Her Highness Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore

Regardless of the dissuasion of others, Li Ji hugged Hua Manman horizontally.

He wanted to take her back to the palace and let Master Feihe heal her wounds,

Before leaving, he did not forget to say a harsh word.

"It's not over today."

Hua Qingqing stood at the door, watching helplessly as King Zhao took Man Man away.

Xi Xiang behind him comforted in a low voice.

"Jieyu, don't worry too much. Concubine Zhao is an auspicious person, she will be fine for sure."

Hua Qingqing didn't answer.

At this time, she heard Concubine Liu Gui in the room complaining coquettishly to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, look at what King Zhao was doing just now. He dared to be so arrogant in front of you. If you were not by my side, he would not know how to embarrass my concubine."

Although the emperor also felt that Li Ji's behavior just now was a bit arrogant, he didn't take it to heart, and just replied in a non-critical way.

"He's still a kid."

Concubine Liu Gui was speechless.

King Zhao is already eighteen years old!

What kind of child is eighteen years old? !

No matter how much she slanders in her heart, Concubine Liu Gui always maintains her personality on the surface.

She leaned on the emperor and said softly.

"Hua Jieyu must be very scared when something like this happened today. Would you like to comfort her, Your Majesty?"

After she finished speaking, she hugged the emperor's arm tightly, with a pitiful look of reluctance.

Her duplicity obviously pleased the emperor.

The emperor chuckled and raised his hand to lift her chin.

"You are very generous."

Concubine Liu Gui's cheeks were flushed, and she hummed softly, "Your Majesty is not a concubine alone, even if you don't want to be generous."

The emperor smiled and said: "Then I will spend more time with you, and I will go to see Hua Jieyu later."

Concubine Liu Gui immediately beamed with joy, and dragged the emperor to the Lingxue Palace where she lived.

Hua Qingqing outside the door had already left earlier.

She returned to Wangyue Pavilion.

Xi Xiang looked at her anxiously, for fear that she would be sad because the emperor doted on Concubine Liu Gui.

Hua Qingqing couldn't help laughing: "What kind of eyes do you have?"

Xi Xiang said carefully.

"Concubine Liu Gui entered the palace relatively early, and because she has an older brother who works in the imperial court. I heard that she is trusted by the sage, so the sage treats her very fondly. You, you must not take it to heart... ..."

Hua Qingqing said casually, "I've already gotten used to it, so you don't have to worry."

Seeing her relaxed demeanor, she really doesn't seem to feel sad.

Xixiang was relieved, but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad in her heart.

Her family, Jieyu, is also a young lady who was raised by her family. She should have married a good man and lived a peaceful life, but now she has to compete with a large group of women for the same man. Even if she is wronged, she can't feel bad. Very bitter.

In contrast, the second lady who married Zhao Wang was much happier.

No matter how cruel and frightening Zhao Wang is in the outside world, at least he is too kind to the second lady.

Hua Qingqing sent everyone away, and she was the only one left in the room.

She rolled up her sleeves, revealing her fair and slender forearms.

She opened her mouth and took a bite on the outside of her forearm.

She controlled the strength very well, neither breaking the skin nor leaving a red tooth mark on the outside of the forearm.

In order to make the tooth marks look more like those left by dogs, she deliberately poked the four red spots left by the canine teeth with a hairpin to make them redder and deeper.

After doing all this, she lowered her sleeves to cover up the red tooth marks.

Xi Xiang knew that the emperor was likely to come over at night, so he asked the imperial dining room to prepare more meals.

However, they waited and waited until the food was cold, but the emperor still didn't come.

Xi Xiang began to feel uneasy again.

"Is the saint stumbled by something?"

Hua Qingqing knew in her heart that the emperor was trapped by Concubine Liu Gui's gentle hometown.

She didn't say anything, just took a couple of mouthfuls of soup casually, and asked people to remove all the food.

Xi Xiang was very worried: "You are still pregnant, how can you only eat such a small amount?"

Hua Qingqing said she had no appetite and didn't want to eat.

She was sitting on a soft couch doing needlework, and looked up at the direction of the door from time to time.

Seeing this scene in her eyes, Xi Xiang felt even more distressed.

She was about to persuade Hua Jieyu not to wait any longer, the emperor would not come over tonight, when she suddenly heard someone shouting outside.

"His Majesty is here!"

Hua Qingqing immediately put aside her needlework and walked out quickly.

When the emperor saw Hua Jieyu, the first thing he saw was the joy that was almost overflowing in her eyes.

She seemed to have spent a lot of effort to suppress the emotions that were about to surge out, and blessed the emperor with a trembling voice.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

The emperor lifted her up and found that her fingers were very cold, and couldn't help frowning.

"Why are your hands so cold?"

He looked at Xixiang dissatisfied, and blamed.

"How do you serve Hua Jieyu?"

Xixiang hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Hua Qingqing held the emperor's hand tightly, her eyes were slightly red, but she was always smiling.

"It's okay, Your Majesty, don't be angry about such a trivial matter, as long as I can see Your Majesty, I will be satisfied."

Seeing that her heart and eyes were all about him, the emperor couldn't help but feel a little moved.

He sighed softly: "I am late."

He didn't explain why he was late, and Hua Qingqing didn't ask.

She pulled the emperor into the house.

The emperor saw the sewing basket on the low couch at a glance, frowned and asked, "It's so late, why are you still doing sewing?"

Hua Qingqing shyly said: "I thought that His Majesty might come tonight, so I waited for you while sewing."

She picked up a pair of small shoes and held them in front of the emperor like offering treasures.

"These are the little shoes my concubine specially made for the baby, what do you think?"

Seeing her looking at him with bright eyes, the emperor couldn't help but soften his voice.

"It's very cute, but you are pregnant now and need to rest well. In the future, you should leave this kind of needlework to the people from the Shangyi Bureau."

Hua Qingqing touched the little shoes with a very gentle smile.

"How can I do better than what other people do?

The concubine hopes that the first pair of shoes that the baby puts on after the baby is born will be made by the concubine himself. "

Under the warm yellow candlelight, her eyes were like the spring breeze in March, blowing warmly into the emperor's heart.

The emperor couldn't help looking at her belly, and he couldn't help but look forward to this unborn child.

Hua Qingqing asked: "Do you want my concubine to give birth to a prince or a princess?"

The emperor asked without answering: "Do you want to be a prince or a princess?"

Hua Qingqing: "I think the princess is the best, a delicate and soft little princess, cute and caring."

Emperor: "What if it's the prince?"

Hua Qingqing sighed: "Although the prince is not as caring as the little princess, what can I do if I have been born? The concubine can only accept the reality."

Seeing her reluctant look, the emperor couldn't help laughing.