Mistress

Chapter 82

Li Yan woke up for a few hours, then fell asleep again, her body was still very weak, she really needed to sleep more.

After Xu Cheng found out that she was asleep, he came over to guard her, and he didn't go back to Chunhui Hall to sleep until midnight.In the early morning of the second day, Li Yan could sit up leaning against the head of the bed, and Qing'er was feeding her medicine.When she finished taking a sip of the medicine and looked up, she saw a tall, burly, full of heaven and imposing man coming in.

He does have the appearance of an emperor, and his phoenix posture and dragon appearance can be seen from a distance.

Li Yan quickly lowered her eyes, took another sip of the medicine, and pretended not to see Xu Cheng coming in.

Nanny Cui and Qi'er said in unison: "Long live the emperor!"

After hearing this, Qing'er hurriedly got up, and saluted Xu Cheng with a medicine bowl.Now Li Yan can't pretend that she didn't see him, so she won't get up and salute him, but pretending to be sincere and teasing: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

She thought to herself, you should be happy to call you long live, even though you may not live to be a hundred years old, it is quite enjoyable to watch you.

Xu Cheng knew that Li Yan was angry with him, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he didn't speak, just took the medicine bowl from Qing'er's hand, then sat where Qing'er was sitting just now, scooped up a spoonful of medicine Hello Li Yan.

Li Yan didn't open her mouth, but stretched out her hand to take the medicine bowl, and said: "The emperor has a body of ten thousand gold, how can you give me medicine, I can't bear it."

"You have to call yourself a concubine in front of me. Now you are the empress, why can't you bear it?" Xu Cheng had already put the medicine to her mouth.

Li Yan still kept her mouth tightly shut, she looked at Xu Cheng with a slight smile, she seemed very proud, she didn't know what he was proud of, because she didn't escape from the palace, but returned to his harem to see how he would be a stallion male?
Xu Cheng pushed her mouth open with a spoon, and fed her forcefully. Li Yan was afraid of choking, and her lungs would hurt if she choked, so she drank it obediently, and then swallowed it well.

Xu Cheng smiled and said: "That's right, it's not like you haven't taken the medicine I gave you before, it's only been three months, and you forgot?"

Li Yan thought of all the good things he had done to her before, no matter what she did, it seemed to be good in his eyes, but now...

Li Yan smiled wryly, and said, "The present is not the same as the past." She really missed the deep affection that Xu Cheng had when he fed her the medicine, and her eyes were full of concern for her.

Now, no matter how she looked at it, she felt it was fake. He must have acted too much in front of the emperor and courtiers before, and it was easy to say something nice.

Mother Cui saw that the emperor seemed to have some thoughtful words with the queen, so she took Qi'er and Qing'er and walked out gently.

Xu Cheng gave Li Yan another mouthful, and said: "Why can't we be the same, you are still my wife, and I am still your husband, isn't it agreed a long time ago that husband and wife are loving, of one heart and one mind, and hand in hand for a lifetime?"

Li Yan rolled her eyes at him and thought to herself, who told you?In the past, she thought that he would only be nice to her alone, so she had this idea. Now that he is nice to a bunch of women, the premise has completely changed. How could she still think as simple as before.

What's more, he has already slept with Yuyu, and he has the nerve to pretend to be affectionate in front of her. Don't all the emperors know how to be loyal to their feelings?He cheated or betrayed. No matter how beautiful Aunt Ji was, she couldn't get his forgiveness because she betrayed him.

Can't he stand in her Li Yan's position and think about it, a man is a human being and his dignity cannot be offended, so is a woman not a human being?If a concubine or a concubine is considered a plaything, then as a first wife, she can be regarded as a person of status and status anyway.

Li Yan hardened her heart, and said coldly: "Your Majesty, do you think that I should be grateful to you for giving me the empress's golden seal and Zhao Wen? I don't care about the latter position at all. It's just an empty name, how many women in this world who become queens live comfortably? It's all superficial beauty, and only she knows the pain in her heart."

Li Yan saw that Xu Cheng didn't feel guilty at all, and he also acted as if he was interested in listening to her explain a lot of truths.

Li Yan felt that any more nonsense with him was a waste of saliva, and she felt tired after sitting for so long, so she said lazily, "Forget it, don't mention these things, you can let me go when I recover from my illness." Let me go out of the palace. Now that Wang Yingying and Yexuan are no longer threats, I will not be in danger again when I go out of the palace. This time you saved me, I am sincerely grateful to you, it was you who tried to bring me back to life, but Please also give me back my freedom."

Xu Cheng remained silent, fed more than a dozen mouthfuls of medicine for Li Yan to drink, then put the bowl aside, and said: "Oh, I understand, you have to search for the treasures in the palace again, and then go outside the palace Going to the theater, listening to music, growing vegetables, fighting crickets? I can go with you, Qing'er is just a girl, she doesn't understand these things."

Li Yan thought to herself, do you understand?
She turned her face away to ignore him, too lazy to listen to his nice words.He can indeed accompany her out of the palace, but he can also abandon her at any time. If he is unhappy, he can even put her in the cold palace. Her fate is completely controlled by him, so what freedom does she have?

Xu Cheng stretched out his hands, straightened her face, and said what he had been holding back for a long time, "Yuyu and the two girls from Jiangnan have already sent them out of the palace, and soon I will send Aunt Song, Chi'er and Jiao'er as well." Sending you out of the palace, you are the only woman in the entire harem, and only Jun'er and Xiao'er are the legitimate sons and daughters in the palace, aren't you satisfied?"

Li Yan stared at him blankly, feeling his warm palms on her cold face, looking closely at his expression and eyes, it didn't seem like he was teasing her, but Nanny Cui and Qi'er and Qing'er I didn't tell her about it, how is it possible?

Besides, she won't change her mind just because of his behavior.

Xu Cheng looked at her deeply, "I won't blame you for turning the entire harem over and over again."

Li Yan was a little sad, and said: "It's too late, you should do this earlier, maybe I will believe you. This time it's just because I escaped from the palace and almost lost my life, you just did it because you pity me for a while, Isn't it? I don't want your charity and pity, what I want is a relaxed and happy life, and I don't want to live for favor all day long."

"Didn't I say that in the entire harem, you are the only one who will be my woman, my queen, and from now on I will no longer recruit any women into the palace!" Xu Cheng looked at her sincerely.

Li Yan shook her head, "I don't believe it, the emperor can change his face faster than turning the pages of a book. One day you recruit a bunch of women to bully me, what should I do? I really don't want to live in fear of being locked up in the cold palace all day long."

Xu Cheng suddenly raised his hand and swore: "I swear by Xu Chao's country, if one day you are imprisoned in the cold palace, or a woman is recruited in, it must be the day Xu Chao perishes!"

Li Yan was frightened by his sudden oath, she stared blankly at him, not knowing what to say, is she really persecuting him?

After a long time, Li Yan asked: "You...why are you so nice to me all of a sudden, aren't you afraid that I'll be alone in the harem, or want you to accompany me out to run amok?"

Xu Cheng patted her face with his hands and said, "As long as you don't want your relatives to interfere in politics or seize power, that's fine."

Li Yan opened her mouth wide, "So... that's what you're worried about?"

Xu Cheng shook his head, "It's not just because of this. I am a man, so I must have the inferiority of a man, so I naturally like beautiful women. But... you don't allow it?"

Li Yan immediately retorted, "If I don't allow it, you don't do it? You also knew that I didn't allow it before, why don't you just put Yuyu to sleep?"

Xu Cheng frowned, "Oh, let's just pretend that I slept with her. But I made an oath just now, so you have nothing to worry about. You should also swear an oath to me that you will never secretly manipulate the political power, and don't let her The Li family overthrew the Xu family, even if I return to the loess, you must always remember that this is Xu Chao's world."

Li Yan was slightly stunned, why is this man so promising, all he thinks about is his country, and replied: "I don't have to swear, even if you put a knife on my neck and force me to do such a thing for the Li family, Won't do it either."

Xu Cheng looked at her, as if he didn't understand her reason.

Li Yan added, "Because in my heart, my son and grandson are always more important than my mother's family."

In fact, she wanted to say that she has no relationship with the Li family at all, why would she do such a thing.

Xu Cheng nodded, "I believe in you."

After Xu Cheng said that, he helped her to lie down, she had been sitting for a long time.As soon as Li Yan lay down, she suddenly realized that she had already agreed with him, was willing to be a queen, and was willing to stay in the harem?
She got up quickly, and was about to speak, when Xu Cheng pressed her down, and he said while pressing, "Don't go back on your word!"

Li Yan still looked at him uncomfortably.

Xu Cheng stroked her eyes with his hands, closed her eyelids, and said, "Take good care of yourself. When you recover, I will take you out of the palace from time to time. Let's dress up as a commoner couple and visit the folks." Explore the feelings of the people, and formulate a national policy that can make the Xu Dynasty prosperous and prosperous as soon as possible, so as to appease the hearts of the people and benefit the people."

Li Yan understood that he wanted to take her on a private tour in a micro-clothes, plot with her for the country, help the world together, and devote himself to the common people.

This is a very lofty thing, Li Yan is really moved, she is willing to do such a thing with him.

She listened to him, sleep well first, and then talk about other things.As the supreme emperor, it was not easy for him to explain so much to her, and to swear such a poisonous oath for her.

Li Yan was easily fatigued because of her weak body, and she fell asleep not long after she closed her eyes.

Hearing her even breathing, Xu Cheng got up gently and went out.

As soon as Xu Cheng returned to the Chunhui Palace, he asked He Langzhong to be brought in. He was first given 1 taels of silver and a house as a reward, allowing him to be the highest-ranking imperial doctor in the palace alongside Doctor Zhang. Carefully dispensed the prescription to recuperate Li Yan's body.

"What I want is for the Queen to recover soon!" Xu Cheng said solemnly to He Langzhong.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the Empress only needs to raise her for half a month before she can walk around again."

Xu Cheng was quite relieved when he heard this, and said, "Ai Qing has worked hard."

He Langzhong didn't expect to hear the emperor say such a compassionate word to him, he was a little moved, it seems that the emperor didn't care about his impoliteness at that time, and he didn't care about the blood of Xiao'er and Jun'er without asking in advance Ask the emperor if he agrees.

He touched his head, feeling that it shouldn't be difficult to protect his head in the palace.

As soon as He Langzhong left, Xu Cheng wrote a call letter, making Aunt Song the noble concubine, Xu Chi the king of Anyang, and Xu Jiao the king of Aiyang, and gave them many rewards for their mother and son.

In addition, Xu Cheng wrote two more summoning letters, one is the summoning letter of Xu Jun and Xu Yue who are far away in the rest garden, and Xu Jun is named Prince Yi, and Xu Yue is named Princess Xingyue. At the same time, many treasures are awarded. .

On that day, the canonization officer took a dozen people from the House of Internal Affairs to Aunt Song's place in a mighty way.

Aunt Song was still heartbroken over the fact that Li Nianyun had come back to life, but she didn't expect the canonization officer to come over with a happy face.

When the conferring officer finished reading the letter of summons, Aunt Song was so excited that tears filled her eyes. She finally became a noble concubine, and her two sons also became princes. Xu Cheng finally paid attention to their mother and son.

Moreover, the things that the emperor asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send are also extremely precious, and they are all worthy of the status of noble concubine and prince.

Song Ruzhi put on the noble concubine's clothes, and then asked her two sons to wear the prince's clothes sent by the House of Internal Affairs. She wanted to take the two sons to the emperor to thank him.

But Bi'er wondered in her heart, the emperor didn't make Xiao'er the crown prince, nor made him king, why did he first make the two concubines kings.Puzzled or puzzled, Bi'er didn't say anything in front of Song Ruzhi, because she didn't know the reason.

While serving Song Ruzhi to comb the noble concubine's hair, she said: "Your Majesty also said before that she wanted to become a nun in the Shaohua Buddhist Hall, if the emperor found out, she would be a joke, Madam, now it's all right, everything has come true to your Majesty's wish. "

Song Ruzhi looked at herself in the mirror, and felt that she looked like a noble concubine. Not only did she wear appropriate makeup, she also put on a lot of gorgeous jewelry, and she was also dressed in a fancy dress.It is true that people rely on clothes. With such a dress, she is no longer the concubine who came out of the Song family and was never taken seriously.

Even her biological mother was also happy. The emperor not only asked her to accompany his daughter Song Ruzhi, but also gave her daughter and grandson such honorable identities. She was also very happy beside her.

When Song Ruzhi brought her two sons and was surrounded by several maids and nuns to Chunhui Hall, they found that Xu Cheng seemed to have known that they were coming and was already waiting for them.

Xu Cheng looked at Song Ruzhi and his two sons in front of him, and saw that they were well-dressed, they looked good, and they really looked decent.He rarely smiled at them, but this time he not only smiled, but also walked over and touched the heads of his two sons.

Song Ruzhi dragged her two sons to kowtow to thank her, and was helped up by Xu Cheng himself.

When Xu Cheng helped Song Ruzhi touch her arm, Song Ruzhi was agitated. Xu Cheng hadn't touched her for a long time, nor had he looked at her so tenderly. She was overwhelmed with excitement, thinking in her heart, could it be Her lonely days are coming to an end, and the emperor finally thought of pampering her?

Xu Cheng ordered someone to show the mother and son three seats, while he himself sat on the resplendent dragon chair and said: "Although Anyang and Aiyang are two small old cities, they have not been damaged by wars in recent years. And, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the folk customs are simple, do you two like it?"

Xu Chi and Xu Jiao nodded happily when they learned that they could eat a whole city.

Xu Cheng said again: "You are still young, I didn't want to send you to Anyang and Aiyang early, but I know that you have always been at odds with Xiao'er, and often quarreled while studying in the Imperial College, for..."

Before Xu Cheng finished speaking, Song Ruzhi suddenly stood up, and asked in shock: "The emperor wants to send them to Anyang and Aiyang? They are young, how can they be alone, even if they are kings, I can't help but be bullied by the local dignitaries, the emperor must not!"

Song Ruzhi said that she was about to kneel down.

Xu Cheng said: "Don't just kneel, you are a noble concubine now, you should behave like a noble concubine. I didn't let Chi'er and Jiao'er go to the two cities alone, I will send Chen Hao and Ying'er to accompany Chi'er, Chi'er's The master and the slaves he usually uses are also brought along, no one will dare to bully him, he is my son, who would dare to bully him?"

Song Ruzhi had tears in her eyes, "It's okay to go if Chi'er is older, but Jiao'er is really young, the emperor must not let him go to Aiyang. The concubine remembers that the princes were crowned kings in the previous dynasty, and they were all 12 years old. He just went to the fiefdom. Jiao'er is only three years old, how could the emperor have the heart for him to leave his concubine's side..."

Song Ruzhi choked up for a while.

Xu Cheng couldn't help being moved, and said: "I never planned to let Jiaoer leave you, you go to Aiyang with him."

Song Ruzhi stared at Xu Cheng in a daze. She, a noble concubine, also came out of the palace?This is unprecedented, so what's the point of her being this noble concubine, isn't it just an empty title?
Xu Cheng continued: "Zhu Yan's family will go with you and Jiaoer, and your mother and servants in the palace will also be brought along. In addition, I will send [-] soldiers to each of the two cities, and they will protect you wholeheartedly. You don't need to worry about your safety."

Song Ruzhi was conflicted for a while, thinking about it carefully, it was fine to leave the palace, didn't the empress almost lose her life just to leave the palace?Not in front of the emperor, I don't have to worry about this and that all day long, and I don't have to think about how to please the emperor all day long.

But there is no man to accompany him.

Although he had figured it out in his heart, he still couldn't calm down and said: "Why is the emperor so eager to let the concubines and children out of the palace, is it because they quarreled with Xiao'er?"

Xu Cheng was silent for a moment, and asked people to take Chi'er and Jiao'er back to the bedroom first, and then said to Song Ruzhi: "Since ancient times, there have been differences in respect and inferiority, and conflicts between the sons and daughters are inevitable because they are young and have not yet gotten along with them." Xiao'er has formed a hatred, and in the future there will still be brotherhood in his heart, so he should separate them early. If it gets older and the brothers face each other like enemies, what will happen in the future? Don't you remember Prince Bao, he and Ye Zheng It's the same mother and brother, he will collude with your father and brother to commit rebellion, let alone the brothers between the mother and the concubine?"

Song Ruzhi was trembling, "How could Chi'er and Jiao'er be as rebellious as Prince Bao? Your Majesty, don't think so, they will treat Xiao'er respectfully as elder brothers when they grow up, and they won't disobey in the slightest." .”

"I didn't speculate like this, and I also believe in them, and... even if they have different intentions in the future, they won't be able to make any big moves. I will control everything in the palm of my hand. Since I will go to the fief sooner or later, why stay in the palace with Xiao Xiao?" Is the conflict between the sons affecting the friendship between brothers? My only wish is that they can be happy as kings, free from illness and disaster, and have a smooth life."

Song Ruzhi was speechless, she had nothing to refute.

Xu Cheng said again: "Every year Chi'er and Jiao'er can come to the palace to visit me, and you can also accompany them. Alright, you go back and get ready, and start tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)