Chapter 61 Chapter 61 "If a little princess is born, it will be...
While Li Shuyao was shocked by the little one's hide-and-seek skills, the emperor was asking in a deep voice about the things to pay attention to during pregnancy.
Yue Shu and Tian Jiarou quickly adjusted their attitudes and listened attentively, as if they wanted to engrave every word the imperial physician said into the deepest part of their minds.
Behind the curtain, Li Shuyao was still holding her belly carefully.
Almost three months old, how old is it?
It should be bigger than a grape, right?
Have you grown little hands and feet? Can you hear the sounds from the outside world?
Many questions raced through her mind.
At the same time, she felt a little regretful. If only she had gone to see her cousin when she gave birth. She would have had some idea of what was going on, and wouldn't be like now, not even knowing if the baby's arms and legs had grown.
...or if she could pay a little more attention to those videos when she saw them online...
Alas, the main thing was that Li Shuyao herself didn't expect that she would suddenly travel to a book before she even celebrated her 20th birthday, and then inexplicably became someone's concubine, and now... she even has a baby.
Li Shuyao was melancholy for a while, and her eyelids gradually became heavy.
Finally, amid the mumbling of the imperial physician outside, his consciousness gradually became blurred, and then he fell into darkness.
*
When she woke up again, it was completely dark outside.
A few gusts of cold wind blew by, causing the lanterns under the eaves to sway left and right, and even the flickering reflections projected on the window sills also trembled slightly.
Li Shuyao sat up from the bed, hugging the quilt, hugging her knees with lifeless eyes for a long time, and then she vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a small grape in her stomach?
So she quickly stretched out both legs, and touched her relatively flat belly in doubt, feeling very weird.
She sat for a while before she climbed down from the bed quietly, put on her shoes, put on a thick coat, and went outside with her collar held up to ask Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu for water to wash her face.
Yueshu was the only one outside.
No one knew where Tian Jiarou had gone.
After Li Shuyao washed her face, Yueshu brought her some food. While eating, Li Shuyao asked Yueshu, "Where's Jiarou?"
"She went to see Aunt Lin."
Yue Shu finished her words with a smile, then paused. Without waiting for Li Shuyao to continue, she self-consciously recounted what had happened after Li Shuyao fell asleep that afternoon: "...The Emperor was so happy that he rewarded my young lady with many precious items on the spot, such as enamel, agate, cloth, jewelry, and so on. He recited a long list, and I didn't even have time to remember it all."
Hearing this, Li Shuyao quickly swallowed the soup in her mouth and said anxiously: "Then I, I fell asleep at that time and didn't get up to thank the emperor. Is the emperor unhappy?"
"How could that be? You've rested well, and the dragon fetus in your belly has rested well too. How could the Emperor be unhappy? Not only is the Emperor not unhappy at all, he even asked the imperial physicians to speak more quietly." Yue Shu said with a smile, "Also, in the afternoon, the Emperor personally selected some people to come and serve the young lady."
"He also said that this was only temporary, and that the rest of the palace servants would be added after the young lady arrived at Changchun Palace."
"Changchun Palace?" Li Shuyao's eyes lit up.
She was not greedy for position, but mainly thought that after going to Changchun Palace, she would be closer to Qingyao.
And...there is floor heating in Changchun Palace!
Floor heating is much more convenient than a charcoal basin, and you don’t have to worry about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning all day long.
Li Shuyao asked with surprise, "Did the emperor say when I can go to Changchun Palace?"
Yue Shu shook her head. "No, she just said she still needs to ask the two old ancestors for their opinion. However, she has told the servants to pack their bags first. Once the imperial decree is issued, the young lady can move to Changchun Palace to rest and take care of her pregnancy."
"Oh, by the way, the Emperor also told you not to be afraid when the time comes, and just take good care of yourself and the dragon fetus in your belly. The Empress is still ill, so for the sake of the dragon fetus, you don't have to kowtow and pay your respects for the time being. As for the other concubines, the Emperor will also instruct them not to disturb you unless necessary."
Li Shuyao hissed a breath of cold air, "Did the emperor really say that?"
Wouldn’t the other concubines in the harem be very angry?
What will she do if everyone becomes jealous of her?
Li Shuyao suddenly fell into worry again.
Yue Shu rubbed her fingers together helplessly and nodded, "The Emperor did say so."
Then he asked Li Shuyao, "What are you worried about?"
As he spoke, he used the serving chopsticks to pick up a few pieces of pea yellow and put them into Li Shuyao's bowl.
Li Shuyao pursed her lips and said nothing, only listlessly stirring the pieces of pea yellow with her chopsticks. After mashing them into a fine paste, she suddenly seemed to remember something and quickly picked up the porcelain bowl. With her chopsticks, she swept the pea yellow crumbs into her mouth like sweeping the floor, chewing them briefly and finishing them off.
Yueshu was stunned. She thought Li Shuyao had lost her appetite and would not eat.
Li Shu glanced at her, as if seeing the doubt in her heart, and said with a hum, "Food cannot be wasted."
It cannot be used as a toy to be kneaded and played with.
Otherwise her mother would suddenly come over and scold her.
After Li Shuyao finished speaking, regardless of Yue Shu's reaction, she raised her hand and touched her belly, lowered her head, and murmured, "Did you hear that? Wasting food is bad behavior, so when you come out, you must be obedient, eat well, and be a good baby, understand?"
Yueshu:?
She looked at Li Shuyao's belly curiously and asked, "My lady, can the dragon fetus understand you if you talk to him like this?"
Li Shuyao didn't care whether he understood or not, she was determined to teach him anyway.
From three months to ten months, the baby will always listen a little bit. In this way, he will probably be a very well-behaved baby after he comes out!
It would be best if she was as well-behaved and easy to take care of as she was when she was a child!
*
The news of Li Shuyao's pregnancy only began to spread throughout the harem a few days later.
At that time, the baby in her belly was already three months old.
After the imperial physician came to diagnose the baby, he said that Li Shuyao had a good physique, so the baby was growing very healthily in her belly.
Even the morning sickness I had experienced earlier quickly disappeared after I eliminated a few specific foods and flavors.
After obtaining the consent of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor quickly drafted an imperial edict to promote Li Shuyao to the rank of concubine and granted her the residence in the main hall of Changchun Palace.
I haven’t decided on the title yet.
He thought about it and came up with the words "soft", "good", "virtuous", "virtuous" and "illustrious".
After handing the paper to Li Shuyao, she picked up the pen and crossed out the second-to-last character "德" without blinking.
That was the title used by the heroine of the original book, and she didn't want it.
When the emperor saw her action, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He wanted to ask the reason, but when he opened his eyes and saw Li Shuyao holding her chubby cheeks with both hands, frowning her thin eyebrows, and looking serious as if she was lost in deep thought, he was speechless.
He just subconsciously curled the corners of his lips, his eyes moving tenderly over her red and moist lips. When he looked at the two lumps of cheek flesh that were squeezed and deformed, his palms suddenly felt itchy.
So cute, I want to pinch her face.
He smiled silently.
He didn't disturb her any further, but just admired Li Shuyao's demeanor and waited quietly for her to finish thinking.
After Li Shuyao crossed out the word "德", she put down her brush and thought carefully. It seemed that there were no such people as Concubine Rou, Concubine Jia, Concubine Shu, and Concubine Zhao in the original novel.
So these characters have no duplicates and can be used.
Concubine Zhao, sounds like Zhao Fei, no.
Shufei, like Shufei, is also homophonic with the word "shu", which has a bad meaning. Don't want it, cross it out!
Jiafei, Garfield?
She is not a kitten, so it is not good, don’t do it.
Then there is only one Concubine Rou left. Just hearing the name of her is enough to bring disaster to the country and the people. Ahem, it means she is beautiful.
...Is she pretty? She seems okay, just average looking.
Concubine Rou, Concubine Rou.
Li Shuyao repeated it in her mind twice. In fact, she didn't like it very much, but she had no better choice.
She actually wanted a title that sounded very smart, but she couldn't be called Concubine Consort, or Concubine Hui, or Concubine Ji, Concubine Zhi, or Concubine Smart...
Forget it, she should just think about it. Speaking it out loud would probably only make people laugh.
Li Shuyao slowly crossed out the last few words, then bit her lip and pushed the remaining word "rou" in front of the emperor.
I thought to myself, it’s just a vase, it can be considered an advantage, right?
The emperor didn't see any joy on her face, so he knew that she must not like this title in her heart.
Without even looking at it, he crumpled up the white paper on the table in his palm and threw it aside. He then took another blank sheet of rice paper and placed it in front of Li Shuyao, saying softly, "It's okay if you don't like any of them. Just write down the title you like and show it to me. If there's nothing wrong with it, I'll grant it to you."
Li Shuyao: "..."
How come she is the one having to think again?
She sniffed and didn't pick up the brush immediately. Instead, she looked around and asked, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs hasn't drafted a title for this servant, um, this concubine?"
The emperor only took one look at her and saw what she was thinking.
It just so happened that he also wanted to test whether Li Shuyao had been slacking off in her studies recently, so he shook his head and said in a deep voice, "How dare they act on their own without my order?"
As he spoke, he twirled his ring, his eyes dark, "I wanted to personally draft a title for you, but you didn't like any of them. Well, just draft one for yourself."
Li Shuyao was shocked when she heard this, but suddenly she felt that titles like Zhao Fei, Shu Fei, and Garfield sounded okay.
It's better than wanting to ban the account yourself.
I hate essay writing with a given topic the most.
Her mind was blank. Apart from Aba Aba, how could she think of a title with a nice pronunciation and a beautiful meaning?
Li Shuyao bit her lips and felt like crying but had no tears.
The corners of her eyes soon turned slightly red, and she looked very aggrieved.
emperor:"!"
He hated to see Li Shuyao like this, so he immediately put aside the idea of testing her.
After sighing, he picked up the brush and wrote a few large characters on the rice paper, while still saying to Li Shuyao, "Okay, okay, I'll write it, okay?"
"Don't cry, be careful that the baby in your belly will be affected by your emotions and will make trouble for you."
As soon as he heard this, Li Shuyao knew that this was a completely novice dad who was even less experienced than herself.
"He's only three months old, just this, this tiny little thing." Li Shuyao stretched out her index fingers and thumbs, made a small circle, and then said in a surprised tone, "He hasn't even fully grown his hands and feet yet. How can he understand what I say, and why would he bother me?"
She seemed to have completely forgotten that she used to nag the little one about everything he ate as part of his prenatal education.
The emperor paused with the brush in his hand, "Then how did you know?"
"Because I have asked the imperial physician, and this is what the imperial physician Zhu, a master of gynecology in the Imperial Hospital, said. He must be right!" Li Shuyao said in a resounding voice.
The emperor's expression was unusually dazed. After a moment, he lowered his head and wrote the last two words, then pushed the rice paper in front of Li Shuyao again.
Li Shuyao looked down and saw - "Jing", "Ling", "Xi", "Yu", "Yi", "Wan", "Xian", and "Chen".
Her eyes suddenly widened.
I feel like I'm a little unworthy.
Especially the last character "宸".
And there is the word "virtuous".
The word "Jing" seems... not suitable.
And that character "熙"...
Li Shuyao's fingers trembled slightly as she held the paper. She could almost foresee how much the people in the harem would hate her after she got the words in the paper as a title.
Oh, yes, there is also the character "宸". This is the character that the current Empress Dowager hates the most.
What does the emperor think?
Is your brain broken?
He had grown up at the Grand Empress Dowager's lap, so he must have known the Grand Empress Dowager's fear of the word "Chen"...
Just as he was thinking about it, the emperor on the other side seemed to realize something. He frowned and pulled the rice paper from Li Shuyao's hand. After quickly and neatly crossing out the last word "宸", he pushed the rice paper over again.
His expression was still a little unnatural. "This word is not very good. It doesn't suit you."
I thought so too.
Li Shuyao nodded in her heart.
He used stiff fingers to bend the rice paper towards himself.
Then he lowered his head and studied for a long time.
After eliminating them one by one, only the character "令" and the character "婉" were left.
The emperor came over and took a look, then raised his hand to cross out the word "Wan".
Li Shuyao:?
She suddenly felt unhappy again. What did he mean? Did he think she was not gentle enough?
Although she is indeed a bit lively and outgoing, but...
Just as she was thinking about it, the man opposite her spoke slowly, "You already love to eat so much. If I give you the character 'Wan', I'm afraid people in the harem will talk and laugh at you. So let's just give you the character 'Ling'. What do you think?"
…
Oh, that’s what I mean.
The little flame that had just risen in Li Shuyao's heart was extinguished completely in an instant.
She smiled and nodded obediently, her almond-shaped eyes shining slightly as she looked intently at the emperor across from her. Then she said in a clear voice, "Okay, I will obey your instructions. Whatever your majesty says is what it is. Your majesty is the wisest!"
...Is that so?
The emperor looked at her deeply.
Then, without saying anything, he waved his hand and ordered Liang Jiugong to bring the imperial edict. In front of Li Shuyao, he wrote the word "order" on the imperial edict and handed it back to Liang Jiugong.
Liang Jiugong held the imperial edict in his hands with a solemn expression, made a "hmm" sound, and quickly turned and left.
Probably it's about getting the stamp, and then going through some other procedures.
Li Shuyao was guessing in her heart.
*
The day after returning from the Qianqing Palace, Li Shuyao moved to the Changchun Palace as she wished.
Except for Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu, the other palace maids around her were either brought from the Qianqing Palace or selected by the emperor himself.
Everything was done extremely quickly and properly, and Li Shuyao did not feel the slightest bit of discomfort during the entire moving process.
Li Shuyao had just finished looking at the newly decorated main hall of Changchun Palace.
On the other side, Guo Luoluo Qingyao couldn't wait to run over from next door to see her.
"Qingyao!"
Li Shuyao was very excited to see her best friend. She threw the book in her hand away and climbed down from the couch using her hands and feet to greet her.
Tian Jiarou and Yueshu were watching from the side, their hearts almost jumping out of their throats.
The same is true for Guo Luoluo Qingyao.
She could no longer maintain her majestic demeanor, and she took two steps at a time and jumped to the front of Li Shuyao's couch, reaching out to stop her from bending down to put on her shoes.
She behaved even more cautiously than Li Shuyao before.
He actually reached out and took off Li Shuyao's shoes from her feet, then threw them aside. He then held Li Shuyao's shoulders with both hands, exerted a little force with his fingers, and forced her body to straighten from a bent posture.
"Hey, what are you going to do?"
As Guo Luoluo Qingyao spoke, she reached out and quickly touched Li Shuyao's belly twice.
I just felt that the touch was still soft, but I couldn't feel anything else...anymore.
Li Shuyao was caught off guard, and her whole body was suddenly "straightened" by her. Her expression was blank, confused and at a loss.
I didn't even know what to do with my hands and feet.
She watched Qingyao touch her socks, then reach out to hold her shoulders, and finally use both hands to touch and rub her belly. While touching, she leaned her face over, as if listening carefully to the movements in her belly.
Li Shuyao: "..."
Three months!
The kid is only three months old!
It’s not thirty weeks!
Even her hands and feet haven't grown back yet, and Qingyao still wants to listen...
Before she could finish her thought, she saw Qingyao, who was lying on her belly, looking at her with a bright smile on her face, "There's a sound!"
"Is this voice him greeting me?"
Li Shuyao: "..."
Her expression was extremely stiff, and there was a hint of embarrassment in her.
Let her think about how to explain to Qingyao that what she heard was not the sound of the kid greeting her, but her, her bowel sounds?
Everyone has bowel sounds.
Ancient people are no exception, and neither are the people in books.
...Oh my, what is Qingyao doing? !
Li Shuyao was still thinking seriously about how to explain when she suddenly felt a warm sensation on her belly.
Li Shuyao looked down and found that it was Qingyao who was lowering her head...
Uh-huh?
Qingyao, she actually kissed my belly?
What are you doing!
In an instant, Li Shuyao's face turned red.
She held her stomach with both hands and leaned back.
"Qing, Qingyao, you..."
She was so anxious that she couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
I always feel that the distance between her and Qingyao is a little too ambiguous?
Guo Luoluo Qingyao probably also realized her shyness, and quickly stepped back with blushing cheeks.
He said to Li Shuyao with a dull expression: "I, I just couldn't help it."
"When I think it's Sister Shu Yao's baby saying hello to me, I, I... I can't give him banknotes, nor can I feed him delicious food, nor can I buy him a house, a horse, or a bow and arrow... So I can only kiss him."
Guo Luoluo Qingyao suddenly came over and sat next to Li Shuyao. She held Li Shuyao's arms with both hands, lowered her head shyly, and continued to explain in a low voice: "I'm actually really excited, because it's your baby, Sister Shuyao."
"These past few days, I've been so excited I couldn't sleep. Even when I did fall asleep, my dreams were all about Sister Shu Yao and your little baby. He looks so much like you, with soft little hands, a sweet body, and a smile for everyone he sees. He has a really, really good personality and temper. He's the most beautiful and well-behaved baby in the world!"
Li Shuyao's eyes sparkled when she heard this.
Following Qingyao's words, she couldn't help but imagine it in her mind. The more she thought about it, the happier she became. Finally, she simply leaned over and pressed against Qingyao, asking her in a clear voice, "Really?"
Qingyao nodded repeatedly, "Of course it's true. If Sister Shuyao doesn't believe me, I can draw a picture of the baby for you to see."
Li Shuyao agreed immediately after hearing this. "Okay, okay, then draw it for me later. I'm a little curious too." After saying that, she paused and said, "No, no, Qingyao, how do you know it must be a boy?"
She reached out and touched her belly, thinking that baby boys would be naughty monkeys when they grow up, while only baby girls would be the warm and caring little cotton-padded jackets.
If possible, she still wants to have a baby girl.
Qingyao didn't know what she was thinking yet. "Because I dreamed of baby boys more often, seven times in total. I only dreamed of baby girls three times, so I was wondering if this was a warning from heaven?"
"Stupid Qingyao, how can this be a warning from heaven?" Li Shuyao rarely had the opportunity to call Qingyao stupid, and there was a cunning look in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
She said, "This is obviously what you think about during the day and dream about at night."
After she finished speaking, she directly asked Qingyao, "So from now on, you should think about what a baby girl will look like, and don't think about a baby boy anymore. I still prefer baby girls more."
Qingyao agreed at first.
After a few breaths, she suddenly became confused again, "No, Shu Yao, what's wrong with you? Everyone in this palace hopes to have a prince, why do you want a princess?"
"Because the little princess is nice."
"What's good about it?"
"He's well-behaved, sensible, and considerate, unlike any other brat."
When the naughty boy grows up, he will only biubiubiu at you, while the sweet little cotton-padded jacket will kiss and hug you.
Li Shuyao naturally prefers baby girls more.
But Qingyao's next words brought her back to the cruel reality -
"Then have you ever thought about the fact that if you give birth to a little princess, you will have to take care of her in the future?"
Li Shuyao:!
Yes.
How could she forget this!
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