Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 36

With such an oolong on Ruyi's side, I feel a little embarrassed to see others.

Although there were only a few people in the courtyard, Grandma Cao was mobilizing the teachers at that time, and everyone in the courtyard knew about it.It is certain that gossip is unavoidable in private.Fortunately, Ruyi lay in the house for two days due to heatstroke, and when she went out again, the embarrassment in her heart was much less.

And after Ruyi left the house, she heard Shaoyao gossiping, only then did she know that Nanny Cao was even more embarrassed to meet people than she was, and today she hid in the house complaining of a headache.

After Ruyi heard this, she suddenly felt a little funny.This one rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen to stew a cup of red dates and white fungus soup, and then he carried it to Grandma Cao's house.

Nanny Cao's house was far away from the main house, and it was also because the prince was infected with the epidemic at that time and was afraid of infecting Nanny Cao, so he specially ordered the house to be moved far away. After the prince recovered from illness, he never moved.Anyway, it was in such a yard, but it was only a few steps away.

The house is as big as the one Ruyi lived in before, but the layout is a little plainer and simpler.

When Nanny Cao came here, she didn't bring anyone to serve her. Although some things can be ordered to the eunuchs and maids here, it's not something she's used to. Nanny Cao does it by herself most of the time.

When Ruyi walked in, Grandma Cao was lying on the bed fanning herself with a fan. Because of her age, there was only an ice basin in the room, so it was a bit stuffy.

Seeing Ruyi walk in, Madam Cao showed an embarrassing look on her face.

Ruyi smiled and put the red dates and white fungus soup on the small table beside the bed, and asked, "Aunt Cao, are you feeling better?"

"It's okay, older people always have some problems."

Nanny Cao said this quite naturally, she looked at what Ruyi brought and asked, "What is this?"

Ruyi opened it with a smile, took it to Grandma Cao, and said, "I heard that Shaoyao said that my aunt is not feeling well, so I made some red dates and white fungus stew for my aunt."

"It's a good thing, Madam, keep it for yourself! How dare I trouble Madam."

Nanny Cao was a little moved, but she still said with a stiff face.

"Look at what my aunt said, it's not a rare thing, and I'm not the most expensive person." This tremella is considered a relatively expensive item in the court, but there is no shortage of it for the crown prince. Let it cool down before using it."

Grandma Cao looked at Ruyi's expression, she was sincere, and she didn't deliberately refuse, she just smiled and said, "It's so hot, let's let it cool down!"

"Okay." Ruyi put the things aside with a smile.

As soon as this end was settled, the atmosphere calmed down again. Ruyi thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The previous thing was all my fault, and my tired aunt lost face."

After hearing this, Grandma Cao was silent for a while, and said, "I'm not an unreasonable person. I was the one who called this matter first, and it has nothing to do with you."

After saying this, Grandma Cao sighed, looked at Ruyi's belly, frowned and said, "However, you are so sloppy that you don't even remember your day with sunflower water."

If you don't want to be successful, when Grandma Cao mentioned this, she felt a little embarrassed on her face, she just lowered her head and said, "I also just came to Kuishui not long ago, and the time is always not very accurate."

"Why is it not allowed? Then you have to ask the imperial physician to look at it. This is related to the fertility of the daughter's family." Seeing Ruyi's disapproving look, Cao Nai Niang couldn't help but sighed and taught: "It can't be like this."

Ruyi only said softly: "I have asked someone to look at it, and they all said that it is not abnormal for the first few years when I came here."

It was the same in Ruyi's previous life. After she just developed, she was always inaccurate. Either she didn't come in two or three months, or she might come once every half a month. Her mother was also afraid that there was something wrong with her, so she took her to see a gynecologist. It is also said that this is the case for young girls who have just developed, and it will be fine when they grow up.Later, as the obstetrician and gynecologist said, when the development is mature, the day will be ready.

"It's always bad to look like this." Nanny Cao was still stubborn, looking at Ruyi's thin and small appearance, although her figure was well developed, she still looked like a child, and said, " I guess you didn't take good care of it when you were a court lady, and you should make up for it later."

Grandma Cao did what she said, and when Ruyi had dinner the next day, she got preferential treatment from the small stove opened by Grandma Cao, not even the crown prince.A large bowl of black chicken soup stewed with red dates and ginseng slices.It's hard to believe that Nanny Cao can still become this black-bone chicken here.

When the prince saw it, he couldn't help laughing and said: "At first, I heard that the nanny asked Deng Xian for black-bone chicken, so I thought it was for something, so it was to make soup for you."

Ruyi looked at the big bowl of black-bone chicken soup in her hand, and in the summer she felt so tired, but Nanny Cao urged, "Drink it all.

Ruyi had no choice but to bite the bullet and take a couple of sips, the taste was good, and Grandma Cao's cooking skills were always good, but looking at the big bowl that was about the size of her head, and the oily flakes floating on the top of the black-bone chicken soup, it was really disgusting. It made her a little dumbfounded.

The Prince Piansheng was eating side dishes, and he followed with interest: "You have to drink it up, or you will disappoint the nanny's wishes."

Having said all this, what else can Ruyi say, but drink with her head covered.

After drinking it, she only felt that her mouth was full of the taste of the soup, her stomach was full of water, and she couldn't eat any more.

The effect of this bowl of black chicken soup from Grandma Cao is absolutely immediate. Ruyi went to Gong's room all afternoon, and at night, she was surprised to find that the sunflower water that she had disappeared for more than two months came.

Ruyi sneaks back to the house and asks Shaoyao to dig out the menstrual belt and put it on. During dinner, she doesn't appear on the dining table in the prince's house, and only asks Shaoyao to report to the prince that she is unwell.

Unexpectedly, when Ruyi was lying on the bed and did not dare to move, the prince actually touched her room.

"Your Highness."

Ruyi groaned secretly in her heart, and was about to get out of bed to say hello.

But the prince stopped her with one hand, and said: "Look at you pale face, I thought you were pretending to be sick and didn't want to drink the nanny's soup! What's the matter, did you suffer from heatstroke again, do you want to invite the doctor to come over and take a look?" ?”

"no need."

Ruyi's face flushed a little, she was really embarrassed.

"Then go to my house to raise it. Your place is not suitable for recuperation." The prince looked at Ruyi's room, which was worse than the room she lived in in the Eastern Palace. There was no ice in the room, and it was stuffy. no.

The crown prince was kind and gracious, but Ruyi was too shy because of it, but seeing that the crown prince insisted, she could only lower her head and say in a muffled voice: "This servant is not clean, so it is not good to share a room with His Highness."

The ancients regarded sunflower water on a woman as filthy, and believed that having sex with a man on this day would bring bad luck to her husband.Therefore, people who are a little bit more particular will avoid it on this day.

The prince had known about personnel earlier, and Ruyi naturally understood the meaning when he reached this point.

Ruyi thought that the crown prince should leave now, but who knew that the crown prince smiled after hearing this: "You are not sick, but you are not feeling well either, go to my house to raise it!"

"Your Highness..."

Ruyi was completely stunned by the prince's attitude this time, "This is against the rules."

The most important thing is, shouldn't normal men in this era be particularly taboo about this?How superstitious the ancients were!
"Nowadays, there is no such thing as paying attention."

The crown prince didn't want to say more, he only told Shao Yao: "Help your wife to the lonely house."

"Yes."

Shao Yao didn't dare to disobey the prince, but helped Ruyi up in a difficult situation, "Ma'am..."

"Aunt Cao will probably come to persuade the prince later."

Ruyi doesn't think the prince's idea can be implemented. She doesn't have that much energy to make the prince change his mind, and she doesn't dare to disobey the prince, but Nanny Cao is different. Except for the previous epidemic, the prince strongly refused to serve Nanny Cao. Disease request, the rest of the time, will not refuse.

However, as expected, when Grandma Cao found out about this matter, although she had disapproval on her face, she did not stop her with words. Instead, for several days in a row, she brought all kinds of blood-enriching and qi-enriching soups to Ruyi to nourish her body. Let Ru see Nanny Cao is a little scared.

In private, Shaoyao secretly smiled and explained to Ruyi: "Aunt Cao is crazy about His Highness having a child, and I wish Madam you and His Highness have a good relationship!"

"No nonsense."

Ruyi heard that she thought it was Shaoyao talking nonsense, so she laughed and blamed her.Grandma Cao knew that she wanted the prince to have an heir, but she definitely didn't reach this level of madness.

However, after Ruyi's sunflower water passed by, she saw Granny Cao staring at a tree with small fruits watering and talking several times in the courtyard, Ruyi was surprised to feel that she had underestimated the extent of Granny Cao's madness.

That small tree was a pomegranate tree, and the big guys didn't recognize it when it was blooming with red flowers. Now that the flowers withered and started to bear fruit, they realized that it was a pomegranate tree.

Generally speaking, the ancients were superstitious that pomegranate symbolizes fertility.The woman who begged for a child planted pomegranates in the yard and embroidered pomegranate patterns between the wefts of the bed curtains and quilts, also wanting to ask for a good omen.

The quilt in the prince's house has long been replaced with pomegranate patterns embroidered by Mrs. Cao herself, and the pomegranate tree in the yard has also been taken good care of by Aunt Cao.The fruit is getting bigger and bigger, and gradually grows to the size of Ruyi's fist, and then it doesn't grow any further, but the blue shell is slowly dyed red.

And summer passed without knowing it.

Ruyi has been drinking the soup stewed by Mrs. Cao for almost two months. Although Mrs. Cao has not changed her tricks, Ruyi always feels the same taste when she drinks it, which makes Ruyi feel tired of eating now. , Every time it's time to eat, my mind is filled with the smell of the soup cooked by Mrs. Cao, and I can't help but feel sick.

The soup was a bit disgusting, but Ruyi had to admit that the soup still had some effect, not to mention how rosy Ruyi's face was after being made up, and even the crown prince occasionally teased Ruyi's plumpness under the bed.

It's not plump. The waist and bust of Ruyi's few tight-fitting clothes that she made before feel that her waist and bust are swollen, so she can only be enlarged by Shaoyao.

On the other side, Ruyi has recently become obsessed with another food, the fruit-bearing pomegranate tree that Madam Cao personally took care of.

Ruyi loved to eat pomegranates in modern times, and the pomegranates sold in supermarkets are not very expensive. When it comes to the season, Ruyi likes to buy two to take home after get off work. Was able to tackle two big ones at night.When I got to this place, I never had the chance to eat this thing again.

Now that the pomegranates on the branches have matured, Ruyi is so greedy.

When the first pomegranate was ripe and cracked on the branch, Ruyi was a glutton, staring at it and couldn't help drooling.

Occasionally, she impulsively mentioned it to Grandma Cao.Who knows that Grandma Cao heard this, but she didn't mean to cherish the pomegranate tree, and smiled at Ruyi: "I like it, so I will pick it. It's just a small fruit tree, and the pomegranate is probably very sour."

Ruyi got permission, and laughed again and again: "I am the most able to eat sour!"

After that, he took the peony and picked the cracked pomegranate.Without waiting for Shaoyao to take out the fruit inside for her, Ruyi couldn't wait to break it open along the crack with her own hands, and directly took a fallen pomegranate and threw it into her mouth.

Sour and sweet, it immediately evokes the taste in Ruyi's memory.

Ruyi couldn't help but took two more pills and threw them into her mouth, her greedy appearance made the peony who was watching beside her greedy too.

"Is the lady so delicious?"

"Try it, too." Ruyi was used to being generous to the people below, and let Shaoyao follow suit.

Shaoyao hurriedly smiled and thanked Ruyi, then picked up the other half in her hand, picked up one and threw it into her mouth. After a moment, she frowned, her face was sour.

"What's the matter, isn't it delicious?"

Ruyi felt a little strange and put two more mouthfuls into her own mouth. It tasted really good!
Anyway, Shaoyao is not sensitive to this pomegranate.

"The servant girl can't help being sour, I just feel that my teeth are about to fall!"

"That's the only one I can enjoy!" Ruyi didn't think it was strange, she was also quite a sour person. In the modern era, even his parents were unwilling to import the oranges that were just on the market, so Ruyi herself One person likes to eat oranges that are just on the market, and the more they count, the more delicious they are.

Ruyi took the two halves of the pomegranate and brought them back to the house, and began to eat one by one under the eyes of the prince.Seeing her cherished look, the prince couldn't help laughing at her way of protecting food.

Ruyi didn't feel much, and the pomegranate was really appetizing. At dinner, Ruyi insisted on eating half a bowl of rice after drinking Madam Cao's soup.

The rare appetite made the prince look sideways, and smiled at Nanny Cao: "The pomegranate planted by the nanny is a good thing, let's pick one for Ruyi every day, so that she can eat more."

Grandma Cao bowed her head and agreed, no one in the pomegranate yard liked to eat it, so she planted it for a good omen, but Ruyi ate it, and it was a good omen for her.

What's more, as the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, everyone has something in their hearts.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has always been a day of reunion, and I don't know if the emperor will let the prince return to the palace for the festival in consideration of family affection.

However, the subordinates were in a hurry, the prince acted nonchalantly, and Ruyi didn't even notice this incident.

It wasn't until the queen empress brought moon cakes and other things that I realized that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming.

And all the people put their anticipation into the bottom of their hearts. At this moment, the emperor in the palace did not express anything, only the queen sent some holiday things, so there was probably nothing to look forward to.

Fortunately, there were not many people in the courtyard, and the treatment was not bad, so no one panicked.Knowing that there is no hope, on the contrary, I settled down and prepared for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After dinner on the [-]th day, a table was placed in the courtyard with moon cakes and snacks and various seasonal fruits. The small world enclosed by the wall, admired the moon.

(End of this chapter)