webnovelfull Chapter 626: Palace Fights Are All Scheming
Chapter 626: Palace Fights Are All Scheming
Unexpectedly, the fourth prince's biological mother was not Concubine Xu, but a palace maid. Once, the late emperor visited Concubine Xu, but unfortunately her period came early. In order not to spoil the fun and to consolidate his favor, he offered the most beautiful palace maid around him.
It’s just that the late emperor was a bit of a scumbag. He didn’t even give her a title after he favored her, and he never even mentioned it later. Concubine Xu didn’t dare to say much and could only secretly think that palace maids were useless.
But who would have thought that the maid would become pregnant just that one time.
Concubine Xu was somewhat unwilling to give in. In addition, he had beaten and scolded the palace maid a lot in those days, and was afraid that she would bear a grudge against him, so she did not let the news leak out and asked her confidant to lock her up.
In fact, she had the idea of Li Dai Taojiang. After all, she had been in the palace for two years without any signs of pregnancy, and she was worried that she might not be able to give birth. Now that there was such a ready-made child, she could just go and keep the mother and the child.
Unexpectedly, she found herself pregnant in the second month. Even so, she did not stop thinking of taking advantage of the other party. She wanted to add a layer of protection for herself, thinking that if she gave birth to a daughter, there would be a replacement.
It is not possible to pretend that the baby is a boy and a girl. The imperial doctors in the palace are very skilled and can diagnose how many babies are in the belly at a certain month. There is no room for maneuver.
In this way, one openly and one secretly, the two pregnant women safely gave birth.
But the accident still happened. Although the two women had similar menstruation periods, they came into labor one after the other. The palace maid came into labor first and soon gave birth to a son.
She had no choice but to drink the labor-inducing drug to give birth on the same day.
As a result, the dosage of the oxytocin was not properly controlled, and the delivery was difficult. After going through untold hardships, the child was born, and it was a boy. But before she could be happy, the midwife who had been bribed in advance found that the child did not respond no matter how she patted his buttocks.
It turned out that the child was strangled to death by the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck several times before he was born, which was the cause of the difficult labor.
In this way, Concubine Xu could only raise the child born by the palace maid under her knees, and then kill the palace maid and throw her into the lotus pond.
But the child is not her own after all. When she thinks of her own son, she always feels that this child is unlucky and has taken away her son's fate and luck. She can't get close to him.
All of this was seen by Imanvina, who lived in the same palace with her.
Yes, Concubine Xu lived in the same palace as Imanvina.
The late emperor had many women in his harem, and if one woman were to fit in each harem, it would not be possible to fit all of them in one harem, so those with lower status had to live with those with higher status.
Even though Imanvina was not favored, she was a princess of a country who came to marry, so she had to be given enough status. So she was made a concubine as soon as she arrived and lived in the main hall of Shuoyue Palace. Concubine Xu lived in the side hall, so Imanvina knew everything that happened on her side.
After discovering that Concubine Xu was not close to Chu Mingxin, she took advantage of this and often asked Chu Mingxin about his well-being. She would save a portion of any rewards or delicious food she made for him.
It is understandable that a child who has been neglected by his mother and is longing for maternal love would be moved, and the relationship between the two is no different from that of a real mother and son.
No one avoided Concubine Xu about these things, and Concubine Xu didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After all, she knew that Imanvina was not favored. Although she lived in the main hall and was the mistress of the palace, the rewards she received were not as much as those of a beauty like her.
In addition, due to her foreign identity, the emperor would never allow her to have children. Now he was trying to win over her "son" in preparation for having someone to rely on in the future, so she thought it was normal.
And it just so happened that this son was not her own, so someone was willing to take care of him and she saved herself the trouble. After all, she felt a little awkward every time she saw a child.
In this way, one intentionally and the other unintentionally, Chu Mingxin became closer to Iman Vina since childhood. When he was ignorant, he even thought that Iman Vina was his biological mother, and he just called her Mother.
Especially since Concubine Xu did not try to stop him, this made him believe his guess even more. It was not until he grew up that he realized that he was wrong. However, their relationship had already reached that point, and they remained very close afterwards.
When Chu Mingxin was eleven years old, Concubine Xu died of illness. In fact, it was Imanvina who poisoned her to death.
Long before Chu Mingxin left the harem to go to school, she started giving Concubine Xu drugs. It was the kind of chronic medicine that made people weaker and weaker. The drug itself would not kill people, but once the body was weak and had no resistance, a cold could take her life.
Even though Concubine Xu died, it had a great impact on Chu Mingxin. For an underage prince, it made a big difference whether he had a biological mother or not. So he became even more marginalized afterwards, and the late emperor hardly remembered him.
And because of this, Chu Mingxin became more dependent on Imanvina. At the age of eleven, he was neither young nor old, and was at the age when he was rebellious and sensitive.
With Imanvina's presence, he got through the most difficult times, so the relationship between the two is very deep, and Chu Mingxin can do a lot for her.
Before, he intended to obtain the original body, and it was Imanvina who gave him the idea, but he didn't expect that Chu Mingyi would intercept him.
Of course, Imanvina was not planning to help Chu Mingxin, but wanted to make trouble through his marriage with the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Once Chu Mingxin became the son-in-law of the Duke of Zhenguo, it would be much easier to do whatever he wanted.
The Duke of Zhenguo was a powerful general in Dali. As long as he was eliminated, Dali would be weakened a little, and the Barbarian Kingdom would have a better chance of winning.
In addition, the first generation of the Duke of Zhenguo once killed a prince of the Barbarian Kingdom on the battlefield, who was the grandfather of the current Barbarian King, so there was an old grudge.
At that time, Qi State was in civil strife, and Dali was fighting with the previous dynasty. The Man State wanted to take advantage of the situation and gain an advantage, but they were stopped by the first generation of the Duke of Zhenguo who was there. They were forced to retreat thirty miles and gave up a city!
Therefore, the three generations of barbarian kings hated the Duke of Zhenguo to the core. Imanvina also came with a mission, which was to collect as much intelligence as possible and disrupt the situation here.
The letter that Imanvina wrote to the eldest prince of the Barbarian Kingdom about disrupting the royal family was not to help Chu Mingxin plan for the throne. She also knew that Chu Mingxin was not up to the task. If he really did it himself, he would probably die before he could even accomplish his goal.
She was planning to let him instigate other princes and provide them with help, especially after she knew that there were barbarian spies here, she became more confident.
It turned out that half of the code words she had translated for Xiao Yun before were false, and she was able to catch the person purely by accident. Also, Xiao Yun's spiritual sense was powerful. After all, if it were an ordinary person, he would definitely not be able to find him.
The real meaning of the code was that there were seven contact points near the capital, namely Rabbits, and each contact point had at least five warriors...