The Daily Life of a Concubine

Chapter 55 - The Noble Consort Experiences Fetal Movement

Although she didn't have many schemes at the moment, every matter was still important to her.

When she first entered the palace, she hadn't brought any maids from her family, and ever since Bai Jingyan's death, she had no idea what was happening with the Bai family. If given the opportunity, she wouldn't mind stirring up some trouble for the Bai family. After all, it's tough for a woman without her maternal family in the palace, but it's not impossible to gain the emperor's favor.

"Will anyone make trouble for us if we leave the palace now?" Bai Jingxian suddenly asked.

Everyone was initially talking about Eunuch Zhang, but this sudden shift in topic left them all confused. "Is something troubling you, Your Highness?" Wang Momo asked cautiously, frowning slightly. "Although the emperor and others are not in the palace, the rules cannot be ignored. It would indeed be difficult to leave the palace."

Apart from the annual family visit at the palace gates, servants were generally not allowed to leave the palace unless under exceptional circumstances. Of course, the guards were an exception, but they didn't have any connections with the guards, making it quite hard to get out.

Bai Jingxian hadn't expected the rules in the palace of the Great Da Yue Dynasty to be so strict.

"If we can't leave, then forget it. Let's wait a bit longer. For now, I'll just focus on resting and nurturing the fetus," Bai Jingxian sighed inwardly. Since she had arrived here, she had to follow the rules, or else her life could be in danger.

She never thought that just because she had transmigrated into a different world, she would be any different from others. People aren't foolish—if her behavior didn't align with the norms of this world, who knows how much trouble it would cause her.

"I want to eat sour fish soup. Let the kitchen add more pickled bamboo shoots; it goes well with rice," she said, deciding that eating well and staying healthy was her top priority now.

"Yes, this servant will go prepare it immediately."

Compared to the tranquility of the imperial palace, the temporary palace was in chaos due to the empress's pregnancy.

Aside from the empress dowager's group, the most anxious person was Lan Guifei. She had believed that once she had a child, she could overshadow the empress.

Who could have imagined that the empress would get pregnant too? How was that even possible?

"What's going on with the empress? Why has there been no news after three months?" she fumed. By her calculations, the empress had become pregnant while still in the palace, but her people hadn't caught wind of it at all.

"What's the use of you all? How could such big news not reach me?" Lan Guifei was furious. She was most upset because she had arranged for so many people around the empress, and yet not one of them had leaked this information.

"Where are those people? Are they all dead?"

All of her personal attendants knelt before her.

"Li Fuquan, are you a corpse? I told you to keep an eye on the empress, and this is how you do it?" She threw a teacup at a kneeling eunuch, and the eunuch didn't dare dodge, taking the hit squarely.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. It's my fault for not doing my job properly, but you mustn't harm the little prince," Li Fuquan immediately kowtowed, his voice filled with loyalty and concern for his mistress.

"Our people cannot get close enough to serve the empress. The maids attending her were all brought from the Cheng family. Even the second-tier maids have been trained for years before being placed in her service. The ones I arranged can only do menial cleaning tasks near her."