Chapter 46: Cousins are not allowed to marry
Gu Yan said: "If the Eastern Palace wanted to have a concubine, it should have been there long ago, so that Your Highness would not be childless at the age of 23. There was no concubine before, and there will be no concubine after the Crown Princess enters the palace."
Yun Xiangye was puzzled and asked, "Your Highness is still Your Highness after all. After His Majesty lives a long life, will Your Highness also have only one queen in the six palaces?"
Gu Yan said, "Why not? My uncle only has the Empress in his harem. The Empress was injured when she gave birth to Your Highness. With Your Highness as the only child, my uncle has never thought of finding another concubine to bear a child."
Yun Xiangye said, "Your Majesty is infatuated, but Your Highness may not be. If he can really achieve the goal of having only one queen in the six palaces in the future, why would he provoke my sister now?"
Gu Yan said: "Let's not talk about His Highness's affairs. The Emperor's will is not something you and I can guess. But Wei Xi will never become His Highness the Crown Prince's concubine. You can rest assured about this matter."
Yun Xiangye raised an eyebrow and looked at Gu Yan and asked, "Why are you so sure?"
Gu Yan said, "My grandmother once said that cousins cannot marry each other, at least cousins within three generations cannot marry each other. Your Highness the Crown Prince and Wei Xi are cousins, so they will definitely not get married."
Yun Xiangye wondered, "Why can't cousins get married? Isn't cousins a happy event of even closer relatives getting married?"
Gu Yan said, "I heard from my grandmother that if cousins get married, the children born will be prone to idiocy and will not live long. When my grandmother was alive, she did not allow cousins within three generations to get married."
Yun Xiangye said, "Is this also the reason why you disagree with Princess Nan'an and Wei Xi's marriage proposal to you? Then why don't you agree to the marriage proposal from Lin Bolan and the daughter of the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion?"
Gu Yan said: "I never thought about getting married back then. I was only 18 years old at that time. I didn't think about getting married so early. Besides, I didn't know them well, so how could I agree to marry them and spend my life with them?"
Yun Xiangye said, "But didn't you marry me when you were eighteen? You didn't know me well at that time. Do you regret it now? If you had agreed to the marriage proposal from your junior sister and the daughter of the Xu family, you wouldn't have married a girl like me who came from a humble family."
Gu Yan saw Yun Xiangye's red eyes due to crying, and then he looked down and saw Yun Xiangye's hand that was about to be raised.
Gu Yan held Yun Xiangye's hand and smiled helplessly: "Are you still addicted to it? Aren't you afraid of hurting your hand?"
Yun Xiangye said: "You just regret it, right?"
Gu Yan said, "No, although I was seriously ill when we got married, I was not completely unconscious. If I didn't want to marry you, I wouldn't have agreed to marry you. I have never regretted marrying you. When I saw you in the lake on the first day, I felt that you looked kind. The reason why I was the first to save you was because I had been keeping an eye on you."
Yun Xiangye said: "Lecher!"
Gu Yan smiled and said, "I felt you were very familiar the first time I saw you. Maybe we have met in our previous life."
Yun Xiangye returned to Qingfeng Garden, but did not continue making clothes. Instead, she picked up Nuonuo, who had just come back from playing with Jingru. Perhaps because she had a girl of the same age, Jingru, to play with her, Nuonuo could already speak a lot of words.
Yun Xiangye applied ointment on Nuonuo's little face and said, "In two days, you will be two-year-old Nuonuo."
Gu Yan was teasing Nuonuo with a rattle and asked, "Do you want a brother or sister?"
Nuonuo hugged Yun Xiangye tightly and said, "No!"
Yun Xiangye chuckled and held Nuonuo in her arms, "Okay, we don't want brothers and sisters. It's enough for mother to have Nuonuo as her only child."
Nuonuo gave Yun Xiangye a faint smile.
Gu Yan touched Nuonuo's head and said, "Why don't you want brothers and sisters? Are you afraid that they will snatch your things?"
Nuonuo looked at Gu Yan and said, "Tanghulu."
Gu Yan smiled and said, "Okay, then let your mother give birth to a brother or sister, and you can eat candied haws."
Xiao Nuonuo looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Mother, brother and sister."
Yun Xiangye chuckled and rubbed Xiao Nuonuo's face, "Little greedy cat."
Yun Xiangye asked Nanny Cao to carry Nuonuo down. As soon as Nuonuo left the room, Gu Yan hugged Yun Xiangye in his arms, "Are you so anxious to give Nuonuo a brother or sister?"
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "Stop messing around, I'm going to have sex."
Gu Yan asked, "Then why did you let Nanny Cao take Nuonuo away?"
Yun Xiangye said, "You still say you care about Nuonuo? Is there any father like you? Using candied haws to tempt Nuonuo will only make Nuonuo develop the habit of doing everything in exchange for candied haws."
"Why not?" Gu Yan said, "Wouldn't it be good to let Nuonuo understand as soon as possible that everything has a price?"
Yun Xiangye just felt that Gu Yan's logic was perverse.
Gu Yan asked in a low voice: "Are you really having your period?"
Yun Xiangye asked, "Why would I lie to you?"
Gu Yan picked up the rattle left by Nuonuo and turned it gently.
Yun Xiangye looked at the rattle in Gu Yan's hand and said, "The Prince of Ning is actually a little thief."
Gu Yan chuckled and said, "Yes, I am a little thief who stole your heart."
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "Who has been deceived by you? I don't have you in my heart, only your daughter."
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye's words with a frown on his face, a slight annoyance on his face.
Yun Xiangye found Gu Yan's expression funny. He didn't have her in his heart, so why should she be upset that she didn't have him in her heart?
"You stole this rattle from me."
Yun Xiangye snatched the rattle from Gu Yan and said, "Gu Yan, you little thief."
Gu Yan said: "I have had this rattle since I was a child, how could I have stolen it from you?"
Yun Xiangye showed Gu Yan the leaf pattern embroidered on her sleeves, "Look, this pattern is exactly the same as the one on your rattle. You stole my rattle."
Gu Yan smiled and said, "You grew up in Jiangnan, and I grew up in Chang'an. How could I possibly steal your rattle? I, your husband, don't have the ability to travel a thousand miles in a day."
Yun Xiangye said, "You never went to Yongxing City when you were young? I remember meeting Her Royal Highness the Princess in Yongxing City when I was about five years old."
Gu Yan said: "How can I remember things when I was three years old? I wouldn't have stolen your rattle at that time. Maybe the patterns were just similar."
Yun Xiangye thought that it might just be a coincidence that the patterns were similar.
Gu Yan continued to ask Yun Xiangye in her ear: "Are you really having your period?"
Yun Xiangye said: "Really? Why don't you believe me?"
Gu Yan had no choice but to hold Yun Xiangye and wait for her to calm down slowly. After a while, he finally took out the ointment from the side.
Gu Yan handed the ointment to Yun Xiangye and said, "Please help me apply it. My parents have never been willing to hit me since I was a child, but you have slapped me four times in just one month. It's because I have a good temper. If it were a man like you, an orphan girl who hits her husband at every turn, you would have died long ago..."
Yun Xiangye took the ointment and applied it on Gu Yan's red and swollen face, but her movements were not very gentle.
Yun Xiangye snorted, "You deserve to be beaten. How can you call yourself kind? You said that those who bullied the orphan girl and your wife are conscienceless beasts. You don't want to be a good person, but you are trying to emulate the beasts?"
Yun Xiangye applied the medicine with heavy hands, and Gu Yan said in pain, "Be gentler."
Yun Xiangye continued to apply the medicine with the same force: "When I asked you to be gentler, you never did. If you want to be gentler, just apply the medicine yourself."
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