CHAPTER IX

"Have you seen the palace concubines today?" Looking at Su Yao, who was lying on her side on the bed with her back to her, Ling Yi tentatively touched the soft big bed with her hand, but finally didn't sit on it.

"Back to Your Majesty, I've seen it." Su Yao nodded lightly, still with her back to him, in fact, she was not angry with him for a long time, she knew that Zhu Xiangguo was not easy to deal with, and it was also a helpless move to move out of her eldest brother that day.

"Concubine Nade......" Ling Yi swallowed her saliva and sat on the bed gently, wanting to touch her long hair, but she didn't dare to do it.

Hearing Ling Yi talk about those two people, Su Yao turned around abruptly and stared at him with big eyes, Ling Yi was startled, thinking that the donkey was about to kick someone again, so he quickly jumped up from the bed and took a few steps back, with caution in his pupils.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?" Seeing Ling Yi's appearance, Su Yao was amused.

"Nothing." Ling Yi was silent for a moment and touched his nose.

"If it's okay, why hasn't Your Majesty gone to bed yet?" Su Yao looked at Ling Yi, who was a little hesitant, wrapped the big quilt around her body, and said, "If Your Majesty thinks of Concubine De or Concubine Shu, go directly, and the concubine will not dare to stop you." ”

"No, no, what the queen said." Looking at Su Yao, who was smiling sweetly, Ling Yi hurriedly said, this guy wouldn't have deliberately lured me over, right......

Holding the soft Su Yao, Ling Yi only felt her heart beating fast: "The queen wants to go out of the palace to see?" Originally, Ling Yi thought that if Su Yao was still angry, he would use this method to coax her.

"Out of the palace?" Su Yao was stunned for a moment, looking at his good-looking eyes with a face full of doubt and disbelief.

"Want to go?" Looking at Su Yao's small eyes, Ling Yi asked.

Su Yao nodded.

Su Yao chose a blue long dress, Ling Yi was afraid that she would be cold, so she asked Xiaohuan to put a white fox fur on her, and the whole person was dressed like a ball.

The wind outside was not strong, and the snowflakes were falling from the sky one after another, Su Yao looked a little nervous, and walked with a bowed body.

Ling Yi asked what was wrong, and Su Yao quickly pulled his clothes and asked him to be quiet.

Ling Yi smiled and nodded, lowered his voice and asked why he was quiet.

Su Yao glanced at Ling Yi who was smiling, and her eyes contained "I feel that your brain is not very good", and said that we are secretly out of the palace now, what if we are discovered?

Ling Yi couldn't help but laugh out loud, his voice was very loud, saying that I am the emperor, even if I am caught, what can I do?

Su Yao turned the corner, and suddenly felt that her brain didn't seem to be very good.

Su Yao felt a little embarrassed, and wanted to find a way to resolve it from the rapidly spinning brain, so that she didn't seem so stupid. Before he could speak, he felt a soft touch on his mouth.

It was over, and her mind went blank.

Until she left the palace, Su Yao's mind was blank, and she only felt that her heart was pounding and beating fast.

Ling Yi took Su Yao's soft little hand and went to play on the street, it was the New Year, the street was really lively, this was the first time Su Yao came to the street for the New Year, she knew that the New Year could be so lively, they stopped and stopped, they just felt that there were many things here that were very novel, and they were happy to play, Su Yao asked Ling Yi if she could take her out to play every year.

Ling Yi nodded and agreed with a smile.

When passing by a steamed bun shop, Su Yao stopped and said to Ling Yi that she wanted to eat, Ling Yi smiled and touched her head, saying what should I do if I get fat

Su Yao gave him a blank look, but he didn't hear it.

As if remembering something, he suddenly said that there was also a steamed bun shop on the corner in front of him, and asked her if she wanted to buy it there.

Su Yao shook her head, and only said that the meat buns all have the same taste, and there is no need to take those few steps.

Ling Yi was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered that when she was seven years old, a little girl with pink carvings had brought him to buy meat buns, and her home was a few steps away from the bun shop on the corner of the street.

The two walked around for a while, but Su Yao lost the interest she had just come, and only munched on the meat buns with her head down, but did not speak.

"Are you tired?" Ling Yi looked at Su Yao's face a little haggard and asked in a low voice.

Su Yao was absent-minded, she only nodded, but she felt that her body was light, and the whole person was picked up by Ling Yi, she clutched Ling Yi's clothes tightly, and the meat bun fell to the ground.

Su Yao's face flushed, she slowly loosened Ling Yi's clothes, and whispered, "Your Majesty, let me go quickly, the concubine can go." ”

"I just want to hold my own lady, why not?" Ling Yi said loudly with a smile, not caring about the eyes of others at all.

At that moment, Su Yao couldn't hear any sound, nor could she see anyone else, she could only see a pair of beautiful eyes, which seemed to be dotted with countless stars, so bright, so people couldn't take their eyes off. Her heart was beating so fast and so fast that it felt like it was going to jump out.

Ling Yi carried Su Yao across the street as if no one was around, and when she arrived at the inn, Su Yao didn't say a word. Ling Yi asked her if she was cold, Su Yao looked at his eyes and shook her head, only to feel that his eyes were so clean and clear.

Ling Yi asked Xiao Er for a basin of hot water, gently took off Su Yao's shoes, sat in front of her and washed her feet, frowning and saying that her feet were so cold that they were not cold.

All the way just now, his shoulders were covered with snow, and Su Yao stroked it gently, and his hands were full of water.

She didn't feel cold either, but something seemed to melt in her mind.

He said he was going to sleep with her in his arms. The bed in the inn is not much smaller than Fengqi Palace, Su Yao thought about it, but nodded, but asked Xiao Er for an extra quilt. Su Yao didn't believe that this product could snatch both quilts.

The two returned to the palace in the afternoon of the next day, and as soon as they returned to the palace, Su Yao was called to the Qiyun Hall by Ling Tian.

Su Yao swallowed her saliva, and her first reaction was, it's over. Ling Yi is the emperor, he can't do anything to him if he is caught, but he is different, Su Yao is suddenly afraid that the third princess will call her to a place where there is no one to kill her.

But what can be done about this? It's all self-chosen. Su Yao pouted.

Unexpectedly, Ling Tian didn't scold her, but just asked Su Yao where she went last night, and Su Yao told her honestly.

Ling Tian suddenly showed a beautiful smile, which startled Su Yao, she only said lightly to let Su Yao look at Shangguan Yuan and stop talking.

When Su Yao walked to the door, she seemed to hear Ling Tian talking to Sun Yaruo, but she couldn't hear what it was.

Su Yao went back to Fengqi Palace to change clothes, and asked Xiaohuan to lead the way to Shangguan Yuan's Yingxin Palace. She asked Xiaohuan what happened, and the third prince asked her to go to see Shangguan Yuan, but Xiaohuan only shook his head, saying that he didn't know.

was stopped halfway, looking at the person, Su Yao had a little impression that the palace concubines had met when they came to visit that day. The girl gave Su Yao a deep salute and called the queen mother. She is very beautiful, and she gives a very clean feeling in a long white dress.

Xiaohuan said in a low voice on the side, this is Li Shunyi, one of the nine concubines.

Su Yao thought about it, when she followed Sun Yaruo to learn the etiquette in the palace before, she had already written down the important nine concubines and three ladies. Li Wanyu has always been neutral in the harem, not causing trouble, not speaking out, and the two forces are not offended, and she does have some ability to sit in Shunyi's position with this.

Li Wanyu said that she was going to Concubine Shuniang, and the two went together. Along the way, Li Wanyu told Su Yao what happened when she was away, last night Shangguan Yuan drank a few more glasses of sweet wine, but suddenly fainted, and when the imperial doctor came to check the pulse, she found that she had been pregnant for more than a month, because she drank a few more glasses and moved the fetal gas. Fortunately, the doctor came in time, otherwise something would have happened.

After listening to Li Wanyu's speech, Su Yao understood what the third princess meant by looking at her eyes just now, and it was hard for her to imagine that Shangguan Yuan, who was so fierce when she met her, was actually pregnant. But fortunately, the emperor's heir was saved, and he only needed to go over to visit and appease and appease.

When Su Yao arrived, she saw the emperor's royal car outside. There were a lot of people gathered in the Yingxin Palace, Ling Yi sat on the side of Shangguan Yuan's bed and comforted her to take care of the baby, seeing Shangguan Yuan's pale little face, Su Yao felt a little guilty.

After leaving, Su Yao said to Ling Yi that His Majesty should go to the Yingxin Hall more.

Ling Yi smiled and said, "If I often enter the Cherry Blossom Palace, will the queen not like it?" ”

Su Yao nodded, shook her head again, and said, "Concubine Shu kept the imperial heir and deserves to be rewarded." ”

Ling Yi nodded, her gaze becoming deep: "Concubine Shu's rank is already very high, and I promoted her from concubine to concubine when she was pregnant for the first time. ”

Su Yao was stunned, as if she had thought of something: "What about later?" ”

"Later, when she went into labor, she couldn't keep the baby." Ling Yi's voice was a little colder, and his face darkened.

Su Yao stopped talking.

Seeing Ling Yi's royal car leave, Su Yao stood in place for a long time, and after instructing Xiaohuan to go back first, she went straight to the Qiyun Palace.

Ling Tian seemed to have known that she would come, and gently asked her if she had seen Concubine Shu.

Su Yao nodded.

Ling Tian looked at her and asked, "I also heard about Shangguan Yuan's miscarriage before." ”

Su Yao nodded again.

"The queen may not know that when Concubine Shu first entered the palace, she was notoriously timid and shy, always speaking softly, and she didn't dare to say a word out loud, and she greeted everyone with a smile when she saw her, for fear of offending people." Ling Tian said lightly, "But she handed over her sincerity, but in exchange for her own child's life." After the child was gone, Concubine Shu became like that. ”

Seeing that Su Yao still didn't speak, Ling Tian continued: "That look is not what Concubine Shu really wants, she is just afraid, afraid of losing again. So she turned herself into a hedgehog, unwilling to be approached by others, and would not approach others easily. ”

Shangguan Yuan is not as good as Zhu Shijin, Shangguan Yuan just temporarily froze his heart, Zhu Shijin has no heart at all, even if he really takes it out, that heart is rotten and stinky.

With Shangguan Yuan pregnant, her right to speak in the harem seems to be a little heavier, and Zhu Shijin rarely argues with her, even if Shangguan Yuan tramples on the supplements she sent in front of Zhu Shijin, she still keeps smiling and has no reaction. Although Ling Yi would visit the Yingxin Palace every day, he would still come to Fengqi Palace to spend the night at night. Because of this, Su Yao always felt a little sorry for Shangguan Yuan, so she often ran to Yingxin Hall when she had nothing to do. It's just that Shangguan Yuan always shows a vigilant gaze from time to time when chatting with her, and Su Yao is very unaccustomed to it, as if she has made a big mistake, are pregnant women so sensitive?

Su Yao can occasionally see Shangguan Yuan's gentle side, in one afternoon, Shangguan Yuan is lying comfortably on the beauty chair, gently stroking her belly, the winter sun is shining on her beautiful face, that scene, just like in a painting, Su Yao always sighs like this every time she sees it.

However, that scene didn't last long, because as soon as Su Yao saw it, she would immediately order the palace maid to pull Shangguan Yuan back into the house, and the winter wind was still a little cold.

Unconsciously, three months passed, and this time was surprisingly calm, Shangguan Yuan's stomach was already slightly bulging, and Su Yao still ran to the Yingxin Hall as usual. Recently, Shangguan Yuan saw that she had already called the queen mother and smiled, which made Su Yao very pleased, although Shangguan Yuan would still show a vigilant gaze intentionally or unintentionally when chatting, it was much better than when Su Yao came for the first time.

Because Shangguan Yuan wanted to raise a fetus and had no time to take care of the trivial matters of the harem, at the insistence of Ling Yi and Ling Tian, that part of the rights was given to Su Yao, Shangguan Yuan just nodded and did not raise any objections. This is the first time that Su Yao has the right to manage the harem since she became the queen, she was so moved that she almost cried, although it was difficult to say that everything was difficult at the beginning, but with the help of Ling Tian and Sun Yaruo, she managed it in an orderly manner, and she did not lose to Shangguan Yuan at all. Su Yao would look at Zhu Shijin's movements from time to time, Ling Tian and Shangguan Yuan both asked her to beware of this Zhu Shijin, although Su Yao kept an eye on it, but she never felt that there was anything wrong with this Zhu Shijin, after a long time, Su Yao put all her energy on Shangguan Yuan's fetal rearing, Shangguan Yuan seemed to feel that Su Yao was sincere, and Su Yao's eyes softened a lot, and her tone was not as sharp as before.

Daqi's annual harem banquet is approaching. As the lord of the harem with some real power, Su Yao naturally has to prepare in person, this harem banquet includes all the concubines and female officials, the emperor and the third princess will also participate, you need to be extra cautious when preparing, and you can't make a mistake in a single step. Zhu Shijin was ill at this time, and she couldn't go out, and the preparations for the entire banquet fell on Su Yao alone, she was busy every day, but she still didn't forget to go to Yingxin Palace to visit Shangguan Yuan, her belly was already very big, Su Yao asked her not to move around easily every time, beware of hurting the fetus, Shangguan Yuan agreed very seriously every time.

Shangguan Yuan once asked Su Yao to touch her belly, Su Yao only felt soft, and Shangguan Yuan said softly The baby likes you very much.

Su Yao never thought that in the face of Zhu Shi's aggressiveness, the lady concubine who did not let anything go would also have such a gentle side.