Chapter 357 The Attention of All
"Have you asked anyone to bring food?" Xuanyuan Ling asked Chunhua who was serving beside him.
Chunhua said: "Your Majesty, I have already gone to get it."
Chen Qing couldn't eat before, so the kitchen had been preparing food. Later, when Chen Qing fell asleep, they didn't dare to neglect it, for fear that Chen Qing would wake up and want to eat on the spot, so they couldn't eat and she would starve for a whole day. When Shen Qing woke up, Fang Yun had actually gone to get food for her.
Chunhua replied and moved to the side.
Xuanyuan Ling sat beside her bed and saw that she didn't look very well: "How do you feel now? Is it still painful?"
When asked this question, Shen Qing flattened her mouth: “It hurts a lot, it’s still very uncomfortable.”
Xuanyuan Ling had not visited the concubines who had given birth before, but most of the time she would say something like "It's not hard for me to give birth to a child for the emperor."
He also knew that it was impossible for a woman to give birth without feeling uncomfortable, but after hearing what others said, he gradually felt that it was natural for a woman to give birth. However, Shen Qing's words made him feel more pity for her. A man has you in his heart, so naturally he won't think that you are being hypocritical.
In fact, Xuanyuan Ling no longer thought Shen Qing was being pretentious because she even dared to cut her neck. If she cried out in fear and pain, he would think that she was really so much younger than him, that she had a child with him with great difficulty, and that he had seen her give birth to the child after a narrow escape from death. How could he not treat her well?
Xuanyuan Ling has realized that he really doesn't want to lose her.
He looked at Shen Qing's pale face and kissed her brow: "Thank you for your hard work."
The word "hardship" is actually nothing to Shen Qing now. It is indeed hardship when it hurts, but now that the pain is over, although it is uncomfortable, it is still bearable. What she can't bear is: "I have become ugly."
She said this in a tone that really seemed like she was about to cry.
No one told her that the skin on her belly would become loose after giving birth. She just woke up and found that her belly was gone. After all, she had been pregnant for so long and it was gone all of a sudden. She couldn't help but touch it. It would have been fine if she hadn't touched it. Once she touched it, she felt something was really wrong. Her originally tight belly was now soft. It was really a bolt from the blue.
Xuanyuan Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Let me take a look?"
Shen Qing said: "I won't show it to you."
Xuanyuan Ling was helpless: "I won't dislike it."
When he said take a look, he actually meant to say that he didn’t mind after seeing it, and didn’t want to make Shen Qing sad about this matter.
Regardless of whether it's really ugly or not, would he still mind it now?
As a result, Shen Qing said: "If it doesn't look good, I won't show it to you. Don't I have any face?" He also said firmly: "I have to take good care of it, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable."
This was Shen Qing's true thought. In fact, Xuanyuan Ling looked so distressed for her, and she knew that he wouldn't mind the looseness on her belly, but she didn't mind the soft flesh on her belly for him.
She couldn't stand this. If she didn't get her figure back this time, she would have a fat belly in a few years. She felt dizzy just thinking about it. She didn't want to keep a good figure to win over men, but for her own enjoyment.
It seems that she just loves beauty. Xuanyuan Ling also found it funny. Suddenly he remembered something and the smile in his eyes couldn't help but disappear.
He looked at Shen Qing's appearance, hiding some of the complexity in his eyes.
When he first got together with Shen Qing, he liked the fact that although she was spoiled and playful, she was also sensible and a rare lively person in the palace. Now, seeing that she was spoiled and yet loved beauty, the best thing was that she would always be like this, spoiled and loved beauty.
This thought is not the first time.
Now, he really doesn't want her to be so sensible, well-behaved and smart.
But in fact, if she really has no rules, is she ignorant and not smart, then is she still her? He himself can't tell, it's true, his mind is very conflicted, and he even mocks himself in his heart. She is already so good, what else do you want from her?
But one thing is that I really don't want to lose her.
At this time Fangyun came over with food.
Xuanyuan Ling looked at the porridge and took it.
Zhao Hai's mouth dropped open. Wasn't it time for the morning court session? Why did the Emperor accept it?
Just when he was thinking there was no way out, Chen Qing said, "The emperor is wearing court robes. If they get dirty, I can't afford it. Let Chunhua do it."
Xuanyuan Ling knew what she meant. She was not afraid of getting his court robes dirty, but was urging him to go to court.
Really, very sensible.
"It doesn't matter if we take this little bit of time." Xuanyuan Ling took the bowl.
Seeing that he was determined to feed her, Shen Qing simply said nothing. Just feed her. It's later. It's not like he won't go, right? How could Xuanyuan Ling not have this sense of propriety?
So Shen Qing ate with a clear conscience.
Xuanyuan Ling felt more comfortable seeing her being unruly. She looked contented, and he felt relieved. His previous worries were suppressed, so he fed her happily. The two of them were happy while one was feeding her, and the other ate without burden, but it was hard for Zhao Hai, Chunhua and the others.
They don't understand the thoughts of the two masters. They think that it's really okay for the emperor to miss the morning court.
After Shen Qing finished eating, he felt comfortable with something in his stomach, and then Xuanyuan Ling handed the bowl to Chunhua and stood up: "I will come over after I finish dealing with government affairs."
Shen Qing nodded, and saw Xuanyuan Ling smiling with some pride: "Go check on the child later, and don't let him get mad."
Shen Qing had just woken up and indeed hadn't seen the child yet. She thought to herself, after all, she had been pregnant with the child for so long, why was she throwing a tantrum when looking at the child?
Then she slapped her face, and the child came over, Shen Qing took a look: “Why doesn’t he look like me at all?”
She finally understood where Xuanyuan Ling's pride came from.
After such a long and hard pregnancy and such a painful birth, the child looks like Xuanyuan Ling? After all, it was her who was pregnant, but the way this child looks makes her feel like she has no sense of participation at all.
Chunhua saw why Shen Qing was still unhappy, and couldn't help but explain: "Our Sixth Prince looks like the Emperor, it's a blessing."
Chen Qing looked at the child again. He was awake now. Probably such a young child could not see anything. He did not look at her, but his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Xuanyuan Ling. In the past, she thought it was polite to say that a child was cast in the same mold as his parents, but now it seemed that the child really looked like Xuanyuan Ling.
"Forget it." Shen Qing said, "After all, I gave birth to you with great difficulty."
Chunhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and Fangyun felt the same. The two wet nurses also sounded a little dumb. Well, this was a real prince. Was Concubine Xian actually disgusted with the child because he didn't look like her?
In fact, Shen Qing didn't dislike it. Her thoughts had changed since the child started to move, so she didn't dislike it at all. It was just that, why didn't he look like her at all?
Eh…
The key point is that Xuanyuan Ling is actually still proud of himself. What is he proud of? Is it because he has strong genes?
Thinking of this, Shen Qing no longer disliked the child, but actually disliked Xuanyuan Ling. No, giving birth was so painful, and the child didn't look like her after giving birth. No matter how you look at it, it was all Xuanyuan Ling's fault. Why did they both feel good when they were doing it, but she was the only one who felt pain during the birth, and it seemed as if she had no involvement after giving birth? Humph, I don't like it anymore.
When Shen Qing gave birth to this child, people in the harem discussed it privately for a long time.
Not to mention the emperor's rewards, after all, she was already a first-rank virtuous concubine, and the concubines in the harem also really felt that they had learned a lot.
I have heard in operas that the emperor favors his concubine the most in the harem, but now I have seen the real person. When Shen Qing had no child, the other concubines in the harem felt that such favor was rare. Now that the child is born, and it is a prince, his status is really second only to the emperor. The important thing is that Concubine Xian is favored. Concubine De also has a prince, but he is not his biological son, and is not favored by the emperor. The queen has a high status, but the fourth prince she is raising is not her biological son, and his biological mother is still alive, and they are not even close. From this point of view, Concubine Xian is really the most perfect concubine in the harem.
Now the Sixth Prince is also the focus of everyone's attention.
For a while, everyone in the palace was talking about how lucky Concubine Xian and the Sixth Prince were. Chu Linglong felt more and more uncomfortable listening to them. The most uncomfortable thing in the world is that you are poorly clothed and hungry while others are enjoying themselves. Especially, she lost her child because of Concubine Xian. She had lost everything.
The life of a virtuous concubine was so perfect and good. She was promoted to the first-rank virtuous concubine, and the child was born safely. It was a prince, and the child was healthy.
At this moment, Concubine Zhou arrived.
When Chu Linglong saw Concubine Zhou coming again, she felt a little reluctant to deal with her, but she also didn't want anyone to see how disappointed she was.
So when Concubine Zhou asked, "You used to love walking outside, but now you don't like going out anymore?", she just agreed indifferently, and then she went out for a walk.
The two of them went to the Imperial Garden, which was very close to Zhaohua Palace.
Now even the door lintel of Zhaohua Palace has been repaired. People say that Concubine Xian lives far away, but the emperor is happy to come even though she lives so far away. Zhaohua Palace was renovated as Shen Qing was promoted, and now it is much more gorgeous than at the beginning.
Chu Linglong has moved to another palace, but if she is not the main seat, then she is not the main seat and cannot live in the main hall. Thinking of this, she once again sighed that Shen Qing is so lucky. I heard that when she was a beloved woman at the beginning, she lived in Zhaohua Palace. At that time, she did not live in the main hall and was not qualified to live in the main hall. Later, didn’t she become the main seat of a palace?
Concubine Zhou looked at Chu Linglong's expression with a smile on her face, but said nothing.
The two of them walked around the Imperial Garden and then went back. In fact, they chatted from time to time. After this trip, Chu Linglong was not happy at all except that her mood became worse. Concubine Zhou and Chu Linglong left the Imperial Garden, but they didn't expect to run into the eldest prince on their way out.
Neither of them was a concubine, but they still had to pay their respects to the eldest prince. Concubine Zhou didn't think much of it, but the eldest prince took a second look at Chu Linglong, as he still remembered Chu Linglong.
Chu Linglong actually remembered the situation she had encountered with the eldest prince before.
But I just took a look.
He passed by with an expressionless face.
Chu Linglong didn't say anything. After parting with Concubine Zhou, she walked back with a strange feeling in her heart.
Ming Su was also surprised: "Where are you going, sir?"
Chu Linglong paused and said, "I want to go out for a walk alone."
Although Ming Su was confused, since Chu Linglong said so, she did not follow.
This matter seemed to be just a minor episode, and no one cared about it at all at the moment.
If Shen Qing's birth is now the highlight of the palace, then Concubine Ji has been waiting since she heard that Shen Qing had given birth. She became pregnant at about the same time as Shen Qing, and in fact, she went to escape the summer heat later. Who didn't realize that Xuanyuan Ling deliberately kept the pregnancy a secret for Shen Qing? Concubine Ji also knew that Shen Qing discovered her pregnancy at about the same time as hers, and she thought her husband was... But when she thought about it, Concubine Xian was lucky, as she didn't vomit at all when she was pregnant, but she had been eating like she was being tortured since she found out, and even now, she still can't eat well.
"It's probably a princess." Concubine Ji thought privately. After all, Concubine Xian gave birth to a prince, and the symptoms were so different from hers that she felt it was a princess. However, it would be even better if it was a prince. It's not that Concubine Ji favors boys over girls, but it's always more secure for a concubine in the harem to give birth to a prince.
Concubine Ji was thinking this, and three days after Shen Qing gave birth to the sixth prince, she started to have her period.
The sight of blood naturally meant that she was about to give birth. Sure enough, the midwife at Lady Ji's place checked and found that Lady Ji was indeed about to give birth.
Unlike Shen Qing, Lady Ji's water did not break prematurely, and naturally she did not take any medicine to induce orgasm. She did not feel pain immediately after her bleeding. The midwife told her that this was normal and she just had to wait for her stomach to start to hurt.
So Lady Ji waited to give birth to her baby. She had her first spotting at night and was able to sleep that night, but she started to have pain the next night.
Xuanyuan Ling knew about it since Concubine Ji started bleeding, but they didn't dare to hide it. They just said that it would take a long time for her to give birth, so he didn't go over right away.
During a normal labor, it takes a long time for a woman to give birth. He didn't go to see Ji Meiren until she started having labor pains the next night.
Everyone was happy when they saw the emperor coming, because after all, the emperor was here.
But there was no reason to ask the emperor to keep watch all night. Although it started to hurt, it would take a while for the birth canal to open. Even if Xuanyuan Ling was not there, he had someone watching over him. Naturally, he also wanted the child to be born safely.
ps: Let me say this first. Someone has commented on the last time the eldest prince and Chu Linglong dated. Let me reiterate that this article will not have the plot of "the emperor is old". The eldest prince and Chu Linglong will not have an affair. I just thought that Xuanyuan Ling is as beautiful as a flower, and I don't want to cheat on him.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com