"Won't that way no one will bother you?"
Putting the fainted eunuch at the bottom of the steps, Shen Qingqiu walked up to the prince's bed curtain. A strong medicinal aroma came out. She closed her eyes and sniffed the bed curtain again, feeling that there was something wrong with the medicinal aroma.
The prince was lying peacefully on the bed with his eyes open.
Seeing Shen Qingqiu's eyes rolling around, he looked as if he was dead again after a moment.
Shen Qingqiu curled his lips slightly, picked up his arm and began to feel his pulse. After a moment, he whispered: "Your Highness, if you really want to die, why do you eat secretly when no one is around?" Gu Tangyuan didn't say anything, and listened to Shen Qingqiu saying: "Your Highness, your acting is really good, and your pulse is also very real, but Your Highness shouldn't eat when you sit in this tent and eat."
Shen Qingqiu smiled and said, "Your Highness, would you like to smell this medicinal scented tent with the smell of food added to it? What's going on?"
Gu Tang couldn't pretend anymore this time, and sat up from the couch, "Nothing can be hidden from the princess's sharp eyes."
Shen Qingqiu looked at him and said, "Is Qingluo not dead?" If she was really dead, why would the prince pretend to act like this? Gu Tang looked at Shen Qingqiu with admiration, "Princess, you are really smart." He could tell everything just from the fact that he pretended to be sick.
Shen Qingqiu breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, as long as the person was not dead, the result was good.
"Why are you doing this?" Shen Qingqiu looked at him, "What's your purpose?"
Gu Tang glanced outside and said, "This is not the place to talk, Princess, come with me." As he spoke, he gently turned a button on the bedside, and the bed flipped over, revealing a doll that looked almost the same size as the prince and was wearing his clothes...
No wonder, no matter how much a living person pretends to be sick, it is impossible for him to stay still all day.
Shen Qingqiu imitated him and turned the button, and also jumped down into the darkroom. Gu Tang picked up an oil lamp from a pillar beside him, wiped off the makeup on her face and said: "This darkroom has been here for a long time. If I eat these few days, I will turn the darkroom on. Ask Xiao Fuzi - the eunuch that the princess just knocked out, to watch outside. If there is anything unusual, Xiao Fuzi can notify me in advance to go back."
Shen Qingqiu nodded, and also saw the dining table and chairs placed in the inner room, as well as pots, bowls, and pans.
No wonder the smell of food can spread upstairs. If you are just eating in the basement, that won’t happen. But if you are cooking, the smell of oil smoke will definitely drift up.
"Does Your Highness the Crown Prince cook for himself?" Shen Qingqiu looked at the room that seemed to be filled with the smell of fireworks.
"Since the princess has seen it, why bother asking?" Gu Tang curled his lips and continued to walk forward with the oil lamp. Soon he saw a stone archway with countless beads hanging from it. Before Shen Qingqiu walked over, a pair of bare hands lifted up the beads. "Why are you here at this time? Is there anything wrong outside?"
Shen Qingqiu was stunned for a moment, and the woman in front of him was also stunned.
Today, Wang Qingluo is no longer dressed as the Crown Princess. She wears the most ordinary cloth clothes and a silk scarf on her head as decoration. She holds her growing belly, and all her former cuteness has turned into the gentleness of a person about to become a human being.
"Qingqiu," Wang Qingluo stepped forward and grabbed Shen Qingqiu's hand, "How did you get here?"
Shen Qingqiu was pleasantly surprised, then slightly angry, "I still want to ask you, why didn't you tell me about this?"
Wang Qingluo quickly begged for mercy: "Qiu'er, I was wrong. I didn't mean to hide it from you. It's just that faking one's own death is a crime of deceiving the emperor. What we are going to do is also a crime of deceiving the emperor. I am afraid of getting you into trouble."
Shen Qingqiu naturally knew this, "Are you afraid of getting me into trouble? Are you afraid of me worrying?" He pulled her to sit on the table beside him and felt her pulse first, "It's not bad, you and the fetus are both healthy."
Wang Qingluo smiled, "Although I can't see anyone here, it's very safe. I don't need to worry about anyone harming me when I live here."
Shen Qingqiu nodded, and asked the prince, "What exactly do you want to do? Faking your own death and leaving is not an easy thing to do." After all, Wang Qingluo is no longer the crown princess. Although she still has a child in her belly, the people in the palace will not take her [corpse] seriously.
But it’s different for Gu Tang. He is the prince, with so many eyes staring at him, how could he leave easily?
"Of course someone will help." A familiar voice came over. Shen Qingqiu looked back and saw Gu Yanwei walking towards him leisurely.
"Gu Yanwei, okay, you and them deceived me!" Shen Qingqiu was such a smart person that he knew what was going on the moment he saw Gu Yanwei.
Gu Yanwei could only touch his nose and said, "Sister-in-law told us to keep it a secret from you."
Wang Qingluo could only raise her hand when she saw this, "Qiu'er, it's ok, I know I was wrong."
Gu Yanwei curled his lips and said, "I told you long ago, Qingqiu would have seen it, and with her personality, if she was really afraid of death and getting involved, why would she come here?" From the first day he met Shen Qingqiu, he knew how fearless this girl was.
"Okay, okay, I was wrong, please forgive me, Qiu'er!" Wang Qingluo blinked her big eyes, and at this time she had some of the naivety of her girlhood again.
Shen Qingqiu was not the kind of person who would get angry about this. He gently touched her forehead and then touched her belly, "You're almost eight months pregnant. You'll give birth soon." Wang Qingluo touched her forehead, then touched her belly again, "Yeah, I feel like he's been kicking me harder and harder lately."
It is said that pregnancy takes ten months, but most people's babies are born in eight or nine months. Even if I can eat and sleep in this small and narrow room, I can't give birth here, right?
"How long will your plan last?" Shen Qingqiu asked.
Gu Yanwei said, "I got this medicine by chance. You have to take it every day. If you take it for two months, your pulse will weaken. On the last day, you will show signs of pseudo-death."
Shen Qingqiu shook his head, "Two months is too long." The longer the night, the more dreams there are. Of course, if you can leave early, you should leave early.
But... She looked at Gu Tang again, "Your Highness, Qingluo's parents are now outside the Great Wall. Although they are not rich and prosperous, their lives are hard, and they don't have to face the threats in the court. After Qingluo leaves, I will send her to find her parents. But you - have you really thought it through?"
As the crown prince, does he really have to give up everything he has for a woman? Not only power, but also his parents and family, as well as his status in the world.
Shen Qingqiu was not trying to sow discord between the two of them. If the two of them left here together, they would naturally have to live together. If they regretted it then, wouldn't everything be over?
Gu Tang just held Wang Qingluo's hand and said, "To be honest, I hesitated. When my mother came to see me and cried in front of me, I hesitated whether I should let her experience the pain of losing her son."
Wang Qingluo lowered her head and said nothing. After all, no matter how Queen Pei treated her, she was Gu Tang's biological mother. She naturally could not ask him to abandon his wealth and honor and his parents and family for her.
Gu Tang laughed sarcastically again, "But I don't want to fight anymore. I want to protect my children and wife. I want to live an ordinary life." Wang Qingluo clasped his hands.
Shen Qingqiu could see that the two had made up their minds, so she said, “Qingluo will give birth soon, and she won’t be able to hold out for two months, and the longer the night, the more trouble she will have. Since it’s a fake death drug, I have it here too.” And she dared to guarantee that her fake death drug was definitely much better than Gu Yanwei’s.
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The next day, Crown Prince Gu Tang died suddenly.
When Empress Pei heard the news on her way to the East Palace, she fell off the sedan chair and is still unconscious. The emperor did not expect that the prince would die of illness and was stunned for a long time.
But the prince had been ill for a month, so although it was unexpected, it didn’t seem strange.
Compared to Empress Pei's heartbreak, the emperor was of course also sad, but he had many children after all, so even though he was sad, he still went to court normally, and after posthumously conferring the title of crown prince, he returned to his calm.
At the same time, a carriage came out of the secret passage in the palace, and the carriage sneaked into the forest and soon disappeared without a sound.
That night Shen Qingqiu came to the place where the prince and Wang Qingluo were hiding.
The current crown prince... no, he can only be called Gu Tang.
He changed his silk and satin clothes into scholar's robes, which made him look more scholarly. "The princess is here, and my ninth brother is here too. Please come in."
When Shen Qingqiu walked in, she saw Gu Yanwei sitting on a bamboo chair in the room. She chuckled, "I thought I came quickly, but His Highness is even faster than me."
Wang Qingluo said, "Ninth brother is very considerate. He knows that we just moved here and have nothing, so he specially asked the servants to bring us some daily necessities." Wang Qingluo touched her belly, and a layer of light seemed to pass through her smile. "He also specially called a midwife to serve us. Otherwise, when the time came for the baby to be born, we would be in a hurry."
Gu Yanwei smiled and said, "That's what I should do."
Shen Qingqiu also touched Wang Qingluo's belly, and suddenly her belly moved, which scared her.
Wang Qingluo patted her belly and said, "He has become more naughty these days."
Shen Qingqiu curled her lips, "Naughty is probably a boy..." Tuan Ge'er at home pesters her every day and she is getting annoyed, "It would be great if it was a little girl?"
If someone who favors boys over girls heard this, she would be angry, but Wang Qingluo just touched her belly and said, "Of course, if I give birth to a baby as cute as you, I will be very happy."
"You still want to give birth to me?" Shen Qingqiu scolded her. Don't think that she is taking advantage of him and he can't hear it.
Wang Qingluo raised her hand quickly, "I swear to God, I never said that."
The two men at the side glanced at each other and smiled, and the whole room seemed to soften.
"What are you going to do next?" Shen Qingqiu asked.
Gu Tang said, "We originally planned to look for Qingluo's parents after the baby was born, but my ninth brother reminded us that it would be fine for the two of us, but if we were all together, it would attract attention. So we decided to go visit my parents-in-law next year. We plan to move south to Hangzhou and settle down."
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