“Your Highness, please calm down. This servant speaks from the bottom of my heart.”
Chun Liu knelt down and said, “If Your Majesty can give birth to a prince, His Majesty will be pleased and might even make you one of the Four Feis. I also hope that Your Majesty can surpass Zhuang Fei as soon as possible and no longer have to suffer Zhuang Fei’s humiliation.”
Shun Pin lowered her eyes and stroked her belly.
“You’re right. Only by giving birth to a prince can I stop suffering like this.”
Only then can I trample that vile Zhuang Fei under my feet!
“But… Whether I have a son or a daughter is not up to me…” Shun Pin sighed softly, her mood low.
She really hoped to give birth to a son.
“Your Majesty, did you not use any secret recipe for conceiving a son?” Chun Liu asked tentatively.
Shun Pin asked, puzzled, “What secret recipe?”
“There are many secret recipes for conceiving a son among the common people, which are never passed on to outsiders, and we don’t know if they are really effective. I dare not speak recklessly. But there is a secret method for conceiving a son that my mother used back then…”
“My mother gave birth to three daughters, which her husband’s family disliked. She found an old Taoist priest and obtained this secret method, and she gave birth to a son in one go!” Chun Liu said.
Shun Pin’s eyes lit up instantly: “She really gave birth to a son?”
“This servant doesn’t know how this method works for others, but this is how my mother gave birth to her son…” Chun Liu didn’t finish her sentence.
But the more she said it, the more Shun Pin believed it.
Besides, whether it worked or not, why not just give it a try?
“Tell me quickly, what is this secret method?” Shun Pin pressed.
Chun Liu hesitated, “This servant…this servant dares not speak nonsense, what if it doesn’t work…”
Shun Pin took off a jade bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Chun Liu, saying gently: “Don’t worry about it. Even if it doesn’t work, I won’t blame you. If it does work, I’ll reward you.”
Chun Liu happily accepted the jade bracelet and immediately said: “I wonder if Your Majesty has heard that old trees have a spirit? This secret method for conceiving a son is to find a pomegranate tree that is over a hundred years old; the older, the better. Then, personally pluck a pomegranate blossom, hold the blossom, and pray quietly for an hour.”
“Pomegranates have many seeds, and their blossoms fall to bear fruit. By plucking the pomegranate blossom, Your Highness is borrowing its abundant blessings, which fall into your hands.”
Shun Pin found her explanation reasonable and plausible and began to believe her somewhat.
Pomegranates have many seeds, and old trees possessing spirits—it sounded quite reasonable, not like fabricated nonsense.
“There are quite a few pomegranate trees in the Imperial Garden, but they are relatively young… Oh, right, there are pomegranate trees in Linlang Palace.” Shun Pin had a sudden inspiration.
Zhuang Fei loved pomegranates.
The Emperor had planted pomegranate trees all over Linlang Palace for her, including many rare and ancient ones. The rarest and oldest one was right in the middle of her courtyard…
“With so many pomegranate trees in Linlang Palace, why hasn’t Zhuang Fei given birth to a child?” Chun Que asked, puzzled.
“Is it really effective?”
Chun Liu explained, “Zhuang Fei’s health is failing. Even a skilled cook can’t cook without rice. Even if the pomegranate tree spirit were to bless her, it wouldn’t help. It’s like how a man can’t give birth to a child.”
“That’s true. So many pomegranate trees in her courtyard, what a waste of such good things…” Chun Que nodded in deep agreement.
Shun Pin frowned.
Regardless of whether it worked or not, as long as it increased her chances of having a son, she was willing to give it a try.
But the key point is that Zhuang Fei will definitely not want to give the pomegranate branch to her.
Ning Wanyin… She would not want her to give birth to a prince.
They wouldn’t help her; they would only hinder her.
This was something that she could only do on her own.
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