Professional Ethics of a Concubine

Chapter 212 Who Should Sympathize

Madam Chen Hua took a long time to calm down, and finally recovered. She asked in a trembling voice,

"Since you have kept the matter of the child a secret for so many years, why are you telling me now?"

"Of course I can't hide it." The empress said bluntly.

“……”Mrs. Chenhua.

Let her lie in the coffin now.

She is an old woman and doesn't want to go through such a drastic change again.

Can't we just let her enjoy her old age?

"Don't panic, sister. The sky won't fall." The empress calmly comforted her.

"Now the people in Da Zhao think that the child is yours, not mine."

“???!!!” Madam Chen Hua.

So, it turns out that she is going to lose her reputation in her later years!

Chen Hua was so angry with her that he wanted to point at her nose and scold her, but when he saw her imperial dress, he swallowed the thought.

However, she was old after all, and due to anger, Mrs. Chenhua's eyes rolled back and she fainted.

The empress had anticipated this situation, and she shouted outside. The imperial physician who was waiting outside came in and calmly began to give Madam Chen Hua acupuncture, and also comforted the empress.

"Your Majesty, rest assured. Madam Chen Hua is just angry. She will be fine after taking some medicine to clear the heat and nourish the spirit."

The empress put her hands behind her back, sighed softly, turned around and told her personal steward to go to her warehouse to get some supplements for Madam Chen Hua.

A quarter of an hour later, Madam Chen Hua woke up slowly, glanced at the empress sitting next to her, and immediately turned her head away.

For the first time, I felt that this sister was an eyesore.

"Now that things have come to this, don't be upset, sister. I asked you to come here today to discuss this matter with you."

The empress spoke slowly.

Madam Chen Hua was so angry that her heart ached, but due to her status as the empress, she couldn't really ignore her. After hearing what she said, she sat up from the bed and asked the question in her mind,

"Why did you keep it a secret for thirty years, but now you can't keep it a secret anymore? And why does the other party think that I am your biological mother? Is the emperor of Da Zhao sure he doesn't know it's you?"

As she asked more questions, the anger in her heart could no longer be suppressed and burst out. Madam Chen Hua angrily vented,

"How could you have the guts to give birth to a child back then! Once this gets out, you'll be finished, and your family will be disgraced because of you!

Were you deceived by that Emperor Zhao? All men are bad. After enjoying themselves, he would pat his butt and leave, leaving you to bear all the pain of being pregnant out of wedlock! If... Bah! What a scumbag! "

The empress listened to her scolding calmly and handed her a cup of tea, "Sister, calm down and don't faint from anger again."

Madam Chen Hua,...

He took the tea, drank it in one gulp, then stuffed the cup into her hand, asking her to serve him as well.

Seeing that the empress didn't say anything and put the cup on the table, Madam Chenhua felt a little relieved.

"That child looks like me. Now that he is the crown prince of Great Zhao, a ceremony will be held to confer him the title. If our country's envoys see him, they will definitely think he looks familiar. If they find out that his biological mother is from Gulan, they will become suspicious."

The empress began to explain to her sister why she could no longer keep it secret.

“Moreover, after he was recognized, the Great Zhao sent people to the capital to look for his biological mother and inquire about what happened back then.

Because Fu'er's features are similar to mine, I sent people to guide the people of Da Zhao to find Fu'er, and they therefore believed that my sister was his biological mother."

Madam Chen Hua,...

She took a few deep breaths to get her numb brain working again, and then couldn't help asking,

"How come you know so much about the Crown Prince of Great Zhao? Have you always sent people to keep an eye on him?"

"Of course, he is my son." The empress's calm tone finally showed a ripple.

"Sister, you were wrong just now. It wasn't the Emperor of Great Zhao who deceived me. It was me who deceived him. I used him and got pregnant on purpose.

I just wanted to have a child so that I could establish my own family and get rid of my family. But the court changed so quickly that I didn't expect my family to be involved in the case of the Prince of Qi's rebellion and be suspected by the late emperor.

My father knew that the late emperor had feelings for me, and as long as I entered the palace to serve him, all suspicions would disappear.

However, I just didn't want to enter the palace, nor did I want to just find a man to marry, so I chose the extremely unethical path of having a child out of wedlock.

That year, my father found me and my newborn Jin'er. He threatened me with my family and Jin'er's life and forced me to make a choice.

In order to ensure that everyone could have a chance to survive, I chose to send the child away and enter the palace to become the next queen.

This child was what I wanted to have from the beginning. When I sent him away, I had already raised him for half a year, taking care of him day and night, loving him as if he were my life. Sister, do you know how heartbroken I was back then? "

When Madam Chen Hua heard this, she burst into tears. She got off the bed, knelt on the ground, and cried,

“Wuwuwu… I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you sacrificed so much to enter the palace. The family owes you, and I owe you too.

Tell me, what should I do? Is it enough to admit that I was the one who gave birth to the Crown Prince of Zhao?

But, when you entered the palace, I had been married to Xue Han for two years. I admitted that the child was born from adultery. Isn't this reputation too...

Oh, I'm old now, I can risk it, but it won't have a good impact on the child, right?"

The empress reached out her hand and helped her up from the ground, "Sister is right, his biological mother cannot be you. Although his birth is not glorious, it cannot be criticized so much.

I have already arranged this matter. Sister, do you remember that we have a concubine sister, the eleventh child, who died of illness at a young age and never got married? I plan to let her be Jin'er's biological mother."

"Ah? Will this work? Can we fool them? The Emperor of Great Zhao..."

Mrs. Chenhua was relieved to hear that she didn't have to take the blame, but she was also worried about being exposed.

"The Great Zhao Emperor was injured and blind at that time. He has never seen me and does not know my true identity. He probably does not remember the specific events of that year, so he will not be exposed."

The empress said confidently.

Madam Chen Hua,...

I never expected that the Emperor of Zhao was blind back then.

Could he be the one carefully chosen by my sister?

He is from Da Zhao and is blind. He is a perfect candidate to kill the father and keep the son.

Madam Chenhua doesn’t know whether she should sympathize with the Emperor of Great Zhao?