The father-in-law opened the curtain and replied with a smile:

"Well, how can I do it if I don't work hard for the empress? Hahaha, it's not easy for you, sir. It's so cold today. I'll send someone to bring you some mutton soup and pancakes later to keep you and your brothers warm. Body!"

The guards immediately laughed and the carriage entered smoothly.

As expected, the Queen had not rested yet. She took off her hairpin and wore a simple and elegant dress. She was sitting on the high couch, thinking about something.

Ever since it started snowing, she couldn't stop feeling afraid, because in her dream, her son died in the cold winter.

She remembered the blooming plum blossoms. Under the plum tree, bright red blood intertwined with bright red petals.

The white snow all over the ground spread her son's blood. In the red vastness, a young hand stretched out from the soil, its wrist weakly bent at an incredible angle.

As soon as she closes her eyes, it will appear before her eyes. She had already asked people to dig out the red plum tree in front of the cold palace, and the remaining big hole had been filled in, but her heart still couldn't settle down.

It was common to wake up in the middle of the night, but except for Shen Yingxia, she didn't dare to tell anyone, and others wouldn't believe it.

Shen Yingxia sat down and drank a bowl of hot tea. Her face, which was stiff from the cold, calmed down a little.

Shen Yingxia didn't make any more detours and directly reminded the Queen to be careful of Concubine Shu.

"Humph, she is indeed the only one who has this suspicion. Her son has mediocre talent and is neither his direct descendant nor his eldest son, so he can only resort to such insulting methods!"

"Your Majesty, Xue Baolin was promoted by Concubine Shu. Look, will she help Concubine Shu?"

"Her, if she didn't step on her, how could she help Concubine Shu? Although Xue Baolin belongs to Concubine Shu's faction, he was given life-long infertility drugs because of Concubine Shu's precautions."

The empress said it herself, so the rumors seemed to be true. A concubine who has no heirs, no matter how favored she is, will still have to rely on the concubine Shu in the future.

For Concubine Shu, this is just a means.

But for Xue Baolin, especially Xue Baolin who had already touched the hope of changing his destiny, this was overwhelming hatred.

"Your Majesty, Xue Baolin may be available. Although she has different thoughts from ours, with one more person watching over Concubine Shu, Your Highness will be safer."

"Yes." The Queen nodded thoughtfully.

Shen Yingxia then suggested:

"Recently, your Majesty has been asking trustworthy doctors to guard your Highness. The maids and attendants have to check carefully. Your Majesty's body is now taken care of by my sister, so there will probably be no problem. All you need to do is to keep watch day and night. Yingxia only needs to be guarded day and night. I’m afraid that thieves will attack Your Highness.”

According to Shen Yingxia's guess, the person who attacked His Highness in the previous life should have taken advantage of the chaos after the emperor's death. Most of the people who took action were those who were taking personal care of His Highness.

"Well, thanks to your reminder, I have already secretly started investigating, and I have already targeted one.

"This maid is called Xiaodie, and she is from the Wang family. She concealed herself very well, and only once met with a father-in-law under the palace wall in the middle of the night.

"She is quite clever. My father-in-law and the maid have a private meeting under the wall late at night. If the ordinary maid sees it, she will at most smile and then misunderstand that Xiaodie is having sex with her. But now that she is on guard, she knows that this is not the case."

Shen Yingxia had heard too much about the talented people trained by the Wang family, and couldn't help asking: "Since Xiaodie is from the Wang family, how can she betray her master?"


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