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Chapter 118 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace – Gao Xiyue 18

Now that Xiyue is in power, Bai Ruiji's existence has affected the emperor's reputation, so the original plot in which Bai Da Ying was slapped and disfigured by Concubine Hui and framed Ruyi never happened. Not only that, in order to restore their reputation, the empress dowager and the emperor seemed to have finally come to their senses during this period, and they honestly mourned for the late emperor.

However, this inconsistent behavior made all the ministers in the court realize that the mother and son had been so perfunctory in their mourning. After all, in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", the late emperor's mourning period, the empress dowager's eating meat, and the emperor taking a concubine were all real events.

The empress no longer had power in the palace. In order to highlight her status, she attached more importance to daily greetings. It was deep winter in the capital, with cold winds raging and heavy snow falling. It was impossible for Xiyue to get up early in the morning in such weather just to pay her respects to Langya, but other concubines in the harem had to pay their respects. However, the roads were slippery in the snow, and everyone had insufficient status, so they could only walk. Often, people would fall down or catch a cold after paying their respects and report to Xiyue.

Xiyue was too impatient to deal with these things, so she directly sent Moxin to explain the situation to the emperor, hoping that the emperor could persuade the queen to reduce the frequency of paying respects on snowy days.

The emperor now looks at Langya with a suspicious filter. No matter what she does, he will subconsciously think that she is trying to harm others. So after Xiyue's people finished explaining the situation, the emperor immediately thought that the queen wanted to torture the concubines in the harem. So he didn't care about whether it was a slap in the face or not, and directly issued an order to exempt the concubines in the harem from paying their respects.

As soon as the emperor issued this edict, the concubines in the harem were overjoyed and expressed gratitude for the emperor's thoughtfulness. However, the queen could not accept it. She didn't understand why the emperor repeatedly issued edicts to slap her in the face. As a queen, it was not good to have no power in the palace, but there was a precedent after all. During the reign of the previous emperor, Concubine Hua had been in charge of the palace for several years. So after Langya persuaded her, she accepted it.

But the former queen had never been deprived of the right to receive greetings from everyone in the harem. At this moment, Langya became more and more convinced that the emperor wanted to depose her. In order to keep her position as queen, Langya began to find ways to find something that could give her a sense of security.

She could not win back the emperor's favor no matter what, so Langya thought of the Fucha family and her son Yonglian.

"Yonglian! I still have Yonglian. As long as Yonglian is good enough, the emperor will definitely like Yonglian. For Yonglian, I believe the emperor will not depose me."

Langya was stuck in a dead end. In order to keep her position as queen, she began to teach Yonglian, who was only 5 years old, strictly, without caring that Yonglian was still young and in poor health. After a long time, Yonglian finally fell ill.

It was not until Yonglian fell ill that the emperor finally knew what Langya had done to Yonglian during this period.

When he arrived at Xiefang Palace, Langya was kneeling and crying in front of Yonglian's bed, and the imperial physician was treating Yonglian. When the emperor came in, he was very angry and wanted to scold Langya, but when he saw that she looked really worried about Yonglian, he couldn't bear it anymore and turned to ask the imperial physician: "Imperial physician, what happened to Yonglian's body?"

The imperial physician bowed and reported: "Second Prince is overtired, evil wind has entered his body, and he has a high fever. As long as the high fever subsides tonight, the problem will not be serious. He will be fine after a few days of rest."

"If the high fever doesn't subside tonight, you'll have to give me strong medicine. But the Second Prince's body will become much weaker than an ordinary person, and he won't be able to do strenuous exercise."

When Langya heard the imperial physician's words, she couldn't stop crying. She kept wiping Yonglian's forehead with a wet handkerchief. The emperor softened his heart when he saw this and stayed with Langya to guard Yonglian all night.

The next morning, Yonglian's fever finally subsided, but the emperor had to attend court and could not stay any longer. After the emperor left the court, he learned from Wang Qin the real reason for Yonglian's illness. The emperor's favor that Langya had just gained because of her motherly love fell to the bottom again.

"Oh, I was moved by her motherly love. It turns out I was just feeling guilty!" Although he said this, the emperor was actually wondering if Langya did this because she wanted to teach Yonglian to become a successful person as soon as possible so that he could take over his throne as soon as possible.

"The Fucha clan has evil ambitions. It seems that this palace cannot have only two princes born to Fucha women. A new prince must be born!"

After the mourning period for the previous emperor was over, the emperor began to favor the concubines. In order to give birth to a prince as soon as possible, the emperor began to consciously favor the women who entered the palace or palace later, because he felt that the old man had been poisoned by Langya for a long time and had lost his fertility. However, the emperor was reluctant to let Xiyue go. Although she went to the palace less often, she was still the most favored concubine in the entire harem.

Although the emperor tried very hard and asked his concubine to sleep with him almost every day of the month, unfortunately, there were still more than three years left before the ten-year sterilization period. No matter how hard the emperor tried, no woman in the palace became pregnant. Gradually, the emperor began to suspect that he had really been drugged with a sterilization drug, so he summoned the imperial physician for examination many times, but the imperial physician was unable to find out what was wrong with his skills.

The emperor had no choice but to start a secret investigation of the Fucha family. He thought that perhaps he had been poisoned by the Fucha family's secret medicine, so he could not find out what was wrong. Unfortunately, the emperor's people investigated again and again, and even found out what Fucha's wife had done, but they could not find out what secret medicine the emperor had been poisoned by.

Seeing that he had been on the throne for three years and still had no newborns in the harem, the emperor finally began to realize that he might only have two sons, Yonghuang and Yonglian, in this life. Considering the balance, the emperor decided to promote Yonghuang and sent people to inquire about Yonghuang's situation.

Yonghuang was born with a brain deprivation caused by suffocation, which made him somewhat mentally retarded. After Yonglian was born, Su Lian deliberately made him useless. So when the emperor found out about Yonghuang's situation, he flew into a rage, "What did you say? How could Yonghuang be mentally retarded?"

The imperial physician gave a bunch of explanations tremblingly, the general meaning of which was that the eldest prince lacked proper education when he was young, so his wisdom never grew as it should have, and now that he is old, his intelligence is still like that of a child.

The doctor had said it very clearly, and the emperor naturally understood that Yonghuang had become mentally retarded because someone had deliberately taught him to do so. "Wang Qin! Check it out for me!"

Later, Su Lian's tricks were exposed again. The emperor was so angry that he rushed to Changchun Palace and slapped Langya in the face, "Well, you really have a good trick!"

"Fucha Langya, you control my offspring and raise my eldest son into a fool. Do you really think I am afraid of your Fucha family and dare not depose you as the queen?"

After the emperor left, rumors began to circulate in the palace that "the queen deliberately made the eldest prince stupid." The queen mother also learned of this news and hurriedly called the emperor to the Cining Palace: "Your Majesty, the rumors in the palace are true!"

The emperor didn't want the empress dowager to interfere, but now the matter could no longer be concealed, so he had to admit it.

The Queen Mother exclaimed: "Oh my God! How can the Queen be so vicious? You can't tell from the surface! The Fucha family must give an explanation to the royal family about this matter. However, the Queen is Yonglian's mother after all. How does the Emperor plan to deal with the Queen?"