The Ninth Prince came to celebrate the birthday of King Zhenbei, and by the way, he met Xiao Dingcheng before leaving.
As soon as Xiao Dingcheng walked out of the Feixu Courtyard, he saw the Ninth Prince standing there wearing a fox fur cloak. Although he looked slightly sick, he had a warm smile.
Xiao Dingcheng quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness."
The Ninth Prince stretched out his hand to support him: "Dingcheng, there is no need to be polite between you and me."
Helping Xiao Dingcheng up, the Ninth Prince smiled and said: "If you hadn't come to Dingcheng's rescue on the Lantern Festival, I might not be able to stand here... When I went back, Dr. Zhou also said that it was very dangerous, and it was only because of the proper rescue.
I barely managed to save my life."
Xiao Dingcheng didn't even dare to say: "Your Highness is blessed with great fortune."
The Ninth Prince smiled: "Having said that, I still want to express my gratitude... That day, I was unconscious, but I knew that there was a woman beside Dingcheng. It was that woman who saved me with Dingcheng. I have already reported it to my father.
Emperor, father promised to reward you generously."
Xiao Dingcheng was slightly startled, and then he heard the Ninth Prince ask: "I wonder who was with you that day...Does Dingcheng know what reward she wants?"
After the Ninth Prince finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded from the door of Fei Xuyuan.
"It's good that your Highness is fine. It's fate that I and the prince met His Highness that day. I don't dare to take any credit."
Liu Rumian walked out of the courtyard door with a faint smile: "Suddenly I thought that His Highness Ninth Prince had arrived outside Feixu Courtyard. It would be rude for me not to come to say hello."
The Ninth Prince asked in surprise: "So it was you, Madam Liu, that day?"
Xiao Dingcheng's expression changed slightly, and when he was about to speak, Liu Rumian suddenly pressed her lower abdomen and took a few steps back: "Ah... Your Majesty, I have a stomachache..."
Xiao Dingcheng subconsciously stepped forward to support the person. Seeing this, the Ninth Prince found it inconvenient to stay any longer, so he said: "The reward will arrive soon. Dingcheng, please take good care of your wife. I will not disturb you now."
After saying that, the Ninth Prince turned around and left...
Xiao Dingcheng looked at Liu Rumian, who was leaning in his arms, with deep eyes.
After returning to the house and repelling the people around him, Liu Rumian walked up to Xiao Dingcheng and suddenly knelt down.
Xiao Dingcheng was about to question, but when he saw her suddenly kneeling down, he was surprised and immediately helped her up: "You are pregnant, what are you doing?"
Liu Rumian raised her head, already shedding tears: "I am begging the prince to give me and my unborn child a way out."
She sobbed: "It was the crown prince Tongsheng's sister who saved the Ninth Prince that day, right?"
Xiao Dingcheng's eyes were slightly cold: "So, what were you doing just now?"
Liu Rumian shed tears and said: "Your Majesty, you must have seen my situation in the palace today... From the old lady to the prince and princess, no one wants to see me. It doesn't matter that I feel wronged, but your Majesty, I
What is in your womb is our child, and it is also your first child."
Regardless of Xiao Dingcheng's obstruction, Liu Rumian insisted on kneeling at his feet and begging: "My lord, do you have the heart to let your first child become a concubine at birth? Because he is a concubine, he is always inferior to others and is looked down upon by others. My lord, do you really have the heart to do so?"
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Xiao Dingcheng frowned: "Get up and talk first."
"I can't get up..." Liu Rumian smiled sadly: "After all, I am someone who can be stepped on by anyone in the palace."
Xiao Dingcheng's expression froze slightly: "What are you talking about? Someone in the palace is bullying you?"
Liu Rumian laughed, but her tears rolled down: "I went to greet the old lady, but the old lady didn't even see me. I went to give the silk handkerchief embroidered by myself to the princess. As soon as I turned around, the silk handkerchief was
Reward this servant... The sound of the zither made by the prince shouting and cursing me in public is the sound of melancholy..."
Liu Rumian burst into tears: "Your Majesty, I don't mind being a concubine, and I don't mind being trampled and ridiculed everywhere, but Your Majesty, don't you even care about me?"
Xiao Dingcheng looked at her: "If I cherish you, I should give you the reward that should belong to Sheng Nuan?"
Liu Rumian's eyes flashed slightly, and then she cried: "Your Majesty, I am not here for myself, but for our children... To be disrespectful, Princess Lin'an and the Crown Prince are separated. Will the Crown Prince and Princess Lin'an have any heirs?"
Xiao Dingcheng was stunned.
Liu Rumian added: "In my womb, I have the prince's first grandson... but he is a concubine."
Xiao Dingcheng guessed Liu Rumian's plan: "So?"
Liu Rumian grabbed Xiao Dingcheng's sleeve: "Your Majesty, Princess Lin'an is not allowed to be favored. If you can allow your Majesty to reward me as my concubine this time, then our child will be a legitimate son when he is born... This is not just for the sake of my concubine and my wife."
The child is also for the palace, Your Majesty!"
Xiao Dingcheng sat on the chair and looked at Liu Rumian quietly, and sighed slowly: "Mianmian, it turns out that this prince has never known you."
He seemed to have never seen the person beside him clearly before, but now he realized that she was so scheming.
Many things in the past have begun to be traced, including the fact that tonight she was called here from Tang Nuan Garden due to abdominal pain... She used the child in her belly to plan the best interests for herself at all costs.
As for her so-called dislike of being welcomed by the old lady and mother-in-law... maybe it's not because of herself.
Xiao Dingcheng let out a deep breath.
Liu Rumian also realized that this time she had torn down all disguises to let Xiao Dingcheng see her true face, but...it didn't matter, as long as she could achieve her goal, as long as she could become an equal wife, she didn't mind whether Xiao Dingcheng would continue to love her
Cherish her.
A man's heart is the most unreliable thing. All she can rely on is real status and power.
As long as she could become the Crown Princess with the same status as Princess Lin'an and give birth to a legitimate son, she would have nothing to worry about from now on.
Thinking of this, Liu Rumian pulled Xiao Dingcheng's leg, pursed her lips and said with tears: "Your Majesty, I know that Your Majesty's treatment of me is no longer the same as it was yesterday, but I beg Your Majesty for the sake of the child in your belly, and for the sake of having a legitimate son in the palace...
…By agreeing to be a concubine, I owe Sister Sheng a debt, and I will definitely find ways to make up for it in the future.”
Xiao Dingcheng said calmly: "Can you do it?"
Today, he saw with his own eyes how Liu Rumian, who he had always thought was soft and timid, wanted to drag Sheng Nuan into trouble, and how she tried her best to seek benefits for herself...
Liu Rumian raised her head and smiled bleakly: "Then please tell the Ninth Prince the truth, and let your Majesty deal with my mother and son!"
The room fell into silence for a moment. After a long while, Xiao Dingcheng took a long breath and his tone returned to an upright tone: "I promise you this, but from today on, I will not step into Feixu Courtyard again."
In fact, some of Liu Rumian's words were right. It was impossible for him to have an heir with Princess Lin'an, but the palace must have a legitimate son. Besides... Liu Rumian had already accepted the merit in front of the Ninth Prince. If he insisted on awarding Sheng Nuan, Liu Rumian would
The Cotton Conference will be difficult to end.
In her belly was his first child...
After the words fell, Xiao Dingcheng turned around and walked out of Feixu Courtyard.
Liu Rumian's cry came from the room behind him, but Xiao Dingcheng found that he no longer felt distressed...
Xiao Dingcheng went directly to Tang Nuan Garden, but then found that Sheng Nuan was not there. After asking, he found out that she had gone to Princess Lin'an.
Everyone in the family likes Sheng Nuan, but he is the only one who is so slow.
This is the last time... Xiao Dingcheng told himself that this is the last time he will be sorry for Sheng Nuan.
Just when Liu Rumian and Xiao Dingcheng were separated because of the reward, Sheng Nuan had already arrived at Jingluan Courtyard... As soon as he entered Jingluan Courtyard, he saw the young eunuch Agui standing in the courtyard tremblingly.
Seeing Sheng Nuan, Agui's eyes suddenly lit up and his lips moved, but he didn't dare to say anything. He just greeted her enthusiastically: "Miss Sheng, you're finally here."
This little eunuch no longer has the slightest contempt for Sheng Nuan...
Sheng Nuan smiled at the little eunuch and continued walking inside: "Where is the princess?"
Su Lan's eyes were slightly red and she whispered: "The princess is in the soup pool..."
Sheng Nuan nodded and walked inside.
Before coming, although Sheng Nuan was worried, she couldn't help but wonder if Princess Lin'an was pretending to be ill...
But as soon as she entered the soup pool, she heard a muffled groan. After a few steps, through the hazy mist, she saw the thin figure of Princess Lin'an lying in the soup pool.
The water mist was steaming, but the man's face was pale, and his whole body was trembling with a muffled groan that escaped from his throat from time to time. It was obvious that he was in extreme pain...
