Tang Baozhu found it hard to believe that the emperor had actually spent half a month recuperating without entering the harem. He was incredibly self-disciplined. She hadn't felt any weakness in him when they slept together.
She didn't expect the Emperor to come. She was raising two young princes alone, and life wasn't too good. As for the eldest prince, she could only see him in the morning and evening. The rest of the time, he was with his father.
I occasionally join the red envelope group to chat with everyone, because I see Doctor Zhang about every seven days. He comes to check my pulse for health, so we've become quite familiar with each other.
Tang Baozhu asked him to make a lot of pills, covering all kinds of ailments. Even though Doctor Zhang had given some to everyone when he first joined the red envelope group, she never thought she had too many good things.
Anyway, the palace has no shortage of medicinal herbs. Even if someone asks, she can just say that she has prepared some pills. After all, everyone knows that she has three princes. Moreover, the pills cannot be kept for long. So, no one finds it strange that Tang Baozhu often goes to the Imperial Hospital to get pills.
In fact, she had stored them all away in the warehouse. Fearing that the medicinal effects would be lost, she even asked a big shot in the cultivation world to give her several small bottles with storage space. Each small bottle could hold the same kind of pill, and the space inside was particularly large, with at least three cubic meters of space in each small bottle. Her goal was to fill the space inside the bottles in her lifetime.
However, Tang Baozhu felt it would be a bit difficult. Each pill was only the size of a little finger, and it would probably take tens of thousands of pills to fill this bottle. It was rare to encounter such a skilled imperial physician. If she didn't stock up, she felt that she wouldn't be able to find such a skilled imperial physician in other worlds. After all, the big shots in the cultivation world and the immortal world had given Zhang Taiyi many medical books from their worlds. You have to know that their great worlds are much more advanced than this ordinary world, so naturally their medical skills are also better.
For someone like her who always feels like she doesn't have enough, it's rare to encounter a doctor with such excellent skills, so of course she'd try to take advantage of him. Fortunately, she wouldn't let Doctor Zhang suffer any losses, and she gave him plenty of silver notes.
It wasn't until the three princes turned six that this blatant exploitation stopped, since after that age, they could no longer live in the same palace as their mother.
First Hui'er moved out, and the following year the twins also moved out.
When they first moved out, they were only reluctant to leave their mother for the first day or two, but later they were so happy that they didn't want to leave. No one was watching them, and they couldn't be happier.
Tang Baozhu was naturally worried. After all these years, she had only had these three precious children in the palace. Now that they were separated from their mother and living alone in a palace, she was afraid that they would be harmed.
Fortunately, Situ Rui was a very competent father. Everyone around him was the emperor's man, keeping the three young princes completely surrounded, preventing any bad things from getting close to them.
In recent years, Situ Rui has been quite good to Tang Baozhu. Perhaps they have developed some feelings for each other over time. At least in recent years, he has never been seen visiting the other concubines in the harem, as if they do not exist.
It was because of the emperor's behavior that Tang Baozhu started to pay more attention to him. Overall, this emperor was a good emperor. He devoted most of his attention to the court and his young princes, and the remaining part to the Empress Dowager and Tang Baozhu.
Tang Baozhu was already very satisfied with this. Although she was there to complete a mission and didn't want to force a relationship, she was still very happy that they could treat each other with the same respect as an ordinary couple.
She had been living a pretty good life these past few years. The only thing that bothered her was that the Empress Dowager kept pressuring her to have more children. Sometimes it was really annoying. If it weren't for her, her son wouldn't have had a single prince. Now the Empress Dowager was even trying to be picky and wanted to have a few more.
Thinking of the news she had heard recently, the Empress Dowager had been urging her son that the Emperor should also show his favor to the other concubines in the palace. Fortunately, all the concubines in the Emperor's harem came from families with poor backgrounds, otherwise the Emperor really couldn't do as he pleased.
Fortunately, Situ Rui completely ignored the other concubines in the harem. Even when the Empress Dowager urged him, he was unwilling to go. Most of his attention was on his three sons, and he was unwilling to upset them by going to the other concubines.
What Tang Baozhu is most satisfied with now is that all the main roads in Daliang have been paved with cement, and not a single penny has come from the national treasury. The emperor contracted out the projects to wealthy merchants, designating specific sections for each road. After the roads were completed, a monument was erected along the side, inscribing the names of the wealthy merchants.
For wealthy businessmen, this is something that will be passed down through generations. As long as the road remains, they will know who built it, and everyone is very eager to make a name for themselves in this way.
Fortunately, the emperor did not let them suffer losses. At the very least, when they came to buy glassware, he gave them a discount, which could be considered a form of subsidy.
Of course, these were all things said by Tang Baozhu and the emperor. Overall, everyone was happy. Even the main roads in the palace had been paved with cement, let alone the city.
Now, Situ Rui's throne is very secure. Even those who coveted the throne have given up their ideas. There's no way around it; paving the road alone is already a great deed.
That day, Situ Rui had just finished dealing with government affairs. Thinking that his sons had all moved out of Changchun Palace, he wondered if Consort Shu would feel uncomfortable. He thought he would go and see her now, and also discuss with her whether they could have another child. After all, the three older children were already established, especially the three sons. Now he just wanted a princess.
As for why he needed to discuss it with his beloved concubine, it was based on his intuition. After all, the previous two pregnancies were less than a year apart, so how could she not be pregnant for so long this time?
Having spent so many years together, he had come to know his beloved concubine quite well. He knew she definitely had secrets, but for the sake of his three sons and the affection they had developed over the years, he chose to pretend he didn't know.
As long as she doesn't do anything to harm him and Daliang, we can turn a blind eye and let it go. Besides, judging from the two prescriptions she's come up with, she has good intentions and cares about him; otherwise, she wouldn't have come up with such good prescriptions.
If Tang Baozhu knew, she would definitely tell him that narcissism is an illness that needs to be cured.
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