Chapter 594: Empress’ Relationship
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
With the help of the medicinal catalyst of the Golden Rain Worm, Empress Qin finally had the best sleep in a few years. “What? The Empress is asleep?” Hearing the shadow come to secretly report, Emperor Minghua was so happy that he almost jumped up.
The shadow was a secret guard raised by Emperor Minghua. They were a group of people without a fixed name and only listened to him.
Their movements were even more hidden than the Inner Palace experts.
However, most of the missions they carried out were to monitor Empress Qin.
At that time, the shadows all thought to themselves that their Emperor was indeed a person who was suspicious of others. He actually sent so many experts to monitor the person closest to him. He must be very afraid of the Qin Family of Jiangnan.
It was only later that they found out that the Emperor did not ask them to go to the Empress’s side to monitor who the Empress had met and what she had said.
Instead, they were monitoring whether the Empress ate well every day, slept well, and whether she was bullied by the other concubines.
At that time, most of their conversations were like this—
“Your Majesty, the Empress met Concubine Li in the Imperial Garden today.”
“Did she smile?”
“No, she was even a little angry.”
“Chang De, draft a decree to demote Concubine Li to Beauty Li. No, wait. Make it Palace Maid Li. Don’t let her insult the t.i.tle of Beauty.”
“Your Majesty, Concubine Li was personally chosen by the Empress. She has only been here for less than a month.”
“Oh, then send her to the Empress’s Palace. Let’s see if she can stay as a maid or be sent back.”
Later on, the shadows realized that the Empress was even angrier.
She even sneered at the mirror.
When the Empress was unhappy, Emperor Minghua would secretly deal with the people she had met.
In fact, if she was unhappy with a tree, Emperor Minghua would get someone to dig up the tree.
On the 15th of every month, the Empress was as cold as a sword, as if she wished that she could stab the Emperor in the heart.
However, the Emperor felt that it must be because the people around her did not serve her well, so he punished them by deducting their salary.
Sometimes, when the Empress suggested walking out of the palace, Emperor Minghua would appear very angry and not allow her to go out. However, he would also instruct the guards that if the Empress slipped out, they must pretend that they didn’t see her, let alone block her.
But every time the Empress returned, her expression would become even worse.
After so many years, other than the concubines who gave birth to the two Princes and the aloof Concubine Jing, the rest of the concubines were sent away by the Emperor using various methods.
Even so, the relationship between the Emperor and the Empress was still very bad.
On the surface, everyone saw that the Emperor did not treat the Empress well, and the Empress treated the Emperor like an enemy.
With the princes and officials around or on important occasions, the royal couple would still hide it. However, only when they were alone would they drop all pretense.
The palace servants in the Empress’s Palace were all guessing. “When will our Empress really offend the Emperor completely? I’m afraid…”
Only the shadows shook their heads secretly. “I’m afraid that day won’t come.” No one knew better than them how much the current Emperor liked his wife, and how much he hated the two Princes. He had already drugged the two imperial concubines who had s.e.x with him.
They guessed that the Emperor must have guessed the Empress’s intentions wrongly.
However, no one dared to mention it.
Everyone only knew that ever since the Empress fell seriously ill, in order to maintain order, the Emperor hid the Empress’s illness from all the n.o.bles and officials, but he did not visit her more than a few times.
The palace servants guessed that the Emperor was afraid of the Qin Family of Jiangnan and was afraid that they would take the opportunity to cause trouble. He was even more afraid that the palace concubines would make trouble out of nothing.
However, they did not know that from the day the Empress fell seriously ill, Emperor Minghua had been suffering from insomnia. The time he spent every day was usually spent reading memos and meeting with the ministers. The remaining time was spent studying pathology books behind the backs of the imperial physicians.
Now that he heard that the Empress had finally fallen asleep and was no longer in pain, Eunuch Chang De was very happy.
“Your Majesty, it’s almost dawn. You should rest.”
“No, I want to take a look.”
This woman was stubborn. If he went to visit her when she was awake, he would definitely be rejected.
But if she was asleep, her loyal subordinates would be afraid of waking her up, so they could only hold it in and let him stay by her side.
Hehe.
Empress Qin, who was being stared at as she slept, did not know what was happening outside, but she had a strange dream..