Chapter 86 Ru Meng is pregnant
The Palace of King Wu, Zide Hall.
At this moment, Qingji was reviewing a mountain of memorials!
In this era, because papermaking had not yet been invented, memorials submitted by ministers and officials from all over the country were all written on bamboo slips and submitted to the palace.
Therefore, one bamboo slip after another was piled up into a small mountain without anyone noticing. Qingji estimated that the bamboo slips placed on one side weighed two hundred kilograms!
Fortunately, Ji Zha, was conscientious and had already revised it earlier, so he just asked Qingji to review it again and give his comments.
Otherwise, Qingji would be really busy and exhausted now!
"Your Majesty, the Queen requests an audience."
At this time, Xiong Zidan, the commander of the guards who was originally guarding the palace gate, suddenly came in and reported.
Ji Kou?
Qingji frowned.
Ji Kou was the queen of Qingji and had a noble status.
But Ji Kou also has a very sensitive identity—Yue Si, the daughter of King Yunchang of Yue!
Now Wu and Yue are still at war, so Ji Kou's presence in the Wu Palace has become quite embarrassing.
Of course, Qingji didn't mind Ji Kou's identity as a princess of Yue State.
His marriage with Ji Kou was a political marriage, but they were husband and wife after all, and they should have supported each other and respected each other as equals!
Qingji had been kind enough to Ji Kou. At least after he returned from the battle of Zhenzi, he had visited Ji Kou twice...
"Let her in."
"promise!"
Not long after Xiong Zidan left, Ji Kou entered Zide Hall carrying a bowl of soup.
This bowl of soup was emitting a hot and fragrant aroma, which made Qingji put down the goat-hair brush in his hand and look around!
Ji Kou still looked as stunning as ever, but her delicate face now had the charm of a young lady in her prime. Her moving charm was hard to describe.
Ji Kou, dressed in gorgeous palace clothes, holding a bowl of soup, slowly walked up to Qingji.
"Queen, what's the matter?"
"Your Majesty has been working hard on state affairs, and I feel sorry that I cannot share your worries, so I made a bowl of fish soup for you to try and relieve your fatigue."
"The queen is thoughtful."
Qingji chuckled and asked Ji Kou to put the bowl of soup on the table, but Ji Kou had already scooped a spoonful of soup and was about to feed Qingji!
Qingji shook his head, but still opened his mouth and let Ji Kou feed him a spoonful of soup.
He was not worried that Ji Kou would poison the soup, because the latter would not do such a thing with his personality, and there was no need to do so.
Furthermore, all meals in the palace, especially those that Qingji was going to enjoy, would be tasted by special palace maids to see if there was anything unusual before they could be served to Qingji!
This seemed quite cumbersome, and sometimes Qingji could only eat leftovers, but it was all helpless!
Sometimes having too many enemies is not necessarily a good thing!
"It tastes delicious. I didn't expect you, Queen, to have such cooking skills!"
Qingji praised.
"Your Majesty, you are too kind. My cooking skills are very average. I am only good at making soups."
Ji Kou lowered his head and responded quite appropriately.
Her voice has a strong Nong accent unique to the Jiangnan water towns, as if she had glutinous rice in her mouth, sweet but not pretentious, leaving people with endless aftertaste.
Listening to Ji Kou talk can sometimes be considered a pleasure!
"Your Majesty, would you please let me rub your shoulders?"
"The Queen also knows this trick?"
Qingji asked in surprise.
“A little bit.”
Hearing this, Qingji simply stretched out his arms, lay on Ji Kou's knees, and let her massage his bones to loosen them up.
Ji Kou's technique was rather unfamiliar, and it was obvious that she had just learned it not long ago. Her soft little hands, gently massaging Qingji's back, made Qingji enjoy it quite a lot, and he gradually closed his eyes.
Taking a break from busy work can often make people feel happier.
"Queen, if you have anything to say, just speak frankly."
Qingji glanced and saw that Ji Kou seemed to be hesitant to speak, so he let her speak.
Ji Kou moaned, revealing her fair and delicate neck, and said softly, "Your Majesty, the imperial physician just went to the palace supervisor Rumeng for treatment."
"Is Rumeng feeling unwell?"
"No, Your Majesty may not know. At first, I thought Rumeng was ill, but the imperial physician diagnosed Rumeng with a positive pulse..."
“…”
Happy pulse?
Qingji was stunned for a moment.
The Palace Supervisor is the highest-ranking female official in the King of Wu's palace. The current Palace Supervisor is Rumeng. After a long drought, she was finally blessed by Qingji and has been favored by him several times.
Now that the imperial physician has diagnosed her with pregnancy, doesn’t that mean that Rumeng is pregnant and the baby in her belly is Qingji?
"I know about this. I have asked someone to take good care of Ru Meng and make sure there are no mistakes."
"I obey your command."
As the queen, Ji Kou had naturally heard about what happened between Qingji and Rumeng.
However, Ji Kou was not dissatisfied.
Although women are jealous, Ji Kou does not want her husband to have many wives and concubines and to give all the love to her, rather than sharing her husband's favor with other women.
However, Qingji was the King of Wu, and it was destined that he could not have only one woman, one queen, in this life!
Ji Kou couldn't help but ask curiously, "Your Majesty, since Rumeng is already pregnant, why don't you take advantage of the situation and formally confer her the title of imperial concubine?"
"I have already told Rumeng about this, but she insisted on not agreeing. I will just let her do what she wants."
Qingji respects Rumeng's choice.
Anyway, there is actually not much difference between female officials and concubines in essence. They are all Qingji's women!
As long as Qingji is willing, he can visit a palace maid anytime and anywhere, and no one dares to gossip!
However, now that Rumeng is pregnant, Qingji has to worry about his future heir.
It would be fine if Rumeng gave birth to a daughter, but if she gave birth to a son, he would be Qingji's eldest son, a concubine's eldest son!
According to the patriarchal system that has existed since ancient times, the eldest son, the eldest brother, and the most capable person should be appointed as the heir. Abolishing the eldest son and appointing the youngest son as the heir is a way to bring disaster.
But, a bastard's son is still a bastard's son after all, and the status of a bastard's eldest son cannot compare to that of a legitimate son!
And if Qingji had a son with Queen Ji Kou, he would be the legitimate son, the eldest legitimate son!
The other illegitimate sons, regardless of age, actually have no qualifications to compete with the eldest son for the throne.
Of course, unless Qingji wanted to depose the eldest son and enthrone the youngest son, or planned to enthrone a virtuous person, this would most likely lead to internal strife in the State of Wu and cause civil unrest!
"Your Majesty, I heard that you have sent the Grand Emissary Bo Yun as an envoy to Wuyuan. I wonder if my father... the King of Yue has responded?"
Ji Kou asked cautiously.
"The Queen is well-informed."
Qingji chuckled, then changed to a comfortable position, continued to lie down, resting his head on Ji Kou's knees, and said: "There is still no news from Wuyuan. However, your father Wang Yunchang can also be called a hero of his generation. As the saying goes, a man who knows the times is a hero!"
"I think the King of Yue should be able to understand the current situation and agree to restore peace with the State of Wu and exchange what they have with each other."
