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Chapter 73: Concubine is always pregnant (9)

"Alright, alright, Concubine Yu's promotion is a great thing, why are you arguing?" The Queen glanced at the group of women below her and said absentmindedly, "We are all sisters, serving His Majesty, what's the point of arguing?"

Sisters? What kind of sisters are they if they kill each other?

Concubine Zhou disagreed in her heart and did not take Cao Ruqiong's words to heart.

The Queen spoke, and everyone was waiting for Concubine Yan, who was the Queen's worst enemy, to argue with her. However, Lu Changqing simply ignored her and continued to count the whorls on his right hand.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward again. Someone started talking about Qiao Luoluo from Fufang Palace. Then everyone started chatting again.

"Your Majesty is really worried about the one in Fufang Palace. Since the imperial physician confirmed the pregnancy, she was allowed not to come here to pay respects to the queen. It has been almost two months, and I haven't seen her come here once."

"Yes, even our imperial concubine doesn't get this treatment." Song Yun covered her mouth with a handkerchief and chuckled, looking at Lu Changqing provocatively.

Lu Changqing didn't expect that he could be tricked by this. He smiled at Song Yun and said, "Who would dare to come to a room full of monsters who want to eat other people's babies? Don't you think so, Song Zhaoyi?"

Song Yun was speechless, everyone did this kind of thing of harming others in private, but this warrior's daughter did not only bring it up openly, but also dragged everyone in the room into it.

"What are you saying, sister Imperial Concubine? Qiao Shuyi is pregnant with His Majesty's child. We are so happy, how could we harm her?" Someone quickly spoke up to prove his status as a good citizen.

Someone echoed, "That's right. When the little prince is born, he will have to call us aunt."

"Who says it's not true? After so many years, that child is His Majesty's first child. It's only natural that he should be treated with more care."

……

Just now he was denouncing Qiao Luoluo for being ungrateful, but now he began to express his full understanding.

Song Yun rolled her eyes silently at the fickle women in the room and said sarcastically, "She is so precious that she can dance for His Majesty in the Imperial Garden with a bulging belly and cannot come to pay respects to the Empress."

Some people in the palace didn't know about this yet and asked Song Yun what he meant.

Song Yun looked at Lu Changqing and said, "Wasn't Concubine Yan there at the time? How about Concubine Yan tell everyone about it?"

Lu Changqing said expressionlessly: "Song Zhaoyi even knows that I am here, what else could she not know? Just say it if you want to."

Seeing that Lu Changqing was unwilling to get involved in this matter, Song Yun curled her lips in boredom and, under everyone's urging, told them what happened in the Imperial Garden.

"The huge Fufang Palace is not big enough for her to play the piano, so she went to the Imperial Garden to play. Does she really think you sisters are fools?"

"What a vixen! She's already pregnant but still wants to seduce people in the Imperial Garden!"

"I told you long ago that woman is a vixen. How can a lady from a noble family look as seductive as her?"

"Who says it's not? I don't know if the baby in the belly is your Majesty's."

As the conversation went on, a concubine finally spoke out what everyone was thinking.

Cao Ruqiong felt that the words were becoming more and more outrageous, so he opened his mouth and scolded, "Be careful with your words!"

"You are all old people in the palace. Do you need me to teach you what to say and what not to say?" The queen said, looking at the concubine who just suspected that the child in Qiao Luoluo's belly was not Qi Yu's and said, "You are the one who can say that? If His Majesty knew about it, do you know what crime you would be charged with?"

The concubine in blue quickly stood up and knelt down to plead guilty: "I am guilty, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Cao Ruqiong asked the concubine to stand up and said, "Forget it this time, but if it happens next time, don't blame me for not thinking about sisterhood."

Lu Changqing didn't think Cao Ruqiong had good intentions. If she really had good intentions, she should have spoken out to dissuade the concubines when they were making trouble, instead of waiting until someone said something outrageous and then scolding them to shut up.

It is normal to hate people for having something and laugh at people for not having one. When no one has children, it's more about the emperor's favor and the influence of her mother's family. But now someone is pregnant, and the only one in the palace. In this sick world, Qiao Luoluo is destined to become the target of public criticism.

Cao Ruqiong is no exception.

Prime Minister Cao will eventually retire. She is not favored by the emperor and has no children of her own. How can she keep her status as queen in the future? How can she maintain the honor of her family?

Then let everyone have nothing.

So she allowed everyone to discuss the emperor's preference for Qiao Luoluo after she became pregnant in front of Lu Changqing, making Lu Changqing think that the emperor was so good to Qiao Luoluo because of the baby in her belly, and the intention was naturally to use Lu Changqing to get rid of those babies.

In order to show the readers or audiences the viciousness of the female supporting characters in many palace fighting novels or TV dramas, there will be plots where they attack children. This is a vicious behavior that many readers/audiences cannot accept, and it is a stain that the villains can never wash away.

The reason for this design is of course to use the evil of the female supporting characters to reflect the kindness and innocence of the heroine, so that the heroine has a legitimate reason to fight back against the vicious female supporting characters, thus achieving the result of evil being rewarded with evil.

But in real history, there were very few cases where women in the harem directly attacked pregnant women or children. For the time being, the only ones Lu Changqing could think of were Concubine Qi of the Han Dynasty and Concubine Wan of the Ming Dynasty.

The former is just pillow talk and relying on men to take action, while the latter is the one who takes action personally.

Lu Changqing didn’t know how the trend of beating children in palace fighting novels and domestic fighting novels emerged and how it became popular in the entire market, but she knew what the core of this kind of story was.

In the extremely patriarchal feudal society, it was difficult for women to realize their self-worth on their own. They could only rely on their fathers, husbands, and sons.

These three men spanned the three stages of their lives. When their fathers grew old and their husbands changed their minds, they could only "kidnap" their sons. This is also a reflection of what the mothers of the heroines in the house fighting novels often advise the heroines: "Your sons are your only support."

Therefore, the heroines all give birth to sons, because in this sick world, only those who give birth to sons, raise them and make them successful can become the ultimate winners.

Faced with such a plot, Lu Changqing was really troubled, but that didn't mean she wouldn't do anything to the baby in Qiao Luoluo's belly.

It’s not because she wanted to win favor, but because those four children should not have come into this world.

She would destroy the reproductive system before Qiao Luoluo gave birth. Without the reproductive system to consume energy, in ancient times when medical conditions were very backward, Qiao Luoluo would not be able to keep the four children in her belly.

As for the question of what would happen to the country after Qi Yu's death, Qi Yu was not the only emperor in history who had no son. Wouldn't it be enough to adopt one from the royal family? At worst, didn't he still have the empress who was about to get pregnant?

It doesn’t matter whether Qi Yu believes that the child in Cao Ruqiong’s belly is his or not, as long as the court officials believe it.