hurry." Xiao Shengzi replied respectfully.

"So that's the case, then give this soup to Bengong. Anyway, Bengong has nothing to do, so I just went to see Mr. Han."

"This..." Xiao Shengzi hesitated slightly.

"What? Are you afraid that I won't be able to poison you?" Concubine Qi was slightly annoyed, "It wouldn't be so obvious if I wanted to poison you."

"I don't dare. I thank my lady for her size. I thank my lady." Xiao Shengzi respectfully handed the soup to the maid next to Concubine Qi, "I'm sorry, my lady."

"Well, let's go back, I have nothing to do in the Palace." Concubine Qi took the maid to deliver medicine to Guiren Han.

Xiao Shengzi watched Concubine Qi go away, humming a little tune and leaving the imperial garden like walking with the old man.

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister's Mansion sent someone to deliver a message. My mother suddenly fell ill, and the imperial doctor Wang was helpless. I implore the emperor to allow all the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion with my concubine to save my mother." The imperial concubine suddenly broke into the imperial study and knelt In front of the emperor, it was very pitiful to cry until the pear blossoms were raining.

"The prime minister's wife has a serious illness, of course she needs to be cured, but right now, nobleman Han is about to give birth, so it's inappropriate that all the imperial doctors in the imperial hospital are gone..."

"Your majesty, you think that my father is the imperial court and has devoted himself to the emperor for many years. Please save my mother. "The imperial concubine can't cry." Han Guiren's life is not here yet, and the imperial physician is checking the pulse every day, and there is no sign of childbirth recently. experience, is it feasible to leave the two imperial physicians and associate hospitals?"

The emperor wanted to refuse, but it can be seen that the noble concubine looks so pitiful, and the prime minister reluctantly agreed, "My concubine, where is this? Of course I know the merits of the prime minister." Sheng Zi follows you to inform the Imperial Hospital that you pick two people to stay in the palace just in case, and the others follow you back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, how about treating the Prime Minister's wife?"

"My concubine thanked Lord Long En."

Afterwards, the imperial concubine took all the imperial doctors from the imperial hospital to the prime minister's mansion in a mighty way.

Not long after, Han Guiren suddenly suffered from unbearable abdominal pain, and the court lady hurried to ask for the imperial physician. The imperial physician took Han Guiren's pulse, touched his stomach, "Hurry up, hurry up, go and ask for the midwife, Han Guiren may be premature."

There was an explosion in Han Guiren's palace, and the maids and eunuchs were in a hurry, but fortunately, the supervisor beside Han Guiren remained calm, "Xiao Dengzi, hurry to find the midwife, and Xiao Guizi, hurry to invite the emperor, saying that the nobleman is about to give birth. "

When the emperor arrived, the midwife had been delivering Han Guiren for a long time, but Han Guiren was still not seen giving birth smoothly, only hearing Han Guiren's heartbreaking cry in the room, "Your Majesty, are you here? Your Majesty, I can't stand it!" Yes, Your Majesty."

"I'm here, I'm here, and I'm right outside the door." The emperor was so anxious that he paced back and forth outside the door.

"Your Majesty, this concubine can't take it anymore, save this concubine." Han Guiren yelled louder and louder, and the more he yelled, the more painful he was, until the emperor's heart was about to burst.

"Who delivered the baby? Where is the imperial physician? Why did you hear the adults shouting, where is the child?" the emperor reprimanded.

The Imperial Physician Wang next to him replied, "Going back to the Emperor, the other imperial physicians have all gone to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Only Imperial Physician Qiu and I are left. Imperial Physician Qiu has already returned to the Imperial Hospital to prepare a decoction that is conducive to production."

"What's the situation with nobleman Han? Why hasn't this child come out for a long time?" the emperor asked.

"Returning to the emperor, this has something to do with personal physique, and there is no other way for me at the moment. The imperial physician Qiu and I have always been good at decoctions, but not good at giving birth to women..." Imperial physician Wang suddenly kowtowed, "Please forgive me."

The emperor kicked over "trash."

Physician Wang immediately got up and said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, minister, minister..."

"Say something quickly, hesitating, what time is it?" The emperor was upset and yelling loudly in the room.

"According to the logic, nobleman Han will not be back for delivery in two months, and there is nothing in the imperial hospital to check the pulse every day. The imperial physician Qiu and I are even more cautious about the soups and medicines that nobleman Han takes."

"Get to the point."

"I just smelled genkwa in Han Guiren's room, and this genkwa has the effect of inducing abortion. I think that Han Guiren may have accidentally taken genkwa, which led to premature delivery."

"Seriously." The emperor grabbed Wang Taiyi's clothes.

"I don't dare to speak nonsense." Wang Taiyi, who was already afraid, was even more frightened by the emperor's mention.

The emperor clenched his teeth, with bulging veins on his forehead. If the knife in his eyes could kill people, the person in front of him might turn into meat paste.

"Your Majesty, use your strength, you've already seen your head."

But hearing a roar in the room, the whole room fell silent, as if Han Guiren's seemingly absent breathing could be heard in the room.

"What's going on? What happened to Han Guiren?" The emperor asked anxiously outside the door.

"Go back to the emperor, the empress has given birth." The midwife nurse replied.

"Really, that's great," the emperor finally let go of his hanging heart. "Then why didn't you hear the cry of the child, hurry up and take it out for me to see."

Nanny held the infant baby and handed it to the emperor, and immediately knelt down on the ground with her hands folded under her forehead, "The second prince died young."

The emperor looked at the baby in the swaddle, and the child's eyes were closed.His face was black and blue, and there were still some blood stains on the lanugo. When he touched the child's small face, it was still warm. The emperor held the child tightly in his arms, trying not to let the tears flow out of his eyes, "Check, Let me find out where the daphne flowers come from."

The imperial concubine suddenly appeared at the door, just in time to see the maids and eunuchs kneeling on the ground, and the imperial doctor kneeling beside him trembling, the emperor was angrily reprimanding the maids and eunuchs beside Han Guiren for being trash, calling the guards to drag everyone out The stick is responsible for thirty.The noble concubine is a smart person. Seeing this situation, she already understood in her heart seven or eight "Your Majesty, the concubine came back with the imperial physician, and the concubine came back late." "The imperial concubine kneels in front of the emperor" is the concubine's fault. It should not only leave the imperial physician and the imperial physician behind." Physician Qiu, I implore the emperor to punish me."

The emperor ignored him, but said to Xiao Shengzi, "Xiao Shengzi, check, find out what Han Guiren ate and drank these past few days, and who did it, check and let me find out."

"promise."

It was night, the emperor sat high in the hall, and below him were the imperial doctor, the midwife, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were beaten half to death beside Han Guiren, and many concubines in the palace, such as noble concubines and concubines Qi, were sitting on both sides.

"Your Majesty, after being tested by all the imperial physicians, Han Guiren did take Daphne Flower. A small amount of Daphne Flower was found in the anti-fetal medicine that Han Guiren drank today, but according to the records of the Imperial Hospital, no one asked the Imperial Hospital for it. After passing gendarme, there is nothing missing in the palace. The gendarme in Han Guiren's decoction should be brought in from outside the palace. From the records of the imperial hospital, it is impossible to find the person who gave the medicine. "Xiao Shengzi will come from the imperial hospital. The news was reported to the emperor one by one, and the concubine Qi who was next to him straightened her back unconsciously when she heard that there was something wrong with today's soup.

"Supervisor mother, I remember that the people in your palace took all the food Han Guiren took. Who took the soup and medicine that Han Guiren took today?"

"Back to the emperor, Xizhu in the palace usually takes the medicine, but today Xizhu has disappeared, and the servants have never seen her until now. Today's soup medicine was sent by the concubine Qi, and she told Han Guiren to drink it while it is hot. When it gets cold, it will be bitter." The supervisor's nanny replied tremblingly.

"Can Concubine Qi have this matter?" The emperor asked Concubine Qi like interrogating a prisoner.

Concubine Qi immediately replied, "Your Majesty, the decoction that Han Guiren took today was indeed sent by my concubine, but my concubine never murdered Han Guiren. What happened today is obviously someone who wanted to frame you, killing two birds with one stone. I beg your majesty to investigate."

The concubine next to her interjected, "Yes, Your Majesty, Concubine Qi is also a person with children, so she shouldn't do such vicious things. If Concubine Qi said so, then it really is..." The concubine covered her mouth in good time.

On the other side, a lady said in a strange way, "That's not necessarily the case. Some people are just worried that their children's status will not be guaranteed, so maybe they can do something?"

The emperor stared at Concubine Qi who was kneeling in front of him, "Say it yourself."

Concubine Qi straightened her back, "Your Majesty, if the concubine really did what happened today, the concubine could have done it more secretly, how could it be so obvious..."

"It's called black under the lamp. Concubine Qi's wrists are so high." Said the concubine next to her.

"Shut up, it's your turn to talk," Qi Concubine glared at her fiercely, and then said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, it's true that the concubine delivered the medicine to Han Guiren today, but this concubine took it from Eunuch Sheng." here."