Revenge of the First Daughter - Chapter 476

Chapter 476 Imperial Edict

Yun Xiao stared at her with great difficulty, her eyebrows carrying a strange expression. “Thank you for your hospitality, Your Highness. The maiden is just a daughter of a merchant. There is no need for Your Highness to be so dignified.” With Qing Mo’s betrayal, the Empress must have eliminated everything about her, so there was no need for Yun Xiao to conceal it anymore.

Thinking that it would be Qing Mo who attacked her at the last moment, Yun Xiao’s heart ached.

She had been with Qing Mo for more than half a year, and she treated her as if she was as close as Chun Mei Chun Lan, as if she was her family. However, she did not expect that she would be the one to receive a fatal blow in the end.

With this kind of affection, it was fake to say that he wasn’t sad.

“You are the county princess of the Jin Emperor. Your etiquette cannot be crippled. If it weren’t for Qing Mo, I wouldn’t have known. After so many days, I have wronged the county princess. In a few days, I will send someone to send the county princess back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.” The Empress’s expression didn’t change, and her deep eyes carried a strange light.

Yun Xiao clenched her hands tightly and stared fixedly at the Empress. Although she was currently at a disadvantage, Yun Xiao was unwilling to lose her momentum. “Thank you, Empress.”

‘”You’re welcome,” the Empress said loudly, her sharp eyes sweeping across Yun Xiao’s bulging lower abdomen. “County princess, if you were to choose between the child in your belly and you, who would you choose?”

Without a doubt, she would choose the child, but Yun Xiao did not need to say it to someone who was hostile to her. She smiled indifferently and said, “What if I want both of them?” Not only did she need to live well, she also needed to protect the child in her stomach.

“If the county princess doesn’t know how to choose, I can only find one person to help you choose. What do you think?” The Empress stared at Yun Xiao’s stomach with a faint smile. The depths of her eyes were icy cold.

Yun Xiao’s eyes contracted violently. Although the Empress did not say anything, Yun Xiao knew that the person she was looking for was Rong Jin.

Frowning, Yun Xiao told herself to try her best to remain calm, and then said, “Alright, I feel a little guilty for bothering the Empress so much.”

“It doesn’t matter. Since you have agreed, then we might as well make a bet. No matter who that person chooses, you must obey him. You must not resist.” Although the Empress’s lips curled into a smile, that smile was ice-cold.

“Alright,” Yun Xiao was sure that if Rong Jin chose, he would definitely choose the child. What she wanted was for the child to survive, so Yun Xiao did not look forward to the outcome at all. However, before she died, she wanted to see the man who made her hang at the apex of her heart again.

Just at this moment, a palace maid came in with a bowl of medicine and said respectfully, “Your Highness, the medicine has been cooked.”

The Empress’s voice was cold as her sharp eyes once again landed on Yunxiao’s protruding lower abdomen. “I’ll let Imperial Physician Liu have a look first, then I’ll give it to the county princess to drink.”

Feeling the Empress looking at her lower abdomen from time to time, a trace of fear appeared in Yun Xiao’s eyes. For some reason, although the Empress had asked her to stay up late for her, as if she was protecting the baby in her stomach, she could clearly feel from her eyes that she did not want to give birth to Rong Jin’s child at all.

Yun Xiao did not know why, but her subordinates clenched their hands tightly.

Imperial Physician Liu took the medicine and gently sniffed it before saying, “Feed this medicine to county princess An Ping. It will last for a while.” With Imperial Physician, Aunt Lan looked at the Empress and saw that the Empress nodded. She immediately took the medicine and walked to the bedside.

“County princess, for the sake of the child in your stomach, please drink the medicine.”

Yun Xiao raised her head and looked at the palace maid sitting beside her. She blinked her eyes at her and made a mouth shape. There was a trace of something strange in her eyes, but Yun Xiao did not show it.

Because Aunt Lan’s back was facing the others, only Yun Xiao could see Aunt Lan’s small movements.

Yun Xiao obediently drank the medicine that Aunt Lan had sent over. She had been muttering in her heart. This Aunt Lan said that she was Rong Jin’s person. Yun Xiao had experienced the end of Qing Dynasty and was on guard in her heart. Even if Aunt Lan said so, Yun Xiao did not dare to take it lightly.

However, she was currently in the hands of the Empress. As long as she ignored her, she could die at any time. There was no need to make a move in this medicine.

In addition, because Yun Xiao had previously followed Rong Jin to identify the medicinal ingredients, she also had some understanding of the smell of the medicine. In addition, Yun Xiao had also eaten a lot of good ginseng, so she naturally guessed that there was a ginseng inside.

Now that she was about to give birth, she did not have any strength on her body. Obviously, it was abnormal. With this ginseng, she could also have more strength. For the sake of the child in her stomach, she also wanted to drink it.

Not long after, a bowl of ginseng medicine came to an end.

Someone outside said respectfully, “Reporting to Your Highness, the First Prince wishes to see you!”

When the Empress heard the voice of the palace people, a trace of a smile appeared in her eyes. She immediately nodded and looked at Yun Xiao, her voice carrying a hint of mockery. “I heard from Qing Mo that the county princess was already married to my Huang’er in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and this child in her belly belongs to my Huang’er. Why don’t you let my Huang’er help you choose?”

Yun Xiao nodded and the subordinate beside her tightly clenched his hands. “I also have this intention.”

“That’s good. Since that’s the case, county princess, please take a look and see what my emperor will choose.” After the Empress finished speaking, she said to the outside, “Nanny Zhu, Nanny Ai, wait on county princess to come outside.”

As soon as he finished speaking, two tall nanny quickly walked in and supported Yun Xiao one after the other.

The so-called going outside was just to move a place, lock Yun Xiao in a big cabinet outside, let her lie flat, opened the door of the cabinet a little, and just so happened to be able to see everything in the bedroom clearly through this gap.

The Empress said to the palace servants waiting outside, “Invite the First Prince in.”

When the palace servants went down, the Empress waved her hand at Imperial Physician Liu and let him go down. Then, she stared at Yun Xiao’s pair of serene eyes. There was some jealousy hidden in the depths of her eyes.

She personally pulled down the veil curtain on the cabinet and whispered, “County princess, you have to take a good look at it later. Just how did you choose the man you are marrying?”

Although Yun Xiao drank the ginseng soup, the pain in her abdomen was still unbearable. She clearly knew that she was about to give birth, but Yun Xiao also knew that the Empress would not find a stable woman to deliver her baby before Rong Jin made a choice.

Yun Xiao could only clench her teeth and nod. In the end, she closed her eyes and rested.

Because of the pain under her body, although Yun Xiao only closed her eyes for a while, she felt as if a long time had passed.

Hearing the familiar sound of footsteps coming in from outside, Yun Xiao instantly opened her eyes. After spending half a year together, Yun Xiao was already used to Rong Jin’s footsteps. Only the sound of footsteps could make it clear that the person who came was Rong Jin.

Taking a deep breath, Yun Xiao leaned closer to the door and looked out. She saw the empress dressed in luxurious clothes sitting in front of the dressing table, asking Aunt Lan to remove her makeup.

Rong Jin walked in with his head held high and his eyes unchanged. He walked directly to the Empress and bowed respectfully, “Greetings, Mother Empress.”

“Stand up,” the Empress said in a voice filled with joy. She turned to Rong Jin and whispered, “There’s no need to be so courteous to meet the Empress Mother. Hurry up and say goodbye. It’s been several years since we last met. If Xuan’er hadn’t seen you on the street, I wouldn’t have known you were back.”

“Mother, please forgive me. It’s already a great sin for mother to visit me a few days ago. I’m here today to apologize.”

“Alright, we, mother and son, don’t be so polite.”

“Yes,” Rong Jin said. He walked forward and took the ivory comb from Aunt Lan’s hand. He signaled for Aunt Lan to go down. Aunt Lan looked at the Empress and saw that the Empress nodded. She retreated. However, she was still waiting at the entrance of the main hall.

Rong Jin held the ivory comb and combed the Empress’ hair. He did it very smoothly. Looking at the woman’s hair, a strange look flashed in her eyes.

Afterwards, the severed fingers seemed to have accidentally combed the Empress’ hair, revealing her clean neck. There was a scarlet dot at the junction of her neck and her hair. The moment she saw the red dot, a strong killing intent flashed in Rong Jin’s deep eyes. However, he had concealed it very well, and the killing intent only flashed away in a flash.

The Empress felt her hair being lifted up. His body stiffened for an instant. Then, he casually put down the long hair that Rong Jin had lifted up and said with a stiff expression, “Jin’er, all these years, you’ve been a proton in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for the sake of Xi Yue. You’ve really been wronged. You’ve suffered so much. Speaking of which, the Empress Mother owes you. What compensation do you want?”

Rong Jin only lowered his eyebrows. He continued to comb the Empress’ hair and said in a hoarse voice, “As long as I can defend Country of Xiyue, I don’t feel wronged, much less need any compensation.”

“You don’t feel wronged, but Mother is still ashamed of you. Tomorrow is Xun’er’s ascension ceremony. Do you … do you want that position?” As the Empress said this, her brows did not leave Rong Jin’s brows in the mirror. She did not want to miss the slightest change on Rong Jin’s face.

Rong Jin’s expression did not change at all. He still combed the Empress’ hair and said loudly, “I don’t want it.”

“Why? That throne should have been yours, right? Your father passed the throne to you when he died. As long as you take out the imperial decree, the Emperor of Country of Xiyue will be yours.” The Empress said this with a strange expression and a trace of unwillingness on her face.

However, Rong Jin didn’t seem to have heard what the Empress said at all. His expression was still faint, without the slightest ripple. “Mother said wrongly. When Father Emperor died, I was not by his side. He was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Father Emperor passed the throne to Rong Xun. There was no imperial edict in this world. Please don’t speculate.”

The Empress turned around and stared at Rong Jin, taking out her hair from Rong Jin’s hand. “Don’t tell me that you really don’t know as a mother, child? Before your father died, he sent someone to West Vietnam to deliver an imperial edict to you.”

Rong Jin still had a faint expression and a faint smile on his face. “Mother is wrong. I have never seen any imperial decree before.”

“What? It’s him. It must be Rong Xun who sent someone to kidnap the imperial edict. No, we can’t do this to you. Let’s go. Empress Mother will take you to ask Rong Xun if he stole the imperial edict or not.” The Empress’s eyebrows carried a harsh expression, and she did not lose her original tenderness.