Childbearing system: The royal family is shocked to see their offspring wither away!

"Hurry up and send someone to Yongzhou to ask about it... Jiang Zhao hasn't received any news in a long time."

The Queen Mother sighed as she spoke.

"Yes."

"My son will definitely send someone to check over there to see what the situation is like."

But the emperor felt heavy-hearted.

If Jiang Zhao showed signs of improvement, Chen Zhining would have happily sent him a letter long ago.

Since it has been so long since I sent any letter, there must be no sign of improvement, so there is no letter.

Otherwise...how can I tell the emperor in the letter...that Jiang Zhao is still in a state of dying? The emperor would be very angry.

But unexpectedly, a letter came from Yongzhou in the evening.

"Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince Jiang Dezhao is showing signs of passing away."

"!!!"

"Old Nine..."

After the emperor saw it, he was shocked, angry, sad, and so angry that he fainted.

When he woke up again, he saw the Queen and the Queen Mother looking at the Emperor anxiously.

The two of them asked the emperor at his bedside, "What happened to you? Why did you become like this suddenly?"

"..."

The Queen Mother and the Empress naturally did not see the secret letter.

The secret letter had already been kept by the sensible Li Haitang.

The Emperor was already like this when he saw the secret letter. I wonder how heartbroken the Empress Dowager and the Queen would be when they saw this secret letter.

It's hard to say whether the Queen Mother would die at such an old age.

And the queen is also very sick.

If anything happened to the two of them, the emperor would have to kill Li Haitang.

Li Haitang does things... fairly safely.

The emperor thought to himself, and then he smiled awkwardly at the Queen Mother and the Empress, "This... is nothing, nothing."

"..."

"Why are you hemming and hawing like a rat?!"

"Is it related to Old Nine?!"

The Queen Mother was a perceptive person. She immediately pressed the Emperor, "If it has anything to do with Old Nine, tell us as soon as possible!"

"Now that he has become like this, we know it! If he really has something wrong, then we...we can go to Yongzhou to check on him right away!"

What do they say? Don’t they have to see Lao Jiu for the last time?!

The Queen Mother didn't dare say this because the Queen was right beside her.

But the queen understood it very well.

Sure enough, after the Queen Mother finished speaking, the Queen burst into tears and cried silently, which was very distressing to see.

How could the emperor dare to tell the empress dowager and the queen at this time? You know, there is no real news of death yet, and both the empress dowager and the queen are in poor health.

He had no choice but to be vague and fool around for the time being. He planned to send someone there to investigate the situation thoroughly and then report the situation to the Queen Mother and the Queen.

If it really doesn't work...they can only go to Yongzhou.

See Laojiu for the last time and say farewell to him.

However, as the emperor, he absolutely could not go to Yongzhou, so he could only ask the empress dowager and the queen to make another trip to Yongzhou to see Lao Jiu off.

Thinking of this, the emperor felt irritated, and the anger in his heart grew even greater.

I wish I could strangle the third and fourth brothers to death right now!

"...Don't worry, mother, queen, I'm really fine."

"I was just reviewing memorials for a long time, and my liver was too angry. I fainted for a while. I was really just tired..."

"What the imperial physician said was all lies. He said he fainted because of anger. That was all lies. He was just lying to you!"

"I am just worried that my health is not good. If I die, you will all have to rely on the imperial physician... So, I just want you to persuade me to take a rest."

"...Oh, if that's the case, you should go back and rest."

"..."

After finally persuading the Queen Mother and the Empress to go back, he read the secret letter over and over again.

The more I look at it, the colder my heart becomes.

The secret letter was sent by the emperor's secret guard sent to Yongzhou, so the news was absolutely reliable.

It actually said...it actually said that Jiang Zhao was about to die.

Just a few words caused great harm to the emperor.

The secret guards were naturally trained by the emperor with great difficulty, and they were extremely careful and meticulous in their choice of words and sentences.

If they were not really going to die, they would never say that.

The emperor's tears gradually moistened the paper.

He couldn't help but think of the few memories he had with Jiang Zhao when he was young.

At that time, Jiang Zhao was not recognized by the Queen as the youngest son. He was just an ordinary ninth prince, born to an ordinary palace maid.

In addition, there was a grudge between himself and the queen because of the palace maid Chen Xingduo, so he also disliked Jiang Zhao, the child born by Chen Xingduo.

Since childhood, he never liked Jiang Zhao and was not close to him. When he was very young, Jiang Zhao was even bullied by other princes... At that time, the emperor even acquiesced.

The queen would only be happy if he abused Jiang Zhao and had no good relationship with him.

At that time, the queen was very ill and even became depressed at one point because of the matter of her youngest son.

The emperor felt guilty and had no feelings for his son, who was only a few years old and was born not long ago, so he neglected him.

It was normal for people in the palace to flatter and flatter the powerful and look down on the weak. When they saw that the emperor did not like the ninth prince, they also began to dislike him.

The food was sometimes hot and sometimes cold, and we might not even have enough to eat. There was no charcoal fire in the winter and tattered clothes in the summer.

The other princes would get tired of eating all kinds of pastries every day, but the Ninth Prince might only eat them once every ten days or half a month. This was in the imperial garden. When the palace maids and eunuchs replaced the old pastries, they would give a piece to the Ninth Prince. If there was anyone who wanted to humiliate Jiang Zhao intentionally, they would take a bite first and then give the rest to Jiang Zhao.

Jiang Zhao was an ambitious child when he was young. He felt that he could not live like this any longer, so he tried every means to find a way out.

Facts have proved that smart children are not bad. At that time, he was studying in the study room and wanted to work hard to show his knowledge, just to make the emperor and the empress discover that he is a good child, to pay attention to him, and let him live a good life.

Once, when he was reviewing memorials in the imperial study with three ministers beside him, the Ninth Prince ignored Li Haitang's dissuasion, rushed into the imperial study, and recited a long Thousand Character Classic to him.

At that time, the Ninth Prince was only four years old. At the age of four, he could recite the Thousand Character Classic fluently and even recite it backwards, which was already very impressive.

Especially since the emperor has not done much to train this...not-so-famous ninth prince.