Song Dynasty female artist

In Renming Hall

Concubine Zhang was lying lifelessly on the bed.

Only then did Zhao Zhen realize how bad her complexion was. Her good look just now was actually caused by rouge.

"Your Majesty, I, my concubine, have something to tell you."

Cao Yuyan stood beside the bed, and after hearing the words, she led several concubines out of the inner hall.

"Queen, is this noble concubine..."

It was Wu Cairen who spoke out.

Cao Yuyan glanced at Wu Cairen: "Whether it's true or not, keep your mouth shut. If your Majesty hears it, I can't protect you."

Wu Cairen was scolded by the queen.

Yang Jieyu and the others just shut up. Although they were here, none of them really cared about Zhang Wanqing's health.

More importantly, I wanted to know if she was really going to die.

If she dies, the others can get more favors. To them, nothing is more important than being favored.

In the inner hall, Concubine Zhang was half lying on the bed.

She looked at the man in front of her who she had loved for more than ten years, and felt that her life was like a joke.

"Your Majesty, I want to ask you, do you like the Queen?"

At this time, Concubine Zhang did not ask the emperor if he liked her, but asked if the emperor liked Queen Cao.

Zhao Zhen pursed his lips and did not answer.

But to Concubine Zhang, his attitude was already an answer.

Concubine Zhang burst into laughter.

In fact, she had already understood in her heart that in the first few years, His Majesty did love her and loved her, but her three children had passed away, and His Majesty's heart seemed to have also left.

Even if she faces her later, it will be better than before.

But she has received his love, so when he doesn't love her, she can quickly detect it.

The few people waiting outside looked at each other, and finally looked at the queen in unison.

The queen still sat there calmly.

Everyone had no choice but to look away, thinking in their hearts what benefits they would get if the imperial concubine died.

"I asked Dr. Tong to come. He will definitely be able to cure you."

"no need!"

Zhang Wanqing waved her hands, with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, I know my own body well. While I still have the strength to speak, I want your Majesty to make a promise."

"You said."

"Your Majesty, please take care of Yu'er and let him grow up safely. When he can leave the palace and build a mansion, you can grant him the title of prince."

Zhao Zhen nodded: "Yu'er is my fourth prince, so I naturally feel sorry for him. He will grow up safely, don't worry."

"it is good."

Concubine Zhang nodded slowly: "Your Majesty, the courtiers at Jiying Palace are still waiting for you and the Queen!"

"it is good."

Zhao Zhen stood up from his chair, told the palace servants standing beside him to take good care of him, and then left the inner hall.

Queen Cao stood up, glanced at the inner hall, and said nothing.

Wu Cairen was praised by Empress Cao just now, and now even though he is full of things to ask, he doesn't dare to talk nonsense.

"The courtiers are still waiting for us."

"Your Majesty, I am the queen. With the current situation of the noble concubine, I should stay here to guard you!"

"Queen, you..."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will take good care of your concubine."

Zhao Zhen felt that the concubine today was very strange, and so was the queen.

The imperial concubine knew that her body was at the end of its strength, but she still insisted on dancing the dance they had danced when they met in Jiying Hall.

Doctor Tong said that she still had some time, but this dance consumed too much of her energy. He could only use medicine to hang her life.

As for the queen, she has been at odds with the Zhang family for more than ten years, but now she takes the initiative to stay and take care of the imperial concubine.

"it is good."

After His Majesty left, Cao Yuyan entered the inner hall.

At this time, the palace servant just brought the cooked soup. Cao Yuyan took the soup and naturally sat on the bedside, blowing the soup to cool it: "Take the medicine."

Zhang Wanqing looked at Queen Cao and laughed softly again.

This time the laughter caused me to cough, and I couldn't stop coughing.

Cao Yuyan stood up and helped Zhang Wanqing carry it.

It took a while before the coughing stopped. Cao Yuyan sat back on the chair again, picked up the soup and said, "Drink the medicine."

This time Zhang Wanqing did not refuse, and drank the soup one mouthful at a time: "I didn't expect that on this New Year's Eve, you would be the last one to stay with me. But I know my own body well, and this soup cannot cure me. It’s just to keep me alive for a few days.”

"Just for the fourth prince, if you live one more day, he can spend one more day with his mother and concubine."

Zhang Wanqing's eyes suddenly turned red.

When she asked His Majesty if he liked the Queen just now, she was not sad now.

Could it be that I already had the answer in my heart at that time, so it was not so difficult to accept it, and the queen treated her like this, which she did not expect.

"Queen, don't you hate me?"

Cao Yuyan looked at Zhang Wanqing and said sincerely: "I hated it!"

Hated...

Zhang Wanqing murmured these two words, closed her eyes and raised her head upwards after a while, and laughed in relief.

If you hated it before, you don’t hate it now.

Why not hate.

With the Queen's intelligence, she must have guessed something and understood that His Majesty did not love her as much as it seemed to the outside world.

"I heard from Dr. Tong that if you take good care of her, you can still survive."

Zhang Wanqing shook her head: "I know, but it's not interesting. Now that the fourth prince has recovered, I would rather die like this than live half-dead."

"But the fourth prince is only five years old. If you live for one day, you can protect him for one day."

"As for him, there is no way he will inherit the throne. It was my fantasy to lock him up in Renming Hall, thinking that I could always protect him. But the child will eventually grow up, and things cannot be hidden. I don't want to hide it either. !”

Zhang Wanqing quietly told Cao Yuyan about the fourth prince.

Cao Yuyan opened her mouth: "The Fourth Prince..."

Zhang Wanqing closed her eyes: "Just now I begged Your Majesty to protect Yu'er from growing up safely, but now I also want to beg you, for the sake of seeing that the three princesses in front of me are dead, and only Yu'er is left. For the sake of it, how about you protect him when he grows up? He won't pose any threat to the fifth prince."

"You believe me?"

"Believe it now!"

Cao Yuyan nodded: "Okay, I promise you, I will not treat the Fourth Prince as my own, but I will definitely protect him and let him grow up without any worries."

Zhang Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you very much, Queen. If there is an afterlife, I will definitely repay you."

After coming out of the inner hall, Cao Yuyan sat on the chair in the outer hall. She kept thinking about what Zhang Wanqing had just said to her.

Who would have thought that the fourth prince would actually be a mentally retarded child.

There is indeed no possibility for such a child to ascend to a lower position.

Zhang Wanqing kept this secret for five years.

Something happened to the fourth prince a while ago, and it was actually Miao Shuyi who did it.

After the rebels rose up that day, Miao Shuyi was taken to Funing Palace, and then sent back by Pan Gong himself. For the past half month, it was as if she hadn't been there.

I really didn't expect it to be like this.

Ha, I don’t have internet at home these two days, so I’m not used to typing on my mobile phone, it’s very slow. sorry!