***

When Ruo converted to deliver medicine to Yan Qianyue, he met Sikong Chajue head-on.

"If, if you take refuge, please say hello to the prince." If he shakes his hand, he almost knocks over the medicine bowl.

"Hey, be careful-" Fortunately, Sikong Chajue's eyes were quick: "What's wrong with you, panicked?" He frowned and looked at the contents of the bowl: "Is this medicine?" ”

"Back to the prince, it's ......"

"What's wrong with Tsuki, you're sick?"

Ruo's tongue was knotted, and he hesitated: "Back to the prince, the princess is just a little uncomfortable, it's not a big deal." ”

Sikong Chajue took the medicine bowl: "This king personally took it in, you should retreat first." ”

"Lord Wang, you still don't want it, right?"

"Xiaoyue is uncomfortable, this king can't feed her a medicine?" Seeing that she wanted to say that she was going to be like that, Sikong Chajue knew that there must be something to do: "If you make it clear, what kind of medicine is this?" ”

"Lord Wang, this is ...... The princess ordered the slaves to cook it...... Contraceptive decoction. ”

Sikong Chajue's eyes sank: "...... That's right. He paused and put the medicine bowl back on the plate: "Then you should bring it in, don't tell Princess Sù about bumping into this king." ”

Ruofu held the plate and looked at Sikong Chajue with a guilty look.

The little prince patted her: "It's okay, you hurry up and serve it to the princess, otherwise you will have to cook it again when it gets cold." ”

Ruofu had no choice but to bow his head and bow, and left with a little distress.

"County Lord, the medicine is ready."

"Well, put it there, you go out."

Yan Qianyue picked up the delicate porcelain bowl, and originally wanted to take the decoction, but the bowl reached her lips but couldn't help but hesitate. remembered that last night, Sikong Chajue half-hugged her from behind, and it didn't take long after falling asleep to wake up the baby.

She could hear that it was just babbling, and she immediately understood that he probably really wanted a child, Yan Xiaoyue put her hand on her lower abdomen, and she was so lingering with Chajue last night, could it be?

But thinking of his mother's experience, he shuddered for a while. If she had a child with Chajue, would she really become like her mother? Do you want to take a gamble, she asked herself.

Yan Qiyue still didn't drink the bowl of medicine in the end.

***

Sikong returned to make an appointment with a few princes and grandsons to hunt, and asked Sikong to send the lord with him.

"This king accompanies the royal brother to hunt and take good care of the princess." Before leaving, the little prince specially instructed Ruo to convert.

Ruofu promised well at the time, but Sikong Chajue walked for a few days before she remembered the matter of Yan Qianyue entering the moon.

At that time, she was sorting out her book, and suddenly remembered this incident, and stuck out her tongue embarrassedly: "County Lord, the slave and maid forgot about your entry into the moon, it should have come a few days ago, did it hurt badly this time?" Why didn't you tell the slave to take the soup woman to keep warm? ”

"If you convert", Yan Qianyue called her lightly.

"County Lord?"

"My monthly letter hasn't come yet."

"That should have been delayed." Ruo didn't think much of it.

"Ruofu, you have served me for so long since you were a child, can you see that I have a time when the monthly letter is postponed?"

Ruo Yi stood in place, blinking his eyes, although the county lord she had abdominal pain due to the cold of the palace every time, the days of the month were extremely accurate: "Back to the county lord, in Ruo Conversion's impression, there is about none." She looked at Yan Qianyue and felt that her face was not very good, and she was afraid that Yan Qianyue would be cranky, so she held her hand: "County Lord, it's normal to postpone it once in a while, don't think about it, the slave will go cook some longan red dates and other things to help you urge now." ”

"If you convert", Yan Yanyue hesitated for a moment and moved her hand to her abdomen: "Do you think I will?" ”

Ruofu reacted for a while: "You mean ......?" But don't you drink contraceptive decoction all the time, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be possible? ”

"I've poured all those potions."

Didn't drink?

"County Lord, do you have any other reactions lately? For example, it is easy to get tired, have a high body temperature, occasionally feel chest tightness, and feel like vomiting when you wake up in the morning? ”

Yan Qiyue nodded.

Ruo Yi was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth: "County Lord, you are a ...... I'm glad to have it. ”

"I don't know."

"The slave maid is not sure, otherwise how about the slave maid go and ask the imperial doctor to come to the house to check your pulse?"

Yan Qianyue seemed to have her own thoughts: "If you convert, you can go out with me later, and find a Lang Zhong to have a look." ”

***

"Judging from the pulse, the girl should have been pregnant for nearly a month, congratulations to the girl."

"Are you sure, sir?"

Lang Zhong laughed: "I have been practicing medicine for many years, if I can't even understand such a simple pulse, I don't need to set up this 'doctor' signboard." ”

When Yan Qianyue heard this, she didn't show any affection, but only asked Ruo Wei to take some silver and give it to Na Langzhong: "Thank you, sir." ”

On the way back to the palace, Ruo Jian jumped up and down with joy: "Great, the county lord, when the prince comes back to know about this, he will definitely die of happiness!" ”

"If you convert", Yan Qianyue seemed to have something on her mind: "Don't make a noise about this matter first, especially if you want to hide it from the prince." ”

"Why?" Ruofu knew that the county lord had her own reason, but she still couldn't help but want to ask.

"Ruoyi, you went with me to see my mother when you were a child, do you remember what she looked like?"

"You mean Mrs. You?"

"Yes."

Ruo Yi didn't know how to speak, she only followed the county lord to the hut in the mountain behind Hanqing Lake a few times, she was still young at that time, but she was frightened by Mrs. You's crazy appearance, and she was very impressed until now.

"County Lord, don't be angry when I say it, Mrs. You...... In fact, the slave maid can see that the lady must have been a dignified and beautiful woman before the onset of the disease, but after the onset of the disease, the facial features were distorted and delirious, which was really terrifying. ”

Yan Qianyue smiled bitterly on her lips: "My mother is not sick. ”

"Huh? Was that poisoned by whom? Who is so ruthless to harm his wife like this? ”

"It's me."

"County Lord?" The confuscation was horrified: "What do you mean?" ”

Yan Qianyue suddenly turned around: "If you convert, let's not go back to the palace first, let's go somewhere, I have something to tell you." ”

"Ruofu, in fact, my father is not my biological father." After walking for a long time, Yan Qianyue seemed to be willing to continue the topic just now after careful consideration: "More than forty years ago, my father was only nine years old, and he hadn't changed his surname to Yan at that time, and he wasn't a prince. One day, my father picked up an abandoned baby in front of his house, and this abandoned baby was my mother. Daddy's ancestor had a lot of connections with Miao Jiang, so he was familiar with the preparation methods of various Gu poisons since he was a child, among which there was a Gu that had long disappeared, called the Seven Star Gu, which was very powerful, so it had extremely high requirements for the physique of the recipient, and Daddy had never found anyone who could withstand this kind of Gu before.

It wasn't until my mother was seven years old that my father found that my mother's physique was different from ordinary people, and it seemed that he could give it a try. He planted a seven-star Gu in his mother's neck, and to his great surprise, his mother didn't have any rejection reaction.

The Seven Star Gu is indeed very powerful, her mother has been trained by her father and has almost become an invincible killer, she helped her father kill a lot of so-called chaotic ministers and thieves at that time, so that she helped her father get the reuse of the first emperor, and her father was named a righteous brother by the first emperor and became the prince of An.

In addition to causing his mother's extremely cold physique, this seven-star Gu has to grow up every six years, and it will be very painful at that time, called 'Gu Decay Pain', which is definitely unbearable for very people, but fortunately, my mother can survive every time, so it was originally safe. It's a pity that her mother later fell in love with someone and married him without hesitation, and she became pregnant soon after marriage.

During my mother's pregnancy, she always felt unwell, and she thought it was a normal reaction and didn't think much about it, but a few months after I was born, she began to feel blurry vision, and one day she woke up and suddenly lost her sight. After a few more months, the Gu in my mother's body began to grow for the third time, and although she survived, she was a little delirious from then on, occasionally babbling gibberish, scaring my biological father into running away.

This matter is actually not unexpected, when the fetus is in the mother's womb, the yang energy is extremely strong, the seven-star Gu is an extremely yin thing, and the mother's own physique is cold, so it will definitely hurt the mother, but including the father, no one expected it to be so strict.

In fact, until I was five years old, my mother would occasionally be sober, but then she couldn't control it, so my father locked her in a hut in Hanqing Lake. If you convert...... If she hadn't given birth to me, my mother wouldn't have become what you see. ”

"County Lord......" Ruofu felt uncomfortable when she heard this, and suddenly remembered that when the county lord was fifteen years old, Prince An took her to Coffin Mountain, and felt faintly uneasy: "County Lord, what you said has something to do with the fact that you didn't let Ruofu tell Prince Sù that you are pregnant, right?" ”

"Ruofu, you've been by my side for all these years, and you've finally become smarter."

"County Lord, don't laugh at this time, okay, if you are worried."

Yan Qianyue touched Ruo Ruo's head: "Good Ruo Ruo." Her tone was very calm: "From a certain Cheng dù, mother is Daddy's bargaining chip in Kanjing, and if something like this happens to her, she can no longer be used by Daddy, so Daddy must find a second person who can control the Seven Star Gu to stabilize his position in the court." ”

Ruo Jian suddenly understood: "Is it you, the county lord?" ”

Yan Qianyue smiled bitterly: "This Gu in my body is not quite the same as my mother's, it is a young Gu buried by my father when I was two years old, the young Gu will not make people feel painful at first, it will only multiply people's internal strength, if it is planted in the girl's body, wait until the year of the girl, after coming to the decay water, go to a place like Coffin Mountain where the yin qi is extremely heavy and catalyze, and then let the young Gu wake up and grow up." Do you remember that when I came back from Coffin Mountain, I went to the Jingqu Mountain Stone Room alone, it was the first time that the Seven Star Gu grew up, and I lay on the stone plate of the stone room in pain for a month. ”

"So you were able to ...... General Wei later?" If you are halfway through the sentence, you will regret it.

Yan Qianyue looked at her hands: "If you convert, the only thing I'm glad about is that at least my father never asked me to kill anyone, otherwise these hands would have been stained with more than the blood of Miss Brown Qiu." ”

"County Lord, if you give birth to a baby in the womb for the prince, will you also become like a lady?" Ruo Guan looked at Yan Qianyue intently, afraid that she would give an affirmative answer.

"I don't know, Ruofu."

"Then what if it will, do you still want to keep this little baby?"

Yan Qiyue didn't answer, and suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed ahead: "There." ”

She took her to the osmanthus tree she saw during the Tanabata Festival, and it was a month, and the flowering period was about to pass, and most of the originally lush flowers had been lost.

"If you take refuge, go see what is written on those red cloths."

Ruo Jian flipped over the strip of cloth and looked at it: "Ah, this is ......"

"It's all written by that fool who came here on the seventh day of the first month of every month to tie the red rope, and he actually tied it for ten whole years. Before, in Hanqing Lake, Qin Zhao wanted to kill me, but Chajue stopped in front of me without thinking about it, and took Qin Zhao's sword. He values me more than his own life, and if he converts, there will be no second person in this world who treats me like Chajue. ”

"But the county lord, if you don't want to see you become like a lady." She was so anxious that she cried out: "While the prince doesn't know it now, it's better for you to give up this baby, the prince likes you so much, he will understand your distress." ”

"If you convert, I'd like to give it a try."

"County Lord, don't try, this is not something that can be willful."

"My sister said before that if she really likes a man, she wants to have children for him, and I may ...... I like the Bad Lord. It's just that if you convert, I'm not that great, I don't want to repeat my mother's mistakes more than you, I don't let you sue Sù Chajue about this matter, it's a way back for me to leave for myself, first, I don't want Chajue to be happy, and second, if my body really can't bear it, I can still choose to give up this child. ”

"County Lord, have you really thought it through?"

"It's the result of my deliberations."

"Then you promise me, if something is wrong with your body, you must not force yourself, we will pull the hook!"

"Well, the retractor."

Ruofu looked back at the tree: "County Lord...... If someone tied me a red rope for ten years, I would love that person too. ”

"If you convert, you swear to me that I will not tell you a word of these words I say to you today."

"I—I swear."

On the way back to the palace, if there are palpitations in the heart, the old prince clearly knows the physical condition of the county lord, and he wants her to marry Zhuyou, what is his intention?

***

The two months passed very peacefully, and Yan Xiaoyue didn't seem to have any major problems except for those normal pregnancy reactions, and she couldn't help but think that maybe she was really different from her mother. Sikong Chajue, like Ruo Yi at that time, thought that Concubine Ai had been drinking Chinese medicine for contraception, so he occasionally felt that Yan Qianyue's state was wrong, and he had never been associated with Concubine Ai's pregnancy.

The pain struck suddenly one night.

Sikong Chajue hugged Yan Qianyue, and in a trance, he felt that the person in his arms was trembling violently.

"What's wrong?"

Yan Qiyue was also very flustered at that time, but she endured the pain and lowered the rate of breathing: "It's okay, I just had a nightmare." ”

Sikong Chajue stroked her back: "Don't be afraid. The little prince fell asleep leisurely, but Yan Xiaoyue couldn't sleep anymore.

It was a strange and familiar pain, similar to the one six years ago. Yan Qianyue knew that the time of her second so-called "Gu Decay Pain" was this year, and the occasional wind chill in Hanqing Lake and the disappearance of internal force out of thin air were all signs, but there should be several more months to live, could it be affected by the baby in the womb?

The next day, Yan Qianyue suddenly told Sikong Chajue that he was going to Jingqu Mountain Chengjia Temple to fast.

"Aifei, why do you want to go to that temple again?"

"I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I have to go there every year, one is to eliminate sins and obstacles and stay away from evil paths, and the other is to pray for good fortune for those around me."

"Why don't you have any evil ways?" The little prince obviously didn't want to leave his family and love the concubine.

"That's not how to say it", Yan Qianyue originally wanted to talk to him about some reasoning, but she had to change her mind for a while, how could she be reasonable with him. I had to look at the little prince innocently with a pair of big eyes: "Chajue, I just ask if you let me go?" ”

This little expression is too cute, and the little prince quickly fell: "Okay, okay, how long are you going?" ”

"More than a month."

"That's too long, no, this king will go with you."

"Chajue, the pure place of Buddhism, you have gone...... I would be distracted. ”

Concubine Ai is really getting more and more upright, and the little prince is overjoyed: "Then the king will not go with Concubine Ai, but if I think you are strong in a few days, I will chase Jingqu Mountain." He nodded the tip of her nose as he spoke.

"You chase me, anyway, I'm in retreat and fasting, and you won't be able to see me when you chase me."

"Aifei, you are so bad." The little prince is rolling.

Yan Qianyue was not at ease, and instructed again: "Even if you come, don't go to Chengjia Temple to find me, there is an important place for Buddhism, and you can't be disrespectful." ”

"Got it, concubine."

***

Yan Xiaoyue finally got rid of the sticky little prince, and as soon as she got into the carriage, she couldn't hold it anymore, her breathing was short, her face was pale, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead.

"County Lord, what's wrong with you? Isn't it a baby ......?"

"It has nothing to do with the baby", Yan Qianyue was afraid that she would think too much, so she didn't dare to tell her about the Gu decay in advance: "It's just that it's been six years since the last Gu decay, and this should be the second time." ”

"Then will our fasting at Chengjia Temple help you relieve your pain?"

Yan Qianyue shook her head: "Don't go to Chengjia Temple, that's for the chajue, let's go to the stone room of Jingqu Mountain." ”

Are you looking for that or something? If there is chaos in the heart, you can only nod your head incessantly.

None of them thought that someone was hiding in the shadows, looking at the distant carriage, and unconsciously raised the corners of their mouths.