The empress is pregnant, and the emperor's incense continues

Facing Meng Wenyao's clear eyes, Li Heng suddenly wondered whether he had misunderstood Meng Wenyao. He tried: "It really has something to do with the eldest lady. If not Miss Meng, what did you eat by mistake?"

"How is that possible?" Meng Wenyao immediately interrupted Li Heng's conjecture and said seriously: "The time my face was swollen, I went back from dinner in the eldest lady's room. I didn't even drink a sip of tea when I got back to the room. If Whatever I ate, I ate at the eldest lady’s place. It’s really only the eldest lady who knows what happened.”

"The imperial concubine must be anxious now. Your Highness wonders if I should tell the imperial concubine the truth."

Li Heng pretended to think for a while and said: "The eldest lady is your aunt, how could you stab her in the back? The imperial concubine has great blessings, so she will probably be fine."

He turned back to look at Meng Wenyao and said seriously: "There are eyes everywhere in this palace. If you do something, you must tell me first and I will help you deal with the aftermath."

Meng Wenyao blinked her big eyes and said innocently: "Your Highness, don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble."

The two looked at each other and laughed tacitly.

There was a lot of excitement in Hanguang Palace all day long. The imperial concubine applied medicine and drank the medicine, but her face showed no signs of swelling at all.

"Who is it? Who is plotting against me!"

The palace maid Qing'er who was massaging the concubine's head tried her best to hide away. Her ankles were already red and swollen. She didn't know what was going on. If the concubine found out, she would definitely be dead.

The entire Hanguang Palace was shrouded in gloom, and the imperial concubine's nanny, Ye Ye, added: "Your Majesty, I remember that Miss Meng's face was red and swollen before she entered the palace."

"You mean I have the same disease as her?" the imperial concubine asked suspiciously.

But after thinking about it carefully, she still felt that something was wrong. The imperial concubine added: "I heard that Miss Meng had a high fever and had a bump on her face. Now I just have a swollen face and no fever. They are not necessarily the same disease. If they are the same The imperial doctor has already said so."

When the matter reached a deadlock, Grandma Ye suggested: "What I said makes sense, but now that I can't find the cause of the disease, I might as well call Miss Meng over and ask her about her situation at that time."

The imperial doctor could not find the cause of the disease and did not dare to use medicine indiscriminately. The imperial concubine had no choice but to invite Meng Wenyao over.

Without leaving a stick of incense, Meng Wenyao arrived at the imperial concubine's bedroom. Before she could salute, the imperial concubine said eagerly: "I heard that you were sick before and your face was red and swollen, but did you touch something unclean?"

She had expected to find Meng Wenyao at the imperial concubine's meeting, but she didn't expect it to happen so quickly, and the Hu family was about to be hated by the imperial concubine. Meng Wenyao suppressed the joy in her heart and said respectfully: "Go back to the empress, everything is fine with me during the day. I will be in my mother's yard at night." After having dinner there, I went back to my room and applied ointment under the service of my mother's maid. Then I woke up with a fever and my face was swollen."

This is equivalent to clearly saying that it was Hu's maid who did it. The imperial concubine threw the jade Ruyi out of her hand and said through gritted teeth: "Hu! How dare she!"

After inviting Meng Wenyao to the side hall, Grandma Ye asked in a low voice: "My Lady, do you think it was Mrs. Hu who found out that her daughter was going to be a concubine for His Highness the Fourth Highness? She was unhappy for a moment, so she took action to harm you."

"Who does she think she is? If she hadn't withdrawn the concubine, would the palace have chosen her daughter? Then Meng Wenlan was promoting her by being a concubine to the fourth prince. Go ahead and let Hu into the palace. It's really contrary to her wishes. She did."

The Hu family in the Meng Mansion was busy sorting out the internal affairs. The fourth prince's wedding was approaching. Meng Wenyao was finally going to marry from the Meng family, and she was also released from confinement.

Now she was wholeheartedly looking forward to Meng Wenlan's engagement with the fourth prince as soon as possible. When she heard that someone from the palace was inviting her, she immediately thought that success was Meng Wenlan's business. She was so happy that she entered the palace without having time to change her clothes.

When she arrived at Hanguang Palace, she happily handed out rewards to the palace officials. When she walked to the imperial concubine and saw a screen, her mind suddenly cooled down.

Why is it that the imperial concubine has to face her through a screen when receiving her? Has the marriage changed?

"My wife, Mr. Hu, is here to see your empress."

No one answered from behind the screen. Only Grandma Ye came out from behind the screen and looked at Mrs. Hu condescendingly: "Mrs. Hu, who gave you the courage to drug the empress?"

Mrs. Hu's smile suddenly froze on her face, and she stammered: "Mommy, what are you talking about? How come I don't understand."

"Humph!"

"Ms. Hu, you agreed that Miss Meng would marry the Sixth Prince, but you were worried that Miss Meng was really favored by the Sixth Prince, so you gave her a disfiguring ointment. Now that you heard that Miss Meng wants to be a concubine to the Fourth Prince, so You were unhappy and drugged the imperial concubine, right?"

Grandma Ye took a step forward and said something, and every word struck Hu's eardrum, making her brain dizzy and unable to think.

She tried her best to maintain a decent smile, and humbly defended: "My wife did not poison the second young lady, how could it ruin her appearance? She is already healed!"

As Mrs. Hu spoke, she recalled what Grandma Ye had just said, and suddenly said: "What, the imperial concubine is also poisoned?"

The smile on her face froze, and then she thought of what Grandma Ye had said before, and her face instantly turned pale, and she said in disbelief: "Lan'er wants to be the concubine of the Fourth Prince?!"

"What are you pretending to be? If you didn't know this, would you be able to drug the imperial concubine?"

After a brief panic, Mrs. Hu immediately calmed down. She once thought that Meng Wenlan poisoned Meng Wenyao. Now that the imperial concubine was also poisoned, it couldn't be Meng Wenlan. After all, Meng Wenlan had never entered the palace.

Then there is another possibility.

"It's Meng Wenyao. She didn't want to marry the fourth prince, so she deliberately poisoned herself. After entering the palace, she was cured by the imperial doctor. She resented the empress, so she poisoned her."

This is completely possible. Grandma Ye's gloomy face was confused for a moment, and she sneered: "Really? Second Miss Meng is in the side hall now. Go and invite her over, and you two, mother and daughter, can confront each other."

Before Mrs. Hu could figure out what was going on, why her daughter had become a concubine, and she had become a poisoner, she saw Meng Wenyao kneeling down next to her.

"Mother."

"Why are you here?!"

Mrs. Hu heard a hint of panic in her own voice, and wanted to scold her like her aunt, but then she heard Aunt Ye continue: "Miss Meng, your aunt said that you poisoned yourself, and then she What's your explanation for poisoning the imperial concubine?"

Meng Wenyao raised her head in confusion and met Hu's sharp eyes. She was so frightened that she immediately sat down on the ground and said with a pale face: "Mother, why are you?"

"You dare to say it's not you? You don't want to marry the sixth prince, you drugged yourself and wronged your aunt. You and your aunt are the best at pretending. Do you think that the imperial concubine will be deceived by you like me? The imperial concubine has already found out everything , please explain clearly how you administered the medicine, otherwise the Meng family will not be able to protect you!"