C104 (1/2)

”Good!” Good, good, good! Then I shall open my eyes wide and see exactly what ability you have to help Zhou Lean out! ”

Lin Jing was not Zhou Leping's match, and fighting in public under these circumstances might be a loss. As for her identity, it would be hard for the emperor to explain himself when he saw her. Thus, he endured it. This matter concerned the emperor. He wanted to see just how she would escape this time!

The Queen gave birth to a child she had not carried for more than two months. The child turned into a pool of blood and disappeared forever.

When Zhao Shiqian rushed over, the imperial physician was kneeling on the ground while the empress was being held back by the two Palace Maid s. Her face was pale and her face fierce as she ran towards the imperial physician, shouting, ”Give me the child! Give the child back to me! ”

”You can leave first.” He shooed the imperial physician away, held Qiu Rong in his arms, and carried her back to the bed. Then, he held her down.

Qiu Rong said with a face full of tears, ”Calm down? How could the emperor tell his concubine to be calm? Those are the children of chenqie and the emperor! The first child, he was still well in the morning with his concubine, but suddenly there was no more, no more! How can chenqie calm down! ”

Lin Xiafu, who had always been hiding in the corner, suddenly rushed up and knelt beside Zhao Shiqian, his tears falling like they did not need any money, ”It's all my fault, if this concubine had discovered this earlier, this Empress wouldn't have … ”That child won't be able to …”

Zhao Shiqian glared at her in disgust, ”What does this have to do with you?”

”If chenqie had reacted earlier to that bowl of soup, Empress would not have gotten into trouble. It was chenqie's fault, please punish her.”

Zhao Shiqian was wailing and crying, and the smell of the blood inside the hall had agitated him, yet there were people begging for forgiveness, their faces were as black as if they had been stained with ink, and they anxiously shouted out, ”Shut your mouths for me!”

The hall quietened down as Qiu Rong looked at him. Tears that she could not control silently flowed down her face.

Lin Xiafu trembled as he knelt, not even daring to breathe loudly.

Some of the Palace Maid eunuchs were trembling like a sieve as they did not even dare to raise their heads.

”What's the use of crying? Would crying make the child cry back? If it's gone, then it's gone. You're the empress, how can you be so rude as a queen?

Qiu Rong looked at him in disbelief. ”Your Majesty … That's our child. Without his child, does this chenqie not even have the right to cry? ”

”This Emperor knows that you will be sad if your child is gone.” He tried his best to keep his voice low as he stroked the empress's pale face. ”I didn't say I forbid you from crying, but look at your current appearance. You're the mother of a nation, and you need to always pay attention to your manners. Otherwise, why are you the only empress among so many women in the harem?”

When Zhao Shiqian finished speaking, his voice became softer and softer, but when Qiu Rong heard it, his entire body shivered. As matters stood, the child was gone, what he cared about was... Unexpectedly, it was just her proper manners and behavior that didn't suit her as an empress!

He wiped off his tears and did his best to find back some dignity as he gritted his teeth and said to Zhao Shiqian, ”Your child no longer has a child, your concubine knows that you won't be able to cry back. Only then did your concubine break the etiquette, since the emperor is here, your concubine humbly requests the emperor to uphold justice for your concubine, and bring the culprit who caused my royal son's death to justice.”

Zhao Shiqian's gaze swept across Lin Xiafu as he said coldly, ”You've just said so much, and it seems like you know something. When we arrived earlier, we heard that someone suspected the Worthy Lady Zhou, do you have any evidence?”