Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 160 The Empress' Miscarriage

Lin Qingran followed the Concubine Gui to the Shouhe Palace. The Empress Dowager arrived one step earlier than them. Lin Qingran waited with her in the side hall after saluting.

Next to it is the queen's bedroom, and there are imperial doctors coming in and out.

After a while, a court lady came to report that the queen had a miscarriage.

The Empress Dowager got up and went to the next door to look, and then the Concubine Gui stood up, and Lin Qingran only followed to the door of the bedroom. There were already many people in the room.

The empress has already woken up, Lin Qingran only heard in a few words that the bumping empress Zhaoyi had been locked up, and bumping off the emperor's heir in the queen's womb, the result can be imagined.

The Concubine Gui also only went in to take a look. The Empress Dowager was talking to the Empress in the inner room. What is the emperor's reaction.

Back at the Palace of Harmony, the Concubine Gui looked at Lin Qingran, "You should go back early, too." She didn't say anything else.

Lin Qingran left the palace, the sky was dark, and Shao Ziyu was waiting for her at the gate of the palace. At this time, the queen's miscarriage was not known outside the palace. Lin Qingran always felt that something was wrong, so she got on the carriage and asked Shao Ziyu, "What are you doing?" It is said that the empress was lying in the inner room when she entered the palace yesterday, and her voice was very weak, if the pregnancy is unstable, what is she going to do in the garden." If you are not feeling well, you should lie down and rest.

"Is it Lu Zhaoyi who bumped into her?" Shao Ziyu pondered for a moment.

Lin Qingran nodded, "This Lu Zhaoyi also entered the palace through draft two years ago, and his promotion is quite fast." After the emperor's wedding, among the four concubines in the harem, only the good concubine who gave birth to the princess was named, and the other three concubines The position is vacant, and the competition is not usually fierce.

"Conferring Zhaoyi before giving birth to a child and a half daughter, it really attracts people's attention." Shao Ziyu said thoughtfully, in his opinion, the empress's child may have already fallen in love when he entered the palace yesterday ,Oh no.

If the child can be kept, why would the empress make fun of this, her body is so weak that she insists on going to the garden to meet Lu Zhaoyi, and then give birth, if it is just to pull Lu Zhaoyi down, it is definitely not worth it, unless the child is already Gone, or, already bad.

"You mean." Lin Qingran was startled, and soon thought of what Shao Ziyu was thinking, and then she was stunned, "No wonder the concubine told me not to go to the Shouhe Palace, nor to greet the empress. "In the harem, those who dare to sit in town are all aware of these things.

"Those things already have some clues, and I will present them to the emperor at that time." Shao Ziyu doesn't care about what the palace wants to deduce, and it is enough to do enough things.
Two days later, Shao Ziyu checked out the evidence given to him by the queen, and presented it to the emperor, and sent the other copy to the Shouhe Palace, which was regarded as an explanation.

Those decoctions and medicinal materials contain medicines that can easily induce miscarriage. Where these things come from and who gave them to the queen is beyond the scope of Shao Ziyu's investigation. What he can do is to find out the source of these medicines. The medicinal herbs were brought in from outside the palace.

Lin Qingran only knew that after Lu Zhaoyi was demoted, she was thrown into the cold palace directly, and that she offended the queen and caused the queen to have a miscarriage and lose her heirs. This is a serious crime.

Fast forward two months, it was June, and the palace held a lotus appreciation in the summer resort. The wives of all families received invitations, and the empress dowager and the noble concubine, who had not been out of the palace for many years, also went. Madam has no reason to refuse.

Here in the main house of the Shao family, Sister Ning drank the soup, and Lin Qingran told her, "Greetings to the Concubine Gui at that time, if you meet Princess Xiuhe, do you know what to say?"

"If Princess Xiuhe mentions Eldest Brother, just say she doesn't know about it." Sister Ning said intelligently, "Mother, don't worry."

Lin Qingran straightened her clothes, "It's because she asked you about it, it would be best if she didn't mention it."

Lin Qingran's worries were not superfluous. She became interested after the Princess Princess of the North mentioned it to her three years ago. This Xiu and the eldest princess did pay too much attention to Da Lang. There was no reason to let Da Lang enter the palace, and Xiu and the princess never came to Shao's mansion again. Xiu and Princess Dachang, who have reached the age of marriage, have not promised marriage so far. Even if Lin Qingran thinks too much of herself, she has to guard against it.

After tidying up, I took Sister Ning to the Mountain Resort. They, the female relatives, arrived on the same boat, and after getting off the boat, they went directly to the vicinity of the stage.

Lin Qingran saw the second sister and Xiao Qi, the children were in their teens and still young at heart, Xiao Qi took Ning sister to visit the lotus pond, while Lin Qingran sat down with the second sister and chatted for a while.

Lin Qingyan also mentioned it unintentionally, "Xiao Wu, do you know who the eldest princess is getting married to?"

Lin Qingran shook her head, and Lin Qingyan named two families, "This Concubine Li wants to marry her daughter well." The two families mentioned by Lin Qingyan have no worse family background than the Shao family.

The princesses born by the first emperor are somewhat weaker in terms of title. The first emperor has been dead for so many years, so how can this Xiu and the eldest princess be the emperor's aunts, not real aunts, so how much help can they provide.

If there is no help, you will still be angry with the Lord Shang, and those with a little ability are unwilling. This is one of the reasons why the marriage between Xiu and the eldest princess has been delayed until now.

"Concubine Li only has one child, so it's only natural to think that she will marry well." Even the requirements for this election seem to have not been lowered at all.

After strolling around, Xiaoqi came back with Sister Ning, and the Empress Dowager and the others also arrived. All the female relatives here were going to pay their respects. Lin Qingran took Ning and her second sister to pay their respects.

The Empress Dowager looked at the Concubine Gui with a smile, "How many years have we not left the palace?"

"It's been ten years." The imperial concubine thought for a while, the time has passed, and she doesn't remember the time, and when she goes out of the palace occasionally, it seems like she has gone to a strange place.

The empress who was accompanying her looked good. Hearing what they said, she said with a smile, "If the emperor's grandmother and empress dowager like it, they can come out for a walk often."

"You young people like it. We are old and can't walk anymore." The Empress Dowager smiled and shook her head.

After waiting, everyone sat down, ordered the score, and the performance began on the stage.

During the period, they all sat and watched the opera, and the luncheon was served here by the palace servants. Once the opera ended, it was already afternoon.

Eleven or twelve-year-olds went to the lotus pond together, and Sister Ning followed Lin Qingran all the time. When she met many wives, she would give her a few extra glances.

It was said that the young lady of the Shao family had been weak since she was a child, and she was still born prematurely, and her soups and medicines kept coming, because she had never brought them out. At the time when the rumors were fierce, some people even said that the young lady of the Shao family was lying on the bed all day long. .

Looking at it now, she is a very well-behaved girl, who looks a bit like her mother, and her body is not as weak as in the rumors, and she can't be seen as sick or weak.

When she was about to leave the Summer Resort, Lin Qingran walked away for a while to talk to other wives, and when she came back, Ning Jie had an extra brocade bag in her hand.

"Mother, she left after stuffing something, and I didn't even have time to push it away." Sister Ning was just sitting here waiting for her mother to come back, when a court lady came over and directly stuffed the brocade bag to her, saying that it was given by Xiuhe Princess, and she still Before he could react, he left.

Sister Ning followed her before, without this chance, Lin Qingran only walked away for a long time, and now she is busy delivering things. God knows how long Xiuhe and Princess' people have been staring at them.

"What is it?" Lin Qingran asked her to open the brocade bag, and there were two purses inside. Lin Qingran knew it was for two people just by looking at the purse. Sister Ning took it out and took a look. One of them is embroidered with a character of Ping, and the other is a character of Ning. It looks like a pair, but the one embroidered with the character of Ping looks like a sachet for a man.

Lin Qingran took the brocade bag in her hand, gave Ning a few words, went to the attic where the noble concubine was, and handed the brocade bag directly to the noble concubine.

Lin Qingran went there for an incense stick, and when she came back, she took Ning and her son and left the Summer Resort first. Naturally, the court lady reported this scene to Xiuhe Princess.

Hearing the maid's reply in the small attic, she immediately stood up, "What did you say!"

"Princess, Mrs. Shao took the brocade bag you gave Miss Shao to the Concubine Gui." The maid repeated while kneeling.

Xiuhe sat there with a gloomy expression, and the people waiting around did not dare to make a sound

One month after going to the Summer Resort, the marriage between Xiu and Princess Dachang was finalized, and it was said that it was the second master of Qinhou's mansion, or the empress dowager who made the decision.

Princess Xiu and the Eldest Princess were married at the age of sixteen, so it was too late. After the marriage was settled, the wedding date was chosen in the spring of the next year, which was enough time to complete the completion of the Princess Mansion.

Lin Qingran breathed a sigh of relief when she learned about this, she had no way to say anything to the princess directly, and she was not qualified to teach the princess not to give and receive privately, only through this method, the imperial concubine would know There is a way to talk to the Empress Dowager. As for whether the eldest princess will hate her when she finds out, Lin Qingran can't care so much, maybe she can still watch such nonsense.

It was already July, and the dog days came. Lin Qingran received a letter from the Lin family, and learned that her father had already submitted his resignation. These days, she was pretending to be sick at home to cater to the weather of the dog days. As a daughter, she learned of this , Naturally, I want to go and visit.

It happened to be a rest in the academy, so Lin Qingran took all three children with her, and sent Guanyan to the Ministry of Punishment to tell Shao Ziyu to go directly to the Lin's house in the evening, packed a lot of things in the carriage, and set off for the Lin's house.

Lin Wenxi was ready to resign a long time ago. At his age, he has been an official for more than [-] years, and he has already passed enough. Seeing him drinking tea, Lin Qingran was very happy, "Father, when are you going to resign?" Take your mother out for a walk."

"When the emperor agrees, I will take your mother out. You are all married and established, and your mother and I will not worry about you." Lin Wenxi poured tea, held it in his hand, and sighed, "Your mother has been married for the first ten years in this life. For a few years, I was busy giving birth to your group of children, and in the next ten years, I was busy raising you, so I didn’t go out. When I first married your mother, I promised her. I didn’t expect to wait until now to have the opportunity to go. .”

"It's not too late. Going now may be another experience." Lin Qingran was worried about something else, "Father, can the emperor agree to you so simply?"

"Why not, the emperor is looking forward to this." Lin Wenxi has taught the emperor for six or seven years, and he can figure out what his nature is. They are old and old, and if they don't know each other, they will go on their own, are they waiting to be chased away?

(End of this chapter)