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Chapter 3 Dispute
According to Chun Zhi's memory, Zhong Linlang learned that the palace they were in was Changle Palace, and the master they were serving was Concubine Shu, who looked sickly.

Concubine Shu is in very poor health and has to drink a large bowl of medicine every day.

Zhong Linlang was sitting in the kitchen, holding a cattail fan in one hand, fanning the small stove where the medicine was being decocted.

It was raining outside, and the cool air penetrating in mixed with the dense medicinal air, creating bursts of white mist.

"Sister Chunzhi!" A crisp voice came, and Zhong Linlang looked up, and Shao Yao, who was wearing a light blue cotton skirt, opened the curtain and walked in, her eyes sparkling, "Is your mother's medicine ready?"

"Fried." Zhong Linlang nodded, poured the medicine into a white porcelain bowl, put it on the tray and carried it away.

Shao Yao followed Zhong Linlang, couldn't help but shook her head and said, "Today is the fifteenth day, and His Majesty will come tonight."

There is an unwritten rule in Changle Palace: Although concubine Shu is not favored, the emperor will come to see her on the fifteenth of every month.

Stepping into the bedroom, I saw Concubine Shu leaning on the imperial concubine bed, staring blankly at the raindrops outside the window.The cool wind came in to wrap her body temperature, and she couldn't help coughing a few times.

Shao Yao hurried over and closed the window.

"Your Majesty, I've taken the medicine." Zhong Linlang walked over with the medicine bowl in hand, and some candied fruit in her hand.

Concubine Shu frowned slightly, only took one look at the dark concoction, then turned her head away, "I don't want to drink it now, you can put it there."

"Your Majesty is coming tonight." Concubine Shu coughed several times, her face turned paler, she raised her face slightly, as if looking at herself in the mirror, "Make up for me."

Shao Yao immediately answered yes.She picked up the dressing box, which contained all kinds of makeup.

With the cover-up of rouge, Concubine Shu's complexion was indeed much ruddy, and her whole body was a little more energetic.

Now that it was late autumn, and the sky outside was getting dark, Zhong Linlang lit the lamp in the house and sent someone to prepare dinner.

"I hate this kind of life." Concubine Shu suddenly said, "On the fifteenth day of every month, His Majesty will come to see me when I dress up carefully. Sometimes I think about it, the women in the palace are so pitiful."

After she said this, she suddenly laughed, and Zhong Linlang clearly saw tears flashing in her eyes.

After all the dishes for dinner were ready, the emperor came.

He came with a cold body, and the eunuch beside him put away the umbrella and handed it to the guard behind the emperor.

Zhong Linlang helped Concubine Shu up from the collapsed imperial concubine.

"Your Majesty." Concubine Shu weakly called out, but she didn't salute.

The emperor frowned at her and motioned for her to sit down.

In fact, the emperor was quite young, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, with a handsome face, and looked very majestic.

"Why don't you drink this medicine?" The emperor saw the medicine bowl on the table and turned his head to ask Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu tilted her head to look at him, and smiled, "Does Your Majesty want my concubine to drink it?"

"What are you talking about!" the emperor scolded in a low voice, and waved his sleeves to let the serving eunuch serve the dishes.

Concubine Shu thought for a while, picked up the medicine bowl, raised her head and drank the cold medicine juice without hesitation.

It was obviously very bitter, but she didn't even frown.

"Chunzhi." Concubine Shu ordered, "Put the bowl away."

Zhong Linlang said yes, picked up the tray and put away the empty bowl, and touched Concubine Shu's cold fingers when she picked it up.

It's so strange that she doesn't have any life temperature in her body.

Zhong Linlang walked out, almost bumping into the guard at the door.

The guard lowered his head slightly, staring at her with dark eyes, cold.

Zhong Linlang suddenly had a premonition, "Fu Jingce?"

"It's me." Fu Jingce nodded and asked her while leaning against the door frame, "How is she doing?"

Zhong Linlang knew that the "she" he was referring to was Concubine Shu, "The body is very weak and there are not many days left."

"The emperor doesn't seem to love her very much." Fu Jingce snorted coldly, his tone full of disdain, "I follow the emperor, and I see different concubines every night."

The women in the deep palace lost their favor and could not live long.

There is no moon tonight, and the lights in the room reflected Fu Jingce's handsome side face even more stern.

Zhong Linlang was afraid that he would kill Concubine Shu in advance, and persuaded him, "You must not do it now, if Concubine Shu dies with injustice, there will definitely be a lot of trouble."

The palace is easy to deal with, but after death, people are under the control of the Underworld. If they are unwilling to turn into ghosts after death, it will be troublesome.

Fu Jingce glanced at her coldly and said nothing.

After Zhong Linlang delivered the empty bowl, she returned to the hall and stood by.She stood at the door, although her sight was blocked by the bead curtain, she could clearly hear the conversation between Concubine Shu and the emperor.

"I heard that Concubine Yi is pregnant with a child, and I want to congratulate Your Majesty." Concubine Shu's soft voice came.

The emperor was silent for a while without answering, and then said after a while, "Why do you bring this up properly."

"The concubine is envious." Concubine Shu said without hesitation, "The concubine will never have children again."

"Zhishu." The emperor suddenly called her name, with a touch of impatience in his tone, "You are really confused, I came to see you, and you said such stupid things."

Zhong Linlang heard Concubine Shu laugh, "Is the concubine hitting on His Majesty's pain? The concubine has no child, isn't it also thanks to His Majesty?"

The emperor slammed the table and stood up, "I see that you are not seriously ill, and the imperial doctor Xuan will come to show you tomorrow."

The emperor was really angry, so he didn't stay any longer, and walked away.

Seeing the emperor walking away, Shao Yao came in with a sigh, "Why bother, Your Majesty."

Zhong Linlang also walked over.

Concubine Shu propped her chin with her hands, watched her tidy up the dishes, and shook her head, "I'm just telling the truth."

Several years ago, she used to be a pretty girl with a lively personality. She was happy all day long and didn't know what troubles were.Everyone dotes on her, she has a brother who loves her, a mother who loves her, and a sweetheart she loves.

At that time, the sweetheart came to pick her up on a horse, smiled wantonly, and said to her, "Zhishu, marry me, I will become the emperor, and you will be the queen."

She was bewitched and believed him easily.

But he didn't make her a queen, only a concubine.As everyone knows, he is actually a pawn in his stable position.

She thought she had met true love, but this true love kept her in the abyss again and again.Her heart was trampled on repeatedly, and from the moment she was exterminated, she was already dead, on that rainy night like today.

Even though it was hot spring rain at that time, she felt cold.She knelt outside the palace gate for several hours, but he didn't look at her.

She was seriously ill.

In order to punish her stupidity, God let her child die early, and her body became weaker and weaker.He would never pity her any more, and put cinnabar in the medicine he gave her. If she drank it, she would not have children with him.

Concubine Shu closed her eyes, and the corners of her eyes gradually became moist.

(End of this chapter)