Chapter 89 Chapter 89 She, she is not afraid! ...

Li Shuyao had no idea what he was resentful about.

She stood there holding little Yinzhen for a while, but seeing that Concubine Tong had no interest in paying attention to her, she had no choice but to leave with little Yinzhen in her arms.

Concubine Tong was still talking to Concubine Hui with great devotion. After hearing Li Shuyao's farewell words, she just waved her hand nonchalantly, indicating that she already knew.

Seeing this, little Yinzhen said:?

That's not right.

Did your mother forget something?

He is still in the arms of his new mother. How could your mother just... hand him over to her like that?

Little Yinzhen finally began to realize that something was wrong.

However, Li Shuyao had already quickly carried him out of the gate of Chengqian Palace, and was then helped by Nanny Yan into the sedan chair.

Nanny Yan asked her if she wanted to go back to Changchun Palace directly or take a walk in the Imperial Garden?

Li Shuyao thought for a moment and said, "Can I go to Yikun Palace?"

Qingyao also came today, but there were too many ladies in and out of Chengqian Palace, which made her feel a little anxious and dizzy. After a while, she asked for leave from Concubine Tong and went back to Yiku Palace to rest.

When the full moon banquet was going through the etiquette process, Li Shuyao had been worried about Qingyao. As soon as she came out of Chengqian Palace, she couldn't wait to see how Qingyao was doing.

Nanny Yan also knew that the two ladies were close friends, so she wasn't surprised by Li Shuyao's suggestion. She turned around and ordered the palace servants carrying the sedan chair, "Go to Yikun Palace."

The palace servants who were carrying the sedan chair quickly responded, "Yes."

…

When they arrived at the Yiku Palace, Li Shuyao had a tense face with no expression and no maternal love as she stuffed the swaddling clothes in her arms into Nanny Yan's hands. She turned around, picked up the hem of her skirt and ran towards the main hall of the Yiku Palace.

Yueshu and Tian Jiarou looked at each other, and Tian Jiarou hurriedly followed Li Shuyao.

Yueshu continued to stay with Nanny Yan and help her take care of the little prince.

When Li Shuyao ran into Qingyao's bedroom, Lingluo was carefully feeding Qingyao water.

Seeing her coming, she quickly put away the cup and knelt down to greet Li Shuyao, "This servant greets the Concubine Ling."

"Sister Lingluo, don't be so polite." Li Shuyao reached out her hand to help Lingluo up, then walked straight to Qingyao and sat down beside her. Her watery almond-shaped eyes looked back and forth at Qingyao twice, and she asked her with a somewhat worried tone, "How are you? Are you feeling better?"

While asking, he couldn't control his little hand and quietly touched Qingyao's belly.

Qingyao was leaning weakly on the pillow, her face was a little pale, there was a shallow tooth mark on her lip, and there was dense sweat on her forehead. After hearing Li Shuyao's question, she subconsciously shook her head, wanting to say that she was fine.

But before she could say anything, she felt dizzy again and her stomach was churning.

He could only turn his head away, cover his mouth with a handkerchief and dry heave for a long time before leaning back under Li Shuyao's worried gaze.

Two bright red lips moved up and down. "I'm fine."

"You're like this and you still say it's okay?" Li Shuyao suddenly widened her eyes.

He hurriedly wanted to go out and call someone to invite the imperial physician.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she stood up, Qingyao pinched her wrist hard. Qingyao still said, "I'm fine, really fine."

"I asked the imperial physician to see me as soon as I got back today. He said that due to my physical condition, I would probably have more severe pregnancy reactions, but I would be fine after these two months."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Lingluo and the other palace servants. They can all testify that Doctor Xu just left not long ago..."

Li Shuyao paused, "Really?"

"Really, no, why would I lie to you about this?" Qingyao said, raising her eyebrows.

Li Shuyao looked at Lingluo beside her again.

Lingluo nodded grimly before she could speak, "Your Majesty is telling the truth. The imperial physician has indeed been here."

Her mother does have a physique that causes more severe reactions during pregnancy.

It was not an illness, so even though Doctor Xu had superb medical skills, he was helpless. He could neither give acupuncture nor use medicine. He could only instruct them to squeeze more sour fruit juice and mix it into water so that when her queen vomited severely, she could drink a few sips to temporarily stop the nausea in her stomach.

Li Shuyao then sat back down slowly.

Just at this moment, Nanny Yan came in holding little Yinzhen, surrounded by a crowd of people.

When Qingyao and Lingluo saw the familiar red swaddling clothes on little Yinzhen, they were so happy that they immediately forgot about Li Shuyao's existence.

Qingyao clapped her hands directly at Nanny Yan, her smile instantly brightening, "Nanny, bring it over here and let me take a look."

Nanny Yan came over as she was told.

The little red swaddling clothes were quickly transferred to Qingyao's arms.

Little Yinzhen was still staring blankly with his pair of black, watery eyes open. He didn't even know when he came into Nanny Yan's arms, or when he was handed over to Yi E'niang.

All he knew was that when he came to his senses, his cheeks, which were as soft as dumplings, had been poked into several shallow pits, and the warmth from the fingertips remained faintly.

He blinked and soon met Yi'en's gaze.

Yi'er Niang wasn't at all as gentle and dignified as she had been in her previous life. Like a little girl who had found her favorite toy, she poked his cheeks, then touched his chin, and dug her fingers into the layers of skin on his neck. She counted the wrinkles on his neck, then looked up in amazement and said to his new mother, "There are five layers in total!"

His new mother came over, her tone strangely proud, "That's because you haven't seen Yinzhen's arms yet. They're like lotus roots, one section after another. When Nanny Yan bathed him, she would repeatedly check to make sure they were clean, for fear that there was some dirt stuck in the flesh..."

As she spoke, she lifted Yinzhen's little hand, rolled up her sleeves, revealing a chubby, white hand for Qingyao to see.

Qingyao exclaimed "Wow" and poked her finger again.

Li Shuyao waited patiently for her to finish poking, then began to pry open the flesh on Yinzhen's arms layer by layer, pointing to Qingyao, "Look, there's a lot of flesh like this on his body, maybe he's hiding something."

Yinzhen listened: ...

The shame in my heart reached its peak.

How could his new mother say that to him!

No child in the world has ever lived like this. Doesn’t the fact that he has so much flesh on his body prove that she raised him well?

What's so funny about this?

childish!

Li Shuyao, who was criticized by little Yinzhen as "childish", had no idea what he was thinking.

After showing off the flesh on Yinzhen's arms, she reached out and took the swaddling clothes, as if showing off something, and placed him on the rosewood ivory table on the couch. Then she uncovered the swaddling clothes layer by layer and took little Yinzhen out of it.

She carelessly lifted up Yinzhen's clothes, revealing half of his white jade-like belly, and warmly invited Qingyao, "Hurry, touch it, or you won't have the chance when he grows up!"

Qingyao's eyes lit up and she stretched out both hands.

The flesh on little Yinzhen's belly was softer than that on his face. Perhaps it was because he had been wrapped in clothes and swaddling clothes for too long, so the temperature of his belly was relatively warm. Qingyao only touched it a few times, restrained herself and withdrew her hand, then covered him back with the clothes.

Qingyao said: "Okay, I've finished touching it."

Li Shuyao blinked, "Why not touch it a few more times?"

Qingyao shook her head. "My fingers are cold. If I touch him too much, I'm afraid Yinzhen will get a stomachache when he comes back."

So that's how it is.

Li Shuyao nodded in understanding. Suddenly, she thought of something else. She placed little Yinzhen sideways in her arms, hugged him and rolled him towards her chest. Her fingers quickly and neatly pulled open his pants, and then she asked Qingyao, "Do you want to touch your butt?"

Nanny Yan: “…”

Qingyao: "..."

Yinzhen: “…”

Oh my God, someone please kill him!

He doesn't want to live anymore!

*

Although she was somewhat tempted, Qingyao still firmly rejected Li Shuyao's proposal.

He was also very kind to help little Yinzhen put his pants back on.

At this time, little Yinzhen was gradually on the verge of complete despair.

The baby was just one month old, so his facial expression was not very expressive. For a moment, Li Shuyao couldn't tell that there was anything wrong with him.

Seeing that his eyelids were drooping lazily and his little mouth was tightly pursed, she thought he was sleepy, so she quickly put him back into the swaddling clothes and stuffed him into Nanny Yan's hands, instructing her to take Yinzhen back to Changchun Palace and coax him to sleep first.

She stayed and talked with Qingyao for another half an hour. After finishing two plates of snacks, she strolled slowly back to her Changchun Palace.

Not long after she returned, Tian Jiarou hurried in and said, "Your Majesty, the Emperor has called your name card today. Would you like to prepare first?"

Prepare? Prepare for what?

Li Shuyao hasn't served the emperor in bed for more than half a year.

When he suddenly heard Tian Jiarou say this, he blinked and looked a little confused.

She looked down at the skirt she had just changed into, "Can't I see you in this state?"

Obviously, she had done the same thing before. She didn't need to prepare anything. She just had to hold her big round belly, pretend to stand up from the chair, and walk slowly outside. Before she stepped out of the main hall door, the emperor would hurried in and help her back to the side room to sit down.

When she was pregnant with Yinzhen, she not only didn't have to make all those preparations, she didn't even have to perform the formalities.

During the confinement period, Nanny Yan and others were on high alert outside the delivery room. When the emperor came, they could only stand outside the room from a distance and talk to her for a few words to confirm that her mental and physical condition were good. Then the emperor would return to the Palace of Purity with satisfaction.

So she really didn't react at this time.

Seeing this, Tian Jiarou stamped her feet anxiously, "My Queen, I just need to boil water for a bath, and also, I need to put on makeup..."

Li Shuyao was stunned again.

Only then did she come to her senses. Yes, she had already finished her "maternity leave" and Yinzhen did not need her to raise the child personally, so the day of the full moon banquet was the day when her green head card was hung back in the Jingshifang.

Does this mean that she has to continue working?

Li Shuyao sat up straight with a start, stammering anxiously, "What did you just say? Did the Emperor turn over my card today?"

"So the Emperor will be staying in Changchun Palace tonight. I, I, I, I have to sleep with him again?"

Tian Jiarou nodded vigorously.

you do not say!

Since his wife moved to Changchun Palace, the emperor only stayed there for the first three months.

It is generally not called water.

After all, Li Shuyao is still pregnant, and it is the first time in her life.

Even if the emperor likes his wife very much, he would not force her to sleep with him at this time.

So most of the time she would simply cover herself with the quilt and coax her mother to sleep.

To be precise, today was the first time that her queen had slept with the emperor in Changchun Palace. Neither she nor Yueshu had expected this before. It was Nanny Yan who was more experienced and had started preparing since yesterday.

After Tian Jiarou finished speaking, she left Li Shuyao alone in the small room to sort out her emotions.

He walked outside and directed the palace servants in an orderly manner to boil water and prepare the side hall.

Not long after, she returned to the small room with a few young palace maids.

Each little palace maid held a tray in her hands.

Li Shuyao looked over curiously, then heard Tian Jiarou introduce them. "These two Manchu dresses are made of the finest Shu brocade. Ten of the best embroiderers in the embroidery room worked tirelessly for five days to create them. Your Majesty, come and take a look. Which one would you like to wear today?"

When Li Shuyao heard this, she was surprised.

Tian Jiarou pursed her lips and smiled at her, as if to say, it is so precious.

Li Shuyao felt unhappy for a moment.

It's just a bedchamber, why are you wearing such luxurious clothes?

And in the end, won’t it be torn off by the emperor himself?

Ahem, it wasn't her intention to drive.

But the emperor is just such a rude person.

He, he, he takes off his clothes so quickly.

Many times, she was kissed so hard that she was dizzy and couldn't tell east from west. She didn't know when her clothes disappeared.

When she woke up the next day, she looked under the bed...

Well, that’s what she did anyway, she scrapped seven sets of Manchu clothing!

That’s seven sets of Manchu costumes!

From then on, she was very reluctant to wear new clothes to sleep with the emperor.

Li Shuyao waved her hand and said, "I don't want any of these!"

Tian Jiarou said gently, "Ah," and her expression turned a little confused, "No?"

What does your Majesty mean by this?

Li Shuyao ignored her and just looked down at the sky blue Manchu dress she had just put on. After thinking for a while, she recalled that this was the dress she had made when she was first canonized as a concubine. More than half a year had passed, and she had only worn it four or five times during that time.

Because she had given birth to a child, her figure had become a little plump, so this dress was actually a little tight for her...

Well, it’s perfect for “scrap”.

Li Shuyao made a quick decision. "I'll wear this one when I see you. Jiarou, go put away these two sets of Shu brocade and wear them for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet."

"By the way, those two trays over here are matching headgear, right? Let's put them away as well."

New clothes should be worn on formal occasions.

Let’s just forget about such a small scene as sleeping with the emperor.

Tian Jiarou listened to her words with a hesitant look on her face.

But Li Shuyao is no longer as well-behaved and sensible as she was when she was pregnant.

She felt that she had given birth to the baby and had completed her most important task with great determination.

Now it's their turn to listen to me.

So she put her hands on her hips, her face looking proud and arrogant. She snorted, imitating the bossy manner of others, "I already told you not to, why don't you listen?"

"If you don't take it down, I'll punish you!"

Tian Jiarou was startled by her, and her pretty little face looked a little panicked.

She stood there with her fingers clenched for a long time, and when she saw the teasing in Li Shuyao's eyes, she quickly realized that the queen wanted to play a new game with her.

It's probably like playing a role in a storybook.

After Tian Jiarou's initial panic subsided, she began to think about what kind of attitude she should use to deal with the situation in a way that would be consistent with the words that the Empress had prepared in her mind.

However, on the other hand, Li Shuyao saw that she was frightened by just a few words from her, and thought that she really couldn't handle the character of this arrogant and willful little princess.

For a moment, I lost interest and thought I'd better give up...

She quickly put her hand down, then took Tian Jiarou's hand and said coquettishly: "I, I was just teasing you, I won't really punish you, don't be afraid!"

Tian Jiarou: “…”

She, she is not afraid!