Chapter 289 Come Again
If it is related to the aristocratic family, then the scope of the investigation will be expanded suddenly.
Throughout the Great Yan Dynasty, there were a total of eight aristocratic families. These eight families split up and merged, and rose and fell, but they never left the political stage.
We couldn't get the truth about the blood sacrifice that year from the Empress Dowager, and what we got from Concubine Qi was just the tip of the iceberg. If we want to understand, perhaps we can start with Duke Xue.
Rong Que twisted his fingers, took a breath, and sighed slowly, his hand sliding along Su Qingqing's lower abdomen and into her clothes.
Su Qingqing's body suddenly stiffened.
Intimate lovers can feel each other's even the slightest movement. Even though Su Qingqing's stiffness was only for a split second, Rong Que still felt it without missing a single bit.
He pretended nothing had happened, and his hand went around her waist, slowly climbed up her back, and then moved down along her spine, inch by inch.
This was the first time they had been so intimate with each other, and Su Qingqing had never been so defensive. Rong Que leaned towards Su Qingqing, his voice low and gentle, very pleasant to the ear, "Does your head still hurt?"
He held Su Qingqing's back with his hands, and Su Qingqing slowly slid down under his movements. The tension just now was gone, and she lay under Rong Que, stretching out her hand to trace his cheek, "It doesn't hurt anymore, do you want to come?"
Rong Que lowered his head and bit Su Qingqing's earlobe, as if to punish her for her previous caution and avoidance. He applied a little force, and the earlobe turned bright red from his torture.
"No, I'm too tired these days. I need to conserve my energy."
As he spoke, his body suddenly moved away from Su Qingqing, and then fell to the side with his limbs stretched out.
"Qing'er, being an emperor is too tiring. I am so tired that I don't even want to have fun day and night. How did my father do it before? By taking medicine?"
Su Qingqing was completely stunned.
All she could think about was, if Rong Que really wanted it, would she refuse, and how should she refuse?
But Rong Que said he didn’t want it?
Is he too tired?
Su Qingqing carefully considered these words and felt that they did not seem to be false.
Su Qingqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Rong Que, "Do you want to take medicine?"
Rong Que stretched out his hand and pinched Su Qingqing's leg. "I can still be strong even without taking medicine, but I can't do it today. It's not that I can't do it, it's just that the blood sacrifice is so heavy in my mind that I can't do it, not my body."
Su Qingqing couldn't help laughing. The more truthful Rong Que spoke, the more relaxed she became. She could even joke with him. "Does that mean I need some mental medicine?"
Rong Que pinched her thigh again, "I guess so. I'm looking at you now. I'm so close to you. I've pinched your thigh, but you still don't react. Tell me, am I too weak? Do I need to replenish myself?"
Su Qingqing reached out and slapped Rong Que in the face, "Instead of talking nonsense, you might as well go to bed. You have to attend the court tomorrow!"
Rong Que sighed pitifully, "Yes, I have to attend court tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. I still have countless courts to attend. Why is my life so miserable!"
"If you say this to your third brother, he will be so angry that he will die!"
Rong Que thought that Su Qingqing should be completely relaxed now, so he moved closer to her and hugged her in his arms, "You know, the emperor's job is so hard, why do so many people want to be the emperor?
How nice it is to be an idle prince, eat and drink as you please, have a wife and children and a warm bed every day, isn't this a life like a god's?"
The two chattered away without saying a word, but fell asleep in each other's arms.
Su Qingqing didn’t know whether Rong Que had a good sleep, but she did.
Yesterday was the day she slept the most soundly and peacefully since she became pregnant. When she opened her eyes, it was already bright outside.
Hearing the rustling sound inside, Jixiang lifted the curtain and came in, "Your Majesty is awake. Concubine Qi has come to our bedroom four or five times early in the morning."
Su Qingqing put on her clothes and went downstairs. "What is she doing here?"
Jixiang said, “She said that the earrings were lost and could not be found. The earrings were given to her by a very important friend. She was very anxious and had been looking for them outside all night but could not find them. She wanted to look for them in our palace.
I just said that you were asleep and didn't let her into the inner courtyard. I just watched her and let her look for her in the outer courtyard for a while.
She wants to see you, and probably wants your consent to come in and look for her."
Su Qingqing yawned as soon as she got up, and walked out as if she hadn't gotten enough sleep, "Let her in."
Jixiang said, "Madam, what is she doing here? Who knows what she is up to? You are pregnant now. Although it is not certain that you can keep the child, what if she has bad intentions and causes trouble?
If you want her to come in and look for her, I will accompany you for a walk in the Imperial Garden and let Madam Xu keep an eye on her. We will go back after she leaves.
They told me what happened yesterday, and no matter how I thought about it, I felt something was wrong.
If she doesn't want to attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet, then she can just not come. No one has said anything, so why bother making a trip in person? You even skipped the morning and evening visits to visit her, so why are you making a trip here to show off?
She had been living peacefully in her own palace before, but now that the Hundred Flowers Banquet is approaching, all kinds of troubles have arisen."
In fact, Concubine Qi was just looking for the earrings and didn't do anything else, but in Jixiang's eyes, something was wrong.
"If I were to ask you, you should have Wang Yu pick a few people from outside to serve as guards for our palace these days. Even though the people in the palace have been vetted by Your Majesty, who knows what their intentions are? People's hearts are different, so it's hard to predict."
Su Qingqing turned to look at Jixiang in surprise, "Why are you talking so much today?"
Jixiang said, "This is called a stress reaction. I have always felt that Concubine Qi is not a good person, so anything that has to do with her is problematic to me."
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. You go and make the arrangements. Let Mother Xu keep an eye on it. You and I will go to the Imperial Garden to feed the fish."
Jixiang took the order and went.
Concubine Qi had no objection at all and sincerely wished the Queen a happy time in the Imperial Garden.
After breakfast, Su Qingqing was too lazy to stroll around the garden. She didn't have the leisure time for that. Thinking about what Rong Que said yesterday about going to the library to look for books, she simply took Jixiang to the library.
The library in the palace is huge.
It was a courtyard with three entrances and three exits. Except for the row of houses at the entrance where the eunuchs who cleaned the library lived, all the other rooms were filled with books.
The young eunuch respectfully led Su Qingqing to the bookshelf where military books were classified, and then tactfully retreated at a distance.
It not only does not disturb Su Qingqing from looking for a book to read, but also allows him to be there the first time she gives him an order.
