When a passerby becomes a princess

Lin Qiu lived in the palace, and every day he got up early to pay respects to Empress Chu, and Empress Chu would give birth in a few days, and the greetings of concubines in general stopped long ago, only Lin Qiu kept going since the day he returned to the palace. Never stopped.

In fact, there was another person who came to the palace every day to pay respects to Empress Chu, but it was her niece Zhen Chu.

Zhen Chu is the daughter of Empress Chu's eldest brother. She is already in her 30s. She doesn't look like Empress Chu at all.

In the past, Empress Chu's sister-in-law came to take care of her childbirth, but since her brother passed away, her sister-in-law often lived in the Buddhist hall. Such things as childbirth are dirty things, and her sister-in-law naturally refused to take care of her. Sending her own daughter to help, and it is impossible for Zhen Chu to leave her husband and children to live in the palace, so she has to enter the palace every day when the palace gate opens, and only leaves the palace when the palace gate closes.

At noon this day, Lin Qiu went back to Jingliu Palace for lunch. Empress Chu was a little tired after talking to him all morning. She leaned on the couch and asked the palace servants to massage her swollen legs. Zhen Chu sat beside her and chatted with her. .

"I heard my aunt say that the princess is not talkative, and I thought she was an arrogant child." Zhen Chu said while peeling the small walnuts: "Now it seems that she is a very sensible doll, and she is also smart. Talk less."

Empress Chu nodded with her eyes closed, and said slowly, "It is indeed transparent."

Zhen Chu put the peeled walnuts in the hands of Empress Chu, and said casually: "I see, aunt, you taught him how to manage accounts. Do you want him to take over the harem in the future?" In fact, Empress Chu was just talking to Lin Qiu. The account of the internal money, but every time the account is reconciled, Zhen Chu will go outside for a while. She saw a lot of account books from a distance, and thought that Empress Chu was teaching Lin Qiu how to manage accounts.

Empress Chu held the walnuts with her hands and did not move. After a while, she opened her eyes, looked at her and said, "Why do you ask such a question?"

Zhen Chu felt a little guilty when she saw her, and said after a long while: "I'm not, I see that he is a man, so I asked that. After all, there are women in this harem. If the prince really doesn't want to marry, you can marry him in the future." How about it?!"

Empress Chu just looked at her and said nothing, but thought about the family of her niece in her heart, and finally stopped at Zhen Chu's sister-in-law and a cousin. These two women were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and they were not married yet. In all likelihood, what Zhen Chu asked was for these two women.

This is the reason why foreign relatives can monopolize power. As long as there is a queen who can favor the harem in the family, relatives who can't beat all kinds of sticks will gather in various ways to erode the harem and get involved in the court.

The reason why Liang Honglie respected and loved Empress Chu was not only that Empress Chu was his married couple when he was poor, but also that Empress Chu never put anyone in the harem, never pointed fingers at the affairs of the court, and never even stood up for her natal family. any official position.Empress Chu's father was a county official. Liang Honglie was named the head of the state after he ascended the throne. He wanted to give him another official position, but was rejected by Empress Chu because his father's talent was not enough. The life of a rich man, even her two elder brothers.

Some people say that Empress Chu is unreasonable, but they don't know that Empress Chu has nothing to do with it.Not to mention that her father and two elder brothers have no talent, no virtue, shallow knowledge, and are easy to be used by others. If they really have the right, they will be framed every minute.He only said that as an emperor who crawled out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, how could he be willing to be restrained by a woman.

The emperor loves loyal ministers and lonely ministers, and also loves orphaned daughters. Unless his throne is unstable and needs the support of his wife's family, he will never want a queen with a strong wife's family.

Although Liang Honglie's harem is pitifully small compared to other emperors in the history of Daliang Kingdom, there are sixty or seventy people who have positions. With so many women, only one empress and two noble concubines can raise children. The strange empress has three sons and two imperial concubines, one for each, is there really no handwriting by Liang Honglie?Of course, now Liang Honglie broadcasts the seeds and says something else.

It's a pity that Queen Chu can figure it out, but her family members don't.When her father was still alive, she tried to send several of her cousins ​​to the palace many times, and her two elder brothers also wanted to marry their daughters or nieces to several princes, but she rejected them all one by one. And severely reprimanded him, unexpectedly after a few years, someone turned his attention to his son again.

For a while, Empress Chu was a little discouraged, and stopped eating after a few mouthfuls of lunch, and then took a nap without digesting.

Who ever wanted to sleep halfway, but Empress Chu suddenly yelled "Ouch", but she was about to give birth.

The birth of a queen is definitely a major event for a country. As early as the early stage of pregnancy, the imperial doctor was by her side all the time, and a few months ago, there was a nanny who was dedicated to delivering babies for the Tian family. It was prepared a long time ago, so although there was no warning before, everyone was in order.

Liang Honglie was discussing the tax rate adjustment with Chen Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the Imperial Study Room. When he received the news of Empress Chu's birth, he didn't care about other things, so he hurried to Kunning Palace and forgot Chen Jian in the Imperial Study Room. no.

Liang Xi and Lin Qiu were taking a nap, they were also called up, put on their clothes and rushed to Kunning Palace.

At the same time, there was an undercurrent in the harem, and countless eunuchs, maids, and nuns were running, passing the news to each other that the queen was about to give birth.

Outside the gate of Kunning Palace, the restless Liang Honglie didn't know anything about it. Wang Qian next to him received a message from a young eunuch. He frowned slightly and whispered something in Liang Honglie's ear. Liang Honglie's eyes suddenly changed. cold.

Wang Qian felt cold and hurried away with the little eunuch.

Sure enough, can't you bear it?Hearing the cries of pain coming from the room, Liang Honglie felt even more irritable.

When Liang Xi and Lin Qiu arrived, more than an hour had passed since the first labor pain, and Empress Chu had not yet given birth. Although she had given birth to three children before, even the youngest, Liang Xi, was almost 20 years old. Now, she is a nearly 50-year-old pregnant woman, and her physical strength is not as good as that of young women. This kind of constant labor pain is really exhausting, and it will be dangerous if she cannot give birth for a long time.

A little eunuch walked over carefully holding a bowl of medicine, Liang Honglie frowned and asked, "What is this?"

The little eunuch quickly replied: "This is the labor-inducing medicine given by the imperial physician."

Liang Honglie frowned even tighter. This oxytocin drug is usually not used until the end, because the effect of the drug is too strong. Even if the child can be delivered smoothly, it will still cause harm to the mother. Why did he use it so soon today.

Just as he was about to stop him, he saw the court judge rushing over, and said to the little eunuch, "Why haven't you taken it in yet?"

After the court judge finished speaking, he found Liang Honglie who was standing next to him, hurriedly came over to salute and said: "Your Majesty, the empress gave birth at an advanced age, I am afraid that the time will be too long, and the empress is weak, which may affect the dragon's heir, so... "

Liang Honglie waved his hand to interrupt him and said, "Okay, take it in."

The court judge hurriedly agreed, and asked the little eunuch to bring it in.

After a bowl of oxytocin, Queen Chu soon gave birth to the child, who became a prince.Although Empress Chu was a bit older, but because of the constant care by the imperial doctor, the child was still healthy, but the skin was wrinkled after birth, which is really not good-looking, but Liang Honglie was still so happy that he could not close his mouth from ear to ear.

However, Liang Honglie was not happy for too long.

After the room was cleaned up, Wang Yuanpan was able to enter to ask for Empress Chu's pulse, who knew that Wang Yuanpan's face turned pale with fright, and his whole body trembled to the point of falling apart.

"What happened?" Liang Honglie immediately noticed something was wrong with Wang Yuan's judgment.

"Emperor... Your Majesty..." The court judge fell to his knees with a thud, and screamed: "My lady...my lady... her medicine is out... something is wrong..."

"What?!" Liang Honglie kicked Wang Yuanjuan to the ground, and hurried to Empress Chu's bed, only to see that her face was pale, her lips were bruised, and sweat the size of soybeans was continuously flowing from her hair. "What's going on here?! Zixian, Zixian!"

Empress Chu half-opened her eyes in a daze, staring at Liang Honglie without moving. Before Liang Honglie thought that Empress Chu was tired, only now did she realize that her eyes were completely out of focus and did not respond to any sound.

"Come here! Come here! The imperial doctor!" Liang Honglie panicked, stood up and was about to rush out, but was pretended by the paralyzed Wang Yuanjuan. If Liang Xi was not there to support him, he might have rolled down on the ground.

Liang Xi was also very anxious, he pushed Liang Honglie away, picked up the court judge and yelled, "What happened to my mother? Is there something wrong with the bowl of medicine before?!"

Wang Yuanjue was grabbed by the collar by him, he rolled his eyes in shock and fear, and lost his breath. Fortunately, the imperial doctor at the back didn't see it right, so he hurried over to ask the queen for pulse in turn, and someone went to check the medicine residue, Finally, a person was recommended.

It turns out that there is a medicine in the oxytocin medicine that can relax the mother and relieve the pain during childbirth, but the medicine is three-point poisonous. It makes people fall into a psychedelic and cannot extricate themselves.Just now they checked the medicine dregs and found that at least [-] times of the medicine had been put in it, which cost as much as [-] yuan.

"Twenty times? Ten qian?" Liang Honglie put his hands behind his back, tried his best to restrain his trembling, and said coldly, "After taking ten qian, what will happen to a person?"

More than a dozen imperial doctors looked at me and I looked at you, but they all lowered their heads and dared not answer.

"Tell me, what will happen to my mother?" Liang Xi was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

The unlucky guy who was elected said tremblingly: "Back to the emperor, people who take more than ten times... will fall into hallucinations forever, and there is no possibility of waking up."

Liang Honglie only felt his eyes go dark, and he almost couldn't stand upright. Will his queen be so dazed forever, unable to wake up?

But at this moment, Wang Qian rushed in and whispered something in Liang Honglie's ear, but no one else heard it, only Liang Xi who was standing next to Liang Honglie heard it clearly.

Wang Qian said: "Your Majesty, just now someone caught a court lady who sneaked in, and found two pieces of paper that used to wrap medicine on her body."