binnovel Chapter 248 Beauty's Scheming ()
Chapter 248 Beauty's Scheming ()
"If you, the queen, give birth to the child first, then wouldn't the child be a safe heir?"
Zhou Ziran, who thought Mo Yu had come up with a good idea, couldn't help but laugh: "I can't control the matter of having a child. It all depends on luck."
"No, Your Majesty, there are folk ways to make the birth of a child earlier or later. Why don't you give it a try?" Mo Yu didn't know that her suggestion almost killed Zhou Ziran.
Zhou Ziran could not resist the inner struggle and chose to listen to Mo Yu's advice. He planned to find two midwives or doctors who knew how to induce labor. Liu Ying took this opportunity to sneak into the Dai King's Palace.
At the same time, Dou Yifang's aunt sneaked in.
Liu Ying had a specially made human skin mask on his face so he was not afraid of being recognized. He planned to wait until Queen Dai gave birth and then take the opportunity to seek credit to meet his good brother. After all, the fact that he and Anyang had exchanged identities could not be made public.
However, Liu Ying did not expect that he would be involved in the struggle in the harem. Seeing that Dou Yifang was about to give birth, Zhou Ziran hurriedly asked someone to bring medicine to induce labor. Dou Yifang's aunt did not know how to use the medicine, so she took a bowl of unknown medicine and was about to leave, but was stopped by Liu Ying.
"Your medicine is not effective, you should change it." Liu Ying knew a little bit of medical skills, but only a little bit. His medicine could induce labor, but at a great cost.
Dou Yifang's aunt didn't know any medicine, so she went in with the medicine. Zhou Ziran then began to suffer severe abdominal pain. Several midwives hurriedly began to deliver the baby, but the baby was in a difficult birth and the fetus was in an abnormal position.
It took a long time to give birth to a sickly baby. Zhou Ziran was also injured and had constant lochia. She could not get pregnant again in the future.
The King of Dai was moved by Zhou Ziran's sacrifice for him. As soon as the child was born, he made him the crown prince. He also took great care of Zhou Ziran, and Zhou Ziran's inner fear stopped.
Dou Yifang gave birth to a boy prematurely out of disappointment. She thought that Lu Zhi would be disappointed in her, but unexpectedly, the emperor issued an edict to confer titles on each of the three children.
The child born by Zhou Cainv was named King of Qinghe, the child born by Nie Shen'er and registered under the name of Yan'er was named Crown Prince, and the child born by Dou Yifang was named Princess Guantao.
Dou Yifang was moved by Lu Zhi's sincerity, and worked even harder to help Lu Zhi win over and monitor the King of Dai. However, all this had nothing to do with Lu Zhi.
In fact, all of this was just Shiyi's method. He established the crown prince to appease the court officials. Only by giving in to them a little from time to time would they work more attentively for him.
The canonization of the other two children was just a coincidence, so as not to raise some people's hearts or make some people feel disappointed. So they were canonized together, but they accidentally appeased Dou Yifang.
Dou Yifang was happy for only two days before she was held accountable by the King of Dai and the Queen Mother of Dai. The reason was that Liu Ying always tried to contact the King of Dai in a sneaky way and was discovered. Considering his identity, the other party suspected that he deliberately caused trouble for the Queen.
The people who were investigating continued to investigate and found out that it was the truly incompetent aunt. Dou Yifang's aunt had no idea that Dou Yifang was Du Yunxi. She just instinctively threw the blame onto others, and Dou Yifang became the best scapegoat.
This is how the current situation has led to Dou Yifang being tried by three judges. Zhou Ziran hates Dou Yifang for making his child sick and weak, and he is determined to make Dou Yifang pay the price even though he is sick.
Dou Yifang didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but the moment she saw her aunt, she felt like something terrible was going to happen to her. Her heart beat faster, but her aunt didn't understand the situation and kept yelling at Du Yunxi to save her.
"Yun Xi, I'm your aunt, please save me!"
"Yun Xi?" Prince Dai stared at Dou Yifang.
"I'm afraid this woman is just shouting nonsense to get away with it. My name is Dou Yifang, not Yunxi." Dou Yifang was determined not to admit it, and no one could prove that her identity was fake.
Liu Ying felt horrified when he saw Du Yunxi who was supposed to be dead. When he heard the name called out by the woman next to him, he knew that his woman was given to his brother. At that moment, he knew clearly that he and this brother would never be able to have a heart-to-heart talk.
Dou Yifang was still trying to prove that she didn't know this inexplicable aunt. The King of Dai noticed Liu Ying's presence and asked, "Who are you? Are you also the one who was arranged to assassinate the queen?"
"Your Majesty, I am a physician. I have been ordered by the queen to help her induce labor." Liu Ying explained his fake identity clearly.
Dou Yifang also quickly threw her aunt's body to Zhou Ziran: "I really don't know this woman. If the queen is framing me to vent her anger, I have nothing to say."
Although she said she had nothing to say, she did not miss a single punctuation mark in her defense. Dou Yifang had basically cleared herself of suspicion. The King of Dai's suspicious eyes fell on Zhou Ziran again.
"Queen, did you really arrange this person?"