Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 57

But Ruyi sat up, put on her shoes and got off the bed, walked to Aman's small bed, and said, "You've been tired all day, tomorrow, I'm afraid you still have a lot of things to do, let me coax you!"

"It's okay, Aman will fall asleep in a while." Zhao Qingze smiled, "I'm afraid to wake him up if we change people now."

Just as he was talking, Zhao Qingze saw Aman with his eyes closed and breathing lightly.

"Look, this is falling asleep!"

Zhao Qingze said softly, and was about to put Aman on the small bed.

"Qingze, coax him a little longer, put it down now, Aman is probably going to wake up." Ruyi took his hand and said softly.

Zhao Qingze nodded, and after coaxing for a while, put Aman on the small bed, Ruyi gently covered Aman with the quilt.

Aman was coaxed to sleep, and the tent was quiet. At this moment, both of them suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

It was just now that the disaster was just around the corner, and the two of them couldn't care less about recalling the past, but at this moment, they both thought about it in unison.

Ruyi opened her mouth, and asked hesitantly, "I'll ask someone to fetch water."

"No need, I just closed my eyes anyway." Zhao Qingze said with a faint smile.

"Qingze..." Ruyi took a deep breath and said softly, "I was impulsive about what happened in the afternoon."

Saying these words, Ruyi felt as if she was relieved.

The smile on Zhao Qingze's face froze for a moment, but he took Ruyi's hand and said, "I didn't think about it."

Ruyi lowered her head and said softly: "It's just that, in the future, don't you go with Aman, okay? I am worried about Aman, and I am also worried about you."

Hearing the words, Zhao Qingze just said calmly: "It won't happen in the future, let's rest!"

Ruyi heard the indifference in his tone, sighed, and said, "I know, you will be upset. But, a child as young as Aman is actually very sensitive. You take him to such a gloomy place." environment, he would be intimidated, and it wouldn't be good for him growing up."

"Stop talking. I won't hug Aman over there again."

Zhao Qingze didn't take off his clothes, and lay down on the bed, but Ruyi felt his displeasure sensitively.

"Qingze, do you think I've inquired about your whereabouts..."

She tentatively asked, but Zhao Qingze didn't speak, and Ruyi said softly: "I didn't inquire on purpose. The day before yesterday, Aman was crying for no reason. I didn't feel right, so I asked the nanny carefully. The nanny said that you took Aman out. I thought Aman had bumped into something, so I asked where you went that day!"

Zhao Qingze opened his eyes and took a look at Ruyi.

Ruyi bit the bullet and continued: "Today I woke up to see Aman, and seeing that Aman was not there, thinking that you carried Aman to that place again, I... I became impulsive."

"It's okay, I don't blame you."

Zhao Qingze patted Ruyi's hand lightly, comforting him.

Ruyi bit her lip, and said suddenly: "I don't know if I should say it, but Qingze, you have been really abnormal recently. Ever since you became the emperor, you seem to have changed, and you have always been very strangeness……"

"Don't think about it, there's nothing strange about me."

Zhao Qingze sat up, hugged Ruyi and said, "You are overthinking, it's late, go to sleep!"

"No, you are so excited that you can't sleep at night, and you are often anxious. Sometimes, you are absent-minded, as if your heart is empty and you don't care about anything."

Ruyi said softly, and the expression on Zhao Qingze's face gradually froze.

"Qingze, what's the matter with you, can't you tell me?" Ruyi vaguely guessed the reason for Zhao Qingze's strange appearance, which was exactly the same as her appearance after the college entrance examination. Since childhood, the focus of her life has been to be good. I love to study, just to get into a good university. After I got into the exam, I suddenly felt a little bit at a loss and had no goal to move forward.But her situation at that time was just a moment of confusion, while Zhao Qingze was much more serious than her.

Ruyi doesn't want to make things too clear. Sometimes, speaking out by oneself and pointing out to others have two completely different meanings.

Zhao Qingze looked at Ruyi with a deep expression and did not speak.

"Don't think too much."

In the end, he just said such a sentence softly, then turned around and closed his eyes.

Ruyi sighed softly, knowing that it would be useless to say any more, she lay down on the bed, looked at Zhao Qingze's body with his back to her, suddenly felt a little sad in her heart, she looked so strong and strong, and could give her Looking at her body with a sense of security at this time actually made her feel a little pitiful.

She reached out and hugged him, leaning her face against his back.

"Qingze, no matter what, Aman and I will always be with you."

Zhao Qingze's back trembled slightly, his body slowly turned around, and he stretched out his arms to hug Ruyi, letting Ruyi's face rest on his chest.

Ruyi rubbed her head lightly, she raised her head to look at his face, the expression on his face gradually softened, he stroked her back and patted her back lightly.

"Actually, for me and Aman, you are a good husband and a good father. I believe that in the future, you will also be a good emperor."

Ruyi spoke softly, her voice was very clear in this quiet space.

Zhao Qingze's eyes flickered, but he didn't speak.

Ruyi pursed her lips and closed her eyes.

When Ruyi woke up the next day, Zhao Qingze had left without knowing when, and Aman had already been hugged and fed by the nanny, and was lying on the small bed playing with a small hydrangea, enjoying herself happily.

Ruyi smiled and patted his little hand, and when he got his son's angry resistance of "ahhh", he laughed a little unkindly.But he was also afraid of making Aman cry, so he stopped teasing him soon.

Shao Yao walked in with a basin of water in person, seeing Ruyi like this, she couldn't help but smile.

"Ma'am, let's wash up first!"

"Ah."

Ruyi brushed her loose hair back, wiped her face with a towel, and asked Shao Yao about the situation outside.

"My servant heard that there was an earthquake in a county near the capital, and the capital was affected because of its proximity. The emperor has issued an order this morning. If there is nothing to do in the morning, you can prepare to move back at noon. In the house."

"The place where the earthquake happened...is it serious?"

A county is equivalent to a province and city in modern times, and it is a county on the edge of the capital, with a generally concentrated population.

"Well, I don't know about it." Shao Yao shook her head in embarrassment, but said to Ruyi with a smile: "I don't know about things outside the palace, but I do know about things inside the palace. Wasn't Prince Rong imprisoned in the side hall of the Chaoyang Hall? That side hall seemed to have not been repaired for a long time. When the earthquake struck, a beam fell down. Prince Rong couldn't dodge and hurt his leg. The empress dowager lives now The Ci’an Palace has not been well renovated, and I heard that when the palace guards ran out to protect the Empress Dowager, the beams were almost smashed, although it didn’t hit, but the Empress Dowager got sick from fright!”

"That's where you heard the news. Although it's a mess now, be careful of being punished for spreading messages."

Ruyi frowned.

Shao Yao heard the words, but said again and again: "This is not a slave talking nonsense, it is a servant who listened to the people in the imperial hospital. But the slave knows how to measure and will not talk nonsense."

She covered her mouth and acted obediently, making Ruyi couldn't help but smile.

Lunch was served in the tent at noon. Although there was an earthquake, the food delivered in the imperial dining room was the same as in the past.Deng Xian sent the little eunuch to inform the emperor that he might not come back for dinner at noon.

Ruyi looked at a large table of dishes by herself, and didn't have any appetite, so she simply took a few mouthfuls and was about to be taken away, when Zhao Qingze came back.

"I'll ask someone to change the dishes."

Ruyi put down her chopsticks and stood up, ready to ask Shaoyao to go to the dining room to inform, she can't let an emperor eat what she left!

However, Zhao Qingze waved his hand, and ordered: "Don't bother, just add a pair of bowls and chopsticks."

As he spoke, he pulled Ruyi to sit down, and said with a smile, "It's not that I haven't eaten your leftovers."

Ruyi heard the words and remembered what happened when she was confined, and couldn't help showing a hint of embarrassment and amusement on her face.

"Look at what the emperor said."

She took the chopsticks newly brought by Shao Yao, picked out some favorite dishes for Zhao Qingze, put them in a bowl, and served him to eat.

"Don't worry about me, eat by yourself!"

"I just finished eating."

Ruyi said with a smile, seeing this, Zhao Qingze didn't say anything, just enjoying Ruyi's service.

Ruyi looked at Zhao Qingze as if he was really hungry. Although he still ate politely, he ate a lot.After finally stopping the chopsticks, most of his favorite dishes on the table have gone.

After the food was removed, Ruyi asked someone to serve some desserts and put them on the table, but Zhao Qingze waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's really too much."

Ruyi smiled and suggested: "Why don't you go out for a walk to digest food."

"No, I still have things to do later."

"Then take a nap! The emperor didn't take a long nap last night, did he?" Ruyi looked at the black eyes under his eyes and said.

"It's okay, I just need to come back early at night, you and Aman just rest well!"

If he insisted, I guessed that he was really busy, so I didn't try to persuade him any more, I just thought about finding some qi-invigorating soup to nourish him.

As she was thinking this way, she suddenly remembered what Shaoyao said to her in the morning: "I heard that Prince Rong was hit and injured his leg, and the queen mother was almost hit by the hit, and now I'm sick from fright. On my side, do you want to do something?" ?”

The queen mother is the emperor's own mother after all, and Ruyi always feels that she should do something.

Zhao Qingze smiled when he heard the words: "It's okay, don't worry about it. Don't worry about these things."

After that, seeing Ruyi's worried expression, he smiled and said, "I'll go and have a look in the afternoon, and it's just a trivial matter."

Zhao Qingze might as well bring this up as he wished, but it was indeed as he said, it was not a big deal.

Zhao Qingli was completely unlucky. The Chaoyang Palace was used as a palace for going to court, handling affairs and even resting. Naturally, it would not be too bad, but Zhao Qingli is currently being held in a side hall. People inevitably neglect management.When the earthquake happened, Zhao Qingli was lying on the bed. If he didn't run towards the outside, nothing would happen, but he still had to move outside with a broken leg. When the beam fell, where would his half-crippled body hide? Fortunately, it just happened to hit the other good leg. The palace guards in the Chaoyang Palace were the ones responsible for imprisoning and guarding him, so naturally they would not risk their lives to save him. After reading it, I just said that this leg has been pressed for too long, and it is estimated that it will be disabled, but it is really disabled.

As for the Ci'an Palace where the Empress Dowager lives now, although it has not been inhabited for a long time, as the main palace in the palace, the palace people also maintain it on a daily basis. When Zhao Qingze moved to the palace, no one carefully repaired it at all. While running, a beam happened to fall, and it almost hit the queen mother on the head. The queen mother was not injured, but she was frightened and she was old, so she fell ill that night.

When Zhao Qingze walked to the Queen Mother's bedroom, he heard the Queen Mother cursing from afar.

There was a faint sneer on his face, he didn't look like a patient when he heard the scolding, he was full of anger.

"This is a punishment from the heavens!" The queen mother slapped the bed board and yelled loudly while clutching her chest.

The other palace people standing by the bed were all scared by the queen mother's "blunt words". Chen Yuanxiang thought it was right, but she didn't think it was the punishment the queen mother said for the emperor who had usurped the throne. She only thought it was a warning, it was A warning to the emperor who wants to make that bitch and bastard a noble concubine and prince.

She sat on the edge of the bed, thinking absently, wondering if she could get through this disaster and do something.

Suddenly seeing the pair of boots with black soles and golden dragon embroidered at the door, she was shocked and stood up from the bed to salute.

The queen mother snorted coldly, turned her head and closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to see Zhao Qingze.

Zhao Qingze smiled faintly, walked to the bedside, looked at the queen mother and called softly: "Mother queen."

The queen mother still closed her eyes and mouth.

Zhao Qingze didn't take it seriously, but said softly: "What the queen mother said just now, my son heard it all."

The queen mother moved her eyeballs, but still did not open them.

Zhao Qingze said with a smile: "If it's like what the queen mother said, it is God's punishment for me, why am I still standing here intact, but you, the queen mother, fell ill, and Zhao Qingli, what I kindly left for him God didn't keep him a leg."

"What did you say!"

The queen mother sat up abruptly and looked at Zhao Qingze.

Zhao Qingze just smiled lightly: "If my mother wants to know more about the situation, I can ask the palace servants from Chaoyang Palace to come and tell my mother what happened at that time."

"However, now I'm thinking that there should be some happy events in the event of a catastrophe!"

(End of this chapter)