Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 38

The prince's eyes flickered, looking into Ruyi's eyes, and finally lowered his eyelids, and smiled faintly.

"Don't talk nonsense."

"Your Highness..." Ruyi's pale lips moved, and she wanted to say something more.

"Ruyi, if you want to say something now, you have to think it through yourself."

The prince's tone was flat, but the deep meaning revealed in the words made Ruyi stunned for a moment, and also made her stop abruptly when she was on the verge of speaking.

The prince silently glanced at Ruyi, then turned to look at Nanny Cao, and said lightly: "Nurse, go back and rest. If you can't sleep, you can pack up first."

"Good! Good!" Nanny Cao nodded, glanced at Ruyi hesitantly, and finally hesitated to take Shaoyao out together.

But the prince said: "Shao Yao will stay here to take care of your master."

Nanny Cao couldn't help but glanced at Shao Yao, finally let go, and slowly exited the room by herself.

After watching Nanny Cao leave, the prince turned his head to look at Ruyi, and finally his eyes fell on Ruyi who was still holding his hand tightly, and subconsciously let go of it, wanting to pull it out.

Who knew that Ruyi held his hand even harder.

"Ruyi, Gu is resting in the study tonight, you let Shaoyao stay with you, so it's convenient to take care of you."

The prince didn't dare to use force for fear of hurting Ruyi, so he could only persuade her slowly in a gentle voice.

"don't want……"

Ruyi bit her lower lip, still refusing to let go.

"Ruyi, don't be willful and fool around."

"Your Highness, just treat me as self-willed and messing around!" Ruyi bit her lip tightly, raised her head, but tears were already streaming down her face.

"You..." The prince suddenly realized that he didn't dare to look directly at Ruyi's eyes that were red from crying.He sighed slightly in his heart, stretched out his other hand, and gently wiped the tears on Ruyi's face with his fingertips.

"do not Cry."

"Your Highness, do you not want the child in my womb?" Ruyi's voice was filled with tears.

The prince's body was slightly stiff, but the expression on his face was the same as before, he just said in a low voice: "Don't think wildly."

"I'm not thinking wildly. If His Highness doesn't want it, then I won't give birth. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether the child is healthy or not..."

Almost as soon as Ruyi said these words, the prince scolded: "What nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense."

After Ruyi finished speaking, she just leaned on the bed and wept silently, without saying a word.

Seeing this, the prince couldn't help sighing again, sat down on Ruyi's bed, and persuaded patiently: "Gu sent you out for the sake of you and the child, do you want the child to accompany Gu to circle around here?" Forbidden?"

Ruyi lowered her head and remained silent.

"If you are worried that someone outside will harm the child, I will let the nanny and queen mother protect you."

The prince spoke up to this point openly and honestly, but Ruyi still remained silent, and the patience in the prince's heart was gradually worn out.

At this time, Ruyi suddenly said a word: "Your Highness, you don't want this child at all."

What Ruyi said was affirmative, even a little offensive.

However, the prince did not become angry from embarrassment because of what he said. Instead, in Ruyi's eyes, he was so guilty that he couldn't say what he refuted.

"Last time, Ruyi felt it. Since Your Highness doesn't want this child, I can't guarantee that this child will be born. It's better to ask the doctor to prepare a bowl of medicine to destroy it..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Before Ruyi finished speaking, the prince angrily reprimanded, "Is there anyone like you as a mother?"

"Anyway, the child's father doesn't like it, and the child's mother is unable to protect it. It is better to destroy it, so as not to suffer in this world."

"Who said you don't want it..."

Subconsciously, the prince's rebuttal came out of his mouth, which also made the prince a little silent.

Ruyi did not let it go, but said in a deep voice: "Your Highness just allowed it to come into this world, and never thought of liking it."

There was accusation in her tone, but the prince was silent.

After a long time, the prince's tone was somewhat difficult, and he said slowly: "Ruyi, don't play tricks with Gu."

With a sneer on Ruyi's lips, she said softly, "Ruyi admits that she wants this child. But Ruyi did not lie. If His Highness does not want this child, Ruyi is willing to destroy it. Anyway, Ruyi has no ability to protect it. .”

"Also, Your Highness, do you remember the sunflower water that came to Ruyi two months ago? The doctor said that Ruyi was already three months pregnant. I guess it wasn't sunflower water that came at that time, and the child might not be able to keep it, but it's better Fight now, lest Your Highness will drive me away."

"you……"

The prince's eyes fell on Ruyi's stomach, he hesitated to speak.

Ruyi gently caressed her stomach with one hand, and there was always that sneer on her lips, which shocked the prince.

"Please come here, doctor."

The crown prince touched Ruyi's stomach with trembling hands, and there was a trace of regret in his expression unconsciously.

"The child will be kept."

In the end, the prince only uttered this sentence.

Ruyi didn't speak.

The old doctor hadn't left yet, when he heard the prince's call, he thought that something happened to Ruyi, so he hurried in with the medicine box.

But seeing Ruyi's face was pale, but she didn't look bad at all, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to salute the prince, but saw the prince standing aside, and said to the old doctor: "Why are you delaying there? But come get your pulse."

The old doctor was taken aback. Although the crown prince didn't shout at him, the urgency and gloomy tone in his tone made him shudder.

"Madam please reach out..."

The old doctor was about to slowly take handkerchiefs, hand pillows and other things from the medicine box, but saw that the prince was already staring at him impatiently.He was shocked, but his hand just accelerated and handed these items to Shao Yao who was standing by the bed.

The prince snatched it away and placed it in Ruyi's hand.

The old doctor didn't dare to speak, but hurriedly gathered himself together, put his hand in Ruyi's wrist, and started to feel his pulse.After holding it for a long time, cold sweat broke out on the old doctor's forehead, and his pulse seemed to be normal, except that the adult was a little weak, but the tossing just now was also normal, and neither the child nor the adult seemed to be in trouble.

He withdrew his hand, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked falteringly, "No... I don't know... What's wrong with Madam?"

"Two months ago, Ruyi once became popular."

The prince said in a deep voice.

The old doctor breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said: "The old man just checked the pulse of the madam, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Seeing dissatisfaction in the prince's eyes, which seemed to distrust his medical skills, he quickly said: "Actually, it's not surprising that some women have redness in the early stages of pregnancy. When the child grows in the belly, it will not appear. This phenomenon is gone. And the child born will not be defective because of it."

"What you said is true."

Although the prince had let go of the worries in his heart, he was still somewhat unsure.

"I have been practicing medicine for many years, and I have also encountered pregnant women like my wife. In the end, as long as there are no other accidents, they can give birth to healthy children."

"In the past few days, you will stay here to take care of it."

The crown prince ordered Deng Xian: "Go and tidy up the room and arrange for the doctor to stay."

"Yes."

Deng Xian promised to salute, and took the old doctor down.

"Your Highness..."

Seeing the doctor leave, Ruyi suddenly felt a little embarrassed. What she said earlier was half-truth, she was also afraid that the prince would not want a child, and she was also worried that there was something wrong with the child, so by venting, now suddenly her worries were gone, and she For a while, I didn't know how to face the prince.

"You can rest assured now!" The crown prince didn't take offense at what happened just now, looked at Ruyi, but said slowly: "Take good care of your baby, and don't think wildly when you go outside."

"Your Highness...why do you want to send Ruyi away?"

Ruyi's face changed, she saw that the crown prince's concern for herself and the child was not fake, and thought that the crown prince would let her stay here.

"It's good for you and the baby if you go out to wait for delivery."

The prince didn't seem to want to raise this question again, and simply explained.

"Ruyi is not afraid of suffering. And Ruyi doesn't think the conditions here are bad."

What Ruyi said in her heart was the truth, waiting for labor here is far better than going outside.And even if she is here to eat vegetables and radishes every day and wait for delivery with peace of mind, it is better than going back to the palace to eat abalone and winged belly every day and worry about waiting for delivery.

"It's not just a matter of conditions. If the child is born here, if the emperor never wants to release me from the confinement, the child may also be imprisoned. If you return to the palace to wait for delivery, after the child is born, even if I have been imprisoned Banned, but the father and mother will not treat the children badly. From now on, no matter whether the children are boys or girls, you are the child's biological mother, and you will not be treated badly."

"So for the sake of the child, His Highness means that Ruyi has to return to the palace."

"Yes." The prince nodded, and said softly, "It's better than following me in this circle of useless people."

"Then, has your Highness ever thought about how people will think of this child if the child returns to the palace with Ruyi to enjoy the wealth, but let His Highness, the father, suffer here?"

"No, Gu assures you, it is still Gu's beloved child." The prince said this while looking into Ruyi's eyes.

Ruyi knew that the prince would not lie to herself, but she smiled, took the prince's hand, put it on her stomach, and said softly: "Then Ruyi will not be able to bring the child back to the palace, how can there be such a cheap baby in the world?" Let it occupy all the good things, leaving His Highness behind to return to the palace to enjoy wealth, and still get His Highness's favor, even as a mother, I feel that I can't let my children enjoy so many good things."

"As one wishes……"

"I am the child's mother, so I believe that the child and I are of the same mind." Ruyi interrupted the prince, and said slowly: "This child, being able to be reborn as the child of His Highness is already a lucky one, and we cannot expect too much. many things."

The prince suppressed his emotions, and asked in a deep voice: "Then, have you ever thought about it, if it was born here with the orphan, and one day realizes that it can actually live another life, would it hate your mother's decision now?" .”

Ruyi smiled, and replied without thinking: "Then I admit it too, just as if I gave birth to a white-eyed wolf. Ruyi only feels that the other life His Highness talked about can only be enjoyed by His Highness. You can't give it to him. Parents should be grateful for raising it."

"You mother is cruel."

There was no blame in the prince's tone, but very gentle.

"This child, do you love him? Are you willing to..."

The prince did not continue, and Ruyi also noticed that the prince was almost out of control. She hesitated for a moment, but replied firmly: "I love this child, and I am even willing to sacrifice myself for it. However, there are some things that slaves do not Willing to do it."

"Stop talking..." The prince stopped Ruyi from continuing, he blinked and said in a low voice, "I hope you don't regret today's decision."

After saying this, Ruyi didn't even have time to persuade the prince to leave the room.

"Madam..." When the crown prince left, Shao Yao who was standing by the bed couldn't help but said, "Why don't you want to go back to the palace? Could it be..."

Could it be that he really fell in love with His Highness, so he was willing to suffer with His Highness.

Shaoyao's eyes reveal disapproval, even if she doesn't think about herself, she should also think about the child in her belly.The prince even took the initiative to say that he was sending them back to the palace, why did he refuse!
"Shaoyao, thank you for your hard work!"

Ruyi didn't answer the question, but just said this lightly.

When Shao Yao heard these words, she felt a little terrified, and the dissatisfaction in her heart gradually disappeared.

"Actually, slaves are not bitter at all, life here is better than outside..."

"Yes, it's better than outside."

Ruyi lowered her eyelids and said something softly.She doesn't have too much ambition, because she knows a word, wealth and wealth can be found in danger.The two are always complementary.

Her thinking is very simple, she just wants to give birth to this child safely, and she really doesn't think so much about other things.

The prince returned to the study and sat quietly all night, until it was getting dark, he called for someone to serve him.

The person who came in was Deng Xian.

He bowed respectfully to the prince, and then waited on him to tidy up the prince, who looked a little embarrassed because he hadn't slept all night.

"Has the doctor settled down?"

"It's settled." Deng Xian replied respectfully.

The crown prince handed the towel to Deng Xian, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Go and tell the doctor to let Mrs. Chen stay here until Mrs. Chen gives birth to a child."

"Your Highness..." Deng Xian heard the meaning behind the words. Is this the intention to let Mrs. Chen stay here?

"In addition, you can quietly ask the doctor, if a pregnant woman has been exposed to contraceptive drugs before she conceives, will it affect the child?"

"Yes."

Deng Xian bowed his body and bowed his head in agreement.He didn't ask what contraceptive medicine it was, because he knew that the prince couldn't just say half a sentence.

Nanny Cao also finished her breakfast in the morning, and only then did she know about the Prince's new decision.

She didn't really intend to leave at first, but when she knew about this new decision and thought of the child in Ruyi's womb, she felt a little bit troubled.After all, not leaving is not a good thing for Ruyi mother and son.

Until I heard at Shaoyao that it was Ruyi begging the prince to stay, I didn't know what it was like.

"Madam just went to bed this morning. I heard from Eunuch Deng that His Highness also stayed up all night and is still in the study."

"yes!"

Granny Cao thoughtfully, rolled up her sleeves, and said to Shaoyao: "Take care of Madam well, I'll go and see His Highness."

When Mrs. Cao came to the study, the prince was standing in front of the window looking at the scenery in the courtyard outside. When Mrs. Cao came in, he even smiled, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Your Highness, I heard that you plan to keep Mrs. Chen here."

After Nanny Cao saluted, she asked softly.

"Yes."

The prince answered the question simply.

For a while, Nanny Cao didn't know how to continue, so she could only smile and said: "This is also good, the slave girl may not be able to protect Mrs. Chen after returning to the palace."

The prince just smiled and didn't speak.

Grandma Cao was a little speechless, and when she was about to leave, she heard the prince suddenly ask: "Nurse, for a woman like Ruyi who has no family background, can she only rely on her in this life? solitary?"

"Women are all married and obey their husbands. Don't say that Mrs. Chen has such a humble family background, even the princess and concubine. She still has to rely on her husband." Cao Cao didn't understand the meaning of the prince's question, and looked a little strange. He glanced at the prince.

But seeing that the prince didn't speak any more, he stood in front of the window again.

Nanny Cao knew she couldn't get an answer, so she just saluted and left slowly.

She didn't know that after she left, the prince had a mocking smile on his lips, as if to refute her words, and said to himself: "If you get married and have a husband, what if you have a child?"

(End of this chapter)