Chapter 31 Bribery
After anxiously waiting for half a month, the prince still did not come to Concubine Zhao's courtyard, but she was no longer anxious.
Because the prince has not set foot in the backyard for half a month, everyone is the same.
This also led to a quiet yet weird atmosphere in the mansion.
Under such circumstances, Ji Yunqing was quite happy.
Using the knowledge she had just learned, she took good care of the new saplings in the yard and they grew very well.
Although it was a small tree, King Zhao did not find a sapling that was too small for her. Instead, he planted a large sapling that would bear fruit next year.
Ji Yunqing was very excited. She looked at the apple tree in front of her seriously and talked to the daylily.
"Hemerocallis, I will work hard this year to keep my favor and I will have no worries about food and drink.
When we fall out of favor next year, our fruits will have grown by then, and we can grow some green vegetables and make a living, how wonderful it will be!"
She squinted her eyes and thought, "Well, should we go buy a big pot? And some bricks or something."
"Private kitchenettes are not allowed in the mansion."
"What private setting?"
Ji Yunqing snorted, thinking to himself, "Don't be so rigid. When I fall out of favor and no one comes, who knows what we will do behind closed doors?"
Ji Yunqing complained: "When the time comes, I will secretly give birth to a child, and I'm afraid no one will know."
"Oh? So my concubine is so powerful? I really underestimated you."
The king?
Ji Yunqing finally realized something was wrong. She looked sharply towards the place where Daylily had originally stood, only to find that a huge Prince Zhao had taken his place.
He was looking at her with a smile.
As for Xuancao and the other maids in her yard, they stood outside the yard with the servants around the prince, all with their heads lowered, not daring to say a word.
Ji Yunqing widened his eyes: "Prince, when did you come? Why didn't you ask me to greet you?" Why did this person walk without making any sound?
You haven't come for so many days, but you come when I say bad things.
Lao Deng, are you deliberately going against me?
King Zhao: "If I hadn't suddenly wanted to see my concubine, I'm afraid you wouldn't have known that someone had arranged this for me, right?"
"Well...it can't be considered choreography, right?" Ji Yunqing gritted his teeth and said tremblingly.
From afar, the maids in the yard were all worried about Concubine Ji.
However, the servant beside the prince, Eunuch Shi, felt sorry for the prince.
The prince dotes on Concubine Ji so much that he never takes it to heart no matter what outrageous things she does.
Even this time, when the prince had just finished his work, the first person he thought of was Concubine Ji. But Concubine Ji actually conspired with the servants to frame the prince like this!
Let’s see how Concubine Ji is going to excuse herself this time!
Seeing that King Zhao had not responded, Ji Yunqing walked over cautiously and gently tugged at his sleeve.
Feeling the slight pull on his body, King Zhao waved his sleeves and said, "My beloved concubine, please let me speak. Don't pull me.
After all, you are the one who was able to secretly give birth to a child without letting me know, you are really capable!"
Oops!
The man was really angry.
Ji Yunqing quickly recalled the sad things in his life, and found that it was of little use, so he simply pinched his thigh hard.
Soon, tears welled up in his eyes and his voice trembled a lot.
"My Lord, I haven't seen you for a long, long time. I know you have something important to do, but I can't help but wonder if you have forgotten me.
When I think that the prince will never think of me again, that the prince is going to see the new beauties, that I have fallen out of favor, and that I will have to live a life of hunger and cold in the future, wuwuwu...
Maybe, maybe I can’t even get a drink of hot water in the middle of winter. Yesterday, I had a dream that I wanted to drink some hot water, but the kitchen wouldn’t give it to me.
I had no choice but to beg hard, and finally the prince brought me a basin of the prince's foot-washing water and asked me to drink it, "Wuwuwu..."
What is all this mess?
King Zhao rubbed his forehead. Was he serious about choosing to come to this yard to relax?
Seeing that Prince Zhao's face was not so dark anymore, Ji Yunqing quickly wiped his face with a handkerchief and asked in a weak voice with a tearful tone, "Prince, would you really let someone who has fallen out of favor drink your foot washing water?"
King Zhao was speechless: "..."
He didn't understand, how could anyone ask such a question?
"Others who have fallen out of favor haven't suffered so much, but it's the turn of this prince's concubine."
King Zhao looked her up and down and said, "If you fall out of favor, that may not be the case."
"If nothing else, I can still afford a basin of foot-washing water every day."
He said sarcastically: "When the time comes, someone will bring me footbath water every day, and by the way, let me see how you secretly gave birth to a child."
Ji Yunqing: “…”
She suddenly stopped crying, turned her back to King Zhao, and her frail body trembled: "Isn't it because I can't bear a child for you that I'm worried, so I said that?
Your Majesty, think about it, even though I have fallen out of favor, I am still thinking about giving birth to a child for you. Aren’t you clear enough about my feelings for you?"
King Zhao: "...You are really good at making excuses."
Ji Yunqing: "If you insist on thinking this way, my Lord, then I can't do anything about it."
"By the way, my Lord, you haven't been here for a while. I have written a lot of big words and I am waiting for you to help me look at them."
She naturally took the man's hand and was about to go into the study. King Zhao still had a cold face and followed her in.
Outside the yard, Eunuch Shi and the others suddenly raised their heads.
No, Your Majesty?
Is this just the end of the story?
No punishment at all?
The two fooled around all night, and during the break, Ji Yunqing hugged him and said with a moved face: "My lord, you are such a tolerant and generous man. I said something nonsense, but you actually forgave me."
With a beautiful woman in his arms and having just experienced a satisfying sex, what could King Zhao care about now?
He said calmly: "It won't happen again."
"okay!"
Ji Yunqing immediately smiled, leaned over and kissed the prince again.
Early next morning
Ji Yunqing was going to pay his respects and check in at the princess again.
Moreover, this was the first time that King Zhao had stepped into the backyard in more than half a month.
Before the time had even passed, Ji Yunqing began to feel nervous.
As soon as I stepped into the princess' main courtyard, I heard someone speaking in a sarcastic tone.
"Look, Concubine Ji worked hard yesterday and looks particularly radiant."
"That's right. We sisters haven't seen the prince for more than half a month."
Only Concubine Liu, who had always been on good terms with Ji Yunqing, said calmly, "Your Highness can go wherever he wants, so there is no need to worry, my sisters."
Concubine Liu was an elder in the mansion. As soon as she spoke, everyone else fell silent.
Only the concubine of the king, who was adorned with gold and silver, touched the jade bracelet with extremely fine water content on her wrist and took a step forward swaying her waist.
"Sister Ji, thanks to the amulet you gave me last time, it really helped me a lot. Look at this jade bracelet, it matches your clothes today, so I'll give it to you."
As she spoke, she took off the bracelet on her wrist with a swagger and put it on Ji Yunqing's wrist without saying anything.