RPAGF Chapter 1200 - 1189: Wealthy Merchant
Chapter 1200 - 1189: Wealthy Merchant
Ye Lu was very cautious all the way because she knew that the outwardly kind Princess Consort was actually a vicious woman. In her previous life, the protagonist suffered a lot under the hands of the Princess Consort, so there could be no mistakes with the child in her belly.
"Concubine, the Princess Consort sent some supplements over. How would you like to handle them?" the maid asked.
Ye Lu frowned at the items on the tray and subtly moved away: "Put them in the storage room."
"Yes, Concubine. Here is today’s fetus-preserving medicine. Do you want to drink it now?"
"Just leave it for now. Go and wash some fruits," Ye Lu instructed, and once the person left, she quietly poured the fetus-preserving medicine into the flowerpot. After all, medicine is three parts poison. As a modern person, she wanted to use scientific methods to nurture the child. She didn’t believe in any tonic or fetus-preserving medicine.
After doing all this, she reclined on the soft couch, her face pale. She wasn’t sure if she was overthinking it or if people do get tired easily after getting pregnant, but she indeed felt it was quite tiring, no wonder the Prince said she looked unwell.
However, thinking about the child about to be born, she couldn’t help but feel excited. If it’s a boy, that would be best, but no matter what, this is the Prince’s first child, which is always different. The Princess Consort is destined to lose.
As Ye Lu’s belly grew bigger, she felt the atmosphere in the mansion becoming more tense. For fear of her being unstable, Ye Mu, Li Dezhen, also came to the mansion to accompany her.
"Why do you look so unwell?" Li Dezhen was taken aback, "Have you seen a doctor? What did the doctor say?"
"I’ve seen the doctor. He just said I was initially weak, so it’s normal for the first pregnancy to be tough. He only told me to rest well." Ye Lu replied wearily.
"Are you sure it’s not that Princess Consort being noble?" Li Dezhen asked suspiciously.
"I am careful with what I eat, use, and wear. She won’t have the chance to make a move." Ye Lu said confidently, "Mom, didn’t I fall into the water when I was young? The doctor said I have a cold constitution, which might be why this pregnancy is hard."
"Now that you mention it, I remember, you didn’t fall into the water, but during a heavy snow, you insisted on playing outside with your big brother. I wanted you to come inside, but that dead old ghost grandma of yours said it was fine." At this, Li Dezhen was filled with resentment and blamed Ye Qiu, "Her grandson is a boy, so he’s fine, but it harmed my daughter. I knew that old lady was biased."
Ye Lu also frowned; she hadn’t expected this reason. Thinking about her recent hardships and exhaustion, she resented Ye Qiu even more.
"Because of your grandma’s bias and your heartless brother’s domineering, you have suffered. Did you drink the fetus-preserving medicine? You shouldn’t not drink it just because it tastes bad, you know?" Li Dezhen advised earnestly.
Ye Lu was a bit impatient; how come her mother was just like those doctors, insisting she drink those dark, murky medicines? Who knows if they contain things harmful to her or the fetus? But she knew these ideas were ingrained in the people of this era and really couldn’t be explained, so she didn’t bother; she knew her own mind.
"By the way, mom, do you still keep in touch with the Li family?" Ye Lu asked.
"Ever since we escaped quietly, I lost contact with them. Why do you ask?"
"Recently, in Prince Donghe’s territory, there’s a person called Prince Ye. I want mother’s family to help find out the background." Ye Lu couldn’t shake her unease since Prince Ye and the Ye Family Army didn’t appear in the book.
"Prince Ye? Last name Ye?" Li Dezhen looked surprised.
"Do you think it might be related to brother?"
"How could it be?" Li Dezhen scoffed, "If he had that kind of audacity, he wouldn’t have allowed the Li family to get involved in Ye Family’s business back then, not to mention the Ye Family members; how could they understand military matters? Running a business is one thing, military matters are a joke, and where would the Ye Family suddenly get so many troops?"
"You’re right too, mom." Ye Lu felt reassured. She just wondered how she would explain to the Prince if that Prince Ye was related to the Ye Family.
"Are you overthinking things because of your pregnancy? From my perspective, nothing is more important than the child in your belly. The Prince values this pregnancy very much, so leave the military matters to the Prince until you give birth. You’d better not meddle in them."
Li Dezhen looked at her daughter’s belly as if it was a rare treasure. Only after arriving at Linsan Prefecture did she understand how right her daughter’s decision was. The Princess Consort was futile, and now her daughter was in charge of the Prince’s mansion. After her daughter bears the Prince’s eldest son, and Prince Linsan ascends the throne, won’t her daughter be the Empress?
Then she would be the Emperor’s mother-in-law, Empress’s biological mother, and future Emperor’s grandmother. Just thinking about it made Li Dezhen feel proud; wouldn’t the Ye Family members have to kneel and beg her in the future?
She even regretted that the Old Lady and her husband died too early, unable to see their glorious moment. Had they been alive, they would surely regret their past bias!
However, just as she continued to dream, Ye Lu’s stomach suddenly ached, her complexion turned pale, and sweat the size of beans dripped down as she trembled in panic: "Mom, call the doctor, quickly call the doctor!"
Ye Lu only felt her belly descending in waves of pain, and there was a rush of heat below, as if something was about to emerge.
She became increasingly panicked. Her belly was only six months, so it couldn’t be labor; there was only one possibility.
But she had clearly been extremely careful, why did such a thing happen? Where did it go wrong?
Hearing that the concubine’s stomach suddenly hurt, urgently seeking a doctor sent the entire Prince Wang Mansion into a panic; the servants didn’t know what to do and hurried to find the Prince and Princess Consort.
Princess Consort Shi Xuan arrived earlier than Chen Gaoxuan, looking worriedly at the inner room and anxiously clutching her handkerchief: "How did this suddenly happen? Heaven bless."
After praying to Buddhas, she inquired to the maids: "What did the concubine do today? Did anything unusual happen?"
The maids were also very nervous, knowing that if anything happened to the concubine, they couldn’t escape responsibility, so they knelt and pleaded: "Princess Consort, forgive us. Today the concubine was usual. After the concubine’s mother arrived, she asked us to leave, what happened afterward we don’t know."
"Stand up first, if it’s not related to you, neither the Prince nor I will blame you." She sighed softly as if genuinely worried for Ye Lu, portraying her gentle, compassionate, and magnanimous image as the Princess Consort very well.