I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 131
A pair of big hands wiped away the tears on Gu Yuanbai’s face. Xue Yuan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He carefully asked with rough fingertips, “Why are you crying all of a sudden?”
Gu Yuanbai had never cried in front of others.
But at this moment, he was silently shedding tears all over his face, without making any sound, quietly. When Xue Yuan noticed it, he was shocked and his heart was clenched.
Gu Yuanbai took advantage of the situation and grabbed Xue Yuan’s collar, clasping the clothes with his fingers and exerting force. He murmured, “Did I actually cry?”
Xue Yuan wiped the corners of his eyes, and Gu Yuanbai couldn’t help but close his eyes. The midsummer air was hot, and when Xue Yuan’s hand touched it, his tears seemed to have been stopped by the heat.
Xue Yuan took the warm towel from the palace attendant and wiped Gu Yuanbai’s face. He was so distressed that he couldn’t speak, “Stop crying.”
The blurred vision gradually became clearer, and Gu Yuanbai slowly closed his eyes, “Nothing happened.”
He suppressed the sudden confusion, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw that Xue Yuan’s collar had been spread out by him, and a look of embarrassment flashed across Gu Yuanbai’s face. He stretched out his hand to straighten his clothes, picked up the kerchief, and said, “Hand.”
There were some wet marks on Xue Yuan’s hand, whether it was sweat or Gu Yuanbai’s tears. Gu Yuanbai lowered his head, wiped his hand carefully, and slipped it between his fingers.
“Your Majesty’s hands are so small,” Xue Yuan suddenly said worriedly as he rubbed them. “They are also very thin. The wrists are so thin that I can wrap them around them with two fingers.”
The sadness in Gu Yuanbai’s heart was shattered, “General Xue’s words are funny. My fingers are long. Compared with the woman’s bare hands, they are more than two or three times bigger. Which of your eyes thinks my hands are small?”
Xue Yuan suddenly became gloomy, “It turns out that the Holy Master also knows the size of the woman’s bare hands.”
Gu Yuanbai: “I just think you are telling lies.”
Xue Yuan could see that he was still not in a good mood, so he thought of ways to make him happy. He scratched the palm of his hand with his fingers and darkened his face half-seriously: “I don’t even know how big a woman’s bare hands are. Small.”
“Then go and see, look and touch,” Gu Yuanbai smiled slightly, threw Xue Yuan’s hand, and also threw the kerchief to the palace attendant, “Get up and don’t get in my eyes.”
Xue Yuan stood up inexplicably, stepped aside and looked at Gu Yuanbai’s back, Zhang Er couldn’t figure it out.
Gu Yuanbai re-read the things handed over by Tai Hospital. When he turned to the end, the disadvantages implicitly written on it by Tai Hospital were listed one by one.
Gu Yuanbai’s body suffered too much damage, and even if he was well nourished, he would not be able to conceive an heir. His body is weak because he is born weak, and he missed the best time when his bones were not opened when he was young. Now he can only try his best to replenish his body so that he can live a long life and no longer be so worried, but he probably cannot be as ordinary as usual. People are so healthy that they can jump and run.
Being unable to conceive an heir is undoubtedly the biggest blow to an emperor, but Gu Yuanbai accepted it well. As long as it can be better than now and extend his life span, Gu Yuanbai will already thank heaven and earth.
After Gu Yuanbai nodded, the Imperial Hospital began to do things according to the regulations.
Five days later, on a rainy day, someone came to report despite the rain. Princess He had abdominal pain two days ago and gave birth to a daughter that day. Now mother and daughter are safe and are in Prince He’s mansion.
Gu Yuanbai was stunned and stood up quickly, “Girl?”
The palace attendant said: “It’s a girl.”
Gu Yuanbai was lost in thought for a while and murmured: “The girl is also very good, very good.”
He smiled and said, “Send someone to inform Prince He and give him a reward. Let the Princess say whatever she needs. I make the decision for them, mother and son, and no one can slack off.”
After saying that, Gu Yuanbai paced back and forth in the palace. He couldn’t tell whether he was looking forward to giving birth to a boy or a girl with the princess. If it was a boy, he would definitely be raised under Gu Yuanbai’s knees. The princess could not raise it herself.
Now that the baby is a girl, Gu Yuanbai needs to find other children in the clan’s house.
He sighed, but felt slightly relaxed in his heart. If Gu Zhao’s child was regarded as his adopted son and would sit on his throne in the future, he would be… a little uncomfortable with it after all.
But girls are different. Even because she is a girl, the princess has to be more relaxed. If she wanted to raise her daughter, she would raise it herself. If she doesn’t like this daughter, she will send her to the palace. Gu Yuanbai will recognize her as his daughter and give her the honorable status of a princess.
However, the princess has always been tenacious, and she will undoubtedly choose to raise her daughter alone without hesitation.
If so, Gu Yuanbai would try his best to compensate the mother and son, and replace the prince and the prince as their backers.
Gu Yuanbai was able to let Prince He go to Northern Xinjiang. This was already an act of mercy from the emperor, because he was framed to such an extent. But since Prince He has chosen this path, don’t think about returning to Beijing.
Even if he begged the princess for mercy, Gu Yuanbai had already regressed and would never take another step back.
When the weather was fine during the holidays, Gu Yuanbai secretly went to Prince He’s Mansion to visit the newly born baby.
Po Wen took the little girl out and said, “Your Majesty, look, this is our first lady in the Prince’s Palace.”
The baby was still sleeping, with sparse hair, and its small hands were clenched into fists and placed on either side of the ears. It was so small that it seemed that it could not even bear the wind. Gu Yuanbai didn’t look at it much, so he had people send him back quickly.
The princess could not see anyone now, so she sent her maid to deliver the message. One asked how to deal with the prince, and the other asked if she could raise her daughter herself.
Gu Yuanbai asked back, “Ask your master whether he wants to see Prince He or not, and whether he wants to raise his daughter or not.”
The maid ran back and asked the princess. The princess held her daughter in her arms, gently put her daughter’s hand in front of her lips and kissed her. She turned around and said, “I don’t want to see the prince. I just want to raise my daughter safely.”
After the princess knew that she had given birth to a daughter, no one knew how happy she was.
She knew where this child came from. If it was a boy, he would have to be raised by the Holy One’s side. But such a heavy and dirty sin made even her heart tremble. The secret that made her nerves tense was that the Holy One was always watching. How could her child not care about it?
The more the prince and the prince wanted a son because of Gu Yuanbai, the happier the princess was that she was giving birth to a daughter.
Her daughter did not have to bear the twisted emotions from her father. She was clean. When the princess looked at the little girl, her heart softened and her happiness began to rise. She didn’t want such a peaceful and warm life to be broken by the prince again.
After Gu Yuanbai heard the princess’s answer, he nodded and said, “I understand.”
After the reward was put down, Gu Yuanbai got up and left Prince He’s Mansion with his people. Along the way, the scorching sun was shining brightly and people were coming and going on the streets. Xue Yuan suddenly asked: “Your Majesty, do you like infants?”
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him, and Xue Yuan pretended to ask casually, his eyes wandering around the stalls of the surrounding vendors, as if he didn’t care at all about Gu Yuanbai’s answer.
Gu Yuanbai imitated Xue Yuan and gave a fake polite smile: “I like young children as much as General Xue likes women with bare hands.”
“Speak clearly,” Xue Yuanjun’s face was stern. When he wasn’t smiling, there was a sinister look on his face. His face was scary, but in the crowded market, he secretly held Gu Yuanbai’s hand under the cover of his sleeves and robes. Hands, “When did I say I liked women’s hands?”
“If I like it,” he wanted to insert his fingers into Gu Yuanbai’s fingers, vaguely and flirtatiously, “I also like hands like this.”
The knuckles of his fingers are always rough and hard, and the soreness and swelling when inserted into Gu Yuanbai’s palm never disappears in a short period of time. Gu Yuanbai didn’t like being held by him, it hurt. I also don’t like having his tongue stuffed and swollen.
It’s not the period of filial piety, but you can still enjoy some beauty, now? It was a good thing that Gu Yuanbai didn’t kick him in public.
He frowned and wanted to take his hand out, but Xue Yuan seemed to be unaware and held it harder.
The sleeves and robes hid the movements of his two hands. Xue Yuan held them firmly for a while, then softened and said, “Your Majesty, you will not let me get close to you for this month…”
He lowered his voice: “I won’t even let you shake hands.”
Xue Yuan, who had just tasted the feeling of kissing and kneading, knew that Guo Xiao was here now and that Gu Yuanbai was not willing to do anything outrageous, and he didn’t want to do it either. He just wanted to hold Gu Yuanbai’s hand occasionally. To suppress the uneasy heart that is still there.
Just to stabilize the mind.
He sighed and said sincerely: “I just hold it, and you must behave yourself.”
However, to Gu Yuanbai’s ears, this was no less powerful than “can’t get in”.
Gu Yuanbai’s eyelids twitched, and he shook off his hand mercilessly, turning around and asking Tian Fusheng to come forward and wipe his sweat.
Under Mr. Xue’s glare, Tian Fusheng happily wiped off the sweat of His Majesty, with a joyful expression on his face, “Sir, you seem to have grown a little longer, and even the small ones can hardly reach you.”
Gu Yuanbai smiled a little, “Really?”
“How dare you tell lies?” Tian Fusheng really felt that His Majesty had grown taller and seemed to have become thinner. He waved a fan to His Majesty, His Majesty’s hair was flying in the air, and a few strands of golden hair were illuminated by the scorching sun. When the light came, Tian Fusheng suddenly thought, “When I was young, I still remembered that the Holy Father had a fan with beautiful pictures, and the colors of the mountains and rivers were vivid on the paper. The fan was brought by the Holy Father when he visited the palace last year, but I don’t know where it came from. From then on, the little one was nowhere to be found.”
Because of Concubine Wan’s death, the Holy Emperor’s birthday and banquets in the palace will not be held this year. The palace was staying to escape the summer heat. Whenever Gu Yuanbai thought of the palace, he would think of Princess Wan, and he was unwilling to go.
It was already August, and Gu Yuanbai had already planned to spend this midsummer in the capital.
As soon as Tian Fusheng said this, Gu Yuanbai was thoughtful, “But that folding fan that Chu Qing once offered?”
Tian Fusheng nodded repeatedly, “Mr. Chu’s fan is really a masterpiece. He spent 10% of his energy on it. Even now, rich people are willing to spend thousands of dollars to buy a fan like this. What’s more, Mr. Chu has a great reputation as a gentleman with six arts and excellent painting skills. This is known throughout the capital. ”
Calligraphy treasures are worth a thousand pieces of gold, so it is said. Gu Yuanbai sighed and couldn’t help but feel pity, “I liked that fan very much when it was given to me, but unfortunately, I don’t know where it has been lost now.”
All the things belonging to the Holy One will be put away by the palace attendants. This fan was most likely lost by Gu Yuanbai himself, and there was nothing he could do about it except regret.
Xue Yuan listened silently, only smiling.
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While the Holy Spirit was in the capital, the Fujian navy far away on the coast was engaged in a fierce battle with Fuso’s navy on the sea.
