Chapter 353: Live up to expectations
After a long separation, they are more passionate than newlyweds, and they are full of love. The exhausted Luo Li stared at the handsome face with a dazed look, and said in a lazy and hoarse voice, "Husband,... I am so tired that I don't want to move my fingers. Hurry up and take me to wash, and then fall asleep for two days!"
Zhao Defang doted on his wife and carried her to the clean room in the inner room, put her in the warm water bathtub, and gently scooped up the water to wash the sweat on her skin. Luo Li leaned her head against the edge of the bathtub, closed her eyelids, and fell asleep.
After a long and tiring journey, and having a surgery for most of the day, and then having fun with her long-lost husband, Luo Li was really exhausted. She slept for a whole day and night, and was awakened by her growling stomach.
She opened her eyes with soreness and weakness, and saw the light blue tent in front of her. Her mind went blank for a moment before she remembered where she was.
"Zhao Defang, I'm hungry!..." The last syllable was dragged out, and Luo Li still wanted to act coquettishly with her husband.
Zhao Defang, who was sitting at the table handling official business while guarding his beloved wife, quickly threw down the brush in his hand and walked to the bed with a gentle smile.
Bending down, he looked at his lazy and coquettish wife with doting eyes, "Li'er, the meat porridge has been warming for you. Do you want your husband to carry you to the inner room to relieve the burden in your stomach first, and then feed you the porridge?" After
Zhao Defang's reminder, Luo Li immediately felt her lower abdomen bloating. She glared at him with her beautiful eyes and hurriedly got up and got out of bed. She could act coquettishly and let him hold her for other things, but she didn't allow him to see this.
Zhao Defang laughed so hard that the corners of his lips twitched, making Li'er roll her eyes. How cute!
Luo Li relieved the burden in her lower abdomen and breathed a sigh of relief. After washing up, she stroked her swollen belly and walked towards the fragrant meat porridge on the table.
"I'm so hungry! I want to eat three big bowls of such delicious meat porridge."
Zhao Defang, who personally helped her put the meat porridge into the bowl, said distressedly, "Even if you are very hungry, you can only eat two bowls. Don't burst your stomach."
Touching her rumbling stomach, Luo Li suddenly remembered Yang Yanqi's words, "Zhao Defang, Yang Yanqi told me to return to the capital with a baby in my belly. I can't do it alone! I have to rely on your help."
Zhao Defang was stunned! Then he laughed so hard that he couldn't even hold the bowl of porridge steadily. His face was serious, but he said solemnly: "My beloved concubine, as long as you like it, I will work hard to plough the fields day and night, sow seeds, and let your belly bear fruit."
Luo Li laughed, "Don't! Your Majesty, you can rest during the day and plough the fields at night."
The couple drank porridge and flirted, and Hong Gu, who was guarding outside the house, ran away in embarrassment, thinking that she had met a shameless lady, and she would not be able to do the job of a personal bodyguard in the future.
Seven days later, the army, which was ready, was about to go to war. Luo Li led the thousand-man guard of the Big Foot Women's Army Corps and set off on the road back to the capital.
Half a month after returning to the capital, Luo Li set up a banquet in Ningxin Garden, the palace, and invited Gao Ruoying and Yang Yanqi to the banquet.
Madam Luo brought her grandson Luo Tianci to become the permanent guests of the palace, playing happily with the Grand Empress Dowager and Lin'er every day.
Today, two mentally handicapped guests were invited to the palace, so Luo Li invited the Queen Mother and her mother to accompany the guests.
In front of the Grand Empress Dowager, Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying, who were originally frequent guests of the palace, were a little reserved. They just made the two lively and cute children laugh a few times, and then spoke seriously and dignifiedly.
The Grand Empress Dowager smiled as she watched her precious grandson and Tianci holding a basin of beads and learning to count.
"One, two, three, four,... eight, nine..." The little prince Zhao Wubing's childish voice was crisp, and his expression was focused on learning.
"Brother, watch carefully, two beads plus two beads equal four beads." Little Tianci taught seriously.
Yuli walked in carelessly, gave a perfunctory salute to the Empress Dowager and Madam Luo, then stepped forward and picked up little Tianci and the young master in each of their hands, saying, "Since you two have voluntarily joined the "Wei Feng" team, you can't be lazy when we are practicing. Come on, follow Sister Yuli to practice."
The Empress Dowager and Madam Luo hurriedly stopped them with distressed eyes.
Madam Luo said distressedly, "Yuli, Tianci and Lin'er are still too young. Don't tire themselves out by practicing standing still all the time."
"Yuli, how could Tianci and Lin'er voluntarily join your "Guardian Phoenix" team? Weren't they deceived and coaxed into agreeing by you, the captain?
You can't be too strict with them. Can't they be considered "extra" members?" The Empress Dowager bargained for the two deceived children.
Yu Lihu was so angry that she didn't give anyone any face. She said, "Grand Empress Dowager, a gentleman's promise is worth a thousand gold. You don't want Tianci and Lin'er to be fake gentlemen who don't keep their word, do you?
Since you have joined the "Weifeng" team, you must obey the management and orders of my captain Yuli and the deputy captain, the emperor. Miss, don't you think so?"
Gao Ruoying and Yang Yanqi were amused by Yuli. Even the Grand Empress Dowager and Madam Luo shook their heads with helpless smiles.
Luo Li suppressed her smile and supported Yuli's waist with a serious expression, "Yes! Since you are a team member, you must obey the orders of the captain and the deputy captain."
Yuli, who received the order, happily said "OK!" and picked up the team members who she had spent a lot of effort to coax into the team and ran out.
Everyone in the room laughed. The Empress Dowager wiped her tears and shook her head helplessly, "This Yuli is simple-minded and pure as a spring! I can't do anything with her." Tingting was busy in the kitchen.
Yingchun, Banxia, Wanqiu, Yingxue and other maids brought the delicious dishes to the table one by one. The palace maids Wanting and Wanyu helped to set the dishes and waited for the Empress Dowager and Madam Luo to wash their hands and sit down. Yuli
and her children were still sitting at the table next to them. The young prince Zhao Wubing and Tianci also sat at the "children's" table with their brothers and sisters.
Facing the extremely noble Empress Dowager, Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying were still a little restrained and uncomfortable. After raising their glasses to toast the Empress Dowager and Madam Luo, they ate their dishes in silence and elegance.
Seeing her two good friends acting like ladies, Luo Li felt amused and said slowly, "Mother, mother, on the way to the front, Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying agreed with me that after reuniting with my husband, I would try hard and return to the capital with a baby in my belly.
I lived up to their expectations and did it. I came back with a baby in my belly. I wonder if they are pregnant too?"
The Empress Dowager and Madam Luo shouted in unison with surprise at first,
"Li'er, are you pregnant again?"
After getting Luo Li's nod of affirmation, the two mothers laughed three times in ecstasy.
Then, he looked suspiciously at Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying, whose pretty faces turned red and whose eyes looked murderous with anger and shame.
: "Luo Nao Can! Do you want to get a fight?!"
: "Luo Nao Can! You... do you want your mouth to be sewn up with needle and thread?!"
Luo Li, who had successfully angered the two "ladies", smiled and raised her hands in surrender, "I forgot, you two and Cao Wei and Gao Yingxiong who have tasted the taste of embroidered shoes haven't even got married yet!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm pregnant with my second baby, and I was so excited that I forgot that you two are not married yet."
Yang Yanqi put down her waving fist angrily, "I'll let you go for the sake of your pregnancy. I'll settle with you after the baby in your belly is born!"
Yuli, who was eating at the table next to her, blinked her eyes, thought about it, and understood something. He put down the chopsticks in his hand, ran to Luo Li, looked at her belly, touched it with his hand, and asked excitedly: "Miss, our "Guardian Feng" team is going to have a new member?"