GBP Chapter 406 The Tragic Queen 4
Chapter 406 The Tragic Queen 4
"You! I really don't know what to say to you." As he spoke, the emperor touched Jiang Chunxi's belly curiously, "Did the child bother you today?"
"No," Jiang Chunxi smiled gently, "The child is very well behaved, there are only a few fetal movements, and he didn't bother me."
"Your Majesty, Doctor Cheng has already told you, right?" Jiang Chunxi said with a happy expression, "The child in my belly is the emperor's son. Your Majesty, are you as happy as I am?"
"I am more than just happy. I am so ecstatic that I want to announce it to the world," the emperor said with a look of ecstasy on his face. "Queen, once this child is born, I will have a successor. Over the years, I have been anxious and depressed because of the issue of having an heir. You know best. After all, I only dare to reveal my true thoughts in front of you."
"I believe that Your Majesty will definitely have many children in the future," Jiang Chunxi said, "Your Majesty is just late in having children. Now that I am finally pregnant, I believe that the concubines in the harem will soon frequently report good news. Your Majesty should visit the harem more often during this period."
The emperor was slightly startled.
What the Queen said made sense. He had only thought that he had been poisoned by a secret drug before, but the Queen was pregnant now. In addition, he had not found any traces of Chinese medicine in her body, so it was possible that he was just delayed in having children.
"What the Queen said makes sense," the Emperor took his hand away from Jiang Chunxi's belly, "It seems that I really need to visit the harem more often in the future, so that everyone can enjoy the love equally, but I may have to put the Queen in a difficult position."
"After all, if I go to other concubines' palaces more often, I will have less time to accompany you. But I promise you that you will always be the most important in my heart. No matter which concubine's palace I am in, my heart will only think of you and miss you."
"Of course I believe in the emperor," Jiang Chunxi said with a look of trust, "You and I have been married for so many years since we were young. How could I not know how the emperor treats me? As long as the emperor's heart is with me, I will be satisfied and will never have the slightest jealous thought. After all, I don't want to hold the emperor back. I want to be the virtuous queen in the emperor's mind, so as not to disappoint the emperor's love for me."
The Dog Emperor is good at telling lies and Jiang Chunxi is naturally no worse than her. Look at how sincere her eyes are when she speaks. The Dog Emperor must be feeling very pleased with himself at this moment.
The emperor was indeed very pleased with himself at this moment, but at the same time he despised Jiang Chunxi's stupidity.
The emperor did not like simple women, because his mother was a simple and stupid woman, otherwise she would not have been so favored at the beginning, but still lost her life due to someone's scheme.
But it was a good thing that her foolish husband died, otherwise he would not have caught the empress dowager's eye and become her legitimate son. Then, under the empress dowager's plan, he became the crown prince.
The empress dowager was the queen of the late emperor. She lost a child due to someone else's scheme when she was young, which resulted in the loss of her fertility. That's why she wanted to raise someone else's child, but the empress dowager was unwilling to raise someone else's child for free.
But she was unwilling to let the Queen Mother use such a cruel method to kill the mother and save the child. She felt that even if she raised someone else's child, there would always be hidden dangers.
So the six-year-old emperor became a prince without a mother, and he caught the empress dowager's eye.
After the emperor ascended the throne, the empress dowager took the initiative to go to the temporary palace. She had been fighting with people in this palace for her whole life. After finally adopting her son to become the emperor, the empress dowager only wanted to go to the temporary palace to enjoy a peaceful life. She was really unwilling to stay in the palace any longer.
Therefore, in the past two years, the Queen Mother only returned to the palace from the temporary palace during the New Year and other festivals.
The emperor accompanied Jiang Chunxi for lunch and then left. When night fell, the emperor came to Concubine Li's palace.
"Why did His Majesty come just now?" Imperial Concubine Li did not bow to the Emperor, but said in a coquettish and unhappy tone, "I sent cakes to His Majesty, and I thought His Majesty would come to my place earlier, but I didn't expect His Majesty to come to my palace at this time."
"I came to see you as soon as I finished my government affairs," the emperor said, pulling Concubine Li into his arms, "Besides, I came here as soon as it got dark, so I didn't let you wait for a long time. Isn't it unreasonable for you to blame me like this?"
"I am unreasonable, but what can Your Majesty do to me?" Imperial Concubine Li put her arms around the emperor's neck. "Does Your Majesty want to punish me and stop favoring me?"
"How can that be possible?" The emperor pinched Concubine Li's nose with a smile, "If I don't favor you, who else can I favor? After all, among all the concubines in the palace, only my beloved concubine can enter my heart. My love for you has always been the same and has never changed."
"Humph! That's better," Imperial Concubine Li said complacently, and then she started to act coquettishly, "Your Majesty, I want to have a child."
Then Imperial Concubine Li repeated what Jiang Chunxi had said: "I think what the Queen said makes some sense. Maybe the Emperor is just late in having children, and now that the Queen is pregnant, it definitely means that the Emperor is finally having children."
"Anyway, I don't care. You must come to my palace more often in the future."
It is definitely unrealistic to ask the emperor to just come to her. Even if the emperor is willing, Concubine Li is unwilling. After all, she does not want to become the target of public criticism. The target should still be borne by the queen alone.
Concubine Li is a smart woman. She wants the emperor's favor, but she is unwilling to take the risks that come with favor. That's why Jiang Chunxi has not been pregnant. Plus, she has a good father. Otherwise, she would have been schemed against countless times when she was in the prince's mansion. How could she still look so naive and stupid now?
Although Concubine Li is not afraid of other people's schemes, she is also afraid that two fists cannot beat four feet. If the concubines in the harem knew that she was the apple of the emperor's eye, they would definitely unite to scheme against her.
By then, no matter how much the emperor wanted to protect her, he probably couldn't do it. After all, the former dynasty and the harem were one, and even an emperor could not decide for himself sometimes, unless he held great power. But the emperor had only been on the throne for two years, so how could he hold great power?
Therefore, when the news of the Duke of Zhenguo's death in battle reached the court, although the emperor wanted to make her the queen, he did not dare to depose her directly. The most he could do was to use a sinister method to kill Jiang Chunxi.
But that bitch Jiang Chunxi was really lucky. She was pregnant and thus escaped the disaster.
"Okay, okay, I promise you, I will come to your palace more often in the future," the emperor naturally had no reason to refuse, "After all, what I want most is to have a child with you, and only the child you give birth to is what I look forward to the most."