Chapter 62 Chapter 62 It’s a lie, she doesn’t believe it! …
Li Shuyao suddenly no longer thought it would be a good idea to have a baby girl.
She couldn't bear to do that.
It’s better to give birth to a big devil.
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao sighed softly, her beautiful and delicate eyebrows drooped, and she stopped holding her belly.
He pulled Qingyao up and straightened her messy clothes.
Suddenly realizing something, he looked at Qingyao in disbelief and asked her in a trembling voice, "Did you just touch my socks?"
After touching her socks, he also touched her shoulders and her belly...
Qingyao also froze obviously, a guilty look flashed across her face. She put her hands behind her back, pursed her lips and said nothing.
Li Shuyao wrinkled her nose at her.
snort!
She gloomily called Tian Jiarou to get a basin of water for Qingyao to wash her hands, and she pulled Yueshu to the inner room to change clothes.
*
Not long after, Li Shuyao came out wearing new clothes.
It happened that Tian Jiarou came to report that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had sent some palace maids over and asked her to go out and take a look.
Li Shuyao nodded, and Qingyao came over spontaneously, and she and Yueshu supported Li Shuyao on both sides as they walked out.
Judging from the situation, it seems that Li Shuyao is already seven or eight months pregnant.
Li Shuyao felt extremely uncomfortable being helped, but this time Qingyao refused to let her go no matter what, so in the end she could only be helped out slowly.
In the courtyard of Changchun Palace, palace servants had already brought in two armchairs.
As soon as they saw Li Shuyao and Qingyao come out, the palace maids waiting in the courtyard knelt down and shouted, "This servant greets the Concubine Yi and the Concubine Ling."
The imperial edict conferring the title of Lingpin on Li Shuyao had been issued this morning. Although the formal ceremony hadn't taken place yet, with the imperial edict in hand, it wasn't wrong for the palace maids to address her as "Lingpin Niangniang."
But every time Li Shuyao listened to it, she always felt that something was a little awkward.
It's as if she's wearing clothes from the Qianlong Dynasty instead of the Kangxi Dynasty...
"Everyone, get up."
Li Shuyao was still deep in thought, while Qingyao had already spoken and called the palace servants from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Then, a chief eunuch dressed in formal attire came running over, smiling flatteringly at Li Shuyao and Qingyao, saying, "Your servant Wang Yongxin greets the Concubine Yi and the Concubine Ling."
He bowed again, and before Li Shuyao could speak, he quickly straightened his back and said many flattering words to Li Shuyao with a smile, "I haven't congratulated Concubine Ling yet. Concubine Ling is blessed with great fortune and is blessed by God. This is why you have been granted the title of Concubine and are pregnant, a double blessing..."
He actually said more than ten idioms in a row.
Li Shuyao was amazed when she heard this.
I also became more determined to study hard.
...It's impossible that after studying for several months, my vocabulary is still not as good as that of a little eunuch, right?
Li Shuyao pinched her fingers, put on a serious face and said nothing, just listening to him playing quietly.
Seeing this, Qingyao did not say anything.
As Wang Yongxin spoke, he received no response, and the smile on his face became more and more awkward. Gradually, he could no longer speak, so his voice gradually lowered. In the end, he didn't know whether he should continue to please.
He originally thought that since the newly appointed Concubine Ling in Changchun Palace was born as a palace maid, she naturally had limited knowledge and had not experienced much of the world, so it would be enough to respond with just a few nice words.
But I didn't expect that she was so patient. She listened for such a long time without even a smile on her face.
She exudes an awe-inspiring aura, not much inferior to Concubine Yi who has been a concubine for nearly half a year.
Wang Yongxin gradually suppressed the contempt in his heart, and the smile on his face faded slightly. He no longer dared to treat Concubine Ling, who was born a palace maid, as someone who could be easily dismissed.
He quickly stopped talking and introduced Li Shuyao with a serious face, "Empress Ling, these palace maids were personally selected by Nanny Lin from the Qianqing Palace earlier. Nanny Lin only selected palace maids with clean family backgrounds and noble character, and these young eunuchs are also the most flexible and capable ones from the Imperial Household Department."
After he finished speaking, Li Shuyao just said "hmm" calmly.
Wang Yongxin couldn't figure out what she was feeling for a moment.
He had no choice but to call those palace maids over one by one, line them up in several rows, and ask them to introduce themselves first, like a small selection, and then talk about what they are good at.
Wang Yongxin stepped aside, lowered his head and dared not look around, his posture was cautious.
Qingyao gave Li Shuyao a look of approval.
Li Shuyao received her gaze and quickly returned a beautiful smile with curved eyebrows. Then she quickly put away the smile and looked at the palace maids with scrutiny.
"I am Chuihe, a servant originally from Shandong. I have been in the palace for three years. Before that, I was..."
"I, Wan Yu, am originally from Shaanxi. I have been in the palace for five years. I spent half a year in Shoukang Palace, and then went to..."
…
While listening, Li Shuyao compared it with the original novel in her mind.
This one has never appeared in the novel, so it can be used; this one seems to have appeared, but where it appeared... She can't quite remember. Forget it, anyway, she doesn't want any of the ones that have a role in the novel.
This is also not possible. Three years later, because of offending a concubine and fearing retaliation, he will turn to another concubine...
And the one in green clothes in the corner, she raises snakes, so we can't have her either.
Then there's this one who looks very sweet and cute, but is actually a chatterbox and loves to gossip. She's been the subject of several rumors in the novel...
In this way, after all forty palace maids were introduced, there were only twenty-eight names left on the list in Li Shuyao's hand.
Qingyao came over to take a look. Although she was a little confused, she did not ask rashly.
Instead, she withdrew her gaze indifferently and lowered her head to admire the nails painted on her hands.
After Li Shuyao finished a round, she called all the palace maids over and ordered them to lift up their sleeves to show her their wrists.
After reading it, he crossed out the names of two of them.
Then it was the eunuchs' turn.
According to palace rules, as the main lady of Changchun Palace, she was accompanied by two first-class palace maids, four second-class palace maids, eight third-class palace maids, and several palace maids responsible for sweeping and doing miscellaneous work outside the palace.
As for the eunuchs, they need to select a chief eunuch, two lower-ranking eunuchs in charge, and several junior eunuchs.
These two are very spiritual.
After Li Shuyaochu finished drawing up a rough list, he turned around and asked Qingyao how many palace maids and eunuchs she had selected.
Qingyao raised her head, took the booklet from her hand, glanced at it, and then said, "If you like, you can keep all the people left in the booklet."
Li Shuyao was a little surprised. She already had Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu by her side. Needless to say, these two were definitely serving as first-class palace maids. The second-class and third-class palace maids should add up to twelve people, and the other sixteen...
How can there be so many people?
And as for the list of eunuchs, if she remembered correctly, she only crossed out six out of the twenty eunuchs, leaving fourteen.
How come she remembered that she had never seen so many palace servants when she went to Qingyao Palace before?
So if she kept all of them, would that be considered an act of usurpation?
Qingyao, perhaps sensing the doubt in her bright eyes, first glanced suggestively at her belly, then shook her head and said, "It's okay. You're pregnant now, so you need more help to carefully look after you. Also, when you're about to give birth, we'll need to provide four wet nurses for your unborn baby, along with twenty or thirty palace maids and eunuchs."
At this point, Qingyao suddenly remembered, "Oh, right, is your palace still short of two maids in charge of palace affairs?"
Li Shuyao exclaimed "Ah", she didn't know.
The emperor had never told her about this.
However, it was mentioned in the original novel that whenever a concubine in the palace became pregnant, the Empress Dowager would send two experienced old maids to share their experience and provide escort until the concubine successfully gave birth to the royal heir. Then, it would be up to the two maids to decide whether to keep the concubine or not.
There's nothing we can do about it. Too many children died in the palace in the past few years.
The two ancestors and the emperor all suspected that there was a poisonous snake hiding in the palace.
Li Shuyao felt that it was probably because the emperor and the concubines were too young in the early years.
Teenagers, whose bodies haven't even grown up yet, are already having children...
If this happened in modern society, teachers and parents would have scolded him to death.
But it's the same for her. This body is only seventeen or eighteen years old, right?
It seems... that he is also a minor? But in ancient times, adulthood was not calculated at the age of 18.
Li Shuyao curled her lips and complained silently in her heart: She has been a good kid for almost twenty years. In junior high and high school, she never even had a premature love affair, nor did she have any secret crushes...
Someone did confess to her, but she thought he was joking at the time, so she subconsciously asked him if he had lost the dare...
Bah, that’s getting off topic.
Li Shuyao pulled her wandering thoughts back.
Then Qingyao reminded her, "Madam, you don't have to worry about it now. Let's go back and ask the emperor what he thinks. If he doesn't have any good candidates, I'll send a message outside the palace and ask my mother to help find two people with experience in childbirth..."
Qingyao chattered away and arranged everything directly.
Li Shuyao blinked her eyes, and then blinked again, finding the scene in front of her a little funny.
She is the one who is pregnant, why does Qingyao act like she is more experienced than her?
Li Shuyao took Qingyao's hand, shook her head, and said in a clear voice, "Don't bother Madam Guo Luoluo..."
Before she could finish her words, Qingyao gave her a look that didn't quite agree with her. "How can we not look for a child? Your family is far away in Jiangnan. By the time your mother receives the letter from the capital and makes a special trip from Jiangnan, I'm afraid you'll have already given birth."
"How can it be so fast?!" Li Shuyao was suddenly shocked.
Her home is in the south of the Yangtze River, not the moon. Even in ancient times, there was no reason for it to take seven months to travel.
Qingyao frowned and thought for a while, "If that doesn't work, we can go to the Cining Palace and ask for help..."
"Wait a minute," Li Shuyao interrupted Qingyao directly, "Actually, the emperor told me about this matter before. He said he would find a way. Qingyao, don't worry about it, okay?"
Wouldn’t it be nice to be happy and carefree all the time?
As for what kind of child, what kind of nanny, who gave birth to it, and whose surname it has, that person is responsible for taking care of it.
This is a very simple truth.
Li Shuyao didn't want to turn herself into a yellow-faced woman because of these things.
and……
As she thought about it, she raised her eyes and glanced at Qingyao's belly.
If she calculated correctly, Qingyao would soon be pregnant with a baby, right?
I just don't know whether Qingyao would get pregnant in the 18th year of Kangxi's reign as in history, or in the 17th year of Kangxi's reign as in the novel.
...The seventeenth year of the Kangxi reign, next month will be January of the seventeenth year of the Kangxi reign.
Li Shuyao counted on her fingers, not knowing what she had counted. Her delicate face, as beautiful as a flower, seemed to be struck by lightning and almost cracked.
——She is now three months pregnant, and if we calculate based on ten months, then she will give birth in... in July, right?
She's going to be in confinement between July and August?!
That’s the hottest time of the year!
How much suffering she must have endured!
Qingyao didn't know what she was thinking about. She had just hesitantly agreed to Li Shuyao's words asking her not to worry too much, but the next second she saw Li Shuyao looking at her with a stunned and unbelievable expression.
Guo Luoluo Qingyao:?
She agreed to it, wasn't that wrong?
She thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the eunuch from the Imperial Household Department named Wang Yongxin standing in the corner secretly raised his head, as if he wanted to come forward and talk, but didn't dare to disturb the two of them.
Only then did he realize that he had wasted quite some time talking to Li Shuyao.
Guo Luoluo Qingyao stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Li Shuyao.
Li Shuyao came back to her senses in a daze.
Qingyao reached out and tapped the booklet in front of her. "Shuyao, what do you say? Do you want to keep all of them?"
Li Shuyao thought for a moment and said, "Let's keep them all and take a look."
As for the palace nanny Qingyao mentioned, Li Shuyao thought that the Empress Dowager should send someone over soon.
*
Just as Li Shuyao thought, she had just woken up from a nap that afternoon.
Tian Jiarou hurried in to report that Aunt Su Ma from the Cining Palace had come with several maids and asked her to go out and meet them.
Li Shuyao quickly pulled Qingyao out.
When Su Malagu saw that Concubine Yi was also there, a light flashed in her eyes, but there was no hint of a smile on her face, as if she had already foreseen that she would see Qingyao here, and she bowed to Li Shuyao and Qingyao together.
Li Shuyao and Qingyao hurried forward to help her up.
Su Malagu smiled very kindly. After getting up, she first congratulated Li Shuyao, and then asked her about her situation after moving into Changchun Palace. She also told her that if she felt uncomfortable living in any place later, she could just send someone to Cining Palace to tell the ancestors, and the ancestors would make the decision for her.
Hearing this, Li Shuyao's smile grew even brighter. "Okay, please ask Aunt Suma to thank the old ancestor on my behalf. Later, I mean, after I give birth, I will hold the baby and kowtow to the old ancestor to express my gratitude!"
She said this in a cute way.
And he did not pretend to be shy and say that he had to go to the Cining Palace to express his gratitude now.
The smile on Su Malagu's face suddenly became more genuine. She turned around and began to ask about Tian Jiarou, Yue Shu, and Li Shuyao's physical condition during the period since they became pregnant.
After all, Tian Jiarou is a female doctor. Ever since Li Shuyao became pregnant, she would take Li Shuyao's pulse three times a day to confirm the condition of the fetus in her belly.
Therefore, when Su Malagu suddenly smelled it, her response was quite fluent.
Zhi Yueshu was a little nervous and stuttered at first. After being comforted by Su Malagu, she calmed down and told Li Shuyao about the food and drink she had eaten and the things she had done during this period.
Li Shuyao didn't expect them to observe her so closely, even watching her eat a few mouthfuls of rice...
Her eyes suddenly widened, and one hand tightly grabbed Qingyao's wrist. Her cheeks quickly became hot, and even her ears turned red.
Qingyao was a little confused at first, but after hearing Yueshu's words, she fell silent for a rare moment.
The next moment, Su Malagu also looked over at the two of them with a smile, and said with great satisfaction, "After all, Miss Lingpin is now eating for one person and nourishing for two. If you eat more, the fetus in your belly will grow better and healthier. But you must be careful. You need to control your food intake in the later stages of pregnancy. Don't let the fetus grow too big, or you will suffer great pain during delivery."
Li Shuyao blushed and nodded.
Qingyao, who was standing next to her, was a little puzzled. She tried to ask politely, "But right now, the fetus in her belly hasn't even grown any arms or legs yet, so how can it eat?"
Su Malagu laughed and walked to Qingyao, whispering something in her ear.
Her voice was very low, and even though Li Shuyao was standing very close to Qingyao, she could vaguely hear the words "nutrition", "mood", and "follow her".
Putting everything together, what else could Li Shuyao not understand?
He angrily shook off Qingyao's hand.
Qingyao quickly smiled ingratiatingly, held her hand in her palm, turned her head, and continued to listen to Su Malagu sharing her experience.
Li Shuyao: "..."
Is there anything that a distinguished pregnant woman like her cannot listen to?
She simply went over to him.
Su Malagu glanced at her, and no longer lowered her voice, and told her some precautions during the early, middle and late stages of pregnancy.
His explanation was much more detailed than that of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Tian Jiarou's eyes lit up, and she quickly took out a notebook from her arms, put it on the table, and took out a charcoal pencil, writing it down very carefully.
Yueshu frowned and tried to remember it in her head.
Qingyao also nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
There were a few old maids standing not far away. When Su Malagu was halfway through her speech, they couldn't help but come over and started to share their previous experiences in taking care of pregnant women.
...It seems like Qingyao is the pregnant woman.
Li Shuyao's eyes gradually became dull.
Feel like something is not right?
*
The several maids brought by Su Malagu all had experience in childbirth themselves and also had experience in serving concubines who were about to give birth.
One of them had once been with Empress Dowager Cihe.
I also saw with my own eyes the emperor, who was only a few months old at the time, "punching and kicking" in the belly of Empress Dowager Cihe...
When Li Shuyao heard the words "punching and kicking", she was so scared that she quickly hugged her stomach with her hands.
With a pale face, he asked, "Will it hurt?"
One of the old maids said "No", but the old maid who had served Empress Dowager Cihe suddenly reached out and pulled her, then said to Li Shuyao solemnly: "It will hurt."
"Pregnancy, childbirth, no matter which stage, will hurt."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She swallowed her saliva and immediately decided that she wanted this nanny!
Su Malagu asked her to think about it again.
Li Shuyao shook her head directly. "I want this Nanny Yan, and also Nanny Zhao who just said she can massage the stomach, legs and feet."
Although Nanny Yan's surname is Yan, she looks very serious and would not lie.
But……
However, Li Shuyao still thinks that Nanny Yan is the best.
After all, it's such a big thing as giving birth... She's about to go to the gates of hell, why would you lie to her?
Let her have some hope, and then suffer excruciating pain during childbirth?
What’s the difference between that and stealing a bell while covering your ears?
Li Shuyao felt that she still preferred to be a sober ghost.
Besides, only by knowing the truth in advance can we prepare ourselves mentally as early as possible, right?
Seven months is enough time for her to prepare.
Seeing that her expression was more determined than usual, Su Malagu knew that she had already made up her mind, so she didn't say anything more, just waved her hand to let the others retreat, and returned to the Cining Palace on her own.
Then he turned around and said something to Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu.
Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu led her and began to search inside and outside the house.
Qingyao was still talking to Aunt Zhao. When she finished, she turned around and found that Su Malagu was gone. So she asked Li Shuyao curiously, "Did Aunt Su Ma go back?"
Li Shuyao shook her head, raised her chin towards her bedroom, and said, "It's inside."
Qingyao asked her, "What are you doing in there?"
"Inspection. We're checking to see if the Imperial Household Department used any inappropriate materials or left any ornaments when they were decorating Changchun Palace. They say some things may seem insignificant at ordinary times, but if they encounter something that is mutually beneficial or incompatible with them, they will become very powerful and even poisonous!"
After Li Shuyao finished speaking, she patted her belly like a watermelon, and then said, "Aunt Suma is also thinking about this, ahem, for the baby in my belly."
"Qingyao, do you want to go in and take a look?"
Guo Luoluo Qingyao shook her head repeatedly and waved her hands, "No, no, I'd better wait outside for Aunt Suma to come out."
Soon, Su Malagu led Tian Jiarou and Yue Shu out of Li Shuyao's bedroom, holding a few things in her hands, including candles, tassels hanging by the bed, and two purses for freshening the air.
Tian Jiarou brought a small bamboo basket, and Su Malagu put all the things in it. Without saying a word, she began to search the main hall again, and finally walked into the study on the other side.
Su Malagu found a total of two bamboo baskets of items.
The expression on her face was unusually heavy. She first placed the two bamboo baskets far outside the house, then came over to bow to Li Shuyao and Qingyao and say goodbye. She also said that the things she took away today would be replaced by palace maids from the Cining Palace later.
Li Shuyao and Qingyao exchanged a glance and said, "Then I'll have to trouble Aunt Suma."
Su Malagu then smiled a little, nodded at the two of them, and turned to leave.
After she left, Li Shuyao cautiously approached Qingyao and whispered to her, "Tell me, those things that Su Malagu found, could it be that someone in the harem...deliberately bribed someone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and secretly sent them in?"
After Li Shuyao finished speaking, she suddenly realized something and her face turned pale. "Then we just slept in there, this..."
Qingyao quickly held her hand, patted it twice on the back, and said soothingly, "No, no, don't scare yourself. If those things were really that powerful, Aunt Suma would have sent for the imperial physician long ago."
Li Shuyao thought about it and felt that this was true.
Li Shuyao's tightly-furrowed face finally relaxed. She patted her chest and said, "Fortunately, our ancestors were smart enough to send Aunt Suma to see me." She thought for a moment and continued, "Aunt Suma is also very powerful. She just went around like that, and nothing can escape her discerning eyes!"
"I wish I could be this powerful in the future!"
As soon as she finished speaking, two "puff" sounds suddenly came from behind her.
Li Shuyao's expression froze. Oh, right, I forgot.
There are now two new maids around her.
They must have heard her conversation with Qingyao and are now laughing at her...
Unexpectedly, Nanny Yan and Nanny Zhao came over at the same time, picked up the teapot on the table, and poured a cup of warm water for Li Shuyao and Qingyao respectively.
With a kind look, she said to Li Shuyao, "Your Highness, your Highness, is a woman of virtuous character and a kind heart. In the future, you may be even more powerful than Sister Suma!"
Li Shuyao: "..."
It's a lie, she doesn't believe it!
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