box of hearts

Chapter 259 Looking at My Hometown (3)
She mischievously pulled his face until it was deformed, and rubbed it twice with a giggle.Slowly, slowly, there was a smile, like the water circles formed by the rainwater from the sky in the underground pool water, floating and spreading on Qi She's face, "It's also my happiest day." He said explain.

He wasn't lying.Over the years, he has always had a stubborn idea: this barren woman is the only woman in the world who is qualified to reproduce for him.Today, his dream finally came true.This is indeed his happiest day, and at the same time, it is also his saddest day.

Qi She leaned forward and hugged his child's mother into her arms.

In the end, he failed to persuade Qingtian, and she had never been so stubborn, from smiling and begging to crying and pleading, until he compromised.The next day, with this absurd decision, Qi She returned to the palace and met with his second concubine Zhan.

Years pass by, but Zhan still looks like that.A beautiful woman is a flower in a crystal vase, and it is extremely shocking when it is ruined; while those who are originally inconspicuous are a holly plant outside the window, which is still growing and getting old day by day, but yesterday and today, last year It doesn't look any different than this year.Zhan's is eternally solemn and plain, wearing a frosty brown trousers made of royal silk, a light white skirt, and a burnt blue pendant big pearl curly grass on his head, with a pearl and a phoenix inserted obliquely. A mother-of-pearl wipe across the forehead across the eyebrows.The pair of eyes under the eyebrows are quiet and peaceful, watching her husband, listening to all he has to say.

Qi She didn't look at his wife, but just stared at a small book lamp not far away, which made his face faintly feverish, "Of course, I will never force you, if you are not willing-- "

"I am willing." Zhan Shi agreed quickly, quickly and gently, as if the other party asked her only to pass the tea on the table.

Even Qi She was surprised by such unthinking, he turned his face and looked at Zhan's eyes solemnly, "I have wronged you."

Mrs. Zhan smiled broadly, "Why am I wronged? It's nothing more than a show in front of others, not to mention that after the fake show, the flesh and blood of the real prince was handed over to me and asked me to be his mother. This is a great joy. On the contrary Duan -- well, logically, with such a heavenly opportunity, she could have asked for a title from the lord. The lord has never had a child, and he has always favored her. As a man, it may not be feasible to bring her into the mansion to be a concubine. October pregnancy should be the most proud and publicized time for a woman, but she wants to sneak out of the sky like this and suffer At the end of the month, I have to give away the meat that falls from my body to others. I don’t want mothers to be more expensive than their children, but only their children to be more expensive than their mothers. Being a mother is really not easy.”

A ray of empathy appeared on Zhan's round and plain face, and the warmth in his expression was enough to make people move, but Qi She didn't see it.He has turned his eyes to look at the lamp again, as if all his needs and losses are in the faint light.

2.
If so, the truth of Qingtian's pregnancy was completely buried, and what was made public was that the second concubine of the Prince Regent's House was pregnant.After the news was released, those who gave congratulations and gifts to Mrs. Zhan followed each other.In previous years, if there were no festivals, Qi She would never return to the palace more than three times in a month. At this time, out of concern for public opinion, he spent half a month staying in the Fengyue Shuangqing Pavilion of the Zhan Family.Zhan was considerate and advised him to go back to Shichahai instead.

"My lord should also be more considerate of Duan's thoughts. She hasn't been away from you for a few days in all these years. This is a double body. When he was being coquettish, the lord left her. Even if he was afraid of the child in his stomach, it wouldn't be good. , let’s go back, ah.” Said Zhan and his party, they added a small spoonful of powdered sugar to a bowl of milk porridge, stirred it and handed it over.

Seemingly avoiding something extremely bitter, Qi She pushed the bowl away with a dull expression, "As soon as I go back, she keeps persuading me to come to you, what do you want from me?"

Seeing this, Zhan didn't say much anymore, and asked two personal maids to help Qi She wash up.She changed into the courtyard silk pajamas for him by herself, and helped him to the bedside, "I'll do some more embroidery, my lord, go to bed first."

It wasn't until she heard the sound of snoring that Zhan put down the needle and thread in her hand, walked to the palace bed on the other side of the partition, and watched Qi She quietly fall asleep for a moment, then put down the curtain, blew out the lamp, and went to the other side of the room. The other bed slept.She put her hand on her lower abdomen and caressed it, just like every woman who conceived her husband's essence and blood; her blue and white palm lay on the silk quilt, like a cloud, dragging the depths of spring like the sea.

Between the cloud mountains and the phantom sea, there are piles of cloud gauze tents, which rise and stop with the wind.In the dorm in Beifu, Qingtian was standing half naked behind the tent, Yingzhi bowed in front of her, and unwrapped the silk cloth that bound her abdomen.Qingtian's waist was as flat as ever, and she couldn't tell she was three months pregnant.She smiled and stroked the place where there was still a large red indentation on her belly, and stroked the warbler branches with red eyes, "What are you thinking about? You idiot."

She changed into her pajamas and tied up the belt herself, "You go to bed first, I'll do some knitting later."

The bright moon is a star, and there is a shallow shadow on the window screen.Watching a clear lamp, Qingtian is embroidering a tiger-toe shoe the size of the palm of his hand. He stitches and sews the stars, moon and flowers coming in through the window. The needle is sewn into the shoe.

Night, without a trace.

Just after noon the next day, Qi She entered the door.

"Not much to do today, let's see you."

Just as Huaju is at the time when Fangfei is boundless, there is only a white iris lying horizontally among the soft garlands in Qingtian, and two pendant jade tassels with pressed skirts are dancing lightly, against a series of light footsteps and laughter, "I don't see anything." Head, the good-looking ones are in the back, I'll take you there."

She took Qi She's hand and went to the piano room. When she pushed the door open, she saw that the white powder wall in front of the opening had become colorful, painted with majestic and complex colors of flowers and trees, and the haze of flowers and trees was full of turmoil. The gurgling, misty and indescribable shape seems to be able to penetrate into the mountains, rocks, forests and springs directly from this wall.Qi She couldn't help being amazed again and again, and walked over to the wall to take a closer look, but suddenly saw a parrot in a fluffy branch in the painting that was about to fly away, shaking its jade-white tail feathers and shouting: "My lord is here! My lord is here!"

"This is not—" Qi She recognized that it was the parrot Feiqing, and after taking a closer look, he found that there were two small holes drilled in the mural, leaving only the parrot stand and water and food pipes inserted between the branches and leaves.If you don't take a closer look, it really makes people suspicious of the magic brush.

The parrot fluttered its wings again, straightened its neck and shouted: "My lord is wise! My lord is kind! My lord is mighty! My lord——"

"Hey!" Qing Tian interrupted Fei Qing's eloquence with two palm strikes, and looked at Qi She with a smile on his face, "I drew it, and I also thought of this mechanism, okay?"

"You are becoming more and more eccentric." Qi She laughed loudly, and stretched out his hand to pluck Fei Qing's feathers, "Dare you be busy these days? Good, good, but how much effort does it take to paint this wall? I have to climb up and down again, what if I fall down? You are too worrying for me. I will not allow it in the future, and it is serious to take good care of the fetus."

"You don't know." Qingtian smiled and turned back to lean against the wall, and embedded it into the painting. It is the goddess of Wushan in the wild forest. The words, the tone of leisure, sorrow, and hatred, make people hurt spring and autumn. Instead, I draw a few strokes here, heartily, and forget everything. Last year Feiqing was ill, and this year it is not getting better. Just these two days I'm busy here, look how energetic it is now, even the one in its stomach is happy with me."

Qi She put her hand on Qingtian's lower abdomen, through a few thin layers of gauze, she touched the corset under her clothes, as if a bundle of silk cloth was strangling his heart, extremely oppressive.But seeing Qingtian's bright smiling face, he didn't know how happy he was, so he just smiled, "Little fool."

Qingtian stared at the sun on the ice gauze drawer, and brushed his hands away, "It's rare that you have free time, so go back there to accompany your concubine."

"I came back early today to accompany you."

"Go back over there. How many times have I told you that when I think of my concubine, I feel ashamed. Not only has she dominated her husband for many years, but in the end she has to raise my children for me. Seriously, I should Go and thank her by yourself, but—" Qingtian thought for a moment, and only summed up the old story of the Second Concubine Rongwan calling at the door, and Zhan's rescue for him, "Once by chance, I met her face to face. I met the sedan chair of my concubine, but she refused to get out of the sedan chair to accept my gift. She is a noble person, and she would not want to meet someone like me, so I will not bother people, just chant scriptures and pray for her more, It is my heart. Now people outside are watching, Mrs. Zhan is pregnant, and you should accompany her a lot, but I don’t feel at ease when you are with me. Please, go back Bar."

"So, don't tell me I won't come back until you give birth?"

"You won't come back after I gave birth." Qingtian looked away, and said to the parrot, "The second concubine is the child's mother, and when the child grows up, don't let him feel that the rats from outside have seduced him. Father, I just ignored my mother and concubine, I don't want my child to hate me. Did you forget? You also said that if you want to treat a child wholeheartedly, you have to treat his mother wholeheartedly."

For some reason, a surge of anger suddenly rose in Qi She's chest.Just when he was about to have a big quarrel with Qing Tian, ​​Zhou Dun called out from the door: "My lord, the second concubine said something happened in the mansion, please go back when you have time."

(End of this chapter)