The maid and Banqin didn't know when they fell asleep. They had a chaotic dream all night. When they struggled to wake up, they were in a trance. The unfamiliar furnishings made Banqin wake up instantly.
"Sister?" She stood up quickly and pushed the maid aside.
The maid also woke up, looking at the dim green light outside, the two hurriedly got up.
There was already movement in the room getting up.
"Madam?" the maid asked in a low voice outside the door.
Cheng Jiaoniang could be heard snoring.
The maid was a little afraid to enter, but Banqin pushed her and opened the door.
Cheng Jiaoniang had simply pulled up her hair, put on a homely skirt, and was putting on a blouse.
The maid and Banqin subconsciously looked at the couch.
The curtain was still down, and the people inside seemed to be sleeping. Their eyes fell on the side of the couch, and they were immediately burned and hurriedly avoided it.
A corner of the light green tunic that had clearly fallen to the ground was exposed from under the curtain.
If this is not something they are familiar with and belongs to women, then it is...
"Has Madam gotten up?"
A woman's voice came from outside the door.
The maid and Banqin were startled.
This is a woman who came to serve from the palace. She was resting in the secondary room in the courtyard last night, and then she heard the sound of footsteps and sweeping in the courtyard.
Cheng Jiaoniang reached out and took off the long bow on the wall and stepped outside.
The maid and Banqin were about to leave in panic. Banqin thought of something and hurriedly stretched out her hand to grab the maid, pointing to the corner of clothes under the curtain. The maid's face turned red, she stepped forward, pulled it out, and threw it randomly on the clothes hanger nearby.
He ran out as fast as he could fly.
The door was opened, and looking at Cheng Jiaoniang who came out, the maid outside the door was busy saluting.
"Your Highness is awake." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "You go in."
The waiter was overjoyed and hurriedly entered the door, but saw Cheng Jiaoniang stepping out first.
Looking at the long bow she was holding in her book, the palace ladies and maids subconsciously avoided it.
"Ma'am, what are you doing?" the waiter asked.
"My wife...Madam," the maid said hurriedly. It was always a bit awkward to change her words for a moment, "Madam is going to the school field to practice archery in the morning."
Archery practice?
The maids in the chamber stared wide-eyed.
It is said that this woman has good archery skills and a strong hand. This is definitely not innate, but must be the result of diligent practice. But I didn't expect that she would not stop doing it on the first day of her wedding.
"Yes, yes, someone is here." The chamberlain nodded quickly and asked a maid to lead the way, "At the beginning, King Qing loved to have fun, so he specially filled in the lake and built a big school ground..."
Cheng Jiaoniang smiled.
"Oh, I know it's there," she said.
The waiter was also stunned.
But no, His Highness took her to look carefully at the mansion. The flower garden beside the school grounds was made according to her wishes.
Although the maid also wanted to go, Banqin took the lead.
"Sister, please stay here to prepare for Madam's washing when she comes back." She said and followed her as if she was running away.
The maid stomped her feet and tried to follow her, but in the end she had to stop and smiled coquettishly at the chamberlain and palace ladies.
"Miss Banqin, I don't know what Madam's taste is, but this breakfast..." the waiter thought of something and said.
The maid was overjoyed.
"I know." She said, "I'll go take a look."
The chamberlain hurriedly asked a maid to take him there, and the maid ordered people to boil water and made arrangements one by one. The chamberlain and others went indoors. Doctor Li also came over at this time.
"Your Highness?" the chamberlain called as he opened the curtain.
The morning light shines into the couch, and the person lying there opens his eyes slightly.
The waiter couldn't help but wink and raise his eyebrows with a bit of a joke.
"Your Highness slept so well... ah!" He whispered in a low voice, and before he finished speaking, he exclaimed in surprise.
This exclamation startled everyone in the room.
"Imperial physician, imperial physician." The servant shouted tremblingly, waving to the outside.
Doctor Li hurried over and pulled open the curtain.
"What's wrong?" he asked, looking at the couch with a surprised expression.
A maid came in at this moment outside the door.
"My lady asked me to tidy up the bed," she said.
Clean up the couch?
The other people in the room couldn't help but look over. The chamberlain and Dr. Li opened the curtains on the left and right to see clearly the scene on the couch. Prince Jin'an was lying on it with his upper body naked, and the quilt under him was messy...
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Naked! This was not the case when it was delivered last night!
Messy! How can a person who is too sick to move sleep on a bed like this!
No way!
A thought flashed across everyone's mind at the same time.
The sound of a snap made the chamberlains standing with hands hanging down in the corridor tremble.
"You..." Mr. Gu's face turned pale as he looked at the chamberlain standing in front of him, "What a good thing you have done!"
The waiter lowered his head and said nothing.
Mr. Gu paced back and forth.
"...It's so ridiculous!" He stopped and whispered through gritted teeth, "How could you do such a thing?"
The waiter looked a little embarrassed.
"Maybe... maybe not..." he whispered.
As soon as he finished speaking, the palace lady from the inner room came out with a strange smile and a piece of white silk in her hand.
"Um..." she stammered, her eyes wandering around, and finally landed on Prince Jin'an, who was being watched carefully and inquiringly by Imperial Physician Li on the bed beside him, "Congratulations...congratulations, Your Highness."
Congratulations?
Several people's eyes subconsciously fell on the white silk held in the hands of the palace lady, which was speckled with red dots like plum blossoms...
There was a bang in everyone's mind.
Mr. Gu and Dr. Li are both grandfathers, so they naturally understand what this is. Although the chamberlain is not a man, he has seen it in the palace.
The white silk here... is a bit sparse, but it is definitely blood.
Sure enough...what's that...
The pillow in Doctor Li's hand loosened and fell on the bed.
This snapping sound did not wake up Jin'an County Prince. Ever since he woke up when the curtain was lifted just now, he fell into sleep again. His dark and yellow complexion showed a hint of paleness. Although he was wearing a middle coat, his exposed neck was still full of blood.
You can faintly see patches of bruises.
It was pinched out by human hands...
The room fell into an eerie silence, and after a moment, Mr. Gu uttered two words angrily.
"Beast!"
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"...How is that possible..."
"...His Highness has already done that, how could he do that..."
Low voices seemed to come from all directions, and the maid who stood in the clean room to test the temperature of the water blushed.
Just now she was hiding and didn't dare to go indoors, but she could hide for as long as she could before she came back.
As soon as she came back, the palace lady gave her a box with a strange look on her face.
"This is Madam's, please keep it," she said.
The maid was at a loss and almost threw the box out.
"What's there to be embarrassed about?" the palace lady said. In fact, her expression was no better than that of the maid.
She has stayed in the palace all her life, and she has handled countless first nights with noble people, but she just couldn't say those smooth words of congratulations today.
"For Madam, add a bowl of red date and lotus seed soup." She finally thought of another sentence and said hurriedly.
After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but look inside the room, thinking of the face of King Jin'an he just saw and his exhausted look...
Or should it be given to His Highness?
It seems that what happened last night is true... His Highness took the initiative?
It must be His Highness, their wife is not that kind of person!
I didn’t expect His Highness to still have this strength...
The maid shook her head to interrupt her random thoughts, stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the water, and asked the maid to stop.
"Go and pass the food around," she said.
The little maid lowered her head and ran away quickly.
The maid bravely walked out of the clean room.
"...Why not? Smell...smell the strange fragrance in this room..."
"...Mr. Gu asked, and Dr. Li said that he had never smelled such a fragrance before, and that it smelled like medicine..."
"...Is it an aphrodisiac?"
Fragrant! That smells good!
There was a bang in the maid's mind.
Was it... the lady... took the initiative?
Hearing the maid come out, the two women who were making the bed quickly stopped talking, lowered their heads and straightened the bed, which had been smoothed and replaced with new bedding, bowed and left.
The maid stood in a daze indoors. The open window allowed the cool breeze of the early morning to circulate in the room, which brought a bit of refreshment and brought her back to her senses.
Since the lady did it, there must be a lady’s reason for it, and what the lady did was not wrong!
The maid took a deep breath and straightened her back.
There were a number of voices greeting the lady outside the door.
The maid's heart felt as if the boulder had fallen to the ground, and she quickly picked it up.
Outside the door, Mr. Gu was pulling a long face, watching the chamberlains lift their carriages. The chamberlains and Dr. Li also had dark expressions on their faces. When they saw Cheng Jiaoniang walking slowly, holding a long bow, these people stopped.
His expression was a little complicated.
The woman was wearing a skirt and a green blouse, with the sleeves still tied up. Facing the rising sun, her unpainted face was glistening with fine sweat.
He is really youthful and full of vitality. Look at the King of Jin'an County on the shoulder here. He is still sleeping. Doctor Li didn't wake up after two injections. It's just...
Beast!
Mr. Gu gritted his teeth again.
"Madam!" he said, suppressing his anger.
Cheng Jiaoniang stopped and looked at them.
"Are you going back?" she said, "If anything happens, you're welcome."
You are welcome?
Mr. Gu was so angry that he almost fell over. She was still waiting for them to send people back to be ruined by her...
What a beast!
"Madam, Your Highness, he doesn't look well." Doctor Li stood up and whispered.
Cheng Jiaoniang glanced at him.
"He's not good to begin with," she said, raising her hand to stop him, "I'll wash up first, and I'll talk to you later if you have anything to say."
Watching Cheng Jiaoniang step into the courtyard, the three people outside the door were a little stunned.
"Li Sishen! If I trust you again, I will take your last name!"
Mr. Gu gritted his teeth and stared at Doctor Li and said, waving his hands.
"Carry His Highness back! Invite the imperial physician again!"
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In the palace, the Queen Mother was surprised when she heard the reports from the palace ladies and chamberlains who had returned.
"No way?" she said, putting down the tea bowl in her hand, "How could she do such a thing?"
The chamberlain nodded, somewhat exaggeratedly.
"Yeah, I really didn't expect that." He said, "I hurriedly invited the imperial doctor to see me. They all said that it was internal exhaustion. Let alone the medicine, I couldn't even wake up. A group of people were running around in a hurry.
Woolen cloth."
"Yes, your Majesty, you haven't seen it. Your Highness's face has lost all appearance, as if he has been squeezed dry." Another palace lady followed and said.
The Queen Mother frowned.
"He is like this now, and if he is like that again, he will be squeezed dry!" she said.
"Fortunately, His Highness was so infatuated that he came to worship her in person, but as for her, she turned out to be... tsk tsk tsk..." The palace lady shook her head and couldn't continue, with a look of dismay on her face, "Why are you so anxious?"
What's the rush?
The Queen Mother sneered in her heart.
She should be anxious to get pregnant with flesh and blood, so that even if the King of Jin'an County is gone, the rest of her life will be saved.
As expected, he is very calculating and cruel.
If she can incite the people to marry her like that, she will make her name as the princess of the county even more famous. If she can drug the prince to make her pregnant, if the prince of Jin'an is gone in the future, she will have enough reasons to be the princess of the county.
Live well.
This woman categorically refused to treat King Qing, colluded with the Queen, and the King of Jin'an County to send a secret medicine to make Concubine An pregnant, and then used Taibai Jingtian to kill King Ping, made His Majesty faint with anger, and made the Concubine crazy with anger...
...Step by step, he extended his hand into the royal family. One can imagine whose world this world will become if he is no longer there...
"Your Majesty, the Queen doesn't have much to rely on. Her biggest support is this Cheng Jiaoniang."
"Even the King of Jin'an County will rely on her in the future. If they want to do something treasonous and unethical, someone must clear their name. And why has this Cheng Jiaoniang been so concerned about her reputation, disciple of the gods, eclipse of the sun, eclipse of the moon, and Taibai?
Jingtian, Cailei, these things are enough for the people to believe her. In the future, she only needs to tell her who is the real one, and then the people will not question..."
Gao Lingbo's voice rang in his ears again.
"Empress, if you want to pull out this poisonous fang without being questioned by the people, this is a good opportunity, and it is a good opportunity that cannot be missed."
The Queen Mother exhaled and clenched her hands.
Can't wait any longer.
"Someone, please send her to the palace."
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An update today, take some slack on the weekend (to be continued)
