Chapter 42: Disfigured Palace Maid vs. Cold-blooded Emperor
"In that case, you should secretly go to Prince Duan's mansion and find a way to get the secret medicine. I don't need to tell you what to do next."

The Queen looked at Ruonan and said meaningfully.

Ruonan smiled faintly and bent down, "Don't worry, Madam, I understand!"

"Go, tell someone to clean up the floor!"

The queen glanced at the porcelain fragments on the floor, waved her hand, and turned into the inner room.

"Yes, Queen!"

Ruonan ordered people to clean the floor, then quietly left the palace and went to Prince Duan's Mansion.

……

Yongfu Palace!
Concubine Rou sat on a chair and kept eating pickles. She kept eating even when she vomited.

"Caiyue, you see, I also like to eat sour food. I am pregnant, right? Go and ask the imperial physician to check on me."

Concubine Rou touched her belly and said to Caiyue beside her with a look of surprise.

Caiyue felt very sad seeing the empress like this, so she walked up to her and took the pickle away from her.

The voice choked up as he said, "Your Majesty, please don't eat anymore. The prince will have some. Why torture yourself like this..."

Ever since she heard that the girl from Yuexian Palace was pregnant, the queen has been forcing herself to eat sour food, pickled cucumbers, sour plums...

It’s just because the Queen heard that pregnant women who are pregnant with a boy like to eat sour food.

But the queen was not pregnant at all, she was just forcing herself to eat.

Concubine Rou didn't listen at all. She pulled the pickled cucumber that Caiyue had pushed away in front of her and continued to force herself to eat it.

But after eating just two bites, she vomited with a 'vomit' sound...

"Hahaha, Caiyue, I vomited. I must be pregnant. Why don't you go get the imperial physician?"

Concubine Rou vomited all the food in her stomach and her face looked extremely bad, but she was smiling, and she was smiling very happily.

Caiyue cleaned up for Concubine Rou while crying and begging: "My Lady, please stop torturing yourself like this, okay?"

Concubine Rou ignored him and continued eating, but as she ate, she began to cry sadly.

"Why can that bitch get pregnant, but I can't. If I were pregnant, Chen Lang would definitely come to see me."

"Wow, wow, wow... Why can't I get pregnant? Why can't I get pregnant? Is it really because my health is too poor and I am not suitable for bearing children?"

"My queen, please don't be like this. The prince will have it, it's just not destined yet!"

……

Ye Beichen also heard about what happened in Yongfu Palace and his expression was complicated.

But he didn't say anything.

He just ordered the imperial kitchen not to send sour food to Yongfu Palace anymore.

Even though his feelings for Concubine Rou had faded, he still didn't want to see her torturing herself like this.

The news that Concubine Yao was pregnant and promoted to Imperial Concubine shocked countless people in the harem.

There was an unknown amount of broken porcelain in each palace, and every day the eunuchs and palace maids would go to the Imperial Household Department to get new ones.

The concubines in each palace were stimulated and started taking pregnancy-maintaining medicines.

Even the queen had to drink bowl after bowl of pregnancy medicine.

Although she had made up her mind to keep the baby in Yu Yao's belly, it would be better if she could give birth herself.

Zhongcui Palace!
Concubine De thought of her eldest prince who had died early, and she hid in her room every day, crying while holding the small clothes that the eldest prince had worn.

"Ah... My son, I really miss you. Can you come back to see me?"

Concubine De prostrated herself on the couch, crying heartbrokenly, tears streaming down her face.

A mother’s love is evident to all.

No one knew that Concubine De was sad.

Soon, a wave of vying for favor swept through the harem. The Imperial Garden and the only way from the Hall of Supreme Harmony to the Palace of Pleasure became places frequented by the concubines.

Some danced under the moon, some collected lotus dew in the morning, and some recited poems under the trees...

They are all the most beautiful postures.

No matter where Ye Beichen goes, he always meets beautiful women, which makes him very annoyed.

He raised his hand and pointed to a place not far away. "Who is that dancing under the peach tree?"

Lady Lu, who was dancing under the first month of the lunar year, was delighted when she saw that the emperor finally noticed her.

But she did not rush to come out, instead she danced more vigorously, and her dancing posture was so enchanting and touching.

With the hazy and dim moonlight, if you don’t know, you might think it’s a fairy that appeared from nowhere.

Ye Beichen sneered and ordered the people behind him: "Come here, drag the one dancing under the tree out and chop him up. Why is he dancing in the middle of the night? Who are you trying to scare?
"Pfft!"

Eunuch Fu couldn't help laughing out loud.

Then he ordered the eunuch behind him to drag Concubine Lu out.

Lady Lu was so frightened that she fell to the ground. She no longer dared to continue dancing and hurriedly came out from under the tree with a pale face.

Without waiting for the eunuchs to come forward and catch her, she rushed directly to Ye Beichen and knelt down, crying, "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life, I will never dare to do it again."

Ye Beichen stared at her with his eyes downcast, and said coldly: "It turned out to be Lady Lu. Lady Lu, why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and running here to dance?"

Lady Lu looked embarrassed. "I couldn't sleep at night, so I came here for a walk. I was so excited that I couldn't help dancing."

Ye Beichen curled his lips, his eyes full of sarcasm: "Since Miss Lu likes dancing so much, then keep dancing, and don't stop until dawn!"

After saying this, he left quickly without even looking at Lady Lu.

Eunuch Fu randomly pointed to a young eunuch who was watching Concubine Lu dancing, and then hurried to follow.

Naturally, Lady Lu did not dare to refuse, so she could only dance under the tree all night long with grievance.

His legs were so swollen from jumping that he couldn't walk. I heard that the palace maids around him had to find someone to carry him back.

There have never been any secrets in the harem, and the news was soon known to all the palaces.

Everyone was secretly laughing at Miss Lu.

Of course, no concubine dared to seduce Ye Beichen on the street, for fear of ending up like Concubine Lu.

Yu Yao naturally heard about it as well. She looked at the man in front of her who was feeding her grapes with a smile.

"Your Majesty is really unromantic. Lady Lu is a beauty after all. If you don't like her, you can just ignore her. Why punish her to dance all night?"

She laughed again, "I heard that when Lady Lu returned, her legs were so swollen that she couldn't even walk. In the end, she had to be carried back by the palace maids around her."

Ye Beichen glanced at her, stuffed a grape into her mouth, and said disdainfully: "She dared to spy on the emperor, so what's wrong with punishing her to dance for a night? Do you really think I can seduce her whenever I want?"

Seeing Yu Yao looking at him, he smiled again and said, "Of course, I am happy to be seduced by a little devil like you."

Don't think he can't see that this woman's hands were not honest when she served him for the first time.

But he was in a good mood at the time and he liked her, so he didn't care.

Yu Yao also recalled that when she was still a palace maid, she seemed to have seduced Ye Beichen intentionally or unintentionally.

It’s just that it’s not as obvious as what Concubine Zhou did.

Thinking of this, she looked at Ye Beichen with a guilty look.

"What do you want to eat for lunch? Ask the Imperial Kitchen to prepare it. I'll have lychees shipped to you over 800 miles. If you want anything else, just tell me and I'll have someone prepare it for you."

Ye Beichen asked with a smile, as if he didn't see the guilt in her eyes.

Yu Yao smiled happily, "There is everything in the palace, but my belly is so big that I can't eat all the different dishes every day. Besides, Doctor Zhou told me not to eat too much. If I overeat the fetus, I will have a difficult delivery."

She was pregnant with twins, so she couldn't eat too much.

(End of this chapter)