Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder's Record of Counterattacks

Chapter 3589: The Most Favoured Woman in the Inner Palace (8)

Ning Shu told the consorts to all find ways to get pregnant and spread branches and leaves for the inner palace. She smiled like the Bodhisattva Guanyin saving all sentient beings.

These consorts were anxious. A child was the true pillar of support for a woman in the inner palace.

Ao Tianze always went to Fu Min’s palace, so these consorts racked their brains and intercepted him halfway. They used all sorts of tactics to drag Ao Tianze into their own palaces.

Now, they all treated Ao Tianze like a breeding stallion. They wanted to have children, children, children!

Today it was a lady of bright deportment; tomorrow it was a high-ranking consort; and the day after that it was a noble lady… In short, they kept rotating their tricks.

This annoyed Ao Tianze to death. His sweetheart was Fu Min. These women jumping up and down in front of him were acting just like singing girls in a theater troupe.

Ao Tianze found excuses to ground several consorts to prevent these women from prancing around in front of him. It was truly annoying.

Ao Tianze lost his temper. This forced the women to keep quiet out of fear, and they no longer dared to be so brazen in dragging him away. However, they flocked to Ning Shu’s presence to cry and complain.

His Majesty was not sharing his rain and dew equally. How were they supposed to get pregnant?

Ning Shu also lost her temper. “His Majesty comes to the inner palace to relax. Every single one of you has displeased His Majesty. Go back and reflect on your actions properly.”

He came to the inner palace to find amusement and relax. How could she let them act like guests usurping the host?

The consorts twisted their handkerchiefs one by one, asking Ning Shu to put in a word with His Majesty.

Ning Shu was not going to do something so foolish. Whatever Ao Tianze wanted to do, Ning Shu would not interfere. Even if he wanted to ascend to the heavens, Ning Shu would virtuously help him build the ladder.

Women who thought that just because they were the empress they had to help advise the emperor were a bit foolish. When your life or death rested on another person’s single word, actually thinking about advising the emperor and making him be a good emperor simply meant you felt your life was too long.

Making the emperor be a good emperor was the job of the officials in the outer court.

Even if Ao Tianze slept at Fu Min’s place every day or even skipped the morning assembly, Ning Shu would not say an extra word.

She was not going to let these consorts use her as a pawn.

After being reprimanded by Ning Shu, the consorts could only leave dejectedly. After the consorts left, Consort Xuan felt a bit sorrowful again. “Your Highness, why does His Majesty never come to see this woman? Does he dislike the child in this woman’s womb?”

Pregnant women just loved to overthink, and they needed to control their tempers. The hormonal changes in a pregnant woman’s body made her emotions highly unstable.

Ning Shu stroked Consort Xuan’s slightly bulging belly and said with a smile, “His Majesty is busy with myriad state affairs. He will definitely find the time to come see you. The most important thing for you right now is to nurse your body well.”

Pregnant women needed care. However, this husband, Ao Tianze—let alone visiting, he even wanted to get rid of the child in her belly.

Naturally, she would not tell Consort Xuan these things. Sometimes, ignorance was bliss.

As Ning Shu spoke, she caressed Consort Xuan’s belly. While pressing against it, she released a trace of spiritual energy. Under the nourishment of this spiritual energy, she hoped this child would be healthy and strong.

Through her spiritual consciousness, Ning Shu discovered that two children had developed in Consort Xuan’s belly. In other words, they were actually twins.

Twins! Ning Shu could not help but grin and laugh.

Consort Xuan felt somewhat disappointed.

In order to protect the two cubs in Consort Xuan’s belly, Ning Shu truly exhausted her mind and efforts.

Some incidents also occurred during this period. For example, the dosage of certain ingredients in the pregnancy-nourishing medicine was increased, and extra things were added to some dishes.

Ning Shu and the female physician quietly intercepted all of it.

Occasionally, when she took Consort Xuan for a walk, oil would inexplicably appear on the floor, or a dog or cat would suddenly jump out from the flower bushes.

Fortunately, there was the martial-arts-trained maidservant who was quick on her feet and caught Consort Xuan, or else acted as a cushion for her.

Consort Xuan was also a woman of the inner palace. If these things only happened once, fine. However, it couldn’t be a coincidence that they kept happening to her.

Consort Xuan was somewhat terrified. She stated that she would not step out of her palace gates and would just stroll within her own courtyard.

Her child was her life and her pillar of support. She did not know who was trying to harm her.

Ning Shu figured that these things were probably all Ao Tianze’s doing. The inner palace was his tool, including everything in it—the women, even the cats and dogs they raised.

If anything happened, it would also be the responsibility of the consorts. This would him to punish those consorts.

Even if he could only get rid of one of them, that was still one less woman to deal with.

During this period of nurturing the pregnancy, Ao Tianze rarely visited the inner palace. His doting on Fu Min remained hidden from the public eye. It was not yet time to show his hand.

There was another matter. Ao Tianze found his lower back to be sore and weak. The ensuing aftereffect was that his physical stamina was failing. He used to be a seven-times-a-night man, but now he had become a one-second man.

Ao Tianze consulted the royal physician to ask what was going on. The royal physician said that Ao Tianze was suffering from a kidney deficiency. He then frantically prescribed yang-boosting supplements to nourish Ao Tianze’s kidneys, but the effects were minimal. Ao Tianze’s kidney qi continuously leaked out. He was like a broken vat. No matter how much water was poured in, there was a hole, so the water would keep flowing out to no avail.

Ao Tianze was extremely frustrated. He rarely even went to Fu Min’s place anymore. No man could bluntly admit his impotence or perform poorly in front of the woman he liked. It was too damaging to a man’s dignity.

Ao Tianze took tonics and rested his body. Whenever he occasionally favored a woman in the inner palace, he still had the shadow guards help out.

In the past, when he was vigorous and formidable, he felt nothing when watching a shadow guard sleep with his women. But now, it fucking felt different. It made him seem incompetent.

It was a bit different from his previously indifferent attitude.

What infuriated Ao Tianze even more was that the children in Consort Xuan’s belly were still perfectly fine, and her belly had already bulged up. That idiot of an empress actually ran over specifically to tell him that she was carrying twins.

The result of the court physician’s pulse diagnosis was twins.

Ao Tianze did not want to hear it at all, okay? These twins were not even his children.

Ning Shu even praised Ao Tianze for being amazing to have actually made Consort Xuan pregnant with twins.

Ao Tianze’s face darkened. When he looked at the jubilant Ning Shu, his nose flared with anger.

Seeing that Ao Tianze’s complexion was poor, Ning Shu even asked, “Your Majesty, are you too busy with government affairs? Your Majesty’s complexion does not look very good.”

Ao Tianze: …

“The empress just needs to manage the inner palace well. This emperor knows what is going on with this emperor’s own affairs.” Ao Tianze waved his hand, dismissing Ning Shu.

Ning Shu’s face was full of smiles as she replied, “In another five months, Sister Xuan will be due to give birth. Could Your Majesty go and see Sister Xuan? Sister Xuan thinks of Your Majesty every day. The children can move now.”

Ning Shu appeared eager for credit and unable to read the room as she beamed at Ao Tianze.

Ao Tianze almost snapped the writing brush in his hand. However, as the emperor, his self-control was rock solid. “Doesn’t Consort Xuan have you to take care of her? This emperor is busy with government affairs are busy. You just need to take good care of Consort Xuan on this emperor’s behalf.”

“Yes, this woman will definitely take good care of Sister Xuan, so that the inner palace will have many children within it.”

Ning Shu was beaming with joy. As soon as Ao Tianze saw Ning Shu’s smile, he felt suffocated.

Either way, he had to get rid of the children early. Letting them be born would simply be a humiliation to himself.