Zi You nodded and smiled lazily. âFor example, if a woman is pregnant, I can see if sheâs pregnant with a boy or girl and if itâs a single child or twins. And I can clearly see it ff someone has some swelling on his body.â
âYou have such an ability?â The Empress Dowager immediately became curious.
Shangguan LingRan (Eleventh martial nephew Yi He) immediately whispered into her ear.
The Empress Dowager nodded and smiled at Zi You. âThen take a look at your mother. Is she pregnant with a boy or a girl? Is it one child or twins?â
âYes, Empress Dowager.â Zi You instantly focused her spiritual power in her eyes.
At this time, her back was to the Emperor and she faced the officials and their families.
They exclaimed in shock when they saw her eyes gradually turn purple. âHeavens! Mu Xiaojieâs eyes turned purple......â
âWow! So beautiful......â
The Emperor anxiously pushed his dragon chair away and walked over to Zi You.
He also widened his peach blossom eyes in amazement! Her eyes were like dazzling purple amethysts in water that emitted an enchanting beauty.
Everyone was focused on Zi Youâs eyes, but Zi You frowned and shouted, âAh!â
The Emperor instantly asked, âWhatâs wrong? What did you see?â
Zi You pretended to shake in horror. She shook her head, as if she didnât want to say it.
The Empress Dowager and the Emperor were worried. They urged in unison, âSay it. What is it?â
Zi You looked like she was in a difficult spot as she looked at Wang Yiping and Mu YingRui. A long time after the Emperor urged her again, she whispered, âItâs a girl. But the baby isnât normal. She...... She is a deformed fetus with two heads, three arms, and three legs.â
How shocking! Wang Yiping and Mu YingRui instantly looked ashen.
Wang Yiping couldnât hold back anymore and angrily scolded, âMu Zi You, you can hate me, but this is your younger brother. You canât hurt him like this. Youâre really as poisonous as a snake!â
Then she collapsed on the table and silently cried. Her weak and helpless appearance suddenly attracted a lot of peopleâs sympathy.
No wonder there were rumors that Old General Mu, Zi You, Mu YingYi, and Nee Liu bullied the stepmother Wang Yiping. They pinned her nannyâs crimes on her and beat her until her leg was wasted.
These rumors didnât seem false. At the very least, Wang Yiping was Zi Youâs stepmother. No matter what, Mu Zi You couldnât publicly slander her unborn child as a deformed fetus!
Zi You sneered to herself. She immediately looked like she blamed herself and said, âMother, the person asking is the Empress Dowager and the Emperor. Your daughter canât deceive the monarch!
âYou really canât keep this child. I didnât lie to you. She really is a...... Would I dare to deceive the Emperor and the Empress Dowager......?â
Everyone started talking again. âThatâs right. Itâs the Emperor and the Empress Dowager who asked Mu Xiaojie to look at her motherâs child. Would she dare to deceive the monarch?â
âThatâs true. If the child is born and itâs not the same as what she said, then she will be guilty of deceiving the monarch.â
â......â
Just as everyong was talking, Shangguan LingRan suddenly shouted, âImperial grandmother, imperial uncle, itâs very simple. If Mu furen suspects that Mu Xiaojie is wrong and she is deliberately harming her child, just bring some animals over. Let Mu Xiaojie examine them and we will verify it on the spot. Then wonât we know if what she said is accurate or not?â
âSomeone, come......â The Empress Dowager didnât wait for the Emperor to say anything and shouted, âBring a few cats and dogs over. Itâs best if theyâre pregnant.â
The Empress Dowagerâs eyes flashed. She was secretly angry at Wang Yiping. She had heard about Nee Liuâs matter more or less from Shangguan LingRan. It would be a lie to say that she wasnât angry.
No matter what, Nee Liu was her cousinâs daughter. Although she was from a side branch, it wasnât up to Wang Yiping, a stepmother without a title, to bully her.
The Empress Dowager knew that the Empress was fanning the flames from behind. She wanted to intervene, but Shangguan LingRan had stopped her.
He had privately told her, âImperial grandmother, you should pretend that you donât know anything. Donât fight with that cunning Empress. She has a shaman around her. Iâm afraid that she will target you.â
So in the two years since Zi You had been taken away by her Shifu, the Empress Dowager had listened to her grandsonâs orders and pretended to be ill. She hadnât interfered in the harem or the government.
But this morning, her grandson had laughed happily and told her, âImperial grandmother, itâs great. Youâer is back. You and grandfather donât need to pretend to be ill anymore.â
Even the old Prime Minister hadnât interfered in anything. He wouldnât go to court every two or three days. The Empress Dowager had worried every day that something was going to happen.
That was because her Emperor son and the Empress had done some things and made her angrier and angrier. But her grandson hadnât let her interfere, so she had listened to him.
She didnât dare to make guarantees on anything else, but she absolutely dared to guarantee that her grandson Shangguan LingRan treated her sincerely.
A sharp light flashed in the Empressâ eyes when she saw how the Empress Dowager acted. She secretly gritted her teeth and scolded, âThis old fool! She was a lot honest due to Darong Kaâs nightmare spell making her ill. Why did Darong Ka die, but sheâs now making moves again? I knew this was going to happen, I should have told Darong Ka to kill her!â
The Empress didnât know that Zi You feared that Darong Ka would make trouble, so she had long told Shangguan LingRan the way to get rid of the nightmare spell.
Before Shangguan LingRan left for India, he had taught his martial nephews the technique. So, the Empress Dowager and the old Prime Minister were safe and sound even after Darong Ka had cast the nightmare spell on them due to Zi Youâs technique.
It was just that they had both been pretending in order to avoid detection by the Empress and Taizi.
The palace servant responded and left. The Empress Dowager pulled Zi You over to sit next to her and asked her this and that.
The palace servant came back after thirty minutes. He brought a cat, a dog, and a white horse with its groom.
The cat and dog were indeed pregnant, but that white horse looked lifeless.
Second Wangzi grew anxious. He pushed his wheelchair over to the horse. He chastised the groom in displeasure, âWhy did you bring this Wangziâs horse here? Whatâs wrong with it?â
The palace servant quickly explained, âReplying to Second Wangzi, Nucai wanted to find a pregnant mare, but the Imperial Stablesâ manager said that your Baiyun refused to eat for two days now. The veterinarians couldnât tell whatâs wrong with it. They heard why Nucai was there and knew that Mu Xiaojie has the ability to see through solid objects, so they told Nucai to bring Baiyun here.â
The groom quickly bowed and said anxiously, âYes, Second Wangzi. The veterinarians canât tell what disease the horse has. So...... So......â He looked fearfully at Zi You and lowered his head.
Although Second Wangzi was paralyzed, he had always cared about his horse. This was the foal of the horse that threw him off and made him paralyzed. That horse was regarded as the culprit and was sentenced to death.
But Second Wangzi later suspected that his horse was startled because of Taizi. So, he had been particularly distressed over this little horse that didnât have a mother. It finally grew up with difficulty. Of course Second Wangzi was anxious when he heard that this horse was ill.
He looked pleadingly at Zi You. Others might now know Zi Youâs ability, but he was very clear. He certainly believed that Zi You could diagnose what disease his horse had and cure it.
Zi You went over to the horse and used her spiritual power again. She looked carefully and said to Second Wangzi, âCall a veterinarian over. There is a wire stuck in the horseâs rectum. It must hurt when the horse excretes, so the horse doesnât want to eat. The wire isnât in very deep. The veterinarian should be able to stick his hand in and extract it out. Call the veterinarian over and I can tell him exactly where the wire is.â
Second Wangzi immediately said to the palace servant, âHurry and call a veterinarian over!â
The palace servant ran off to do it.
Zi You then looked at the cat and dog. She said to the Empress and the Empress Dowager, âThe cat is pregnant with five kittens: two females and three males. The dog is pregnant with four puppies: two males and two females.â
Wu Jieyu immediately said coyly to the Emperor, âEmperor, when the veterinarian gets here, tell him to cut open the cat and dogâs stomachs to see if sheâs right......â
Wu Jieyu then looked at Zi You and sneered ferociously. âMu Xiaojie, if youâre wrong, do you know what crime you committed......â
âGet out of the way, Emperor!â Wu Jieyu didnât finished speaking before Zi You shouted in shock. She pointed to Wu Jieyu and shouted, âEmperor, Wu Jieyu is a snake demon.â
Everyone was shocked! Wu Jieyu was originally not qualified to sit next to the Emperor. The Empress should have sat next to him. But Wu Jieyu was sent to the Emperor by Taizi and the Empress, so of course the Empress wouldnât compete with her.
Not only did she not compete with her, but the Empress would look virtuous and generous every time. If Wu Jieyu sat next to the Emperor, not only could she fill his ears with nonsense, but the Emperor would also praise, âThe Empress is really understanding.â
So, the Empress Dowager sat to the left of the Emperor today. Wu Jieyu sat on his right. The Empress sat to the right of her.
With Zi Youâs shout, the Emperor and the Empress both jumped up in shock. The officials in the palace hall were also shocked and they looked at Wu Jieyu.
Wu Jieyu was not really a snake demon, so she was naturally angry when she heard Zi Youâs shout. She started to scold Zi You, âYouâre the snake demon. Youâre a demoness speaking nonsense. How dare you slander Bengong? Bengong......â
âAh! Sheâs really a snake!â Before she finished speaking, everyone started screaming......