Chapter 127
Li Yu asked the System. He wanted to know more about having a baby in human form. It was definitely different from having a baby in fish form.
He had stuffed small pillows into his clothes before, but pretending to be pregnant was definitely different from actually being pregnant. Moreover, he was more afraid that if he had four daughters at once, would he still be able to do it after giving birth to all of them?
The System gave a very detailed introduction to the task of having a baby or having a daughter. It roughly knew that the host was often unreliable, so it also told Li Yu with certainty that a human could only have one baby.
Li Yu’s heart, which was about to jump out of his chest, finally calmed down.
He still had the courage to give it a try. Moreover, there were advantages to having a baby in human form. Now that he was in the Imperial City, right under the Emperor’s nose, it was convenient and painless to have a baby in fish form. However, there was a lot of risk involved. Although King Jing assured him that he would make proper arrangements, if the Emperor were to find out, it would be a huge disaster. It would also implicate King Jing and the four babies. However, if he had a baby in human form, he would only have to trouble himself. King Jing and the four babies would be safe. He could also complete the arrangements that King Jing had made in the Western Frontier.
Let’s just do it like that, Li Yu thought with a strong sense of righteousness.
The System gave Li Yu all kinds of common knowledge about pregnancy in human form. Generally speaking, it was not much different from a human pregnancy. It also told him that a baby in human form would be born as a normal baby and would not turn into a fish. It also did not need to be like fish eggs, which had to be hatched into young fish first. The young fish also had to do tasks to turn into a human. Although the whole process was tiring for him, there was no external risk to the baby. This was another reason why Li Yu was willing to give it a try so soon.
He had already confirmed from the System that his daughter was pregnant. However, a human’s stomach was still very flat. Because a human’s pregnancy would only show after three months, Li Yu was not in a hurry.
As her other father, King Jing had kept her pregnancy a secret the last time. He also felt that it wasn’t right, so he definitely couldn’t keep it a secret this time. As for the Emperor, Li Yu hoped that he would wait until the baby was a little older before telling him.
King Jing was now the only legitimate prince that the Emperor valued, so there were too many people keeping an eye on them. There were even people who wanted to poison and assassinate them. If this was revealed too early, Li Yu was also worried that someone would target this unborn child. He was wearing a palace book, so he didn’t want to make any mistakes.
Li Yu first revealed the news of her pregnancy to King Jing. He remembered that when King Jing became a father for the first time, when he found out that Li Yu had given birth to fish eggs, King Jing felt dizzy. Now that he found out that Li Yu was pregnant with a daughter and that she was going to give birth to the child in her human form, King Jing was overwhelmed with happiness. However, he felt that something was wrong.
“Xiaoyu, you …”
King Jing’s probing gaze fell on Li Yu’s flat stomach. If she were to give birth in her human form, wouldn’t she also have to go through the pain of childbirth?
Li Yu understood and nodded.
King Jing paused for a moment and realized how great of a sacrifice this would be. He held Li Yu’s hand tightly.
King Jing was very touched that Xiaoyu was willing to bear the pain of childbirth in her human form even though she could easily give birth in her human form.
King Jing knew very well who she was doing this for.
He decided that he would only let Xiaoyu suffer this once. At least before he completely took over power, he wouldn’t let Xiaoyu suffer like this again.
After that, if Xiaoyu wanted to have as many little fish as she wanted, he would help her hatch them.
“I won’t let you suffer again,” King Jing promised.
Li Yu was also affected by his emotions. She looked at King Jing with red eyes.
With this promise, a little pain didn’t seem to be a big deal.
In the past, King Jing had asked Li Yu to pretend to be pregnant in the western border. However, he had taken good care of Li Yu. King Jing was far more aware of the pregnancy than Li Yu herself. After learning that Li Yu was pregnant, he immediately found a subordinate who was good at obstetrics and gynecology to check Li Yu’s pulse on time every day.
His daughter was still too young to reveal her pregnancy to the public. However, he had to pay attention to some taboos. In addition to checking her pulse daily, King Jing also assigned servants to take care of Li Yu. He ordered them to follow Li Yu at all times and make sure that Li Yu didn’t bump into anything.
He was afraid that the children would accidentally spill the beans, so he didn’t tell them in advance. Li Yu used to carry them often, but she couldn’t do so recently. However, Li Yu’s father didn’t neglect the children because of this. He still played with them often, told them stories, and taught them how to be a good person.
Li Yu heard that she had to take care of the older child’s emotions if she wanted to have a second child. She was afraid that the children would be wronged.
However, it seemed that they weren’t at all. Li Yu once asked what would happen if their father gave birth to a younger sister. Da Bao, Er Bao, San Bao, and Si Bao’s eyes lit up. They all thought of Uncle Ye’s younger sister at the same time.
“We want a younger sister!” the children said joyfully.
Since the children didn’t reject it, Li Yu was relieved. The human form could only give birth to one child at a time. Based on his and King Jing’s enthusiasm, there might be more younger brothers and sisters in the future.
Li Yu had already started to nourish the fetus. In addition to waiting for news from the Emperor, King Jing also began to investigate the assassin in the Hall of Jing Tai. It wasn’t that King Jing hadn’t investigated it before, but because the direction was wrong, he didn’t find any useful clues. This time, because of Li Yu’s reminder, King Jing realized that the power behind the assassin might be the one who poisoned him. The two of them had already speculated that Xue Wuzi came from Lou Lan. King Jing looked for many ancient books about Lou Lan and found a suspicious record in a book called the History of Lou Lan.
“The people of Lou Lan were good at fighting and poisoning. When the two armies fought, they often left their opponents without a corpse.”
Although this history didn’t mention the specific methods of the people of Lou Lan, according to the description, it was somewhat consistent with the Corpse Dissolving Water.
The Corpse Dissolving Water was a name given by Xiao Yu. King Jing felt that it was appropriate and used it himself.
This clue found in the history made King Jing more inclined to Xiao Yu’s conclusion. It was really possible that the same power was behind it.
The history of Lou Lan also recorded the life of the last monarch of Lou Lan, Chang ‘an Jun. Chang ‘an Jun angered the emperor and the two countries became hostile. Although the people of Lou Lan were good at fighting, they were still a small country and couldn’t withstand the iron cavalry of the dynasty. Chang’ an Jun stubbornly resisted and held on until the end. He was captured alive by the grand marshal of the army and sent to the imperial city.
At that time, the emperor was young and impetuous and didn’t treat prisoners with mercy. In order to save his life, Chang ‘an Jun had no choice but to give up his daughter as an imperial concubine in exchange for freedom.
When King Jing was reading the history of Lou Lan, Li Yu was also reading with King Jing. He said that he was doing prenatal education for the baby. King Jing doted on him and let him do whatever he wanted. If Xiao Yu was tired, he would let him lean on him and sleep. The baby was only a few days old and couldn’t even be considered a ball in his father’s stomach. This prenatal education was for the father himself.
The history of Lou Lan was full of twists and turns. For the first time, Li Yu didn’t fall asleep.
Li Yu also read the following records and found a pen to make a mark.
The emperor did have a foreign concubine.
However, there was no such person in the harem today.
What did this mean?
If a concubine disappeared, she would either die or be banished.
Li Yu remembered that when he mentioned the foreign concubines, the emperor’s expression seemed to be deep in thought.
If all of this really had something to do with the extinct Lou Lan, did the emperor think of this former Lou Lan concubine?
However, the emperor didn’t say anything.
In fact, if he wanted to know the situation of the emperor’s concubines, he could also ask Steward Luo.
Unfortunately, Steward Luo was investigating the evidence related to Pu Liu’s poisoning for the emperor and hadn’t returned to the palace yet.
Li Yu originally wanted to wait for Steward Luo to come back and find out. If he couldn’t wait, perhaps he could ask someone else.
King Jing raised his head and a strange light flashed in his eyes.
There was an unknown force in the palace. He had to find out the truth as soon as possible. The assassin from Jing Tai Palace had failed and hadn’t returned. It was very likely that the other party had realized that they had been discovered.
This was more troublesome than the princes combined. It was hard to say what the other party’s next move would be.
Late at night.
King Jing’s bodyguards were ordered by King Jing to bring back a person. It was a blindfolded woman who was wrapped in a black cloth bag.
King Jing ordered Wang Xi to remove the cloth from her eyes.
The woman was wearing a shabby palace dress. When she saw the light for the first time, she was a little uncomfortable. She squinted her eyes slightly and was surprised to find that it was King Jing in front of her. She sneered repeatedly.
“What do you want to do by calling me here?” The woman looked at King Jing with hostility.
Li Yu was protected by King Jing and was a little further away. He saw the woman’s face and aura and felt that she was a little familiar, but he couldn’t remember who she was for a moment.
It wasn’t until a cat rolled out of the cloth bag that Li Yu hurriedly said that he didn’t know how the cat jumped in. He looked at the cat’s dirty fur and the faded begonia handkerchief in the woman’s hand. He suddenly realized.
This was the Imperial Concubine Liang Liang who wanted to drink Thousand Carp Soup in the past. She was the enemy!
And this cat was the enemy cat that Li Yu met when he first transmigrated — Piao Xue.
Wasn’t Lady Chou in the Cold Palace? Why did King Jing order people to secretly bring Lady Chou out?
Li Yu pushed King Jing’s arm to express his confusion.
King Jing still couldn’t reveal that he had recovered from his muteness, so he ordered Wang Xi to ask on his behalf.
Wang Xi said, “Lady Chou, His Highness has something to ask you. You should be smart and answer whatever he asks. If you want to play tricks, His Highness can make you come out without anyone knowing. He can also make you go back without anyone knowing. Carry you back!”
Lady Chou hated King Jing from the bottom of her heart and didn’t want to respond. However, she was already in King Jing’s hands and had no other choice. She stared fiercely at King Jing and said, “What exactly do you want to know?”
King Jing glanced at Wang Xi. Wang Xi said, “One of His Majesty’s concubines from Loulan.”
Lady Chou was stunned and smiled proudly, “Then she’s already dead. Why do you want to know about her?”
Wang Xi scolded, “His Highness asked you to speak, so speak. Don’t talk nonsense!”
King Jing meant that other than Steward Luo, the older concubines of the Emperor who had been with the Emperor for a long time would know about the concubine from Loulan.
It wasn’t convenient for King Jing to ask other people except for Lady Chou. Lady Chou had been stripped of her position by the Emperor and thrown into the Cold Palace. If King Jing wanted to meet her, there was still a way.
“You mean Consort Mei?”
If King Jing asked other people, Lady Chou might not be able to answer. However, she still knew this person. In the history of Loulan, it was only recorded that the Chang ‘an Emperor presented his daughter. After that, this woman was beautiful. After entering the palace, the Emperor gave her the title of Consort Mei.
Li Yu’s eyes lit up. Consort Mei’s title had a plum, and those assassins had a plum blossom pattern on their sword hilts. Was this a coincidence?
From the fact that the Emperor rarely gave titles to his concubines, the Emperor should be very fond of this Consort Mei. Even Lady Chou herself, even when she was in the limelight, didn’t have a title.
However, Consort Mei herself didn’t think so. She was presented to the Emperor by her own father, the Chang ‘an Emperor. She didn’t want to enter the palace, and three days after entering the palace, she attempted to assassinate the Emperor and was sentenced to death by the Emperor.
Because of this, the Emperor felt that it was very dangerous if the woman beside him had disloyalty. From then on, he didn’t accept any more foreign concubines. Because of this, he took his anger out on the Chang ‘an Emperor. The Chang ‘an Emperor was demoted to the point that he couldn’t even keep the lowest rank of nobility. Because of Consort Mei, all the members of the Loulan Imperial Family were enslaved.
Consort Mei’s story was very short and finished in a few sentences. Lady Chou stood rooted to the ground.
King Jing ordered the imperial bodyguards to send Lady Chou back to the Cold Palace. Lady Chou gritted her teeth and knelt down.
“I’ve already told you everything I know. Can you also promise me one thing?”
King Jing looked at her and let her speak.
Li Yu thought that Lady Chou wanted to take the opportunity to beg King Jing to let her leave the palace. After all, the Cold Palace was too difficult. Unexpectedly, Lady Chou pointed at Piao Xue and said in a low voice, “You can do whatever you want with this cat. I don’t want it anymore.”
Li Yu and King Jing were speechless.
After Lady Chou finished speaking, she went into the cloth bag. Her cat eyes saw that she wanted to follow, but Lady Chou didn’t give her a chance and scolded the cat.
Piao Xue seemed to be often scolded. After Lady Chou scolded it a few times, it didn’t dare to move.
When it finally raised its head, it found that its owner was gone.
Piao Xue howled miserably. It waited and waited, but Lady Chou still didn’t turn back.
What should this cat do?
Li Yu had been bitten by Piao Xue in the form of a fish. At that time, he had just transmigrated and didn’t know what was going on. Because fish and cats were natural enemies, he didn’t have a good impression of Piao Xue.
If it was another small animal, he might just keep it. What was Lady Chou’s intention?
“Tian Chi, can I …”
No matter what, Piao Xue was just a cat. In fact, it hadn’t done anything evil.
