The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 360 Murderous intention has arisen

However, Qin Rou didn't know that the death of Concubine Bila was really an accident! Of course, it wasn't such a pure accident.

She had such a guess, which could only mean that she had caught the right line, but some uncontrollable and unspeakable accidents occurred in the process.

The news of the Fifth Prince's illness reached the Queen's ears and also spread to the concubines in the harem. Everyone in the palace knew that the Fifth Prince's crying and the eyes of the people in the harem were all on the only two princes in the harem.

The Fifth Prince was just born, and the Emperor gave him the name "Baoqing". Even a fool could understand the meaning of such a name. Especially since the Fifth Prince was raised in the Yanxi Palace, he was within the reach of the concubines in the palace.

The Empress and the concubines in the harem were aware of the Fifth Prince's illness. With the Empress's vague and silent connivance, the news spread throughout the Xianfu Palace, especially to the west side hall at the rear palace, where Concubine Bila lived.

Unfortunately, the servant had another word to say. He complained, "You said that our concubine was already carrying the rumor that she would bring bad luck to the emperor. Although the queen suppressed it and no one in the harem mentioned it, think about the second prince, the second princess, and now the fifth prince. What's worse, the prince in the concubine's belly was also miscarried. The second prince is the queen's legitimate son..."

When the servant said this, he paused, and then asked the palace maid beside him in a panic: "The Queen is virtuous, but this is about the late Second Prince. Does the Queen really not mind at all? Especially now that the Fifth Prince is sick again, it's such a coincidence!... Is there any way for us, the concubine, to survive? Will we die together?"

The servants said that people were in a state of panic. The more they were in it, the more they knew the malice. They were the servants who served the concubine closely. When they walked out of the West Side Hall, the attitudes of the palace people and their vague embarrassment were subtle!
But all of them added together were enough to make such short-sighted servants like them feel terrified and uneasy. Sanqiu and the others were almost certain that everyone in their palace was implicated.

They just want to live, they don't want to die! They just don't want to die for their master. If the concubine is alive, every day she lives will remind the queen that the second prince died suddenly, and it was because of the concubine Bila's hard life, even if there is only a one in ten thousand possibility, even if it is just a possibility of wrong killing.

But the queen still didn't want to let it go. The queen had too much pain in her heart. The second prince died in an unclear way, and the queen quietly endured it. But the queen had to vent her anger, and Concubine Bila was a good fuse.

She was destined not to live.

Perhaps Sanqiu and his servants also vaguely sensed this. In order to protect themselves, they deliberately mentioned it in front of the concubine's bed, without any reservations. What good end could a concubine who was disliked and hated by the queen have?
All six palaces are under the control of the queen.

Concubine Bila was in a daze. She had just suffered a miscarriage and before she had recovered, she fell down and hit her stomach.

New injuries lead to old injuries! He is already very weak. If he is taken care of carefully, he may live longer. He wants to live a few more years, but now his body is not well, and he hears his personal servants talking about it. He is shocked and frightened, panicked and terrified, hurt and afraid. His emotions are so excited that his whole body is cold, and the blood that has stopped flowing out again.

When Sanqiu and his servants were about to find out, they were terrified. After all, Concubine Bila was their master, and if she had done something wrong, they, as servants, would have to bear most of the responsibility.

Especially now that the concubine was in a state of intense emotion because of them, she hurt herself again. Sanqiu asked Xiaohuanzi to run out to find the imperial physician, but when he saw Concubine Bila's straight and hateful eyes, Sanqiu suddenly calmed down.

At that moment, a rebellious idea popped up in her mind. Why not just let the concubine die like this! Death settles all debts. The Empress resented the concubine. Without the concubine, the culprit, the Empress would probably not take such small minions like them seriously.

Sanqiu somehow stopped Xiaohuanzi who was about to ask the queen to invite the imperial physician. In the puzzled eyes of the two, Sanqiu was out of character and stopped respectfully serving the concubine who she always served respectfully. Her eyes flickered, and she didn't know what she felt. She felt that it was difficult to speak, but the other two servants could hear it clearly. "The concubine... I'm afraid she hates us." Sanqiu said, "If the concubine comes back, we won't have a good ending. I'm afraid it will also affect our family."

Sanqiu's heart was shaking with fear, and his body was trembling badly. Looking at the hatred in the concubine's eyes lying on the bed, he saw this clearly.

So he was confused and stopped moving until time slowly passed and the hatred in Concubine Bila's eyes turned into fear and then into pleading.

It was only a few minutes! But it felt like a year, as if it was a century.

“Xiao Huanzi,” Sanqiu called softly, “Go and ask the Queen quickly, go quickly…” Sanqiu said in horror, “The concubine is in trouble, the concubine is bleeding again.”

After Sanqiu finished speaking, Xiao Huanzi hurriedly ran out of the palace to seek help from the imperial physician. After running for an unknown amount of time on the palace road, she finally encountered the phoenix sedan chair of the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager.

"How dare you!" Aunt Suma scolded. "How dare you, a servant on duty, so flustered, to offend the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager's carriage."

Xiao Huanzi was in a panic, and she didn't expect that she would bump into the two great Buddhas, the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager. At this moment, her life was already half gone. "Grand Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, spare me. I am a servant of Bila, the concubine of Xianfu Palace. The concubine suddenly had heavy bleeding and it seemed that the bleeding would not stop. I came to ask the Empress to appoint a doctor to treat my concubine."

The Empress Dowager frowned. Who is Bila, the concubine? However, this hemorrhage is very familiar. Many women who are pregnant, giving birth, or have miscarriages will die if they are not properly taken care of.

The Grand Empress Dowager remembered that there was a concubine in the palace who was about to have a miscarriage. The Emperor and the Grand Empress Dowager disliked her. She was not a smart woman and could not protect the dragon fetus. Even if the baby was born, it would die young.

The Empress Dowager chose to watch from the sidelines; as far as the Empress Dowager knew, the Emperor did the same. And within a few days, she had a miscarriage.

After all, her belly was precious. The Empress Dowager closed her eyes and opened them again, and ordered: "Su Ma, after all, she was a concubine who was pregnant with an imperial heir. You go and take a look in person and take charge of it."

When Aunt Su Ma heard the order, she said, "I obey your command." She casually ordered a young eunuch to go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to ask for the imperial physician, and Aunt Su Ma went back with Xiao Huanzi.

The master had mentioned Bila Concubine once or twice, and Aunt Suma knew what to do. The Empress Dowager mentioned the heir to the palace, the rumor, and Bila Concubine, and she also sighed to Aunt Suma: "She is indeed unlucky, and looks like she has a short life."

At that time, Su Ma, the old slave who had served the princess personally for decades, understood instantly that the Empress Dowager had already decided to kill her.

If not today, then tomorrow!