As Chen Jiao expected, the day after Liu Che went to Changle Palace, Queen Mother Marcus Sergeant fell seriously ill again. The imperial physician was ordered to stay in the palace. He wrote several prescriptions and took decoctions for days, but the Queen Mother still failed to recover.
As the Queen Mother had been ill for a long time and was unable to recover, Changle Palace was closed again and all contact with the outside world was completely cut off.
At the same time, a beauty and two Concub!nes in the harem kept behaving badly, violating palace rules, angering the emperor, and were demoted to palace maids and imprisoned in the Eternal Lane. The princes and princesses born to the three were given to Concub!ne Xu and another newly appointed good man to raise.
Not long after the beauty and the eight sons were imprisoned in the Eternal Lane, their family members outside the palace were also questioned.
The beauty's father was an official in the Ministry of Music and an official in Xuchang.
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