Children of Loulan

Chapter 399 3 Children

She just smiled slightly and responded with eyes as gentle as water: "I naturally understand the prince's thoughts. But since I gave birth to the princess, there has been no new life born in this palace. I guess it is my mother who urges you again?" When she said this, her tone was as calm as a calm lake, but only she herself knew that ripples had already been set off deep in her heart.

King Cheng nodded, "In fact, I like our daughter very much. She is very cute, but the mother is old and she wants to have a grandson, so I..."

Upon seeing this, Princess Cheng showed that she understood and hurriedly comforted him, "I am well aware that Your Highness is under tremendous pressure, and I am always trying to help you solve your problems. It's a pity that I am too incompetent. Since then, I have never been pregnant. I really have failed Your Highness's kindness..." As she spoke, her eyes turned slightly red and tears welled up in her eyes.

Seeing this, King Cheng's heart tightened, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to comfort her. However, at this moment, a maidservant beside Princess Cheng came in at an inappropriate time with a bowl of steaming hot medicine. Seeing this, Princess Cheng was about to reach out to take the bowl of medicine, but was suddenly stopped by King Cheng. She turned her head to look at King Cheng with a suspicious face, and called softly, "Your Majesty..."

The corners of King Cheng's mouth slightly raised, revealing a gentle smile, and he said softly: "My beloved, from now on, you don't have to drink these medicines anymore!"

Upon hearing this, Princess Cheng was surprised. She pretended not to understand and asked with a frown, "Why did the prince say that? This..."

King Cheng sighed softly, gazed at Princess Cheng tenderly, and said slowly: "I know very well that in the past few years, in order to give birth to a son for me, you have found countless folk remedies in private, and you have drunk a lot of this medicine." At this point, a trace of pity flashed in King Cheng's eyes.

When Princess Cheng heard this, her eyes instantly turned red. She lowered her head and said with guilt, "It's all because of my incompetence that I failed to give Your Majesty a son, causing Your Majesty to worry about this. I was helpless, so I thought of relying on these folk remedies, maybe I could have a son!"

King Cheng quickly reached out his hand, gently held Princess Cheng's hand, and comforted her: "My beloved concubine, please don't blame yourself so much. This is not your fault. Fortunately, now I have found out the culprit that has caused the palace to not have children again, so from today on, you don't have to suffer the pain of drinking medicine anymore."

Princess Cheng's beautiful eyes opened wide, and she looked at King Cheng in surprise, and she opened her red lips slightly: "The culprit? Your Highness, what you said... could it be that someone did it intentionally?" Her brows were furrowed, as if she couldn't believe that such a thing could happen.

King Cheng nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice: "That's right. This man is very scheming and clever. He only used a few pots of flowers to prevent our palace from welcoming the arrival of new life in the past few years!" His words revealed deep anger and helplessness.

Hearing this, Princess Cheng frowned slightly, as if she had suddenly thought of an important clue, and asked in a delicate voice: "Flowers? Could it be the flowers that were moved from my yard today?"

King Cheng nodded slightly to show his agreement, and then said: "Yes, my beloved concubine is very smart and guessed it right at once."

Princess Cheng was shocked and asked quickly, "Have all the flowers in the other sisters' yards been destroyed? If there are any left, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles!"

King Cheng sighed, shook his head and said, "This person is very meticulous. Apart from the courtyards of you and me, no such flowers were found in the courtyards of the other concubines and maids. But I have sent people to deal with all the flowers that may have problems. It's just that the mastermind behind this is really cunning. He only tampered with the courtyards of you and me, so there is no way to investigate, and I don't know who did it!"

Princess Cheng frowned and asked in confusion: "Since there is no such flower in their yard, why have they never gotten pregnant? Is there some other conspiracy at work?"

King Cheng sighed heavily and said slowly: "Alas, my beloved concubine, that is because this flower has special medicinal properties. It only works on men, but women are safe!" After that, he looked at Princess Cheng, who was still worried about this matter, with a gentle gaze. In his heart, he was sure that this matter had nothing to do with the princess. You know, over the years, in order to conceive a child, the princess drank countless strange and bizarre prescriptions.

"Okay, my dear, don't worry about it anymore. Although we still haven't figured out who the mastermind behind this is, it's already late at night, so you'd better go to bed early. Without that weird flower causing trouble, I believe it won't be long before we can welcome our son as we wish!" King Cheng comforted softly.

When Princess Cheng heard this, she blushed slightly and smiled shyly. However, despite her shy appearance, she had already begun to plan a response. If she gave birth to a son successfully as King Cheng said, then according to King Cheng's personality, he would definitely make a big fuss about this child and try every means to seize the military power in her family's hands. In this way, her family's situation would be precarious.

Therefore, no matter what, she had to come up with a foolproof plan to prevent this from happening. Perhaps, she could secretly find some secret recipes to make herself infertile, so that even if other concubines gave birth to male babies, they would not be able to threaten her family with the children. Thinking of this, Princess Cheng secretly made up her mind to protect the peace and interests of her family at all costs.

A few months passed in a flash, and suddenly there was good news in the Cheng Palace. It turned out that the Cheng Princess and the two concubines were pregnant at the same time! This astonishing news spread like wildfire, and the whole palace was immediately immersed in a festive atmosphere.

The most excited one was Concubine Ru. In the past few years, the palace had never welcomed the birth of a new life, which really made her anxious. Now, three children are about to be born at once, how can she not be ecstatic? Therefore, all kinds of precious rewards and nourishing products were continuously sent to Prince Cheng's palace like a tide to express Concubine Ru's irrepressible joy.

On the other hand, King Cheng had previously secretly sent people to try to tamper with the fetus in the Crown Princess' belly, but unfortunately, the news of the actions failed again and again. However, at this moment, with three pregnant women in his own palace, especially after learning that the Crown Princess was pregnant with a boy, King Cheng instantly threw the conspiracy against the Crown Princess out of his mind.

At this moment, his heart and eyes were filled with the child in Princess Cheng's belly, because this was the eldest son he had been waiting for for a long time! For this reason, he specially invited the imperial physician in the palace to come and check the pulse. When he heard the conclusion again that "this is a boy", the excitement and joy in his heart were simply indescribable.