Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 33

The prince's tone was not strong, and the smile on his face was extremely gentle, as if he was just stating an ordinary matter.

However, Ruyi's body trembled uncontrollably.

"Your Highness..." She turned pale.

"Are you afraid?" The other hand of the prince, along Ruyi's hair, slowly stuck to Ruyi's face, but the smile on the corner of his lips deepened. He hugged Ruyi's body, and gently pressed against her ear. Said, "Gu is just joking with you, what are you afraid of?"

"I..." Ruyi's lips trembled, if the prince hadn't still grabbed her, she would have almost collapsed to the ground in fear.Every time the prince asked her something like this in a joking manner, or said something to her, Ruyi felt that the prince at this time frightened her a little bit.

At this time, the Prince's expression seemed calm, but Ruyi seemed to be able to sense a dark aura from him.

"Slave... Ruyi is not afraid." Ruyi's voice trembled, and she felt that the forced smile on her face was uglier than crying.

"Ruyi, I just said that I want to be an ordinary couple with you." The crown prince seemed not to see the fear on Ruyi's face, he still smiled and said in a gentle tone, and even gently brushed the hair on his temples for her. The hair is wrapped around the ears.

"Can you understand Gu's feelings for you?"

Ruyi only felt that the strand of hair held by the crown prince felt as if it was strangling her throat. Her heart was beating fast, but she still held back her fear and tried her best to calm her mind.

"Ruyi understands."

"Gu also thinks that you will understand." The prince smiled and let go of Ruyi, took two steps back, and looked at Ruyi, "You have always been very smart and know how to understand current affairs."

"Your Highness, I'm honored."

Ruyi suppressed her panting reaction, looked up at the prince with a smile.

The prince just smiled and didn't say anything, with a gentle look.It seemed that the scene just now was just a wishful illusion.

But Ruyi didn't dare to relax her vigilance, she smiled and reminded the prince: "Your Highness, the breakfast is ready."

"No rush." ​​The crown prince didn't take a step, but stood on the spot and smiled casually at Ruyi, "You haven't answered Gu Fangcai's question yet?"

"Your Highness..." Ruyi didn't know why the prince was so persistent, she pursed her lips, and saw that the prince was still staring at her, as if waiting for her answer.

"This servant doesn't know what the Crown Princess thinks..." Seeing the Prince's smile slowly sinking, she quickly cheered up and said, "But this servant is also a woman, and I just think that the Crown Princess may be afraid that His Highness will blame her, so want to……"

"You have a small mouth, but you don't want to offend anyone."

Ruyi didn't finish his words, but the prince laughed: "It's obviously such a dirty thing, but it has become such an understatement in your mouth."

What the prince said was merciless, but Ruyi stood where she was, but she didn't know whether she should be glad that the prince let her go, or sweat coldly because of the prince's mean words and deeds.

"Chen Yuanxiang thinks that a set of clothes can win over a lonely heart. It's really stupid. It's a daydream!"

There was no warmth in the prince's eyes, but Ruyi was secretly shocked, and shuddered at the prince's ruthlessness.Chen Yuanxiang and the crown prince were married after all, and they had been married for more than ten years.

Now, just because the other party refuses to risk his life to take care of the crown prince who has survived the epidemic, the relationship between husband and wife has been completely wiped out, which is a bit too much!

Ruyi didn't feel wronged by Chen Yuanxiang, but felt that the prince seemed a little heartless.Ruyi's demeanor unconsciously revealed a bit of alienation.

The prince saw it, but still smiled on his face, and said to Ruyi in a light tone: "Ruyi, Gu said, you don't have to be afraid of Gu, you are different to Gu, how can Gu treat other women with the same attitude? you."

The prince said it naturally, and he didn't feel any strange that the other woman he said was actually the wife he was marrying.

In Ruyi's heart, she didn't know what it was like. In the end, she just lowered her head and replied respectfully: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness."

"Then should you repay Gu's love?"

Ruyi was startled, not knowing what the crown prince was going to say, and felt a little helpless: "Everything that Ruyi gave to you was given by His Highness, what does His Highness want your servant to give in return?"

"Make clothes for me. A lady will cut clothes for my husband, but it should be done. My wishful thinking can't be worse than that of other ladies."

The prince's tone was very gentle, and Ruyi raised her head to see the prince's suddenly softened gaze, and nodded unconsciously.

After nodding, Ruyi regretted it.She has the nerve to show off her female celebrity skills, so she hastened to make amends: "Ruyi's female celebrity is not good, if Your Highness doesn't dislike it, Ruyi can make His Highness a pajamas!"

She secretly thought about it, she would definitely not be able to show off her workmanship in the outerwear, but at least the pajamas could be done without too much embroidery or a lot of practice.

In fact, the prince's request is really difficult for her. After entering the palace, all the clothes she wears are distributed uniformly in the palace. At most, she can only sew and mend, or make some small underwear. The fabric is tossing around.

"Ruyi can only do his best."

Thinking of this, Ruyi added another sentence.

Her embarrassment was revealed on the surface, and the prince looked at her shy and embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help laughing loudly: "No matter how bad Ruyi does, I won't despise her. Who said that my wife did it?" of it!"

Ruyi originally thought that if she could start construction one day later, she would start construction one day later, but she was lucky enough to think that maybe the prince asked her to cut the clothes on a whim, and she might just think it was nothing in the future.

Unexpectedly, not long after breakfast, Deng Xian brought people into the house carrying dozens of silks and satins of different colors.

"Mrs. Chen, just wait and see. If you don't like it, I will send someone to move it."

Ruyi looked at the silk and satin covered on the table, not to mention how much entanglement in her heart.She flipped through the silks with some distress, and said evasively, "Mr. Deng, these cloths..."

"His Royal Highness ordered the servant to bring it. If Madam thinks it is not good, the servant will go to pick it again." Deng Xian didn't know, just thought it was the cloth that was not selected well, and said hastily.

"No, it's fine."

Ruyi smiled in embarrassment, for a moment, she didn't know what to do.

While hesitating, the prince went back to the room, looked at the situation in the room, walked to Ruyi with a smile, hugged Ruyi's waist with one hand, and picked up a piece of plain blue satin with the other hand.

"Since we are making pajamas, let's use this one!" After finishing speaking, he casually asked Deng Xian, "How much cloth of this color are there?"

Deng Xian heard the prince's question, and quickly replied respectfully: "I haven't looked at it carefully, but there are still a few horses left."

"Take them all here!"

Deng Xian and Ruyi looked at the prince in surprise when they heard the words, and went inside without knowing.

The prince smiled and squeezed Ruyi's chin, and joked: "Ruyi's craft still needs to be practiced, Gu has brought you so much satin to practice, you can always make a decent pajamas for Gu!"

Ruyi only felt that her face was flushed red when she heard the words, the prince thought how poor her craftsmanship was.

A piece of cloth can be used to make at least ten sets of clothes, just like the piece of cloth she took earlier was made into clothes by Shao Yao, but it didn't even reach one-tenth of its usefulness.It still included Shaoyao and made small clothes and purses for her and Qiangwei with the leftover materials.

"Actually, one piece of fabric is enough." Ruyi said without much confidence, but still wanted to defend herself.

"There is no shortage of this material at home, so there is no need to save it for your husband." The prince still joked and said, he wanted to joke a little more, but seeing Ruyi's head drooping lower and lower, he knew it was not good to joke anymore.

So, she took a batch of pink palace satin with a smile, tore off a section, and put it on Ruyi's body for gestures: "For these satins, you can choose a few good colors to make a few clothes, so that you don't wear them so plain every day and waste them." Your good color."

Just as he was talking, without waiting for Ruyi to pick and choose, the prince picked out the brightest colors and put them aside.

Ruyi didn't care about the prince's interest in dressing her up, but her eyes fell on the plain blue satin in distress, feeling a little bit burnt out.

If Ruyi wanted to make clothes, it was impossible for her to do it right away.

Fortunately, Shaoyao next to her is a skillful hand. After choosing the material, Ruyi asked Shaoyao for advice. When she first asked, she felt that there was a lot of knowledge in it. When making clothes, you need to measure first, and then cut the clothes In sewing, one step cannot be missed.

What made Ruyi even more distressed was that this Nanny Cao had heard from somewhere that she was going to cut clothes for the prince, so she also came to join in the fun.The prince's pajamas should naturally be fine, and no threads should rub against the prince's skin. For this reason, Grandma Cao specially taught Ruyi a set of very complicated stitches, which are said to be able to remove any threads.

Ruyi only felt one head and two heads, and it took three days of clumsy learning to master the acupuncture method. After that, she measured it for the prince carelessly, and with the help of Shaoyao, she wasted countless fabrics and cut clothes. Finally, I can get started and use the stitching method.

The prince was very interested, watching Ruyi's clumsy study all day long, and when Ruyi started sewing clothes, the prince simply moved the place of reading back to the house, lying on the couch to read, or watching His "good wife" sews clothes.

The atmosphere is really a bit of harmony.

But upon closer inspection, the crown prince was smiling, and occasionally looked at Ruyi as if watching a western scene, and worked hard.

As for Ruyi, she was restless and impetuous, and the smooth flow of acupuncture had nothing to do with her, and she couldn't even be proficient in it. Every time she took an injection, she felt that one of her brain cells was about to die.

It didn't take long for this end to be used, and the other end Ruyi hissed, her finger was pricked, and a drop of blood came out.

Luckily, Ruyi looked at the fabric that was not stained with blood, and quickly took the handkerchief to hold down her fingers, and was about to wrap it up, but saw that the prince had already thrown away the book, and grabbed Ruyi's hand with the injured finger, and uncovered it. Open the veil, put it directly into your mouth and suck it.

"Your Highness..."

Ruyi felt that this action was a bit ambiguous, and felt that this practice seemed a little unhygienic, so she tried her best to withdraw her hand, but the prince let go, and took the handkerchief to wrap Ruyi again.

Wrapped around his hands, he jokingly said: "Don't blame people for talking about clumsy thorns. I still take it as a self-effacing statement. Unbelievable, my family's clumsy thorns are really clumsy!"

Ruyi has been teased by the prince a lot, and she can face the prince's jokes as usual with a cheeky face. When the prince wraps her fingers for her, she also freely wants to pick up the needle and thread and continue her homework.

But the prince took down the things in her hand and said, "I'm not so short of clothes that I need you to sew for me when you are injured. Since you are injured, you should recuperate and rest early."

"It's just a prick on the hand, it's not a problem." Ruyi felt that the prince was exaggerating, and made a big fuss over a molehill.

But the prince has a serious face: "That's not okay, every part of your body is mine, and it's me who hurts you."

"Your Highness really..."

Ruyi didn't know what to say about the prince. During these days, the prince didn't scare her any more, but, all day long, he was talking nasty things both true and false.It also made Ruyi feel like she couldn't tell the truth from the fake. Occasionally, she even couldn't help wondering which side of the prince was the real him.

Needlework could not be done, although the weather was not over, Ruyi washed up and went to bed to rest under Shao Yao's service.When she was on the bed, Ruyi realized why the prince had to rest so early, it was because he wanted a beast.

Ruyi thought vaguely in her mind, if she was more courageous, she should refute the prince: since it is an injured person, how can the injured person do such strenuous exercise!

Because of Ruyi's unskilled craftsmanship, and because of the prince's occasional gags, and she was simply dressed in pajamas, it took more than a month for Ruyi to complete the work.And the new clothes cut from the fabric that the prince had chosen for Ruyi, the people below have already made them.

The craftsmanship of the two people's clothes is naturally not the same, but they tried new clothes on the same day.

The plain blue pajamas have no patterns at all, but fortunately the size fits well and the stitches are fine.Ruyi's new sets of clothes are exquisite in craftsmanship. The embroidery of the clothes, whether it is flowers, bamboo, wood or butterflies and clouds, is all ingenious. Even Shao Yao praised this stitching method.

Ruyi's heart, which had a sense of accomplishment at first, was hit hard in an instant, but she stepped forward to take off the prince's clothes in embarrassment.

"Your Highness, you can change it tonight!" She smiled.

The prince looked at his clothes up and down, and said with a smile: "Alright, let someone put them away in the closet. My wife embroidered them for me stitch by stitch."

Ruyi was folding her clothes, but she felt a little uncomfortable at what the prince said.She barely concealed the unease in her heart, and said with a smile: "Ruyi just made a simple pajamas for His Highness, but she changed into so many beautiful clothes, this business, Ruyi made a profit."

"There's more money to be made!"

The prince seemed to have thought of something, and pulled Ruyi to the study on a whim, and said, "When you were in the East Palace, you were practicing calligraphy. I will be your teacher and teach you calligraphy well."

(End of this chapter)