Hearing this voice, Xiao Chengyu put down his pen and stepped forward to greet him.
Gu Ruojiao, who had become the queen, ran in happily holding her skirt.
She holds a small box in her hand.
As soon as he saw the box, Xiao Chengyu showed a disgusted expression.
But Gu Ruojiao didn't see it and ran to him excitedly.
Xiao Chengyu naturally pulled the person into his arms.
Slightly reproachful: "Be careful, what if you fall?"
As he spoke, he put his hand on her slightly swollen belly, and a touch of tenderness appeared in his eyes.
He never thought about continuing to have heirs, and even hoped that the Xiao family would be cut off.
But because this was her and his child and proof of his love for her, he became looking forward to it.
"Hatched out?"
"Well! Look!"
Gu Ruojiao happily opened the box. Inside was a turtle egg. There was a small hole in the eggshell, and something was moving inside.
Xiao Chengyu was even more disgusted.
Just for such a turtle egg, she read the information every now and then, and even thought about putting it on her bedside at night.
If he hadn't strongly objected, the turtle egg might still be sleeping between the two of them!
Thinking of this, Xiao Chengyu just wanted to throw away the turtle eggs and the box together!
But his face said: "It's pretty good."
Gu Ruojiao could not hear his perfunctory and righteous words.
"I'm raising a companion for our child!"
"Um."
Xiao Chengyu did not comment, sat down with his arms around her, and put the box in her hand aside.
"Are you hungry?"
Gu Ruojiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "How long has it been since breakfast?"
"Not hungry?"
"..."
Gu Ruojiao looked at the pastries brought by the palace attendants, swallowed her saliva, and admitted helplessly.
"...Hungry." But then he said, "This is not what I want to eat, but what our children want to eat!"
"Okay, it's not that you want to eat it." Xiao Chengyu doted on her unconditionally and fed her with his own hands.
Gu Ruojiao showed a satisfied expression, like a cat that had been cheating, its whiskers spread out happily.
Xiao Chengyu stared straight at her red lips, his eyes getting deeper and deeper.
After a moment, he suddenly leaned over.
"Jiaojiao, there are cake crumbs at the corner of your mouth."
"Where..."
The man didn't even bother to pretend and just took advantage of her softness.
Gu Ruojiao was so sensitive that she could not bear his teasing.
It softened into water within a few moments.
As a result, the man was uncharacteristically gentle and rejected her.
Looking at her resentful face, Xiao Chengyu smiled.
"It'll hurt you."
Gu Ruojiao became even more angry.
If you know it's not good, why are you teasing her?
She saw Xiao Chengyu leaning over again and whispering in her ear.
"Be good or not, I..."
It didn't take long for Gu Ruojiao to know what he was referring to.
She leaned against him, a thin layer of sweat dripping from the tip of her nose.
Xiao Chengyu gently wiped her with a handkerchief.
The two of them cuddled together, even if they didn't talk, they wouldn't feel bored.
A few months later, Gu Ruojiao gave birth to her first prince.
Xiao Chengyu was always by his side, watching the blood pouring out in buckets, his face as dark as a rainy night.
Po Wenpo was so frightened that her voice was trembling the whole time.
Four years later, Gu Ruojiao gave birth to another little princess.
This time Xiao Chengyu said he would not let her have another life.
"You and the two children are enough."
"Jiaojiao, I don't want you to make any mistakes."
Gu Ruojiao has since given up the idea of having another baby.
In the future, even if they are away, the elder brother will still have his younger sister to accompany him, and the younger sister will have his older brother to take care of him. That will be enough.
*
In the mausoleum.
Xiao Chengyu carefully placed Gu Ruojiao into the coffin.
"Don't be afraid, Jiaojiao, I'm here to accompany you."
Then he lay down and gently held her hand, just like he had done all these years.
Both of their hands were still wearing the bracelets that Gu Ruojiao had knitted back then.
It's just because it's been so long that it's already a little white and fluffy.
But they never took it off.
"I said, we will be together forever."
He caressed her face and drank the poison in his hand.
In the spring of the forty-seventh year of Yong'an, Queen Gu passed away, and then Emperor Yong'an also passed away.
