Chapter 92 Chapter 92 Qingyao said she didn’t want to talk at all…

Seeing that Li Shuyao didn't want to see her, Su Malagu didn't force her.

He bowed to her with a smile and said, "Then I, this old servant, will take my leave first." After saying that, he turned around in a very casual manner.

Nanny Yan followed her out to say farewell, and when she came back she was holding a delicate and small mother-of-pearl jewelry box. She told Li Shuyao that Nanny Liang had asked her to bring it in as an apology.

Li Shuyao stared at it vigilantly for a while, then carefully opened the jewelry box. The next moment, she was dazzled by the dazzling array of gold, silver and jewels in the box.

I weighed the wooden box again and estimated it weighed about ten pounds.

This is really an apology that requires a lot of effort.

Li Shuyao gradually began to believe what Su Malagu said.

She looked up at Nanny Yan, who nodded at her and said in tacit understanding, "This old servant has checked it, and there is no problem. Your Majesty, please accept it with confidence."

Well... that's fine too.

Li Shuyao closed the jewelry box again, turned around and told Tian Jiarou to pack it up.

*

After the full moon banquet for little Yinzhen, the harem gradually returned to peace.

The gossip that had been discussed in Chengqian Palace before soon came to a close.

Perhaps because that family was so brazen, the people sent by Concubine Tong only needed to ask around among the neighbors and they were able to find out everything that had happened.

In fact, it is a very classic drama. The Phoenix Man teamed up with his childhood sweetheart and the mistress to deceive the original wife into marriage, then forced the original wife to death, and then broke into the house and abused the legitimate son born to the original wife.

Favoring a concubine and killing one's wife was a serious violation of laws and discipline in the Qing Dynasty.

After obtaining the rough evidence of the crime, the people sent by Concubine Tong quickly sent the entire family to the government office to await punishment.

As for the child born to the original wife, it will be handed over to the elders of the clan, who will be responsible for finding a suitable branch of the family to raise him.

——So it’s not something very new or interesting.

After hearing about the fate of that family, Li Shuyao said goodbye to Concubine Tong with some lack of interest and returned to Changchun Palace.

Time just passes quietly.

In the blink of an eye, little Yinzhen was three months old.

He is much fatter and cuter than when he was born.

He is also very easy to take care of. He rarely cries and only whimpers when he is hungry.

Li Shuyao heard from Nanny Yan that after the baby is three months old, they can start gradually training him to do some movements such as lifting his head while lying on his stomach and turning sideways.

She was extremely curious, so when little Yinzhen was three months old, she couldn't wait to take him to the Yiku Palace next door, intending to witness little Yinzhen's first turn with Qingyao.

After arriving at the Yiku Palace, she placed little Yinzhen directly on Qingyao's bed.

Qingyao sat at the end of the bed, while she herself half-knelt on the edge of the bed, her watery eyes sparkling as she looked at her chubby son on the bed, and shouted excitedly, "Quick, show your mother Yi a show!"

Little Yinzhen: "..."

When will this mother stop being so childish?

Little Yinzhen blew a bubble, and the baby instinctively lifted up his two feet, unable to restrain himself, and grabbed with his little hands happily.

Seeing this, Li Shuyao reached out and pressed down his two feet, patted the bed board, and said, "Turn over!"

I won’t translate it.

What's so fun about turning over?

Little Yinzhen ignored her. Since he couldn't hold her feet with his hands, he simply tried to grab the dragon hair hanging in front of Li Shuyao's chest.

Li Shuyao snatched Longhua back.

Little Yinzhen smiled at her while blowing bubbles.

Qingyao saw it from the side and exclaimed softly, "Cute."

Li Shuyao said somewhat unhappily, "He was just acting. He wouldn't laugh like that when he was in Changchun Palace."

Qingyao raised her eyebrows when she heard this and asked with interest, "Then how does he usually smile?"

Li Shuyao thought about it and couldn't imitate it, so she simply lifted up Yinzhen's clothes and touched his soft waist twice.

The bubble that little Yinzhen had just spit out burst immediately. He opened his rosy and wet little mouth and laughed "hehehe" non-stop, with a very crisp baby voice.

While laughing, he reached out to grab Li Shuyao's fingers and refused to let go.

It was as if he was afraid that Li Shuyao would continue to tickle him.

Li Shuyao said, "Look, that's how he laughs, just like a little rooster."

Her expression showed some disgust.

However, Qingyao suddenly hugged her belly and said, "How cute!"

Li Shuyao:?

Is it cute?

Little Yinzhen was also confused. He felt like a little fool when he was tickled.

How come Yi'er Niang finds him so cute?

Both mother and son gave Qingyao a puzzled look at the same time.

Qingyao said, "Don't you think that when Yinzhen laughs, his voice is so sweet and sweet?"

Li Shuyao shook her head, she didn't think so.

Mainly because it was too loud and a bit noisy.

So she seldom tickled Yinzhen. Usually she would ask Nanny Yan to hold him up, and she would reach out and draw a straight line from top to bottom on his back.

If you draw the left side, he will twist his body to the right; if you draw the right side, he will twist to the left very sensitively.

It’s so fun!

By the way, Qingyao hasn’t played it yet.

Li Shuyao's almond-shaped eyes lit up when she thought of this. She called Nanny Yan in from outside and said to her, "Nanny, please hold Yinzhen up."

As soon as Nanny Yan heard it, she knew what she was going to do.

She glanced at Concubine Yi beside her with some embarrassment and said hesitantly, "Your Majesty, this, this is not good."

"There's nothing wrong with it. Qingyao is not an outsider."

Nanny Yan looked at the little prince on the bed, and then sighed in her heart, "Brother, please be patient. It will take another two years. No, maybe even less than two years."

The little prince would probably learn to walk and run without any instruction because he couldn't stand his mother's endless tricks...

By then, the young prince will be able to escape from the clutches of his queen on his own initiative.

Nanny Yan sighed in her heart as she climbed onto the bed in her slippers with skillful movements, knelt on the bed, reached under little Yinzhen's armpits, lifted him up, with his back facing Li Shuyao outside the bed.

Li Shuyao extended her index finger ceremoniously, placed it to her lips and blew on it.

He said, "Qingyao, watch carefully."

As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and quickly drew a straight line from top to bottom on the left side of little Yinzhen's waist.

Before little Yinzhen could react, his body seemed to have self-awareness and bent to the right, forming a capital "C".

Little Yinzhen: "..."

Here it comes again!

Play it four or five times a day.

Why is this new mother so childish!

At this moment, he suddenly missed his mother from his previous life very much.

...He shouldn't have made a wish to Changshengtian to stay with his new mother.

He felt that if his new mother continued to play with him this way, he would be ruined by her sooner or later!

Little Yinzhen pouted and kept muttering angrily in his heart.

However, the body is very honest, bending to the right and twisting to the left, just like left and right brackets.

Li Shuyao played for a while, and seeing Qingyao's eyes sparkling and her face full of eagerness to try, she invited her very considerately, "Do you want to play?"

Qingyao subconsciously wanted to nod.

She wants to play.

But... this is Shu Yao's child. Wouldn't it be bad for her to play like this?

What if the child resents her as his godmother in the future?

Otherwise, forget it.

She can wait until the baby in her belly is born and play with her baby.

Qingyao thought for a moment, and resisted the urge to reject Li Shuyao's proposal.

Li Shuyao was greatly shocked. How could there be someone in this world who could resist the temptation of playing with human cubs?

She didn't believe it anyway.

He turned around and rushed to Qingyao's side, hugged her arms affectionately, and asked her softly: "Are you, are you hiding something?"

Qingyao glanced at her and also lowered her voice, saying that she just didn't want to be hated by Yinzhen in the future.

Li Shuyao:?

She raised her voice slightly and said, "But he is only three months old."

Qingyao argued confidently, "What if?"

What if? There is no such thing as a what if.

Li Shuyao knew herself very well. She was not a very smart or scheming person. Even after the emperor's genetic improvement, he could only barely raise little Yinzhen's intelligence to the level of a normal person.

Besides, what kind of baby can remember what happened when he was three months old!

Even hyperthymesia can’t do it!

So there is only one explanation - Qingyao thinks this game is childish and doesn't want to play with her!

Li Shuyao puffed out her cheeks somewhat dissatisfiedly and looked at Qingyao angrily.

Qingyao knew at a glance that she had probably misunderstood something again.

I could only hold her hand and explain it over and over again in a low voice.

Li Shuyao calmed down her anger a little and came up with another idea. "How about we exchange? You play with my baby first, and when your baby comes out, I'll play with yours. How about that?"

Qingyao was stunned and thought this was a good idea.

Her fingers unconsciously drew two circles on her slightly bulging belly.

Li Shuyao's gaze moved downwards, just in time to see her drawing circles.

Then he looked thoughtfully at the bed where little Yinzhen had been put down by Nanny Yan and thought, if he drew a straight line, little Yinzhen would twist left and right. What would happen if he drew a circle?

Will it start to dance with a crackling sound?

Ahem…

Li Xiaoyao, calm down, he is just a baby who is just three months old!

Li Shuyao stopped this absurd idea in time.

She looked at Qingyao. After pondering for a moment, Qingyao nodded decisively and agreed to her proposal - play with each other!

Little Yinzhen, who was lying on the bed, suddenly felt dizzy when he saw Yi'enniang nod decisively.

I can almost foresee how I will be treated in the future!

No, not only him, but also the future Yinqi, his fifth... er, sixth... er, seventh... um, seventh brother.

——I almost forgot, Brother Changsheng and Brother Wanfu are still alive, so he is currently ranked sixth.

Therefore, the one that Yi'en's mother was carrying in her belly was naturally her seventh brother!

…

Li Shuyao gradually gained experience in playing with human cubs.

Not only did she play with it herself, she also brought it to Qingyao's house to play with, and even took the initiative to invite Concubine Tong, Concubine Hui and others to come to Changchun Palace to play.

So before long, the entire harem knew how "flexible" Yinzhen was.

As for little Yinzhen, under the day-to-day "playing" of his new mother, he slowly cultivated a heart that was even stronger than that in his previous life.

He felt that there was probably nothing in the world that could surprise him anymore.

The Cining Palace and the Qianqing Palace also gradually received some news.

Both ancestors were a little surprised, not at Yinzhen, but at why Concubine Ling was so generous. Wasn't she afraid that someone would want to harm Yinzhen?

There are many concubines in the harem, and human hearts have always been the most difficult thing to understand in the world.

Not to mention that so many children had died in the palace before. If someone was jealous of Concubine Ling's favor at this time and lost their mind for a while... I'm afraid they would do anything.

In the Qianqing Palace, the emperor was not as secretly worried as the two ancestors.

After learning about Li Shuyao's actions, he shook his head in annoyance, laughed for a while, and then ordered Liang Jiugong in a deep voice to send more people to look after Changchun Palace and Yiku Palace. By the way, he also adjusted the patrol frequency and deployment arrangements of the guards around the Six West Palaces.

It was originally just for deterrence.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, they actually discovered someone secretly pouring oil on the road from Yiku Palace to the Imperial Garden.

Currently, the only pregnant concubine in the palace is Yipin.

Concubine Yi's early pregnancy was filled with discomfort. After four months, her pregnancy symptoms subsided and the fetus gradually became stable. To improve her health, the imperial physician specifically instructed her to take one or two short walks daily, preferably two and a half minutes.

It was just the time to slowly walk out of the Yikun Palace, go to the Imperial Garden, take a short walk in the Imperial Garden, and then return to the Yikun Palace.

As for Concubine Ling of Changchun Palace, she was also very keen on taking the three-month-old prince to the imperial garden to see the flowers, water and butterflies.

——So it is obvious who this move is aimed at.

When the emperor heard the news, he became furious on the spot.

Liang Jiugong and his palace servants were so frightened that they investigated as quickly as if they were being chased by a dog. In less than half a day, they caught the culprit behind the scenes.

The two maids and concubines who had spread the rumors earlier were only punished by Concubine Tong to make an apology, be demoted and confined to their homes, and to copy scriptures to reflect on their mistakes.

But this time it was different. The emperor was so angry that he didn't even want to see the people. He directly stripped the two concubines of their positions and then exiled them from the palace and sent them back home. [1]

Li Shuyao was very surprised when she received the news and asked Nanny Yan, "Can a woman who has entered the palace be exiled back home?"

Nanny Yan shook her head gravely, "No matter which dynasty, there is no such rule."

Li Shuyao was even more surprised, and her tone was a little stammering, "Then, then the emperor is..."

Nanny Yan said, "The Han people don't have such a rule, but we Manchus do."

"However, after Emperor Taizu entered the Pass, he gradually became closer to the Han people and gradually abolished many of the Manchu rules. The various etiquette and regulations of the harem today are mostly formulated and implemented on the basis of the previous dynasty."

"The Emperor has always followed the old system. He probably issued such an imperial decree today because he was furious."

Li Shuyao nodded, not quite understanding. Suddenly, she asked, "If the emperor calms down, will he order them back?"

Isn't there no such rule?

Nanny Yan first glanced at her, then shook her head and said nothing.

Li Shuyao pinched her sleeve and shook it, "Mammy?"

Nanny Yan turned slightly to the side, which meant that she didn't intend to tell her.

Li Shuyao became more and more curious.

What is it that cannot be said?

She simply stood up, walked to Nanny Yan's side, and used the same coquettish tricks she used to act with her grandmother and her grandmother, "Nanny, just tell me, will they come back?"

Nanny Yan couldn't stand her coquettishness and gave in soon.

He first glanced at her, then lowered his eyes and considered his words before slowly saying, "Since it's an imperial decree, there's no reason to take it back."

Li Shuyao tilted her head, "In that case, wouldn't that be a bargain for them?"

"No, your Highness, you think too simply."

"Ah?" Why did she think too simply?

Nanny Yan said, "They are women who have received the emperor's love and care. Do you think that after they return home, anyone will dare to propose marriage to them?"

Li Shuyao thought about what she said and shook her head honestly, "Of course not."

Nanny Yan didn't continue, but abruptly brought up another matter. "Back then, the late Empress Hesheli was favored by the Grand Empress Dowager and was appointed to be the Empress of the Central Palace to the current Emperor. The wedding ceremony took a full six months."

“During the six months that the late queen was waiting to be married, the palace directly sent people to build several high walls around Hesheli’s house. Even if the late queen’s biological father and mother wanted to see her, they had to send a letter to the palace first. Only after obtaining the permission of the emperor and the empress dowager could they enter the walls and speak to the late queen from a distance.”[2]

When Li Shuyao heard this, she seemed to understand what Nanny Yan meant.

She pinched her fingers and said hesitantly, "But, but they are not the former queen. Will they be treated like this when they return home?"

Nanny Yan shook her head. "Of course not."

"So, the concubines who were sent back home were either drowned in a pond or sent to a nearby mountain to practice asceticism."

"If there is a temple, then you can practice in it. If not..." Nanny Yan suddenly stopped talking here.

Li Shuyao suddenly shuddered, her voice trembling violently, "Then, if we don't have it, we can't just live on the ground...right?"

Because she was nervous and scared, she didn't even notice that she had said the wrong idiom.

Nanny Yan did notice it, but she had no intention of exposing her.

Instead, he continued indifferently, "Before entering the customs, they could still remarry; after entering the customs, there is no such rule."

"Thus, few of the concubines who were sent home could survive more than six months."

After she finished speaking, she seemed to feel that some of her words were not very precise. She lowered her eyes and thought carefully, then raised a few fingers to Li Shuyao, "Half a year is still a bit exaggerated. As far as I know, the one who lived the longest only lasted for twenty-one days."

Upon hearing this, Li Shuyao slowly widened her eyes.

I was thinking, twenty-one days and half a year, your writing style of spring and autumn is really... very spring, summer, autumn and winter...

She thought again, although the two people's end was a bit miserable, if their plan really succeeded, the miserable people would become her, Qingyao, and little Yinzhen.

In contrast, Li Shuyao quickly put away the little sympathy that remained in her heart.

He nodded thoughtfully and said nothing more.

Nanny Yan, who was standing by, had been quietly observing the subtle expressions on her face, worried that she would sympathize with the fate of the two maids after being sent home, and would go to the emperor to plead for them...

She observed carefully for a moment, noticing a fleeting look of regret on Li Shuyao's face. Then, as if on a whim, she quickly shifted her attention to something else. Holding up a few wooden boards, she frowned and asked, "Mammy, do you know how to spell peacock?"

Peacock?

Nanny Yan looked at the colorful wooden board in her hand and found that it was a toy named "Tangram" by the Empress.

She lowered her head and thought for a while, but still couldn't find the solution.

In the end, Li Shuyao figured out the trick, "No, there's one square missing. If there was one more..."

"Then... isn't that a jigsaw puzzle?" Nanny Yan quickly replied.

Li Shuyao was suddenly choked.

Then he said in a nonsensical but confident manner: "Then it should be Baqiaoban, Batongfa, Faqiaoban. Listen, this is such an auspicious name."

A faint smile quickly appeared on Nanny Yan's lips. "Yes, yes, your Majesty, you can call me whatever you like."

She glanced at the pieces of wood on the table again and guessed that, given her mother's talent for invention, by the time the little prince grew old enough to play with these toys, they would probably be called "Eighteen-piece Puzzle".

…

That day in Yiku Palace, Li Shuyao failed to teach little Yinzhen to roll over, and she has been brooding over it ever since. After returning to Changchun Palace, she urgently gave little Yinzhen more than half an hour of extra training.

Little Yinzhen blew out the bubbles in his mouth, closed his eyes, turned over, and faced his butt towards her, pretending to be sleeping soundly.

No matter how Li Shuyao poked him, he closed his eyes and pretended to be dead. After a while, he actually fell asleep.

Li Shuyao decided to punish this disobedient child.

She cordially invited several concubines in the palace who were on good terms with her and had some say over her to come to her house, and together they drew straight lines on his back, watching him twist left and right. She wished she could find a painter to paint this scene, so that when he grew up, she could use it to make fun of him.

However, it wasn't long before I realized that there was some special mechanism or switch in the baby's body.

Suddenly one day, the game stopped working.

Li Shuyao could only continue to explore other interesting points on little Yinzhen.

Before I knew it, two months had passed, the weather gradually became cooler, and Qingyao's belly next door became rounder and bigger day by day.

The baby in her belly might have grown hands and feet already. Sometimes, while Li Shuyao and Qingyao were talking, he would suddenly kick or punch Qingyao in the belly, but he would not make a fuss like little Yinzhen did before.

He looked more like he was greeting Li Shuyao and the others, showing his presence and reminding them not to forget that he was there too.

When Yinzhen was more than five months old, he gradually became impatient with being held horizontally.

Most of the time, he liked to sit in Li Shuyao's arms, observing the movements around him with his dark round eyes, while listening attentively to the conversation between his mother and Yi's mother.

——Most of the dialogue is boring and meaningless.

——And most of these words came from his mother.

I don't know what kind of environment his mother grew up in...

Yinzhen really didn't understand. What was so interesting about a moldy teacup? Wasn't it just a bunch of colorful mold spots? It was worth his mother's chatter for more than half an hour.

And what about black fungus? If it is soaked for too long, it will produce toxins.

She doesn't intend to use these things to harm anyone, so what is there to say?

There were also those strangely shaped, sweet and greasy cakes, milk fruit tea made with fruit and ice syrup, and things like stone barbecue, spicy hot pot, and tiger skin chicken feet...

It’s so annoying, he can’t eat it!

His mother would always bring it to him to smell, smell, smell...

No matter what, the first bite should be given to her favorite baby.

He just savored the aroma and didn't eat a single bite.

Does this count as a “taste”?

Yinzhen didn’t understand, Yinzhen felt resentful, and Yinzhen sighed.

He felt that the friendly activities between the two mothers were even more boring than the official documents he had read in his previous life.

In order to escape from his mother's clutches as soon as possible, Yinzhen began to ponder and finally finalized a plan -

He must learn to walk quickly. Walking is so convenient. He can run and hide.

At the very least, he had to learn to speak quickly so that he could communicate with his mother.

Maybe it would make her a little afraid and she would no longer be able to tease him as she pleases like a little toy.

So Yinzhen learned to turn over and sit up by himself at the age of six months, and the next second after he sat up, he could not wait to move himself into the soft quilt little by little, like a chubby little bug, under the admiring gazes of his two mothers.

Trying to bury yourself alive!

Li Shuyao and Qingyao were halfway through exclaiming when they quickly reached out and picked up their fat son, whose round head had fallen into the quilt.

Seeing that his little face was flushed red and his eyes were a little moist, I mistakenly thought that he was scared because he lost his balance and fell headfirst.

Li Shuyao quickly patted his back and said softly, "Don't be afraid, baby, you're already very capable."

"You can sit up now. It will get easier and easier in the future."

"Falling down is normal. You have a big head after all. You'll get used to it in the future..."

Qingyao, who was about to speak to comfort her, said: "..."

Little Yinzhen: "..."

Wow, who has a big head?

He is not big at all!

Not even a little bit!

He can sit well!

Put him back and let him sit again. If he falls again this time, he will be the puppy's son!

Li Shuyao still didn't know what little Yinzhen was cursing in his heart.

She comforted him softly for a while and successfully stopped the four tears of little Yinzhen.

Little Yinzhen was so angry that he just wanted to bite her.

Unexpectedly, before he could open his mouth, he was suddenly put back on the bed.

Li Shuyao was inspired by the words just now. After putting Yinzhen back on the bed, she helped him sit steadily with one hand, and with the other hand she took the quilt on the bed and spread a thick circle around little Yinzhen.

She immediately let go of her hand and turned to look at her best friend next to her with interest.

"Qingyao, quick, before Yinzhen falls because of his big head, guess which way he will fall?"

She pondered for a moment, then pounded the palm of her other hand with one fist. "I guess he'll fall to the right. What about you? Which way do you think?"

Qingyao: "..."

Qingyao said she didn't want to talk at all.