Chapter 418 Finale
Xie Guimo, Xiao Xun and the others raised their glasses and drank happily.
The full moon banquet was very lively and both the guests and the hosts had a great time.
But Chen Tang really didn't like Xie Guimo accompanying her in the carriage after drinking. The smell of alcohol in the carriage almost made her drunk, and what was even worse was that this bastard liked to do something stupid in the carriage.
Normally, Chen Tang would resolutely not allow it, but when he thought that this bastard was going to the border tomorrow, his heart softened and he let him do whatever he wanted.
The carriage took a detour back to Prince Jingyang's Palace. On the way back, Xie Guimo carried Chen Tang off the carriage and took him back to Chenxiangxuan.
After returning to the house, Chen Tang glared at him and said, "I still have to pack your things for you."
Xie Guimo looked very satisfied, "Didn't we finish cleaning it a long time ago?"
“What if there’s something missing?” Chen Tang said.
Xie Guimo laughed, "I can't carry so many things."
Going to the border to fight, it is impossible to take care of everything as well as staying at home.
Chen Tang felt that the border was different from being at home, so he tried to bring as much as he could. Xie Guimo would look at the prepared things and pick out what he needed to take away.
He bit Chen Tang's earlobe and said, "I just want to have a full meal before I leave."
Chen Tang, "..."
This bastard!
I really want to gnaw her until not even a bone is left.
Chen Tang glared, "I'll go see you off tomorrow."
"I'm going to the border tomorrow, and I don't know when I'll be back..."
The reluctant look in your eyes can squeeze water out of you.
What could Shen Tang do but let this bastard do what he wanted.
Chen Tang wanted to see him off, but when he woke up the next day, it was already noon. Chen Tang asked, "What time is it? Why didn't you wake me up?"
Gingko said, "Before the prince left, he specifically told us not to wake up the princess."
Chen Tang hurriedly opened the car curtain and got out of bed, but her legs were so weak that she almost fell to the ground.
Qiu Tong helped Chen Tang sit on the bed, "The prince and his men left early."
What a bastard!
On this side, Chen Tang greeted Xie Guimo in his heart, and on the other side, at the city gate, Princess Roujia saw Xiao Huan off, bidding him farewell with reluctance.
Chu Yi looked at Xie Guimo, "Lu Li and I and their wives can't come, why didn't your sister-in-law come to see you off?"
"It has been delivered," said Xie Guimo.
“…”
"No way, just send you to the gate?" Chu Yi said.
“…”
Chen Qi couldn't help laughing out loud.
Chu Yi looked at him, "What are you laughing at?"
Xie Guimo glanced at Chen Qi.
Chen Qi stopped smiling immediately and said, "I sent it to the gate of the courtyard."
Chu Yi, "..."
No way?
It’s better not to send it.
This was Chen Qi's embellishment. In fact, when the Crown Prince left, the Crown Princess didn't even get out of bed or open the door to see him off.
Princess Roujia wanted to send Xiao Huan to Shili Pavilion, but Xiao Huan refused, "Their wives didn't come to see them off, and you just came out of confinement, so go back."
Princess Roujia was also wondering why Chen Tang didn't send Xie Guimo off. Knowing that they were anxious to get to the border, she could only suppress her reluctance and waved goodbye.
Xiao Huan mounted his horse, looked at Princess Roujia for a long time, kicked the horse's belly, and rushed to the border with Xie Guimo and others.
After the prince went to the border, the princess felt half empty. After Xie Guimo also went to the border, the princess felt half empty again. Fortunately, Chen Tang and the two children were with her in the palace, otherwise the princess really didn't know how she would have gotten through the day.
The same went for Chen Tang. She was used to eating with Xie Guimo and him holding her in his arms to sleep at night. It took Chen Tang half a month to get used to his absence.
The days were extremely leisurely. The weather was good, and Chen Tang took the two children to pay their respects to the princess. They basked in the sun in the garden for a while, and then returned to Chenxiang Pavilion. In the evening, the princess came to Chenxiang Pavilion and played with the two children for a while. The day passed.
Before Xie Guimo went to the border, Chen Tang asked him to write a letter to her when he was free. Xie Guimo agreed readily, but it was a month after he went to the border that Chen Tang received his first letter.
However, the letters from home were very thick, obviously written separately, but no one sent the letters back, so they had to be collected and sent together.
This life is very different from the previous one. In the previous life, there were constant natural disasters and man-made disasters, which drained the already thin national treasury. In this life, there were several natural disasters, and the losses were minimized as much as possible.
In the previous life, Xie Guimo defeated Xiliang step by step. In this life, the prince is still alive, and there are the prince, Xie Guimo, and so many generals.
Chen Tang firmly believed that Da Qi would win this battle.
And very quickly.
Xie Guimo would send a letter home almost every month.
On the day the fourth letter from home was received, news also reached Prince Jingyang's Mansion that Concubine Ye had died suddenly in the cold palace.
The princess hoped that Concubine Ye would live in misery in the cold palace for twenty years, but unfortunately, her wish was not fulfilled.
Concubine Ye lived a life of luxury and could not stand the loneliness of the cold palace. After only half a year, she became exhausted. When she got up at night, she fell down and could not get up. When the palace maids in the cold palace brought her food the next day, Concubine Ye's body was already cold.
As much as the emperor doted on Concubine Ye before, he hated her after the failure and did not allow her to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.
The funeral of Concubine Ye was arranged by the deposed King of Qi, Xiao Shen, and she was buried together with everyone in the Changping Earl's Mansion.
On the night of Concubine Ye's burial, assassins broke into Prince Jingyang's Palace, but they were all killed before they could even enter Chenxiangxuan, leaving no one alive.
It's not that they didn't want to keep him, it's that the assassin committed suicide too quickly and the secret guards couldn't react.
That night, the original Prince Qi's Mansion caught fire and the fire burned all night.
The tendons on the King of Qi's right hand were cut.
Originally, Chen Tang and the princess would go out of the house occasionally, but after this incident, they would not go out if possible.
The assassins could not break into Prince Jingyang's Palace, but they wanted to leave. Although there would be secret guards following them wherever they went, it is better to be safe than sorry.
When the sixth letter from home was received, the emperor had appointed Prince Yu as the crown prince.
Princess Yu naturally became the Crown Princess.
On the night that Prince Yu entered the Eastern Palace, Princess Yu went into labor and gave birth to a son.
The emperor was very pleased and held a grand full-moon banquet. The princess and Shen Tang both went to the palace to celebrate.
The first six letters from home were received on time, either one or two days in advance or one or two days late, but for the seventh letter, Chen Tang waited and waited, but it still didn't arrive.
Chen Tang was looking forward to it. That night, when she fell asleep, she felt someone touching her cheek.
She was startled, "Who is it?!"
"It's me."
The familiar voice made Shen Tang's eyes widen.
Xie Guimo lit a lamp, and Chen Tang looked at him, "Why are you back?"
Xie Guimo said with a tired face, "I'm transporting grain to Chuzhou. I'll come back when I have a few days to spare. I'll leave tomorrow morning."
Chen Tang asked, "It's so late and the city gates are closed, how did you get back?"
Xie Guimo pinched Chen Tang's nose and said, "The height of the city wall is not difficult for your husband."
They say a short separation is better than a new marriage, let alone a separation of more than half a year.
Needless to say, dry wood can only ignite a raging fire.
Chuzhou is four hundred miles away from Kyoto. He rode at full speed, traveling day and night without stopping for a moment. He could only stay there for one night and then had to rush back. He could not delay the transportation of grain back to the border because of personal matters.
Although it wouldn't cause any delay, he had returned to the capital without permission. Apart from the secret guards in the mansion, only the princess and Shen Tang knew about it.
But two months later, everyone in Kyoto knew about it.
because--
Shen Tang is pregnant!
During her first pregnancy, Chen Tang ate everything with relish, but this time, she vomited all over the place.
Even Ginkgo and Qiutong didn't know that Xie Guimo had come back. Seeing Chen Tang feeling sick, no one thought about whether she was pregnant. Even though they thought it was possible, they didn't dare to. Are you kidding? The Crown Prince has been away at the border for more than half a year, and the Crown Prince's wife is pregnant. Isn't it obvious that she is cuckolding the Crown Prince?
Chen Tang didn't think that it wouldn't be such a coincidence just once, no, she got pregnant three times in one night.
The princess saw that she was vomiting violently and asked, "Are you pregnant?"
Mother Yun and several maids were there at the time, all staring at the princess with wide eyes.
Does the princess know what she is talking about?
Chen Tang was extremely frightened. Ever since she gave birth to her two children, her menstrual period had been irregular. After seeing the imperial physician who said it was nothing serious, Chen Tang did not take it seriously. Could she really be pregnant?
The princess invited the imperial physician into the palace to take her pulse. God knows how trembling the physician's hands were as he took her pulse.
The Prince of Jingyang has been at the border for ten months, but his wife is two and a half months pregnant. He is afraid that he will not be able to leave the Prince of Jingyang's Palace alive.
The imperial physician was trembling with fear, wondering how to save her life, but the princess asked anxiously, "Are you pregnant?"
The doctor looked at Chen Tang and said in an erratic voice, "Yes, is it?"
Chen Tang, "..."
Chen Tang held his forehead.
The princess knew at a glance that the doctor had misunderstood, and said, "Two months ago, Mo'er came back once."
The imperial physician let out a long sigh, "She is pregnant, two and a half months, and her pulse is very stable."
Because of the pregnancy, everyone knew that a certain gentleman had sneaked back to Beijing.
When the news reached the military camp, the prince was very happy that he was going to have another grandson, but he was also very angry. He sent his son to Chuzhou to do some work, and then he would have to go back to Beijing every few days. If he was not punished, his soldiers would follow suit and not delay their work.
A certain gentleman received thirty military sticks.
Chu Yi also received the punishment.
Lying on the bench, Chu Yi gritted his teeth.
He and Xie Guimo went to Chuzhou together and returned to Beijing together, but he was in trouble when he returned home. It was dark and the secret guards did not realize it was him. They thought he was an assassin who sneaked into the Xuanyi Marquis Mansion in the dark, and beat him up without saying a word.
He was caught off guard and almost beaten to death.
He went back home late at night and did nothing but take some medicine and get scolded by his parents.
What’s even more infuriating is!
It was he who suggested returning to Beijing!
Chu Yi said angrily, "I don't care, you have to be half my son, and you must acknowledge me as your godfather in the future!"
Chen Tang was very sick of morning sickness, and she asked after Xie Guimo almost every day. One day, she received a letter from Xie Guimo, "I know I was wrong, can you please stop scolding me? Sneezing every day really affects my prestige."
Chen Tang, "..."
When the baby in her belly was five months old, Chen Tang received a letter from Xie Guimo, which brought tears to her eyes.
The morale of Da Qi is high, and Xiliang is being defeated step by step. Xiliang can hardly hold out any longer and should be able to return to the capital soon.
Barely half a month after I received this letter from home, good news came from the border.
Da Qi won a great victory and Xiliang asked for peace.
When the news reached the capital, the whole city was in an uproar and the emperor was very pleased.
All that remained was for Xiliang to send envoys to Da Qi for peace talks, and for the prince to lead the army back to the capital after settling border affairs.
When Xie Guimo returned to Beijing, Chen Tang was already more than seven months pregnant.
Looking at Shen Tang's bulging belly, a certain gentleman had a resentful look on his face.
What's even worse is that the emperor held a banquet in the palace to celebrate the success of the prince and his friends, and also mentioned Xie Guimo, "The princess is honest and did not hide the fact that you sneaked back to the capital."
Everyone was hurt from holding it in.
Chen Tang's face flushed red, and he wished he could crawl into the ground right there.
If she had known this earlier, she would not have gone to the palace to attend the celebration banquet.
She reached out and pinched Xie Guimo's waist, causing his forehead to tremble with pain.
The generals laughed so hard that their shoulders shook.
Prince Jingyang is so brave and skilled in fighting on the battlefield, but unexpectedly he is also henpecked.
In less than two months, Shen Tang gave birth to another son.
This time the birth happened quickly and I didn't suffer much.
After giving birth to the child, Chen Tang looked at Xie Guimo and said, "Can I not have children in the future?"
A certain gentleman said, "Even if you want to have a baby, I won't let you."
Chen Tang, "..."
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