The second time she dreamed, Yun Si woke up with more noise than the first time. She bit her brocade quilt and cried, still letting out some intermittent sobs.
The one on duty tonight was the maid Jin Ming. Jin Ming's sleep was lighter than Lu Ya's, and her heart was thinner than Lu Ya's. She soon realized something was wrong with Yun Si.
"Girl, are you awake?"
"...Why are you crying?"
Jin Ming opened the gauze curtain and asked in surprise.
It was impossible to hide it completely... Yun Si said half-truthfully, "It's nothing, I just had a nightmare."
Jin Ming asked worriedly: "What dream did the girl have? Why are you crying like this? Could it be that she was possessed by a nightmare?"
"It's really nothing..." In order to reassure Jin Ming, Yun Si suppressed all the feelings in her heart and pretended to be nonchalant.
After finally deceiving Jin Ming, Yun Si lay on the bed, not daring to sleep anymore, for fear of having that terrible dream again after falling asleep.
Yun Si held her heart in her hands and could hardly breathe.
She had such a shameful dream once, twice...could there be a third time?
The second dream was even more unbearable than the first... Yun Si didn't dare to think about what she would dream about if there was a third time.
During the day, she had just gotten engaged to her cousin, and at night, she dreamed of being like that with other men... Could it be that she was born to be a playboy?
She...she, how could she be such a person?
For the rest of the night, Yun Si didn't close her eyes for a moment. When greeting her parents in the morning, Prime Minister Yun and Mrs. Zheng Guo could see at a glance that their daughter was haggard.
"But are you sick?" Mrs. Zheng Guo asked worriedly.
Yun Si tried to cover it up: "I just didn't sleep well last night..."
Mrs. Zheng Guo was worried and still wanted to send a doctor to diagnose her pulse. Yun Si wanted to refuse, but then she changed her mind and agreed.
Dr. Xu came to Yun Si's Liuyun Garden. His beard and hair were all white. Yun Si and her mother received medical treatment and daily pulse diagnosis by Dr. Xu, who had superb medical skills and rich experience.
The Prime Minister's Mansion pays great attention to the protection of men and women. Only old doctors of this age can treat female relatives.
Even though Dr. Xu was so old, he was still separated by a curtain when he diagnosed Yun Si's pulse. Yun Si stretched out her wrist, which was covered with a thin plain handkerchief. Doctor Xu checked Yun Si's pulse through the handkerchief.
This has always been the case in the prime minister's house.
Yun Si has been accustomed to diagnosing pulses like this since she was a child, and she never thought much about it in the past. But today, Yun Si couldn't help but think that she was the distinguished legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's house, and even Dr. Xu, who was older than her grandfather, couldn't look at her face. For this reason, she even avoided the first step of looking, hearing, and asking.
Who would have known that in the dream, she, who was reserved and noble, and a man she had never met had already crossed the line between men and women by countless steps...
Across the brocade curtain, Doctor Xu carefully diagnosed Yun Si's pulse and said in deep thought: "The girl is not sick, but are you often frightened recently?"
Jin Ming was confused: "Afraid? The girl has never been afraid?"
Yun Si said half-truthfully, "I guess I was scared in my dream."
"Doctor, I often have nightmares at night. Is there any medicine that can stop dreaming after drinking?"
"Of course there is." Dr. Xu wrote down a prescription to soothe the nerves, "Drink it half an hour before going to bed, and you can have a peaceful sleep."
"But don't drink too much of this medicine. You can drink it for seven days at most."
"Think about it every day and dream about it at night. If you want to sleep well at night, you need to think less during the day."
"Thank you, Doctor Xu!" Yun Si's voice was brisk, as if a big stone had been lifted from her heart, and she smiled broadly.
The decoction prescribed by Dr. Xu has always been effective. Drink this soothing decoction before going to bed, and no matter whether it is good dreams, nightmares or ridiculous dreams, they will disappear.
There will definitely not be a third time for that kind of unspeakable dream!
Yun Si held the prescription tightly, as if holding a life-saving straw.
She is so stupid! Why didn't you think of the good idea of soothing soup earlier?
After Aunt Bai sent Doctor Xu away for Yun Si, Yun Si happily ordered the maid to grab medicine and make medicine.
The maids around her noticed that Yun Si was in a very good mood.
Lu Ya asked: "Why is the girl so happy?"
Yun Si smiled and said: "I can finally sleep well tonight, of course I am happy!"
Good things come in pairs. In the evening, Prime Minister Yun came home and brought back news that made the whole family gasp -
The emperor wants to conquer the beauties from all over the world!
There are only two requirements for the beauty pageant, that is, fair skin and a red mole on the waist.
As the Prime Minister, Prime Minister Yun angrily rebuked: "Your Majesty is getting more and more ridiculous!"
But as a father, Prime Minister Yun was very lucky because Yun Si happened to have a red mole on her waist!
Everyone knows that the current emperor Xie Yan is a tyrant.
If you enter the palace as a concubine, you might die one day!
The emperor killed more than one concubine in the harem!
She was so high as a virtuous concubine that she was killed as soon as the emperor told her to.
Yun Si is the apple of her parents' eyes, and Prime Minister Yun and Mrs. Zheng Guo never want their daughter to enter the palace. But destiny cannot be violated. If Yun Si is among the girls who are summoned, they can only let their daughter enter the palace.
Now the wonderful thing is that the Queen Mother just granted Yun Si a marriage a few days ago.
Queen Mother Yun Si granted marriage and was engaged to Xie Changze. No matter how the emperor chose beauty, he would naturally not be able to choose her.
The family was both happy and scared at the same time. The Queen Mother's marriage gift was really timely. If the Empress Dowager had given her the wedding so many days later, Yun Si would not be able to escape this beauty pageant...
Mrs. Zheng Guo quickly burned a few sticks of incense to the gods and Buddhas, thankful that Yun Si escaped.
Yun Si was also extremely frightened. Although she had never met His Majesty, as the daughter of the Prime Minister, she had heard a lot about His Majesty's cruel deeds.
With His Majesty's temperament, if she enters the harem, His Majesty might quarrel with her father during the day and then kill her to vent his anger at night.
Compared to marrying the cruel and brutal His Majesty, Yun Si would certainly rather marry a gentleman and upright cousin.
Mrs. Zheng Guo asked strangely: "Although Your Majesty has done many ridiculous things, he has never been a womanizer. Why has he suddenly changed his temper now?"
Prime Minister Yun said angrily: "Who knows!"
When an emperor chooses a concubine, he must of course look at looks, but he cannot just look at looks. Family background, character, talent... are all crucial.
But now the emperor doesn't care about those behind him. Even if he comes from a humble background or has bad conduct, as long as he has fair skin and a red mole on his waist, he will be selected into the palace!
Just having fair skin is fine, but what should I do if I have a red mole on my waist?
A daughter from a good family, except for her closest parents, how can outsiders know such private things?
Is it possible to tell the world that the emperor wants women with red moles on their waists to enter the palace?
The emperor is not embarrassed, but these ministers don't want to be infamous with the emperor for thousands of years!
Yun Si looked at her father worriedly: "Dad, please don't confront His Majesty..."
The emperor not only killed people in the harem, he also killed people in the previous dynasty. Any minister who touched his reverse scales would be dragged down and beheaded.
Prime Minister Yun reassured his daughter: "Daddy knows what's going on." Of course he wouldn't try, who is stronger, his neck or the emperor's knife.
Yun Si still couldn't rest assured, and she sighed: "How could this happen..."
How could it be such a coincidence?
How come your Majesty is so lucky to find a woman with a red mole on her waist? An idea flashed through Yun Si's mind, and she wanted to grab it, but the idea disappeared so quickly that when she thought about it carefully, it had long since disappeared.
