Xie Qing said guiltily, "On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I should have been the one to accompany you back to your parents' home. But you had to trouble my father-in-law and mother-in-law to come to the palace."
Qin Wan took off the jewelry on her hands and ears while saying, "I'm not just marrying you, I'm also marrying the royal family. Naturally, I have to abide by the royal rules. I'm mentally prepared for this, so you don't have to feel too guilty."
Xie Qing quickly said, "What about my father-in-law and mother-in-law? We must treat them well. I'll go and tell someone to prepare the meal."
He was about to leave when he saw Zigui and the others coming in with water to help Qin Wan wash up. He turned back and said, "Can I help you with your makeup? It's my apology for ruining your makeup."
Qin Wan stared at him in horror: "Can you?"
Xie Qing patted his chest and said, "How difficult is this? I'm very good at painting. You know, is makeup harder than painting?"
Seeing that Xie Qing was confident, Qin Wan didn't have the heart to discourage him, so she got up and went back to her room, sat in front of the dressing table and asked him to help her put on makeup.
Xie Qing looked at the various rouge, powder and other things on the dressing table, and ran her fingertips over everything one by one, and finally picked up the eyebrow pencil.
Qin Wan couldn't help but remind him: "Shouldn't you put on powder first?"
Xie Qing quickly picked up the powder: "Yes, yes, yes."
He got the order wrong right from the start. Qin Wan was not confident in his skills, so she tilted her head slightly to help him put on makeup, while picking up the mirror and glancing at his makeup from time to time.
Xie Qing pressed down her hand holding the mirror: "You have to believe me."
Qin Wan had no choice but to put down the mirror and let him do what he wanted to her face. At worst, she could just wash her face and let Yi Jia repaint it.
A quarter of an hour later, Xie Qing put down the lip balm in his hand and turned Qin Wan towards the mirror like he was presenting a treasure: "Come and see, is it beautiful?"
Qin Wan looked in the mirror carefully. It was not bad. Her eyebrows seemed a little thicker and her rouge was a little redder. The rest was very good. Turning to see Xie Qing's rouge, who looked like he was waiting for praise, she nodded with a smile: "Good skills, I deserve a reward."
"I thank the Crown Princess for the reward."
Xie Qing bowed playfully, causing Qin Wan to place a box of lip balm in his hand. "Here, it's for you."
Xie Qing happily put the lip balm away in her makeup box and said, "How about I help you with your makeup when I have time in the future?"
Qin Wan frowned immediately: "That's totally unnecessary."
Xie Qing became sad: "Didn't you say you were fine? Why didn't you let me do your makeup?"
Qin Wan pointed out the flaws: "The eyebrows are a little heavier, the rouge is a little redder, and the lip balm is all rubbed outside."
Upon hearing this, Xie Qing hurriedly used her hands to wipe off the bad parts, but the more she wiped, the worse it became. As a result, her makeup was ruined, and two quarters of an hour's work wasted.
Xie Qing quickly tried to find a way to remedy the situation: "How do I do this? How do I do this?"
The Crown Prince, who was always confident in his plans, panicked and searched for something to remedy the situation on his dressing table. Qin Wan couldn't help but patted his head and said, "Everyone has their own strengths. Your Highness should just draw my eyebrows occasionally. As for now, let Yi Jia do it."
Xie Qing had no choice but to make way and let Yijia help remedy the situation.
Yijia picked up a thin bamboo stick on the table, rolled up a little bit of snow-white cotton, and wiped off the smudged makeup bit by bit.
It’s true that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s skills are quite good. The base makeup was done very well. After wiping off the smudged makeup, there wasn’t much that needed to be modified.
Yijia made some minor modifications and gave the Crown Prince a beautiful Crown Princess.
Xie Qing looked at Yijia's hands, then at his own. "It's clearly the same thing, using the same materials. Why is it that Yijia's drawing is so different from mine with just a few minor modifications?"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince fell into deep self-doubt.
Qin Wan picked up the earrings and put them on. She looked at him in the mirror with her piercing eyes and whispered, "Same teacher, same books, same classes. Yet the students' grades are all different. Why are you so hung up on this? The nine sons of a dragon are all different. You're also the Crown Prince, learning the ways of an emperor. Do you expect to learn the survival skills of a woman as well?"
Xie Qing heard this and immediately stopped worrying: "I am obsessed with it."
The two smiled at each other.
Xie Qing was looking at the beautiful woman and was about to hug her and kiss her when he heard a message from outside: "Marquis Xuanwu, the Marquis Xuanwu's son is here, and the wife of the son has arrived."
Xie Qing had no choice but to hastily kiss her on the lips, then immediately returned to his serious look and stood up to tidy his clothes.
Qin Wan also put on her jewelry and stood up to greet him.
Xie Qing saw the three people coming in and hurried forward to help: "Grandfather, father-in-law and mother-in-law, we are all family, no need to be polite."
Qin Zhan was determined to perform the ceremony: "Etiquette cannot be abolished."
Seeing the determination in his eyes, Xie Qing understood that he was afraid that Qin Wan would gossip, so he could only accept the greetings from the three of them.
Then Xie Qing looked at the three of them and said, "What we just did was the state ceremony. Now it's time to do the family ceremony. I greet my grandfather and my father-in-law and mother-in-law."
Qin Zhan looked at Xie Qing, who was bending down deeply, with tears in his eyes. He helped him up and said, "Okay, okay, very good."
Qin Zhan looked at the two men again and sighed, "You look good. Are the Yu family satisfied with what happened that day?"
Not many people knew about the marriage between the Yu family and the Sixth Princess. The Qin family was one of them. However, after that day, the Yu family stayed indoors and kept silent, so the outside world did not know that the marriage between the young master of the Yu family and the Sixth Princess had been called off.
Xie Qing naturally would not hide it from the Qin family, so he told them everything that happened that day in detail, including the news that the emperor vomited blood at the end.
Qin Zhan's expression changed, and he quickly asked, "How is your Majesty's health now?"
Xie Qing smiled and said, "Father is fine now, he just needs to rest. However, after Grandfather, Father-in-law, and Mother-in-law leave the palace, someone will definitely ask about this matter. I hope you can keep it a secret from outsiders."
Qin Zhan nodded decisively: "Just say that we didn't see His Majesty, and that you look haggard and sad."
Qin Xie listened from the side, and when she looked at her daughter again, she felt even more distressed: "You've lost weight again."
Qin Wan said helplessly, "Every time my mother sees me, she says I've lost weight. If I lose any more weight, won't I be invisible?"
"Nonsense!" Qin Xie patted her lightly and scolded her, "Don't talk nonsense, understand? You are the Crown Princess now, so you must be more careful with your words and actions!"
After saying that, she looked at Qin Wan's belly again and said with concern: "You've been married for several months, why haven't you seen any movement?"
Qin Wan was at a loss for words and said, "How can it only be a few months? At most, my daughter's been married for just over two months. How can it be that fast?"
Qin Xie counted the days on her fingers: "How can it be soon? How many people get pregnant on the day of their wedding? If you were pregnant then, it would have been two months by now. If you were pregnant later, it would have been a month by now, and you could even feel the pulse."
At this point, Qin Xie asked again: "Didn't you ask the imperial physician to check your pulse? What did the imperial physician say? Are you not pregnant yet? You'd better hurry up. You and the crown prince are both old, and His Majesty's health is so bad. It's better to have a child sooner rather than later. It will be safer sooner."
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