Chapter 786 I Won’t Save You This Time (29)
Chapter 786 I Won’t Save You This Time (29)
Yan Caiyue stood in the yard, looking forward calmly. She said nothing more, waiting for the other party to show up.
Although he didn't know why his whereabouts were exposed, since he had been discovered, the secret guard felt that there was no need to hide any longer.
"Mi Twenty greets Aunt Yan!" A deep voice suddenly sounded, and then a man in black appeared in front of Yan Caiyue like a ghost.
He knelt on one knee with a respectful attitude, but there was a hint of arrogance in his eyes.
It makes sense. The guards around the emperor were all selected and promoted by him personally. Even though their backgrounds were not good, their status was indeed much higher than that of slaves like himself.
Now that he can "kneel" in front of me so respectfully, it is already a great honor for me.
Speaking of the name "Aunt Yan", Yan Caiyue's heart was slightly shocked.
It felt so familiar and yet so strange. No one had called her like that for a long time.
It has only been a year since I left the palace, but it feels like it happened in my previous life.
After carefully looking at the man in front of her, Yan Caiyue suddenly remembered something and asked, "Mi Twenty, are you Mi Eighteen's younger brother?"
Mi Ershi obviously didn't expect Yan Caiyue to ask this. After a pause in his expression, he nodded and replied, "Yes, we are brothers."
"You get up first! With my current status, there's no need for you to be polite." It was the secret guard who came out. The rules were strict, so without Yan Caiyue saying anything, Mi Twenty stood up even though he was unwilling.
Yan Caiyue sighed lightly and asked him to get up first.
But after taking a look at each other, I found that he was quite similar to Mi Shiba.
Mi Shiba was the secret guard that served Concubine Xiao before she fell from power. She had met him several times.
At that time, Mi Shiba was always taciturn, but he was very skilled and loyal to Concubine Xiao.
She vaguely remembered that Mi Shiba had mentioned that he had a younger brother who also served in the Secret Guard and was ranked 20th.
"How is your brother doing recently? Who is he protecting now?" Yan Caiyue asked subconsciously.
As soon as she said this, she realized that she seemed to have asked too many questions.
After leaving the palace, her temperament seemed to become more casual, and she would even blurt out questions that she shouldn't ask.
Mi Ershi's expression suddenly became heavy, and his voice was a little suppressed: "My brother... is gone."
"Gone?" Yan Caiyue didn't react for a moment. After she understood what he meant, she frowned unconsciously and said, "With your brother's skills, how could he just disappear like that?"
Mi Ershi was silent for a moment, as if he was considering whether or not to answer. However, he thought that those things were already in the past, and the Lord had not specifically asked him to keep silent, so it should be okay to say it!
Finally, he said, "Aunt Yan, you were not in the palace this year and you don't know what happened in the palace. I think you should know something."
According to Mi Ershi's narration, the timeline went back to the middle stage of Concubine Xian Liu Yunqing's pregnancy.
Speaking of which, the virtuous concubine's journey to pregnancy was not smooth.
In the early stages of her pregnancy, she was deeply affected by the tragic news of her brother’s sudden death, and her fetus was unstable.
From the fourth month of her pregnancy, she was almost bedridden and had to take pregnancy-preserving medicine every few days.
When she was five months pregnant, Liu Yunqing suddenly had spotting and the situation was critical.
In order to save the baby, the imperial doctors had to use moxa fumigation in advance.
Even so, Liu Yunqing's body was still too weak and she could have a miscarriage at any time.
Liang Song "has high hopes" for Liu Yunqing's pregnancy.
He even sat in front of her bed, caressing her belly, and promised her "affectionately": "Yunqing, you must be well. Now you have the highest position in the harem. When you give birth to a son, I will make you the queen, and our son will be the crown prince."
These words undoubtedly gave Liu Yunqing great motivation and made her more determined to keep this baby.
She did everything she could to ensure the safe birth of the child.
After receiving this letter, the Liu family fully supported her pregnancy.
All the good things were sent to the palace one by one as if they were free.
Of course, these words, coupled with this behavior, had already spread within the palace as soon as they were first spoken.
There has never been a lack of open and covert struggles in the palace, especially now that the standards for becoming the queen have been laid out in the open by Liang Song.
Liu Yunqing's pregnancy has aroused the jealousy and calculations of all the concubines.
Especially Concubine Yan, who is in the limelight and has similar "preferences" as Concubine Xiao.
Liang Song took her into the harem when Liu Yunqing became pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to serve in the emperor's bedchamber.
She is as her title suggests, a pretty and graceful person. And just like Concubine Xiao, she doesn't like gold or silver and prefers hairpins with velvet flowers.
At the request of the "deceased" Concubine Xiao, I'd like to add a digression: She said, "Don't I dislike gold and silver? When I was with him, he was nothing and almost starved to death. Where would he get gold and silver for me?
It’s not that I like velvet flower hairpins, but at that time I made these hairpins for people in the palace in exchange for daily necessities, and I wore them purely because I was poor.
He was so good that even if he later became powerful and gave me these things, I had no choice but to accept them in order not to make him sad. I was really blind. "
The interruption is over, let’s continue with the previous article:
When Mi Ershi said this, Yan Caiyue suddenly interrupted and said, "This is not right! The emperor is different from other princes. He started his own residence very late. How could someone who grew up in the palace do such a thing?
If he really values Concubine Liu Xian's baby, he would never do such a thing. Then, when the prince made this statement, didn't he just set a living target for the women in the palace? "
Mi Ershi didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement with Yan Caiyue's guess.
"The child was not born!" Yan Caiyue now knew the result, because if the child was born, the appointment of the crown prince and the enthronement of the queen would have been announced to the world long ago.
"It's born!" Mi Ershi's expression was somewhat gloomy. He took a deep breath and said, "It's a freak baby! The baby was stillborn, and it has a huge head, a small body, and a purple body. It also has no anus."
"What?" Yan Caiyue exclaimed.
Liu Yunqing is a fairy-like person who is out of touch with the world. How could she give birth to a baby like that?
"Fetal poison!" This was the biggest possibility Yan Caiyue could think of. "Could it be that in order to protect the fetus, she ate something she shouldn't have eaten?"
Mi Ershi did not answer this time. After all, there were too many and too complicated things sent to Concubine Liu's palace, and there were many people behind the scenes, even some members of the Liu family were jealous of Liu Yunqing, so it was impossible to check.
Of course, there are also some people who don’t want to investigate at all and only want to “punish” the criminals.
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