Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 29

In the room, when Grandma Cao watched Ruyi's thin body walk out of the room respectfully, she also felt a little uncomfortable.

During this period of time, she spent a lot of time with Ruyi. In all honesty, she had a good impression of Ruyi.Just because Ruyi is the only woman who is willing to take care of the prince, she looks a little different, not to mention that Ruyi is willing to take care of the prince's daily meals.It's just that no matter how good the impression is, it won't help when seeing Ruyi handing the medicine to the prince without trying it.

After she took the medicine, she also realized that she was a little impulsive, and her actions were a little too aggressive.She thought that Ruyi would defend herself, but who knew that Ruyi would obediently admit her mistake and retreat without saying a word.

In this way, it was Nanny Cao who somehow felt guilty towards Ruyi.

It's just that Grandma Cao has always had a tough temper. She knew that Ruyi was at fault for this matter, and she would persevere even if she felt a little strange.

"Servant, let's test the medicine for Your Highness!" Nanny Cao took a teacup and was about to take back the medicine from the prince, but saw the prince put the medicine to his mouth with a smile, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Your Highness..."

Nanny Cao looked at the prince in disapproval.

The prince put the medicine bowl aside with a smile, and said: "Nurse is too careful, now Gu is like a useless person, who would think of harming such a useless person."

"Your Highness, why are you talking about yourself like that? This servant doesn't understand His Highness. Someone must have wronged His Highness. As long as the Emperor calms down, he will find out the truth and make His Highness innocent." Nanny Cao looked at the prince distressedly, and quickly comforted him. .

"It's just that the nanny still believes in Gu." The prince smiled and said in a flat tone.

"Your Highness..." Granny Cao inexplicably heard a bit of loneliness from the prince's tone.

"Nurse, don't blame Mrs. Chen. If she doesn't do well, you just need to teach her more! How to say, she also takes care of Gu."

It seemed that the prince didn't want to talk about the previous topic anymore, but instead brought up Ruyi.

After listening to the crown prince's words, Grandma Cao touched her heart: "Your Highness, don't say that, just now there is something wrong with the slave and maid. Your Highness, you didn't mention Mrs. Chen, but this slave, the slave, is doing it for me!"

"Gu knows that the nanny is for Gu's benefit, and Gu has never treated the nanny as a slave."

"Your Highness is merciful, and slaves can't make mistakes." Grandma Cao replied solemnly, and then said slowly, "However, Mrs. Chen is really sincere to His Highness. Mrs. Chen is not very old, she is still a child. Thin and weak, the maidservant didn't trust her at first, but who knew that she not only took good care of His Highness, but also cooked and ate food for His Highness herself, this point would never have occurred to a slaveservant to take care of His Highness."

"This is what she should do." Hearing this, the prince just smiled lightly.

When Ruyi walked out of the room, she couldn't control her red eyes, and she didn't know why she suddenly became emotional.On this matter, she thought about it rationally, and it was indeed her inconsiderate actions.She hadn't taken care of the master personally before, so she didn't have the habit of trying to eat the things in the master's mouth first.But there is indeed this rule in the palace, and it is also mentioned in the palace TV series seen in the previous life.

She was indeed negligent on this point.

Grandma Cao said that her words were normal, what right did she have to feel wronged and uncomfortable.

Ruyi wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and sucked her nose, but her emotions were not so easy to control.

She knew better in her heart that the reason for her grievance was that she got along too well with Mrs. Cao during this time, because she got along too well, and the other party suddenly changed her attitude, which made her unable to bear it for a while.Grandma Cao treated her very well, and treated her as kindly as she would treat her own child, which made her unconsciously unable to help but indulge.

But all of a sudden, she found out that she was actually a little self-indulgent. From Nanny Cao's point of view, her identity was still just a woman who served the prince, and she didn't really love herself as a child.

When she walked to the small kitchen, Shao Yao was sitting in front of a small stove watching the fire, and when she saw Ruyi walking in, she quickly stood up to greet her.

Ruyi lowered her head and nodded, lifted Shaoyao to look at the casserole on the stove, she had disposed of the stewed chicken soup in the morning, she picked up the fan that was put aside, and said to Shaoyao: "Go and see the stove, I'll just come here."

Ruyi's voice was well controlled, no different from usual, Shaoyao was drowsy in the kitchen, and didn't notice Ruyi's strangeness, and walked to the other side of the stove without any objection after hearing the order.

It wasn't until Ruyi used a bowl to hold the chicken soup and Shaoyao came over to help that she realized her master's strangeness.

Ruyi's eyes are obviously red and swollen, which can be seen at a glance.

"Ma'am, you..." Why are you crying.

Shao Yao didn't have the nerve to ask, but still couldn't help staring at Ruyi's face with concern.

"It's okay, just now the small stove smoked too much, and I couldn't smoke it." Ruyi smiled in disguise, and put the chicken soup, several other side dishes and porridge into the tray.

"Since it's smoky, madam should let the servants watch."

Shao Yao forced a smile on her face and said something.How could Shao Yao not understand Ruyi's cover-up words.

She has been sitting in front of this stove for a whole morning. Except that it is a little hot, how can there be smoke that can smoke her eyes like this? Although this place is restricted, even the charcoal sent in for cooking is of the highest quality. Charcoal, almost no smoke.But her master has said so, and Shao Yao can only accompany her to whitewash the peace.

"Help me wring a towel with cold water. It's not good for me to see the prince."

Ruyi rubbed her eyes, and said to Shaoyao.

"Yes." Shao Yao nodded quickly.

After applying it to the eyes for a long time, Ruyi felt that the eyes were no longer swollen, so she just took off the towel and looked at herself in the mirror to take care of her embarrassed appearance.

In fact, Fang Cai Ruyi couldn't control her emotions. At first, she was aggrieved by Nanny Cao's scolding and shed tears. Later, she cried out all the panic and fear during this period.After crying, I felt relaxed all over, because I looked really embarrassed.

Fortunately, everything was tidied up, but nothing could be seen.

With a smile on her face again, she led the little eunuch into the prince's room with the lunch she had prepared.

When Ruyi walked in, Grandma Cao had already left and was no longer in the room. The prince was leaning on the bed, holding a book in his hand and was reading. Seeing Ruyi coming in, the prince did not speak.

After Ruyi greeted her, she carefully placed the lunches one by one on the small table next to the prince's bed, and then softly called: "Your Highness, the lunch has been set, do you want to eat it now?"

Hearing this, the prince put down the book in his hand, nodded, and was about to take the chopsticks.

But Ruyi picked up an empty small bowl first, and picked up every meal into the bowl.

"What are you doing?" the prince asked.

Ruyi smiled and replied naturally: "Aunt Cao is right, what the maidservant did earlier was indeed inconsiderate, and the maidservant had to try the dishes for His Highness first before letting His Highness eat with confidence."

The prince's gaze fell on Ruyi's eyes, and he didn't talk about what happened to Ruyi just now, but reached out and lifted Ruyi's chin, and moved closer to Ruyi's face.

"Your Highness..." Ruyi blinked her eyes, startled by the prince's sudden move.

"You have cried."

The prince naturally let go of Ruyi's chin, and the opening was not a rhetorical question, but a confirmation.

"Slave servant... Slave servant was just looking at the stove, and accidentally got smoked."

Ruyi quickly explained that she didn't want to compromise her usual regular image just because of such a trivial matter.In the palace, if you are scolded, no matter how wronged you are, you have to wait until there is no one to cry, otherwise it is also unruly.

"I'm sorry!"

The prince directly ignored Ruyi's explanation and said.

"No maidservant, it's because the maidservant did something wrong." Ruyi lowered her head and replied respectfully.

"Actually, Nanny Cao is too worried about Gu, so don't take it to heart."

The prince is still talking to himself.

Ruyi just felt like crying, but she really didn't think she had any right to be wronged by this matter... She almost said it, but her mind suddenly stopped, and she looked at the prince in surprise, the prince just said, Are you comforting yourself?

She thought about it in disbelief, but felt that she was thinking too much.

"Your Highness, Aunt Cao has always been kind to her servants." Ruyi said slowly with her head down.

"Aunt Cao is not difficult to get along with, and you are also a good-natured person. Gu is not worried about you." After the prince finished speaking, he suddenly reached out to touch Ruyi's head.

Ruyi only felt that something had been inserted into the bun on her head, the prince withdrew her hand, she subconsciously reached out to touch it, and found a cool hairpin.

She couldn't help opening her eyes wide, and looked up at the prince.

The prince just now... put a hairpin on her head with his own hands!

The prince... gave her a gift.

But the prince still maintained a calm expression, as if the person who did such a move just now was not him.

"Your Highness..." Ruyi still maintained the posture of holding the hairpin, but she couldn't help showing a smile on her face.Ruyi is not a wooden person, so she will be happy when she receives a gift, especially in such a scene, even she can't control herself, and a sweet feeling rises in her heart.

"Let's eat!"

The prince picked up the chopsticks on the low table by himself, and was about to eat, but Ruyi recovered from his own sweetness, and hurriedly stopped her: "Your Highness, wait for the servant to try it before eating."

After that, he picked up the small bowl containing the food.

The prince took a look at Ruyi's insistence, put down his chopsticks suddenly, and smiled: "You only eat so much, how can you try it out?"

After finishing speaking, he greeted the little eunuch standing aside and told him to bring some more bowls.

"Your Highness..."

Ruyi held the chopsticks and was puzzled.

But the prince took the bowls and put half of the food into those bowls himself.

"If you really want to test the poison, you have to take the same amount as Gu Chi."

Holding the chopsticks, Ruyi was completely stunned.Whether it was the TV series in her previous life or the cognition she had stayed in the palace for these years, it was the first time she heard that the palace servants who tested the poison had to eat the same amount of food as the master.

For a moment, looking at those dishes, she felt a little helpless.

"Hurry up and eat, or the food will be cold!"

The prince urged Ruyi, who had been afraid to use chopsticks for a long time, but Ruyi could only bite the bullet and stretch out her chopsticks towards the few dishes with the least amount of dishes.

For some reason, this feeling made her feel as if the prince was eating her leftovers.Ruyi tried her best to get rid of the weird thoughts in her head, and tried her best to eat all the food in her stomach quickly.

She didn't care to savor what it was like, she was only afraid that she would eat too slowly and delay the prince's meal later, and she was also afraid that the food would be cold.

After eating all the food, Ruyi was relieved, only felt that she was sweating from eating, and she came out of a hurry.

She carefully handed over the dishes she had eaten to the little eunuch, then said, "Your Highness, this servant will serve you."

The prince nodded, took the chopsticks picked up by Ruyi, and then used up the remaining half of the meal in an elegant manner.

"Is your Highness enough? Do you want a servant to bring some more?" Ruyi only brought a little more food than usual, so who knew that the crown prince would let her try it like this.So I was afraid that the prince would not be enough, so I hurriedly asked.

"No need." After the prince rinsed his mouth, he took the handkerchief from Ruyi's hand and wiped his mouth, then said, "You help Gu get out of bed and walk around twice."

"Yes." Ruyi quickly took the handkerchief that the prince had wiped his mouth and put it aside, then stepped forward to help the prince get off the bed, and put on another coat.

The prince is tall and tall. Although he has lost a lot of weight due to illness recently, with Ruyi's thin body, he definitely doesn't have enough strength to support him.Fortunately, the crown prince's body is not that weak, even if he is supported by Ruyi, it's just to let her accompany him for a few laps.

After walking around the house three times, the prince went back to lying on the bed.Although Imperial Physician Wei ordered the prince to get out of bed and take a walk for exercise, he still asked to rest mainly for self-cultivation.

After Ruyi twisted the towel and wiped the prince's face and hands, she sat on the chair next to her and waited for the prince to take a nap, then gestured to the little eunuch who was guarding the side, and then quietly left the room .

When she returned to the room, Shaoyao was setting the meal on the table. Seeing Ruyi walking in, she quickly greeted Ann with a smile, and then said, "Ma'am, the meal has just been set, so hurry up and use it!"

Ruyi nodded, just about to take the chopsticks Shao Yao handed her, but she didn't feel hungry at all.

"Ma'am..." Shaoyao was still holding the chopsticks with both hands, seeing that Ruyi hadn't received them for a long time, she looked at Ruyi with a strange look on her face.

Ruyi smiled and explained: "No need, I'm quite full now, so I don't want to use it."

After hearing this, Shaoyao became a little anxious. Thinking about what happened in the kitchen just now, she quickly persuaded: "Ma'am, even if there are some unhappy things, you can't stop eating. You still have to serve His Highness, what if you are starved to death?" manage!"

"Shaoyao, I'm not unhappy and don't eat." Ruyi couldn't laugh or cry, "I've tasted the dishes for His Highness just now and I'm full. If I'm hungry, I will eat."

Shaoyao still didn't believe it, but seeing Ruyi's insistence, she didn't try to persuade her, she just said: "If madam doesn't want to eat, then take a rest, the servant will remember to call madam later."

"it is good."

Ruyi counted the prince's daily work and rest hours, and did not object, sleeping on the couch in the prince's room was always comfortable on the bed.

She sat in front of the dressing table, and was about to reach out to remove the hairpin on her head, but her eyes were attracted by a luxurious hairpin on the bun.

This is what the crown prince put on her bun just now.

It is a gold hairpin in the shape of butterfly love flower. It is carved into a luxurious peony flower in peach red and pink jade, surrounded by three butterflies, and there are also tassels connected by butterflies and red beads winding down. The carving skills are very golden hairpin, peony The petals have distinct meridians, and the butterfly is about to fly.

"Ma'am, this hairpin is so pretty..."

Shao Yao looked at it fascinated, now, she is in charge of Ruyi's clothes and jewelry, so she knows that there is no such luxurious hairpin in Ruyi's dressing box.

"Your Highness gave it to Madam?" Shao Yao guessed with a smile, but she was certain in her heart.

Ruyi didn't speak, but carefully placed the hairpin on the dressing table, and took off her earrings with a smile.

"Your servant knows that His Royal Highness treats his wife differently now. He even gave such a beautiful hairpin to his wife. The crown prince and concubine probably don't have such a beautiful hairpin." Shao Yao said narrowly, but there was a bit of tone in her tone proud.

After all, the master is favored, and as the closest palace servant of the master, she is also honored.

The corners of Ruyi's mouth were originally curved, but gradually dropped a little.

She stroked the hairpin lightly with her hand, but there was no trace of the sweetness in her heart.

Until she lay down on the bed, she still felt a little scared.Why did she feel sweet just now...

Is she tempted by the prince? !
(End of this chapter)