Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Fawning

Chapter 174: Demoting Concubine Ying to Commoner ③

When mentioning children, Meiruo suddenly heard a burst of children's laughter.

She turned her gaze toward the nearby pond. She saw a four or five-year-old boy with pigtails, squatting on a stone platform and playing. Meiruo was from Mongolia, so she could tell this boy was from the same region as her. The fabric of his clothes was fine. Could this be Jingse's son, Prince Qingyou?

Meiruo pointed at the boy and asked, "Who is he?"

A Bao stood up in panic and looked in the direction Mei Ruo pointed. Then he said respectfully, "This child is unfamiliar to me. I have never seen this child before."

Meiruo's expression changed after a long moment, and she looked angry and humiliated. She glared at Abao fiercely and cursed, "Waste."

Meiruo wants to take a gamble.

If the child in front of her was really Jingse's son, she would be grateful to Jingse as her savior, and her mother and fourth brother would be saved. If not, she would not lose out, and perhaps she could even restore her image in Hongli's eyes.

Meiruo checked around to make sure no one was around. Then, with Abao, she quietly walked up behind the boy. When he wasn't paying attention, she gave him a push. The boy cried for help, and Meiruo reached out to pull him back. It was cold, and he was wearing heavy clothes, so Meiruo couldn't reach the boy's hand.

A Bao was afraid that someone might die, so he hurried to Meiruo's side and said, "My lady, if this continues, the child will definitely die. Let's call someone to save him."

Meiruo's face changed slightly. The boy kept struggling in the water, getting farther and farther away from the shore.

To save her family, Meiruo risked everything. She turned to Abao and said seriously, "Abao, I'm going to jump into the water to save him. To ensure safety, as soon as I get in, you must call for help."

"But……"

Before Abao could finish his words, Meiruo jumped into the water and swam towards the boy.

Meiruo grew up on the grasslands and could float, but now she was pregnant, wearing heavy winter clothes, and holding an unconscious child in her arms, she was unable to swim back to shore.

"Help, Concubine Ying fell into the water." A Bao shouted as he ran.

Her body was getting colder and colder, and with no one to rescue her, Meiruo's eyelids became heavier.

She suddenly regretted it.

After a while, the maids and nannies who came to look for the boy finally found them floating in the water. Fortunately, they were found in time and she and the boy were fine.

The nanny bowed to Meiruo in Mongolian etiquette and said, "Thank you, Madam, for saving our prince."

It was winter, and she had caught a cold again. A Bao was worried about Mei Ruo's health, so he quickly took off his clothes and put them on Mei Ruo. Mei Ruo hugged her body, leaned on A Bao and rubbed her arms with her hands. She was shivering from the cold, and even her tongue seemed to be tied, and she couldn't even speak a complete sentence. "Don't... It's okay, hurry up... send... the young master... back to the palace... back to the palace."

The nanny didn't waste any time and hurriedly took Qingyou back to the palace behind Xiang Meiruofu.

A Bao helped Meiruo up and said worriedly, "My lady, you are pregnant and cannot catch a cold. I will take you back to the palace and ask them to make you a bowl of ginger soup to warm you up."

Meiruo felt a chill rising from the soles of her feet, her fingers trembling slightly from the cold. Her face was as pale as paper, but her hands were still clutching the corner of Abao's clothes, refusing to let go. She asked, "Abao... Hejing... Princess Hejing should... would... would help me save Eji and Fourth Brother because I saved the Crown Prince's life?"

To be honest, A Bao didn't know whether Jing Se would save Princess Balin and the Fourth Prince, but if Ruomeiruo kept standing here, something would happen to her sooner or later, so A Bao could only nod firmly and said, "Don't worry, my lady, the Princess and the Fourth Prince will be safe."

Only after getting a positive answer did Meiruo smile.

With the help of A Bao, she managed to take a few steps forward. However, she fainted after only two steps. A Bao and she fell to the ground together. When she looked up again, A Bao saw that Mei Ruo's lower body was bleeding. She panicked instantly and kept shaking Mei Ruo's body, shouting: "My lady, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, my lady..."

Qingyou was taken to Chonghua Palace.

When Hongli and Jingse heard that Qingyou had fallen into the water, they rushed to Chonghua Palace without stopping. At this moment, Qi Ru was taking his pulse.

Qingyou was the young prince of the Khorchin grasslands and Jingse's only child. If anything happened to him, Jingse would probably die. As he grew older, Hongli felt more and more guilty towards Empress Xiaoxian, but she was gone, and all his longing and guilt could not be expressed. He could only spend this longing and pity on Jingse and her son.

Hongli: "How can you take care of the prince, you bastard?"

The servants in the house were so frightened that they fell to their knees.

Jing Se held back her tears, her heart aching. As a mother, she just wanted to be thankful that You was safe and sound. She held the handkerchief tightly until Qi Ru came out.

Jingse stepped past Qi Ru and ran to Qingyou's bedside, took off his armor, and put his hand on Qingyou's forehead.

Qi Ru bowed and said, "Your humble servant greets His Majesty, Princess."

Hongli: "How is the prince?"

Qi Ru glanced at Qing You and then slowly said, "Your Majesty and Princess, please rest assured. The prince was just frightened after falling into the water, and the cold has entered his body. He just needs to rest for a few days to force the cold out of his body."

Jingse finally felt relieved when he heard that Qingyou was fine.

After covering Qingyou with a blanket, she began to settle accounts with the palace maids who had served Qingyou.

Jing Se stood up and said sternly: "How do you serve the young master? Why do you take him to such a dangerous place like the pool?"

The palace servants looked at each other, afraid that they would lose their heads if they said something wrong.

It wasn't really their fault. Qingyou, who had lived on the prairie since childhood, was used to being free and unfettered. He didn't like their close attention, so he shook them off and went to the small pond to enjoy the scenery. He wasn't close to the pond, so logically he wouldn't fall into the water. Who would have thought that someone would dare to harm him?

Hongli didn't want to give them a chance to explain, so he called Jinzhong and wanted to drag away all the palace servants who served Qingyou and beat them to death.

But no one wanted to die, so a palace maid jumped out and kowtowed, saying, "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Princess, please spare my life. I saw Concubine Ying push the young prince into the pond. Nanny Yun and the other servants can testify that Concubine Ying appeared right beside the prince before he fell into the water."

No one else wanted to die, so they all spoke with one voice and used Meiruo as a scapegoat.

Jing Se seemed to be unconvinced that Mei Ruo would be so bold, and sternly said, "How dare you! Do you know that slandering a concubine is a capital crime?"

Nanny Yun is quick to react.

At first, Nanny Yun didn't react. Now that she thought about it carefully, would Meiruo, pregnant with the royal heir, really risk her unborn child to save a child she had never met? It was hard to say. Maybe this was just a play she had directed and acted out.

Nanny Yun bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Princess, there may be other hidden reasons behind the prince's fall into the water. We'll know once we ask him when he wakes up."