binnovel Chapter 290 Launch
Chapter 290 Launch
"Your Majesty, the Queen has launched the attack."
Zhang Deli saw the eunuchs from the Pepper Room Palace rushing to the Zhaozheng Palace with anxious expressions. He calculated the date and found that it was time for the Empress to give birth, and it turned out to be true.
After the Empress Dowager's birthday and before His Majesty's Saint's Day next month, the two little princes in the Empress's belly are really good at choosing dates.
Born before Your Majesty's birthday, to meet Your Majesty.
It's just that the Queen Mother has to recuperate after giving birth and therefore cannot attend this Christmas.
In the Shang Palace Bureau.
Imperial Concubine Yi Meng Wuyue and Imperial Concubine Xian Fu Mengli were discussing with several female officials the details of organizing a birthday celebration for the ladies of His Majesty's Holy Festival. They had a quarrel with Imperial Concubine Hui Meng Xinghe over a trivial matter due to their disagreement.
Not giving in to each other.
Among the female officials, Cui Shanggong, who was of the highest rank of fifth grade, was caught in the middle and was in a dilemma.
If the Queen was not about to give birth, Cui Xinsu would not serve her.
Cui Xinsu is a fifth-rank Shanggong in the Shanggong Bureau of the Six Bureaus and One Department. She is in charge of palace affairs. In name, she is the head of the female officials except for the Gongzheng of the Gongzheng Division who has supervisory duties. She is of low rank but has great power. No one dares to offend her.
Since there are several high-ranking ladies here together... then it's okay.
In the past, she was grateful that another palace lady Lu Lingyu, who was personally appointed by His Majesty, did not compete with her for power. But now, she was a little envious of Lu Lingyu for staying out of the affairs.
Forget it. Although they are both palace maids, they are obviously not of the same kind.
Lu Lingyu had her own palace, Linguang Palace, just like a concubine, and she didn't even come to the Shanggong Bureau. The position of Shanggong was just an empty title for Lu Lingyu, and she might become an empress one day.
Just as Cui Shanggong was daydreaming, a palace maid rushed in without notifying her. When she saw everyone in the main hall of the Shanggong Bureau, she acted neither humble nor arrogant.
"Your servant greets Consort Yi, Consort Hui, and Consort Xian. Consort Cui, the Queen has launched an attack. The Queen has ordered Consort Cui to bring her people to the Pepper Palace as soon as possible to arrange all matters after the Queen gives birth to the little prince."
"Yes, I will obey the Queen's order."
"My ladies, please forgive me for my inattention. I will take my leave now."
Concubine Yi Meng Wuyue nodded and said, "Let's put aside the question of whether the princess of Qi's consort can come to the palace to celebrate your majesty's birthday. The most important thing is for the queen to give birth to a prince."
Concubine Hui Meng Xinghe didn't listen to what she said, turned around and left the main hall of the Shanggong Bureau.
No matter how Meng Wuyue tried to stop her, she had to meet her brother Meng Xingye in order to know Meng Xingye's current thoughts and many things that happened outside the palace.
The plot is so deviated that it's really uncomfortable to not know anything.
"Sister Imperial Concubine Yi, let's go to the Pepper Room together. I've heard a folk saying that sour boys and spicy girls make for spicy girls. Your Majesty said that the Empress has a strange taste since she was pregnant with this baby and can't live without spicy food. I don't know if it's true or not."
"Whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter. Whether they are twin boys or twin girls, they are all legitimate children. What does it have to do with concubines like us? The Queen doesn't have no legitimate sons. It doesn't matter how many she gives birth to in the future."
"Is Concubine Yi jealous?" She worked so hard to be in charge of the harem for many years, but a newcomer took advantage of her.
That would have been fine, but the Empress was either giving birth or pregnant, and had little energy to take care of many matters, whether major or trivial, so Concubine Yi had to handle them. However, the person in charge of this matter still used the Empress' name.
Imperial Concubine Yi is so busy running around that she is only an assistant in title. If it were her, she would be so angry that she would die.
If Your Majesty asks her to take on the role of assistant manager, Fu Mengli will definitely not do it.
The water from the Zimu River could be fed into the baby before giving birth. Unfortunately, Shen Ningyue was too wary of her because of the conflict between Princess Hengshan and Mingzhang last time, so she never found an opportunity.
Of course, she is also lazy and doesn't like to force anything. She can only go with the flow. If it works, it's fine. If it doesn't, it's also okay.
Let’s see how Shen Ningyue’s luck is. As long as they are not boy-and-girl twins, it’s fine.
No! Wait.
Fu Mengli suddenly realized that it would be better if Shen Ningyue gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
A stigmatized eldest son, a dragon and a phoenix twins born of good fortune, wouldn't it be better for brothers with the same father and mother to fight each other?