On the ninth day of April, the wind was gentle and pleasant, and it was indeed a rare good day.
After seeing Helian Jue off to pray, Qin Yanning yawned several times, forced himself to stay awake until noon to have lunch, and then went back to bed to take a nap.
Recently, she has experienced some adverse reactions during pregnancy. Fortunately, these symptoms are not serious, at most she is a little sleepy.
Qin Yanning calculated the days and found that she could find an opportunity to summon the imperial physician to take her pulse in the next few days, and let Helian Jue know the good news that she was pregnant.
Qin Yanning slept soundly and didn't wake up until after dinner time.
Seeing that Qin Yanning had woken up, Song Yue quickly brought her a bowl of chicken soup and a plate of crab roe cakes to fill her stomach.
Songyue has always been attentive, but Lady Ning has had a poor appetite recently and prefers soups and snacks.
She had the chicken soup stewed in the kitchen early in the morning and kept it warm on the stove so that Lady Ning could drink it as soon as she woke up.
Seeing Song Yue being so considerate, Qin Yanning couldn't help but praise her a few words.
Although Song Yue is calm and steady in her work, she is still young after all, and her face turned red when Qin Yanning praised her.
Songxue walked in with a plate of mugwort dumplings. When she heard Qin Yanning's words, she also responded and teased Songyue.
"I know that our Lady Ning loves Sister Songyue the most. Unlike me, a servant, no one loves her and no one cares for her. She is like a cabbage in the field."
Song Yue was amused by Song Xue's sarcastic look and retorted, "The beauty likes me the most, so why does she take you to play chess every day instead of coming to see me? You girl, you are always talking nonsense."
Qin Yanning thought to herself that the reason she had only been playing Go with Songxue recently was because everyone in Tingyuxuan had made rapid progress in Gobang skills, leaving her with no choice but to bully Songxue, who couldn't beat her.
In order to save his face, Qin Yanning coughed lightly and changed the subject.
"What's that in your hand?"
Songxue saw Qin Yanning asking and brought it up like a treasure. "This is the green rice dumpling eaten during the spring planting and blessing ceremony. Everyone in the palace has a portion today. It was just delivered from the imperial kitchen. This plate is for the Majesty. The maids in the kitchen have already taken the portions for us to share."
Qin Yanning looked at the plate that Song Xue was holding. The dark green dumplings of uniform size on the plate looked very pleasing to the eye.
In the original owner's memory, spring planting and blessing is indeed an important festival, and farmers also have the habit of eating green rice balls, but of course they are not as exquisite as those in the palace.
Qin Yanning has always liked this kind of sticky food. During this period, the imperial kitchen has often sent snacks such as white jade glutinous rice balls, Ruyi rolls, and rice cakes to Tingyuxuan.
There were fresh green rice dumplings today, so Qin Yanning naturally wanted to try them. As soon as she took a bite, A Lian sounded the alarm.
"Warning, warning, the host is taking a powerful sleeping pill. The peace amulet can eliminate 100% of the side effects."
Qin Yanning didn't expect that the green rice dumplings he ate were actually added with something else.
However, Qin Yanning understood after careful consideration. She had been favored by Helian Jue recently, and there were many people in the harem who had opinions about her.
On the day of spring planting and blessing, almost everyone eats this green rice dumpling, and she has always preferred this kind of food. If she didn't have the help of the childbearing system, April 9th would indeed be a good day for her to do it.
In a split second, Qin Yanning decided to play along. The amulet could offset all the side effects, so no matter what the person who had put the sleeping pill in the green dumpling wanted to do to her, she could wait and see.
Qin Yanning took another bite of the green dumpling in his hand and said, "Songyue and Songxue, you should eat one too and ask for good fortune."
Upon hearing this, Song Yue picked one up and thanked Qin Yanning.
Songxue stuck out her tongue and said embarrassedly, "My Lady, I can't eat any more. The maids were handing out the green dumplings just now, and I secretly ate two."
"Don't be surprised, Sister Songyue. I left two for you as well."
Qin Yanning didn't force Songxue to eat when he saw that she didn't want to.
The cooking skills of the imperial kitchen were indeed good. She ate another one before stopping and asked Songxue to get a basin of water to wash her hands.
Looking at the lively and playful Song Xue in front of him, Qin Yanning fell into deep thought.
Songxue brought this qingtuan, but she refused to eat it. Did she know there was something wrong with it, or...
She has been living with Songxue for more than a month. The little girl is very likable. Although she sometimes behaves rashly, she always has a smiling face that makes people reluctant to punish her.
Could Songxue be colluding with someone who wanted to harm her? Qin Yanning couldn't guess.
Since he couldn't guess it, Qin Yanning didn't plan to think about it anymore.
Anyway, Helian Jue will be praying at Wangshan tonight. Whoever wants to harm her will do it before Helian Jue returns to the palace tomorrow.
All she needed to do was to get some sleep and wait for that person to jump out from the shadows.
By then, whether Songxue was innocent or not would be settled. Qin Yanning was not a saint. Although she was kind to others, she would not show mercy if a traitor appeared in Tingyuxuan.
After washing her hands, Qin Yanning signaled Songyue and Songxue to leave as she felt sleepy again.
Song Yue looked at Qin Yanning's tired appearance, and wanted to say something several times, but finally swallowed it back.
Before she entered the palace as a maid, her mother had just given birth to her younger brother. When she saw the beauty like this, she always felt that it was somewhat similar to the sleepiness her mother had when she was pregnant.
After all, she secretly felt that with the way His Majesty and the beauty were going on every day, it would be hard for the beauty not to get pregnant. Unless His Majesty was truly incapable...
Thinking of this, Song Yue's face was burning. Song Yue quickly apologized to Helian Jue repeatedly in her heart.
She is just a little palace maid, how can she speak ill of His Majesty?
Although Song Yue suspected that Qin Yanning was pregnant with the dragon heir, he did not dare to mention it casually, for fear of making the beauty and the emperor happy for nothing.
In the past, there was a concubine in the palace who pretended to be pregnant in order to win favor. As a result, after His Majesty and the Queen Mother sent good things to the concubine's uterus like water, the imperial physician found out that the concubine's pregnancy was fake.
The concubine was thrown into the cold palace by the empress dowager and was said to have suffered severe torture for a period of time. From then on, no concubine in the palace dared to mention her pregnancy.
After much thought, Song Yue decided not to tell Concubine Ning about her guess. She didn't want to harm her like the concubine in the cold palace.
Seeing that Qin Yanning could hardly open his eyes, Song Yue also felt sleepy, so she quickly pulled Song Xue to leave.
After Songyue and Songxue left, Qin Yanning blew out the candles in the room and lay down on the bed.
She slept a lot during the day, and now when she was lying in bed and thought about someone trying to harm her, Qin Yanning couldn't fall asleep.
Staring at the veil above his head, Qin Yanning couldn't help but call A Lian out to chat.
A Lian had no way to deal with Qin Yanning, so she could only act as a caring and intimate companion during this long night when Helian Jue was away.
That night, Tingyuxuan was flooded.
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