Chapter 96: Knocking
Concubine Feng sat in her seat, staring at Gao with a cold gleam in her eyes, as if to freeze her.
After Guo paid her respects to Concubine Feng, Gao was next in line.
Gao had just bent down to pay her respects when she suddenly started coughing. Her maid rushed forward to support her and asked with concern, "Concubine, why are you coughing again? What should we do if this continues?"
Seeing this, Song Yuning turned to look at Concubine Feng, whose face was becoming increasingly gloomy, and comforted her, "She is not feeling well today, so please be more considerate of her.
Let's forget about today's formalities. Concubine Gao, you should hurry back to your room and rest. Wait for the imperial physician to come and have him examine you carefully and prescribe some good medicine to help you recover."
Gao agreed softly, then took the maid's hand and turned to leave.
Feng was repeatedly ignored by others and her face became extremely ugly, sometimes blue and sometimes red. It was so ugly, but she couldn't get angry and could only endure it.
Song Yuning picked up the teacup as if nothing had happened, took a sip, and then politely said to Concubine Feng: "It's getting late, and I have other things to take care of. You can all go down."
Concubine Feng stood up and said goodbye, not wanting to stay any longer. She turned around and left, suppressing her anger.
After everyone left, Song Yuning sighed. The days ahead would probably be very exciting.
Seeing that Song Yuning was not in a good mood, Yue Jian said angrily: "This Concubine Feng is really too presumptuous, Princess, when the prince comes back, you must tell him about this.
Let him punish Concubine Feng severely, so that she won't become so arrogant that she won't even take you seriously."
Song Yuning returned to the house, changed into casual home clothes, and began to move around the house. The master Xiao Yunzhan found for her was the female secret guard who followed her.
Song Yuning has been learning boxing these days. Now he doesn't need the teacher to lead him and can perform a complete set.
While practicing boxing, Song Yuning said to Yue Jian, "How could Xiao Yunzhan not know what's going on in this palace? If he wants to punish me, he will naturally do it.
If he doesn't want to punish me, he won't punish me even if I tell him. We both know this.
"Yue Jian, we are now in the Wang Mansion, not the Song Mansion. You can no longer speak or act the same as before. If someone catches you with something, I might not be able to save you. You must remember this."
Yuemian's face turned pale, realizing that Song Yuning was scolding her, and she quickly said, "It's my fault. I know I was wrong."
Song Yuning glanced at her and said, "I'm not scolding you, I'm teaching you. When we're together, we can talk about anything, but if it gets to the ears of outsiders, you'll definitely get into trouble."
Ever since coming to the palace, Yue Jian's temper has become worse and worse as her position has risen.
If she continues like this, she will suffer losses. Song Yuning has wanted to remind her for a long time.
Ning Shuang came over and pinched Yue Jian: "No matter how bad the concubine is, she is still the master. The master's affairs should be handled by the master. You shouldn't interfere."
Yue Jian already knew where she was wrong and quickly admitted her mistake.
Song Yuning said, "In the palace, I trust you two the most. Naturally, I want you to stay with me safely. Now that there's trouble in the palace, if you want to be safe, you must be careful with your words and actions."
Concubine Feng is not an easy person to get along with, and Song Yuning is not sure what Xiao Yunzhan's attitude towards her is.
But she is the Empress Dowager's niece after all. If they want to form an alliance with the Empress Dowager, they still have to give her some face and not embarrass Concubine Feng too much.
When Xiao Yunzhan came back in the evening, he listened to Zhao Xin telling him what happened when he paid his respects this morning. Xiao Yunzhan nodded and said nothing, and stayed in the main courtyard at night.
Song Yuning looked at Xiao Yunzhan who was wandering in front of him and sighed: "Are you trying to vent my anger? Or do you want to cause me trouble?"
Xiao Yunzhan had embarrassed Concubine Feng in the morning, and he didn't go to her room in the evening. Song Yuning could imagine at this moment that Concubine Feng was in the room, scolding her with vicious words.
"Isn't that always the case? She's just holding it in. She was so disrespectful to you when she greeted you on the first day. What will happen to you in the future if she keeps doing this?"
Knowing that Xiao Yunzhan had made up his mind and there was no chance of changing it, Song Yuning stopped trying to persuade him.
Just like that, the palace fell into a strange silence since that day.
Xiao Yunzhan spends most of his time with Song Yuning, staying overnight for twenty days a month.
Xiao Yunzhan would visit Mrs. Guo, Mrs. Gao, and Concubine Feng once a month, and sleep in the study the rest of the time.
The rumors outside were still not very pleasant, but no one kept an eye on other people's bedroom affairs. Besides, Xiao Yunzhan now had a concubine, so others didn't say anything, and the matter calmed down for the time being.
Concubine Feng still didn't respect Song Yuning very much, but she always got the upper hand, and since Xiao Yunzhan ignored her, she didn't dare to be presumptuous.
As the year drew to a close, Song Yuning began to get busy again. At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, someone from Pingyuan Hou Mansion came to report that Song Yurou was pregnant.
"Really? How many months has it been? How is Sister Sixth or Seventh in health?" Song Yuning asked the nanny who came to report the news in surprise.
The nanny smiled flatteringly and said, "It's all good, all good. It's been three months. The Crown Prince's wife herself didn't know about it until she was feeling unwell yesterday and the imperial physician came to see her and discovered it."
Song Yuning smiled and nodded: "It's really good news. Logically speaking, I have to go and see such a good thing in person.
But now that the New Year is coming soon, I am really busy and can't spare the time. I will ask someone to bring some nourishing herbs and have Mammy take them back to my seventh sister. She said I will visit her when I am free."
Mammy nodded with a smile on her face: "Ah! I will definitely pass on the message."
Xiao Yunzhan was sitting in the inner room and also heard the news. As soon as the nanny who reported the news left, Xiao Yunzhan came out and hugged Song Yuning's waist.
The maids in the room were very tactful and retreated without looking around.
"Why don't we stop taking the contraceptive pills, recuperate for two months, and then we'll have a baby after the New Year.
You are in good health now. When the baby is born, you will be seventeen, not too young. What do you think?"
When Song Yuning heard the news that Song Yurou was pregnant, she thought the same thing. It was impossible for her to not have a child for the rest of her life, and now was the perfect time.
If it is a few years later, the emperor will be getting older and older, and I am afraid that it will not be a good time to get pregnant.
"That's good. Having a child will make things more lively. Mother always looks forward to taking care of the child for us. Now that she doesn't have to teach the embroiderer, she always complains that she's bored."
Xiao Yunzhan looked at the gentle smile on Song Yuning's face and couldn't help but feel excited: "First give birth to a son, and then give birth to a daughter like you."
Song Yuning did not participate in Xiao Yunzhan's topic of having a son first and then a daughter. He was not favoring boys over girls, but he really had the throne to inherit.
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