19 Sleeping with the Emperor
◎This is a pregnancy medicine◎
"Please spare my life, sir. There won't be a next time. Please spare my life, sir!"
The two palace maids were crying bitterly, pulling at the hem of Xue Ji's clothes and begging for mercy, pulling his clothes until they were all wrinkled.
He glanced down at the wrinkled clothes, and suddenly his anger rose. They had been freshly ironed and fumigated when they arrived at the palace today, and now these two idiots had dragged them down, it was time to change them again.
The two of them were still crying, their faces red, and they kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"My Lord, please be merciful and spare us. We are just stupid and used to… used to making jokes. We don't have any…"
Before the two of them could finish, they were interrupted by Xue Ji. There was a hint of red at the corners of his eyes, and he looked pitiful but fierce.
"So you guys are just joking around? Then why don't you go to the Shang Palace Bureau privately and get twenty lashes?"
"Twenty strokes..." The two little palace maids looked at each other sideways, not daring to speak loudly.
"Don't you think it's enough? Doesn't show your loyalty? How about fifty?" Xue Ji said in a dead voice. "Or perhaps you are loyal servants, and how about dying to prove your loyalty?"
"It's not too little, it's not too little!" The two palace maids were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything more.
Xue Ji was intimidating without being angry. His expression returned to normal and he spoke in a friendly tone, as if to coax them to go and claim the reward. "Then go quickly. What are you standing there for?"
"Yes, yes, I'll take my leave. I'll take my leave!"
The two men stumbled away. Seeing this clumsy figure, Xue Ji remembered to check his clothes again.
He tried to smooth it out with force, but a crease still appeared, and he immediately became angry.
"Qingyun."
"The servant is here."
He looked in the direction the two people ran away, "Go check the palace registration deeds, the names of the two people who went to the Shanggong Bureau to receive punishment today, their homes and where they live. People who gossip like this deserve to be washing clothes and cleaning for the rest of their lives, don't ever offend the nobles. Give orders, after the beating, go to the menial work room to wash clothes."
"yes."
"Sir, why are you so anxious to speak? They are just ignorant little girls. Please don't scare them anymore. It will become my fault."
Rong Qianyu was dressed very gorgeously today, but her demeanor was completely different from before. She didn't know what had happened, but she always felt that something was strange about her.
"What's the Queen up to? Does she really have a plan, or is she just scared and wants to act like a fool?"
She looked worried, as if she hadn't slept in several days. "I'd better not be too conspicuous."
"really?"
Xue Ji naturally didn't believe these words, but his status didn't allow him to ask too much. There were some things in the palace that he could find out about, but there were others that he didn't want to know.
"Yeah." Rong Qianyu nodded tiredly.
The situation is still unclear and we cannot be discovered rashly.
"It's the end of the year, and the envoys from your motherland will be arriving soon. I'm sure you'll be happy to see old friends."
Xue Ji said this out of selfish motives, and it was not entirely to make Rong Qianyu happy. He just wanted to see her reaction. He had been investigating this childhood sweetheart from Rong Country for a long time.
"It was my first year living in a foreign country, and I still felt a little homesick," she said.
Seeing her attitude soften, Xue Ji asked tentatively: "Homesickness, or missing...the people in your hometown?"
“Homesickness naturally means missing old friends.”
Xue Ji was lost in thought, feeling a strange jealousy in his heart. "Your Majesty is truly loyal and righteous. Does that mean she doesn't care about the present at all?"
Rong Qianyu was exhausted today. She could tell he had something else in mind, but she didn't want to argue with him any further. "What exactly do you want to say today, sir?"
"Your Highness is now the Crown Princess. I once told you that you should be gentle and subtle. I wonder how much you still remember."
"Of course I know."
"Your Majesty, it's best to be aware of this and not take the wrong path."
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and Rong Pan immediately poured him a cup of tea. "Sir, please have some tea."
"Don't interrupt me!"
Xue Ji was in a rare temper today. Meeting two ignorant little girls on his way here was already annoying enough. But seeing Rong Qianyu, still looking so dejected and unconcerned about herself, made him even angrier.
He took a sip of tea and asked, "How is the princess?"
"It's nothing serious now, but I still have chills and coughs."
Today, they had nothing to say to each other, and Xue Ji always wanted her to understand her identity and act like a proper mother and wife.
But Rong Qianyu has no thoughts at the moment.
"As the legitimate mother of the wife, Your Majesty is too careless. How could she let Cui get ahead of her?" he said.
After saying this, he looked displeased, and without waiting for Rong Qianyu to explain, he turned around and left without even finishing his tea.
This was the first time she saw Xue Ji so angry, but she didn't know why he was angry.
"What's wrong with Lord Xue today? Why is he so generous?" Rong Pan asked stiffly, completely unaware of the cause and effect.
Rong Qianyu knew what was going on.
"Don't worry about him. What did the prince say today?"
Rong Pan and she exchanged glances, instinctively feeling a little worried. Rong Qianyu had been in a very bad state recently. After a long pause, he said, "The Crown Prince and the Empress have never consummated their marriage. He suddenly summoned you to sleep with him these past few days. For some reason, I feel a little..."
"A bit strange?"
"yes."
Rong Qianyu didn't show much expression, just a little lost and very tired, but Rong Pan didn't understand.
Outsiders only knew that the prince had changed his personality and began to pay attention to the princess, but no one knew how the prince visited the princess.
"Take out the female training. I want to see it."
She suddenly started reading Women's Training, and Rong Pan was a little unprepared, because she would never read these books in the past.
Still worried, he asked, "But the Queen never reads these things normally."
"Go ahead and take it if you ask me to. I want to see it."
"yes."
On a winter night, the night is quiet, the moonlight is hazy, and the stars in the sky cannot be seen clearly.
Rong Qianyu sat quietly at the desk, as if waiting for some news, but with a hint of worry on her face.
Her eyes were looking through the window, and I didn't know what she was looking at. She always did this recently. Maybe she was recalling the scenes in her hometown.
No matter how bad life was in the past, it was still home after all. Now it is nothing. I am in a foreign country, isolated and helpless. Now I can truly feel the cold and loneliness of early winter.
"Your Majesty, the prince will come tonight and wants you to accompany him!" Yu Xie was always cheerful, and these words were like thunder. Perhaps she was too engrossed in watching, and she was frightened and shivered immediately.
"The prince has been really attentive these days." Rong Pan also happily helped Rong Qianyu to wash and dress.
"You guys should leave. It's too cold. There's no need to keep watch here at night."
She took off all the pearl hairpins that Rong Pan had carefully decorated for her, let her thick and fluffy brown hair fall on her shoulders, and changed into soft pajamas.
Her fair and slender neck was exposed, and with the fireplace and incense lingering in the air, the superior lines of her neck, connected to her chin, and then looking up at her lips, eyebrows and eyes, she looked even more vivid.
This was the dress Fu Hua had asked him to wear. Every time before serving the emperor in bed, Rong Qianyu would take off her hairpins and rings. Fu Hua would never even glance at such a bright and lazy beauty.
"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." She knelt on the ground to greet him.
"Get up," Fu Hua sat down, his eyes filled with indifference as he said, "How long have we been married, Crown Princess?"
"It's been almost two months," she said with a hint of disappointment.
"Yes, Liu Cairen is almost three months pregnant." He walked up to her and asked provocatively, "Are you anxious?"
"What's the rush?"
"You're so anxious that you can't have sex with me, and you're being laughed at by everyone in the palace?"
Fu Hua's expression was full of sarcasm. He naturally knew that Rong Qianyu had been talked about many times because they had not been able to sleep together for a long time.
Rumors had already spread throughout the palace, whether it was the concubines, ladies of the court, or the palace maids and eunuchs, but he still sat back and watched, completely disregarding his face and not considering Rong Qianyu's feelings at all.
In his opinion, perhaps this wife had once given him a moment of beautiful fantasy, but until she harmed his sweetheart.
At that moment, all gratitude and dignity vanished into thin air and could never be picked up again.
"Having a child requires fate, and I guess we don't have fate at the moment." Rong Qianyu answered politely, with no emotion in her tone, more like a mechanical answer to the question.
"It's nothing, actually. Just admit your mistake to Rumei and apologize, and the matter will be over. I will definitely consummate our marriage."
"Does Your Highness like Choi Chae-in very much?"
"Of course." Fu Hua was confident that his feelings for Cui Rumei were evident to all.
"How much do you like it?" Rong Qianyu asked.
"Of course it has to be her."
It has to be her.
The royal family was truly ruthless. If she was the only one, why did he have three harems and six courtyards? If she was the only one, why did he consummate marriages and have children with someone else? If he was the only one, why didn't he dare to disobey his parents and make his beloved his heir, instead of harming other women he wouldn't care about at all?
"If she's the only one you can have, why would Your Highness want to have children with him? Does that mean she's the only one you can have?"
This question completely stumped Fu Hua. He had no way of answering it. "Mei'er is certainly not as domineering as you!"
"Yes, I am the legitimate princess of Rong State. She is just a lowly woman who has fallen into prostitution. Naturally, I am not like her who would flatter and please others."
"How dare you!" Fu Hua could say nothing except a weak roar.
Rong Qianyu didn't even want to look at him straight in the eye. She just felt pale, weak and funny. People say that if you hit the vital point, you will just go crazy and roar.
"Look at you, always getting so angry for her, but you're just a coward. Do you really love her that much? If you really love her that much, and she's the only one you can have, then you should make her queen and dismiss her concubines. Even if the emperor and empress are displeased, you should still make her queen. Do you dare?"
"I can save your dignity today."
"Why, do you want to get drunk and let the Queen catch you cheating?"
"I wanted to show some mercy to you tonight, but you just don't know what's good for you. So just keep kneeling."
Rong Qianyu's disobedience only resulted in greater coercion, and she hadn't slept well for many days.
"How about kneeling until dawn? Besides, there's a charcoal fire in this room. You'll feel sleepy, right? Why don't you kneel outside? It'll be cooler and more refreshing."
Rong Qianyu's eyes were wide open with anger, her whole face flushed purple, and she frowned. She was anxious and angry, but there was nothing she could do.
Seeing Fu Hua's arrogant look, she could only sulk and submit. She had no one to rely on, and although she wanted to, she lacked the strength to confront him head-on.
"Don't look at me like that. I can't help it. Who told you to be so strong? I like women to obey me in everything. Can you do that?"
He walked forward leisurely, poured hot tea on the heater, and tore off Rong Qianyu's pajamas, leaving only a tight-fitting top and a thin pair of panties.
"Just keep kneeling. Let everyone know that we've consummated our marriage. I can still afford to give you this little bit of respect."
She gradually developed a prejudice against Fu Hua and no longer wanted to have any attachment to him. She felt annoyed when she saw his arrogant and harsh look. You and I are just beasts trapped in a cage. How are you better than me?
The next morning, Rong Qianyu woke up in a cold environment. She was already in poor health, and after this ordeal, she looked even more haggard.
Everyone outside thought that the Crown Princess was suffering from the emperor's favor, but they didn't realize that she was tortured day and night.
Fu Hua seemed unusually attentive today and specially called over an old maid who was in charge of women's fertility, to be solely responsible for taking care of the Crown Princess's health.
"Please take the medicine, Madam."
"What kind of medicine is this?"
"This is a pregnancy-maintaining medicine, to nourish the Empress's health." The old nanny replied.
Rong Qianyu felt troubled just looking at the medicine. She had taken too many medicines since she was a child, and she felt nauseous just by smelling the medicine. Now she had to drink the pregnancy medicine that was totally inappropriate for her.
Fu Hua's expression changed immediately. His words were gentle, but his eyes were cold. "Drink the medicine well and try to give birth to a prince for me as soon as possible."
"What do you mean?" she asked cautiously.
"Don't worry, this is genuine pregnancy-preserving medicine. Just drink it with peace of mind. I will come again tonight."
After saying that, he kissed Rong Qianyu on the cheek, showing his deep love.
"From now on, give these medicines directly to Madam Fang and watch the Crown Princess finish drinking them."
"yes."
"You can go down after you finish drinking."
"Your Highness is now the Crown Princess, and the Crown Prince still thinks highly of you. It's only a matter of time before you become pregnant!"
The old nanny stared at Rong Qianyu until she finished drinking the medicine before leaving.
As soon as the nanny left, Rong Qianyu immediately started vomiting.
He had been sleeping less for several days, and felt dizzy and nauseous. He had no energy and no appetite to eat, so now he was fed a large bowl of medicine soup on an empty stomach.
The sour and bloated feeling in the stomach suddenly spread throughout the esophagus, and a burning sensation flowed from the lower esophagus into the mouth.
She vomited violently, seemingly due to the resentment she had been pent up for the past few days. In an instant, her body seemed to be hollowed out, and she collapsed in the chair, feeling powerless.
Rong Pan heard the sound and hurried into the house to check the situation. She saw Rong Qianyu wearing a thin bellyband and lying on the ground with a pale face. She was so scared that she walked forward quickly and asked about the situation while crying.
"Princess, princess, what's wrong with you!?"
Rong Qianyu supported her exhausted body and comforted Rong Pan, "It's okay, take this women's training book away."
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