Empress, she is rising step by step

Chapter 54 Monster

"Don't think like that. You have good intentions. Who would have thought that Lu Yunv would have such a cruel heart. Fortunately, it didn't hurt your face."

Shen Que touched Zhu Ci's cheek. He is a superficial person, but also a man. The reason why he dotes on Zhu Ci is firstly because of Concubine Bai, and secondly because he likes her face, which is charming but not gaudy. Who doesn't like people who are pleasing to the eye.

Zhu Ci rubbed her cheek against Shen Que's palm, "If I hurt my face, does it mean the emperor doesn't like me?"

Listening to her rather childish words, Shen Que smiled and said, "Your face is also a part of you. No matter what I like about you, it's all because of you."

Zhu Ci understood what Shen Que was thinking. Of course he wouldn't tell the truth, and he didn't really want to hear the truth, so he smiled and stopped asking.

In Chunxi Hall, Hua Jingyun felt increasingly uneasy when he heard the voices in the dormitory gradually getting weaker. She stood up and walked quickly to the curtain.

I saw the figures inside shaking back and forth. After a while, Zhang Yuan wiped the blood on his hands with a handkerchief and walked out with a strange expression.

Behind him was a palace maid, holding a bundle in her hands, with the same strange expression, even a hint of fear.

Hua Jingyun's heart was beating rapidly, "Imperial doctor, how is the child in Lu Yunv's belly? Is Lu Yunv okay?"

"Lu Yunv lost too much blood, and now she has fallen asleep after taking medicine. The baby is less than a month old, and she only cried a few times..."

Zhang Yuan did not dare to say any more, nor did he dare to look at Hua Jingyun's face. He sighed and shook his head.

Hua Jingyun staggered back a step, feeling a little uncomfortable. Lu Yunu made a mistake, but the child in her belly did nothing wrong.

She suddenly recalled that when she was pregnant for the first time, the emperor, who was still a prince, led troops to resist foreign enemies. She prayed for the emperor and the soldiers in the palace, but she did not have a miscarriage.

That day was also such a cloudless spring noon, and she cried all night while holding the already formed child.

How sad would Lu Yunv be if she knew that the child she worked so hard to conceive was gone.

"The Queen, the imperial doctors have done their best. If God insists on doing this, it can only be said that Lu Yunv is unlucky."

Yan Qingshu held Hua Jingyun's arm and sobbed softly, "You should also take care of yourself."

"I'm fine." Hua Jingyun forced a smile and patted the back of Yan Qingshu's hand. She took a step forward to open the bag and take a look.

Zhang Yuan suddenly spoke, his voice trembling, "Empress, you'd better stop looking."

"What's wrong?" Hua Jingyun was confused. Seeing Zhang Yuan hesitate to speak, his eyes were full of fear, and he felt even more strange in his heart.

She turned back and glanced at the palace maid holding the bundle. Her head almost reached her chest, and her whole body was shaking gently like a willow tree in the wind.

Hua Jingyun frowned, opened a corner of the baggage and looked inside, almost screaming.

Cao Wenxi happened to be standing on the right side of Hua Jingyun. The moment she opened the baggage, she looked over curiously.

It didn't matter. When she saw clearly what was inside, she stretched out her hand and covered her mouth tightly in horror.

Yan Qingshu also wanted to see it, but Hua Jingyun's expression had returned to normal and he covered it again.

"Lu Yunv was pregnant with... a little prince, but it was a pity that the month was not enough and she did not survive. Immediately clean the little prince and put it in the coffin, and invite the monks from the White Pagoda Temple to come into the palace to save the little prince."

He turned around and saw Shen Que striding in, "Your Majesty, why are you here? How is Princess Zhu?"

"Zhu Yunv has woken up. The imperial doctor said that cold air has entered the body. She just needs to rest for a while."

Shen Que saw the baggage in the palace maid's hand at a glance. His eyebrows were slightly raised, and his eyes were full of sadness.

"Lu Yunv's child was not saved, right?" "Your Majesty, please express your condolences. Your Majesty is in the prime of life and will have many, many children in the future."

The corners of Hua Jingyun's eyes were also red. She held back the tears in her eyes and said with a trembling voice, "I can only say that this child was born in the royal family."

Shen Que took a deep breath. This was his child, just gone. He had already named the child in the womb of Lu Yunv and Bai Guifei, and even found a wet nurse.

But it just disappeared...

"Is it a boy or a girl?" He walked over and reached out to lift the bag and take a look.

Hua Jingyun quickly held it down, "Your Majesty, I just looked at it. It's the little prince. Maybe it's because of the lack of months, and it's not the same as those who died at full term. Your Majesty, it's better not to look at it."

"What do you mean it's different from those who died at full term?" Shen Que felt that these words were very strange, and seeing Hua Jingyun's eyes dodge and not dare to look directly at him, he felt even more strange.

The queen has never been good at lying, and she would not dare to look into his eyes every time she went against her will.

Shen Que took away Hua Jingyun's hand and opened it to take a look. I saw a small ball of flesh curled up inside the bundle, which looked like a newborn cat. Its body and face were covered with silver fish-like scales, and there was no normal spot.

Shen Que was so surprised that he let go of his hands and said in disbelief: "How could this happen? Is it my child?"

Hua Jingyun didn't know how to answer. Of course he was the emperor's child, but he was not. In all her life, she had never seen or heard of such a strange thing, let alone seen it with her own eyes. "

"The Emperor is the Son of Heaven and will not give birth to such a monster. It's all because of Lu Yunv. Her mother's body is unknown, so she gave birth to the child."

Hua Jingyun really didn't want to call that child a monster, no matter what he looked like or how weird he was. To a mother, those are her biological flesh and blood.

She quickly ordered people to take the monster away, "I have already ordered him to be put into a coffin and cremated immediately, and then the monks will be invited to the palace to pray."

It stands to reason that even a stillborn child should not be cremated by the parents whose body and skin are affected by it. It should be born into the world and then returned to the world.

But the monster in front of him cannot be called a human being at all, so he must be cremated.

Shen Que no longer had the panic just now and gradually calmed down.

"Do you all pretend you haven't seen this?" He glanced at everyone coldly.

"If I hear the slightest hint of trouble, don't blame me for not thinking about the past friendship."

Hua Jingyun and others responded quickly. The room was extremely quiet. You could hear a needle drop. You could only hear the rustling of leaves blown by the wind outside the window.

Cao Wenxi slowly left the Qifeng Palace. The sky that was so clear just now was filled with dark clouds at some point. They were constantly billowing from the sky, floating towards the north layer by layer like waves.

"It looks like it's going to rain soon."

"Yeah, the weather has been unusually warm these days, and it's normal to rain."

Yueran raised her head and glanced at the sky. She looked left and right and deliberately lowered her voice.

"The scene just now was really scary. How could the deer queen give birth to such a monster? It's completely unheard of. No wonder the emperor and queen look like that, who wouldn't be afraid of her."

"Shut up! The emperor has said that no one is allowed to comment. How many heads have you grown? Are you so not afraid of death?"

(End of this chapter)