With a squeak, Gu Linqing came out of her sluggish state. Looking at the person coming against the light, she couldn't help but squint her eyes.
After seeing clearly that the person coming was Baozhu, he straightened his back despite the fact that he was already in tatters.
"You bitch, are you here to see my joke?" Gu Linqing scolded.
The grace and splendor of the orb was so incompatible with the cramped and messy house at the moment. Tang Pozi, who held the golden ruyi pattern in his hands for the Nine Hantian Orb, even felt trembling.
What's more, Gu Linqing didn't even have any clothes to keep out the cold in this cold palace. Bao Zhu looked at her bare feet and her toes, which were darkened by frostbite. It seemed that she was not having a good life either.
"Your Majesty's grace, the birth of the two princes only allowed you to live for three more months." Bao Zhu looked at her condescendingly, his eyes full of disdain. "What, you still don't know how to repent?"
Gu Linqing was too hungry to stand up. She just looked at Baozhu with a sad smile and said, "You think you won, don't you?"
Bao Zhu shook his head. Yue Nu behind him moved a chair. Bao Zhu leaned back and looked at the embarrassed Gu Linqing. It was really a turn of events.
"No, you are the loser." Baozhu brought the warm Yubazi to his cheek, feeling the warmth.
"It's you, it's you and Qingyang who colluded to slander me. Otherwise, how could I have fallen into the quagmire and ended up like this!" Gu Linqing cursed relentlessly.
Baozhu's eyelashes trembled when he heard Qingyang's name. Qingyang that day was not within the scope of Baozhu's plan.
After Baozhu gave birth to a baby, Qingyang and Qingning were led by Concubine Cheng to visit Baozhu. Now the two sisters were named by Qi Junce under the name of Concubine Cheng, who had no children. They finally had something to rely on. .
Maybe it was because she became a mother, but Baozhu felt a little more distressed when she looked at Qingyang and Qingning's timid eyes.
"The little princess is so cute. With her pink and jade-like appearance, she will definitely be a beauty in the future." Concubine Cheng hugged the little princess and said with a smile from ear to ear.
Baozhu leaned on the cushions and looked at Cheng Fei and the others with a smile.
"Has your majesty given the little princess a name?" Concubine Cheng asked.
Baozhu nodded, "Qingtang, your Majesty personally wrote the inscription."
Concubine Cheng smiled softly and said two things in a row: "It's great, it's great." Then he turned to the two sisters on the side and said, "Come, give your little sister a hug."
Qingyang took Qingtang carefully, not daring to express his anger and put it in his arms, but he could also see the joy in his heart.
Qingning also looked closely and called her little sister hello.
Concubine Cheng exchanged a few words with Baozhu, put down many gifts, and prepared to leave.
"We have to rush to see Concubine Shu," Concubine Cheng said. "It's strange to say that you both got pregnant at almost the same time and both gave birth to a son and a daughter. What a fate."
Hearing Concubine Cheng mention Jiang Heng and the child, Bao Zhu's heart couldn't help but twitch. But then his expression changed to normal, and he said with a smile: "Sister Shu Guifei is luckier than me."
Concubine Cheng mistakenly thought it was Bao Zhu and sighed that she was giving birth to a princess. She quickly patted her hand and said, "What a wonderful daughter, caring and cute."
Although Bao Zhu had a smile on his lips, he said with an unknown bitterness in his heart: "Everything is fine, everything is fine."
When Concubine Cheng was about to leave, Qingyang covered her stomach and said she had a stomachache. Concubine Cheng became nervous immediately, but Qingyang only said that she wanted to go to the toilet.
When Baozhu saw this, he asked Qingyang to go to the toilet first, and then go to Hengwu Palace to find Concubine Cheng and the others.
Concubine Cheng thought about it and agreed. When Concubine Cheng left Weiyang Palace, Qingyang immediately dropped his hand covering his stomach.
"Qingyang," Baozhu waved, "come, come here."
Qingyang obediently returned to Baozhu's side, his eyes a little more tenacious than before.
"Actually, you didn't see the queen push me that day, did you?" Baozhu asked straight to the point. She obviously saw that Qingyang was a little stunned.
Qingyang pursed his lips and nodded.
Baozhu held Qingyang's little hand, her eyebrows and eyes were so similar to Liu Guiren's.
"But why are you helping me? If you are not careful, you will be harmed." Baozhu asked.
Qingyang gritted his teeth, raised his watery eyes and looked at Baozhu and said, "Because she killed my mother-in-law."
Bao Zhu looked around nervously. Yue Nu and others were serving tea in the outer hall, and no one noticed the words of a little girl.
"Qingyang, do you know something?" Baozhu asked.
Qingyang nodded heavily, with tears in his eyes. "Ms. Chen, my mother-in-law is actually giving up helping the Queen to take the blame. It was the Queen who threatened her with my life and my sister's life. If she doesn't take the blame, the Queen will kill our two sisters."
Qingyang was just a teenage boy after all, and he started to break down and cry. "The queen said that my mother-in-law was just a maidservant. Such a princess would not care even if ten fathers and emperors died."
Baozhu pulled Qingyang into his arms lovingly, and gently stroked her trembling back to comfort her: "How could it be? You are princesses, and His Majesty naturally loves you the most."
"Ms. Chen, I'm really scared." Qingyang choked and continued, "That night, my sister Qingning had a high fever that wouldn't go away. Even the doctor came, but it didn't help. I know it was the Queen who did it."
A chill ran through Baozhu's body from the soles of her feet. Gu Linqing's viciousness even spared the children who grew up in front of her.
"Later, the Empress Zhen who was next to the Queen met my mother-in-law once. I don't know what happened. That night, my mother-in-law just..." Qingyang couldn't bear to talk any more and burst into tears.
Yue Nu Haitang from the outer hall heard the sound and walked in. She looked worriedly at Baozhu, who was holding Qingyang. Baozhu shook his head and motioned for them to go out first.
After half an hour, Qingyang calmed down and cried until his eyes were swollen like walnuts. Bao Zhu took out her handkerchief and wiped her face with water.
"Qingyang, be good. Concubine Cheng and Concubine Chen will protect you and your sister from now on. You don't have to be afraid anymore," Baozhu said.
Qingyang raised his head, pursed his lips in aggrieved manner and said, "So, Madam Chen, I am not only helping you, I am also helping my own mother-in-law to avenge you."
Qingyang's eyes turned vicious, "She used my mother-in-law's love for us to threaten us. She should have gone to hell!"
Baozhu watched Qingyang unable to calm down for a long time, lamenting the sins of adults, but in the end it backfired on his own children. If Liu Guiren knew better, would he regret it greatly?
Bao Zhu's thoughts were brought back to the present. Looking at the aggressive Gu Linqing, Bao Zhu sneered and cursed for being stubborn.
"When you threatened Liu Guiren with Qingyang and Qingning, did you ever think about today?" Baozhu asked.
Gu Linqing still looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, holding her head high and proud.
"When you, in order to damage my reputation, did not hesitate to cause Ayan to die tragically, did you ever think that this day would happen?" Thinking of Ayan's corpse, Baozhu felt a sharp pain in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red. .
But Gu Linqing burst out laughing, covering her mouth as if she heard some big joke.
"Hahaha!" Gu Linqing laughed crazily, "Song Baozhu, you don't really have true feelings for a eunuch, do you?"
Baozhu gritted his teeth and looked at Gu Linqing, wishing he could kill her with a sword.
"It's so funny. Oh, it made me laugh so hard." Gu Linqing said exaggeratedly.
Baozhu rushed forward and slapped Gu Linqing hard, with such force that even Baozhu's hand was slightly numb.
Gu Linqing covered her face, looked at Baozhu in disbelief and yelled: "You dare to hit me, you are crazy, you dare to hit me, I am the queen of Li Kingdom!"
Bao Zhu sneered. She was still dreaming about being in a high position. For a moment, she really didn't know whether she should pity her or despise her.
"Gu commoner, I think you are mistaken." Yue Nu behind him solemnly reminded, "Concubine Chen is the first of the four concubines. You, a mere commoner, should bow respectfully."
Yue Nu's words shattered Gu Linqing's self-deceptive arrogance, and Baozhu watched her shoulders relax.
"I have never understood why you have to marry His Majesty. Don't you know that a forced marriage is destined to be a tragedy?" Baozhu asked.
When Gu Linqing heard this, she began to retort: "What do you know?! Your Majesty, he also liked me, he used to like me."
Bao Zhu slowly sat back on the chair, and without raising her eyelids, she let out an ooh, and then took out a crookedly embroidered sachet from her arms.
Gu Linqing froze when she saw the sachet, and rushed over to grab it. Baozhu directly hung the sachet on the candlestick nearby, just a hair away, and the flames were about to lick the tassels.
"Why do you have this sachet?" Gu Linqing immediately stopped her movements and asked uneasily.
Bao Zhu laughed and threw the sachet to the ground nonchalantly. Gu Linqing immediately picked it up and brushed off the dust as if it were a treasure.
"Is this the reason why you are so attached to His Majesty?" Baozhu said, "When Your Majesty was young, he only attracted countless women to watch when he rode a horse on the street, and the long street was blocked with water."
Baozhu said, and Gu Linqing followed her words and fell into the memories of her youth.
At that time, Gu Linqing was the most inconspicuous among all the women from aristocratic families. No outstanding appearance, no amazing talent.
At that time, the Gu family was just a mediocre official, and Gu Linqing obediently abided by her duties.
But even though she was like this, she still maintained her love for one man for many years. The young man riding a horse on the long street, Qi Jun's plan that year was deeply embedded in Gu Linqing's heart.
The Qixi Festival in Li Kingdom is a day for boys and girls to express their love. On that day, women will present sachets to the men they like, and men will give flower hairpins to the women they like.
Qi Junce never knew what it meant to be restrained when he was young and vigorous, and he still rode through the market with arrogance on such a grand day.
At that time, Gu Linqing hid behind the crowd, mustered up the greatest courage in her life, and threw out the sachet that she had embroidered for a long time.
When Qi Junce bared his teeth and smiled happily, enjoying the gaze, a sachet hit him on the head without any bias, and then fell into his arms.
Qi Junce picked it up and looked at it curiously. It was the first time he saw such an ugly sachet and he couldn't help laughing.
But Gu Linqing, who was hiding behind the crowd, thought it was just a shy smile, and even she couldn't help but feel her face burning.
Qi Junce looked around to see which girl had embroidered the sachet in such an ugly way, but Gu Lin was immersed in her imagination early in the morning and lowered her head.
Qi Junce put the sachet into his arms smoothly, thinking about telling his brothers that he had received such a sachet.
Gu Linqing's heart was trembling as she watched his actions. Accepting the sachet meant she agreed. At that moment, Gu Linqing seemed to be the happiest girl in the world.
But, there are more stupid women in this world than there are stars in the sky.
