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Xue Liuhua was startled for a moment, and asked, ”How long has it been since the emperor last visited Consort Fu?”
The palace maid's gaze was slightly contemptuous as she said with a smile: ”It's been several months. In the end, those who come from Qi Nation are all concubines from other nations that don't receive much love from the emperor.”
”Is that so?” Xue Liuhua calmed down a little, ”Does Your Majesty not like the Consort Fu?”
”Of course,” the palace maid answered, ”The person sent by the Qi Nation must be some sort of meticulous worker, and the prince he gave birth to also has the blood of another country. This marriage originally involved the sending out of an unfavoured princess to do the deed, so who would really take her to heart.”
Xue Liuhua tidied up her clothes indifferently, ”That's true, may the heavens bless me from giving birth to a princess, if not I would not be willing to let my daughter marry and go to another country.”
The palace maid softly said, ”The Empress need not worry, even a princess needs to be extremely favored. The Emperor will definitely not send the Empress's daughter out. Besides, the Empress will definitely give birth to a prince in the future, so how could it be a princess?”
Xue Liuhua felt very comfortable listening to her, ”That's fine, the Queen has always disliked me, and now that her prince has passed away and my prince is about to descend, she will definitely die from anger.
”The empress also knows that the empress relied on her son and daughter to give looks to the imperial harem. With the empress having a prince, there's no need to care about the empress anymore.”
”The empress is already old and perverted, so it would be a bit difficult to manage her harem, so there should be a new batch of people helping her,” Xue Liuhua said as she narrowed her eyes, ”After I give birth to the dragon child, I will go and have a good meeting with the empress in the Changchun Palace.”
”The Empress has an extremely high possibility of giving birth to a dragon. Back then, the Noble Consort Kang had the right to associate the harem.”
”After all, Noble Consort Kang's strength is limited and she was unable to achieve much,” Xue Liuhua laughed proudly. ”If I have the power of understanding harem, I would definitely not be an empty shell of an existence.”
The palace maid said with a face full of smiles, ”With one look, Empress isn't someone from the pond. She can definitely brighten the emperor's eyes.”
Xue Liuhua's lips curled up into a smile, and said: ”Has the Queen not woken up yet?”
”The crown prince passed away, and the empress passed out miserably several times. She had just woken up when she fainted again.”
”Sigh, the pain of losing her son is probably due to the loss of a few strands of hair,” Xue Liuhua used her fingers to twine her hair, ”The princess is currently accompanying the empress, then what about the emperor, has he ever gone to the Changchun Palace to comfort the empress?”
”The emperor only went once. Seeing the empress's grief-stricken look, he felt bad, but he hasn't gone there since.”
Xue Liuhua's heart moved, ”I keep having the feeling that the emperor doesn't love the crown prince that much. But when I saw that it was true, the emperor had not stepped foot onto the gates of Changchun Palace during the three days the crown prince was unconscious.”
The palace maid said faintly, ”The crown prince is really … Ordinary. ”
”Even the mediocre of a crown prince can make me a wise prince in the future,” Xue Liuhua felt a little fortunate amidst her sadness and said, ”At least we know each other. Help me go to the East Palace and burn some incense.”
”The Empress is kind,” the palace maid said with a smile. ”The Emperor is currently in the Imperial Study, so would the Empress send someone to deliver some ginseng soup?”
”You reminded me,” Xue Liuhua did not want to miss this opportunity, ”There are still no movements from the Consort Fu.
Li Xiuse saw Shouxiang return to the Palace with a depressed face, and anxiously asked: ”Have you sent the ginseng soup that I told you to send?”
Shouxiang shook her head in disappointment, ”When I went there, the Consort Hua's servant girl was already there. The Emperor first received the Consort Hua's ginseng soup and said that she couldn't drink anymore, so she asked me to send the Empress's bowl over to the Princess Poyang.”
Li Xiuse's eyes dimmed, and spoke in a hoarse voice: ”Consort Hua has to be a step faster than her in everything.”
Ru Yan sighed and wrote in her book, ”Your servant is at fault.”
Li Xiuse said with a smile. ”It's already very good that you can think of it, but in the end, it's still best to let the emperor know of my intentions. It's also very good that I can send over the Changchun Palace to the princess.”
Seeing the sadness in the Consort Fu's eyes, Shouxiang immediately comforted, ”Empress said that the Princess Poyang has always been doted upon by the Emperor, and would even thank the Empress in front of the Emperor.”
Li Xiuse laughed silently and asked, ”Is the Queen still not awake?”
”No, the empress's too sad. I'm afraid it'll take a long time to calm down.”
Li Xiuse was also a little sad, ”Children are the flesh and blood of their parents, but now that the flesh and blood in their hearts have been gouged out, how can their hearts not ache?”
”Actually, the empress still has a princess by her side, and she has not lost all her reliance,” Shouxiang said as she stole a glance at Consort Fu. You still have to think about your future more or less. ”
Li Xiuse was startled, she raised her bitter smile: ”How can this child have something like that?”
”Empress,” Ru Yan poked her shoulder and suddenly wrote, ”Do you know clearly in your heart why the Emperor has not come to the Joyous Union Palace for such a long time?”
Li Xiuse looked back at her, and nodded after a moment of silence.
Shouxiang replied anxiously, ”It is still not Consort Hua. If Consort Hua is not here, the emperor will have to come to the Empress's side every day.”
”That's not it, even if there weren't any Consort Hua s, the emperor wouldn't come to my place,” Li Xiuse felt even more sour, ”In the end, it's someone from the Qi Nation, the emperor is still worried about his identity, afraid that I'm a spy from the Qi Nation.”
Shouxiang opened her mouth in shock, ”How could that be? The Empress is the related princess, how could the Emperor suspect that the Empress is a spy?”
”The so-called Marriage Princess is merely the daughter born of a few lowly concubines,” Li Xiuse's heart was as clear as a mirror, ”Furthermore, I am not an honest princess, I am only one of the many daughters of the Prince of Great Qi.”
Ru Yan looked at Shouxiang seriously, and wrote, ”I don't care about the details, my identity as a foreign country, the crux of my problem.”
”There is no way to change the fact that I am a person of the Qi Nation,” Li Xiuse sighed in disappointment. ”Even the Emperor probably won't let me give birth to his prince.”