Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Last Autumn, Did You Really Love Me? ...
"I'm tired. Let's fight again tomorrow."
She slumped dejectedly in Pei Chengjue's arms, feeling a warm touch on the back of her neck, along with the fiery breath of passion, invading her heart.
A hoarse voice behind him said, "As long as Sister can calm down, I'm willing to be beaten every day."
The passionate kisses went from the back of the neck to the earlobes, softly and slowly, continuously and more carefully than before, with solemn piety.
It was the first time that Qiao Tang saw Pei Chengjue kissing like this, and she was slightly distracted. He turned her around and kissed her on the lips.
Their lips touched, but there was no fierce biting, only gentle caressing.
Pei Chengjue seemed to want to convey the joy of his beating heart and his hopeless love for Qiao Tang to Qiao Tang through this kiss.
He closed his eyes and kissed her passionately and intently.
Qiao Tang opened her bright eyes and could clearly see the eyelashes under his closed eyes, which were thick, long, black and trembling slightly.
It's actually a bit pitiful.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Qiao Tang was shocked. He thought to himself that he was so angry that he lost his mind. He was clearly the pitiful one, while Pei Chengjue was enjoying himself very much!
She pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, and Pei Chengjue noticed it. He gently pecked the corner of her lips, comforting her and begging her to let him kiss her a little longer.
She felt annoyed again, raised her sleeve and stretched out her hand, her fingers brushing across Pei Chengjue's shoulders, leaving her fingertips feeling sticky and wet.
She didn't bother to look, but gently pinched Pei Chengjue's eyelashes with her fingertips and pulled them viciously. An eyelash stained with blood fell on her fingertips.
The kiss on her lips suddenly became more fierce. She forgot to be angry and stared at the bloodshot in a daze, lowering her eyes to glance at Pei Chengjue's shoulder.
It turned out that several red marks on Pei Chengjue's body began to ooze blood.
Serves you right!
She cursed inwardly and was about to push Pei Chengjue away, but Pei Chengjue suddenly hugged her tightly, and with a hot tide of passion, he eagerly kissed the tears on her face.
She just began to resist, but suddenly she heard Pei Chengjue tense his body and gasp, then buried his head in her neck and made a hoarse sound of satisfaction.
"Thank you, sister."
Qiao Tang was very familiar with his emotional reactions and her eyes widened in disbelief.
Pei Chengjue actually dared to release his passion by kissing her, how shameless!
She pushed Pei Chengjue away.
Pei Chengjue was shirtless, with red marks all over his body and blood dripping down. He licked the tear stains on his lips nonchalantly, which were from Qiao Tang's kiss on the face.
The dragon robe piled around his waist was in disarray. He casually lifted up one of his sleeves, glanced at Qiao Tang's abdomen with his dark eyes, and stepped towards Qiao Tang.
Qiao Tang didn't realize anything was wrong. He raised his chin coldly, turned around and took a step forward.
Pei Chengjue raised his eyebrows and suppressed his smile, "Sister."
Qiao Tang ignored him, but he couldn't help laughing out loud while leaning against the long table.
Qiao Tang's heart skipped a beat. His smile was evil, dissolute, frivolous, and malicious.
She hadn't heard Pei Chengjue laugh like this since last winter.
Pei Chengjue must have done something else to her. She turned around in anger, and Pei Chengjue came over with a smile, wiping her abdomen with his sleeves. She froze, lowering her eyes to see the liquid on her clothes. Her face flushed red, and she bit her lips tightly with her teeth. God damn it, Pei Chengjue, he got it all on her!
"Stop biting yourself, sis."
Pei Chengjue wiped off the liquid, hugged her lovingly, and rubbed her lips with his fingertips to make her loosen her clenched teeth.
After she relaxed, her lips were red as blood. She grabbed her sleeves and wiped them again. Without saying a word, she turned around and went inside to change her clothes.
Pei Chengjue stood where he was, afraid that she would get angry, so he didn't dare to follow her.
After they both changed their clothes and sat together for lunch, Qiao Tang acted as if Pei Chengjue didn't exist and didn't even glance at him.
Pei Chengjue was invulnerable to swords and guns, so this little disregard was nothing. He just walked up to Qiao Tang and served him food.
The meals were all arranged by Pei Chengjue, and they were all foods that Qiao Tang liked and were beneficial to pregnancy.
Cheng Ying had already prescribed an anti-emetic prescription for Qiao Tang. After Qiao Tang took the medicine, her morning sickness was much relieved and she ate more.
Pei Chengjue supported his chin with his hand and glanced sideways at Qiao Tang who was concentrating on eating. His eyes occasionally swept across her abdomen. An unprecedented joy came over him and he curled his lips into a smile.
Qiao Tang finally glanced at him and saw that the red mark on his chin was still there, faintly oozing blood. He knew that he had not treated the wound, and there must be more blood on his body.
Even though he was bleeding, he could still laugh. Qiao Tang felt that he was hopelessly stupid, so he put down the jade chopsticks in his hand, rinsed his mouth, and stood up.
"I want to rest, Your Majesty, please go and do your work." After saying that, he ignored Pei Chengjue and called Nanny Wang to leave together.
Pei Chengjue leaned back in his chair, tilted his head to watch her disappear, then turned around to eat. After dinner, he went to the bedroom and heard the private conversations between Qiao Tang and Nanny Wang from inside. He paused and stood at the door waiting.
After waiting for a long time, Nanny Wang finally came out and bowed to him, saying, "Your Majesty, the young lady has gone to bed."
Pei Chengjue didn't want to bother Qiao Tang anymore, so he turned around and suddenly heard Nanny Wang ask, "I wonder if His Majesty received the birthday gift from the young lady?"
Pei Chengjue's face suddenly darkened, and he turned around and gave her a cold look.
Nanny Wang felt a chill all over her body and shuddered in her heart. She thought to herself, no wonder the young lady said that His Majesty has changed a lot. Judging from this, it is indeed so.
On second thought, fortunately her feelings for the girl hadn't changed, so that was all. She suppressed her fear and steadied her voice as she said, "Last autumn, the girl embroidered a belt herself, saying it was a birthday gift for Your Majesty."
Pei Chengjue's frown relaxed, he stroked his arm with one hand, turned around and walked away silently, with a question weighing heavily on his mind.
Since it was embroidered for him, why didn’t his sister give it to him at that time?
Nanny Wang, who was standing in front of the door, gradually changed her expression. She originally wanted to give the two of them a push and specifically mentioned the birthday gift, but when she saw Pei Chengjue's reaction was not right, she couldn't help but worry.
She didn't want her good intentions to lead to bad consequences, so she hurried back to the bedroom, sat on the stool beside the bed, and waited for Qiao Tang to wake up.
Pei Chengjue went to the Qinzheng Palace. He couldn't figure out why Qiao Tang didn't send a gift, and a look of anxiety appeared on his brow.
Standing in front of the imperial desk on the steps, he casually flipped through the newly presented memorials. His eyes suddenly became sinister. After flipping through several pages, his voice was cold.
"Call Wei Qingyan over."
He flicked his sleeves and threw the memorials onto the ground below. Not long after, Wei Qingyan entered the hall. Before he could even salute, he heard him order, "Wei Qing, take a good look at this."
Wei Qingyan straightened his face, knelt on the ground, and opened the memorials one by one. After reading them, a cold light flashed in his eyes.
It turned out that the imperial censors in the Censorate were being used as a weapon, and they submitted memorials desperately, advising Pei Chengjue not to make Qiao Tang the queen on the grounds that Qiao Tang was of humble origin and had misled the monarch.
"Wei Qing, go and take a few people back to the Censorate."
Pei Chengjue walked down the stairs and stepped on the memorials, as if he was stepping on the heads of the court officials and crushing them heavily.
"When my sister gives birth to my child, Wei Qing will be the child's uncle. As an uncle, it's only natural for you to contribute to the child's well-being, right?"
He kicked the letters into Wei Qingyan's arms.
Wei Qingyan obeyed the order, put the memorials into his sleeve, and said cautiously, "It is the duty of the Censor to supervise all officials. I will do my best to do it."
Pei Chengjue did not comment, but immediately issued an imperial decree to promote Wei Qingyan from the Hanlin Academy back to the Censorate and appoint him as the Left Vice-Censor-in-Chief.
"This matter ends today. Please do not disturb my sister's coronation ceremony."
He waved his sleeves and asked Wei Qingyan to leave.
Wei Qingyan walked out of the palace and looked dazed as he walked down the stairs. She would be crowned queen tomorrow and get married five days later. From now on, there would be an unreachable chasm between him and Tangtang.
The corners of his lips drooped miserably for a moment, then suddenly tightened again, a stern expression covered with frost. He was actually somewhat grateful to Pei Chengjue for giving him the opportunity to help Tangtang and the child.
Inside the hall, Pei Chengjue summoned the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau and ordered him to immediately select a female doctor and make all preparations for Qiao Tang's pregnancy and delivery.
The court envoy agreed, lowering his eyes and saying, "Your Majesty is indeed very thoughtful. If Concubine Hui knew that she was cared for and protected by Your Majesty like this, she would definitely be touched by Your Majesty's kindness."
These words were undoubtedly meant to flatter Pei Chengjue.
In the past, Pei Chengjue hated his subjects' flattery, but today he discovered that he actually liked to hear it.
He laughed out loud, "Noble Concubine Hui is about to become my wife, so it's only natural that I take good care of her."
The envoy sighed after hearing this. Everyone said that His Majesty was infatuated with Concubine Hui, but he thought the rumors were exaggerated. But after seeing it with his own eyes today, he felt that His Majesty's love for Concubine Hui was far beyond the rumors.
Qiao Tang took a nap and woke up feeling refreshed and in a good mood. Seeing Nanny Wang's worried face, he also frowned with worry.
"What's wrong, Mammy?"
Nanny Wang sighed and told her about the belt. She was silent for a moment and then soothed her softly, "It's okay. There's no need for me to send him off. He found it himself."
Nanny Wang breathed a sigh of relief and hesitated, "I heard everyone in the palace say that the young lady will be the queen tomorrow. Has His Majesty mentioned this to her?"
Qiao Tang shook her head. Strangely, she was not surprised. Given Pei Chengjue's current condition, nothing he did would be surprising.
"Miss, if I hadn't persuaded you to come to Beijing, you wouldn't be in this difficult situation."
Nanny Wang blamed herself and felt remorseful. Qiao Tang hugged her arm and smiled, "It's not Nanny's fault. It's His Majesty..."
She thought of everything that happened last year, and her heart was filled with mixed emotions, and she was speechless.
Nanny Wang opened her red eyes and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Has Your Majesty not yet mentioned the marriage to the young lady in five days?"
Qiao Tang's calm expression finally changed, his lips trembled, and he looked at Nanny Wang in disbelief.
Nanny Wang nodded, "Your Majesty wants to change the ancestral system and insists on marrying a girl before she reaches adulthood. I heard that the Empress Dowager couldn't persuade Your Majesty and agreed."
Qiao Tang's heart trembled, tightly wrapped around her middle finger. Why did Pei Chengjue have to go to such lengths? Was he so desperate because she was pregnant?
Nanny Wang sighed, "I don't think there's anyone in this world who loves girls more than Your Majesty."
After a long silence, Qiao Tang's helpless whisper was heard in the hall.
"I know."
It was almost evening, and the court officials were leaving their posts and leaving the imperial city when they heard a piece of news that shocked them:
At noon, Wei Qingyan left the Hanlin Academy and returned to the Censorate to take up his post. Before dusk, he had submitted several memorials impeaching his colleagues, using harsh words that left no room for maneuver.
What made the court officials even more horrified was that Wei Qingyan was not so cruel when he was a censor before, but he really did something extreme when he came back this time.
Anyone he impeached would be found guilty of their crimes by the Ministry of Justice within half an hour. They would either be arrested and imprisoned by Xue Zhang or banished from the capital.
Pei Chengjue's imperial edicts came one after another, and the entire imperial city fell into panic.
The court officials were in a panic and soon discovered that these officials who were being punished were the ones who advised His Majesty not to make Qiao Tang the empress. For a moment, they all thought numbly that His Majesty was actually wise and that these colleagues were indeed guilty, but it was not because they had offended Concubine Hui that they ended up like this!
But they all hated Wei Qingyan and secretly cursed him for being His Majesty's good cousin!
Only the Duke and his wife knew the truth, and they sighed, feeling sorry for their son, as he was such a good ex-husband.
The Duke of Zhenguo had previously felt that Qiao Tang had no one in the court and no one to rely on. Now that his son had achieved this, the door plaque of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion would have to be tilted towards Qiao Tang from now on.
Wei Qingyan was not afraid at all. He walked out of the Qinzheng Hall with ease and walked out of the palace with brisk steps.
When Pei Chengjue finished this matter, the full moon was already high in the sky. He walked back to Taiji Palace under the moonlight. When he arrived in front of the bedroom, he heard that Qiao Tang had fallen asleep, so he walked in lightly.
Seeing a faint light moving in the gauze curtain, he was alerted and went closer to the bed, lifted the gauze curtain and took a look.
Qiao Tang was playing with a night-shining pearl. He glanced over with his bright eyes, threw the pearl away, and curled up back in the quilt.
Pei Chengjue smiled and went to take a shower and change his clothes. When he came back, he took out the ointment to treat the whip wounds and went to bed.
He took off his pajamas, revealing the bloodstains on his upper body. He pulled Qiao Tang's hand out from under the quilt and placed it on the belt he had tied around his arm again. He asked softly, "Last autumn, when my sister embroidered this belt, was it—"
"Like me?"
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