The new favored concubine Ru was found by the Third Prince based on the Empress's appearance. She was the spy placed by the Third Prince next to the Emperor.

She had not been in the palace for long, but she had heard about the vicious things done by Concubine Wu and was quite afraid of her.

The Emperor did not come to see her these days, so she was happy to be free.

When the Third Prince left the capital, he sent someone to send her a message, asking her to keep an eye on the Emperor and Concubine Wu at any time, and to send someone to tell him as soon as there was any news.

Concubine Ru always remembered the Third Prince's words.

Today she got up early and prepared to dress up to see the Emperor.

There were many rouges and powders on Concubine Ru's desk, but there was one that she used frequently. Without thinking, she picked up the rouge and prepared to apply it.

However, when she picked up the rouge, she found a big spider crawling on her hand.

"Ah!" Concubine Ru screamed and stood up quickly, throwing the rouge box in her hand to the ground.

The red rouge box broke into two pieces on the ground, and all the pink rouge powder inside was scattered.

The maid beside her hurried over and said, "Madam, what's wrong?"

Empress Ru quickly pointed to the ground and said, "Spiders, there were a lot of spiders just now."

The maid looked down and saw the rouge box on the ground. She said in confusion, "Madam, there are no spiders on the ground."

Empress Ru was startled and looked down quickly, "No, I saw it just now."

The maid picked up the rouge box on the ground and looked around, "Madam, I really didn't see any spiders."

Empress Ru calmed down, patted her chest and said, "Maybe it ran away when you came just now."

The maid looked at the broken rouge box and said with pity : "Your Highness, I'm afraid this rouge can't be used."

Empress Ru took it with a distressed look on her face, "This is what I brought from outside the palace. It will be difficult to buy it again."

She looked at the broken rouge powder and frowned suddenly, "No."

The maid asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Empress Ru pointed to the pink rouge powder and said, "Look, the powder is obviously much coarser than the rouge I used before."

The maid looked carefully and smelled it, "Your Highness, there is something wrong with this rouge."

Empress Ru frowned, took a cup, poured a little rouge powder into the water to dissolve it, and then took out her silver hairpin to try.

Not long after, the silver hairpin turned black little by little.

The maid was shocked, "Your Highness, this rouge is poisonous!"

Empress Ru quickly threw the silver needle in her hand aside, "Xia'er, has anyone come to my palace today?"

The maid shook her head, "No, Your Highness."

Empress Ru slowly got up and looked at the window not far away from her.

She walked towards the window and found a leaf from outside the house stuck in the window. She picked up the leaf and said slowly: "It seems that someone secretly came to my house and replaced my rouge."

The maid was shocked, "My queen, could it be Concubine Wu?"

Concubine Ru threw the leaf in her hand aside, her face full of coldness, "If it's not her, who else could it be!"

The maid's face immediately turned pale, "My queen, what should we do?"

Concubine Ru pondered for a moment and said, "Put away this box of rouge and pretend that nothing happened. In addition, my food, clothing and expenses will be checked again and again from now on."

The maid nodded, took out a handkerchief and wrapped the rouge on the ground.

Concubine Ru looked coldly in the direction of Concubine Wu's palace and continued, "If the emperor comes to see me, say that I am sick."

"Okay, my queen." The maid responded quickly.

As soon as Concubine Ru fell ill, Concubine Wu had already succeeded in her little trick. She was very proud in the palace and went to see the emperor from time to time.

The emperor was now so focused on pretending to be infatuated that he had no time to pay attention to Concubine Wu. He gradually felt that she was a little annoying.

He didn't see Concubine Wu for a few days.

Concubine Wu was so angry that she ran to the emperor's palace in the middle of the night and was driven out late at night.

Maybe she was lucky recently. When she returned to the palace late at night, she accidentally stepped on the air and fell directly from the high steps. There was a cut on her face by a sharp stone.

The cut was not deep, but a lot of blood flowed.

A group of palace maids saw Concubine Wu's smiling face and shouted that she was disfigured.

Not long after, there were rumors in the palace that Concubine Wu's appearance was disfigured.

This made the emperor even less interested in seeing Concubine Wu.

Concubine Wu was so angry that she almost killed those talkative palace maids.

Concubine Ru wrote a letter to tell the Third Prince who was far away in Changliu Village.

The Third Prince stayed in Changliu Village for a month. He now

Besides planting vegetables in the fields, he cooked at home.

When Aunt Zhou wanted to go to the vegetable field, he carried her and the basket back.

Du Wanchun was drying dried flowers at the door. Seeing Aunt Zhou being carried back, she smiled secretly, "Mom, you'd better not go to the field. Leave it to Dad."

Aunt Zhou looked at the Third Prince who was holding a hoe and going to the vegetable field again. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"He underestimated me."

Du Wanchun smiled and said, "Mom, he was afraid that you would be too tired."

Aunt Zhou smiled and looked down at her slightly bulging belly, "Wanchun, your belly is coming out. Do you feel the fetal movement?"

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