Chapter 229 Dark Cloud Pearl & New Moon (XI)

As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, Concubine Yijing Gui walked in with her confidant Wu Mama.

Shunzhi raised his head in surprise, and Concubine Yijing Gui Gui looked over at him with sharp eyes. He was startled and quickly turned his eyes away and straightened his back, thinking in his heart what she was doing? Was she going to harm Wu Yunzhu? Was she here to settle accounts?

Xiaozhuang smiled and greeted, "Namu Zhong is here, sit down quickly, you have to wait a while."

Namu Zhong bowed to her, and sat down expressionlessly without paying attention to Shunzhi, and asked coldly: "I wonder why the Queen Mother summoned me today?"

Xiaozhuang pretended not to see her rudeness. After all, Shunzhi killed someone's son and robbed someone's daughter-in-law. How could he expect someone to give him a good face? She took a sip of tea and said slowly, "There is no outsider here, so I will tell you straight. Namu Zhong, everyone knows the origin of Concubine Xian's identity. Now she has given birth to a child," she paused, raised her head and looked at Namu Zhong and said word by word, "I want to know whose child it is."

Namu Zhong stared at her and found the seriousness in her eyes. There was no intention of joking. Her breathing could not help but be disordered. She clenched her handkerchief and frowned and asked, "What did you say? Whose child?"

"Empress Dowager?!"

Just as Xiaozhuang was about to say something, Shunzhi suddenly stood up and shouted, shouting with a face full of shock and anger, "What are you talking about? That's my prince! That's Wu Yunzhu..."

Xiaozhuang restrained her expression and looked at him majestically. The straight gaze silenced Shunzhi. His momentum could not suppress Xiaozhuang at all!

Xiaozhuang waved her hand, and Su Moer immediately went out to tell Eunuch Chang to take a few confidants to take everyone away, and then dispersed to guard around to ensure that what happened inside would not be spread. Xiaozhuang had already ordered all the concubines not to come. Wu Yunzhu was unpopular, so no one came to greet her in a hypocritical manner.

Su Moer came back and nodded to Xiaozhuang, and Xiaozhuang said, "Fulin."

Shunzhi was stunned. Since they fell out, the empress never called his name again. He raised his head and saw Xiaozhuang's serious expression.

"Fulin, since the virtuous concubine was not born prematurely and there was no accident, the only explanation is that the child was born in the wrong month. The bloodline in the palace must not be mixed." Xiaozhuang stared at Shunzhi's eyes, "She was Boguer's wife before she entered the palace."

Shunzhi retorted, "Wu Yunzhu has long been in name only with Boguer. Even if the month is wrong, it is my child!"

"Pah!"

"How dare you!"

Namu Zhong threw the teacup and fruit plate on the table to the ground.

Shunzhi felt bad as soon as he said this. He turned his head to look at Namu Zhong, only to see Namu Zhong looking at him with hatred, as if she was going to pounce on him and bite him to death in the next moment!

Shunzhi took two deep breaths, stepped back and fell into his seat, but still insisted and shook his head and said: "Empress Mother! The child in Wu Yunzhu's belly is mine! Don't ruin her reputation again!"

"Oh, she also has a reputation?" Xiaozhuang chuckled, as if they were not discussing an embarrassing topic at all. She glanced at Namu Zhong and said: "Whether Boguer and his wife are in name only, I don't know, only the people in Prince Xiang's mansion can know. What do you think, Namu Zhong?"

Namu Zhong's eyes lit up all of a sudden. Although she didn't know what Xiaozhuang was planning, she had fought with Xiaozhuang for so many years and was not afraid of her at all. What's more, Boguer's son was too tempting. Even if it was a trap, she would jump down without hesitation!

She saw that Xiaozhuang had no concealment of her disgust for Wuyunzhu, so she spoke without mercy, "How could I not investigate that bitch who did such a shameful thing? At least I want to know when that bitch betrayed Boguer!" A twisted smile appeared on her face, "That dirty bitch had slept with Boguer two days before Boguer committed suicide!"

When it came to Boguer's suicide, Namu Zhong couldn't continue, and the hatred in her heart was almost uncontrollable. She took a deep breath and looked at the mother and son opposite. Now was not the time. She couldn't fight against the stone with an egg, nor could she implicate her other children. She closed her eyes and suppressed her surging emotions.

Xiaozhuang admired Namu Zhong's calmness in her heart, and at the same time decided to speed up the disintegration of her power. Shunzhi's children were innocent and could not be allowed to be harmed by her. Since she had already stepped out of the palace, she should not reach out again!

"Impossible! You're lying!" Shunzhi shouted in disbelief. He was already short of breath when facing Xiaozhuang and Namu Zhong, and could only deny their words over and over again. But in his mind, the past scenes emerged clearly.

Xiaozhuang said that the fetus was naughty and lively, and was nothing like him when he was a child...

Madame Cui said that Wu Yunzhu did not encounter any accidents, and it seemed that the day had come...

In addition, in the past few months, Madame Cui reported that Wu Yunzhu sometimes wanted to eat turtles, crabs or some things that were not suitable to be eaten together, and sometimes wanted to order some nice-smelling but not suitable for pregnancy incense, but in the end, they were all stopped by the four madams. He always thought that Wu Yunzhu was simple, so she didn't understand these harmful things, but now thinking about it, all became doubts.

His voice became smaller and smaller, and he sat there shaking his head in a daze. The emperor was suspicious, especially an extreme person like Shunzhi. Any slight disturbance could shake his cognition in his heart. He would subconsciously believe those bad rumors, just like when Wu Yunzhu said that Concubine Tong harmed her, he immediately believed it.

In the delivery room, Wu Yunzhu was shocked to hear their words and widened her eyes. She subconsciously didn't want to give birth to this child, so she stopped exerting force and gasped for air. The midwife and several maids were all Xiaozhuang's people. They didn't hear the conversation outside, and only focused on urging Wu Yunzhu to give birth, "Empress, don't relax! Push hard, the child will be born soon. If you don't push hard, the child will be in danger!"

The voice inside was not small. Shunzhi heard that Wu Yunzhu seemed to be in trouble, so he got up and ran into the delivery room. Su Moer wanted to stop him, but Xiaozhuang raised her hand to stop him as soon as he moved, "There is no outsider, don't worry about him."

When Shunzhi rushed in, Wu Yunzhu hadn't reacted yet. What should I do if the matter of the child was exposed? Shunzhi was suspicious, and his heart sank when he saw her like this. He walked to the bedside and squinted his eyes to look at Wu Yunzhu's eyes, which were full of panic!

"Wu Yunzhu, Wu Yunzhu! I'm here, come back to your senses quickly, otherwise the child will be in danger!" He patted Wu Yunzhu's face to wake her up.

Wu Yunzhu saw him and cried in a wronged manner: "Fulin, you have to believe me! I really..."

"Okay! Give birth to a child first, and we'll talk about the rest later!" Shunzhi felt his temples throbbing and painful, and all kinds of thoughts in his mind kept him from calming down. Wu Yunzhu's cry of pain made him even more upset. Helplessly, he had to go back to the outer room.

Namu Zhong couldn't hide her disgust for them at all, and Xiaozhuang stopped talking, just sitting there quietly sipping tea.

After waiting for another half an hour, the loud cry of the baby finally came from the delivery room. Shunzhi stared at the door, frowning tightly, and didn't feel a trace of joy in his heart.

Mammy Cui wrapped the child in the bright yellow swaddling clothes she had prepared in advance and carried him to the outer room. After hearing the quarrel between them, she did not dare to congratulate him. She lowered her head and said tremblingly, "Yes, it's a prince."

Namu Zhong stood up and walked to Mammy Cui in three or two steps, staring at the baby's face and looking up and down, "Resembling! Too much alike!"

She excitedly pulled Mammy Wu and smiled with tears in her eyes, "Look, does it look like Boguer? Does it look like him!"

Mammy Wu replied repeatedly, "Resembling! Exactly the same as our prince when he was a child!"

Xiaozhuang did not go forward to see. She felt that if such a young child did not look very distinctive, how could she tell whether he looked like him or not? It was just a psychological effect. Shunzhi collapsed in the chair. After hearing what they said, he dared not to look, for fear of seeing a face similar to Boguer.

Xiaozhuang pointed to the water that Su Moer brought up and said, "Fulin, we have to test whether it is your child or not. Let's drop blood now."

Shunzhi clenched his fists and stared at the bowl of water without moving.

"If you are unwilling to test, I will take this child away."

Shunzhi's hands trembled when he heard Namu Zhong's words. He looked at the child and then at the bowl of water, closed his eyes and let go of his hands.

Su Moer pierced his finger with a silver needle and dropped a drop of blood into the bowl. Namu Zhong also took a silver needle and carefully pierced the baby's finger. After dropping the blood, she coaxed softly: "Be good! Don't cry!"

Several people stared at the bowl nervously. The two drops of blood swayed with the water in the bowl, but they just didn't mix. After waiting for a full quarter of an hour, they still didn't mix. Namu Zhong cried and laughed and hugged the child, kissed his face happily, and Shunzhi suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, which was a big blow.

In fact, Xiaozhuang didn't know whose child it was. She just told Su Moer to wipe the bowl with a cloth soaked in vinegar so that the blood wouldn't mix. Only if this child was given to Namu Zhong could he grow up safely and happily, which was at least much better than being "my first son" in the palace.

Looking at Shunzhi's appearance, she sighed and said to the excited Namu Zhong: "This child is handed over to you, Namu Zhong, raise him well and accumulate more blessings for the child. I believe Abunai and Duanshun will be happy when they know it."

Namu Zhong looked up at Xiaozhuang, knowing that she was warning herself, unwillingly, and suddenly the baby in her arms cried. She lowered her head and tightened her arms, whispering: "I will protect him and grow up safely!"

Xiaozhuang smiled, walked to her side and put a piece of warm jade in the child's swaddling clothes, touched his little face, and said: "Xianfei had a difficult delivery, and the little prince died. Namu Zhong, you know what to do, don't let Aijia hear any bad rumors."

Namu Zhong raised her chin slightly and sneered: "This palace naturally knows what to do! Abunai is worried that this palace will be lonely, so he adopted his newborn son to Boguer. Ha, Queen Mother, is it feasible?"

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