Chapter 70 After the forced marriage 6
Empress: No one may believe it if I told them, but after being married to the Emperor for more than ten years, this is the first time I've heard him praise me!
How ironic!
So the empress read the Book of Songs all night long, and when the emperor got up the next day, she was still reading, her voice already hoarse.
Chu Chengqian yawned and praised, "You read well. Fusheng, bring the Empress a pound of this year's best tea."
To be continued tonight.
The Emperor has left.
The empress felt dizzy and fell into a deep sleep after lying down on the bed.
She slept soundly, forgetting all about the Empress Dowager. When she woke up again, it was already noon. A cold handkerchief was placed on her head, and her voice was hoarse as she asked, "What happened to me?"
"Your Majesty, you have a high fever. The imperial physician has already examined you. Linglong has gone to bring you your medicine. Don't worry, the imperial physician said that your condition is not serious and you will recover after taking the medicine for two days."
The Emperor, having learned of the news, has already sent word that he will not be coming tonight.
The Empress felt a chill in her heart when she thought of Chu Chengqian's attitude towards her. Wasn't it just to send her precious daughter to serve the Empress Dowager when she was ill?
How could he treat his legal wife like this? If she really did something, would she lose her life?
After thinking it over and over, the Empress got stuck in a rut and managed to make herself so angry that she fainted!
Inside the Mingzheng Hall, Chu Chengqian was holding Ning Yan and demanding compensation, saying, "Yan Yan, you must give me some benefits tonight."
Ning Yan said angrily, "The Emperor has already gone to another woman's bed, and he still wants me for benefits? Dream on!"
Your Majesty: The truth cannot be told, otherwise wouldn't he lose face?
"I didn't realize that Consort Ning was such a jealous person! She is my Empress, my lawfully wedded wife. Isn't it perfectly normal for me to visit her palace?"
Ning Yan could tell that it was wrong for this person to say she was jealous, but she was secretly delighted. Didn't she see that he was holding her even tighter?
"You only lose your rationality and get jealous when you love someone."
"If I don't have His Majesty in my heart, I don't care where you go."
Chu Chengqian looked at Ning Yan with his deep eyes. Was she saying that she loved him?
His heart melted completely, and he kissed Ning Yan's lips deeply.
"Yan'er, I allow you to be jealous, but you're not allowed to push me onto anyone else, or I'll... devour you!"
Ning Yan didn't think this "eating" was the same as that kind of eating, but that wasn't the point. "The Emperor is rich and powerful, and his harem is filled with countless concubines. If he takes a liking to one, he can just walk away. Wouldn't I be so jealous in the future!"
"Then I will try my best not to give Yan'er a chance to be jealous."
Ning Yan got angry and pinched the Emperor's waist. "Does Your Majesty mean you're going to favor other concubines in the future?"
Chu Chengqian completely ignored the slight pain in his waist and coaxed him with a smile, "I haven't favored anyone in a long time, so how can you say I'm pampered?"
The only one I want to pamper and sleep with is Yan'er, but I don't have a child yet. Unless you can give me a child, I will still have to go to the harem every month to make a show of it.
Sitting with each of the high-ranking concubines is a way for me to recuperate.
Ning Yan was slightly surprised. She didn't think the Emperor would lie to her, but the amount of information in his words was too much. Could it be that the Emperor hadn't slept with a woman for a long time before she entered the palace?
Thinking back to their first time, the speed was incredible, it really felt like they hadn't done it in a long time.
So, did he just go to the Empress's palace for a short visit?
"Yesterday was neither the first nor the fifteenth of the month, what was the Emperor doing at the Empress's palace?"
Don't ask Ning Yan why she dared to ask such a taboo question; Chu Chengqian gave her that courage!
"So many concubines were eagerly waiting to attend to the Empress Dowager when she was ill, but she put you first in the list. I heard that you were tormented in Cining Palace all day, so I went to torment her instead."
At first, it was just Ning Yan saying "you" to him, but gradually Chu Chengqian also started saying "you" to Ning Yan occasionally.
Ning Yan's gloom instantly vanished, her eyes filled with gratitude: "The Emperor is so good to me, I don't know how to repay him! How about I give the Emperor a little prince?"
Chu Chengqian's eyes lit up immediately. "Really? Yan'er really wants to have a child for me? Then I'll have to work hard!"
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The next day, after the Emperor went to court, Xiao Luzi secretly reported to Ning Yan: "Your Highness, the Empress has been ill since yesterday, and I heard that she couldn't even get out of bed this morning."
The imperial physician examined the Empress and said her illness was caused by emotional distress; the only way to heal her was for her to find clarity and understanding.
Ning Yan hurriedly said, "Then shouldn't I go and visit the Empress?"
However, Xiao Luzi shook his head, "Visits to Kunning Palace are forbidden. Several high-ranking concubines were turned away when they went there."
Ning Yan: It's good that she's not allowed to go; she can lie comfortably in the Mingzheng Hall.
However, the Empress Dowager would still torment her from time to time, her dislike for her was too obvious. Ning Yan silently endured it and never complained to Chu Chengqian.
Until a month later.
During lunch, Chu Chengqian kept putting Ning Yan's favorite dishes on her plate. One of them was steamed fish, which made her gag as soon as it was put into her bowl.
Chu Chengqian immediately had a bad feeling. Could it be that because he had always doted on Ning Yan, the women in the harem finally couldn't stand it anymore and started to make a move on her?
"Fusheng, quick, go and call the imperial physician, hurry!"
Ning Yan waved her hand, trying to say that she was alright, but the Emperor didn't give her a chance to speak. He held her and kept saying, "Yan Yan, it's alright, it's alright. I will never let anything happen to you!"
Ning Yan knew he was nervous, so she simply said nothing. She figured the imperial physician would find out when he arrived, so she decided to let him be nervous for now.
Physician Chen was the most skilled physician in the Imperial Medical Academy and the Emperor's personal physician. Apart from the Empress Dowager, no one else could persuade him to come.
Now he is nearly seventy years old, and he spends his days studying prescriptions at the Imperial Medical Academy, with no real business to attend to.
The Emperor invited him today, and he ran with all his might, arriving at the Mingzheng Hall in less than a quarter of an hour.
"Your Majesty, I am late. Is Your Majesty feeling unwell? I will take your pulse immediately." Physician Chen said as he tried to kneel down.
"Imperial Physician Chen, you may dispense with the formalities. I am fine. Please come and examine Consort Ning."
Fu Sheng helped the man up, and Physician Chen did not insist on kneeling down. He was especially relieved to hear that the Emperor was alright.
Looking up at Ning Cairen, he saw that her complexion was rosy and she seemed to be in no discomfort. His heart skipped a beat, but after calming his heartbeat, he sat down in the chair and took Ning Yan's pulse.
However, after only a moment, Physician Chen's hand lifted up as if burned, then quickly fell back down, resting on Ning Yan's wrist covered with a handkerchief. Physician Chen's expression grew increasingly joyful, and finally he withdrew his hand, kneeling on the ground with a thud. "Your Majesty, Consort Ning is one month pregnant, in good health, and the fetus is also doing well. Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations! Your Majesty finally has an heir!"
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