Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 35

Ruyi stroked her stomach and stood there in a daze, watching the prince's disappearing figure, clenched her fists unconsciously.

Her current pregnancy should be a good thing for the crown prince who has no heir so far, at least Nanny Cao's reaction is considered normal, but why did the crown prince behave like this.

For the child in her womb, she can't avoid it.

Countless thoughts flashed through Ruyi's mind, and she was still puzzled.

Did the prince think the child was not his?Ruyi couldn't figure out how a man wouldn't desire his own child, unless it was for this reason.

However, Ruyi felt that her idea was weird and funny.

How could the prince think that she gave him a cuckold!After arriving here, after becoming a real woman in the prince's backyard, Ruyi realized how impossible it was for a concubine to cuckold the emperor in some TV dramas in her previous life.Not to mention that women in the backyard basically have no chance to meet foreign men, even if they are lucky enough to meet some foreign men for some reason, such as imperial physicians and guards, it is impossible for them to have dark knots.

One of the reasons is that it is impossible for you to come into contact with these outsiders alone; the second is that the royal family pays special attention to their own children, and these people in the royal family are not fools. Calculating the time by the pulse, you can know it clearly.

Moreover, Ruyi doesn't know other people's thoughts. Anyway, Ruyi dare not even think about it. The risk is too great and the operability is extremely poor.

After overturning the last weird thought in her mind, Ruyi sighed deeply.

When Nanny Cao walked into the room, she saw Ruyi standing there in a daze while rubbing her stomach.

"You child, you are pregnant and don't lie down yet."

Nanny Cao thought that Ruyi was just a surprise, but she still hadn't come to her senses at this moment, so she quickly asked Shaoyao to help Ruyi lie down on the bed.

Ruyi looked at Nanny Cao's anxious expression, but couldn't help showing a smile on her face: "Aunt Cao, I'm fine, you're too careful!"

"It's always right to be careful." Nanny Cao showed disapproval of Ruyi's sloppyness. After carefully supporting Ruyi to lie down on the bed, she looked into the room and asked a little strangely: "Your Highness Woolen cloth?"

Ruyi's eyes darkened when she thought of the prince's performance just now, but she still smiled and replied: "Your Highness said to invite a doctor for me."

"It's right! It's right!"

Granny Cao looked suddenly enlightened, and nodded again and again, "You are pregnant with the prince's first son, but the eldest grandson of the emperor and empress, His Highness should be the one."

"Aunt Cao, it's not confirmed yet!"

For example, Nanny Cao seemed certain that she had a child in her womb, and it must be a boy, she was a little dumbfounded.

"Then you have to be careful!" Grandma Cao looked longingly at Ruyi's stomach, and said softly, "This may be a lucky baby, if the emperor and queen hear that the crown prince has an heir, they may release His Royal Highness's confinement with great joy. "

"Aunt Cao..."

Ruyi only felt that the other party was getting more and more exaggerated, so she couldn't help interrupting.

"Okay, I won't say much, I won't say much."

Aunt Cao also knew that she had made a slip of the tongue. The child was still young, so if she said too much, she was afraid that it would spoil the child's luck.

"By the way, remove the ice basin, this child won't be able to catch the cold!" Aunt Cao stopped the topic, but looked at the furnishings in the room and began to command, "Shaoyao, your master is pregnant, and his body temperature will rise , It’s hot again, you have to be careful not to use ice, you can fan it when it’s hot.”

"I'll save it for you servant." When Shaoyao heard about the errand assigned to her, she didn't complain at all, instead she happily agreed.

Granny Cao nodded when she heard the words, and then looked at the furniture in the room: "There are some furniture with sharp corners in this room that need to be replaced. what!"

Grandma Cao was muttering to herself, but at this moment, Deng Xian's voice sounded from outside the house.

"Mrs. Chen, the doctor His Highness ordered the servants to invite has already been brought."

So fast!
Both Ruyi and Nanny Cao were a little surprised and couldn't help but look at each other.You must know that they are currently being locked up, and it is very difficult to contact the outside world.

Even if the Crown Prince wrote the papers and asked outsiders to submit them, it would not be so fast.

However, Nanny Cao went a step further than she expected. The imperial doctor came so quickly, does it mean that the emperor and empress attach great importance to this matter.She couldn't help but deepen the smile on her face, she went to the door and opened it herself, but the smile fell when she saw the person outside the door.

After Mr. Deng died, the imperial physician that Mrs. Cao thought was an old man in eunuch uniform.

The reason why Grandma Cao recognized that this person was not a real eunuch was because Grandma Cao had stayed in the palace for a long time, and knew that old eunuchs would basically be hairless, and the old man in front of her, although clean-shaven, looked If you go, you will know that it is not an old eunuch.

"Didn't you invite the imperial physician? Why..." Grandma Cao looked at Deng Xian with some doubts.

Deng Xian just lowered his head and said softly: "Your Highness asked the servants to invite a doctor outside."

"Please come outside?" Cao Nai Niang did not delve into the meaning of the prince's actions, but frowned and hesitated, "Is the doctor outside reliable?"

What's more in my heart is distrust, the doctors outside are not as good as the imperial physicians in the palace.

"Nurse, it's all right, let the doctor show you to Ruyi first!"

The prince came from the study, saw the people blocking the door, and said.

"Your Highness..." Seeing the Prince speaking, Grandma Cao no longer blocked the door. Although she still hesitated in her heart, she still stepped aside.

It seems that for the sake of simplicity, the old doctor didn't bring the medicine boy, and only walked in with the medicine box on his back, and confirmed the patient who was lying on the bed.Without further ado, he put down the medicine box neatly, took a hand pillow and put Shaoyao under Ruyi's hand, and covered Ruyi's wrist with a piece of silk cloth, then put his hand on the silk cloth, closed his eyes and started diagnosis.

During the whole process, not only the movements were skillful, but also extremely well-regulated, compared to the imperial physician, he was also unyielding.

Seeing this, Grandma Cao breathed a sigh of relief, but who knew the old doctor's next words made Grandma Cao almost jump.

"This madam was only hurt by the heat, and she's fine."

"The heat..."

Not only Nanny Cao, but even Ruyi couldn't help sitting up, a little in disbelief.

"Doctor, you are right in the diagnosis!" Nanny Cao refused to believe it, full of suspicion, "Why is it not pregnant? Madam just smelled fishy, ​​but it was disgusting!"

"Although the old man's medical skills are not good, you can still tell the difference between slippery pulse and heatstroke." The old doctor was not angry, and explained.

However, Nanny Cao was still a little reconciled. She didn't want to believe that the child she had already believed in Ruyi's belly was lost by the old doctor.

"Doctor, do you want to see me again?"

"Nurse, don't embarrass the doctor!" The prince's eyes fell on Ruyi's stomach, and then he glanced at Ruyi who was hanging his head with an unknown expression, and said to Mr. Deng: "Later you send When the doctor goes out, he will bring Mrs. Chen the anti-heat medicine."

"Yes!" Deng Xian bowed his head in agreement.

The old doctor put the things back into the medicine box, saluted the prince respectfully, and stepped back.

After the old doctor withdrew, no one in the room spoke again, only the silence was a bit uncomfortable.

Ruyi was even a little ashamed. She thought she was pregnant with a child. Although the crown prince was not happy, everyone still had hope. Now she didn't expect it to be an oolong, which really made her a little hard to see.Especially when Grandma Cao was so happy just now.

As for the prince, Ruyi didn't know how to deal with it. She even felt a little self-defeating in her heart: the prince didn't like her having a child just now, maybe she didn't have a child, which made the prince happy.

"Nurse, it's getting late, go back and rest!"

The prince ordered lightly.

Nanny Cao felt uncomfortable and remorseful at the same time. Thinking about this matter, she was too quick to talk, but now it made the prince happy for nothing.

"Your Highness, it's all because of the old slave's lack of brains and nonsense."

"Nurse, it's okay." The prince smiled, showing no emotion at all.

But Nanny Cao had already made up her mind that the prince's appearance made her feel that the prince was trying to conceal his disappointment to comfort her.She was also a little shameless to stay still, so she comforted the prince: "Your Highness, you are still young, and it will be a matter of time before you have an heir."

After saying that, he cast a look at Shao Yao: "The old slave has gone down."

Shaoyao hurriedly followed Nanny Cao and left the room together.

When everyone was gone, Ruyi dared to raise her head and take a peek at the prince, but she happened to be looking at her, and she was so frightened that she looked away again.

She managed to pluck up the courage, and her tone was full of expectations that she didn't even notice herself: "Your Highness..."

"Take a good rest! I don't care about my body, I don't even know I'm suffering from heatstroke."

The prince didn't mention the oolong just now, he just smiled and blamed Ruyi for his carelessness.

"I picked vegetables in the yard in the afternoon, I'm afraid it was the heat of the day."

Ruyi thought about it over and over in her mind, only to think that maybe it was because she had just left the cool study room and picked vegetables under the sun.

"When the sun is hot in the future, don't go out of the house!"

The prince sat down beside Ruyi's bed, exhorting him in a gentle voice.

Ruyi couldn't help raising her head to look at the prince, but she saw that the prince's eyes seemed to have the same tenderness as when she was looking at the woman in the painting in the study in the afternoon.

She pursed her lips, held the prince's right hand, and leaned her head on the prince's shoulder softly.

Ruyi's movement made the prince couldn't help but glance at her sideways, but he didn't push her away, instead he let himself enjoy this rare and warm moment.

After taking the anti-heat medicine that Deng Xian took back, Ruyi simply washed up and lay down on the bed again.

The prince was still washing up outside, Ruyi listened to the sound of water, but his mind was a little far away.

In fact, calm down and think about it, it is a blessing not to have this child.At first, she was only concerned about being shocked by her pregnancy, and when the prince showed dislike for the child, she subconsciously wanted to protect the child, but she didn't think about it.

Now, she suddenly thought that her current body was only 14 years old, thin and small, and not yet fully developed.Giving birth in ancient times was a very dangerous thing. Although there were many women who became mothers at the age of 14, many women died because of it.

Women in this era get married early and have children early, which seems to be a normal rule. Many people even believe superstitiously that fourteen or fifteen years old is a good age to conceive a child.But for Ruyi, who used to live in the era of late marriage and late childbearing, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, she was only in junior high school, and it was too early to have children.

Moreover, she clearly felt that after this oolong, the prince's attitude towards her seemed a little different, with a little more real tenderness.

She is not a fool. At first, the prince treated her well, but the kindness was a bit exaggerated and false. In many cases, she could feel that the prince seemed to want to use this kind of kindness to train her, transform her, and turn her into a The woman he wanted.But she instinctively resisted, she didn't resist the prince's kindness to her, she was just afraid, she knew that she couldn't become the kind of person the prince wanted, sometimes it was difficult for her to understand the prince, she was afraid that if she did something If it's not good, the prince might be furious, and she instinctively felt that she couldn't bear this kind of furious anger of hope and disappointment.

Ruyi closed her eyes, thinking vaguely in her mind, maybe this way is good, and she can be regarded as changing the crown prince in a crooked way.

After taking the medicine, Ruyi didn't sleep well. When the prince went to bed, she murmured in a low voice, but she didn't wake up.

The prince looked at Ruyi's frowning brows while she was sleeping, and gently wanted to put his hand on her forehead, but his eyes couldn't help but landed on Ruyi's stomach erratically, and that hand was also in his hands. Before he realized it, unconsciously, he had already caressed Ruyi's stomach.

That posture was no different from the one in the afternoon when Ruyi forcibly pulled his hand on his stomach, and it also touched the prince's heart in the same way.

"Child... heir!"

The prince uttered these two words softly, with a bitter and self-deprecating smile on his face, but there was still an expectation that he himself hadn't realized.

(End of this chapter)