Glory all the way

Chapter 303 Conspiracy
"The Eldest Prince is getting worse, and the Crown Princess is also in a hurry. That's why I want you to bring your own children into the palace, so that the Eldest Prince can enjoy your health and keep the Eldest Prince safe."

In Ninghua Palace, the queen said to Bai Yingluo kindly.

After the sixth princess got married, every time Bai Yingluo entered the palace, she would specially come to Ninghua Palace to have a chat with the queen, and every time the sixth princess sent a letter or brought a gift, Bai Yingluo would entrust the queen to hand over her share, so, Over the past few years, the Queen and Bai Yingluo have become very familiar with each other.

But what Bai Yingluo didn't know was that her own mother, Liu Shi, and the queen had met several times before, and it was precisely because of Liu's kindness that the queen loved Bai Yingluo a lot more.

"As long as the First Prince recovers soon, the concubines and others are very happy to do something."

Bai Yingluo replied softly.

After leaving Ninghua Palace, Bai Yingluo took the wet nurse to the East Palace.

There was no cry of children in the main hall, but the palpitating silence still made Bai Yingluo sensitive to the unusualness.

The Crown Princess looked haggard. Although she had a smile on her face, she looked very reluctant. You didn't need to think about it to know why. Bai Yingluo felt the same way.

After kowtowing, and letting the Crown Princess take a look at Brother Yan, Bai Yingluo got up and went to the East Side Hall.

The second prince was wearing a brand-new jacket and trousers, and a glittering golden collar around his neck. Against the bright yellow silk cloak, he looked even more fair and handsome.

Brother Yan is a month younger than the second prince, but when put together, the two children seem to be about the same age. Lin Zhimei looked happy, turned her head and smiled at Bai Yingluo: "We are good sisters, and these two brothers are good friends. They were born wrong and wrong, in the future we should let them get close to each other. When you enter the palace in the future, you must bring your elder brother with you, so that they can see each other often. When they grow up, they will naturally help each other. .”

"Thank you side concubine for your kindness."

When Lin Zhimei said such words, it was naturally a compliment to Bai Yingluo and Yan Geer, but Bai Yingluo already had a grudge in her heart, so she naturally wouldn't take it seriously. Even so, she still thanked her sincerely.

When the two children were babbling, although the adults couldn't understand what they were talking about, they came and went face to face, and the two seemed to be chatting happily. They even moved their arms and legs from time to time, looking lively Extremely.

After playing for a while, the second prince seemed to be a little hungry, his mouth was pursed and he was about to cry.

Lin Zhimei called the wet nurse to come forward and hold brother Yan and the second prince to nurse respectively, while she talked to Bai Yingluo.

It was early winter, and the weather was getting cold, but there was no sign of snow at all. A gust of wind blew past, making people's faces ache. Lin Zhimei looked at the bright red charcoal fire burning in the charcoal basin, and said to Bai Yingluo in a low voice : "Prince, I'm afraid it will only be a few days."

With a jump in her heart, Bai Yingluo raised her eyes to look at Lin Zhimei, and she nodded affirmatively, "The princess concubine let the imperial physician keep it a secret, and she is not allowed to tell the emperor and queen, and even His Royal Highness the prince doesn't know, but just thinks that the eldest prince It's getting weaker and weaker."

Bai Yingluo would not find it strange that Lin Zhimei knew such news. After all, in the deep palace, everyone must have their own means and influence.

But Bai Yingluo heard something else from Lin Zhimei's words.

If the first prince dies, the second prince will become the eldest prince under the prince's knees, and, at present, the only child, one can imagine how many pairs of eyes will be staring closely at the second prince's side after this.

But in Lin Zhimei's words, there was no tension, the only thing mixed with it was a little excitement.

Bai Yingluo suppressed the displeasure in her heart, pretending to be confused and regretted, "I'm sorry for the eldest prince, perhaps, he shouldn't have been born in the royal family."

"you do not say……"

Lin Zhimei agreed, with a hint of joy in the corner of her eyes.

Chatting is also a kind of knowledge, one should agree with one another, one is willing to talk, and the other is willing to respond, the topic can be developed and deepened, but at this moment, Bai Yingluo is obviously a little perfunctory.

Lin Zhimei noticed sensitively that she couldn't feel the joy of seeing Bai Yingluo, and then lost interest.

Gradually, the two fell silent, only talking about the second prince and brother Yan when they were children.

Near noon, the courtyard became lively. Presumably, it was the ladies who had been invited to the palace for a banquet.

The female officer next to the crown princess came to invite her, Lin Zhimei and Bai Yingluo left the East Side Hall one by one, followed by the wet nurses who were holding the second prince and brother Yan respectively.

In the main hall, six wives arrived, each with their own children beside them. They were all two or three-year-old children. The boys were lively and the girls were cute, which added a little warmth to the originally cold main hall.

Looking around, only the second prince and brother Yan were still in their infancy, a strange feeling suddenly rose in Bai Yingluo's heart.

On the day when the female official from the Eastern Palace came to Zhuangyuan's mansion, Bai Yingluo had asked Liu Ying to inquire about the families that went to the palace for the banquet, and some of them had children under one year old, but today, none of them showed up.

Looking up at the princesses who greeted the wives with gentle expressions, Bai Yingluo glanced sideways at Lin Zhimei, and saw that there was also a hint of vigilance on her face.

Sitting down, drinking tea and talking, the wives all expressed their concern and wished the eldest prince, but the crown princess had no intention of carrying the eldest prince out for everyone to have a look at.

Looking back at the nurse, seeing her tightly protecting Brother Yan in her arms, Bai Yingluo gave her a comforting smile, and just as she turned her head, she saw the Crown Princess asking softly, "Mrs. Du, your son is asleep. ?”

Bai Yingluo nodded, and the princess said apologetically, "It's my fault that I was negligent. I only cared about making Rui'er blessed with your son, and forgot that he is still so young."

Bai Yingluo was about to say "no problem", but the princess turned her head and said to the wet nurse behind Bai Yingluo, "You can carry Young Master Du to the inner hall to rest for a while, the eldest prince's wet nurse will take care of you with you, let him Sleep well in bed."

You were dissatisfied, the princess glanced at Lin Zhimei, and asked cautiously: "If my sister is at ease, let the second prince go to sleep for a while, maybe with him around, the eldest prince will be happier if he has a playmate." Woolen cloth."

"With the Crown Princess, the concubines can't be more at ease."

Lin Zhimei's heart skipped a beat, but her response couldn't have been more straightforward.

Looking back at the wet nurse and nodding at her, Lin Zhimei instructed: "Take good care of her, don't let him disturb the eldest prince's sleep."

The implication is that the second prince is too lively.

The princess' complexion couldn't help but darken.

Seeing the two wet nurses carrying the second prince and brother Yan into the inner hall, Bai Yingluo and Lin Zhimei looked at each other with slight doubts in their eyes.

But under the eyes of everyone, the Crown Princess could neither do anything to the two children, nor could the two children do anything to the Eldest Prince. Bai Yingluo temporarily put down her guard and focused on the conversation between the Crown Princess and everyone.

At noon, the banquet was placed in the side hall.

"Rui'er has been extremely weak since she was born, so I had no choice but to come up with such a method. I'm really sorry. I only thank you with this cup of tea, water instead of wine."

The banquet began, and the princess raised the tea bowl in front of her and said to the ladies.

"The eldest prince is auspicious and has his own appearance. The princess and concubine don't have to worry too much. Children, who doesn't have headaches every day? It will be fine when it passes. You must relax."

"Yes, yes, an auspicious person has his own destiny, and it is his blessing that the eldest prince was born in the royal family, so nothing will happen."

……

The wives were chattering, and the concubines and concubines of the East Palace also responded. The atmosphere in the hall was very good, and finally there was a soft smile on the face of the crown princess, not as if they had just met So reluctantly.

When the banquet was halfway through, there was a little servant girl outside the palace gate who kept looking around, and after a while, a palace maid came in and walked behind Bai Yingluo and whispered, Brother Yan was crying so much.

After getting up and apologizing to the Crown Princess, Bai Yingluo followed the maidservant back to the inner hall of the main hall.

Brother Yan's little face was flushed red from crying, even in his mother's arms, he still cried a lot.

"what happened?"

Bai Yingluo patted Brother Yan's back distressedly and coaxed her, while looking back at the wet nurse and asking.

The wet nurse shook her head in a panic, "Ma'am, the servant didn't do anything, the young master was sleeping soundly, and suddenly he couldn't stop crying."

There was a faint fragrance floating in the air, Bai Yingluo turned her head and looked around for a week, and the maidservants around her also shook their heads, confirming that what the wet nurse said was true.

Bai Yingluo paced back and forth with Brother Yan in her arms, coaxing her son softly, but before she could finish coaxing Brother Yan, the second prince, who was sleeping, also started to cry, and then, the eldest prince also burst into tears.

Suddenly, there was chaos in the hall.

The Crown Princess and Lin Zhimei who rushed over after hearing the sound were full of heart-wrenching pain. They hugged the eldest prince and the second prince respectively, and coaxed them softly, but the cries of the three children seemed to be able to overturn the roof. Generally miserable.

After a while, the eldest prince's cry became weaker.

As if his throat was being choked, the eldest prince's face turned red, and his mouth was even more open, as if he couldn't breathe.

"Rui'er, don't scare your mother, Rui'er... the imperial physician, please send the imperial physician quickly."

Shouting in panic, the princess looked at the eldest prince who was gradually dying in her arms, her voice filled with infinite fear.

Several imperial physicians have been placed in the East Palace all the time, and they rushed over quickly to diagnose the eldest prince's pulse. The leading imperial physician Xu fell to his knees with a "plop", and said in horror: "Madam, the eldest prince has already gone Please forgive me."

"You dare to curse my son, come on, drag him out and behead him..."

Anxiously staring at Doctor Xu and yelling, the princess's tears fell from her eyes like broken beads, and she couldn't believe the way she looked at her son in her arms, "Rui'er, open your eyes and look at mother, look Look at my mother..."

The second prince and brother Yan, who gradually stopped crying in their mother's arms, lay on their mother's chest clinging to each other. Bai Yingluo raised her eyes to look at Lin Zhimei, and saw the same panic in each other's eyes.

The smell of conspiracy is gradually approaching.

(End of this chapter)