Chapter 47
Gu Yanling said that she was bored in the valley, so she returned to Yangzhou. She spent the whole day eating and sleeping in the yard.
Even his mother could see that Gu Yanling was acting abnormally.
Su Lixiao made some snacks and asked Hehua to carry them to Gu Yanling's yard. She saw him sleeping on the couch with a storybook covering his face. She walked over, picked up the storybook and put it aside.
Gu Yanling sat up: "Mom, why are you here?"
Su Lixiao said worriedly, "Yan'er, how come you've changed? You used to run outside every other day, but now you stay in the yard all day long. Your senior brother is here, why didn't you ask to take him out for a walk?"
Gu Yanling has been a bit lazy since she got pregnant, and since it’s cold today, she doesn’t want to go out even more. “I’ve been feeling a bit unwell lately, so I haven’t been out.”
Su Lixiao got a little nervous when she heard that he was not feeling well. "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Have you asked your senior brother to take a look?"
Gu Yanling: "Oh, mother, you forgot that I know medicine. It's nothing serious. It's just cold weather and I caught a cold. I'm fine now. Don't worry. And my senior brother doesn't need my hospitality. He goes out every day to the No. 1 Medical Clinic in Yangzhou to learn from others about medicine."
Besides being Gu Yanling's senior brother, Su Lixiao had a very good impression of Wu Jingmo. He was a young talent, had excellent medical skills, and was a steady person. "Go back and ask your senior brother if he has any thoughts on getting married. I'm afraid he'd be too shy to tell the truth if I asked him—"
Su Lixiao didn't hear any noise, but she saw her son sitting there in a coral-colored cotton robe, happily eating a piece of dessert in each hand.
"Yan'er, is this cotton robe of yours a little too small? Why do I feel like you're getting fatter?"
Gu Yanling's clothes used to be waist-hugging, but the new cotton robe she was wearing now didn't even have a belt from top to bottom. Su Lixiao felt that her son's face looked even rounder.
"It's okay. I don't have to worry about eating too much in the winter. I wear warm clothes."
Su Lixiao's roundness was just a comparison with Gu Yanling's previous appearance. "It's better if you are a little fatter, but you can't be too greedy."
When he saw Gu Yanling eating the sour jujube cake, he asked curiously, "Didn't you dislike sour food before?"
She didn't know Wu Jingmo's taste, so she made some, but she didn't expect her son to eat one piece after another.
Gu Yanling: "The snacks my mother makes are delicious."
Seeing that he had a rosy complexion and a good appetite, and didn't seem unwell, Su Lixiao didn't think much of it. "If you like it, I'll make it for you next time."
Gu Yanling nodded and chatted with his mother for a while. Seeing that it was still early, he thought that he had not been out for a while, so he called Zhaocai over and planned to go to see his senior brother and have a hotpot at Zui Xiang Lou.
This weather is perfect for eating mutton hotpot.
Zhaocai: "Master, why are you wearing so much?"
In the past, Gu Yanling would wear light clothes even in winter, just putting on a fox fur coat when going out. But now, what she wears is too bulky.
Gu Yanling warmed herself with a hollow carved hand stove: "It's a bit cold in Yangzhou this year, so wear something thick to keep warm."
Zhaocai added, "Master, you've been too quiet lately. All you do all day is eat and sleep."
Gu Yanling: "If you talk any more, I won't take you out."
Zhaocai then shut up.
It's the end of the year, and Yangzhou city is particularly lively. There is joy everywhere, and people are shouting in the streets and alleys.
"Master, there are jugglers over there, and they seem to be performing a lion dance. Let's go and have a look."
Gu Yanling is pregnant now, so he definitely can't squeeze into crowded places. "Watching the lion dance is boring. Let's go find my senior brother first."
Zhaocai was really strange. The young master used to love to join in the fun and squeeze wherever there were more people. Now he doesn't even want to watch the lion dance. However, whatever the young master said was what he did. Zhaocai accompanied him to the clinic to find Wu Jingmo.
Wu Jingmodu was already sitting in the clinic seeing patients. He had just sent a patient away when he saw Gu Yanling coming over and quickly stood up.
Gu Yanling gave Zhaocai a silver ingot and said, "Go watch the lion dance by yourself. The New Year is coming soon, buy yourself something."
Zhaocai got the silver and said happily, "Okay, thank you, Master!"
Gu Yanling: "Brother, how long will it take?"
Wu Jingmo was just helping out in the clinic and could leave at any time. He said goodbye to the owner and left with Gu Yanling.
"You need to move more."
Gu Yanling: "It's not that I don't want to move, I just don't have the energy. I just want to sleep after eating."
Wu Jingmo: "Let's go back to Medicine King Valley after the New Year. By then it will be spring and your clothes will be thinner, making it easier for you to be discovered."
Gu Yanling: "I think so too. Mom said today that I'm fat again, but I'm not fat anymore. My waist is thicker and my belly is bigger. Luckily I was thin before. Now that I've gained so much weight, I'm wearing thick clothes, so it's okay..."
Wu Jingmo saw Gu Yanling suddenly stop talking and followed his gaze, "What's wrong?"
Gu Yanling grabbed him and took him aside, looking a little panicked.
Seeing this, Wu Jingmo followed him and hid aside without saying a word.
Gu Yanling quickly thought that in her current state, no one would recognize her even if they met, so she pulled Wu Jingmo and pretended to walk over there.
I only heard someone say to Chang Feng: "Sir, I really don't know anything. No one has contacted me in the past few months."
The person who spoke was the one Gu Yanling had impersonated.
Chang Feng was also ordered to come here. It was too busy at the end of the year and His Highness could not get away, so he asked him to make a trip. However, he still got nothing. After waving his hand to let him leave, he looked at Gu Yanling who was walking over and then looked away.
Gu Yanling was suddenly confused when she saw Chang Feng. Could it be that Xiao Xinghan was here too?
Even when I sat down with Wu Jingmo in Zui Xiang Lou, I was still a little absent-minded.
Wu Jingmo: "Ayan, do you know that person just now?"
Gu Yanling suddenly realized what was going on. "It's over! He must have found out that I was impersonating someone else and knew I was lying to him, so he kept looking for me!"
Wu Jingmo was confused: "Who? Is it your young master?"
Gu Yanling grabbed Wu Jingmo's hand and whimpered, "It's over, Senior Brother! He's the most stingy person. If he knew I was lying to him, he would definitely put me in jail! No wonder he's been looking for me!"
Wu Jingmo comforted him, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Maybe he still misses you, so he keeps looking for you."
Gu Yanling: "No, if he didn't know my identity, it would be understandable that he would think of me because of the letter I left for him. But he already knew that I had replaced someone else's identity to sneak into his house. He must have figured out that I had other intentions. Maybe he already knows why I did that. He is very smart."
Seeing him getting excited, Wu Jingmo said, "Don't panic. Even if you see him in your current state, he won't recognize you."
Yes.
Gu Yanling calmed down. That's right! What was there for him to panic? Just now, he and Brother Chang Feng looked at each other, and Brother Chang Feng treated him as a stranger. He has changed his appearance now. Even if Xiao Xinghan really came to Yangzhou, he would not be afraid!
After eating the hot pot, Gu Yanling asked Wu Jingmo to go on his behalf. When the person came back and told him that the gate of the mansion was closed and there were no guards outside, Gu Yanling knew that Xiao Xinghan did not come to Yangzhou.
Then he has nothing to be afraid of, because the other party is far away in the capital, and there are thousands of mountains and rivers between them!
Holding the jade pendant against his belly at night, Gu Yanling sighed, then thought that although he had deceived Xiao Xinghan, his identity was fake and he was a fake, but Xiao Xinghan did not suffer any loss.
Without him taking the Disguise Pill, how could Xiao Xinghan be moved and taste so many sweet things? I'm afraid he would still be a virgin now!
Xiao Xinghan should thank him!
Gu Yanling cursed him as a stingy person.
Life went on as usual. The master also came on New Year's Eve, and the whole family was having a lively time.
After the Lantern Festival, Gu Yanling followed Wu Jingmo back to Yaowang Valley.
He was able to hide the fact of his pregnancy from his family, but he couldn't hide it from his master, a genius doctor. However, his master was never particular about trivial matters. After learning the truth, he only scolded him for being obsessed with unorthodox methods and for being able to make disguise pills into fertility pills. Despite the scolding, the master did not go out to travel again, but stayed in the Medicine King Valley and did not go anywhere. After all, Wu Jingmo was young and had no experience in surgery.
With his master, the miracle doctor, around, Gu Yanling felt more at ease.
He hung around his master all day, saying a lot of sweet words, which made his master very annoyed.
Soon it will be May, the month of delivery.
Gu Yanling's belly was so big that he felt tired after walking a few steps. In addition, he was afraid of the heat because of his pregnancy, so he asked his master almost every day if he could give birth.
The production equipment and house were prepared a month ago.
Seeing that the time was almost up, the master asked the medicine boys to boil several large basins of hot water. These medicine boys would not enter Gu Yanling's yard casually on weekdays, so they didn't know that he was pregnant. They just delivered the hot water and left.
Only Wu Jingmo and his son and Gu Yanling were in the room.
Gu Yanling was lying on the bed, feeling a little nervous: "Master, will it hurt? Woo woo, I heard that giving birth can kill people, Yan'er is scared."
The master was very calm: "Even if you die, I can still bring you back from the brink of death. Don't be afraid. I will apply some of my secret painkilling powder on you and you will be unconscious."
Gu Yanling was relieved: "With Master and Senior Brother here, Yan'er is naturally not afraid."
Wu Jingmo was also relieved that his father was there.
If Gu Yanling had not been asked by his master not to speak, he would have really wanted to praise his master as a miracle doctor. He could even feel the knife cutting into his stomach, but it didn't hurt at all.
East Palace.
For some reason, Xiao Xinghan had been feeling uneasy since he woke up this morning. He was currently reviewing memorials in the imperial study, but he couldn't calm down.
Emperor Xiao had never seen the Crown Prince like this before, and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Xiao Xinghan put down his red brush and stood up, bowing to Emperor Xiao. "Father, I think I didn't sleep well last night."
Emperor Xiao has always been proud of having such an outstanding prince. As he only has this one son, he naturally treats him leniently. "If you feel unwell, go back and rest. Summon the imperial physician to see you."
Xiao Xinghan hasn't spoken yet.
Emperor Xiao was worried about his heir. The Crown Prince had previously replied that he would return, but he had suddenly delayed for another month. He said that the Crown Princess had accidentally gotten separated on the way back to the capital. "Is there any news about the Crown Princess yet?"
Originally, Emperor Xiao did not believe this statement. How could a healthy person just disappear? Not to mention that he was a prince who was always cautious and prudent in his actions. However, he privately summoned the national teacher to ask him about it. The national teacher calculated and said that everything was God's will and all he had to do was wait and see.
Xiao Xinghan didn't show any sign of laziness on his face, and his expression was normal: "Not yet."
Emperor Xiao: "Go back and rest."
After Xiao Xinghan left the imperial study, he returned to the East Palace. Although he didn't show it, he was indeed a little irritated for some reason today, so he went to the bedroom.
It was the bedroom he reserved for Gu Yanling.
When the little parrot saw him coming, it flapped its wings and said, "Master is coming! Master is coming!"
All of Gu Yanling's belongings were brought here and placed in this bedroom, including the parrot.
Xiao Xinghan let the little parrot out. The little parrot was afraid of him and didn't dare to jump on his shoulder. It just flew to the birdcage and shouted, "Yuanbao is the smartest egg in the world!"
This was the first time Xiao Xinghan agreed with this statement. He had been running for so long without being found, which meant he was smart.
Ever since Xiao Xinghan knew that Gu Yanling's identity was fake, he quickly realized that he had other purposes in approaching him. He had come to him from the very beginning because he wanted him to punish Liu Qingsong and Hu Jiawei. At that time, he blamed himself for being conceited. The other party clearly had so many flaws, but he turned a blind eye to them.
Li Youfu stood quietly by with his head lowered, not even daring to breathe. He was truly in awe of Gu Yanling's audacity, for being able to trick His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Xiao Xinghan listened to the little parrot chattering a lot of things that Gu Yanling had taught him in the past. His heart gradually calmed down, and then he left the bedroom.
…
Gu Yanling relaxed when she heard the baby's loud cry. Wu Jingmo carefully wiped the baby clean with a hot towel and held it in front of Gu Yanling. "Ayan, it's a boy."
Gu Yanling's head was covered in sweat, and her lips had lost their color: "Let me see."
The baby closed his eyes, his eyelids were deeply wrinkled, and his eyelashes were thick and long. From his eyebrows and eyes, one could tell that he would grow up to be very handsome.
Gu Yanling was not worried about this. After all, he and Xiao Xinghan were both good-looking, so the child they would have would naturally be the best-looking.
"This kid looks just like me!"
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