Chapter 364 New Idea
Cai Ping really knelt down with a thump: "My dear, the virtuous concubine is highly valued by the emperor, and the Sixth Prince is the heir to the throne."
Not to mention that Concubine Xian is the emperor's most favored concubine, the Sixth Prince is the heir to the throne. With such a status, just look at the entire Qin family. Qin poisoned Concubine Xian and caused the death of Concubine Yi's Fifth Prince, which implicated the entire family.
Caiping was already scared to death when she was doing what Concubine Zhou told her to do. But Concubine Zhou was the master and she was just a servant. What else could she do if she didn't do it? Fortunately, as the saying goes, when gods fight, no one paid attention to them. Caiping was able to escape the disaster at that time. Thinking back, she felt that it was such a good luck.
"What are you afraid of?" Concubine Zhou looked at Caiping and suddenly smiled.
Caiping didn't understand why she could still laugh.
"Get up." Lady Zhou said to Caiping, "It's just a conversation, you're so timid."
Didn't she know that the virtuous concubine was favored by the emperor? Everyone in the palace knew that the Sixth Prince was the heir to the throne, so she knew it was not easy to move. She could secretly attack Chu Linglong because she really couldn't get over it at the time. She had a knot in her heart that Chu Linglong had not given birth to her child, and Chu Linglong was not favored, right? The virtuous concubine was different. The virtuous concubine's Zhaohua Palace was protected as solid as a rock. She just thought about it, not what to do? What could she do to the virtuous concubine?
Cai Ping looked at Concubine Zhou and she seemed to be really talking. It seemed that she had misunderstood something just now. She finally let go of her worries. She couldn't help but persuade her, "Concubine Zhou, there is no favored concubine in the palace now. Everyone is the same. Concubine Yi's child is gone. It may not be a bad thing for us to live in peace and stability."
Concubine Zhou did want stability, but she didn't get it when she wanted it. Now that she has taken the first step, her mentality is very different from before. How can she still have stability now?
Xuanyuan Ling didn't have a lot of things to do every day, but today when he came out of the imperial study, he saw the potted plants outside and suddenly remembered something.
"Ask someone to move a peony over here."
Xuanyuan Ling's order reminded Zhao Hai that the virtuous concubine still owed the emperor a pot of peonies for a long time. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Now this month is also a good time to plant peonies."
Xuanyuan Ling curled his lips and said, "Bring him here and take him to Zhaohua Palace."
Zhao Hai ordered people to prepare a peony, but fearing that people might not understand, he gave clear instructions. He did not want a fully grown peony, but one that had been divided and waited to be raised. He also had to prepare two more pots.
Xuanyuan Ling was used to going to Zhaohua Palace by now. The weather was gradually getting colder. When he entered Zhaohua Palace, thick curtains were already hung inside.
When the servants of Zhaohua Palace saw Xuanyuan Ling coming, they all saluted.
Shen Qing is playing with the child now. Cheng Yun now reacts to Shen Qing's words to some extent. He will stare at you when you call his name, as if asking "Why are you calling me?" The child changes with each passing day. After a few days, you will feel that he seems to have learned something more. This reaction is quite interesting.
Shen Qing watched the whole process and felt that the child was very amazing. At first, he either ate or slept when lying down, but now he can sit up. Shen Qing ate in front of him, and he even smacked his lips.
At this moment, Chen Qing was teasing him with food. She was holding a piece of peeled apple and dangling it in front of Xiao Chengyun. Xiao Chengyun stared at the apple piece. Every time Chen Qing walked around, he stared at it.
This eager look made Shen Qing very happy.
Chunhua's expression next to her was indescribable. How could you tease the little prince in this way? Wasn't this too much?
They were all watching, and Xuanyuan Ling also saw it. When he came, he heard Shen Qing teasing the child. He thought he could see mother and child enjoying each other's company, but when he came in, he saw Shen Qing holding an apple. Little Chengyun looked at the apple in her hand with great concentration, sticking out his tongue and opening his mouth, but Shen Qing pinched the apple and teased him to look up and down, but she refused to give him any to eat.
Xuanyuan Ling felt aggrieved for his son: "You are an adult, why are you arguing with a child?"
After hearing this, Shen Qing looked back at Xuanyuan Ling and snorted, then said to Xiao Chengyun: "There is nothing to eat, he is mean to me."
After saying that, she put the apple piece she had been holding into her mouth in front of Xiao Chengyun and took a bite.
Xuanyuan Ling was confused, but instinctively felt that something was wrong. Little Chengyun saw that the apple piece in Shen Qing's hand had been eaten. He was stunned at first, as if he didn't react, and then he frowned and pursed his lips, and he was about to cry.
At this time, Shen Qing quickly scooped a spoonful of something next to him and put it to Xiao Chengyun's mouth. His mouth was about to open wide, so he took the opportunity to eat a spoonful, and then... he didn't cry, but ate the thing in his mouth.
Xuanyuan Ling was distracted by this action. He was really afraid that he couldn't stop crying because he made the child cry. He couldn't help but move closer to take a look curiously: "What is this food?"
Shen Qing said unhappily: “Pure.”
The tone clearly showed that he disliked him.
Xuanyuan Ling was helpless. His temper was getting worse and worse. He couldn't say a word. He was just speaking on behalf of the child.
But when I saw her feeding the child, I saw that the child was eating happily.
Well, the mother and son are doing fine, and he shouldn’t interrupt.
It really feels like he is in a difficult situation. Thinking about it carefully, he looks at his own son with a sense of disappointment. He is so useless that he was teased like this just now. Now he is eating happily and doesn't miss the apple that was eaten just now at all.
Little Chengyun ignored the look in his old father Xuanyuan Ling's eyes and ate happily.
After a while, the fruit puree, which was not much to begin with, was finished, and little Chengyun looked quite satisfied.
During this time, Xuanyuan Ling was watching from the side. Chen Qing kept feeding him and was unwilling to talk, but the servants were all there. After they finished eating, the serving nanny saw the atmosphere and couldn't help but come forward to ask. Chen Qing then had the Sixth Prince carried away, and then the servants around him retreated.
"Are you angry?" After all, it was Xuanyuan Ling who started it first.
Chen Qing looked at Xuanyuan Ling and asked calmly, "I haven't had apples to eat for days. Do you want to fight with my son for this day?"
Xuanyuan Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's my fault. I got up too early. Did you just use the apple to lure him to eat?"
He actually discovered later that the fruit puree should be apple puree, and there was food next to it. Shen Qing teased the child deliberately because the child was not willing to eat it at first, so she teased him like this, just to make him greedy for a day.
"What? Cheng Yun doesn't want to eat?"
Chen Qing said: "He doesn't like to eat things he hasn't eaten before, but he is happy to eat if he tastes good after trying it. Look, he eats well. Now he can eat some vegetable and fruit puree at seven months old. When he grows teeth, he can eat harder food. Now he can't bite it into pieces because he is afraid that he will choke."
So the apple chunks were not originally meant for the child. Xuanyuan Ling had just realized this. After all, he didn't know anything about raising children. Now, watching Shen Qing speak so clearly, and thinking that she was also skilled in feeding the child just now, it was obvious that it was not the first time she had done this, he felt soft in his heart and leaned over to say softly, "I apologize to you."
Shen Qing raised an eyebrow: “If you want to apologize, you should be sincere.”
Xuanyuan Ling reached out and hugged Shen Qing, asked her to sit on his lap, and then pinched an apple: "You feed the child, I will feed you."
Such a small thing can now be turned into fun.
Xuanyuan Ling fed her for a while and saw that her lips were red from eating. He could even lean over to steal a sip of her fragrance: "Apple flavor."
Shen Qing held Xuanyuan Ling's face with his hand and rubbed it hard, and his anger subsided.
Xuanyuan Ling just let her do as she pleased. It didn't hurt after just a rub. This was just her being naughty. Now he liked her like this more and was willing to indulge her.
I held her for a long time and was unwilling to let go. She was not heavy anyway, so I held her for as long as I wanted.
Shen Qing suddenly felt that he seemed to treat her as a child, but it was still quite comfortable to have him hold her like this. She leaned her head against him, and the two of them stayed like this quietly for a while.
But it's only for a while, it's not time to go to bed. If you sleep now, why would you sleep again at night?
So after hugging her for a while, Xuanyuan Ling told her about the peonies he had prepared for her, and told her, "Grow them well."
I got pregnant last year and this matter was delayed. So it’s been more than a year since this flower incident happened. It’s amazing that he still remembers this.
Shen Qing had no choice but to give up: "I'll plant it."
Xuanyuan Ling was satisfied.
The two chatted for a while. Xuanyuan Ling said that everything was fine recently and nothing serious happened, but it also depended on whether the weather was good this year. After all, many places were prone to disasters in winter. If there were some snowstorms or something like that, it would be even harder to say. Xuanyuan Ling knew all about Chen Qing's daily life. He just talked about some interesting things with Xiao Chengyun, those things that happened when Xuanyuan Ling was not around.
Chen Qing even talked to Xuanyuan Ling about how cute his sneeze was, and at the end he let out some thoughts: "Was the emperor like this when he was a child? This child looks so much like the emperor, I wonder what he will be like when he grows up? If he is still like this when he grows up, it will be boring enough."
"Nonsense." Xuanyuan Ling was quite proud of the fact that the Sixth Prince looked like him, but Shen Qing found it boring: "Looking like me is boring?"
"I've been looking at the emperor's face for so long. If this child still looks like this when he grows up, it will be so boring."
Xuanyuan Ling wanted to say that it’s okay for you to raise a child based on his/her appearance. If the child is well-raised, why do you expect him/her to raise him/her in an innovative way?
It was just a casual remark at first, but after careful consideration, I thought: "My face has become boring after looking at it for so long?"
This is a high tone.
Shen Qing blinked twice. Oops, did he poke him?
"No." Then could she say yes?
Xuanyuan Ling didn't believe it. He was still holding Shen Qing at this moment. He really wanted to throw her out. What was she saying? His face was boring after looking at it for a long time? What novelty did she want? What's the matter? Did she want to change to a new face?
She dares!
Xuanyuan Ling's mind was filled with a thousand miles of thoughts. In fact, it only took a moment. Then he realized what he was thinking about. He snorted and slapped her butt: "The sun is unstoppable."
She really dares to say such things.
Shen Qing looked quite innocent: "That's really not what I meant."
As she spoke, she held Xuanyuan Ling's face and began to flatter him: "Your Majesty is handsome and suave, and he is at his best. Every time I see him, I can't help but be moved."
Xuanyuan Ling couldn't stand the cheesy words, feeling a little embarrassed and ashamed, and kept trying to hold back two words: "You..."
Chen Qing thought that the matter was over. After all, Xuanyuan Ling was confused by her greasy love words and didn't know what to say.
But she never expected that this matter would not pass.
Because after this incident, Xuanyuan Ling didn't come to Zhaohua Palace for four days. If it were in the past, it would be normal for Xuanyuan Ling not to come to Zhaohua Palace for four days, but since she became pregnant, unless he was really busy, the longest he would not come would be three days, right?
This directly broke the record.
I haven't heard from Chunhua that he has gone to find someone else, but he hasn't come for four days, and I haven't heard that anything happened before. This situation seems a bit strange, doesn't it?
However, although Chunhua and the others were watching the harem, Chen Qing had ordered that they should not keep an eye on the emperor unless something happened and they would investigate afterwards. Therefore, unless they specifically asked, they really didn't know what happened to Xuanyuan Ling in the past few days. Since Chen Qing didn't ask, they didn't investigate.
On the fifth day, Xuanyuan Ling still hadn't come. They hurried the concubines together to talk, thinking that something must be wrong. The concubines no longer thought that the emperor would flip the card after not going to Zhaohua Palace for five days. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. They learned to be indifferent through repeated disappointments. They would wait until the emperor really flipped the card. How could they say for sure at this moment?
As a result, on the sixth day, a batch of things was delivered to Qianyuan Palace. Zhao Hai sent them in for Xuanyuan Ling to review, and also specifically said: "The person has been found. Does the emperor want to summon him now or..."
"Summon him."
Zhao Hai thought to himself that he couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately asked someone to come.
The person who was summoned returned to Qianyuan Palace. Zhao Hai stood outside and looked at Xiao Xia Zi next to him, then looked outside and his expression was a little speechless. Of course, he only dared to do that outside, as he didn't dare let Xuanyuan Ling see this expression.
After a while, someone called from inside, and Zhao Hai went in to serve again. Naturally, he saw Xuanyuan Ling's appearance in front of him, but after just a glance, he lowered his head again and urged the servants behind him to change Xuanyuan Ling's clothes. After changing, Xuanyuan Ling seemed to be casual: "Go to Zhaohua Palace."
Zhao Hai felt that he could hardly control his expression after listening to this. Was he really doing this for the Empress of Zhaohua Palace to see?
Who can bear this? He didn't know what was wrong with the emperor. Why did he suddenly dislike the poor hair-combing skills of the person who served him before? He even specially invited a master outside the palace who was said to have good skills to do his hair and re-braid his hair. The clothes were also new. It was true that the emperor could not be short of clothes, but the emperor suddenly said that his clothes looked too old-fashioned.
Zhao Hai really wanted to ask the emperor, don't you like this style? Now you dress like a rich man. You haven't been to Zhaohua Palace for a few days. Didn't you dress up specially for the virtuous concubine?
It is said that women dress up to please themselves, so what is this, Your Majesty?
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