Remnant King's Concubine

Chapter 28
Ji Liangruo was physically and mentally exhausted after this night of tossing around. He lay sickly on the bed for several days before his legs healed and he became angry.

No one knew what happened in Bixiao Courtyard that night, no one dared to guess, no one dared to talk about it.It has always been the case that many people talk about it and get the news, but this time, Eunuch Wang is completely different.But seeing that Ji Liangruo had been ill for more than ten days and Qin Yunyao hadn't visited him, he reported the situation to the palace.Therefore, just as Ji Liangruo regained his energy, the Queen Mother came to the palace again, saying that if she could not conceive an heir within half a year, she would be punished with three hundred sticks and sent to the frontier.

The eunuch handed the imperial edict to her, and said in front of a dozen maidservants around: "Last time, the empress dowager just issued an oral order, and specially supplemented the edict. This decree has changed, and it is not that the empress dowager is targeting you. The empress dowager only hopes that you will do your best to serve the fourth prince." For the sake of your heirs."

"The concubine understands." She said calmly, with a smile on her lips.This is a war between the Queen Mother and Qin Yunyao, and it is about to come to the fore.

She took Yizhi and stood up, just as Qin Yunyao came in from the outside.When someone came from the palace, he had to show up and do some superficial work no matter what, otherwise it would be disrespectful.

"My father-in-law is here, and I have lost my way to welcome you. Please forgive me." He said.

"The prince killed the old slave." Gong Gong said, "The queen mother wrote the last oral order into an edict and ordered the old slave to send it to the princess. The princess has already accepted the order."

"Oh?" Qin Yunyao glanced at Ji Liangruo, and found that she was a little different than last time, and then found that she was much weaker, "The Queen Mother is worried..."

"Parents have such a heart." The father-in-law laughed.

Qin Yunyao smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes: "Come here, take the father-in-law to have a rest, and let the father-in-law have lunch before leaving."

"I don't dare, I have to go back and report to the Queen Mother!" the father-in-law immediately said.

"You have to have a cup of tea." Qin Yunyao said, "Could it be that the father-in-law looks down on me?"

"How dare, how dare..." the father-in-law said again and again, and changed his words, "How dare this servant refuse to obey the prince's kindness."

After the father-in-law left, Qin Yunyao ordered the others to retreat as well, and asked Ji Liangruo to push him into the house, all the way to her bedroom.

She stood beside him, holding Yizhi in her hand, watching Dongyue and the others come in and out without saying a word.Dongyue and Xun'er made tea, but didn't leave the room, and stood in the corner, looking like they were waiting on them.

Qin Yunyao reached out to touch the teacup, and said to them, "Back off."

"Yes." They stepped back obediently and closed the door.

He picked up the tea and smelled it, and asked, "Can you make tea?"

"meeting."

"Give me a cup."

Ji Liangruo was silent for a while, he just deliberately used this princess as a servant girl.She put the imperial edict in her hand on the table, turned around and took tea to make tea.

While she was making tea, he picked up the imperial edict and read it word by word.

After the tea was brewed, she handed it to him with both hands. She wanted to put it on the table, but he reached out to take it. His rough fingers brushed across her fingertips, making her tremble slightly in a daze.

"What are you going to do?" he asked.

"What do you mean?"

"This..." He pointed at the imperial edict, which happened to be on the word "children".

She bit her lip and said hoarsely: "Three hundred sticks blamed me for not being able to survive, even if I survived, I don't want to be sent to the frontier... My only relatives are Ru Taiji and Eighth Princess, I don't want to leave them... I don't even want to die in a foreign land..."

After three hundred sticks, she will be distributed to the frontier, and she will definitely die before she can go far.Even if she goes to the border safely, who knows what she will suffer as a woman in an unfamiliar place?In short, more bad luck than good luck.

"So—" He looked at her.

"My concubine doesn't know."

"do not know?"

"I don't know for the time being." She glanced at him and couldn't help laughing at herself, "My lord doesn't want to touch me now... Fortunately, I still have half a year, so it may not be possible to change my lord's opinion of me."

Her words made his hands tremble violently, the water in the teacup spilled on his hands, and trickled down his wrists onto his knees.

When she saw it, she was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly picked up the handkerchief to wipe it.After wiping halfway, he came to his senses, withdrew his hand suddenly, and pushed her away: "Don't touch me!"

She froze, not knowing what to do for a while.

He looked at her, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Don't try to change me!"

half a year...

In the dead of night, Ji Liangruo tossed and turned on the bed.

The queen mother gave a deadline of half a year. I don't know if he is sure to get rid of Qin Yunyao within half a year.Now this decree is to give her a reason to get close to him desperately, and she has no reason to retreat no matter what he says about her.Half a year later, if the queen mother didn't pull him off the horse, and he was still the prince safely, but she didn't conceive a child, wouldn't she be punished according to Yi's order?
If she was pregnant with his child while working for the queen mother... no!If Qin Yunyao loses power in half a year, the queen mother will definitely not allow his child to live, nor will the woman who is pregnant with his child live!

She can't predict the situation half a year later, and now she can only follow the Queen Mother's order.

On the day of the Empress Dowager's birthday, in the depths of the Longfu Palace, the Empress Dowager learned that she had made no progress, and couldn't help scolding her: "Aren't you capable of making him fall in love with you? If a man falls in love with a woman, he will lose his utmost vigilance." !"

She has no experience with men, let alone make men fall in love with her.But she remembered Ru Ji's actions to win the favor of the late emperor, so maybe she could give it a try.Don't ask him to fall in love with her, just ask him to reduce his guard.

For example, Ji She palace servants do not need to serve tea and water for the late emperor, and make supper at midnight to wait for him to come; on the birthday of the late emperor, she gave a gift like everyone else on the table, but in private, she made a cheap incense with her own hands. The bag was handed over when the phoenix luan was fragrant and the mandarin ducks were neck-to-neck, so that the late emperor cherished it very much. When he was dying, he did not forget to ask the eunuchs beside him: bury with the corpse, and never take it off.

Ru Ji is not only 20 years older than the first emperor, it is not known how much affection she has for him, but she can make the first emperor pay so much attention to her, if it is luck, it is better to say it is ability.

In the current situation of Ji Liangruo and Qin Yunyao, he wouldn't even let her move around freely, so naturally he couldn't get to the point of serving tea and water, washing hands and making soup right away, so he could only take it step by step.

She wanted to leave Jingyueyuan first.

The maid sent by Qin Yunyao still stopped her, but because Eunuch Wang was watching in the dark, he didn't dare to be too blatant.Ji Liangruo also showed the majesty of a princess at this time, they hesitated for a while, and could only let it go.

Walking into Bixiao Courtyard, Mo Yan flew over halfway and stopped her: "Why is the princess here?"

Ji Liangruo was a little taken aback by his sudden appearance, patted his chest and said: "I have something important to discuss with the prince, please inform me."

"Princess, wait a moment." Mo Yan didn't shirk this time, he turned around and went inside.

Ji Liangruo and Dongyue stood in place and did not move on.After waiting for a while, Mo Yan came over and said, "My lord invites my concubine to go in, Miss Dongyue remember to wait outside."

"Thank you, Mr. Mo." Ji Liangruo smiled, took Dongyue and walked in, and heard a murmur behind him—"I... am not a young master."

If Ji Liang enters the living room and sees no one, he walks back.She remembered that the study was on the left, so she turned to the left, and she saw him.

He sat behind the desk and read a book, without raising his head, he said, "You found your way the first time you came here, should you say you were born here?"

She didn't expect him to say such a thing, which was similar to a kind of teasing.He doesn't want to see her so much, how can he say such things to her, isn't he afraid that she will think wildly?

Knowing her purpose, she was also generous, and said with a smile: "Is the prince hinting at me?"

He stopped turning the book, then put the book down, and looked at her: "If you dare to speak clearly about this king's hint, maybe this king can give you some benefits related to the hint."

(End of this chapter)