Quickly wear the born bad seed

Chapter 243 Loyal Maid Seven
The queen stood up subconsciously. After realizing her gaffe, her expression changed and she smiled, but the smile did not reach her eyes.

"This... could it be that she is pregnant? No, if she is really pregnant, it would be a great thing for the royal family. Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has no other children except for the two little princesses. If Yi Chongrong is really pregnant, then she can really be considered to be pregnant with a precious son." A concubine next to her said this while covering her mouth.

The Queen reacted quickly and immediately asked the imperial physician to come and take the patient's pulse. Then everyone looked at Liu Qingran's belly with concern.

Liu Qingran also became nervous and bit her lower lip tightly until the imperial physician withdrew his hand and asked several other imperial physicians to take her pulse together. Finally, she nodded affirmatively.

"Reporting to Her Majesty, Yi Chongrong is indeed pregnant, and has been pregnant for three months."

The Queen nodded with a smile on her face. "Come here, tell the Emperor the good news quickly. Yi Chongrong is really fine, but why did it take three months to find out? Didn't Yi Chongrong feel anything was wrong during this period?"

Liu Qingran lowered her head and said, "Your Highness, I have been feeling unwell since I was young. When I first became pregnant, I thought I was sick. It is also possible that I have never given birth to a prince or princess, so I did not realize that I was pregnant.

Your Majesty, I know nothing about pregnancy postures. In order to protect the prince and princess, I hope that Your Majesty can reward me with two experienced maids."

The queen pursed her lips and glanced at Yi Chongrong. She felt that this concubine should not be underestimated. She was pregnant for three months without saying anything, and only revealed it when her belly was about to grow bigger. Now she has asked two experienced maids to help take care of her. Haha... But even if she is pregnant, what can it do? Whether she can give birth is the most important thing.

"Sister, you are a blessed person. I just hope that you can make good use of this blessing and serve the royal family as soon as possible. When the emperor was selecting the concubines, he said that whoever gave birth to the first son would be the first to be named concubine."

As soon as the Queen finished speaking, the expression of Concubine Shu beside her changed immediately. Now there was only Sophie in the position of concubine. If there was one more, and she was a concubine with a son, wouldn't she be inferior to others?

Liu Qingran touched her bulging belly and smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, you are joking. The child has not been born yet, and no one knows whether it is a boy or a girl. But compared to the little prince, Chen Qi also wants a little girl more. People say that daughters love their mothers, and more importantly, daughters look like their fathers. Maybe the little princess will grow up to be exactly like the emperor."

The queen was still generous and decent. She gave out a lot of rewards and asked people to send Yi Chongrong away considerately. After all the concubines left, the queen's expression finally changed.

The nanny next to her also started to feel nervous. "Your Majesty, this is a good thing. The Emperor has never had a prince. There have been countless arguments in the imperial harem about this matter. Some even blamed the Empress for not being virtuous and generous. Now that a little prince is about to be born, I'm sure those people won't dare to say anything anymore."

The Queen looked at her belly which had not yet bulged, and smiled bitterly, "Since I gave birth to the eldest princess, my stomach has been still. I have taken so many abortion medicines, but it's a pity... I am not blessed. That's all. Being pregnant is one skill, and being able to give birth is another skill.

Besides, Yi Chongrong’s family background is average. Even if she gives birth to a little prince, it is still unclear whether he can stay with her to take care of him…” The queen did want to bring the child to her side to raise, but she was a little hesitant. After all, she was still young and might get pregnant someday. If she adopted the child, then this child would be Di Zi. Even if he was not, he would still grow up in her lap. As the queen, she certainly could not favor one over the other.

Whenever the queen thought that this child might take away her son's good fortune, she felt reluctant. However, if she did not raise this child, her position as queen would be somewhat unstable. If this prince was raised by other concubines, it would be like letting others take advantage of him...

The harem was in an uproar over Yi Chongrong's pregnancy. To be honest, they were quite fond of her, but unfortunately there had been no news. Especially Concubine Shu, who was the most favored one. But now she was pregnant for a long time and there had been no news. Even Concubine Shu was a little suspicious that she was infertile, otherwise why could others get pregnant but she couldn't? You know, she was three or four times more favored than others!

When the emperor learned that someone in the harem was pregnant, he was delighted and said, "This is a great joyous event. Come here, Yi Chongrong has contributed greatly to the birth of the royal heir, and she is to be named a concubine."

In fact, the emperor was quite generous to the women in the harem. He gave positions to the favored women and rewards to them. He never showed favoritism. Although he loved Concubine Shu, he still treated them equally.

It had not been long since Liu Qingran was conferred the title of Chongrong, and now she was directly conferred the title of Jieyu. Since the title was retained, it was equivalent to skipping a big level.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty." The Concubine Jieyu is also the head of a palace, and it doesn't matter whether the baby is a boy or a girl. If it's a girl, it's fine if she raises it herself, and she will probably get some rewards. But if it's a boy, she will have to be promoted to a concubine.

Rewards poured into Liu Qingran's palace like a stream. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also brought a large group of servants, as well as several experienced maids.

Linlang had already arranged everything when Liu Qingran just found out she was pregnant. She even asked someone to check on the pregnant nanny in advance. Unfortunately, none of the people sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were the right ones, so she immediately reported two more names and asked them to send these two people over.

The chief steward of the Imperial Household Department wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, raised his head and wanted to refuse tactfully. You know, these people were sent by the Empress. But when he saw her bright and understanding eyes, he swallowed the words that were about to come out. Never mind, those who can survive in the harem are not fools. They obviously know that there are problems with these people, so they deliberately don’t want them. If he forced them on them, he would probably offend Concubine Yi. So he immediately agreed with a smile and promised to send them over later.

After sending away the chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Linlang began to train the newly arrived palace maids. These people were found with great difficulty by her, all of them had clean family backgrounds, and had no connection with other concubines. While her grandmother was pregnant, Linlang also set up rules that no one was allowed to walk around the palace at will in the future, so as to prevent any ignorant palace maids from bumping into the empress. At the same time, they were not allowed to go out after the lights were turned off, and even if they went out, they had to go together in pairs and supervise each other.

After this operation, the atmosphere in the whole palace became solemn and clear. At least they were surrounded like a bucket, with neither a needle nor water able to penetrate. Everyone could not help but sigh that Concubine Yi was really good at managing her subordinates and keeping her palace strictly under control.

"Oh, damn that little bitch, I really underestimated him. He looked quite honest before, but I didn't expect that he was such a treacherous person behind the scenes. He got pregnant without saying anything, and it's already been three months, hehe..."