Chapter 122 Chapter 122 Is Their Queen Too Brave?
Li Shuyao's pair of angry almond-shaped eyes swirled back and forth for several times in a moment, and slowly turned into pure doubt.
Um?
There were not many people in the small room. There was only her, the little guy, Furong, Yueji and a little eunuch squatting in the corner, counting mushrooms and ready to go at any time.
Looking out, through the screen, I could only see the blurry figures of two old maids.
Further out... was the main entrance. No matter how she looked at it, it didn't look like someone would sneak over and bully the little guy while she wasn't paying attention.
...It can't be that she is the culprit, right?
Li Shuyao was a little panicked. She didn't understand why the little one's eyes were filled with tears when they were just playing a game of talking memory.
If this gets out and our ancestors find out, will any kids still be willing to play with her in the future?
Li Shuyao clenched her palms, and her eyes unconsciously turned slightly red.
She calmed herself down, leaned close to the little guy's ear, and whispered, "What's wrong with An'er?"
The little guy shook his head vigorously, shaking down the big tears that were about to fall from his eyes. Three lines of hot tears slid down his fair and clean face at the same time.
Li Shuyao was stunned by what she saw.
She quickly held the little guy in her arms and said, "Don't you want Madam Ling to take the test paper away? Then Madam Ling will give it back to you, okay?"
The little guy shook his head again, raised his two little hands, and wiped his eyes hard. He didn't make any sound when crying, and looked extremely pitiful.
Furong and Yueji suddenly became restless.
Li Shuyao felt as if someone was stabbing her heart with a needle.
Her voice suddenly became hoarse. "You... stop crying. If there's anything wrong, tell Empress Ling, okay? Or... did someone bully you? Tell Empress Ling, and she'll punish him by making him count ants in the Imperial Garden. He won't be allowed to eat until he finishes counting them, okay?"
As soon as these words came out, Furong and Yueji looked up at her at the same time.
Perhaps some of the words in Li Shuyao's words irritated the little fellow. He wiped his tears and said, "... No, no... I can't, even, uneven rice..."
Li Shuyao translated it first, then said, "Okay, okay, let's eat. Then Xiao An'er will stop crying, okay?"
"Okay, burp, okay..." The little guy agreed with sobs.
But it's still hard to stop crying.
Li Shuyao took a handkerchief and carefully wiped him for a long time before he was clean. After that, the little guy seemed to feel shy. He puffed up his chubby red face and buried it in her fair and slender neck, refusing to raise his head.
Li Shuyao could only hold him and comfort him for a long time before she learned the truth about his crying from him. She was a little amused and helpless for a moment.
"Does Xiao An like your majesty so much?" she asked him with a smile.
At the same time, I began to think about the feasibility of "stealing a child".
Before the little guy could say anything, Furong seemed to remember something, winked at Li Shuyao, and walked out quickly.
After a while, he returned with instructions from the old ancestor: "Just now, Prince Chun's wife suddenly fell ill and fell ill. The imperial physician is treating her in the side hall. The young prince will need to be cared for by Concubine Ling for a while."
Li Shuyao: “?”
The little one in her arms also heard Furong's words, and shared a confused expression with her.
After he came to his senses, he kicked his feet and tried to get down to the ground: "Woo, mother... woo."
As she said this, she started to cry again.
Li Shuyao quickly tightened the strength in her hands, not bothering to answer Furong's words, and continued to coax the baby: "An'er, An'er, be good, don't cry first, listen to what the queen says first, okay?"
She knew that the little guy was precocious and had an amazing memory. When they played the talking game before, she only said it once, and the little guy could not only repeat her words completely, but could even accurately summarize them and answer every question Li Shuyao asked.
So she was not just coaxing him at this moment.
Instead, she told him to stop crying first, and then she reasoned with him bit by bit: "Can An'er treat illnesses?"
The little guy shook his head: "No, it's not worth it."
"Can you make medicine?"
"No charge."
"Does mother love An'er?"
"Love... love."
"If Mother gets sick and infects An'er, and An'er gets sick too, he'll have to lie in bed, aching all over, and have to drink bitter medicine. Wouldn't Mother be super, super sad?"
Xiao Aner thought about it carefully. When he was "sick" before...
Even if he wasn't sick, he would still see his mother's tears when he woke up from a nap.
So the little guy nodded honestly: "Yeah, I will cry."
"So what should An'er do now?"
"Yes, or I'll get sick."
"That's right, An'er is really smart!" Li Shuyao kissed him on the forehead without hesitation and continued to ask him, "Does An'er still want to go see Mother?"
The little guy thought about it and said, "Yes, yes."
"But, I have to be healthy before I can go."
His slender fingers couldn't help but grasp the cloth on Li Shuyao's body, his big black eyes filled with fear and anxiety. He asked Li Shuyao again: "Eh, will Eh be okay?"
Li Shuyao answered firmly: "It will be fine, because An'er's mother is a powerful adult, so she will definitely get better!"
A powerful adult?
Xiao An'er's eyes lit up, his expression became thoughtful, and his fingers were not so strong anymore.
He looked at Furong again, and Furong and Yueji smiled at him reassuringly, "Prince Chun's wife must have been tired earlier, which is why she fell ill. Young prince, you should just stay with Concubine Ling in Changchun Palace for a while. You can come back when Prince Chun's wife recovers."
Hearing that his mother would be fine and that he could come back, the fear and anxiety in the little guy's eyes dissipated by about 70%.
As if remembering something, he asked Li Shuyao again: "Your Highness, will your baby be unhappy?"
Li Shuyao tilted her head, her eyes confused.
Will it?
I don’t think so.
She puffed her cheeks, thought carefully for a long time, and prepared a backup plan in advance.
——If the little brat makes a fuss, she will give him a taste of his own medicine, saying that she sees him smiling sweetly and lovingly at other mothers every day, and always going to other mothers to play, so she will be jealous and unhappy, and she will make a fuss too!
Let’s make some noise and see who can make more noise than the other!
snort.
*
The matter of temporarily raising Xiao An'er was decided.
Li Shuyao came here secretly today. Except for her personal maid and Nanny Yan, no one in the palace knew that she had come to the Cining Palace today.
So she did the same thing on the way back. She first took a sedan chair and pretended to be a lady of the imperial family who came to the palace to pay a visit. She quietly returned to the Imperial Garden and went to the vicinity of Shunzhen Gate. Then she avoided the palace servants and met up with Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu who were hiding in the rockery.
Pretending to be tired from strolling in the garden, he returned to where his sedan chair was parked, sat down limply, and was carried back to Changchun Palace.
——I didn’t feel it when I was playing with the little guy before, but now that I came out of the Cining Palace and my body relaxed, I realized how tired and sleepy I was mentally and physically. I didn’t even have the strength to move my fingers.
She leaned back on the sedan chair in a very ungraceful manner, the evening breeze blew by, the velvet flowers trembled slightly, and she felt a bit comfortable.
Fortunately, no one in the palace dared to look up at her, and they continued all the way to Changchun Palace.
Li Shuyao sat up and yawned, then Tian Jiarou helped her get off the sedan chair.
She really wants to go back to sleep.
...But that's not possible. She has to get the Empress Dowager's decree first and settle the little guy before she can take a bath and go to bed.
So he forced himself to go back to the main hall and was about to ask Nanny Yan "Did anything happen in the afternoon?" But as soon as he stepped in, he heard the familiar sound of two little kids sobbing.
It seemed as if it was asking "Mom, where is Lingling?", and the vague little baby voice was mixed with words such as "no more", "new baby", "who is it", "bad guy", "angry", etc.
What's going on?
How could she actually hear the obvious anger in the tone of little Yinqi, who was only a little over one year old and could barely speak?
Li Shuyao's feet retracted instantly.
Want to escape.
She had been coaxing the baby for the whole afternoon and really didn't have the energy to coax two more.
So he turned around and ran towards Yiku Palace.
She was so agile and quick in her steps that even Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu couldn't catch her for a while.
"Qingyao, please, help me!" Li Shuyao ran out of breath, and as soon as she stepped into the gate of Yiku Palace, she began to shout for help.
Ignoring the palace maids who were kneeling to pay their respects, he ran into the main hall while shouting, and immediately ran into... two people who were playing chess inside.
Seeing that it was her who came in, the handsome man smiled and said, "What's wrong? You've run so hard that your face is red."
Qingyao was also very surprised and asked her, "Shuyao, what's wrong with you?"
Neither of them showed any displeasure at being interrupted.
Li Shuyao ran in without any guilt, holding up her skirt, and hurriedly bowed to the emperor, "Your Highness, your concubine greets you."
Without waiting for anyone to call her, she straightened her knees and turned to look at Guo Luoluo Qingyao without answering: "Yinzhen and Yinqi are crying over there with me. They seem to be crying a little too hard. I don't know what's going on. I can't comfort them. Please help me."
"Yinzhen is crying?"
"Yinqi is crying?"
The emperor and Qingyao asked at the same time, with surprise in their tone.
Li Shuyao nodded, looking anxious like a child whose parents refused to take her to the amusement park. "Yes, yes, Qingyao, come with me."
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to bother you waiting here for a moment." After saying that, he took Qingyao's hand and was about to leave.
"Wait, I'll go take a look too." The man stood up and followed Li Shuyao and Qingyao slowly and leisurely, strolling in the garden. He didn't seem to be going to coax the children, but rather to watch a joke.
Fortunately, Li Shuyao didn't have eyes on her back, otherwise, she would have been angry.
The group soon returned to Changchun Palace.
This time, as soon as they stepped through the main gate, without even having to reach the main hall entrance, they could clearly hear the angry and dissatisfied cries of the two little ones inside. One was muttering something like "Why hasn't mother come back yet?" and the other was shouting "Lingling, it's gone"...
Li Shuyao nervously squeezed Qingyao's hand, almost wanting to hide herself behind her.
She felt so innocent, she clearly didn't do anything.
The man on the other side raised his eyebrows with interest.
Little did they know that all the palace maids in Changchun Palace were scared to death.
He knelt tremblingly in half the yard, paying his respects while complaining in his heart.
Oh my goodness, what was their queen thinking, that she even invited the emperor over?
What are you here for? To help her take care of the child?
Is their queen too brave?
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